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Auction archive: Lot number 68

MISCELLANIES]. COLLECTION OF 47 WORKS RELATING TO ALCHEMY, SCIENCE, THE COMMONWEALTH, ETC. (4 VOL.)

Estimate
£2,500 - £5,000
ca. US$3,121 - US$6,243
Price realised:
£6,875
ca. US$8,584
Auction archive: Lot number 68

MISCELLANIES]. COLLECTION OF 47 WORKS RELATING TO ALCHEMY, SCIENCE, THE COMMONWEALTH, ETC. (4 VOL.)

Estimate
£2,500 - £5,000
ca. US$3,121 - US$6,243
Price realised:
£6,875
ca. US$8,584
Beschreibung:

Alchemy, Science, the Commonwealth, etc. COLLECTION OF 47 WORKS, TWELVE PUBLISHED DURING THE COMMONWEALTH, THE OTHERS LATER, IN 4 VOLUMES: Winstanley, Gerrard. The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship...J.M. for the Author, 1652 [Wing W3045A, TWO COPIES ONLY OF THIS ISSUE RECORDED BY ESTC]--Junius Anonymous. Alazono-Mastix: Or The Character of a Cockney In A Satyricall Poem. R.I., 1652, in verse [Wing A838, ONLY THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND SENATE HOUSE COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC], slightly cropped sometimes affecting headlines--P. (H.) Five Treatises of the Philosophers Stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugal! . . . One of John Sawtre a monke . . . Another written by Florianus Raudorff, a German philosopher . . . Also a treatise ... by William Gratacolle... Thomas Harper, 1652 [Wing 42900], some leaves slightly torn and soiled--Lilly, William. Annus tenebrosus, or The dark year. Or astrologicall iudgements upon two lunar eclipses, and one admirable eclips of the sun, all visible in England, 1652. for the Company of Stationers and H. Blunden, 1652, woodcuts [Wing L2209], title page torn with some loss at the top; An easie and familiar method whereby to iudge the effects depending on eclipses, either of the sun or moon. For the company of Stationers and H. Blunden, 1652 [Wing L2219]--Sterry, Peter. England's Deliverance from the Northern Presbytery... Leith: Evan Tyler, 1652 [Wing S5479]; with six others published in 1652 in the same volume, and 3 further volumes with eighteenth-century works and tracts, some Jacobite, some relating to Orkney, the Scottish Peerage, the trial of Capt. John Porteous, the case of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland etc.; 8vo, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf (spines numbered 2, 4, 12, 19), some works defective or torn, bindings worn, torn and partially cracked (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 68
Auction:
Datum:
13 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Alchemy, Science, the Commonwealth, etc. COLLECTION OF 47 WORKS, TWELVE PUBLISHED DURING THE COMMONWEALTH, THE OTHERS LATER, IN 4 VOLUMES: Winstanley, Gerrard. The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship...J.M. for the Author, 1652 [Wing W3045A, TWO COPIES ONLY OF THIS ISSUE RECORDED BY ESTC]--Junius Anonymous. Alazono-Mastix: Or The Character of a Cockney In A Satyricall Poem. R.I., 1652, in verse [Wing A838, ONLY THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND SENATE HOUSE COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC], slightly cropped sometimes affecting headlines--P. (H.) Five Treatises of the Philosophers Stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugal! . . . One of John Sawtre a monke . . . Another written by Florianus Raudorff, a German philosopher . . . Also a treatise ... by William Gratacolle... Thomas Harper, 1652 [Wing 42900], some leaves slightly torn and soiled--Lilly, William. Annus tenebrosus, or The dark year. Or astrologicall iudgements upon two lunar eclipses, and one admirable eclips of the sun, all visible in England, 1652. for the Company of Stationers and H. Blunden, 1652, woodcuts [Wing L2209], title page torn with some loss at the top; An easie and familiar method whereby to iudge the effects depending on eclipses, either of the sun or moon. For the company of Stationers and H. Blunden, 1652 [Wing L2219]--Sterry, Peter. England's Deliverance from the Northern Presbytery... Leith: Evan Tyler, 1652 [Wing S5479]; with six others published in 1652 in the same volume, and 3 further volumes with eighteenth-century works and tracts, some Jacobite, some relating to Orkney, the Scottish Peerage, the trial of Capt. John Porteous, the case of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland etc.; 8vo, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf (spines numbered 2, 4, 12, 19), some works defective or torn, bindings worn, torn and partially cracked (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 68
Auction:
Datum:
13 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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