Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 27: A. Russell Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![1774 Reereations in Shooting, by Craven. Post 8vo, half morocco gilt, g. ¢.. 5/ 1846 1775 Somervile (W.) The Chace, a Poem. 12mo, plates by Gravelot and Walker, calf, 3/6 1757 1776 Somervile (Wm.) THE CHASE, re- printed from the original edition of 1735, with a memoir of the author by R. Far- quharson Sharp. Sm. 4to, handsomely printed with original illustrations by Hugh Thomson, the Japan vellum edition, of which ONLY 50 COPIES were printed, 9/6 (issued to Subscribers at £1 1/) 1896 *,.” “ Of all books on hunting, this alone seems to describe “Sport” in its true meaning, and is a great deal more correct in details than any modern book I ever read,” 1777 Falisei (G.) Cynegeticon, notis T. Johnson ; accedunt Jo, Caii DE CANIBUS, etc, 12mo, morocco gilt, 5/ 1699 83 1778 Thornton (Col. T.) Sporting Tour through the Northern parts of England, and great part of Scotland. New edition, thick 8vo, coloured plates by G. E. Lodge, and other illustrations, half vellum, gilt top, 14/ 1896 1779 Fairfax (T.) Compleat Sportsman, or Country Gentleman’s Recreation, Cock Fighting, Race Horses, Bowling, Coursing, Angling, Otter Hunting, Breeding Birds, etc. 12mo, FIRST EDITION, front., original calf, 9/6 1762 1780 Badminton Library.—Mountaineer- ing—Golf—Athletics and Football—Cricket — Fishing, 2 vols — Tennis — Boating — Yachting. Post 8vo, many dlustrations, cloth, 5/ per vol 1886, ete. 1781 Coaching Prints.—The Royal Mail, going up hill and coming down hill, both coloured, in stained oak frames, 4to, £1 5/ 1 837 1782 Sprat (Thos.) History of the Royal Society of London. 4to, plates, old calf, 4/6 1677 1783 Stars and Comets.—-Nuncius Christi Sydereus, the Star of the Eastern Sages, . being a Discourse on that Star, its Nature, Conduct and Tendency, also some Account of Comets, etc- 12mo, old calf, 4/6 1681 1784 Steele (Sir Richard) Dramatic Works, containing the Conscious Lover, Funeral, Tender Husband, and Lying Lover, 12mo, old calf gilt, 4/6 1732 1785 Steele (Sir R.) Dramatic Works, contain- ing the Funeral, Tender Husband, Lying Lover, and Conscious Lovers, with an Ac- count of his Life and Writings. 12mo, plates by Basire and Vander Gucht, calf gilt, g. @, 12/6 1761 1786 Stella (Jacques) Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance. 4to, engraved title and 47 charming plates of children’s games and re- creations, engraved by Claudine Stella, morocco, g. €., £6 6/ Paris, 1657 *,* Among the Games are those of Swim- ming, Wrestling, Nine-pins, throwing the Pallet, Hop-scotch, Leap-trog, Skating, La Crosse or Hockey, the Popinjay, Fencing, and many others, some of which are obsolete. A copy in a French catalogue is valued at 250 francs. 1787 Stephani(H.) Thesaurus Grace Lingua, editio nova auctior et emendator cum Glossairio Labbei. 10 vols, folio, BEST ED., FINE COPY, morocco extra, joints, gilt edges by | U. Lewis, from the Earl of Bessborough’s library, with his arms on sides, £4 4] Valpy, 1816-26 1788 Sterne.—Original Letters of the late Rey. Mr. Laurence Sterne never before published. 12mo, calf, 7/6 1788 1789 Sterne.—Life and Opinions of Bertram Montfichet, Esq., written by Himself. 2 vols, 12mo, fronts. by Miller and Grignion, new calf extra, £1 5] about 1770 *..* A very quaint work, full of Shandyisms. 1790 Stirling-Maxwell (Sir Wm.) The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, Third Edition, enlarged and corrected. Post 8vo, cloth, 12/6 1853 1791 Stock Exehange.—Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange, by J. Francis. 8vo, cloth, 7/6 1849 1792 Strawberry Hill.—Miscellaneous An- tiquities, or a Collection of Curious Papers, republished from Scarce Tracts, or now first printed from original MSS. Both parts, 4to, 36 PORTRAITS AND VIEWS INSERTED by Thos. Kirgate, Horace Walpole’s printer, green morocco, extra broad borders inside, g. e., £6 6/ Strawberry Hill, 1772 1793 Stuart.—Royal House of Stuart, illus- trated by a Series of FORTY PLATES in coLouRs, drawn from: the Relics of the Stuarts by Wim. Gibb, with Introduction by J. Skelton, and Descriptive Notes by W. H. St. John Hope. A handsome folio volume, half morocco, g. ¢., £2 10/ (pub. £10 10/) 1890 1794 Stukeley (Wm.) Itinerarium Curiosum, or an Account of the Antiquities and Re- markable Curiosities in Nature and Art in Great Britain. 2 vols, folio, many plates, half morocco, q. t., £2 15/ 1776 1795 Sturm (C. C.) Reflections on the Works of God. 3 vols, 12mo, plates, nice copy in calf extra, m.c¢., 5] 18 03 1796 Suffolk Garland, a Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads, Sonnets and Elegies, Legendary and Romantic, His- torical and Descriptive, relative to that County. 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, 12/6 Ipswich, 1818](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156244_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
