Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

878. The Pastorals of Virgil, with a course of English reading, adapted for schools ... by Robert John Thornton. London: J. McGowan for F.C. Rivington and others, 1821

Estimate: 15.000 – 20.000 USD

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879. William Blake

Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & engraved by William Blake. London: Printed as the Act Directs March 8:1825 by William Blake [i.e., 1874]

Estimate: 30.000 – 50.000 USD

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880. (Boccaccio, Giovanni)

The True and Admirable History of the Noble Marquess of Salus, and Patient Grissel, a Poor Man’s Daughter in France. Shewing how Maids by a Discreet and Virtuous Behavior may Marry Good Husbands, and likewise how Wives by their Patience and Obedience, may Gain much Glory being a Pattern for all Virtuous Women. London: Printed by and for T. Norris, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, [1715?]

Estimate: 2.000 – 3.000 USD

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881. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century; the Greatest Part Now First Published from the most Authentic Copies, with an Engraved Specimen of One of the Mss. to which are Added, a Preface, an Introductory Account of the Several Pieces, and a Glossary. London: Printed [by William Bowyer and John Nichols] for T. Payne and Son, at the Mews-Gate, 1777

Estimate: 2.000 – 3.000 USD

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882. Collection of contemporary editions of the Rowley poems, works on the authorship controversy, biographies, etc.

Estimate: 3.000 – 5.000 USD

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883. Chatterton, Thomas

Poems, by Thomas Rowlie, Priest of St John's, in the City of Bristol, and Father Confessor to Mr. William Canyng, Founder of St Mary Redcliffe Church

Estimate: 10.000 – 15.000 USD

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884. Chesterfield, Philip Earl of

Letters written by the late right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late envoy extraordinary at the court of Dresden... London: J. Dodsley, 1774 — Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: consisting of letters to his friends ... Memoirs of his life tending to illustrate the civil, literary, and political, History of his time. By M. Maty. … London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777

Estimate: 4.000 – 6.000 USD

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885. Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641. Oxford: at the theater, 1702–1704 — The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford … written by himself. Oxford: Clarendon Printing-House, 1759

Estimate: 2.500 – 3.500 USD

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