Lot 657
  • 657

(Poetry)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Seven Works
  • printed book
Thomas Thompson. Midsummer-Moon: Or The Livery-Man's Complaint. London: for E Harris, 1682. Modern marbled boards. (Wing T1001; ESTC R4834). provenance: Britwell Court. acquisition: Bernard Quartich, 1987. — [Matthew Prior]. The hind and the panther transvers’d to the story of The country-mouse and the city-mouse. London: for W. Davis, [1687].  Uncut. Modern calf and boards. (Wing P3511; ESTC R14177). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 1970. — Richard Ames. Sylvia’s revenge, or; A satyr against man; in answer to the Satyr against woman. London: by Joseph Streater, [1688].  Uncut, A1 present. Old boards. (Wing S6335; ESTC R22334). provenance: Britwell Court. acquisition: Charles W. Traylen. — John Suckling. Fragmenta Avrea... London: Humphrey Moseley, 1684. Frontispiece. The variant with "peeces" in title. Contemporary ruled calf. (Wing S6127; ESTC R7002). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch. — The Unbiass’d Satyr: or, Reflections on manners.  London: by J. Grantham, [1683]. Old morocco-backed boards. (Wing W29; ESTC R5092). provenance: Morrill, 1966. —  An essay on translated verse. By the Earl of Roscomon. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1684. Modern cloth. (Wing R1930; ESTC R7257). provenance: Seven Gables. — Sir Walter Raleigh.  The Pilgrimage. Written by Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, after his condemnation, the day before his death. London: by George Larkin, 1681. Modern morocco and cloth. (Wing R178; ESTC R21841). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch

Together seven volumes, mostly 4to. All first editions but the Suckling and with few in any repairs.