Catalogue of the Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives of New York ... to be Disposed of by Auction on Thursday, March 5, 1891 and Following Days ... at the American Art Galleries, Volume 1 |
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... BEDFORD . A BEAUTIFUL COPY ( ON LARGE PAPER ) IN THE MOST PER- FECT CONDITION . VERY RARE . " The very mention of Æsop darts a species of electricity through the limbs of an ardent Collector . He thinks how dearly he loved in his boyish ...
... BEDFORD . A BEAUTIFUL COPY ( ON LARGE PAPER ) IN THE MOST PER- FECT CONDITION . VERY RARE . " The very mention of Æsop darts a species of electricity through the limbs of an ardent Collector . He thinks how dearly he loved in his boyish ...
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... BEDFORD . VERY RARE . 34 A TRVE | COPPIE OF A DIS- | course written by a Gentleman , | employed in the late Voyage of | Spaine and Portingale : || Sent to his particular friend , and by him published , for the better satisfacti- | on of ...
... BEDFORD . VERY RARE . 34 A TRVE | COPPIE OF A DIS- | course written by a Gentleman , | employed in the late Voyage of | Spaine and Portingale : || Sent to his particular friend , and by him published , for the better satisfacti- | on of ...
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... BEDFORD . A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION . EXTREMELY RARE . A good account of this pungent satire on " Female Fools " is found in WRIGHT'S " History of Caricature and Grotesque , " etc. , Lond . , 1864 , pp . 223-4 : " The first ...
... BEDFORD . A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION . EXTREMELY RARE . A good account of this pungent satire on " Female Fools " is found in WRIGHT'S " History of Caricature and Grotesque , " etc. , Lond . , 1864 , pp . 223-4 : " The first ...
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... BEdford . This Translation of the Bible by John Eliot is scarcely inferior in interest to the noble work of Gutenberg above described . As an instance of learning , industry , piety and zeal it is unexcelled . The Old World was indebted ...
... BEdford . This Translation of the Bible by John Eliot is scarcely inferior in interest to the noble work of Gutenberg above described . As an instance of learning , industry , piety and zeal it is unexcelled . The Old World was indebted ...
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... BEDFORD . BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION , containing the PLATES of ROMAIN DE HOOGE . 86 BOCCACCIO.- LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE . - LON- 155.00 DRES : ( PARIS ) 1757 . [ Engraved title by Gravelot . ] 5 vols . 8 ° ; bound ...
... BEDFORD . BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION , containing the PLATES of ROMAIN DE HOOGE . 86 BOCCACCIO.- LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE . - LON- 155.00 DRES : ( PARIS ) 1757 . [ Engraved title by Gravelot . ] 5 vols . 8 ° ; bound ...
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Page 287 - Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 244 - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page 41 - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God : and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General!
Page 246 - This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Page 201 - Memorial; or, a Brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New England, in America; With special Reference to the first Colony thereof, called New Plimouth.
Page 136 - Hoyt, E. Antiquarian Researches ; Comprising a History of the Indian Wars in the Country bordering Connecticut River and parts adjacent, and other interesting Events, from the first...
Page 310 - Commissioners for the Provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744. Folio, pp. 39, half calf, uncut. Phila. Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New Printing Office, near the Market, MDCCXLIV.
Page 115 - Year 1796,' in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted. Written by Himself."— EDS.
Page 16 - The Thousand and One Nights: commonly called, in England, "THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS." A New Translation from the Arabic, with copious Notes, by EDWARD WILLIAM LANE. Illustrated by many hundred Engravings on Wood, from Original Designs by WM.
Page 297 - The Most High and Mightie Prince, James, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.