28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Milton (John). Paradise Lost ... Seventh Edition [and:] Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions, London: J. Beecroft [and others], 1770 & 1766. 2 works in 4 volumes, 8vo (203 x 124), uniform contemporary calf (variable wear to spines and cracking to joints, volume 1 joints tender), engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume except Paradise Regain'd volume 2, Paradise Lost with 12 engraved plates after Francis Hayman, Paradise Regain'd with 5 engraved plates also after Hayman, contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpapers and title-pages (Thomas Bargus of Pembroke College, Oxford, dated 1772) - [Burke, Edmund]. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The Fifth Edition. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions, London: J. Dodsley, 1767. 8vo (202 x 128 mm), contemporary calf, gilt crest of Francis Foljambe (1749-1814), British politician, to foot of spine, front cover detached, rear joint cracked - Carew (Thomas). An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the Several Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, of Great Britain, 1st edition, London: John Nourse, 1755. Folio (410 x 250 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined - Dodington (George Bubb). The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington ... New Edition, Salisbury: E. Easton, 1784. 8vo (196 x 120 mm), contemporary mottled calf, half-title, advertisement leaf - and 10 others (not collated), mainly 18th-century English literature, history and theology, all in contemporary calf bindings, including Livy, The History of Rome, Translated ... by George Baker, 6 volumes, London, 1797, Hugh Blair, Sermons, 4 volumes, 13th edition, 1894, and similar (qty: 41) ESTC T133912 (Milton, Paradise Lost), N19462 (Milton, Paradise Regain'd), T42253 (Burke), T144424 (Carew), T144755 (Dodington).
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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