Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
The Works
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
including her Correspondence, Poems and Essays. London: Richard Phillips, 1803. First edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, smooth spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, engraved frontispiece, 10 plates of manuscript facsimile (several folding), contemporary book-labels of Anne Isabella Kevill to front pastedowns, spotting to front and rear of each volume;
[Scottish Highlands]. Letters from the Mountains; being the Real Correspondence of a Lady [Anne MacVicar Grant], between the Years 1773 and 1807. London: for Longman [et al.], 1807. Second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, half-titles, slightly rubbed, ownership inscriptions and blind stamps to front free endpapers of volumes 2-3, small marginal tear to B3 volume 3;
Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the Appearance of Nature. London: R. Faulder, 1802. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title discarded, part of L3 recto failed to print, occasional pencilled annotations and underlining, bookplate and ownership inscription;
and 2 others (these not collated): Bacon, Essays, 1755 (contemporary sprinkled calf); and Erasmus, L'Eloge de la Folio, Neuchatel, 1777 (contemporary quarter sheep)
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