Book Auction Records, Volume 14

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Frank Karslake
Wm. Dawson, 1917
A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.
 

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Page 72 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Page 88 - A SPEECH intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the Colony of Massachusett's Bay.
Page xxv - Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We know thee most, we love thee best, For art thou not of British blood? Should war's mad blast again be blown, Permit not thou the tyrant powers To fight thy mother here alone, But let thy broadsides roar with ours. Hands all round! God the tyrant's cause confound! To our great kinsmen of the West, my friends, And the great name of England round and round.
Page xxxviii - ... so that he looks queer enough at the best, but when he is very wet, and in a state between jollity (he is always very jolly with me) and the deepest gravity (going to a funeral, you know), it is utterly impossible to resist him; especially as he makes the strangest remarks the mind of man can conceive, without any intention of being funny, but rather meaning to be philosophical. I really cried with an irresistible sense of his comicality all the way; but when he was dressed out in a black cloak...
Page 286 - Religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord...
Page 89 - Bonifacius ; an Essay upon the Good, that is to be devised and designed, by those who desire to answer the Great End of Life, and to do Good while they live.
Page 169 - THE PICKWICK PAPERS. — On the 31st of March will be published, to be continued monthly, price One Shilling, the first number of the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, containing a faithful record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures, and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by Boz.
Page 479 - A Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey, at the suit of John, Earl of •Stair...
Page 518 - Propagation of the Gospel in the East: being an account of the success of two Danish Missionaries, lately sent to the East Indies, for the conversion of the heathens in Malabar.
Page 233 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...

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