Maggs Bros. Ltd.

SMITH (Adam).

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of… 1785.

DUBLIN COUNTERFEIT EDITION

£4,500

BULLION REPORT.

Report, together with minutes of evidence, and accounts,… 1810.

£20,000

ELLIS (William).

Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, or, Owhyhee;, 1826.

OWNED AND USED BY ROBERT SOUTHEY

£2,500

SETON (Alexander).

Poems, 1827.

“UPON THE OCCASION OF CAPTAIN PARRY’S SUCCESSFUL POLAR EXPEDITION”

£2,250

[MACKIE (Dorothea Sophia)].

A Picture of the Changes of Fashion, 1818.

A PRIVATELY PRINTED PERSONAL REMINISCENCE OF FORTY YEARS OF ENGLISH FASHION

£6,500

KENDAL (John).

A desperate letter from a partially freed Tortolan… 1816.

"IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER FOR A PERSON TO PUT [AN] END TO HIS LFE, AS TO WORK FOR NOTHING"

£12,500

AUSTEN (Jane).

Pride and Prejudice / par Jane Austen/ Traduction… 1880.

A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATION OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

£30,000

[PROSTITUTION].

Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies: Or, Man of… 1787.

"WICKED, NASTY, FILTHY, BAWDY, AND OBSCENE"

£55,000

HOMILIES. WELSH. JAMES (Edward, translator).

[Pregethau a osodwyd allan trwy awdurdod i’w darllein… 1606.

WITH ‘WITCH MARKS’ SCORED INTO THE COVERS AS APOTROPAIC PROTECTIONS AGAINST EVIL

£8,000

[ELLIOTT (Ebenezer)].

Corn Law Rhymes. The Ranter, 1830.

THE PRIVATELY PRINTED FIRST EDITION OF "THIS HITHERTO OBSCURE POEM"

£6,000

POPE (Alexander).

ALS from the young Alexander Pope to his… 1707.

"MY MUSE IS EVER UNEMPLOY'D WHEN I CAN DIVERT MY SELF ANY OTHER WAY"

£25,000

[DEFOE (Daniel)]. & DUMOULIN (Francois Aime Louis).

Collection de Cent-Cinquante Gravures représentant et format une… 1818.

A PROTO GRAPHIC NOVEL? ROBINSON CRUSOE TOLD THROUGH 150 ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST INDIES

£15,000

JAMES (Joseph Earl).

A Newly Discovered Animal! The Bonassus from the… 1821.

"THE GREATEST WONDER IN NATURAL HISTORY THAT EVER CROSSED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN"

£2,500

[DRUNKENESS]

Like Mistress - Like Maid, 1781.

THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON WOMEN OF ALL CLASSES

£1,250

[WOMEN]

The Female Association for Preserving Liberty and Property, 1803.

WOMEN AGAINST NAPOLEON

£850

[ENGLISH COOKERY]

Loyal Songs. The English Cooks [...] Ward Associations, 1803.

ENGLISH COOKING TRIUMPHS OVER FRENCH

£750

[GILLRAY (James)].

Ladies Dress, as it soon will be, 1796.

"I HAVE SEEN LADIES IN A STATE OF UNDRESS"

£2,800

[ROYAL SOCIETY] & [OLDENBURG (Henry)].

Philosophical Transactions: giving some Accompt of the Present… 1665.

"THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING AND PROFITABLE DISCOVERIES": A HANDSOME RUN OF THE FIRST 60 YEARS OF THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL IN THE WORLD

£135,000

[ENGLAND AND FRANCE]

The Happy Contrast, 1756.

A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN PIECE OF ENGLISH PROPAGANDA

£2,500

YOUNG (Edward).

The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, &… 1742.

A UNIQUE COPY IN DODSLEY’S ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS

£12,000

[QUAKERISM]. After, & HEEMSKERCK (Egbert van).

The Quaker's Meeting, 1723.

"IT IS CURIOUS THAT IMPRESSIONS OF THIS ENGRAVING ARE EXCESSIVELY RARE IN ENGLAND”

£3,500

[PROSTITUTION]. & ALBANESI (A[ngelo]) engraver.

Afternoons Amusement, 1777.

"THE GREAT MART OF AMOUR, PLEASURE, AND BLISS, THE CELEBRATED SANCTUM SANCTORUM OF KING'S PLACE"

£4,500

[PRISON CONDITIONS]. & [BURDETT (Sir Francis)]

An Impartial Statement of the Inhuman Cruelties Discovered!… 1800.

"A TRUE PICTURE OF WRETCHEDNESS, DISGRACEFUL TO HUMANITY"

£1,200

GRAHAM (James).

A collection of books, prints and broadsides related… 1780.

ELECTRICITY, SEX THERAPY AND VEGETARIANISM: THE CURIOUS LIFE AND CAREER OF JAMES GRAHAM.

£45,000

[POOR APPRENTICES].

Register of Children Bound or Assigned by the… 1802.

PARISH RECORD OF POOR CHILD APPRENTICES IN RURAL DEVON

£2,500

CHARLES (Richard).

An Essay on the Treatment of Consumptions, 1787.

"WHERE IT FAILED I NEVER KNEW MEDICINE SUCCEED”: CURING TUBERCULOSIS WITH MILK AND VEGETABLES

£950

SHELLEY (Percy Bysshe). & SHELLEY (Mary) editor.

Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, 1840.

"I PROMISED DR C. A SET OF SHELLEYS WORKS": A PRESENTATION COPY FROM MARY SHELLEY

£28,500

FITZPATRICK (Sir Jeremiah).

An Essay on Gaol-Abuses, 1784.

FIGHTING "GAOL-FEVER" IN IRELAND

£1,500

JACKSON (Thomas, Dean of Peterborough).

The Works of the Reverend and Learned Divine,… 1673.

BOUND BY MEARNE FOR CHARLES II

£8,500

STELE (James).

An Essay on Manufacturing Milk into Butter and… 1794.

HOW TO MAKE GOOD CHEESE AND BUTTER IN SCOTLAND

£1,800

MORE (Henry).

Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or the Revelation of St John… 1680.

FROM THE PAROCHIAL LIBRARY OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND

£5,750

[TEA ACT].

An Act to allow a Drawback of the… 1773.

THE INFAMOUS TEA ACT: A KEY DOCUMENT IN THE STORY OF AMERICA'S INDEPENDENCE - THE CATALYST FOR THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

£25,000

SMITH (Adam).

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of… 1802.

£2,000

COX (James).

The Wanderings of Woe, or Conjugal Affection, 1813.

"THE WRONGS OF WOMEN"

£850

RICHARDSON (Charlotte).

Poems written on Different Occasions, 1806.

PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE TROUBLED AUTHOR

£850

POLWHELE (Richard).

The Unsex’d Females: a Poem, 1798.

"SEE WOLLSTONECRAFT, WHOM NO DECORUM CHECKS, / ARISE, THE INTREPID CHAMPION OF HER SEX"

£5,500

DUNBAR (Robert Nugent).

The Cruise;, 1835.

A ROMANTIC POET TURNS FROM ITALY TO THE WEST INDIES FOR INSPIRATION

£2,500

[ANONYMOUS].

The Return of Peace. A Poem, 1802.

"MY LOSS OF FORTUNE, PARTNER, CHILD - MY ALL!"

£2,500

[AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR].].

Qualifying for a Campain [sic], 1777.

THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AS CHILD'S PLAY

£3,800

GILLRAY (James).

Britania's Assassination. or___The Republicans Amusement, 1782.

"ONE OF THE BOLDEST POST-REVOLUTIONARY ATTACKS LEVELED AGAINST THE NEW MINISTRY"

£3,800

GUILLEMEAU (Jacques).

Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women, 1612.

THE SECOND ENGLISH MIDWIFERY MANUAL

£15,000

GERROND (John).

Poems on Several Occasions, Chiefly in the Scottish… 1802.

VERSE WRITTEN IN AMERICA

£250