18th-century English books Collection of works on various subjects including: Povey, Charles. The Virgin in Eden: or, the State of Innocecy. Deliver'd by Way of Image and Description. Presenting a Nobleman, a Student, and Heiress, on their Progress from Sodom to Canaan ... To which are added, Pamela's Letters proved to be Immodest Romances painted in Images of Virtue. London: J. Roberts, 1741. First edition, 8vo (19.2 x 12.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked, extremities rubbed [ESTC T133871: four copies in UK libraries]; Swift, Jonathan. The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. London: A. Millar, 1758. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 12cm), contemporary half calf, spine and boards renewed [ESTC T151042]; Wintringham, Clifton, senior. Commentarium nosologicum orbos epidemicos et aeris variationes in urbe Eboracensi licisque vicinis. London: William Bowyer, 1733. Second edition, 8vo (19.9 x 12.4cm), contemporary inscription '[...] Ex dono Gul. Fordyce Eq' to title-page (possibly referring to noted Scottish physician William Fordyce, 1724-1792), contemporary calf spine, covers lacking, spotting to title-page and occasionally elsewhere, adhesive staining to blank verso of final leaf [ESTC T151042: 500 copies printed]; Xenophon. The Banquet, done from the Greek ... By James Welwood. London: John Barnes; and Andrew Bell, 1710. First edition thus, 8vo (17 x 10cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked [ESTC T145158]; and 18 others (these not collated), including: John Keill, Introductio ad ad veram astronomiam, 1721 ('Editio secunda', 8vo, contemporary sprinkled tan calf); Edmund Burke, Two Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, 1796 (8vo, contemporary tree calf, marginal excision from title-page); Colin Maclaurin, A Treatise of Algebra, 1756 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, front cover detached); Jonathan Swift, The Sermons, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1763 (8vo, 20th-century cloth); David Moyses [Moysie], Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1755 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked); The Life and Adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew ... the King of Beggars, 1782 (8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked); A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, 1785 (third edition, 12mo, later green sheep, repairs); and similar (22)

Note: Another edition of Wintringham's work, a treatise on diseases in the city of York, appeared in 1727, but at 64 pp. is considerably shorter than the present second edition, which has 168 pp.