May 02, 2005 - Sale 2041

Sale 2041 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
RAY, JOHN. A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages . . . Third Edition, augmented with Many Hundreds of Words, Observations, Letters, &c. [with A Collection of English Words not generally used]. viii, 319, [1]; 150, [2] pages, including final leaf of ads for Torbuck, Payne, and Woodman. 8vo, contemporary calf, spine badly worn, ends chipped, hinges reinforced; general title soiled, with early inscriptions, early marginalia through much of volume. Keynes (Ray) 12. London: J. Hughs for J. Torbuck et al., 1737