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173642820782<p>Three joined sheets. 21 x 66 in. Copper engraved map three joined sheets fine vivid original hand coloring. Title in Latin and German on left sheet. Old creases several small repairs on verso. Very good condition.</p><p>This famous three-sheet plan of London Westminster and Southwark gives names of streets drainage parish boundaries buildings parks and other places. The right sheet has inset views of St. Paul's Cathedral St. James Square Custom House and the Royal Exchange on right sheet.</p><p><strong>This spectacular plan of London is eminently suited for framing and display.</strong></p> Homann Heirs
1729120635London: Printed for J. Roberts and A. Dodd 1729. First and only edition of this Juvenalian satire on London "this great wicked unwieldy over-grown Town one continued hurry of Vice and Pleasure". This disbound copy in notably good condition. The first ten pages set forth a mocking hour-by-hour account of Londoners' activities on the Sabbath from "lawyers in the Inns of Court lacing their Mistresses Stays paying them their Fees and removing them by Habeas Corpus to their own Lodgings" at eight o'clock in the morning to "Drunkel Quarrels at all Corners of the Streets" at nine o'clock at night p. 10. The author then goes on to condemn among others the excessive lifestyle of the fop the evils of effeminate sodomites and the practice of cursing too frequently. His diatribe against gluttonous eating is illustrated with a diagram of a three-course menu including Soupe au Bourgoise Beef à la Tremblade and Fricasee of Salamanders which he ridicules as having nothing to recommend it "but the Expence and hard Names" p. 31. Octavo 215 x 130 mm pp. 2 62. Woodcut headpiece and initial. Early ink annotation to lower margin of last leaf. Disbound. Extremities creased and nicked some faint dampstain to final leaf otherwise a clean copy in very good condition. ESTC T36083. unknown
1747046963London: H Slater 1747. Third Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original blue wraps corner of cover and title sliced with section of front wrap lacking; front hinge split browning at edges untrimmed spine degraded. A nice unsophisticated copy of the third edition. viii 95 1. List of books at end.<br/><br/>First published in 1699 as a Country Gentlemen's Vade Mecum it's a sort of satirical guide to avoiding vice while actually being a guide to finding it. Published in some profusion in the second half of the 18th century as Cheats of London Exposed but the early editions are all scarce. Warnings for expecting better conversation in London than in the country for tennis courts the theater trapping cock fights gambling guinea dropping prostitutes etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Erotica. Inventory No: 046963. H, Slater unknown
17951067881795. London: c. 1795. <br /> <br /> 11 5/8 x 6 in. 29.5 x 17.2 cm. A contemplative woman seated head resting on her right arm with inscription 'Fuseli' lower right and extensive numbers and sums verso. Pencil and grey wash. Very good.<br /> <br /> <br /> § A lovely drawing very much in the style of Fuseli and surely by a talented artist in the immediate circle of Fuseli and Blake. unknown
