Nearly the whole of the rarities in that particular division, set forth in the second, fourth, sixth and eighth parts of the catalogue, fell to Mr Miller; and of many no duplicates have since occurred.
Pearson was almost the introducer of those stupendous prices for really first-rate books orrarities in book-form, which have now gone on ascending, till it is hard to tell where they will stop.
A good deal of mystery surrounds the Lee Priory collection, which seems to have at one time contained many dramatic rarities of the first order, most, if not all, of which eventually found their way to Heber.
The glut of rarities was so bewildering, that I got nearly everything which I had marked.
Many of the Italian rarities were included; and Genoa and Monaco were very strongly represented.
The rarities are usually of poor work and fabric as well as of princes, who reigned just long enough to stamp their names and effigies on a circular disc of gold.
The mere rarities of the later period I do not count; they correspond to the Greek coinages, when the latter merge in the Asiatic types.
The owner of the rarities exhibited over against the Mews Gate in the reign of Queen Anne was no exception to the rule.
The difference in the scale to which the zoological rarities within were depicted on the canvas, as compared with the figures of men that were represented, was a very characteristic feature of these pictorial displays.
The ambassador in answer said, "Nothing is surprising before the power of God; perhaps it may be the case; such rarities often fall into the hands of merchants and pilgrims.
Whatever rarities [in the way of clothes or dresses] were required in every great family, went from my shop only.
I called all the merchants near me, and whatever rarities each had, we collected together, and those of my own I took also, and went in the morning to the door of the royal seraglio.
He came, and brought with him the rarities of every country, which were worthy of being offered to me, as presents.
The journey was performed in health and safety, and when we arrived in Hindustan, we sold some of our goods there, and taking some raritieswith us from thence, we set out for the country of Zerbad.
For the supplying ofrarities and surprises there are no birds like the warblers.
Thereupon we sallied forth on them, and looking on them as booty driven to us by fate, slew the men and made prize of the ships, in which we found the treasures and rarities in question and forty damsels, amongst whom was Sufiyeh.
Among other albino rarities here is the charming L.
Since Roezl made the discovery, fifteen years before, every one had come to know that rarities may be expected on an Indian church.
In a word, here is without doubt the best, if not the greatest, collection of rarities and paintings that are to be seen together in any one nobleman's or gentleman's house in England.
I never saw anything like what appears here, except in the chamber of rarities at Munich in Bavaria.
The first compartment contains two of the rarities of the gardens--the satin bower-bird and the Tallagulla or brush-turkey.
Museum Tradescantianum, a collection of rarities preserved at South Lambeth, near London, by John Tradescant, i.
And now, sir, I come to the chief business of my letter, which is, to desire your friendship and assistance in the disposal of those many rarities and curiosities which lie upon my hands.
D' ye think, friend Merripall, you could rake me up from your rarities a sketch of Mother Brownrigg coercing her apprentices?
A certain officer of the Guards being at the New Theatre, behind the scenes, was telling some of the comedians of the rarities he had seen abroad.
How Pantagruel bought many rarities in the island of Medamothy Chapter 4.
How Pantagruel bought manyrarities in the island of Medamothy.
Almost all the writers of your time have likewise passed into forgetfulness, and De Worde's publications are mere literary rarities among book-collectors.
With certain very special and costly rarities two often make a market.
There we perceive that Lord Oxford was indebted for many rarities to John Bagford and other private purveyors of printed books as well as MSS.
But the demand for the costlier rarities and curiosities is so narrow, that the fresh aspirant is soon the central object of attention to the few who can provide him with what he imagines he wants.
The earlier standard both for English and foreign rarities was undoubtedly much lower.
Among the Blenheim books were a few miscellaneous rarities in the English class.
It might be impossible to exhaust the variety of ways in which an extraordinarily large body of publications of former days has been reduced or raised to the position of rarities of graduated rank.
The greatest evil of this fatuous hankering for sources of self-satisfaction was the throng of rogues and sycophants thereby produced who vied with one another in contriving false or specious rarities and begging imperial favour for them.
Bounties were munificently distributed to commemorate the happy occasion, discoverers of theserarities were amply rewarded, criminals were released or had the hardships of their servitude ameliorated.
A very short look over the shelves produced some thirty Black Letter books, three or four illuminated missals, and some book rarities of a more recent date.
No spurious Whitneyville Walkers; after all, a dealer can sell just so many of such top-drawer raritiesbefore the finger of suspicion begins leveling itself in his direction, and Arnold Rivers had long ago passed that point.
He took a paper from his pocket and read off a list of the dubious items, interpolating comments on the condition, and a list of the real rarities which Gresham had mentioned the day before, which were now missing.
But, then, the operations of the society were not confined to odd volumes, but to rarities of any kind and in any number that Providence might see fit to throw in its way.
Its rarities had not been collected with pain and toil from the four quarters of the earth, and from the depths of the sea, and from the palaces and sepulchres of ages, for those who could mistake this illustrious steed.
Besides other rarities which they carried with them, they had two elephants and eight antelopes, being the first of either I had ever seen.
The He-Panther, from Turkey, allowed by the curious to be one of the greatest rarities ever seen in England, on which are thousands of spots, and not two of a likeness.
Accordingly he summoned the dromedaries and loading fifty of them with rarities of Al-Irak, committed the house to his mother's care and deposited all his goods in safe keeping, except some few he left at home.
When the King heard this, he equipped troops to escort her to her sister and brought out to her from his treasuries meat and drink and monies and jewels and rarities which beggar description.
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