[Rarebooks] FS: THE BRITISH APOLLO

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Aaron Hill and Marshall Smith. Perform'd by a Society of Gentlemen. 
THE BRITISH APOLLO: CONTAINING TWO THOUSAND ANSWERS TO CURIOUS 
QUESTIONS IN MOST ARTS AND SCIENCES, SERIOUS, COMICAL, AND HUMOROUS, 
APPROVED OF BY MANY OF THE MOST LEARNED AND INGENIOUS OF BOTH 
UNIVERSITIES, AND OF THE ROYAL-SOCIETY. THREE VOLUMES. London: 
Printed for Theodore Sanders, at the Bell in Little Britain, and Sold 
by Arthur Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon in Pater-noster Row, 1726. 
xvi, 336 pp.; [337]-696 pp.; [697]-1056 pp., [28 pp.]. 8vo. Full 
mottled calf with gilt rules.  Third edition.

Questions and answers on miscellaneous topics extracted from the 
newspaper of the same name published by Hill and Smith from 
1708-1711: theology, science, mathematics, medicine, customs, 
manners, often humorous. Writers included John Gay, Samuel Garth, and 
John Arbuthnot. Later published in book form starting in 1711. 
Contains ownership signature of Catherine Decker, 1733, and two 
bookplates, one of William George Read, and one of Matthias Darly 
(MDarly, sculpt), 18th-century English caricaturist, engraver, 
architectural designer, and engraver for many Thomas Chippendale 
works.

Boards rubbed, spine ends with a few small chips, spines somewhat 
crinkled, tape marks to boards of one volume, hinges reinforced on 
one volume, hinge tender on another, title pages foxed, otherwise 
leaves clean; a good set of this hard to find item.  ESTCT118939; 
CBEL II, 198. [25788]  $400

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
Email: books at kaaterskillbooks.com
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