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[email protected] web: www.quaritch.com Women Hippology - The Billmyer-Conant Collection II Bankers: Barclays Bank PLC, 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP The Library of Sir Geoffrey Bindman Part III Sort code: 20-65-90 The Wandering Lens: Nineteenth-Century Travel Photography Account number: 10511722 Swift code: BUKBGB22 Sterling account: IBAN: GB71 BUKB 2065 9010 5117 22 Euro account: IBAN: GB03 BUKB 2065 9045 4470 11 U.S. Dollar account: IBAN: GB19 BUKB 2065 9063 9924 44 Recent catalogues: VAT number: GB 322 4543 31 1443 English Books & Manuscripts 1442 The English & Anglo-French Novel 1740-1840 1441 The Billmyer–Conant Collection — Hippology Front cover image from item 12 LUCAS © Bernard Quaritch 2021 by ‘an odd man’ [AMORY, Thomas]. The Life of John Buncle, Esq; 1 containing various Observations and Reflections, made in several Parts of the World; and many extraordinary Relations … London: Printed for J. Noon … 1756. 8vo., pp. ix, [7], 511, [1]; offsetting to the title-page from the turn-ins; a good copy in contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, a little worn; manuscript note to title- page in shorthand. £150 First edition of the strange and rambling masterpiece of the Anglo-Irish eccentric Thomas Amory (c.1691-1788). A second volume is promised on the final page, but was not published until ten years later. John Buncle, serial husband and advocate of education for women, relates picaresque adventures which are enlivened by eight marriages and numerous impassioned asides on a variety of subjects, including monogamy, the making of gold, microscopes, and a battle between a flea and a louse.