Further BOOKS from the LIBRARY of THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD

CATALOGUE 1459

MAGGS BROS. LTD. Further Books from the Library of The Earls of Macclesfield

CATALOGUE 1459

MAGGS BROS. LTD. 2012 Item 80; Fludd. Front cover illustration: The arms of the first taken from an armorial head-piece 5 to the dedication of Xenophon Cyropaedia ed. T. Hutchinson, Oxford, 1727. A FURTHER SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF Back cover: item 80, Robert Fludd. THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD AT CASTLE

he library of the earls of Macclesfield was created The activities of all of these men may be seen in MAGGS BROS. LTD. Tin the first fifty years or so of the eighteenth this catalogue. century, and was one of the great Country House In the nineteenth century some of its treasures, 50 Berkeley Square libraries of . It was housed in two large particularly the collection of letters of , London W1J 5BA rooms, the larger North library and the South amongst them , were published Library at , Shirburn, a small hamlet and made available. Throughout the twentieth near Watlington, , England, a house century access was limited. Before 2000 the sole Telephone 020 7493 7160 and estate acquired by Thomas Parker first earl element of the library which had been sold was Fax 020 7499 2007 of Macclesfield (1667-1732), a distinguished lawyer, the important collection of Welsh material (from and founder of the family’s fortunes. The first earl Williams) which went to form part of the foundation Email [email protected] was a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and collections of the National Library of Wales. Since [email protected] was one of the pall-bearers at the exequies of Sir the sale to University library of the Isaac Newton in 1727. It was his son George, the Newton and other scientific papers, which was Bank Account: second earl (1697-1764) who was president of the commemorated by an exhibition in 2001-2002, Allied Irish Bank (GB) Royal Society, and who introduced into the House the library has been largely dispersed, either in Mayfair Branch of Lords the bill for changing the calendar from twelve auction sales, divided by subject, at Sotheby’s, 10 Berkeley Square the Julian to the Gregorian, thereby bringing the London, or by sales of individual items through London W1J 6AA United Kingdom, and its colonies, into line with the Maggs Bros Ltd. The auction sales included the rest of Europe. In the form in which it reached the mass of scientific material and a small number of Sort code: 23-83-97 Account number: 47 77 70 70 twentieth century, the library had essentially been medieval manuscripts, amongst them, and now IBAN: GB94 AIBK 238397 47777070 created by 1750, and the man whose influence and in the in Cambridge, what is BIC: AIBKGB2L interests, apart from those of the first and second known as the Macclesfield Psalter. Some later private earls, played a major role in this was William sales of manuscript material have been to the British VAT no: GB 239 3813 47 Jones (c. 1675-1749), another fellow of the Royal Library, amongst them the Shirburn Ballads and Mastercard and Visa: Society, himself a mathematician and , but the Macclesfield Alphabet Book. Of the last and of please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number someone with a wide range of interests. It was this the Psalter facsimiles have been published. by mail, fax or telephone. conjunction of money and interests which lay behind Many notable books have been acquired by EU members: the extraordinarily rich holdings of manuscript and institutions and private collectors in the United please quote your VAT/TVA number when ordering. printed books concerned with the physical sciences, Kingdom, in Europe and in the United States. with such matters as calendrical establishment and But all libraries contain ‘ordinary’ books as well The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until reform, and with the study of language, this last as outstanding rarities. In 2010 our catalogue the price has been paid in full. element in large part founded upon the acquisition 1440 offered a selection of these, and this present ©Maggs Bros. Ltd. 2012 in the 1740s of the collections of Moses Williams catalogue offers another group of books in many Design by Radius Graphics, Southleigh, Devon. (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and translator, son of languages and on many subjects. There are a few Samuel Williams (c.1660–c.1722). The lawyer Sir books previously offered, but for the most part Printed by Creeds the Printers, Bridport, DT6 5NL. Thomas Clarke (1703/4-1764), a protegé of the first the material here offered is fresh, and affords an earl, also played a part in the creation of the library. opportunity for all to obtain something from this 5 remarkable and very large library. All books have Parker, whose collection of military books passed 1 ACARETE DU BISCAY. A relation This work, apparently meant for those members of the the 19th-century armorial bookplate of the library into the library, and a very few have the engraved of Mr. R.M.’s voyage to Buenos-Ayres: Armenian community in Venice, who needed an Italian and are stamped with the small armorial embossed bookplate of Thomas Parker of the Middle Temple, and then by land to Potosi. Dedicated to the aid with the language of the liturgy, encompasses the text stamp. A few have the 18th-century bookplate of that is the first earl. Details of other provenances honourable the court of the South-Sea Company. of the liturgy with a facing Italian translation. Yovhannes the Military Collection of Lt. General the Hon. G.L. are given where applicable. Agopian is described as a papal missionary in the title 8vo (150 x 96mm.) v, [1], 3-117, [3]p., engraved map but he is better known as Yovhannes of Constantinople ‘Part of the great river de la Plata, of Tucuman’ (Kostandbupolsec’i) the author of an Armenian , 5 by H. Moll, contemporary sheep, flat spine, upper found with his Puritas linguae armenicae (Rome, 1675), a cover loose. manual of oratory published in Marseilles in 1674. He also London: John Darby, 1716 £1500 published an Armenian translation of Flos virtutum (Rome, 1675) and an Armenian-Latin catechism, Speculum veritatis, Acarete made two journeys up the river Plate, one if the SUBJECT INDEX published in Venice by Barboni in 1680 (see Nersessian late 1650s and the other in the early 1660s. It was first 40-44 and 47). published in French as no. 37 in Thevenot’s Relation de ANTIQUITIES...... 4, 10, 19, 21, 22, 41, 46, 60, 66, 67, 74, 90, 112, 118, 159, 160 A similar work in Latin was published in Rome, again voyages of 1672, and no account of the author, other than by the Propaganda Press, in 1677 - Lyturgia Armena. ARABIC ...... 53, 165 his name, seems to exist, but he may well have been a Ministerium missae etc. in Armenian of which the BL copy French Basque This English translation first appeared ART ...... 106, 185, 190, 194 (17024.e.2) also has a Latin version - Codex mysterii missae in 1698 as part of a volume published by Samuel Buckley, Armenorum etc. BIOGRAPHY ...... 28, 64, 81, 162, 182 Voyages and discoveries in South America (Wing V 746). There Michiel Angelo Barboni, whose activity in Venice is a modern Spanish translation of the work (Alicante 2001). CARTOGRAPHY ...... 83, 100, 172 is attested from the late 1660s published an Armenian A variant of this edition with the name of the printer breviary (Zhamagirk) and Tagharan in 1681, in 1682 a CLASSICAL TEXTS ...... 7, 8, 12, 13, 42, 48, 56, 88, 89, 116, 117, 119, 122, 127 at the end of the prelims is also known...... 138, 139, 143, 146, 163, 164, 180, 187, 188, 200, 203 Psalter (Saghmosaran) and Dashants tught - Lettera dell Sabin 42918; Palau 260451. amicitia a dell unione di Costantino gran cesare a disan Siluestro EDUCATION ...... 14, 109 sommo pontefice, e di Tirdade re della armenia, e dis. Gregorio / iluminatore della natione armena scritta nell anno del Signore ENGLISH & MODERN LANGUAGE TEXTS ...... 8, 9, 33, 40, 50, 97, 103, 104, 124 SWEDENBORG ...... 138, 139, 148, 161, 191 316 [Letter of Concord] and in 1685 a prayerbook based 2 ACTA LITERARIA SUECIAE. Acta on Latin sources, a Gospels, and a Calendar (N. 49-51). ENGRAVINGS...... 32 literaria Sueciae Upsaliae publicata. The latest date of any item from his press seems to be 1690, FOOD AND DRINK...... 12, 72, 111 Volumen primum [only] continens this work and a confession of faith by Nerses Snorhali. annos 1720. 1721. 1722. 1723. & 1724. Of this extremely rare item we have located one copy in HISTORY ...... 17, 18, 20, 27, 29, 39, 50, 51, 61, 65, 71, 105, 125 the BNF and one in Venice at the Mekhitarist monastery...... 150, 151, 153, 154, 170, 177, 186, 193, 196 4to (200 x 155mm.) [14], 1-90, 95-122, [2], 123- 246, , LATIN VERSE, LIT. HISTORY ...... 6, 24, 37, 43, 62, 69, 75, 76, 136, 147 [4], 247-366, 2], 367-490, [2], 491-608, [24], engraved ...... 158, 173, 178, 179, 188, 201, 202 frontispiece, plates, one woodcut, contemporary half 4 ALDRETE, Bernardo. Varias antiguedades vellum. de España Africa y otras provincias. LANGUAGE...... 8, 35, 45, 47, 52, 53, 57, 58, 73, 77, 78, 87, 95 ...... 96, 113, 142, 156, 157, 167, 174, 184, 200 Upsala & Stockholm: literis Wernerianis, prostat apud 4to (235 x 165mm.) [16 (incl. engr. title)], 640, [72] J.H. Russworm, [1724] £450 pp., engr. title, and 3 engr. illustrations (maps on LAW ...... 91, 98 This is the first of four volumes. The full series seems to pp. 44, 528, coins p. [179]) contemporary English LIBRARIES ...... 70 have run to 1742. calf, later gilt spine, English (biblical) pastedowns, MILITARY SCIENCES...... 36, 38, 49, 79, 120, 130, 131, 139, 145 Contains a number of pieces by Swedenborg. title-leaf somewhat dusty, upper joint weak, spine splitting, rubbed. PHILOSOPHY...... 84, 101, 132, 155 Antwerp: (G. Wolschaeten & H. Aertsens for) J. Hafrey, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ...... 134, 135 3 AGOPIAN, Youhannes. T’argmanout 1614 (1615) £1800 iwn italakansrbazani Xorhdatetern. La First edition (the work was reprinted in 1724). SCIENCE...... 2, 5, 13, 16 ,20, 23, 44, 55, 59, 63, 80, 82, 85, 86, 93, 99, 102, 104, 107, 108 dichiaratione della liturgia armena. Fatta ...... 121 123, 126, 137, 141, 144, 149, 151, 168, 169, 181, 192, 195, 198, 199 in Italliano [sic]… Ad instanza delli signori This extensive and learned work is divided into four books, two dealing with Spain and two with Africa. It is much SHIPS & SHIPPING...... 94, 123 Armeni habitanti in questa città di Venetia. concerned with language and The work makes use of SILK WORMS ...... 31 4to (190 x 140mm.) 51, [1]pp., title and text printed Greek and Hebrew type and a woodcut Syriac alphabet SL AVONIC BOOKS ...... 114, 115, 140 in red and black, some leaves cropped close at head appears on p. 177, with Arabic (final letter forms only) with loss of page numbers, modern half calf. on p. 178. THEOLOGY ...... 3, 11, 14, 25, 26, 34, 51, 54, 102, 105, 133, 152, 155, 171, 197 Venice: M.A. Barboni, 1690 £1000 Aldrete (1568 -1645) who came from Malaga is described TR AVEL, NAVIGATION &c...... 1, 4, 15, 18, 30, 68, 92, 110, 123, 129, 151, 166, 176 on the title as a Canon of Cordoba, a preferment which

5 3 his brother Jose (1560-1616, a Jesuit; see Sommervogel i, 6 ANGELI, Pietro. Syrias hoc est expeditio 9 ARETINO, Pietro. Quatro comedie… 151) made over to him. The two brothers were apparently illa celeberrima christianorum principum, cioè Il Marescalco la Talanta. La Cortegiana so alike, that Gongora called them las vinagreras (see the qua Hierosolyma ductu Goffredi Bolionis L’Hipocrito. Nouellamente ritornate, etc. note in E. Todart y Güell, Bibliografia espanyola d’Italia dels Lotharinguiae ducis a Turcarum tyrannide 8vo (142 x 88mm.) ff. [8], 485, [3 (errata)], early 18th- origens de la imprempta (1927) i, 53-54). He is chiefly known liberata est. Eiusdem votivum carmen in for his work on the Castilian language (which amongst century English calf, spine gilt in compartments. D. Catharinam. (Roberti Titii… scholia). other things, he first saw as being derived from Latin) [London: J. Wolfe]: 1588 £1150 published in Rome in 1606 (Del origen y principio de la 4to (212 x 150mm.) [24], 496pp., italic type, woodcut A very nice copy of this English edition, one of John Wolfe’s lengua castellana…). According to Todart y Güell, he left initials, eighteenth-century English calf, triple gilt pseudo-Italian imprints, a group of books printed in a large library to the Jesuits, dispersed in 1767. fillet on covers, a little rubbed. London either with false imprints, Palermo and the like, In some copies there is a final quire of 4 leaves signed Florence: F. Giunta, 1591 £800 or, as here, no imprint at all, and all intended to deceive the with a paraph, which contains according to Peeters- First edition of all twelve books of this poem, retelling in English authorities. These four comedies collected together Fontainas, errata and contents. It is not here present. It had all been published before, and were well known. La is not present in the 3 copies in the BL (nor in the 4 copies hexameter verse of the story of the first crusade, led by Godfrey of Bouillon (ca. 1060-1100), a story also told by Cortegiana is a comic take on Castiglione’s famous book, in Oxford) and the late Anna Simoni classes the makeup and seems to have been first published in 1534 (edition as here, as a separate issue. Tasso in Gierusalemme liberata. The book is handsomely printed in italic type with large woodcut initials. The first mis-dated 1544). L’Hipocrito was again published in 1542 by Palau 6391; Peeters Fontainas 30; Simoni A59. four books were published in Paris 1582-84 by Patisson Marcolini in Venice, and Il Marescalco, based on Aretino’s Provenance: Juan Maurizio written in capitals on engraved and books V-VI were published as part of Angeli’s Poemata own experiences at the court of Mantua, first in 1533, title-page. in 1585. being several times reprinted. La Talanta was written in The author (1517-96) was from Barga, hence the 1542 for the Compagnia della Calza I Sempiterni, and toponymic Bargaeus, a name commemorated in the lines produced with magnificent sets setting the scene in Rome 5 ANDERSON, Robert. The Making of of Latin verse inscribed in a 17th-century French hand at (like la Cortegiana). Rockets. in Two Parts. The first containing the end of the preliminary leaves. During his long life he Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) ‘the divine Aretino’ as he the Making of Rockets for the meanest worked as Greek scribe and editor, and indeed translated was called by Ariosto, was born at Arezzo, and was a highly Capacity. The other to make Rockets by a Sophocles Oedipus rex into Italian (1588). successful satirical writer. Today his name is a by-word Duplicate Proposition, to 1000 pound Weight for erotic literature solely because of one of his works, Provenance: 17th century French inscription of - Vallognes the Modi a series of erotic sonnets illustrative of sexual or higher. Experimentally and Mathematically on title-page (name found also elsewhere in books from positions, first published in 1525, and the subject of some Demonstrated, by Robert Anderson. this library). striking engravings. 8vo (154 x 94mm.) [16], 48pp., a few woodcut STC 19911; Pforzheimer 800; Woodfield Surreptitious diagrams, heading on D3r “Necessary Tables for 7 APOLLONIUS Rhodius. Argonauticorum Printing; Censimento 2486. Rockets” cropped off, a few page numbers shaved. libri IV. Ab Jeremia Hoelzlino in latinum Contemporary sheep (spine and edges rubbed, conversi; commentario & notis illustrati, etc. joints cracked). THE REVIVAL OF 8vo (172 x 105mm.) [16], 42, [2], 543, [1]; 368, [16] London: for R. Morden, 1696 £4000 THE ORDER OF THE GARTER pp., contemporary English calf, red edges. 10 ASHMOLE, Elias. The Institution, First edition. Anderson began life as a silk-weaver and in Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1641 £450 The translator tells us that he used the 1551 Paris edition the 1660 published a work on mathematics. Subsequently of the Greek text printed by Estienne, and kept in view Laws & Ceremonies of the Most Noble Jeremias Hoelzlin (1583-1641) is chiefly remembered as he became interested in ballistics and in 1674 published differing Latin versions, some of them better than others, Order of the Garter; and a brief account of editor of the textus receptus of the Greek NT. Sebastiano a work on guns. This work on rockets and propellants as well as the sixteenth-century version in french by Claude all the other military orders of knighthood Timpanaro in The genesis of Lachmann’s method mentions is also concerned also with the strength of gun metal de Seyssel. He is particularly insistent on using ancient in England, Scotland, France, Spain, him briefly. and how to increase (or decrease) this. In his address geographical names: ‘for example, I believe that more , Italy, Swedeland, Denmark, &c. to “young pyrobolistes” he mentions the sort of rocket Willems 504. people understand me when I speak of the Peloponnese With the ensigns of the several orders. “suitable for all private occasions”, and the last leaf of the than when I speak of the Morea’. The preface also mentions Folio (360 x 210mm.) [12], 720, [104] pp., engraved prelims. advertises where and from whom one may buy a map, and a ‘Paralèlle de la géographie ancienne avec 8 APPIAN of Alexandria. Appian rocket moulds, taper bits for rockets, and rods for rockets, la moderne’. Neither is here present, although found in frontispiece of Charles II by W. Sherwin, 13 these last available from ‘Mr. Stateham in Token-House- Alexandrin des guerres des Romains. some copies. The book seems to be remarkably uncommon, folding engraved plates, two full page engravings Yard, Lothbury’. All the providers are described as “right Traduit de grec en françois par M. Odet Philippe, whether dated, as here, 1659, or as in some copies 1660. and numerous illustrations throughout the text, good workmen”. Sieur des Mares. Provenance: Military Collection of Lt. Gen. Hon. George contemporary calf, corners tooled in gilt, red Wing A3105 (BL & Glasgow University only). In addition Folio (348 x 210mm.) [16][, 549, [25]p., late eighteenth Parker. morocco spine label (edges and corners a little there is now a copy at Huntington (ex Burndy Library). century tree calf, spine elaborately gilt, red morocco rubbed and bumped, upper joint split but held by lettering-piece, yellow edges, some leaves at end cords, flyleaves a little torn in places), small spot on slightly damp-stained. a1, K2, Pp1, Pp2, Gggg4 and Nnnn1 (occasionally Paris: A. Sommaville, 1659 £550 MAGGS 5 touching a couple of lines of text), very minor paper and St. Basil, Adversus Eunomium, by far the longest text (pp. 13 AUGUST II Duke of Branschweig-Lüneburg. text of the canticle sung by Moses at Deut xxxii, 1-43, the flaw to the blank fore-corner of Bbb2, corner of Lll2 191-423). The slightly imperfect manuscript of Athanasius Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices poetical qualities of which he greatly admires (pp. 163-171). miscut and folded. we are told in the dedication p. [vi] had been bought from et cryptographiae libri IX, etc. In this he resembles Robert Lowth in his De sacra poesi London: Thomas Dring, 1693 £1300 a ‘Graeculus’ (the opprobrious diminutive used by Juvenal) Hebraeorum (Oxford, 1753), Herder, and more obviously who happened to be passing through Geneva. The text Folio (295 x 185mm.) [36], 493, [1]pp., half-title relevant, his own contemporary, Giovanni Battista Vico. Originally published in 1672 this magnificent work was of Basil was generally said to be in five books, but Beza folding letterpress table, engraved border on title- Ashmole’s attempt to revive the order of the Garter after notes that books four and five are not by him, although page, 3 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams, the Restoration. The fine full length engraved portrait of he has included book four. At the end, there is the short printer’s device on final verso, contemporary Dutch 15 BALDAEUS, Philip. Naauwkeurige Charles II precedes the Royal dedication of the book by catechism of Athanasius and St. Cyril (pp. 425-431), the vellum, yapp edges, title leaf trimmed at foot & beschryvinge van Malabar en Ashmole to the King. Many of the handsome plates are by manuscript of which had been provided by the lawyer mounted on a stub. Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende the Czech émigré etcher Wenceslaus Hollar which show Basilius Amerbach the younger (1533-1591). (Lüneburg: J. & H. Stern, 1624) £6000 ryken, En het machtige eyland Ceylon. Nevens various articles of ceremonial dress, formal processions, The volume, which has a parallel Latin translation by een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte and a series of impressive views of Windsor Castle (St First edition, and an extremely fine, unspotted copy of this Beza, is dedicated to the faithful ‘professing the catholic ontdek-ing en wederlegginge van de George’s chapel is the chapel of the Order of the Garter). important book which combines practical cryptography and orthodox faith on the unique essence of God, and on afgoderye der Oost-Indische Heydenen… Ashmole records in his diary that on ‘May 24, 1659 I went the three persons subsisting in that essence’ (the Trinity) with the urge for universal knowledge which Duke Augustus to Windsor and took Mr. Hollar with me to take views in Eastern Europe (, Lithuania etc.), where anti- (1579-1666), founder of the great Wolfenbüttel library, Folio (317 x 195 mm.) [10], 198, [2]240,[2] 188, [11] of the castle’. Trinitarianism flourished at this date. Beza actually sought to create in that very library. The work is presented pp., engraved half title, portrait, 17 double page Michal Hunter notes Ashmole’s ‘extensive research’ mentions various contemporary ‘heretics, including as a commentary on Steganographia of Trithemius, abbot of engravings, 14 double page maps and plans, 4 in the production of this ‘lavish folio […] densely packed Giorgio Biandrata (Blandrata, 1516-1588) and Fausto Würzburg, whose own works, published at the end of the other engravings, 3 double page plates containing fifteenth century, played such an important role in both with detail about the history of the order’ (ODNB). Of Sozzini (Socinus- here spelled Sosinus-, 1530-1604). The engraved vocabularies with numerous engravings particular note is Ashmole’s attempt to trace the history cryptography and bibliography. The encoding of messages dedication has a somewhat papal feel to its opening: in the text, Dutch blind stamp panelled vellum, of ceremonial dress back to the Romans before tracing became an important factor in the seventeenth century, ‘Laetentur caeli, & exultet terra…’. It is printed in full lettered in gilt on the spine.. upper joint with 3 the history forwards into the modern period, he writes: with commentary in Correspondance tome 11 1570 (Geneva, and was much used, for example, in the English Civil War. inch split, unfortunately lacking (G2) in the final ‘Among the Ancient, the Romans were most exact, in Droz, 1983). The English mathematician John Wallis, for example, was assigning each Degree, a peculiar Habit and vesture; by Appended at the end is the short work of Phoebadius, a a skilled cryptographer, and shorthand or tachgraphy section on India. which alone the quality and condition of their citizens might copy of which had been provided by Pierre Pithou (1539- as it was called was much used, most famously by Pepys. Amsterdam: Johannes Van Wassberge & Van Someren, be known and distinguished, The custom of distinction in 96) Phoebadius was (probably) the first Bishop of Agen This ducal book (like many others) has been enrolled as 1672 £5000 Apparel was afterwards taken up by sundry other Nations a weapon in the Bacon – Shakespeare controversy. in the middle of the 4th century AD. He seems to have Baldaeus (1632-72), who had been educated at Groningen also, whence it came to pass that every Military as well as lived right until the end of the century, as St. Jerome, who VD17 23:285820R; Caillet 10114; J.S. Galland, An historical and Leiden, and was a pastor in the Dutch reformed Ecclesiastick order of Knighthood did appropriate to itself attributes this work to him in De viris illustribus, speaks and analytical bibliography of the liturgy of cryptography (NY Church, was sent by the Dutch East India Company to a peculiar Habit, Ensign, or Badge; and these, the Fellows of him in 392 as alive. 1970) pp. 166-167. the East, and arrived in Molucca in 1655, went to Batavia and Companions of those orders, were appointed and Renouard 133.2.; not in Schreiber. (Jakarta) in 1656 (-1657) and in 1658 went to Jaffnapatnam enjoined to wear. to the end, they might be distinguished in Sri Lanka, where he remained until 1665, when he by them, as from others, so from one another, and best set 14 AULISIO, Domenico. Delle scuole returned to Holland. He established himself in the North forth State and Honor of their several societies’. 12 ATHENAEUS of Naucratis. Aqhnaiou sacre libri due postumi… pubblicati dal of the island, learned Tamil and attempted to surplant Wing A3984. Deipnosfistwn biblia pentekai deka. suo erede, e nipote Nicolo Ferrara-Aulisio. the earlier work of the Catholic missionaries. The book Athenæi Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim. 2 parts 4to (235 x 165mm.) [24], 236. [6]; [2], 149, is divided into three sections describing Southern India, Cum Iacobi Dalechampii Cadomensis Latina Ceylon, and thirdly an account of the varying cultures 11 ATHANASIUS, St. Aqanasiou [3]p., 2 engraved portraits, 3 engraved plates (one uersione: necnon eiusdem adnotationibus & and religions of the area. It remains the fullest account d ialogoi e… Dialogi V, de sancta folding) plus a fourth (Tavola IV) in letterpress emendationibus, ad operis calcem reiectis. (Hebrew alphabet) at part 1 p. 129, 3 printed tavole of the early Dutch regime in Ceylon, and has many fine trinitate. Basilii libri IIII, adversus impium illustrations and maps, here in very clean crisp impressions. Iuxta Isaaci Casauboni recensionem, etc. in part 2 at pp. 89, 91 & 92, contemporary calf, Eunomium. Anastasii et Cyrilli compendiaria A German edition appeared in parallel from the same orthodoxae fidei explicatio. Ex interpretatione Folio (360 x 230mm.) [48], 812, [48] pp., title printed rubbed, joints splitting, green silk marker. publisher, and on this was based the version used for the Theodori Bezae. Foebadi sive Soebadii in red and black, engraved device on title-page, Naples: F. Ricciardo, 1723 £600 anonymous English translation which appeared as part [rectè Phoebadii] contra Arianos, etc. contemporary Dutch vellum. Known as a jurist, the Neapolitan Aulisio (1649-1717) of Churchill’s Voyages. was praised for the breadth of his knowledge by none 8vo (170 x 100mm.) [16], 431, [1]; 27p., last leaf Lyons: [for] J. A. Huguetan & M.A. Ravaud, 1657 For Baldaeus see Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van £500 other than Vico, and if the list of his works in manuscript het Nederlands protestantisme v (2001) p. 34. of prelims a blank, eighteenth century English appended to the brief life in part 1 is anything to go This massive folio contains the Greek text of Athenaeus, sprinkled calf. by, he was indeed wide-ranging. The book makes use whose Deipnosophistae or The wise men at dinner, is provided [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1570 £650 of Hebrew type, and in part 1, and in particular in the with the Latin version of Jacques Dalechamps of Caen, to chapters on Hebrew poetry, we find the Hebrew text of In this volume Beza has combined a group of anti- which has been added the Animadversiones of Casaubon various and passages from the canticles and from heterodox, and strongly Trinitarian, texts by Athanasius first published in 1600 and reprinted eight times Jeremiah, with vocalisation and transliteration plus the (five dialogues between an orthodox believer and an Arian), before 1840. Vulgate text. In chapter xxviii in particular he gives the

MAGGS 7 17 BARROW, John, teacher of mathematics. First edition, and an handsome copy. The book, which was A new and impartial history of England. enlarged and reprinted in Rouen in 1727, discusses the desirability of travel and of the many classical antiquities 10 volumes 12mo (165 x 95mm.), engraved plates which may be seen and studied, including statues, ancient by Hall after Gwyn, contemporary calf. paintings, talismans and charms, manuscripts and medals. London: J. Coote, 1763 £550 In volume 1 there is a lengthy discussion of household John Barrow, who flourished in the middle of the gods (Lares). It is replete with engraved illustrations. The eighteenth century, at one point taught mathematics to author (1642-1722) was a Parisian lawyer, who abandoned Navy midshipmen, but seems to have retired from this the bar for the study of antiquities, of which he himself in 1750. Thereafter he concentrated on writing books on had a good collection. He was the author of other works, navigation, naval history and other more general works. mostly on engraved stones, but including one on Ptolemy He seems to have flourished until 1774. There is a brief Auletes (the flute-player). He was elected member of the notice of him in ODNB. Académie des Inscriptions in 1705, and to the Académie ESTC lists 6 copies: Bodley, NT, Trinity Cambridge; he bequeathed part of his collections. Ireland NLI; 2 copies in USA. Dekesel B45; Cioranescu 10317.

19 BAXTER William. Glossarium antiquitatum britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britannae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum, etc. Royal 8vo (230 x 135mm.) [6], xiv, [4], 277, [19]pp., engraved portrait of Baxter, contemporary russia binding, gilt border on covers, spine gilt, red edges, spine somewhat faded, without list of subscribers. London: W. Bowyer, 1719 £600 A handsome copy, and one of 110 copies printed on royal paper; the edition comprised 350 copies of which 240 were 16 [BARLOW, William]. Magneticall on ordinary paper. at length, but he took the Copernican heliocentric Advertisements: or divers pertinent The work is dedicated to Richard Mead, physician and observations, and approved experiments view whereas Barlow as a good churchman, stuck to the geocentric view. Barlow writes in English, and he collector, but this special copy has a manuscript leaf concerning the nature and properties acknowledges (on A2verso) the influence of Gilbert: inserted after the printed dedication in which Mead of the load-stone: very pleasant for ‘before, and also after the setting forth of D. Gilberts booke: is again addressed and it is suggested that the earliest knowledge, and most needfull for practise, And none more earnest herein that D. Gilbert himselfe, inhabitants were ‘cave-dwellers (‘antricolae’) leading the of travelling, or framing of Instruments vnto whom I communicated what I had obserued of my lives of Hottentots or Troglodytes like the Cyclops and fit for Travellers both by Sea and Land. selfe, and what I had built vpon his foundation of the giants of the Greeks and not speaking an articulated Magnetisme of the earth’ (the first use of the word, see language of any kind, but like animals uttering sounds Small 4to (180 x 125mm.) [16], 86, [2 (of 4: lacks (e kf wnh mata)’ the errata leaf)]pp., woodcut illustrations in the OED; ‘magneticall’ is also used for the first time). We learn also that he had in 1609 (‘about seauen yeeres since’) According to the Bowyer Ledgers (577) sheet B and some text, disbound, short tear at the head of A4, title given a copy of the manuscript for Prince Henry (whose other half sheets were reprinted. and final page dust-soiled, small dampstain in the chaplain he was) to Sir Thomas Challenor, chamberlain upper fore-corner and fore-margin at the beginning to the prince. Challenor lost or mislaid the manuscript, as and end. he did a second copy, so that although he had undertaken A ROYAL PRESENTATION COPY London: by Edward Griffin for Timothy Barlow, 1616 to see the book into print, it was left to Barlow himself, 18 BAUDELOT DE DAIRVAL, Charles César. 20 BECKMANN, Johann. A history £4500 after Challenor’s death in 1615, to make sure it saw the of inventions and discoveries. By John light of day, and to dedicate it to another scientific figure De l’utilité des voyages, et de l’avantage que Without the final leaf of “Faults escaped”. With the Beckmann, Public Professor of Economy interested in magnetism, Dudley Digges. la recherche des antiquitez procure aux sçavans. penultimate leaf containing a letter from William Gilbert in the University of Gottingen. Translated 2 volumes 12mo (178 x 92mm.) [2], xix (=20), 361 [1], to the author. STC 1442 (copies in USA at Boston Public, Folger, from the German, by William Johnston. Barlow’s interest in magnetism involved him in relations Huntington, Pennsylvania, U.S. Naval Academy Nimitz, [6], 361-732, [18]pp., last leaf with errata, engravings 3 volumes 8vo (215 x 120mm.) Contemporary diced with William Gilbert (1540-1603). Gilbert’s De magnete Wisconsin-Madison, Yale). in text, some full-page, Dutch calf c. 1700, gilt spines. (1600) which was written in Latin discussed magnetism Paris: P. Aubouin & P. Emery, 1686 £1000 calf, covers panelled in gilt, spine with five raised

MAGGS 9 bands, tooled in gilt and with two red morocco labels; Strelitz on 8th September 1761 and despite having only met engraved plate of this. The essay by Thomas Hyde on the Kupferstecher, Kunstrdrucker und Verleger Johann light-blue endleaves; marbled edges, very light foxing a few hours earlier that day they had a long and apparently measures of the Chinese is based partly on manuscript Bussemacher zu Köln’ in Aus der Welt des Bibliothekars: to the title-page and final leaf of each volume, some happy marriage. It has been suggested that this harmony and published sources, and partly on information from Festschrift für Rudolf Juchhoff zum 65. Geburtstag / occasional browning to a few leaves of volume one may have been the result of a shared interest in science and English China merchants, who are mentioned by name. herausgegeben von Kurt Ohly und Werner Krieg, Cologne (P1, R1, N1) upper for-corners of the first volume the arts. Beckmann is described on the title-page as the Wing B1987; Dekesel B92. 1961, pp.129-46). A number of his publications are listed “Public Professor of Economy at the University of Göttingen” in VD16. However Benzing in a long list of his separate slightly crumpled. - the University had strong ties to the Hanoverian royal publications does not mention this one, and he only record London: for J. Bell 1797 £1200 family, and three of George III’s sons were educated there. 23 BEUGHEM, Cornelis van. Bibliographia we have been able to find is of a copy at the University The first English translation of Beckmann’s great com- His copy of the Mainz Psalter, the first dated book, was mathematica et artificiosa novissima, etc. Library, Augsburg (02/XIII.1.4.125), the make-up of which pendium of scientific and technological essays. Beckmann presented to him by the University of Göttingen, and is is as follows: [1], 39, [1], 20, 24 Bl, which would indicate 12mo (130 x 73mm.) [12], 526, [2(blank)]pp., con- (1739-1811) at one time a pupil of Linnaeus, was the first still at Windsor. that in its complete (?) form it may have 85 plates. historian of technology, a word he coined in 1772. temporary calf, rubbed. Beckmann includes short chapters on street lighting, Amsterdam: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1688 £750 pineapples, soap, canaries, artificial flowers, chimneys, 21 BERGIER, Nicolas. Le dessein de Second edition of a useful little book, and one which may 26 BIBLE. O.T. Psalms. Latvian. butter and clocks. He also discusses subjects such as l’histoire de Reims. Avec diverses well have served as a vade mecum for the creation of the Dahwida dseesmu-grahmata Italian book keeping methods, the adulteration of curieuses remarques, etc. [ed. J. Bergier]. mathematical section of the Macclesfield Library. no deewa swehta wahrda grahmatas (‘No adulteration of any article has ever been invented so 4to (200 x 150mm.) [16], 18, [2], 468 [=472]pp., 6 Provenance: A few notes by William Jones on final blank. pa wahrdu wahrdeem isnemta. pernicious to the health, and at the same time so much numbered engraved plates, one folding, engraved ff. [136], Black Letter. practised’) and exclusive privileges for printing books. portrait on p. [xv] and device on title, both by Riga: G.M. Nöller, 1704 £500 Johnston explains the works genesis in English in his 24 BEZE, Theodore de. Poematum editio Moreau, contemporary French calf. ‘Translator’s Preface’: “the German original made its secunda… Item ex Georgio Buchanano Bound with: Reims: N. Constant, 1635 £800 appearance in separate parts at various times; and the aliisque… poetis excerpta carmina. Bible. O.T. Proverbs. Latvian. Salamana whole as yet published, a few small articles excepted, is now The work, published posthumously, was intended to sakkami-wahrdi no deewa swehta wahrda 8vo (168 x 102mm.) 174, [(blank)]; 248, [8]pp., presented to the public in an English dress. The different comprise 16 books, but only books 1 & 2 were completed grahmatas… 88pp., Riga: G.M. Nöller, 1707. articles in the translation are not placed exactly in the same although the intended contents of the rest are given. It was Oxford binding c. 1600 of brown calf stamped in order as in the original; but they are arranged by the author an ‘édition partagée’ and the names of various publishers blind, binding a little loose. 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (155 x 90mm.), later neither alphabetically nor chronologically” (translator’s appear in the imprint. [Geneva]; H. Estienne, 1569 £550 eighteenth-century English polished calf, gilt preface, p. xi). Johnston goes on to praise Germany as the spine, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, a few The book is not common. There are copies at Harvard Poems in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, with a couple of son- country which has ‘beyond all dispute […] given birth to and Yale, but the Harvard copy has (from the catalogue nets in French. The poems of Buchanan form part 2. headlines slightly shaved Both these versions are more important discoveries and inventions than any other entry) only 4 plates out of the 6. made from the German, but we have not located part of Europe; and gun-powder, printing, and a variety Renouard 132: 4; not in Schreiber. Durkan no. 187. Provenance: N.J. Foucault with engraved bookplate. any copy. of useful machines, will remain lasting monuments of the Provenance: Henry Wentworth ‘testis Magister Fite’. inventive genius of the Germans’ (ibid p. x.) A second edition of Johnston’s translation appeared in 22 BERNARD, Edward. De mensuris et 27 BIBLIANDER, Theodore. De ratione 25 BIBLE. Figurae et imagines Bibliorum. 1814 and included the remaining “few small articles” in a ponderibus antiquis libri tres. Editio temporum, christianis rebus & cognoscendis fourth volume. This fourth volume was presumably made altera, purior & duplo locupletior. (Epistola Obl. folio (263 x 340mm.) 35 engraved plates & explicandis accommodata, liber unus available to those who had bought the first edition and N.F. D. De mari aeneo Salomonis.- Thomae numbered [unnumbered] 1-27, [unnumbered], (Demonstrationum chronologicarum liber unus). sets of A History of Invention are occasionally seen with four, Hyde De mensuris & ponderibus Sinensium). 29, 31, 32, [4], seventeenth-century calf, worn and 8vo (147 x 85mm.) [24], 277 (=275, pp. 145-146 rather than the present three, volumes. The “Translator’s rubbed, some plates soiled at edges, one mounted, Preface” has been misbound in the first volume in the 8vo (192 x 110mm.) [16], 261, [83]p., 4 engraved omitted), [37]pp., printed in italic type with Greek consecutive ink numbers 2-34 written in the plate. middle of the index; presumably as it was printed as part plates (3 folding), early 18th-century calf, gilt spine, and Hebrew, pp. 141-144 errata to ‘De ratione Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, [c. 1600] £3000 of the final sheet of index (Ii). gilt turn-ins, marbled & gilt edges. temporum’, eighteenth-century smooth calf, red Provenance: Presented by Queen Charlotte to her Lady Oxford: e theatro Seldoniano [sic], 1688 £800 The plates are unsigned, but all, except the title, have morocco lettering-piece, red edges, a few leaves at of the bedchamber, the Countess of Macclesfield. Mary biblical quotations in Latin engraved beneath the image, An extremely handsome copy of this work, which based beginning and end slightly damp-stained. Frances Drake (1761-1823), married George Parker, beginning with Genesis 1. The chapter numbers but not on a wide use of ancient, Jewish, Arab and other sources, Basel: (J. Oporinus, March 1551) £750 Viscount Parker and from 1795 4th Earl of Macclesfield the verse numbers are given. The penultimate plate of surveys not only the equivalency of systems of measurement First edition of an important early work on historical (1755-1842) in 1780 and served as Lady of the Bedchamber the four unnumbered plates illustrates Jacob (Gen. 32-33) of length and weight, but also gives something of their periodisation. In the first work (De ratione temporum) to Queen Charlotte 1811-18; her husband was Lord of the and the last is of the Golden Calf (Exodus 32). history, even in the seventeenth century. The letter addressed to the churches of Germany, France, England Bedchamber to the King George III 1797-1804. Inscribed Bussemacher was active from about 1577 until the addressed to Bernard by Nicolas Fatio of Duillier (1664- and Denmark, Bibliander draws attention to the interaction in the blank upper margin of the title-page of the first 1620s, being dead by 1627. He is known as a publisher 1753), mathematician and scientist is about a passage of sacred and profane history and the discrepancies even volume reading: ‘M F Macclesfield / given me / by The of architectural, and religious plates, and of an edition in Kings I (vii, 23-26; also described in Josephus and within one of them. He sets out to five accounts of such Queen’. of the Epitome of Vesalius published in 1601. He was a Eusebius) where the bronze (or cast metal) sea located in things as time, the months, the year etc. The second work active in Cologne and Antwerp (see Josef Benzing ‘Der George III married Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg- the Temple of Solomon is described. There is a folding (Demonstrationum chronologicarum liber unus beginning at

MAGGS 11 p. 157) has a preface which is addressed to the printer 8vo (190 x 115mm.) [8], 262, [42]pp., large folding Oporinus, dated 9 November 1550 from Zurich, in which he map, 6 smaller maps and one plate at the end of the criticises Johann Carion’s views, and praises the preacher astronomical tables, lacking the portrait of Blome, Christoph Schappeler (1472-1551). He then begins by small tear in n3, contemporary calf. telling us about Adam and Noah etc. before proceeding London: H. Clark for Dorman Newman, 1687 £2000 to a chronological table which takes us up to 1400. This is followed by a foretelling of the consummation of all On U5verso at the end of the text is the word FINIS. There things on the last page. is a variant with a horizontal line and a catchword ‘Books’ Bibliander (1504-1564) best known as editor of the pointing to the 6 page catalogue of Newman’s publications Latin text of the Qur’an (1543) is an important figure in which follows on U6-8 (and is here present). the history of Swiss protestantism and a founder father Sabin 5972. The work was originally published as A of philological and comparative study of the Bible, and of description of the island of Jamaica in 1672 (and 1678). language. He with his family died of the plague in Zurich. Provenance: ms. notes on title-page referring to various VD16 B 5331. contemporary reviews. Provenance: Matthew Sutton (16th century). SILK AND SILK WORMS 28 BIRCH, Thomas. The life of 31 BLUTEAU, Rafael. Prosas portuguezas, the honourable . recitadas em differentes congressos 8vo (200 x 130mm.); [4], 458, [14]pp. Contemporary academicos… Parte segunda [only], que light calf, rule gilt ornament on boards, spine gilt conte’m prosa censoria… prosa economica. in compartments, morocco lettering-piece. Folio (297 x 200 mm.) 383, [1 (blank)] pp. Mid- London: for A. Millar, MDCDXLIV [i.e. 1744] £500 18th-century English mottled calf, gilt spine (lower [See inside back cover for photo of binding]. head-cap torn). North Library bookplate. Lisbon: Joseph Antonio da Silva, 1728 £500 32 BOCCHI, Achille. Symbolicarum 29 BIRCH, Thomas. Memoirs of the Reign Although mostly in prose, this, the second part only of quaestionum… libri quinque. 33 BOILEAUX DESPREAUX, Nicolas. Bluteau contains some contributions in verse (including of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 ff. [48], CCCLVII, [3], p. VII blank, lacking A1. Oeuvres… avec des eclaircissemens Latin verse). The first part is dated “MDCCVIX”, i.e. 1729. till her death. In which the secret intrigues Bologna: Societa tipografica, 1574 £3500 historiques… Nouvelle édition, etc. of her court, and the conduct of her favourite, There is a section devoted to emblems and their Bound with: 4 volumes 12mo (162 x 93mm.) [4], XLVI, [2], 436; Robert , both home and abroad, are interpretation with verses in Portuguese (pp. 11-106), a funeral sermon on the death of Louis XIV, a section on VIII, 407, [1]; [4], 407; [4], 308p., titles printed in particularly illustrated. From the original papers SAMBIGUCCI, Gavino. In Hermathenam Portuguese grammar (pp. 186- 228), more sermons, and Bocchiam interpretatio. 141 (=161), [3]pp., red and black, 6 engraved plates in vol. ii (le Lutrin) of his intimate friend, Anthony Bacon, Esquire, a series of congratulatory verses offered to Bluteau. Pages folding engraved plate vol. iv p. 222, engraved tail- and other manuscripts never before published. large device on title-page, woodcut initials. 307 to the end are devoted to a work on the cultivation Bologna: Antonio Manuzio, (14 December) 1556. pieces by Picart, contemporary sprinked calf, spines 2 volumes, 4to (260 x 200mm.) Contemporary of silk worms ‘Intrucçao sobre a cultura das amoreiras, e gilt, spine label of vol. 1 lacking. 2 works in 1 volume 4to (195 x 135mm.) ruled in red calf, covers with a double gilt fillet containing a criaçao dos bichos da seda…’. This section includes a Latin The Hague: chez I. Vaillant, P. Gosse & Pierre de Hondt, dedication to Ferdinando Mascarenhas full of praise for throughout, seventeenth-century smooth calf, gilt blind-rolled border, spines tooled in gilt with a red 1722 £850 morocco label and small contemporary paper shelf the ‘bombyx’ and the Mulberry. fillets on covers, one corner a little rubbed. We learn here en passant that Bluteau was educated by A very pretty copy of this edition, which is not in Cioranescu. labels at the head and foot of the spine, marbled A fine copy of Bocchi, with beautiful impressions of the the Jesuits in Paris at the college of La Flèche. Actually he copper plates and on thick paper, but lacking A1 with text end papers, original green ribbon marker in each was born in London on 4 December 1638 and his mother on recto and portrait on verso. volume (a couple of very small scuffs to the covers), fled with him to France in 1644. Brought up in France, but 34 BONAVENTURE, St. Meditationes some leaves very slightly discoloured. educated also in Italy, he became a priest in 1661 and was Sambigucci (1502-1567), whose sole work this is, was a to yest bogosliubna razmiscglianya od London: A. Millar, 1754 £900 established in Portugal in 1668, where he quickly learned doctor from Sassari in Sardinia. It is addressed to Salvatore otaystva odkupplienya coviçanskogo… V yezik Portuguese and rapidly became a well-known preacher. Salapussi, Archbishop of Sassari, and is mostly concerned slovinski, trudom P.O. F. Petra Bogdana A very handsome set of Birch’s fascinating account of the with the subject of Love. “secret intrigues” of the court of Elizabeth I based on the His Vocabulario Portuguez e Latina appeared over several Baksichia, [etc.] (Od dvostruke smarti papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601) which are now in years. His work on silk was reprinted (and enlarged) in Bocchi Mortimer Harvard 77; CNCE 6484; Sambigucci covieka sloga. O. Fra P[etra Bogdana, etc.) 1769. Some of his funeral sermons were translated into Renouard 169: 12; UCLA 509; CNCE 27752. Lambeth Palace Library. 12mo (142 x 70mm.)[12], 226, [2(blank)]pp., eight- Italian and published in Venice in 1683. In the UK there are 2 copies of Sambigucci (BL and eenth century sprinkled calf, gilt fillet on covers, Innocencio. Diccionario bibliographico Portueguez vol. VII Rylands); OCLC records 4 copies in USA, one in NZ and red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges. 30 BLOME, Richard. The present state (1862) pp. 42-45. 4 in Germany. Censimento records several copies in Italian of his Majesties isles and territories libraries. Rome: typis sacr. congreg. de progag. fide, 1638 £700 in America… with new maps… together Provenance: signature of J [?ulien] Brodeau 1649. with astronomical tables, etc. 13 The Meditationes is a work attributed to Saint Bonaventure, 36 BORGSDORFF, Ernst Friedrich, The title makes it quite clear what the volume is, a version An uncommon edition. The book was first published by printed first in the fifteenth century and very popular Baron von. New-triumphirende in Latin hexameters of the New Testament, a sort of Prevosteau in Paris in 1590 from the author’s notes (‘ex as a work of piety. The translator into Bulgarian was the Fortification auff allerley Situationen defensive Elizabthan Juvencus. (1535/6-1612), who adversariis’). The ‘Typographus lectori’ makes it very clear Franciscan Petar, Archbishop of Sofia, author of the Cuneus und offensive zu gebrauchen. Erstes opus, was from Devon and had been educated in Cambridge, how difficult were the circumstances in which Brisson prophetarum de Christo, published in 1685 (modern edition handlet wie man die Royal-Festungen und was for many years Dean of Salisbury, and a great defender then found himself, the very walls of the city being shaken 1977). There is a copy of the book in Munich (KVK) and of the Anglican church settlement. He was the author of a by bombardment, and the shadow of death being seen Citadelle… Retrechementer und feld=Schantzen in the BL (856.a.9.), but we have found no copies in USA. number of works such as Supremacie of Christian Princes everywhere, and the very opening paragraph of the text, The imprimatur is subscribed by Father Raphael auff alten und neuen Platzen… dergestalten (1573) directed against the two catholic Wykehamist in which Brisson speaks of ‘Regii nominis decus, imperii Levacovich a Croat Franciscan who is described as ‘sac. disponiren erbauen und verthaidigen möge, usw. controversialists Stapleton and Sander, and his massive maiestatem, totumque regni statum’, has contemporary librorum illyricanae ecclesiae, auctoritate sedis apostolicae Obl. 4to (150 x 200mm.) [12], 398, [10]pp., additional Defence of the Government Established in the Church of resonance. Brisson (1531-1591) was a distinguished jurist in Urbe corrector’. Born in 1600, he became in 1647 Bishop engraved title, 116 engraved plates (see below), England (1587). and author of important works, notably the legal code of of Achrida in Bulgaria and died there in 1650. eighteenth-century calf, spine defective, small repair Bridges tells us that his version, which makes use of Henri III, but no traveller. He was hanged by the Ligueurs See Alexandru Ciociltan. ‘Catolicismul in Tara Româneasca to engr. Title. the latest biblical scholarship (he refers amongst others to on 15 November 1591. Beza and Benito Arias Montano) is more concerned with Essentially the sources drawn on are purely those of in relatari edite si inedite alearhiepiscopului de Sofia Vienna: J. G. Schlegel, 1703 £750 Petru Bogdan Baksic((1663, 1668, 1670)’ in Revista istorica truth than with poetic polish - ‘Maior at immo fuit veri, ancient writers, both Greek and Latin, from whom there is (Bucharest 2004) 18, pp.61sqq. Borgsdorff was an Austrian engineer who for two years quam cura nitoris’- and that ‘these are the oracles of God extensive quotation. Book I is concerned with the Persian (1696-98) was seconded to the service of Peter the Great not words dictated by a poet’. STC 3735. rulers and their history, book II with religious and social of Russia, who had copies of his books, some of which Provenance: Thom[as] Axton 1730/BI and note of price life, and book III with military organisation and prowess, 35 BORCH, Ole. Cogitationes de variis appeared in Russian. Borgsdorff designed the fort at 1s.6d. This must be Thomas Axton educated St. Paul’s both ancient and modern. latinae linguae aetatibus, & scripto… Taganrog in the Black Sea, the first Russian naval base and Trinity, Cambridge (see Venn). Friedrich Sylburg, who acted as editor and proof-reader Ger. Joann. Vossii de vitiis sermonis. Accedit (1698). The work is divided into six parts (Haupt=Theilen) for the Commelin atelier, has added just a few notes at the eiusdem defensio nomine Vossii & Stradae, plus a final section ‘Von der defensiv-irregular Fortification’ end, the preface to these claiming that the original Paris (beginning at p. 345) each of which is subdivided into adversus Gasp. Scioppium. [16], 314, [6]pp. 38 BRIQUET, Pierre de. edition of 1590 had been full of errors of transcription several books. The plates are equally divided having (for and editing. Copenhagen: G. Gödianus for P. Haubold, 1675 £500 Code militaire ou compilation des parts 1-6) a Roman numeral in top l.h. corner and the ordinances des rois de France concernant VD 16 B8335. Bound with: number of the plate in top r.h. corner in arabic figures les gens de guerre… Nouvelle édition. IBID. Analecta ad cogitationes de lingua (1-15; 1-12; 1-8; 1-15; 1-31;1- 20). The final section has the 8 volumes 12mo (165 x 95mm.) contemporary Eng- latina, etc.[4], 63, [1], [4], 68pp., Copenhagen: letters Ir[regular] F[ortification] in the top r.h. corner., 40 BROWNE, Sir Thomas, Kt. A true and full lish sprinkled calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spines, widow of C. Luft for P. Haubold, 1682. and the arabic numeral as before (1-15). copy of that which was most imperfectly and Spaulding & Karpinski 223; not in Sloos. See Jähn, red and green lettering-pieces, last volume with surreptitously printed before under the name of: 2 works in 1 volume 4to (195 x 150mm.), contem- Geschichte der Kriegswissenschaften (1891) ii, 1380, 1393 & slight worming in gutters at end. Religio medici. porary calf, gilt spine, marbled edges, 1675. 1711. Paris: chez Durand, 1761 £500 8vo (142 x 85mm.) [16], 174p., first leaf blank, First edition. A second edition with the life of the author Copies in HAB (2), BL, Newberry, Michigan, Cincinatti, Originally published in three volumes in 1728, in four in engraved title, contemporary calf, slight worming was published at Köthen in Germany in 1691 (VD17 Munich SB, Vienna ONB, and others in Germany and 1735, and in five in 1741 this much enlarged edition takes in gutter, lower cover cracked etc. 1:042900C). The work is an alphabetically arranged Denmark (KB). account of changes made subsequently. The ‘Avertissement London: A. Crooke, 1645 £750 discussion of various words, preceded by a list of words sur cette nouvelle édition’ tells us that works become considered to be ‘vitiosa’ or bad Latin as opposed to those superseded, and that only the most recent ordonnance The early printing history of Religio medici (written first which may be considered to be good Latin. The division 37 BRIDGES, John, . has to be followed (‘la dernière ordonnance étant celle sur in Ireland in the mid-1630s) is complex, the work having into gold, silver and iron Latin is touched upon right at the Sacro-sanctum novum testamentum… laquelle on doive uniquement se régler’). The last edition been put into print without Browne’s consent ‘in a most very beginning. Ole (Olaus) Borch was born at Noerre Bork servatoris nostri Iesu Christi, in hexametros was 1740 (1741), and a new revision has become necessary. depraved copy’. This led to his (in part) rewriting of the in Ribe Denmark in 1626 and died in 1690 in Copenhagen, versus ad verbum & genuinum sensum ‘Nothing has been neglected to make the work completely work, and this revision was published in 1643 but not where he was a highly successful physician, widely regarded fidelitèr in Latinam linguam translatum, useful, without however moving away from the author’s before Sir Kenelm Digby, a Catholic, had published his both as doctor and scholar. The attack on Kaspar Schoppe per Iohannem Episcopum Oxoniensem. plan, which has been scrupulously followed’ (ibid ad fin). Observations (1643) which were of course based on the first (1576-1649) in defence of Vossius occupies pages 268-314 See also item 79 Feuquieres. unauthorised text some passages of which were definitely of the first work. 8vo (145 x 90mm.) [48], 144, 149-308, [4], 309-596, of a Romish cast. The book, which was widely translated Gerard Vossius had published his four books De vitiis 613-736, [20] p., title within an elaborate decorative and imitated, was very successful (for an account of the sermonis in 1645 (revised end enlarged edition 1666). frame, no cancels, but T7 torn and catchword on 39 BRISSON, Barnabé. De regio early editions (including this) and manuscripts see the Schoppe, a tremendously active controversialist, who had recto obscured by paper repair, without initial blank, Persarum principatu libri tres: ex preface to the edition of J.J. Denonain, Cambridge, 1952). been an eye-witness at the burning of Giordano Bruno in and with final blank misbound before last quire, adversariis… editio altera (ed. H. Sylburg). Wing B5171; Keynes 5. February 1600, had attacked Vossius in a volume published 17th-century sheep, worn, title-leaf loose and slightly first in Ravenna in 1647. He died in Padua in 1649. 8vo (160 x 94mm.) [12],378pp., eighteenth-century damaged. smooth calf, spine gilt in compartments, green London: Valentine Sims, 1604 £1000 morocco label, red edges. [Heidelberg?] H. Commelinus 1595 £750

MAGGS 15 41 BRY, Gilles, sieur de la Clergerie. Budé (1467-1540) was one of the greatest of the sixteenth- Burratini tells us in his preface how the Egyptians, and For Burattini and Egypt, see Horst Beinlich, ‘Kircher Histoire des pays et comté du century French humanists and a prolific writer. The letters older people than the Greeks, Romans and Jews, were und Aegypten Information aus zweiter Hand: Tito Perche et duché d’Alençon, etc. are to and from various contemporary scholars such as fascinated by measures and weights particularly because Livio Burattini’ in Spurensuche Wege zu Athanasius Kircher, Erasmus, Janus Lascaris, Germain de Brie, Guillaume Du of their importance of determining the flooding of the Dettelbach: Verlag J.H. Röll, 2002, pp. 57-71. See also the 4to (222 x 160mm.) [16], 382, [14]pp., title printed Maine (tutor to Budé’s children) to whom many letters, Nile and the abundance or shortages consequent upon short work Tito Livio Burattini, scienziato agordino del ‘600 in red & black, eighteenth century English calf, gilt the Englishman Croke, and others, and are written more this. “I was,” he says, “four times at the pyramids which are by Gianfranco Cisilino and others, Vicenza & Belluno, fillets on covers, gilt spine. as epistolary exercises than as vehicles of information. On nearest to Cairo, i.e. the pyramids of Gizah,” and goes on Cassa di risparmio di Verona, [1983] and the more recent Paris: Pierre Le-Mur, 1620 £650 pp. 140 -146 is a letter addressed to Rabelais written at to describe in detail what he saw there, and how he went study by Ilario Tancon, Lo scienziato Tito Livio Burattini First edition and a very handsome copy. The ancient county the end of January [1523], partly about then confiscation back with Greaves, to whose writings he refers, in 1639 (1617-1681) al servizio dei re di Polonia, Trento, 2005 (2nd of Perche, an area abutting Normandy, is rich is rivers, of Greek books. Rabelais and Budé were well acquainted. and took detailed measurements. He tells us how Greaves ed. 2006). and it may be that a (probably) celtic water goddess Perta, Antoine Pichon, who came from Chartres, has provided exclaimed, “Oh, what a loss it is for the world not to know whose name is found in an inscription found at Nîmes, lies the Latin translations of the letters. the details of how the ancient Egyptians measured the 45 CANINI, Angelo. EllhnismoV… per at its heart, although other etymologies may be advanced. length and breadth of this room [in the great pyramid]”. Burattini went to Cracow in 1641 and there got to know Carolum Hauboesium locupletatus, etc. In 1227 the area was included in the royal demesne, and 44 BURATTINI, Tito Livio. later a small section was cut off to constitute the county Stanislaw Pudlowski (d.1645), a friend of Galileo to whom 8vo (167 x 110mm.) [16], 334pp., blank ff. a7-8 Misura universale overo trattato nel qual’ si of Alençon, and for Pierre I of Alençon, one of the royal Galileo was introduced by B. Castelli. Burattini tells us cancelled (stubs visible), contemporary English limp mostra come in tutti li luoghi del’ mondo si può that “he had all his works, whether in print or manuscript”, sons. This lapsed in 1283, but at a later date (1326) it again vellum, lettered in ms on spine. trovare una misura, & un peso universale senza amongst them Trattato della bilancetta, of which he gave me was separated for Charles II, Duke of Alençon, but the Paris: J. Bienné, 1578 £700 house died out in 1525 and the land returned to their king. che habbiano relazione con niun’ altra misura, e a copy”. Burattini made a similar but different bilancetta, and then wrote a commentary on Galileo’s work, La A most interesting copy, not least inasmuch as part of A short pamphlet of Additions was published in 1621. niun altro peso, & ad ogni modo in tutti li luoghi bilancia sincera, which was not published, but survives the title-page of 4438 the Vautrollier 1584 edition of There is a modern edition, revised by Siguret, published saranno li medesimi, e saranno inalterabili, in manuscript in Paris (BnF Fonds italiens, 448, suppl. Calvin’s Institutio (STC 4428) is used as a strengthener in 1970. e perpetui sin tanto che durerà il mondo. 496). In Cracow, along with his brother Filippo, he made in the binding. Folio (270 x 175mm.) [4], 44 ff., additional engraved a new life there and in 1648 became royal architect, and Canini, who came from Anghiera on lake Maggiore, 42 BUCOLICI GRAECI. title, four folding engraved plates pasted to the edges was as well involved in matters of mining and coinage. In dedicated this book, first published by Morel in Paris in 1659 he designed a calculating machine for Ferdinand II Theocriti aliorumque poetarum idyllia… of A2v (pendulums), B1 (pendulums), H1r (cubes), 1555, to a young Venetian patrician Matteo Priuli, who Medici, which today may be seen in the Museo di storia Omnia cum interpretatione latina, etc. I2r (scales). Very lightly browned and spotted in had been with Canini in Paris along with the Hungarian places. Contemporary half calf (new calf spine, edges scienza in Florence. Andreas Dudith, and Fabrizio Brancucci (Brancutius), both 16mo (118 x 73mm.) [16], 447, [1]; 63, [1]; 128pp., rubbed, corners bumped); formerly part of a tract A man of many parts, Burattini was variously: soldier, of whom provided liminary verses. The work is not just a monetary specialist charged with the establishment of a eighteenth-century calf, gilt border on covers, title- volume; North Library bookplate. grammar, although nominal and verbal paradigms are page slightly restored. new Polish coinage, traveller, scientist, and a devotee of provided, but a discussion of Greek and its dialects, of the Vilna: nella stamperia de Padri Francescani, 1675 flying machines (a manuscript connected with this is in [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1579 £500 £5000 individual letters and their pronunciation, and draws on the papers of the French mathematician Roberval in Paris a number of Greek rhetorical and linguistic writers such The Greek bucolic poets, as they are generally called were Tito Livio Burattini was a native of the Belluno region of [BnF fonds latins 11195 ff. 55-61]), as well as a skilled lens- as Hermogenes, Eustathius and others. The book had a included by Estienne in his 1566 Poetae Graeci, but here he Italy, but spent the greater part of his life in Poland. An grinder and correspondent of Hevelius, for whom he built long life, and is not uncommon: copies were fairly widely has revised the text, and made certain additions, notably extraordinary and much travelled man, he spent some an observatory, and others. In this work he proposes (as acquired in the 16th century (that at Eton for example, part 3, which is his own discussion of the Virgilian & four years (1637-41) in Egypt, where, as he records in others, such as Hooke and Huygens, were to do) a unit of acquired later in the century, is in a binding stamped Ovidian imitations of Theocritus and others. There are the preface to this book, he visited the pyramids several measurement based on the swing of a pendulum. with the college’s arms), and Michael Maittaire in his own a number of different versions in Latin of Theocritus, by times, the third time with John Greaves (1602-52), the The engraved frontispiece has a seated of Time in work on Greek dialects published in the early eighteenth Poliziano and others, and two short Greek versions of astronomer and orientalist, author of the first book on the a ruined classical setting with a motto in a cartouche at century, cites the book. poems by Ausonius and Propertius by Estienne himself. pyramids, and the owner and annotator of the Macclesfield the top and the title on a drapery below Time (both of Provenance: Robert Addams (c. 1600?) with Greek motto This little 16mo is the only book published by Estienne Copernicus, who mentions him in Pyramidographia, (1646), these, notably, are added in manuscript). The motto reads: from Mark ix, 24 ‘Then immediately the father of the boy in 1579, as he had spent most of the year in Paris and p. 8. He also was a correspondent of Athanasius Kircher “Pendula dant tempus; mensuram tempus; et illa / Dat cried and said ‘I believe, help me in my unbelief’. Some not Geneva. (although none of Kircher’s letters to him are known), with pondus: Tribus his condimur, et regimur”. underlining. Renouard 147, 1; Schreiber 206. some five letters or drawings surviving in manuscript in We have located 4 (3 actually confirmed) copies of the book: the Gregorian University, the earliest dated 3 June 1652. BnF Paris (Res R 684), Russian State Library, Moscow Kircher in Sphinx mystagoga (part 2 of Oedipus aegyptiacus) (described in their on-line catalogue), Rome Bibl. naz. 46 CAPPEL, Jacques. De ponderibus, 43 BUDÉ, Guillaume. Epistolai reproduces a drawing made by Burattini of the pyramid ‘Vittorio Emmanuele’ (71.7.C.20) bound in contemporary nummis et mensuris libri V. I. De ellhnikai… per Ant. Pichonium at Dahschur. Burattini made a whole group of drawings vellum (described in their on-line catalogue), and (as ponderibus… V. Miscellanea… cum… tabulis. Chartensem latinae factae. during his Egyptian travels, but these seem to have been reported by Tancon, but unconfirmed) at the Polish 4to [8], 206 (=216; 127-136 bis), device on title-page, utterly lost in 1645. His drawings which survive in Rome Academy of Sciences in Cracow (Scientific Library of the 2 parts 4to (198 x 143mm.) [4], 101 [3 (last leaf a seventeenth-century English calf, ms. notes on fly- are remarkably precise, and the drawing of the pyramid Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Polish blank)];191 [1]pp., engraved general title-page, at Dahschur (signed ‘Quae omnia lustravit et delineavit leaves (waste not relating to text). Academy of Sciences in Kraków). folding engraved plate, eighteenth-century mottled in Aegypt. Titus Livius Burattinus Regis Poloniae Paris: J. Bienné, 1574 £650 Architectus’) influenced other illustrators. MAGGS 17 calf over wooden boards, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, Bound with: p. 343. This first edition and the 1575 revision (almost a an argument proving that the annuitants lacking the leaf of preface in part 1 (but see below). ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Q. Commentationes new work) are both dedicated to the emperor Maximilian. for ninety-nine years, as such, are not in the Frankfurt: L. Hulsius (part 2 W. Richter f. widow of L. in aliquot orationes M. Tullij Ciceronis… This 1569 edition is extremely uncommon. There are condition of other subjects of Great Britain, copies in the BL, Bodleian, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, U Hulsius), 1606-1607 £450 F. Hotomani studio… emendatissimae. but by compact with the legislature are exempt of Michigan, one in Germany and Censimento 16 lists from any new direction relating to the said The preface to the reader in part 2 (written from Sedan, Index rerum & verborum, etc.[24], 171, [1], 8 copies in Italy, a total of some 14 copies, a remarkably estates. 30, [2]p., last leaf with advertisements, where Cappel (1570-1624) taught Hebrew and theology) Lyon: J. de Tournes & G. Gazeau, 1551. low figure for a 16th-century Italian book, which we may London: printed for W. Chetwood; J. Roberts; mentions the publication of Books I-III in the previous 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (170 x 100mm.), calf c. 1700, assume was printed in a small edition. year, but equally makes it quite clear that the two parts J. Brotherton; and Charles Lillie, 1720 gilt spine, red edges 1551-1585. Lupicini 1582: prima facie pp. 33-40 (quire E) seem belong together as parts not separate works. It is possible to be missing. However the details given on p. 32 refer Bound with: that the leaf of preface in part 1 which is dated 13 March Maturin Cordier’s edition of Cato’s Distichs, a schoolbook to the individual figures as being on the folding plate 1606 from Sedan is lacking because it explains why only throughout the whole of the Middle Ages and well into IBID. A nation a family. Being the sequel of the bound at that point, which are numbered 1-16. In some crisis of property: or, a plan for the Improvement two books out of the intended five are being published. As the Renaissance and after, was first printed by Estienne copies this folding plate is signed E (not in the present of the South-Sea proposal. 32p., London: in this copy all five are present, perhaps the first preface in 1533 in Paris. example which has been very slightly trimmed but with no ‘lectori’ was suppressed. The folding plate (here present) Renouard, Estienne 176-177 no. 6; not in Schreiber; loss of image), Other copies described are the same: that printed for W. Chetwood; J. Roberts; J. Brotherton; is often lacking. On it is engraved ‘Tabula haec collocanda Cartier, De Tournes i, no. 185. described by Sloos, that in the Getty Center library(UG400 and Charles Lillie, 1720. [Goldsmiths 5875]. est ad calcem praefationis libri de mensuris inttervallorum’, L87 1582), that at Yale (BEIN 2000 1472), and that in the Bound with: ie. book III. BL (534.f.12(6). [IBID.] The Spinster: in defence of the woollen VD17 23:237798K; Dekesel C35-36. 49 CATTANEO, Girolamo. Opera nuova di fortificare, offendere et difendere… manufactures. To be continued occasionally. Aggiontovi nel fine, un trattato de gl’ essamini SIR RICHARD STEELE Numb. I. 16, [2]p., last leaf with adverts on recto, 47 CARDOSO, Jeronimo. Dictionarium London: J. Roberts, 1719. [Goldsmiths 5538]. de’ bombardieri, & di far fuochi artificiali. 50 CERRI, Urbano. An account of latino lusitanicum et lusitanico latinum. Bound with: ff. [6], 93, []1 (blank)] 22 woodcut plans, of which the state of the Roman-Catholick religion Cum aliquorum adagiorum… expositione. 20 double-page and 2 folding, plus 1 folding hand- throughout the world… with a large dedication IBID. The state of the case between the Lord Item de vocibus ecclesiasticis: de ponderibus, & coloured plan at end, f. 17recto blank. to the present pope, etc, Written for the use -Chamberlain of His Majesty’s household, mensuris, & aliquibus loquendi moodis pueris Brescia: G.B. Bozola (L. de Sabbio), 1564 £3500 of Pope Innocent XI. by Monsignor Cerri, and the governor of the Royal Company of accommodatis [ed. Sebastian Stokhamer.] Comedians. With the opinions of Pemberton, [CNCE 10297; cf. Sloos 08003 (1567 ed.)] Secretary of the Congregation de propaganda 4to (212 x 146mm.) ff. [2], 422 [=426], 18th-century Northey, and Parker, concerning the theatre. Bound with: fide. Now first translated from an authentick vellum-backed boards, occasional light marginal Italian MS. never publish’d. To which is added, 31, [1]p., London: Printed for W. Chetwood, THETI, Carlo. Discorsi de fortificationi. ff. 30, worming. a discourse concerning the state of religion J.Roberts, J. Graves, and Charles Lillie, 1720. device on verso of f. 30, woodcut illustrations, Lisbon: Lourenço of Antwerp a custa de Domingos in England. Written in French, in the Time Bound with: Rome: G. Accolto, 1569 [CNCE 23118; Cockle 776]. Carneiro, 1643 £750 of K. Charles I. and now first translated. IBID. An account of the fish-pool: consisting An uncommon reprint of a work published originally Bound with: With a large dedication to the present pope; of a description of the vessel so call’d, lately in 1570, and reprinted. ‘The work is divided into four LUPICINI, Antonio. Architettura giving him a very particular account of the invented and built for the importation of fish sections, all of them clearly indicated in this copy by the militare, [1]-32, 40-88 [=80]pp., woodcut state of religion amongst protestants; and of alive, and in good health, from parts however colouring of the edges. ff 1-254 is Latin-Portuguese, ff. plate with items numbered 1-6, 4 full- several other matters of importance relating distant. A proof of the imperfection of the well- 255-342 Portuguese-Latin, ff 343-403 ‘Breve dictionarium page woodcut illustrations in text, Florence: to Great-Britain. By Sir Richard Steele. boat hitherto used in the fishing trade. The vocum ecclesiasticarum’, ‘De propriis nominibus’ etc., G. Marescotti, 1582, [CNCE 28998; Cockle true why ships become stiff or crank in and finally ‘Varii loquendi modi… ex lingua materna in [2],lxxviii,viii,197,[1],x p. First edition. 783; Breman pp. 212-213; Sloos 08004]. sailing; with other improvements, very useful to latinam redactae’, etc. London: printed for J. Roberts, 1715 £1500 Bound with: all Persons concern’d in trade and navigation. BL only in UK; National Library Portugal; OCLC lists Bound with: IBID. Discorsi militari… sopra l’ espugnazione Likewise, a description of the carriage intended Indiana only in USA. MAR, John Erskine, Earl of. A letter from d’ alcuni siti. 84pp., Florence: B. Sermartelli, 1587 for the conveyance of fish by land, in the same the to the King, etc.[2], 19, [1] [CNCE 33880; Cockle 787; Sloos 03008] 1705. good condition… By Sir Richard Steele, and Mr. 48 CATO, Marcus Porcius. [WORKS p lacking half-title, London: J. Tonson, 1715. Joseph Gillmore, Mathematician. vii, [21], 60p., A fine Sammelband of sixteenth century Italian works Bound with: woodcut illustrations in text, London: printed and ATTRIBUTED TO.] Disticha moralia… on fortification. Cum gallica interpretatione, &, ubi opus A letter to the Earl of O-d [Oxford] concerning sold by H. Meere, J. Pemberton and J. Roberts, The work by Theti (Tetti, Teti 1529-1589) was published fuit, declaratione latina. Haec editio praeter the bill of peerage. By Sir R-d S-le. The second 1718. [Kress 3076]. In some copies the price thus in its incomplete state without the author’s consent: praecedentes non solum authoris Maturini in the dedication to the 1575 revision he speaks of it as edition. 32p., London: J. Roberts, 1719. of 1 shilling is printed on the title-page. Corderij recognitionem, sed & graecam maximi being ‘già senza mia volonta… per de no no so s’io li chiami Bound with: 8 works in one volume 8vo (102 x 150mm.) contem- planudaae interprettaionem habet. Dicta amici, sotto mio nome fatti stampare’, quoted Breman STEELE, Sir Richard. The crisis of property: porary vellum 1715. septem Sapientum Graeciae ad finem adiecta sunt, cum sua quoque interpretatiuncula. 128p., Paris: R. Estienne, 1585. £3500 19 A fine collection of pamphlets by, and relating to, Sir That as usual the preface was printed last is clear from a qui summa industria in ligno sculpsit & incidit, hoc, quos Richard Steele (1672-1729) one of the best known note on p. 58 (the last) of the preface where corrections cernitis Arabum characteres, sicut ego illi praescripseram’ journalists of his day. to part 3 are brought to the reader’s attention. (‘my friend and guest Conrad Marschall from Pruntrut*, Provenance: Sir Thomas Clarke with his signature and The book is very uncommon. There is a copy in Christ who with the greatest skill cut in wood these Arabic letters a few notes. Church, Oxford (wrongly dated in COPAC), and one at which you see, in accordance with what I laid down for Jesus College, Cambridge (dated 1596 by Adams). There him’). We are further told that Christmann held long is also a copy at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, which is conversations with his master, Francis Junius (himself, of 51 CHARLEMAGNE. Caroli M. imp. et dated 1680 in the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue. Such course, very interested in exotic alphabets and types, and Synodi parisiensis sub Ludovico pio Caroli a date would be consistent with the binding of this copy. who has penned a short letter addressed to Christmann), M. filii scripta; de imaginibus. Edita ad fidem… and had access to the Arabic books in the Palatine Library. exemplarium Ioannis Tilii… & P. Pithoei. He also gives a general account of a plan to publish further 52 CHEKE, Sir John. De pronuntiatione works on Arabic. The Arabic words on the title-page mean 3 parts 8vo (130 x 90mm.) 58, ([6 blank, all can- wwgraecae potissimum linguae disputationes ‘In the name of the Father & of the Son and of the Holy celled)]; [564]; 130p., late 17th-century calf, gilt cum Stephano Vuintoniensi episcopo, etc. Ghost and of the one God, Amen’ spine, red edges. 8vo (170 x 105mm.) [16] (last 2 leaves blank), 349 *Pruntrut or Porrentruy is a small town in Jura in Swit- [Frankfurt? c.1660] £700 zerland. (=351, 175-176 bis), [1]p., contemporary English An interesting and slightly perplexing volume enclosing blind-stamped calf, ms. paste-downs, lacking ties. Bound with: two elements, both previously published, preceded by an Basel: N. Bischoff the younger, 1555 £700 TOP, Alexander. The oliue leafe: or, uniuersall anonymous preface. The two synods the proceedings of Abce. Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, which are documented are that called by Charlemagne at First edition. The argument is between Sir John Cheke Frankfurt in 794, and the Synod of Paris summoned by his (1514-57), a Protestant humanist who had taught Edward and authoritie of letters, etc. sm. 4to (180 x son Louis the pious (778-840) in November 825, both of VI, and who advocated a new humanist pronunciation of 110mm.)ff. [16], London: W. White for G. Vincent, them concerned with the use of images, and reflecting a Greek, and the bishop of Winchester, Stephen Gardiner 1603 STC 24121 (BL, Oxford & Chatsworth), response to the problems of the use (and abuse) of images (1495/8 -1555) who as chancellor of the university of lacking the folding table, and A1 and D4 blank. in the East and West. The same problem was, of course, a Cambridge had forbidden the use of the new pronunciation, Top’s book, no copy of which is to be found outside the vexed question in the mid-sixteenth century and beyond. on the grounds that whilst it was academically valid, a UK, and which has been reprinted in facsimile by the The writings of the Frankfurt Council were originally change would merely confuse people, antedates the Scolar Press in 1971, proposes that the twenty-two letters edited by Jean Du Tillet, Archbishop of Meaux, and publication of Cheke’s book, as it took place early in the of the Hebrew alphabet correspond to the number of acts published in 16mo in Paris in 1549 - hence the date here 1540s. The subject of Greek pronunciation was much carried out by God in the seven days of Creation, and printed. This has the title Opus contra Synodum quae in discussed in the sixteenth century, and may be studied that the Hebrew alphabet is divinely inspired. Top also partibus Graeciae pro adorandis imaginibus gesta est. Like the partly in Ingram Bywater’s The Erasmian prounciation of published St. Peters rocke in 1597 (known in 3 copies) and a present edition, that text also includes Paulinus against Greek and its precursos, London: Frowde, 1908. version of the Psalms in Amsterdam in 1629, which again RHODE ISLAND RELIGION Felix, Bishop of Urgel (d. 818) and Elipandus, Bishop of Provenance: ex-libris on title ‘Arth. Hilder sum’. is known in few copies. 54 COBBET, Thomas. The Civil Toulouse (717-808?), the begetter of the Adoptionist heresy, Bound with: magistrates power in matters of religion condemned at the Councils of Regensburg in 792 and of Frankfurt in 794, and against which Alcuin of York wrote 53 CHRISTMANN, Jakob. Bismi al- RHENFERD, Jacobus. Periculum palmyrenum. modestly debated, Impartially stated according a treatise. This is preceded by an anonymous preface on Ab wa al-ibn… Alphabetum arabicum Sive literaturae veteris palmyrenae indagandae to the bounds and grounds of Scripture, and page 35 of which there is a brief biography of Du Tillet cum isagoge scribendi legendique arabice. & eruendae ratio & specimen.[20], 56pp., 3 answer returned to those objections against taken from De Thou. the same which seem to have any weight [12], 20pp., woodcut arabic. folding tables, Franeker: F. Halma, 1704. Pithou’s edition of the Synod of Paris was published in them. Together with a brief answer to a Bound with: by the Wechel heirs in 1596 (VD16 S10427), the year of Neustadt: M. Harnisch, 1582 £2000 certain slanderous pamphlet called Ill News his death. This edition which has the date 1596 on the Jakob Christmann (1554-1613) was born in the Rheingau DRUSIUS, J. Alphabetum ebraicum etc. from New-England; or, A Narrative of New- title-page is a reprint (although with different make-up) at Johannisberg, and may have been a Jew who became (Veterum sapientum gnwmai triplici charactere Englands Persecution. By John Clark, of Road- and has somes notes by Melchior Goldast taken from his a Christian. The author of a number of works, and an ad antiquam legendi consuetudinem). Island, Physician. By Thomas Cobbet teacher book published in Frankfurt in 1608, reference to which is early Arabist, he was also interested in scientific matters, 59pp., Franeker: A. Rade, 1587. of the Church at Lynne in New-England. directly made on p. 36 of the preface: Imperialia decreta de partly because he had inherited the library of Rheticus, in The collection of ‘gnomai’ or sayings are in Hebrew cultu imaginum in utroq. imperio tam orientis quam occidentis which was the manuscript of Copernicus De revolutionibus, 2 parts [16], 108; 52pp. Contemporary calf, panelled transliterated into Greek letter and with a Latin translation. promulgata, a substantial 8vo of several hundred pages. which was sold by his widow at his death, and is today in in blind (front cover detached). These are taken from Proverb, Ben Sira and Pirqe Avoth, The unsigned preface clearly is written from a Protestant Poland. In the preface to this elementary introduction to London: by W. Wilson, 1653 £4500 or Sayings of the Fathers. point of view: there is, for example, much criticism of Arabic, Christmann gives an interesting brief account of Thomas Cobbet (1608- 1690) published three works in Bellarmine. On pp. 34 and 54 there is a reference to the the progress of Arabic studies in Europe, mentioning the Steinschneider col. 895.2; Fuks & Fuks-Mansfeld. London in the 1650s, one of which, a substantial volume, edition of Concilia Paris 1636, and on p. 33 a reference to work of Postel and Clenardus, and gives us the name of 4 works in 1 volume 4to (190 x 135mm.), eighteenth A practical discourse of prayer went through three editions. the edition of Hincmar’s Opera published by Cramoisy in the man who has cut for him the woodcut Arabic: ‘amicus century half calf, lacking spine label. Paris in 1645, which clearly gives us a terminus post quem. et hospes meus Conradus Mareschallus Bruntrutanus,

MAGGS 21 In this work, as may be seen from the title, he defends state 56 CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus. in Latin or any other language, which cannot be equally Arabic (as he is in Persian and Ethiopic), but is studying interference in religious matters and the established church. De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni well expressed in Danish? Do familiar and domestic items the of Petrus Kirsten of Breslau and Erpenius, John Clarke, who is well known as a Baptist clergyman regis Macedonum. Cum annotationibus lack their own names, or has nature created us so many and further has been using the Arabic Psalter printed at and physician (see AMB), came to Boston in 1637 from Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. dumb fish? Is there any greater propriety and elegance Rome in 1619 and other sources as the basis for compiling England, and in 1650 became a missionary. Ill Newes from of expression in strange tongues, as opposed to our own?). a little dictionary. He also says he has learned much from 8vo (170 x 100mm.); 317, [3]pp., woodcut printer’s New-England; or, A Narrative of New-Englands Persecution. A note on the fly-leaf reads ‘Dictionarium danicum’, and Johann Zechendorff, rector of the school at Zwickau. Wherein Is declared That While Old England Is Becoming device on title-page and verso of last leaf, early probably relates to the missing spine label. Johann Zechendorff is known as an Arabist (there is New, New-England Is Become Old Ill news from England was eighteenth-century speckled calf, spine gilt in a good collection of his various writings in the Bodleian The only copy of this book in the UK is in Edinburgh published in 1652, gives an account of his imprisonment Library, Oxford and at the HAB in Wolfenbuttel): he compartments, morocco lettering-piece, gilt (NLS; which has also the Etymologicum), and KVK equally in Massachusetts in 1651, and pleads the cause of religious published a grammatical analysis of the Lord’s Prayer in lettering “Griffus”, binding rubbed. records one copy in Germany. There is also a copy at BNF toleration. He returned to England and remained for Arabic, various other works on Arabic language including Lyons: Sebastien Gryphe 1541 £700 Paris (X-16399), and it is recorded as in the Royal Library, some years, before returning to Massachusetts. It is this Literae exoticae scriptae Arabice ad Joannem Zechendorff., ab The presence of the name of the printer on the spine points Copenhagen, and in the Danish Union Catalogue. There is work, here called ‘a certain slanderous pamphlet’ which eodem in literas Hebræas conversæ punctatae, & ferme ad verbum in lat. versæ, [VD17 1:071343Z], and found on books bound for later eighteenth century Fabulae muhammedicae sive nugae Alcorani [an edition of Wing C4776. Some copies have the imprint: W. Wilson collectors, particularly on incunabula and on books printed for Philemon Stephens. 58 CRINESIUS, Christoph. Babel Sura 114]. Altenburg, 1628 [VD17 14:062544U]. by Aldus and Stephanus. The extremely washed nature of From Crinesius we learn also of a complete interlinear Bound with: sive, discursus de confusione linguarum, the considerable and extensive annotations (particularly Latin translation of the Qur’an together with marginal tum orientalium…tum occidentalium… PRYNNE, W. Truth triumphing over falshood, in book IV pp. 72-85) on many pages (beginning with refutations of Muhammadan doctrine, which now ‘needs antiquity over novelty. [12], 156p., London: the title-page) points to a collector who, like others much statuens hebraicam omnium esse nothing except a printer, properly trained in the setting J. Dawson, and are to be sold by M. Sparke, 1645, later in the eighteenth century, wanted a clean copy from primam, & ipsissimam matricem, etc. of Arabic’. In the event Zechendorff published at Zwickau which all such evidence had been eradicated. many side-notes cropped [Wing P4115]. 4to (190 x 145mm.) [16], 144, [4]pp., engraved text one sura of the Qur’an (printed by Melchior Göppner) Baudrier viii, 155. Bound with: in Samaritan and Arabic on [2nd])(2verso, engraved where the Arabic text is woodcut and not printed. For all languages discussed the Lord’s Prayer is given, sometimes IBID. The sword of christian magistracy text of Deut. XII on p. 30, small paper repair to recto of last leaf, ff. T1-2 (contents and errata) bound in in transliterated form, e.g. when discussing Ethiopic the supported, etc. [18(first leaf blank)], 174, 57 C[OLDING] [Paulus] [Jani] (Poul text of both the Lord’s Prayer and Nunc Dimittis are prelims, eighteenth-century English mottled calf, [2(errata on recto)]p. London:J. Macock Jensen). Dictionarium herlovianum, given thus. The section on Greek and Latin includes some for J. Bellamie, 1647 [Wing P4098]. desumptum ex Etymologico latino P.J.C. gilt, some leaves browned, binding slightly rubbed. ludicrous Hebrew/Latin etymologies. Unexpectedly there Nürnberg: S. Halbmayer, 1629 £1000 3 works in 1 volume 4to (205 x 145mm.), contem- 8vo (145 x 85mm.) ff. [4], [364], (A-Z, Aa-YY8- Zz4) is an interesting account of the pronunciation of French (‘Regulae generales pronunciatonis gallicanae’ where each porary calf. Zz2-3 with errata, Zz4 presumed blank (not present), Crinesius (1584-1629) whose biography is rehearsed letter is discussed) pp. 88-101) with shorter paragraphs on English panelled calf, lacking title-label on spine, in the preface, was born in 1584 in Bohemia, the son Provenance: On front free endpaper is a list of contents of a cleric and schoolmaster of the same name and his Italian and Spanish, and again the Lord’s Prayer is given slight paper restoration to title-leaf, upper joint (Syllabus M1-M4, classing the first item as having 2 nos.)) mother Anna Günther. Educated first in his father’s (two versions in French, that of Theodore de Bèze and written in a contemporary hand, and on the fore-edge is splitting. school, in 1603 he went to Jena and then Wittemberg, another version ‘in lingua communi’). The penultimate written M1/ Pars 2. and the numbers 1,2,3,4 written one Copenhagen: S. Sartorius, 1626 £1500 and graduated in philosophy in 1607. He then devoted chapter is a discussion of the divine name and its forms, under the other and diagonally. The numbers are written Herlufsholm school, which still flourishes, was founded himself to theology and linguistic studies. He married in and the last chapter is a series of eight scriptural linguistic on the title-pages of the individual works. in 1565 by Admiral Herluf Trolle and his wife Birgitta 1615 Regina Dörffliner, a widow with children. In 1624 ‘praxeis’, each one devoted to a different language, the Goye on the site of a Benedictine monastery Skovkloster he was forced to migrate to Nuremberg, where he taught last being a discussion of Luther’s insertion of the word not far from Copenhagen. This is clearly mentioned at and ministered. He died around five in the morning on ‘allein’ into II Rom v. 28, and how this mirrors German 55 COLE, Benjamin. The description the end of the preface. 28 August 1629. usage (Germanismus). and use, of a new quadrant, for finding Colding (or Kolding) was born in 1581 and died in In this work Crinesius, who was the author of several The work includes several sets of liminary verses, the latitude at sea… To which are added, short 1640. At one time he was a pupil of Hans Poulsen Resen works on Syriac grammar and texts, treats Hebrew as the including one in Hebrew by Daniel Schwenter, Syriac and plain instructions, for the use of that… (1561-1638) the Danish Protestant theologian published his first or origin of all languages, a not uncommon belief, and (in Hebrew characters), Greek and one in Arabic by instrument, invented by John Hadley, Esq; with Etymologicum latinum… addita etiam danica interpretation at then goes on to discuss the languages which are cognate Zechendorff. This is engraved (not printed) together with the improvement of an artificial horizon. Rostock in 1622, and this work is based on that. The Danish with Hebrew or have some validity in the establishment some in Samaritan characters by the engraver Herreman, of the scriptural text. He passes on to Samaritan (with and dated 3 October 1628. 8vo (180 x 106mm.) 32pp., folding engr. plate dated words precede the Latin so that the pedagogic nature of the book is apparent. It is intended for Latin composition, an engraved plate on p. 30 of the text of Deuteronomy June 9 1748. This work, like all the various works on Syriac etc. of but it is, as the preface makes clear, also meant to shew the XII. 13-18 in Samaritan script facing its Hebrew/Latin Crinesius, is not common. VD 17 locates a few copies. London: printed in the year 1748 £800 riches of the Danish language. Colding writes as follows: translation), a chapter on Hebrew vocalisation, and from There are two in the BL, and possibly a copy in Oxford. There were two editions, this of 1748, of ESTC records 2 ‘Quid enim est in lingua latina aut alia, quod non aeque this we pass to the other languages stemming from Hebrew The work was also included by Thomas Crenius in his copies only, both in N. America, and one with the imprint commode exprimi potest Danica? Nunquid res familiares –Chaldaean, Syriac (the alphabet is given, but the text of Analecta philologico-critico-historica (Amsterdam: Myls, 1699). the Lord’s Prayer is printed (with a transliteration) in of J. Hart, 1749. Benjamin Cole (1695-1766) was a London & domesticae suis carent notis, aut nos mutos creavit VD17 14 053983L. instrument maker. natura pisces?’ Et in exoticis, ubi earundem proprietas & Hebrew characters, Arabic, and Ethiopic, with Persian elegantia major quam in domestica? (What can be said also discussed. Crinesius tells us he is still a novice in

MAGGS 23 59 D’ACRES, R. ?pseudonym. The elements “Panegyricke” shaved London: by George Eld, 1610. is in the fifteenth letter of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, 61 DALRYMPLE, Sir John. Memoirs of which deals with somethning not undertood by any of of water-drawing, or a compendious With a 13-page verse “Paneyricke” by his “poore kinsman” Great Britain and Ireland. From the his commentators, not even by the learned Father Petau, abstract of all sorts and kinds of water-machins John Davies of Hereford, another poem by Davies and last Parliament of Charles II. until the Sea- as he himself avows in his notes on this author. I give this or gins, used or practised in the World, with others verses by Robert Corbet, John Hoskins, etc. battle of La Hogue. (Memoirs … Volume II.) observation even more willingly as it has much in common their natural grounds and reasons, and what Vaughan’s idea of regularly flooding water-meadows to with the treatises here printed. 2 volumes 4to (267 x 200mm.) viii, 59, [1]; 155, [2], service may be expected from them. As also new boost crops was developed by Sir Richard Weston in the 154-186, [1], 186-232; 211, [1]; xiv, 325, [3]; 342, [2]; and exquisite ways and machins never before mid-17th-century. The original French of this text is printed in P. Fermat Oeuvres complètes ed. Paul Tannery & C. Henry, Paris, 246, [2] pp., bound in contemporary tree calf, covers published. With a philosophical discourse, and STC 24603. The following copies are located in USA: 1891-1912. tooled with a gilt border, spine elaborately tooled new discovery of drawing water out of great Columbia, with plates, Harvard (not on HOLLIS), Yale in gilt with a red and green morocco labels, yellow deeps by fier. Where is also dispproved the (Beinecke, no plates, & British Art Center, with plates) Of this work we have traced 9 copies. There are 3 copies listed at Albi, Bordeaux and BnF by Rép. bibl. xviieme siècle edges, original green ribbon marker (corners a perpetual motion, the water-poise, the syphon and at Folger (2 copies, both lacking plates & one lacking I, Castres, with 2 also in Paris in the library of the Museum little bumped, some light foxing at the beginning or philosophers engine, the horizontal sails, leaf K1), Huntington (ex Bridgewater, with plates hand- coloured). S4v in this copy has a printed certificate by of Natural History. There is a copy at Harvard (Houghton and end). with divers other experiments. Published for Vaughan dated 1609 (in some copies the page is blank). Library), the University of Oklahoma in the USA, and in Edinburgh: for W. Strahan, and T. Caddell, London; the improving the service of the mineral world, Germany at Göttingen (8 PHYS II 3659-a) with Fermat’s Bound with: and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, for supplying our most necessary wants of autograph. There is also copy at Keio University in Japan. 1771 £1200 firing, for raising of water for cities and towns, CASTELLI, Benedetto. [Della misura It is not in the , Bodley, Cambridge etc. This work of Sir John Dalrymple’s, baronet of Cranstoun, and for watering and draining of grounds. dell’acque correnti]. Traicté de la mesure Bound with: des eaux courantes… traduit de’italien en (the third volumes of which appeared 1782) created a 4to (175 x 125mm.) [8], 41, [1]pp. Mid-18th-century CEREDI, Giuseppe. Tre discorsi sopra il sensation when it first appeared for its revelations about françois. Auec un discours de la ionction des sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, red modo d’alzar acque da’ luoghi bassi. ff. [10], some of the more prominent figures of the time. Hume mers… Ensemble un traicté du mouuement edges, title shaved closely at the head (touching pp. 100 (=99), [1], lacking ff. E3-4, and E7 thought it curious and that it added little to the sum of des eaux d’ Euangeliste Torricelli… Traduit “THE”) and at the foot with a small area of loss where with woodcuts (described in text) Parma: knowledge to date, and Boswell records some of Johnson’s du latin en françois [by Pierre Saporta]. one might expect the date to be except that it was S. Viotti, 1567 (Adams C1280 describes remarks about the present work: the latter, on a visit 4to [10], 87pp., small woodcut diagrams undated (cf. the BL copy on EEBO), title-page and an imperfect copy. Quire E would seem to Dalrymple at Cranstoun in 1773, for which he was in text Castres: F. Barcouda, 1664. accidentally late. [See inside back cover for photo of binding]. last (blank) page lightly dust-soiled; lightly browned from the signing to consist of 12 leaves.) WITH A CONTRIBUTION BY FERMAT. throughout. 4 works in 1 volume 4to (175 x 125mm.), eighteenth- London: by Tho. Leach, for Henry Brome, [?1659/ The first work has a lengthy preface ‘a messeigneurs les century calf. 62 DANEAU, Lambert. Geographiae 1660] £12,000 commissaires… pour la jonction des mers’ signed by poeticae, id est universae terrae Saporta on the great scheme actually carried out under “R. D’acres”, the signature to the preface is presumed to be descriptionis ex optimis …quibusque latinis Louis XIV to join the Mediterranean sea to the Atlantic by a pseudonym; “ascribed on insufficient evidence to Robert 60 DALE, Antonius van. Dissertationes poeris libri quatuor: quorum, primus, Europam; means of a canal joining the Garonne river to the Etang Thornton [1618-79, of Warwickshire]” - ESTC. IX. Antiquitatibus, quin et marmoribus, secundus, Africam: tertius, Asiam: quartus, de Thau in the south, the famous Canal du Midi. The cum Romanis, tum potissimum Graecis, “It was the earliest work exclusively on the subject [of vac- second work by Torricelli has its own title-page, and a mare universum, & maris insulas continet, etc. illustrandis inservientes. Cum figuris aeneis. uum steam-pumps] by an Englishman” - R.S.Kirby, etc. preface by Saporta addressed to the great mathematician 8vo (150 x 98mm.) [8], 322, [22]p., last leaf a blank, Engineering in History (1990), p. 155. Fermat, whom he terms ‘le souverain legislateur de tous les 4to (215 x 155mm.) [44], 804, [16], engraved eighteenth-century calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine Wing E494. 5 copies are recorded (British Library 2, one scavans’. Fermat had prompted the translator to undertake printer’s device on title-page, title printed in red gilt in compartments, gilt edges. with title mutilated), Cambridge, Bodley (ex Ashmole; last the work as a sequel to that of Castelli. Fermat, normally and black, woodcut tail-pieces, 9 engraved plates [Geneva]: J. Stoer, 1580 £1000 leaf in facsimile) & Folger). associated with Toulouse, where he was conseiller du roi, of coins medals etc., contemporary calf, spine gilt First edition of this unoriginal (but cleverly contrived) Bound with: had for many years close links with Castres a strongly in compartments, some light tears. Huguenot town on the banks of the river Agout. In fact compilation of four books, each one devoted to a separate VAUGHAN, Rowland. Amsterdam: Hendrik & widow of Theodore Boom, Most approved and long died and was buried there in 1665. continent (Europe, Africa, Asia (Middle East etc., the 1702 £750 experienced water-workes. Containing, The In 1648 was founded at Castres a protestant Academy Mediterranean sea and islands), but not including the manner of winter and summer-drowning of amongst whose members were , Pierre Borel, First edition, and a fine copy. Antonius Dale (1638-1708) New World. It is in fact a Cento made up from extracts medow and pasture, by the advantage of the the physician and writer on alchemy, de Ranchin and is chiefly known for his book on beliefs and superstitions, from a wide variety of classical Latin poets, mostly writing least, river, brooke, fount, or water-prill adiacent; Pierre Saporta. It was thus that Fermat and Saporta which influenced Fontenelle, but in this extensive work he in hexameters, with a large admixture of lines from the there-by to make those grounds (especially if became acquainted. addresses with great erudition similar subjects of ancient Descriptio orbis terrae (PerihghsiV) of Dionysius Periegetes, they be drye) more fertile ten for one. As also a Pp. 84-7 contain the ‘Observation sur Synesius’ which practice and cult as manifested in the concrete remains a work in 1187 lines of Greek, which was widely, and for centuries, used as a textbook of geography: (it was even demonstration of a proiect, for the great benefit in translation begins as follows: The pages which remain of the ancient world, marbles, sculptures, inscriptions empty in this quire made me think of filling them with the and coins. printed ‘in usum scholae Etonensis’, and more than of the common-wealth generally, but of Hereford- once). The Latin translation is ad verbum, and not in verse shire especially. 4to (175 x 125mm.) [140]pp splendid observation which I learned some days ago from the imcomparable M. Fermat, who does me the honour and is that found in the Estienne edition of 1577. The [-]1, B-S4. Without the first blank leaf. Lacking of being my friend and of frequently talking with me. It book is dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney by its ‘author’ the the two folding plates, sidenotes to Davies’s’

MAGGS 25 French protestant pastor and writer, Lambert Daneau and sculpture is taken from the book of a relation Vincenzo 66 DICKINSON, Edmund, fellow of Dijkman (Hedemora 1650 - Stockholm 1717) educated at (ca. 1530 -1595). The dedicatory verses contain several Danti (Il primo libro del trattato delle perfette proporzioni di Merton College. Delphi Phoenicizantes… Uppsala university, was a noted antiquarian and archaeolo- lines of compliment to Elizabeth I, including words which tutte le cose che imitare, e ritrarre si possano con l’arte del disegno, Appenditur diatriba de Noae in Italiam gist, and author of several books. This work on Swedish adumbrate the famous words uttered at Tilbury in 1588 - Florence, 1567). [Riccardi i, 392 9 ‘raro’). CNCE 15999]. adventu… nec non de origine Druidum, etc. Runic stones and their importance as illustrating Swedish ‘the body of a weak and feeble woman’ - in the line ‘Nympha The work by Sturm, as may be seen from the title, is here religious and civil history, was published posthumously. 8vo (138 x 85mm.) [38], 42, 41-56, 59-142, [18], 40, genus, sed vir pectore, mente dea’. The book also appears reprinted for the sixth time, edited by his son. The plates The chronicle of Jordanes in sixty chapters here appears with the variant imprint Lyons, Louis Cloquemin, 1580, are divided into sections -geometry, architecture, military [10] p., contemporary sheep, upper cover detached. in Swedish for the first time. The translator was the anti- and some copies are recorded with the Stoer imprint but and civil, etc. There is a copy in the Bodleian, which also Oxford: H Hall, impensis R. Davis, 1655 £600 quarian and editor of Scandinavian texts Johan Fredrik the date 1579. They are all the same edition. has another book from the press of Hagen, and in the BL, Anthony Wood attributes the work to Henry Jacob (1608- Peringskiöld (1789-1725), son of Johan Peringskiöld editor Provenance: signature on p. [vii] of Andrew Smallwood but the book is not common outside Germany. The only 1652). There is a preface by Zachary Bogan of Corpus, and of the Eddas. (17th cent.), and on front free fly-leaf ‘ex bibliotheca fratris copy in the USA is at NYPL. the book is dedicated to the Warden of Merton, Jonathan The Swedish Royal Library and British library have both 1s.10d.’. There is some underlining. Provenance: Danti: Kenelme Digby’s signature on title- Goddard. Various exotic types are used, including Hebrew works, but no other library in the UK, and the works are page, with note of price ‘reals 3’. Sir Kenelm Digby’s (1603- and Arabic. not at Harvard or Yale. 1665) interest and involvement in science is well known, Wing D1385; Madan 2275. 63 DANTI, Egnazio, OP. and from the note of the price in ‘reals’, one would suggest Le scienze matematiche ridotte in tavole. that this book was acquired during his sojourn in Spain 68 DRALSÉ DE GRANDPIERRE, le Sieur. [4], 59, [1(blank)[p., device on title-page, G1 and H1 from the spring of 1623. ODNB states that during his SWEDISH ANTIQUITIES Relation de divers voyages faits dans Spanish sojourn: ‘He also found time to collect books and l’Afrique, dans l’Amérique, & aux Indes signed with small stuck-on pieces of paper cut to size. 67 DIJKMAN, Petter. Historiske make some lifelong acquaintances’. occidentales. La relation du royaume du Juda… Bologna: appresso la compagnia della stampa, 1577 Anmarckningar oefwar, och af en dehl £1100 La relation d’une isle nouvellement habitée Runstenar, i Sverige, ungående dhe uhrgambla dans le détrooit de Malaca en Asie, etc. Bound with: 64 [DAVIES, Miles.] Athenae Britannicae: Sviar- och Gioethers kirkie=och werdzliga 12mo (165 x 90mm.) [12], 352, [8]p., first and last 2 STURM, Johann Christoph. Mathesis or, a critical history of the Oxford waesende, uthi åthskilliga måhl, hwar af man leaves blank, contemporary calf, gilt, silk marker, compendiaria sive tyrocinia mathematica and Cambridge writers and writings… har att finna något ey så förr kunnigt: om lacking part of lettering-piece. tabulis… comprehensa quam sexta vice… Together with an occasional freedom of deras religion och evangeliske lährans hijt uthi Paris: C. Jombert, 1718 £500 auxit autoris filius L.C. Sturm, 79, [1(blank)] thought… by M.D. Barrister at law, etc. Swerige inkomst, tungomåhls ahrt, runska First edition and a beautiful copy. The sheets were p., 25 engraved illustrations in text, mostly 8vo [4], 88, 348(=347), [1]p., contemporary panelled bokstäfwers nampn och tahl, krigz- vttogh, full-page, Koburg: Moritz Hagen for Paul commercier, och andra resor härifrån Swea- reissued in 1726, and the work was translated into German calf. (Magdeburg, 1746). The author sails from France to Günther Pfotenhauer, 1714, slight browning. London: printed for the author, 1716 £800 och Giötaland til the uthi Africa, Asien och i Europen belägne orter, med: hwad mehra, Buenos Aires, then to the West Indies, where he has dealing 2 works in 1 volume folio (350 x 220mm.) 18th- with the English by whom he is captured. and his third A reissue of Eikon mikro biblike of 1715 with cancel title. man så wähl af rijtningarne, som ordesätten century half calf, rebacked 1577-1714. The author’s name is not given other than in the initials in voyage is to Africa (Benin) and then Mexico. the title, and the imprint makes no mention of where the och stafwelserne, förmedelst stenarnes Egnazio Danti (1537-1586) was a Dominican whose original jämbförelse har kunnat inhempta / författat Sabin 28273; JCB 1718/; Cioranescu 35362. The book is secular name was Carlo Pellegrini from Perugia. The book is to be sold. This forms part 1 of Athenae Britannicae. common in American libraries, but COPAC lists only two uthaf Petter Dijkman den äldre åhr Christi intention of the work is to enable the interested reader to in the UK. see ‘at a glance’ (una occhiata) in a series of Ramist tables, 1708. Cum gratia & privilegio s:æ r:æ m:tis. 65 [DEFOE, Daniel?]. The Duke of Anjou’s mostly set out across a double-page spread, a summary of [8], 184p., title and dedication printed in red and the various mathematical sciences, from astronomy- the succession considered, as to its black. 69 DU VERDIER, Claude. In autores sphere, the planets - to architecture and even sculpture. legality and consequences… The fourth Stockholm: H.C. Merckell, 1723 £600 pene omnes, antiquos potissimum, On p. 24 the printer draws attention to the necessity of edition. (Part II… The second edition.) censio: qua… grammaticorum, poetarum… Bound with: illustrations particularly for the astronomical sections, and 2 parts 4to (202 x 150mm.) [4], 56; [4], 59, [1]., rhetorum… iurisconsultorum, philosophorum, JORDANES. [De Getarum sive Gothorum tells the interested reader to use those in the ‘Theoriche de’ contemporary panelled calf, rubbed. mathematicorum, medicorum & theologorum origine]. Doctor Jordans Biskopens i Ravenna, Pianeti con le annotationi del Reinoldo stampate a Parigi’ London: printed, and sold by A. Baldwin, 1701 £500 errata quaedam deprehenduntur. and to excuse the printer for not having been able to adapt Beskrifning om göthernas uhrsprung och them for this book, which is partly caused by ‘difficulties The work is an element in the literature covering what bedrifter wid åhr Chr. 552 nu för 1167 åhr sedan 4to (222 x 140mm.) 187, [5]pp., errata on pp. [188- with the engravers, which he attributes to a ‘pestilent became the War of the Spanish Succession. This war was författad. Af latinen påsvensko öfwersatt af 189], [190-192] blank, device on title-page, English contagion’. On p. 35 where the measurements of the sun precipitated by the choice by the king of Spain Carlos II Johann F. Peringskiöld. [8], 148, [24]p., colophon binding of brown calf, gilt fillets on coves, gilt spine, of Philippe, duc d’Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV, as his etc. are discussed there is a reference to the calculations on final page, Stockholm: J.H. Werner, 1719. lettering-piece, red, green & white silk marker. of Copernicus (‘si come egregiamente è dimostrati dal successor, a succession which, had it taken place, would Lyons: B. Honoré, 1586 £850 Copernico’). Tavola 40 ‘della hidrografia’ gives the names have concentrated far too much power in one pair of 2 works in 1 volume 4to (192 x 140mm.), eighteenth First edition of this elegantly printed work of literary of the winds in Italian, Latin, Dutch, French, and Spanish. hands. The work is sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. century English polished calf c. 1760, gilt spine, red history, mostly dealing with the ancients but amongst Tavola 42 deals with civil architecture, 43 with military morocco lettering-piece. contemporary writers and poets discussed are Ramus, architecture (taken from Alberti, wrongly given the A very handsome volume containing two rare Swedish Ronsard, Muretus (names printed), Desportes, Du Bartas forename ‘Antonio’ here), and 44 which deals with painting historical works. MAGGS 27 (names added in ms.) and various Italian writers such 71 DUBOURDIEU, Jean Armand. ca. 1669, stocking maker from Bourdeaux, condemned ESTIENNE, Henri. Paralipomena as Petrarch, Caelius Rhodiginus, Poliziano, as well as Apologie de nos confesseurs qui étoient at Grenoble 25 september 1686, freed 17 June 1713, grammaticarum gr. lingae inst., Melanchthon, Thomas More, of whose Latin verses (first aux galères, au mois de janvier 1714. Où l’l’on emigrated). (6) Marc Antoine Reboul. Born ca. 1665, son etc. [16], 167, [1]pp., device on title- published in 1520) written in his exchange with Germain fait voir que le Sr. R--l [Pierre Rival] a falsifié of Pierre Reboul et Magdeleine Sarrazin; silk worker at page [Geneva: H. Estienne], 1581. de Brice or de Brie (Brixius, c. 1490-1538) there are l’extrait qu’il a publié de leur lettres, avec des Nîmes, condemned at Grosmodan 12 october 1689. Freed substantial quotations (pp. 163-168). 20 june 1713, emigrated. 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (174 x 100mm.) eighteenth réflexions sur un libelle du même auteur, Du Verdier (1566-1649), who was the son of Antoine Du century smooth calf, spine gilt. intitulé le Coup de Grace, pour Mr. R-l. 1. Où The book throws an interesting light upon the Huguenots Verdier (1544-1600), was a lawyer at Lyons and published in London in a number of ways, most importantly the Louis Enoch, a Frenchman, was from the Berry and came l’on fait une défence abregé de la Révolution… in 1591 a work on literary games or ‘lusus’, included in a stance they adopted (or were urged to adopt) vis-a-vis the as a refugee to Geneva in 1549. He became master of volume of parodies of Catullus ‘Phaselus ille…’, in 1581 a Contre les dangéreuses hypoteheses [sic], change of ruler in Britain at this point. Another interesting the Collège de Rive in 1550, and in 1551 Jean Crespin Peripatesis epigrammatum, and in 1583 a work against those et les calomnies de cet auteur, etc. aspect is the presence of French publishers. The name of published his Greek grammar (Gilmont, Bibl. De J. who pretended to foretell the end of the world (Discours 4to (197 x 145mm.) [2], xv,[1], 198, 14 (Table des Le sieur Treval appears only in this book and in a work Crespin 51/15). He was one of the witnesses of Calvin’s contre ceux qui par des grandes conjonctions des planètes… matières)p., contemporary calf, gilt spine. by himself on the bull Unigenitus published also in 1717. will. Estienne’s Paralipomena i.e. those things which are ont voulu prédire la fin du monde…) which forms part of Londres. Et se vend chez le Sr. de Treval, notaire françois Moise Chastel’s name appears in 11 imprints. The widow left out, is quite clearly a supplement to the edition of Chappuy’s translation of Doni Mondes célestes, Lyons, 1583. Bouquet’s name appears in 3 books. Enoch printed, as he remarks in his preface, by his father. This book contains various sonnets in French from his vis-à-vis l’eglise des Grecs. Chez Moyse Chastel libraire ESTC records 2 copies only at BL and Huntington. There 1st work Renouard 86 no. 5; Schreiber 111; 2nd work pen (pp. 35-38). en Greek Street à la Bible d’or. Chez la veuve Bouquet is a copy at Munich listed by KVK. Renouard 148 no. 1. Baudrier iv, 154; copies in BL, Oxford (2 plus a reprint en Cecile-Court, & chez Charles King libraire dans Provenance: The first Earl ardently embraced the acces- ?reissue of 1609), BNF(2 copies), Arsenal. KVK lists two Westminster-Hall, 1717 £1500 sion of George I, which may well account for the presence copies, and OCLC records copies at Folger and the Library This work is, amongst other things, a defence of the of this very rare book in the library. 74 EQUICOLA, Mario. Dell’ istoria of Congress. There is also one at Yale, but not a copy at Glorious Revolution of 1688 and of the right of George I di Mantova libri cinque… Riformata Harvard. to the throne of England. Jean Armand Dubourdieu (1677- secondo l’uso moderne si scrivere Provenance: In addition to the ms. notes already men- 1727) was a member of a Huguenot family well established 72 DUNCAN, Daniel. [Avis salutaire istorie, per Benedetto Osanna, etc. tioned there are several more substantial marginal notes in London (see ODNB for him, his father and grandfather), à tout le monde, contre l’abus des 4to (182 x 139mm.) [26], 307, [5], Rr with register and on the title-page the remark hanging from the word where he was Minister at the Savoy, a French Protestant choses chaudes]. Wholesome advice against church founded in the reign of Charles II. Apart from and imprint Rr2 with list of errata, English calf ‘censio’ ‘docta quidem elaboriosa sed nec sine invidia nec the abuse of hot liquors, particularly of coffee, his controversial works, J.A. Dubourdieu also edited the c. 1700, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in compartments, sine erroribus’. The originator of these notes seems to be chocolate tea, brandy, and strong-waters. one Duval of Yverdon(?). The name Duprat is also found 1719 Tonson edition of Fénelon’s Télemaque. Pierre Rival green & red silk market. With directions to know what constitutions on the title-page. (d. 1730) was pastor of the French Church in St. James’s Mantua: F. Osanna, 1607 £750 Palace, and author of several works in French, including his they suit, and when the use of them may be The humanist Mario Equicola (1470-1525) was born in Apologie published in 1716 which this work (in part) attacks. profitable or hurtful. By Dr. Duncan of the Calabria, but spent much of his life at the court of Mantua, 70 DUBOIS, Philippe. Bibliotheca The work is dedicated to six men who, as Protestants, Faculty of Montpelier. Done out of French. where, after her husband’s death, he was secretary to and following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Telleriana, sive catalogus liborum 8vo (188 x 114mm.) [8], 280p., contemporary sprin- Isabella d’Este, to whom he had previously been tutor. He had been pressed into the service of the French King as bibliothecae… Caroli Mauritii Le Tellier. kled calf, prelims slightly browned. was the author of a number of works, and in particular Galériens or Galley slaves. Details of their biographies are his book on the nature of love has been very influential, Folio (388 x 246mm.) [20], 447, [81]pp., engraved available on line (Galériens. Musée du désert). Service as London: printed for H. Rhodes at the Star, the Corner of as was his interest in provençal poetry: on p.44 Dante’s portrait of le Tellier, engraved coat of arms on a galérien is depicted as a form of christian martyrdom. Bride-Lane in Fleet street, and A. Bell at the Cross-Keys remarks on Sordello are quoted and on p. 45 is given in title-page, 2 engraved initials and head-pieces, They are: and Bible in Cornhil, near the Royal-Exchange, 1706 contemporary Dutch vellum, light damp-stain £1000 both Provençal and Italian, one of his poems. (1) David Serre (or Serres). Born c. 1649, son Paul et The Chronica was first published ‘probably soon after in lower outer margin towards end, occasional Suzanne Fitray, from La Mure (or Lausanne). Condemned A translation of the French original published by Acher 10 July 1521, with old worn types, probably not in Mantua browning. at Souleure ‘sans motif’, 6 September 1701, freed 28 in Rotterdam in 1705. itself’ (Rhodes, ‘Notes on the of Paris: typographia regia, 1693 £2500 October 1711 to join the army. Although described as a Goldsmith’s 4367; Simon BG 534. Mario Equicola’ in GJ 1957 reprinted in Studies in early The collection of printed books of Charles Maurice Le brother of the next two, he does not seem to have been Italian printing¸1982 pp. 153-1561), and is here republished Tellier, Archbishop of Rheims, who died in 1709, was such. (2) Jean Serres called le jeune. Born in 1668 from and dedicated by the publisher to the Gonzaga duke, bequeathed in 1710 to the Ste Genevieve library in Paris, Montauban, a dyer by trade. Condemned at Grenoble pour 73 ENOCH, Louis. De puerili Vincenzo (1562-1612). The editor Benedetto Osanna has and this catalogue, ascribed to the cardinal’s librarian, exil, 24 May 1686, and freed le 20 juin 1713, retired to Graecarum literarum doctrina liber. tidied up the text, although some thirty years earlier Dubois, is one of the best of 17th-century catalogues. There Winchester,and died 6 Feb. 1754. (3) Pierre Serres called ff. 208, device on title-page, errata on f. 206, f. Sansovino had urged the publication of a new edition. Fonblanche. Born 1660 from. De Montauban (82000), a This 1607 edition was reprinted in 1608; said reprint in are some 16,000 volumes, many of them bound aux armes. 207recto with instructions as to placing cancellanda The catalogue divides them into 23 classes, each denoted dyer by trade. Condemned at Grenoble ‘à 10 ans pour exil, turn being reissued with the date 1610. for 45verso & 46recto printed on ff. [207] verso by a letter of the alphabet, and within that class they are 24 mai 1686’, and freed le 7 March when he retired to divided by format. London. Died 17 August 1741. (4) Jean Lardant. Born ca. and [208]recto. 1660, framer from Dieppe, condemned in Artois 12 march [Geneva:] R. Estienne, 1555 £700 1687 and freed 7 mars 1714. (5) Clement Patonnier. Born Bound with:

MAGGS 29 75 ERASMUS, Desiderius. manuscrits et pars les éditeurs de son temps… ‘She goes ‘Common Errors’ is an idea seen in the seventeenth 78 FENELON, François de Salignac Apophthegmatum opus. on (p. 303) to draw attention to Estienne’s attachement century in such writers as Sir Thomas Browne, but here de la Mothe. [Telémaque]. to the importance of oratory and orators… ‘importance the Benedictine father Feijóo (1676-1764), Spain’s first Die seltsame Begebenheiten des Telemach, 8vo (150 x 95mm.) ff. [8], 364, [20], device on title- des bonnes moeurs, de la culture philosophique, objectif essayist and a member of the group known as “Illustracion page, seventeenth-century English sheep. in einem auf die wahre Sitten= und pédagogique de l’ orateur, de sont là des arguments que española” (which consisted largely of medical men), gives Staats=Lehre gegründeten… Mit nöthingen Paris: S. de Colines, (mense Januario 1533) 1532 £800 partagent les gallicans. L’oeuvre de l’érudit veille, de loin, an airing to many scientific ideas and explodes many Anmerckungen erläutert, un ins Teutsche This Paris edition is a reprint of the 1532 4th Basel edition. aux tâches de ses amis’. popular myths, although, like Browne, he sometimes übersetzt von Ludwig Ernest von Faramond. Renouard 193-194; Moreau 1533/668; Schreiber 99. swallows strange stories. His work was attacked by many conformist and theologically conservative writers, one 8vo (170 x 105mm.) [30], 872pp., title printed in Provenance: Various 17th century Scottish names: Jacobus 77 FEIJÓO Y MONTENEGRO, of whom (Soto Marne) is represented in this collection red and black, engraved frontispiece and plates, Fale, William Denny (teste Pulland) and dates 1615, 1618, Benito Jeronimo, OSB. Theatro critico by a refutation. and 1673/4. folding map, contemporary English calf, later green universal, o discursos varios en todo genero de Benito Feijóo y Montenegro was from Oviedo, and morocco lettering piece, red edges. materias para desengaño de errores comunes. his writings and ideas played an important role in the Frankfurt & Leipzig (Nürnberg printed by Michael modernisation of Spanish university curriculum in the 76 ESTIENNE, Henri. Ad Senecae Tomo primero. Quarta impression (Suplemento… Arnold for): P.C. Monath, 1741 £500 o adiciones, y correcciones… Tomo nono. 18th century. ‘With skill, discretion, and great energy, lectionem prodopoeia. In qua & A handsome copy. Fénelon’s Télemaque was enormously Tercera impression. - Illustracion apologetical step by step, Feijóo promoted a particular version of the no4nulii eius loci emendantur. Epistolae [ad Enlightenment first within limited circles, then more widely, influential, and constantly reprinted in French and in primero, y segundo tomo… Septima impression. Jacobum Dalechampium] eiusdem partim and finally beyond the confines of Spain… [his] volumes many other European languages. The preface to this diorthotikae quorumdam Senecae locorum, 10 volumes. had fundamentally transformed thinking not only in Spain translation makes it clear that it was very much intended (aut saltem in eorum diorthoses stochastikae) Madrid: [various printers],1731-1754 £2200 itself but in the vice royalties of New Spain and Peru and for princes and their tutors. Faramond is the pseudonym partim etiam in quosdam exetastikae. With: even as far afield as the distant Philippines… In effect, by of the journalist, pietist and follower of Francke, Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz (1657-1742), the author of [8], 296; 129 [=160]p., late 17th-century calf, spine the mid-1730s Feijóo had enthroned Newtonianismo as the IBID. Justa repulsa de iniquas acusaciones. ruling philosophy in the most rigidly traditionalist ann many books. His translation of Fénelon first appeared in gilt. Carta, en que manifestando las imposturas Catholic society in Europe…(see Jonathan Israel, Radical 1733 (for a modern life etc., see H. Jaumann Handbuch [Geneva: H. Estienne,] anno 1586 £600 que contra el Theatro critico… dio… Francisco Enlightenment, OUP, 2001 pp. 534-536)’. Gelehrtenkultur der frühen Neuzeit, Berlin & New York: An important work in the intellectual development of Soto Marne… escrive… Don. Fr… Feyjoò. An 8 volume Italian translation Teatro critico… Ragiona- W. de Gruyter, 2004, I pp. 611-612). Henri Estienne, in the history of detailed linguistic analysis [36], 115, [1(blank)]pp. Madrid: A. Perez menti… was published in Genoa 1777-82, and a French of an author in his context, and an étape in the study of de Soto, 1749 (lettered 11 on spine). version of volumes 1-2 had been published in 1742-43 in 79 FEUQUIERES, Antoine de PAS, stoicism, which was to have profound effects in France With: Paris. Some of his works including his Essay on woman (1765) and the Low Countries, particularly in the work of Justus were translated into English, notably in a four volume set marquis de. Mémoires… contenant ses Lipsius (cf. Anthony Levi, French moralists: the theory of IBID. Cartas eruditas, y curiosas, en que…. translated by Captain John Brett of the Royal Navy. His maximes sur la guerre… Nouvelle edition… the passions 1585-1649 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964). se continua el designio del Theatro critico essay on agriculture (in vol 8 of the Theatro) was translated augmentée. (Vie de M. le marquis de Feuquière). universal, impugnando, o reduciendo The first part is an introduction to Seneca and his Stoic into English by a Cheshire farmer and published in 1760. 4 volumes 12mo (166 x 90mm.) [2], ccviii, 226, philosophy. The second part is a series of letters addressed a dudosas, varias opiniones comunes. A German translation of his work on physic, made via the [2(blank)]; [2], 402, [2(blank)], 4 engraved maps; to Jacques Dalechamps (1513-1588) surgeon, humanist and 4 volumes only. Madrid, 1753-54. English of John Fothergill, was published in Leipzig in [2], 387, [1], 7 engraved maps and plans, small tear botanist, as well as editor of Athenaeus, again all about With: 1790 (Diatätik… Aus dem Spanischen ins Englische und aus Seneca, the two adjectives (diorthotika and exetastika) diesem nun ins Teutsche übersetzt nebst den aus vieljähriger in f. A1; [2], 444, 2 engraved plans, all engraved both derived from very specific Greek terms, referring, SARMIENTO, Martin OSB. Erfahrung gezogenen Gesundheitsregeln Johann Fothergills und plans folding, contemporary English calf, spines the first to textual criticism, and the second to inquiring Demonstracion critico-apologetica de el dessen diätischen Bemerkungen über den idiopathischen fixen gilt in compartments. into the meaning of specific words. theatro critico universal… Quarta impression. Kopfschmerz. Verteutscht und mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben London & Paris (Paris printed): Pierre Dunoyer, & The work has recently been studied and analysed 2 volumes [44], 480; [4], 525,, [1(blank)]pp. von Christian Friedrich Michaelis.) A modern edition of his Rollin fils, 1750 £600 by Denise Carabin in her Henri Estienne, érudit, novateur, Madrid: Domingo Fernandez de Arrojo, 1757. works is in progress and there are many monographs Antoine de Pas, marquis de Feuquière (1648-1711) was a polémiste. Etude sur Ad Senecae lectionem proodopoeiae, Paris: on him. Together 17 volumes 4to (192 x 135mm.) uniformly successful professional soldier in the reign of Louis XIV, Champion, 2006. She writes ‘la contribution d’Estienne à bound in English half calf, red morocco lettering- An additional fifth volume of Cartas eruditas with 30 essays who fought in many campaigns. These Mémoires, viewed la lecture de Sénèque consiste à une série de confrontations was also published in 1760. In 1774 Antonio de Sancha by some as the first French work on the Art of War, which sur les signes linguistiques qui véhiculent une pensée… pieces, yellow edges. published a general index. went through many editions, were much admired and read: Le travail du critique philologue est de s’immerger dans The virtues, medicine and the limits of the physician, See G. Delpy, L’Espagne et l’esprit européen, l’oeuvre de is said to have ordered them to be read la latinité, l’ancienne et celle de l’époque d’argent, puis astrology, comets, eclipses, music, language, women, Anne Feijóo Paris, 1936 and R. Herr, The eighteenth-century to his officers, and used the book for his Siècle de dans l’ univers verbal de l’auteur, pour capter… son Boleyn, duels, earthquakes, teaching the deaf, censorship revolution in Spain, Princeton, 1958. L oui s X I V. Jähn quotes the Prince de Ligne as writing: ‘il secret, son intention persuasive… Il fait apparaître que of books, the Masons, Gilles de Ménage, Ramón Llull, seroit à souhaiter que toutes les batailles fussent discutées la connaissance d’une philosophie antique repose sur vampires, and everything under the sun are discussed, Provenance: in vol. 2 of Cartas (1753) is the inscription et commentées commes les siennes. Cela… étendroit bien le langage [and, one might add, of any philosophy]: des sometimes at length, in these highly popular volumes, ‘Catalina Wilkie su libro 1760’. les lumières sur notre métier’. They are sometimes viewed difficultés de la formulation viennent les limites de la which as may be seen from this set, and from the pages as an adjunct to Briquet’s Code militaire (no. 38). connaissance, et, aussi, les errerurs commises par les of Palau, went through many reprints. Jähn, M. Geschichte der Kriegswissenschaften (1891) ii, 1467sqq. MAGGS 31 and M.D. and became a member of Christ Church. In September 1609 he became FRCP, having initially been rejected by the College. His fellowship is proclaimed on the striking monument erected to his memory in Holy Cross Church Bearsted in 1638, where his mother is also buried. It is clear from some of the dedications to some of these works, that it was at St. John’s that Fludd made many acquaintances, who were to prove of importance later in life, like Sir William Paddy, and , later to become . He seems, and this is apparent from the way in which much of the material in his works is presented, to have been trained in Ramist techniques. Whilst these were particularly powerful in certain cities in Germany and elsewhere as Hotson has recently shewn, they were also well known in England. Fludd was well-known in English scholarly and court circles: his portrait which appears in volume II (Philosophia sacra) shews him more as an armigerous gentleman than as a learned doctor in cap and gown. His learned circle included men such as Camden and Selden and his colleague William Harvey, whose empirical establishment of the manner of the circulation of the blood in his De motu cordis of 1628, Fludd in his Anatomiae amphitheatrum (1623) in a general sense prefigured. Indeed in his Pulsus (III.3) he dilates upon Harvey’s doctrine. In Pulsus (p. 11), he mentions Harvey by name as a distinguished doctor and anatomist and a dear colleague ‘who in his little book of which the title is Exercitatio anatomica, De cordis sanguinisque in anmalibus motu shews by ocular demonstration that the motion of the blood itself is circular’. William Fitzer, who published Harvey’s book, is also the publisher of several of Fludd’s works. William Fitzer (?1600-1671) learnt his trade in London and was active 80 FLUDD, Robert. [Opera]. in Frankfurt 1625-38, where he published nearly one A collection of works bound in 4 volumes. hundred items, and in Heidelberg from 1649 (His name appears in a book by another Englishman John Hawkins Folio (300 x 192mm.) late 17th-century English Discursus de melancholia, published at Heielberg in 1633). mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, speckled He published various scientific and medical works, for and red edges (different colours for each work) example many by the Bristolian Samuel Norton, including rubbed, one tail-band missing. his Admiranda chymica in 1635, and an edition of William Oppenheim, Frankfurt, & Gouda 1617 [1624] -38 Gilbert De magnete in 1629. Although publishing work £30,000 by doctors and by Englishmen, he was very active as a general printer/publisher. In spite of certain imperfections (see detailed descriptions) Fludd’s medical career seems to have flourished in this is a splendid opportunity to acquire a major group London, first at Fenchurch Street and later at Coleman of Fludd’s Latin works, handsomely bound and with a Street in the City. Initially suspected of Paracelsianism, he distinguished provenance, all published during his life- shewed himself to be sufficiently and traditionally Galenic time, or just posthumously. in his approach to medicine and patient treatment to Robert Fludd (Bearsted Kent,1574- 8 September 1637, create a good practice and to be accepted by his fellow unmarried) was the son of Sir Thomas Fludd (d. 1607) practitioners and his patients. His Medicina catholica (III) and his wife Elizabeth, née Andrews (d. 1592). From 1592 is his longest work of a medical nature. He believed disease he was at St. John’s College, Oxford (BA 1596, MA 1598), and sickness to be caused by sin, and that God was the proceeding from there to study medicine abroad. In source of both the disease and the cure. He sees health as 1605 back in Oxford he took his medical degrees of M.B a fortress assailed by the winds of disease, and illustrates

MAGGS 33 it in this way. In his Anatomiae theatrum he speaks of the the ‘simia’ or ape of Nature, brings to completion, through CONTENTS: 5 parts: weapon-salve of Paracelsus. This is the idea that a wound the geometric, musical, astrological and other arts, the Volume I: Tomus secundus [as above] Oppenheim: can be cured by smearing the weapon which caused it with work of Nature. He posits a correspondence between the impensis Iohannis Theodorj de Bry, typis a mixture of the patient’s blood, moss grown on a human world of the spirits and the physical world. He rejects the Utriusque Cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris H. Galleri, 1619, 277, [1 (blank)]. skull and ‘mummy’ the flesh of a hanged man. The wound heliocentrism of Copernicus, seeing the sun (the centre of metaphysica, physica atque technica historia in itself needs only to be washed in the patient’s urine. This life-giving heat and light) go round the earth, and gives to duo volumina secundum Cosmi differentiam Tomi secundi tractatus primi sectio secunda, was attacked by William Foster who nailed to Fludd’s door the world life, just as the holy Spirit gives life to man. Fludd divisa. Authore Roberto Flud aliàs de Fluctibus, de technica microcosmi historia, in portiones a copy of his Hoplocrisma-spongus: or, A sponge to vvipe avvay was, it appears from his texts, a consummate engineer armigero, & in medicina doctore Oxoniensi. VII divisa. [Oppenheim: impensis T. de Bry, the weapon-salve. A treatise, wherein is proved, that the cure and inventor, a man with a detailed practical knowledge Tomus primus De Macrocosmi historia in typis H. Galleri, 1619?,] 191, [11]pp. late-taken up amongst us, by applying the salve to the weapon, of music and musical intervals, but nevertheless, although duos tractatus divisa. Quorum primus de Tomi secundi tractatus secundus, is magicall and unlawfull. Fludd answered him in English apparently a successful doctor, he was no empiricist, and metaphysico Macroscosmi et creaturaru[m] de praternaturali utriusque mundi in Doctor Fludds answer vnto M· Foster or, the squeesing of remained outside the important developments of empirical illius ortu. Physico Macrocosmi in generatione Parson Fosters sponge, ordained by him for the wiping away science in the seventeenth century. Indeed, we are told by historia, Frankfurt: E. Kempffer, for & corruptione progressu. Secundus de arte of the weapon-salue. VVherein the sponge-bearers immodest people, such as Fuller, who were almost his contemporaries, T. de Bry, 1623, [12], 199, [1 (blank)]. naturae simia in Macrocosmo producta & in eo carriage and behauiour towards his bretheren is detected (1631), that his works were very little read in England (and possibly Anatomiae amphitheatrum effigie triplici… nutrita & multiplicata, cujus filias praecipuas hic and the tract was later translated into Latin (IV.2). This elsewhere). It may be, indeed, that the turmoil in the designatum, Francofurt: E. Kempffer for anatomia vivâ recensuimus nempe Arithmeticam. was his sole publication in English during his life time. German states caused by the Thirty Years War may have T. de Bry, 1623 [2], 285 [1 (blank)] [[287- Musicam. Geometriam. Perspectivam. Artem Everything else he wrote was published in Latin, and in hampered sales and distribution, as well as production, 333] see vol. IV.4. Monochordum Germany, the exceptions being the two works published and in one case the specific ransacking of the warehouse Pictoriam. Artem Militarem. Scientiam. Motus mundi]; Pp. 5-6 are the dedication to John posthumously in 1638 in Gouda, his Philosophia moysaica at Heidelberg is mentioned. It is interesting therefore that [&] temporis scientiam. Cosmographiam. th Thornburgh, Bishop of Worcester. (itself later published in English) and the Latin Responsum this set was acquired, albeit in the early 18 century, for Astrologiam. Geomantiam. Oppenheim: aere (IV 1 & 2). Nothing about their publication is stated in an English collection, and has the loose notes inserted of Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, Philosophia sacra & vere christiana seu de these works, which have the imprint of Pieter Rammezeyn, a fellow of the Royal Society, William Jones (1675-1749), 1617-18 [i.e. Frankfurt: sumptibus haeredum Johannis meteorologia cosmica, Frankfurt: prostant active in Gouda 1626-1649. as well as clear indications in Philosophia moysaica of a Theodori de Bry; typis Caspari Rötellii, 1624]. in officina Bryana, 1626 [8], (viz. title within That Fludd’s works were published abroad is, as Ian reading which is sufficiently precise and careful so as to engraved frame of 8 sections); half-title Maclean remarks, no surprise given the complicated nature emend the text and not simply copy a list of corrigenda. 2 parts 106 {sic =206], [10]; 788, [12]p (last leaf ‘Aer Arca Dei thesauraria seu perspicuum of their printing. Fludd himself tells us that publication The best brief account of Fludd is that in ODNB by Professor blank, and lacking). sanitatis et morborum speculum’ (verso, in England would have been too costly, and that de Bry I.W.F. Maclean. But cf. Partington History of chemistry ii, Second Edition but with engraved title of the first edition engraved portrait of Fludd by Merian)]; 2 indeed published them gratis, even presenting him with 324-327; F. L. Gardner, ‘Bibliotheca Rosicruciana’ in of Part 1 re-used (as often) and the engraved title of Part free copies. That the separation of author and publisher/ leaves dedication to John Williams, Bishop A catalogue raisonné of works on the occult sciences, [reprint of 2 cut-round and inserted. In Part 2 leaves A2 (pp. 3-4, of Lincoln (1582-1650), 303, [1 (blank)]pp. printer caused problems, and had to be very carefully the original edition] Cambridge: CUP, 2011, nos. 163-194 “Lectori benevolo”) and A3 (pp. 5-6, opening of the text) overseen, particularly in respect of illustrations, is indeed gives a detailed listing of all Fludd’s works. For further are inserted from the first edition of 1618, dedicated to ILLUSTRATION: Engraved title-pages to Tractatus 1 acknowledged by the publisher (see note to III.2). Some references see separate notices below. James I of England. (the Microcosmus incorporating Vitruvian Man); 2 (a of the illustrations draw on a common stock, and some naked man standing on a circle with representations of Provenance: Early 18th-century English bookseller’s ILLUSTRATION: Two engraved title-pages, that to part may be found in other books. the seven portions “De technica Microscosmi”) with folding cost code in each volume “c.yp/e 4 VB £RY”. Early 18th- 1 of the Macrocosmus incorporating a Vitruvian Man, Fludd seems to have become interested in the occult engraved plate (“Causarum Universalium Speculum”) at century pencil reference to Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses on that to part 2 incorporating an ape (i.e. man the ‘ape whilst still in Oxford, but it is in his published works that part 2 p. 181; 3 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams. the flyleaf of Vol. I “see Woods Ath. vol. 1 col 509”. Two of nature’) in the centre of a wheel of arts and sciences, his over-arching philosophical and iatro-chemical views The illustrations for the ‘Anatomiae amphitheatrum’ 18th-century manuscript leaves loosely inserted in Vol. engraved by M. Merian; in part 1 p. 9 is a fly-title with large are stated. Leaving aside his attachment to Rosicrucianism, are taken from Vesalius, via Valverde de Hamusco. On IV, listing the contents. These are in the hand of William engraving (verso blank): ‘Tractatus primus de macrocosmi an intellectual ‘fad’ which held great sway in Europe, the verso of the engr. title to that part is a portrait of de Jones FRS (1675-1749; see ODNB & Paul Quarrie, ‘The structura, ejusque creaturarum originis historia in libros beginning in 1614 with the publication of Fama fraternitatis, Bry with Latin verses beneath by Johann Ammonius, a scientific library of the earls of Macclesfield’ in Notes and VII divisa’ with catchword ‘lectori’ picked up on p. 11 and which existed in the first three decades or so of the bookseller from Amberg, in Frankfurt, who was de Bry’s Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan. (‘lectori benevolo’ etc.); 2 folding engraved plates: part 1- century, we should concentrate on the extraordinary, and brother-in-law. 22, 2006), pp. 5-24; library of the earls of Macclesfield, lengthy work on the Cosmos, Utriusque cosmi historia with Integrae naturae speculum artisque imago’ (included in Shirburn castle, Oxfordshire, South library bookplate and NOTE: part 1 p. 17 has the underlined word added in ms. its extraordinary amalgam of musical, philosophical and the pagination and explained on pp. 7-8); part 2 a musical armorial blindstamp on the titles. Pressmark 165 E. 5-8. temple (explained on pp. 161-163); 4 double-page engraved Lectoribus lucis increatae fulgore illuminatis’ and there other theories. The two volumes constituting this work, are a number of places where individual words or spellings which are heavily illustrated with engravings, some very Earlier pressmark VII.3.6-9. plates of military manoeuvres included in the pagination; numerous engraved illustrations, many full-page, some have been corrected or changed (e.g. p. 12, 21, 25, 31, 35). striking, and woodcuts, provide a text which, amongst VD17 12:637305. other things, affords detailed explanations of the pictures, musical in nature, woodcut illustrations and diagrams. and, rejecting the Aristotelianism which was the staple Volume II: Volume III: philosophy of the universities, give explanations of the Tomus secundus de supernaturali, naturali, 1) Medicina Catholica, seu mysticum artis world of a neo-platonic, judaeo-christian, hermetic, and praeternaturali et contranaturali Microcosmi medicandi sacrarium. In tomos divisum duos. scriptural kind. Fludd draws a parallel between macrocosm historia, in tractatus tres distributa. In quibus metaphysica et physica tam sanitatis and microcosm, the microcosm directed by man, who as Oppenheim: & Frankfurt, 1619-26. tuendae, quam morborum propulsandorum

MAGGS 35 dedication to Abp. Abbot; [vi-xii contain a double-page NOTE: This was translated into English and published engraving (see below) and explanation thereof; quire in 1659 (Wing F1391). There are a number of manuscript )( contains the table of contents with at end a note from changes or additions with corresponding words crossed bookseller to the reader stating that any errors are not to be out e.g. on 5r &v 8v, 9r, 12r, 13v, 14r, 15v, 16v, 17r, 18v, 21r- attributed to Fludd, who was miles away from the press, but v, 20, 22v, 23v, 24r, 26r, 27r, 28r, 29r, 31r, 32r, 33r-v, 34r, to the lack of care of the amanuensis. The bookseller says 35r, 38v, 40r, 53v, 74r, 80v, 91v, 92r, 95v, 97r, 102v, 113v, he has taken every care to reproduce faithfully the author’s 116r, 119r, 123r, 126v, 128r, 134r-v, 135r-v, 137v, 140r ff. illustrations and place them properly in the volume. That on 12r reads: ‘neque unquam antea autem fui These two sections are dedicated to Archbishop George with t deleted from fuit; that on 17recto (col. 2 para 2 Abbot (1562-1633), and Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631). reads: ‘tam condensatio, quam rarefactio, derivantur VD17 12:167435 & VD17 12:167442X. quibus coelum, terra & omnia derivantur ex istis composita videlicet composita corpora, tam meteorologica, qua quae 3) Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia, sunt in compositione sunt completa seu perfecte mixta e sacro fonte radicaliter extracta… hoc est sunt complete perficiuntur’); that on f. 97r col. 1 ‘vitae & portionis tertiae pars tertia. 93, [1] pp., on p. [94] studiorum nostrorum in hoc studiorum nostroum in hoc is the catchword MEDI-, picked up in item 4. mundo.’ These have not been made from a list of errata, ILLUSTRATION: engraved vignette of a hand from the but clearly shew careful reading and understanding, and clouds taking a pulse from a fore-arm on title, engraved are corrections. illustrations, folding engraved plate a single-stringed 2) Responsum ad hoplocrisma-spongum instrument demonstrating the Diapason (after p. 54) M. Fosteri presbiteri, ab ipso, ad unguenti woodcut diagrams. armarii validitatem delendam ordinatum. Hoc VD17 12:1674 45V. est, spongiae M. Fosteri presbyteri expressio 4) Medicamentosum Apollinis oraculum: in seu elisio. In qua virtuosa spongiae ipsius quo ipsum catholicum medicandi mysterium… potestas in detergendo unguentum armarium, aperire atque detegere videtur… hoc est ex primitur, eliditur ac funditus aboletur: medicinae catholicae, seu mysricae medicandi ac tandem immodestia & erga Fratres suos artis, tomus secundus: Typis excedebatur incivilitas, aceto veritatis acerrimo corrigitur, & W. Hofmanni, 1630. large folding letterpress pentius extinguitur. Gouda: Petrus Rammazenius, table (divided in 3 sheets), the whole printed 1638 ff. 30, small woodcut device on title. with a border of typographical arabesques. NOTE: William Foster (1591-1643) published Hoplocrisma- NOTE: Found separately, and with Pulsus, see note to spongus: or, A sponge to vvipe avvay the weapon-salve. A treatise, VD17 12:167449A . Meteororum insalubrium mysterium, etc wherein is proved, that the cure late-taken up amongst us, by ratio pertractatur. Frankfurt: Typis Caspari 2 parts [26 (of 28, without the blank leaf “)(“8], 503, Mainz: Bourgeal, 1682 (VD17 75:694791W; Gardner 190) is applying the salve to the weapon, is magicall and unlawfull. Rötelii, impensis Wilhelmi Fitzeri, 1629. [22], [1blank]; Kaq olikon medicorum katoptron… sive a reissue of ‘Integrum morborum’, ‘Kaqolikon’, and ‘Pulsus London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Grove, and are to be sold at his shop in Furnivals Inne Gate in Holborne, 241, [7 (index)] pp., engraved publisher’s tomi primi, tractatus secundi, sectio secunda, de historia’ all of 1631, but without dedications and engravings of the first (see Gardner loc cit). 1631, a small quarto of some sixty pages (STC 11203). This device on title, engraved illustrations, morborum signis. Anno 1631 [4], 413, [1blank]pp. Responsum was published in English in 1631 (STC 11120), Volume IV: woodcut diagrams. Dedicated to Sir William ILLUSTRATION: engraving of a man on his sickbed with and from the preface to the reader to the Latin text, it Paddy (1554-1634) of St. John’s, Oxford. attendants on the title-page, engraved portrait of the author This volume has from the title-page to the second item would seem that Fludd has rewritten it in Latin. been paginated consecutively in ink. The same hand has VD17 12:167343Z. on verso, engraving of the winds guided by Archangels 3) Veritatis proscenium, in quo aulaeum on the fly-title, double-page engraved illustrations (pp. also made some corrections. 2) Integrum morborum mysterium: sive erroris tragicum dimovetur, siparium vi-vii) in the text with title “Hostilis Monumenti salutis medicinae catholicae, tomi primi tractatus 1) Philosophia moysaica in qua sapientia ignorantiae scenicum complicatur, ipsaque invadendi typus”, folding engraved plate (“Causarum & scientia creationis & creaturarum sacra secundus, in sectiones distributus duas; quorum Universalium Speculum” at p. 181 [repeated from Vol. veritas a suo ministro in publicum producitur, prior generalem morborum naturam, sive variam vereque christiana (ut pote cujus basis sive seu demonstratio quaedam analytica. In 1], folding engraved plate of an astrological circle of the fundamentum est unicus ille lapis angularis munimenti salutis hostiliter inuadendis atque crises (part 2 p. 50) with text on the recto (p. 49), engraved qua cuilibet comparationis particulae, in Iesus Christus) ad amussim & enucleate oppugnandi tationem, more nouo & minime plate of the diurnal and planetary Hours (part 2 p. 56), appendice quadam a Joanne Keplero, nuper antea audito, siue intellecto describit. Ultima, engraved vignette of an astrologer casting a horoscope explicatur. Gouda: Petrus Rammazenius, 1638. ff. in fine Harmoniae suae mundanae edita, etc. universale morborum sive aegrotorum depingit for a boy on fly-title to ‘Ouromantia, hoc est divinatio per [4 (inc. half-title/explanation of the title-page Frankfurt: Typis Erasmi Kempfferi, sumptibus catoptron, etc. Frankfurt: typis excusus Wolgangi urinam’ (p. 233), & of a man holding a urine specimen on emblem)], 1-152., engraved emblem of Darkness Joan. Theodor. de Bry, 1621. 54pp., woodcut Hofmanni, prostat in officina Gulielmi Fitzeri, 1631. fly-title to’ Ouromantia physiologica’ (p. 255). and Light on the title-page (repeated with printer’s device on title (that of the Commelin NOTE: p. [iii] the fly-title to Sectio prima; p. [v] has a added lettering on f. 66, fly-title to Part 2), one firm) shewing naked figure of Truth. engraved and a few woodcut illustrations. MAGGS 37 Of the Summum Bonum Fludd denied authorship, but it is generally accepted that he wrote this short work. Robert Huffmann (Robert Fludd and the end of the Renaissance¸1988, pp. 63-64, who gives an account of the work and of the Mersenne controversy) does not accept Fludd’s authorship. From the note by the printer to the reader, it is clear that this forms part 2 of Sophiae certamen, and was issued with it. VD17 VD17 12:167461C. The description in VD17 calls for another leaf at the end, which seems to be a folding plate. This is not present in the BL copy, nor is it mentioned by Gardner (2011), but is clearly listed as being in some copies (e.g. Harvard EC F6707 B638p v.4, Yale, Cornell, McGill). It is in fact the plate of the diapason found in this set at p. 54 of Pulsus in volume III. Krivatsy 4139 & VD 17 23: 298083A. 6) Clavis philosophiae et alchymiae fluddanae. Sive Roberti Fluddi… ad epistolicam Petri Gassendi theologi exercitationem responsum. In quo: inanes Marini Mersenni monachi obiectiones, querelaeque ipsius iniustae, immerito in Robertum Fluddum adhibitae, examinantur… Severum ac altitonans Franciscii Lanouii de Fluddo judicium refellitur… erronea principiorum philosophiae fluddanae detectio, a Petro Gassendo facta, corrigitur, etc. Frankfurt: [Wolfgang Hofmann for] W. Fitzer, 1633. 87, [1 (blank)]pp., engraved emblem (the rose gives honey to the bees) on the title. GENERAL NOTES: CONDITION NOTE: The Clavis is a precise refutation of Gassendi’s Some pages browned, very heavily in places, as often with Epistolica exercitatio, in qua principia philsophiae Roberti German books in this period, especially affecting the text Fluddi medici reteguntur; et ad recentes illius libros, aduersus R. block. The items printed in Gouda have no discolouration. VD17 23:233313E; Caspar Bibl. Kepleriana (1936) pp.87- lydius a falso structore, Fr. Marino Mersenno, P. F. Marinum Mersennum… respondetur. Paris: S. Cramoisy, Volume I: Second title-page cut-out and remounted, 1630, but it returns again to Mersennes Quaestiones in 88 (Kepler Pro suo opera Harmonices mundi apologia, 1622). monacho, reprobatus, celeberrima voluminis a few illustrations very slightly shaved (the large one The Harmonices mundi was published with a dedication to Genesim of 1623. The second section is the letter written by at p. 41 turned-in at the fore-edge) many gatherings sui Babylonici (in Genesin) sigmenta accurate François de la Noue (another Minim) to Mersenne, which James I of England in 1619. examinat. (Summum bonum, quod est verum heavily browned, a few small paper flaws, damp-stained is criticised. The printer to the reader [paraphrased]: ‘I in the upper fore-corner from p. 641 to end (tract II), 4) Monochordum mundi symphoniacum, seu magiae, cabalae, alchymiae, fratrum roseae was hoping to get this book out for the [Frankfurt] fair replicatio Roberti Flud, alias de Fluctibus manuscript annotations pp. 649, 662, 717, 726 (tract II). crucis verorum verae subjectum. In dictarum now past, but, as they say, there is many a slip… There Volume II: Lacking first A1 (half-title), pages browned, a ad apologiam… Ioannis Kepleri, adversus scientiarum laudem, & insignis calumniatoris has arisen in Britain an antagonist, who has viciously few illustrations shaved. The second volume ends with Demonstrationem suam Analyticam, nuperrime Fratris Marini Mersenni dedecus publicatum, attacked our author in the vernacular accusing him of bad the first section of the second treatise. It was to have editam, in qua Robertus validioribus per Ioachimum Frizium [??Robert Fludd]). magic (‘Cacomagia’) so that it was necessary for him to contained three treatises but was never completed. Vol. Ioannis obiectionibus, Harmoniae suae legi [Frankfurt: Wolfgang Hofmann for William Fitzer] deal with this home-grown enemy first. He was therefore III: Dedication leaf to George Abbot and the following leaf repugnantibus, comiter respondere aggreditur. Anno 1629. 2 parts 118, [2 (index)]pp., engraved held up from finishing this book. But now in this book (with the double-page engraving) cut-short at the outer Frankfurt: Typis Erasmi Kempferi, sumptibus illustrations; 53 [=55], [1]pp., engraved emblem he takes on his other enemies. Two years ago [1628] in margins (no loss and not supplied from elsewhere). A few the printing shop in Heidelberg copies were scattered Ioan. Theodor. de Bry, 1623. [1 (title)], 288- (the rose gives honey to the bees) on the title. minor, neat manuscript corrections in the preliminaries and dispersed by the army’s camp-followers. Now I have 331pp., woodcut printer’s device on title, a (a slightly longer note on the first sub-title completely NOTE: The work of Mersenne attacked is Quaestiones judged the price (worth) of the work, by publishing it in few woodcut diagrams. Dedicated to Kepler. faded (? or washed-out) leaving a large oval ring around in Genesim of 1623 (For the Mersenne-Fludd controversy folio, as that is the format in which most of Fludd’s works it; a short note “Nota” on p. 337 has had the same effect. NOTE: This was originally published in 1622 in quarto see Thorndike Magic iv, 439-444). The title is clearly an have been published’. This is perhaps a reference to the Volume IV: Upper outer blank corner of f. 85 missing (VD17 23:289196M). This reprint forms part of vol. II. allusion to Erasmus’ Laus moriae. The ‘Lydian Stone’ is a fact that Gassendi’s attack was printed in quarto. VD17 with loss of number. 5) Sophiae cum moria certamen, in quo, lapis touchstone. There are liminary verses against Mersenne by 23:298104M. one Iacobus Aretius Oxoniensis and I.M. Cantabrigiensis. [See back and inside front covers for further illustration].

MAGGS 39 81 FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier de. “Divine Wisdom and Providence display’d in the Work references to other earlier and contemporary writers The Lives of the French, Italian of the Creation” in order to confound the “Atheists and (f. 11), which leads to the idea of the ‘luoghi’ or places, and German philosophers, late members Infidels” who “persist in the Denial of a God”.. In that which are of three sorts, imagined, natural and artificial. of the Royal Academy of Sciences in dedication, he refers first to the dedication of the present These form the matter of readings 5 to 9. Readings 10-17 Paris. Together with abstracts of some volume: “My first Attempt was to present Your Lordship are concerned with the idea of ‘collocatione’ or grouping of with Imperfect Copies, after my manner, of the Originals things or ideas in various ways, ending with a discussion of of the choicest pieces, communicated by of several Famous French Philosophers [i.e. scientists & dictation, and in section 17 ‘Della libraria della memoria’, them to that illustrious society, etc. mathematicians], drawn by one of the best Hands, that books and memory. Books, he writes ‘supply remedies for 8vo (130 x 90mm.) 464, [4 (advertisements)] pp., of the most Ingenious Fontenelle.” He then describes both death and distance’ and ‘students speak with the contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, gilt Parker as “a Philosopher and a Divine; for as the Royal dead’’, but books compared with memory are ‘as a wooden spine, red morocco label in the second panel, red Society well know how Eminent your Lordship is in the leg compared with one of flesh and bone’. Libraries cost sprinkled edges. first of these Qualifications; so many of the Clergy know money and are for the rich, memory ‘is also common to London: for W. Innys, 1717 £1500 that a very able prelate (now with God) and one mighty the poor’. Books ‘age and are consumed by use, memory by in Scripture-Learning, has only profess’d that the Lord use and over time makes it self everlasting. Books perish, As well as brief lives of eminent French scientists and Parker is one of the greatest Divines in England.” memory remains always’. mathematicians, John Chamberlayne also translates Provenance: Dedication copy to Thomas Parker, first earl CNCE 20828. abstracts of the some of the most interesting scientific of Macclesfield. papers from their Transactions: “the whole Book is [See inside back cover for photo of binding]. an Abstract of some of the Choicest Pieces, Memoirs, 85 GIUNTINI, Francesco. Commentaria Dissertations, &c. that have been brought or sent to the in Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Academy of Sciences, mostly by their own Members, within THE NORTHERN LIGHTS accuratissima[with the text]. the compass of Thirteen or Fourteen Years, and dispers’d through almost twenty Volumes.” 82 FROBESIUS, Johann Nicolaus. 2 parts 8vo (168 x 105mm.) [8], 597, [1]; 476, [44]pp. In a Postscript addressed to Parker, Chamberlayne Nova et antiqua luminis atque aurorrae plus 2 bifolia with woodcut figures and accompanying notes that Fontenelle, in several places, attributes the borealis spectacula secundum saeculorum text, Kk4 with errata on recto and summa privilegii discovery of differential calculus to Leibnitz rather than sive annorum seriem subnexa mirabilis on verso, woodcut portrait of author on both title- to Sir Isaac Newton, a cause of great dispute at the time: “… phaenomeni consideratione philosophica. 84 GESUALDO, Filippo, OFM. pages, numerous woodcut diagrams, maps and Now it is notorious that the Writers of the Acta Leipsiensia Plutosofia…nella quale si spiega l’arte della figures, contemporary calf, gilt laurel wreath on make Mons. Leibnitz the Author of the said Differential 4to (205 x 155mm.) [6], 160pp., disbound. memoria con altre cose notabili pertinenti tanto covers within a gilt fillet, upper joint split, the Calcululation; but it is not less known to your Lordship, Helmstadt: C.F. Weygand, 1739 £500 alla memoria naturale, quanto all’ artificiale. woodcut figures at end slightly cropped at top. that Dr. Keill, in the Commercium Epistolicum, has done our This work is a chronological catalogue of lurid celestial British Philosopher justice; and has fully proved that which 4to (187 x 140mm.) ff. [6], 64, device on title-page, Lyon:(ex off. typ. Jean de Tournes for) F. Tinghi, 1578- occurrences, based largely on Lycosthenes and various 77 £1100 Mr. L. did in some manner acknowledge to me (when I chronicles, but from the seventeenth century more scientific full-page woodcut figure of a man on f. [27], very attempted to reconcile these two Great Men) that Sir I. N. accounts are given, and for the eighteenth century these slightly cropped at foot, English binding c. 1700 of Giuntini (1522 Florence-1590) was at one time a Carmelite might be the first Inventer, but that he himself had luckily become increasingly well attested, with details of those brown calf, gilt fillets on covers, gilt spine, morocco friar, but on leaving Italy and going to Lyon in 1561, fallen about the same Time upon the same Notions.” who observed the phaenomena and where, as well as lettering-piece. became a Protestant, before eventually returning to the In the dedication to Lord Parker, Chamberlayne details of the source of the story. The last report is one Padua: P. Meietti 1592 £2500 catholic fold. He was the author of several theological praises him for his patronage both of the Sciences and for March 1739. There follows (pp. 129-160) a ‘consideratio and literary works in Latin and Italian, amongst them First edition of this work by a Franciscan friar born in 1550, the Church: “Every body knows how much more weight philosophica’ of such phaenomena, again based on such Speculum astrologiae (1573). This detailed commentary on who died as bishop of Cariati in 1619. A second edition Examples have than Precepts; and I need not tell any body writers as Gassendi, Leibniz, and Lubienicki. the medieval text of Sacro Bosco, here printed in italic here in England, that the Behaviour of a Lord Parker has was published in Vicenza in 1600 in which the full-page as opposed to the text in Roman type, was subsequently There is a copy in the BL. OCLC lists 4 copies Switzerland, made more Mathematicians, Philosophers, and Divines woodcut is replaced by an engraving. Various works by translated into Italian and published in Lyon in 1582. 3 copies in Germany, plus Adler Planetarium USA. too, among the Gentlemen of the Long Robe [i.e. lawyers], Gesualdo on Franciscan discipline and spirituality were There was also another Latin edition printed at Antwerp than even Sermons, or the Lectures of our most Learned published in Italy in the last decade of the sixteenth century, by Bellère in 1582. and his Officium quindecim graduum assionis Christi etc, Professors.” 83 Geographia classica. The geography Riccardi 609; Baudrier VI 470, 472 & 276; Cartier, De It was in the dedication to Lord Parker of his translation was published in Cracow in 1606. This work is dedicated of the ancients…the second edition. Tournes, 588 & 583. of Bernard Nieuwentyt’s The Religious Philosopher: Or, to Arnulf Uchinski, abbot of Suleovia in Eastern Europe. the Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator…. 4to [2], iv, [2]pp., 29 engr. maps, boards. The ‘dedication’ to St. Catherine is dated 10 November Designed for the Conviction of Atheists and Infidels (3 vols, London: C. Brown [and others], 1717 £400 1588 from Palermo, and in it Gesualdo explains the Greek 86 GODFREY, Ambrose & John. title Plutosofia, a name created as ‘artificial memory is the 1718-19), that Chamberlayne explained the principles First published 1712. A Curious Research in the Element of treasure and riches of all human wisdom’, a point also behind Parker’s combined interest in theology and the Water: containing Many Noble and Useful ESTC records 6 copies, 2 in Oxford, 2 in Cambridge, one made on f. 2 of the text proper. The text is divided in to 20 new discoveries being made in science and astronomy at Experiments on that Fluid Body. As I. Three the time and thus the principles behind the formation of in Nottingham and one in Illinois. readings (lettioni), and proceeds from a general discussion different Experiments of reducing Water into the Macclesfield Library which was to demonstrate the of memory to a consideration of artificial memory (with

MAGGS 41 Earth. II. Several Experiments of turning Salts 87 GRAMAYE, Jean Baptiste. the signatures can be seen: 2 A2, [2nd] A-C4, [3rd]A4, 20 Ath is a small town in Belgium, which was part of the into Water; with a Method of discovering their Specimen litterarum & linguarum leaves, pp. [8], 1-23, [1], 33-37, 6e, 03, 40, and in both cases Spanish Netherlands until 1667 when it became the first intrinsic Earths, and of what Nature they are. universi orbis in quo centum fere alphabeta the order of these has been observed. In 619.e.9, first A town to come under French control. This is the only book III. A Method of turning Vitriol of Mercury diuersa sunt adumbrata, & totidem quae (‘Ad lectorem’) has been duplicated. In this copy the order printed there. Christopher Agersdorf would seem to have into Water; with a way to extract the genuine supersunt annotata operique maioiris of the leaves, all of which are present, is not the same. been the cutter of the illustrations and the alphabets. The author (1575-1635) describing himself on the title- Use is made of this work in his section on world Earth of that corrosive Body. IV. An Experiment ratio & auctoris institutum aperitur. page as ‘Provost of Arnhem, dean of Leuze (near Tournai) alphabets in vol. 1 (part 1 p. 185) of Purchas his Pilgrimes proving that there is a latent Fire in Water; 4to (177 x 130mm.) ff. [20], Jesuit IHS device on and the counsellor and historiographer of princes’, was (1625), where complaint is made of the cost of engraving with a Method to attract the said Fire from the title-page, dedication ‘nobilissimo… senatui, consilio in fact the last Provost of Arnhem and a well known local exotic alphabets. Water, and to render it visible, &c. &c. The whole populoque’, woodcut alphabets and illustrations, historian writing on the antiquities of Brabant, Antwerp Copies: UK (5, BL, Bodley (2), Cambridge etc.); Interspersed with Curious Queries and Remarks. and much else, including the history of Asia in a book somewhat cropped with some borders of woodcuts Germany (2 -Göttingen, Regensburg); USA - no Being the Conjunctive Trials of Ambrose and published in 1604. He was also Bishop of Africa, and etc., and on pp. 1 & 3 the last line of text affected. copies. John Godfrey, chymists, from their late Father’s Rebound in half calf, old style. his journal has recently (1998) been published. This is a bilingual edition of his Diarium rerum Argelae gestarum, [Ambrose Gottfried Hanckwitz] Observations. Ath [in Belgium]: excudebat Ioannes Masius. Incidebat part of his work on Africa published at Tournai in 1623. 88 GREEK ANTHOLOGY. 4to (240 x 190mm.) [2], 18pp., disbound. Christophorus agersdorf expensis auctoris [1622?] In the section on Greek Gramaye writes about Greek Anqologia diafown epigrammatwn. London: T. Gardner, 1747 £850 £2200 manuscripts and his informants on their whereabouts, Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum Ambrose Gottfried Hankwitz (1660-1741), the ‘late father’ A rare and interesting work of linguistic scholarship, which indicate that someone from Mount Athos was of the title, was originally from Hamburg, and came to published by the author, at a town where there was no visiting Brussels, that the Genoese consul there was also veteru, in septem libros diversrum. England to work for Robert Boyle. His chief claim to printing. a source of information, and that some information about 4to (250 x 155mm.)[4], 539 (=545, pp.283-288 bis), fame was his manufacture of phosphorus from urine and The bibliographical description is a little complicated, the treasures of Moroccan libraries was current: ‘Graeca [35]pp., device on title-page, later Dutch vellum excrement, but in fact through his two sons, who are the some leaves having been reset, as may be seen from a extant SS. patrum volumina innumera in monasteriis over pasteboard, yapp edges. authors of this pamphlet, he begot a long-lived firm of comparison of the two copies of this tract in the British insularum archipelagi & orientis, prout asserit mihi [Geneva]: E. Estienne, H. Fuggeri typographus, 1566 hoc anno Bruxellae episcopus de Monte sancto [Athos] industrial chemists, Godfrey & Cooke which lasted until Library (63.m.14 and 619.e.9.), both having a dedication £2000 1915, when it was subsumed into Savory & Moore, now to Jean, count of Tserclaes, baron de Tilly & Marbais Graecus… superesse etiam multos graecos codices… docuit itself defunct (1968) and a museum exhibit in Melbourne, (whose arms appear on the title-page), and not the present me Lucas Sanchius consul genuensis… In Africa… multos A fine, clean, large copy. As as p. 60 the epigrams are Australia. ESTC records the BL copy only. dedication. In both cases the makeup of the book is clear: Graecos esse intelligo & latere in bibliothecis Fessanis & fairly extensively annotated with interlinear and marginal Tuneti raros quosdam…’ (‘In the monasteries of the islands glosses and vocabulary notes in a small neat hand. of the archipelago and of the East there are innumerable On the verso of the title-page is a key to the various volumes in Greek of the Fathers, as I have been informed diacritical signs used by Estienne in this edition to indicate this year in Brussels by the Greek Bishop of the Holy proper names of men, women, digs, horses etc, to indicate Mountain (Athos) Luca Zanchi the Genoese consul the names of peoples or places, to indicate the names of has also informed me of the existence of many Greek mountains, to indicate the names of seas, rivers, fountains, codices… I understand that there are many Greek books together with the pointing finger used (‘as in Aeschylus, in Africa and some which are hidden in the libraries of Xenophon, Thucydides, Diodorus Siculus and others’) to Fez and Tunis’). indicate sententiae. This is particular useful in the Greek In the ‘Ad lectorem’ preface, Gramaye lists a large Anthology where proper names abound in the titles of group of those who have either provided him with books the individual epigrams. from their collections, or have written books which he has At the end there is a note addressed by Estienne to the used. These include Angelo Rocca, his Bibliotheca sacra reader in which he tells us that it is a shortage of paper and vaticana, Trithemius, the judge Claude Duret, author not of time which has made him offer such abbreviated of Thrésor de l’histoire des langues de cest univers, contenant notes (‘annotatiunculae’) which constitute barely a tenth les origines, beautés… décadences, mutations… et ruines des of what he might of offered. He then proceeds to outline langues hébraïque, chananéenne… etc., les langues des animaux his method of editing, and speaks of the epigrams he et oiseaux (Cologny (i.e. Geneva), 1613)., the brothers de has added, one of which he has taken from a manuscript Bry (in Oppenheim/Frankfurt) of whose cutting of exotic in the possession of the English doctor John Clement at alphabets Purchas speaks,, various Jesuits, Bonaventure Louvain, as well as others from various ancient writers Hepburn, the orientalist (1573-1620, see ODNB), whose such as Pauusanias. Certain verses in book VII he has Lexicon linguae sanctum succinctum of 1620 may have been rejected as being modern (by Janus Lascaris). used, and other works. On p. 22, when discussing the Renouard 126.4; Schreiber 159. See Hutton The Greek Ethiopic language and those who write about it, we find the Anthology in France, Ithaca NT: Cornell UP, 1946, pp. Pater Noster given in both Latin and Angolan (‘Nigrorum 128-133. oratio’) in the same form as it is given in 1812 by Adelung Provenance: M. Bruningen 29 June 1657 (inscribed on in his Mithridates p. 224, and today on-line. fly-leaf). Item 87, Gramaye. 43 89 GROTIUS, Hugo, editor. Excerpta 92 HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque nick to the lower fore-corner throughout (slightly ex tragoediis et comoediis graecis itinerantium bibliotheca: or a complete more severe in the first sixteen or so leaves), shaved tum quae exstant, tum quae perierunt: collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of by the binder with some loss of a few signatures (D1, emendata… ab Hugone Grotio. Cum above six hundred of the most authentic writers… G1, H1, I1) and one catchword (D1) and to the rule notis & indice auctorum ac rerum. Containing whatever has been observed borders at the foot and pagination at the head and 4to (228 x 160mm.) [12], 1006, [38]pp., title printed worth of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and touching the bottom line of text of “A List of his in red and black, nineteenth-century polished America;… including particular accounts of the Majesties Ships”, some browning to gathering “F”, calf by Hatton of Manchester, with his ticket, gilt manufactures and commerce of each country. two (30mm) incisions caused by the removal of a seal Macclesfield arms on covers, gilt spine, red morocco 2 vols folio [xii], xviii, [iv], 984; [x], 1056, [22] (index in the inner margin of D2 [see below], rebound in label, marbled edges. & list of plates) pp., frontispiece and 59 further half calf, old style; formerly part of a tract volume, Paris: N. Buon, 1626 £900 engraved charts, maps and plates (of 60, lacking with facsimile bookplate. London: by Peter Cole, 1660 [the date altered in ink This extremely elegantly printed volume (from the same the map of Georgia), contemporary speckled calf, press as the first edition of De iure belli ac pacis) contains gilt, backs & head-caps rather worn, some foxing to 1666] £2400 passages from the Greek dramatists, Aeschylus, Euripides, and spotting. First Edition, third issue of four, and a reissue of the sheets Sophocles, and of the writers of comedies, Aristophanes, London, T. Woodward, 1744-48 £5000 of the first edition of 1655 (Wing H1229) with a new Alexis, Menander and others, all of them taken from extant This edition of Harris is the first to contain the first English title and preliminaries [see below]. The only distinction plays, with others from the Florilegium of Stobaeus, which map by Bowen to depict continental Australia, A Complete between this third issue of 1666 and the second issue of Grotius had earlier edited, and still others from citations Map of the Southern Continent Survey’d by Capt. Abel Tasman 1660 is that the date on the title and dedication (June 21. elsewhere. The Latin translation is given on the verso & depicted by order of the East India Company in Holland in 1660) to James, Duke of York have been altered by hand facing the Greek text on recto. the Stadt House at Amsterdam. Bowen’s other contribution from 1660 to 1666. A final reissue in 1666 identical to the The argument of the preface is a moral one, pointing to this edition, a map of Georgia, is missing. present but with a new title A Full and Perfect Account of the out the similarity between some of the utterances of Sizes and Lengths of Riggins [sic] is Wing H1230A (Christ the ancients and the Christian message. Sophocles is Church Oxford only). particularly singled out as an imitator of Homer,’ but not 93 HARTSOEKER, Nicolaas. This re-issue comprises the same sheets as the 1655 of all Homer, just the best parts’, and Grotius explains how Suite des conjectures physiques. edition, but with [A]1-2, B1-2, C1 and D1-2 (imprimatur he has gathered fragments from all over Greek literature, leaf & title, dedications to Oliver Cromwell and General using a collection previously made by Dirk Canter with 4to (287 x 223mm.) [8], 147, [1]pp., Large Paper copy, Disbrowe [Desborough], address to the Commissoners of additions by Scaliger lent to him by the Geneva printer 5 medical engraved plates, 2 engraved armorial the Navy (C1)and a double-table (D1-2) cancelled and with P. de la Rovière. head-pieces, woodcut figures, contemporary a new title, a dedication to James II and new address “To Ter Meulen & Diermanse 468. vellum-backed boards, uncut, prelims slightly soiled the Concern’d Reader”. Inserted before E1 is a “slip” (sic the middle of the title-page and at p. 212, and on p. 10 ESTC) but actually a single leaf, which has been folded for Provenance: ‘Sum Jacobi [Nicolai crossed out] Schonaei (particularly title-page), spine worn. the note ‘Je suis au? de sainte Marie donné par le sieur the post and has two slits and a stain in the inner margin Hornani [of Hoorn]’. In the section devoted to Euripides Amsterdam: H. Desbordes, 1708 £600 de?… 1630. François de???’ where a seal was attached) with “A list of His Majesties someone has given the line numbers in pencil. First edition, and a sequel to the first series of lectures Ships, whose Names have been changed,…” (ESTC states published in 1707 by Desbordes, both dedicated to the that this slip, in fact a single folio leaf, is sometimes pasted Count of Hesse-Kassel. The subjects dealt with are all 91 HALE, Sir Matthew. Pleas of the to the blank recto of E1). The fact that this leaf has been 90 GUICHARD, Claude. Funerailles physiological, and the plates illustrate Siamese twins etc. & diuerses manieres d’ensevelir des Crown: or a methodical summary of the folded and sealed for posting has not been noted in any Romains, Grecs, & autres nations. principal matters relating to that subject. other copy, and is the sort of information that cannot 8vo (160 x 104mm.) [8], 272, [8]pp., contemporary A REVISED ISSUE NECESSITATED BY be obtained from electronic resources. 4to (230 x 145mm.) [8], 546, [22]pp., woodcuts, criblé This results from the event, witnessed by Samuel rough calf, upper cover marked. THE RE-NAMING OF THE NAVY initials etc., eighteenth-century calf, gilt fillets on Pepys, on 23 May 1660, when King Charles II and his AFTER THE RESTORATION covers, spine gilt in compartments, slight worming London: printed by the assigns of R & E. Atkyns, for brother James, Duke of York, first boarded the English at head of some leaves affecting headlines (bad in W. Shrewsbury and J. Leigh, 1678 £1000 94 HAYWARD, Edward. The sizes and fleet sent to bring them from exile in Holland and found quires d p & q). Interleaved and copiously annotated, with additions in lengths of riggings for all his Majesties ships them all unhappily named after leading Parliamentary Lyons: J. de Tournes, 1581 £650 margins and on blank pages, this work was reprinted and frigats. As also proportions of boatswains figures and victories: “After dinner, the King and Duke several times in its present form before being enlarged by and carpenters stores, of all kinds, for eight upon the [quarter-deck table?] altered the name of some The author (1545-1607) wrote on the history of Savoy, of the Shipps, viz. the Nazseby into Charles - The Richard, the addition of extra treatises in the edition of 1707, and months sea-service on the coast of England: but little seems to be known of him. The dedication to substantially enlarged by Giles Jacob for the edition of 1716. James; the Speaker, Mery, The Dunbar (which was not in Emanuel of Savoy is printed in civilité type. together with sundry other useful observations, company with us), the Henery - Winsby, Happy Returne - Wing H254; ESTC records only the Huntington & as may appear by the index following. Cartier De Tournes 616. Stanford in the USA. Wakefield, Richmond - Lamport, the Henretta - Cheriton, the Provenance: ‘Ce livre apartient a Noble homme Laurois Folio. (270 x170mm.) [13], 60, [1 (blank)] pp., Speedwell - Bradford, the Successe.” (Diary,. ed. Latham, Dary S[ieur] de St Aulaire ’. There is a signature on woodcut Royal arms on the title-page. Very small I, 155).

MAGGS 45 When the present issue was produced (the dedication The first work was published under the title A new English motions of the mouth, the second with how the Hebrew 98 HORNE, Andrew. [La somme is redated 21 June 1666 - although the day and month grammar etc., with 2 preliminary leaves before the title letters are ‘nothing other than pictures representing the appelle Mirroir des iustices: vel are unaltered) news of the “Four Days’ Battle” (1-4 June) as given above (see the entry in ESTC). The ‘Dialogue various movements of the tongue’, the third dealing with speculum iusticiariorum]. The booke of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, in which the English between a Frenchman and an Englishman’ (in Dutch and the tongue and surrounding tissue, the fourth with the called, the Mirrour of Justices… With the Fleet, under the Duke of Albemarle, despite initial claims English) has its own fly-title on F2 (p. 83). prerequisite for all speech, breath, and so on. The last book, called The Diversity of Courts… Both of victory suffered heavy losses, had just begun to reach The dictionary part is arranged according to the dialogue is concerned with the perfection of the Hebrew translated… by W.H. of Grays Inne Esquire. London. number of syllables (1-6) with a dash between each syllable language. Little seems to be known about Edward Hayward of the English words. These are followed by a short section Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont was the son of 12mo (136 x 80mm.) [32], 325 (=327, pp. 287-288 bis), apart from the fact that, according to the title-page, he on abbreviations and one on nicknames or adaptations Johannes Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644), and in [9]pp., first leaf blank, contemporary sheep, worn. had served for twenty-two years as clerk of the Survey at of christian names. Throughout the English words are addition to editing his father’s works, he was closely London: printed for M. Walbancke, 1646 £900 Chatham dockyard. Pepys mentions him briefly in his printed in Roman and the Dutch in italic. involved with Knorr von Rosenroth, and at the court in Sir Thomas Clarke’s copy with his signature and marginal diary: “In the evening Mr. Hayward came to me to advise Sulzbach he caried out all manner of studies, alchemical, Wing H 1372A. notes. The note on the flyleaf reads: ‘Note in going over with me about the business of the Chest [a fund to pay cabbalistic and mystical. He was from 1671 closely the Mirror of Justices in French I cursorily compar’d the disabled seamen with which Hayward had been concerned connected with Leibniz, and with Henry More the French wth the English & wherever there appear’d any since at least 1658], which I have now a mind to put in 96 HELMONT, Franciscus Mercurius van. Cambridge Platonist, as well as with , with material error in either of ‘em I corrected it in the margin’. practice” (20th August, 1662). The first edition of this work whom he stayed at Oates during his last visit to England Alphabeti vere naturalis hebraici brevissima TC. Sir Thomas Clarke (1703-64) was a protegé of the first seems to have sparked a certain amount of controversy in 1693/4 (see Locke Correspondence). delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, earl of Macclesfield, and at his death left his library and as a scarce pamphlet survives which is “Mr Haywards The book is dedicated to his patron the catholic convert juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari fortune to the family. answer to G. Kendals scandalous pamphlet […] wherein possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, Count Christian August of Sulzbach. The correct date the state suffers much damage by Mr. Hayward’s book appears in the colophon and on the engraved title. A The original was published in 1642. Wing H2789. sed & ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant. of rigging” (Wing K282A). Presumably this must have German translation of the work appeared in the same been one publication in a series of attacks and rebuttals. 12mo (130 x 65mm.) [36 (incl. additional engraved year, 1667 (VD17 23:275902V). The work is predominantly a list of the measurements title)], 107, [1]pp., 36 engraved plates, eighteenth- VD17 12:153272L; Dünnhaupt (2nd edition) 2375.1; of all the ships in the Navy along with an inventory of century smooth calf, gilt. Krivatsy 5426; For an English translation see The alphabet their stocks of sails, ropes, anchors, carpenters’ stores, and Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1657 (recte 1667) of nature by F.M. van Helmont; translated with an introduction other nautical equipment. Some explanation is given to Sold and annotations by Allison P. Coudert & Taylor Corse. Leiden the correct method for rigging measurement. etc: Brill, 2007. A handsome copy of this fascinating work, written when Wing H1230 (British Library, Bodley, Chatsworth, van Helmont (1614-1698) was a prisoner of the Inquisition Longleat House, Magdalene College Cambridge [Pepys in Rome, where without books he began to think what it Library], Salisbury Cathedral; Bibliothèque Nationale 97 HOBBES, Thomas. De mirabilibus would be like to live on an island inhabited by deaf mutes, Paris; John Carter Brown Library [defective, lacking the Pecci; Being the Wonders of the Peak in and how he would communicate with them. In his preface “slip”], New York Public Library & Yale. Derby-shire, commonly call’d the Devil’s Arse of to the reader, dated 6 January 1667, van Helmont’s friend Christian Knor von Rosenroth (1636-1689) discourses Peak. The Latine written by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. The English by a Person of Quality. 95 [HELDOREN, Jan van]. upon the nature of society and societies, secular (including A nomenclator English and Dutch. such organisations as the Dutch East India Company) 8vo (187 x 113mm.) [2], 81, 84-85, [9] pp., with the and religious, or irreligious (he specifically condemns 99 HUBIN, -. Machines nouvellement Consisting in familar words with variety of advertisements for Crook at the rear, some very the atheist Giulio Cesare Vannini). There is, he writes, a executées et en partie inventées. Premiere choise phrases used in common discours. minor spotting in places, contemporary blind- third group, the society given over to the arts, and here panelled calf (neatly rebacked, new spine label). partie ou se trouvent une clepsydre, deux Eeen naamboekje, Engels en Duyts… he very specifically mentions the Royal Society of London, London: W. Crook, 1678 £700 zymosimetres, un peze=liqueur, & un pp. 48; [1]- 64, 67-166; 48; 48pp., vellum-backed together with societies in France, Italy, and Germany thermometre. Avec plusieurs observationes boards, lacking pp. 163 -166 of the second part. (Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, and others) which use Originally written in Latin for the second Earl of faites à Orleans, sur les qualités de l’air, Devonshire as an account of their short tour of the Peak Amsterdam: widow Mercy Bruyning, 1675 £900 vernacular languages to explain things. He advocates & en particulier sur sa pesanteur. that a society for the study of sacred languages, and in District in June 1628. An advertisement before the text in Ibid. particular Hebrew, which he (in common with others this addition proclaims the great popularity of the poem 4to (203 x 154mm.) [4], 23p., contents: [i] title; [ii] An English and Nether-dutch dictionary… both then and later) sees as ‘omnium linguarum regina’ and the call for an English translation. The translator Contents and explanation of plate; [iii] Au lecteur; Eeen engels en nederduits Woortboek… and the language of God himself, what he calls ‘mater et states that the work was done ‘without the knowledge [iv] engraved illustration; 1-22 text; 23 Extrait des Den eersten Druk. ff. [112] (signed A-O scaturigo reliquarum omnium’ (the mother and source of Mr. Hobs’ but it is hope it will not displease him’. He registres dated 21 January, 1673, and errata; [24] in 8’s), vellum-backed blue paper boards, of all the rest). Citing a number of contemporary writers, further recommends Hobbes’ translation of Homer calling blank, disbound. marginal worm holes in some quires. including Henry More, Lightfoot the Cambridge hebraist, it ‘the most exact and best translation that ere I saw’ (A2r). Paris: J. Cusson, et l’auteur, devant la rue aux ours: Heinsius and others, he speaks of the Hebrew influence Wing H2224; Macdonald & Hargreaves, 10. ou se trouvent toutes ces machines, & plusieurs autres 2 volumes 16mo (140 x 80mm.) early 18th century in the New Testament. curiositez, 1673 £500 vellum backed blue paper boards, lettered on spine The work proper is divided into three parts and cast as volumes I & II. in seven dialogues, the first dealing in general with the Hubin, who seems to have been of an English family, was well known as a maker of barometers one of which Hooke MAGGS 47 presented to the Royal Society in February 1686, claiming The book is undated but this copy has the date 1726 written A POSSIBLE PAIR OF consigned to oblivion’.” - Shaw, Memoirs of… the Late Dr. that he, Hooke, had made it. Described as ‘émailleur du in by a contemporary hand, which has also made a few UNCONSIDERED TRANSLATIONS (1785), p. 38, quoted in W.J. Bate, Samuel roi’, Hubin also made hygrometers and alcoholmeters - his additions in the text. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON Johnson (1978) p. 190. ‘zymosimetre’ (cf. M. Daumas, Scientific instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their makers (1972) “… starved to death in translating for booksellers…” p. 81). In a letter to Henry Oldenburg, the prior of St. 101 IAMBLICHUS. De vita pythagorica 103 [MUSSARD, Pierre]. [Les Conformitez Lambert in Paris, Duhamel reports that he had just seen liber… notisque… illustratus a Ludolphon In the early 1740s Samuel Johnson was working primarily des Cérémonies modernes avec les Hubin who was making thermometers ‘with mercury and Kustero. Versionem latinam… confecit… for Edward Cave, bookseller and publisher of The anciennes]. The conformity between water, very like the barometer of Huygens. When other Ulricus Obrechtus. Accedit Malchus, sive Gentleman’s Magazine. There is no doubt that Johnson was modern and ancient ceremonies: wherein thermometers show a difference of two lines, this one shows Porphyrius de vita Pythagorae [etc.] much more productive in his early years than those books, is proved, by incontestable authorities, that nearly a foot. I have not seen one, he had only made one reviews, and articles which he could remember for Boswell 2 parts 4to (202 x 145mm.) [16(incl. engr. frontis), many years later. Many anonymous titles and minor pieces the ceremonies of the Church of Rome are at Orleans (Correspondence ix, 609). The list of contents entirely derived from the heathen. With etc. on p. [ii] ends’ ‘On n’a point mis icy la description 219, [17]; 93, [1]pp., 2 columns, title printed in red have been attributed to him subsequently (e.g. by Hazen an appendix, shewing the conformity of du Baromètre double de M. Hugens, sur lequel le Sieur and black, engr. frontispiece, contemporary English and Fleeman) but many others must remain hidden. One Hubion a fondé son Thermometre de la V. figure, parce panelled calf, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece. of his tasks for Cave was translating from French. their Conduct toward their adversaries. qu’elle a été donnée au public dans le Journal des Sçavans Amsterdam: widow of S. Petzold & C. Petzold, 1707 It is tempting to think that he was connected with these 8vo (200 x 118 mm]) [4], xliii, [i (contents], 294, du Lundy 12. Decembre 1672.’ £500 translations which have previously escaped the notice of [table of authors), [2 (advertisements for Cave)] his biographers and bibliographers. Copies of this pamphlet are in the BL, the Bodleian (ex p., contemporary mottled calf, covers with a First separate edition, and a fine crisp copy. The translation Writing of Johnson’s career in London from the Hans Sloane). OCLC records another four or so copies gilt ornament in the corners, gilt spine in six and commentary on Porphyry is by Lucas Holstenius time of his return from his last visit to Lichfield in 1740 (incl. Harvard, but not Yale). librarian of the Palatine library. Part 1 (Iamblichus) has Walter Jackson Bate, in Samuel Johnson (1978), said: “The compartments, marbled edges (upper joint cracked a new Latin version by Obrecht, and also contains a number journalistic writings of Johnson during the next fifteen or at the head, label missing). of pencilled annotations in English, possibly by Edward twenty years, first for Cave and later for other publishers, London: by E. Cave, 1745 £1500 100 HÜBNER, Johann. Museum Wake (see below). The work is dedicated by Kuster to the were ‘so numerous, so various, and scattered in such a First Edition of this translation of Les Conformitez (Leyden: geographicum, das ist: ein Verzeichniss Bishop of Norwich, John Moore, whose famous library is multiplicity of unconnected publications’, said Boswell, 1667). Mussard was a Protestant pastor in Lyons, born in der besten Land-Charten, so in Deutschland, in Cambridge UL, and whose son accompanied George that it was doubtful whether Johnson himself in later Geneva on 26 december 1626, who died in 1685 in London, Frankreich, England und Holland von den Parker, the second Earl of Macclesfield, on his Grand Tour. 1 years could make a complete list. What strikes us most having left Lyons in 1671. The translator, surprisingly, is besten Künstlern sind gestochen worden; Provenance: armorial bookplate of Edward Wake (1664/5- about these publications is the sheer range, however unaware of another translation into English by James nebst einem Vorschlage wie daraus allerhand 1732) of Christ Church, later canon of Canterbury. ephemeral, quickly written, or now forgotten [of] some Du Pré, Roma antiqua et recens, or the conformity of modern gross und kleine Atlantes können sortiret of the pieces. There are short biographies of men noted and antient ceremonies (London: 1732), reprinted (or werden. In Ordung gebracht… von J.H.J. in medicine, science, literature, naval exploration, and reissued) as The Conformity of antient and modern ceremonies 102 INNES, Robert, of Magilligan, 8vo (165 x 100mm.) [16], 320p., title printed in red warfare. Poems in both Latin and English; monthly articles (London: 1740). County Londonderry. Miscellaneous for the Gentleman’s Magazine, year after year, on foreign and black, contemporary German speckled paper Published in April 1745 at 4s/6d. Cave’s advertisements letters on several subjects in philosophy history (that is political and other current events abroad), boards, a few ms. Notes. at the end include Maupertuis’s Rudiments of Geography (see and astronomy, modern boards. and also the section, much of the time, on foreign books. the next item). ESTC records copies in the USA at Duke, Hamburg: T.C. Felginer, [1726] £850 And there are reviews, essays, or other writings that show 4to (203 x 154mm.) [6], 65, [1]pp., 3 engraved plates, Perkins Theological Library (SMU) and Union Theological A detailed account of maps, arranged by country, together his knowledge not only of literature, politics, religion and disbound. Seminary. They list six in UK and one in Germany. with a section (p. 225 sqq) on ‘twenty-four small and large ethics, but also agriculture, trade, and practical business; The translator was inspired by his discovery that Dr. London: S. Birt, 1732 £500 atlases to be used either at home or whilst travelling’. The philology, classical scholarship, aesthetics, and metaphys- Conyers Middleton’s celebrated Letter from Rome, shewing an book affords a great deal of information on the map trade The eight letters, addressed to Bishop William Nicholson ics; medicine and chemistry; travel, exploration, and even exact conformity between popery and paganism (1729) appears at this period, both in terms of maps and their engravers, (1655-1727), are on Aurora borealis, Irish peat bogs, the Chinese architecture. Much of it, of course, was hack work, to have been largely plagiarised from Mussard’s book, but also in terms of how they could be assembled, natural history of the parish of Magilligan, where Innes but it was inspired hack work.” although Middleton had stated in his preface that his coloured etc. held the living, and so on. On p. iv of the preface Innes It would perhaps not be surprising if, in the hothouse work was not entirely original. The preface tells us that the book is based on Hübner’s writes: ‘I do believe that I shall meet with opposition to atmosphere of Johnson’s writing at this time, he should Was this translation, with its lengthy preface by the personal collection put together over many years with some of these papers, and the great… name of Sir Isaac have, translated from the French these two titles (the one a translator, made by Samuel Johnson? The following points great labour and expense, a task to which Hamburg was Newton may ruffle some people’s tempers, to see some of rare antiquarian/theological text and the other a modern may be raised in this connection. geographical work) that were published by Edward Cave, ideally suited (‘in Hamburg sind viele Dinge möglich, his principles contradicted, and I must own, the veneration 1. It is dedicated by the translator to John Leveson-Gower, and that he would either have forgotten, or chosen to die sich an einem andern Orte nicht practiciren lassen’). I had for him, and the great inequality of my abilities to 2nd Baron (later 1st Earl) Gower: “To the true Lover of forget, them years later. He tells us that the maps are coloured and outlines why his, had almost stifled some of them, etc.’ his Country, and sincere Friend of the , “It was less a matter of mere indolence than embarrass- colouring is useful, but how it must not be taken to excess The advertisements on the last page for books sold in Opposition to all false Patriotism, and false Religion.” ment and he did not care to be represented by it. Hence so as to confuse the actual message of the map. The new by Birt end: ‘Where may be had all sorts of Biblers and In 1739, Gower, at the behest of , wrote he ‘declined pointing out any of his earlier performances fashion is for colouring political divisions, and the author Common-Prayers, the Fine Large Folio Bible printed at to a friend of in the hope of securing the (in the Gentleman’s Magazine or elsewhere), when some of particularly mentions maps of Switzerland and Holstein Oxford, also Welsh Bibles and Common Prayers; neat Dean’s help in obtaining the degree of Master of Arts his most intimate friends asked it as a favour.’ To others with their various divisions (cantons etc.) Pocket Bibles, with Cambridge Concordance; Duty of Man, from Trinity College, Dublin for Johnson, who was hoping and all other Books of Devotion, History, &c…’. he acknowledged that ‘he then wrote many things which merited no distinction from the trash with which they were MAGGS ESTC lists 7 copies in UK, and 4 in USA (NYPL, Yale, 49 Chicago, Bancroft). to apply for the post of master of a grammar school in April 1739), and in October 1738 had published Proposals the Harleian Library of the earls of Oxford. Johnson in original wrappers, has 8pp. of advertisements for Cave Appleb, not far from Lichfield, a post which required an for the edition (again printed by Cave) which survives had helped the bookseller Thomas Osborne produce his at the end (the last leaf largely torn away. These are much M.A. degree from Oxford (a TCD degree could have been in a unique copy found in a copy of the 1676 English catalogues of the printed books from the Harleian Library, smaller than the text block, c. 5mm shorter at the lower converted to an Oxford one): translation of Sarpi by Nathaniel Brent (Fleeman(2000) i, Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae (1743-44; Fleeman (2000) and outer edges and cannot form part of the collation “They say he is not afraid of the strictest examination, 32-33; 38.10SP). He also published a short life of Sarpi in I, 84sqq; 43.1CBH)) and had written the introduction to of the book. They are not present in this copy, or in the though he is of so long a journey [to Dublin], and will volume 8 for November 1738 of The Gentleman’s Magazine The Harleian Miscellany (1744-46; Fleeman (2000) i, 111sqq; copy at the American Philosophical Society. The book was venture it, if the Dean thinks it necessary, choosing rather (Boswell op cit i, 139; Fleeman (2000) p. 37; 38GM8). He 44.4HM) of rare tracts from the library. “The following published after 7 December 1743 at 1s/6d. to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating abandoned it in the face of another projected translation Treatise has, I think, had a very narrow Escape from The Elemens de geographie had been published anony- for booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some by the Rev. John Johnson, a lecturer at St. Martin’s in this Fate. For, tho’ I have been pretty much conversant mously, in an abbreviated form, in Paris in 1740 (a copy time past.” the Fields (d. 1747), who had accused Cave in the Daily in large and well-furnish’d Libraries, I never saw was in the Macclesfield Library, lot 2449, and there are But the plan came to nothing. Advertiser of underhandedness (see Fleeman 38.10DA). but two Copies of it: From one of these the present copies in the BL and BNF). It is concerned with the precise “In political terms the 1730s saw Gower’s emergence 4. p. [i] The address from the translator opens in what could Translation is made, and the other was in the noble shape of the globe and the measurements of Picard and as the leader of the Tories in the Lords. He served as be read as a Johnsonian manner: “That the Characters Collection of the late Lord Oxford….” Cassini in the Arctic designed to explain the variations in Lord Justice in 1740 and, after Walpole’s fall, was the of Persons of distinguished Merit ought to be faithfully 8. p. xx: Soul-cakes - “… in many of the midland Parts the earth’s gravity. It was finished, enlarged, and repub- one Tory to take high office as Lord Privy Seal and PC transmitted to Posterity, is an undoubted Truth. It is of England at this day. It is usual for the Poor, upon lished in 1742: ‘Nouvelle edition. A Paris, rue S. Jacques, (12 May 1742) in the new whig ministry. His alliance a piece of Justice due to their Virtues; and it is a Right All Souls Day, to go from one Village to another a chez Gab. Martin, J. Bapt. Coignard, & Hipp. L. Guerin, with his political opponents, a move of considerable belonging to Mankind in general, that succeeding begging Soul Cakes, which are freely dispersed by libraires’. After its publication Maupertuis was to be found party political importance, was short-lived, however. He Ages may by such examples be incited to an Imitation many good Protestants, who believe neither Purgatory, in Berlin with Frederick the Great, to whom introductions resigned in December 1743, only to be reappointed as of their behaviour. And this likewise holds true with nor the Efficacy of Masses for the Dead;…” - cf. George had been effected by Voltaire. Lord Privy Seal under the Broadbottom administration in regard to Books. The Rescue of a valuable old Treatise Tollet’s note 25 added to Johnson & Steevens’s edition The work was also translated into German and December the following year, a position he held until his from Oblivion, is a kind of Debt due to its Author; and Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona (Act II, Scene 1) published in Zürich by the Heidegger firm in 1742 as death in 1754…. Gower’s proximity to the administration certainly is the greatest Service a Man can do to the explaining that this is a Staffordshire custom (Johnson’s Anfänge der Geographie. The French text was included in provoked criticism from many who saw his actions as learned World, next to presenting it with a new Work of birthplace, Lichfield, is the principal city of Staffordshire). a collective volume: Ouvrages divers de Mr. de Maupertuis: desertion of the Tory [and the Jacobite] cause. Samuel real Use and Value.” Eléments de géographie. Discours sur les différentes figures des Johnson included him in his definition of ‘renegado’ in 9. p.xli: “Country retirement” - “That in the Quotations corps célestes. Discours sur la parallaxe de la lune et Lettre sur his Dictionary (1755), though the reference was removed 5. p [i] The second paragraph continues: “Had the Re- of the several Authorities here produced, Recourse was la comète, Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1744. by the printer.” – (ODNB). publication of detached Tracts of an approved Character always had to the Originals, where I had Opportunity, Maupertuis was ‘in the air’, and it is likely therefore that Writing in the Life of Johnson, Boswell recalled Johnson been more frequently practised, I doubt not but many which I sometimes wanted in a Country Retirement…” Johnson, eager for work, would have been aware of him. “Talking to me upon this subject [the Dictionary] when excellent Pieces upon very important Subjects would Johnson’s last extended stay outside London had been at It must be remembered French was not taught in England we were in Ashbourne in 1777, he mentioned a still have been well known in the World, which are now Ashbourne near Lichfield, with Rev. John Taylor, from as part of any curriculum at this period: the aristocracy stronger instance of the predominance of his private entirely sunk in Obscurity, and by disappearing have August 1739 to April 1740, was when he was trying to might well have had tutors, but in general people would feelings in the composition of this work, than any now made way for worse Performances upon the same obtain the headmastership of Appleby Grammar School have picked it up, and therefore no great level of linguistic to be found in it. ‘You know, Sir, Lord Gower forsook Points. Many admirable Books have been lost by the (see 1, above) with Gower’s help. attainment might be expected from a native Englishman. the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Smalness of their Bulk; others have been destroyed 10. p. xlii: Thrums and Knots: “For this Purpose I beg Johnson had however used some of his time at Oxford to Renegado, after telling that it meant ‘one who deserts by falling into ignorant and illiterate Hands; and not leave to recur to that old Observation that Translations learn French, and had already translated Lobo from the to the enemy, a revolter,’ I added, Sometimes we say a a few, especially those of he controversial Kind, are are naturally like the wrong Side of a Turky Carpet, French in 1735 and Prévost in 1738. GOWER. Thus it went to the press; but the printer either quite vanished, or become very scarce, by the full of Thrums and Knotes…”. This quotation comes In 1742 Cave published the first of 9 Numbers of had more wit than I, and struck it out.” (Hill-Powell Diligence of those Men whose Doctrines or Practises from John Howel’s Letters - cf. Steevens’s note 288 added Miscellaneous Correspondence: Containing Essays, Dissertations, edition, i, p. 296). Could this be a precursor to Johnson’s were thereby placed in a Light they could not bear.” to Johnson & Steevens’s 1788 edition of Shakespeare’s &c. on various subjects, sent to the Author of The Gentleman’s famous spat with Lord Chesterfield over the dedication 6. Compare this to the sentiments in Johnson’s Proposals Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act V, Scene 2) quoting the Magazine, &c. Item XIII in Numb. I was “M. Maupertuis of the Dictionary? for Printing, by Subscription, the Harleian Miscellany (1743; same passage. on Comets”, i.e. the Lettre sur la comète qui paroissoit en 1742 2. In 1739 Johnson had published under the pseudonym Fleeman (2000) I, 90-92; 43.12HMP): listed above. This had appeared with no place or printer Probus Britannicus an anti-government and overtly “… It has long been lamented, that the Duration of the named in 1742, but presumably in Paris (cf. Conlon, P.M. 104 MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Jacobitical tract, Marmor Norfolciense (Fleeman (2000) i, Monuments of Genious and Study, as well as of Wealth Siecle des Lumieres, 42:550). The “Avertisement” on p. v of 38-39; 39.4MN/1). This was published by Cave. and Power, depends in no small Measure on their Bulk; Moreau de. [Eléments de géographie] Numb. I has been “tentatively” attributed to Johnson (cf. and that Volumes, considerable only for their Size, are The rudiments of geography. Fleeman (2000) i pp. 79-80; 42.12MC. Fleeman however 3. The subject matter, the history of the Catholic Church, writes: ‘the attribution of the ‘Advertisement’ to SJ is handed down from one Age to another, when compendious Small 8vo (168 x 98 mm.) [2], iv, 126pp. Fine copy was certainly on Johnson’s mind at this time. On 12 Treatises, of far greater Importance, are suffered to perish, unpersuasive: although it is business like and well within in contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label. July 1737 Johnson had written to Cave proposing a new as the compactest Bodies sink into the Water, while those, his capacity, it contains nothing which is unequivocally translation of Fr. Paolo Sarpi’s History of the Council of Trent of which the Extension bears a greater Proportion to the London: for E. Cave, 1743 £4000 his…’. A long synopsis of the contents was published in from the original Italian as published in 1619, with a new weight, float upon the Surface…” This translation into English appeared within a year of The Gentleman’s Magazine for December 1743 (p. 655) in life of Sarpi, and a translation of the notes from Pierre answer to a (probably planted) letter from “Criticus” dated 7. The preface continues with a discourse on the rarity the original French, and is a rare book: ESTC records only Le Courayer’s French edition published in 1736. Johnson 7 December 1743 asking whether the Earth is an oblate of books of certain types, and claims a familiarity with two copies: Cambridge UL (which we have examined) the worked on this very long text for six months (August 1738- and American Philosophical Society (other libraries have spheroid flattened or lengthened at the poles. a microfilm). The text ends on M3r. The Cambridge copy, MAGGS 51 It is known from Boswell’s Life that Johnson was fam- bookes of the Jewish warres. - A compend of the 107 KIRCH, Gottfried. Alter und Künckel has added his own commentary and an iliar with Maupertuis’s opinion on the supposed suicide ecclesiasticall historie in X books by Eusebius neuer rechter astronomische account of experiments. The book was reprinted in 1743 of scorpions (Life ed. Hill-Powell, ii, p. 54). Boswell Pamphilus…- A compend of the ecclesiasticall Wunder=Kalender darinnen nich allein and 1756 in Nürnberg, and remained ‘by far the best comments in a footnote: “Who could have imagined that historie in VII bookes by Socrates scholasticus. - zu finden die merckwürdige wahrhaftoge account of glass making in existence’ (Partington p. 368 the High Church of England-man would be so prompt A compend of the ecclesiasticall historie written Himmels=Begenbenheiten… MDCLXXXX, quoting Thomson). in quoting Maupertuis, who, I am sorry to think, stands in VI bookes by Evagrius scholasticus.) usw. (Andere Theil des…Wunder-Calenders…). J.R. Partington Hist. of chemistry ii, 368. in the list of those unfortunate mistaken men, who call themselves esprits forts.” This information had appeared 8vo (142 x 90mm.) MANUSCRIPT in English, ff. ff. [32], partly printed in red, title within woodcut after a visiut Maupertuis had made to the Midi, during [228], first leaf and last 4 leaves blank, written in a frame, woodcut on G4verso, contemporary German which he had conducted some experiments with scorpions, single hand in brown ink, 20 -26 lines to the page, mss. additions on same leaf. which involved experiments with a dog and a mouse.. Contents: The 5 sections are dated 20 November Leipzig: Caspar Lunitz, [1680] £900 This he had published in the Mémoires of the Académie 1651(1v) & 2 December (61v) (Antiquities); 3 Bound with: des Sciences in 1731. December 1651 (62v) & 10 December 1651 (101r) There is, however, little else to connect this translation Pagan, Blaise. La theorie des planates… Paris: (Jewish Wars); 11 December 1651 (103r) (Life of with Johnson: the style is somewhat constrained by the C. Besogne, 1657, [8], 124pp., woodcut diagrams. Josephus); 15 December 1651 (104v) & 23 December original French, and certainly therefore does not attain Bound with: the orotundity of Johnson’s later prose. 1651 (149r) (Eusebius); 24 December 1651(149v) & Ephemeris motuum coelestium an annum…. p. [1] “It is beyond all doubt, that in the first journeys 23 January 1651/2 (Socrates followed (196v) by which men undertook, they travell’d from one place to Evagrius). Contemporary rough calf, rubbed. M.DC. XIX etc. ff. [12] only [No place c. 1620] another, only by the information which the people of each [London?] 1651-52. £2500 3 works in 1 volume, calf. country to which they came gave them; and marked out An interesting resumé of both OT and christian history The continuous text in the first part of the calender by Kirch their course by trees, mountains and other fix’d objects. taken mostly from Josephus (ff. 1-103), and from the (one of an annual series) contains an account of Montezuma It was a long time before voyages by sea were attempted, 109 LA MOTHE LE VAYER, François. histories of Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius, the works of and the conquest of Mexico, together with attendant especially such as carry’d out of sight of land. In this De l’instruction de Monseigneur le whom are frequently printed together both in the original ‘wonders’ ‘Etlicher Wunder-Geschichte. Wunderzeichen manner did the first inhabitants make but slow progress Greek, in Latin translation and in the English version of welchevor dem Untergange des letzten mexicanischen Dauphin, à Monseigneur l’ eminentissime on the face of the earth, without knowing either its Meredith Hanmer, originally published in 1577. There Königs in West-Indien geschehen’. VD 17 23: 653283L Cardinal duc de Richelieu. figure or bounds, and perhaps without surmising, that was an edition published in 1650 (Wing E3421), which (HAB and Nürnberg). 4to (230 x 165m.) 364, [4]p., engraved title-page any such knowledge was attainable. The necessity under may well have been the book used. Josephus was similarly which mankind find themselves of carrying on a mutual by Mellan, contemporary vellum lettered on spine. translated into English and widely read. Paris: S. Cramoisy, 1640 £600 intercourse, put them upon discovering other methods At the very end are 2 pages of notes on Grotius De jure 108 KÜNCKEL, Johann. Ars vitraria to guide them in long journeys…”. belli ac pacis on the treatment of prisoners ‘captivis parci jus experimentalis, oder vollkommene La Mothe Le Vayer (1588-1672) is an important figure Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield. Maupertuis was known naturale et commune’, with some references to Xenophon, Glasmacher=Kunst… samt einem II in the French 17th century, and he has been studied at to William Jones (c. 1675-1749), the mathematician and Sallust, and Camden (‘1598 in causa Hawkins’). Whether Haupt-Theil, so in drey unterschiedenen length by René Pintard in his Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du xviie siècle Geneva: Droz, 1983. He was protégé of the Earl of Macclesfield, and corresponded with these have some contemporary resonance is unclear. Büchern… mit einem Anhang, usw. an omnivorous reader and a great amasser of facts. Some him. Maupertuis had come to London in 1727, the year of Cf. J-L. Quantin, The Church of England and Christian 4to (200 x 150mm.) [16], 350; 141, [27]pp., title of this may be seen in this work: all aspects of history are Newton’s death, and was a supporter of Newton’s theory antiquity: the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th printed in red and black, last leaf with errata etc., discussed as well as astrology, chemistry and alchemy (pp. of gravitation, in support of which he published in 1732. century, Oxford, 2009. 311sqq.). He had been intended as tutor to Louis XIV the For Maupertuis see: Beeson, D. Maupertuis: an intellectual additional engr. title, engr. portrait, plates lettered Dauphin. The inheritor of the library of Mademoiselle biography (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century A-Z, (G.H.), (R.S.) (T.V) and (Y.Z being on four plates, de Gournay, he fits, as does Montaigne, into the French 299), Oxford, 1992. Terrall, Mary. The man who flattened 106 JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Emblemata. explanation of plates on pp. 135-139 of part 2, early Pyrrhonist tradition. the earth: Maupertuis and the sciences in the Enlightenment, Eiusdem aenigmata libellus. Cum noua eighteenth- century ?Scandinavian century vellum- Chicago, 2002. See also Les oeuvres complètes de Voltaire [ed- & emblematum & aenigmatum appendice. backed paper over thin wooden boards. ited by Theodore Besterman… et al.]. 32B. [Writings of Amsterdam & Gdansk: C. Günther, auff Kosten des 110 LEIGH, Edward. Three diatribes 1750-1752], Oxford, 2007, which contains Voltaire’s review 16mo (115 x 74mm.) 167pp., woodcuts, speckled Autoris, bey Heinrich Betkio & Consorten, 1679 or discourses. First of travel… Secondly, of the Oeuvres. calf c. 1700, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece. Leiden: F. Raphelengius ex off. Plantiniana, 1596 £2100 of money or coins. Thirdly, of measuring, etc. £950 This important work on glass making incorporates (in 8vo (150 x 95mm.) [16], 88pp., contemporary sheep, German) the text of Antonio Neri L’Arte vetraria, Florence, 105 JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Some observations Third edition. 58 woodcuts, mostly unsigned, by Arnaud very worn, some leaves of prelims gnawed at edges. 1612. Christopher Merret FRS translated Neri into English of the additions to & differences from Nicolai and Geeraard Jansen van Kampen after Luc de London: printed for W. Whitwood, 1671 £950 the truth contained in the storie of the holy first with a substantial commentary (1662) and the Latin Herre, Pierre Huys and Geoffroy Ballaing. Printer’s device First edition (republished 1680 as ‘The gentleman’s guide’). scripture. Together with a compend of the edition of 1668 is made from this. The work was translated on title. The preface to the reader contains some interesting rest of Josephus his XX books of the Jewish into German by Gessler (1678). There was also a French Landwehr 406. edition of 1752. observations on missionary work and its connection with Antiquities. (A compend of Josephus his 7 linguistic study, mentioning the Arabists, Golius, Erpenius

MAGGS 53 on at Councils of the Church held in Peru. Some things 8vo (130 x 95mm.) ff. 212, [], English calf c. 1700, A.S. Zernova, Knigi kirillovskoi pechati (Moscow, 1958), no. were clearly not allowed, but new items like chocolate and spine gilt, lacking lettering piece, gilt edges. 462, which has the same format but 135 leaves in toto, even tobacco, gave rise to discussion, from the sixteenth Venice: (Paulus Manutius), 1557 £500 15 lines etc., but which is dated October 1694. There is century on. Was chocolate a necessary drink like water also another edition dated 1700 (op. cit 497). Cf. also I.V. or wine, or was it (A1verso) ‘materia comestible’, in which Renouard 171 no. 7; UCLA 517. Pozdeeva & al. Katalog knigi kirillscheskoi pechati XVI-XVII case it could only be used on fast days at the stated times. Provenance: Italian 17th century library (Imperiali) stamp cent. (Moscow, 1980) no. 588. The spread of the use of chocolate into Spain, where it on title-page; English note of purchase by (?) Rawlinson Provenance: Included in an auction sale (N 1656) early became hugely popular, obviously led to the raising of ‘Sept. 9 1720 Collat. & perfect’. There does not seem to 18th-century (for the acquisition of Slavonic books by Sir this question there, and by extension elsewhere in Europe. have been an auction sale on that date; Sir Thomas Clarke’s Hans Sloane at this period see Cleminson p. xxxvii). The architectural engraved titlepage shows an Indian (1703-64) copy with his signature. woman holding a young cocoa plant with its fruit in her other hand. Ff 1-104 contain three sections and cover 116 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum ab urbe the nature of chocolate, what fasting is and its various PRINTING IN BELORUS condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV. Cum manifestations, whether or not chocolate is an essential 114 LITURGIES. Slavonic. Chasoslov universae historiae epitomis, a Carolo Sigonio beverage etc., and then proceed to discuss other forms of [Horologion or Book of Hours.] emendati: cuius etiam scholia simul eduntur, etc. and Pocock, the Jesuits, John Eliot’s ‘honest attempts in drink, including limonade, ‘hipocras’ (punch), beer, mixed 8vo (155 x 90mm.) ff. [4], 178, 14 lines plus headline, 2 parts folio (335 x 230mm.) ff. [4], 1-429, 428-430, New-England…[which] maketh more serious spiritual drinks, and drinks peculiar to S. America (pulque, chicha.) 433-478; 98, [40], calf, title-leaf mounted, scholia christians’, and Justus Heurnius (1587-1651/2), the Dutch There is then a lengthy survey of the various views, and title within a woodcut border of the stem of Jesse, missionary to the Far East, who spent ‘above 14 Years, finally in part 3 (f. 95) an opinion that chocolate drunk woodcuts in text, including a full-page cut of the bound first. preaching to the Indians in their Mother Tongue…’. The in moderate quantities can be used on fast days without Cross and the Lamb of God, contemporary (?) Venice: P. Manutius, 1555 £1000 breaking the fast. Finally 105-122 contain the Advertencia, Diatribe on Travel itself in addition to general remarks on Russian binding of brown calf over wooden boards, The first of Sigonio’s editions of Livy, the text based on the which consists of a reprint of chapters from Juan de travel, what to look for, how to conduct oneself and so on, uper cover tooled in silver with a centre-piece Basel recension. This edition was several times reprinted Cardenas’s work De los problemas, i secretos maravillosos de discusses at some length the literature of travel, e.g: ‘Mr within a panelled border, lower cover tooled with and became the textus receptus. Carlon Sigonio’s work on las Indias, Mexico 1591, as also Barrios’s tract on chocolate Boyle in his Preface to his Experiments, touching Cold, 4 impressions of a vertical roll, spine decorated, one Livy and on Roman political life was amongst the most also printed in Mexico (1609). commends Captain James his Voyages, it being scarce, leaf with a brownish stain. important of the sixteenth century (see W. W. McCuaig and not to be met with, in Purchas’s Tomes (hauing Palau 135746; Medina vi, lxxi-lxxii. Kutein (Belorus): Press of the Monastery of the Epiphany, Carlo Sigonio etc., Princeton UP, 1989). been written some years after they were finished) and 1695 £900 Renouard 166.15; UCLA 47. his Voyages published by the last Kings command; he being bred in the University, and acquainted with the 112 LETO, Giulio Pomponio. Romanae The Press at Kutein in Belorus existed from the 1630s Mathematicks’. The other two parts are similarly, but less historiae compendium, etc. and a number of books were produced there, including 117 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum… libri, qui fully, structured. 4to in 6’s (189 x 133mm.), ff. [62], woodcut illustration grammars and dictionaries, some of which are to be found extant, XXXV. Cum… epitomis. Adiunctis in UK and at Trinity College, Dublin (from Narcissus Wing L1010. on title-page, large device at end, eighteenth-century scholijs Caroli Sigonii… Secunda editio. Marsh). This service book is unrecorded. Halenchanka, smooth calf, gilt spine, red edges. H. I A., and others. Kniha Belarusi, 1517-1917, Minsk, 1986, 2 parts folio (318 x 205mm.) [52], 399, [1]; 107, [1], (Paris: Jean Dupré, 7 May 1501) £1200 111 LEON PINELO, Antonio de. does not record this edition, or anything so late from this later calf, f. 70 with small stain, the odd leaf slightly Question moral si el chocolate quebranta A handsome copy of this resumé of Roman history from press. A Chasoslov in 8vo dated 1697 is recorded (op. cit browned, light marginal dampstaining on ff. 140- el ayuno eclesiastico. Tratase de otras bebidas i the younger Gordian II (AD 238) to Justin III in the early no. 181) but from a completely different press at Mogilev. 141, some margins washed near beginning with confecciones que se usan en varias provincias. 7th century. Pomponio Leto (1428-1497) was a well-known Provenance: Bought at an early 18th-century auction sale traces of annotations. Roman antiquary, author and editor of several works. This (N 1651), like a number of other books in the collection; [Niccolo Bevilaqua] for P. Manutius, 1566 £1000 4to (190 x 130mm.) ff. [6], 122, [12]ff.. (2 leaves of work, first published in April 1499, and several times Macclesfield South Library 162.A.20. There are some notes The identification of the printer is given in McCuaig op. cit. the prologue misbound in the index at the end), reprinted in Italy and in France, was later translated into in Russian on the back paste-down. engraved title by Jean de Courbes, very minor Italian. p. 59 no. 172, where reference is given to correspondence. Here the index is bound first. worming at head of the first few leaves, tiny flaw Moreau 1501/854; Goff L27. 115 LITURGIES. Slavonic. Renouard 202. 19; UCLA 769 (imperfect). in engr. title, mid-18th-century English speckled Provenance: Nicolas Mallary of Rouen, possibly ? Mesyatcheslov (Svyatyi). calf (rebacked). Nicolas Maillard (c. 1486-1565) see Bietenholz, P. & al. Madrid: por la Viuda de Iuan Goncalez, 1636 Sold Contemporaries of Erasmus pp. 369-370. Another book from 12mo (155 x 90mm.) ff. 130 (quire H has 10 leaves, 118 LLWYD, Humphrey. Commentarioli First edtion of this rare work written by the historian his library is the 1513 Estienne Quincuplex Psalterium in not 12) 15/16 lines, printed in red and black, woodcut Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. and protobibliographer of the New World Leon Pinelo Paris (BNF Rés. G.a. 17). head-piece on first leaf, contemporary (?) Russian 8vo (153 x 94mm.) ff. [8], 79 [=78], [2(blank)], eight- (1589-1660). sheep over wooden boards, blind-stamped centre- eenth century smooth calf, gilt spine, without the piece ornament on covers, binding loose. The question of what might, or might not, break the 113 LINACRE, Thomas. De emendata final blanks. eucharistic fast was something which exercised the minds Moscow: [J. & P. Adrian?], [1694?] £800 structura latini sermonis libri sex, Cologne: J. Birckmann, 1572 £800 of canon lawyers, and something discussed and legislated cum indice copiosissimo. Apparently unrecorded edition of this calendar, but cf. First edition of Llwyd’s geographical and historical

MAGGS 55 description of ancient Britain. It is prefixed by his farewell 8 volumes 12mo (170 x 95mm.) contemporary 4to (225 x 150mm.) [16], 211, 59pp., nineteenth- letter to the cartographer Abraham Ortelius dated from French mottled calf, gilt spines, red edges. century blind-stamped calf by Hatton of Manchester Denbigh 30 August 1568 (the original dated 3o (tertio) The Hague, et se trouve à Paris; A. Boudet, 1760 -64 (with ticket), slight marginal worming as far as quire August is in the National Library of Wales) and ends with a £600 C, small hole in blank part of title-leaf. short Welsh vocabulary. An English translation by Thomas Geneva [stamped in]: P. Estienne, 1601 £550 Tw yne, The Breuiary of Britayne, was published in 1573. Henri Griffet (1698-1771) was from Moulins and entered the Jesuits in 1712. A successful preacher, on the suppression In the dedication to Denys Godefroy, Paul Estienne Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568), was personal physician to of the Jesuits in France, he left France for Brussels. He explains that he is publishing this volume as a companion the Earl of Arundel for 15 years but returned to his home was the author of a number of historical works. to Pindar, that at the next Frankfurt fair he will publish town, Denbigh, in 1563. He was M.P. for East Grinstead Canter’s Euripides, and that for the moment he has been 1559 and Denbigh 1563-67. He was also a noted antiquary Cioranescu 32399; Sommervogel iii, 1819. obliged to omit the commentary on Lycophron of Jan van and the manuscript of this work was sent to Ortelius by Meurs or Meursius, which he had obtained either from Llwyd from his deathbed, together with a map of England, 121 LOWNDES, Thomas. Brine-Salt books already printed, or from his fathers own notes. He a map of England and Wales and one of Wales. improved: or, the method of making salt has however added Canter’s commentary on Lycophron’s Shaaber, Check of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in from brine, that shall be as good or better than Cassandra. Languages other than English, to 1641, L335; VD16 L2153; French Bay-Salt. Lycophron’s Alexandra is a difficult and obscure piece Libri Walliae no. 3313. of 1474 iambic trimeters, which, as the author of the 4to 38, [2] pp. A few occasional spots and some review of the latest Budé edition (2008) remarks, can minor browning in places. only be read with a commentary, and even then is, to put 119 LOREDANO, Bernardino. London: for S. Austen 1746 £800 it mildly, obscure. Apart from the arcane information In M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes de Bound with: therein contained, and contained also in the Byzantine lege agraria contra P. Servilium Rullum LOWNDES, Thomas. A seasonable hint for commentary of John Tzetzes, the work has little or no 3 works in one volume, 8vo (154 x 100mm.), eigh- tribunum pl. commentarius [with the text]. literary merit. Here the poem has been lineated, and each our pilchard and coast fishery: or a letter of teenth century half calf, spine gilt in compartments, 4to (200 x 150m.) 297, [3]pp., contemporary limp page divided into sections. There are a few notes written advice to the brine-salt proprietors of Great- red morocco lettering-piece, red edges. vellum, ms. guards. in a small hand, mostly correcting the text, e.g. pp. 37, 67, Britain and Ireland. 4to 31, [1] pp., crease Samson Le Cordier (Havre 1647-1709 Dieppe), taught Venice: Paulus Manutius, July 1558 £500 69, 115, 142 149, 164. across the centre of each leaf (possibly done hydrography at Dieppe, and first published this little Loredan was a member of a famous patrician family of in the press), some occasional light spotting book in 1683. It was still in print in the mid-eighteenth Venice, son of Andrea Loredan, and author of this single in places. London: for W. Sandby, 1748. 123 LE CORDIER, Samson. Instruction century. This edition prints the second part only (cf. work, which is dedicated to Girolamo Grimani (1496 – des pilotes ou traité des latitudes, contenant J. Polak, Bibliographie maritime française, Grenoble, 1976, 2 works in 1 volume 4to, contemporary vellum April 1570) an important figure in Ventian politics. The les tables de la déclinaison du soleil, et des no. 5566). Pages [iii-v] of the prelims contain an Avis from backed marbled boards, spine labelled in manuscript commentary is extremely detailed, and takes each of the plus reconnaissables & plus claires étoiles du the Archbishop of Rouoen reducing the number of Saints (corners very slightly bumped, some foxing to the days in the calendar to those listed in order to try to obviate three orations separately, discussing verbal and historical firmament… Neuvieme édition… Seconde partie. aspects. flyleaves and slight off-setting from the bookplate). unruly behaviour. [8], 177, 3, [2]pp., (sig.[*4], A-L8, M5), last leaf with Michael Dary ‘philomath’ was the author of a number There are quotations in Greek from Demosthenes, Lowndes spent, in his own words, “ten of the best years of works, all of them rare or uncommon. He was known Strabo, and others, and use is made of Latin inscriptions of [my] life, and no inconsiderable sum of money” on privilege slightly torn, pp.1-3 at end with “Catalogue to John Collins, the mathematician whose books and to explicate the text. On p. 8 there is a quotation from a method to improve the bad quality of English salt. des livres et cartes marines”. papers came into the Macclesfield library. Marrois Quintilian book 2, where Quintilian quotes 8 lines from Although his specimens were approved by the Royal Le Havre: veuve de Jacques Hubault, 1708 £1400 Aristotle’s Rhetorica in Greek. This had been first printed in taught mathematics to a wide variety of students from College of Physicians, the admiralty refused his terms. In Bound with: all over Europe from the 1630s until the 1660s. In 1632 1508 by Aldus père. These lines are printed in a larger type June 1746 the House of Commons petitioned the King to DARY, Michael. The general doctrine of he published with René Frémont at Orléans his Traité than that used elsewhere in the volume (Gk6, see UCLA instruct the admiralty to accept his terms and in September equation… in three chapters; concerning de la méthode de nombre ou de la numération, in 1644 p. 439 where the passage is reproduced). This type here of the same year he published the first pamphlet in this with Hotot Premier livre des élémens de mathématiques, used for the first time by Aldus (Grand Augustin cut by volume. He died only a few weeks after the publication the invention reduction solution of an and this third work in 1647. In some totally exaggerated Granjon) was also used in the aborted 1559 edition in of the second work, on 12 May 1748. equation. 16pp., a few page numbers Greek of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Judicium de Thucydide, shaved. London: for the author, 1664. verses he is addressed as: “Archimède nouveau, vivant of which there are copies in Paris (see H. Omont in Revue ESTC records: BL, Bodley, Queens’ College - Cambridge, portrait d’Euclide, /“Oronce déguisé, Galilé de nos temps, Wing D276 (3copies only). des études grecques) and Eton. LSE, Worcester College - Oxford; Columbia, Harvard, /“Copernic de nos jours, le Tycho de nos ans, /“Ptolémé WACM, Illinois). Bound with: UCLA 535; Renouard 174:8. revenu pour nous servir de guide. “ MARROIS, Jean. Traité succint de la Cf. the short article by H. Tranchau ‘Jean Marrois profes- 122 LYCOPHRON. Alexandra. Cum… trigonométrie géométrique aux triangles seur de mathématiques à Orléans et son Album amicorum 120 LOUIS XIV, King of France. Isaaci Tzetzis commentariis… Adiuncta rectilignes sans les sinus. Par une maniere quelques mots sur d’autres albums français et allemands’ in Recueil de lettres, pour servir est interpretatio versuum latina, ad verbum, générale, laquelle donne la vraye proportion, Mémoires de la société archéologique et historique de l’Orléanais, vol. 22 (1889) pp. 499-534). KVK lists copies at Weimar d’éclaircissement à l’histoire militaire du per Gulielmum Canterum. Additae sunt… & grandeur des costés d’un triangle, soit en and Paris Ste Geneviève only. regne de Louis XIV [ed. Henri Griffet S.J.] annotationes, necnon epitome Cassandrae longitude, ou en puissance. [6], 48pp., some graecolatina, carmine anacreontico. cropping of headline. Orléans: Cl. & J. Borde, 1647. MAGGS 57 124 MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. extracts from the life of King james III… were partly taken 128 MANNINGHAM, Henry. A Complete (who reprinted several of these tracts). A second edition Discourses upon the First decade of by the late Mr. Thomas Carte (bap. 1686, d. 1754) [and were Treatise of Mines: extracted from the was published in 1545. T. Livius, translated out of the Italian. To in print], and partly by the Editor… Mr. Nairne’s papers Memoires d’artillerie [by Pierre Surirey Göllner 822; UCLA 317; Renouard 128 no. 8; Censimento which is added his Prince: with some marginal came into the possession of Mr. Carte…’. Macpherson says de Saint-Remy]. To which is prefixed, by CNCE 26947. he consulted the mss. in the Scots College in Paris, but animadversions noting and taxing his way of introduction, Professor Bellidor’s Provenance: Etienne Baluze (1630-1718). that ‘the originals are now in the hands of the bookseller’. errors. By. E[dward]. D[acres]. The second Dissertation on the force and physical effects edition much corrected & amended. [See inside back cover for photo of binding]. of gunpowder. Illustrated by a great variety of copper-plates. The second edition. 130 MARTINEZ DE ESPINAR, Alonso. 8vo [171 x 110 mm]. [24], 686, [2] pp; engraved Arte de ballesteria y monteria. frontispiece portrait of Machiavelli by R. White. 126 [MACQUER, Pierre Joseph]. 8vo (207 x 128mm.) xix, [i], 168 pp., engraved Contemporary mottled calf, gilt ornament in the A dictionary of chemistry. Containing arms of General Sir John Ligonier at the head 4to (192 x 134mm.) ff. [17], 252, lacking all prelims spine panels, marbled edges (spine label missing). the theory and practice of that science; its of the dedication, 21 folding engraved plates, and the engr. plates, eighteenth-century English London: for Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1674 application to natural philosophy… and the contemporary calf, covers mottled with browns and calf, gilt spine, red edges. £1000 fundamental principles of the arts, trades, reds, gilt spine (joints rubbed and edges, upper [Madrid: Imprenta real 1644] £550 Palau 154967. The plates should be as follows: added This translation of the Discourses was first published in and manufactures, dependent on chemistry. joint cracked at the head, upper headcap broken), engraved allegorical title-page, engraved portraits of 1636 and reprinted in 1663 with Dacres’s translation of Translated from the French. With notes and preliminary leaves spotted, light offsetting from the author, and Prince Balthasar Carlos of Spain, and 5 The Prince and The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca additions by the translator [James Keir]. the plates. engraved plates, several signed by Juan de Noort. (which had also previously appeared separately in 1640) 4to (270 x 215 mm)[4], vi, [2 (“Advertisement”; verso London: for A Millar, 1756 £500 An uncommon book. Copies at BL, NLS, London Univer- making this the third edition in English of The Prince blank), xii, 888 pp; engraved “Table of Chemical First published in 1752. Manningham, in his preface, sity; Vienna ONB, 2 copies in Germany and 4 in Spain and the second collected edition of these works. states that “as there is now a Demand for a second Edition Characters”; two engraved plates: 11 figures of glass (some imperfect), with a few copies in USA (Yale, Harvard, Wing M135A. This is the scarcer of two issues of 1674 (the of this Tract, I have made it my Business, not only to retorts; 17 figures of furnaces; one letterpress “Table Huntington (imperfect) etc.) other adds Thomas Burrell and William Hensman to the of Affinities… By Mr. Geoffroy”; lacking the second correct it from such Inaccuracies, as might have escaped list of booksellers). “Table of Affinities… by Mr. Gellert”, contemporary my notice in the former Publication; but to render it still light brown calf, morocco label (very short crack at more entertaining and useful, have given it this singular 131 MENNENS, Frans. Militarium Advantage: That it brings into View with it those excellent 125 MACPHERSON, James. Original the foot of the upper joint; lower headcap torn-away). ordinum origines, statuta, symbola, et Dissertations of the famous Marshal de Valliere and insignia, iconibus, additis genuinis. Hac editione Papers; containing the secret history London: for S. Bladon, 1771 £500 Professor Belidor, as Matters of real Consequence to the multorum ordinum… accessione locupletata. etc. of Great Britian, from the Restoration to First edition in English. ‘The Work… contains a very important Subject under consideration.” It seems likely the accession of the House of Hannover. extensive knowledge of chemical history, facts, and that the both editions were small ones. The dedication to 4to (203 x 148mm.) 12, 120pp., printed in 2 columns, To which are prefixed extracts from the opinions, and exact descriptions of the operations and General Sir John Ligonier is signed by Manningham, but woodcut illustrations, late eighteenth-century Eng- Life of James II. As written by himself. instruments of chemistry. The facts and operations are it is clear from the preface signed ‘The Translator’ that lish tree calf, spine gilt, yellow edges. well and fully explained, so far as the present state of the work is a tissue of translations from Pierre Surirey de 2 volumes 4to (270 x 200mm.) contemporary tree Macerata: P. Salvioni for F. Manolessi, 1623 £800 chemical knowledge permits [e.g. there is a long entry Saint-Rémy whose Mémoires d’artillerie first published in calf, covers with a gilt border, spines with elaborate on phlogiston but not one of oxygen]. The author has 1702, had recently (1745) been enlarged in a Paris edition Frans Mennens (1582-1635) Originally published at Cologne gilt tooling and red morocco labels, gilt edges and farther rendered his work of very extensive utility, as of 1745 (cf. Sloos 07356). in 1613, this edition is dedicated by the publisher Manolessi original green ribbon markers (joints slightly worn, well as curiosity, by the applications which he has made to Antonio Barberini, the pope’s nephew. The imprint upper head-caps chipped, edges a little rubbed), of Chemistry to Natural History, Medicine, Pharmacy, reads: ‘Coloniae Agrippinae, et denuo Maceratae, apud some slight spotting to the title-page of the first Metallurgy, and all the numerous arts and trades, the 129 MANUZIO, Antonio, editor. Viaggi Petrum Salvionum… ad instantiam Francisci Manulessii bibliopolae Anconitani’. volume and very occasional spotting throughout. operations of which depend on chemical principles.’ (from fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775 £1000 the preface). India et in Costantinopoli etc. (by various Bodley (Ashmole 563) only of this edition in UK, which is authors, ed. with a preface by Antonio Manuzio). very uncommon outside Italy (where 9 copies are recorded). First edition and a handsome set. An enormous and The work was more than once reprinted at Cologne. handsome collection of state papers, letters and speeches 127 MACROBIUS Ambrosius Theodosius. 8vo (145 x 90mm.) contemporary vellum over relating to the Stuarts and Hanoverians. The editor In Somnium Scipionis lib. II. pasteboard, lettered in ink on spine (Voyages), f. Macpherson (1736-96) is, of course, the celebrated ‘author’ Saturnaliorum lib. VII. 168 damaged with loss of text (some supplied in 132 MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Pico. Opera. of the poems of Ossian, a work which had truly European ms.), tear in f. 169 with slight loss. 8vo (165 x 104mm.) 567, [73]pp., device on title-page, 2 volumes in one, folio (320 x 200mm.) [60], 519, repercussions. Venice: (figliuoli di Aldo), 1543 £1500 The Stuart papers ‘consist of the collection of Mr. contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties. [1];[80], 890, [2]pp., last leaf in part 2 with device th Nairne [Sir David Nairne 1655-1740], who was under- Lyons: S. Gryphius, 1556 £550 The authors are Josaphat Barbaro and Ambrogio on verso, English 17 -century brown calf. secretary, from the Revolution to the end of the year Contarini, both Venetian merchants, whose accounts of Basle: S. Henricpetri, 1601 £600 Baudrier viii, 284-285. their travels in Persia are here printed or reprinted, and 1713…The latter comprehend the material part of the VD17 1:046797W. correspondence and secret negotiations of the house of Luigi di Giovanni, who journeyed into India. There are Hannover, their agents and their friends in Britain… The also two anonymous works. The book precedes Ramusio

MAGGS 59 133 MISHNA. BABA QAMA. London: printed for J. Tonson: and sold by Thomas Most of the poems are addressed to contemporary how to determine longitude. In 1645 he sailed to Canada, Baba’ Qama’… de legibus Ebraeorum Combes, at the Bible and Dove in Pater-Noster-Row; scholars and public figures, some of them English. Some where he observed the solar eclipse of 24 August, as well liber singularis… commentariis illustratus and James Lacy, at the Ship between the Two Temple of the poems are epicedia, for example those on the death as making some very inaccurate calculations of longitude. per Constaninum L’ Empereur ab Opwyck. Gates, Fleetstreet, 1722 £900 of Giovanni Diodati (Milton’s friend), Roger Townshend, On his return he published La théorie des longitudes Paris, and a few are epithalamia. Amongst those addressed 1647, and it is work which attracts Morin’s ire (see the 4to (195 x 145mm.) [4], 306, [22]pp., text in Hebrew First edition in English. ’s Lettres persanes are Charles Dormer Lord Carnarvon, John Cecil Lord article by R.P. Broughton ‘Astronomy in seventeenth- letter (square & Rabbinic), notes etc. in Arabic, Syriac were first published in French with the false imprint Burghley and Marquis of Exeter, the Florentine Carlo century Canada’ in JRASC.75. 175B.) [etc.], contemporary vellum, lacking ties. ‘Cologne: P. Marteau’, the book actually being printed Dati, Francesco Turretini, the Geneva theologian, the At the end of the first work are advertisements for Leiden: ex off. Elzeviriorum, 1637 £500 in the Netherlands. This édition originale contains 150 librarian Lucas Holstein, the erudite Dutch lady Anna other works by Morin available from him at his house. La letters. The number was augmented in the second edition Schurmann, and Willem Pison (1611-1688) whose Historia Science des longitudes was reissued in 1657 with a cancel A handsome copy of this the treatise called ‘The first gate’ of the same year (with the same imprint) but 13 letters naturalis Brasiliae of 1648 is commemorated, as is his patron slip pasted over the original imprint (copy at Harvard). which deals with civil matters under Jewish law. were suppressed, and the actual number of letters is Prince Maurice of Nassau. The first work is in BNF, but not the second. COPAC Steinschneider 1539; Willems 459. therefore 140. There are this number of letters in this records copies of first work in UK at BL (which also has English translation, which must have been made from second work) and Cambridge; OCLC records a copy of the second edition. 137 MORIN, Jean Baptiste. La Science both at Madrid. 134 MOLINIER, Etienne. This edition is, according to ESTC, uncommon, as des longitudes de Iean Baptiste [Les politiques chrestiennes] A mirrour indeed are all five editions up to 1736. John Ozell (d. 1743, Morin… Reduite en exacte et facile pratique for christian states… Translated into English, see ODNB) translated Fénélon, Boileau, Vertot, Madame par luy-mesme, sur le globe celeste… 138 MUZIO, Pio. Considerationi sopra by William Tyrwhit, Sen. Esquire. Dacier’s Homer, and many other French writers, as well avec la censure de la nouvelle théorie et il primo libro di Cornelio Tacito. as revising the translation of Don Quixote. 4to (182 x 130mm.) [24], 361 [=359 (pp. 217-218 pratique du secret des longitudes du père 4to (220 x 155mm.) [56], 544, [4]; [36], 360 [4] omitted)], [1]pp., short tear in the title affecting one Léonard Duliris, Recollet. [8], 62p. pp., eighteenth-century English calf, spine gilt in letter, title and dedication slightly short at the fore- 136 MORE, Alexandre. Poemata. Paris: aux dépens de l’autheur… chez lequel le livre se compartments, red morocco lettering-piece. margin. Contemporary sheep, red edges (rubbed, [4], 176pp., device on title and p. [50] vend: ensemble chez Iacques Villery, libraire, 1647 Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1642 £500 slightly scuffs). Paris: O. de Varennes, 1669 £600 £2500 London: by Thom[as]. Harper, 1635 £550 Originally published in Brescia in 1623, the work is com- Bound with: Bound with: mentary on Book I of Tacitus Historiae. A very nice, crisp copy. The work was originally published Response… a l’Apologie scandaleuse du P. in French in 1621, and this English translation, dedicated LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. De rerum natura libri sex, etc. (ed. T. Le Fevre). [16], 522pp., title Leonard Durilis [sic] Recollect, touchant la to James Stewart, Duke of Lennox, is by William Tyrwhit science des longitudes; pour les navigations. 139 NANNINI, Remigio. Orationi militari… was made as a book for those not understanding French printed in red and black, Saumur: J. Lenier, 1662. 88p. Paris: aux dépens de l’autheur… chez lequel da tutti gli historici greci, e latini, etc. and ‘yet desirous to enable and adorn themselves with 2 works in one volume. 4to (236 x 166mm.) contem- le livre se vend: ensemble chez Iacques Villery, 4to (215 x 148mm.) [40], 1004pp., italic letter, eight- those vertues and qualities requisite for such who by an porary vellum, mottled edges. honest and noble ambition doe any way ayme to be rightly libraire, et chez Iean le Brun au globe céleste, 1648. eenth-century tree calf, gilt spine, red morocco let- usefull for the service of our Soveraigne…’ The work in its Alexandre More (1616-1670) was French on his mother’s Bound with items 169 & 195 and another item. tering piece, red edges. side and was born at Castres, the home town of Fermat the Venice: all insegna della Concordia (G.A. Bertano), English guise (reissued in 1636) clearly has a monarchist 5 works in 1 volume 4to (200 x 150mm.) eighteenth- aim, and the abbé Bremond speaks highly of the chapters mathematician. His father was a Scottish presbyterian. In 1585 £600 July 1649 he had been forced to flee Geneva for immorality. century mottled calf, gilt spine. on the use of eloquence in the use of the state. Tyrwhit A handsome copy of this third edition of Nannini’s He had gone to Middleburg in Holland where he later Morin (1583-1656) was, like many other savants of the also translated book I of the letters of Guez de Balzac. translation of all the ‘battle speeches’ to be found in seduced and made pregnant an English maid called period, interested in all manner of things - medicine, Molinier (d. 1650), a priest from Toulouse, where he Thucydides, Livy, Quintus Curtius, Josephus and other Garret in the Salmasius household. His moral improbity hermeticism, astrology and mathematics, in which last he published various volumes of sermons, also wrote Le lis ancient writers as well as Saxo Grammaticus, Aretino, was therefore well-known and made him the butt of an held a chair at the Collège royal (de France). Indubitably a du Val de Garaison (1630), a work on a local Marian shrine Sabellicus, Poggio, Accolti, Bembo, and Machiavelli unknown wit who used the root ‘morus’ in several ways to man of learning and talent, his unfortunate approach to of some celebrity, as Louis XIV was taken there by his (pp. 860-879). The book was first printed in 1557, lampoon him: ‘Who will deny, Pontia, that the Frenchman controversy and society (he corresponded with Descartes mother for a cure. This went through several editions. reprinted in 1560, 1585, and 1587. Nannini (1521-1580) More has slept with you and left you pregnant? Who will and the Minim, Marin Mersenne) did little to endear him STC 18003. was a Dominican who translated and edited a number of deny that your well placed lingering [bene moratam] has to people. Some aspects of this may be seen here. In his classical or post-classical and medieval writers into Italian, left you carrying more [morigeram]?’ (The epigram is dedication of the first work to Cardinal Mazarin, Morin as well as more modern works by such as Marullus and printed in Parker Milton (1968) i, 423.) complains of Duliris’s plagiat, and at the end of the second 135 [MONTESQUIEU Charles de Guicciardini. More’s work and character was known to , Secondat, Baron de]. Persian letters. he lambasts him as a lunatic and sings his own praises as a and shades of More therefore enter the Milton-Salmasius Bertelli & Innocenti, Bibl. Machiavelliana no. 174. translated by Mr. Ozell. ‘nom fort bien cogneu dans toute l’Europe & plus loin pour controversy. This elegantly printed work contains More’s toutes les sciences des Astres: dont ie rends graces à Dieu’. [See inside back cover for photo of binding]. 2 volumes 12mo (150 x 85mm.) [1-2], [4], [3]- long hexameter poem on Christ’s Nativity (pp. 3-49), There are various mentions in the text of Duliris voyage 712(=271), [17]; 309, [15]p., final leaf blank, preceded by his sapphic ‘Hymnus in Christum’, both, to Canada. Leonard Duliris was a Franciscan Recollect contemporary calf, gilt fillet on covers, a few leaves of course, echoing the subject of one of Milton’s famous (an order at the time excluded from French territory) slightly foxed. poems. Given the well-rehearsed nature of the story, it and missionary, who was fascinated by the problems of would be surprising if verbal echoes were not found. MAGGS 61 140 NATHANAEL, Hegumen of the Monastery 4 parts folio (355 x 225mm.) [4], 66[sic-674], [2]; Nonius Marcellus, a North African writer of the 4th cen- battle scene on p. 125; in part 2 full-page woodcuts of St. Michael, Kiev. Kniga o vere edinoi [4], 32; 24; [4], 192, [36] pp., eighteenth century tury AD, is an important source for Latin lexicography, of a battering-ram on p. 74, a siege-tower (p. 82), istinnoi pravoslavnoi [Book of the one true faith]. English calf. inasmuch as he preserves quotations from lost writings. In mechanical bows (p. 86 & 88) and smaller woodcuts the preface Mercier, whose work on Nonius is still highly Folio (310 x 195mm.) f. 1 and 10 printed in red Paris: David Douceur (de l’imprimerie de D. Duval), of a siege-tower and a galley (p. 78 & 79), late 18th- 1606 £1500 regarded, speaks of various manuscripts used, most century English polished calf, single gilt fillet, and black, with large woodcut head-pieces and importantly a copy made 30 years previously of manuscript ornamental gilt spine, yellow edges. ornamental initials, some red printing elsewhere, First edition of this important dictionary by Jean Nicot in the library of S. Victoire, Paris, another (imperfect) contemporary Russian binding of brown blind- (ca. 1530-1604) who came from Nîmes, and who gave his which belonged to the jurist Cujas, and a third belonging Paris: (S. Prevosteau for) A. Saugrain & Guillaume des stamped calf over wooden boards, centre piece in name to the tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), having to Nicolas Fabre. He had, he tells us (a3verso) some 28 Rues, (December) 1598. £2200 central panel on upper cover with traces of gilding, introduced the plant into France in 1560 from Portugal years earlier handed the copy to the Paris printer [Gilles] Onosander‘s treatise on the education of a general dates lettered in Slavonic in 2 panels above and below, when he was ambassador there (see the entry in this Beys, who had every intention of beginning it, but the from the reign of the emperor Claudius, and from the dictionary). brass clasps, a few leaves slightly dusty. French Wars of religion intervening, he had abandoned late 15th century (Rome, 1494; Goff S-344) had circulated A diplomat and philologist, friend of Ronsard and Moscow: 1648 £3000 the project, and returned the manuscript to Mercier, who in the Latin version of Sagundinus. Joachim Camerarius Baif, his work is of immense importance in the study of had managed to rescue it from the wreck of his own library, had also made a version, based on a faulty Greek text, Zernova (1958) no. 209 (listing 3 copies in Moscow and 2 the French language. In 1573 Jacques du Puys published and eventually prepared it for the press ‘in hoc rusticano published by his sons in 1595. This the Editio princeps of in St. Petersburg). No copy outside Russia. the Dictionnaire françois-latin (itself based on an earlier otio’. Beys did print Junius edition of these texts in 1583. the Greek text is dedicated to Henri IV of France, and is Provenance: Bought 1675 in Moscow (inscription in Estienne Latin dictionary goping back to 1539) which This edition appears with Paris and Sedan as place of founded upon two manuscripts from the Medici library Russian on front pastedown); In an auction sale(?) early includes observations by ‘M. Nicot Conseillier du Roy & publication, although Paris is where it was printed. The and one which may have been used by Camerarius, all of 18th century with no. N 1663; Macclesfield Library (no Maistre de Requestes de l’hostel’, which increased the text was first printed by Lauer in Rome in about 1470 which Rigault had used and collated. When all the work bookplate but embossed stamp on first leaf). size of the book over the earlier edition (1564) by more (Goff N253.) had been done, he was told that the French scholar Federic than a third. By the time Nicot died in 1604, he had been See Roudaut, François. Jean (c. 1525-1570) et Josias (c. 1560- Morel had a further manuscript, and Rigault says he was connected with the dictionary for more than 30 years. This 1626) Mercier: l’amour de la philologie à la Renaissance et au obliged to start again for the fourth time. work was seen as documenting the French language from 141 NEVE, Richard. The city and country début de l’âge classique: actes du colloque d’Uzès (2 et 3 mars The Greek and Latin text is printed in parallel an historical standpoint and what Wooldridge (p. 35) calls purchaser’s and builder’s dictionary: or, the 2001). Paris: Champion, 2006. columns, the former handsomely printed in the Grecs ‘réforme thérapeutique de la langue,’ a not uncommon complete builder’s guide… The third edition etc. Provenance: signature on verso of title-page of Otto du Roi. Urbicius’s (or Orbicius) extremely short treatise feature of French linguistic activity. on how Roman imperial infantry can defeat Barbarian 8vo in 4’s (197 x 120mm.) xvi (incl. frontispiece of Also included (with separate title-pages and pagination) Heurnius (1577-1652) Dutch scholar. Chiswick House), ff. [192], contemporary smooth mounted archers, was written in the reign of the emperor are: Jean Masset’s ‘Exact et tres-facile acheminement a Anastasius AD 491-518. calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt. la langue francois’ the ‘Nomenclator octolinguis’ (which 144 NORRIS, Richard, Mariner. The Latin errata have all be corrected in a neat hand London: printed for B.Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, S. excludes English) of Adrien Du Jon (Junius), together [Caption title.] The manner of finding of in part 1. On p. 123 (Urbicius) is a 10-line marginal note Birt, H. Lintot & A. Wilde, 1736 £600 with ‘Adagiorum Gallis vulgarium, in lepidos et emunctos in a 17th-century hand) reading ek rhmatwn and not latinae linguae versiculos traductio’ of Jean Gilles of Noyers the true sum of the infinite secants of an arch, ‘The third [and much enlarged] edition of 1736 is a forced ‘eurematwn’ and ‘ekteqeisai’ and not ektethe?? (with a (24p), originally published in Troyes in 1519 as%Proverbia by an infinite series. Which being found and effort…to out-do the rival two volume Builder’s Dictionary reference to Saumaise’s note on Spartianus in Hist. Aug. Gallicana. This work is generally attributed to the abbot compared with the sum of the secants found, of 1734’ (Harris p. 332). These included a number of scriptores, p. 83 of the 1671 Leiden 8vo Variorum edition). of Clairvaux, Jean de la Véprie, but translated into Latin by adding of the secants of whole minutes… articles added or adapted from other names sources, items Some copies are dated 1599. The privilege is dated verse and edited by Gilles. from a table of natural secants, do plainly borrowed from The Builder’s Dictionary, and corrections 30.12.1598. Wooldridge (pp. 61-62; 1.7.2.) gives a census of copies or enlargements. demonstrate that Mr Edward Wright’s nautical but this is by no means complete. As might be expected, planisphere is not a true projection of the sphere. Harris 597. the book is to be found in all major libraries. 4to (190 x 145mm.)16pp., some leaves cropped at JEAN BODIN’S FIRST WORK T.R. Wooldridge Les débuts de la lexicographie française bottom, lacking plate, disbound. 146 OPPIAN (OPPIANUS). Kunhgetikwn 142 NICOT, Jean. Thrésor de la langue Estienne, Nicot et le Thresor… Toronto etc., 1978. London: printed by Thomas James for the author, biblia tessa ra . De venatione libri IIII. françoyse tant ancienne que moderne: 1685 £650 [ed. J. Bodin]. auquel entre autres choses sont les mots 143 NONIUS MARCELLUS. Nonii ff. [38] Paris: M. Vascosan, 1549 £1550 propres de marine, venerie, et faulconnerie Recorded in four copies, one at the British library (with Marcelli [De compendiosa doctrina] the plate) and three in Bodley. Bound with: cy-devant ramassez par Aimar de Ranconnet… nova editio. Additus est libellus Fulgentii Ibid. De venatione libri IIII. Ioan. Bodino Reveu et augmenteé en ceste derniere de prisco sermone, & notae in Nonium Andevagensi interprete… His accessit impression de plus de la moitie; par Jean & Fulgentium [ed. Josias Mercier]. 145 ONOSANDER. StrathgikoV. Sive de Nicot… Avec une grammaire francoyse et imperatoris institutione. Accessit Ourbikiou commentarius, etc. ff. [4], 42, [2], 43-110, damp- 8vo (170 x 105mm.) [16], 212, [4], 568pp., device latine, & le recueil des vieux proverbes de la epithdeuma. Nicolaus Rigaltius… publicavit, stained at end, last leaf somewhat damaged on title-page, re-used vellum (plain chant ms.) over France. Ensemble le Nomenclator de Iunius, latina interpretatione & notis illustravit. with loss of text Paris: M. Vascosan, 1555. pasteboard, loose (sewing bands to covers broken). mits par ordre alphabetic, & creu d’une 2 works in 1 volume 4to (220 x 155mm.) contemporary Sedan: A. Perier, 1614 £550 2 parts 4to (250 x 175mm.) 19, [1], 160 [=161], table particuliere de toutes les dictions. [3(blank); [8] 69 [i.e. 96]p., full-page woodcut of a limp vellum 1549-1555.

MAGGS 63 The Greek poet Oppian wrote on Fishing (Halieutica, an 149 POIGNARD, François Guillaume. important work for our knowledge of Greek fishes) and Traité des quarrés sublimes contrenant hunting with dogs (Cynegetica) both of which works had des methodes generales, toutes nouvelles a huge popularity in France. First printed together in & faciles, pour faire les sept quarrés 1517 by Aldus, although Musurus had edited Halieutica planétaires et tous autre à l’infini, par des with Giunta two years earlier, this Greek text is a straight nombres, en toutes sortes de progressions. reprint from the Aldine text. The Greek type used is that designed by Colines. The Latin translation by Lippius of 4to (190 x 145mm.) [6], 79, [1]pp., disbound. Halieutica first appeared in 1478, and was reprinted in Brussels: Guillaume Fricx, 1704 £600 the 16th century more than once, including 1555 in an This work on magic squares by the abbé Poignard was, we edition which also included an anonymous word for word are told, a popular work. ‘In recreational mathematics, a version of Cynegetica, but Bodin’s version of Cynegetica is magic square of order n is an arrangement of n2 numbers, the first verse translation into hexameters. usually distinct integers, in a square, such that the n The translation and commentary (which shews massive numbers in all rows, all columns, and both diagonals reading, including the recent (1552) commentary of sum to the same constant. A magic square contains the Brodaeus) form the first work of the young Jean Bodin, integers from 1 to n2. The term “magic square” is also born in 1530, and later famous for his works on political sometimes used to refer to any of various types of word philosophy and sorcery. The translation is dedicated to square’.(Wikipedia). the Bishop of Angers, Gabriel Bouvery (bishop 1540-1572). The bifolium signed * (Ioannes Bodinus candico Copies in BNF, Warburg Inst., UCL. Not in OCLC. lectori) in the second work is clearly meant, from the catchword ‘COMMENTARIUS fol. 43’ to be located there, 150 POSTLETHWAYT (James, F.R.S.). although sometimes found at the end of the prelims. The history of the public revenue, from the Revolution in 1688, to Christmas 1753, etc. 147 OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Pietas Oblong folio [4], 352 pp. (large few pages with a universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum vertical crease). Contemporary boards lined with serenissimi regis Georgii II. Et gratulatio in light-blue paper, sheepskin spine; uncut (spine dried Gregor. Francum, Theol. Calvin. & 3. Illic America which received him back rather than accepted augustissimi regis Georgii III. inaugurationem. out and worn, upper joint split but cords firm). contra Childraeum Britann. in Ephemerid. him’) Lescarbot is, of course, the author of Histoire de la Folio (375 x 238mm.) ff. [2], [116], 3 engraved London: for the Author, and sold by J. Knapton, 1759 curios. directa, cum inserta simili dissertatione nouvelle France, 1607. vignettes, contemporary panelled morocco. £600 parastatae nostri Joh. Adolphi Tassii, & explicata Faber du Faur (no. 646sqq.) describes many of the works of this extraordinary author Hans Schulze 91630-1680) Oxford: e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1761 £900 “This work gained a considerable reputation during the capacitate montium, contra Linemannum & who wrote under the name of Praetorius, but not this. Verses in English (most), Latin, Greek (without accents), second half of the eighteenth century as an authority Caesonem Grammium, &c. Ex privatis scriniis… Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac. for writers on the subject, containing as it did detailed communicata a M. Johanne Praetorio, P.L.C. VD17 39:121428R; there is a copy in the BL in the UK, but none at Harvard or Yale. summaries of annual supply, grants, and sinking fund 4to (208 x 160mm.) 239, [1]pp., eighteenth century accounts, together with short statements on ‘the historical English calf, spine gilt. 148 PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Satyrarum state of the Bank of England and ‘of the South-Sea Leipzig: C. Michaelis, 1675 £1500 152 PROCLUS Diadochus. liber I. D. Iunii Iuuenalis satyrarum lib. V. Company’. It appears to have been extensively used by Elementa theologica etc. Sulpiciae satyra I. Cum veteribus commentarijs Sir James Steuart in Principles of Political Economy (1767; An uncommon work, written in Latin,and an extraordinary nunc primum editus. E bibliotheca P. Pithoei, etc. bk 4, pt 4, chap. 5) and in The Wealth of mixture of science, theology, pseudo-science, mythology 4to (190 x 130mm.) ff. [3], 69, device at end, modern Nations (1776; bk 5, chap. 3) and it remains one of the and history, all piled one upon the other with elaborate half calf. 8vo (160 x 97mm.) [12], 302, [10]pp., device on title, more valuable sources on the financial history of Great references to multifarious sources ancient and modern Ferrara: D. Mammarello 1583 £2200 last leaf of prelims blank, eighteenth-century smooth Britain for the period which it covers (ODNB). and with (sometimes) extensive quotations in German. calf, gilt double fillet on covers, spine gilt. The author is much addicted to acrostichs and on p. 150, Proclus is one of the ‘chief links between ancient and ESTC records numerous copies but it is scarce in commerce medieval thought… the unique position of the Elements Paris: M. Patisson, in officina R. Stephani, 1585 £600 (the last copies recorded as sold at auction were in 1982 where there is a discussion of explorations beyond the columns of Hercules (Straights of Gibraltar), there is of Theology as the one genuinely systematic exposition This is the first proper edition of Persius and Juvenal, and & 1991). one reading AMERICA, followed by a discussion as to of Neoplatonic metaphysic which has come down to us’ includes the ancient scholia. The two poets are edited from whether America was the Atlantis of the Ancients. Indeed (Dodds). a 9th century manuscript from Lorsch, now in Montpellier on p. 151 there is an opinion cited that Noah was born The work survives in a number of Greek mss., (Montpellier MS.125). Part of Juvenal has been heavily 151 PRAETORIUS [SCHULZE], Johann. in America (‘Lescarbotus Noachum in America natum, including one from the library of Ficino, and a couple annotated (? by Casaubon) but the notes are now very De suspecta poli declinatione et eamque post diluvium recepisse potius, quam accepisse from Bessarion’s library. There are some twelve or so faint indeed, having possibly been washed. eccentricitate firmamenti vel ruina coeli, Ultro adfirmare non veretur…’ i.e. Lescarbot is not afraid to sixteenth-century manuscripts The autograph draft for citroque ventilata Materia, potissimum tamen Renouard, Estienne p. 186; Schreiber 258. affirm that Noah was born in America, and that it was the 1618 editio princeps of the Greek text by Portus is in heic contra Domin. Mariam, Astrolog. 2. D.

MAGGS 65 Copenhagen. The work was early translated into Georgian, The prose commentary which follows is by Puteanus on the basis of a text a century or so earlier than any (1574-1646) a Belgian humanist, and is divided into twenty- surviving Greek manuscript. Translated first into Latin four sections (signed with the letters of the Greek alphabet), in 1268 by William of Moerbeke, this version by Patrizzi all discussing various aspects of the Virgin Mary, Proteus is said by Dodds to be based on renaissance copies of and the natural and spiritual worlds. his second group of manuscripts of which the main ms. Sommervogel i, 1051; Simoni STC 1601-1621 P217. is Marcianus graecus 678, which belonged to cardinal Bessarion. However the lacuna in Prop. 209 (f. 55r) is left blank in this translation; in Marc. Graec. 607 it has been 156 REITZ, Wilhelm Otto. Belga graecissans. filled at some point in the second half of the 14th cent. 8vo (200 x 115mm.) [2], 636pp., folding engraved Carefully read and extensively annotated by someone well acquainted with the Greek text not published until 155 PUTEANUS, Erycius. Thaumata in plate of alphabets at p. 28, title printed in red and 1618, but well known in manuscript. The annotations take Bernardi Bauhusii… Proteum parthenium, black, contemporary Dutch mottled calf, gilt spine, the form of: unius libri versum, unius versus librum, red edges, green silk marker. 1. Cross references. stellarum numero, siue formis M.XXII. variatum. Rotterdam: Joh. Hofhout, 1730 £450 2. Interlinear corrections and additions, e.g. 33v Prop. 4to (225 x 160mm.) 116, [6]pp., engraved title- A work on the kinship of Greek and Dutch considered 123 ‘Demonstratio. Sed a separatis, quales…’ corrected vignette, modern half calf over mottled paper across various grammatical categories. All the Greek here to ‘dependentibus’ (the correct word). 41v Prop. 155 Dem. boards. printed is without accents and most of the connections strain the imagination, but it is an interesting reflection ‘ad unigenam seriem’ correctef to ‘vivificam’ (proV thn Antwerp: B. & J. Moretus ex officinina Plantiniana, on philological studies in Holland at the time. The author zwogonon seiran); 54v Prop. 206. where descendens is 1617 £550 corre4cted to ‘descendere’ (governed by ‘potest’). (1702-1768) was a German scholar born at Offenbach, The poem by the Jesuit Bauhuis or Van Bauhuysen (1575- but settled in Holland, who from 1722 to 1736 taught at 3. Some additions made from the Greek, e.g. Prop. 206 Dem. 1619) is 1022 different combinations of the words ‘Tot Rotterdam. CNCE 35916. tibi sunt dotes, Virgo, quot sidera coelo’, 1022 being the Provenance: Rodolph Weckherlin manuscript ex-libris number of stars calculated at that time to exist. The work title-page, probably Rodolph W. (1617-1667) son of Georg is described as the Book of one verse and the Verse of one 157 RICHER, Edmond. Grammatica obstetricia. Rodolph Weckherlin (1584-1653, poet, Latin secetary book The engraving on the title shews the Virgin holding 8vo (164 x 98mm.) ff. [8], 162, [1(errata)], folding before Milton, and politician). Weckherlin senior has the Christ child and seated upon clouds, surrounded by PRINTED IN LIMA table at p. 126, device on title-page, seventeenth- been extensively studied by the late Leonard Forster in stars, and having beneath the clouds a banner supported century calf, gilt fillet on covers gilt spine, top[of various articles and his 1944 monograph G.R. Weckherlin, by two angels with the words of the verse. The work is 154 PUENTE, Francisco de la. upper hinge weak, marbled edged. zur Kenntnis seines Lebens in England, Basel, 1944. dedicated to Albert and Isabella, the rulers (1598-1621) Tratado breve de la antiguedad del linaie Paris: P.L. Febvrier, 1507[= 1607] £550 de Vera, y memoria de personas señaladas de, of the Spanish Low Countries (famously portrayed in the Ommegang of 31 May 1615 painted by van Alsloot). An uncommon elementary Latin grammar dedicated to que se hallan en historias, y papeles autenticos 153 PROCOPIUS of Caesarea. [Historia The poem occupied pp. 13-50, and its title Proteus the Dauphin, later Louis XIII. Edmond Richer (1569-1631) arcana] The secret history of the court of… (Parrafos, que se an de añadir en este libro [etc.]). Parthenius plays upon the name of the Virgin (‘parthenos’ was hugely active in the university of Paris and author of Justinian… Faithfully rendred into English. 2 parts 4to (200 x 140mm.) ff. [6],180 (corrected in Greek), and the name of the marine god Proteus who a number of theological works. He published a general 8vo (162 x 104mm.) [2], 162 p., contemporary calf, to 182); 12pp., marginal notes printed in italic, could change his shape. It is followed by Puteanus’s introduction to learning called Obstetrix animorum, in 1600, dedication of his part of the book to William of Orange, addressed to French youth. upper cover detached. armorial woodcut on p. [iii], contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, minor marginal dampstains to a some liminary verses addressed to the Marian shrine at Copies recorded at BL, Erfurt, BN, Arsenal (2) and B London: printed for John Barkesdale bookbinder, Montaigu or Scherpenheuvel-Zichem (Aspricollum in 1674 £700 few leaves, number 37 written in ink on upper cover. Sainte Genevieve, Paris. No copies recorded in USA. Lima: G. de Contreras, 1635 £4000 Latin) in the Belgian province of Brabant. This shrine It is from Historia arcana that Gibbon quotes a famously was a combination of Marian and pre-christian devotion, lubricious passage about the empress Theodora’s days in A handsome, crisp copy of this family history of the Veras, the pre-christian element lying in a tree (later felled as 158 ROBORTELLO, Francesco. De artificio the theatre, although veiled ‘in the decent obscurity…’ a noble Aragonese family, tracing them back to Numa pagan) and the Marian element lying in a miracle said to dicendi… Eiusdem tabulae oratoriae. John Barkesdale as publisher appears solely in this book. Pompilius. There are some ms. annotations on ff. 13verso have been worked by the Virgin Mary in around 1500. By 4to (190 x 130mm.) ff. 52; 20; 32; [18], italic type, large He is recorded as a binder in London and Cirencester. and 15verso, and a few elsewhere, transcribed from the list the middle of the sixteenth century the place had become of addenda at the end. Ff 173-180 which have only partially device on title-page, 9-line woodcut mythological Provenance: G Rouffignac. a centre of pilgrimage. Early in the seventeenth century, have been numbered in print, have been numbered in ms. Archduke Ferdinand and Isabella contributed to the initials, Dutch polished calf c. 1700, spine gilt, red It is possible that these ms. additions (all written in the same construction of a chapel there, which was erected in the edges. hand) may have been made in the atelier of the printer. baroque style and finished in 1627. It is often viewed as Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, 1567 £600 Medina (Lima) 177 (copies at BL (606.c.43), Bodley, ONB a fine example of town planning and architecture in the First edition and an extremely handsome book with (60.J.21), Portugal, JCB (?), NYPL (*KE 1635; imp. lacking service of the Counter-Refomation. The town flourished fine initials, and in particular a long-tailed Q at the Parrafos) Not at Yale, Harvard. No copy seems to have as a place for pilgrims, and from 1624 the Oratorian order beginning of Ratio artificii. Robortello, (1516-67), known been sold at auction. Attributed by some bibliographers was established there to run the church. as the ‘grammatical hound’ because of his belligerence in to Fernando de Vera. MAGGS 67 160 SACCO, Bernardo. De italicarum November 1721. In his dedication the editor praises An interesting and very uncommon collection of oriental rerum varietate et elegantia, libri X… Macclesfield’s prowess in ‘l’étude immense & épineuse biographies. Item de prouinciarum proprietate, & romanae des Loix’, his knowledge of antiquity sacred and profane, The Advertisement facing the title reads: ‘these short ecclesiae amplificatione; praecipueque together with his skill in mathematics etc. memorials of the lives of the most eminent persons… de Ticini rubis primordiis… Eiusdem de The ‘Avertissement’ in volume I is extremely interesting was design’d, and begun to be translated by the late from a bibliographical standpoint. It gives an account of ingenious Mr. George Sale… and several of the books in Papiensis ecclesiae dignitate… Cum autoris the various editions of Saint-Evremond, and Des Maizeaux mss. mentioned… are now in the hands of Mr. William Sacci vita, ac indice… refertissimo. writes (p. xi)’ Je remarquerai, en passant, que toutes les Hammerton, a merchant in Lothbury, London…’ Another controversy, is chiefly known for his work on Aristotle’s 4to (207 x 150mm.) [52], 287, [1]p., italic type, éditions de France, ayant été faites secretement ou par issue without this leaf has a preface which denies any Poetics¸ but was also the author of others works on allied contemporary limp vellum, half of some leaves connivence, portent le nom de Londres. Le Libraire de involvement by Sale and states that the work was done topics, such as this on rhetoric. lightly discoloured by an old water stain, part of France ayant eu avis de l’édition de Hollande & craignant by one J. Morgan. Wilcox published Sale’s translation of qu’elle ne fût preferée à la sienne, tâcha de prévenir le the Qur’an. CNCE 32419. See: K.-J. Miesen, Die Frage nach dem Wahren, preliminary gathering a loose, a5recto soiled. North Public par cet Avertissment’ (he then quotes it), which states The first 60 pages are devoted to lives of Persian figures, dem Guten und dem Schönen in der Dichtung in der Kontroverse Library bookplate. that this second edition has as its title Les véritables oeuvres…, then follow lives of Muhammad, the Umayyad and Abbasid zwischen Robortello und Lombardi und Maggi um die “Poetik” Ticino [Pavia]: G. Bartoli, 1587 £600 that in the 1705 London quarto edition of Tonson there caliphs. This is followed by accounts of Saladin, Zoroaster, des Aristoteles, Warendorf 1967 (= Diss. Köln); E. Kessler, First published as two separate works in 1565 and 1566 (in were many errors even of proper names, which P. Mortier Avicenna and many other figures (mostly Persian.) The editor. Theoretiker humanistischer Geschichtsschreibung. Pavia). Sacco (September 1497- 1 July 1579) was a nobleman had slavishly reproduced and augmented, all of which final story is: ‘Harm watch, Harm catch; or the strange Nachdruck exemplarischer Texte aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, of Pavia (here called Ticino), pupil and protégé of Giovanni has caused the friends of Saint-Evremond in London adventure of a derwish. A moral Turkish tale’. Francesco Robortello, usw. Munich, 1971. Antonio Carlini Francisco Pico at Mirandola, and had a long and active life to publish a new 12mo edition in 5 volumes entitled (to ‘L’attività filologica di Francesco Robortello’ in Atti This issue is recorded by ESTC in four copies, BL, Bodley, as secretary to various noble families, including eventually distinguish it from all the other defective editions) ‘Les dell’Accademia di Udine 1966-1969. Ser.7. Vol.7. Worcester College, Oxford and UCLA; the other Morgan) the Bishop of Pavia. This work of local history contains veritables Oeuvres…’. This is all pure fiction, writes Des issue is recorded in copies at BL, Cambridge (2) and one a good deal of information on plants, trees, etc., and is Maizeaux, and ‘such a title can only be true in opposition in Germany. 159 ROUILLARD, Sebastien. concerned with the region of Pavia, which lies on the river to the impressions made in France & Holland, before the Histoire de Melun contenant plusieurs Ticino, which flows from the southernmost Swiss canton London edition’. of Ticino, down to where it joins the river Po just a few raretez notables, et non descouuertes en We are then told that the 1709 London edition is in 163 SCALIGER, Josephus Justus. Collectanea miles from Pavia. 3 volumes quarto, that the booksellers of Paris in 1711 l’ histoire générale de France. Plus la vie in M. Terentium Varronem de lingua latina. Censimento 16 CNCE 31113. copied the 1706 Amsterdam 12mo edition in five volumes, de Bourchard, conte de Melun… Ensemble and that Des Maizeaux had some part in this. This 1711 8vo (168 x 107mm.) [8], 221 [3]pp., device on title, Provenance: ‘Ex libris Antonij Halley prof regii’, i.e. la vie de Messire Iacques Amyot, etc. edition has the title Oeuvres and not Oeuvres mêlées, which is last leaf blank, contemporary limp vellum, first few Antoine Halley (1595-1675) professor at Caen; engraved found in the false editions, and which had passed into the leaves damp-stained at head, title leaf a little frayed 4to (225 x 150mm.) 759 [1], title printed in red and bookplate of N.J. Foucault. black, engraved portrait, engraved device on title- first London edition. This edition was pirated in Rouen at bottom. page,eighteenth-century English calf, gilt fillets on in 1714 in 12mo under the title Oeuvres… publiées sur les Paris: R. Estienne, (22 August) 1565 £455 covers, slightly rubbed, upper joint weak. 161 SAINT- EVREMOND, Charles de manuscrits de l’auteur… redigée par Mr. Des Maizeaux, but First edition of this important work by the twenty-five he states ‘I had no part in this edition, which is neither Paris: Guillaume Loyson, 1628 £800 Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de. year old Scaliger. beautiful or correct’. Oeuvres…publiées sur ses manuscrits, avec Renouard 167 no. 6; Schreiber 235. A handsome copy of this elegantly printed and important Des Maizeaux proceeds to describe this present ‘fourth la vie de l’auteur; par mr. Des Maizeaus… local history, by a locally born lawyer from Paris. He was edition’, and the fact that he had written originally written Quatrième édition…. augmentée. Enrichie the author of a number of works of a devotional nature, (at Bayle’s request) the life of Saint-Evremond in 1705, 164 SCALIGER, Julius Caesar. some legal works, and an intriguing work of 63 pages de figures gravées par B. Picart le romain. which he had sent to Amsterdam, and which had been Animadversiones in historias Capitulaire auquel est traité qu’un homme nay sans testicules (Mélange curieux des meilleures pièces…) printed first in 1709 This was separately printed in Theophrasti (In eosdem libros viri maxima apparens et qui ha néantmoins toutes les autres marques de 7 volumes 12mo (162 x 90mm.) titles printed in red an English version in 1714 (also found as part of the 1714 doctrina praediti annotationes). viirilité, est capable des oeuvres du mariage’ published in and black, engraved frontispieces, engraved title and 1728 editions.) 1600, reprinted in 1603 (BL copy destroyed in WWII) vignettes of two men with a draft of fishes and motto 8vo (172 x 110mm.) 424pp., early 18th-century calf, and 1604 (BL 877.c.9.(1).) spine gilt, red edges, lettering piece lacking. Socios ditata labore contemporary English calf, 162 SALE, George. The lives and There is a variant imprint with the name of Jean Lyons: Jeanne Giunta, (achevé d’imprimer le 18 mai), Guignard dated MDCXXVIII. In addition to 2 copies gilt ornament in centre of covers within a double memorable actions of many illustrious 1584 £550 in Paris BL and Bodley (Meerman 502) only in UK, OCLC gilt fillet, spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, persons of the Eastern nations… who adds a copy in Denmark. The BNF catalogue records, somewhat damaged, all edges gilt. have distinguish’d themselves, either by It was Josephus Justus Scaliger who, as the preface to but gives no details of, a 1623 edition in the Arsenal Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1726 £700 war, learning, humanity, justice &c. the reader tells us, had the manuscript of this work by his father at Lyons, which was used to print the work, to Library (4-NF-17918.) This must be an error. Here the This edition of Oeuvres is dedicated by Des Maizeaux to 12mo (167 x 95mm.) [8], 300, [4(advertisements)] which the anonymous annotations (pp. 345-424) by a ‘vir author’s dedication to the town of Melun is clearly dated Thomas Parker, the first Earl of Macclesfield and volume pp., contemporary mottled calf, gilt fillets on covers, perspicassimus’ were added. The writer was French, as on August 1627, and there is no trace of an earlier edition I has an armorial head-piece engraved by Bernard Picart spine gilt, green silk marker, label chipped. p. 414 when discussing the word lotos, he gives various elsewhere. Page 203 is heavily annotated and there are a & dated 1725. There are other head-pieces etc. by Picart. vernacular equivalents ‘nobisque alisier’ (sorb apple tree). few annotations elsewhere. Cioranescu 60400. Thomas Parker was created Earl of Macclesfield on 15 London: J. Wilcox, 1739 £750

MAGGS 69 The privilège speaks of ‘Jeanne de Ionty, fille de feu and Arabic writings (including several extracts from the 4to (200 x 160mm.) [36], 170, [2], 171 - 1466, [28]0pp, sources for this pamphlet (e.g. DSB). The Hungarian Segner Iaques de Ionty gentilhomme florentin, quand uiuoit, Qur’an: sura 21 (p. 60), sura 38(p. 53 & 61) 27 (pp. 64-65) engr. portrait and add. engr. title, 18th-century (1704-1777) who came Poszony (known as Pressburg, and libraire de Lyon’. For the Giunta family at Lyons see 19 (p. 77); sura 2 (p. 97), suras 4 & 5 (pp 97- 100). mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled edges. now Bratislava in Slovakia) is best remembered as the father Baudrier VI and for Jeanne de Jonty, active 1577 until In his dedication to the emperor, Marchtaler explains Braunschweig: C.F. Zilliger, 1663 £900 of the water turbine. He studied medicine at Jena, where her death in 1584 pp. 337-384, for this book p. 382. how this elegantly written manuscript (a genealogical Hamberger (1697-1755), himself the author of a popular roll; ‘propter immanem longitudinem convolutum in First edition. A handsome copy. Schottel (1612-1676) was Elementa physices was professor, qualified as a doctor and spiras’; on p. 13 Schickard writes that it is 45 feet long, the son of a Protestant pastor and may be said to have became a noted figure in German intellectual life and a and gives a detailed physical description) was found in been the progenitor of the study of the German language, prolific writer on medicine, science and astronomy. the mosque during the sack of Fillek (Fülek) in Hungary. and an influence on Leibniz. He was also a poet, and Harriot’s rule, sometimes called Descartes rule, is Marchtaler wishing that the manuscript not be simply writer on poetics. named after the English mathematician Thomas Harriot forgotten (like another previously given to Ferdinand’s VD17 12:130315E; Gödeke 3, 118, 63,10; Faber du Faur who wrote on navigation and equations. Sections 1-17 of grandfather), consulted in vain with various dragomans 697; Dünnhaupt, Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des the pamphlet deal with equations and in section 18, in (whose versions he did not trust) and came across Schickard Barock. Band 5. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 3824- which references are made to ‘figurae’ or illustrations, who immediately grasped what the roll was about. The 3846. There is a growing literature on his philological Segner proceeds to discuss his new instrument for translation is offered as a gift until such time as the work and there is a catalogue of an exhibition held at describing conic sections. No ‘figures’ are present in this ‘autographum ipsum’ be lodged in the imperial library. HAB Jörg Jochen Berns, editor. Justus Georg Schottelius. copy, neither does any one of the handful of copies listed The bibliography of Schickard’s works by Friedrich Seck is Wolfenbüttel 1976. on KVK contain any. appended to his edition of the Briefwechsel, Stuttgart 2002. Provenance: “Nathan Wright of Englefield”, Berkshire 168 SECRETS. Secrets concernans 170 SELDEN (John). Opera omnia, (cropped signature at head of title), probably Sir Nathan les arts et metiers. Nouvelle édition, tam edita quam 8nedita. In tribus Wright (1654-1721), lawyer, appointed Lord Keeper in revûë, corrigée et…augmentée. voluminibus. Collegit ac recensuit; 1700 (see ODNB). 4 volumes 12mo (165 x 90mm.) [2], 435, [25];[28], vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices 408; [22], 371; [2], 475, [13]p., last leaf with privilege, adjecit, David Wilkins, S.T.P. 166 SCHOTT, Frans. Itinerarium Italiae. conemporary French calf, gilt spines, red edges. 3 volumes folio (386 x 230mm.) [6], xxxiv, lvi pp., 12mo (128 x 68mm.) 606, [6]pp., engraved title Rouen: Charles Ferrand, 1724 £500 1891 (columns), [80 (indexes)] pp; [6], xviii (columns), (with stub), 17 folding engraved plans (of 19?), First published in one volume by Jombert in 1716, the 1721 (numbered in columns & pp), [40 (indexes)] contemporary vellum. book was still in print a century later, and editions came in pp; [8] pp., [2 (subtitle)] pp., 2080 (columns), [1 Wesel: Andreas van Hoogenhuysen, [c. 1670] £550 various formats. It is an anonymous work of great interest (blank)] p., [38 (indexes)] pp, engraved portrait. This is an uncommon reissue of the 1655 Jansszoon edition covering, as it does, all aspects of tanning and dyeing, the contemporary calf, gilt spines with red and green (with 19 engravings) printed at Amsterdam, having a making of dyes, the gilding of papers and books, engraving, morocco labels, marbled endleaves and edges (short cancel title-leaf. As it is a reissue, it is possible that not the making of wine and liqueurs and much else besides. crack at the foot of the upper joint of Vol. 1, slight all the plates were available. Andreas van Hooghuysen This edition is also found with the variant imprint of area of worm damage at the top of the lower joint is described at active at Wesel between 1667 and 1676. Jombert. Copies of this Rouen edition at Glasgow and of Vol. 3 a few short scuffs/scratches on the covers, Felbrigg Hall (NT) in UK. KVK adds a handful of copies lower edges rubbed, small area of damage to the QUOTATIONS FROM THE QUR’AN in European libraries. lower corner of the rear cover of Vol. 1). 167 SCHOTTEL, Justus Georg. London: Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis J.Walthoe, G. 165 SCHICKARD, Wilhelm. Tarich Ausführliche Arbeit von der teutschen Conyers, [etc.], 1726 £2000 h.e. series regum Persiae…cum proemio HaubtSprache worin enthalten Gemelter dieser HARRIOT’S RULE longiori… Omnia ex fide manuscripti A very handsome set of this collected edition of Selden. Vol. HaubtSprache Uhrankunft/ Uhraltertuhm/ 169 SEGNER, Janós Andrós. voluminis… quod a Turcis ex archivo 2 was printed by S. Palmer and Vol. 3 (the English Works) Reinlichkeit/ Eigenschaft/ Vermögen/ Ad… Georgium Hambergerum Fillekensi reportavit… Vitus Marchtaler, etc. Unvergleichlichkeit/ Grundrichtigkeit/ zumahl by T. Wood. William Bowyer printed the preliminaries dissertatio epistolica qua regulam Harrioti and, perhaps, the indexes to each volume. 650 sets were 4to (190 x 140mm.) 231pp., woodcut illustrations, die SprachKunst und VersKunst Teutsch und de modo ex aequationum signis numerum printed on ordinary paper (as here) and 100 on large eighteenth-century calf, gilt spine, red edges, last 2 guten theils Lateinisch völlig mit eingebracht/ radicum… demonstrare, simulque rationem paper. Two of the large paper sets listed by ESTC are leaves cropped at outer margin with loss of letters. wie nicht weniger die Verdoppelung/ Ableitung/ structurae instrumenti novi… exponere dated 1725, the rest 1726 as here. Tübingen: T. Werlin, 1628 £1500 die Einleitung/ Nahmwörter/ Authores vom conatur Ioannes Andreas Segner. Edited by the Rev. David Wilkins (1685-1745), Prussian- Teutschen Wesen und Teutscher Sprache/ von Schickard (1592-1635) was one of the most learned men of 4to (202 x 150mm.) 23pp., somewhat foxed, Jena: born Coptic and Arabic scholar, who was librarian to der verteutschung/ Item die Stammwörter William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth his age, astronomer, professor of Hebrew, mathematician C.F. Buch, [1728?]. and orientalist. Here he edits a manuscript brought to der Teutschen Sprache samt der Erklärung Palace for three years from 1719. “His edition of Selden Germany by Veit Marchtaler of Ulm and provided it with und derogleichen viel merkwürdige Bound with: no. 137. is careless, but credit must be given to his diligence in a detailed commentary quoting from various Hebrew Sachen; Abgetheilet In Fünf Bücher. The first work by Segner, dated at end 7 September 1718. assembling unpublished material.” (ODNB). This may be a misprint for 1728, the date given by various

MAGGS 71 171 SEYSSELL, Claude de, 173 SIGONIUS, Carolus. Emendationvm BAUMBACH, Johann Balthasar. Quatuor philology, with a chapter on Syriac studies, and in part a Archbishop of Turin & Cappel, Jacques. libri dvo. Quorum argumentum utilissimi tractatus I. De trium orientalium, discussion of very specific Hebrew terms, like Urim and La doctrine des Vaudois. Rapresentee par proximæ pagellæ indicabunt. hebraeae, chaldaeae & syrae, linguarum Thummim, which have a connection with the high priest, and Bath Kol (‘small voice’ of the Holy Spirit). The third Cl. Seissel… & Cl. Coussord… Avec notes 4to (200 x 145mm) [12] 159 f. [i.e.155], large printer’s antiquitate… Una cum tabula de hebraicarum dressées par Iacques Cappel [with a preface by vocum radice inquirenda. II. De appellationibus work is a university thesis on the Dalarna dialect of the devices on title-page and colophon, woodcut initials, Swedish language. Ten years after the publication of this the same addressed to Elisabeth of Nassau]. Dei, quae in scriptis Rabbinorum occurrunt. f.15 misnumbered 11, numerotation continues f.25 pamphlet, there was an uprising against the government 8vo (160 x 110mm.) 16, 111, [1]p., disbound. after f.20, late seventeenth, early eighteenth century III. De Urim & Thummim, & Bath kol. III. in the province, called the Dalecarlian rebellion. Sedan: de l’imprimerie de Jean Jannon, 1618 £700 calf, spine gilt in compartments, lettering-piece, De modo disputandi cum Judaeis. ff. [4], [24], lacking folding table, and without final blank Claude de Seyssel (1450?-1520) became Archbishop of spine crackled. Venice: Aldus 1557 £750 leaf, Nurnberg: Abraham Wagenmann, 1609. 175 SPINOZA, Baruch de. Renati Des Turin in 1517, and devoted much time and energy to Cartes Principiorum philosophiae pars, those in his diocese (and elsewhere) suspected of being First edition. Renouard 127. VD17 23:246229T. I, et II, more geometrico demonstratae… Waldensians. In 1520 he published in Paris a volume of Bound with: Accesserunt… Cogitata metaphysica, etc. Latin Disputationes against them, a work subsequently GRÖNWALL, Anders (1671-1758), praeses. translated into French. The work by Claude Coussord was 4to [16], 140pp., woodcut figures, title-leaf soiled, Historiola linguae dalekarlicae, praeside… Mag. published in Paris in 1548. It is Valdensium ac quorundam last leaf damaged with loss of about 10 words on Andrea Grönwall… dissertatione publica, placido aliorum errores, praecipuas ac pene omnes, quae nunc vigent, recto, title-page soiled, modern half-calf. eruditorum examini submissa a Reinholdo E. haereseis continentes: quibus accessit recens illorum omnium Amsterdam: Johannes Riewerts, 1663 £2500 ex sacris potissimum literis impugnatio. Näsman Dalekarlo. In auditor. Gust. Maj. d.xxi. Jacques Cappel (1570-1624) was professor of theology Jun. 1733. Horis ante meridiem solitis. [10], First edition of Spinoza’s first book, which in 1664 appeared at Sedan, the Protestant academy. The lengthy dedication 74, [4]pp., Uppsala: literis Wernerianis, [1733]. in Dutch as Beginselen van de cartesiaanse wijsbgeerte. In it the author apparently gives a resumé of Cartesian ideas, but in by him is to Elizabeth of Nassau (1577-1642). In it on p. 6 3 works in 1 volume 4to (200 x 140mm.) eighteenth- he remarks à propos the Apocalypse of St. John, that the fact explains his own, particularly in his Cogitata metaphysica. century half calf, lacking lettering piece. apostle has not chosen to write the history of the entire His controversial ideas about miracles are already here universe. ‘He does not mention what happens under the Extremely uncommon. The author is described as a adumbrated (cf. J.I.Israel, Radical Enlightenment, OUP, antarctic pole, in America, nor amongst the Persians and physician, and we know he also wrote a book on French 2001, p. 219). Indians, east or west. In Cappel’s eyes St. John is out to orthography published in 1609, but little else is known of Provenance: William Forster, Emmanuel College, Cam- discuss the work of the Antichrist, i.e. the pope of Rome. him. As the title says, the author is offering a crash course bridge 168?. This William Forster was admitted sizar The typography of the dedication changes at pp. 14-16, in one month to learn as much as previously had taken at Emmanuel July 5 1682 (MA 1690) and came from which are set in a very small italic, possibly occasioned by a whole year, an approach, he writes in the dedication to Huntingdonshire. He held various livings, from 1708 an error of casting off (29 lines as opposed to 24). Cardinal du Perron, ‘which works not only for the dead until his death that of St. Clement Dane’s, London. He languages, Hebrew, Greek and latin, but also for living died 11 December, 1719 (Venn i, ii 164b). 2 copies in Paris (BNF and Ars) but otherwise unrecorded. languages, viz. Arabic, Slavonic, Ethiopic, American, and A modern facsimile has been published. all the rest… which are in use among all the inhabitants of the earth, so that hence the christian religion may 176 STEPHANUS Byzantinus. Peri 172 SIBBALD (Sir Robert). Nuncius be spread far and wide, and the arts of commerce may polewn… De urbibus quem primus here and there be easily fostered’. The work is essentially Scoto-Britannus sive admonitio de atlante Thomas de Pinedo… Latij jure donavit, & concerned with orthography and pronunciation, with observationibus scrutinio variarum linguarum… scotico seu descriptione Scotiae antiquae et a section on prosody, and is in no way a grammar or modernae. illustrabat, etc. (Collationes J. Gronovii cum accidence. In the preface by Pierre Robinet particular codice manuscripto Stephani, ex bibliotheca [4], 15, [1]p. stress is laid upon questions of pronunciation, and tribute abbatiae Perusinae. -Index verborum & Edinburgh, David Lindsay et al. 1683 £500 is paid to the help afforded by David Rivault de Fleurance 174 SIMON, Etienne. Historia linguae (1571-1616) the mathematician and collector of Arabic rerum… a Martino de Guichardo Germano). Bound with: graecae methodica, cujus exemplo tum manuscripts. Folio [20], 800, engraved title-vignette and em- Ibid. An Account of the Scottish Atlas or hebraea & latina, tum caeterae omnes, quibus There are liminary verses in Greek by Nicolas Bourbon blematic frontispiece, contemporary Dutch vellum. description of Scotland ancient and modern. 10p. homines sub sole utuntur… doceri discique and Robinet, and in Latin by Pontius Privatus, a doctor Amsterdam: J. de Jonge, 1678 £800 from Tarascon, and Elie Garel, sieur des Boisrichers Two works in one volume. Folio. Vellum-backed possunt; ut quod superioribus seculis, annuo An extremely fine copy of this handsome edition of from Angers, the author of several works of symbolic or boards. spatio, xix ac ne vix… industria hic praestabatur, Stephanus of Byzantium’ important gazetteer edited balletic exegesis published between 1610 and 1620. There eidem efficiendo menstruum nunc sit satis. as a monument, by Thomas de Pinedo (1614-1679), a Sibbald’s prospectus for a Scottish atlas which was never appear to be copies only at BNF (X. 1903) and Cambridge Portuguese Jew ‘qui primum orientem solem visit in completed, the English version, (which is much rarer than 4to [12], 38, [2]pp., first quire soiled, title-leaf dam- (Dd*.2.30(D)). Lusitaniae oppido Trancozo ortus’, his father a Pinheira the Latin there being only three copies listed in Wing) has aged and cut down, with slight loss of imprint. The second work by Baumbach, which should have a and his mother a Fonseca, who, educated as a pupil of the the last leaf pasted to a blank obscuring the final verso. Paris: C. Morel, 1615 £1100 table of Hebrew roots, is in part a general survey of Semitic Jesuits in Madrid, was forced, accused of all crime but envy, Wing S3724 & 3720. Bound with: MAGGS 73 to flee to these [Dutch] shores, etc.’ The use of the word Provenance: Bernardus Philippus, possibly Bernard Dated 28 November 1550, and is amongst the books envy here is a reference to the emblem on the second leaf, Phillips who matriculated from St. John’s, Cambridge printed right at the end of Robert Estienne’s time in shewing a porcupine attached by dogs which has the motto in 1577, transferred to Pembroke Coll, and in 1596 was Paris: in November 1550 he was already treating with ‘Nil Moror invidiam’ and the couplet ‘Integritas virtusque rector of Southerton, Suffolk. Macclesfield Nofrth Library. the authorities in Geneva. suo munimine tuta,/ Non patet adversae morsibus Invidiae’. Renouard 80 no. 8; Lawton, Térence en France (1926). The work is dedicated to D. Gaspar de Mendoza Ybañez Provenance: sixteenth-century inscription on title (crossed de Segovia y Peralta. 179 TABOUET, Julien. De republica, et lingua francica, ac gothica, out) Huius libri vere est possessor Claudius de la???. deque diversis ordinibus Gallorum, 177 STRADA, Famiano S.J. Histoire de la vetustis & hodiernis, etc. 67, [1]p. 181 THACKER, Anthony. A miscellany guerre de Flandre… traduite par P. Du-Ryer. Lyons: T. Payen for François Pomar of Chambéry, 1559 of mathematical problems… By Anthony 2 volumes 8vo (168 x 105mm.) [12], 768, [36]; [12], £700 Thacker, Teacher of the mathmaticks at 881, [65]pp., titles printed in red and black, engraved Bound with: Birmingham Free-School. And the Author of portraits in text, late eighteenth-century English BRECHENMACHER, Johann Caspar. the Ladies Diary. Vol. I. Containing, I. A new tree calf, spines gilt, joints a little weak. Notitia Sueviae antiquae, qua omnis gentis method of solving geometrical problems… III. Suivant la copie imprimé à Paris [Leiden: B. & A. historia ab origine ad proelium usque A collection of spherical problems. … V. The Elzevier],1652 £500 Tolbiacense describitur… sub praesidio solutions to the questions in the Gentleman’s The Jesuit Strada’s (1572-1649) history of the Spanish Burcardi Gottheflii Struvii ventilata nunc and Ladies diary, for the present year 1743. campaigns in Flanders was written in Latin and published publici iuris facta. [12], 195, [1]pp., errata on 8vo (195 x 120 mm). x, 210 pp. Contemporary half in two groups of ten books (decades) in 1632 and 1647. last page Augsburg: for C. Brechenmacher, 1716. calf, marbled boards, gilt spine. Its success was immediate and considerable,and it was Birmingham: by Thomas Aris, 1732 £750 quickly translated. The French translation by Du Ryer, 2 works in one volume 4to (205 x 145mm.), eighteenth who is chiefly known for his French translation of the century half-calf over marbled paper boards, red Only Vol. I was published as Thacker died in 1744. ESTC Qur’an, appeared in 1644 and 1649 in folio in Paris, and edges. lists copies at British Library, Birmingham Central was again widely reprinted. The work by Tabouet or Taboetius (ca. 1500- ca.1563) is Libraries, Birmingham University Education Library, This edition has the Elzevier device on the title-pages, an account in Latin of various aspects of the French state Bodley, National Library of Ireland, John Rylands Library; but only the preliminary leaves were from their press, the (with French equivalents) penned by a jurist at one time Brown University, University of Virginia, Yale. text proper being from the press of Abraham Verhoef procurator general of the senate at Chambéry (hence the Bound with: (Verhoeven) active at Harlignen and then (later) at Leiden. imprint; Pomar is recorded at Annecy) It is not common. Ibid. A Treatise containing an entire new However it was published under the aegis of the Elzevier Only the BL in the UK has a copy; OCLC lists 3 copies in method of solving adfected quadratic, and FEMININE CULTURAL INFLUENCE firm (see Willems). Germany, and there is a copy at Yale. The second work cubic equations, with their application to the De Backer Sommervogel vii, 1607sqq.; Willems 708. on the Suevi, a tribe described by Caesar and Tacitus, is 182 TOMASINI, Giacomo Filippo. solution of biquadratic ones; in an easier, and an academic thesis put forward by Brechemnacher, and Elogia virorum literis & sapientia illustrium published at his own cost. The praeses was Burkhard more concise way, than any yet publish’d; ad vivum expressis imaginibus exornata. 178 STURM, Johann. De imitatione together with the demonstrations of the Gotthelf Struve (1671-1738.) Of this OCLC records but 4to (215 x 155mm.) [12], 411, [1]pp., device on title- oratoria, libri tres, cum scholiis, etc. methods. And a set of new tables for finding the one copy at Strassburg. page, engraved portraits attributed to J.F. Greuter, [ed. V. Erythraeus]. roots of cubics. Invented by the late ingenious contemporary vellum over pasteboard. Mr. A. Thacker, deceased; but calculated 8vo (160 x 103mm.) ff. [88]; [184], title within a Padua: S. Sardi, 1644 £500 180 TERENTIUS AFER, Publius. entirely, and in a great measure exemplified, woodcut border, woodcuts, contemporary English [Terentius]. In singulas scoenas A handsome copy of this separate part, supplemental to a calf, gilt stamp on covers. by W. Brown, teacher of the mathematicks, at argumenta, fere ex Aelij Donati commentariis the Free-School, in Cleobury, Shropshire. collection published in 1630 (and having an engraved title Strassburg: B. Jobin, 1574 £750 transcripta. Versuum genera per Erasmum and a portrait of the author). Although the title expressly 8vo viii, 115, [1 (blank))], [2 (errata/blank)] pp., FIRST EDITION of this work by the Strassburg pedagogue Roterodamum. (De metris comicis etc.) mentions the lives of men, there are in fact also given the Sturm. An annotated copy with a few notes in ink (and a lacking half-title (pp. I-ii). Birmingham: by Thomas lives (and portraits) of a number of women, including 8vo (170 x 105mm.) 381, [3]p., last blank leaf excised, few corrections, e.g. D4r where ‘quarta’ has been changed Aris, 1746. Cassandra Fedele (1465?-1558), whose works Tomasini eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, head of title- leaf to ‘quinta parte’ in the chapter heading) and a number in ESTC lists copies at British Library, Birmingham Cen- edited, the Nogarolas, and others. The work is dedicated pencil marks of reading, underlining (particularly towards torn away with loss of one word. tral Libraries, John Rylands Library, London School of on the title-page to Anne of Austria (1601-1666), regent the end of Book II), together with some annotation in Paris: R. Estienne, (4 Cal. Dec. 1550) 1551 £1300 Economics; University of Michigan only in USA. A “Sec- of France, and, in a slightly longer dedicatory epistle to an English hand (later?). On the end board is a pencilled Printed throughout in italic. An extremely fine copy, ond Edition” of 1748 is a reissue (Birmingham Central Cardinal Mazarin, tribute is paid to feminine genius and note about other works by Hermogenes (De collocatione marred only by the damage to one word of the title. This Libraries only). its influence through the salon. verborum) and others. extremely uncommon edition is recorded in one copy in Cicognara 2117; Vinciana 3617. Buisson p. 612; VD16 S9942. the Bodleian, one copy at Freibourg, one at Rotterdam.

MAGGS 75 183 VALERIUS FLACCUS, Caius. First edition. The abbé Vayrac (1664-1734) was the author 187 VERGILIUS MARO Publius. rebacked, spine lettered, lettered on bottom edge: [title within a woodcut frame] Argonauticon of a number of such works on Spanish language, history Praelectiones in P. Virgilii Maronis ‘Victorius Varia Lectio’, title-page slightly damaged libr. viii (ed. L. Carrio)… seorsim excusa and geography. This work gives a very thorough treatment Georgicorum libros IIII. Diligenti (with small repair) and spotted. ejusdem Carrionis castigationes etc. of the language, how to write letters, and how to write recognitione multis in locis emendatae Florence: L. Torrentino, 1553 £600 poetry. 16mo (120 x 75mm.) 205, [3(blank)]p.; ff.[48][, last 3 [with the text]. 368 [=360]pp. First edition; Censimento 16 CNCE 34608. Palau 353490; not listed by Cioranescu and a very Frankfurt: heirs of A. Wechel, 1584 £500 leaves blank, seventeenth-century Dutch vellumn, uncommon book. There is no copy recorded in the UK, Provenance: ‘Angeli Angelotii Camertis’ (Angelo Angelotti Bound with: yapp edges. one at Jena is recorded by KVK, and there is a copy in of Camerino) stamped name on title-page. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1566 £500 Paris BNF. Ibid. Bucolica, P. Rami… praelectionibus exposita… editio quinta. [2], 168, [8], Second Plantin edition with Carrio’s Castigationes. The text Provenance: some notes on flyleaves of vol. I ‘3 laced 190 VREDEMAN de VRIES, Jan. last leaf blank. Frankfurt: C. Marny & alone appeared in 1565 and was full of printer’s errors, hancherch. 1 camb. Hancherch. M.W. Hen: Chamberlain Architectorum sui seculi facile principis, and the book was reprinted. upon the new Haven near the packing bridge’. J. Aubry heirs of A. Wechel, 1580. Architectura continens quinque ornamenta Valerius Flaccus lived towards the end of the 1st century AD, 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (165 x 99mm.) binding of architecturae, scilicet Atticum, Jonicum, and this is his only work. He tells, as did the Alexandrian English calf c. 1600, blind-stamped fillet on covers, Doricum,Corinthium, & Compositum poet Apollonius Rhodius, the story of Jason and the 185 VELDE, Jan van der. Sphieghel der Schrijfkonste, inden welcken ghesien some worming in middle of volume sometimes item regulas, demonstrationes ac figuras Argonauts. Known in the ancient world to Quintilian and affecting letters/words 1584. others, the text was known in the Middle Ages, and in the worden veelderhande Geschriften met hare perfectissimas… Studio atque opera Renaissance to Politian and was first printed in Bologna Fondementen ende Onderrichtinghe. Dedicated to Charles, cardinal of Lorraine, this work is summi mathematici Samuelis Marolois in 1574. Mentioned by Chaucer, his literary influence on (Artificiosissimum grammatices verum a detailed commentary on Virgil’s Georgics by Ramus, recognitum atque illustratum. who was killed in the massacre of St. Bartholomew in such writers as Camoens was considerable, and this is nobilissimusque speculum. In quo varia Folio (313 x 207mm.) ff.[10], woodcut device on 1572. The Praelectiones on the Georgics first appeared traced in an excellent article by Zissos. scripturae tessellata paradigmata, belgicis, title-page, 29 (of 30) double-page numbered and Louis Carrion (1547-95) was Belgian. Barely seventeen in 1564 from the Wechel press, and the shorter work on latinis, hispanicis… typis adumbratae.) lettered engraved plates by Jan and Paul Vredeman when he prepared the text, for which he used a manuscript, the Eclogues in 1539 from the press of Estienne. Wechel the existence of which has for centuries been doubted, 2 parts obl. 4to (217 x 325mm.), ff. [20] of letterpress, printed the first work in Frankfurt in 1578, and again de Vries and Hondius, later vellum-backed blue Carrion’s own competence has also until recently been engraved title-page, frontispiece portrait (mounted), as here in 1584. The work on the Eclogues was several boards, lacking plate number 6 (letter L). doubted. However in an article in Classical Quarterly P. R. 5 plates, engraved illustrations, woodcut initials times printed: 1539, 1558 (‘editio 2da’), 1572 (ed. 3) in Amsterdam [Amstelodami]: Joannis Janssonii, 1647 Taylor has drawn attention to the presence in the library head- and tail-pieces; engraved title and 58 plates Paris, and in Frankfurt in 1582 the ‘editio 4ta’, and 1590 £900 catalogue of the religious house at Lobbes in Belgium of later vellum-backed boards, a few plates with small The ‘editio 5ta’. a manuscript of Valerius Flaccus in the eleventh/twelfth tears or stains, and a few slightly shaved (affecting VD16 V1517 & V1560. 191 VRIES, Simon de. Wonderen soo century. This manuscript, now not findable, could well have flourishes), corners rubbed. Provenance: Thomas Naylor pretium ijs; John Waite. aen als in, en wonder-gevallen soo op als been used by Carrio, and she demonstrates as more than Rotterdam, 1605 [after 1610] £1850 credible bot only the readings given by this manuscript in ontrent de zeeën, rivieren, meiren, poerlen relation to the text of Valerius Flaccus, but also Carrio’s Engraved throughout by Simon Frisius, this issue in which 188 VERRIUS FLACCUS, Marcus & en fonteynen: historischer; ondersoeckender, own competence as collator of manuscripts, and editor, part 2 has been enlarged to 58 plates, is tentatively dated FESTUS, Sextus Pompeius. M. Verri en redenvoorstellender wijs vernhandeld. thereby coincidentally giving a greater importance to this after 1610. Flacci quae extant. Et Sex. Pompei Festi de 4to (233 x 182mm.) [16(incl. additional engraved edition. Bonacini 1931; Simoni BL 1601-1621 V42-43 (describing verborum significatione libri XX. Iosephi 2 editions published by J. van Waesberghe in 1609 and title-page)], 688, [56]p. last leaf with list of books Voet 2409; see A. Zissos ‘Reception of Valerius Flaccus Scaligeri… castigationes recognitae & auctae. published by Hoorn, contemporary Dutch vellum “Argonatuica”’ in International Journal of the Classical [1610?], in which part 2 has 50 and 51 plates respectively.) over paper boards, central blind-stamped ornament. Tradition’, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall, 2006), pp. 165-185.; P. R. 8vo (172 x 110mm.) [12], [16], cccix, [27]; ccxvi, Taylor ‘The Authority of the Codex Carrionis in the MS- [24]; lxxv, [1]pp., pp.; last leaf in parts 1 & 2 blank, Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1687 £1500 Tradition of Valerius Flaccus’ in Classical Quarterly 39 (20, 186 VERGIL, Polydore. [De rerum contemporary yelowish doeskin, spine with 5 raised A very fine copy. The author (1630-1705) was a schoolmaster 1989 pp. 451-471. inventoribus] The works… english’t by bands, some marginal notes in part 2 (heading from Utrecht, a correspondent of Spinoza, and the author John Langley… a work useful for all divines, words). of many books. He bases this book, which deals with the historians, lawyers, and all artificers. Paris: M. Patisson, 1576 £750 wonders of the deep and all sorts of marine matters, on 184 VAYRAC, Jean de. El arte frances, what he has read (there is a list of authors used) and 8vo (142 x 92mm.) [2], 311, [25]pp., contemporary One of Scaliger’s most important philological works. en que se van puestas las reglas… reproduces all sorts of strange tales, from such things sheep, worn, spine split. Amongst the contributors to the liminary verses are Dorat para apprehender… la lengua françesa… as the purchase by prince Radziwill of two mummies, London: S. Miller, 1663 £500 and Florent Chrestien. Con una tratado de la poesia. one male, one female (p. 295sqq). The work is cast as A reissue, with cancel title-leaf (verso blank) of the sheets a dialogue taking place at the end of winter between 2 volumes 12mo (162 x 95mm.) xxxiii, [3], 453, of the 1659 edition. Honorius, Marinus, and Polylector (who must be the well- [7]; [3], 454-964pp., contemporary vellum, a few 189 VETTORI, Pietro. Wing V596. Variarum lectionum libri xxv. read author), and occasionally involves a lady Honesta. It marginal notes. is the sort of book which makes one wish one read Dutch Paris: P. Vitte, 1714 £700 Folio (312 x 190mm.) [28], 410, [14]pp., Italian vellum, f luently.

MAGGS 77 European Americana IV, 687/145. the original green ribbon marker has discoloured The only copy in GB is at the BL. OCLC lists apart from the paper, contemporary diced russia, covers ruled five copies in Holland, and two in Germany, two in S. in gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled Africa, and three in the USA (Bedford Whaling Museum, edges and endleaves (a couple of joints just starting NYPL and JCB). to split). Provenance: On front flyleaf is written N409. This London: (printed by James Easton, Salisbury) for T. Cadell, indication of a lot number in a sale is found in a number jun. and W. Davies,1798 £650 of Macclesfield books, many of them having some Baltic An account of the British Prime Minister which is still connection, and some in Russian (cf. item no 140). considered “the starting point for all serious study of its subject” (ODNB). 192 WALLER, William. [Begin:] Honour’d The first volume of this set is Coxe’s enormous biog- Sirs, It is… to give you the present raphy of Walpole which was published fifty years after the subjects death. The second and third volume are state of the Mines [in Cardiganshire], etc. devoted to the correspondence and feature numerous 8vo () 22pp., (printed on versos only from p. 3), letters to and from politicians, the nobility and Walpole’s large folding map of Cardiganshire and 10 smaller own family. The four facsimilie plates show examples of folding plates, a few leaves shaved at foot. the handwriting of George I, George II, Queen Caroline, [s.l.1704] £1050 Robert Walpole and the signatures of various members of the nobility. This is the first account of such mines. Waller in 1698 published An essay on the value of the mines, late of Sir Carbery price, writ for the satisfaction of all the partners, which was an 194 WATIN, Jean-Félix. L’Art de faire et attempt to sell the sales in these mines profitably. In the d’employer le vernis, ou l’art de vernisseur, present work, which is basically just a description of the auquel on a joint ceux du peintre & du doreur. plates, Waller provides a map of where the mines belonging Ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs to the Governor and Company of Mine Adventurers are located, and plans of the several mines at Bwlch yr qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & Escair, Bwlch Caninog, Cwmsymlog, Goginan, Brinpica, vernir par eux-memes toute forte de sujets, &c. Cwnarvin, Pencraggddu, Ystum tuen and Cwmystwth divisé en deux parties. Dans la premiere on y together with the new lead mines at the last place. traite de la facon de fiare les meilleurs vernis, There are 2 issues of this pamphlet, one as here with no soit a l’esprit de vin, soit à l’huile, suivie d’une title-page, and one with a title-page and first 2 leaves dissertation sur les moyens de les perfectionner. reset. Both are extremely uncommon, and of this ESTC Dans la seconde on enseigne la maniere de les lists copies in UK, one in Germany and one in the USA employer, polir & lustrer sur des sujets nus, des at Lehigh University. There has been a modern facsimile. peintures & des dorures, ce qui amene le détail des procédés des peintres d’impression & des doreurs, &c. Par le Sieur Watin, peintre, doreur, A HANDSOME SET vernisseur, & marchand de couleurs & de vernis. 193 WALPOLE, Sir Robert, afterwards 1st Earl 8vo (200 x 120mm.) xvi, 249, [1 (errata)], [6 (table/ of Orford - COXE, William. Memoirs of the privilege)], 8 (supplement), contemporary English Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label. Earl of Oxford. With original correspondence Paris: Chez Quillau. [& Chez] L’Auteur, 1772 £650 and authentic papers, never before published. The 8pp. supplement lists artists’ materials for varnishing 3 Vols 4to (273 x 210mm.) with the half-titles, errata, and painting with prices available from Watin’s shop. engraved frontis portrait (Vol.1) four facsimile leaves Watin was an important gilder and decorator working of plates (Vol. 2) and the folding genealogical table in the new rococo style. A second edition was printed at (Vol.1). Off-setting from the title-page onto the Paris in 1773 and followed by several more. Yale has the frontis leaf, small tears to the blank lower edge of Liège, 1778 “nouvelle edition”. 4T2 (Vol.1) and T3 (Vol.3), sporadic foxing and browning in places throughout and some marking to the inner gutter margin in each volume where Item 191, Vries. 79 195 WEIDLER, Johann Friedrich. it was ‘considered with equal or greater veneration than boy of ten years old in a barn, from one end to the other, several wayes; two of which are performed Institutiones geometriae subterraneae. the Bible itself’. on a hay-mow.”, and others such. geometrically by rule and compasse onely: An English translation appeared in 1650, and the work The work was several times reprinted in the eighteenth 4to (202 x 150mm.) 80pp., 4 engraved plates. And the third instrumentally, by a quadrant was known to Milton (cf. Parker John Milton, i, 293). The century, including an edition printed in Glasgow by Foulis, Wittemberg: widow Gerdes, 1726. fitted for that purpose. With the working of translator into Hungarian György Csipkés Komáromi, and some in Newcastle and it was reprinted also by John such propositions of the sphere, as are most Bound with: no. 137. was born in 1628 at Komárom (hence that element of his Murray in 1825. James Rollock or Rollo describes himself usefull in astronomie and navigation, both name) and died at Debrecen in October 1678. He seems to as ‘Scoto-Belga -Britannus’, but seems otherwise unknown. Weidler (1691-1755) was a mathematician and astronomer geometrically and instrumentally… Also chiefly known for his Bibliographia astronomica, and his have been immensely prolific, and he is chiefly known for Wing W3532. how to draw a diall on the on the seeling of a short Latin works which were translated into Russian and his translation of the Bible. Of this Hungarian translation printed in St. Petersburg & Moscow in the 1760s. This of Wollebius only the BL copy is recorded on OCLC, but room, by W. L[?eybourn]. [12], 203, [1 (blank), work on mining was reprinted in 1751 (copy at Harvard). there is also a copy in the Bodleian. 199 WRIGHT, Edward. A Short Treatise of 5 (without the final two blank leaves)] pp., This first edition is known in some copies in Germany of Dialling: shewing the making of woodcut frontispiece of a quadrant (repeated and two in England. all sorts of sun-dials, horizontal, erect, on p. 116), numerous woodcut illustrations 198 WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, earl of. direct, declining, inclining, reclining; upon and diagrams (a few very slightly shaved at the A century of the names and scantlings any flat or plain superstices, howsoever fore-edge). Light browning, heavier towards 196 WILLIAM OF NEWBURGH - of such inventions, as at present I can call placed, with ruler and compasse onely, the end, a few headlines and page numbers HEARNE, Thomas, editor. Historia sive to mind to have tried and perfected, which without any arithmaticall calculation. shaved, small hole from a paper flaw at the head Chronica Rerum Anglicarum libris quinque. (my former notes being lost) I have, at the Small 4to (170 x 125 mm) [51], [1 (blank)] pp., full- of Dd1 touching the headline, paper flaw in the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured 3 volumes royal 8vo (180 x 130mm.) cxxxiv, [2], 346, page woodcut of a clinatory, an instrument for lower margin of N2 London: by R. & W. Leybourn, now in the year 1655. to set these down in [2], 347-600, [2], 601-944pp; 3 [of 4] folding engraved determining the declination of planes on B2r for Thomas Pierrepont, 1652. Wing S5688. such a way as many sufficiently instruct me plates, engravings in the text, contemporary red (slightly shaved at the fore-edge), woodcut diagram Provenance: Heavily deleted contemporary inscription to put any of them in practice. (An exact and morocco, covers with a gilt panel of a wild-strawberry on B4r, the last 16 pages with full-page woodcut on the back of the frontispiece: “Sum ex libris Row[…] true definition of the most stupendiouos [sic] roll with fleurons at the corners, gilt spines, gilt diagrams (some slightly shaved) A2 cropped at head J[…] e Coll…”; annotations on the frontispiece, verso of water-commanding engine…- An act [dated 29 edges, marbled endleaves (spines and lower cover with loss of the heading “The Contents of this Booke” the title (defining Area, Tangent, Complement, Azimuth) September 1663] to enable Edward Marquess of vol. 1 slightly faded). on the recto, sidenotes on C1r slightly shaved; a few and on pp. 22 and 33 (cropped). A neat annotation in the of Worcester to receive the benefit and profit margin of p. 15 (cropped) may be by the mathematician Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719 £450 headlines shaved or cropped. of a water-commanding engine – Verses William Oughtred (1575-1660). London: by John Beale for William Welby, 1614 A fine Large Paper copy of William of Newburgh’s (1136- by James Rollock in Latin & English) 1201?) history of Britain from the time of Gildas and Bede £4400 2 works in 1 volume 4to, mid-18th-century calf, spine to May 1198. 2 parts 12mo (125 x 70mm.) signed continuously panels with a gilt floral ornament, red morocco Reissue of the first edition, The Arte of dialing of the same A-D12 E 6F12 G 6; [22], 72, [1blank leaf], [11], 34pp. label; red edges. year with the last folding sheet “H” cancelled and replaced (A11v, D12, E5v, E6r are blank, woodcut of royal with a bifolium signed “G” and “(G2” [sic] with three 197 WOLLEBIUS, Johannes. arms on F1v), eighteenth century speckled calf, spine full-page woodcut diagrams numbered “Figure 16” to PHILIP SIDNEY AS [Christianae theologiae compendium] gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, “Figure 18”. PARAGON OF THE COURTIER Az Keresztyéni Isteni-todomanyak… rövid hinges cracked, binding rubbed, without blank E6. summaja… Mellyet- irt volt… Magyar nyelure Edward Wright (1561-1615), mathematician and carto- London: J. Grismond, 1663 £2200 grapher, was captain of the Hope on Drake’s West 200 ZOSIMUS, the historian. Istoriwn forditott… Comaromi Csipkés György. A rare and important first edition with the second part Indian voyage of 1585/6 and was a captain on the Earl of biblia H. VIII. Cum Angeli Politiani 12mo (122 x 70mm.) [20], 452p., contemporary present (34 final pages) which is not recorded in ESTC. Cumberland’s raiding expedition to the Azores in 1589. interpretatione & huius partim supplemento, Dutch vellum, yapp edges. There is a copy with the 34 additional pages at UCL, and He is best-known for his navigational text Certaine Errors partim examine Henrici Stephani: Utrecht: Jan van Zwol, 1653 £600 one at Göttingen (4 BIBL UFF 735). of Navigation (1599). In later years he was employed by the utroque margine adscripto… Historiarum East India Company as a lecturer on navigation and was This work was originally published in Latin in 1626. Edward Somerset (1601-1667), sixth Earl and second [Zosimi] herodianicas subsequentium a tutor to Prince Henry. The errata have been corrected Wollebius (1586-1629) was a Swiss theologian, and his Marquis of Worcester presents 100 of his inventions in libri duo, nunc primum graece editi. in ink. Compendium was widely reprinted, and hugely influential, a few words, and outlines especially the applications of 2 parts 4to (233 x 157mm.) [8], 182 [2]; 79, [1(blank)] STC 26023 Copies in USA: Folger (ex Harmsworth), being used both in Europe and America. It was in use at the steam engine. The ingenious Earl of Worcester, with pp. small burn holes in margins on pp. 35-40 (part Gaspar Calthoff as an associate engineer, set an area in Bawdoin College (lacking portions of the title-page, the Yale early in the 18th century. 1), affecting the odd letter of printed marginal In an article about the Hebrew words in the Yale seal, Vauxhall, south of London, for mechanical and scientific contents leaf and the first three leaves of text), Harvard, notes, late seventeenth-century English panelled Professor Dan Oren writes ‘Clarification of the Hebrew experimentations, such as an early precursor of the steam Horblit private collection (dispersed). words in may reside in Yale’s primary divinity text, machine, the “water commanding machine”. Besides the Bound with: calf, somewhat rubbed. [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1581 £700 Johannes Wollebius The Abridgement of Christian Divinitie, book records other curious inventions: a mute discourse STIRRUP, Thomas. Horometria: or the by colours, an unsinkable ship, a pleasant floating garden, which was then studied all afternoon every Friday by compleat diallist: Wherein the whole mystery Dedicated by Estienne to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Yale students. Wollebius’s book was of such importance, a portable bridge, an artificial bird, to write in the dark, of the art of dialling is plainly taught three courtier and man of letters. Estienne stresses the utility Samuel Johnson (class of 1714) noted sarcastically, that “how to make a man to fly; which I have tried with a little of history to courtiers (‘aulici’) and writes how these two

MAGGS 81 historical commentaries are as it were theatres in which First edition. This work went through several editions up the tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies of court life to the early eighteenth century. The author (1573?-1647), are played out and may serve as a parallel to modern life. a cleric from Lucca, who has studied at Louvain and had He urges Sidney, who he hopes is the same man that he been a pupil of Lipsius, and at Pisa, taught in his home knew in Germany and Austria and unchanged by life at town from 1609. He was the author of several books on court, to read the translation, and ends with two couplets Roman antiquities. urging the reading of these two historians above all in order to see Rome staggering towards its decline (‘Qui titubantem uult Romam tandemque cadentem /cernere, 202 MURET, Marc Antoine. prae cunctis legat historicis’). Estienne and Sidney had Variarum lectionum libri XV. met in 1573 and the former gave Sidney a collection of 8vo 325, [23]p., last leaf blank, contemporary vellum, the Greek paroemiographers, and dedicated to Sidney yapp edges. his 1576 edition of the Greek New Testament. Leiden: [F. Raphelengius] C. Plantin, 1586 £600 In his preface to the reader Estienne explains how he has corrected Politian’s Latin version, which is ‘more A reprint of the 1580 Plantin edition, in which seven new elegant than accurate’, and gives a number of specific books were added to the original eight published in Venice examples where Polititian has misunderstood the Greek. in 1559. This appears to be the only copy recorded in which His own versions are printed in the margin of the text. ‘Lugduni Batavorum’ actually appears in the imprint. Most Renouard 149.7; Schreiber 249. copies have ‘Antverpiae, apud C. Plantinum’. Voet 1724. ADDENDA 203 NONIUS MARCELLUS. 201 LAURENZI, Giuseppe De proprietate sermonum, iam [LAURENTIUS, Josephus]. Amalthea demum… … industria Hadriani onomastica in qua voces universae abstrusiores… Iunii medici. Addita est in calce Fulgentij e latinis, latinograecis, latinobarbaris… Placiadae libellus de prisco sermone. excerptae, italice interpretatae, etc. 8vo (162 x 105mm.) [16], 592, [40]p., contemporary 4to (230 x 165mm.) [8], 960 [=900]; 88p., title print- panelled calf, gilt ed in red and black, half-title, contemporary calf, Antwerp: ex officina C. Plantini, 1565 £600 fore-edges coloured. Printed in 1250 copies. Voet 1752B. Lucca: Baldassare del Giudice, 1640 £550 5

SAPERE AUDE Left to right: items 125; Macpherson, 61; Dalrymple, 139; Nannini, 28; Birch, 81; Fontenelle.

MAGGS Item 80, Robert Fludd