Literature pre 1800
19287. ABBADIE, JACQUES.: The History of the Late Conspiracy against the King and the Nation. With a Particular Account of the Lancashire Plot, and All the other Attempts and Machinations of the disaffected Party, since His Majesty's Accession to the Throne.
London, Daniel Brown and Tho Bennet, 1696. 8vo, pp [2], 195, [1], bound in later 19th Century library half morocco, text with a few light blidn stamps, else unmarked, upper board detached, internally a clean sound copy for rebinding, FIRST EDITION; the conspiracies against William and Mary, Jacobite in origin, are largely forgotten as being of a soewhat abortive and less series nature than the later Jacobite rebellions, but as detailed here by Abbadie, who wrote this work originally in French, they form an interesting background to subsequent events. Lancashire, hotbed of Catholic discontent after the Glorious Revolution, attempted in 1694 to raise a Jacobite army to restore James II to the throne, but it never got far. At the end of this copy is an early manuscript page of the names of the gentlemen of the Grand Jury who sat in judgement on the accused. £100.00
17873. ADDISON, JOSEPH-WILLIAM CONGREVE- WILLIAM WALSH.: A Letter from Italy, To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax...Together with the Mourning Muse of Alexis...to which is added the Despairing Lover.
London, Henry Hills, 1709. 8vo,. pp 16, disbound, trimmed a little cloase at top edge slightly touching page numerals, else a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, at least in this separate form, first published in 'Letters from Italy' 1703; this issue with 'O'er the warm bed' on page 4, Foxon A39. 'The Despairing Lover' is by Wiliam Walsh; the second poem, by Congreve, was first printed in 1695. £15.00
18311. ALLESTREE, RICHARD [ATTRIBUTED].: The Gentlemans Calling.
London, T Garthwait, 1660. Small 8vo, pp [32], 175, [1], with two fine engraved title pages and 2 engraved plates, pleasantly bound in half black polished morocco by Robertson of Edinburgh, raised bands, all edges gilt, some small corner repairs [done by Zaehnsdorf in 1949], but a sound and attractive copy, FIRST EDITION; issue with 175 pages followed by table of contents, and no epistle at the beginning initialled 'H.H.', this and subsequent volumes of 'courtesy' books, by the author of 'The Whole Duty of Man' are supposed to be the work of Richard Allestree. This copy includes the two rare portraits of Jeremiah and Zedekiah which are often missing from copies; with early ownership of John Holland, and later bookplate of D G Mackenzie. £150.00
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21548. ALLESTREE, RICHARD.: The Whole Duty of Man.
London, for John Eyre, 1742, 12mo, pp xxiv, 445, [9], with extra engraved title page and frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed but a very good pelasing copy. A scarce printing, ESTC holdings 4 UK and I NA, though this un- noted issue has page 445 correctly numbered. £45.00
21416. ALMON, JOHN.: A Letter Concerning Libels, Warrants, the Seizure of Papers, and Sureties for the Peace of Behaviour; with a View of some late Proceedings and the Defence of Them by the Majority. [bound with four other similar pamphlets].
London, J Almon, 1765. 5 pamphlets in one volume, 8vo, Comprising: 1. As Above. London, J Almon, 1765, pp 112. THIRD EDITION. 2. Considerations On the Legality of General Warrants, and the Propriety of a Parliamentary Regulation of the Same. W Nicholl, 1765. Pp 48. FIRST EDITION. 3. A Postscript the Letter, on Libels, Warrents. J Almon, 1765, Pp 7, [3, adverts]. FIRST EDITION. 4. [Drop Head Title]. Additions to the Second Edition. Pp 16. FIRST EDITION. 5. A Letter from Candour to the Public Advertiser. J Almon, 1764. Pp 54, [1, adverts]. SECOND EDITION. Bound in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, minor foxing, a very good copy. The first item is usually ascribed to the publisher John Almon, friend and defender of John Wilkes. The constitutional issues rasied by the prosecution of John Wilkes for publishing No 45 of the North Briton in 1764 would draw forth a huge pamphlet war, during which John Almon was summoned to appear before the King's Bench for contempt in publishing his pamphlet on the subject. £145.00
16602. AMERICA; MORELLET, ANDRE.: Petit Ecrit sur Une Matiere Interessante, ou Plan de Conduite a tenir envers les Heretiques pour operer leur conversation.
Paris, Pierre Donel, 1767. Small 8vo, pp 46, disbound, a very good copy, NOUVELLE EDITION, prviously printed in Toulouse, 1756, here with a new introduction; according to Quaerard quoting Barbier ' Sanglante ironie contre l'abbe de Caveirac', a strange satire on the inquisition, suggesting its establishment by the King of France in North America, the forcing of English Protestants there it accept Ctholic dogma, and even the secret burning of all unconverted heretics there! Morellet's liberal philosophy was to influence Voltaire. £50.00
21146. ANON.: A Protestant's Reasons, why he cannot turn Papist: Being a full Answer...to a paper...callled, A Roman Catholick's Reasons.
London, J Oliver, 1749. 12mo, pp vii, [1], 76, disbound, a very good copy, SECOND EDITION, reprinting the first octavo printing of 1735 with a new preface; a reply to Richard Challoner. £20.00
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13718. APULEIUS.: Les Metamorphoses, ou L'Ane d'Or d'Apullee, Philosophe Platonicien, avec Le Demon de Socrate, Traduits en Francois.
Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1769. 2 volumes bound in 1, 12mo, pp [8], 290, 326, engraved frontispiece, bound in contemporary half calf, spine gilt ruled with orange label, a bit rubbed and worn to paper on sides and edges, internally sound, a good copy. Celebrated collection of neo Platonic literature, translated by Compain de Saint Martin and first published in Paris in 1707. £60.00
17237. ATTERBURY, FRANCIS.: Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions WITH: Sermons on Several Occasions...Published from the Originals, By Thomas Moore.
London, J Bettenham for Jonah Bowyer, 1726/ George James, sold by C Davis, 1734. 2 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, with portrait in volume one, well bound in contemporary panelled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, some labels chipped or missing, a few light joint cracks, but a very good sound clean set, FIRST EDITION of the collected sermons in two works, each of two volumes, the first published by himself, the second published posthumously by his chaplain. Atterbury's sermons, products of a mind of great learning and erudition, did not attract the controversy that his political or Jacobite leanings did. £125.00
17138. BARWICK, PETER.: Vita Johannis Barwick, S T P.
London, William Bowyer, 1721. 8vo, pp [66, including subscribers], 464, [41], 2 engraved portraits, folding table, text in English and Latin, bound in contemporary panelled calf, red label, joints lightly cracked but sound, a fine copy internally, FIRST EDITION; the life in Latin with letters at the end in English. John Barwick [1612-84], was an eminent Royalist divine, whose services to the cause during the Civil War earned him a royal chaplaincy after the Restoration. His brother Peter was a physician who died in 1705, this being a posthumous publication. £145.00
19724. BEARE, NICHOLAS.: The Resurrection founded on Justice: Or, A Vindication of this Great Standing Reason Assigned by the Ancients and Modern: Wherein The Objections of the Learned Dr. Hody against it, are Answered: …
London: for Thomas Helder, 1700. 8vo, pp [xii], 144, bound in contemporary unlettered panelled calf, spine ends worn, lacking free endpapers, a little soiled and used internally, else a sound copy, FIRST EDITION." In this tract Bear (or Beare), to whom this work is ascribed, maintains that while the doctrine of the resurrection to postmortem life ‘has in great measure been made the Scoff, Derision, and Laughter of Mankind’, and, as ‘a work above Nature’, is beyond the scope of ‘NaturalPhilosophy’, it is ‘fixt on immovable Foundations’ since it is revealed in the Bible. Rare. £100.00
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20130. BEAUMARCHAIS, CARON DE.: La Folle Journee, ou Le Marriage de Figaro, Comedie en Cinq Actes en Prose.
[Kehl].L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litteraire-Typographique... Chez Roult, 1785. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, pp li, [1], 199, [1], bound in slightly later quarter calf, spine gilt ruled with red label,, rubbed, internally with light spotting and few light stains, but generally a very good copy, ?SECOND AUTHORIZED EDITION; there were many printings of the play after its first performance in Paris in 1784, many of them spurrious. Ignoring the manefestly inaccurate Amsterdam printings which were based upon verbatum performance notes, the Prais first ediiton is an illustrated volume issued shortly before by Roult, with 237 pages; after that,. this is the most significant of the early editions. £125.00
20041. BEAUMARCHAIS, CARON DE.: La Folle Journee, ou Le Marriage de Figaro, Comedie en Cinq Actes en Prose.
Amsterdam, no publisher, 1785. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, with the main libretto bound after the preface, pp lvii, [1]; 118, bound in slightly later half calf, spine gilt ruled with black lable, a little rubbed, internally a fine clean copy, EARLY UNAUTHORIZED EDITION; there was many such printings in 1785 was the play became a cause celebre all over Europe, with copies in short supply. Some, perhaps includign this one, were based on copies made during theatre performance, with all the consequent inaccuracies; the caste list on the title page verso contains so many inaccuracies that it is possibly made up from dictation. An accurate caste list, however, is provided by the preliminary preface, Beachmarchais' celebrated introduction to his piece, which was here printed separately ,according to the colophon, in Paris by Ph D Pierre, with approbations, and a half title. Both parts could well be from the same printer, however, and printed in Paris, the place of printing 'Amsterdam' being spurrious. This rather interesting volume highlights the difficulties of dealign with the early editions of the play. £120.00
21226. BERINGTON, JOSEPH.: The State and Behaviour of English Catholics from the Reformation to the Year 1780. With a View of their Present Number, Wealth, Character etc In Two Parts.
Lodnon, R Faulder, 1780. 8vo, pp xiii, [1], 190, [2, adverts], half title, bound in contemporary plain vellum which is a little rubbed and soiled, some early pencil notes, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, the first work of controversial writing by this eminent English Catholic priest trained at Douai, the beginnign of his conflicts with Catholic orthadoxy. In it Berington sought to show, falsly, the decline of the English Catholic population, and, following the Gordon Riots, to diminish its threat. £60.00
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21295. BIBLIOGRAPHY. PFAFF, CHRISTOPH MATHIAS.: Introductio in Historiam Theologiae Literariam : cum appendicibus, quae bibliothecae theologicae selectioris indicem & programmata literaria hactenus ab autore edita ... exhiben
Turbingen, J G Cotta, 1720. 8vo, pp [16], 472, bound after another work by Pfaff in contemporary sheep, spien largely missing, but bidning soudn and tight and internally clean, FIRST EDITION; an early bibliographical study of theologicla writings by the Chancellor of the University of Turnbingen, a Lutheran scholar who died in 1760, and well known for his works of discovery and editorship amongst anceint manuscript sources. Bound after the same author's Institutiones HIstoriae Ecclesiasticae of 1721; scarce, later expanded into three volumes in second edition. £50.00
19552. BIEFELD, JACOB FREIDERICK, BARON VON.: Institutions Politiques.
The Hague, Pierre Gosse, junior, 1760. 2 volumes in one, 4to, pp [4], iv, [2], 358, [8]; [8], 344, [6], with engraved portrait frontispiece, title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication leaf, bound in contemporary mottled sheep, spine with raised bands and red label, rubbed and slightly worn at corners, joints a little worn and cracked in places, but a sound clean copy overall, FIRST EDITION, the work of advisor and finance minister to Frederick the Great, this work has been described as a forgotten economic bestseller, including a " very concrete, detailed and specific list of the factors which cause the decline of nations". A key text in the study of 18th Century economic theory. £120.00
21222. BILL OF EXCLUSION.: The Curse of Popery, and Popish Princes, to the Civil Government, and Protestant Church of England. Demonstated from the Debates of Parliament in 1680 relating to the bill of Exclusion of the then Duke of York.
London, John Miller, 1716. 8vo, pp xv, [1], 239, contemporary panelled calf, worn at corners, chipped to spine, upper board detached, but a good copy internally for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; the Exclusion BIll, engineered by Shaftsbury but successfully defeated by Charles II brought about some of the most important political debates of any English parliament and incdientally the rise of the Whigs as a force in English politics. collected together here in a single volume the popular debates were intended as a warniing against the threat of Catholic succession in England. Compiler not known. £50.00
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17934. BINGHAM, JOSEPH.: Origines Ecclesiasticae: or. The Antiquities of the Christian Church. In Two Books.
London, Robert Knaplock, 1710-22. 10 volumes, 8vo, with 2 folding plates and 10 folding maps in volume 3, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, lacking labels, spines rubbed and split at joints, with some chippign to joints and spine ends, internally sound and clean with just occasional bronwing, a sound working set, externally unattractive, SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST VOLUME, FIRST EDITION OF THE REST, Bingham had envisaged publication of just a single volume work in 1708, but republished it the following year as the opening volume of a series which would not be completed until 1722, the year preceding the author's death. His method in this highly respected work has been described as 'reducing the ancient customs, usages and practices of the church under certain proper heads, whereby the reader may take a view at once of any particular usage or custom of Christians for four or five centuries'. Complete sets of this original edition are scarce. £200.00
18051. BOCCALINI, TRAJANO.: Advices from Parnassus, in Two Centuries. With the Political Touchstone, and an Appendix to it....To which is Added, A Continuation of the Advices...translated from the Italian by several Hands. Revis'd and Corrected by Mr Hughes.
London, J D for Daniel Brown [and others], 1706. Folio, pp xvi, 454, [14], bound in contemporary panelled calf, corners worn, neat old rebacked with red label, original endpapers preserved, title page lightly browned, but a very good copy throughout, FIRST EDITION THUS IN ENGLISH; Boccalini's "Ragguagli di Parnaso" of 1612 was hugely popular and influential throughout Europe during the 17th century, when it was in part translated into English by Henry Earl of Monmouth, but does not appear to have been published complete in English until 1704, with this translation by John Hughes following shortly after; an influential work of political and social satire. £185.00
17776. BONA, JOANNE.: Opuscula Spiritualia.
Paris, Ludovicum Billaine, 1677-78. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [22], 895, [7]: 746, [14], engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, lacking labels, rubbed and worn at spine ends, a bit of chippign to spines, joints cracked but holding, a few seminary library stamps, else internally good tight and clean, a good set, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION; Giovanni Bona's widely read spiritual and antiquarian writings comprise 6 tracts in volume one, and 'De Divina Psalmodia' as the whole of volume two. A third volume "Rerum liturgicarum" is not present here, but the volumes do stand as separate works and all are very scarce. £30.00
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21087. BOS, LAMBERT VAN DEN / JOHN DAUNCEY.: Florus Anglicus: or An exact history of England, from... William the Conquerour to the death of the late King. WITH: An exact history of the several changes of government in England, from the... murther of King Charles I to...the Restauration.
London, Simon Miller, 1658-1660. 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp [16, including adverts], 271, [1]: [18, including adverts], 392, [1, advert], engraved portraits of William the Conquerer and Charles I, half title/contents leaf present in second volume, this torn at corner with loss of a few words only, neatly restored, bound in near contemporary calf, spines with raised bands, rubbed, slightly chipped and lacking labels, joints cracked but sound, some running titles trimmed close without loss, edges rubbed but overall a good set with gilt arms of the Signet Library on the upper and lower boards, THIRD EDITION OF FIRST WORK, FIRST EDITION OF SECOND WORK. Bos' History was translated into English in 1656, this third printing basically a reprint of the first, but very rarely foudn with John Dauncey's 1660 continuation down to the Restoration of Charles II. £250.00
17101. BOS, LAMBERT VAN DEN.: Florus Anglicus, Sive Rerum Anglicarum Ab ipso exordio, usque ad Caroli primi mortem deductarum.
Amsterdam, Johann Ravelstyn, 1652. Small 12mo, pp [8], 230, printer's device on title, bound in later half vellum, marbled sides, a very good clean copy, SECOND LATIN EDITION, a re-issue of the previous year, and an overview of English history from the Conquest and culminating in the execution of Charles I a few years earlier. An English translation appeared in 1657. With early ownership inscription on title of Godfried Eichorn. £150.00
18417. BOSSUET, JACQUES BENIGNE.: The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches...in Two Parts. Translated from the Sixth Edition of the French Original printed at Paris MDCCXVIII.
Antwerp [but ?London].'Printed in the Year 1742.' 2 volumes, 8vo, pp xxxii, 480, [35, including errata leaf]: [2], 493, [34, including errata leaf], bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and red labels, spine ends a bit worn, joints cracked but holding, Heythrop LIbrary book label on endpapers, a good sound set, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH; a major Catholic polemic against Protestantism, translated by Levinius Brown, and a work much refuted by the Protestant writers. ' Few writers could have made the Justification controversy interesting or even intelligible. His argument is simple enough. Without rules, an organized society cannot hold together, and rules require an authorized interpreter. The Protestant churches had thrown over this interpreter; and Bossuet had small trouble in showing that, the longer they lived, the more they varied on increasingly important points.' £100.00
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21899. BOULANGER, NICHOLAS-ANTOINE.: L'Antiquite devoilee par ses Usages.
Amsterdam, Mac Michel Rey, 1766. 4to, pp viii, 412, contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt with rasied bands, rubbed and rather worn at edges and spien ends, light waterstains to first few gatherings, else internally sound, FIRST QUARTO EDITION, also issued issued in three volumes, octavo, a celebrated work on the origins of superstition and its links with the origin of the world itself. Posthumously published by Holbach, and hailed as one of the major works of the French enlightenment. £150.00
17838. BOWER, ARCHIBALD.: The History of the Popes from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time.
London, Printed for the Author, Sold by A Miller and W Sandby [et sub], 1749-1766. 7 volumes, 4to, subscribers, bound in contemporary half diced calf, rubbed and worn at corners, joints cracked with one board detached, a spines chipped in places, internally sound, SECOND EDITION OF VOLUME ONE, FIRST EDITIONS OF VOLUMES 2 TO 7.Bower claimed to have been a Jesuit academic and Counsellor of the Inquisition in Italy, before fleeing to England and adpoting the Church of England; from this stance he commenced pulication of this work in 1748, continuing it volume by volume for many years, until his credentials as a historian were totally discredited by the Bishop of Salisbury, who showed the work in 1756 to be plagarized; nevertheless Bower went on to finish it, and though, as a historical work, it has little value, the work of 'an impudent imposter', it remains a very scarce set in complete form. £120.00
17483. BRADY, ROBERT.: A Historical Treatise of Cities and Bughs or Boroughs.
London, Joseph Whire, 1777. 8vo, pp [1], iv, 107 [i.e. 170], 55, [8], bound in contemporary calf, plainly rebacked in morocco with original red label laid down, sides rubbed, title lightly foxed, and with a single stamp to the title page of Downing College, with presentation to the college in 1864, else a clean copy, SECOND EDITION. First published in folio in 1690 this treatise was still in use a hundred years later, being the only study to that date of the liberties and privileges of English boroughs. £50.00
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21494. BRANTOME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE.: Memoires de Messire Pierre du Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, contenans Les Vies des Dames Illustres de France de son temps. .
Leyden, jean Sambix le jeune, 'a la Shere', 1665. 12mo, pp [8], 407, bound in contemporary yapped vellum, a little marked and soiled to upper board, else a sound clean and tight copy, FIRST EDITION ; the publication of the first collected edition of Brantome by Stucker Brothers of the Hague is discussed in Willems; but the present volume, he asserts is not an Elzevir production, but by Foppens [vide 2010]; 'Vie de Dames' ramains one of the most famous classics of female biography. £80.00
21754. BRILLON, PIERRE JACQUES.: Suite des Caracteres de Theophraste et de Pensees de Pascal.
Amsterdam, Pierre Marteau, 1701. 8vo, pp [8], 272, title page in red and black, uncut in orignal milled boards, a fien unsophisticated copy, FIRST AMSTERDAM EDITION; Brillon's contemporary enlargement of his own Theophraste Moderne' which was first published at Paris in 1699 and subsequently became quite popular. Format from the original was unchanged here, but the 'Avis au Lecteur' details the many corrections from the edition 'faire....a Luxembourg sous le nom de Paris en 1700.' £45.00
22060. BRINE, JOHN.: A Vindication of some Truths of Natural and Revealed Religion: In Answer to the Flase Reasoning of Mr James Foster, On Various Subjects.
London, Aaron Ward, 1746. 8vo, pp x, 406, bound in later 19th Century half calf, spine with raised bands and black label, slightly rubbed, title page and first leaf repaired, the former also laid down, light spotting, a good copy, FIRST EDITION, scarce. Brine was a 'Particular' Baptist Minister of Cripplegate in London, well known for his writings of a Hyper-Calvinist tendency. £85.00
19438. BRISCOE, JOHN.: A Discourse On the Late Funds of the Million-Act, Lottery- Act and Bank of England. Shewing, That they are... Ruinous to the Trade of the Nation. Together with Proposals for the Supplying their Majesties with Money on easy Terms.
London, Printed by J.D. for Andrew Bell, 1696. Small 8vo, pp iv, 187, [1, adverts], bound in 19th Century half calf, rubbed and a bit worn, old library blindstamps to title and last leaf, lackign the folding table, else a good copy, THIRD EDITION, an expanded version of the quarto pamphlets previously issued by Briscoe in 1694. 'John Briscoe was involved with High Chamberlain...in attempts to set up a Land Bank. in 'A Discourse...' he showed, using detailed costings, the very high cost to the Treasury of borrowing through the Million Act, the Lottery Act, and, most significantly, the newly established Bank of England...' £185.00
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21367. BRITTAIN, LEWIS.: Principles of the Christian Religion and Catholic Faith Investigated.
London, J P Coghlan, 1790. Small 8vo, pp xi, [1], 253 [i.e. 353], [3, inc advert leaf], half title, contemporary sheel, worn chipped and boards detaching, else internally sound, FIRST EDITION, a rare piece of devotioanl writing by this English Dominican Catholic, who taught at Bornheim, where his title was regent of studies. During the Napoleonic War he was conducted to England where he established a religious community of Dominicans at Hartpury Court, Goucestershire. This, his first book, written whilst still at Bornheim is scarce and an important Englisg Catholic text of the 18th Century. £50.00
19635. BROWN, JOHN.: Essays on the Characteristics.
London, C Davis, 1752. 8vo, pp [4], viii, 408, title page in red and black with engraved vignette by Grignion, bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed but an excellent clean sound copy, THIRD EDITION, so designated on the half title placed after the title page; these three essays were a Christian reply to the neo-Platonism of Shaftesbury's highly popular Characteristics. John 'Estimate' Brown [1715-66], had previously published, in Dodsley's Miscellanies, an 'Essay on Satire' which resulted in a friendship with Warburton, and encouraged him to go on with a series of pseudo philosophical works, including this present one, 'which is memorable for its clear statement of utilitarianism' [DNB]; it is dedicated to his patron Ralph Allen of Prior Park, and was later much praised by John Stuart Mill. Brown's life sadly ended in disappointment and suicide. £50.00
19728. BROWNE, PETER.: The Procedure, Extent and Limits of Human Understanding,
London: for W. Innys and R. Manby, 1737. 8vo, [iv], 477 [, adverts], bound in modern brown buckram cloth, THIRD EDITION WITH CORRECTIONS AND AMENDMENTS; In this work Browne argues that all ideas are derived from sensationand that there is no direct knowledge of what is wholly mental or spiritual: while,however, the ‘Groundwork of all its Knowledge’ comes from ‘the simple original Ideas of Sensation only’ -Pailin catalogue; the Pailin copy. £125.00
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19745. BROWNE, PETER.: Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human.
London: for William Innys and Richard Manby, 1733. 8vo, pp [4], 554, recently rebound in quarter leather withcontrasting label and matching buckram boards, light soiling to first leaves, but a good sound copy in undistinguisged modern binding, however, FIRST EDITION; ESTCT 118954. "In this work he develops further the views on human understandingadvanced in The Procedure, Extent and Limits of Human Understanding, on the one hand attacking Locke’s thesis as disguising in ‘Beauties of Style, and Wit, and Language … along Series of false Principles of Knowledge, directly destructive of revealed Religion especially’ (p. 127) and, on the other, maintaining that the only (but limited) way in which people can conceive of God is ‘by Analogy with those clear and distinct Ideas or Conceptions we have of our own Existence’, including the ‘Properties and Operations of our own Mind’ (p. 533)." -Pailin Library Catalogue. £100.00
18895. BROWNING, ROBERT.: Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau Saviour of Society.
London, Smith, Elder and co, 1871. Small 8vo, pp [4], 148, original bevel-edged cloth, gilt, a very good bright tight copy, FIRST EDITION. £5.00
21036. BRUCE, ARCHIBALD.: Free Thoughts on the Toleration of Popery, deduced from a Review of its Principles and History, with respect to Liberty and the Interests of Princes and Nations. Wherein the Question concernign the Repeal of the Penal Statutes is Examined.
Edinburgh, Printed for the Author, 1781. 8vo, pp xv, [1], 463, [1, errata], bound in contemporary diced calf, lacking spine, both boards detached, light foxing but a sound copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, second issue with cancel title pge, first issued the previous year, and rare as such [NLS copy only in ESTC]. Bruce was an extreme Presbyterian anti Catholic. £35.00
19807. BURNET, SIR THOMAS.: An Answer to a Letter to the Bishop of Bangor, written by one Andrew Snap, D.D.
London, T Warner, 1717. 8vo, pp [4], 18, half title, bound in modern cloth, a good copy, FIRST EDITION, a contribution by the eccentric Burnet to the Bangorian controversy, as Pailin puts it 'A rich collection of insults directed at Snape...accused of preferring passion to calm reason (cf. pp. 6-7), of being inclined to religious emotion that is expressed in ‘the same luscious and extravagant Raptures, as frequently are exprest by a warm Lover to his Mistress’. £25.00
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21017. BURROUGHS, JOSEPH.: A View of Popery taken from the Creed of Pope Pius the IV: Containing an Answer to the most material things in the Profession fo Catholic Faith etc now in use for the reception fo Converts into the Church of Rome.
London, J Noon [and others], 1737. 8vo, pp 159, [1], one engraved plate [Macclesfield monument], uncut in early boards, sometime rebacked in linen, spine now lacking, first leaves with slight marginal worming else very good, SECOND EDITION, 'CORRECTED', a second work bound after, with its own title and collation is the Bishop of London's Pastoral Letter [Bishop Gibson, 1745 edition ]. Burroughs was an eminent Baptist preacher, Pastor at the Barbican in London; very scarce. £45.00
20921. BURSCOUGH, ROBERT.: A Treatise of Church-Government Occasion'd by some Letters Lately Printed concerning the same Subject.
London, Samuel Smith, 1692. 8vo, pp [4], xxxvii, [1], [6], 270, imprimature before title, contemporary calf, spien lacking, upper boarrd detached, title page with Law society stamp,. else a clean copy for rebinding, FIRST EDITION. £35.00
21473. BUTLER, SAMUEL.: The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose...Published from the Original Manuscripts...With Notes by R Thyer.
London, J & R Tonson, 1759. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [29, subscribers], [10], 429: [6], 512, bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red labels, light cracks to joints and rear to spine ends, but a good sound clean set, FIRST EDITION, the most important and reliable of posthumous collections of Butler's writings, Grolier Wither to Prior. 139. £85.00
18023. CALMET, AUGUST.: Prolegomena, et dissertationes : in omnes et singulos S. Scripturæ libros / Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet...Opus Gallice` primum ab authore, nunc vero` Latinis literis traditum.
Lucæ : Sumptibus Leonardi Venturini, 1729. 2 volumes, folio, large folding engraved map of the Promised Land, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with red labels, rubbed, some gatherings browned, a few with marginal worming not into text, a good sound set otherwise, FIRST LATIN EDITION, from the French, of Calmet's important dissertations issued originally as part of his BIblical commentaries. £85.00
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21448. CALONNE, CHARLES A. DE.: Reponse de M de Calone a l'Ecrit de M Necker, Publie en Avril 1787; contenant l'Examen des Cmptes de la Situation des Finances...avec des Observations sur les Resultats de l'Assemblee des Notables.
A Londres, T. Spilsbury, Janury 1788. 8vo , pp xvi, 424, bound in contemporary French mottled sheep, spine gilt with red label, the sides wormed to the surface leather, else a very good clean copy, ERLY CONTERFEIT EDITION; all of the editions of this detailed defense by Calonne of his economic policy in France that led up to the French Revoltion carry the spurrious Spilsbury imprint, though they were probably issued in Paris. The accepted first was printed in quarto in 1787 and includes a set of tables not reprinted in these conterfeit editions. As a justification for spendthrift right wing economic policy Calonne's books were influential in their time. £45.00
17654. CAMPISTRON, JEAN GILBERT DE.: Tragedies de Monsieur Campistron, de l'Academie Francoise.
Paris, Chez Delvigne fils, 1707 [-1710]. 12mo, pp [10], [73]-96, 15-71, [1], 72, 324, [2], 75, [4], engraved frontispiece and 7 engrave plates [including a duplicate of the frontispiece], bound in 19th Century quarter calf, spine decorated in blind with raised bands, marbled sides, slightly rubbed, but a very good sound copy, SEVENTH EDITION, ?second issue, a collection of seven tragedies in imitation of Racine by Campistron, with the added 1710 first printing of an eighth play, actually a comedy, 'La Jaloux Desabuse.' which is bound at the end before the privilege. The re-arrangement of the plays for this edition accounts for the irregular pagination; in this copy the publishers imprint is a paste over, with the original imprint of P Ribou beneath; together these eight works comprise all of Campistron's dramatic output, except for the comedy 'L'Amante lamant. 'and his libretto for Acis and Galatea. An important and early collective edition. £85.00
18632. CARY, ROBERT.: Memoirs of the Life of Robert Cary, Baron of Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth, written by himself, ...from an original Manuscript in the Custody of John Earl of Corke and Orrery.
London, R & J Dodsley, 1759. 8vo, pp [4], xxxiv, 236, [4], engraved frontispiece 'Royal Procession of Queen Elizabeth', engraved headpiece, well bound in modern half calf, spine decorated in blind with raised bands, date at foot, a very good uncut wide-margined copy with the original drab wrappers bound in SECOND AND BEST EDITION, much enlarged from the first of the same year, an important historical memoir of the last years of Elizabeth's reign, edited by a later family member, John Earl of Cork and Orrery. This second edition appears to be somewhat scarcer than the first. £100.00
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21103. CATHOLICISM. ANON.: The True Motives of the Confidence and Trust, The Faithful out to put in the Protection of the ever glorious Virgin Mary.
London, 'Printed in the Year 1717'. Small 12mo, pp [6], 184, [2], woodcut device on title, contemporary calf, spine and corners worn, boards detached, internally a sound copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, the sole printing of this extremely rare collection of Catholic stories in favour of the work and inspirational powers of the Virgin Mary; this kind of moral teaching through stories has popularist appeal, but survives very poorly, usually through the Seminary libraries where it was used. ESTC lists only the Downside Abbey and London Oratory copies, and we have not foudn any elsewhere, though this present one is the Mendham copy, and is not listed either. £175.00
18944. CATHOLICISM. FLEURY, CLAUDE.: A Short Historical Catechism by Mr Fleury. Author of the Church History.
London, J P Coghlan, 1777. Small 12mo, pp 71, [1], disbound, last leaf torn to inner gutter without loss of text, else a good clean copy, FIRST EDITION THUS; 4 18th Century printings of this catechism are recorded in ESTC -1740 [London], 1786 and 1798 [Newcastle], 1794 [London, Coghlan, 2 volumes], but not this one, though the BL lists it at 004107113; this is not necessarily a reprint of the 1740 version, which was specifically designed for use in the Church of England, this one prublished for English Catholics 'With Permission'. A very rare Catholic item. £45.00
20989. CATHOLICISM. MANNING, ROBERT.: The Shortest Way to end Disputes about Religion. In Two Parts.
Bruxellles [but actually ?London] , 'printed in the year' 1716. small 8vo, pp [14], 342, bound in contemporary calf, boards detached, minor soiling but a sound copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; iisue with page 16 misnumbered 61, a rare Catholic controversialist tract. This copy is bound up with Edward Hawarden's 'Some queries, relating to a book entitled, A compassionate address, to papists, &c. In five letters, Which the Author calls an Answer to Two Popish Books. viz. the Case Restated, and the Church of Christ Shew’d, &c ' London, John Moore, 1717, pp 48 [i.e.44]. Hawarden, a fellow English Catholic. £65.00
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19279. CATHOLICISM. MUMFORD, JAMES.: A Remembrance for the Living To Pray for the Dead. The Second Part and Second Edition. BY J.M.
[London], 'Anno 1661'. Small 8vo, pp [6], 138, with the inserted errata leaf between A1 and A2, bound in contemporary plain calf, upper joint cracked and a little weak, internally a little shaken, title page slightly soiled, and with an old light library blindstamp, still a good copy in original state ?FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND PART, despite the sdesignation 'second edition' on the title page, this seems to refer to the re-written first part of 1660, printed at Paris, and much enlarged from the first, St Omer, printing of 1641. We find no evidence that this second part was ever printed before this present edition. A curious and rare Catholic devotional concerning the after-life, which attracted sufficient attention at the time to incure a Protestant rebuttal in Thomas White's 'Devotion and Reason', also published in Paris in 1661, in which he attacks the perceived superstitions regarding death and damnation inherent in Catholic dogma. Mumford himself was an English Jesuit from Norfolk, born about 1606, and dying in 1666; after teaching in St Omer he retunred to Norwich in 1650, and continued Rector of the Jesuit College there until about 1660, when he was arrested, though subsequently released. ESTC records 4 copies UK and 2 in US libraries. £120.00
17456. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, WILLIAM, DUKE OF PORTLAND.: The Case Of his Grace the Duke of Portland, respecting Two Leases, Lately granted by The Lords of the Treasury to Sir James Lowther, Bart. With Observations On the Motion for a Remedial Bill for Quieting the Possession fo the Subject.
Londo, J Almon, 1768. 8vo, pp 53, [1], [4, 'Proposals for Printing A New Baronetage of England...'], half title, disbound, a very good copy, SEVENTH EDITION; a long forgotten legal dispute over Crown land leases, concerning the not inconsiderable estates of the Duke of Portland, who would later to become, for a short time at least, Prime Minister. £15.00
21941. CENTLIVRE, SUSANNA.: The Busie Body. A Comedy.
London, Bernard Linton, 1727. 12mo, pp 82, [2], engraved frontispiece, bound in contemporary calf, spine chipped and part cracked at joints, text browned and shaken, a good working copy, FOURTH EDITION; of the three previous editions, two were in quarto, the third identical collation to this. All are very scarce, Centlivre's usually are. £35.00
21168. CESARE, BONAVNET. AMADAEO: De Critices In Re praesertium Sacra; Recto Pravoque Usu.
Napoli, Joseph Severini, 1741. 12mo, pp [12], 164, title page in red and black, contemporary limp vellum, which is slightly dicoloured or soiled, but a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION; the critic here in the scholastic sense. Scarce survey of critical texts. £60.00
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17435. CHALMERS, GEORGE [ATTRIB].: The Beauties of Fox, North, and Burke, selected from their Speeches, From the Passing of the Quebec Act, in the Year 1774, Dow n to the Present Time. With a Copious Index to the Whole, and An Address to the Public.
London, J Stockdale, 1784. 8vo, pp viii, 92, [10], etched frontispiece portrait of the three politicians, without the half title, disbound, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; a popular anonymous satire on the ministry of North, using selective excerpts from the speechs of the three politicians in order to ridicule them; usually attributed to George Chalmers. The initial 'To the Public' is dated Jan 9th 1784 from the Shakespeare Tavern. This was a popular tract which went through many ediitons, although this first is quite scarce; it later became 'Beauties and Deformities of...' £75.00
21147. CHANDLER, SAMUEL.: Great-Britain's Memorial against the Pretender and Popery.
London, 'Printed in the Year 1745.' 12mo, pp [2], 28, disbound, avrey good copy, one of the many printings from the year of the Stuart Rebellion, this one perhaps a piracy. £20.00
19805. CHANDLER, SAMUEL.: A Vindication of the History of the Old Testament, in answer to the Misrepresentations...of Thomas Morgan and Moral Philosopher.
London, J Noon and J Davidson, 1741-43. 2 parts in one volume [as issued], with separate title pages but continuous pagination, pp xxxi, [1], 610, [2], bound inquite plain but gilt lettered calf backed cloth, a sound clean copy, FIRST EDITION; the first volume of a defence of Biblical history of which no further volumes were published; a biting attack on Thomas Morgan, who he characterizes by malice and igorance. £50.00
15450. CHAPELLE, CLAUDE-EMANUELLE.: Voyage de Messieurs Chapelle et Bachaumont.
'A La Haye', 1750. 12mo, pp [1], xiv, 236, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, wear to cerners and worming to joints and slightly to spine, internally a sound, an early edition of this remarkable travelogue in prose and verse, which had appeared first in 1680, and rapidly became very popular well into the 19th Century. In this edition, the poems of Chaelle are collected at the end of the first part, with the short humorous poems of Chevalier de Cailly bound after. £10.00
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21576. CHARLES II. DALRYMPLE, DAVID.: An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself. To which are added, His Letters to Several Persons.
London, William Sandby, 1766. 8vo, pp viii, 190, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled with red label, a very nice copy with the Antrobus bookplate, FIRST EDITION, edited by Lord Hailes. £85.00
19663. CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM.: The Religion of Protestants Safe Way to Salvation: or, an answer to a book entituled Mercy and truth, or, Charity maintained by Catholicks: which pretends to prove the contrary. Together with the apostolical institution of episcopacy... nine sermon
London, printed by M C, sold by William Crook and Charles Harper, 1684. Tall folio, pp [30], 452, with preliminary imprimatur leaf, bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands and red label, lightly rubbed but a fine crisp copy throughout, FIFTH EDITION ' to which is added Mr Chillingworth's Letter to Mr Lewger to persuade him to return to his Mother the church of England.' This was the major work of the great early 17th Century religious controversialist who had temporarily converted to Roman Catholicism, before converting back to the Church of England and from thence engaging in various controversies with Catholic writers. In this case the aim of Chillingworth's pen was the Jesuit Edward Knott, who had attacked Chillingworth's supposed Socinianism; this great and lengthy reply was written at Great Tew under the patronage of Lucius Cary and first published in 1638, six years before its author's death. "The main argument is a vindication of the sole authority of the Bible in spiritual matters, and of the free right of the individual conscience to interpret it". Chillingworth's other major works, on the Epistopacy and the None Sermons are added to this edition, which is the best of the folios, and of which this is an exceptional copy. £150.00
21956. CHUDLEIGH, ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF KINGSTON.: The Life and Memoirs of Elizabeth Chudleigh, afterwards Mrs Hervey, and Countess of Bristol, commonly called Duchess of Kingtson [sic].
[Dublin], H Chamberlaine [and others], 1789. 12mo, pp [2], iii, [1], 269, [1], engraved portrait from the Venetian Ambassador's Ball, bound in contemporary calf, rubbed, spine torn, label chipped, corners stains to first and last leaves, else a reasonabel copy, FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, evidently pagarized from one of the Kearsley's several editions of 'An Authentic Detail of Particulars' from the previous year, when this notorious adventuress had died in France. A rare editions of this curiosu work. £85.00
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17311. CISTERCIANS. SALVONI, BERNARDI.: De Foedere Religionis Naturalis cum Religione Divinitus Tradita Libri Quatuor.
Rome, Typographia Salomoni, 1792. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, the second part bound before the first, pp xv, [1, imprimatur]; 155, [3, including errata], contemporary polished speckled calf, minor soiling, a fine copy, FIRST EDITION; the author of this theological- cum philosophical treatise is described on the title as ' Monacho Cisterciensi.' £25.00
17020. CIVIL WAR. BURNET, GILBERT.: The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald etc. In which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland...together with many Letters, Instructions...Written by Charles I.
London, J Grover for R Royston, 1677. Tall folio, pp [20], 436, with engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 other portraits included in collation, bound in contemporary unlettered ruled calf, spine with raised bands, slight chipping to spine ends, but an excellent clean sound copy, FIRST EDITION, of Burnet's first historical work, motivated by his relationship with the Scottish episcopy and Lord Hamilton, as well as Scottish politics in general, upholding the Hamilton family claims to the throne. An excellent copy with bookplate of Nathaniel Cholmley £235.00
19080. CIVIL WAR. GUTHRY, HENRY.: Memoirs of Henry Guthry, Late Bishop of Dunkel, in Scotland: Wherein the Conspiracies and Rebellion against King Charles I Of Blessed Memory, To the Time of the Murther of that Monarch, Are biefly and faithfully related.
London, for W B and sold by J Nutt, 1702. 8vo, pp [14], 255, half title, bound in contemporary panelled calf, later red label, joints cracked but holding, a crisp clean copy, FIRST EDITION; Henry Guthrie [c. 1600-76], Scottish bishop and historian; these important memoirs of the Civil War in Scotland, and the Covenanters circulated in manuscript during the 17th Century, but was first printed here. £100.00
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19302. CIVIL WAR. RYVES, BRUNO.: Mercurius Rusticus: or, The Countries Complaint of the Barbarous Outrages Committed by the Sectaries of this late flourishing Kingdom. Together with A brief Chronologie of the Battels, Sieges, Conflicts...to the 25 of March 1646.
London, R Royston, 1685. 4 parts in one volume [as issued], small 8vo, pp [16], 205, [10], 116-216, [82], with separate titles to each part, additional engraved title page to first part, bound in contemporary calf, spine leather chipped away in places, old light library blindstamp to the title page, but a good soudn copy requiring a little restoration, FIRST EDITION THUS, a four part collection based upon earlier published material from the 1640's, but here first issued together in the present form, previous collected editions being of a varied nature. Mercurius Rusticus and Querela Cantabrigiensis are both reprinted from Oxford Newsletters, and supposed to be by Bruno Ryves, though John Barwick is also suggested author of the second work. An important summary of the Royalist complaints in the Civil War. £175.00
21843. CLARENDON, EDWARD, LORD.: Animadversions upon a Book, intitled Fanaticism Fanatically Imputed to the Catholic Church, by Dr Stilllingfleet, And the Imputation Refuted and Retorted by S.C. By a Person of Honour.
London, Richard Royston, 1685. 8vo, pp [14], 262, [2, adverts], engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, boards detached, a very good copy for rebacking, THIRD EDITION, first published in 1673, and with a second in the following year, all three with the same collation, though the frontispiece is unique to this third printing. With bookplate of John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, who edited Clarendon's diary and letters for publication in 1763. £60.00
21987. CLUBBE, WILLIAM.: The Omnium; containing The Journal of a Late Three Days Tour into France; curious and extraordinary anecdotes; critical remarks and other miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse.
Ipswich, Printed and sold by George Jermyn, 1798. 8vo, pp 158, inclued errata and lists of subscribers, uncut in modern calf backed cloth boards, spien with raised bands and red label, a very good sound clean copy, FIRST EDITION. £125.00
21790. COMBER, THOMAS.: A Companion to the Temple: or a Help to Devotion in the Use of Common Prayer. In Four Parts.
London, Robert Clavell, 1701. Folio, pp [20], 8585, title in red and black, bound in contemporary panelled calf, a bit chipped at spine ends, joints cracked but holding, a very good sound fresh copy, FOURTH EDITION. Comber's major work on the Litany, originally published in separate parts in 8vo; 'the most complete work extant on the Common Prayer, abounding in learned references'- Darling. A second volume was published the year following this one, collecting together six of Comber's tracts, though it not usually found with this one which is quite complete in itself. £75.00
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21148. COMBER, THOMAS.: The Plausible Arguments of a Romish Priest from Scripture Answered by an English Protestant. WITH: The Plausible Arguments...from Antiquity Answered...
London, Reprinted by M Downing, 1735. 2 separate parts, pp 47, [1]; 47, [1], disbound, very good. The parts originally issued in 1686 and 1687 respectively. £25.00
21234. CONDUCT BOOK. SAVILE, GEORGE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX.: Mancia per l'anno nuovo a una dama, o, Avviso ad una figlia opuscolo originale inglese.
Verona, G A Tumermani, 1734. 8vo, pp [8], 112, title page in red and black with engraved vignette, dedication leaf with fine engraved headpiece, bound in contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked but sound, spine chipped away in places, a fine copy internally, FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, of Halifax's popular conduct title in English ' A Lady's New Year Gift.' £75.00
21730. COTTON, SIR ROBERT.: Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet, Preserved from the injury of Time, and Exposed to Publick Light, for the benefit of Posterity.
London, Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1672. 8vo, pp [8], 351, 16 tracts, each except the first with separate title page, bound in 19th century panelled calf, worn to corners, lacking spine, boards detached, occasional light browning else internally sound, a good copy for rebacking, SECOND EDITION of this interesting collection of essays speeches and tracts which also includes Francis Walsingham's 'Anatomizing' and Sidney's 'Valour Anatomized in a Fancie'. One of the tracts by Cotton is a substitute, as in all copies, for The Life and Reign of Henry the Third listed in the contents; this was later published as a separate work. The collection as edited by James Howell was first published in 1651. £120.00
21832. COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, GATIEN DE: Testament politique de Marquis de Louvois, Premier Ministre d'Etat, sous le regne de Louis XIV. Roay de France, ou l'on voit ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable en France, jusqu'à sa mort.
'A Cologne Cez le Politique', 1695. Small 8vo, pp [8], 339, title page in red and black, bound in contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and pitted but holdng well, upper corners worn, else good, EARLY EDITION; numerous printings of this account, generally ascribed to De Sandras, of the great war minister of Louis XIV who died in 1691, were printed all over Europe in 1695, all with the same imprint, but differing numbers of pages. £35.00
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18509. COURTILZ DE SANTRAS, GATIEN.: The Life of the Famous John Baptist Colbert, late Minister and Secretary of State to Lewis XIV, the present French King. Done into English from a French copy printed at Cologne this present year 1695.
London, printed by R Bentley [and others], [1695, altered in early pen to 1705]. Small 8vo, pp [16], 246, [8, contents], with engraved frontispiece, bound with an early 19th Century work by Fenelon, in modern half calf, spine gilt with raised bands and black label, a neat clean copy, FIRST EDITION; the sole printing of this anonymous, as well as anonymously translated, memoir of the great finance minister of Lousi XIV who died in 1683, a pioneer of economic thinking, whose work in developing French industry and commerce is well remembered today in that country. The text of this includes much of interest on this subject as well as Colbert's other inventions, financial theories and World travels. £120.00
20027. COWLEY, ABRAHAM.: The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press, now Published out of the Authors Original Copies. BOUND WITH: The Second and Third Parts.
London, J M for Henry Herringman, 1668/ Charles Harper, 1700. 2 works in one volume, each with a frotnispiece and title, folio, both volumes comprising separately paginated parts with separate title pages, bound in contemporary panelled calf, with the original brown label, spine with raised bands, ends worn, joints cracked but holding soundly, a few gatherings lightly browned and other minor faults but a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PART, SECOND EDITION OF PARTS TWO AND THREE TOGETHER; a cornerstone of late 17th Century English poetry the two works together comprising the complete works; it is rare to find the first edition of the first part other than on its own, but the second volume, from 32 years later, includes much of the juvenilia of Cowley, as well as the Six Books of Plants, translated from the Latin. A sound unrestored copy. £300.00
18654. CRAUFORD, JAMES [ATTRIBUTED].: The History of the House of Este, From the time of Forrestus until the Death of Alphonsus the last Duke of Ferrara. ...Wherein liekwise the most considerable Revolutions iof Italy from the year 452. to the year 1598. are briefly touched.
London, J M for Rich. Chiswell, 1681. 8vo, pp [30, including the errata leaf], 291, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, slightly later label, upper board detached, else a fine crisp copy throughout, FIRST EDITION; as Leibnitz was to discover later, when commissioned to write his Hanoverian history, some aspects of the mediaeval history of the Estes were closely guarded secrets; this piece of work was almost certainly commisioned, or at least patronized, by its dedicatee Mary of Este, Dutchess of Albany, and wife of James, Duke of York, and whose fine portrait by White is given as a frontispiece to the volume. James had already converted to Catholicism when he married Mary of Modena in 1673, but upon her arrival in England she was regarded with great suspicion by the English Protestants; James, now hugely unpopular, was appointed Commissioner of Scotland in 1680 following the Popish Plot scare, and this work may in part be seen as a Scottish tribute to the by now virtually exiled couple. £110.00
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19123. CROKATT, GILBERT.: The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display'd: or, the Folly of their Teaching Discover'd, from their Books, Sermons, and Prayers: And some Remarks on Mr Rule's late Vindication of the Kirk, Interspers'd with Some genuine Adventures, in Love etc.
London, for J Johnson in Rotterdam , sold by J Cooper [London], 1738. 8vo, pp [8], 152, title page printed in red and black, with an engraved frontispiece by George Bickham, contemporary calf backed marbled boards, boards detached, a good clean copy for rebacking. Crokatt's notorious staire first appeared under the name of Jacob Curate in 1692, though Crokatt and John Monro were actually the joint authors, many editions, with numerous alterations and additions, appearing subsequently throughout the first part of the 18th Century; of this printing there is no edition statement on the title page, and the Bickham plate may appear here for the first time. This was the most popular of the several printings of this biting satire on the Church of Scotland, written by two obscure hacks, deeply offended the clergy, and Beattie would later write that 'this book....must ever be held in abhorrence by the friends of religion.' £60.00
16945. D'URFEY, THOMAS.: New Opera's with Comical Stories and Poems on Several Occasions, Never before Printed. Being the remaining Pieces, Written by Mr D'Urfey.
London, William Chetwood, 1721. 8vo, pp [10], 382, with general title page as above, and separate title pages to the parts, bound in contemporary calf, sometime rebacked with raised bands and original red label laid down, a little worn to upper corners, without free endpapers, a couple of corner tears with loss of one catchword only, a little soiled and used, else a good copy, FIRST EDITION, including seven 'dramatic' or poetical pieces; one of the great comic writers of the post Restoration period D'Urfey was a major contributor to the evolution of ballad opera in England. This was his last work, published two years before his death. £120.00
21877. DALLAWAY, JAMES.: Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry in England. With Explanatory Observations on Armorial Ensigns.
Gloucester, R Raikes, 1793. Large 4to, pp [4], xiii, [1], 424, cxii, engraved title page with aquatint vignette, 27 engraved plates, including 8 hand-coloured, folding pedigree, engraved vignette tailpieces, contemporary calf backed boards, neatly though plainly respined with raised bands and red label, sides rubbed, corners a little worn, internally a fine clean and uncut copy, FIRST EDITION of the the first major historical study of the science of heraldry in this country, an excellent and well produced work. £175.00
22055. DAVENANT, CHARLES.: Esays upon 1. The Ballence of Poer. II. The Right of making War, Peace and Alliences. III. Universal Monarchy. To which is added, An Appendix.
London, James Knapton, 1701. 8vo, pp [4], 288, [4], 125, [3, adverts], half title [detached, browned and frayed], disbound and sewn into temporary cloth backed boards, lightbly browned and with a few small marginal stains, a bidnign or working copy, FIRST EDITION, a cheap copy of an important politico-economic text. £45.00
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21523. DE GENLIS, COMTESSE STEPHANIE F.: Adelaide and Theodore; or Letters on Education: containing All the Principles realtive to three different Plans of Education; to that of Princes, and to those of young Persons of both Sexes. Translated from the French.
London, C Bathurst and T Cadell, 1783. 3 volumes, 12mo, pp 304: 295: 288, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt ruled , lacking labels, a littled rubbed but sound, a very good clean set, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH; an important and influential text in the history of 18th Century education, a sort of didactic novel in letter form aimed at promoting the educational ideas od De Genlis; four editions were published and Jane Austen is known to have been amongst its admirers, judging from a reference she makes to it in Emma. £200.00
22067. DE MORGUES, MATTHIEU: Tres Humble Tres Veritable et Tres Importante Remonstrance au Roy.
No Place or printer [1632]. Small 4to, pp 134, [1], disbound, fly titles [as issued], title a little soiled, first two leaves torn from the marhin but repairable and without loss, else good, FIRST OR EARLY EDITION; there are two issues, this with 134 pages and another with 166 pages. Together with 'Lettre escrite au Roy par la Reyne mere de sa Maieste [dated Bruxelles, 20 December 1631, signed Marie]. [n.p, 1631?] pp 23. These pamphlets regardign the Queen mother's banishment from France are commonly found with others boudn up totgether, and were later published in collections. £35.00
19847. DEFOE, DANIEL [ATTRIBUTED].: Some Account of the Life and most Remarkable Actions of George Henry Baron de Goertz, privy-Counsellor, and Chief Minister to State to the Late King of Sweden.
London, T Bickerton, 1719. 8vo, pp [2], 46, with engraved portrait frontispiece, disbound, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; several authorities have attributed this well-written life ot Defoe, though it has been doubted by Furbank. £40.00
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21245. DICTIONARY. AINSWORTH, ROBERT.: Thesaurus linguæ Latinæ compendiarius: or, a compendious dictionary of the Latin tongue, designed for the use of the British nations: in three parts. Containing, I. The English appellative words and Forms of Expression before the Latin.
London, J J and P Knapton [and many others], 1736. Small think quarto, comprising three part dictionary, not paginated, pp xl prelims, bound in contemporary full calf, spine gitl ruled wiht raised bands, and red label, joints cracked but neatly and prefessionally re-inforced internally with cloth, a little light worming into the text at the start, thugh hardly disturbing to more than a few letters on each page, else a evry good tight clean copy throughout, FIRST EDITION of a major 18th Century contribution to English lexicography that would subsequently go through many editions. Ainsworth, a major educationalist of the period, spent many years comiling the work and then many years more gettign it printed. A man with poor eyesight himself he doubted that this first printing woudl be legible to any but the young, an impression born out by ourselves. It remains a ladnmark publication, scarce in first edition and in original binding. £180.00
19036. DICTIONARY. LE ROUX, PHILIBERT-JOSEPH.: Dictionaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque, Libre et Proverbial...le tout Pour faciliter aux Etrangers, & aux Francois memes, i'intellegence de toutes sorte de Livres.
Lyons, Beringos, 1735. 8vo, pp [4], 668, title in red and black, uncut in original plain boards, labelled in ink to spine, an excellent clean sound and unsophisticated copy, SECOND EDITION, a famous and standard early dictionary of French literary and poetical terms, as well as slang and provincialisms, written by an obscure French refugee in Amsterdam, and first published in 1718. This 'Nouvelle' edition published in Lyon is considerably expanded and revised from the first, apparently by Le Roux himself. £95.00
19453. DICTIONARY. PANCKOUCKE, ANDRE JOSEPH.: Dictionnaire des Proverbs Francois, et des façons de parler comiques ,burlesque et familieres avec l'explication et les Etymologies les plus avérées.
Frankfurt, Francois Varrentrapp, 1750. Small 8vo, pp [4], 400, title page in red and black, bound in contemporary hard vellum, leather label chipped, light library stamps to title and verso, but a very good sound tight copy, SECOND EDITION, from the first Paris printing of 1748. £50.00
16890. DRAMA. CIBBER THEOPHILUS.: The Lover. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal By His Majesty's Servants.
London, J Watts, 1730. 8vo, pp [12], 85, [1, adverts], disbound, lacking only the last leaf of adverts at end, a bit cropped and torn to last leaves with loss of running titles, and a bit soiled and browned, still a good working copy of a complete text, FIRST EDITION, and the only London printing of this comedy by the actor-playwright Theophilus Cibber, described on the title page as 'comedian', dedicated to his wife Jane. £15.00
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21839. DRAMA. COWLEY, HANNAH.: The Fate of Sparta; or, The Rival Kings. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane.
London, J & J Robinson, 1788. 8vo, pp v, [3], 85, [3], disbound, title page detached, else good, FIRST EDITION. £20.00
21628. DRAMA. DELAP, JOHN.: The Captives a Tragedy; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane by the author of The Royal Suppliants.
London, T Cadell, 1786. 8vo, pp 88, disbound, spine re-inforced to hold the gatherings together, else a good reading copy, FIRST EDITION; an unsuccessful play by this clergyman academic, acted only three times. £20.00
16823. DRAMA. GHERARDI.: Le Theatre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le recueil General de toues les comedies & svenes Francoises jouees par les comediens Italiens du Roi pendant le temps qu'ils ont ete au service.
Paris, Pierre Witte, 1717. 6 volumes [only, of 8], 12mo, comprising volumes one to six, each volume with an engraved frontispiece, additional frontispieces to individual plays, some with engraved music at the end, bound in contemporary French calf, spines gilt with raised bands and red labels, spines a little rubbed and chipped at ends, 2 labels missing, occasional light soiling and stains, but a good sound set, EDITION NOUVELLE of the most important collection of plays performed by the comedians of the Theatre Italien in France under Royal Patronage up to the closing of their theatre in 1697. This incomplete set lacks, as often, the last 2 volumes, these being the two which supplemented the original 6 of 1700. They present 54 of the final total of 64 old Italian plays adapted and translated for French audiences, and published by Gherardi for the first time; an invaluable record of this last revival of the old Comedia d'Arte. £145.00
21861. DRAMA. JACOB, GILES.: The Poetical Register: or, the Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets. With an Account of their Writings.
London, E Curll, 1719. 8vo, pp vii, [13], 433 [i.e.333], [22], engraved frontispiece of multiple portraits centered around that of Shakespeare, 5 engraved portraits, bound in contemporary calf, rubbed and lacking label, but very sound, a clean fresh copy, FIRST EDITION; a valuable pioneerign biographical dictionary of English drama. Jacob added a second volume in 1723, describing the non dramatic English poets, but this part is complete in itself, and often foudn on its own, this copy no numbered to the spine. £120.00
20342. DRAMA. MALLET, DAVID.: Mustapha. A Tragedy.
London, A Millar, 1739. 8vo, pp [8], 84, calf backed boards, worn , text a bit foxed and stained else a reasonable copy, FIRST EDITION. £15.00
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20887. DRAMA. SHADWELL, CHARLES.: The Fair Quaker of Deal: or, the Humours of the Navy. A Comedy.
London, W Feales, 1737. 12mo, pp 72, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, later neat wrappers, a very good copy, a rar eprinting of this popular play. £15.00
21951. DRUMMOND, WILLIAM OF HAWTHORNDEN.: The Poems.
London, J Jeffery, 1791. Small 8vo, pp viii, 326, uncut, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound in later 19th Century half calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed, frontispiece a little ink marked, otherwise a good sound copy, SECOND JEFFERY EDITION,re-issued from the previous year. £50.00
17906. DUDLEY, ROBERT. [JEBB, SAMUEL].: The Life of Robert Earl of Leicester, The Favourite of Queen Elizabeth: Drawn from original Writers and Records.
London, Woodman and Lyon, and C Davis, 1727. 8vo, pp [2], v- xvi, 277, [79], fine engraved portrait frontispiece, by Vertue, bound in contemporary calf, lacking label, upper board detached, a fine clean copy internally, FIRST EDITION; a scarce biography of this prominent Elizabethan statesman, anonymous, but by Samuel Jebb, who uses much unreliable and misleading material from 'Leycester's Commonwealth' a wholly biased work of 1584. £75.00
19404. DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM.: A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm, from the XLIX of King Henry the IIId. until the present Times...Extracted from Publick Records.
London, S R for Robert Clavell, 1685. Tall folio, pp [12], 580, [16], bound in contemporary calf, worn at corners, rebacked efficiently but in rather plain style, one old library stamp on title verso, bound without the license leaf before the title page, else a clean crisp copy printed on heavy paper, FIRST EDITION; a very valuable genealogical source of post Conquest English family names who played a part in the early English Parliaments. £150.00
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18211. DUGDALE, WILLIAM SIR.: The Baronage of England, or An Historical Account of the Lives and most memorable actions of our EnglishNnobility in the Saxons time, to the Norman Conquest; and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third’s reign.
London, printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1675.-76. Folio, pp, [12], 154, 145, 156-562, 566, 564, 563, 567-643, 640, 633, 646-790, [2]; [10], 191, [3], 195-312, 361-488, [4], titles in red and black to volumes I and II and the 5 folding genealogies to volume I as called for, one full page illustration in the first volume at pp. 386, also containing a number of hand drawn coats of arms in margins throughout, separately dated title for the third volume within the pagination, bound in 18th century blue full morocco gilt, page edges gilt, spines and extremties rubbed and scuffed, some lighter surface abrasions, corners bumped, contents holding firmly and in good crisp condition, uniformly toned and with some occasional light browning, a few library stamps, though not too disfiguring or obtrusive, overal a good sound set, FIRST EDITION, considered Dugdale most important contribution to English genealogical research. £300.00
21715. DUNTON, JOHN [EDITOR].: The Athenian Oracle: Being an Entire Collection Of all the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries...To which is prefix'd, The History of the Athenian Society...Vol IV.
London, Knapton etc, 1728. 8vo, pp [1], 487, [16, including adverts], contempora calf, lightly rubbed and chipped at spine ends, but a very good copy, THIRD EDITION, volume 4 only, a supplementary volume, with history of the society. £60.00
21636. EBNER VON ASCHENBACH, JOHANNE CHARLES.: Problema Historico- Criticum de S R I Archiscutifero.
Nurnberg, G Meyer, [1738]. Small 4to, pp 60, engraved frontispiece of medallions, double page plate, disbound, a good copy, FIRST EDITION. £15.00
19852. EDUCATION. FELTON, HENRY.: A Dissertation On Reading the Classics, And Forming a Just Style. Written in the Year MDCCIX. And addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roose, The Present Marquis of Granby.
London, Jonah Bowyer, 1713. 12mo, pp [2], xx, [14, including errata], 228, bound in contemporary calf, upper joint broken and weak, internally with light marginal browning, else good, FIRST EDITION, a collection of essays on classic learning and educational guidance generally, which went through many editions during the 18th Century. £60.00
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19722. EDWARDS, JOHN.: An Enquiry into Four Remarkable Texts of the New Testament Which contain Some Difficulty in them: With a Probable Resolution Of them
Cambridge: by J. Hayes, Printer to the University, for W. Graves, 1692. 8vo, pp [xvii], 267 bound in contemporary panelled calf, unlettered, short cracks to joints, text lightly browned, but a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION. Wing E208. "In this work Edwards treats four texts whose interpretation raises problems...In view of his pugnacious manner in controversy, it may be interesting to note that he closes this work bystating that in the ‘Expositions of Scripture which I have tended, I am always ready to submit to those who are of more Sagacious Judgments’. £90.00
19752. ELLIS, JOHN.: The Knowledge of Divine Things from Revelation, not from Reason or Nature, With some additional Considerations upon Mr Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding; wherein is demonstrated from his own Principles.
London: by J. Watts, and sold by B. Dod, J. Fletcher at Oxford, and T. Merrill at Cambridge,1747. 8vo, xxiv, 440, errata on p. xiv, bound within the text: Some Brief Considerations upon Mr Locke’s Hypothesis,That the Knowledge of God is attainable by Ideas of Reflexion.Wherein is Demonstrated, Upon his own Principles, That theKnowledge of God is not attainable by Ideas of Reflexion, Beingan Addition to a Book lately Publish’d, entitled The Knowledgeof Divine Things …. By the Author of the said Book, London:by J. Watts, and sold by B. Dod; J. Fletcher at Oxford, and T.Merrill at Cambridge, 1743, [ii ], 52 pp. (bound between pp. 132and 133 of the main item); both items in one volume, rebound in quarter calf with gilt lettering and with new endpapers, using previous boards in old calf, FIRST EDITION. ' Ellis agrees with Locke in rejecting innate ides and principles but, like Browne, he rejects Locke’s views on ideas of reflection. Consequently he holds not only that we have no natural knowledge of God. We are only able to apprehend the reality of God because and so far as God has instructed usabout Godself.' -Pailin Catalogue. The Painlin copy. £125.00
20792. ELZEVIR PRINTING.: Relation de la Cour de Rome, faite l'an 1661, au Conseil du Pregadi Par l'Excellentissime Seigneur Angelo Corraro.
'A Leide, chez Almarigo Lorens, 1663. Small 12mo, pp [8], 136, bound in contemporary vellum, sides a little soiled and ligth soiling to first and last leaves, else a good copy, FIRST EDITION, 'Le volume est positivement imprime par les Elzevir d'Amsterdam.' -Willems 1300. Corraro is, according to Barbier, pseudonym for the Rouen councellor, Charles de Ferrare du Tot, and the work itself is a scurrilous attack upon the Catholic Church; a contemporary note in this copy reads ' Prohibitus' which is not surprising. An English translation was published by Thomas Mabb the following year. £60.00
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18393. ENGLISH CATHOLICS. CONSTABLE, JOHN.: Remarks upon F Le Courayer's Book in Defence of the English Ordinations. Wherein All his Arguments are answered, and the Invalidity of the English Ordinations is Fairly considered and Fully proved. By Clerophilus Alethes.
[?London, 1727]. 8vo, pp [8], 384, bound in contemporary unlettered panelled calf, light wear to head of spine, light crack to lower joint, but a very good clean sound copy with an old monastical library ownership stamp on the title, FIRST EDITION, an English Jesuit reply to Le Courayer's popular and influential defence of the Church of England, as 'Reformed' in the 16th Century. John Constable, an English Jesuit controversialist who died in 1743, and wrote under the pseudonym of Clerophilus Alethes. £60.00
20246. FABRICIUS, JO. ALBERT.: Bibliotheca Latina, sive Notitia Auctorum Veterum Latinorum.
Venice Sebastianum Coleti, 1728. 2 volumes, 4to, pp [14], 676: 687, bound in original soft milled boards, title in manuscript to the spine, a fine set in original state, , SECOND AND BEST EDITION remarkable copy of a major work by the great German scholar and bibliographer Fabricius, who was adept at digging out old manuscripts and references of great value to scholars; as brunet explains this valuable bibliography of Latin authors was first printed in Hambourg in 1697 in a single octavo volume. The enlargement of 1721-22, also Hambourg is reprinted in this Venice edition, which Brunet prefers on accoutn of the supplementary material being incorporated into the main text. £145.00
19853. FALKNER, WILLIAM,: Christian Loyalty or a Discourse, Wherein is Asserted that just Royal Authority and Eminency, which in this Church and Realm of England, is yielded to the King...And the unlawfulness of Subjects Taking Arms against the King.
London, J M for Walter Kettilby, 1679. 8vo, pp [32], 552, bound in contemporary unlettered calf, rubbed, but a fine clean tight copy throughout, FIRST EDITION; with signature of Thomas Newton on the endpaper, probably the Bishop of Bristol and editor of Milton. William Falkner [d.1682] was a distinguished upholder of the Church of England. 'Penned in the rising tide of animus towards the Bishops in the late 1670's, contained the fullest explication of the positive rights of supreme governors...against both Catholic and Calvanist attacks...his work came closest to repeating the Tudor ideal, language and examples of supremacy.' [Godly Kingship in Restoration England by Jaqueline Rose, who analyses this book in some detail]. A remarkably fine copy of this important title in plain period binding, and with the likely provenance of the Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol. £150.00
17257. FEHMIC COURTS. COXE, WILLIAM.: A Letter on the Secret Tribunals of Westphalia, addressed to Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke.
Salisbury, J Easton, 1796. 8vo, pp [2], 33, [1], half title, disbound, loose in modern cloth backed boards, a good copy, FIRST EDITION. £15.00
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21497. FIELDING, HENRY.: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon.
London, A Millar, 1755. 12mo, pp [4], iv, 228, with mispaginations, half title present, bound in contemporary calf, sometime rebacked with inferior leather, the boards again detached, a sound clean copy internally , FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, issued shortly after Fielding's death in Lisbon in 1754. Publication of this edited version, altered by the author's family, preceeded that of the unexpergated version, though that one was actually in the press earlier. The same publisher issued both in the same year; nice copy of a travel classic. £125.00
21030. FIELDING, SARAH [TRANSLATOR]. XENOPHON.: Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates. With The Defence of Socrates before his Judges. Translated from the Original Greek. By Sarah Fielding.
Bath, C Pope, sold by A Millar, London, 1762. 8vo, pp [2], 8 [subscribers], [2, errata], vi, 339, [1], neatly but plainly rebound in 20th Century vellum backed silked cloth boards, spien with black leather label, an excellent clean tight copy, FIRST EDITION, one of the last works of this notable female novelist and intellectual, sister to Henry Fielding, this translation considered to be a work of great merit. £125.00
18722. FLEETWOOD, WILLIAM.: A Defence of Praying before Sermon, As Directed by the LVth Canon.
London, S Buckley, 1720. 8vo, pp [4], 66, half title, disbound, last leaf lightly browned, FIRST EDITION. £5.00
17646. FLORUS, LUCAS ANNAEUS.: Epitome de l'Hist. Romaine, fait en Quatre Livres par Lucius Ann. Florus et mis en Francois sur les Traductions de Monsieur , Frere Unique du Roy.
Paris, Augustin Courbe, 1656. 8vo, pp [16], 1032, [8], large engraved vignette on title page, ruled throughout in red, now faded to sepia, with the French trannslation facing the Latin original bound in near contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, later red label, sometime rebakced with original spine laid down, this rubbed and cracked in places, modenr endpapers, a fine copy internally, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, which is in fact by François de La Mothe Le Vayer fils [1629-1664], a scarce and pleasing production. £125.00
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17660. FLORUS, LUCIUS ANNAEUS.: The Roman History of Lucius J Florus Made English. Beginning with the Life and Reign of Romulus the first King of the Romans, And divided into Four books.
London, John Redmayne, 1676. Small 8vo, pp [8], 230, [20, with an engraved frontispiece, bound in contemporary unlettered calf, upper board detached, else a sound clean copy, suitable for rebacking, THIRD EDITION, an abridgment of Florius by John Davies, previously published in 1669 and 1672. £125.00
21253. FONTENELLE, BERNARD DE B DE.: Histoire des Oracles.
A la Haye, Gosse & Neaulme, 1728.. Small 8vo, pp [2], xi, [3], 139, title in red and black, neatly bound in contemporatr English calf, spine gilt with red label, edges gilt, upper goint cracked but sound, light browning but a good near copy, NOUVELLE EDITION, 'revue et corrigee par l'Auteur.' £25.00
21745. FONTENELLE, BERNARD DE.: Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead in Three Parts...Translated from the French. With...The Judgment of Pluto etc and Two Original Dialogues.
London, Jacob Tonson, 1730. 12mo, pp [2], lxvi, 256, contemporary sheep, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed and worn at spine ends, light crack to upper joint, but a neat clean sound copy, SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THIS TRANSLATION, A celebrated and much imitated work., translated by John Hughes, who adds 2 dialogues of his own at the end. £75.00
18983. FREDERIC II, KING OF PRUSSIA.: Oeuvres Postumes de Frederic Ii, Roi de Pruse.
Berlin etse trouve a Londres chez G G J & J Robinson, 1789. 15 volumes, 8vo, with engraved frontispiece portrait in volume one, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with raised bands and red labels, spines all rubbed, many of the labels missing, still a sound clean workign set, internally fine, FIRST LONDON EDITION, printed in London from the first edition issued in Berlin the previous year; although that edition was also in 15 volumes [some supplimentary volumes of correspondence were added later] this rather rare English issue does not follow the exact order of the Berlin one, with the volumes of poetry placed at the end, in volumes 14 to 15. £150.00
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10423. FREDERICK II, KING OF PRUSSIA.: Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans-Souci. WITH: ...Seconde Partie.'
Potsdam [?Paris] 'et se trouve a Londres chez C G Seyffert, in Pall-Mall' / 'Au Donjon du Chateau. Avec privilege d'Apollon', 1760. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp 308, [2]: [3], 171, [3], half titles present, woodcut vignette on titles, bound in contemporary speckled calf, spines not quite uniform, 1 label lacking, but a very good clean tight set, EARLY EDITIONS of this famous collection of poems and letters by Frederick the Great, which appeared in various editions mostly printed at Potsdam in this year, and perhaps reprinted from the 1750 quarto edition. The present copy is intersting on two accounts; firstly, part one has London in the imprint, though this is no doubt false, and this is probably a Paris printing; secondly, the presence in the scarce second part of the second title page, with half title before it, 'Recueil de Diverses Pieces de Poesie.' £25.00
21339. FRENCH POETRY.: Nouveau Recueil de Plusieurs et Diverses Pieces Galantes de Ce Temps.
No Place or Printer, 1665. Small 8vo, pp [4], 210, sphere on title page, bound in contemporary French calf, spine gilt with raised bands, a few minor wormholes in the spine, but a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; this notable collection of light and satirical verse was issued later the sam eyear with a second volume, 'Suite' ; the two are usually found bound together however this exmaple of the first part only, and presumably the first issue, from the library of Languet de Sivry has been originally bound to be on its own. There are several issues of this volume with varying content. £45.00
17865. FRENCH REVOLUTION. GORSAS, ANTOINE JOSEPH.: Le Courrier de Paris dans les Provinces, et des Provinces a Paris...XII Volume [-XIII Volume].
Paris, chez l'Auteur, 5 May - 2 July 1790. Volumes 12 and 13 bound in one volume [the volumes in reverse order, comprising nos 1-30 in volume 12, but lacking issues 3-10, and nos 1-29 in volume 13, but lacking issues 2-8, bound in contemporary half calf, worn , bords detached, internally sound and clean FIRST EDITIONS of two incomplete volumes, so bound up originally with about 40 numbers, of the very rare revolutionary daily periodical of Antoine Gorsas, originally issued from 1789 as The Courrier de Versailles. He contined his journal during 1792 and 1793 'his incendary propoganda...had no small share in provoking the popular insurrections of June and August 1792.' However, after a violent attack upon Marat in 1793, his newspaper was closed down; Gorsas fled, but was later arrested and executed. £60.00
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19190. FULLER, THOMAS.: The History of the Worthies of England. Endevoured by Thomas Fuller, DD.
London, Printed by JG W L and W G, 1662. Folio, pp [6], 30, 33-70, 73-144, 149-300, 317- 368, 16, 13-100, 105-144, 149-258, p. 257, 262-354, 232, [4], 60, with fien engraved portrait frontispiece of Fuller, bound in early 19th Century blind panelled calf, sides with triple fillet borders, rebacke din calf, stamped only in blind, old endpapers preserved the inner hinges strengthened with cloth, occasional light browning but a very good sound clean copy, FIRST EDITION; despite the original very confused state of printing, this copy does collate as usual, with, also as usual, the omission of the 18th Century printed index. A landmark in the national biography of the British Isles, and a work full of fascinating references, including a few to Shakespeare and his works. This excellent copy, in heavy 19th Century boards has John Rayner's bookplate at the front, and Hopwell Hall bookplate at the rear. An earlier bookplate is a rather unusual large armorial example, apparently of Desmar Retz. £400.00
21035. GAVIN, ANTONIO.: A Master-Key to Popery.
'Printed at Dublin: reprinted at London for J Walthoe, jun, 1725.' Small 8vo, pp [6], xvii, [1], 156, bound in contemporary panelled calf, upper board detached, light soiling or brownign else sound, FIRST LONDON EDITION, one of the more entertaining aspects of anti Catholicism in England at this period was sensationalist publications such as this, aiming to show the old faith in its worst light, superstitious and corrupt, proved by this large catalogue of stories, anecdotes and polemics, especially against the Mass; the work gained a kind of notoriety, and was frequently reprinted in the 19th century. Gavin himself was a renegade Spanish priest who came to England before 1713, and becoming a priest in the Church of England. A very rare printing, ESTC records no copies in English libraries, Irish and Scottish only. £40.00
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16447. GAYOT DE PITAVAL, FRANCOIS.: Causes Celebres et Interessantes, avec les Jugemens qui ils ont Decidees.
A La Haye, Jean Neaulme, 1746-45. 21 volumes [of 22], size: 4 x 6.25 inches, title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes, frontispiece in volume one, bound in contemporary, probably English, full calf, spines with raised bands and red gilt, lacks volume 20, else complete, bindings with minor wear to a few headbands, very short minor cracks in one or two joints, but a sound and attractive set, NOUVELLE EDITION AUGMENTEE; originally published between 1734 and 1743, this was the most famous and widely read account of famous and notorious legal judgements ever compiled. Originally issued, as here, in 22 volumes, a separate suppliment was published later in the 18th Century, with different authorship. The volumes are frequently found separately or in broken sets; this set is almost complete, and in a most attractive plain calf English binding of the period, in good condition, with contemporary bookplates of the ?military commander John Adleroron [Battle of Plassey]. £200.00
21041. GEDDES, ALEXANDER.: A Modest Apology for the Roman Catholics of Great Britain: address to The Member sof both Houses of Parliament.
London, Printed for the Author, sold by R Faulder, 1800. 8vo, pp xv, [1], 271, half title, unuct in original boards, lacking spine, upper board detached, a very good copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; Geddes had actually written this work in support of Catholic emancipation soem twenty years earlier, before his expulsion from the Catholic Chruch, but had suppressed it at the time as being too inflamtory. It reamins an extremely interesting sceptic view of Catholicism and the etsablisment by a key Scottish enlightenment figure. £50.00
21233. GEDDES, MICHAEL.: Several Tracts against Popery: together with the Life of Don Alvaro de Luna.
London, E J for R Barker and C King, 1715. 8vo, pp [4], xxiv, [4], 383, [1, advert], bound in contemporary calf, broken at spine and with both boards detached, internally sound and soutabel for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, an interesting collection of Spanish related essays by the one time Chaplain at Lisbon. £35.00
17608. GERBERON, GABRIEL.: La regle des mœurs; contre les fausses maximes de la morale corrompue¨: pour ceux qui veulent suivre les voies su^res du salut, & faire un juste discernement du bien & du mal. Par D. G. P.
Cologne: Nicholas Schouten, 1688. Small 12mo, pp [12], 407, bound in later [circa 1800] half calf, spine gilt, with raised bands lacking label, rubbed and cracked to upper joint which is holding on cords, quite sound clean and tight internally, FIRST EDITION; according to Cambridge the imprint is fictitious. A scarce and important work of Jansenist moral philosophy. "Ce volume s’intègre dans la longue polémique autour de la casuistique et du probabilisme. Il défend vigoureusement la position des rigoristes, en parfait accord avec l’argumentation pascalienne et port-royaliste. Mais le but que poursuit Gerberon dans son ouvrage n’est pas de rédiger un abrégé de morale pratique." £150.00
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20229. GESSNER, SOLOMON.: New Idylles by Gessner Translated by W Hooper M.D. with A Letter to Mr Fuselin on Landscape Painting, and the Two Friends of Bourbon, a Moral tale, by M Diderot.
London, S Hooper, 1776. 4to, pp [4], 129, half title, fine engraved title page, 8 engraved plates by Sparrow after Gessner, engraved head and tail-pieces also after Gassner, bound in contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked preserving the old label and original endpapers, these a bit glue stained, light browning and spotting, but a good soudn copy, FIRST EDITION of this fine illustrated production, combining literary and artistic merit, an interesting reflection of Gessner's influence upon the fashionable literary tastes of the period, Gessner's 'Death of Abel' having already become very popular in England through Mary Collyer's translation. The effusive prose of these short peices predicts the Romantic movement in literature to come, and Gessner is considered the prose poet of his 'par excellence.' £95.00
18457. GIRARD, L'ABBE & L'ABBE OLIVET.: Synonymes Francois, Leurs differentes significations...Par M l'Abbe Girard...et Traite de la Prosodie Francoise, par M l'Abbe D'Olivet.
Amsterdam, J Wetstein, 1759. 12mo, pp xliv, 304; [4], 116, 2 works in 1 volume [as issued] with separate titles [2nd title with spurreous Geneva imprint], bound in contemporary calf,spine gilt with raised bands, lacking label and with short joint cracked, but a very good neat copy, NEW EDITION, a popular French school text of the period. £25.00
18052. GLOVER, RICHARD.: Leonidas, a Poem.
London, R Dodsley, 1737. 4to, pp [2], xvi, 335, engraved vignette title page, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, quite rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends, joints cracked but cords are strong, free endpapers removed, but internally clean and crisp, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, a popular and influential poem of the period, which the author, a London merchant and MP, later, in 1770, enlarged. 'far more readable, and today unduly despised, for it is at least a sustained effort in Miltonics, lacking neither vigour nor imagery...can mildly entertain the reader of today...' [Bonamy Dobree]. £35.00
19119. GORDON, THOMAS.: A Dedication to a Great Man, Concerning Dedications. Discovering Amongst other wonderful Secrets, what will be the present Posture of Affairs a Thousand Years hence
London, James Roberts, 1719. 8vo, pp 32, disbound, minor soiling and fraying to title page, but a good copy, SEVENTH EDITION ' Corrected. With a Preface.' a fmaous and popular satire, first printed the previous year; originally attributed to Swift, who disclaimed it, and now thought to be by Thomas Gordon, who afterwards published it in 'The Humourist'; this last edition to be issued is the scarcest. £25.00
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17655. GOUSSAULT, L'ABBE [ATTRIBUTED].: Reflections on Our Common Failings done out of French, by a Person of Honour.
London, G G Croom for R Smith [and others], 1701. 12mo, pp [22], 255, [5, adverts], with the blank before the title, bound in modern full calf, spine plain with rather poor red label, light waterstains to upper margins otherwise clean and sound internally, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH and the scarce sole printing of a work apparently translated from Goussault, but also attributed to Bishop Flechier; the 'person of honour' who translated it is not known, but he provides a useful preface in which he says of its author 'from this Work we may guess that he is one of the Secular Clergy, for he shews more of a Lay-Rigorin the cause of Devotion, and discourageth Monastic Vows. And farther, thae [sic] he is a Person well-bred, and pracris'd in the conversation of the Court...for his work is a Satyr on the Vices and Infirmitiwa regnant among them...the authors design is to Reform all, without disgracing any.' A very scarce and curious conduct book of the period. £195.00
17207. GRACIEN, BALTAZAR.: L'Homme Universel...Traduit de l'Espagnol.
A la Haye, Chez Pierre Gosse & Pierre de Hondt, 1724. 12mo, pp [24], 312, title in red and black, neatly bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, a little rubbed and with light joint cracks and small chips, internally fine and overall a very good copy, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, although a there was a Paris printing of the same year which may have precedence. Translation by J de Courbeville of this classic 17th Century manual of worldly wisdom written by a Spanish Jesuit. £65.00
21862. GREEK LANGUAGE. VIGER, FRANCOIS.: Francisci Vigeri Rotomagensis De praecipuis Graecae dictionis idiotismis libellus / illustravit, perpetuis animadversionibus & quamplurimis idiotismis auxit Henricus Hoogeveen.
Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Petrum vander Eyk 1766. Bound in 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [32], 634, [118], title in red and black with engraved vignette, text in Latin and Greek, this copy interleaves with blanks thoughtout, some with occasional manuscripnotes, well bound in contemporary plain calf, spine with raised bands and double red/green labels, rubbed but sound, a very good set, THIRD AND BEST EDITION of this monumental study of the Greek idiom which became standard throughtout the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The occasionl notes to the interleaves are not very revealing, but the two volumes are inscribed 'St John' at the front -rather unlikely to be a Bolingbroke. £85.00
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17462. GROSVENOR-CUMBERLAND TRIAL.: The Genuine Copies of Letters which passed between His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor; Her Ladyship's Letters to the Hon Miss Vernon...the Anonymous Letters, signed Jack Spratt...To which is annexed...Account of the Trial.
London, J Wheble, [1770]. 8vo, pp [2], 66, disbound, title and last leaf slightly dust-soiled, 2 leabes slightly frayed and with clean tears but not loss of text, else a good copy, FIFTH EDITION, signed by the publisher, Wheble, on the title verso for authenticity. A High society trial which attracted much attention at the time, in which the King's brother, Henry Duke of Cumberland was accused of improper behaviour with Lord Grosvenor's wife; he received 10,000 pounds damages, paid mainly by King George. £25.00
21099. GROTIUS, HUGO.: Votum Pro Pace Ecclesiastica, contra Examen Andreae Riveti, & alios irreconciliabiles.
No place or printer [but Amsterdam, Blaeu], 1642, Small 12mo, pp 118, contemporary plain calf, minor splits but a fine copy, FIRST EDITION, Grotius controversial suggestiosn for the unification of Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, 'he delineated three ways in which to acheive an ecclesiastical union...' £100.00
21529. GUEULLETTE, THOMAS-SIMON.: Memoires de Mademoiselle de Bontems, ou de la Comtesse de Marlou.
'Londres' [i.e. Paris], 1781. 2 volumes, small 12mo, pp [2], vi, 212: [2], 262, bound in contemporary polished calf, spines with brown labels, slightly rubbed and worn at spine ends, but a very nice attractive set, SECOND EDITION. This novel, which is joined by two short ones at the end, was first printed in Amsterdam in 1738, and republished here in the 'Bibliotheque Amusante' series of French novels. £50.00
18927. GUILLIM, JOHN.: A Display of Heraldry...To which is added, A Treatise of Honour Military and Civil.
London, T W for R & J Bonwicke & R Wilkin/ J Walthoe & Tho Ward, 1724. Large folio, pp [12], 460, [4], 276, 58, 24, [22], title in red and black, wood-cut coats of arms in text, 65 fine engraved plates of coats of arms and portraits, strongly bound in early 19th Century diced calf, well rebacked with original rubbed and cracked spine laid down, inner joints re-inforced with cloth, title page slightly creased, but a fine clean copy internally, overall very good, SIXTH EDITION, often preferred for reference purposes, much enlarged and from the fifth edition, and one of grandest of standard heraldic texts. A very good, well restored copy. £350.00
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20019. GUISE, HENRI DUC DE.: Memoires of Henry D of Guise, Relating his Passage Naples, And heading there the Second Revolt of that People, Englished.
London, Printed by T N for H Herringman, 1669. Small 8vo, pp [14], 590, [2, errata], with imprimatur before the title page, bound in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed and worn at head but a very good sound tight copy, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH; this entertainign and semi fictionalized 'memoires' is translated from the French of Sieur de Sainctyon, the Duke's secretary . Henri had joined the Naples revolt of Masaniello in 1647, and was for a short while nominally head of the new Naples Republic; his subsequent military adventures all ended in failure, and he finished his later years in Paris where he died in 1664. All the events of his colourful life would have been familiar to readers in the year of this publication, the translator anonymous. £160.00
19569. HANCOCK, ROBERT.: The Loyalty of Popish Principles Examin'd In Anser to a late Book Entitled Stafford's Memoirs. With some Considerations in this present Juncture offer'd to Protestant Dissenters.
London, S Roycroft for Thomas Flesher, 1682. Small 8vo, pp [16], 191, [1], bound in contemporary calf, soemtime neatly rebacked, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, a fine crisp copy, FIRST EDITION; Hancock is described on the title page as Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Rector of Northell in Bedfordshire; little further is known about him, other than this little anti Catholic work which was reprinted in 1686. This rare little work is of great interest, however, described by a modern commentator on Milton as 'a spin off from Oates's True Narrative, enhances Oates's accusations, explaining that Milton's heterodox and heretical opinions would have been less curious if he had professed his popery.' £120.00
21267. HAY, WILLIAM.: Religio Philosophi; Or the Principles of Morality and Christianity Illustrated from a View of the Universe, and of Man's Situation on it.
London, R & J Dodsley, 1754. 8vo, pp [8], 232, modern plain wrappers, SECOND EDITION. £25.00
18251. HERALDRY.: The Heraldry of Nature, or Instructions for the King at Arms, comprising, the arms, supporters, crests, and mottos, both in Latin and English, of the Peers of E--L--D. Blazoned from the Authority of Truth...
London, for M Smith, 1785. Small 8vo, pp [2], ii, 1-4, 3-119, etched frontispiece and 4 plates numbered 1 to 4, bound in contemporary half calf, rubbed and a littel worn at corners, names of arms bearers added in manuscipt to the text, a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION, the first of two which appeared in the same year, the second having more plates than this one; ESTC entyr gives 4 plates for this edition and describes the work as 'a satire on British nobility, described in the language of heraldry and illustrated with appropriate coats of arms'. A scarce publication in either edition this copy has the fine engraved bookplate, printed in sanguine of [Sir] William Henry Weldon [1837-1919], wgo became Norroy King of Arms in 1894; he presented this book to Everard Green, who held the office of Rouge Dragon, the following year. Doubtless one or the other supplied the manuscript names to the text. £120.00
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20101. HERODOTUS. BOUHIER, JEAN.: Recherches et Dissertations sur Herodote...Avec des Memoires sur la vie de l'Auteur.
Dijon, Pierre de Saint, 1746. 4to, pp [2], viii, [2, approbation], 259, [1], 48, well bound in contemporary French polished sheep, spine gilt with raised bands and cornonet and fleur de lys decoration between, light wear to head of spine, a fine bright copy throughout, FIRST EDITION; posthumous collection of studies on ancient geography and history by the great French jurist and book collector Jean Bouhier [1673-1746], his work as a scholar honoured in various pieces and orations printed at the end of the volume. A very nice example of French binding of the period. £60.00
18356. HEYLYN, PETER.: A Briefe and Moderate Answer to the seditious and scandalous Challenges of Henry Burton, late of Friday-Street; In the two sermons, by hims preached on the Fifth of November 1636. And in the Apologie prefixt before them.
London, Ric. Hodgkinsonne, sold by Daniel Frere, 1637. Small 4to, pp [28, including approbation leaf after the title], 194, [1, errata], title within typographical border, neatly bound in 20th Century green morocco backed boards, spine faded, a little chropped to upper margins touching a few page numerals, else a very good clean copy, FIRST EDITION; a celebrated vitriolic attack upon the puritan divine Henry Burton, who was found to committed a seditious libel in his two sermons of 1636, was afterwards fined, pilloried and imprisoned for life, though the latter sentence was commuted in 1640, whien he returned to clerical duties under a more liberal regime. This, one of Heylyn's earliest works, was politically motivated in defence of the monarchy of Charles I, patronage of which he would be later deprived by Parliament. £150.00
19162. HOOPER, GEORGE.: A Discourse Concerning Lent, In Two Parts. The First an Historical Account of its Observation: The Second, an Essay conerning the original.
London, Tho Warren for Walter Kettilby, 1695. 8vo, pp [22], 444, [4, adverts], imprimatur leaf before title, engraved plate with letterpress explanatory leaf facing, bound in contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked with raised bands, original endpapers preserved, faded library stamp on title verso and number at foot of spine, but overall a very good clean crisp copy, FIRST EDITION; a notable piece of scholarship by this prominent high-church Anglican, described as " a long and very learned inquiry into the meaning and origin of the Lenten fast". £100.00
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18313. HORNBY, CHARLES.: Three Letters, containing Remarks on some of the numberless errors and defects in Dugdale's Baronage: and occasionally on some other authors.
London, Printed for the Author, 1738. 8vo, pp 250, folding genealogical plate, bound in contemporary morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, edges gilt, upper joint cracked but holding, Leigh bookplate, light marginal foxing, but a sound copy, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, a very scarce and scathing commentary upon Dugdale's work of 60 years earlier. The first issue has a different title page beginning 'A Small Specimen of the Many Mistakes in...' £90.00
21637. HUMBRACHT, REINHART FREDERICK.: Fridericus V. Comes Palatinus Rheni et Eletcor Affectans Regnum Bohemiae.
Nunrberg, Kohles, [1716], Small 4to, pp 69, engraved frotnispiece of medallions, disbound, a good copy, FIRST EDITION. £15.00
20901. HUME, HUGH, EARL OF MARCHMONT.: A Serious Exhortation to the Electors of Great Britain wherein The Importance of the approaching Elections is particularly proved from our present Situation both at Home and Abroad.
London, T Cooper, 1740. 8vo, pp 60, half title, uncut, sewn as issued, a good copy, FIRST EDITION; an election tract by the Scottish politician also known as Lord Polworth; he would lose his seat at Berwick Upon Tweed in that year. £15.00
21955. INFANT BAPTISM. ADDINGTON, STEPHEN.: The Christian Minister's Reasons for Baptizing Infants and for Administering the Ordinance by Sprinkling or Pouring of Water.
London, Printed and sold by J Buckland, and by the author at Market-Harborough. 12mo, pp xii, 192, contemporary plain sheep, rubbed, a sound copy, FIRST EDITION; a very scarce non-conformist view of infant baptism written by a minster at Market-Harborough in Leicestershire, and dedicated to the congregarion of Protestant Dissenters there. £85.00
17256. IRELAND. MINTO, LORD.: The Speech of Lord Minto, in the House of Peers, April 11, 1799, on a Motion for an Address to His Majesty, to Communicate the Resolutions of the Two Houses of Parliament, Respecting An Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Dublin, John Exshaw, 1799. 8vo, pp 155, [1], disbound, light foxing, else a good copy, FIRST EDITION; one of the several different issues of the same year; "On 19 March 1799 he delivered in the House of Lords a weighty speech on the union with Ireland, which he supported mainly on the ground that it afforded the only means of effectually controlling the mutual animosities of Catholic and Protestant." -DNB. £35.00
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21314. IRELAND. O'LEARY, ARTHUR.: Miscellaneous tracts...to which is added an Apology; occasioned by Thunderstruck's remarks on the Mode of Giving Absolution to Popish criminals under Sentence of Death.
London, P Keating, 1782. 8vo, pp xx, 418, without the half title [apparently as issued, as in some copies, see ESTC t139583], neat modern boards with paper label, a very good clean copy, THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED AND CORRECTED, the first London printing of these important tracts by the influential Irish catholic priest and politician. £60.00
17463. JACOBITE. FORBES, DUNCAN [ATTRIB].: Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat.
London, M Cooper, 1746. 8vo, pp [4], 123, half title, disbound, last leaf torn and holes affecting 2 lines of text on recto with ooss of a few words,the verso being blank, else a good copy, FIRST EDITION, generally considered as a fictionalized or romanticised account of the popular [as least with some] Jacobite, Lord Lovat, with a foot in both camps, whose suspect behavour at Culloden in 1745 eventually brought about his trial and execution one year after the publication of this work, generally attributed to Duncan Forbes. £50.00
18434. JESUITS.: Entretien d'un Abbe Commendataire et d'un Religieux sur les Commendes.
[No Publisher or place], 1674. Small 12mo, pp [2], 143, bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, a lttle rubbed and worn at spine ends, but a nice copy with several early manuscript notes to the margins, FIRST EDITION; a title to which some confusion attaches. This is a defence, possibly by a Jesuit, of attacks upon the religious orders of France published in a tract entitled 'L'Abbe Commendataire' in 1673, the work of one Delfau, and published, like this one, outside of France, in something similar to small 'Elzevir' format, and which Willems places in his 'Annexes'; as Willems points out the original work caused a lot of noise at the time, and drew forth several replies and sequels, which he describes as 'divers ecrits fors interesants.' ; he does not mention this one, which seems to be quite rare; £65.00
20233. JOHNSON, SAMUEL.[TRANSLAOR]. LE GRAND.: A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Missionary. ..with Fifteen Dissertations On various Subjects...Translated from the French...to which are added various other tracts.
London, Elliot & Kay, 1789. 8vo, pp [4], 498, [2,], without half title or advert leaf [if required], bound in modern half black calf, spine with raised bands and black label, marbled sides, edges gilt, a neat clean copy in a rather fresh looking binding, SECOND EDITION, previously issued in 1735, Johnson's first published prose work, here edited by Gleig and reprinted with some additional material .. £125.00
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20496. JONES, THOMAS OF OSWESTRY.: Of the Heart and its Right Soveraign: and Rome no Mother-Churxh to England. Or an Historical Account of the Title of our British Church and by what ministry the Gospel was planted in every County.
London, for Edw Foulkes, sold by T Basset, 1678. 8vo, pp [22], 602, [18, including final errata leaf] , bound in contemporary ruled calf, rubbed, spine chipped at head, free endpapers lacking, errata leaf at end mounted on lower board, light browning, internal natural tear to one leaf without loss, else a sound copy, FIRST EDITION; written not exclusively as the historical study it purports to be but as an anti Catholic reaction to the beginning of the Popish Plot, which had started with a pamphlet in 1677, possibly by Marvel, suggesting that the Catholics sought to undermine the government of England. Jones was the dismissed chaplain to the Duke of York, to whom the present work is dedicated, but his constant anti Catholic writings and accusations brought him financial ruin and hastened his death in 1682. £145.00
20788. JONES, WILLIAM.: A new preface to the second edition of Memoirs of the life, studies, writings, &c. of The Right Rev. George Horne, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Norwich, On certain points in theology and philosophy.
London, G G and J Robinson, 1799. 8vo, pp [4], xxx, [2, adverts], half title, disbound, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; very rare, only the BL and Dr Williams copies in ESTC. £20.00
18024. JOSEPHUS.: Opera Omnia Graece et Latine, Cum Notis & Nova Versione, Joannis Hudsoni . Sigebertus Havercampus.
Amsterdam/ Leiden/ Utrecht, R & G Wetsten etc, 1726. 2 volumes, large tall folio, pp [8], 982: [2, fly title], 520, 482, [56], title page in red and black, fine engraved frontispiece, 2 plates of coins, small engraved map in text, folding chart in volume two, finely bound in contemporary speckled full polished calf with central lozengle decoration in blind, and blind panelling, well rebacked in modern calf, spines gilt with raised bands and double black labels, an excellent clean set, FIRST HAVERCAMP EDITION, with parellel Greek/ Latin text, the standard text for many years after, often reprinted in somewhat less grand form than this. A fine and imposing example of this great edition. £500.00
20306. KETTLEWELL, JOHN.: A Companion for the Penitent, and for persons Troubled in Mind.
Lodon, John Rivinton, 1768. 3 parts in one volumes [as issued], 12mo, pp 59, [1]; 32, [4]; 35, [1], with general title pages and separate title pages ot the parts, bound in contemporary sheep., spine a little worn and cracked at joints, but a very good clean copy, FIRST EDITION THUS; these 3 devotional tracts, reprinted under the auspices of the SPCK, may also have been issued separately, as each has its own collation. In this form the edition is rare - ESTC and COPAC both suggest that recorded copies, other than the one in Chetham's LIbrary Manchester, which accords with ours, include the first part only. £25.00
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20230. KNIGHT, ELLIS CORNELIA.: Dinarbas; a Tale: Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
London, C Dilly, 1792. Small 8vo, pp xii, 336, bound in contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt ruled, a very good copy, SECOND EDITION, from two years after the first, a popular sequel to Johnson's novel, by Elolis Cornelia Knight [1757-1837], much travelled writer and artist, member of the Hamilton circle in Naples, where employed as governess and teacher. £45.00
16722. LA BRUYERE, JEAN DE.: The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere. In Two Volumes. Containing. I. The Moral Characters of Theophrastus...Life and Writings...By Monsieur Coste...of the Manner of Living with Great Men...by N Rowe.
London, Printed for E Curll and J Pemberton, 1713. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [8], xxiv, 58, [2], xviii, 18, [2], 8, [2, table], [2, adverts], 119 ['Life' by Coste]: [4], 400, [10, 'Key' and index], with engraved frontispiece in each volume, bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt decorated with raised bands and red labels, spines rubbed but sound, internally with light occasional browning, else clean , an attractive set, SIXTH EDITION, but in actuality the first such collected edition; the parts in volume one, each with separate title page, are bound in a different order to usual in this copy, but they are all there, and include the 'Moral Characters'; volume two comprises the 'Characters, or Manners of the Present Age' only, this being La Bruyere's most celebrated literary work, which appeared first in French in 1688, with subsequent additions included in this anonymous translation which first appeared in two parts 1698-99; this may be the work of Nicholas Rowe, who contributes the imitation 'Manner of Living with Great Men'. £150.00
21531. LA SALLE, MARQUIS DE. ADRIEN-NICOLAS PIEDEFER.: Histoire de Sophie de Francourt. Par Monsieur ***.
Paris, Merlin, 1768. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp xx, [4], 247, [1]: [4], 281, [7], half titles, 4 fine engraved plates after Gravelot, bound in contemporary calf backed blue marbled boards, spine pleasantly gilt decorated with double green lettering pieces, slight minor worming at joints, else a fine clean set, FIRST EDITION; a very pleasing copy of this crarming romantic novel, which La Salle preceeds with atwenty page critique of the function of the novel in France at that period. The author, a French cavalry officer, was best known for his opera libretti and plays, as well as fellow mason to Benjamin Franklin in Paris. An excellent copy nice impressions of the charming Gravelot plates. £150.00
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19016. LAW, WILLIAM.: A demonstration of the gross and fundamental errors of a late book, called A plain account of the nature and end of the Sacrament of the Lord’s supper, &c. Wherein also the Nature and Extent of the Redemption of all Mankind by Jesus Christ, is stated
London, W Innys & R Manby, 1737. 8vo, pp [4], 308, half title, errata pasted to title verso, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, joints, spine ends and corners artfully restored, a little rubbed, but a very good clean copy, FIRST EDITION; an attack upon Benjamin Hoadly. With early ownership of Edward Lovell, 1739, and later Jos. Pike, later still, Charles Thorpe of of University College 1808. £100.00
21320. LAW. BAYNE, ALEXANDER.: Notes, for the use of the students of the municipal law in the university of Edinburgh: Being a supplement to Sir George Mackenzie’s institutions.
Edinburgh, Thomas and Walter Ruddimans, 1731. Small 8vo, pp [2], 11, 187, bound in contemporary calf, soemtime rebacked with red albel, bookplate and perforated stamp to title page of LA Law Society, a couple of ink scratch holes in blank portions of title page, light browning , else sound, FIRST EDITION; a scarce law title, wriiten for students at the University where Bayne was Professor of Municipal Law. £60.00
17576. LAW. BLOUNT, THOMAS.: Fragmenta Antiquitatis. Antient Tenures of Land, And Jocular Customs of some Manors. Made publick for the diversion of some, and instruction of others.
London, Printed for the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, for Abel Roper, Tho Basset and Christopher Wilkinson, 1679. Small 8vo, pp [8], 175, [1], [14, index], [1, errata], with preliminary imprimatur leaf, neatly rebound in modern blind panelled morocco, first two and last leaf a bit chipped at corners without loss of text, elsea good copy, FIRST EDITION; scarce in this printing, perhaps the first general popular work on English legal history, more familiar from its common 1784 second edition. £175.00
20997. LAW. BRYDALL, JOHN.: Jura Coronae. His Majesties Royal Rights and Prerogatives Asserted, Against Papal Usurpations, and all other Ant-Monarchical Attempts and Practices. Collected out of the Body of the Municipal Laws of England.
London, for George Dawes, 1680. Small 8vo, pp [16], 147, [3, adverts], fine heraldic frontispiece, bound in contemporary gilt panelled calf, rebacked, spine with red label, lower board damaged at fore edge of one corner, boklplate of LA Law Society, the text unstamped, a good clean copy, FIRST EDITION, a rare and desirable title on the English contistution, compiled for civic or legal use; John Brydall [b. ?1635] 'a captain in the regiment of foot raised for the king's service by the Inns of Court, and a famous master of pike-exercise, was a native of Somerset. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, as a commoner in 1651, proceeded B,A., entered Lincoln's Inn, and became secretary to Sir Harbottle Grimston master of the rolls He published thirty six treatises chiefly on law...' £145.00
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17588. LAW. COKE, EDWARD.: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: or, a Commentary upon Littleton...to which is added, The Treatise of the Old Tenures of the Laws of England.
London, Eliz Nutt and R Gosling, sold by B Lintott, R Gosling and T Ward, 1719. Large folio, pp [18], [100], 402 folios, [74], with engraved portrait frontispiece, and one other portrait [of Littleton], printed partially in black letter, strongly bound in contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands and red label, a little marked and frayed at foot of spine, a light damp mark affects the very bottom margin of text, but well clear of text, light browning as usual, but a sound sturdy copy, ELEVENTH EDITION, a cheap copy, lacking the folding table, the most important of the later editions of Coke great commenary upon Littleton first published in 1628. Including list of subscribers; Hesketh family bookplate. £175.00
17013. LAW. COKE, EDWARD.: The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. Containing The Exposition of many ancient, and other Statutes.
London, Printed for by J Flesher for W l D P. and G B. 1662. Small folio, pp [10], 746, [56], printed partly in black letter, engraved portrait frontispiece [with tape stain at inner margin, bound in contemporary ruled calf, worn, boards detached, but a sound tight and clean copy for rebacking, SECOND EDITION. Contains commentary on Magna Charta & other early English charters, a corner-stone in the study of early English law. £175.00
21317. LAW. FLOYER, PHILIP.: The Proctor's Practice in the Ecclesiastical Courts..to which is added, An Introduction to the General Rules of Practice...by Thomas Wright.
London, 'In the Savoy', H Linton for J Worrall, 1746. 8vo, pp [8], xli, [1], 176, [16, advert on final recto], bound in contempaory full calf, spien gilt with red label and raised bands, old stamps [perforated to title page] of LA Law Library, who have glazed the spine, else internally clean and crisp, SECOND EDITION, with Wright's additions. An interesting volume, published when Britian was a more avowedly Christian state than it is now, and throws much light on older legal practice. £60.00
17583. LAW. FOSTER, MICHAEL.: A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels of the Year 1746 in the County of Surrey, and of other Crown Cases. To which are added Discourses upon a few branches of the Crown Law.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1762. Tall folio, pp viii, [4, 'advertisement'], 412, [19], bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and red label, upper board nearly detached, sle a very good sound clean and tight copy, suitable for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; apart from the interest of this work in dealign with the cases of those tried for treason after the '45 Rebellion, the discourses here represent 'a highly authoratitive exposition of the law realting to treason, homicide, and some other capital offences..' £150.00
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20991. LAW. HENNING ARNISAEUS..: De Jure Connubiorum Commentarius Politicus.
Frankfurt, Johann Thimi, 1613. Small 4to, pp [8], 388, [4], title in red and black, bound in slightly later calf, spine gilt ruled with black label, rubbed, worn to spine ends, joints cracked but holding, minor worm trace to title page margin, else a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION, one of the earliest comprehensive treatises on the law of marriage in both its civil and canon law aspects by Henning Arnisaeus [1570-1636], German physician and moral philosopher who wrote important works on political philosophy. £125.00
18365. LAW. HUTTON, SIR RICHARD.: The Young Clerks Guide: or, An exact Colletcion of choice English Presidents, according to the best forms new used, for all sorts of Indentures, Letters of Atturney, Releases, Conditions etc...BOUND WITH: The Second Part Of the Young Clerks Guide.
London, for Matthew Walbanke, 1650-52. 2 works bound in one volume, small 8vo, pp [16], 336; [14], 356, title pages within typographical borders, bound in contemporary sheep, spine considerably worn and chipped and split at middle, though somehow hodling together, lakcing one leaf of contents in second part [A8], occasional soiling and stains but generally sound, FOURTH IMPRESSION OF FIRST PART, FIRST EDITION OF SECOND PART; these are regarded as separate works by ESTC, though they are often found bound together, and were issued this in later printings. The first part is quite complete, and is a rare issue, ESTC recording only the Dulwich College copy, although an issue with Tuckey's imprint is in a US court library. Whilst the second part is defective, lacking one leaf of its table, it is the very scarce first edition, of which ESTC records 2 copies UK and 5 copies US, and it does have the very rare woodcut frontispiece before the title page. £175.00
18213. LAW. LEEUWEN, SIMONIS VAN.: Censura Forensis Theoretico-Practica, id est Totius Juris Civilis Romani, Usuque Recepti, & Practici Methodica Collatio.
Leiden, S Luchtmans and C Haak, 1741. 2 parts in one volume, tall folio, pp [38], 623, 248, plus indices, 2 fine engravings in text, first title page in red and black, strongly bound in modern buckram cloth, double red/ black labels, court of law library stamps to endpapers but not text, title page slightly re-inforced a very good copy, FOURTH EDITION, edited by Gerardus de Haas, standard study of Roman law. £65.00
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21286. LAW. NOY, WILLIAM.: The Compleat Lawyer: or A treatise concerning tenures & estates in lands of inheritance for life, and other hereditaments, and chattels real and personal....with observations of the author's life.
London, John Amery, 1674. Small 8vo, pp [14], 117, [3, adverts], engrave dportrait frontispiece, bound in 20th Century half cloth with red leather label, marbeld sides, text lightly browned, portrait a little frayed at fore -edge, bookplate of La Law Library, else a good copy, LAST EDITION, the final printing of this popular pocket treatise on law which first appeared in about 1650; the later editions include the portarit, which is usually missing, and the life. £120.00
21098. LAW. RIDLEY, THOMAS.: A View of the Civile and Ecclesiasticall Law: And wherin the Practice of them is streitned and may be relieved within the Land...the Third Edition by J[ohn] G[regory..
Oxford, W Hall for John Forrest, 1662. 8vo, pp [12], 397, [30], [2, longitudinal half title], title page in red and black within typographical border, contemporary ruled calf, sometime rebacked with red label, rubbed and worn at spine ends and corners, small marginal repair to title page, internally sound and crisp with light early stamps of the Law Society, THIRD EDITION, an important study of English law, first printed in London in 1607 and dedicated to King James I; a scarce printing, not in Madan. £120.00
21635. LAW. SCHILDECK, HENRY WALTER.: Discvrsvs Historico-Ivridicvs De Archi-Cancellariatv Et Primatv S.R.I. Principis Abbatis Fvldensis
Leipzig, J C Langenheim, 1733. Small 4to, pp 96, engraved seal in text, disbound, first leaves with oil stain to corners, else good, NEW EDITION. £15.00
17689. LAW. SULLIVAN, FRANCIS STOUGHTON.: An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England; With a Commentary on Magna Charta, and necessary Illustrations of many of the English Statutes. In a Course of Lectures read in the University of Dublin.
London, J Johnson and J Payne, 1772. 4to, pp xiv, [3]-448, [2], half title, issued without the list of subscribers or leaf B1 [a fly title], bound in 19th century half calf, cloth sides, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed, upper joitn cracked but holding, half title torn and restored, else sound and clean internally, FIRST EDITION; possible second issue without subscribers list or fly title; an important series of Dublin lectures, given by the Royal Professor of Common Law at the University. £65.00
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21807. LAW. WYNNE, EDWARD.: Eunomus: or Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of England. With an Essay on Dialogue.
Dublin, James Moore, 1791. 8vo, pp xli, [3], 444, [8], bound in contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, early stamp of Carlow College on title, paper flaw to Ee3 affecting a few letters only, else a very good clean tight copy, THIRD EDITION, but the first Dublin printing and scarce. A significant scollection of essays on legal theory. £85.00
21187. LE CROIX, CLAUDE DE.: Le Parfaict Ecclesiastique ou Diverses instructions sur toutes les fonctions cléricales. Cy-devant disposées en Tables par Mre Claude de la Croix
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1676. 4to, pp [16], 696, [16], title in red and black, engraved dedication, 2 large foldign plates, these with short tears, bound in contemporary calf, worn at spine ends and corners, joitns cracked but sound, internally lightly browned throughout else good. First published in Paris in 1665, this standrad guide for Roman Catholic priests was most comprehensive. £60.00
19436. LE MESURIER, THOMAS [ AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR].: Translations Chiefly from the Italian of Petrarch and Metastasio. BOUND WITH:
Oxford, for J Cooke, 1795-99. 2 works in one volume, 8vo, pp iv, 127, [1]; IX, [1], 72, with inserted errata leaf in second work, bound in contemporary half calf, worn, spine defective, else a sound clean binding copy, FIRST EDITION OF BOTH WORKS; Le Mesurier was a minor poet in his younger days, later an influential cleric and lawyer. The second collection is scarce, the advertisment written at New College, Oxford, where he had graduated some years before. £25.00
19304. LE NEVE, PETER.: Monumenta anglicana: being inscriptions on the monuments of several eminent persons deceased in or since the year 1700. to the end of the year 1715. Deduced into a Series of Time by way of Annals. At the end of each Year is added An Obituary...
London, Printed by W Bowyer for the editor, 1717. 8vo, pp [24], 306, [16], bound in contemporary panelled calf, old rebacked with raised bands, red label, the spine now faded, inner joints re-inforced, a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION; advertised as 'intended as a specimen of a much larger work', and indeed Le Neve would go on to publish three more similar collections of epitaphs ans monuments covering different historical periods. This first collection, however, deals with the contemporary obituaries of the previous 15 years, some of the information being supplied by the stone masons before work was actually completed. £100.00
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19912. LE SAGE, RENE.: Le Diable Boiteux, augmente des Bequilles du Diable Boiteux.
Dijon, L N Frantin, 1797. 2 volumes, 8vo, bound in contemporary green roan claf, spine gilt with double red labels, slightly chipped at heads of spines, lightly rubbed, internally a fien clean set, FIRST EDITION THUS, ALRGE PAPER ISSUE. a A pleasant printing in decent period binding. £45.00
21088. LEDISIMA, JACOB.: De Scripturis Divinis quavis lingua passim non legendis, atque de augustssimo Missae sacrificio..Adversus nostri seculi haereticos utilissimus.
Cologne, Arnodl Quentelium, 1597. 8vo, pp [16], 279, woodcut device on title page, bound in contemporary yapped vellum which is a littel soiled, Medham tarct no 160 label on spine, a good copy, SECOND EDITION, first publishe din 1574; written by an eminent and respected Spanish Jesuit, defending the original ancient languages of the Bible and Mass against heretical translations. £100.00
20942. LETI, GREGORIO.: The Life of Donna Olimpia Maldachini, Who Governed the Church during the Time of Innocent the X. Which was from the Year 1644 to the year 1655.
London, W Godbid, 1667. Small 8vo, pp [8], 214, disbound, one or two small stains, but a sound clean tight copy for rebinding, SECOND EDITION, printed first the previous year..The first English translation of a scurrilous biography of the female power behind the late Pope Innocent, its publication clearly intended to ferment anti Catholic fervour or at last ridicule. Donna Olimpia 'who in the City of Rome acted a Man in Womans apparel, and in the Church a woman wearing the breeches.' Leti spread about the rumour that Maidalchini had been the Pope's lover, though this seems doubtful. £100.00
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21905. LILLY, WILLIAM [AND ELIAS ASHMOLE].: Mr William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, From the Year 1602, to 1681. Written... in the 66th Year of his Age, to his worthy Friend Elias Ashmole. BOUND WITH: Mr William Lilly's True History of King James the First and King Charles the First.
London, J Roberts, 1715. 2 works in one volume, small 12mo, pp [4], 116; [4], vii, [1], 108, complete with dedication leaf in first work, second work with advert leaf before the title announcing the second edition of the first work, woodcut diagrams of nativities to the second work, bound in early 19th century full calf, sides with gilt fillet boorders, spine gilt with raised bands, a little rubbed, worn at head and lacking label, first work with some early pencil annotations to the margins, manuscript notes to endpapers contemporary with the binding, by 'John Rider Farmer near Canterbury' but overall a very sound neat copy, FIRST EDITION OF BOTH WORKS; ESTC lists both as separate items, and indeed they were sold as such as he title pages indicate at 1/6 stiched. Theye must have been frequently bound up together however as here, and a rather rare 1723 re-isue united the two with a general title page, there by then having been the second edition of the first work. The whoe, thing constitutes Elias Ashmole's tribute to his old friend havign edited the manuscript of his autobiography [now in the Bodleian] and completeing it down to Lilly's death in his own hand. Though not much of a literary effort it throws much light on the life of this 17th Century astrologer, who by some was blamed for the Great Fire of London [which supposedly he predicted]. This and other sensationlist material is announced on the title page ['Tryal of Isaac Antrobus...for Baptizing a Cock by the Name of Peter, and committing Adultery with a Woman and her Daughter'. etc], but the work was only given serious notice when republished with Ashmole's own autobiography in 1771. £250.00
21689. LOCK, PETER [OF NORTH MOULTON] [ASCRIBED].: An Exmoor Scolding; in the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, between Two Sisters, Wilmot Moreman & Thomasin Moreman, As they were spinning...
Exeter, A Brice and B Thorn, 1771. 8vo, pp [2], iv, 3-60, neatly bound in 19th Century half calf, spine in blind with raised bands and green label, spine a littel faded, title page browned and laid down, else a good copy, SEVENTH EDITION, an important one which includes the glossary at the end and a new four page preface by Brice explaining the need for the glossary and the significance of dialect forms of language. Brice, who may actually have written it himself, had first published this dialect effort reprinted from the Gentleman's Magazine in the 1740's in which from they are very rare, but this 1771 printing is the first attempt to expand upon the original and was reprinted in 1874.' It has been described variously as one of the most important works on dialect in the English language, and as of little literary merit, consisting mostly of strings of abuse in local dialect.' £120.00
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21377. LOCKE, JOHN.: An Essay concerning Human Understanding. In Four Books.
London, Printed for A Churchill and A Manship, 1721. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [32], 372: [16], 340, [27], engraved portrait frontispiece, bound in contemporary calf, rubbed, one board detached, internally crsip and clean, EIGHTH EDITION 'with large additions.' £75.00
21904. LOCKE, JOHN.: The Works of John Locke Esq in Three Volumes.
London, Edmund Parker, 1740. 3 volumes, tall folio, pp xxxii, ii, 608, [15]: 724, [9]: [4], , 687, [13], engraved portrait and monument plate in volume one, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with rasied bands and double red/green label, rubbed and worn at corners and spien ends, else a good soudn set, FOURTH EDITION. . £350.00
19195. LODGE, EDMUND.: Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and James I, exhibited in a series of original papers, selcected from the manuscripts of...Howard, Talbot and Cecil.
London, G Nicol, 1791. 3 volumes, large 4to, with 15 engraved plates of portraits, effigies and facsimile signatures, well bound in contemporary tree calf, sometimes rebacked in morocco, spines gilt with raised bands, corners a bit worn, occasional light foxing of text and plates, but a sound and attractive set, FIRST EDITION, a very valuable original source on the reigns of the Tudor and early Stuart monarchs, casting much light on the period, collected by Lodge from previosuly unpublished papers of the three powerful and influential families referred to in the title, of Howard, Talbot and Cecil. £120.00
22071. LONGUS, ACHILLUS TATIUS, PARTHENIUS ET AL.: Achillis Tatii De Clitophontis & Leucippes amoribus lib. VIII Longi Sophistae De Daphnidis & Chloes amoribus lib. IV. Parthenii Nicaeensis De amatoriis affectibus lib. I
Heidelberg] : In Bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1606. 2 parts in oen volume, small thick 8vo, [2], 398 leaves, foliated, title page within ornamental woodcut border, bound in later 17th Century English panelled calf with red label, upper board detached, else a fine clean copy throughout, SECOND EDITION, one of the most significant anthologies of late Greek fiction, mainly love and erotic inspired, including the celebrated Daphnis and Cloe attributed to Longus. The following are included in their original Greek texts with Latin translations facing: Leucippe et Clitophon;De Clitophontis & Leucippes amoribus;De Daphnidis & Chloes amoribus; Pastoralia; De amatoriis affectibus;De amatoriis affectionibus. The anthology was first printed with identical collation at Heidelberg in 1601, the editorial work by the printer's nephew N Bonovitius. This was the second printing of Longus in the original Greek [first printed Florence 1598], and the first translation into Latin prose. The Tatius is the first Greek printing, having been printed in Latin translation as used here in 1544-54. This copy bears the Arbury Bookplate, though not the signature of Sir Richard Newdigate, though it was probably bound for him. A later end-paper signature is that of the Mediaeval scholar John Norton-Smith, from his student days at Magdalen. £250.00
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17047. LUDLOW, EDMUND.: Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq; Lieutenant-General of the Horse...To which is prefix'd, Some account of his Life and Writings...with An Account of his Conduct during his Banishment in Swizerland...From Mr Addison.
London, W Mears & F Clay; J Hooke and T Woodward, 1722, 1721, 1720. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp xvi, [2], viii, 430; [4], 435-878; [8], 402, [56], including indices, half titles, well bound in contemporary panelled calf, spines with raised bands and black labels, some joints lightly cracked, and slight corner wear, as usual, occasional browning of text due to poor paper quality, else a good looking sound set, SECOND EDITION, first printed in 1698-99 with a spurrious Swiss imprint. This is the scarcest of editions of Ludlow, and includes, for the first time, the 16 page 'Some Passages of the Life of Edmund Ludlow', printed before the text of volume one. An important and largely reliable first hand account of the Civil War in its military aspects, written from the Cromwellian standpoint. £125.00
17591. LYTTELTON, LORD GEORGE.: The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, And of the Age in which he lived, in Five books: to which is prefixed, A History of the Revolutions in England From the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second.
London, W Sandby and J Dodsley, 1767-71. 5 volumes, 4to, comprising three volumes of the History and two volumes of Notes, bound in contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, later replacement double red/black labels, light cracks to joints, slight wear to headbands and minor rubbing to spines, title of volume one lightly spotted, else a very good sound set, FIRST EDITION, often described as a four volume set, with the fourth volume of 'Notes' in two parts; a major contribution to English mediaeval history, one of the major historical undertakings of the 18th Century. " He used the best authorities he could find, and gives a minute and accurate account of the political events of Henry’s reign, together with remarks not always according to knowledge on its constitutional and legal aspects. His style is clear, but remarkably flat..." [CHEAL, vol X]. Gibbons said that his “sense and learning were not illuminated by a single ray of genius.” Each volume of this set bears the remarkable 'bear' bookplate of Joseph Berens Lincoln's Inn, who become Govenor of the Hudson Bay Company from 1812 till 1822, and after whom the Berens River in Canada is named. £275.00
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20719. MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE.: Moral Gallantry a Discourse wherin The Author endeavours to prove, That Point of Honour [abstracting form all other ties] obliges Men to be Vertuous and that there is nothing so mean [or unworth of a Gentleman] as Vice. .
London, Hanna Sawbrige, 1685. 12mo, pp [24], 124, [4], 89, [1], 22, 25-36, with separate title page to 'A Moral Paradox' also dated 1685, bound in contemporary panelled calf, plainly rebacked without lettering, else a good copy, SECOND LONDON EDITION, a re-issue of the first of 1669, itself of the Edinburgh first printing of 1667. The value of Mackenzie's treatise on moral ethics is somewhat compromised by his advocacy of judicial torture, and his mass executions of Scottish Covenanters after Bothwell Bridge in 1679, however such actiosn may have seemed justified in his later role as advocate to Scotland for Charles II. The imprint of Hanna Sawbridge, widow of George Sawbridge and here spelt 'Sawbrige' , is rare, occuring only between 1682 and 1686 on a very few titles -ESTC records only this one with this spelling, and two titles with the correct spellling. £120.00
19576. MANNING, ROBERT.: A Single Combat or Personal Dispute between Mr Trapp, and his Anonymous Antagonist...whether Mr Trapp, or the Author his Adversary has writ Nonsense?
Antwerp [but ?London], 1728. 8vo, pp [2], vi, [2], [6], 182, contemporary calf, rubbed and with upper joint cracked but sound, a small patch of worming to inner margin occasionally touching but not disturbing the text, else a very good clean crisp copy, FIRST EDITION; like 'England's Reformation' of 1725, probably actually from the London press of Robert Howlett; that work is important and interesting Roman Catholic interpretation of the Reformation, in opposition to those accounts held both spiritually and politically dear by the English Church establishment, spearheaded by Burnet. Manning's work drew forth a memorable reply by Joseph Trapp, to which Manning himself replied here in this scarce tract which largely involves the Catholic Protestant conflict of the time. £50.00
21734. MARINE SOCIETY [JONAS HANWAY].: The Bye-Laws, and Regulations of the Marine Society, incorporated in MDCCLXXII; with the several instructions forms of indentures & other instruments used by it... an Historical Account of this Institution with remarks on the usefulness of it.
London, J March and son, 1792. 12mo, pp [4], ix-xxi, [1], 149, half title, engraved frontispiece, bound in contemporary tree sheep, spine gilt, spine rubbed, else a very nice clean copy, FOURTH EDITION, first published in 1772, though all editions are scarce, the rules of Jonas Hanway's Marine Society, formed by him with the philanthropic intent of educating and preparing youth for the Navy; he himself wrote the historical introduction. This copy collates according to ESTC although the Oxford copy has an explanation of the frontispiece within the prelims. £125.00
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10318. MARLBOROUGH, DUCHESS OF.: A Review of a Late Treatise entitled An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager D__of M__, etc. In which Many Misrepresentations are detected...in a Letter to a Person of Distinction.
London, J Roberts, 1742. 8vo, pp [1], 74, disbound from a collection, light marginal spotting, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; this pamphlet is a conflation of 4 articles which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine during 1742, under the title 'A Review of the Account of the Conduct...' and signed 'Britannicus', which pseudonym occurs at the end of the present pamphlet. It has been claimed [see COPAK, NCBEL and Courtney, p. 12 [citing Boswell]] that Johnson was the author of the reviews of this well known ghosted autobiography of the Dutchess of Marlborough, but the matter is clearly in doubt. £15.00
21408. MAYO, CHARLES.: A Chronological History of the European States, with their Discoveries and Settlements. From the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1678 to the Close of the Year 1792. In which a particular Atrenion is Paid to the Origin, Progress and Termination of Revolutions..
Bath, printed by S Hazzard for GG and J Robinson and J Faulder [London], 1793. Tall folio, pp [134], 87, [9], bound in contemporary full calf, sometime rebacked with fragments of original spine laid down, red label, Law Society bookplate, 2 laves heavily foxed else in good soudn state throughout, FIRST EDITION; an unwealdy education work intended to compliment the atlas folios popular at this period. Mayo was rector od Beching Stoke in Wiltshire and his chronology is chiefly remarkable for its meritricious overview of a Europe in the midst of war and revolution. £60.00
13625. MELMOTH, WILLIAM.: The Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on Several Subjects.
London, J Dodsley, 1776. 8vo, pp xii, 452, contemporary calf, rebacked with plain gilt ruled calf, green morocco label, a good clean and fresh copy, EIGHTH EDITION. The famous classical scholar Melmoth was derided by Johnson; in these letters he attempts to revive letter writing as a classical art form. £35.00
22057. MIRABEAU GAB. RIQUETI, CONTE DE.: Aux bataves sur le stathouderat par le Comte de Mirabeau.
[No place or publisher], 1788. 8vo, pp [2], 147, [1], 213, [1, errata], engraved title page with vignette portrait, bound in contempaory calf, joints cracked but bounds, psien gilt with red label, rubbed and worn at spine ends, minor tape stains to the binding, but a good copy, internally clean FIRST EDITION. 'under the influence of a number of Dutch exiles Mirabeau, together with the team of writers working with him...This highly intriguing text was meant to incite the Dutch to take up arms against the the restored Orangest regime...' £60.00
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21930. MONOPOLIES. GIRDLER, J.S.: Observations on the Pernicious Consequences of Forestalling, Regrating, and Ingrossing...with proposals for new laws to abolish the system of monopoly...thoughts on...the coal trade...reflections on...the London Flour, Meal and Bread Company.
London, H Baldwin for L B Seeley [and others], 1800. 8vo, pp xvi, 366, [2, errata], bound without half title in contemporary calf, with Board of Agriculture gitl stamp on upper board dated 1801, and library stamp on title verso, rebacked in buckram cloth, one gatherign severely foxed, else in good state, FIRST EDITION; a scarce and valuable account of the effects of food and fuel monopolies at the time in place upon the condition of the poor and the national economy in general. This is the full text -Girdler, whose economic views in opposition to Adam Smith were controversial, also issued a pamphlet form abridgement of this work at the same date. £60.00
21928. MONTECUCULI, GENERAL RAIMONDO.: Memoires...divise's en Trois Livres.
Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arkstee & Mercus [?1756]. 12mo, pp xxxiv, 456, title in red and black, with frontispiece portrait, 3 fortification plates, neatly bound in 19th century German marbled boards with pape label, manuscript label at foot of spine, small hole in last 2 leaves with loss of a few letters of the index only, else a fine clean copy. One of the many issues of these significant military memoirs which dela particularly with the Austrian defense against the Turkish invasion of Europe. Translated from the original Italian by Jacques Adam, and an edition first published at Strassbourg in 1736. £35.00
21818. MORE, HANNAH.: Essays on Various Subjects, Principally designed for Young Ladies.
London, T Cadell, 1785. Small 8vo, pp [8], 214, [2, adverts], half title, bound in contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, rubbed and lackign label, else a sound clean copy, FOURTH EDITION; this popular work of essays for girls and dedicated to Mrs Montagu was first published about ten years earlier. £35.00
20309. MORE, HENRY. WARD, RICHARD.: The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr Henry More, Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which are annex'd Divers of his Useful and Excellent Letters.
London, John Downing, 1710. 8vo, pp [24], 362, [4], [2, adverts], engraved portrait frontispiece, separate title page to the letters, bound in contemporary panelled calf, red label, old reback, the upper board now detached, else a good sound copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, 'the only biographical account of him by one of his contemporaries. Ward's almost hagiographical tone is ample testimony to the high regard in which More was held by his admirers. Ward's Life is an important document of intellectual and cultural history which testifies to the continuing impact of More's ideas in the Enlightenment'. [Sarah Hutton, editor of the modern repint of this title]. £125.00
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21301. MUSAEUS [TRANS RONDELLI],: [Greek Tittle]: Musaei De Herone et Leandro Carmen. cum notis Jacobi Rondelli.
Paris, Louis Billaine, 1678. Small 8vo, pp 16, 44, contemporary limp vellum, a little waterstained to outer margins, a few neat early marginal annotations, else a good sound copy in original state, FIRST EDITION; the original Greek text with Latin translation facing and long preface by Jacques Rondelli. A scholarly edition of the great Byzantine Greek love poem Hero and Leander with Latin translation and an early critical accoutn of the poem. £120.00
22036. NANINI, REMEGO.: Epistole Eroiche di P. Ovidio Nasone / tradotte da Remigio Fiorentino.
Paris, Durand, 1762. 8vo, pp [2], xii, 323, [1], portrait, engraved title page, engraved head and tail pieces, bound in contemporary calf, rubbed, upper board detached, internally a sound clean copy suitable for rebacking, FIRST EDITION THUS, popular Italian verse translations from the 16th Century of Heroides of Ovid by Nanini. £25.00
19042. NETTLETON, THOMAS.: A Treatise on Virtue and Happiness.
London, T W for J Batley and J Wood, 1736. 8vo, pp [2], iv, [2], 328, bound in contemporary calf, upper board detached, a few wormholes ot the upper blank margins at the beginning, a few early underlinings and notes, else a fresh crisp copy suitable for rebacking, SECOND EDITION; first published as 'Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Hapiness' in 1729, a much shorter work in the form of a 'letter' of only 112 pages, here, as the author explains, elaborated into a full length 'treatise'. The very obscure Dr Nettleton was a Yorkshire physician, rememberd to day for his pioneering studies of Small-Pox inoculation, but also as the author of the present not inconsiderable work of moral philosophy which passed through several editions during the 18th Century; 'it were to be wished, that every man...would remember, that the chief business in life is to promote his own hapiness, and that of others...' - from the preface, in which the author goes on to describe his thought as 'visionary and romantick...' £120.00
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21931. NEVERS, DUK DE. [NEVERNAIS].: Fables by the Duke of Nivernois translated into English Verse.
London, Cadell and Davies, 1799. 8vo, pp [20],259, parallel French and English text, half title, bound in contemporary tree calf, spine gilt but rubbed, joints cracked but holding, internally fine and clean, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This, a work very much in the spirit of La Fontaine, was the most famous of the Duke, who had served as German ambassador in London before his death in 1798. The anonymous English translator has preceded the text with his own poem ' 'The Nightingale, The Bullfinch and the Owl', a descriptive effort on Bristol and the Avon that might repay firther research. £60.00
21795. NEVILLE, ALEXANDER.: De Furoribus Norfolcensium Ketto Duce. Eiusdem Norvicus.
London, Henrici Binnemani Typographi, 1575. Small 4to, pp [16, including blank], 156; [10] 207 [13], two parts in one volume, title page within ornate typographical border, full page arms of Archbishop Parker on verso, bound in 17th Century calf, rubbed, spien worn, upper board detached, a few damp patches to prelims, a few clean tears, else generally sound and clean internally, FIRST EDITION, a cheap copy lacking the title page to the second part and the two leaves pages 131-134, which according to ESTC were sometimes suppressed because of the offence they gave to the Welsh. This important account of Kett's rebellion of 1549, together with a history of Norwich, was written by Neville at the behest of his mentor Matthew Parker whose coat of arms is finely displayed on the title page verso; naturally the account favours the establishment line though it includes a valuable first hand account of the event. £175.00
21175. NIEUPOORT, G.H.: Ritum qui Olim Apud Romanos Obtinuerunt, Succcincta Explicatio...emendatior et recensione Gul Ottonis et Jo Fred Reitzii.
Amstedam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1779. 8vo, pp xvi, 591, half title, frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, some folding, bound in contemporary paper vellum backed patterned boards, upper joint a little split but sound, text gernally rather browned and in places foxed due to poor paper quality, else a sound copy, NEW EDITION; the most popular of 18th Century textbooks on Roman rites and customs. £25.00
18164. NORRIS, JOHN.: An Account of Reason & Faith: In Relation to the Mysteries of Christianity.
London, S Manship, 1697. 8vo, pp [14], 346, [6, corrections and adverts], without the initial blank, bound in early 19th Century diced calf, spine worn and defective, both boards detached, but internally sound and tight, FIRST EDITION, written in reply to a work by John Toland, in which human reason is put forward as the foundation of religious faith. " Norris's attempt to distance himself....was the occasion of one of his most important books, An Account of Reason and Faith.... in which he attempts to explain the necessity and appropriateness of faith, as well as its relation to reason'. -W J Mander. £45.00
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19750. NORRIS, JOHN.: An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World. Design’d for Two Parts. The First considering it Absolutely in it self, and the Second in Relation to Human Understanding
London: for S. Manship; and W. Hawes,1701/London: for S. Manship; and W.Hawes, 1704. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [6], xvi + 452, [12]: [32], 574, [2], rebound in modern quarter calf, each volume with two contrasting labels, marbled paper onboards, and new endpaper, FIRST EDITION, ESTCT 76546. "Norris recognizes that the exposition of ‘intricate and intangled Nature’of the contents of his Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World results in ‘some prolixity’,although, he hopes, ‘not of much obscurity’ (I, p.132; cf. II, p. [viii]). In it he seeks to combine Platonic and Cartesian views, largely as these areinterpreted, respectively, by the Cambridge Platonists and by Malebranche." -Pialin Library Catalogue. A very good set of this major work of 18th century Platonic philosophy. £200.00
19818. NUGENT, THOMAS [TRANSLATOR].: The History of The Famous preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas: otherwise Gerund Zotes. Translated from the Spanish.
London, T Davies and W Flexney, 1772. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [8], 564: [1], 541, [1], [2, errata], bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and later red labels, a good sound set, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, a long, and allegedly amusing satire on the Spanish Catholic Church and in particular its style of preachers, written by a Jesuit priest named Jose Francisco de Isla; its publication would eventually lead to the author's banishment for his home country. Nugent's translation introduced the phrase 'accidently on purpose' to the English language. £90.00
20852. OATES, TITUS.: A Display of Tyranny, or, Remarks, upon the illegal and arbitrary proceedings, in the courts of Westminster, and Guild-Hall Londonfrom the year, 1678. to the abdication of the late King James, in the year 1688....First Part.
London, Printed 1689. Small 8vo, pp [16], 262, bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, one leaf torn at upper corner with loss of a prtion of text from the upper page, a few other smaller marginal faults, els a good copy, FIRST EDITION, rare. Generally ascribed to Titus Oates, and beginning with an account of his own trial, this surrilous attack upon the judicial system in England durign the reign of James II gives anti Papist commentaries upon the major trials of the period, and was no doubt intended to ingratiate Oates once again with the establishment after the fall of George Jeffries, at the time of publication incarcerated in the Tower and shortly after to die there. A second part was published in the following year, but this first part has a separate record and is regarded as a separate work. £100.00
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21706. OLDMIXON, JOHN.: The History of England During the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, George I being the sequel of the Reigns of the Stuarts.
London, Thomas Cox [and 2 others], 1735. Tall think folio, pp viii,[6],640,617-728,719- 808,[24], title page in red and black, bound in contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends, an early rebacked copy, but sound and clean, FIRST EDITION, the second of Oldmixon's folio histories, though the third and last chronologically speaking, and the one dealign with his own times. In it he also takes trouble to defend his History fo the Stuarts against extensive criticism. Neither this nor its predecessor was a commercial success, less still the third and last volume covering the Tudors. The present volume remains a radical Whig view of the times in which Oldmixon lived, and also a much quoted one. The Studley copy, with Earl of Ripon's 19th Century bookplate. £200.00
16700. OLDMIXON, JOHN.: The Life and Posthumous Works of Arthur Maynwaring, Esq; containging Several Original Pieces and Translations.in Prose and Verse, never before Printed. To which are Added, Several Political Tracts written by him.
London, A Bell, W Taylor anmd J Baker, 1715. 8vo, pp xviii, 356 [i.e. 358], [23, index], bound in contemporary panelled calf, sometime neatly rebacked with olive label and raised bands, boards a bit stained, leather chipped at fore-edge, text lightly browned but a sound copy, FIRST EDITION; the main source for the life of this significant politician and journalist of 'KIt-cat Club' fame. 'Oldmixon was recruited in 1710 by Arthur Maynwaring to counteract, in the columns of The Medley, the views being disseminated by Swift in his influential essay paper, The Examiner. As Oldmixon’s Life... suggests, Maynwaring largely coordinated the production of Whig propaganda during the later years of the reign of Queen Anne.' £145.00
21705. OLDMIXON, JOHN.: The History of England during the reigns of the Royal House of Stuart. Wherein the errors of late histories are discover'd and corrected; ... By the author of the Critical history of England.
London, John Pemberton [and 4 others], 1730. Tall think folio, printed in double column, pp xxi,[1],781,[23], bound in contemporary full calf, worn at corners and chipped to head of spine. joints cracked through, the upper board held on four of six cords only, internally sound and clean, FIRST EDITION, the first and most controversial of Oldmixon's three politically radical takes on English history as presented in three folios. Oldmixon set out to provide a republican Whig view, discrediting the Stuarts where Clarendon and Echard had defended. Pope and many others called it scandelous; Oldmixon himself claimed to have undermined the credibility of his rivals if not displaced them, though this is hardly borne out by the evidence. None of the three folios is commonly met with. An important revisionist rake on 17th century English history. The Studley Park copy, with Earl of Ripon's 19th Century bookplate £250.00
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19306. OVIDIUS.: Opera Omnia...cum Integris Nicolai Heinsii Lectissimisque Variorum Notis...Studio Borchardi Cnippingii.
Amsterdam, Waesbergios, Boom & Goethals, 1702. 3 volumes, 8vo, portrait in volume 1, 3 engraved title pages, printed general title in volume 1, 15 fine engraved plates in Metamorphoseon after Mulder [volume 2], bound in contemporary full unlettered calf, raised bands, minor occasional brownign or foxing, else a fine clean and tight set, FIRST EDITION THUS, the fine and justly famous variorum edition of Cnippingius, first issued in 1683. A very good set. £200.00
20973. OWEN, JAMES.: The History of Images, and of Image-Worship. Shewing the Original and Progress of Idolatry among Pagans, Jews, and Christians.
London, T Parkhurst [and others], 1709. 8vo, pp [24], 295, [1], bound in contemporary panelled calf, both boards detached, light browning, else a soudn copy for rebacking, , FIRST EDITION; edited for the press by John Evans, Owen having died in 1706. Owen, a Non Conformist Presbyterian, argues in this work that the Catholic Church has adopted imagery as a form of idolatry; an interestign historical view of art aesthetics and religion. £60.00
19391. OXFORD ELECTIONS.: The New Interest Display'd: or, A Second Dialogue between a Curate and a Cobler, Address'd to the Freeholders of Oxfordshire.
London, C Warburton, 1753. 8vo, pp 22, bound without the final advert leaf in modern calf backed marbled boards, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, a sequel to 'Old Interest Display'd', a satire on election corruption amonst the Whigs in Oxfordshire. £35.00
21459. OXFORD LITANY: Liber precum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxon. Litania Ordo Administrandae Coenae Domini Catechismus etc.
Oxford, Sheldonian, 1726. 8vo, pp [2], 228, bound in neat 19th Century full calf, lasy leaf largely missing and laid down, else a nice copy, FIRST EDITION. A cheap workign copy of the Christ Church Oxford Latin Liturgy. £10.00
19303. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. CONYBEARE, JOHN.: Calumny Refuted: or, an Answer to the Personal Slanders Published by Dr Richard Newton, in his Letter to Dr Holmes...in which also, The Conduct of the Lord Bishop of Exter, and the Society of Exeter-College in relation to Hart-Hall, is vindicated.
London, J J and P Knapton [and others], 1735. 8vo, pp [4], 134, [2, adverts], errata slip on title verso, bound in contemporary marbled boards, vellum edged, plainly rebacked, some light waterstains towards the end, else a good copy, FIRST EDITION; a celebrated vitriolic dispute between Newton and Conybeare over the rebuilding and reorganization of Hart Hall, Oxford, and the publication of Newton's Scheme of Disciplines, which affected Exter where Conybeare was principal. Despite the latter's war of words Newton's reforms eventually went through, though the rise of Hart Hall would prove only temporary. £35.00
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20076. PALMER, SAMUEL.: The Nonconformist's Memorial: being An Acount of the Ministers, Who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration...Originally written by...Edmund Calamy...Now abridged and corrected, and the Author's Additions inserted.
London, W Harris, 1775. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp xxx [including list of subscribers], [26], 551, [3, errata and advert]: 648, 36, with 27 engraved portraits, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, lacking labels and with the upper boards detached, internally quite sound and clean, a very good set for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; published in parts, a re- arrangement and continuation of Calamy's 'Abridgement', with new portraits. A valuable document of Nonconformist history. £120.00
21617. PARR, SAMUEL.: A Sequel to the Printed Paper lately Circulated in Warwickshire by the Rev Charles Curtis, brother of Alderman Curtis, a Birmingham Rector etc.
London, Charles Dilly, 1792. 8vo, pp [2], x, 217, bound in near contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked with red label, first leaves lightly foxed else a good sound copy, SECOND EDITION, somewhat enlarged from the first of the same year, and also scarcer. The Gentleman's magazine described it as 'Personal altercations and local disputes, heightened with virulent abuse...and pedantic language are all that distinguish this motley and high- priced medley...'. Parr was a notable literary disciple of Johnson from the period, an eminent schoolmaster and writer; in this extended pamphlet his disputes with Curtis are of lesser interest than his analyses of social justice in the wake of the French Revolution. £75.00
21660. PENNANT, THOMAS.: The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant, Esq. by Himself,
London, Benjamin and John White, and Robert Faulder, 1793. 4to, pp [4], 144, with engraved portrait frontispiece [slightly offset onto title page, one engraved plate of Fountains Abbey, bound in contemporary mottled. half calf, plain drab boards, spine gilt ruled with red label, minor rubbing and spotting a fine clean copy, FIRST EDITION, with the two plates as called for, but wihtout the additional two plates foudn in some copies, though in no way incplete without them. The eccentric agign Pennant describes himself as 'the late' on the title page, though he would actually live a furhter five years, and it is his literary career that he indicates at an end not his life. £120.00
22095. PERIODICAL.: The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex. Vol XXVIII for the Year 1797.
London,G G J and J Robinson, [1798].. 8vo, pp 620, [4], lacking engraved title page and frontispiece , 21 [of 24] engraved plates including views, 13 folding music sheets, 8 [of 13] folding patterns, disbound, waterstained, a workign copy only, FIRST EDITION; the only virtue of this wreck of a copy is that it has all it foldign music sheets -and half of the folding patterns which are usually missing. . £25.00
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21651. PERIODICAL. MACKENZIE, HENRY. [EDITOR.]: The Mirror. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh, in the Years 1779-1780.
Edinburgh, for W Creech, 1781/ London, 1783. 3 volumes bound in one, small 8vo, bound in contemporary half calf, black lable, rubbed but sound, short internally tear at inner gutter of title, but a very good sound copy, FIRST BOOKFORM EDITION, mixed Edinburgh and London editions, a popular Edinburgh literary periodical edited and in part written by Henry Mackenzie. £35.00
20234. PERSEPOLIS.: An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Authors...Vol. V.
London, T Osborne and A Millar, 1747. Volume 5 only [of 21], 8vo, with one folding map of Persia 'sive Shahistan', plus 32 views of Persepolis on 20 plates, mostly folding, bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with raised bands and red/olive labels, rubbed and a little worn at spine ends, but a very good clean tight copy, SECOND EDITION of the fifth volume, of particular interest as covering the history of the ancient Persians complete, and includes, apart from a map of the region in ancient times, 32 engraved views on 20 plates of Persepolis and its carvings, including large excellent fold out panoramas. It is interesting to note that this was published in the same year as the murder of Nadir Shah, when much detsruction in and around Shiraz took place, making these views of great documentary value. This portion of the work is attributed to the Scottish author John Campbell, the illustrations evidently copied from De Bruijn whose famous pioneering 1703 survey was published in 1711. A collection of plates called 'Persepolis Illustrata' was published in London in 1739, comprising 21 views and the present collection may be copied from these. £200.00
21382. PETRARCH.: Sonnets and Odes Translated from the Italian of Petrarch; with the original text and some account of his life.
London, T Davies, 1777. 8vo, pp xxiii, [1], 105, [5], bound in contemporary calf, worn and dried out with both boards detached, internally sound and clean, a very good copy for rebinding, FIRST EDITION, and the first major colletcion of Petrarch in English, with the Italian original faced by an anonymous English translation. Considering the importance and influence of Petrach in Rennaisance culture it is suprising that no such collection of sonnets had appeared before, although various parts of Petrarch's work, including sonnets, had of course appeared over the previous two cerntures. Alexander Tytler would later [1785] provide a fuller life of the poet together with some translations but there is no evidence he was responsible for the present translation, and Dr John Nott of Bristol who would later translate Hafez into English has been suggested as a likely candidate [ONDB}. The present collection comprises 30 sonnets and 3 odes, as well as the sonnet on Laura' tomb. £60.00
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19827. PIKE, SAMUEL.: Some Important Cases of Conscience Answered, at the Casuistical Exercises...in Little St Helen's, Bishopsgate-Street. BOUND WITH: Thoughts om such Phrases of Scripture, as Ascribe Affections and Passions to the Deity.
London, J Buckland [and others], 1755-1750. 2 works bound in one volume, [with a third work at the fronnt], 12mo, pp [8], 188; [8], 112, first work with half title, bound in contemporary calf backed boards, worn but sound, spine a little chiped at head and cracked to upper joint, first work soiled to half title and last leaf which has a small marginal chip but no loss, the second work printed on thicked paper and quite clean, SECOND EDITION OF FIRST WORK AND FIRST EDITION OF SECOND WORK, two quite scarce tracts by Samuel Pike, founder of the so called Sandemanian sect in London, a group of independant ministers who followed the philosophy of Hutchinson and Robert Sandeman. The first work was written jointly by Pike and Stephen Hayward; a second volume was issued a year later, but this first volume appears in ESTC as a separate work, and was much reprinted well into the 19th Century in the United States. The two works bound after a reprint of Pope's Essay on Man. £60.00
21337. PIRACY. RICHER, ADRIEN.: Vies di Captaine Cassard, et du Capitaine Paulin, Conny sous le nom de Baron de la Garde.
Paris, Chez Belin, 1789. Small 8vo, pp 252, half title, with engraved portrait of Cassard, uncut in contemporary calf backed paper boards, spine titled 'Cassard', slightly rubbed, small stain on one or two leaves, but a very good sound tight copy, SECOND EDITION, volume three of a series of biographies entitled 'Vies de Plus Celebres Marins', each one also available as a separate volume, as here. One of the most desirable in the series this one deals with the notorious Franch privateer Cassard, who ravaged and plundered Surinam during the war of Spanish Succession in 1712. An excellent unsophisticated copy. £45.00
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19873. PLATONISM. JACKSON, THOMAS OF NEWCASTLE.: A Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes...The First Part. [-The Second Part, Containing the Attribute of Omnipotancy, of Creation and Providence etc.].
London, Printed by M.F. for John Clarke, 1628-29. 2 parts in one volume, small quarto, pp [12], 236; [8], 405, bound in contemporary blind ruled morocco, endpapers a 19th Century replacement, but a fine crisp and unpressed opy throughout, FIRST EDITION, the sixth books of Jackson's Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed, his major theological writings, which took a lifetime to complete. "Strongly against the Catholic doctrine on transubstantiation, he belonged to the "Durham House group" headed by Richard Neile. He was an early anti-Calvinist among Oxford theologians. He made his views known only in the late 1620s, but stated that around 1605 he had already decided against predestination. In theology he was a syncretic Platonist. He took an interest in the Epicurean view of free will, but argued for a middle way accommodating the Stoic criticism of the Epicureans. His humanistic Platonism has been compared to that of Robert Burton; and William Prynne, arguing against William Laud's promotion of Jackson, claimed his learning only made him more dangerous." Of this work, S.M. Towers writes it 'caused a reaction when it was published in 1628. Especially controversial was the dedication to the Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of Oxford, and important for Jackson's career prospects...Jackson raised the possiblity that his views might be interpreted as Arminian.' An important contribution to Oxford Arminian and Platonic writings of the period; an excellent copy. £285.00
10398. POLITICAL SATIRE.: A Key to the Business of the Present S___N: viz. 1. His H___'s speech to his Life-Guard of Switzers, at their general Rendevouz at D___g S___t. II. Certain Important Hints deliver'd to an Assembly of Independents, at the Fountain Tavern...Strand.
London, T Cooper, 1742. 8vo, pp [3], 63, half title [browned and slightly frayed], disbound, a good copy, FIRST EDITION, a scarce anonymous satire on the government of Sir Robert Walpole, with some reference to a speech by the Duke of Cumberland also. £25.00
18360. POPISH PLOT. STAFFORD, WILLIAM VISCOUNT.: The Tryal of William Viscount Stafford for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King, the extirpation of the Protestant religion, the subversion of the government, and introduction of popery into this Realm.
London, Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1680-81. Tall folio, pp [2], 218, bound in contemporary calf, lacking label, joints cracked but holding, a sound crisp copy, FIRST EDITION; trial and execution of the unfortunate Catholic peer implicated falsly by Titus Oates in the Popish Plot. £110.00
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18968. PRESBYTERIAN. WILSON, GABRIEL.: The Trust. A Sermon At the Opening of the Provincial Synod of Mers and Teviotdale, at Kelso, October 17, 1721.
[Edinburgh] 'Printed in the Year 1723.' Small 8vo, pp xii, 180, modern wrappers, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; the Synod audience must have reacted with considerable fortitude to a sermon of this length, and with is indeed the size of a book. Wilson was minister of the small village of Maxton near Kelso from 1713 till his death in 1750. The present sermon "occasioned him and the Church considerable trouble, yet ended only in his being 'admonished to keep the form of sound words, and to beware of expressing himself upon any occasion in such terms as will be of bad influence on Christian practice... With the other six he protested against the sentence of the Commission...' £20.00
20770. PRIOR, MATTHEW.: Poems on Several Occasions.
London, Jacob Tonson, 1709. 8vo, pp [2], xxiv, [4], 328, engraved frontispiece and extra inserted portrait at the front, bound in contemporart panelled calf, netaly rebacked with old label laid down, original endpapers preserved with bookplate of John Smyth of Grays Inn, preliminary leaves with some marginal worming not touching text, else a good sound copy, FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION, which Prior had requested Tonson to print after a surreptitious printing by Edmund Curll had appeared in 1707. Prior was by no means finished, of course, and his collected poems would eventally fill a large folio volume in 1718, a publication which was a great success for Prior, and is a rather commoner volume than the present one, although Curl's original piracy is rarer still £75.00
19894. PROVERBS OF SOLOMON.: The Proverbs of Solomon Translated from the Hebew by Bernard Hodgson, LL D. Principal of Hertford College, Oxford.
Oxford, Clarendon Press for Prince and Cooke, Oxford and Elmsley, London, 1788. 4to, pp [146], bound in near contemporary half calf, spine decorated in blind with black label, rubbed, but a sound copy, FIRST EDITION; a sequel to the same translator's Song of Solomon of 1786; whatever the merits of the translation itself, Hodgson produced an effective poetical interpretation. £120.00
21533. PUGET DE LA SERRE, JEAN.: Le Tombeau des Delices du Monde.
Bruxelles, Francois Vivien, 1632. 8vo, pp [26], 285, engraved frontispiece, title vignette, portrait, boudn in contemporary yapped vellum which is discoloured but sound, one leaf loose and torn without loss, a clean working copy without the plates, SECOND EDITION, first printed in 1630; celebrated moral and aesthetic reflections upon the times. £35.00
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20228. QUEVEDO, DOM FRANCISCO DE.: The Comical Works of Dom Francisco de Quevedo, Author of the Visions of Hell..Translated from the Spanish.
London, C Ward R chand;er and W Sandby, 1742. 12mo, pp , pp [8], 352, bound in early 19th Century half red calf, spine gilt and blind with black label, half title and avertisement leaves present at the front, trimmed a little close without loss, very slight worning to joints at foot, vut a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION THUS, clearly a plagarism of the Stevens translation of 1707, but with changes and omissions, including the condensation of some parts of the novelas presented; in this printing only six pices by Quevedo are presented, and the publication was clearly intended for popular consumption; both York and Scarborough are included in the imprint; three slightly different issues of 1742 are recorded in ESTC, this being the five line imprint recorded in only 3 copies. £60.00
22049. RABENER, GOTTLIEB WILHELM.: Satyres de M Rabener, Traduction Libre de l'Allemand par M de Boispreaux.
Paris, P G Simon, 1754. 4 volumes bound in 2, 12mo, title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes, bound in contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked, spines gilt ruled with raised bands and red label, corners worn round, original marbled endpapers preserved, a very good tidy set, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, said to be a free one, and by the notable translator Boispreaux, pseudonym of Benigne Dijardin. The satirical essays of Rabener had created quite a stir in literary circles after their first publication in book form in the original German in 1751. with further volumes published later. Many of the essays using clever irony satirize Rabener's own literary and critical profession, notoriously the one in which he ridicules the use of footnotes by creating parody of the practice. An English translation appeared in 1757. £75.00
20929. RANDOLPH, THOMAS.: Poems With the Muses Looking-Glass, and Amyntas: Whereunto is added, The Jealous Lovers.
Oxford, F Bowman, sold by This Bowman, 1664. Small 8vo, pp [26], 436, without the half title, or engraved frontispiece [as usual] , separate titles to the parts all dated 1662, bound in old but later half calf, spine with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed, tear in one leaf repaired, but still a sound clean neat copy, FIFTH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Late but charming edition of the poems of this popular Oxford poet, first published in 1634, and in this collected form in 1647. £120.00
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21392. RELAND, ADRIEN.: La Religion des Mahometans, Exposee par leurs propres Docteurs, avec des Eclaircissemens...Tire du Latin..augmente d'une Confession de Foi Mahometane, qui n'avoit point encore paru.
A La Haye, Isaac Vaillant, 1721. 12mo, pp ccv, [1, errata], 317, engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black with engraved vignette, 5 engraved plates, some folding and including a genealogy, bound in contemporatr french calf, spien gitl with raised bands, a bit worn at corners, cracked to joints but sound, spine ends a bit chipped, internally sound and clean, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, a translation of the Utrecht Latin edition of 1705, and one of the first accurate and scholarly accounts of the Islamic faith. £150.00
20869. RICHARD, JEAN.: Discours et Reflexions Morales sur le Jubile, ou l'on traite de son institution, des dispositions ncecssaires pour le gagner..
Paris, Louis Guernin, 1722. 12mo, pp [10, including advert leaf], 206, [20, bound in contemporary plain calf, rubbed, leather of upper board chipped, minro faults but internally sound and clean, SECOND EDITION, originally printed in 1702. The 'Jubile' was a Roman Catholic festival of penance and prayer celebrated every fifty years since 1300. A rare title. £35.00
21338. RIGOLEY DE JUVIGNY.: De la Decandence des Lettres et des Moeurs Depois les Grecs et les Romains Jusqu'a nos Jours.
Paris, Merigot, 1787. 8vo, pp [8], 508, [4], bound in contemporary French polished mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, this chipped, sligthly rubbed and worn to top of spine but an excellent clean copy, FIRST EDITION, the most celebrated work of this lawyer bibliographer of Metz, written in satirical opposition to the Les Philosophes. £45.00
20930. RIQUETI, H.G, COUNT MIRABEAU.: The Secret History of the Court of Berlin; or the Character of the Present King of Prussia, his Ministers, Mistresses, Generals, Courtiers, Favourites...In a Series of Letters, translated from the French; a Posthumous Work.
Dublin, P Byrne, 1789. 8vo, pp xvi, 440, bound in contemporary polished calf, spine gilt ruled with red label, a little rubbed and worn at spine ends, else a good sound copy, FIRST DUBLIN EDITION IN ENGLISH, from the 2 volume London edition of the same year. Published in the year of revolution, this is a notorious and very interesting expose of the Prussian court during 1786. Curiously described as a 'posthumous work' on the title, though Mirabeau did not die until 1791. The author had at first tried to blackmail the French government over the work, and on publication it was banned in France. The anonymous translator of this edition asks 'Is it possible that laws should exist that prohibit the publication of truth..' £60.00
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17674. ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANCOIS, DUC DE.: Memoires de la Minorite de Louis XIV. Corrigez sur trois copies differentes, & augmentez de plusieurs choses fort considerables, qui manquent dans les autres editions. Acec une Preface nouvelle, qui sert d'Indice & de Sommaire.
A Villefranche, Jean Paul, 1690. 12mo, pp [24], 428, [1, errata], title in red and black with 'sphere' woodcut device, neatly bound in modern full tan calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red label, a fine clean copy internally, FIRST EDITION THUS; these memoirs, safely attributed to Rochefoucauld, though disowned by him, were first printed, also by 'Jean Paul', a pseudonym perhaps for Westein in Amsterdam, from a manuscript copy in 1688, but this edition, as the title page suggests, improves considerably upon the original. A standard original source for French history in the period 1624 to 1652. £85.00
18298. ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANCOIS, DUC DE.: Memoires de la Minorite de Louis XIV. Corrigez sur trois copies differentes, & augmentez de plusieurs choses fort considerables, qui manquent dans les autres editions. Avec une Preface nouvelle, qui sert d'Indice & de Sommaire.
A Amsterdam, Aux depens de la compagne, 1723. 2 volumes,12mo, pp [24], 256: [6], 318, titles in red and black with 'sphere' woodcut device, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, lacking labels, chipped at ends, else a sound clena set; these memoirs, safely attributed to Rochefoucauld, though disowned by him, were first printed by 'Jean Paul', a pseudonym perhaps for Westein in Amsterdam, from a manuscript copy in 1688, but this edition, as the title page suggests, improves considerably upon the original. A standard original source for French history in the period 1624 to 1652. £60.00
19262. ROERGAS DE SERVIEZ, JACQUES.: The Roman Empresses: or, the History of the Lives and Secret Intrigues of the Wives of the Twelve Caesars...Written originally in French...and Translated by the Hon Bysse Molesworth.
London, R Dodsley, 1752. 3 volumes, 12mo, pp [2], v-vii, [9], [1]-314, [2]: [2], 302: [4], 214, [32], [2, adverts], bound in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spines gilt ruled with red labels, a little rubbed, natural paper flaws in a few blank margins, but a very good sound unsophisticated set, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THIS TRANSLATION, previously translated in 1723 by George James, this Bysse Molesworth version in fact rather rarer, and used for later 19th Century Society reprints, becoming something of a classic.Bysse Molesworth [1699-1779], was an Irish miscellaneious writer, £200.00
18244. ROHAN, DEC DE.: Les Memoires du Duc de Rohan.
A Amsterdam, Andre de Hoogenhuysen, 1693. Small 12mo, pp [2], 196, 118, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, joints rcakced but sound, label missing, wear to foot of spine, else a nice clean tight copy; a copy of an earlier Elzevir editions, with the 'Veritable Discours' as the second part. £50.00
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19747. ROMAN CATHOLICISM. WALTON, WILLIAM.: The Miraculous Powers of the Church of Christ asserted through each successive century from the Apostles down to the Present time.
No Place or publisher [but London], 1756. 8vo, pp vi, 301, [11], recently rebound in quarter calf with contrasting label and matching buckram boards, on blank leaf in old ink‘Presented to Ordsall Hall Library by Earl Egerton of Tatton’;erratum on p. [302], a very good clean copy, FIRST EDITION, ESTCT 127345. "William Walton’s dates are recorded as 1715- 1780. He may have been the Roman Catholic bishop who is recorded as having been acting in Lancashire towards the end of this period. Walton states that this (Roman Catholic) contribution to the debate about miracles was provoked by the way in which Conyers Middleton and others had harmed ‘the interests of Christianity’ (p. iii). In particular, while various people had responded to Middleton, Walton considers that they are deficient in only considering miracles that occurred in the first two or three centuries of the church whereas ‘they might have deduced a succession of the same wonderful works into the later ages’ (p. iv)...Although the argument from miracles, widely used in eighteenth-centuryapologetics to authenticate claims about divine revelation, is here used against Protestants,Walton’s need to dismiss the ‘pretended miracles’ascribed to ‘the Abbé de Paris’ is a reminder thatthe argument can be used to warrant more thanits initial employers want." -Pailin Library Catalogue. £90.00
14271. ROSA, SALVATOR.: Satire di Salvator Rosa. Rstampate a Spese di G Balcetti.
Londra, 1791. Small 8vo, xxviii, 196, [2], bound in contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, small stain to last 2 leaves, else a very good sound copy, FIRST EDITION; printed by Joseph Cooper of Bow Street. Texts for the Italian community in Soho proliferated at this period, often, as in this case, neat typographical efforts, semi commercial productions. £35.00
21464. ROUSSEAU, J.J.: Les Confessions...suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire. WITH: Seconde Partie des Confessions.
'A Geneve', 1782-89. 4 volumes 8vo, pp [4], 322: [4], 401: [4], 399: [4], 379, with half title in each volume, bound in contemproary or original black continental baords, spines double red label, one slightly chipped, rubbing and slight wear at joints and spine ends, but a very sound clean set in original state, EARLY SEPARATE EDITION. The Geneva first printings of the classic 'Confession' may well have been as part of Tousseau's 'Oeuvres' the two two-colume parts being dated 1782 and 1789 respectively. This well preserved set bears these dates and the Geneva imprint, but is clearly a piracy of which where were many, not necessarily printed in Geneva. This pagainiation is not listed by Senelier. £100.00
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16622. ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES.: Lettres de Deux Amans, Habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes. Recuillies et Publiees Par J J Rousseau. Premiere [-Sixieme] Partie.
A Amsterdam [but ?London], Marc Michel Rey, 1761. 6 parts bound in 3 volumes, 12mo, pp [12], 228; [4], 171: [4], 135, [1]; [4], 183, [1]: [4], 166, [2, blank]; [4], 162, all title pages in red and black with [different] wood-engraved vignettes, all half titles present, with the alternative title ' Julie , ou la Nouvelle Heloise', bound in contemporary plain claf, spines with raised bands, red title labels [one mostly chipped away], lacking numbering pieces, a little rubbed and worn at heads, but internalyl clean throughout, FIRST EDITION, but a very early contrafaction of Rey's true first of the same year, with different collations, but remarkably similar title pages, including the Petrarch quotation on the first title within cartouche; this could be one of the piracies printed in England, because there are press figures in volume one, and the binding might also suggest it; only the 7 page original preface is included. A very nice set of Rousseau's major best selling novel 'born of the aging author's dream of finding a perfect love with a kindred soul...The theme of sexual passion is in the end transformed into an account of a social utopia.' £150.00
21077. RUSHWORTH, WILLIAM.: The Dialogues of William Richworth; or The judgment of common sense in the choice of Religion. paris, John Mestais, 1648. Small 12mo, pp [6], 197, [1], , contemporary ruled calf, both boards detached, else a sound copy for rebacking, SECOND EDITION, first published in Paris in 1640, and printed for the pocket in a very small type face to accomodate the three dialogues in a very small space. A fourth dialogue was added in 1654. Willaim Rushworth [he used various other names and aliases including Thomas White] [C. 1594-1637] was a popular recusant writer; an interesting account of this postumous work is given in Tavard's 'Seventeenth Century Tradition' [1978]. £125.00
19863. RUSSELL, LADY RACHEL.: Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is prefixed, An Introduction, Vindicating the character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple etc.
London, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. 4to, pp [4], lxxii, 216, half title present, bound in contemporary mottled calf, sides with gilt fillet borders, spine gilt with raised bands and red label, joints cracked and slightly chipped, but holding well, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, edited by Thomas Sellwood, a collection of important 17th century letters to and from Lady Russell which became a popular classic of its time; the letters also throw some light on Lord Russell's supposed involvement in the Rye House Plot. 'Her efforts to save him from the fatal block...have embalmed her memory in the hearts of thousands.' -Alibone. Horace Walpole commented, after the present volume was published ' It is very remarkable how much better women write than men.' The Baggrave Hall copy, with various ownership inscriptions. £65.00
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20976. RYCAULT, PAUL.: The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches, Anno Christi, 1678.
Lodnon, John Starkey, 1679. 8vo, pp [32], 452, [4, adverts], bound in contemaporary calf, worn to spine and corners, both boards detached, a few leaves lightly waterstained at for edge, but generally a good copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; Rycault, an eminent diplomat, was the contemporayr authority upon Turkey and had published his famous 'Present State of the Ottoman Empire, in 1665, this being a kind of supplementayr update on the original work. It forms one of the most valuable travelogues and analyses of Greece under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire from the late 17th Century. £300.00
18429. SAINT-PALAYE, M DE LA CURNE DE.: Memoirs of Ancient Chivalry. To which are added, The Anecdotes of the Times, from the Romance writers and historians of thos ages.
London, J Dodsley, 1784. 8vo, pp xx, 374, bound in contemporary polished calf, spien gilt ruled with red label, upper joint cracked but holding well, a very good clean copy, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED ' given me by the translator, Mrs Dobson' ; translated from Saint-Palaye by Susannah Dobson, and a sequel to the same author and translator's History of the Troubadours of five years earlier; like that work, this one is more of a gentle entertainment 'fruitful of instruction to all, but particularly the youth of both sexes.' , with no real scholarly pretensions. As such is mirrors a growing interest in the romance of the Middle Ages, pravalent in late 18th century literature and art. Mrs Dobson herself was well connected to the women's circle of writers of the time, including Frances Bruney and Mrs Piozzi, but unfortunately there is no clue as to whom she may have presented this copy. £90.00
22042. SAVANS DE L'EUROPE.: Bibliotheque Raisonne'e des Ouvrages des Savans de l'Europe, pour les Mois de Janvier, Fevrier & Mars, 1753. [ - Juin 1753]. BOUND WITH: Table Generale des Matieres contenues dans les XXV derniers Tomes.
Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1753. 3 parts bound in one volume, 2 titles in red and black, pp [8], 472, [14]; [4], 365, [3], 88, [8, adverts], bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, minor marginal worming and worming at joints, but a good sound clean cop, FIRST EDITION; comprising both parts of volume 50 and the useful index volume for volumes 25- 50. A primary periodical source for the study of 18th Century publications in French. £35.00
21082. SCHELHORN, JOHANN GEORG.: Dissertatio Epistolaris de Mino Celso Senensi Rarissimae Disquisitionis, in Haereticis Coercendis Quatenus Progredi Liceat, Auctore, Claudio Item Allobroge Homine Fanatico AC SS. Triadis Hoste, Aliisque: Ad Magnificum AC Reverendissimum Academiae.
Ulme, Dan Bartholomaei et Filium, 1748. Small 4to, pp [10], 78, contemporary calf, spine rubbed, joints cracked else sound, FIRST EDITION. £45.00
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19336. SCOTLAND, SUTHERLAND, DUKE OF.: Copies of The Summons, and of the Printed Papers given in the Court of Session, in the Process of Declaration of Precedency, at the instance of the Earl of Sutherland, against the Earl of Crawfurd etc anno 1706.
Edinbugh, printed in the Year 1766. Small 4to, pp xim [1], 189, [1], with folding pedigree at the fron, and on the last leaf, bound in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine worn and joitn cracked but sound, internally fine, FIRST EDITION; a reprint of Cunningham's summons of 1704, in this case of disputed peerage, together with 2 later cases of 1762, involving clains to the titles of Ear of Cassilis and Lord Kennedy. Rare -the House of Lords and NLS copies only in UK, plus one at Harvard. £40.00
21019. SCOTLAND. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.: Scotland's Opposition to the Popish Bill. A Collection of all the Declarations and Resolutions Published by the Different Counties, Cities, Towns, Parishes, Incorporations and Societies, throughout Scotland, against a Proposed Repeal of the Statutes.
Edinburgh, David Paterson, 1780. 8vo, pp xi, 306, [6], 310-356, uncut in original boards, both boards detached, spine lacking, but a good sound binding copy, FIRST EDITION, a very scarce collection of Scottish objections to Catholic emancipation from all sections and societies of the kingdom; described by John Hill Burton, in his Narratives of Criminal Trials in Scotland thus 'this might be called the expiring outbreak of anything to be justly called national fanatisicm.' The act of toleration would not apply in Scotland until 1793. £75.00
21740. SECUNDUS, JOANNES.: Kisses: A Poetical Translation of the Basia...With the Original Latin, and an Essay on his Life & Writings.
London, J.Bew, 1790. 8vo, pp [4], iv, 252, engraved frontispiece & extra engraved title page, both after Bartolozzi from the edition 1779, parallel Latin & English text, bound in contemporary calf, lacking label and with short cracks to joints, a little rubbed and chipped at spine ends, but a good copy, FOURTH EDITION, translated by John Nott. £60.00
21307. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.: As You Like It. A Comedy.
London, J Tonson, 1734. 12mo, pp 72, engraved frontispiece by Foudrinier, disbound, a good sound copy, EARLY EDITION of the play, corresponding to item 27 in Ford's 'Shakespeare 1700-1740 a Collation of the Separate Plays.' [OUP, 1935]. £60.00
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22029. SHAKESPEARE. UPTON, JOHN.: Critical Observations on Shakespeare.
London, G Hawkins, 1746. 8vo, pp [4], 346, [16], [2, adverts], bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with raised bands and brown label, lightly browned, very small old library stamps on title and first leaf, but a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION, an early and highly influential commentary on Shakespeare; Upton, Prebendary of Rochester, would later go on to edit Spenser; this present work work expanded by him for a second edition of 1748; much play is made with Shakespeare's show of classical learning [shared, of course, by Upton himself]. £120.00
19738. SHARPE, GREGORY.: An Argument In Defence of Christianity, taken from The Concessions of the most antient Adversaries, Jewsand Pagans, Philosophers and Historians.. BOUND WITH: A Second Argument in Defence of Christianity.
London: John Millan, 1755/ John Newbery 1762. 2 works in one volume, 8vo, pp xv, [1], xv, [1], 366, [14]: [8], 166, [2, errata], bound in contemporary full calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red label, a very good sound clean copy with armorial bookplate of Admiral Duff 1858 on pastedown, contents leaves of the two parts misbound in reverse, else a very good sound copy, FIRST EDITIONS; "Gregory Sharpe (1713-1771) was a pupil at Westminster School but got himself into troubleand was sent to live in Aberdeen with the classical scholar, Thomas Blackwell...He published several defences of Christianity, and backed the rational religious approach of Samuel Clarke and Leibnitz. He also wrote on the study of languages. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1754 and was director of the Society of Antiquaries. He also collected a fine library, including oriental manuscripts...In this work Sharpe seeks to show the conclusiveness of the argument from prophecy for the truth ofChristianity by demonstrating that established historical facts about Christ are ‘accomplishments of ancient prophecies’" -Pailin Library Catalogue. This text relies heavily upon linguistic interpretation. £120.00
20913. SHENSTONE, WILLIAM.: The Works in Verse and Prose...most of which were never before printed. In Two Volumes.
London, R & J Dodsley, 1764. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [2], viii, 345, [7]: [6], 392, frontispieces in each volume, folding plan, engraved vignettes in text, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, three of four labels missing, a littel worn at spien ends and cracked at joints, but a good sound set, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. A third supplimentary volume was issued five yars after in 1769, but is usually missing from sets. £45.00
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17339. SHERIDAN, FRANCES.: Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire de la Vertu, Extrats du Journal d'une Jeune Dame.
A Cologne, 1762. 4 volumes, 12mo, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt panelled with raised bands and maroon labels, rubbed and worn at some corners, some spine ends chipped, volume one lacking both labels and insect damaged to leather, a few leaves waterstained in one volume, else a good sound set, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, a translation by Prevost D'Exiles of Frances Sheridan's popular English novel of the period Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. With three contemporary booklabels of Le Covreur de Boulinviler on the title pages. £60.00
17239. SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY.: The Genuine Speech of Mr Sheridan, Delivered in the House of Commons, on a charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, against Warren Hastings...for Extortion, Perfidy, and Cruelty, to the Princesses, and other Branches of the Royal Family of Oude.
London, W Richardson, [1787]. 8vo, pp [4], 90, [2], uncut, but top edge gilt, bound in late 19th Century half tan calf, spine gilt with raised bands and triple labels, a little rubbed, a very good sound clean copy, SECOND EDITION 'FAITHFULLY REPORTED'; apparently the same collation as the hugely rare first edition of the same year, which Iolo Williams was unable to locate for his bibliography in 1924; neither this nor the version of the speech printed by J French, is authorized, both presumably taken down in shorthand on the occasion of 7th February 1787 in the House of Commons. Sheridan would make a much more famous speech the following year, over four days, before the High Court of Parliament in defence of Warren Hastings, a sppech that would again be first printed by Richardson. This copy of the 1787 speech is EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, with portraits of Sheridan, Melcher Park memorial to Hastings, folding woodcut plan of the 1788 trial [from the Ladies Magazine], and folding engraved view of the same. £120.00
16803. SHIPPEN, WILLIAM.: Faction Display'd. A Poem. From a Correct Copy.
London, 'Printed in the Year 1704.' Small 4to, pp [4], 20, disbound, lightly browned, last line of 'To the Reader' trimmed off, else a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; second issue according to Foxon S428, for which see remarks on the attribution to Shippen, which is generally considered to be true; a notorious satire, which includes an attack upon Tonson's meaness towards the writers in his employ. 'I am the Touchstone of all Modern Wit...those only purchase everliving fame/ That in my Miscellany plant their Name.' £35.00
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18233. SHIRLEY. JOHN.: An Epitomy of Ecclesiastical History. Containing I. The Life and Death of Our Bellsed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ...II. The Lives of the Antient Fathers....III...Honourable and Pious Persons....IV. ..Kings and Queens of England.
London, J Millet for W Thackeray and J Back [on London Bridge], 1692. Small 8vo, pp [6], 328, with extra engraved title page incorporating portraits of Jesus and the Apostles, engraved frontispiece incorporating portraits of Kings and Queens of England, 1 engraved plate of Reformation figures to face main text, bound in modern two tone paper boards, paper label, text lightly browned, slightly soiled, a few natural marginal faults due to poor paper production, still a good complete copy, SECOND EDITION ' Enlarged with many Lives which were omitted in the former Impression.' Thackeray had originally issued this work in two parts in 1682; this new edition is continuous and incorporates the reign of William and Mary, then in its third year. A rarely surviving example of popular historical literature of the period, by 'J S' i.e. John Shirley, son of the dramatist and poet James Shirley, and himself a minor figure in Restoration literature. ESTC [requiring only 2 plates including the title page] gives 3 copies UK and 9 copies US for this printing. £100.00
20914. SKINNER, THOMAS.: The Life of General Monk: late Duke of Albermarle. From an original manuscript of Thomas Skinner...to which is added a Preface...by William Webster.
London, J Graves, I Isted and J Hooke, 1724. 8vo, pp [10], lxvii, [1], 385, [7, including Epitaphium at the end], engraved portrait frontispiece, bound in modern half calf, spine with raised bands and red label, a good sound copy, SECOND EDITION. £50.00
21110. SMITH, THOMAS.: Vitae Quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum.
London [but ?Amsterdam], 1707. Small 4to, pp [1], xvi, [2], 147, 62, 38, 33, 48, 102, with divisional half titles to each part, wood engraved vignette of Erasmus on title page, engraved portrait frontispiece, blank H4, bound in contemporary panelled calf, boards detached, spine broken, but a good clean copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, a scarce and important collection of biographies of 6 British scholars, vix Bishop Usher, John Cosin, Henry Brigg [mathematician], John Graves [Astronomer], Francis Junius [philologist] and Dr John Dee [astrologer]. The portrait is frequently missing. £150.00
21833. SMOLLETT, TOBIAS.: The History and Adventures of an Atom.
London, Adamson and Roberts, 1769. 2 volumes boudn in one, small 8vo, pp viii, 227, [1]; [4], 190, both half titles present, bound in contemporary calf, spine rubbed and chipped, lower board detaching, a very good copy for rabacjing, FIRST EDITION; this issue has the date on the first title page correct as 1769, another issue with '1749' incorrectly on the title is sometimes described as the first issue, but with what evidence we are not sure. A biting poltical satire on the times, generally ascribed to Smollett who never acknowledged it. £150.00
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21948. SOUTHEY, ROBERT.: Poems of Robert Southey. WITH: Poems by Robert Southey. The Second Volume.
Bristol, N Biggs for Josiah Cottle, 1797-99. 2 volumes, small 12mo, pp [8], 218, [1, adverts]: [4], 232, bound in 20th Century half tan calf, with double maroon labels, spine of first volume slightly faded, light foxing and soiling in second volume, which has an early ink inscription on the title page, but a good sound set, SECOND EDITION OF FIRST VOLUME, FIRST EDITION OF SECOND VOLUME; the two volumes do not always occur together and this looks as if it may be a made up set rebound. Together these volumes form an important contribution ot the lyric poetry of the early romantic movement in England, as centered around Bristol. The second edition of Southey's first collection of Poems seems to be somewhat altered from the first of the same year, which was reputedly suppressed and is quite rare. £250.00
19652. SPAIN. CAMPBELL, JOHN.: Memoirs of the Duke de Ripperda: First Embassador from the States-General to his Most Catholick Majesty, the Duke and Grandee of Spain; afterwards Bashaw and prime Minister to Muly Abdalla, Emperor of Fez and Morocco etc...
London for John Stagg and Daniel Browne, 1740. 8vo, pp xv, [1, adverts], 344, [8, imdex],bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands, lacking label, but a very good pleasing copy, FIRST EDITION; a second edition followed the same year. £95.00
19710. STACKHOUSE, THOMAS.: Memoirs of the Life, Character, conduct, and Writings of Dr Francis Atterbury, Late Bishop of Rochester, from His Birth to his Banishment.
London, (no printer or publisher), 1727. 8vo, pp xxiv, 144, wormhole in first leaves; portrait of Francis Atterbury facing title-page; headpieces and tailpiece. errata on p. [xxiv]; p. 56 printed before p. 55, rebound in half morocco using previous morocco boards and with new endpapers. ESTCT 140638, SECOND EDITION; "In his Memoirs of Francis Atterbury Stackhouse discusses Atterbury's education, scholarship, preaching, private behaviour, and public life. In relation to the last of these, Stackhouse provides an extensive description of the proceedings against Atterbury prior to his banishment." £45.00
19107. STERNE, LAURENCE.: Letters of the Late Rev Mr Laurence Sterne, To his most intimate Friends. With a Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais. To which are prefix'd Memoirs of his life and family. Written by Himself. And publish'd by his daughter, Mrs Medalle.
London, T Becket, 1775. 3 volumes bound in one, 12mo, pp xx, 175, [1], 192, [2], 179, [1] with the half title and engraved portrait frontispiece present as called for, neatly bound in contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt with black label, minor rubbing only, an excellent fine clean copy, FIRST EDITION of Sterne's letters, although an unauthorized collection appeared in the same year; a very pretty copy of this desirable 18th Century epistlory classic. £200.00
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21003. STERRY, PETER.: A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will.
London, John Starkey, 1675. Folio, pp [36, including blank], 245, [1], [1, errata], bound in contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands and red label, short splits to joints at ends, minor marginal stains, but generally avery good soudn clean and crisp copy, FIRST EDITION, generally considered the major work of this famous Puritan preacher and philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school. £600.00
21353. STICOTTI, A-F.: Les Soupirs d'Euridice aux Champs Elisees.
A la Haye et se trouve a Paris, J P Costard, 1770. 8vo [in 4's], pp xii, 129, [1], uncut in original grey blue wrappers, spien defective, else a fine clean unsophisticated copy, FIRST EDITION; an amusing novella or prose satire by a popular Paris based comic actor of the day who by the time of this publication was retired under the patronage of Frederick the Great. £50.00
21738. STRADA, FAMIANO.: Prolusiones Academicae.
Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1745. Small 8vo, pp [12], 325, [23], engraved vignette on title, contemporary calf, spine attractively gilt with raised bands and red label, slightly rubbed but a clean attractive copy. Famianus Strada (1572-1649), FIRST EDITION THUS; Italian Jesuit poet and historian' these essays were first published in 1617 and in Oxford in 1631; the book was an established Oxford text and this new edition was attractively printed by Jacob Fletcher. £65.00
21407. STUCKIUS, JOHANN WILHELM.: Operum tomus primus, continens antiquitatum convivialium libros tres, sive Hebraeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum, aliarumque nationum conviviorum genera, mores, consuetudines, cerimoniasque conviviales.BOUND WITH: Operum tomus secundus,.
Leiden, Jacob Hackium, 1695. Folio, pp (24), 643, [21]; [14], 252, [23], [1], with fine engraved frontispiece, 2 title pages printed in red and black, well bound in contemproary mottled calf, spien gilt panelled with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed, but an excellent clena tight copy, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, of the works of this 16th Century Swiss scholar and antiquary and includign his most famous and important work on the feasts of the ancients. £300.00
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18519. SWIFT, JONATHAN.: Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift...and Several of His Friends from the Year 1703 to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical, by John Hawkesworth.
London, R Davis [and others], 1766. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp xvi, 520: viii, 388: vii, 371, bound in contemporary calf, spines with raised bands and red labels, spines rubbed and worn at ends, which are also slightly chipped, but a sound clean set, FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, published simultaneously with the quarto edition, containing heavily edited versions of Swift's Letters to Stella, as well as much other material of interest. For contents see Rothschild 2190 [second edition of the quarto issue]. Lord Spencer's copy with his bookplates. £45.00
17700. TAYLOR, JOHN.: The Hebrew Concordance, Adapted to the English Bible; Disposed After the Manner of Buxtorf.
London, printed by J. Waugh & W. Fenner, sold by P. Vaillant, 1754-57. Large folio, 2 volumes, pp [12], [4, list of subscribers], 2604 numbered entries printed in triple column, plus 2 indexes,a supplement, easy rules for reading Hebrew, an additional list of subscribers, errata, 2 page preface to volume 2, titles in red & black, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one, bound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, lacking one numbering piece, joints cracked through and holding on the cords only, internally very clean and sound, SOLE EDITION of this monumental work of Hebrew scholarship. John Taylor (1694-1761) was a self taught Hebrew scholar & dissenting minster of Norwich. DNB says of this work "In 1751 he issued proposals for pubishing a Hebrew Concordance, on which he had been engaged for more than thirteen years...he employed no amanuensis, and his accuracy is equal to his industry. As a lexicographer he deserves praise for the first serious attempt to fix the primative meaning of Hebrew roots and deduce thence the various uses of terms." The fine portrait of Taylor was published separately for this work, and is usually lacking. £390.00
19755. TAYLOR, NATHANAEL.: A Preservative against Deism. Shewing The great Advantage of Revelation above Reason, in the Two Great Points, Pardon of Sin, and a Future State of Happiness, With an Appendix in Answer to a letter of A. W. against Revealed Religion in the Oracles/
London: for John Lawrence, and Tho. Cockerill, 1698. 8vo, pp xxx, [6], 272; errata on p. xxx, bound inold panelled calf, spine chipped, both boards detached and with worn corners.on blank endpaper‘Jaes Henderson, St Enochs’; FIRST EDITION; Wing T548. "Nathanael Taylor (d. 1702) published an exposition of the catechism of the Church ofEngland, a vindication of the practice of infant baptism, a defence of dissenters from the charge of schism laid against them by Sherlock, an affirmation of faith in Jesus Christ in response to Unitarian views, and a history of the union of Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in London, as well as a few funeral sermons. In his Preservative against Deism, he states that it should occasion no surprise to find ‘mysteries’ in‘Revealed Religion, and the Holy Scriptures’ since mysteries are also found ‘in Art, in Nature, in Philosophy’ and ‘in Natural Religion’." -Pailin Library Catalogue. £60.00
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22056. TERAY, L'ABBE.: Memoires de l'Abbe Terrai, controlleur-general des Finances.
'A Londres', 1776. 12mo, pp [4], 398, bound in contemporary calf, spien gilt, brown label, rubbed but sound, a chipt to head of spine, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, one of several issues with this spulrious London imprint, perhaps a Swiss printing in fact. The famous French minister of finance under Louis XV, dimissed as a fraudster by his son in 1774, was also associated with the East India Company, which occupies part of this memoir. £60.00
20218. TERESA OF AVILA. CENAMY, CHARLES CANDIDE.: Paraphrases en Vers Francois sur les lavis de Ste Therese a ses Religieuses par le Sieur Cenamy.
Paris, Nicolas Caillou, 1705. 8vo, pp [8], 51, [1], engraved frontispiece, bound in 19th Century quarter calf, upper board detached, internally sound and clean, FIRST EDITION, a very rare collection of mystical devotional verse by an obscure poet who was apparently born in 1651, date of death unknown. We were unable to trace any library holdings, although the title is in Word Cat [no locations]. £25.00
18998. THIRTY NINE ARTICLES.: Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical: Treated Upon by...the Bishop of London...1603. WITH: Articles Agreed upon by the Archbishops & Bishops...and the whole Clergy In the Convocation holden at London in the Year 1562.
London, Samuel Mearne and Robert Pawlet, 1678/ Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1690. 2 works, small 4to, pp [6], 69, [11], [26]: [24, including final blank] [5], mostly printed in black letter, without the intial blank in forst work, minor dust soiling, else in good state throughout, two fundamental works laying down the regulation of the Church of England; often reprinted in the 17th Century, both works gained added significance following the Restoration and the Test Acts of 1672. £65.00
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20731. THOMSON, JAMES.: The Seasons by Mr Thomson. WITH: The Works of Mr Thomson Volume the Second containing Liberty,a Poem in Five Parts: Sophonisba, a Tragedy.
London, A Millar, 1730-35, 36, 37. 2 volumes 4to, pp [12, including subscribers], 252: 'Volume the Second comprising general title, dedication, 5 separate parts to Liberty, Sophonisba second edition, and 'A Poem to the Memory of the Right Honourable th Lord Talbot...1737. Both volume suncut in contemporary half dark red morcco, spines richly gitl with raised bands and black labels, upper board of the first volume detached, else soudn clean copies throughout, FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION. Although the two volumes were issued to be married together they are both indiviually separate publications as well. Volume one comprises the first collected edition, first issue, of the Seasons, Thomson's most famous and successful poetical exercise, and including 5 plates by William Kent; in this issue the later poem 'Brittania' is not included. Volume the Second comprises the whole of 'Liberty' in its original five parts, only part one being the second issue without price on the title page. Sophonisba is in its second quarto printing specially done for this volume, and, as in some copies, the first edition of the 1737 poem to Lord Talbot is appended at the end. This first 'collective' edition of Thompson, including as it does mostly first editions is very scarce and collectable; Foxon suggests that these are all printings on fine paper and to find them in uncut state in contemporary binding, is rather good news, albeit with one board detached. £320.00
20889. TITHES.: Tithes Politically, Judicially, and Justly Considered. Addressed to the clergy of the university of Cambridge; with strictures upon the Farnham Hop-Bill...by Pluralist.
London, Printed for the author, 1794. 8vo, pp [24], 185, [15], half title, uncut in modenr boards, a clean neat copy, FIRST EDITION; a very scarce anonymous tract on the principles of finincial support for the clergy. £35.00
21207. TOPHAM, GEORGE.: Romes tradition, the law and Gospel's destruction: being a sober defence of the Church of England from the faction of the Romanists, and canons of the conventicle of Trent ...
London, Thomas Fox, 1682. Small 8vo, pp [8, including advert leaf], 232, contemporary calf, plainly rebacked with raised bands, title page lightly soiled and first leaves a little stained, minor browning and spotting to the rest, a tract removed from the rear, else good, FIRST EDITION, a rare anti Catholic tract by the rector of Boston in Lincolnshire. Topham's only publication other than two sermons. £60.00
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18711. TOUCHET, GEORGE ANSELM.: Historical Collections, out of Several Grave Historians, concerning the Changes of Religion, And strange confusions following from thence: In the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth. Queen Mary and Elizabeth.
[?London] 'Printed in the Year, 1674. 8vo, pp [6], 558, [2, index], bound in contemporary rulled calf, spine worn and chipped at ends, the free endpapers removed, a few patches of marginal worming, else sound internally, FIRST EDITION, a rare and curious work of Catholic propoganda in England during the reign of Charles II, aimed at setting the record straight on the Reformation in opposition to the views of Heylyn and others; it is composed mainly of exceprts from Protestant historians joined by a narrative thred. George Anselm Touchet [d ?1689] was the second son of the ill fated Earl of Castleham; considering the scandelous circumstances of his father's trial and execution it is hardly suprizing that he should chose to become a Benedictine monk, eventually chaplain of Queen Catherine of Berganza, during the short space in which Charles II allowed Catholic priests to offociate in England. It was during this period that the present work was published with no author, printer or place of printing, only the date 1674; the following year, however, due to Protestant pressure at court, all Catholic priests, including Touchet, were banished from England, and Touchet was later specifically excluded frominheriting the Earldom of his brother. The Popish Plot affair shortly afterwards would have made this book a dangerous one to own, which may account for its comparative rarity; the subsequent history of Toucet is unknown, but he is supposed to have died in about 1689. £250.00
21417. TOUSSAINT, FRANCOIS VINCENT.: Manners. Translated from the French. The Fourth Edition.
London, J Rivington, W Owen and W Johnston, 1765. 12mo, pp [18], vi, 251, [1], engraved vignette on title page, bound in modern two tone boards, paper label, one marginal chip without loss, a good clean copy, FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION, a celebrated treatise which went through many editions, first published in English in 1749, this fourth edition is rare; ESTC records 2 copies, both US libraries. £50.00
17296. TROLLOPE, ANTHONY.: The Last Chronicle of Barset.
London, Smith, Elder, 1867. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [4], 384: [4], 384, 32 plates by George H. Thomas, bound in contemporary half calf, rubbed and lacking labels, unusually sound and clean internally, FIRST EDITION. £25.00
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21076. TURBERVILLE, HENRY.: An abridgment of Christian doctrin. With proofs of scripture, for points controverted catechistically explained, by way of question and answer.
'Printed for T.D. in the Year 1684.' Small 12mo, pp [6], 290, [5, [3], bound in contemporary calf, both boards detached, light stains, one leaf holed with loss of a few letters only else sound, FIFTEENTH EDITION 'WITH ADDITIONS'; WING suggests Douai as place of printing; the approbation for the third edition dated 1649, although we have many of the earlier editions in ESTC, which lists only 2 copies of this one, the Corpus Christi in Oxford, and this one, from the Mendham collection. Turberville, who died in 1678 was a priest ordained at Douai, lived mostly in England, but all printings of his 'Abridgment' are evidently rare. £125.00
18608. VOLTAIRE, F.M.A. DE.: Le Siecle de Louis XIV. Nouvelle Edition, Revue par l'Auteur et Considerablement Augmentee.
Dresden, George Conrad Walther, 1753. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp [12], 488: [4], 495, [1, errata]; [16], 184, title pages in red and black, separate title page to 'Suplement' at end of volume two, bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt with raised bands and red labels, spines rubbed and slightly worn at heads, light browning of text, but a very good sound set, NOUVELLE EDITION, apparently the third printing, and representing an important author revision of the 1751 Berlin text, with the addition of various shorter Voltaire pieces in the supplement, including the play 'Catilina'. We understand that this Dresden edition is the definitive text [vide O'Brien Narratives of Enlightenment'] but we have been unable to ascertain which if any or all of the pieces from the supplement appear here for the first time. £60.00
21875. VOLTAIRE, F.M.A. DE. [EDITOR].: L'Evangile du Jour. Contenant Colimacons....
'Londres ' [i.e. Amsterdam, Michael Rey], 1769. 8vo, pp [2], 87, [1], 98, well bound in English calf backed marbled boards with raised bands and red label, a fine clean and attractive copy, FIRST EDITION of the first volume, though not so stated of this periodical publication from the last years of Voltaire's life; up to 1780 a total of 18 volumes would be issued, each one comprising tracts of one kind or another against the Church and the Jesuits in accord with Voltaire's take on superstitious theology, and including his own commentaries. This particularly attarctive example is unnumbered to the spine and bears contemporary bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus. £85.00
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18716. VOLTAIRE.: Œuvres de Mr de Voltaire.
[Lyon?], 1775. 40 volumes, 8vo, including the 3 volumes of Pieces Detachees, some volumes with plates [mainly from the plays, plus a few portraits, illustratiosn to Henriade etc], bound in contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt with double red labels, a little rubbed, worn to a few headbands, some joints and boards with insect holes to the leather, but basically quite sound and strong throughout, internally fine and clean throughout. This edition is generally held to be a French conterfeit of the edition published in Geneva by Cramer and Bader in 1775, which was edited by Voltaire himself, and is regarded as, in a sense, the definitive edition in the author's lifetime. This edition preserved the excellent typography and typographical page borders throuhgout of the Geneva edition, but the type setting is different and to complicate matters a recent bibliography states 'Imitation [i.e. of Cramer's Edition] mais avec des textes tirés de plusieurs autres sources. Le rôle qu’a pu jouer Voltaire dans cette édition reste à éclaircir]. In any case this is an excellent complete set from the library of Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor of England during the early years of the 19th Century. £500.00
20992. WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION.: Bound volumes of nine pamphlets relating to The War of Spanish Succession and contemporary political controversy.
London, Various publishers, 1710-1711. 9 pamphlets bound in one volume as specified below, bound in contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and cracked to upper joint, light browning but sound, various editions as stated. The collection comprises: 1. The Management of the War. In a Letter to a Tory-Member...Fourth Edition...1711. 2. ...a second Letter...Third Edition...1711. 3. The Negociations for a Treaty of Peace, in 1709...in a third Letter...Second Edition...1711. 4. ...in a Fourth Letter...1711. These four 'Letters' were the work of Francis Hare, Chaplain General to the army in Flanders from 1704 and were written in defence of Marlborough. 5. A Few Words upon the Examiner's Scandalous Peace. London, 1711. [First edition, authorship unknown]. 6. A Vindication of the Present M__y, from the Clamours rais'd against them upon occasion of the New Preliminaries. London, 1711. [ A satire on Harley's ministry, variously attributed to Arthur Maynwaring, Bolingboke and Daniel Defoe, FIRST EDITION, iisue with 52 pages]. 7. A Letter to Sir J___B___ By Birth a Swede, but Naturaliz'd...concerning the Minehead Doctrine. London, A Baldwin, 1711. [by William Benson]. 8. The History of Resistance , as Practis'd by the Church of England...by John Withers...London, J Robinson, 1710. 9. The Re-Representation: or, a Modest Search after the Great Plunderers of the Nation. London, 1711.Pp [2], 88, [8, adverts], [FIRST EDITION, attributed to Daniel Defoe, issue with 'aganst' on page 11, and 'publitick' on page 20. Interestingly, the 8 page catalogue of political tracts at the end printed by J Baker is apparently not otherwise recorded as being part of this pamphlet, but, significantly, it has the signature 'H' correctly following 'G' in the signature order, this being an octavo printing in 4's]. £160.00
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19797. WARTON, THOMAS.: Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser.
London, R and J Dodsley [and J Fletcher, Oxford], 1762. 2 volumes bound in one, small 8vo, pp [4], 228, xx; 270, bound in contemporary quarter calf, lacking label and rubbed to the spine, joints cracked but holding, interally a very clean copy, SECOND EDITION, 'CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.' The best edition of this early masterpiece of literary criticism. 'In the second edition of the Observations Thomas Warton expanded the Postscript to include a ringing endorsement of chivalry and romantic poetry as a neglected body of writing of value to scholarship, history, morality, and aesthetic pleasure. The preface also underscores Warton's original contribution to Spenser scholarship.' £75.00
15937. WATTS, ISAAC. GUY, DAVID [OF RYE, SUSSEX].: A Complete Index to Dr Watts's Psalms; wherein Reference is had to each Line of the Work, and the Whole digested into an Easy and Natural Alphabetical Order, agreeable to the Doctor's own Index.
London, J Buckland, G Keith and J Johnson, 'and By the Compiler, at Rye', 1774. 12mo, pp x, [250], lacking the 2 final edvert leaves, bound in contemporary sheep, cracked at joints and worn at spine ends, but quite sound, free endpapers removed, a sound copy, FIRST EDITION, a very curious volume, not perhaps in terms of content, but as regards the compiler himself and his Rye connections; David Guy is recorded as compiler of a devotional work published in Rye itself, and 'Index to Dr Watt's Hymns' which he issued the year previous to this one, in 1773; together these two volumes comprise line indexes to Watts' ever popular Hymns and Psalms. Little is known of David Guy of Rye, except that he was an ironmaster -the deed for his ironworks briefly referred to in Straker's 'Wealden Iron', and it is likely that he came from a long line of ironmakers. The reference on the title to the work being sold 'by the compiler at Rye', without precise address would suggest that he owned some kind of shop, almost certainly a ironmongery, from where copies of his books could be obtained. Most interestingly perhaps, though evidently a devoutly religious, and perhaps non- Conformist Christian, for an ironmaster he displays amzing editorial erudition in his 10 page preface, explaining the difficulties of collating different editions of Watts' text to have his index references fit - 'all the editions...before that of 1771 have 318 pages; but those of 1771, and since, have but 317...the reader who makes use of those editions printed before 1771...if he does not find his line in the page referred to, he will be sure to find it at or near the top of the following page.' Although a number of copies are recorded in various libraries, this is a very rare work in commerce. £120.00
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21478. WEBB, DANIEL.: Observations on the Correspondence Between Poetry and Music.
London, J Dodsley, 1769. Small 8vo, pp vii, [1], 155, [3, adverts], half title, attractively bound in modern half calf, spine with raised bands and red label, a very neat job, two tiny erasure holes in the title page, light foxing but very good intrenally, FIRST EDITION, an interesting treatise on poetical aesthetics and its musical influences by this Irish born Oxford trained author who lived at Bath, companion to his similar collection on art of 1760. His writings were popular and influential, this present treatise being translated into German two years after. Interestingly Web described music as 'an art of impression' and was critical of what he say as the artificiality of Purcell and Handel. £100.00
17926. WEST, GILBERT.: Observations on the History and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
London, R Dodsley, 1747. 8vo, pp xvi, 456, [1, advert], half title, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and orange label, a little rubbed but a very good clean tight copy, SECOND EDITION ' revised and corrected by the author.', from the same year as the first, a reply to a pamphlet on the Resurrection by P Annet; this work obtained for West the degree of LL.D from the University of Oxford, though he is now better remembered as a translator and minor poet. £75.00
18657. WHARTON, HENRY [EDITOR AND COMPILER].: Anglia Sacra, sive Collectio Historiarum, Partim antiquitus, partim recenter scriptarum, De Archiepiscopis & Episcopis Angliae, A prima Fidei Christianae susceptione ad Annum MDXL.
London, Richard Chiswel, 1691. 2 volumes, tall folio, pp lviii, [2], 805, [11]: [8], xxxiv, [2], 706, title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved heraldic badge of the Archbishops as frontispiece in volume one, bound in contemporary calf, lacking labels, quite rubbed and dried out, with the joints cracked through but held on cords, the bindings still basically sound and holding, old bookplates and stamps on title page of a monastical library, internally clean and crisp throughout, FIRST EDITION, a notable munument of ecclesiastical scholarship in 17th Century England, these lives of the Archbishops pre Reformation was part compiled by the young and precosious scholar Wharton from original sources and part compiled from his own notes; he would die only four years after this publication at the age of 31; he was, howeever, a most celebrated theologian in his lifetime and his monument can still be seen in Westminster Abbey. £200.00
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20217. WHARTON, PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON.: The Life and Writings of Philip Late Duke of Wharton.
London, Printed and sold by the booksellers, 1732. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [12],54,326,[6],328- 685,[1], portrait frontispiewce in volume one, title pages in red and black, separate title pages to the 'Life' and the speehc on Atterbury, bound in contemporary calf, spines rubbed and lackign labels but sound, minro wormign to a few margins, a good set, FIRST EDITION, comrpsing mainly the number the True Briton, wiht the addition of the life and the speech to parliament in defense of Atterbury. By the time of his death in 1731 of alchoholism Wharton was a disgraced Jacobite politican of Whig sympathis whose opposition to Walpole had led to several clashes in the press. Probably because of the fear of legal censorship both printer's and publisher's name were withheld from this publication, althoguthe unknown editor's preface makes no excuses for Wharton 'a melancholy Instance of the greatest Abilities and the most flagrant Indiscretions that ever met in the same Person.' £100.00
19395. WHEATLEY, JAMES.: An Extract of the Life and Death of Mr J John Janeway, Fellow of King's College, in Cambridge.
London, R Hawes, 1775. 12mo, pp 40, later limp cloth, a bit browned and foxed, one of the many printings of this popular Puritan tract, condensed by Wheatley from the original 17th Century edition. A rare printing. £10.00
17391. WILCOCKS, JOSEPH.: Roman Conversations; or, a Short Description of the Antiquities of Rome, and Characters of Many Eminent Romans. Intermixed with References to Classical Authors and Various Moral Reflections: in a supposed conversation between some English Gentlemen.
London, Printed for W Brown, 1792. 2 volumes bound in 3, 8vo, pp [16], 463: [4], 639, half titles, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with black labels, one missing, bindings rubbed and abraded to surface leather, joints cracked but holding, a fine clean set internally, SECOND EDITION, sometimes referred to as the first; this curious educational work was originally issued by Wilcocks in 1763, a rare edition, stated on the title to have been 'compiled for the use of places of education, particularly Westminster School.' -this last named beeing Wilcocks' own place of education; he subsequently resided in Rome for some years, being styled by Pope Clement XIII 'The blessed heretic'; this present edition was left in manuscript at the time of his death in 1791, and is also quite scarce; an edited version with memoir was published by Weedon Bulter in 1797, and achieved wider circulation. As a work, somewhat rambling and sometimes autobiographical, it provides a background to the study of Roman classics through the study of Rome's antiquities, in a series of 'conversations' or lessons; the work might have been useful to those preparing for 'The Grand Tour', or in the study of classical arts and their interpreation; the work was indeed recommended for this pupose by Benjamin West. £125.00
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18483. WILLIAMS, GRYFFITH.: The True Church: shewed to all men, that desire to be members of the same. In Six Bookes. Containing the Whole Bodie of Divinitie.
London, John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter, 1629. Folio, pp [10], 933, [25], title page within woodcut border, bound in contemporary calf, a little worn at corners, lower board detached, minor faults only, a sound clean copy internally FIRST EDITION; one of the major early theological works of this Anglican Royalist divine, who became Bishop of Ossery in 1641, shortly afterwards fleeing to English in the wake of the Irish Rebellion; in England he took part in the Civil War as King's Chaplain, and wrote a series of interesting tracts on the political and religious issues of the period. The present work dates from much earlier in his career, shortly after he beacme Prebandary at Westminster, and it is dedicated to his patron, William Earl of Pembroke, as well as Earl of Montgomery. Williams is an interesting figure in Anlican theology of the early 17th Century, and his works are comparitively rare in commerce today. £275.00
18348. WILLIAMS,. HELEN MARIA.: Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a friend in England; containing various anecdotes of the French Revolution; and Memoirs of Mons and Madame Du F.
London, T Cadell, 1791. 12mo, pp [2], 223, without the half title, bound in contempoary quarter calf, red label, rubbed, cracked at joints and chipped at head of spine, free endpapers removed, occasional foxing, a reasonable working copy, SECOND EDITION, first printed the previous year; a successful first hand commentary on the Revolution which encouraged the authoress to produce a series of eight further volumes in the coming years. £30.00
17947. WOLCOT, JOHN 'PETER PINDAR'.: The Works of Peter Pindar Esq. in Three Volumes.
London, John Walker, 1794-1801. 5 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, engraved title pages, bound in contemporary speckled calf, black labels, rubbed and with some labels missing, a good sound clean set. £75.00
21261. YOUNG, EDWARD AND HOADLY.: The Brothers. A Tragedy Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. BOUND WITH: The Suspicious Husband a Comedy.
London, R Dodsley, 1753/ J & R Tonson, 1747. 2 playes bound in one volume, 8vo, pp 83, [3]; [6], 77, bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, in good sound state, FIRST EDITIONS of both plays. £35.00
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