Further BOOKS from the LIBRARY of THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD CATALOGUE 1459 MAGGS BROS. LTD. Further Books from the Library of The Earls of Macclesfield CATALOGUE 1459 MAGGS BROS. LTD. 2012 Item 80; Fludd. Front cover illustration: The arms of the first Earl of Macclesfield taken from an armorial head-piece 5 to the dedication of Xenophon Cyropaedia ed. T. Hutchinson, Oxford, 1727. A FURTHER SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF Back cover: item 80, Robert Fludd. THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD AT SHIRBURN CASTLE he library of the earls of Macclesfield was created The activities of all of these men may be seen in MAGGS BROS. LTD. Tin the first fifty years or so of the eighteenth this catalogue. century, and was one of the great Country House In the nineteenth century some of its treasures, 50 Berkeley Square libraries of England. It was housed in two large particularly the collection of letters of scientists, London W1J 5BA rooms, the larger North library and the South amongst them Isaac Newton, were published Library at Shirburn Castle, Shirburn, a small hamlet and made available. Throughout the twentieth near Watlington, Oxfordshire, England, a house century access was limited. Before 2000 the sole Telephone 020 7493 7160 and estate acquired by Thomas Parker first earl element of the library which had been sold was Fax 020 7499 2007 of Macclesfield (1667-1732), a distinguished lawyer, the important collection of Welsh material (from and founder of the family’s fortunes. The first earl Williams) which went to form part of the foundation Email [email protected] was a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and collections of the National Library of Wales. Since [email protected] was one of the pall-bearers at the exequies of Sir the sale to Cambridge University library of the Isaac Newton in 1727. It was his son George, the Newton and other scientific papers, which was Bank Account: second earl (1697-1764) who was president of the commemorated by an exhibition in 2001-2002, Allied Irish Bank (GB) Royal Society, and who introduced into the House the library has been largely dispersed, either in Mayfair Branch of Lords the bill for changing the calendar from twelve auction sales, divided by subject, at Sotheby’s, 10 Berkeley Square the Julian to the Gregorian, thereby bringing the London, or by sales of individual items through London W1J 6AA United Kingdom, and its colonies, into line with the Maggs Bros Ltd. The auction sales included the rest of Europe. In the form in which it reached the mass of scientific material and a small number of Sort code: 23-83-97 Account number: 47 77 70 70 twentieth century, the library had essentially been medieval manuscripts, amongst them, and now IBAN: GB94 AIBK 238397 47777070 created by 1750, and the man whose influence and in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, what is BIC: AIBKGB2L interests, apart from those of the first and second known as the Macclesfield Psalter. Some later private earls, played a major role in this was William sales of manuscript material have been to the British VAT no: GB 239 3813 47 Jones (c. 1675-1749), another fellow of the Royal Library, amongst them the Shirburn Ballads and Mastercard and Visa: Society, himself a mathematician and scientist, but the Macclesfield Alphabet Book. Of the last and of please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number someone with a wide range of interests. It was this the Psalter facsimiles have been published. by mail, fax or telephone. conjunction of money and interests which lay behind Many notable books have been acquired by EU members: the extraordinarily rich holdings of manuscript and institutions and private collectors in the United please quote your VAT/TVA number when ordering. printed books concerned with the physical sciences, Kingdom, in Europe and in the United States. with such matters as calendrical establishment and But all libraries contain ‘ordinary’ books as well The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until reform, and with the study of language, this last as outstanding rarities. In 2010 our catalogue the price has been paid in full. element in large part founded upon the acquisition 1440 offered a selection of these, and this present ©Maggs Bros. Ltd. 2012 in the 1740s of the collections of Moses Williams catalogue offers another group of books in many Design by Radius Graphics, Southleigh, Devon. (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and translator, son of languages and on many subjects. There are a few Samuel Williams (c.1660–c.1722). The lawyer Sir books previously offered, but for the most part Printed by Creeds the Printers, Bridport, DT6 5NL. Thomas Clarke (1703/4-1764), a protegé of the first the material here offered is fresh, and affords an earl, also played a part in the creation of the library. opportunity for all to obtain something from this 5 remarkable and very large library. All books have Parker, whose collection of military books passed 1 ACARETE DU BISCAY. A relation This work, apparently meant for those members of the the 19th-century armorial bookplate of the library into the library, and a very few have the engraved of Mr. R.M.’s voyage to Buenos-Ayres: Armenian community in Venice, who needed an Italian and are stamped with the small armorial embossed bookplate of Thomas Parker of the Middle Temple, and then by land to Potosi. Dedicated to the aid with the language of the liturgy, encompasses the text stamp. A few have the 18th-century bookplate of that is the first earl. Details of other provenances honourable the court of the South-Sea Company. of the liturgy with a facing Italian translation. Yovhannes the Military Collection of Lt. General the Hon. G.L. are given where applicable. Agopian is described as a papal missionary in the title 8vo (150 x 96mm.) v, [1], 3-117, [3]p., engraved map but he is better known as Yovhannes of Constantinople ‘Part of the great river de la Plata, of Tucuman’ (Kostandbupolsec’i) the author of an Armenian grammar, 5 by H. Moll, contemporary sheep, flat spine, upper found with his Puritas linguae armenicae (Rome, 1675), a cover loose. manual of oratory published in Marseilles in 1674. He also London: John Darby, 1716 £1500 published an Armenian translation of Flos virtutum (Rome, 1675) and an Armenian-Latin catechism, Speculum veritatis, Acarete made two journeys up the river Plate, one if the SUBJECT INDEX published in Venice by Barboni in 1680 (see Nersessian late 1650s and the other in the early 1660s. It was first 40-44 and 47). published in French as no. 37 in Thevenot’s Relation de ANTIQUITIES . 4, 10, 19, 21, 22, 41, 46, 60, 66, 67, 74, 90, 112, 118, 159, 160 A similar work in Latin was published in Rome, again voyages of 1672, and no account of the author, other than by the Propaganda Press, in 1677 - Lyturgia Armena. ARABIC . 53, 165 his name, seems to exist, but he may well have been a Ministerium missae etc. in Armenian of which the BL copy French Basque This English translation first appeared ART . 106, 185, 190, 194 (17024.e.2) also has a Latin version - Codex mysterii missae in 1698 as part of a volume published by Samuel Buckley, Armenorum etc. BIOGRAPHY . 28, 64, 81, 162, 182 Voyages and discoveries in South America (Wing V 746). There Michiel Angelo Barboni, whose activity in Venice is a modern Spanish translation of the work (Alicante 2001). CARTOGRAPHY . 83, 100, 172 is attested from the late 1660s published an Armenian A variant of this edition with the name of the printer breviary (Zhamagirk) and Tagharan in 1681, in 1682 a CLASSICAL TEXTS . 7, 8, 12, 13, 42, 48, 56, 88, 89, 116, 117, 119, 122, 127 at the end of the prelims is also known. 138, 139, 143, 146, 163, 164, 180, 187, 188, 200, 203 Psalter (Saghmosaran) and Dashants tught - Lettera dell Sabin 42918; Palau 260451. amicitia a dell unione di Costantino gran cesare a disan Siluestro EDUCATION . 14, 109 sommo pontefice, e di Tirdade re della armenia, e dis. Gregorio / iluminatore della natione armena scritta nell anno del Signore ENGLISH & MODERN LANGUAGE TEXTS . 8, 9, 33, 40, 50, 97, 103, 104, 124 SWEDENBORG . 138, 139, 148, 161, 191 316 [Letter of Concord] and in 1685 a prayerbook based 2 ACTA LITERARIA SUECIAE. Acta on Latin sources, a Gospels, and a Calendar (N. 49-51). ENGRAVINGS . 32 literaria Sueciae Upsaliae publicata. The latest date of any item from his press seems to be 1690, FOOD AND DRINK . 12, 72, 111 Volumen primum [only] continens this work and a confession of faith by Nerses Snorhali. annos 1720. 1721. 1722. 1723. & 1724. Of this extremely rare item we have located one copy in HISTORY . 17, 18, 20, 27, 29, 39, 50, 51, 61, 65, 71, 105, 125 the BNF and one in Venice at the Mekhitarist monastery. 150, 151, 153, 154, 170, 177, 186, 193, 196 4to (200 x 155mm.) [14], 1-90, 95-122, [2], 123- 246, HUMANISM, LATIN VERSE, LIT. HISTORY . 6, 24, 37, 43, 62, 69, 75, 76, 136, 147 [4], 247-366, 2], 367-490, [2], 491-608, [24], engraved . 158, 173, 178, 179, 188, 201, 202 frontispiece, plates, one woodcut, contemporary half 4 ALDRETE, Bernardo. Varias antiguedades vellum. de España Africa y otras provincias. LANGUAGE . 8, 35, 45, 47, 52, 53, 57, 58, 73, 77, 78, 87, 95 . 96, 113, 142, 156, 157, 167, 174, 184, 200 Upsala & Stockholm: literis Wernerianis, prostat apud 4to (235 x 165mm.) [16 (incl.