Adopt a Book Catalogue 2018-19 Adopt a Book Catalogue 2018 Contents No. Author Title Year Adoption price Page 1. John Shute Barrington Theological Works 1828 £105 1 2. Census of England and Wales, 1911: County of Durham 1914 £120 3. Denis Diderot Encyclopediè 1751 – 1772 £120 / £240 2 4. Paul Ludwig Sachs Monocerologia, seu de genuinis unicornibus 1676 £155 5. Torquato Tasso Gierusalemme liberata, Poema Heroico 1595 £160 3 6. Book of Common Prayer … together with the Psalter or Psalms of David 1848 £165 7. Edward Wells An Historical Geography of the Old Testament 1711 £170 4 8. Charles Cotton Scarronides or Virgil Travestie: A Mock Poem 1807 £170 9. Joannes Asser Annales rerum gestarum Aelfredi Magni 1722 £170 5 10. Thomas Bewick A General History of Quadrupeds 1800 £170 11. Cornelius Tacitus and The modern courtier, or the morals of Tacitus upon flattery 1687 £175 6 Amelot de la Houssaye 12. B.R. Esq. [Robert Hegge] The Legend of St. Cuthbert with the Antiquities of the Church of Durham 1663 £185 13. Book of Common Prayer for the Scottish church 1637 £185 7 14. William Sancroft Modern Policies Taken from Machiavel, Borgia, and other choice authors, by an Eye-Witnesse 1654 £185 15. William Toldervy Select Epitaphs 1755 £185 8 16. William Greenwood Bouleuterion, or A practical demonstration of county judicatures 1659 £185 17. Pomponius Mela De situ orbis 1719 £190 9 18. Pieter Schrijver Respublica Romana [Elsevier Republics] 17th century £190 10 19. Denis Petau Rationarium Temporum 1652 £190 20. Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy] 1757 £190 11 21. Joseph White Aegyptiaca: or, Observations on Certain Antiquities of Egypt 1801 £190 22. William Hogarth The Analysis of Beauty 1753 £190 12 23. Raphael Holinshed Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland 1808 £190 24. Joseph Ames Typographical Antiquities: Being an Historical Account of Printing in England 1749 £195 13 25. A collection of cheap repositories 1790s £195 14 26. William Shakespeare The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, collated and edited by Edmond Malone 1790 £200 27. William Gilpin Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty … on Several Parts of Great Britain, Particularly 1792 £200 15 the Highlands of Scotland 28. George Dyer History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge 1814 £200 29. Abstract of the Answers and Returns… [Results of the 1811 Census] 1811 £205 16 30. Thomas Sprat The history of the Royal Society of London 1667 £205 31. John Bunyan A disclosure upon the Pharisee and the publicane 1685 £205 17 32. Christopher Smart Poems Upon Several Occasions 1752 £205 33. Athanasius Kircher Mundus subterraneous 1665 £210 18 34. Henry Purcell The Vocal and Instrumental Musick of the Prophetess, or the History of Dioclesian 1691 £210 35. Francis Beaumont and Fifty Comedies and Tragedies 1679 £210 19 John Fletcher 36. John Weemse The Works of John Weemse 1633 £210 20 37. Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetanus 1639 £215 38. Journals of the House of Lords 1767 – 1847 £220 21 39. William Hamper The Life, Diary and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale 1827 £220 40. William Godwin The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet 1803 £220 22 41. John Britton The Fine Arts of the English School 1812 £220 23 42. John Bunyan The Barren Fig-Tree: or, the Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor 1762 £225 43. Henricus Goltzius Ovidii Metamorphoses 1600s £225 24 44. Colin MacLaurin An account of Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophical discoveries 1775 £230 45. Robert Plot The Natural History of Oxfordshire 1677 £230 25 46. Nehemiah Grew Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging 1681 £240 to the Royal Society : and preserved at Gresham Colledge 47. John Dryden The Fables of John Dryden, ornamented with engravings from the pencil of Lady Diana Beauclerc 1797 £240 26 48. The knightly tale of Golagrus and Gawane and other ancient poems 1827 £240 27 49. John Macpherson Critical Dissertations on the Origins, Antiquities, Language … of the ancient Caledonians 1768 £250 50. Thomas Stanley The History of Philosophy 1701 £250 28 51. Walter Raleigh The History of the World, in Five Books 1677 £250 29 52. Society for the Abolition Papers from the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1787 £255 of the Slave Trade 53. The Holy Bible, embellished by the most eminent British Artists [the ‘Macklin’ Bible] 1824 £255 30 54. Anton Büsching A New System of Geography 1762 £265 55. John Baptist Jackson Titiani Vecellii Pauli Caliarii Robusti et Jacobi de Ponte opera selectiora 1745 £275 31 56. Diurnall occurrences, or Heads of proceedings of both Houses of Parliament; London, 29th November – 1642 £285 32 6th December 1641 57. Johann Georg Graevius Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum 1694-99 £285 58. A forme of common prayer 1636 £295 59. Statute: An additional act for the better observation of the Lord’s Day 1650 £310 33 60. Adrian Reland Antiquitates sacrae veterum hebraeorum 1709 £320 61. Special forms of prayer 1605 £320 34 62. Robert Harris A sermon preached to the House of Commons 1642 £320 63. A series of magnificent engravings to illustrate the various folio or quarto editions of the works of 1818 £320 35 Shakespeare and Milton 64. George Staunton An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain [George III] to the Emperor of China 1797 £320 [Ch’ien Lung] 65. John Carter Durham Cathedral 1801 £325 36 66. The Geneva Bible 1577 £335 67. Catalogus librorum impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleiane in academia Oxoniensi 1843 £335 37 68. John Nichols Collection of the wills of the Kings and Queens of England 1780 £345 69. Johannes Blaeu Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Novus Atlas 1648-55 £350 38 70. Thomas Manton A Practical Commentary, or an Exposition with Notes, on the Epistle of James 1651 £355 71. Lawrence Giustiniani Opera Omnia 1606 £365 39 72. Robert Smith A Compleat System of Opticks 1738 £460 73. History of Newcastle miscellany 18-19thC £470 40 74. George Frideric Handel Messiah: An Oratorio in Score c.1800 £495 75. Jan Jansson Novus Atlas 1646-1650 £580 41 76. Archimedes Works 1615 £675 42 1. John Shute Barrington, Theological Works; London, 1828 – Q.X.62-64 The Barrington who authored this work is not the Shute Barrington who would serve as Bishop of Durham over a thirty five year period (who also published extensively on matters theological), but rather his father, John Shute Barrington, the 1st Viscount Barrington, a “politician and Christian apologist”. Barrington began publishing his theological works anonymously in 1701, with the publication of his essay concerning England and its Protestant dissidents; later editing this and publishing it under his own name, he followed it with works on The rights of Protestant dissenters and later, A dissuasive from Jacobitism. He came to the attention of George I after speaking out vocally against the dangers of popery and the Young Pretender, and the new king greeted Barrington on his first day in London. This three volume collection of his theological works was the first extensive collection published – nearly one hundred years after his death, by George Townsend. Its boards have become worn and loose; it requires rebacking in leather, repair to the damaged boards, and the remounting of the original title piece. One volume adopted £100 per volume 2. Census of England and Wales, 1911: County of Durham; London, 1914 – F.IVA.49 The first modern census took place in 1841, and has been taking place – with few exceptions – every ten years since. The 1911 census, therefore, was the eighth of its kind. This volume is a summary of the results for the County of Durham: “area, families or separate occupiers and population … Population classified by ages, condition as to marriage, occupations, tenements, birthplaces and infirmities”. While it doesn’t document each individual person registered as living in Durham at the time – though that information is now available online, the results of a census made publicly accessible 100 years after their collection – it does allow a vital glimpse into the make-up of the county of Durham immediately prior to the First World War. It even sets out in one table the number of persons “enumerated in workhouse establishments … asylums, prisons, hospitals, certified reformatory and industrial schools … and in certified Inebriate Reformatories and Retreats”. The 1911 census was also the first to record how long a couple had been married, and how many children they had had in total. It is likely that not all of the information in this census document is as accurate as others had been. The Women’s Freedom League, a suffragette movement, organised a boycott of the census in 1911: women were encouraged to 1 stay over at friend’s houses, or go to all-night parties, in order to avoid the census as a protest at women not being allowed to vote. It is hoped to bind this volume in cloth (rather than leaving it unbound in paper, as at present), and to repair and sew any damaged pages. £120 3. Diderot, Encyclopediè; Paris, 1751-1772 – Q.VIA.1-28 One of the key texts of the Enlightenment, Diderot’s Encyclopediè was published in 28 volumes (17 of them text) over a period of twenty-one years (1751-1772) and featured the work of over one hundred contributors, including the great Enlightenment thinkers Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu. It was a hugely ambitious project: the first modern encyclopaedia, the aim of which was to draw together the sum of man’s learning up to that point. Knowledge was broken down into three ‘branches’ on ‘The Tree of Knowledge’: Memory/History; Reason/Philosophy; and Imagination/Poetry.