Addison (Joseph)-continued. 5 divine. Maxims, Observations, and Reflections, moral, political and With engraved portrait. Svo, original calf. London, 1719. 10s 6d 8 Songs in the New Opera call'd Rosamond, as they are perform'd FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout, words and music. Folio, full £5 10s *** “Addison condescended to write a musical piece on the Story of Fair Rosamond : The complete set of plates by Hollar, published in the edition of 1651, consisting of portrait, frontispiece, and 81 copperplate engravings, Small 4to, old calf gilt, with Arms on sides. 1651. £2 2s Fables of Æsop and other Eminent Mythologists; with Morals and Reflexions by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Large portrait of L'Estrange by White after Kneller, and plate. Fables and Storyes moralized. Being a second part of the Fables of Æsop, and other Eminent Mythologists, etc. 2 vols., folio, fine copy in original calf. London, 1694-99. £3 3s 11 AFRICA. L. (S.). A Letter from a Gentleman of the Lord Ambassador Howard's Retinue, to his Friend in London: Dated at Fez, Nov. 1, 1669. Wherein he gives a full Relation of the most Remarkable Passages in their Voyage thither, and of the present State of the Countries under the Power of TAFFALETTA, Emperour of MOROCCO; With a brief account of the Merchandizing Commodities of AFRICA; As also the Manners and Africa-continued. 12 13 14 The Moores Baffled, being a Discourse concerning Tanger especially when it was under the Earl of Teviot; by which you may find what methods and Government is fittest to secure that place against the Moors, in a letter from a learned person (long resident in that place) at the desire of a person of quality. With the scarce folding plate of Tangiers engraved by Hollar. Small 4to, fine copy in full calf gilt, g. e. London, 1681. £10 10s A Short and Strange Relation of some part of the Life of Tafiletta, the great Conqueror and Emperor of Barbary, by one that hath lately been in His Majesties service in that Country. With the very rare engraved portrait of Tafiletta. £6 6s A True Relation of the Inhumane and Unparallel'd Actions, and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: committed on three Englishmen in Old Calabar in Guinny; together with a short but true account of the Customs and Manners and Growth of the Country, which is very Pleasant. Small 4to, half calf, neat. London, 1672. UNCUT, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. 15 AKENSIDE (Mark). The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in three books. Vignette on title. £8 10s FIRST EDITION. 4to, a remarkable copy, in its original paper wrappers, edges entirely uncut. London, Dodsley, 1744. *** Excessively Rare in this fine state. £6 10s “In this poem, as an elegant critic has observed with great propriety, he has united the grace of Virgil, the colouring of Milton, the incidental expression of Shakespeare, to paint the finest features of the human mind, and the most lovely forms of true morality and religion." PRINTED BY THE "ANONYMOUS SCHOOLMASTER" AT ST. ALBANS, 1480. 16 ALBERTUS. Liber Modorum Significandi. One and a half leaves of this excessively rare book, printed at St. Albans by " The Anonymous Schoolmaster," 1480. Preserved in a portfolio, buckram sides, leather back, lettered both on sides and back. £18 18s *** NO PERFECT COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RARE BOOK IS KNOWN TO BE IN EXISTENCE. SPECIMENS OF THE BOOKS PRINTED BY "THE ANONYMOUS SCHOOLMASTER' ARE THE RAREST OF ALL ENGLISH INCUNABULA, FAR RARER THAN ANYTHING CAXTON PRINTED. THE SCHOOLMASTER ISSUED ONLY EIGHT BOOKS, AND WORKED FROM 1480 TO 1486. 17 ALBIN (Eleazer). A Natural History of English Song-Birds, including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the cock, Hen, and egg of each species, exactly copied from Nature, and curiously engraven on copper. Frontispiece, and numerous copper-plate engravings of birds. THE EARLIEST REFORMED PORTION OF THE ENGLISH LITURGY. 12s 6d 17a [ALES, SEU HALES (Alexander, Scotus).] Ordo Distributionis Sacramenti Altaris sub utraque Specie. 12 leaves, 12mo, full morocco, g. e. Haec Londini Evulgata sunt octavo die Martii anni 1548. £25 *** THE COMMUNION OFFICE OF EDWARD VI. AND THE EARLIEST REFORMED PORTION OF THE ENGLISH LITURGY; made known to the churches abroad by ALES who afterwards translated the Prayer Book into Latin. This Latin version of the English Reformed Communion Service appeared a year before the First English Prayer Book. Alexander Ales, Lutheran divine, was born at Edinburgh, 1500. At Wittenberg in 1533 he made the acquaintance of Luther and Melanchthon, and he came to England in August 1535 the bearer of a letter and a book for King Henry from Melanchthon. "In the reign of Edward VI. Alesius seems once more to have visited England, where Archbishop Cranmer employed him to translate into Latin the first liturgy of King Edward VI. for the use of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr, whose views on the Communion Book were desired by Cranmer, but who lacked the requisite knowledge of the English tongue. It is with reference to this piece of work and the changes afterwards introduced into the communion service that, at a disputation held at Oxford 18 April, 1554, between Latimer and a numerous body of opponents, the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a 'runagate Scot did take away the adoration or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament; by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last communion book; so much prevailed that one man's authority at that time.'" D.N.B. 18 ALLESTREE (Richard). Forty Sermons, whereof Twenty-one are now first publish'd, the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions. To these is prefixt an Account of the Author's Life. With portrait by Loggan; title and text ruled with red lines. Folio, full contemporary morocco gilt, gilt edges. London, 1684. £1 15s 19 ALMANACKS. A Collection of Fourteen rare Astrological Almanacks for the year 1678. Bound in 1 vol., thick 12mo, full contemporary red morocco gilt. £10 10s Besides the Almanacks issued under the names of Lilly, Partridge, Andrews, Gadbury, Dove, White, Fly, Rose, and others, there is the following very curious Quaker Almanack: A Yea and Nay Almanack for the people called by the men of the World Quakers, with curious Verses, and the Quaker Cathechism at the end. Almanacks-continued. 20 21 22 23 24 The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, Compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1788. Being Leap-Year, And the Twenty-eighth year of K. George III. Fine specimen of contemporary Irish binding, crimson morocco with a diamond shaped centre panel of white leather on both upper and lower cover, the whole adorned with gold tooling of floral sprays introducing the shamrock, dots, circular lines, stars, etc., gilt edges. Small 8vo. Dublin, 1788. London Almanac for the year 1769. Illustrated with folding view of Westminster Bridge. £10 10s An unusual specimen of binding of the second half of the 18th century; silk, upon which is most exquisitely painted in rich colours (undoubtedly by a native Japanese artist) the figure of a Jap seated at the foot of a tree (on front cover), and a Japanese lady standing (on back cover), preserved in its original shagreen case. 64mo (actual size, 2by 1 inches). £5 5s Rider's British Merlin, for the year of our Lord God 1758. Being the Second after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Adorn'd with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy. With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads, and Tables for many necessary Uses. 12mo, full red morocco, sides elaborately gilt tooled with designs of birds, thistles, and other ornamentations, gilt back, g. e. London, 1758. £1 15s Rider's British Merlin, for the year of our Lord God 1788. Being 12mo, full red morocco, gilt borders on sides, gilt edges. 5s The Royal Kalendar; or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and America, for the Year 1768. 12mo, contemporary binding of crimson morocco, sides completely covered with gold tooling of the cottage roof pattern, composed of flower sprays, stars, dots, circles, birds, and insects, gilt edges. London, 1768. £5 5s 25 ANNE (Saint). An Abridgment of the Prerogatives of St. Ann, Mother of the Mother of Cod. With the Approbation of the Doctors at Paris, and thence done into English to accompany The Contemplations on the Life and Glory of Holy Mary. To which a Preface is added concerning the Original of the Story. Small 4to, boards. London, 1688. 5s 26 ANONYMOUS. Pausanias the Betrayer of his Country. A Tragedy, written by a Person of Quality. 27 28 FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1696. £1 1s ***This tragedy was brought on the stage by Southern, who, in the dedication, informs his patrons that it was put into his hands by a person of quality. We find from Garth's " Dispensary," 1699, that Norton was the Author of it. Timoleon, or The Revolution. A Tragi-Comedy. £2 2s Written in honour of Tragedie of King Charles I., basely butchered in which is included the Several Combinations and machination that brought that incomparable Prince to the Block, the overtures hapning at the famous Seige of Colchester, The Tragicall fals of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, the Just Reward of the Leveller Rainsborough, Hamilton and Bailies Trecheries, in delivering the late Scottish Army into the hands of Cromwell and the designe the Rebels have to destroy the Royal Posterity. Small 4to (some headlines and forepart of the title cut by binder) new boards. Printed in the year 1649. £8 83 *** An excessively rare piece, preceded by six pages of poetry. Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists are referred to in "The Prologue to the Gentry." These lines are very interesting, as showing the state of feeling entertained by the Puritans towards the dramatists. This play was written at the time of the execution of the King. It could, of course, have only been acted in secret by the Royalist, as, holding up to execration, as it does, Cromwell and the other Civil War Leaders, it would certainly have been rigidly suppressed, which accounts for its exceeding rarity. It is not mentioned in Hazlitt's Old Plays. |