1 ZERENGHI 177 TUSSER. A hundreth good Pointes of Husbandrie Im printed at London, in Flete Strete, within Temple Barre, at the Sygne of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Tottel, the third Day of February, an. 1557. THIS book is probably an unique, and is possessed by the British Museum. Warton refers to it in his History of English Poetry, but the late Mr. Ritson, with the petulance which marked his character, obstinately persisted that no such edition existed; nor was he convinced, till Mr. Parke pointed out this particular copy to his notice. ZERENGHI. Vera Descrittione Dell Hippopottamo, animale Anfibio, che nasce in Egitto. Autore Frederico Zerenghi. In Milano. 1603. THIS tract on the Hippopotamus is most remarkably scarce, and perhaps the copy which the Museum possesses is a unique in this country. It was presented to the Museum by Sir Joseph Banks. Buffon, in his description of the Hippopotamos, makes large use of this tract, of which he says, C'est le seul qu'on puisse regarder comme origenit sur ce sujet. La description que l'Auteur donne de l'Hippopotame est aussi la seule qui soit bonne, &c. &c. He further adds as follows: The æra of any exact knowledge of the Hippopotamos is that of the year 1603, when Zerenghi a surgeon of Narni, in Italy, printed at Naples, the History of two Hippopotami, which he had caused to be taken alive in a great ditch dug on purpose, in the neighbourhood of the Nile, near Damietta. Nobody, adds Buffon, has done justice to Zerenghi, although he merits the highest eulogiums. On the contrary, all Naturalists for these hundred and sixty years past, have ascribed to Fabius Columna what was due to Zerenghi alone. THE THE NEWE TESTAMENTE Of our Savyoure Christ, set forth by Willyam. THIS book generally agrees with Tyndale's qd edition of his N. T. 1534, except the spelling, and its wanting some of the marginal notes, 2. 9, Rev. x. 6. The deed are ignorant of God. i Jno. iv. 1. Fayth is y fyrste cōmāndement, and love ye seconde; and also the cuts in the Reve lations. It also agrees with the folio edition of the O. and N. T. usually called Tyndale's Byble, printed by John Daye and Wylliam Seres, 1549, having the same preface; prologe before each Gospel and Epistle, except Jude; contents before the chapters throughout; Matthew's notes after them; and scripture references in the margin: with the same exception as to the spelling, as the abovementioned. It seems rare and curious, and is taken no notice of by Lewis in his History of the Translations. DR. WHICHCOT. Select Sermons of Dr. Whichcot, in two parts. Printed for Aunsham and John Churchill. 1698. IN the Cracherode copy of this book the following note occurs: Mem. Mr. Churchill, the Bookseller mentioned in the title page, told me, in April, 1724, that the Lord Shaftsbury, author of the Characteristicks, was the publisher of these Sermons; and as he believed, wrote the Preface. April, 1724. M. ROPER. N. B. See what Dr. Salter says, in his Preface to an edition of Whichcot's Aphorisms, p. xv, xvi. Consult also Dr. Birch's Life of Tillotson, second edition, p. 101. DR. JEREMY TAYLOR. FROM this venerable and learned writer's Polemical Discourses, the Theological Student must must derive the soundest instruction and most important advantages. It may not perhaps be generally known, but it is nevertheless true, that partly from the 44th section or discourse of Dr. Taylor, and partly from Stillingfleet's Irenicum, Mr. Locke borrowed the plan of his Letters on Toleration. THE BISHOPS BIBLE. THE first edition of this Bible was printed in 1568. In this the new translation of the Psalms was inserted alone. In the second edition the translation of the Great Bible was added in opposite columns, and in a different character. In this edition also are some other alterations and additions, for the particulars of which see Lewis's History of the English Translations of the Bible, p. 69. See also the second Editon of this Bible in the Cracherode Collection. The second edition was printed in 1572. |