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The Secret of Secrets nale of Princes and euery Maner of Aristotyle, with the Gouerof Estate, with Rules of Helth for Body and Soul, newly translated out of French, by Robert Copland. London, printed by Robert Copland, 1528. 4to.

Black letter. A to I, in fours. A forgery, according to Warton, consecrated with

the name of Aristotle. Weber says it was composed in verse by Pierre de Vernon in

the 12th century.

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De Cursione Lune. The Course and Disposition of the Dayes of the Moone in Laten and in Englishe, whiche be good and whiche be badde, after the Influences of the Moone. Drawen out of a Boke of Aristoteles de Astro

Drury, 253, 20s. Metaphysics, translated with copious Notes, &c. by Thomas Taylor. London, 1801. 4to. 1. 1s.nomiis, &c. (London, by Richard Fakes.) 16mo.

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This edition contains some valuable ter by the translator, not reprinted in the ninth volume of his complete translation of Aristotle's works.

- Art of Poetry, translated from the original Greek, with Dacier's Notes. Lond. 1705.8vo.2s. 6d. A translation of Dacier's French version, reprinted 1709 and 1714.

Poetics, translated from the Greek into English. Lond. 1775. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

'So very literal,' says Mr. Pye,as to be absolutely unintelligible to any person not acquainted with the original.'

-Treatise on Poetry, translated with Notes on the Translation and on the Original; and two Dissertations on poetical and musical Imitations, by Thomas Twining, M.A. Oxford, 1789. 4to. ll. ls.

Contains pp. 567. Of this translation all the literary journals have spoken in terms of very high and justly-merited praise. Drury, 347, 11. A Second Edition, improved by D. Twining, M.A. London, 1812. 8vo. 2 vols. Drury, 248, 11s.

Black letter. A kind of astrological fortune-telling treatise, in which the author descants on each particular day, in old English verse.

of the vij Dayes in the Weke, and The Nature and Dysposycion sheweth what the Thondre in euery Month in the Yere, chaunsynge, doth protende and sygnyfye. With the Course and Dysposycion, of the Dayes of the Moone whiche ben good, and whiche ben bad, after the Influences of the Moone. Drawen out of a Laten Booke of Aristotiles Astronimis. by me Robert Wyer. 12mo. Imprinted

Black letter. Contains B in eights.

The Problems of Aristotle with other Philosophers and Physitions; wherein are contained divers Questions, with their Answers, touching the Estate of Mans Bodie. Lond. 1595. 16mo. 6s.

Black letter. After the problems of Aristotle, are those of Marcus Antonius Zima

ras Sanctipetrinas, 97 in number. Then those of Alexander Aphrodisevs, 142 in number. The work was frequently reprinted in the 17th century.

Many other works have been published,

to which the name of Aristotle has been falsely affixed, but they are of no value or estimation.

of More Clacke. London, 1609. 4to.

The title contains a portrait of the author 11. 5s. Reed, 7690, 21. 10s. Sotheby's in in his stage dress. Rhodes, 468, MS. title Nov. 1826. 27. 12s. Inglis' Old Plays, 9, 31. 3s. Sotheby's in 1823. 7. 17s. 6d.

ARITHMEUS, Valens. Mausolea Regum, Reginarum, Dynastarum, Nobilium, sumptuosissima, artifi-tory of the Life and valiant Deeds

ARMIN, Robert. The valiant Welchman; or, the Chronicle His

ciosissima, magnificentissima, Londini Anglorum, in Occidentali Urbis Angulo structa, h. e. eorundem Inscriptiones omnes in Lucem reducta Cura Valentis Arithmæi, Professoris Academici. Literis et Sumptibus Joannis Eichorn. Francof. Marchion. 1618. 12mo.

A copy is in the British Museum. Arithmetic. An Introduction for to lerne to reken with the Pen and with the Counters, after the true Cast of Arismetyke or Awgrym in hole Numbers, and also in broken; newly corrected and certayne Rules and Ensamples added therunto,in 1536. Imprented 1537.8vo. Black letter. Contains S v. and three blank leaves: Numbers to the end. work was

and 1595.

This

reprinted 1539, 1546, 1574, 1581

ARLINGTON, Earl of. Letters to Sir William Temple, Bart. 1665— 70, to Sir Rich. Fanshaw, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Sunderland, and Sir Wm. Godolphin, during their respective Embassies in Spain, 1664-74: as also Sir Robert Southwell in Portugal. London, 1701. 8vo. 2 vols. 10s. 6d.

Contain pp. 454 and 480. These letters afford an insight into the secret and obscure management of affairs during the above interesting period. Willett, 42, 14. 10s. Roxburghe, 8489, 98.

ARMIN, Robert. Discourse of Elizabeth Caldwell, who, with some other Complices, attempted to attempted to poison her Husband. Lond. 1604. 4to.

- Nest of Ninnies, simply of themselves, without Compounds. London, 1608. 4to.

of Caradoc, the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales. Lond.

1615. 4to.

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Arminian Heresie, 1628. See R.J.
Arminian Nunnery; or, a briefe

Description and Relation of a late

the Arminian Nunnery, at Little erected monastical! Place, called Gidding, in Huntingdonshire. Printed by Thomas Underhill, 1641. 4to.

Contains pp. 10, with a view of the nunnery and the whole length figure of a nun, as a vignette, in the title page. Gough, 416, 11. 3s. King and Lochée's in March

1810, 11. 2s. Nassau, pt. i. 186, 21. 2s. Reprinted by Hearne in the first volume of Peter Langtoft's Chronicle.

ARMINIUS, James, D.D. The Works, translated from the Latin. To which are prefixed, the Life of the Author, Extracts from his Letters, &c. By James Nichols. London, 1825. 8vo. vol. i. with port. 16s.

An excellent translation, with a great deal of important matter in the prolegomena and notes.'

The Life and Death of James Arminius and Simon Episcopius. Now published in the English Tongue. London, 1672. 12mo. 5s..

Arms borne by Families of Great Britain and Ireland. (The principal History of the Two Maids historical and allusive) with their

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respective Authorities, collected by

ARMSTRONG, John, M.D. Mis

an Authority, with a Representa- cellanies. London, 1770. 12mo. tion of the Arms on copper-plates. London, 1803. 4to.

Contains pp. viii and 552. This useless, and in many places nonsensical, compilation is usually attributed to Col. De la Motte. The major part of the impression was destroyed in the fire at Nichols' Printing Office. Sir M. M. Sykes, 1493, 1. 7s. Roxburghe, 8675, 1. 1s.

ARMSTRONG, Archibald. Archy's Dream, sometime Jester to his Majestie but exiled the Court by Canterburies Malice. With a

Relation for whom an odd Chaire stood void in Hell. 1641. 4to.

One sheet. The frontispiece represents Archbishop Laud in bed with a cloven foot at the bed side, a great sword in the window and Archy standing by. White Knights, pt. i. 171, 44. 4s.

Archee's Banquet of Jests new and old. Lond. 1657. 12mo. with a portrait of Archee whole length, and four verses, by T. Cecill.

Inglis, 30, morocco, 5l. 15s. 6d. 1665, with port. Sotheby's in May 1823, mor. 17.1s.

Jests found in his Closet after his decease. London, 1660. with portrait engraved by Gaywood, inscribed This is no Muckle John nor Sommers William.'

In Ireland's Catalogue 1801, No. 482, was Life of Archer, Jester to James and Charles the First, with portrait by Cecill.' 4to. 7s.

-John, Col. History of the Navigation of the Port of King's Lyn and of Cambridge, and the rest of the trading Towns in those Parts; and of the navigable Rivers that have their Course through the Bedford Level. London, 1725. folio. Contains pp. 148, besides preface, errata, and list of subscribers' names, ei lit pages, also seven maps and plates. In 1766, the old title, prefaces and contents were cancelled, and new ones printed, and after the table of contents is an addition of An Abstract' consisting of two pages.

John. History of the Island of Minorca. Second Edition. London, 1756. 8vo.

Contains pp. 264, with five plates. Dent,

2 vols.

Nassau, pt. i. 60, 7s. In 1795 was published The Art of preserving Health. By To which is John Armstrong, M. D. fixed a critical Essay on the Poem. By J. Aikin, M.D. 1795.

5s.

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R. A., A.M. Gaelic Dictionary, in two Parts; 1. Gaelic and English; 2. English and Gaelic. London, 1825. 4to. 31. 13s. 6d.

Armstrong. The pleasant History of Jonny Armstrong, 4to. 8s. Critical ARNALD, Richard. Commentary upon the Apocrypha. London, 1744, 8, 52. Folio, 3 Parts, 21. 2s.

This judicious and valuable work usually accompanies the commentaries of Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, and is the scarcest volume of the set. It has been reprinted 1806, 1809, 1822, 4to. 14. 1s. each. Edi

tion 1744, Gough 2729, with MS. notes by

Jer. Markland, 7. 78.

Arnalt and Lucenda. See HOLLYBAND, Claudius.

ARNAUD, Henri. History of the glorious Return of the Vaudois to their valley in 1689. Translated from the original by Hugh Dyke Acland, Esq. with sketches of the country, engraved by Finden. London, 1826. 8vo.

ARNDTIUS, Johannes. De vero Christianismo Libri IV. cum Judiciis

ejus de Theologia Polemica, Lat. ex Versione A. W. Boemi. Lond. 1708. 8vo. 2 vols.

The most esteemed work of all those

written by this celebrated Protestant divine. Roxburghe, 401, 7s. 6d. It has been translated into English 1712. 44, 8vo. 2 vo's. and again, by W. Jacques, 1815, 8vo. 2

vols. 9s. each. An edition of the transla

tion by W. H. Boehm, London, 1720. Svo. 3 vols. Williams, 82, 17. 19s.

Arno Miscellany: a Collection of fugitive pieces by a Society called the Oziosi. Florence, 1784. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Privately printed.
ARNOLD, John.

An Account

pt. i. 91, 5s. 6d. Towneley, pt. i. 269, 7. kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, of the going of a pocket Chrono

Fonthill, 2696, 14s. The first edition appeared in 1752.

meter. A Letter from Mr. Christian Meyer, Astronomer to the Elector Palatine. On the Longitude, in a Letter to the Commissioners of that Board. An Answer to an anonymous letter on the Longitude. Lond. 1780-2. 4to. Four Tracts, 10s. 6d.

ARNOLD, Richard. The Names of the Balyfs, Custos, Mayres, and Sherefs of ye Cite fo. London from the Tyme of Kynge Richard the first, called Cure de Lyon, which was crowned y iii day of Septebre y' yere of our Lorde God xioLxxxix. (1502.) Small folio.

Black letter. Fol exviii. with a Kalender' commencing on A ii. First edition. It is described in the Censura Litteraria, vi. 113-9.

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The Names of the Baylyfs, Custose, Mayers, and Sherefs of the Cyte of London, &c. (1521.)

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Black letter. A 4 leaves, A 1 blank. B1-C 4, 12 leaves, then B 1-U 5, 120 leaves. A full description of this edition, (in which, according to Hearne, the history comes much lower than the first,) will be found in Oldys' British Librarian, pp.22-26. -The Names of ye Baylifs, Custos, Maiers, and Sherefs of the Cyte of Londo, &c. folio.

Black letter. The signatures are irregular. A containing the table of contents, 4 leaves, the first of which is blank, then another sign. A with 8 leaves; B 4, on the first leaf of which begins the numbering of the leaves; C 8-E 8; F 6-Q 6; R 8; S6; T6; V 5, the last page of which is blank. A very full description of this edition will be found in Herbert's Ames iii. 1746-51. Copies of the various editions have been sold as under: Mason, 15. 15s. 15. 18s. Lansdowne, 71. 17s. 6d. Sir P. Thompson, 147, 184. Roxburghe, 8355, 224. Is. Nassau, pt. i. 207, 71. Sir M M. Sykes, 454, 12. 12s. Dent, pt. i. 159,

mor. 51. 5s.

Brand,

-The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle; containing among divers other matters the original of the celebrated Poem of the Nut-brown Maid. Reprinted from the first edition, with the Additions included in the second. London, 1811. 4to. pp. lii and 300, 17. 1s.

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The former edition, 1785, 4to. burghe, 1079, 11s. Bindley, pt. i. 118, 6s.

History of Edinburgh, from the earliest accounts to the present time. To which is added an Appendix. Second Edition. Edin. 1789. 4to. pp. 674, and twenty engravings.

Best edition of an useful and entertaining work. Roxburghe, 8785, 1. 3s. In 1779 the former edition appeared. Nassau, 188, 9s. Roxburghe, 8784, 14. 1s. Heath, 4725, 14. 10s.

ARNWAY, John, D.D. Tablet, or Moderation of Charles the First, Martyr, with an Alarum to the subjects of England. Hague, 1650. small 8vo.

Of this edition, according to Ant. à Wood, a few copies only were printed. It was reprinted at London, 1661, with port. of Charles I. 8vo. by the care of Will. Rider,

who married the author's near kinswoman.

The edition 1661. Dowdeswell, 18, 5s. 6d. Towneley, pt. i. 263, 10s. 6d.

ARRIAN'S History of Alexander's Expedition, transl. from the Greek, with notes, historical, geographical, and critical, by John Rook. To which is prefixed Le Clerc's Criticism upon Q. Curtius. Arrian's Indian History. His Ac

count of the division of the Empire after Alexander's death. Raderus's Tales. A Catalogue of the Authors who have wrote his history. A Chronology of the whole, and a complete Index. London, 1729. 8vo. 2 vols. 12s. to 14s.

A very useful and valuable work, faithfully and accurately executed. Edwards, 215, 15s. Gough, 132, 1. 4s. Roxburghe, 7532, 11. 8s. Constable, 28, mor. 21. 2s. Reprinted 1814, 8vo. 2 vols. 12s. ARRIAN'S Voyage round the Euxine Sea, accompanied with a Geographical Dissertation and Map. To which are added three Discourses. By William Vincent, D.D. London, 1805. 4to.

The original will be found in Hudson's Geographiæ veteris Scriptores.

ARROWSMITH, A. General Atlas, constructed from the latest authorities. London, 1827. royal 4to. with 53 maps, 11. 16s. Coloured, 21. 12s, 6d.

This celebrated hydrographer has published a variety of maps, highly valued for

their accuracy.

-John, D. D. Armilla Catechetica: a Chain of Principles, or an orderly Concatenation of Theological Aphorisms and Exercitations, wherein the chief heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved. Camb. 1659. 4to. 10s. 6d. Williams, 111, morocco, 21. 8s. Reprinted Edinb. 1822. 8vo. 8s. This work, and likewise the author's Tactica Sacra, 1657. 4to. and other publications, rank high among the Puritanical writings. Tactica Sacra, Williams, 110, 14. 10s.

John Pauncefort. The Art of instructing the Infant Deaf and

Dumb. London. 8vo.

ARSANES. Orations of Arsanes against Philip, the trecherous Kyng of Macedone: or the Embassadors of Venice against the Prince that vndercrafty league with Scanderbeg, layed snares for Christendome; and of Scanderbeg, prayeng ayde of Christian Princes agaynst periurous murdering Mahumet, and agaynst the old false Christian Duke Mahumetes confederate. With a notable example of God's vengeange vppon a faithlesse Kyng, Quene, and her children. London, by John Daye. 16mo.

Black letter. Contains V 2, in fours, half sheets. A notable example; A in eights, including the title and a blank leaf prefixed. Day printed three editions without date. The work is by Tanner, (Bibl. Brit. 551,) ascribed to Thomas Norton. Nassau, pt. i. 2468, 1. Gs. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. ii. 577, 1l. 15s.

ARTEMI. Memoirs of the Life of Artemi, of Wagarschapat, near Mount Ararat, in Armenia, from the original Armenian. Written by himself. Lond. 1822. 8vo. pp. 374, 7s.

of Dreams, digested into five Books. ARTEMIDORUS. Interpretation The Tenth Edition, corrected by an original copy, with the Life of the Author, &c. London, 1690. 12mo.

A work formerly in considerable estimation, as will appear from the numerous editions published. An edition of the date of 1644, (by Barnard Alsop) is in the British Museum. An edition, 1669. Inglis, 37, 11s.

ARTHINGTON, Henry. PrinciPall Points of Holy Profession, touching these three estates of Mankind. 1. Their Creation. 2. Their Subsersion. 3. Their Res

In this interesting little volume the plan of the celebrated Abbe De l'Epee is re-toration, &c. Composed in Verse, printed. by H. A. G. Printed by Tho Pavyer, 1607. 4to.

Arrowsmith and Herst. A true and exact relation of the death of two Catholics [Edmund Arrow-in smith and Richard Herst] who suffered for their religion at the Summer Assizes, held at Lancaster in 1628. Republished with additions. London. 1737. 8vo. with their portraits, 5s.

An account of Arthington will be found
Weever's Funeral Monuments.

ARTHUR, King of Great Britain. Assertio Arturij Regis Britanniæ, 1544 and 1554, 4to. with the translation by Rich. Robinson. 1582 or 1583. 4to. See LELAND, John.

King of Great Britain.

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