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OUNG, EDWARD. A Poem on the Last Day. By Edward Young Fellow of All-Souls College, Oxon. "Venit Summa Dies." Virg. Oxford, Printed at the Theatre for Edward Whistler, 1713. 8vo. Presentation copy, with inscription on the fly-leaf, "The Right Honourable ye Earl of Abingdon," and on the reverse the following note: "This copy of the Poem on the Last Day &c. came out of the library of the Earl of Abingdon; it was covered with Gilt paper & the edges of the leaves were likewise Gilt; from these circumstances it seems probable that this was a Copy presented to the then Earl by the Author."

Les Nuits d'Young, traduits de l'Anglois par M. Le Tourneur. "Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt." [Plates.] Paris, 1772. 2 vols.

8vo.

With a life of Young. "Le grand pöete, l'écrivain original, est sûr d'accompagner à immortalité les Swift, les Shaftesbury, les Pope, les Adisson, les Richardson, dont il fut ou l'ami ou l'associé litéraire. Il eut part au célèbre ouvrage du Spectateur."

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ACHRISSON, OLAF TROIL. Dissertatio de Linguæ Suecanæ orthographiâ. Upsala, 1694. 8vo.

Calf, gilt.

ZANETTI, BERNARDINO. Del Regno de' Longobardi in Italiâ memorie Storico-Critico-Chronologiche del Dottore D. Bernardino Zanetti. In Venezia, appresso Lorenzo Baseggio, 1753. 4to.

Two vols. in one. With the Lamoignon ticket: "Bibliotheca Lamoniana," "Cet ouvrage éprouva quelques critiques, mais Zanetti, dans une réponse à ses censeurs, n'eut pas de peine à démontrer que leurs reproches n'étaient nullement fondés."

Olive mor., gilt, g.e., by Padeloup.

ZANOTTI, GIAMPIETRO CAVAZZONI. Didone, Tragedia con altre Poesie

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With the "Rime," and the "Proposte e Risposte."

"Zanotti, tu, che le bell' Alme suore

Hai si propizie, e il divo Apollo, e l' arte
Si bèn possedi, e tutti a parte a parte

I modi, ond' Uom d'altrui fassi Signore."

ZESEN, PHILIPP VON [PHILIPPUS CASIUS]. Philippi Casii à Zesen Leo Belgicus, hoc est, succincta ac dilucida narratio exordii progressus, &c., Reipublicæ fœderatarum Belgii regionum. [Device.] Amsteladami, apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1660. 12mo.

With an additional engraved titlepage.
Vellum.

ZSCHACKWITZ, JOHANN EHRENFRIED. Heraldica, oder WapenKunst, worinnen der wahre Ursprung der Wapen und deren Bedeutung behörig, und sonderlich aus denen Altherthümern aufgesuchet, zugleich eine Nachricht von dem Alten Kriegs-Wesen... nicht weniger das Ceremoniel grosser Herren und deren Abgesandten beygefüget wird. Leipzig, 1735. 8vo. From the Giustiniani Collection.

A COLLECTION OF SMALL BOOKS.

BATI, ANTONIO. Delle Frascherie di Antonio Abati. Amsterdam, s.a. 3 X 2 in.

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From the Beckford Collection.

Green mor., gilt, g.e.

AFFECTION'S KEEPSAKE. Original Poetry, 1836. 4 × 2ğ in.

AKENSIDE, MARK. The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M.D. London, 1825. 3 × 2 in.

ALMANAC. Almanach pour l'an de Notre Seigneur 1771. Supputé par Maître Matthieu Lænsberch Mathématicien. Liege, s.a. 3 × 27 in. Le Trésor des Almanachs, étrennes nationales, curieuses et nécessaires, avec figures. Paris, 1780. 3 × 2 in.

...

Le petit Théatre de l'univers, étrennes naturelles, précieuses, pour l'année 1814. Paris. 3 × 2 in.

Diario

S. Paulo, e Marianna.

Old red mor., gilt, g.e.

Ecclesiastico Para os Bispados do Rio de Janeiro,
Lisboa, 1815. 4 X 2 in.

Le nouvel Almanach de Milan pour l'Anné 1830. Milan,

3 x 24 in. ANACREON. Αι τοῦ ̓Ανακρέοντος ᾠδαὶ, κ.τ.λ. Glasgue, Foulis, 1751. 3 × 13 in.

Αι τοῦ ̓Ανακρέοντος ᾠδαὶ, κ.τ.λ. Edinburgi, 1754. 33 X 2 in.
Αι τοῦ ̓Ανακρέοντος ᾠδαὶ, κ.τ.λ. Glasgua, Foulis, 1761.

2 x 12 in.
ANECDOTE. The Nonpareil Cabinet of Anecdote and Wit. Glasgow,
1824. 3X 2 in.

4 X 2 in.

Gems of Anecdote. Original and selected. London, 1838.

ANNUAL FAIRY, THE. Edited by Robin Goodfellow, Attendant Sprite to their Majesties Oberon and Titania. London, 1838. 2 × 1 in. Citron mor., gilt, g.e., by Zachnsdorf.

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BEATTIE-BIBLE.

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EATTIE, JAMES. The Minstrel or the Progress of Genius, and other poems. London, 1836. 4 × 2 in.

BENJAMIN OF TUDELA. Itinerarium Benjaminis, Latine redditum operâ Const. l'Empereur. Lugd. Batavorum, ex officina Elzeverianâ, 1633. 3 X 1 in.

Red mor., gilt.

BIBLE. The whole Book of Psalms. Collected into English meeter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others. London, Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1639. 2 × 17 in.

In a 'Little Gidding' needlework binding, with "Dorothy Hingstone, her Book, 1777," inscribed on the fly-leaf.

The Psalms in Short-hand by Jeremiah Rich. London,

[circa 1656.] 2 × 1 inch. Blue mor., g.e., by Zaehnsdorf.

Het Boek der Psalmen, nevens de Gezangen bij de Hervornde Kerk van Nederland in gebruik. Amsterdam, 1777. 3 x 14 in. Old calf gilt, with silver clasps.

Megillath Esther. [The Book of Esther in Hebrew, written in a Dutch hand of the end of the 17th century, on a vellum scroll, 22 X 2 in., wound round on a small roller.]

Τῆς καινῆς Διαθήκης ἅπαντα. Novum Jesu Christi Domini Nostri Testamentum. Colophon: Sedani, ex typographia et typis novissimis Joannis Jannoni, 1629. (1528.) 3 × 17 in.

Novum Testamentum Græcum. London, 1826. 3 × 2 in.

"Mr. Pickering, the Publisher of this Diamond edition of the New Testament, has not only resolved in a typographical point of view, to eclipse all preceding similar efforts-leaving the Sedan, and the Amsterdam edition of Bleau, at a considerable distance behind ... Each sheet has been revised eight times... The text of this extraordinary little book is closely copied after that of the first Elzevir Edition of 1624." Dibdin.

The first Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy. The second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy. The General Epistle of James. [MS. in Tamil,] 1837. 2 × 2 in.

The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testament. [Plates.] London, 1775. 1 × 1 in. 13

Black mor., gilt.

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BIBLE.

2 × 2 in.

BIBLE-CICERO.

The Thumb Bible. Verbum sempiternum. London, 1849.

BIBLIOTHÈQUE EN MINIATURE. Berquis, Demoustier, Florian, La Fontaine, Millevoye, Voltaire. Paris, Didot, s.a. 2 × 1 in.

Six volumes of extracts in case.

BOETHIUS. Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boethii de Consolatione Philosophiæ libri v. Amstelodami, 1640. 2 × 1 in.

Green mor., gilt, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf.

Boethii de Consolatione Philosophiæ, libri v.

Oxonii, 1663.

31 × 2 in.

From the library of Robert Southey, with his signature.

Boethii de Consolatione Philosophiæ, libri v. Amstelodami,

1668. 3 × 2 in.

Red mor., gilt, g.e.

BRILLIANTS. A setting of humorous poetry in brilliant types. New York, [De Vinne Press,] 1888. 2 × 1 in.

BUTLER, SAMUEL. Hudibras. A poem, by Samuel Butler. London, 1824. 4 X 2 in.

Blue mor., by Ramage.

ANNING, GEORGE.

George Canning.

The Poetical Works of the Right Honourable
London, 1827. 3 × 2 in.

CANTELLUS, JACOBUS.

Anonymi Dialogi Tres. Edidit è privatis

Schedis Jacobus Cantellus. Mutina, 1692. 3 × 1 in.

From the Gibson-Craig Collection.

CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER, LORD. Lord Chesterfield's Advice to his Son on Men and Manners, containing the principles of politeness. Edinburgh, 1802. 3 × 2 in.

CICERO. M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato Major. Ad T. Pomponium Atticum. Lutetia, 1758. 3 × 2 in.

Red mor., gilt., g.e., doublé in blue silk, by Derome.

M. Tullii Ciceronis De Amicitiâ Dialogus. Ad T. P. Atticum.

Lutetiæ, Barbou, 1771. 3 × 2 in.

Red mor., g.c.

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