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COOK, JAMES. A Vogage towards the South Pole, and round the World. Performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. London, 1777. 4to. 2 vols.

Portrait of Cook as frontispiece. Plates, maps, charts.
Calf, gilt.

COQUILLART, GUILLAUME. Les Poésies de Guillaume Coquillart, Official de l'église de Reims. Paris, 1723. 8vo.

From the collection of Mr. E. L. S. Benzon.
Old calf, gilt.

CORNEILLE, PIERRE & THOMAS.

Chefs-d'œuvres dramatiques de

P. & T. Corneille. Avec le Jugement des Savans à la Suite de chaque Pièce. A Londres, 1783. J 2mo. 5 vols.

With portraits. Édition Cazin.

Old calf, gilt, g.e.

COSTER, FRANCISCUS. Sica Tragica Comiti Mauritio à Iesuitis, ut aiunt, Calvinista Leydæ intentata. Nuper Germanicè à Francisco Costero nunc Latinè edita ab Ægidio Schondoncho, utroque Societatis Iesu Sacerdote. [Device.] Antverpiæ, apud Ioachimum Trognæsium, 1599. 8vo.

COURTS. Diuersite de courtz et lour iurisdictions, et alia necessaria et utilia. Colophon: Thomas Bertheletus regius impressor excudebat, Anno dni 1530.

8vo.

Printed in black letter.

Brown mor., gilt, g.e., by Rivière.

Articuli ad Narrationes Novas pertin. formati. London,

Berthelet, 1530. 8vo.

Printed in black letter.

Brown mor., gilt, g.e., by Rivière.

Modus tenēdi unum hūdredum siue curiam de recordo. Colophon: Impressum Londini in vico qui vocatur Fletestrete per me Robertu Redman an. Dñi, 1538. 8vo.

Bound with the same printer's "Maner of kepynge a Courte Baron.

The maner of kepynge a Courte Baron and a Lete with diuers fourmes of entries playntes processis presentmentes and other matters determinable there. Newely imprynted and correctyd. Colophon: Impressum Londini in vico qui vocatur Fletstret, per me Robertum Redman [Circa 1538.] 8vo.

Printed in black letter.

COURTS.

MS. Sæc. xvi.

COURTS-COUTUMES.

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The Charge of a Lete. The Charge of a Court Baron.

Written in a parchment volume from some monastic library, with signature, "Mr. Garrysone the Younger, 1572." It contains several entries as to bondmen in blood, here called "duemen," perhaps on the analogy of "due-days," meaning "boons" or customary workdays. "Also yf ther be anye Bondman of this manor y' withdrawe himselfe his goods & chattels out of this Lordshipe into anye other, ye shall present it. Also yf anye Bondman putteth his sonne to scole to the intent to make him a Preste... or marrieth his daughter without licence of the lord. Also yf ther be anye dueman or anye other copieholder that putteth out their lande to hiere &c. Also yf ther be anye dueman of blode that purchaseth anye freeholde &c. ye shall doe us to witt."

L'Authoritie et jurisdiction des courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne. Nouelment collect and compose, per R. Crompton del Milieu Temple, Esquire, apprentice del ley. London, 1637. 4to.

Printed in black letter.

Code des Seigneurs hauts-justiciers et féodaux ... par Messire Henriquez, Avocat en Parlement. Senlis, 1771. 8vo.

Records of the Borough of Nottingham; being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham. Vol. I. King Henry II. to King Richard II. (1155-1399). Vol. II. 1399-1485. Vol. III. 1485-1547. Vol. IV. 1547-1625. Published under the authority of the Corporation of Nottingham. London and Nottingham, 1882-9. 8vo. 4 vols.

The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846. Printed under the superintendence of a Committee appointed by the Municipal Council of the City of Manchester, from the original Minute Books in their possession. Manchester, 1884-9. 8vo. IO vols.

Presentation copy.
Vellum.

COUTUMES. Coustumes du Pays et Conté de Nyvernoys, enclaves et exemptions dicelluy, &c. [Arms of France, Nevers, and Dreux, on title.] Colophon: Cy fine le coustumier ... et fut acheve d'imprimer le dernier jour du moys daoust mil cinq cens trentecing par Nicholas hicman imprimeur pour hōneste personne Jehan le noir, marchant libraire demourant à la charité pres la halle à l'enseigne Saint Jacques. [Paris, 1535.] 4to.

Black letter. Bound with the "Ordonnances Royaux" of 1539. The Custumal contains rules for managing house-communities of serfs, and for their dissolution by the division of pain et sel posé.'

Les trois Coustumes voisines de Chasteauneuf Chartres et Dreux, avec les notes de M. Ch. Du Moulin. Chartres, 1679. 4to.

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COUTUMES-CRASHAW.

COUTUMES. Coutumes générales de la Ville et Duché de Cambray. Par M. Pinault des Jaunaux. Douay, 1691, 4to.

With motto: "Fructus Alta omnes Pinus ad astra refert."

Nouveau Coutumier Général, ou Corps des Coutumes générales et particulières de France et des provinces connues sous le nom des Gaules. Par Charles A. Bourdot de Richebourg. Paris, 1724. fol. 4 vols.

French calf, gilt.

Coutumes des Bailliages et Villes et Échevinage de Saint-Omer, Audruic, etc. Paris, 1744.

Containing instances of junior-right.

Observations détachées sur les coutumes et les usages anciens et modernes du ressort du Parlement de Metz, par feu M. Gabriel. Bouillon, 1787. 4to. 2 vols.

Coutumes locales du Bailliage d'Amiens, redigées en 1507. Par M. A. Bouthors. Amiens, 1845. 4to. 2 vols.

The customs of “junior-right” in Picardy and Artois are classified; under some the youngest takes the house and land, in others the youngest son or daughter has choice of a "manoir," or takes the "Chef-lieu," or the "Quief-mez" where the parents dwelt; else where the privilege extended only to a preference in the division of the house, land, and heirlooms.

*COX, THOMAS. Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova; or a New Survey of Great Britain, wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr. Cambden and the late Editors of his Britannia is added a more large history... Collected and composed by an impartial Hand. In the Savoy, 1720. 4to. 6 vols.

A compleat history of Somersetshire. Sherborne, 1742. fol. This is a separate issue of the description of Somerset in the Magna Britannia. It is usually known as "Stuckey's History."

CRASHAW, RICHARD. Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, sometimes of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of S. Peter's Coll. in Cambridge... London, Printed by T. W. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1646. 8vo.

This book belonged to Crashaw's friend John Collet, and has this note: "Johannes Collet, filius Thomæ Collet, pater Thomæ, Gulielmi, et Johannis, omnium superstes, natus quarto Junii 1633, denasciturus quando Deo visum fuerit, interim hujus proprietarius." Also printed at the beginning is this notice

"Reader, there was a sudden mistake (tis too late to recover it) thou wilt quickly find it out, and I hope as soone passe it over, some of the humane Poems are misplaced amongst the Divine."

This was subsequently corrected.

There is a separate titlepage for the "Delights of the Muscs, or other poems written on severall occasions."

The first edition.

CRASHAW-CURTIUS RUFUS.

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CRASHAW, RICHARD. Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems. With the Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, sometimes of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of St. Peter's Coll., Cambridge. The second edition, wherein are added divers pieces not before extant. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1648. 12mo.

With frontispiece, "Steps to the Temple, by R. C. Cantabr."

Deo Nostro.

Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses, and Carmen.

By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of St. Peters College in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition. In the Savoy, Printed by T. W. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1670. 8vo.

According to Dr. Grosart, this is the fourth edition.

CRÉBILLON, CLAUDE PROSPER JOLYOT DE.

Euvres de Crébillon;

nouvelle édition, corrigée, revue, & augmentée de la Vie de l'Auteur.

[Portrait.] 1772. 12mo. 3 vols.

CREVIER, J. B. L. Histoire des Empereurs Romains, depuis Auguste jusqu'à Constantin. Par M. Crevier, Professeur, &c., au Collège de Beauvais. Paris, 1749. 8vo. 12 vols.

From the library of the Prince de Soubise, with his badges.
Calf, gilt.

CRUCIUS, ALSARIUS VINCENTIUS [VINCENZO ALSARIO DELLA CROCE]. Vesuvius Ardens, sive exercitatio medico-physica ad ... motum et incendium Vesuvii montis in Campaniâ XVI. mensis Decembris anni 1631. Libris 11. comprehensa. Roma, Facciotti, 1632. 4to.

From the "Bibliotheca Thuana," with the arms and monogram of J. A. de Thou and his second wife, and the Urn and Flowers added by François-Auguste de Thou. Calf, gilt.

CUNEUS, PETRUS. P. Cunai Satyra Menippea Incastrata. Item D. Iuliani Imperatoris Satyra. Lugd. Bat., ex officina Justi Livi in Principio. 1632.

12mo.

With an etched titlepage.

CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS.

The ten Books of Quintus Curtius Rufus. Containing the Life and Death of Alexander the Great. Exactly conferred with the Original, and purged from many gross errours, and Absurdities, with which it before abounded. By the same hand which translated the last volume of the Holy Court. London, Printed by Bernard Alsop, and are to be sold at his House near the Upper Pomp in Grub Street, 1652. 4to.

46 CURTIUS RUFUS-CYRANO DE BERGERAC.

CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS. Q. Curtius Rufus De rebus Alexandri Magni, cum commentario perpetuo & indice absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci. [Device.] Ultrajecti, apud Franciscum Halma, 1685. 8vo. 2 vols.

Maps and plates.
Old red mor., gilt.

Q. Curtii Rufi de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni libri decem. [Device.] Parisiis, typis J. Barbou, 1757. 12mo.

Frontispiece by Eisen. "Ex bibliothecâ Warclanensi, Comit. de Borch."
Old French red mor., gilt, g.e.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC, SAVINIEN. Les Œuvres diverses de Monsieur Cyrano de Bergerac. Amsterdam, 1761. 8vo. 3 vols.

With portrait and engraved titles; the titles to vols. 2 and 3 are taken from the edition of 1741. Under the portrait are the lines:

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