259 MAGIC, &c.-A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle, occasion'd by his reading books treating of magick, the black-art, dæmoniacks, conjurers, witches, &c., with notes, containing a multitude of quotations out of the books, written originally in French by the Abbot B- and now translated into English, 8vo, original calf, FINE COPY, very scarce, £1 15s 1711 260 MAINTENON (Madame de) Lettres, à diverses personnes, et à M. d'Aubigné, son frère, 9 vols, 12mo, original French mottled calf, slight defect in binding of 3 vols, 158 1756 261 MANDEVILLE (B.) The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, publick benefits, with an essay on charity and charity schools, &c., third edition, 8vo, half calf, scarce, autograph signature of T. Seccombe on fly-leaf, 15s Printed for J. Tonson, 1724 262 MANDEVILLE.-Law (William) Remarks upon a Late Book, entituled, "The Fable of the Bees," or private vices, publick benefits . . to which is added a Postscript, containing an observation or two upon Mr. Bayle, third edition, 8vo, wrappers, UNCUT, title soiled, 68 1726 263 MANIPULUS CURATORUM, &c.-Opera utilissima a qualunque fidele Christiano intitulata Manipulus Curatorum cum diligentia vulgarizata, first few leaves wormed, Venetia, Alesandro Paganino, 1515-Epositio Pulcherrima Hymnorum per annum curiam non amplius impressa, woodcut on title, Venetiis, Georgium de Rusconibus, 1515-Vocabulista Ecclesiastico Latino e vulgare utile e necessario a molti, woodcut on title, Venetiis, ib. 1514—in one vol, 8vo, russia, binding worn, three very scarce pieces, £1 158 264 MANLEY (Mrs. De La Riviere) History of her own Life and Times, published from her original manuscript, the fourth edition, with a preface concerning the present publication, front., 8vo, old half calf, rather short copy, a little foxed, scarce, 158 E. Curll, 1725 1914 265 MARLOWE (Christopher) Edward II., edited by William Dinsmore Briggs, 8vo, bds., buckram back, as new, 58 6d 266 MARTYN (William) The Historie and Lives of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror, vnto the end of the raigne of King Henrie the Eight, broad border round title, folio, contemporary calf, gilt medallions on sides, some lower outer margins damp-stained, scarce, £1 108 Printed for I. Bill, W. Barret and H. Fetherstone, 1615 Contains commendatory Poems by the author's three sons, Nicholas, William and Edward Martyn, and by his Son-in-Law, Peter Beuys. 268 267 MEDICAL.-Bertotii (Alfonsi) Methodus Generalis, et Compendiaria, ex Hippocratis, Galeni, et Auicennae placitis deprompta, ac in ordinem redacta, ad omnes morbos recta ratione curandos, summè utilis, et necessaria, sm. 8vo, old crimson morocco gilt, gilt edges, stained, old MS. notes in margins of some leaves and at end, 158 Venetiis, 1556 Gratarolo (G.) Pestis Descriptio, Cavsae, signa omnigena, et praeservatio, device on title, 16mo, old calf, binding broken, RARE, £1 108 Parisiis, apud F. Morellum, 1561 Dictionarivm Medicum, vel Expositiones vocum medicinalium, ad verbum excerptae ex Hippocrate, Aretaeo, Galeno, Oribasio, etc., cum Latina interpretatione, sm. 8vo, original vellum, margins damp-stained, 12s 6d Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1564 270 MILITARY.-Aeliani de Militaribvs ordinibus instituendis more graecorum liber à Francisco Robortello Vtinensi, in Latinvm Sermonem uersus, engraved title and illustrations in the text, 4to, half calf, old MS. notes in margins, title and a few leaves stained, £1 12s Venetiis, 1552 269 271 272 Maggi (Girolamo) and Castriotto (Iacomo) Della Fortificatione delle citta, libri III., numerous illustrations, folio, half calf, binding cracked at joint, £1 15s Venetiu, 1583 Lipsius (Justus) De Militia Romana, libri qvinqve commentarivs ad Polybivm, editio ultima, plates, sm. folio, half calf, binding defective at back, 78 6d Antverpiae ex officina Plantiniana, 1614 273 MILITARY.-Lydii (Jacobi) Syntagma Sacrum de re Militari nec non de jure jurando dissertatio Philologica, engraved title and numerous plates, 4to, old calf, roughly rebacked, edges stained, 8s 6d Dordraci, 1698 274 MILTON.-Douglas (John) Milton Vindicated from the Charge of Plagiarism, brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several forgeries and gross impositions on the public, 8vo, neatly half bound, nice copy, scarce, £1 1s 1751 275 MILTON.—[Neve (P.)] A Narrative of the Disinterment of Milton's Coffin in the Parish-Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, 1790, and of the treatment of the corpse, second edition, with additions, 8vo, red morocco gilt, gilt edges, foxed, bookplate of H. B. H. Beaufoy, 78 6d 1790 276 MINES.-Barba (A. A., &c.) A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals, containing curious observations on mines and the several minerals produced, &c., sm. 8vo, calf, corner of one leaf torn away, 4s 6d 1739 277 MINES.-Plattes (Gabriel) A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure (viz.), of all Manner of Mines and Minerals, from the gold to the coal, with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries; and also the Art of Melting, Refining and Assaying of them, &c., sin. 4to, wrappers, top outer corner of title and last leaf slightly defective and roughly repaired, scarce, 12s 6d Printed for Peter Parker, 1679 278 MINIATURES, &c.-Sotheby's Catalogue of the Wellesley Sale of Plumbago, Pen-and-Ink and Coloured Pencil Drawings and Miniatures, &c., 60 plates, 4to, wrappers, 5s 1839 June, 1920 The reproductions include Cosway's Kitty Fischer and Francis Abington, Dance's portrait of Turner at 17 (the earliest known), Van Dyck's Guiseppe Cesari, Faithorne's Study of Charles II., Edward Gibson's portrait of himself, 1690, Harlow's portrait of Byron, Len's Jacob Tonson, etc. 279 MIRACLES (The) Perform'd by Money: a poem, by the Author of "The Humours of a Coffee-house," sm. 4to, calf neat, stained copy (twelve leaves), £1 18s Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1692 280 MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin de) Les Oeuvres de, nouvelle édition, reveuë, corrigée et augmentée, portrait and plates, 8 vols, sm. 8vo, old calf, Vol. VI. wants general title and leaf of contents, £1 ls Paris, 1710 281 MOORE (Thomas) The Epicurean: a tale, with illustrations by J. M. W. Turner; and Alciphron: a poem, 12mo, original cloth, 4s 6d 282 MORE (George) PRINCIPLES FOR YOUNG PRINCES, collected out of sundry Authors by George More, Esquire, FIRST EDITION, RARE, 16mo, original limp vellum, a few headlines cut, wanting Al blank, £2 28 Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1611 283 MORE (Henry) Philosophicall Poems, second edition, with copious notes at end, sm. 8vo, contemporary calf, small worm-hole in first few leaves, old autograph signature on title, a very good large copy, £5 Cambridge, Roger Daniel, 1647 284 MORRIS (Captain Charles) Lyra Urbanica, or the Social Effusions of the celebrated Captain Charles Morris, of the late Life Guards, portrait, 2 vols, cr. 8vo, half green morocco, gilt tops, uncut, £1 10s 1840 285 MOTTOES (The) of the Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians, translated into English, sm. 8vo, original calf, binding cracked at joint, bookplate of H. B. H. Beaufoy, 4s 6d 1735 286 MUSE ANGLICANE sive Poemata quaedam melioris notae, seu hactenus inedita, seu sparsim edita, 2 vols, 12mo, old calf, bookplate of H. B. H. Beaufoy in each vol, 5s 1741 287 N. (M.) The Faithful General: a tragedy, as it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market by Her Majesty's Sworn Servants, written by a Young Lady, 4to, sewn, stained, some leaves cut into (A 411: a 211: B to K in fours), 10s 6d Printed for Richard Wellington, 1706 With a fulsome dedication to the Duchess of Ormond. The authoress complains that when performed whole scenes were left out, and it was 'strip'd of all those ornaments I endeavour'd to give it.' 288 NAPOLEON'S LETTERS TO JOSEPHINE, 1796-1812, for the first time collected and translated, with notes from contemporary sources, by H. F. Hall, portraits, 8vo, cloth, 4s 6d 1901 289 NAVAL.-Parthenii (Nic.) Piscatoria et Nautica (in verse), plates, 12mo, half calf, binding worn, 78 6d Napoli, 1685 290 NEWSPAPERS.-The Test, No. I., November 6, 1756, to No. 35, July 9, 1757-The Con-Test, No. I., November 23, 1756, to No. 38, August 6, 1757— folio, calf, £1 10s 1756-57 291 NIPOTISMO (IL) DI ROMA, or the History of the Popes Nephevvs: wherein is related the Reasons which move the Popes to make their Nephews Great, &c., portrait of Pope Alexander the Seaventh, engraved by I. Chantry, 2 parts in one vol, sm. 8vo, crimson morocco, gilt edges, 10s 6d Printed for John Starkey, 1669 292 NONESUCH PRESS. Cupid and Psyches, translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine bookes of the Golden Asse by Apuleius, 1566, 8vo, bds., £1 188 293 294 295 1923 Donne (Dr. John) Paradoxes and Problemes, with two characters and an essay of valour, now first reprinted from the editions of 1633 and 1652, with one additional probleme, 8vo, bds., £1 188 1923 1923 Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, portrait, roy. 8vo, 1923 296 NORRIS (John) A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, essays, discourses, and letters occasionally written, the second edition, corrected, 8vo, original calf, neatly rebacked, 158 1692 297 NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.-Parry (Sir W. E.) Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, portrait and plates, 5 vols, 12mo, half roan, bookplate of H. B. H. Beaufoy in each vol, 5s 6d 1831 1682 298 NOUVELLE.-Desordres de la Bassette, nouvelle galante, 12mo, old calf, with bookplate of H. B. H. Beaufoy, 10s 6d 299 NOVEL.-Rosalinda: a novel, intermixed with a variety of the most affecting scenes, both of distress and happiness, by a Man of Quality, translated from the French, second edition, 8vo, original calf, binding slightly cracked at joints, scarce, 10s 6d 300 301 1741 Mackenzie (Anna Maria) Dusseldorf, or the Fratricide: a romance, front., 3 vols in one, sm. thk. 8vo, calf, binding cracked at joint, stained, 4s 6d 1798 1800 Lathom (F.) Mystery: a novel, in two volumes, 2 vols in one, sm. 8vo, old calf, binding worn, rather badly stained, 4s 6d 302 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GRÆCUM, 2 vols in one, 12mo, red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges, nice copy, 5s 1813 305 OWEN (J.) Epigrammatum, engraved title, portrait, 12mo, old red morocco gilt, gilt edges, bookplate of the Earl of Marchmont, 10s 6d Amstelodami, 1669 306 PARALDI (Guil.) Summa Virtutum ac Vitiorum Guilhelmi Paraldi Episcopi Lugdunensis de Ordine Predicatorum, gothic letter, double columns, thk. 8vo, calf, binding worn and broken, title-page in admirable facsimile by Harris, rare, 15s Paris, F. Regnault, N.D. 307 PARC (Sieur de) The Comical History of Francion, satirically exposing the folly and vices in vanity of humours and adventures, translated by several hands, and adapted to the humour of the present age, plates, second edition, very much corrected, 2 vols, sm. 8vo, original calf, rebacked, and corners repaired in morocco, 15s 1727 308 [PATMORE (Coventry)] The Unknown Eros, and other Odes, FIRST EDITION, sq. cr. 8vo, cloth, 12s 6d 1877 309 PATTISON (William) Poetical Works (Vol. I. only), plates, 8vo, original calf, binding slightly worn at back, scarce and curious, 10s 6d H. Curll, 1728 Contains Memoirs of the Author's Life, etc. 310 PARK (Henry, Curate of Wentworth in Yorkshire) Lachrymæ Sacerdotis, a pindarick poem, occasioned by the death of that most excellent princess, our late Gracious Sovereign Lady, Mary the Second, of Glorious Memory, 4to, sewn (six leaves), £1 1s Printed for John Dunton and are also to be sold by Edm. Richardson, 1695 This Yorkshire Curate, who can write of crossing "the sooty Lake; and "the All-cementing Glue," should surely be immortalized. Struck by his Old Victorious Dart, we fall. The pious, witty, fair and strong, The snowy aged, and the fiery young, They all must cross the sooty Lake at last, For well the gentle Empress knew, That Mercy was the All-cementing Glue, That stubborn Crouds to chearful Homage drew. 311 PETRONIUS ARBITER (Titus) Satyricon, cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto, accedunt diversorum Poëtarum omnia Commentariis, et Notis Doctorum Virorum illustrata, concinnante Michaele Hadrianide, engraved title, 8vo, green morocco, gilt edges, 68 1895 Amstelodami, J. Blaev, 1669 312 PINDARI, Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, Cæterorum octo Lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylides, Simonidis, Alcmanis, Nonnulla etiam aliorum, omnia Graecé et Latinè, 2 vols in one, sq. 12mo, calf, scarce, 12s 6d Antverpiae, ex officina C. Plantini, 1567 313 PINERO (Sir Arthur) The Second Mrs. Tanqueray: a play, portrait of the Author, FIRST EDITION, sq. 12mo, cloth, 5s 314 PLAUTUS (M. Accius) Comodiae, superst XX., engraved title, device at end, 12mo, red morocco, gilt edges, from the Syston Park Library, with bookplate, 88 6d Amstelodami, 1630 315 PLAUTUS, &c.-Plauti Fragmenta inedita, Item ad P. Terentium Commentationes et Picturae ineditae Inventore A. Maio, cuts, Mediolani, 1815-Isaei Oratio de Heredate Cleonymi. Gr. et Lat., Inventore et Interprete A. Maio, ib. 1815Themistii Philosophi Oratio Inventore et Interprete Angelo Maio, ib. 1816-the 3 in one vol, sm. 4to, scored calf extra, 5s 6d 316 PLAYS, &c.-Otway (T.) The History and Fall of Caius Marius, 1724-Taverner (W.) The Maid the Mistress, front., 1732—Banks (John) The Unhappy Favourite, front., 1721-[Aubin (Mrs.)] The Merry Masqueraders, or the humorous cuckold: a comedy, 1732-La Zayre de M. de Voltaire, representee á Paris aux mois d'aoust, Novembre & Decembre, 1732-and 2 other items, 7 in all, in one vol, thk. sm. 8vo, calf, 78 6d 1721-33 317 POEMS.-A Collection of 86 Loyal Poems, all of them written upon the two late plots-viz., the Horrid Salamanca Plot in 1678, and the Present Fanatical Conspiracy in 1683 . . with several poems on their Majesties Coronation, never before published, collected by N. T., sm. 8vo, half roan, stained and some headlines cut, bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy, 12s 6d Printed by N. T., 1685 318 POEMS.-Musapaedia, or Miscellany Poems never before printed, by several Members of the Oxford Poetical Club, late of Eton and Westminster, 8vo, sheep, binding worn, stained copy, 6s 1719 319 POEMS ON AFFAIRS OF STATE, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to . . . this present year, 1707, written by the greatest Wits of the Age, plates, 4 vols, 8vo, original calf, backs defective, £1 18s 1703-10 Another set, 4 vols, 8vo, calf, binding not quite uniform, cracked at joints, £2 28 1702-07 320 321 POEMS (Anonymous).-Bradshaw's Ghost, a poem, or a dialogue between John Bradshaw, Charon, Oliver Cromwell, and others, 1660, folio, unbound (four pages), 10s 6d 322 323 N.D. Naboth's Vinyard, or the Innocent Traytor, in heroick verse [ascribed by Haslewood to John Caryll], folio, sewn, nice clean copy, £1 1s Printed for C. R., 1679 Naboth's Vinyard. Another copy, stained and last leaf defective, 58 ib. 1679 324 POEMS (Anonymous).-The Sentiments, a poem to the Earl of Danby in the Tower, by a Person of Quality, folio, sewn, nice clean copy, 10s 6d Printed for James Vade, 1679 A Paradox against Liberty, written by the Lords, during their imprisonment in the Tower: a poem, folio, sewn (six leaves), 8s 6d 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 idem, 1679 A Paradox against Liberty. Another edition, printed in double columns, folio (two leaves), 4s 6d Printed in the year 1679 Poor Robins Dream, or the Visions of Hell, with a dialogue between the two ghosts of Dr. T. and Capt. B., folio, sewn (four leaves), 15s Printed by M. S., 1681 The Last Will and Testament of Anthony King of Poland [a poem on the Earl of Shaftesbury], folio, unbound (two leaves), 10s 6d Printed for S. Ward, 1682 Sejanus, or the Popular Favourite, now in his solitude and sufferings, by Timothy Tory [a poem on the Earl of Shaftesbury], folio, unbound (two leaves), 10s 6d N.D. The Murmurers, a poem, folio, sewn (ten leaves), title a little soiled, 128 Printed for R. Baldwin, 1689 12s Uzziah and Jotham, a poem, folio, sewn, a few leaves stained, Printed for B. Motte, 1690 Knight-Errantry, or Don Quixot encountring the Windmill, being a relation of the Siege of Knocke (in verse), folio, unbound (two leaves), slightly damaged through margins being cut, 10s 6d Printed in the year 1695 333 POETARUM SCOTORUM.-Musae Sacrae sive Arcturi Jonstoni, Medici Regii, Psalmorum Davidicorum, Cantici Solomonis, et Canticorum Evangelicorum Paraphrasis Poëtica Joannis Kerri Cantici Solomonis Paraphrasis gemina, Roberti Bodii à Trochoregia ad Christum Servatorem Hecatombe, front., sm. 8vo, old calf, rebacked, bookplate of Lord Melville, 5s 6d Edinburgi, 1739 Inserted is an autograph letter to Lord Melville from Ernest Burdon concerning this work. 1912 334 POLLARD (Alfred W.) FINE BOOKS, front. and numerous illustrations, roy. 8vo, cloth gilt, nice copy, £1 12s 335 POPE (Alex.) THE TEMPLE OF FAME, a vision, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, a perfect copy, with the half-title and the 2 leaves of proposals for printing the works of Chaucer, new mottled calf extra, gilt edges, bound by Riviere, £9 98 Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715 336 POPE's (Alex.) Verses on the Grotto at Twickenham, attempted in Latin and Greek; to which is added Horti Popiani: Ode Sapphica; also the Cave of Pope a prophecy, 4to, sewn, stained, scarce, 10s 6d Dodsley, 1743 337 POPISH PLOT.-The Plot in a Dream, or the Discoverer in masquerade, in a succinct discourse and narrative of the late and present designs of the Papists against the King and Government, illustrated with copper-plates by Philopatris, 12mo, calf (A 6 11: + B to N 11 in twelves, and four plates), £1 10s Printed by T. Snowden for John Hancock and Enoch Prosser, 1681 338 POWELL (George) Bonduca, or the British Heroine, a tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty's Servants, with a new entertainment of musick, vocal and instrumental, never printed or acted before, 4to, sewn (A to G in fours), some leaves torn, 10s 6d Printed for Richard Bentley, 1696 This is an alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca. It was published by Geo. Powell, but he says the alterations were made by a friend who gave it to him to publish. 339 A Very Good Wife, a comedy, as it is acted by their Majesties Servants at the Theatre Royal, the first edition, 4to, sewn (A to G in fours), £1 10s Printed for Samuel Briscoe, 1693 The prologue was written by Congreve. 340 PRAYER.-A Collection of Private Devotions, in the practise of the Antient Church, called the hours of prayers, as they were much after this manner published by autoritie of Queen Elisa, 1560, engraved title, sm. 8vo, contemporary calf, slightly soiled, 5s 6d R. Royston, 16 |