No. 284.

Old Time Literature

PART I.
A to J.

1912.

FIRST OR EARLY EDITIONS OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN AUTHORS PRIOR TO 1800 -INCUNABULA-15TH AND 16TH CENTURY BOOKS WITH WOODCUTS-ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, Etc., Etc.

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"What a place to be in is an old library! It seems

a

as though all the souls of all the writers that have

bequeathed their labours to the Bodleians were reposing

here as in some dormitory or middle state.

I seem to inhale learning walking amid their foliage;

and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is

fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which

grew amid the happy orchard."

CHARLES LAMB, 1820.

I ABBOT (John).

Devout Rhapsodies, in which is treated of
the Excellencie of Divine Scriptures, by J. A. Rivers.
FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, new boards.
Harper, for Daniel Frere, 1647.

Old Time
Time Literature.

PART I. A to K.

A series of 9 Sermons, as the writer terms them, each of which is addressed to
different personages, including the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Powis, Lady
Frances Nevil, William Savile, Marquis of Winchester, William Habington,
Earle of Dorset, Lord Buckhurst, etc.

5

London, Printed by Thomas £4 4s

The above author changed his name to Rivers, or rather added Rivers to his name, and was therefore known as John Abbot Rivers, or, as one of the writers of commendatory verses before this book puts it, Mr. Abbot, alias Rivers.

2 A'BECKETT (Thomas). Lupi (F. C.) Epistolae et Vita

DIVI THOMAE MARTYRIS ET ARCHI-EPISCOPI CANTUARIENSIS nec non epistolae Alexandri III, Pontificis Galliae Regis Henrici II.

2 vols, sm. 4to, orig. calf gilt, with the Arms of Archbp. Le Tellier on sides. Bruxellis, 1682. 18s

3 ABELLY (Louys, Evesque de Rodes). La Tradition de l'Eglise touchant la Devotion particuliere des Chrestiens envers la tres-sainte Vierge Marie, Mere de Dieu. Recueillie des Escritures Saintes, des Actes des Conciles de la doctrine des SS. Peres, et des plus celebres Autheurs de l'Histoire Ecclesiastique.

4 ADDISON (Joseph).

the Duke of Marlborough.

8vo, full contemporary French red morocco, full gilt back, paned sides, gilt leaves. Paris, 1662. 158

1705.

The Campaign, a Poem to his Grace

FIRST EDITION. Folio, unbound. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, £6 185

Poems on Several Occasions, with a Dissertation upon

7 ÆLIANI VARIÆ HISTORIÆ, libri XIIII, ex Heraclide

de rebus publicis Commentarium, Polemonis Physionomia, Adamantii Physionomia Melampodis ex Palpitationibus divinatio de Nevis (Grace).

Editio PRINCEPS. Sm. 4to, half calf neat. Romæ, 1545. zos

8 AERONAUTICS. L'Art de Voyager dans les Airs ou les Ballons.

Contenant les moyens de faire, des Globes aerostatiques suivant la méthode de M. M. De Montgolfier & suivant les procédés de M.M. Charles & Robert avec un Précis historique des plus belles Expériences qui ont été faites d'apres cette celebre Découverte. Plates of Balloons. 8vo, orig. calf gilt. Paris, 1784.

£2 155

9

Lunardi (Vincent). An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England.

In a series of Letters written under the Impressions of the various Events that Affected the Cndertaking.

Fine stipple portrait by Bartolozzi after Cosway, and folding plates. 8vo, full calf. Lond., 1784.

Ils. With Lunardi's Autograph signature on half title.

10 ASOPI PHRYGIS VITA & FABULÆ, plures & emendatiores, ex vetustissimo codice Bibliothecae Regiae (Græce). Sm. 4to, full calf gilt. Lutetiæ, ex Officina Rob. Stephani, 1546.

18s “ Belle édition, contenant vingt apologues de plus que les precedentes (1518);

c'est le text qu'ont suivi tous les editeurs d'Esope jusqu'en 1610." BRUNET.

II

Vita di Esopo Frigio prudente et faceto favolatore tradotta dal Sig. conte Giulio Landi allaquale di nuovo sono aggionte le Favole del medesimo Esopo con molte altre d'alcuni elevati ingegni ascendent i alla somma di 400.

Numerous curious emblematic woodcuts, 16mo, orig. vellum. Venetia, 1581.

2IS.

12

Æsop's Fables, in English, with all his Life and Fortune, how he was Subtill, Wise and born in Greece, etc. Whereunto are added the FABLES OF AVIAN, etc.

Black Letter. Post 8vo, full new calf, antique style, gilt leaves, by RIVIERE. Lond., 1647. Scarce.

£2 25 Caxton's translation.

13

Les Fables et la Vie D'Esope, en Francois et Allemand, pour l'utilite et recreation de ceux qui se plaisent esdites deux langues ou qui les veulent apprendre par Jean de Tousenes.

Woodcut to each fable. 16mo, orig. vellum. (Paris), 1651. £2 23 A very rare and curious Edition, The French and German are in parallel

14 ÆSOP FABLES, with his Life. In English, French, and Latin.

The English by Thos. Philipott, Esq. The French and Latin by Rob. Codrington, M.A.

Illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow.

Folio, fine copy in straight grained brown morocco extra, g. e. (by C.
Lewis).

Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Anne
Beile at the Black-boy, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, and
Edward Powell at the Swan in Little Britain, 1666.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, No. I.)

£14 148 THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION OF BARLOW's AESOP, with brilliant Impressions

of the Engravings. The greater part of the Copies of this work were burnt in the Fire of London.

It is an unusually fine copy of an exceedingly scarce book. Francis Barlow (1626–1702), Animal Painter and Engraver, was born in

Lincolnshire. He drew horses, dogs, birds and fish, with great spirit and accuracy.

15 AGES OF SIN. The Ages of Sin, or Sinnes Birth and Growth.

With the Stepps and Degrees of Sin from thought to finall Impenitencie.
Sm. 4to, brown morocco gilt. (T. Jenner c. 1655).
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, No. II.)

£9 9s A Series of nine plates of animals emblematic of Sin, by Ja. V. Lochen, with

verses beneath. From Corner's library. VERY RARE.

16 AGRICULTURE. Platt (Sir Hugh). The New and

Admirable Arte of Setting Corne, with all the necessarie
Tooles and other Circumstances belonging to the same.

Sm. 4to, full green levant morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE.
FINE TALL COPY. Lond., 1601.

£5 75 60