PRESENTATION COPY. FROM DR. JOHN CAIUS, SHAKESPEARE'S CELEBRATED CHARACTER IN MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. 221 CAIUS (Dr. John). GALENI LIBRI ALIQUOT GRAECI, PARTIM HACTENUS NON VISI, PARTIM repurgati, annotationibusque illus trati. Small 4to. Old calf. Basle, 1544. £250 PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, THE CELEBRATED DR. CAIUS (whom Shakespeare adopted as one of his characters in Merry Wives of Windsor) TO HIS FRIEND THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN VENICE, EDMUND HARVEL, with an inscription in CAIUS' Autograph at the end of the Dedication.. To the illustrious and noble gentleman Edmund Harvel, the Envoy to the Most Illustrious King of England to the Venetians, his (friend) Joannes Caius has sent this as a gift." The book is dedicated to King Henry VIII. of England, and in the text of his dedication Caius refers to his friend EDMUND HARVEL, as follows: "Among those of whom I am bound by bonds of friendship especially is Edmund Harvel, Your Majesty's Envoy to the Senate of Venice, a man who is well known by his studies in literature, and has earned praise generally by his pleasantness of manner." Dr. Caius was the foremost physician in England during the time of Henry VIII., and was Doctor successively to King Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Queen Mary. He re-founded Gonville Hall, Cambridge, which from that time became known as Gonville and Caius College. He had an antipathy to Welshmen, and expressly excluded them from holding fellowships at his College. Shakespeare had this in mind when he introduced him as one of the characters in the Merry Wives of Windsor, where Dr. Caius sends a challenge to Evans, a Welshman, as he finds that Evans is in love with Anne Page. He awaits Evans' arrival; Justice Shallow forbids the encounter, and Caius is conducted by the Host "through Frogmore to meet Anne-finds Evans waiting in vain for him near Frogmore; they agree to be avenged on the Host for his tricks. Mistress Page approves his visit to AnneCaius deprecates Ford's jealousy-"it is not jealous in France "-tells the Host that the Court know nothing of "the Duke" who has cozened him-plans to be wedded to Anne, with her mother's approval. A boy is palmed off upon him in the forest, in Anne's disguise, etc. It is further of great interest to note that the book was presented to the British Ambassador in Venice (who, by the way, is referred to by Froude in his History of England as warning Henry VIII. of the Pope's unfriendly feeling towards him), as Shakespeare has so many references to Venice in his Works, not only in the MERCHANT OF VENICE, but LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, OTHELLO, and RICHARD II. We think that this is the only instance which has come to our notice of a book written by, and with Autograph Presentation Inscription of,-one of the persons immortalised by Shakespeare in his Writings. THE ENGLISH ATTEMPT TO RECAPTURE CALAIS. 222 CALAIS. RELACION verdadera de la entrepresa que los Ingleses havian hecha sobre la Cuida y Ciuta dela de Cales, por la entremesa de uno llamado Du-Parc. Descubierta par el Vizconde de Fruze Estrangero, à Monsiur de Valencet Governador de dicha Ciudad y Ciutadela. Con la presa de dos Naves Inglesas, a donde se ha hallado deutro de una dellas la muger de un Piloto, con una carte que llevana por los Huguenotes. Traduzida de Frances en Castellano por Christoval Du-Feure Frances. 4 pp., small 4to. Wrappers. Barcelona, por Estevan Liberos, en la Calle de Santo Domingo, 1628. £33s (Trans.): "A true report of the English attempt against Calais and the Citadel, under a man called Du Parc. Disclosed, by Viscount de Fruze, a Foreigner, to M. de Valencet, Governor of this City and Citadel. Together with an account of the capture of two English vessels, in one of which was found the wife of one of the pilots, bringing a letter for the Huguenots." 223 CALIGRAPHY. BICKHAM (Geo.). THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN, or, the Art of Writing. Made useful to the Gentleman and Scholar, as well as the Man of Business. Beautifully engraved throughout on 180 leaves, with numerous interesting head and tail pieces, comprising views, portraits, emblems, pastoral scenes, ornaments, etc., etc. Folio. Contemporary calf (repaired). London, 1741. £4 IOS 224 CALVIN (John). A HARMONIE upon the three Evangelistes Matthewe, Marke, and Luke, with the Commentarie of M. John Calvine. Faithfully translated out of Latine into English by (Continued over) CALVIN (John)-continued. 225 226 E(usebius) P(aget). Whereunto is also added a Commentarie upon the Evangelist S. John, by the same authour. With separate title to the second part, reading: "The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to John, with the Commentarie of M. John Calvine: Faithfully translated out of Latine into English by Christopher Fetherstone." Job. Sermones of MASTER JOHN CALVIN, upon the Booke of Translated out of French by Arthur Golding. Woodcut border to title. Thick folio. Fine Copy in contemporary English binding of calf, adorned with blind stamps, brass corner bosses. THE SERVICE, DISCIPLINE AND FORME, of the Common Prayers and Administration of the Sacraments, used in the English Church of Geneva. Calvin's Prayer Book, as altered and adapted for use in the Scottish Church. 227 CAMBRIDGE. AN ARGUMENT to prove that the XXXIXth section of the 50th Chapter of the Statutes given by Queen Elizabeth to the University of Cambridge includes the Old Statutes of that University: and that all those Old Statutes are not repealed. Small 4to. Boards. London, 1727. IOS 6d 228 CAMBRIDGE POEMS. EPITHALAMIUM IN DESIDERATISSIMIS NUPTIIS SERENISSIMORUM & ILLUSTRISIMORUM PRINCIPUM GUILI- Small 4to. Contemporary light brown morocco, with inlays of red and white, and covered with gold tooling, g. e. Cambridge, 1677. £8 IOS The Poems are in English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, by Students of the University of Cambridge, on the nuptials of William of Orange and the Princess Mary. 229 230 231 HYMENAEUS CANTABRIGIENSIS. Small 4to. Fine copy in calf. Cambridge, 1683. £3 3s A Collection of Latin and English Poems on the Marriage of Princess Anne, daughter of James II., and George Prince of Denmark; comprising Poems by John and James Montagu, James Sanderson, Sir John Fowell, Sir G. Meredith, Sir Francis Willoughby, Joseph Craven, Robert Blake, George Izacke, Will Fleetwood, William Ayloff, Henry Felton, and others. ILLUSTRISSIMI PRINCIPIS DUCIS CORNUBIAE ET COMITIS PALATINI, &c., GENETHLIACON. LARGE PAPER COPY. g. e. Cambridge, 1688. 4to. Contemporary velvet binding, £315s English and Latin Poems on the Birth of the Duke of Cornwall, by Thos. Johnson, Jo. Colbach, H. Twisleton, J. Barton, W. Clements, Lancelot Manning, Richard Shipton, P. Sayve, J. Cooper, Bevill Higgons, John Hilton, William Reeves, Ephraim Howard, T. Writson, J. Westwood, Johan. Turbill, Rob. Cotton, Ed. Foster, Johan. Harrison, and others. LACRYMAE CANTABRIGIENSES IN OBITUM SERENISSIMAE REGINAE MARIAE. Small 4to. Calf. Cambridge, 169s. £2 IOS Containing Poems in English and Latin on the death of Queen Mary II., by Lord North, Grey, F. Godolphin, Roger Townsend, Sir John Spencer, Sir Henry Bunbury, C. Craven, Sir J. Trevor, F. and E. Wortley, Ambrose Phillips, John Savage, and others. CAMBRIDGE POEMS-continued. 232 233 234 235 MUSARUM CANTABRIGIENSIUM THRENODIA IN OBITUM INCOMPARABILIS HEROIS AC DUCIS ILLUSTRISSIMI GEORGII DUCIS ALBAEMARLAE. Small 4to. Calf. Cambridge, 1670. £335 This contains Poems in Latin and English to the memory of General Monck, Duke of Albemarle, by J. Beaumont, W. Quarles, T. Nixon, Hatton, Isaac Craven, Gervase Scrope, etc. REX REDUX, SIVE MUSA CANTABRIGIENSIS VOTI DAMNAS DE INCOLUMITate et Felici REDITU REGIS CAROLI POST Receptam CORONAM, COMITIAG: peracta in Scotia (Latin Poems by various authors, including Richard Crashaw, Henry More, Wm. Cartwright, and others). Small 4to. Curiously bound in contemporary full vellum gilt, with inlays of red velvet. Cantab., 1633. £12 125 Doubtless the copy given to the King An old MS. note inside cover says: "This book was in King Charles the First his Study. In all probability it is the Book that was presented to His Majesty by the University of Cambridge on his return from Scotland." REX REDUX, Sive Musa Cantabrigiensis voti damnas de incolumitate & felici reditu Regis Caroli post receptam Coronam, Comitiaq; peracta in Scotia. Small 4to. Half vellum. Ex Academiae Cantabrigiensis Typographeo, 1633. £4 4s THRENO-THRIAMBEUTICON: ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSIS OB DAMNUM LUCROSUM, & INFAELICITATEM FAELICISSIMAM, LUCTUO SUS TRIUMPHUS. Cambridge, 1603. OXFORD POEMS. Academiae Oxoniensis Pietas Erga Serenissimum et Potentissimum Jacobum Angliae Scotiae Franciae, & Hiberniae Regum, etc. Oxford, 1603. |