22683 CORYATS CRUDITIES hastily gobled vp in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia comonly called the Grisons country, Heluetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe . . . sm. 4to. engraved and printed title encircled by a border containing several scenes of Coryat's adventures, plates, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, bound in the old English style of Queen Elizabeth's time, £42. 1611 and The printed title begins as follows: "THREE CRUDE VEINES is followed by 151 pages preliminary to the body of the book. These 151 pp. contain nearly all that is of value here, namely, the sportive compositions of a considerable number of distinguished contemporaries (including Ben Jonson), who contributed what is called "the encomiastick and panegyrick verses of some of the worthyest spirits of this kingdom." They are chiefly in English, but comprise also some pieces in Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Welsh, French, etc. 22684 [COSIN (James)] The Names of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors and others who refused to take the oaths to George I, with their titles, additions and places of abode, the Parishes and Townships where their lands lay, the valuation of them, etc. sm. 8vo. calf, rare, 30s 1745 1862 22686 Costume. Townsend's Quarterly (afterwards Monthly) Selection of French Costumes, 8vo. 127 coloured plates of Costume, hf. calf, from Charles Reade's library, 32s 1822-26 22687 CROLL (J.) Climate and Time in their geological relations; a theory of secular changes of the Earth's climate, 8vo. coloured maps (published at 24s), cloth, 10s 1875 22688 CUDWORTH (Ralph) Treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality, 8vo. LARGE PAPER, with portrait after Loggan by Vertue, red morocco extra, rebacked, gilt edges, £5. 5s 1731 Interesting; as having belonged to the accomplished Damaris, wife of Sir Francis Masham, and pupil of John Locke. She was the daughter of this celebrated divine, who wrote "The Intellectual System of the Universe." 22689 CURLL (H. Publisher) Press. The Lives and last Wills and Testaments of Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Dr. Thomas Burnet, Joseph Addison, and others, 1728-The Northern Heroine, being Memoirs of the late Czarina, Empress of Russia, 1727—A Catalogue of Books printed for H. Curll, over-against Catherine Street, in the Strand-bound in 1 vol. 8vo. half calf, 20s 1727-8 With the curious bookplate of Lt.-Col. F. Grant, who made a collection of Curll's publications. 22690 DARWIN (Chas.) the Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vols. post 8vo. woodcuts (sells 18s), cloth, 10s 22691 22692 1875 the Descent of Man, and selection in relation to Sex, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. woodcuts (pub. 24s), cloth, 12s 1871 Origin of Species by means of natural selection, sixth edition, sm. 8vo. cloth, 6s 6d 1872 22693 [DEE (Dr. John)] General and rare Memorials pertayning to the perfect Arte of Navigation, sm. folio, engraving at beginning and end, in the original calf, 24s John Daye, 1577 22695 22694 [DARCIE (A.)] Annales. The True and Royall History of the famous Empresse Elizabeth, sm. 4to. engraved title, by Vaughan, portrait of Queen Elizabeth with a fan, and the poem "to the Reader," by A. D., old calf, very fine tall copy, a few leaves slightly wormed in the inner margin, £4. 4s B. Fisher, 1625 Annales of Queen Elizabeth, engraved title, by Vaughan, portrait of Queen Elizabeth, and the very rare portrait of Darcie by Delaram, with the poem "to the Reader," by A. D. B. Fisher, 1625-BROWNE (T.) Tomus alter et idem: Historie of the Life and Reigne of that famous Princesse Elizabeth, with appendix, woodcut full-length portrait of Q. Elizabeth, T. Harper, 1629together 2 vols. sm. 4to. fine copies in red morocco super extra, gold tooling, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, £10. 10s 1625-29 DEFOE (Daniel) Storyteller and Pamphleteer (1663-1731). 22696 22697 22698 22699 22700 22701 Novels and Miscellaneous Works, with a biographical Third Edition, which appeared in the same year as the First. together 3 vols. sm. 8vo. bound, £6. W. Taylor, 1719-20 Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2 vols. 12mo. numerous plates, calf gilt, 20s the same, 2 vols. in 1, 16mo. cuts, cloth, 5s 1791 Chiswick, 1812 Life and extraordinary adventures of Colonel Jack, 3rd edition, 8vo. russia, 18s 1724 "Robinson Crusoe is the most popular, delightful, and extraordinary of all Defoe's works, and has lost none of its original attraction; . . . . . nobody ever laid it down without wishing it were longer."-Dr. Johnson. New Voyage round the World, being Vol. 7 of the collected works, 12mo. cloth, 58 1725 (reprint Oxford, ca. 1840) 22702 WILSON's Memoirs of the life and times of Daniel Defoe, containing a review of his writings, 3 vols. 8vo. portrait (pub. £2. 2s), bds. 12s 1830 1870 22703 DEMMIN (Auguste) Weapons of War, being a history of Arms and Armour from the earliest period to the present time, translated by C. C. Black, sm. 8vo. hundreds of woodcuts, cloth, 6s 6 22704 DELIGHTS for Ladies, to adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets and Distillatories with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters, 18mo. half calf, 21s 1640 22705 DE QUINCEY (T.) Works complete, with notes and General Index, 15 vols. post 8vo. portrait and facsimiles, half calf lettered, gilt, £4. 4s Edin. 1862 22706 DIALOGES OF CREATURES MORALYSED, sm. 4to. original edition, black letter, numerous curious woodcuts, wanting portion of a leaf of table, and the last two leaves, otherwise perfect, in red morocco extra, gilt edges, £36. (John Rastell, eirc. 1517) A VERY RARE AND CURIOUS VOLUME. It is generally, and perhaps quite justly, attributed to the press of John Rastell, in spite of Mr. Haslewood's opinion that the book was printed on the continent. This is the first English book in which we find the use of those characteristic couplets appended as morals at the end of the Apologues, which sink into the popular memory more deeply than the tales themselves. 22707 DIGBY (Kenelm H.) Mores Catholici; or Ages of Faith, 11 vols. sm. 8vo. first four uncut, last seven cloth, cut edges, £4. 1831-42 22708 DIGBY (Kenelm) THE BROAD STONE OF HONOUR; or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry, in 4 Books: Godefridus, 1 vol. ; Tancredus, 1 vol.; Morus, 1 vol. and Orlandus, 2 vols.-together 5 vols. post 8vo. (pub. at £2. 12s 6d), cloth, £2. 2s 1876-77 The Broadstone of Honour, in 4 parts; Godefridus, Tancredus, Morus, Orlandus (new edition), LARGE PAPER (only 50 copies printed), 5 vols. 8vo. hf. red morocco, £7. 78 22709 22710 Only 50 copies printed on Large Paper. 1876-7 Broad Stone of Honour: Orlandus, 2 vols. 12mo. uniform with and completing Lumley's edition, cloth, sold separately, 148 1876 Sold separately: MORUS, 1 vol. for 88; TANCREDUS, for 10s. The first and second editions had been long out of print when this third one was undertaken. It contains the same matter as the original edition, but is in some measure improved, a greater degree of accuracy having been aimed at in verifying quotations, and in correcting the typographical and other errors which had inevitably crept into the text. The work is one of singular character, to which we can find no parallel in literature. If Don Quixote, in addition to the childlike nobleness with which he was endowed by his Creator, had also possessed a very wide knowledge of the Greek and Latin writers and those of elder Christianity, we might imagine that the "Broad Stone of Honour" had been composed by him. There is no greater testimony to its extraordinary merit than the one fact that, after fifty years' existence, it is still sought for and read with pleasure, even by those who recognize in it a thousand faults, in its imperfect reasoning, impracticability, and unfitness to the present age. The very nature of these defects, the ardent enthusiasm of the writer, the zeal which animates his pursuit of Utopian ideals, his glorification of self-sacrifice and the other virtues of a fabled age of gold, win upon the reader's imagination and exercise a magical influence over the generous spirits of our own day. He preaches a new Crusade, a new Quest of the Holy Grail, in which the difficulties to be overcome are far greater than those which baffled the Knights of the Round Table. And in all this, there is nothing stranger than the circumstance that an amount of bookish learning sufficient to have deadened the fieriest soul, is combined with the passionate worship of knightcrrantry and deeds of adventure. The Fathers, the Schoolmen, and the great thinkers of Greece and Rome, are drawn into union with the tellers of the Romances of Chivalry, and the writers of Mediæval Chronicles; and in the midst of that circle, the author's enthusiasm works like a magician, casting a beautiful glamour over the minds of the spectators. Mr. Digby's theory is that, during the ages between the time of Charlemagne and the Reformation the Dark Ages of other writers Christianity reached its highest and noblest development; and that since that time, in England at least, nothing has flourished but Corruption and Decay. He would turn the world back again, destroy the utilitarian tendencies of our time, and restore the golden days when Duty stood higher than Profit, when Gold was of smaller value than Iron, and when Nobility was attained by a succession of brave and loyal generations, rather than by the accumulation of wealth in the mean pursuits of commerce. 22711 D'ISRAELI (Isaac) Curiosities of Literature; both series, 6 vols. 8vo. calf extra, £2. 16s 1824 1784 22712 DODDINGTON (George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis) Diary, 1749-61, with Appendix published by H. P. Wyndham, 8vo. calf gilt, 58 22713 DOLEMAN (R.) A Conference about the next Succession to the Crown of Ingland, 2 parts in 1, 12mo. with the rare Genealogical Table, fine copy in blue morocco extra, silk linings, gilt edges, from the Beckford library, £25. Imprinted at N. with Licence, 1694 EXCESSIVELY RARE in this condition, having been so rigorously suppressed that it was made High Treason even to possess a copy. The real authors were Robert Persons the Jesuite, Cardinal Allen and Sir F. Englefield, and the Printer was hung, drawn and quartered. No copy containing the original folding table has appeared for many years in the market, that being usually deficient altogether, or supplied by the reprint. 22714 DORAN (Dr.) "Mann" and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-46 founded on the Letters of Sir Horace Mann to Horace Walpole, 2 vols. 8vo. (pub. 30s), cloth, 78 22715 1876 The companion work to Walpole's Letters, 9 vols. for which, see post. Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, 2 vols. 8vo. fourth edition, cloth, 10s 1875 22716 DOUGLAS (Rev. James) Dissertation on the antiquity of the Earth, read at the Royal Society, 12 May, 1785, 4to. plates, calf, 25s 1785 22717 DOVER (Lord) Life of Frederic II, King of Prussia, 2 vols. 8vo. portrait, cloth, 10s 1833 22718 DRAKE (Sir Francis) Life, Voyages and Exploits, with Letters, etc. by J. Barrow, 8vo. cloth, 5s 22719 DRAKE (Nathan) Essays, biographical, critical, and historical (both series), 5 vols. sm. 8vo. portrait and frontispieces, hf. bd. uncut, 1843 10s 1805-10 22720 DRESSER (H. E.) and R. B. Sharpe's History of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palæarctic Regions, 7 vols. complete in 84 parts, imperial 4to. 650 coloured plates, an original subscriber's copy, rare, £42. 1871-80 22721 DRINKWATER (J.) History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-83, map, calf, 108 1790 22722 DRUMMOND (William) of Hawthornden, Poet (1585-1649) see post in class Scottish Literature. 22723 DRUMMOND (Sir William) Origines, or Remarks on the Origin of several Empires, States, and Cities, Babylon, Assyria, Iran, Egypt, Phoenicia, Arabia, Asia Minor, 4 vols. 8vo. plates, calf gilt, £2. 88 1824-29 22724 1805 Academical Questions, Vol. I, 4to. bd. 10s 22725 DUNTON (J., Bookseller) Life and Errors, with the lives and characters of a thousand persons now living in London, 12mo. FIRST EDITION (no portrait), calf extra, 30s 1705 The account of his life in Boston, New England, is amongst the more interesting records of John Dunton's experience. 22726 DU PONT (Charlotta) Life taken from her own Memoirs, giving an Account how she was trepan'd to Virginia, taken by Pirates, etc. by Mrs. Aubin, calf, from the Hamilton Palace library, £3. 15s 1723 22727 EASTLAKE (Sir Charles Lock) Materials for a History of Oil Painting, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, uncut, £2. 2s 1847-69 22728 EDGAR (W.) Vectigalium Systema; a complete view of that part of the Revenue of Great Britain called the Customs, 8vo. old English morocco, 15s 1714 22729 ELDER (John) Copie of a Letter sent in to Scotlande, of the arrivall and landynge and moste noble marryage of Philippe, Prynce of Spaine to Marye Quene of Englande... Wherunto is added a brefe overture of the legacion of Cardinall Poole, with the Supplycació exhibited to their highnesses by the three Estates, etc. black letter, Lord Oxford's copy with his autograph, and subsequently in the collections of West, Mason, Bindley, Heber and Laing, old English red morocco, £35. John Waylande (1555) EXCESSIVELY RARE: only two or three copies are known to be in existence. For an account of the book, see a very interesting manuscript note written on the fly-leaf by J. Anderson, the Antiquary. 22730 ELIZABETH (QUEEN). THE QUENES MAIESTIES PASSAGE THROUGH THE CITIE OF LONDON TO WESTMINSTER THE DAYE BEFORE HER CORONACION, ANNO 1558, sm. 4to. black letter, ORIGINAL EDITION, red morocco extra, very rare, £60. imp. at London by Rich. Tottel, Jan. xxiii (1558) EXCESSIVELY RARE relation of Queen Elizabeth's first London pageant. It was already a rare work in 1604, when it was reprinted; and even that impression is now very scarce. 22731 BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN PRAYERS (usually termed Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book), sm. 4to. black letter, portrait of Queen Elizabeth, beautiful woodcuts from Designs by Albert Dürer and Hans Holbein (including the latter's DANCE OF DEATH), wanting A3 and 4 and slightly stained; blue morocco extra, leather joints, silk linings, gilt edges, by Kalthoeber, very scarce, £12. John Daye, 1578 The only English book corresponding in its character and style of ornamentation to the famous Livres d'Heures of the French artists and typographers. It is a beautiful work of art; and in this first edition is of extreme rarity. |