521 Heywood, Thomas. A PREPARATIUE TO STUDIE, or the Vertue of Sack. 4to. mor. gilt. 522 523 524 525 London, 1641 FORTUNE BY LAND AND SEA, a Tragi-Comedy by Heywood and Rowley. 4to. mor. gilt. London, 1655 THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF WOMEN, Containing the Lives of the Most Holy and Profane, the Most Famous and Infamous, in all Ages, etc. 8vo. red mor. gilt. London, 1657 THE ACTOR'S VINDICATION, Containing three Treatises, viz: Their Antiquity, Their Antient Dignity, and the True use of their Quality. 4to. red mor. gilt. London, 1658 THE LIFE OF MERLIN, Surnamed Ambrosius; His Prophecies and Predictions Interpreted, and their Truth Made Good by our English Annals. 8vo. bds. Caermarthen, 1812 The above volumes of Heywood's works are all rare, many of them very much. so, they are also fine, clean copies, in elegant bindings, chiefly by Murton. 526 Hibbert, George. Catalogue of Library. Priced. 8vo. half mor. London, 1829 527 HOBBES, THOMAS. THE ENGLISH WORKS. Now first collected. Edited by Sir Wm. Molesworth. Portrait, 11 vols. 8vo. large paper, half mor. gilt. London, 1839 528 OPERA PHILOSOPHICA, quæ Latine Scripsit Omnia, in unum corpus nunc primum Collecta, Studio et Labore G. Molesworth. Portrait, 5 vols. 8vo. large paper, half mor. Londini, 1839 gilt. A very fine uniform set, printed on thick paper, and bound by Reave Leamington. 529 HOCCLEVE, THOMAS. POEMS. Never before printed. Selected from a manuscript in the possession of George Mason, with a Preface, Notes and Glossary. 4to. green mor. tooled, bound by Clarke and Bedford. London, 1796 Dr. Bliss' Copy and has some notes by him. Priced in the Bibl. Angl. Poet. at £1. 11. 6. A remarkably fine copy. In the Hoccleve was the contemporary of Chaucer; notices of him will be found in 530 Holinshed, Ralph. The Chronicles of Englande, Scotlande, and Frelande. BY RAPHAELL HOLINSHED. From their first Inhabiting, untill this present tyme. merous curious engravings. Black Letter. 2 vols. folio. mor. gilt, bound by Clarke and Bedford. London, 1577 Nu In This first edition of Holinshed is the only one which gives the genuine text. The Steevens' copy sold for £22, and a copy at a recent sale for £31. 10. 1 531 HOLLAND, H. HEROOLOGIA ANGLICA, Hoc EST CLARISSIMORVM ET DOCTISSMORVM ALIQVOT ANGLORVM, QUI FLORVERVNT AB ANNO CRISTI M. D. vsqve ad presentem Annvm MDCXX. Thirty-five fine portraits, folio, olive mor. tooled edges, gilt. Arnheim. The portraits in this very scarce work are most brilliant, and the copy in the finest possible condition. "This work contains the first regular series of English Heads, several of which were done by the family of Pass."-Lowndes. Lowndes also gives a full list of the portraits and from whence they were engraved; also, the prices at which copies have been sold, viz: Strettell's, £11.11; Bindley's, £12; Mariett's, £13; Willett's, £18; Williams', £27.16.6. 532 HOOKER, RICHARD. THE WORKS OF THAT LEARNED AND JUDICIOUS DIVINE, with Account of his Life and Death, by Isaac Walton. New edition, by the Rev. John Keble, 4 vols. 8vo. University Press, Oxford, 1836 533 HOPE, THOMAS. AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON ARCHITECTURE, with Illustrations from Drawings made by the Author in Germany, France, Italy, etc. 97 fine plates, 2 vols. royal 8vo. cloth. London, 1835 COSTUME OF THE ANCIENTS. New edition, much enlarged, with 321 illustrative plates, 2 vols. royal 8vo. cloth. London, 1841 534 535 HORATIUS, Q. F. OPERA, accedunt Rutgersii Lectiones. Front- 536 537 538 "Edition assez estimée."-Brunet. OPERA, ad Fidem Editionis L. M. Gesneri. Frontispiece, 12mo. green mor. gilt back, sides and edges. Londini, 1824 "With perfect justice may this volume be pronounced a model, for accuracy of text, and beauty of paper and press work."-Dibdin. ART OF POETRY, Englished by Ben Jonson, with other Workes of the Author. Portrait by Marshall, 1640: Odes and Epodes of Horace by Henry Rider, 1644: Odes of Horace and Satyrs of Persius by Barton Holyday, 1652. In 1 vol. small 8vo. calf. London, 1640-52 In the Bibl. Angl. Poet. the first work alone is priced at £4.4. EUVRES COMPLETES, Traduites en Francais et en Prose par Montfalcon; en Vers Espagnols par Burgos; en Vers Italiens par Gargallo; en Vers Anglais par Francis; en Vers Allemands par Wieland et Voss. (Text Latine en Regard.) Precedées de la Vie d' Horace, de Notes Bibliographiques, Prefaces, etc. Royal 8vo. half mor. Paris, 1834 A fine copy on large paper, of which a limited number only were printed. 539 HOVEY, C. M. THE FRUITS OF AMERICA, containing a Selection of all the Choicest Varieties, collected in the United States. Illustrated with specimens drawn and colored from Nature, 27 parts, royal 8vo. Boston, 1847 540 HOVEY C. M. & P. B. THE AMERICAN GARDENER'S MAGAZINE AND REGISTER. Colored plates, complete to Dec. 1860, 8 vols. 8vo. half mor., rest in numbers. Boston, 1835-42 541 Hume, David, and T. Smollet. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND CONTINUATION. Fine portraits and vignettes, India paper proofs, 13 vols. large paper, royal 8vo. cloth. Oxford. 1826-7 One of the Oxford Classics. Large paper copies are extremely scarce. Fifty copies only were printed. The present is a fine uncut copy. 542 Hunt, Freeman. vols. 8vo. cloth. Lives of American Merchants. Portraits, 2 | 543 InGHIRAMI, FRANCESCO. GALLERIA OMERICA, O Raccolta di Monumenti Antichi, per servire allo studio dell' Iliade e dell' Odissea. 2 vols. 8vo. red turkey, mor. gilt, and gilt edges. Fiesolana, 1851 The "Gallerie Omerica" is a very full and beautifully executed work, and perhaps the best illustration of the Iliad and Odyssey extant. 544 MONUMENTI ETRUSCHI, O di etruscho nome, disegnati, incisi, illustrati e pubblicati, dal F. Inghirami. Fine plates, 10 vols. 4to. large paper, bds. Badia. Fiesolana, 1821-6 "Ce bel ouvrage offre la représentation la plus complète, et la plus exacte qui ait encore eté donnée des monumens appartenant à l' art Etrusque, ou reputès Etrusques."-Brunet. Priced in Bohn's Cat. at £25.4. 545 INTERPRETER, (THE.) MANUSCRIPT, wherein the Principall Forms of State, Much Mistaken by the Vulgar, are Unfolded. 4to. half calf. A political satire, in a neat manuscript of the time. 1622 546 IRVING, WASHINGTON. LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. Portrait, 5 vols. 4to. large paper, cloth. New York, 1855-9 One hundred and ten copies only printed. 547 JACKSON, JOHN. A TREATISE ON WOOD ENGRAVING, HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL; with upwards of three hundred Illustrations. Royal 8vo. large paper, half mor. 549 Now very scarce. Knight, London, 1859 548 James VI. His Maiesties poeticall Exercises at vacant Only ninety-two copies printed. The original edition is priced in the Bibl. 550 JAMIESON, ROBERT. POPULAR BALLADS AND SONGS, from Tradition, Manuscripts and Scarce Editions, with Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish Language, and a few Originals by the Editor. 2 vols. large paper, 8vo. bds. Edinburgh, 1806 Scarce. Sold in Strettell's sale for £1. 15. 551 Johnson, Samuel. Works, with Prefatory Observations, and Essay on his Life and Genius. Portrait and vignettes, 11 vols. large paper, royal 8vo. cloth. 552 553 One of the Oxford classics. Oxford, 1825 "This edition has been carefully edited and rearranged. It contains the whole of his sermons and some other pieces, not in any previous collection of Dr. Johnson's works."-Lowndes. Only seventy-five copies printed on large paper, at £11. 11. DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, in Boston, 1825 554 JOHNSONIANA, or Supplement to Boswell's Johnson, being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson, collected by Piozzi, Hawkins and others. Portraits and other plates, 4to. large paper, bds. London, 1836 555 JON BON AND MAST. PERSON. 4to. calf, on vellum, reprinted from the original edition of Daye & Seres, by Smeeton. London, N. D. 556 JONES, ANDREW. MORBUS SATANICUS, or the Devil's Disease. Printed for W. Thackeray at the Sign of the Angel in Duck Lane. London, 1674 557 558 "This must be a rare, as well as a curious book: The author is not mentioned by Lowndes, and I do not remember to have seen any copy but this in any sale catalogue."-Z. H. SIR WILLIAM. WORKS, with General Table of Contents. 6 vols. large paper, 4to. half calf. London, 1799 The copy belonging to Sir M. M. Sykes sold for £13.2.6; even small paper copies sell at from £7 to £15 each. CLASSICAL ATLAS. The Ancient and Modern Names of Places being given on the same Map. Royal 8vo. half London, 1830 mor. 559 Jonson, Ben. Works. The Original Edition, 2 vols. folio, wants title-page. London, 1616-31 Jonson's own edition-highly praised by Gifford."-Lowndes. 560 WORKS. Portrait by Vaughan, and frontispiece by Hole, 2 vols. folio. London, 1640 1 561 Jonson, Ben. Works, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by Gifford. Portrait by Fittler, 9 vols. 8vo. red turkey mor. gilt and gilt edges. London, 1816 "Best edition, by the ablest of modern commentators, through 'whose learned and generous labors Old Ben's forgotten works and injured character are restored to the merited admiration and esteem of the world.'"-John P. Kemble. 562 JONSONVS VIRBIVS, or the Memorie of Ben Jonson Revived by the Friends of the Muses, including Eglogues by Falkland, Buckhurst, Hawkins, Waller, Donne, Feltham, and others. Portrait, small 4to. half calf. London, 1637 There are no less than thirty-one, the most eminent writers of the time, who have in this volume combined to honor the memory of Ben Jonson. The volume was edited by Bp. Duppa. In the Bibl. Angl. Poet. priced at £4.4. 563 Jordan, Thomas. LONDON'S RESURRECTION TO JOY AND TRIUMPH, Expressed in Sundry Shews, Shapes, Scenes, Speeches and Songs, in Parts, Celebrious to Sir George Waterman, Knt., Lord Mayor of London. 4to. half mor. 564 565 London, 1671 "Jordan was the professed pageant-writer and poet-laureate for the city, and seems to have possessed a greater share of poetical merit than usually fell to the lot of his profession." All Jordan's pieces are very scarce and dear. LONDON IN LUSTER, projecting many bright Beams of Triumph: disposed into several Representations of Scenes and Pageants, Performed with great Splendor, etc. 4to. mor. bound by Mackenzie. London, 1679 LONDON'S GLORY, or the Lord Mayor's Show, containing an Illustrious Description of the Several Triumphant Pageants; also, Three New Songs, with their proper tunes, either to be Sung or Played, etc. 4tq. mor. gilt. London, 1680 566 JUNIUS' LETTERS. Woodfall's Edition, 2 vols. 12mo. London, (1772) The first edition, printed under the author's inspection, from the Library of the late John Pickering, with his Autograph. 567 Justinus. Historicus CLARISSIMUS, In Trogi Pompei Historias libri XLIV. Folio, russia, gilt. Me Gallus Veneta Jenson Nicolaus in urbe formauit, 1470 EDITIO PRINCEPS. "The Collector of the Early Pieces of the celebrated printer of this edition need not lament the want of any other specimen of his press, if he be fortunate enough to possess the present rare and very beautiiul production of it." "There is probably not a more beautiful specimen of the press of Jenson than the present. It is also a rare book."-Dibdin. At Dr. Askew's Sale, a copy sold for £13.13; at the Pinelli Sale, for £18.17.6; and at Mr. Paris' Sale, for £31.10. The present copy is very fine, in perfect condition, on clear and very large paper. |