1721 FOSTER'S (Mrs.) Hand-Book of Modern European Literature, thick 12mo. cloth, 8s 6d Arranged in centuries and under countries; a useful little manual. 1849 1725 FOURNIER (Fr. Ign.) Nouveau Dictionnaire portatif de Bibliographie, 8vo. old boards, 88 Paris, 1809 23,000 rare and curious books are here enumerated, with bibliographical critiques on them; at the end are lists of the Aldine, Variorum and other esteemed sets of Classics. 1726 FOVARGUE'S (Stephen, Fellow of St. John's Cambridge) New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors, 8vo. half calf, 3s 6d Cambridge, 1767 Intended as a Supplement to Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors. 1727 FOWLER (John) Journal of a Tour in the State of New York, in 1830, and Shipwreck at the Western Islands, coming home, 12mo. boards, 2s 6d 1831 1728 FOWLE'S (F. W.) Ten plain Sermons, 12mo. cloth, 28 6d (cost 58 6d) 1835 1729 FOX'S (Hon. Charles James) Letters to the Electors of Westminster, 8vo. half calf, neat, 58 1793 Has also his Speech in the House, Mar. 24, 1795, on the "State of the Nation," with several tracts pro and con on his letter to his constituents. 1730 FOX, North, and Burke, their Beauties and Deformities, selected from their Speeches, frontispiece containing portraits of all three, 12mo. half bound, neat, 38 1784 With 2 other tracts in the same vol.-I. The Friend; Essays on Important Subjects, 1774.-II. Dr. Fothergill's Rules for the Preservation of Health, 1765. 1731 FRACCI (Ambrosii Novidii, Ferentinatis) Sacrorum Fastorum libri XII., cum romanis consuetudinibus per totum annum, portrait and wood-cuts, 4to. old vellum wrapper, rare, £1 18 1733 1734 Roma, apud M. Antonium Bladum, 1547 This author, whose name it is extremely difficult to find in bibliographical works, has lavished above 11,000 lines of Latin Poetry on this subject. 1732 FRANCE, The History of the Revolution in France translated from the French of Rabaut, by James White, 8vo. half bound, calf, 18 6d London, 1793 Abregé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France, depuis Clovis jusqu'à Louis XIV. les Guerres, les Batailles, &c., 2 vols. 12mo. calf, gilt, 68 Paris, 1749 Discours Veritable de la Victoire obtenue par le Roy, en la Bataille donnée pres le Village d'Ivry le 14 de Mars, 1590, plus la desfaite des Ligueurs, tant en Auvergne qu'en Gascoigne, au mesme temps, 8vo. 40 pages, 3 of which are Poetry, sewed, 5s Lyon, G. Jullieron, 1594 1735 Ecclesiastical History of, describing Councils, Canons, Learned Writers and their Works, the Universities and their Founders, &c. 4to. calf, neat, 68 - 1676 1736 Histoire du Regne de Louis XIII. par M. Le Vassor, portraits, vol. 1; vol. 3, parts 1 and 2; vol. 4, parts 1 and 2; vol. 6, parts 1 and 2; vol. 7, parts 1 and 2, in all 9 vols. 12mo. old binding, Amsterdam, 1700-1705 68 With the book-plate, and Arms of "Edward Coke, of Norfolk, Esq., 1701." Lord Leicester's Arms on the sides. R 1737 FRANCE-the same translated into English, vols. 1 and 2, parts 1 and 2,in 3 vols. 12mo. old calf, gilt, 58 With the same book-plate and Leicester Arms as on the other. 1701 Histoire de Charles IX. 1560-63, par le Sieur Varillas, vol. 1 only, 12mo. bound, 18 6d .. Cologne, 1684 Amst., 1746 Histoire de Louis XI., 1470-83, par M. Duclos, vol. 2 only, Ex libris Matthæi Noyrat de Rouville. Lettera Mandata da Roma a Madama la Reina Madre del Re di Francia, nella quale si contiene uno utile ricordo per rassettare le cose presenti del regno (with a translation into French) small 8vo. parchment, rare, 78 6d 1563 This letter, dated from Rome, June 2, 1563, is signed Gio. Marco Bruccio. It is on 47 unpaged leaves, and is evidently privately printed. The French translation is paged to 104. Not in Haym. This is about the time of the Huguenot war in France, whom Q. Elizabeth aids. Articles of Peace between France and Spain, concluded at Aixla-Chapelle, May 2, 1668, 4to. sewed, 38 1668 1744 FRANCIS (G.) Catalogue of British Flowering Plants and Ferns, from Hooker's British Flora, on a broadside for easy reference, 18 1745 FRANCO (Nicolo) Il Petrarchista, Dialogo, nel quale si scuoprono nuovi Secreti sopra il Petrarca, portrait of Petrarch on the title page, small 8vo. vellum, VERY RARE, £1 18 Venetia, Gabriel Gioli, di Ferrarii, 1543 Giolito's wood-cut device at the end, and 6 pages of very old writing. Nicolo Franco was a man of real learning, but his writings teem with the grossest abuse; he was the avowed enemy of Aretino, and at last was hanged for maligning Pope Pius the Vth. 1746 FRANK Fairlegh, with numerous illustrations by George Cruikshank, 8vo. half calf, new and very neat, 10s 6d (pub. at £1 18) No date 1747 FRANKLIN (Benjamin) Essays, with his Life written by himself, plates, 18mo. boards, 28 1824 1748 FRANKLIN'S Footsteps; a Sketch of Greenland, along the shores of which his expedition passed, map, 12mo. sewed, 1s 1749 FRANZII (Wolfgangi) Animalium Historia Sacra, thick 12mo. old calf, 48 Amst., Janson, 1643 1750 FRASER'S (James B.) Journal of a Tour to the Himalaya Mountains, and to the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, with the large map, frequently missing, 4to. good copy, in half calf, £1 18 (pub. at £3 38) The late Mr. J. J. Gurney's copy. 1820 1751 FRAZER'S Magazine, Dec. 1855, and Jan. to June, 1857, 38 1752 FRENCH Poets-Cary (Henry F.) Early French Poets, a Series of Notices and Translations, with a Sketch of the History of French Poetry, by his Son, 12mo. cloth, 48 (pub. at 78) 1848 1753 FRIENDSHIP-Discourse of Friendship, Englished by Daniel Bret, small 8vo. old red morocco, gilt, gilt edges, 6s 1707 Dedicated to William, Earl and Viscount Yarmouth, Baron of Paston, Co. Norfolk, with Fontenelle's approbation. 1754 FRONTONIS (Cornelii) Opera inedita, Latina et Græca, cum Epistulis item ineditis Ant. Pii, M. Aurelii, L. Veri et Appiani nec non aliorum Vet. Fragmentis invenit et comment. A. Maius, 2 vols. 8vo. LARGE PAPER, sewed, uncut, 128 Mediolani, 1815 1755 FROST'S (John, of Philadelphia) History of the United States of North America, 12mo. cloth, 28 6d (pub at 58) 1838 1756 FULBECK'S (William) Abridgement, or rather, a Bridge of Roman Histories to passe the nearest way from Titus Livius to Cornelius Tacitus, the space of sixe score years, 4to. half bound, neat, 78 6d Mathew Lownes, 1608 1757 FULLER'S (Thomas, D.D.) Anglorum Speculum; or, the Worthies of England in Church and State, epitomized, small 8vo. old binding, 78 6d 1759 "An abridgment of Fuller's Worthies, with a continuation."-Lowndes. 1684 1758 Historie of the Holy Warre, 4th edition, engraved title and map by Marshall, folio, neat, 78 6d Cambridge, Tho. Buck, 1651 History of the Holy War, 1840.-Holy and Profane State, 1840. -Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Good Thoughts in Worse Times, Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, with the Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, 1841.-Memorials of Dr. Tho. Fuller, by A. T. Russell, 1844; together 4 vols. foolscap 8vo. cloth, quite new, £1 48 W. Pickering, 1840-44 1760 1761 1762 1763 VERY SCARCE, not now procurable. Of the "Good Thoughts," the Athenæum, No. 134, says, "we have read this little work with the most unqualified and unbounded delight. We think that the publisher deserves the thanks of every lover of literature for having re-printed these invaluable tracts; we hope to read them again and again." History of the Holy War, 12mo. cloth, 58 W. Pickering, 1840 Holy State and Profane State, 12mo. cloth, 58 ib. 1844 An Essay on his Life and Genius, with Selections from his Writings, by Henry Rogers, square 12mo. cloth, 28 6d 1856 1764 FULLER'S (Thomas, M.D.) Introduction to Prudence, a book of Maxims, 12mo. boards, 3s (pub at 58) 1815 1765 FULLER (W.) Meteors; as well Fiery and Ayrie as Watery and Earthy, 12mo. curious, old calf, 68 1670 1855 1766 FULLOM'S (S. W.) Great Highway; a Story of the World's Struggles, 12mo. cloth, 28 1767 FULVIO (Andrea) Opera delle Antichità della Città di Roma e delli edificii memorabili di quella, tradotta in lingua Toscana per Paolo del Rosso, cittadino Fiorentino, small 8vo. old vellum, RARE, 98 Vinegia, per Michele Tramezino, 1543 The first Italian translation. Dedicated to Pope Paul III., it is a nice clean copy of a very scarce little book. 1768 FUNNY Dogs with Funny Tales, humourous plates, 4to. cloth, gilt edges, 58 1857 10s 6d 1769 GADDII (Jacobi) de Scriptoribus, folio, old boards, uncut, SCARCE, Lugduni, superiorum permissu, 1649 1770 GAFFAREL (James) Unheard of Curiosities; concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the Patriarkes; and the reading of the Stars, Englished by Edmund Chilmead, 8vo. fine copy, in old vellum, SCARCE, 128 1650 "This curious work is styled by Dr. Adam Clarke, a feast for an occult philosopher.' The author, a learned rabbinical writer, was librarian to Cardinal Richelieu."-Lowndes. At the end is Aristeus's Ancient History of the Septuagint, written in Greeke, 1900 yeares since; of his voyage to Hierusalem; concerning the first translation of the Bible by the 72 Interpreters, Englished by I. Done, 1st edition, 1633 1771 GALE'S (Theophilus) Court of the Gentiles, a Discourse touching the original of Human Literature, both Philologie and Philosophie, vol. 1 and 2, 4to. old calf, neat, £1 18 Oxford, 1672 "Shews the author to have been well read in, and conversant with the writings of the Fathers, the old Philosophers, and those that have given an account of them and their works; as also to have been a good metaphysician and school divine.”—Anthony d Wood's Athena Oxon. 1772 GALILEO Systema Cosmicum; in quo IV. dialogis de duobus Maximis Mundi Systematibus, Ptolemaico et Copernicano, ex Ital. Lingua Latine conversum, frontispiece, small thick 8vo. of 704 pages, clean copy, in the original calf, 108 6d Londini, ap. Tho. Dicas, 1663 This is the principal work published by Galilæo (originally in 1632,) during his lifetime; for publishing which he was cited before the Inquisition at Rome, imprisoned, and his book burnt. 1773 GALLINI'S (Giovanni Andrea) Treatise on the Art of Dancing, plate, 2 vols. 8vo. calf, scarce, 98 For the Author, 1772 1774 GALPINE'S (John) Synoptical Compend of British Botany, arranged after the Linnean System, 12mo. boards, 5s (pub. at 108 6d) 1820 1775 GALT'S (John) Bachelor's Wife, a Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, 8vo. calf, neat, 38 6d Edinburgh, 1824 Lawrie Todd, or the Settlers in the Woods, plate, 12mo. cloth, 28 6d Bentley, 1840 1828 1777 GAMBIER'S (Edward John) Treatise on Parochial Settlements, 8vo. law calf, 28 6d 1778 GANNAL'S (J. N.) History of Embalming, and of Preparations in Anatomy, Pathology, and Natural History, Englished, with Notes, by Dr. R. Harlan, 8vo. boards, scarce, 68 Philadelphia, 1840 "Miss Eliza Kirkbride, from her friend the translator, Oct. 19. 1840,” in writing. 1779 GARDENER'S Chronicle, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1846, 5 vols. folio, half bound, neat, 5s per vol. (cost 30s per volume) 1780 GARDENER'S Monthly Volume; The Pine Apple, by Johnson and Barnes, 2 vols. cloth, 4s.-The Strawberry, by Johnson and Reid, 12mo. cloth, 28.-The Cucumber and Gooseberry, by G. W. Johnson, 12mo. cloth, 28.-The Grape Vine, by Johnson and Errington, 2 vols. 12mo. cloth, 4s.-The Auricula and Asparagus, by the same, cloth, 2s 1847 1781 GARDENER and Practical Florist, plates, vol. 1, royal 8vo. cloth, 38 1843 1782 GARIDEL, Histoire des Plants qui naissent aux Environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence, 100 finely engraved plates by H. Blanc, and frontispiece, folio, half calf, neat, 148 Aix, 1715 This finely printed book is preceded by an account of all the Botanical authors who had preceded the author, with lists of their works. 1783 GARNETT'S (Dr. T.) Observations on a Tour through the Highlands, and part of the Western Islands of Scotland, map and 52 aquatinta plates, 2 vols. 4to. boards, 12s (pub. at £4 4s) 1810 Garnett's Scotland, containing a description of the country, manners and customs of the inhabitants, natural curiosities, antiquities, mineralogy, botany, agriculture, fisheries, local history, and biography. 1784 GATAKER (Thomas) Of the Nature and Use of Lots, a Treatise, Historicall and Theologicall, small 4to. good copy in old calf, very neat, rare, 10s 6d 1619 Mr. Beloe, in his "Anecdotes of Literature," has devoted a chapter to this curious little volume. 1785 GAUSSEN; It is Written, or the Scriptures the Word of God, Englished, 12mo. cloth, neat, 28 No date 1786 GAVALDA (Francisco) Memoria de Peste de Valencia, 1647-8, see Ribelles. 1787 GAY'S (John) Shepherd's Week, in Six Pastorals, plates by Du Guernier, R. Burleigh, 1714.-Gay's Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, Bernard Lintot, no date.-Mitchell's Jonah, a Poem, plates by Pine, 1720.-Loyal Mourner for the best of Princes, a Collection of Poems to the Memory of Queen Anne, published by Mr. Oldisworth, portrait of the Queen, 1716.-Gay's Petticoat, an Heroi-Comical Poem, Burleigh, Amen Corner, 1716.-Human Happiness, a Poem, by G. J., 1721.— In 1 vol. 8vo. old calf, neat, 68 V.Y. 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 First editions of Gay's Poems. No edition mentioned by Lowndes so early as these. Fables, plates by Vdr. Gucht, 2 vols. 8vo. old calf, 68 1737 1742 Has, also, Milton's Comus, now adapted to the stage, 1750, altered from the edit. of 1634.-Economy of Love, a Poetical Essay, 1749.-Cibber's Letter to Pope, inquiring into his Motives for Satyrising him, 2nd edition, 1742. Poems, plates after Du Guernier, 2 vols. 12mo. calf, neat, 48 1775 1793 GAZE (Theodori) Introductionis Grammaticæ libri IV., Græce, simul cum interpretatione Latina, 4to. old parchment, 128 Basilea, apud V. Curionem, 1529 Erasmus is said to have made the Latin translation. Scaliger used to say, that "Of all those who revived the belles lettres in Italy, there were not above three that he was inclined to envy-Theodore Gaza, Angelus Politianus, and Picus of Mirandula." In another place he calls Gaza "Doctissimus." |