Shad 198. PATHOMACHIA; or, The Battell of Affections. owed by a faigned Siedge of the Citie Pathopolis. Small 4to, old half calf (rubbed, and lateral edge of title cut into). London: Printed by Thomas and Richard Coats, 1630 FIRST EDITION. Very Scarce. The running title throughout is "Loues Loade-Stone. The author is unknown, but it is a play of the Shakespeare period and published posthumously by the friend of the author, F. Constable. Lowndes attributes it to Henry More. 199. PALINGENIUS 18mo, old vellum. (MARCELLUS). Zodiacus vitae. The first letters of the first 29 lines form an Acrostic of the author's name. 200. PERSPECTIVE PRACTICAL; or, a Plain and Easie Method of True and Lively Representing all Things to the Eye at a Distance, by the Exact Rules of Art. . . . Very Useful and Necessary for all Painters. By a Religious Person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisian. Englished by Robert Pricke. Illustrated with 150 copperplates. Small 4to, old panelled calf, rebacked. 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