131 GAELIC.-The Proverbs of Solomon, in Hebrew, IN IRISH, and in English. N.D. (1810?). Small 8vo, boards, 48. 132 GAELIC.-The Two First Books of the Pentateuch, or Books of Moses, as a preparation for Learners to Read the Holy Scriptures. The Types cut by Mr. E. Fry, FROM ORIGINAL IRISH MANUSCRIPTS, under the care and direction of T. CONNELLAN. 1819. Small 8vo, boards, 48 133 GARDENING.-A BOOKE OF THE ARTE AND MANNER HOW TO PLANT AND GRAFFE ALL SORTS OF TREES, HOW TO SET STONES, AND SOW PEPINS, TO MAKE WILDE TREES TO GRAFFE ON, AS ALSO REMEDIES AND MEDICINES, WITH DIVERS OTHER NEW PRACTISES, BY ONE OF THE ABBEY OF S. VINCENT, IN FRANCE, PRACTISED WITH HIS OWN HANDS, devided into VII Chapters, as hereafter more plainly shall appeare, WITH AN ADDITION IN THE ENDE OF THIS BOOKE, OF CERTAINE DUTCH PRACTISES, SET FORTH AND ENGLISHED BY LEONARD MASCALL. Imprinted at London, by T. Este for Thomas Wight, 1599. Woodcut on title, and a full-page one of gardening instruments, Black Letter, small 4to. brown calf extra, rough gilt edges, by RIVIERE, a fine copy of a very scarce work, £15 158 134 GARDENING.-FLORA: SEU DE FLORUM CULTURA, or A COMPLETE FLORILEGE, FURNISHED WITH ALL REQUISITES BELONGING TO A FLORIST, by JOHN REA. SECOND EDITION. 1676. Fine engraved title, by D. Loggan, with Poetical Description opposite, and other engravings, folio, very fine and clean copy in old calf, £2 28 Divided into three Books, viz., "Flora," "Ceres," and "Pomona." 134a GARDENING.-RAPIN OF GARDENS, a Latin Poem, in Four Books, ENGLISHED BY MR. GARDINER. N.D. (1706). With very fine plates of ORNAMENTAL GARDENS, etc., 8vo, old calf, £1 28 6d 135 GARDENING.-THE BELGICK OR NETHERLANDISH HESPERIDES, that is the Management, Ordering, and Use of the LIMON and ORANGE TREES, fitted to the Nature and Climate of the NETHERLANDS, by S. Commelyn, made English by G. V. N. 1683. 8vo, old calf, 158 Not in Lowndes. 136 GARDENING.-THE EXPERIMENTAL HUSBANDMAN AND GARDENER, containing a NEW METHOD OF IMPROVING ESTATES AND GARDENS, by Cultivating and Increasing of FORREST TREES, COPPICE-WOODS, FRUIT-TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS AND GREENHOUSES, AND EXOTICK PLANTS, AFTER SEVERAL MANNERS, viz., by Layers, Cuttings, Leaves, Roots, etc., with GREAT VARIETY OF NEW DISCOVERIES RELATING TO GRAFFING, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation, or Reversing of Trees and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear Fruit, with SEVERAL NEW EXPERIMENTS for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils, BY G. A. AGRICOLA, M.D., to which is now added an Appendix, containing a VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTS LATELY PRACTISED UPON THE ABOVE SYSTEM, by R. BRADLEY. 1726. Several large and highly interesting plates, 4to, very fine and clean copy in original calf, £3 3s This is an uncommon volume. 137 GARDENING. THE ANATOMY OF PLANTS, with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and several other Lectures read before the Royal Society, by NEHEMIAH GREW, M.D. 1682. Folio, with eighty-three engravings, old calf, 10s 6d 138 GARDENING.-THE FLOWER GARDEN, shewing briefly HOW MOST FLOWERS ARE TO BE ORDERED, THE TIME OF FLOWERING, TAKING OF THEM UP, AND OF PLANTING THEM AGAIN, and how they are increased by Layers, Off-sets, Slips, Cuttings, Seeds, etc., WITH OTHER NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO A FLOWER GARDEN, whereunto is now added, The Gardener's or Planter's Dialling, (Viz.) How to draw a Horizontal Diall, as a Knot in a Garden, on a Grass Plot, or elsewhere, the like before not extant, by WILLIAM HUGHES. 1672. 12mo, old sheep (a scarce little volume), £1 58 139 GARDENING.-TRAITE DES TULIPES, AVEC LA MANIERE DE LES BIEN CULTIVER LEUES NOMS, LEURS COULEURS, ET LEUR BEAUTE. a Paris, 1678. Small 8vo, old vellum £1 108 139a GARDENING.-THE RURAL IMPROVER; or, A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE NATURE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH RURAL SCENES AND OBJECTS AS ARE NECESSARY TO PROMOTE THE COMFORT, CONVENIENCE, AND EMBELLISHMENT OF THE RESIDENCES OF THE HIGHER RANKS OF SOCIETY, the whole founded on Experience, and deduced from wellknown Natural Principles which are immutable, by W. PONTEY. 1822. Several fine plates, 4to, original boards, UNCUT, £2 28 140 GARDENING. THE GARDENER'S KALENDAR: directing what Works are necessary to be performed every Month in the KITCHEN, FRUIT, AND PLEASURE GARDENS, and in the CONSERVATORY AND NURSERY, with an Account of the Particular Seasons for the Propagation and Use of all sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and all sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees that flower in every month, by PHILIP MILLER. 1765. Pretty frontispiece and plates, 8vo, clean copy in original calf 108 6d WHOLE WORKES COMPILED INTO ONE VOLUME, HIS FLOWERS, HEARBES, WEEDES, THE FRUITES OF WARRE, THE STORIE OF FERDINANDO JERONIMI, AND THE PLEASURE AT CASTLE. ย .... London, Imprinted by Abell Jeffes, dwelling in the Fore Streete, without Creeplegate, neere unto Grubstreete. 1587. Black Letter, small 4to, margin of title mended, else sound copy in morocco extre, covered with blind tooling, rough gilt edges, £32 The Ashburnham copy sold for £40. 66 Warton says that the comedy of SUPPOSES was the first comedy written in English Prose; and Dr. Farmer in his Essay on Shakespeare says that the latter borrowed part of the plot and of the phraseology of this play, AND TRANSFERRED IT INTO HIS TAMING OF THE SHREW. This was the opinion of Chalmers, Warton, and Gifford also. Perfect copies of the original editions of his works, like the above, are now almost unobtainable. 142 GARTH (Sir Samuel) THE DISPENSARY, a Poem. 1699. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, half red morocco neat, £2 28 Very scarce. 142a GERARD (John) THE HERBALL, OR GENERAL HISTORIE OF Plantes, gathered BY JOHN GERARDE OF LONDON, Master in Chirurgerie, VERY MUCH ENLARGED AND AMENDED by THOMAS JOHNSON, Citizen and Apothecarye of London. 1636. Very beautifully engraved title, containing portrait of the author, etc., by J. Payne, bright impression, folio, sound and clean copy in old style binding, a few MS. notes in margins, £9 98 1426 GERMANY.-A TRUE RELATION OF ALL THE REMARKABLE PLACES AND PASSAGES OBSERVED IN THE TRAVELS OF THE RT. HON. THOMAS, LORD HOWARD, EARL OF ARUNDELL AND SURREY, Prime Earle, and Earle Marshall of England, AMBASSADOUR EXTRAORDINARY TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY FERDINANDO THE SECOND, EMPEROUR OF GERMANIE, Anno Domini 1636, by WILLIAM CROWNE, Gentleman. 1637. Small 4to. morocco extra, gilt edges, £3 38 At pages 35-37 is a Masque presented at the Jesuit's College by the Students at Prague when Lord Howard visited there. 143 GILDAS.-THE EPISTLE OF GILDAS, the most Ancient British Author, who flourished in the year of our Lord 546 [AS TOUCHING THE OVERTHROW of Britaine, with his Lamentation upon the Same, being a Sharpe Reprehension of the Princes and People of the Land], and who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisdome, acquired the name of Sapiens, faithfully translated out of the original Latine. portrait by WILLIAM MARSHALL, 12mo, original sheep, £1 108 1538. Fine "The author lived neere the so memorable desolation of this Island, when the Saxons, under the conduct of Hengist and Horsus, forc't the natives to cold and inaccessible mountaines, and conquerred the country so farre, that they left it not the empty honour of the former name. The causes of their ruine he passionately but faithfully attributes to the mis-government of evilgovern'd princes, ignorance of a licentious clergy, and an universal lapse of the people into impiety." 143a GOLDSMITH (Oliver) THE GOOD NATUR'D MAN: a COMEDY, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden. W. Griffin, 1768.-SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER: THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT: a COMEDY, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. F. Newbery. 1773. BOTH FIRST EDITIONS, 2 vols, 8vo, blank margins of half title of Good Natured Man repaired, ELSE VERY FINE COPIES, in calf extra, gilt edges, by Riviere, £16 168 "His two admirable Comedies of 'The Good Natured Man' and 'She Stoops to Conquer' are the greenest spots in the dramatic waste of the period of which we are speaking. They are worthy of the author of The Vicar of Wakefield,' and to praise them more highly is impossible. Wit without licentiousness; humour without extravagance; brilliant and elegant dialogue; and forcible but natural delineation of character, are the excellencies with which his pages are prodigally strewn."-Lects, on Eng. Dramat. Poets. Mr. Foote's copies of these two vols sold for 137 dollars, 50 cents. 1436 GUILLIM (John) A DISPLAY OF HERALDRIE: MANIFESTING A MORE EASIE ACCESSE TO THE KNOWLEDGE THEREOF THEN HATH BEENE HITHERTO PUBLISHED BY ANY, THOUGH THE BENEFIT OF METHOD WHEREINTO IT IS NOW REDUCED BY THE INDUSTRY OF JOH. GWILLIM, Pursuivant of Armes. 1611. FIRST EDITION, fine engraved title and numerous engravings throughout, small folio, fine sound and clean copy in old calf, rebacked, £3 38 The first issue of this excellent treatise, considered the best ever done on the subject. Prefixed are commendatory poems by John Davies, of Hereford, John Speed, W. Segar, etc. 144 HACKNEY CARRIAGES, etc.-Act for Regulating and Licensing HackeyCoaches and Chairs, etc. 1715.-Act for Granting Rates upon Coaches and Carriages. 1746.-Act relative to Horses or Furniture to be left to Persons riding Post. 1752. -Act for Granting Duties on Horses for Riding and Driving. 1785. And 5 other tracts on similar subjects. Folio, sewn, 78 6d 145 HABINGTON (William, Author of "Castara") THE QUEEN OF ARRAGON, a TragiComedie. 1640. FIRST EDITION, folio, corner of title-page mended but no text gone, half bound, £2 28 46 HABINGTON (William).-CASTARA, the THIRD EDITION, corrected and augmented, T. Cotes, 1640. Fine impression of the choicely engraved title by WILLIAM MARSHALL (rarely found in the volume), neatly mounted, 12mo, brown morocco super extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £6 10s This is the first complete issue of a collection of poems deservedly admired for their purity and grace, and contains the actual first edition of the third part. A copy sold at the Crauford sale (1876) for £7 10. Castara was Lucia, the daughter of Lord Powis, and she became Habington's wife. The year of their marriage is not known, but in one of his poems (as they appeared in this impression) Habington speaks of Lucia as Castara '-Collier's Account of the Rarest Book in the English Language. Habington, says Mr. T. Clark, appears as an amatory poet to possess more unaffected tenderness and delicacy of sentiment than either Carew or Waller, with elegance of versification very seldom inferior to his more favoured contemporaries. His metre is uncommonly varied, and, as his love was real, his passionate expressions do not partake of that pedantic affectation which pervades the Mistresse' of Cowley. And Sir Egerton Brydges remarks that Habington's poems are almost everywhere tinged with a deep moral cast, which ought to have made their fame permanent. 117 HÁGTHORPE (John) DIVINE MEDITATIONS AND ELEGIES (in verse), by JOHN HAGTHORPE, Gentleman. Bernard Alsop, 1622. 12mo, few margins shaved, and some headlines cut into, red morocco extra, gilt edges VISIONE RERUM; THE VISIONES OF THINGS, or Foure Poems: I. Principium et Mutabilitas Rerum; or, The Beginning and Mutabilitie of all Things. II. Cursus et Ordo Rerum; or, Art and Nature. III. Opineo et Ratio Rerum; or, Wealth and Povertie. IV. Malum et Finis Rerum; or, Sinne and Virtue, concluding with the Last Wherein the Author expresseth his Invention by way of Dreame, by John Hagthorpe, Priced in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica' (1815) at £6 16s 6d; Nassau's copy of the latter volume sold alone for £6 2s 6d. Besides the principal poems, there are Elegies on the Death of Prince Henry, Tears for Sir Thomas Overbury, etc. Sir Egerton Bridges reprinted specimens of this 'forgotten Poet' for the Roxburghe Club. 148 HALL (J.) Hierocles upon Golden Verses of Pythagoras; Teaching a Vertuous and Worthy Life. 1657. 12mo, old sheep, 10s 6d Edited by J. Davies, and prefixed are some verses by RICHARD LOVELACE. 148a HALL (Joseph, Bishop of Norwich) Mundus Alter et Idem, sive Terra Australis ante hac semper Incognita, longis itineribus peregrini Academico Nuperrime lustrata, Auth. Mercurio Britannico. Hannovia, 1607. Small 8vo, fine engraved title and fine maps, shewing parts of America, vellum, £1 18 A pleasant invective against the characteristic vices of various nations, from which, it is said, Swift borrowed the idea of Gulliver's Travels. The maps are highly interesting, as shewing an idea of the presence of Australia before that continent was discovered. 49 HALL (J.) An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England concerning the Advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Universities, by J. H. 1649 (thus (MDCIL). FIRST EDITION, Small 4to, half bound neat (rare), £1 18 50 HAMILTON (Anthony) MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT, edited, with Notes, by Sir Walter Scott. 1889. With a portrait of the Author and thirty-three etchings by L. Boisson, on INDIA PAPER, from the Original Compositions by C. DELORT, royal 8vo, red cloth gilt, £3 3s Seven hundred and eighty copies only of this beautiful edition were printed or England and America. 151 HAMILTON FAMILY.-MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON CORRECTED, with an Addition. Edinburgh, 1828.-Reply to the Mis-statements of Dr. Hamilton, of Bardowie, in his late Memoirs of the House of Hamilton Corrected,' respecting the Descent of his Family, with an Appendix of Original Matters, particularly affecting the Hamiltons and Stewarts, and the Old Earls of Lennox. Edinburgh, 1828. Both 4to. wrappers, uncut, 88 6d HAMPSHIRE.-See under WARTON (THOS.). 152 HANDEL (G. Frederick) JULIUS CAESAR, an Opera, composed by G. Frederick Handel, of London, Gent. (1720). FIRST EDITION, fine engraved title, 8vo, origina! half boards, 10s 6d 152a HARVEY (William) ANATOMICAL EXERCITATIONS CONCERNING THE GENERATION OF LIVING CREATURES, to which are added particular discourses of BIRTHS, AND of CONCEPTIONS, etc., by WILLIAM HARVEY, Doctor of Physick, and Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery, in the Colledge of Physitians of London. 1653, Small 8vo, old calf, repaired, £2 28 First Edition in English of this remarkable treatise. Lowndes mentions a portrait, but though sometimes inserted in the volume, it is doubtful if it ever was published with it. 1526 HERALDRY.-HONOR REDIVIVUS: OR THE ANALYSIS OF HONOR AND ARMORY; Reprinted with many useful and necessary additions and Supplyed with the Names and Titles of Honour of the present Nobility of England, the Bishops, Baronets, Members of Parliament, etc. 1673. Numerous engravings, 12mo, calf (rebacked), £1 18 152 HEYWOOD (T.) THE LIFE OF MERLIN, Sirnamed Ambrosius, his Prophecies and Predictions Interpreted, and their Truth made good by our English Annalls, being a Chronological History of all the Kings and memorable passages of this Kingdome, from Brute to the Reigne of Royall Soveraigne King Charles, a subject never published in this kind before, and deserves to be known and observed by all men. 1611. FIRST EDITION, with fine engraved frontispiece by Hollar, containing portrait, with verses at foot, 4to, calf gilt, fine copy, £1 158 153 HOBBY (Thomas) THE COURTIER OF COUNT BALDESAR CASTILIO, devided into foure Bookes, verie necessarie and profitable for Young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen abiding in Court, Pallace, or Place, DONE INTO ENGLISH BY THOMAS HOBBY. London, printed by John Wolfe, 1588. Small 4to, old calf, £4 158 Prefixed is a Poem by THOMAS SACKVILLE. In this edition the text is given in three languages, side by side, viz. :-English (in Black Letter), French (in Roman Letter), and Italian (in Italics). 164 HOLCROFT (Henry) THE HISTORY OF THE WARRES OF THE EMPEROUR JUSTINIAN, PERSIAN, VANDALL, and GOTHICKE, written in Greek by Procopius, of Cæsarea, AND ENGLISHED by HENRY HOLCROFT, Knight. Humphrey Moseley, 1653. Fine engraved frontispiece by T. Cross. Small folio, old calf, £1 18 154a HOLLAND.-A TREATY MARINE BETWEEN CHARLES II AND THE HIGH AND MIGHTY LORDS, THE STATES GENERAL OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS, to be observed throughout all and every the Countreys and Parts of the World by Sea and Land. 1674. Small 4to, sewn, 58 1546 HOLLAND (H.) HER@OLOGIA ANGLICA HOC EST CLARISSIMORUM ET DOCTISSIMORUM ALIQUOT ANGLORUM QUI FLORUERUNT AB ANNO CRISTI. M.D. (1500). UsQ AD PRESENTEM ANNUM M.D.CXX (1620). VIVE EFFIGIES VITÆ ET ELOGIA Duobus Tomis, Authore, H. H. Anglo Britanno. Impensis Crispini Passai Calcographus et Jansonii Bibliopola, Arnhemiensis. (1620.) With beautiful impressions of all the admirably engraved portraits and plates by Pass and Janson. Small folio, very fine copy in full red morocco extra, by the late FRANCIS BEDFORD, £19 198 A handsome copy of this important collection of portraits, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND. A great many copies having been cut up and destroyed by the "Extra Illustrator,' complete copies like the above are now extremely rare. Dibdin says, in Bibl. Decam., "This is the favourite volume of a thorough-bred Grangerite; who without pity or remorse plunges his trenchant scissors into the very abdomen of the tome." The present copy contains brilliant impressions of the portraits; and has all the preliminary leaves; besides the list of plates at end. 155 HUSBANDRY.-Husbandry Spiritualized, or the Heavenly Use of Earthly Things, consisting of many Pleasant Observations, Pertinent Applications, and Serious Reflections, and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable Poem, directing Husbandmen to the most excellent improvements of their common Imployments, whereunto are added, by way of Appendix, several choice Occasional Meditations upon Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers, Rivers, and several other objects, fitted for the help of such as desire to walk with God in all their solitudes and recesses from the World, by John Flavell. 1674. Smell 4to, old calf, 188 |