38 BROWNE (Sir Thomas, author of " Religio Medici") PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA, or ENQUIRIES INTO VERY MANY RECEIVED TENENTS AND COMMONLY PRESUMED TRUTHS, by Thomas Browne, Dr. of Physick. 1646. FIRST EDITION, folio, old calf, £1 18 39 BURTON (R.) The Surprizing Miracles of Nature and Art, containing the Strange Signs and Prodigious Aspects and Appearances in the Heavens and Earth and the Waters, etc., etc.; the Miracles of Art, describing Magnificent Buildings and other Curious Inventions, as SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, the Seven Wonders of the World, etc., etc. 1683. Engravings, 12mo, old sheep, repaired, 98 40 CADOGAN (Earl of), An Ode to. 1719. Folio, sewn, 28 41 CALDECOTT (Randolph).-BLACKBURN (HENRY) BRETON FOLK, an Artistic Tour in Brittany. 1880. FIRST EDITION, with 170 very clever etchings by R. CALDECOTT, 4to, a very handsome copy in calf extra, gilt over original gilt edges, UNCUT, with the cloth covers preserved at end, by RIVIERE, £2 2s 42 CALDECOTT (Randolph) OLD CHRISTMAS: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving. 1876.-BRACEBRIDGE HALL, by Washington Irving. 1877. With bright impressions of all the excellent engravings by R. CALDECOTT, FIRST EDITIONS, 2 vols, small 8vo, fine clean copies in the original cloth gilt, as issued, £4 48 43 CALDECOTT (Randolph) WHAT THE BLACKBIRD SAID: a Story in Four Chirps, by MRS. FREDERICK LOCKYER. 1881. FIRST EDITION, with 4 engravings by RANDOLPH CALDECOTT, small 4to, stained calf extra, gilt over the original gilt edges, by RIVIERE, with the covers preserved at end, £1 18 44 CAMBRIDGE.-A Short Account of the late Donation of a Botanic Garden to the University of Cambridge by the Rev. Dr. Walker, Vice-Master of Trinity College, with Rules and Orders for the Government of it. Cambridge, 1763. 4to, sewn, 28 6d 45 CAMBRIDGE.-CAMBRIDGE PRIZE POEMS, being a complete Collection of the English Poems which have obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1840. 12mo, original cloth, 58 Contains Tennyson's 'Timbuctoo,' poems by Praed, Wordsworth (C.), Lord Macaulay, Lord Lytton, Kinglake, etc. 46 CAMBRIDGE.-The Proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor and University of Cambridge against Dr. Bentley, stated and vindicated in a Letter to a Noble Peer. 1719. Folio, sewn, 38 6d 47 CAMBRIDGE.-Two Poems Presented to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University, upon his grace re-visiting that University in order to lay the first stone of the new building, by Mr. Marriott, LL.B. 1754. 4to, sewn, 58 48 CAMBRIDGE. THE PRESENT STATE OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, in a Letter from Dr. Bentley, master of the said College, to the Rt. Rev. John Lord Bishop of Ely. 1710.-THE TRUE STATE OF TRINITY COLLEGE, in a Letter to a Residing fellow of that Society: wherein the trifling Impertinencies, malicious aspersions, and bold falsehoods of Dr. Bentley, are answered in such a manner as they deserve. 1710. -SOME CONSIDERATIONS humbly offered in a Letter to the Bishop of Ely; on the Book "THE PRESENT STATE OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, by Dr. Bentley. 1710.-Some Remarks on a Letter on The Present State of Trinity College in Cambridge, by Mr. Miller. 1710. Together 4 tracts, sewn, 128 484 CERVANTES (M.) THE HISTORY OF THE VALOROUS AND WITTY KNight Errant, DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA, WRITTEN IN SPANISH BY MICHAEL CERVANTES, AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH (BY THOMAS SHELTON), Vol I. Printed for Edward Blount, N.D. (circa 1612). Vol II; ib., 1620. With bright impressions of the engraved titles to each volume as well as a printed title to Volume two, 2 vole, small 4to, a very large and fine copy in morocco extra, by RIVIERE, £75 The above is a beautiful copy of this the FIRST, AND BY MANY CONSIDERED The best, ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THIS FAMED ROMANCE. It is one of the largest copies we have seen, and is complete in every respect, containing an engraved title to each volume, as well as the erinted title in volume two. 49 CHAMBERLAYNE (John) TRE MANNER OF MAKING OF COFFEE, TEA, AND CHOCOLATE, as it is used in most parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, with their Vertues, newly done out of French and Spanish. 1685. Woodcut of the Coffee Plant, 12mo, original sheep, £1 18 A scarce little book. 50 CHAP BOOK.-DEATH AND THE LADY, a Solemn Dialogue, ascribed to the celebrated John Bunyan, author of the Pilgrim's Progress,' first printed A.D. 1660. Seven Dials, N.D. (circa 1820). Size 2 X 12 in.-A Garland of New Songs. Newcastleupon-Tyne, N.D. (circa 1800). Rude woodcut on title.-The Lives and Actions of the Most Notorious Irish Highwaymen, Tories and Repparees from Redmond O'Hanlon to Cahier Na Guppul, by J. Cosgrave. To which is added the Goldfinder, or the History of Manus Maconiel. Dublin, N.D. (circa 1820).-The Kilbruddery Fox Chace, and other Songs. Dublin, N.D. (circa 1820). Woodcut on title.-The Substance, or Three Sermons preached at Edinburgh by Moses the Jew, who was lately converted to the Christian Religion. 1812.-Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by the wonderful works of God (a Poem). Newcastle-upon-Tyne, N.D. (circa 1815).-The Sinner's Redemption, or the Conversion of Joshua Tuckfield, who said he had seen Heaven and Hell, and some persons therein he had known when on earth. Nottingham, N.D. (circa 1815). Very curious and large woodcut engravings on back of title. The 7 in 1 vol, 12mo, handsomely bound in sprinkled calf extra, prettily tooled back and borders, top edges gilt, by RIVIERE (a quaint collection), £1 5s Id. 51 CHAP BOOKS.-The Long Pack, a Northumbrian Tale of 1723. J. Ross, 52 CHAP_BOOK.-The Merry Thought, an Excellent and Right Merry Collection of Capital Tricks, Diverting Experiments, Droll Illusions, etc. J. Duncombe, n.d. Coloured frontispiece, 12mo, half calf, with others in the same volume, 58 53 CHAP BOOK. THE PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL HISTORY OF JACK AND THE GIANTS. Nottingham, printed for the Running Stationers, N.D. (circa 1780). Two parts complete, with numerous quaint woodcuts, 12mo, mottled calf extra, top edges gilt, uncut, by Riviere, £1 128 54 CHAP BOOKS.-NEW SONGS, I. The Jolly Bold Batchelor; II. The Answer; III. The Irish Maid's Garland; IV. The Voyage to Virginia; V. King William crossing the Boyne Water, or the Battle of the Boyne, the 1st of July, 1690. Edinburgh, printed and sold in Swan Close, N.D. (about 1760). Two Excellent New Songs: I. A Muzzle for the Jacobites; II. An Elegy on Charles the Chevalier. Printed in the year 1749. Quaint woodcut on title, the 2 in 1 vol, 12mo, prettily bound in sprinkled calf extra, very neatly tooled, top edges gilt, by RIVIERE, £l 4s 56 CHARLES 1.—Είκων Βασιλικὴ. Modern Reprint 1648 Edition, with an Introduction, throwing fresh light upon the authorship of the work, by Edward J. L. Scott, M.A. 1880. Facsimile of the folding plate, 8vo, parchment, 38 6d 56 CHARLES I.-TRAGICUM THEATRUM ACTORUM, ET CASUUM TRAGICORUM LONDINI PUBLICE CELEBRATORUM, Quibus Hiberniæ Proregi, Episcopo Cantuariensi, ac tandem Regi ipsi aliisque vita adempta, et ad Anglicanam metamorphosin via est aperta. Amstelodami, 1649. With very finely engraved portraits of Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, W. Laud, Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, Charles I, Charles II, Duke of Hamilton, Earl of Holland, and a folding view of THE EXECUTION OF CHARLES I AT WHITEHALL, 12mo, old vellum, £2 158 57 CHARLES 1.-SHERINGHAM (ROBERT) The King's Supremacy Asserted, or a Remonstrance of the King's Right against the Pretended Parliament. 1682. 4to, half bound, uncut, 38 58 CHARLES 1.-The First Part of Things Compared, or the Justification of King Charles comparatively against the Parliament, wherein is manifested that by the Cunning Contrivance of a Wicked Party in the House of Commons, who by their Fraud and Subtility deceive and seduce the major part of the House for their own ambitious ends, our oppressions have been made far more grievous than they were in the King's dayes. The course of justice and reliefe of grievance is obstructed, and our troubles and pressures are still continued, etc. Oxford, 1647. 4to, half calf, 38 6d 59 CHARLES II -The Earl of Anglesey's STATE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND KINGDOM: PREPARED AND INTENDED FOR HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES II, in the year 1682, but the Storm Impending growing so high prevented it then. With a short Vindication of his Lordship from several aspersions cast upon him in a pretended Letter that carries the Title of his Memoirs, by Sir JOHN THOMPSON, Bart. 1694. 4to, sewn, 58 60 CHESS.-The Royall Game of CHESS PLAY, sometimes the Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility, illustrated with almost an Hundred Gambetts, being the Study of Biochimo, the Famous Italian. Henry Herringman, 1656. With the rare portrait of the King by P. Stent, 12mo, half calf neat, £2 28 Prefixed are commendatory poems addressed to the translator (Dr. Budden). 61 CHILD'S BOOK.-Dame Trot and her Cat. 1806. Sixteen coloured designs, 12mo, sewn, £1 1s 62 CHILD'S BOOK.-Whimsical Incidents, or the Power of Music, a Poetic Tale, by a Near Relation of Old Mother Hubbard. 1805. Fifteen neatly coloured designs, 12mo, sewn, 10s With numerous wood 63 CHILD'S CHURCH SERVICE (The).-Pickering, 1874. cut engravings. A SPECIAL COPY, PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON PURE VELLUM, ONLY FOUR COPIES SO PRINTED, 12mo, boards, uncut (a curiosity), £3 38 64 CIVIL WAR.—Britain's Triumphs, or a Brief History of the Warres and other State Affairs of Great Britain, from the Death of the late King to the Third Year of the Government of the Lord Protector. 1656. 12mo, old sheep, 7s 6d 65 CIVIL WAR.-Plaine English, or a Discourse concerning the Accommodation, the Armie, the Association. Printed (unless men be more carefull, and God the more mercifull), the last of Liberty, 1643. Small 4to, half bound, 4s 63 CIVIL WAR.-The Armies Vindication, in reply to Mr. Sedgwick. 1649. 4to, half bound, 4s "Amongst all formes of Civill Government, Aristocratical or Popular is best and safest for the people. Besides, here is shewed that to claim any crown by an hereditary or successive title, is upon false and unjust ground," etc. 07 CHRISTIAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (A Book of), wherein are set foorth the chiefe pointes of Christian Religion, a worke neccessarie and profitable for all such as have to deal with the captious quarrellings of the wrangling adversaries of God's Truth. London, John Harrison, 1581. 12mo, Black Letter, fine copy, blue morocco super extra, gilt edges, by Hayday, £4 48 'Questions and Answers" are a summary of the arguments against Roman Catholicism in vogue at the period. Contains at end, under heading "The Ladder of Thrifte," a curious poem of 3 pages, every line rhyming in y or ie. This early edition of the little book is unknown to Lowndes and other bibliographers. Lowndes mentions a later edition (1582) but gives no notice of it, nor where a copy is to be seen. 68 COACHING-AN OLD COACHMAN'S CHATTER, WITH SOME PRACTICAL REMARKS ON DRIVING, by a Semi-Professional, Edward Corbett. 1890. FIRST EDITION, with 8 full-page illustrations, DELICATELY COLOURED, by JOHN STURGESS, 8vo, calf extra, gilt top, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £1 10s 69 COACHING-THE COACHING AGE, by STANLEY HARRIS. 1885. FIRST EDITION, illustrations by JOHN STURGESS, 8vo, calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £1 108 70 CORNWALL.-Specimens of CORNISH PROVINCIAL DIALECT, collected and arranged by Uncle Jan Treenoodle, with some Introductory Remarks and a Glossary by an Antiquarian Friend, and a Selection of Songs and other Pieces connected with Cornwall. 1846. 8vo, cloth, 38 6d 71 COWLEY (Abraham) CUTTER OF COLEMAN-STREET, & Comedy, as it is acted at their Majesties Theatre Royal, the Scene London in the year 1658. N.D. (circa 1660). Folio, sewn, uncut, £1 1s This is probably the First Edition under this title, and has the appearance of being issued privately. 71a COWPER (William) OLNEY HYMNS, in Three Books: Book I.-On Select Texts of Scripture. Book II.-On Occasional Subjects. Book III.- On the Progress and Changes of the Spiritual Life. Printed and sold by W. Oliver, J. Johnson, etc., 1779. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, a very fine copy, in morocco extra, gilt edges, £3 38 72 CROMWELL.-A Discourse upon this Saying, "The Spirit of the Nation is not yet to be trusted with Liberty, lest it introduce Monarchy or invade the Liberty of Conscience. 1659. Small 4to, sewn. 48 73 CROMWELL.-A Seasonable Speech made by a worthy Member of Parliament concerning the other Houses. 1659. Small 4to, 38 6d 74 CROMWELL.-A Second Narrative of the late Parliament (so called), wherein, after a brief reciting some remarkable passages in the former narrative, is given an account of their second meeting, and things transacted by them, as also how the Protector (so called) came swearing by the living God and dissolved them, after two or three weeks sittings, a short view of the Quarrel between the King and Parliament. Printed in the Fifth Year of England's Slavery under its New Monarchy, 1658. Small 4to, sewn, 10s 6d A highly interesting tract, giving a brief account of forty of the Members of Parliament who were selected to make a "House of Lords," with a brief description of their merits and deserts, whereby it may easily appear how fit they are to be called Lords, etc. 75 CROMWELL -Twenty-Seven Queries relating to the General Good of the Three Nations, which will neither please Madmen nor displease Rational Men. 1659. Small 4to, sewn, 38 6d 76 CRUIKSHANK (George) ECCENTRIC TALES, from the German of W. F. Von Kosewitz. 1827. FIRST EDITION, with beautifully coloured plates by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, from sketches by ALFRED CROWQUILL, 8vo, uncut, in original boards, £6 68 77 CRUIKSHANK (George) FRANK FAIRLEGH, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. 1850. FIRST EDITION, with thirty etchings by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, very fine copy, in red morocco super extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, covers at end, by RIVIERE, £4 188 77a CRUIKSHANK (George) KILTS AND PHILIBEGS!! The Northern Excursion of Geordie, Emperor of Gotham, and Sir Willie Curt-his, the Court Buffoon, etc., etc., a Serio-Tragico-Comico Ludrico Aquatico Burlesque Gallimanfry; interspersed with Humorous Glees, Sporting Catches, and Rum Chaunts, by the Male and Female Characters of the Piece. John Fairburn, 1822. FIRST EDITION, with the rare coloured frontispiece by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 8vo, sewn, £2 28 78 CRUIKSHANK (George) LIFE IN PARIS, COMPRISING THE RAMBLES, SPREES, AND AMOURS OF DICK WILDFIRE, OF CORINTHIAN CELEBRITY, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton, with the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family, including Sketches of a Variety of other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis, by DAVID CAREY. 1822. FIRST EDITION, embellished with twenty-one BRILLIANTLY COLOURED plates, representing scenes from real life, and further illustrated by twenty-two wood engravings, all drawn and etched by the inimitable GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 8vo, A VERY FINE COPY in THE ORIGINAL PICTURE BOARDS AS ISSUED, UNCUT, very scarce thus, £15 158 79 CRUIKSHANK (George) Lord Chesterfield's Advice to his Son. 1820. Vignette on title by G. Cruikshank, 12mo, boards, 58 80 CRUIKSHANK (George) MUNCHAUSEN AT WALCHEREN, or a Continuation of the Renowned Baron's Surprising Travels, Adventures, Expeditions, and Exploits at Walcheren, the Dardanelles, Talavera, Cintra, etc., etc., his various Combats with Eastern Armies, and the Particulars of a Wonderful Turtle Feast with Sir W-C-on board his Yacht, when Preparing to Attack Flushing, written by Himself. 1811. With five illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, original boards, UNCUT, £1 108 A scarce and early example. 81 CRUIKSHANK (George) THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by DR. SYNTAX. 1815. FIRST EDITION, with thirty humorous coloured engravings by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 8vo, morocco extra, gilt edges, by Riviere, £8 8s 82 CRUIKSHANK (Robert) Wit of the World, or Jests and Sayings of the Present Day. 1839. Two woodcuts by R. Cruikshank, 12mo, original cloth, 58 83 CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND.-The Castles of Brougham and Brough, by G. T. Clark. Kendal, N.D. (1881). 8vo, sewn, 18 Contains also an Article on the Mediæval Defences of the English Border. 84 DANIEL (Samuel) THE CIVIL WARES BETWEENE THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORKE, corrected and continued by SAMUEL DANIEL, one of the Groomes of his Majestie's most Honorable Privie Chamber. Printed at London by Simon Watersonne, 1609. THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, 4to, with engraved title containing a portrait of Daniel in the centre, engraved by Cockson, lower margin cut into, calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £8 88 This important production of Daniel contains many sweet and poetical passages, his strict adherence to the truth of history, the purity and elegance of his language, the correctness of his taste, and his occasional touches of the pathetic, all place him among the better writers of his day, and an ornament of his age; and if not among our first great epic composers, certainly one of the chiefest and best of our second-class poets. A portion (four books) of this work was published in 1595, and was re-issued 1599 with a fifth book, again 1602 with a sixth book. The above edition consists of eight books, so that besides containing all which has appeared in the previous issues it contains the actual first edition of the seventh and eighth books, and we may add it is the last published separate edition of the poem. The Sunderland copy, sold in 1882, realized £22 108.; there was no copy in the "Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica," and it was unnoticed by Ritson. 85 DAVENANT (Sir William) MADAGASCAR, WITH OTHER POEMS, the Second Edition, by W. DAVENANT, Knight. Printed for Humphrey Moseley. 1648. 12mo, calf, £4 48 The dedication of this interesting little volume is as follows:-"If these Poems live, may their memories, by whom they were cherished, End. Porter, H. Jarmyn, live with them." Prefixed are commendatory verses addressed to the author by E. Porter, (SIR) JOHN SUCKLING, THOMAS Carew, and WILLIAM HABINGTON. At page 37 is the following Ode addressed to SHAKESPEARE:"IN REMEMBRANCE OF MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. (3) Each Tree, whose thick and spreading growth hath made, Rather a night beneath the Boughs, than shade, (Unwilling now to grow) Lookes like the Plume a Captive weares, The piteous River wept itself away If you a River there there can spie; There are also poems in honour of Ben Jonson and Fletcher, etc. |