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Printed by S. Simmons, and to be fold by S. Thomson at
the Bihopf-Head in Duck-lane, H. Mortlack at the
White Hart in Westminster Hall, M. Walker under
St. Dunstans Church in Fleet fiveet, and R. Boulter at

the Turki-Head in Bishopsgate freet, 1668.

[SEE No. 822.]

814. MELANCHTHON (PHILIPPUS). Confessio Fidei exhibita invictiss. Imp. Carlo V. Cæsari Aug. in Comiciis Augustæ anno 1530. Addita est Apologia Confessionis, Beide Deudsch und Latinisch. (Latin only.) Small 4to, original stamped calf binding. Wittemberg: George Rhau, 1531

*The Augsburg Confession. Melanchthon wrote the whole of the Apologia and drew up the greater part of the Confession. The binding, though now rather worn, has been a very fine piece of German contemporary work, the front cover having a gilt portrait of Luther in the centre, the border being of dancing Cupids; the back having in the centre a quaint representation of Christ raising the dead, with broad border of numerous allegorical figures.

815. MERRYWEATHER (F. SOMNER). Bibliomania in the Middle Ages. With Introduction by Chas. Orr. 8vo, boards, uncut. N. Y. 1900

*Edition limited to 500 copies.

816. MILTON (JOHN). Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England and the Cavses that hither-to have hindred it. Two Bookes, written to a Friend. FIRST Small 4to, full red morocco, gilt top (title repaired on inner margin).

EDN.

[Lond.:] Printed for Thomas Underhill, 1641

* THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PROSE PRODUCTION. With the leaf of "Faults escap't in the printing are heer corrected."

817. [MILTON (JOHN).] EIKONOKAAΣTHΣ in Answer to a Book Intitl'd E'IKON BAZIAIKH. The Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. The Author I. M. Small 4to, full blue crushed levant gilt, gilt tooled on back and sides, inside dentelle borders, gilt edges, by RIVIÈRE. Lond. Printed by Matthew Simmons, 1649

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* FIRST EDITION. On page 11 there is an interesting reference to Shakespeare, including a quotation from his 'Richard III." On page 12 the author refers to the vaine amatorious Poem of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.

818. [MILTON (JOHN).] The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: Proving that it is Lawfull, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the power, to call to account a Tyrant, or Wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death; if the Ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it, and that they, who of late so much blame Deposing, are the men that did it themselves. The Author, J. M. Small 4to, full blue crushed levant, gilt, inside gilt line borders, by BRADLond. 1650

STREETS.

* The Second Impression, with additions.

819. MILTON (JOHN). Pro populo Anglicano Defensio contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii Defensionem Regiam. 4to, entirely uncut, bound in full crushed levant extra. Londini: Typis Du Gardianis, Anno Domini, 1651 *Editio princeps, with six autograph lines and two signatures of Scaliger. Extremely rare uncut.

820. MILTON (JOHN). Joannis Miltoni Angli pro Populo Anglicano Defensio secunda. Contra infamem libellum anonymum cui titulus, Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus parricidas Anglicanos. FIRST EDN. 12mo, full blue crushed levant morocco extra gilt, gilt-tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by the CLUB BINDERY. 173 pp. From the Lefferts library, with book-label

Londini: Typis Neucomianis, 1654 821. MILTON (JOHN). A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: shewing that it is not lawfull for any power on earth to compell in matters of Religion. The author J. M. FIRST EDN. 12mo, full blue crushed levant morocco extra, gilt, gilt tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by the CLUB BINDERY.

Lond. For Tho. Newcomb, 1659

* From the Lefferts library, with book-label.

822. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost: a Poem in Ten Books. The Author, John Milton. Small 4to, full chocolate crushed levant, gilt, blind-tooled center-piece on sides, inside gold borders, gilt edges, by BRADSTREETS. Lond. : Printed by S. Simmons and to be sold by S. Thomson . (etc.), 1668.

THE RARE FIRST EDITION WITH THE FOURTH TITLE-PAGE. As is well known, the question of precedence of issues of the first edition of Paradise Lost is complicated with so many questions of variations of typography, composition, etc., that no absolute final agreement has ever been reached by bibliog raphers. The readings of this copy agree in most instances with those in the first issue of 1667.

This issue contains for the first time the seven preliminary leaves containing the address of the printer to the reader (in five lines), the errata, etc. With facsimile autograph inserted.

[See Reproduction.]

823. MILTON (JOHN). THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN. That part especially now call'd England. From the First Traditional Beginning, continu'd to the Norman Conquest. Fine impression of the portrait by Faithorne. Small 4to, blind tooled calf. Lond.: Printed by J. M., for James Allestry, 1670 * FIRST EDITION. FINE COPY. The frontispiece to this volume, Gul Faithorne ad Vivum, Delin. et Sculpsit,' is of extreme interest as being one of the most authentic contemporary portraits of Milton. It has been frequently copied by Vertue and other engravers."

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The Arnold-Appleton-Graham-Gray copy, with bookplates. 824. MILTON (JOHN). A Defence of the People of England, by John Milton, in Answer to Salamasius's Defence of the King. FIRST EDN. (in English). 12mo, full blue crushed levant morocco, richly tooled back and inside borders, gilt edges, by RIVIÈRE.

Printed in the Year [at Lond. ] 1692 *RARE. This " Defense" was first published shortly after the execution of Charles Ist (in 1651), with the title "Pro

Populo Angelicano Defensio," but it was over 40 years before anyone ventured to translate the work into English, and when it was translated and published, was done without translator's or publisher's name. Wharton said that it was the best apology ever offered for bringing kings to the block. In 1660 the House of Commons ordered that the work be burned by the common hangman.

825. MILTON (JOHN). Works in Verse and Prose, printed from the original editions, with a Life of the Author by John Mitford. Portrait. 8 vols. 8vo, threequarter blue crushed levant morocco extra, gilt backs, gilt tops. Lond. William Pickering, 1851

* A beautiful set of perhaps the finest edition in existence.

826. MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES (THE) wherein may bee seene, by examples passed in this Realme, with how greevous Plagues vices are punished in great Princes and Magistrates, and how fraile and vnstable worldly prosperity is found, where Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Newly imprinted, and with the addition of diuers Tragedies enlarged. BLACK LETTER. Title within woodcut border and with woodcut initials. Small 4to, full red morocco, floral gilt borders, richly tooled back, gilt edges, by MACKENZIE. At London in Fleete Streete, by Henry Marsh, being the assigne of Thomas Marsh, 1587.

* FINE TALL COPY. VERY RARE. This most interesting and celebrated poetical historical work contains all the Legends in Baldwin's edition of 1578, and in Higgins' of 1575, together with 27 additional ones, including those written by Churchyard, Drayton, Francis Dingley, etc. The work has been largely drawn by the Elizabethan and seventeenth century poets and dramatists. It enters particularly into the Shakespeare Library. He is presumed to be indebted to the piece How Queen Cordela in despair slew Herself” in his play of "King Lear," and among the many poetical narratives included in the volume are these: Life and Death of Julius Cæsar," The Unfortunate Life and Death of King John, Tragical Life and Death of Richard III., and others, ALL OF DIRECT SHAKE

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SPEAREAN INTEREST.

827. MISSALE ad usum sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, nuper a mendis quam plurimis repurgatum, ac denuo accuratius recognitum, emendatum, et ad meliorem formam redactum. Gothic letter in red-and-black, with music noted on four lines; title within an historiated woodcut border, 2 full-page woodcuts representing the Crucifixion and the Eternal Father in his glory, a woodcut representing the celebration of the High Mass, within a woodcut border, and numerous historiated and ornamental woodcut initials. Folio, contemporary binding in wooden boards, covered with leather stamped in compartments of gilt Venetian arabesque ornaments, with arms of a bishop, and date 1599, brass bosses, gilt and gauffred edges.

Parisiis: H. de Marnef, 1584

828. [MITCHELL (DONALD G.)] Fresh Gleanings; or, A New Sheaf from the Old Fields of Continental Europe. By Ik Marvel. FIRST EDN. Post 8vo, original cloth.

*The Author's First Book.

N. Y. 1847

829. [MITCHELL (DONALD G.)] The Battle of Summer: being Transcripts from Personal Observation in Paris, 1848. FIRST EDN. Illusts. 12mo, original cloth. N. Y. 1850

The author's second book.

830. [MITCHELL (DONALD G.)] Fudge Doings. Fronts. by Darley. FIRST EDN. 2 vols. 12mo, original cloth. N. Y. 1855

Reveries of a BacheLife, a Fable of the by Smillie. 2 vols.

831. [MITCHELL (DONALD G.)] lor, or A Book of the Heart; Dream Seasons. Etched portrait and front. royal 8vo, full polished tree calf gilt, inside gilt borders, gilt tops, uncut, by TOUT. N. Y. Chas. Scribner, 1884

*Large Paper copies of the best edition of both volumes with the author's latest corrections. Only 250 sets so issued.

832. MOLIÈRE.-L'Étourdi ou Les Contretemps. Com. édie en cinq Actes. Avec une Notice et des Notes par August Vitu. Full-page etching by Champollion, after Louis Leloir. 12mo, beautifully bound in full crimson crushed levant, delicately gilt tooled on back and sides, doublures of crimson levant elaborately gold tooled in a graceful floral design with inlaid borders and centerpiece of light-blue levant, leather joints, flowered silk endpapers, original covers preserved, by RUBAN.

Paris: Libraire Des Bibliophiles, 1888

* One of only 25 copies on Whatman Paper, with the plate in two states.

Presentation copy from the publisher. In a slip case.

833. MONROE (JAMES). A View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States connected with the Mission to the French Republic. With his Instructions and Correspondence and other Authentic Documents. 8vo, full blue crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt top, uncut, by BRADSTREETS. Phil. 1797

834. MONSELET (CHARLES). Les Premières Représentations Célèbres. Thick 12mo, half morocco, uncut. Paris, 1867

* From the Daly Collection. Proof portrait inserted and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of SEVENTY FOUR ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. The letters include specimens of Alexander Dumas, Dumas (Fils), Duval, Feuillet, Houssaye, Janin, Lamartine, Louis Philippe, Pixérécourt, Sardou, Scribe, Sandeau, etc.

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