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Author: Cave, William Title: Primitive Christianity: Or, the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the First Ages of the Gospel. in Three Parts. the Third Edition Description: London, 1676, THIRD EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Thick Octavo. 1676. London. J. G. For R. Chiswell. Engraved And Printed Titles. 24+352+388+11Pp (+5Pp Of Early Manuscript Notes) . Good Copy. Contemporary Calf. Recently Rebacked Over Raised Bands. Black Label. ‘Exlibris Joseph Parsons 1711'. Wing C 1600; Thick 8Vo; 24+352+388+11Pp Pages Item No: A- 122 Price: $ 450.00 Author: Cave, William. (1637-1713) Title: Antiquitates Apostolicæ: Or, the Lives, Acts and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of Our Saviour. to Which Are Added the Lives of the Two Evangelists, Ss. Mark and Like. As Also a Brief Enumeration and Account of the Apostles and Their Successors for the First Three Hundred Years in the Five Great Apostolical Churches. by William Cave, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. Description: London, 1676, SECOND EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Printed by R[oger]. Norton, for R[ichard]. Royston bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty, at the angel in Amen-Corner, M DC LXXVI. (1676) ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; [8], LXVIII, [8], xvii, [1], 234 pages Item No: A- 121 Price: $ 1200.00 Author: Champlain, Samuel. - Wilmere - Shaw - Hakluyt Society Title: Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 1599-1602, with Maps and Illustrations. by Samuel Champlain. Translated from the Original and Unpublished Manuscript, with a Biographical Notice and Notes, by Alice Wilmere. Edited by Norton Shaw. Description: London, Hakluyt Society, 1859, FIRST EDITION, Embossed Blue Cloth, Includes (4) Maps: (St. Luc De Barameda; Island of Guadaloupe; Island of Porto Rico; Harbour in S'Domingo) ; (8) Illustrations: (Frontispiece - Color Facsimile MS Illustration of Camelon; Pearl Fishery; A Silver Mine; Acoyates; Dragon; An Indian Feast; Burning Indians; Punishment of the Indians for not attending Church). - Text written c. 1602. The supplementary material consists of the 1858 annual report. - Original binding in decoratively blindstamped and embossed blue cloth boards with gilt image of ship "Victoria" on front cover and gilt lettered spine. ; 8vo; 4, xcix, 48 pages Item No: A- 1233 Price: $ 300.00 Author: Chapman, John. (1704-1784) Title: Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. By John Chapman, D.D. Archdeacon of Sudbury, and Chaplain to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Now carefully revised, and corrected with Additions, and collected into One Volume. Description: London, 1742, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Printed for S. Birt, at the Bible and Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane, 1742. - Each Tract has a separate titlepage and register. [6],104;[4],104,[2];[4 ],ii,87,[1];[2],96pp. - Containing Tracts: 'Primitive Antiquity Explained and Vindicated being Remarks on a Book intituled, Christianity as old as the Creation', In Two Parts. 'To which is added in an Appendix, A true Account of the Stoical Fate, In Defence of the Lord Bishop of London' in Part One. 'There is also added a Postscript, Defending Jerom and other Antient Writers against the learned Mosheim' in Part Two; 'Remarks on a letter to Dr. Waterland, in relation to the natural account of languages'; 'Phlegon Examined critically and impartially. In Answer to the late Dissertation and Defence of Dr. Sykes. To which is added a Postscript, explaining a Passage in Tertullian'; and 'Phlegon Re-Examined in answer to Dr. Sykes's Second Defense of his Dissertation concerning Phlegon. To which is added a Postscript, concerning the Chronicon Paschale '. - REFERENCES: ESTCT65444; Alston, III.803. ; 8vo Item No: A- 1337 Price: $ 450.00 Author: Charlesworth, M L Title: Africa's Mountain Valley; Or The Church In Regent's Town, West Africa. By The Author Of "Ministering Children," "The Cottage And Its Visitor," & C "Let the Inhabitants of the Rock Sing, Let Them Shout Fom the Top of the Mountains. " Isaiah Xlii. 11. Description: London, 1857, FIRST EDITION (?), Full Calf Leather, Good Marbled Endpapers, colored frontispiece, and plates. Sixth Thousand. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, Fleet Street; and B. Seeley, Hanover Street, London. MDCCCLVII. ; 8vo; 272 pages Item No: A- 474 Price: $ 30.00 Author: Cheney, Sheldon Title: Men Who Have Walked with God - Being the Story of Mysticism through the Ages Told in the Biographs of Representative Seers and Saints with Excerpts from Their Writings and Sayings. - 1945 - First Edition With (32) Thirty-Two Full Page Illustrations Description: New York, 1945, FIRST EDITION, Black Cloth, New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1945. - Contents: The Golden Age and the Mystic Poet Lao-Tse; The Buddha, the Great Light, and the Bliss of Nirvana; The Age of Reason in Greece: Pythagoras and Plato; The Tardy Flowering of Greek Mysticism: Plotinus; Christian Mysticism, from the Founders to St. Bernard; The Medieval Flowering: Eckhart and the Friends of God; Fra Angelico, the Saintly Painter and Tool of God; Jacob Boehme, the Shoemaker-Illuminate of the Reformation; Brother Lawrence, the Lay Monk Who Attained Unclouded Vision; A Mystic in the Age of Enlightened Skepticism: William Blake. ; 8vo; 395 pages Item No: A- 882 Price: $ 10.00 Author: Cheyne, George M. D. (1671-1743) ( Newton ) ( Boyle ) Title: Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy and the Proofs of Natural Religion Arising from Them. Description: 1716 / 1725, FIRST & THIRD EDITION, Full Calf Leather, An amazing piece of history, this a very early philosophy book, nothing less than an early 18th century philosopher trying to prove the truth of religion through mathematics, a philosopher influenced by Newton. The book is Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed, by George Cheyne, M. D. And F. R. S: In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy and the Proofs of Natural Religion arising from them. The third edition. Corrected and enlarged. Part II. Containing the Nature and Kinds of Infinites; their Arithmetick and Uses: Together with the Philosophick Principles of Reveal'd Religion. Published by George Strahan, at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, over Against the Royal Exchange (London) in 1725. The first part alone had been previously published in 1705. Written for and dedicated to his pupil, John, Duke of Roxburgh, Cheyne's Philosophical Principles were mainly drawn from Newton. Included here is his unofficial discourse on Boyle in which he discusses Newtonian science from the point of view of natural theology. Although the book was rejected by his contemporar ies as containing little of value, it was used in both English universities . Chapters I and III of the second part, 'The Arithmetick of Infinites', include a fascinating attempt to reduce religion to mathematical principles. Cheyne's struggle with corpulence and excess became the subject of his popular later works on health and nutrition, Essay of Health and Long Life and The English Malady. Not in Babson or Wallis. This copy is in the original leather binding, with 5 raised bands on the spine, 8x5. 360 pages to the first part, and 190 pages to the second part. An amazing work. A reissue of the 1724 edition, with the general titlepage and the titlepage to pt.1 partly reset. Pt.1 is of the 3rd. Ed. And has separate titlepage, dated 1725, and pagination, but continuous register with the general preliminaries. Pt.2 has separate titlepage, pagination and register and is dated 1716. With a final advertisement leaf. ESTCT64236; 8vo; [32],360;[24],190,[ 2]pp. pages Item No: A- 509 Price: $ 950.00 Author: Children Books - English, British Title: The Child's Instructor [ (2) Two Volumes with Numerous Illustrations] Description: ca. 1875, Half Calf Leather, --- CONTAINS: "First Steps; or, Easy Lessons in Reading & Spelling"; "Writing Made Easy"; "Pictorial Arithmetic"; "Tales of other Things, or, The History of England in Easy Lessons"; "Simple Lessons in Geography"; "Music and Singing"; "Easy Lessons in French"; "Language Picture Lessons"; "Stories of the Plants & Flowers; or, Botany for the Very Young Beginners"; "Chats about Common Things"; "Scripture Stories"; "Grammar"; "Stories of the Sun, Moon, and Stars"; "Kindergarten Games and Songs"; "A Kindergarten Toy"; "Comical Drawing Lessons"; "Little Stories of Great Lives"; "Geographical Nursery Rhymes"; "Drawing Lessons for the Young"; "Something about my Own Little Body"; "Number Nursery Rhymes". --- Bound in burgundy calf leather with embossed cloth boards. Gilt Lettering on Spine. Inscription of John Wardale. Bookbinder ticket of S. Lee, 3 Maddocks Row, Paul St, Exeter. Quite good condition. ; 4to; 1-96, 97-240 pages Item No: A- 1207 Price: $ 175.00 Author: Churchill, Clementine. (Sir Winston Churchill's Wife) Title: AUTOGRAPH LETTER on Double-Sided Laid Paper from Clementine Churchill ... to the Girls for all the Red Cross Gifts That Were Sent to the Russian Fund [Address of 10 Downing St, Whitehall] - [Date of November 1942 Written by Her in Pencil ] Description: London, 1942, Laid Paper, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, GBE, CStJ (née Clementine Ogilvy Hozier; April 1, 1885 – December 12, 1977) was the wife of Sir Winston Churchill. Her middle name "Ogilvy" was for her mother's maiden name; upon marriage, her middle name remained unchanged. Clementine was born in London to The Lady Blanche Henrietta Hozier (1852–1925) , daughter of the 10th Earl of Airlie and second wife of Sir Henry Montague Hozier (1838–1907). During World War II she was Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund (1939-46) , the President of the Young Women's Christian Association War Time Appeal and the Chairman of Fulmer Chase Maternity Hospital for Wives of Junior Officers. The Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow, Middlesex is named after her. ; 8vo (18cm x 22cm); 1 pages; Signed by Author Item No: A- 1226 Price: $ 300.00 Author: Clarke, Samuel. (1675-1729) Title: The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity. in Three Parts. Wherein all the Texts in the New Testament Relating to That Doctrine, and the Principal Passages in the Liturgy of the Church of England, Are Collected, Compared and Explained. By Samuel Clarke, D. D. Rector of St. James's Westminister; and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majestry. Description: London, 1712, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, London : printed for James Knapton, 1712. With two final advertisement leaves. --- Bookplate of Sir Paul Methuen. (Sir Paul Methuen, for some years, was ambassador at Madrid. He also acted as envoy at various times to the Emperor of Morocco, and the Duke of Savoy. In 1706 he was appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty; in 1714 he became a Lord of the Treasury and a Privy Counsellor. He rose at last in 1716 to the high office of a principal Secretary of State, and in 1720 was comptroller of the King's Household. He was installed in 1726 as a Knight of the Bath, and the same year became Treasurer of the Household, an office which he resigned in a few years and passed the remainder of his life in a private station. Sir Paul Methuen died unmarried, in the 85th year of his age, and was interred near the remains of his father in Westminster Abbey. ) ; 8vo; [24],xxxi,[1],491, [5] pages Item No: A- 1223 Price: $ 750.00 Author: Clarke, Samuel D. D. (1599-1682) Title: A General Martyrologie Containing a Collection of all the Greatest Persecutions Which Have Befallen the Church of Christ From the Creation, to Our Present Times; Wherein is Given an Exact Account of the Protestants Sufferings in Queen Maries Reign. Description: London, 1677, Full Calf Leather, Clarke, Samuel D. D. (1675—1729) A General Martyrologie Containing a Collection of all the Greatest Persecutions Which Have Befallen the Church of Christ From the Creation, to Our Present Times; Wherein is Given an Exact Account of the Protestants Sufferings in Queen Maries Reign. Whereunto Is Added The Lives Of Thirty Two English Divines, Famous In Their Generations For Learning And Piety; .. Together, With The Lives Of Gustavus Ericson, King Of Sweden; Jaspar Coligni, Admiral Of France .. And Joan Queen Of Navarr .. Likewise, Of Divers Other Christians Who Were Eminent For Prudence And Piety. .. You Have Also, Lively Represented, The Divers Manners Of Those Cruel, Horrid, and Inhumane Sufferings, .. In Copper-Plates. The third edition, corrected, and enlarged. By Samuel Clarke Late pastor of St. Bennet Fink, London 1677 London: Printed for William Birch, at the Peacock at the Lower-end of Cheap-side. - 2to in 4s, Pagination: [xl], 1-346, 347 [reverse blank], 347-544; [ii], 1-483, [5]. Frontis, and 11 plates depicting the suffering of those accused of heresy. Woodcut capitals and printer's device to the head of many sections. This work is divided broadly into two initial parts, a 'general' martyrology (which covers Europe and the Biblical Lands) , and an 'English' martyrology. In this (the best) edition, it is then followed by the third, expanded edition of Clarke's 'Lives', that is, his biographical account of various seventeenth figures in the Church. COLLATION: Frontispiece; Title page (printed in red and black) ; Reverse: 'Licensed to be reprinted July 30th 1674, Roger L'Estrange; Prefaces and Dedications (seventeen pages) ; Table of contents (seventeen pages) ; The Persecutions mentioned in the Old Testament; The Persecutions from Nehemiah to Antiochus; The Persecutions Antiochus Epiphanes; The Martyrdom of the Maccabees; The Persecutions mentioned in the New Testament; The First Persecution under the Heathen Roman Emperor (and so on until ? Tenth Persecution? ) ; The Persecution of the Christians in Persia; The Persecution the Church under Julian the Apostate; The Persecution of the Church under the Arian Hereticks; The Persecution by the Donatists; The African Persecution by the Arrian Vandals; The Persecution of the Waldenses; The Persecution of them in Calabria; The Persecution of them in Province; The Persecution of the Albingenses; The Persecution of the Church in Bohemia; The Persecution under the Emperor Ferdinand, which began Anno 1617; The Persecution of the Church in Spain; The Original, Progress, and Practice of the Spanish Inquisition; The Martyrdom of Nicholas Burton in Spain; The Persecution of the Church in Italy; The Martyrdom of a Christian Jew; The Persecution of the Church in Germany; The Martyrdom of a Minister in Hungary; The Persecution of the Church in the Low-Countries; The Persecution by the Duke de Alva; The Martyrdom of Prince William of Nassau; The Modern Persecution of the Church in France In the time of their Civil Wars; The History of the Parisian Massacre; The Siege of Sancerre, and the Sufferings of the Godly therein; The Sieve of Rochel, and their sufferings; The Persecution of the Church in the Valtoline; The Persecution of the Church in Scotland; The Persecution of the Church in Ireland; The History of the Waldenses continued from 1560 to our time; The Maquisat of Saluces described, with its Persecutions; The subtil practices to destroy the Godly in Piemont of late; The Motives of the Persecution; A Narrative of the cruelties exercised there Of the Wars between the Papists, and Protestants there Who interceded with the Duke of Savoy in their behalf; A Description of Piemont, and the Valleys thereof. Separate Title page reading: A Relation Of The Distressed State Of The Church Of Christ Professing The Protestant Religion In The Great Dukeom Of Lithuania Presented To The View Of All Compassionate Christians London Printed By John Redmaye For William Birch 1676. --- COLLATION Continues: The Persecution of the Church in Poland; The destruction of the famous City of Lesna in Poland; The case of Religion as it stood of late in Germany. Separate Title page reading: A Martyrologie Containing A Collection Of All The Persecution s Which Have Befallen The Church Of England Since The Plantation Of The Gospel To The End Of Maries Reign London 1677 --- COLLATION Continues: The Persecution of the British Church till the coming in of the Saxons by the Heathen Romans, Picts and Scots; The Persecution of the British Church under the Heathen Saxons and English; The Union of the Heptarchy under King Egbert; Of the invasion of the Danes, and of the Persecution of the English Church under them; The Persecution of the English Church under the Papacy; The Persecution of the English Church after the rising of Martin Luther Including The Life of Thomas Bennet; The Life of John Lambert; The Life of Dr Barnes; The Persecution of the Duke of Somerset in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth; The Persecution of the English Church in the Reign of Queen Mary; The Life of Julines Palmer; The Life of Sir John Cheek; The scourging of some in the Reign of Queen Mary; Many worthy Servants of Jesus Christ, escaped burning by the death of Queen Mary; The great troubles, and wonderful deliverance of the Lady Katherine, Dutches Dowager of Suffolk, who was the only Daughter and Heir to the Lord William, Baron of Willoughby, and Eresby, and the last wife of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk; The Troubles of Many of those that fled for religion in Queen Maries days, especially at Frankford; Gods Judgements upon the Persecutors of his Church and Children (end of martyrologies: 544 pages) The martyrologie illustrations are full page, and divided each into eight boxes, graphically depicting the torture and death suffered by believers. They are found in the following sections: The Martyrdom of the Maccabees (opp. Page 19) ; The Third Persecution (opp. Page 28) ; The Eighth Persecution (opp. Page 44) ; The Tenth Persecution (opp. Page 58) ; The Persecution of the Church by the Arrian Vandals (opp. Page 75) ; The Persecution of the Albingenses (opp. Page 124) ; The Martyrdom of Nicholas Burton (opp. Page 181) ; Persecution in Germany (opp. Page 220) ; Persecution of the Church in France (opp. Page 253) ; Persecution of the Church in Ireland (opp. Page 281) The pagination then begins anew with: The Lives Of Thirty-Two English Divines Famous In Their Generations For Learning And Piety And Most Of Them Sufferers In The Cause Of Christ Together With The Lives Of Gustabus Ericson, King Of Sweden; Jaspar Colgni (Admiral Of France) , And Of Joan, Queen Of Navar, Who Died A Few Dayes Before That Bloody Massacre London 1677--- The (32) Lives of the English Divines are as follows: 1. The Life of Doctor Collet, Dean of Pauls, who died Anno Christi 15192. The Life of Miles Coverdale, sometimes Bishop of Exeter, who dyed Anno Christi 15683. The Life of Doctor Sands Arch-Bishop of York, who dyed Anno Christi 15884. The Life of Master Richard Greenham, who dyed about the year, 15915. The Life of Master Thomas Cartwright, who dyed Anno Christi 16036. The Life of Master Paul Bains, who dyed Anno Christi 16177. The Life of Master William Bradshaw, who dyed Anno Christi 16188. The Life of Master Paul Bains, who dyed Anno Christi 1617 (? Drawn up by my 9. Reverend, Learned, and worthy Friend, Mr. Thomas Gataker of Rederith? ) 9. The Life of Master Richard Stock, who dyed Anno Christi 162610. The Life of Master Richard Rothwel, who dyed Anno Christi 162711. The Life of Dr Preston, who dyed Anno Christi 1628 (This life was written by my reverend Friend, Master Thomas Ball of Northampton) 12. The Life of Master Arthur Hildersam, who dyed Anno Christi 163113. The Life of Dr Thomas Taylor, sometimes Pastor of Aldermanbury London, who dyed Anno Christi 163214. The Life of Master Hugh Clark, who dyed Anno Christi 1634 (This master Hugh Clark was my Father) 15. The Life and death of Master John Carter, who dyed Anno Christi 163416. The Life of Doctor Sibs, who dyed Anno Christi 163517. The Life of Doctor Chaderton who dyed Anno Christi 164018. The Life of Master John Ball, who dyed Anno Christi 164019. The Life of Doctor Potter, who died Anno Christo 164220. The Life of Master Sedwick, who dyed Anno Christi 164321. The Life of Master Julines Herring, who dyed Anno Christi 164422. The Life of Master John Dod, who died Anno Christi 164523. The Life of Master Robert Balsom, who dyed Anno Christi 164724. The Life of Master Herbert Palmer, B. D. Late Master of Queen? S College in Cambridge, who dyed Anno Christi 164725. The Life and Death of Mr Samuel Crook, who dyed Anno Christi 164926. The Life of Master John Cotton, who dyed Anno Christi 165227. The Life and Death of Doctor Hill, who dyed Anno Christi 165328. The Life and Death of Master Thomas Gataker, who dyed Anno Christi 165429. The Life and Death of Master Jeremy Whitaker, who dyed Anno Christi 165430. The Life and Death of Dr James Usher (Primate of Ireland) who dyed Anno Christi 165531. The Life and Death of Master Richard Capel, who dyed Anno Christi 165632. The Life and Death of Doctor Robert Harris, who dyed Anno Christi 1658 The entries for Dr Sandes, Master Cartwright, Master Stock, Doctor Preston, Master Hildersam, Doctor Taylor, Master John Carter, Dr Sibs, Master Herbert Palmer, Dr William Gough, Dr James Usher, are illustrated with portrait woodcuts. --- There follows a further title page The Second Part: Containing The Lives of Gustabus Ericson King of Sweden who was the First Reformer of Religion in that Kingdom as also of Diverse Christians who were Eminent for Prudence and Piety --- The Life of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden Who died Anno Christi 1562--- Followed by further lives as follows: The Life and Death of Mrs Jane Ratcliffe, who dyed Anno Christi 1638; The Life and Death of Mr Ignatius Jurdaine, who dyed Anno Christi 1640; The Life and Death of Mrs Margaret Ducke, who dyed Anno Christi 1646; The Life and Death of Mrs Margaret Corbes, who dyed Anno Christi 1656; The Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Wilkinson, who dyed Anno Christi 1654; The Life of Gasper Colinus Great Admirall of France, who was slain in the Parisian Massacre, August 24 Anno Christi 1572; The Life of Joane, Queen of Navarr, who was poisoned at Paris a few days before the bloody Massacre, Anno Christi 1572; Contents & Errata (4pp to end). - A scarce title, often found incomplete. We believe ours is correctly collated. ; Folio 12" x 8" Item No: A- 580 Price: $ 3000.00 Author: Clemens, Samuel L. Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Company Hartford, 1876. Description: Chicago, 1876, FIRST EDITION (?), Full Calf Leather, 8Vo; 251 Pages Item No: A- 47 Price: $ 75.00 Author: Cluveri, ( Cluverii ) ( Cluver ) (Clu¨ver, Philipp) ( Cluverius ) Philippi. (1580-1622) Title: Introductionis in Universam Geographiam, Tam Veterem Quam Novam. Libri VI. Tabulis Aeneis Illustrati & Gemino Indice Aucti. Cui Accessere Petri Bertii Orbis Terrarum Breviarium, Arque Danielis Heinsii Oratio in Obitum Cjusdem Philippi Cluveri. Description: Amstelaedami, 1682, Full Calf Leather, Two distinct books bound together. Text in Latin German geographer and historian, was born in Poland in the Polish city of Danzig (Gdansk). His Introductio in Universam Geographiam became a standard geographical textbook. The Introductionis was published numerous times between 1624 and 1729 with each successive edition becoming more elaborate and the later editions including finely engraved maps. It was first published in 1624 without maps. About half the maps are classical ones derived from Ortleius' Paregon. The world map shows California as an island. ; 4to; 143,42,[34] pages Item No: A- 1176 Price: $ 1800.00 Author: Cole, Christian. [editor & compiler] Title: Memoirs of Affairs of State: Containing Letters, Written by Ministers Employed in Foreign Negotiations, from the Year 1697, to the Latter End of 1708. with Treatises, Memorials, and Other Transactions Mentioned in the Said Letters. Published by Christian Cole, Esq; Some Time Resident At Venice. Description: London, 1733, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Printed for the editor; by Henry Woodfall, at Elzevir's-Head without Temple-Bar. 1733. With an initial imprimatur (licence to publish) leaf of King George II, and List of Subscribers which include the royal family, many dukes, lords, & ladies. - Christian Cole was the Secretary to Charles Montagu, the fourth Earl and first Duke of Manchester. Beginning in 1699, Cole accompanied & served with the Duke of Manchester in all his European diplomatic negotiations. He is listed on title page as "Some time Resident at Venice. " This volume contains all the diplomatic correspondence for this period sent to & from the Duke of Manchester, collected & edited by Cole who also included Manchester's 1697-99 diplomatic correspondence which he gained access to although he was not with Manchester at this time but was in the Hague and Ryswick with the Earl of Pembroke. The Introduction indicates that this is a book to improve the mind of the readers rather than a common French Memoirs giving accounts of Amours & Feats of Private men. It is a compilation of authentic Memoirs of Ministers of State, Princes, Admirals, Generals, and others who conduct Grand Affairs. "As I give an account of the Times, in which great Revolutions and Wars happened in Moscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, etc... So I have now and then gone a little out of the way by inserting some Letters, and other Papers relating to Affairs of those Countries. " - ESTCT124296 ; Folio; xii, 559 pages Item No: A- 1290 Price: $ 850.00 Author: Coles, Elisha. (1624-1680) - Schoolmaster and Teacher of the Tongue Title: An English Dictionary explaining the difficult terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Philosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and other Arts and Sciences, containing many Thousands of Hard Words (and proper names of places) more than are in any other English Dictionary or Expositor. Together with the Etymological Derivation of them from their Proper Fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language. In a Method more Comprehensive, than any that is Extant Description: London, 1724, Full Calf Leather, Printed for R. and J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin: and J. Walthoe, and T. Ward, 1724. - The final leaf contains tables of weight, etc. on the recto, and county statistics on the verso. Printed three columns to a page. - An English Dictionary is an important work that documents the beginnings of the English language and the pedagogical methods used to teach it to children. Coles is noted for his inclusion of earlier works including John Ray's Collection of English Words not Generally used (1673) and Richard Head's The Canting Academy (1673). Both works contained slang words and Head's specifically contained "canting terms" or criminal slang which Coles justified by saying "It may chance to save your throat from being cut, or (at least) your Pocket from being pickt." Therefore, it is perhaps the first complete snapshot of the complete usage of English both by the upper and lower classes. It is a seminal work in understanding the development of the English language in the early modern period, and is still used by lexicographers today. - Cole is best known for his works on teaching and lexicography including The Newest, Plainest and the Shortest Short-Hand (1674), The Compleat English Schoolmaster (1674), Nolens volens, or, You shall make Latin whether you will or no (1675), and An English Dictionary Explaining the Difficult Terms (1676). - Quite Rare. ; 8vo; [338] pages Item No: A- 1336 Price: $ 450.00 Author: Congreve, William. (1670-1729) Title: The Way of the World, a Comedy. As it is Acted At the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. Description: London, 1706, SECOND EDITION, Printed for Jacob Tonson; and sold by James Knapton, George Strahan, and Egbert Sanger, 1706. - Includes Dedication, Prolouge, Epilouge, and Persona Dramatis. Play Is Complete. First Few Leaves printed off-center and closely trimmed. - Reference: ESTCT14531 - The Way of the World is one of the masterpieces of english comic drama. It had its premiere at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in early March 1700, where, as Downes records, "being too keen a Satyr, [it] had not the Success the Company Expected". Although the play gradually gained respect and became a standard part of the repertory, the initial disappointment was enough to confirm Congreve's decision to stop writing plays. ; [8],68p pages Item No: A- 140 Price: $ 500.00 Author: Cosin, John, 1594-1672. Title: A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture or the Certain and Indubitate Books Thereof, As They Are Received in the Church of England Description: London, 1683, Full Calf Leather, Compiled By Dr. Cosin, Dn. Of P. And Mr. Of St. P. C. In The University Of Cambridge, Then Sequestred; And Late Lord Bishop Of Duresme. S. Luc. Xvi. N Habent Mosen & Prophetas; Audiant Illos. London, Printed By E. Tyler And R. Holt For Robert Pawlett, At The Sign Of The Bible In Chancery Lane, Near Fleet Street. 1683. Repudiates the canon set forth by the Council of Trent. ESTCR2222; [42], 224, [48] p pages Item No: A- 20 Price: $ 375.00 Author: Cotton, Charles. (1630-1687) - Lestrange, Roger. - Virgil - Aeneid Title: Scarronides: Or, Le Virgile Travesty. A Mock Poem. Being the First Book of Virgils Æneis [Aeneid] in English, Burle´sque. Imprimatur, Roger L'Estrange. Description: London, 1664, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1664. - The poet and translator Charles Cotton (1630- 87) , best remembered as friend of Izaak Walton and co-author of The Universal Angler (1676) , was at the centre of a small literary coterie on the Derbyshire-Staffords hire border and was himself a prolific writer. His translations included the essays of Montaigne ( 1685) , which was frequently reprinted, and among his original verse writings his robust burlesque of Virgil, Scarronides (1664) , proved especially popular, going through numerous editions. His miscellaneous poems were largely unpublished in his lifetime, though preserved in a manuscript kept by his friends, and were posthumously published in 1689. - REFERENCES: Pforzheimer 222; Wing C6391; ESTCR215032; 8vo; [4], 112 pages Item No: A- 1123 Price: $ 700.00 Author: Cowper, William Title: Poems by the Late William Cowper Esqr. Description: London, 1816, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Printed for Whittingham & Arliss, Juvenile Library, Paternoster Row, and Beilby & Knotts. Birmingham. 1816. - Double Full Page Engraved Frontispieces. Original binding with attractive gilt designed boards and spine. Its black leather spine label is also lettered in gilt. CONTENTS INCLUDE: Table Talk; The Progress of Error; Truth; Expostulation; Hope; Charity; Conversation; Retirement; The Task: A Poem in Six Books; and numerous other poems. Internally, the leaves are crisp and clean with marbled endpapers. A nice copy in good condition. ; 32mo; 416 pages Item No: A- 324 Price: $ 100.00 Author: Crisp, Stephen. (1628-1692) Title: Thirty Sermons or, Declarations, on various Subjects. With several Prayers, exactly taken in Characters, as they were delivered in the Public Meeting-Houses of the People, call'd, Quakers. By Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester deceased. Description: Leedes, 1750, Full Calf Leather, Printed and sold by James Lister; and Nath. Bell, in York, [1750]. First published in London in 1707 as 'Scripture-truths demonstrated' in three volumes. The is the First Edition incorporating all three volumes of his sermons into one. - Stephen Crisp (1628-1692) was an eminent Quaker minister for thirty-five years, frequently ministering in Holland and Germany in addition to England and Scotland. His writing has great detail regarding his twenty year struggle to find truth, as he marched through the various deficit sects and kept returning to the world in frustration, always with the Light of Christ reminding him of his continued unredeemed state. His experiences are both educational and encouraging to any who seek the fullness of Christ. ; 8vo; 98, 89-456 pages Item No: A- 1328 Price: $ 375.00 Author: Croxall, Samuel Title: Fables of Aesop, and Others: Translated Into English. with Instructive Applications: and a Print before Each Fable. Description: London, 1809, EIGHTEENTH EDITION, Full Calf Leather, By Samuel Croxall, D. D, Late Archdeacon Of Hereford. The Eighteenth Edition. Carefully Revised And Improved. London: Printed For J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, F. C. And J. Rivington, G. Robinson, J. Walker, Cuthell And Martin, Scatcherd And Letterman, Vernor, Hood And Sharpe, G. Wilkie And J. Robinson, B. Jeffery, C. Law, J. Richardson, Longman, Rees And Orme, Cadell And Davis, B. Crosby And Co. W. Ginger, J. Mawman, J. Harris, And Mathews And Leigh. 1809; 8vo; 329, + index pages Item No: A- 278 Price: $ 75.00 Author: Cruden, Alexander. (1701-1770) & Allen, John Rev. Title: The Complete Family Bible: Or, a Spiritual Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in its Contents, and the Sacred Text Inserted At Large, with Notes, Spiritual, Practical, and Explanatory. In Which is Given a Key to Every Book and Psalm, Informing the Reader by Whom They Were Written, the Time When, and the Design Thereof. ... in Two Volumes, Ornamented with Cuts.... Description: London, 1769, FIRST & ONLY EDITION, Full Calf Leather, The Beauties of the Original are observed, where needful. Dark Passages are explained, Seeming Contradictions are set in a clear Light, and the Various Readings of the English Translations are given. The Travels of the Children of Israel , the Distance of each Journey, together with the Types and Shadows under the Levitical Law, are explained, and the Spiritual Meaning, Import, and Design of the Old and New Testament are pointed out. Illustrated with Practical Observations: And the Parallel Texts of Scripture, in the Manner of Mr. Canne's References, with the Significations of the principal Hebrew Names of Persons and Places, are inserted in the Margin. By the Reverend Mr. Cruden, And the Reverend Mr. John Allen, Author of the Spiritual Magazine. In Two Volumes, ornamented with Cuts. Volume the First and Second. London: Printed for J. Bell, (Successor to Mr. Bathoe) near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; C. Etherington, J. Todd and H. Sotheran, and D. Peck, in York; A. Smith, in Halifax; J. Binns, in Leeds; and sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. MDCCLXIX. - Extremely RARE - Only ONE other copy appears at Cambridge University Queen's College. - REFERENCE: ESTCN67411; Folio; 2v.([2240]pp.), Plates pages Item No: A- 87 Price: $ 1200.00 Author: Cypriani - Cyprian - Cyprianus Saint (Carthage Bishop) ( John Fell, editor ) (John Pearson) Title: Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera Recognita & Illustrata Per Joannem Oxoniensem Episcopum. Accedunt Annales Cyprianici, Sive Tredecim Annorum, Quibus S. Cyprianus Inter Christianos Versatus Est, Brevis Historia Chronologice Delineata Per Joannem Cestriensem. Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno 1682. - FIRST EDITION of FELL’S CYPRIAN. Description: Oxford, 1682, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, Contemporary calf binding soundly bound with six raised bands on spine. Engraved frontispiece of the Cyprian's beheading by Sonmans & Burghers; large Sheldonian Vignette on Titlepage, and woodcut head and tailpieces throughout. (The engraver, Michael Burghers, who created the frontispiece was the official engraver to the University of Oxford. He had a long career illustrating books and almanacs as well as doing portraits). Early brown ink signature inscription of "John Wotton 1682" on front endpaper. Internally, the leaves are clean and crisp having [10], 14, [56], 72, 244, 240, 40, 110, 72 pages. Overall, quite good condition. - FIRST EDITION OF FELL’S CYPRIAN. - John Fell’s (Joannem Oxoniensem) (1625-1686) greatest editorial undertaking fulfilled a project dear to his heart when, in 1682, he published this large folio from an extensive and long study of Cyprian, whose stand against Rome and special theory of the early Catholic church (ca. 30-600) episcopate gave him a unique appeal to Anglicans. This large folio comprises all of the saint's writings, copiously annotated by Fell, numerous Indices, the Life of Cyprian (Vita S. Caecilii Cypriani), and Annales Cyprianici, which was compiled by the greatest English patristic scholar of the age, John Pearson (Joannem Cestriensem) (1613-1686). - Saint Cyprianus was a 3rd century bishop of Carthage whose writings are important to early Christian history. - REFERENCE: Wing. C.7711. Morison, John Fell, 54. Barker, 101A . Carter, I, pp.113-116. ; Folio Item No: A- 5 Price: $ 750.00 Author: D. B. Title: The Honourable State of Matrimony Made Comfortable, or an Antidote Against Discord Betwixt Man and Wife: Being Special Directions for the Procuring and Preserving of Family Peace. Description: London, 1685, FIRST EDITION, Full Calf Leather, London : printed for Francis Pearse at the Blew-Anchor at the west end of St. Pauls, 1685. "To the reader" signed: D. B. ; "The preface" signed: J. R. Many errors in pagination following signature H. - REFERENCES: Wing H2601; ESTCR215302. - Extremely Rare early work on matrimony. ; 12mo; [24], 243 pages Item No: A- 1261 Price: $ 750.00 Author: D'Ablaing Van Giessenburg, Rudolf Charles Title: Curiositeiten Van Allerlei Aard. No.10. --- Flaters in En over Boeken. Description: Amsterdam, R. C. Meijer, 1874, Softcover, Quite good condition in original softcover binding. ; 12mo; 48 pages Item No: A- 1177 Price: $ 10.00 Author: D'Ablaing Van Giessenburg, Rudolf Charles Title: Curiositeiten Van Allerlei Aard. No. 6-7;18-19;10;12-13;14; 21. Description: Amsterdam, R. C. Meijer, 1873 (Dec. 1), Softcover, Quite good condition in original softcover binding. ; 12mo; 48, catalog pages Item No: A- 1178 Price: $ 20.00 Author: Danvers, John. Title: Historical Description of the Royal Progresse, Wonderful Travels, Miraculous Escapes, and Strange Accidents of His Sacred Majesty Charles the II, Third Monarch of Great Britain. Description: 1660-61, Full Calf Leather, Wherein is observable, and worth publick view, I. His Majesties strange and wonderful escape from Worcester fight, the disrobing of himself of his princely ornaments, the casting away his chain of gold, and cutting of his precious hair and curled locks, by the Lord Wilmot for a disguise. II. The persuing of his royal person by Oliver Cromwell and his blood-hounds; and the manner how his Majesty escaped, making a hollow oake his royal pallace, within four miles of Woolverhampton. III. The memorable tragedy of Mrs. Jane Lane, and his Majesty, his riding before her to make an escape, and his going in a livery cloak by the name of William , servant to Mr. Lastel her father in law. IIII. The discourse betwixt his Majesty and the cook-maid at the three Crowns in Bristol; her several questions, ... VVith the Kings answer, and the remarkable passages, that happened in the kitchin, upon the maids imploying the King to winde up the jack. By John Danverd [sic] a loyal subject and servant to His Majesty. London : printed for G. Horton, living near the three Crowns in Barbican, 1660. - Includes numerous Poems and Acrosticks to be updated. ; 8vo; 106 pages Item No: A- 1153 Price: $ 750.00 Author: Deman, E. (Libraire Expert) & Grosemans, L. (Notarie) Title: Catalogue Des LIVRES Anciens Et Modernes Dessins Et Estampes Provenant Des Collections De Feu MM. G. De Molinari, , Et Fernand Popelin, Et De M. E. De Vigne Description: Bruxelles, 1913, Catalog, Auction in two parts offering 771 titles from the Libraries of Molinari, the Correspondant de l'Institut of France, Directeur du Journal of Economistes; the Library of Popelin, Docteur en Medecine; and the Library of DeVigne, Architecte. - Includes numerous full page photographed plates ; 4to; 96 pages Item No: A- 1255 Price: $ 50.00 Author: Desfontaines, Pierre François Guyot, L'Abbe. (1685-1745) - (Swift, Jonathan) Title: Le Nouveau Gulliver, Ou Voyage De Jean Gulliver, Fils Du Captaine Gulliver. Traduit D'Un Manuscript Anglois. Par L' Abbe Des Fontaines. (Four Volumes) Description: Paris, 1795, Full Calf Leather, A Paris: Chez S. B. G. Musier, Librarie, rue Pavee-des-Arcs, No. 8. - Four full page frontispieces with a number of engraved woodcuts throughout. Gilt designs on spine and boards with marbled endpapers. Internally, the leaves are clean and crisp. [xiv, 113,3; 143,3; 127,2; 3,124 pages]- Le Nouveau Gulliver was an unauthorized sequel to Swift's Gulliver's Travels, written by Swift's French translator and detailing the adventures of Gulliver's son Jean. - Quite Rare. ; 12mo Item No: A- 1273 Price: $ 500.00