ALMANACKS-continued.

36 THE GENTLEMEN'S AND CITIZEN'S ALMANACK, Compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1788. Being Leap-Year, And the Twenty-eighth year of K. George III.

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Fine specimen of contemporary Irish binding, crimson morocco with a diamond-shaped centre panel of white leather on both upper and lower cover, the whole adorned with gold, tooling of floral sprays introducing the shamrock, dots, circular lines, stars, etc., gilt edges.

Adorn'd with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy.

With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads, and Tables for many necessary Uses.

12mo. Fine copy in contemporary crimson morocco, the sides covered with gold floral tooling, g.e.

London, Printed for H. Woodfall, 1765.

38 AMADIS OF GAUL. THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE MOST PLEASANT AND DELECTABLE HISTORY OF AMADIS DE GAULE.

Containing the first part of the most strange, valiant and worthy Acts of Esplandian Son to Amadis de Gaule, As his strange Sayling in the Great Serpent, the Winning of his Sword, the Conquest of the Castle of the Defended Mountain, etc. (translated by T. Johnson).

BLACK LETTER. First English Translation.

Small 4to. Bound by Bedford in full crimson morocco extra, g.e. London, 1664.

39 AMERICA. BLACKWELL (Thomas). FORMA SACRA, or, a Sacred Platform of Natural and Revealed Religion; To which is now added, An Introduction. Pointing out, the Expediency, Propriety and Utility of Reprinting said Book in this our Day, when pure and undefiled Religion appears to be so much on the decline among Professors of all Denominations in this flourishing American World. By Simon Williams, A.M.

Small 8vo. Old calf (rebacked).

Boston, Printed by William M'Alpine, 1774.

£5 5s

A Full and Faithful Report of the Debates in Both Houses of Parliament on Monday the 17th of February, and Friday the 21st of February, 1783, on the Articles of Peace.

The Debate in both Houses on the Articles of Peace with France and Spain, and the Provisional Articles with America; reporting fully on the speeches of William Pitt, Charles James Fox, Lord North and others. On February 21st, Pitt spoke against the coalition for two hours and three-quarters with unequalled power. It was one of his most successful efforts, and North in reply referred to his "amazing eloquence."

41 AMES (Richard). Academy; a poem.

ISLINGTON WELLS; or, the Threepenny

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Half red morocco, edges uncut.

London, 1691.

One of the earliest books on the famous Islington Wells.

£5 15s

42 APULEIUS. THE XI. BOOKES OF THE GOLDEN ASSE: Containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, interlaced with sundry pleasant delectable Tales: With an excellent Narration of the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, set out in the fourth, fifth and sixth Bookes. Translated out of Latine into English, by William Adlington.

Fine Copy in 18th Century

BLACK LETTER. Small 4to.
crimson morocco gilt, g. e. London, 1639.

£36

Adlington's translation of APULEIUS was frequently used by Shakespeare, especially in Macbeth.

43 ARCHITECTURE. LANGLEY (Batty) and LANGLEY (Thomas). ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, RESTORED, AND IMPROVED, by a Great Variety of Grand and usefull Designs, Entirely New in the Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens. Exquisitely engraved on 64 large quarto Copper Plates and printed on Superfine Royal Paper.

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4to. Original rough sheepskin. London, 1742. £1 IOS

PALLADIO (Andrea). THE FIRST BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE by Andrea Palladio translated out of the Italian with diverse designs necessary to the art of well building by Godfrey Richards. With an Appendix touching Doors and Windows, by Pr. Le Muet, Architect to the French King.

Engraved title by John Chantry and numerous plates, including an engraving of the new St. Paul's Cathedral then being erected.

The Third Editon Corrected and Enlarged.
Small 4to. Old calf.

London, Printed for N. Simmons, 1676.

£2 155

LARGE PAPER COPY.

45 ARIOSTO. ORLANDO FURIOSO.

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In English Heroical Verse by Sr John Harington, of Bathe, Knight, now thirdly revised & amended, with the addition of the Author's Epigrams.

Engraved title, with medallion portraits, and full-page engravings in the text.

LARGE PAPER COPY. Folio. Calf.

London, Printed by G. Miller. 1634.

£15 15s

The translator, Sir John Harington, was godson of Queen Elizabeth. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, but not to much purpose, for his reputation as a wit and a man of the world was soon established, and he looked to court favour rather than the exercise of a profession. About 1584 he married Mary, daughter of Sir George Rogers of Cannington in Somerset, but marriage does not seem to have sobered his exuberant spirits His epigrams began to pass current, and he enlivened the court by his sallies, which were not always adapted to a fastidious taste. Among other things, he translated for the amusement of the ladies of the court the story of Giocondo, from the twenty-eighth book of Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," and his translation was handed about in manuscript till it fell into the hands of the queen. She reprimanded Harington for corrupting the morals of her ladies by translating the least seemly part of Ariosto's work, and ordered him as a punishment to leave the court for his country house till he had made a translation of the whole. To this we owe the translation of the "Orlando Furioso," which was first published in folio in 1591, and reissued in 1607 and 1634. It is written in the same stanza as the original, and is easy and flowing. It is rather a paraphrase than a translation. As a preface to it Harington wrote "An Apologie of Poetrie," an essay in criticism which resembles Sir Philip Sidney's treatise of the same name. The most remarkable part of it is that concerned with his use of metre, especially his defence of two-syllabled and three-syllabled rhymes. (D.N.B.).

SEVEN PLANETS GOVERNING ITALIE, or His Satyrs in seven Famous discourses, shewing the estate 1. Of the Court and Courtiers. 2. Of Libertie and the Clergy in general. 3. Of the Romane Clergie. 4. Of Marriage. 5. Of Soldiers, Musitians, and Lovers. 6. Of Schoolemasters and Schollers. Honour, and the happiest life. In verse.

7. Of Newly Corrected and Augmented, with many excellent and noteworthy Notes, together with a new Addition of three most

ARIOSTO SEVEN PLANETS GOVERNING ITALIE-continued.

excellent Elegies, written by the same Lodovico Ariosto, the effect whereof is contained in the Argument.

Small 4to. Red morocco, g.e.

London, Printed by William Stansby for Roger Jackson, £25

1611.

Erroneously ascribed by the publisher to Gervase Markham, but in reality the work of Robert Tofte, poet and translator.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURLEIGH. 47 ARISTOTLE. OPUSCULA. (In Greek.)

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4to. Frankfort, 1584.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE CELEBRATED WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURLEIGH.

Bound in contemporary calf, with Lord Burleigh's Arms stamped in blind in centre of each cover.

£15 15s

William Cecil, Lord Burleigh (1520-1598), was the guardian of Shakespeare's friend and patron, the Earl of Southampton.

POLITIQUES, or DISCOURSES OF GOVERNMENT.

Trans

lated out of Greeke into French, with Expositions taken out of
the best Authours, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of
Plato, etc. By Loys le Roys, called Regius.

Translated out of French into English (by I. D.).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH.

Folio. Contemporary vellum binding.
London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1598.

A VERY INTERESTING COPY-At the beginning and end have been bound in a number of blank leaves, which have been partly used for comments and references to the text. There are besides many marginal notes in ink throughout the volume by the same hand.

ARISTOTLE is a work which Shakespeare is known to have consulted, as he makes reference to the classic in "Troilus and Cressida " where he wrote of " young men whom Aristotle thought unfit to hear moral philosophy."