ARISTOTLE continued. 49 POLITIQUES, or Discourses of Government. Translated out of Greek into French. Translated out of French into English (by I. D.). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1598. GRIMALDUS (Laurentius). THE COUNSELLOR. Exactly pourtraited in two Bookes. Wherein the offices of Magistrates, the happie life of Subiectes, and the felicitie of Common-weales is pleasantly and pithilie discoursed. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. London, Imprinted by Richard Bradocke, 1598. The two works bound together. Folio. Old calf. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. IV.) £65 "The Counsellor is a very important work, as it is supposed to have influenced Shakespeare when re-writing portions of the second 4to of "Hamlet." Whole passages seem to have been incorporated in the play. Th last copy which we can trace as being sold by auction realized 850 dollars in 1921. 50 ARMIN (Robert). THE VALIANT WELSHMAN, or the True Chronicle History of the Life and Valiant Deeds of Caradoc the Great King of Cambria now called Wales. As it hath been sundry times acted by the Prince of Wales his Servants. Woodcut frontispiece. Small 4to. Bound by Riviere in full polished calf gilt, g. e. London, 1663. £31 IOS The Frontispiece appears for the First time in this the Second Edition. 66 THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF THE NUT-BROWN MAID." 51 ARNOLD (Richard). [CHRONICLE.] In this Booke is con 5IA teyned the Names of ye Baylifs, Custos, Mairs, and Sherefs of the Cite of Londo, from the Tyme of Kinge Richard the Furst; and also th' Artycles of the Chartur and Libarties of the same Cyte; and of the Chartur and Liberties off England, wyth odur dyvers mats good and necessary for every Citeze to understond and knowe. BLACK LETTER. Double columns. FIRST EDITION. Wants the three preliminary leaves and A8 and B1. £25 This interesting and rare work has been called "The Customes of London " the other, and more common title, "Arnold's Chronicle," was first bestowed on it by Thomas Heare, and afterwards generally adopted. It is an extraordinary medley of information, consisting of a list of the Mayors and other officers; of charters, municipal regulations, assizes of bread, legal and mercantile forms of documents, family and other receipts, with some historical matters; the whole being_adapted to the particular and more immediate use of the citizens of London. Its most interesting feature is its introduction of the "Ballade of ye Nottebrowne Mayde,' which occurs, without explanation, between an account of the tolls payable by English merchants sending merchandise to Antwerp, and a statement of the differences between English and Flemish currencies. No earlier version of the ballad is known, and according to Capel, Warton, Douce, and Collier, it is probable that it had been composed only a few years before Arnold transcribed and printed it. Its authorship is unknown; but Douce assumes, on_very just grounds, that it was translated from an old German ballad by some Englishmen whom Arnold met at Antwerp. With the "sancti albani" stamp on last page. THE NUT-BROWN MAID." [CHRONICLE.] In this boke is conteined ye names of the baylyfs, Custose, Mayers and Sherefs of ye Cyte of london from the tyme of kynge Richard the fyrst and also the artycles of ye Chartour and lybartyes of the same Cyte. And of the chartour and lybartyes of England with other dyvers maters good and necessary for every cytezen to understand and knowe.' (Continued over) ARNOLD (Richard): [CHRONICLE]-continued. BLACK LETTER. Double columns. Small folio. Full brown morocco, tooled in blind and gilt, g. e. by Ramage. [Southwark, P. Treveris, 1521.] £36 This, the second edition of "Arnold's Chronicle," continues the list of Sheriffs, etc., down to 12 Henry VIII. (1521), while the first edition only goes as far as 18 Henry VII. Apparently it is executed with English types and there is little doubt that it came from the press of Peter Treveris, the first printer to set up a press in Southwark. It also includes the ballad of "The Nut-brown Maid," ́altered materially from that appearing in the first edition of 1503. The last leaf facsimiled from the first edition. 52 ASCHAM (Roger). THE SCHOLEMASTER; or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to understand, write, and speake, the Latin tong. 53 London, Printed by John Daye, 1571. A REPORT AND DISCOURSE, written by Roger Ascham, of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles, his court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there. BLACK LETTER. London, Printed by John Daye, N.D. Small 4to. The two works bound together, original calf. £9 98 TOXOPHILUS, The Schoole, or partitions of Shooting contayned in two bookes, Written by Roger Ascham And now newly perused. Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen and Yomen of England for their pastime to reade, and profitable for their use to follow both in Warre and peace. BLACK LETTER. Woodcut border to title. Small 4to. Newly bound in full calf gilt, g. e. 66 £18 185 Cited by Douce in his "Illustrations" of King Lear, and by Wright in his editions of "As You Like It" and "King Lear." Consult, too, Drake's "Shakespeare and his Times," Vol. II., p. 181. A portion is reprinted in Capell's "School of Shakespeare." Capell's "Catalogue of Shakespeariana," No. 15." 54 ASHMOLE (E.). THE INSTITUTION, LAWS AND CEREMONIES OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. 55 A work furnished with variety of matter relating to Honour and Noblesse. With portrait, double-paged plates, and Coats of Arms. Fine copy bound by Clarke & Bedford in full dark blue morocco extra, full gilt back, g. e. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THAT LEARNED ANTIQUARY, ELIAS ASHMOLE, Esq.; Drawn up by himself by way of Diary. With an Appendix of original Letters. Publish'd by Charles Burman, Esq. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. Original calf. London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1717. Elias Ashmole has been described as "the greatest virtuoso and curioso that ever was known or read of in England before his time." His memoirs are a quaint and curious record, narrating matters of great personal importance to him in the same dry style as the most trivial particulars of his numerous ailments: how he cured himself of an ague by hanging three spiders about his neck, and how on the ever-memorable 14 Feb. 1677 "I took cold in my right ear." 56 ASTELL (Mary). AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF THE FEMALE SEX. In a Letter to a Lady: Written by a Lady. With engraved frontispiece of THE Compleat Beau. Contemporary calf. London, Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696. On page 47 we read: £6 6s "English Books the best helps to Conversation," and on page 48 occurs the following Shakespearean reference: "Where is Love, Honour and Bravery more lively represented than in our Tragedies, who has given us nobler, or juster Pictures of Nature than Mr. Shakespeare?' 57 ASTROLOGY, ASTRONOMY, ALCHEMY, Etc. 58 59 BION (Nicolas). THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRINCIPAL Uses of MatheMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. To which are added the Construction and Uses of such Instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented or improved by the English. With 30 large copper-plate engravings. Folio. Contemporary calf gilt. London, 1758. LI IOS Copy formerly in the possession of Sir George Shuckburgh, the celebrated mathematician, with his book-plate. BISHOP (John). THE MARROW OF ASTROLOGY. Wherein is contained the Natures of the Sines and Planets, etc. To which is prefix'd a Preface in Commendation of the Author and his Method, by Henry Coley. 1688. Small 4to. Old calf. London, Printed for William Fisher and Richard Mount, Dedicated to Robert Boyle. LI IOS F. (J., M.D.). A NEW LIGHT OF ALCHYMIE: Taken out of the fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience: To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur: Written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e., Anagrammatically, Divi Leschi Genus Amo. Also Nine Books of the Nature of Things, written by Paracelsus. Also a Chymicall Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure Authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J. F., M.D. Small 4to. Original calf. London, Printed by Richard Cotes, 1650. |