42 ALMANACKS. BRETNOR (1615). A NEWE ALMANACKE and Prognostication for the yeare of our Lord God, 1615. Being the thirde after Leap yeare.

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Calculated and composed according to Act for the latitude and Meridian of the honourable City of London, and may well serue all the South parts of Great-Britaine. By Thomas Bretnor, Professor of the Mathematicks and Student in Physicke in Cowlane, London.

Small 8vo. BLACK LETTER. Title within woodcut border in red and black; full calf.

(London, 1615.)

£88s

A very rare and most interesting Almanack. For each month is given a four-
line verse.
June has:

"Now hunt the Hare, the fearefull Buck pursue
Bid idlenesse and Venus sports adieu:
The careful Husband that intends to thriue,
Will like the Bee bring hony to the hiue."

Opposite the Calendar for each Month a blank space has been left for Notes.
In some cases these are filled up by a contemporary owner.

A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN EARLY AND VERY RARE
ASTROLOGICAL ALMANACKS FOR THE YEARS 1613-1629.
Bound together. Thick small 8vo. Old calf. £12 125

The above Almanacks (one or two of the later ones slightly imperfect) include those published by Thomas Bretnor 1618-19; Daniel Browne 1621-22, 1624; and by Richard Allestree 1623, 1625-29. Several of these Almanacks have verses heading each month, e.g., May, 1619:

"Be bold to use such physicall intentions.

As are prescrib'd by Artists true inventions :
But loath Impostors and Quacksalving knaves,
That bring the soundest men t'untimely graves."
"Now Jove and Venus, Sol and Saturne, is
At unity, and as it were inblisse:

Yet often under colour of accord,

Is hatred hatcht and rancor often stored."

A COLLECTION OF EIGHTEEN RARE ASTROLOGICAL

ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1648.

Containing Almanacks issued under the names of Lelborn, Lilly, Wharton, Swallow, Staynred, White, Neve, Vaux, Booker, Wing, Dove, Parkhurst, Pond, Nye, Langley, Chamberlaine, Woodhouse; and the Scripture Almanack.

Containing amongst others, rare almanacks issued under the names of Booker,
Wharton, Pond, Dove, Wing, Allestree, Harflete, Leybourn, Swallow, Dade, White,
Daniel, Rowley, Shakerley, etc.

A COLLECTION OF SEVENTEEN RARE ASTROLOGICAL
ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1652.

Including almanacks issued by Culpeper, Smith, Crooke, Vaux, Saunders,
Hewit, White, Pond, Dove, Dade, Neve, and others.

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A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN

RARE ASTROLOGICAL

ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1678.

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Bound in I vol. Small 8vo.
morocco gilt. London, 1678.

Full contemporary red
£10 IOS

Besides the Almanacks issued under the names of Lilly, Partridge, Andrews,
Gadbury, Dove, White, Fly, Rose, and others, there is the following very curious
Quaker Almanack: :-

A Yea and Nay Almanack for the people called by the men of the World
Quakers, with curious Verses, and the Quaker Catechism at the end.

GALLEN (Thomas). GALLEN, 1658. A NEW ALMANACK
FOR THE SAID YEAR. Containing the Lunations, Eclipses, Aspects
of the Planets, and daily disposition of the Aire, etc.

12mo. Original calf (rebacked).

London: Printed by J. F. for the Company of Stationers,

1658.

£225

ALMANACKS

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continued.

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.

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.

Small 8vo. Dublin, 1788.

£10 108

THE SHEPHERD'S KALENDER: or, the Citizens &
Country Man's Daily Companion: Treating of many Things
that are useful and Profitable to man-kind, with above Two
Hundred wonderful Curiosities, never before Published.

With curious woodcut frontispiece, and numerous crude
woodcuts in the text.

The Second Edition, with Additions. 12mo. Half morocco.
Printed by C. A. Mulbourn for Tho. Norri sat the Looking
Glass on London-Bridge. C. 1706.

£2 108
A very curious and rare Almanack, giving a fund of quaint and interesting
information. Treating of Astrology, Astronomy, the care of cattle, medical pre-
scriptions, bees, hawking, etc.

51 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 flourish-
ing American World. By Simon Williams, A.M.
Small 8vo. Old calf (rebacked).
Boston, Printed by William M'Alpine, 1774.

£5 5s

AMERICA-Continued.

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WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. 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 66 amazing eloquence.”

53 AMHURST (N.). A FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM TUNBRIDGEWELLS TO A GENTLEMAN AT OXFORD.

FIRST EDITION. 10 pp. Folio. Unbound.
London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1720.

£3 155

FOR

54 ANABAPTISTS. GERY (Thomas). A MIRROUR ANABAPTISTS, In three Rational Discourses that may put the Blush upon them, viz. 1. Paedobaptism Defended and Justified. 2. Anabaptism plainly Confuted. 3. Some valid and suasory Reasons to draw them from the Error of their way, to re-embrace the Truth which they have deserted, and to return to the Church of God from which they have departed.

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. Unbound, sewn as issued.
London: Printed for Nath. Webb and W. Grantham, 1660.

£5 5s

With prefatory epistle by Thomas Pestell, sometime Vicar of Packington, Leicestershire, and one of the lesser poets of the early seventeenth century. Thomas Gery was the Rector of Barwell, Leicestershire.

55 ANGELUS (Christopher). CHRISTOPHER ANGELl, a Grecian, who tasted of many stripes and torments inflicted by the Turkes for the faith which he had in Christ Jesus.

With extremely crude and curious woodcuts.
Small 4to. Original rough sheepskin.

Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield, and James Short,
Printers to the famous Universitie, 1618.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. 1).

Bound together with other pieces by Christopher Angelus, notably :-
(1) The Greek edition of the above work. FIRST EDITION. Oxford, John Lich-
field, and William Wrench, 1617.

(2) An Encomion of the famous Kingdome of Great Britaine, and of the two
flourishing Sister-Universities, Cambridge and Oxford. In English and
Greek on opposite pages. FIRST EDITION. Cambridge: Printed by
Cantrel Legge, Printer to the famous Universitie, 1619.

(3) Enchiridion De Institutis Graecorum. FIRST EDITION. Ex officina Cantrelli Legge, Academiae Cantagrigiensis Typographi, 1619.

(4) The Greek edition of the preceeding piece. Ex officina Cantrelli Legge, Academiae Cantabrigiensis Typographi, 1619.

Bound in at the front of the volume is a single folded leaf, containing certificates of Christopher Angel's good character from various persons.

Angel was a native of the Peloponnesus, who was persecuted by the Turkish governor of Athens. Having been released from prison at the request of some of the archonti, he sailed in an English ship for Yarmouth in 1608. The clergy of Norwich received him hospitably, and he was sent by the Bishop to Trinity College. Cambridge. He moved, for the sake of his health, to Oxford, in 1610, where he studied at Balliol, read Greek with the younger students, and died 1 Feb., 1638, leaving the character of "a pure Greek and an honest and harmless man."

ANNE (Queen of Great Britain), 1665-1714.

56 ALBINA, THE SECOND PART. Or, The Coronation. A Poem on Her Present Majesty's Happy Accession to the Crown. By the Author of Albina: or A Poem on the Death of King William the Third.

FIRST EDITION.

12 pp. Folio. Half morocco.

London: Printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing-Cross, 1702.

£4 IOS