Volume 1

Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana. A catalogue of the elegant and truly valuable library of John Ratcliffe ... deceased, the whole collected ... during the last thirty years of his life ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, the Royal Academy, Pall-Mall, on Wednesday, March 27, and the eight following evenings. (Good Friday and Sunday excepted) ... / [John Ratcliffe].

  • Ratcliffe, John, -1776.
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[1776]
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Credit: Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana. A catalogue of the elegant and truly valuable library of John Ratcliffe ... deceased, the whole collected ... during the last thirty years of his life ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, the Royal Academy, Pall-Mall, on Wednesday, March 27, and the eight following evenings. (Good Friday and Sunday excepted) ... / [John Ratcliffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /( . —^8^ — ^-is /- if. -86 The life of Henry We by, Eiq; who lived at his hoafe^ in Grub-hreet 44 years, and in that fpace vyas never feen by any, aged 84 (with his portrait) very fcarce^ ^ 1637 Kilburn’s furvey of Kent ,, 163^ curious trails; viz. Afcham’s fchole’of {hooting, bl.l; Digbies’ art of iwimming, by Middleton, cuts, bl. 1. ic;9^, a bpoke of fi[hinge with hooke and ]yne, cuts; bl. 1, {600, the arte of planting and graftinge, Bl. I. ctitS(.i589, .silver’s paradoxes of defence, cuts 1599, Browne’s ,arte of riding the Great horfe, cuts 162.8, Cooke’s perfpeflive glaiTe of warre; 1628, Neade’s double-armed man, {hewing the ule of th^ long bowe and fpike, cuts 1625 Sir John Davies’s poems^ 1603, Alexis’s fecretes, by Warde; bl. 1. London, printed by Hall -,T- ^ 37 S8 y. }>9 9° .2. 0 9' ..-5. 6 93 . 94 y^. <?95 ■4-- ^6 697 k - ^ 98 protraidlures of the kings of England,- 1597, lyfe of the bleffed martyr St. Thomas, bl. 1. the boke of the lyfe and deth of Virgiiius, bl. I. cronicle of warre of Saluile, by Thonas Paynell, bl. L 1557, and t more . , Goodman/s penitent pardon’d, cuts; and ii more holy Bible, imperfedl, and 11 more colledion of mifcellaneous trads, 8 v. Darcie’s annals of Queen Elizabeth, 1625, h ill or y of firll fourteen years of James I, and 2 more Bacon’s letters, by Stephens, and 3 more the holy Bible, bh let. 1586, and 6 more (^4^ Frynne’s players fcourge, 16^4, killing no murder. Alien, and one more Story’s hiflory ot the Wars of Ireland, 1693, Hackluyt’s' 4. hittory of the Weft-Indies, by Lok; and 3 more Harcourt’s relation of a voyage to Guiana, 1613; Poyntz’s profpefl of Tobago, 1683, Plantaganet’^ description of New Albion, &c. 1648, andtwomord Camus’s admirable events, 1639, ^ more Norrhbrooke’s treatife of dicing, dancing, plaies, idle paftimes, &c, imp. by Dawfon, bl. 1. ^S19* more Saimder’s fupper of our Lord, bb 1. Lovanii, 1566; and 3 mor@ /