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![a Poem. London, J. Morphew, 1710 . 12s 6d ea 4to. 8 pp. Unbound. Possibly lacks half- title. An attack on seven of the Bishops: Salisbury, Ely, pepo opely Oxford, Worcester, Norwich, & St. saph. Ward, A.M., Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, Extending from 1648 to 1679. From the Original MSS. Preserved in the Library of the Medical Society of London. Arranged by Charles Severn, M.D. London, Henry Colburn, 1839 £2; ‘10s 8vo. 315 pp. Buckram. Famous for its allusion to the death of Shakespeare, & useful for the editor’s introductory matter. Sir D’Arcy Power’s copy, with presentation inscrip- tion from Sir William Osler: D’Arcy Power from Wm. Osler. Xmas, 1905. Sir D’Arcy Power wrote at least twice on Ward: (1) Med. Soc. of London Presidential Address, 1917, and (2) Med. Soc. of Shakespeare. Authorized Copyright Eng- lish Translation by A. Baillot. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1864 8s 6d 366 pp., 1 leaf. Original cloth. 3 speare and the Supernatural: A Brief Study of Folklore, Superstition, and Witch- craft, in ‘ Macbeth,’ ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Tempest.’ With a Bibliography of the Subject by William Jaggard. Liverpool, at the Shakespeare Press, Jaggard & Company, 1906 6s 8vo. 38 pp. Original cloth. Author’s inscription on fly-leaf and title-page. 3 Sheafe (T.) Vindiciae Senectutis, or, A Plea for Old-Age: which is Senis cujusdam Cygnea Cantio. By T. 8., D.D. London, Printed by George Miller, and are to be Sold by Joshua Kirton and Thomas Warren, 1639 £1 10s Sm. 8vo. 210 pp., 5: leaves. Calf, rebacked. Like the B.M. copy, lacks Sign. A2 (probably cancelled). The B.M. copy lacks also last 3 leaves, which are present here. A small strip cut from margin of title, slightly affecting woodcut border. S.T.C. 22392. A rare book: only 2 copies recorded in England & 1 in America. The Author, who wrote this book when he was 80, appears to have been a tutor at King’s College, Cam- bridge, & he dedicates it to Lawrence Chaderton, then nearly 100, who had been first Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It has an introduction by William Gouge, the well- known puritan divine, who had been a pupil of both Sheafe and Chaderton. __ 94 [Shelley]. — The Shelley Papers. Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by T. Medwin, Esq., and Original Poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now first Collected. London, Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1833 £1 10s Sm. 8vo. 180 pp., 2 leaves advertisements. Good copy in the original boards, new paper back. ‘ Uncut, of the Right Honourable, with a Memoir _by James P. Browne, M.D., Containing 35 Extracts from the Life by Thomas Moore, London, Bickers and Son, 1873 10s 6d 8vo. 2 vols. Quarter roan. Portrait. 396 [Slave Trade]. — Thoughts upon the African Slave-Trade, by John Newton, Rector, of St. Mary Woolnoth, who was for Several Years in the Trade, and was for some Time a Captive among the Africans. The Third Edition. London, Printed—Edin- ‘burgh, Reprinted, 1788 6s 12mo. 24 pp. Recent half calf. It was about the years 1745-47, that Newton was en- gaged in the slave-trade. It was in 1767, when he was curate of Olney, that he first met Cowper. 13 3 miah, M.D., Knt., Inspector-G. of Health to his Majesty’s Land Forces) Suggestions on the Slave Trade, for the Consideration of the Legislature of Great Britain. London, John Stockdale, 1797 12s 6d 8vo. 62 pp. Quarter cloth. Folding map of the Coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Lopez. A very interesting plea for the improvement of hygienic conditions, especially during the period of pregnancy of the women slaves, & for more humane methods of sea transportation. 98 Smedley (Edward) Prescience: or, The Secrets of Divination: a Poem. In Two Parts. London, John Murray, 1816 ' 10s Sm. 8vo. 138 pp. Recent half calf. The Author was a clergyman, & from its seventh part was editor of the ‘‘ Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.’’ The poem has some interesting prose notes on the subject of Divination, & the book has as its introduc- tion a 3 page passage from Bacon. The 99 [Smeeton’s Reprints]. King’s Maiesties Declaration to his Subjects con- cerning LawfulSports. Ill pp. 1618 (1817). —Cotton (Sir Robert) A Short View of the Long Life & Reign of Henry the Third. 21 pp. 1627 (1820).—No Jest like a true Jest : Being a Compendious Record of . . . Capt. James Hind. 1674 (1815).—Second Captain Hind: or the Notorious Life and Actions of . . . Captain John Simpson. N.p. (1817) —Clark (Samuel) The Fatal Vespers. 13 pp. 1657 (1817).—Remarks on the Life and Death of the Fam’d Mr. Blood. 34 pp. 1680 (1817).—An Historical and Critical Account of Hugh Peters. 41 pp. 1751 (1818).—The Life and Death of Anne Bullen. 50. pp. 1820. London, G. Smeeton, 1815-20 18s The 8 in 1 vol. Sm. 4to. Half morocco. Some portraits and woodcuts. \ 400 Smith (Adam) Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To which is Prefixed, An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E. London, T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1795 £2 10s 4to. 244 pp. Calf, rebacked. First Edition. dresses. Eighteenth Edition, Carefully Re- vised, with an Original Preface. and Notes by the Authors. London, John Murray, 1833 15s Sm. 8vo. xxxi,170 pp. Diced calf, rebacked. Fine tinted portrait of the author’s, and woodcuts by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3315594x_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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