Sales catalogue 110: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/18
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 110: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 crushed morocco gilt. Old signature of ‘“‘ M. Pattenson ”’ on title-page, probably Matthew Patten- son, physician in ordinary to Charles I. Sn Gams a0y Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Kighteenth Centuries: To which are added Hearne’s Journeys .to Reading and _ to Whaddon Hall... and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey; Esq. The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum. London, Longman, Hurst (eéc.), 1813 - £1 10s 8vo. 3 vols. Half calf (joints weak). This, the first edition of Aubrey’s Brief Lives, edited by Dr. Philip Bliss & the Rev. John Walker, though not so full as Clark’s edition of 1898, is still the pleasanter for desultory reading. Aubrey could write nothing to which he did not impart his own charm and graces, & here the whole Royal Society age moves before us, as well as many earlier figures who lived just before Aubrey’s own time. It oc- curred to nobody but Aubrey to tell us so much of the personal aspect & habits of Milton, Hobbes, Harvey, Bacon, & Sir Kenelm Digby. While of Shakespeare his brief notes tell us much of the little we know. EKs- quire) Devotionis Augustinianae Flamma, or, Certaine Devout, Godly, and Learned Me- ditations . . . set forth, after his Decease, Austin, as a Surviving Monument of some part of the ‘great worth of her ever-honoured Husband, who changed his life Jan. 16, 1633. London, Printed for J. L. and Ralph Mab, 1635 Pe otos Folio. 292 pp. Calf. Engraved title-page con- taining portrait of the author. Se Gis9 723433 William Austin was a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, & lived in Southwark, where his elaborate tomb, de- signed by himself, is to be seen in the Cathedral. He was a friend of James Howell, who rightly commends his verse in a letter, & of Edward Alleyn, the actor. This book contains a series of meditations on the festivals & seasons of the Church, but it is the charm- ing & characteristic poems which he adds to his prose which make the book worthy of being put near one’s row of Caroline poets. Here are also the Author’s own funeral sermon & Epicedium, both by himself. Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Newly Enlarged. Lon- don, Printed by John Haviland, 1632 £3 10s Sm. 4to. 340 pp., 20 leaves (last blank). With the _ leaf before title bearing woodcut sign. “A.” Calf, rebacked. S.T.G. 1150. Civill and Morall: of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. , With a Table of the Colours, or Apparances of Good and Evill, and their Degrees, as Places of Perswasion, and Disswasion, and their severall Fallaxes, and the Elenches of them. Newly enlarged. London, Printed by John Beale, 1639 £3 3s 340 pp., 22 leaves (last blank), Calf. Sir Gal 15)s Serious: and Humourous, by Mr. CABLE ADDRESS : Baker. Printed for the Author 1725 8vo. London, 87 pp. The Serious and Humorous. for the Author, 1726 8vo. 103 pp. 2 vols.in1. Calf. The second volume is rare, & is not mentioned in the: life of Baker in the D.N.B. The author is now chiefly remembered for his work : in connection with the microscope, & his collaboration : with Martin Folkes in the investigation of the Polypus. . He took an active part in the foundation of the Society ° of Arts, & acted as its secretary. In 1744 he was; awarded the Copley Medal. In addition to all his : scientific activity, he wrote verse; in his earlier’ years he had been interested (as was Defoe) in the: education of deaf mutes, & he married Defoe’s : ioe hter. 9 (Ballads). Evans (Thomas) Old Ballads, Coa} and Narrative, with Some of’ Modern Date; Now first Collected and. Second. Part of Original Poems: London, Printed £2108; Reprinted from Rare Copies. London, Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1777-84 £2 28 8vo. 4 vols. Calf, rebacked. First Edition of all four volumes. Vols. 1 & 2 came: out in 1777; 3 & 4in 1784. The point of the book : is indicated on the half-titles: ‘ none of which are: inserted in Dr. Percy’s collection.”? The British Museum does not possess the first edition of the first : two volumes. (Richard) Five Disputations of’ Church Government and Worship. Lon- don, Printed by R. W. for Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in Kederminster, 1659 £2. 28 Sm. 4to. 491 pp. Contemporary sheep. . Joints ; a little weak. An 8 pp. Dedicatory Letter to Richard Cromwell. Both covers bear the gilt crest and inonogram of ° William Douglas, third Earl and first Duke of Queens- - berry (1637-1695). See Davenport, ‘* English: Heraldic Book-Stamps,”’ p. 149. : 21 (Baxter). A Just and Seasonable Re- prehension of Naked Breasts and Shoulders. . Written by a grave and Learned Papist.. Translated by Edward Cooke, Esquire. With a Preface by Mr. Richard Baxter. London, Jonathan Edwin, 1678 £21085 Sm. 8vo. 150 pp., 4 leaves. Modern sheep. It would be interesting to know whether the grave: and learned papist and the grave and learned puritans who produced this book did not get a good deal of ! simple pleasure out of their good work. Eee London; Ackermann and Co., 1837. 10s | 8vo. 32 pp. Original cloth motakay 12 plates. . Published in the first year of the reign of Queen1 Victoria, these. verses on the sayings and doings of ° gentlemen and ladies, exhibit all the sentimental | qualities of Bayley’s fatal facility. of Extraordinary Painters. A New Edition. London, William Clarke, 1824 10s Tall 12mo. 150 pp., 1 leaf. Half calf (joints weak). . Frontispiece. of Spain and Portugal. By the Author of- ‘“ Vathek.’? London, Richard Bentley, 1834. £1 108; 8vo. 2 vols. Original quarter cloth & boards; > WALLINGFORD. 9
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