Volume 1
The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold / by William Thomas Lowndes.
- William Thomas Lowndes
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold / by William Thomas Lowndes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Acolastus, the Comedy of, 1540. See PuLLONius, Gul., and Nichol- son (S.). AcoNTirs, James. Stratagema- tum Satanse Libri viii. Oxon. 1631. 12mo. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, with a fron- tispiece, 6s. A very popular work, which has been translated into many European languages. The original was first printed at Basle, 1565; reprinted 4to. London, 1648; 12mo. Oxford, 1650. The transla- tion appeared in 1648—' Acontius’s Satan’s Stratagems, or the Devil’s Cabinet Conn- cel Discovered,’ 4to. Sir M. M. Sykes, Pt. i. 102. 11s. Reprinted 1651. Acosta. The remarkable Life of Uriel Acosta; to which is added Mr. Limborch’s Defence of Chris- tianity, in answer to Acosta’s Objec- tions. London, 1740. 8vo. This tract was translated and edited by John Whiston, the bookseller. It was re- vised by Dr. Roper. — Joseph d’. The History of the East and West Indies, trans- lated from the Spanish, by E. O. [probably Edward Orimstone]. Lon- don, 1604. 4to. This work, which is quoted by Doctor Robertson as standard authority, has also been translated into French, Flemish, Ita- lian, and German, Gordonstoun, 130, 19s. 6d. Horne Tooke, No. 1,11. Is. North, Pt. iii. 574. morocco, 3^. 7s. Acta Apostolorum, Urseco-La- tina, Litteris majuscuhs, a Codice Laudiano, Characteribus unciahbus exarato, deseripsit ediditque T. Heabnius qui et Symbolum Apos- toiorum ex eodem Codice subjunxit. Oxon. 1715. royal 8vo. Of this work (which is usually adjoined to the series of Heaene’s 'Works) only 120 copies were printed, all upon royal paper. Duke of Grafton, No. 15,71.16s. Brockett, 1469, 8i!. Bishop Randolph, No. 65, 81. 2s. 6d. King and Lochde’s in 1810, lOZ 10s. Heath, 4270, 13(. 2s. Gough, 1662, 20^. Acta Apostolorum, variorum Notis turn Dictionem turn Mate- riam illustrantibus, suas adjecit Hastings Robinson, A.M. Cantab. 1825. 8vo. 9s. 6d. Acta Regia. Vide Rapen de Gfhoypas. Aetuum Apostolorum et Episto- larum tarn Catholicarum quam Pauh Yersio Syriaca Philoxeniana, ex Cod. MSS. Ridleii, nunc primum edita cum Interpret, et Annotat. Jos. White. Oxon. 1799. 4to. This work generally accompanies White’s edition of the Syriac Evangelists. Actes of the Apostles (The) trans- lated into Enghshe Metre by Chris- tofer Tye, Doctor in Musyke, &c. wyth Notes to eche Chapter to synge and also to play upon the Lute, &c. 1553. London, by Nycolas Hyll and Wyllyam Seres. 8vo. Black letter. Contains N 4, in eights. This version contains the first 14 chapters only ; there are variations in the colophon. Noticed by Warton in the xlvii. section of his History of Poetry. Gough, 18, russia, 31. 3s., but now worth considerably more. Bindley, 81. 15s. Acts of the Apostles.—The Ac- tions of the Apostles; translated from the original G-reek. By the Rev. John WiUis. Lond. 1789. 8vo. pp. 295. 3s. This translation is in little estimation. Acton, Thomas Herman. Re- ports of Cases argued and deter- mined before the Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes; also, an Appeal to the Bung in Council, con- cerning the Judgments in June 1809. Lond. 180^9-11. royal 8vo. vol. 1 and voL 2, pt. 1. (all printed) 1^. Is. Actor (The), a Treatise on the Art of Playing, interspersed with theatrical j^ecdotes, &c. London, 1750-5. 12mo. 2 vols. 4s. to 6s. A very sensible performance, written by Aaron Hill. Actors’ Remonstrance, (The) or Complaint, for the silencing of their Profession and Banishment from their several! Playhouses. London, 1643. 4to. A satirical tract, containing some curious and amusing particulars of the means re- sorted to by players to procure subsistence on the suppression of the theatres in 1642. One hundred copies were reprinted in 1822, 8vo. 2s. 6d. from the copy in the British Museum. Actors (The Tragical) or the Mar-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872155_0001_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
