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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![learned divine, the father of Joseph Addi- son, likewise published a life of Mahomet, an account of the Jews, &c., which are held in some estimation. Addison [Mr. a pseudonyme]. Collection of interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays and poetical Fragments, tending to amuse the Fancy and inculcate Morality. 1794-97. 8vo. 16 vols. (Karely found complete.) Addition to the Sea Jou.rnall; or Navigation of the Hollanders into Java, with a Yocabulary of Words used at St. Laurence. Imprinted by Wolfe, 1598. 4to. Black letter, with cuts. Jadis, 267, Zl. 19s. Addresses.—The genuine rejected Addresses, presented to the Com- mittee of Management for Drury Lane Theatre; preceded by that written by Lord Byron, and adopted by the Committee. London, 1812. 8vo. 4s. — Rejected Addresses; or the New Theatrum Poetarum. Lond. 1812. 12mo. 5s. A jeu d’esprit, by Horace and James Smith, comprising a number of parodies on living poets, executed with great humour, discrimination, and good taste. It has been frequently reprinted. Addy, Wilham. Stenographia, or the Art of Short Writing, com- pleted in a far more compendious method than any yet extant. Lon- don, 1695. 8vo. with portrait, by J. Sturt, 5s. More remarkable for the accuracy and elegance of its graphical execution, than for any considerable improvement in the art. Adleepeld, Grustavus. Mili- tary Memoirs of Charles XII. King of Sweden. London, 1740. 8vo. 3 vols. with plans of the battles and sieges, 12s. Written with great fidelity, by the gen- tleman of the bedchamber to Charles XII. Admiralty.—Laws, Ordinances, and Institutions of the Admiralty of G-reat Britain, Civil and Mihtary. London, 1746, or 1767. 8vo. 2 vols. 12s. Admiealty. Statutes relating to the Admiralty, Navy, and Ships of War, &c. Lond. 1768, 4to. 10s. The edition of 1742 or 1755, 6s. Admonition, A faithful, of a cer- tain true Pastor or Prophete, sent into the Germanes at such time as certain great Princes went about to bryng .AKenes into Germany, and to restore the Papacy, the Kingdom of Antichrist, Now translated into Enghsh, with a Preface of M. Phi- hp Melancthon. Greenwich, 1554, 4to. At the end of this curious treatise, is ' A Praier to be said of all true Christians against the Pope, and al the Enemies of Christ and hys Gospel,’ which is reprinted in Morgan’s Phoenix Britannicus, p. 95. Dr. Dibdin, in his edition of Ames, men- tions a copy of this treatise, printed by K. Kele. Admonition (Ane) to the Anti- christian Ministers of the Kirk of Scotland, (a poem). 12mo. 1581. Perry, 21. 13s. 6d. Admonition to the Bishoppes of Winchester, London, and others, &c. Eoaneby Michael Wood, 1553. 16mo. 15 pp. Black letter. This treatise begins on the back of the title-page. Admonition to the Parhament. See Caetweight, Thomas. Admonition to the People of England. See Coopee, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln. Adolphus, John. The British Cabinet; containing Portraits of illustrious personages, engraved from Original Pictures; with Bio- graphical Memoirs, by John Adol- phus. London, 1799-1800, 4to. In little estimation. Lloyd, 206, 11. 5s. Bindley, pt. i. 117, 11. 8s. Bishop of Ely, 163, 11. 10s. LARGE PAPER, in folio; Rox- burghe, 8591, Zl. 18s. — The History of England, from the Accession of K. George III. to 1783. Fourth Edition. London, 1817. 8vo. 3 vols, 1/. Is. The former editions appeared in 1802, 1805. This work is intended as a continu- ation of Hume and Smollett.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872155_0001_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
