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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![compleat system of the blood vessels on four sheets, with tables of explanation on seven sheets, 7s. 6d. 3. A complete system of the nerves, on four sheets, with tables of explanation, 7s. 6d. Willett, 114, (com- plete) 61. — Another Edition, 1777. folio, with explanations in 4to. 21. 2s. Albion’s Queene. The famous Historie of. London, 1601. 4to. Black letter. Of this romance, (of which only one copy is known, wanting sheet A.) Queen Katherine is the heroine. Albon and Amphabel.—The glo- rious Lyfe and Passion of Seint Albon, Prothomartjr of Englande, and also the Lyfe and Passion of Saint Amphabel, translated out of Erenche and Laten in to Englishe, by John Lydgate, Monte of Bury. Saynt Albon, 1534. 4to. The whole contains y, in fours. In seven line stanzas, four on a page. A copy of this extremely rare work is in the British Museum. Alborow.—The Life of the holy and blessed Yirgin, Sainte Alborow. (Bichard Pynson) 4to. From Maunsell’s Catal. p. 67, col. 2. AiiBUCASis. De Chirurgia, Arab, et Lat. cura Johannis Channing. Oxon. 1778. 4to. 2 vols. 1/. 5s. LAEGE PAPEE, 11. 16s. A valuable work. In Dr. Freind’s His- tory of Physic is a very elaborate analysis of Albucasis’s works and practice. Alcantara’s (P.) Grolden treatise of Mental prayer, by Griles Wil- loughby. 12mo. port, and front. Bruxelles, 1632, 10s. 6d. Alca:es. The purest text of this poet will be found in the Museum Criticum, vol. 1, pp. 421-44, edited by Bishop Blomfield. Alcedo, Don Ant. de. G-eo- graphical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies, with large additions and Compila- tions, by G. A. Thompson. Lon- don, 1812-15. 4to. 5 Tols. Thompson’s edition for its additions, &c. is infini tely more valuable than the original. Sir M. Sykes, pt. i. 125, 5^. 5s. Duke of York, 235, ol. 5s. Alchemy.—Marrow of Alchemy, a Poem. London, 1654. 4to. ALC Nassau, pt. i. 2197,19s. Sir P. Thomp- son, 463, 17s. 6d. Alciates, Andrew. Emblemata. See WiLLET, Andrew. To this work, first published Paris, 1585, subsequent writers, particularly George Wither, have been greatly indebted. Alcidalis and Zelida, History of, a Tale of the fourteenth century. Lond. 1789. 8vo. Some copies have a fictitious title, pur- porting to have been printed at Strawberry- hill, mdcclXxxix., and have produced con- siderable prices, viz. Sotheby’s in June, 1827, 11. 6s. Brocket!, 2947, 11.13s. Golds- mid, 373, 21. 5s. Alcilia: Philoparthens loving EoUy. 12mo. R. Hawkins, 1613. Bright, 45, (two leaves wanting) 31. lOs. — Philoparthens louing EoUy. With the Love of Amos and Laura, by S. P. [Samuel Page.] Lond. for Richard Hawkins, 1619. 12mo. The poem of Amos and Laura is dedi- cated to the celebrated Izaak Walton. — Wliereunto is added Pigma- hon’s image, with the loves of Amos' and Laura, and also Epigrammes by Sir J. H. [Harrington] R. Hawkins, 1628, 4to. Lloyd, 208, 10?. Freeling, 10?. 5s. Chal- mers, 10?. Jolly, 43, 12?. 5s. Alcinoes, in Platonicam Philo- sophiam Introductio, Gr. et Lat. (ediderunt Jo. Langbsenius et Jo. FeUus.) Oxon. 1667. 8vo. 2s. 6d. An excellent edition. A translation of the introduction to the Platonic Philosophy will be found in Stanley’s History of Phi- losophy. Alcipheon’s Epistles, in which are described the domestic Manners, the Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece, (translated from the Greek by the Rev. Mr. Monro and the Rev. Wm'. Beloe.) London, 1791. 8vo. 4s. This work is in general (says Dr. A. Clarke) well done ; and is accompanied by very useful notes. Aecock, John. Successively Bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Eli, Spousage of a Virgin to Christ. 4to. 1486. — Galhcantus et Cofratres suos curatos in Sinodo apud Bern-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872155_0001_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
