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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![Judgement of M. Henry Ballinger, de- claring it lawfull for the Ministers of the Church to weare the Apparell pre- scribed by the Laws. London, 1566. 16mo. 15s. Apparitions. An Essay on. See Moeeton, Andrew, and Defoe. About 1640—60, many tracts were pub- lished concerning Apparitions, which have sometimes produced considerable sums, viz. 15s. to ‘20s. at auctions. Several of them may be seen in the British Museum. Appeet. Art of preserving all kinds of Animal and Vegetable Sub- stances for several years, translated from the Erencb. London, 1811. 12mo. 5s. Published by order of the French Minis- ter of the Interior, on the report of the Board of Arts and Manufactures. Appian. The avncient Historic and exquisite Chronicle of the Eo- mane Warres, with a continuation. London, 1578. 4to. Black letter. Contain? pp. 445, then a table in double columns, on four leaves. According to Herbert there were two edi- tions of Appian, 1578. Bindley, pt. i. 146, 10s. Horne Tooke, 19, li!. Is. — History in Two Books. Trans- lated into English by J. D. (John Davies). London, 1679. foho. 5s. Other editions were published, London, 1696, 1703, in folio. The work is dedicated to the Earl of Ossory. Appius and Virginia. See P (E.) Appeeece, j. See Ehese, John. Apprius. The History of Eing Apprius, (i. e. Priapus). London, 1728. 8vo. One of Curll’s publications. Perry, pt. i. 2084, 7s. Apsley, Sir Allen, Knt. Order and Disorder; or the World made and undone. Beiag Meditations upon the Creation and the Pall, as it is recorded in the beginning of Grenesis. London, 1679. A poem in five cantos. Apthoep, East, D.D. Letters on the Prevalence of Christianity before its civil estabhshment: with observations on a late (Gribbon’s) History of the Decline of the Eoman Empire. London, 1778. 8vo. 5s. ' The author has enriched his work with many learned remarks, and especially with a catalogue of civil and ecclesiastical his- torians, which the reader will find to be very useful.’—Bishop Watson. — Discomses on Prophecy ; read in the Chapel of Lincoln’s-Inn, at the Lecture founded by Wm. War- burton, late Lord Bishop of Grlou- cester. Lond. 1786. 8vo. 2 vols. 10s- A most excellent and highly esteemed work. ApTJLEiTrs, Lucius. The xi Bookes of the Grolden Asse, trans- lated out of Latine into Enghsh, by V/iU. Adhngton. Lond. 1566. 4to. Black letter. Dedicated ' To Thomas Earl of Sussex, (from) Vniuersity. Coll. Oxon. 18 Septemb. 1566.’ Reprinted, 1571, 4to. 1582,8vo. 1596, 4to. 1600, 4to. 1639, 4to. That of 1582 is the most rare. Edition, 1596, Forster, 113, mor. 21.3s. Nassau, pt. i. 176, 51. 7s. 6d. Edition, 1596, White Knights, 165, russia, 21.18s. Edition, 1639, Bindley, pt. i. 145, IZ. 8s. White Knights, 166, morocco, 2Z. 11s. Edit. 1582. Triphook, 61.6s. — Metamorphosis, or Grolden Ass, and Philosophical Works, trans- lated by Thomas Taylor. London, 1822.8vo. 15s. Laege papee,!/. 10s. An esteemed version by the translator of Plato and .Aristotle. Some copies of the small, and all the large paper copies, have suppressed passages, generally placed at the end of the volume. Bishop Warburton supposed that this work was intended, not only as a satire upon the vices of the times, but as a labour- ed attempt to recommend the mysteries of the Pagan Religion, in opposition to Chris- tianity, to which he represents him as an inveterate enemy. This opinion, however, has been contested by Dr. Lardner. — Metamorphoses and other works. See Bohn’s Classical Library. — Eable of Cupid and Psyehe: to which are added a poetical Para- phrase on the Speech of Diotima, in the Banquet of Plato, &c. &c., with an Introduction, in which the meaning of the Eable is unfolded, [by Thomas Taylor.] London, 1795. 8vo. 4s. A translation of the Loves of Cupid and Psyche, by Lockman, will be found in Fontaine’s Loves of Cupid and Psyche, 1744, 8vo.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872155_0001_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
