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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![tion of this author’s -works. Willett, 134, IZ. 15s. LARGE PAPER. Dent, pt. i. 154, morocco. Drury, 382, russia, 2Z. 19s. Archimedes. Arenarius, et Di- mensio Circuli: Eutocii Ascalonitse in hanc Comment. Gr. cum Yersione et Notis Job. Wallis. Oxonii. 1676. 12mo. 3s. A former edition appeared 1666. — Opera, Apollonii Pergeei Coni- corum Libri IV. Tbeodosii Spbas- rica, metbodo nova illustrata per Is. Barrow. London, 1675. 4to. 6s. A neat edition, highly praised by Mon- tucla. — Arenarius, translated from tbe Grreek, -witb Notes and illustrations (by G-. Anderson). To wbicb is added, tbe Dissertation of Cbristo- pber Clavius on tbe same Subject, from tbe Latin. Lond. 1784.8vo. 3s. A masterly translation, -with curious and pertinent notes and illusti’ations. Por- tions of the Theorems of Archimedes will be found in Whiston and Barrow’s versions of Euclid. Arcbitecture.—Tbe Grrecian Or- ders of Arcbitecture delineated and explained from tbe Antiquities of Athens, also Parallels of tbe Orders of Palladio, Scammozzi and Vig- nola, to wbicb are added Eemarks concerning public and private Edi- fices; witb Designs. London, 1768. folio. IZ. 5s. — Eudiments of ancient Arcbi- tocture, witb a Dictionary of Terms. Tbe second Edition, mucb enlarged. London, 1794, royal 8vo. witb 11 plates, and a portrait of James Stu- art on tbe title page, 6s. A very useful work, reprinted 1804, 1810. The first edition appeared in 1789. — Essays on Glotbic Arcbitecture, by tbe Eev. T. Warton, Eev. J. Ben- tham. Captain Q-rose, and tbe Eev. J. Milner, witb a Letter to tbe Pub- lisher. The second Edition, to which is added a List of tbe Cathedrals of England, witb their Dimensions. London, 1802. 8vo. witb twelve plates, lOs. 6d. A valuable and esteemed work, reprinted 1808,10s. 6d. The first edition appeared in 1798, 6s. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. iii. 1063, 14s. Fonthill, 1088,17s. Aechttas, &c. Pobtical Frag- ments of Archytas, Charondas, Za- leucus, and other ancient Pythago- reans, and Ethical Fragments of Hi- erocles, translated from the Grreek, by Thomas Taylor. Lond. 1822. 8vo. 6s. Fragments of Archytas will be found in Gale’s Opuscula Mvthologica, &c. Cantab. 1670. Amst. 1688.' Ardai Viraf Nameh, or the Eeve- lations of Ardai Viraf; translated from the Persian and Guzeratee Versions, by J. A. Pope. London, 1816. 8vo. 5s. Arden of Feversham.—Tbe la- mentable and true Tragedie of M. Arden of Feversham in Kent. Print- ed for Edward Wliite, 1592. 4to. This black letter play, from which Lillo has not unfrequently copied whole lines, was reprinted 1599, 4to., 1633, 4to., and lastly 1770, 8vo., with a ridiculous preface imputing it to Shakespeare, 3s. 6d. large PAPER, 6s. Edition 1599, Forster, 1144, 3Z. Edition 1633, Rhodes, IZ. Sotheby’s in Nov. 1826, IZ. 7s. Roxburghe, 4049, IZ. 7s. Forster, 1127, IZ. 14s. Bindley, pt. i. 157, 2Z. 2s. Jolley, 1843, (2 leaves MS.) IZ. 13s. Aeet.eus of Cappadocia. -®tio- logica, Semeiotica et Tberapeutica, Gr. et Lat. ex Eecensione et cum Notis Joannis Wigan. Oxonu. 1723. folio. 10s. 6d. Large paper, 1/. Is. Of this beautiful and correct edition 300 copies were printed. — Aretseus : consisting of eight Books on the Causes, Symptoms and Cure of acute and chronic Dis- eases, translated from the original Greek, by John Moffat, M.D. Lon- don, 1785. 8vo. 5s. a translation, according to the Monthly Reviewers, generally correct, and which gives pretty nearly the sense of the ori- ginal. [A new translation by Reynolds, 8vo. 1837.] Aretinus, Leonard. Vide Arts- toteles. Phalaeis. — The Historie of Leonard Are- tiue, concerning tbe Warres betwene the Imperialls and the Gotbes for tbe possession of Italy, translated](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872155_0001_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
