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![178 Defoe (D.) The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Second and Last Part of his Life, Written by Himself, FIRST EDITION, Jolding map, original calf, clean copy W. Taylor, 1719 179 Dickens (Charles) Works, 30 vol. EDITION DE LUXE, portrait and plates on india paper by Cruikshank, Leech, H. K. Browne, etc. uncut 1881-82 180 Erasmus. An Epistle of ye famous doctor Erasmus of Rotterdam unto the reverende father & Excellent Prince Christopher Bysshop of Basyle, cdcernyng the forbedynge of eatynge of fleeshe and lyke constitutyons of men, etc. black letter, RARE EDITION, title within ornamental border (signs. A- 494 in 8's, G 61. only), printed at London by Thomas Godfray, n.d.; De Immensa Dei Misericordia (translated out of Latin into English at the Request of the...Ladye Margaret Countesse of Salisbury by Gentian Hervet), ORIGINAL EDITION, black letter (A - AU 7 in 8’s, including title and imprint), RARE, 7” aed. Th. Bertheleti, 1533 ; An Exhortacyon to the dyly- gent Study of Scripture...lately translated into Englysshe, black (etter (26 Ul. signs. a- it in 8's), lower half of title mended, no im- print [15—]; A Sermon made by Erasmus (on the Marriage Feast at Cana), black {etter (21 Ul. wanting title), Imprynted by me Robert Wyer'in Saynt Martyns Paryshe besyde Charynge Crosse (with device), n.d.[15—]; in 1 vol. old calf, ALL VERY RARE PIECES 12mo 181 Erondell (Peter) The French Garden: for English Ladyes and Gentle- women to walke in ; or, a Sommer dayes labour, being an instruc- tion for attayning unto the knowledge of the French Tongue; wherein for the practise thereof, are framed thirteene Dialogues in French and English, concerning divers matters from the rising in the morning till Bed-time ; also the Historie of the Centurion men- cioned in the Gospell; in French Verses, which is an easier and shorter Methode then hath been yet set forth, to bring the lovers of the French tongue to the perfection of the same, original vellum printed for Kdward White, 1605 *.* ORIGINAL AND RAREST EDITION. Erondell was a fashionable French teacher of Shakespeare’s time, and the author of quite a small library of manuals of instruction for his own pupils and the public generally in the principles of the French tongue, and some at least of his multifarious labours must have passed under our great Poet's eyes. Erondell’s educational works are frequently referred to by Douce and the various editors of Shakespeare. The present is a remarkably fine copy. 182 FRANKLIN (B.) Eloge Civique de Benjamin Franklin, prononcé le 21 Juillet 1790, dans la Rotonde, au nom de la Commune de Paris, par M. Abbé Fauchet, FIRST EDITION, stiff paper covers ad Paris, 1790 * * This “Civic Eulogy” is one of the rarest of Franklin items. It was ordered to be printed by the Commune, presented to the National Assembly, and sent to the United States Congress. Fauchet was executed as a Girondist, Oct. 1793. C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31657369_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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