Sales catalogue 329: Ellis

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/15
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 329: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1138 114 “115 116 Old and Rare Books 19 by himselfe and others the Judges and Sages of the Law renowned for that Profession in his time. London, Printed by the Assignes of John Moore Esquire. 1641. Sm. 4to, original rough calf, £1 15s. H[OBBES] (T[homas), of Malmesbury]. The History of the Civil Wars of England. From the Year 1640, to 1660. Printed in the Year, 1679. Sm. 8vo, original calf, scarce, ao LOS. This work, written in the form of a dialogue between A and B, was suppressed by the king’s desire as surrep- titiously published. Another edition appeared in the same year under the following title : ‘“‘ Behemoth ; History of the Causes of the Civil Wars of England.” HOBBES (Thomas), Vita. [Edidit Richard Blackburne.] Carolopoli, apud Eleutherium Anglicum, sub Signo Veritatis. 1681. [At the end:] Londini, apud Guil. Crooke. 8vo, with portrait, contemporary red morocco gilt, gilt edges, £3 15s. Among the commendatory verses is a poem in English by Abraham Cowley in which he refers to Hobbes as “Thou great Columbus of the golden Lands of new Philosophies.” HOGG (William), Satyra Sacra in Vanitatem Mundi et rerum Humanarum sive Paraphrasis in Ecclesiasten Poetica. Typis Richardsonianis in usum Autoris. 1685. 8vo, original calf gilt, RARE, £2 10s. Hogg was the translator of Milton’s Paradise Lost into Latin, and his work was misused by Lauder in endeavouring to fasten upon Milton charges of plagiary. Some of these Latin verses were afterwards reprinted by Lauder. HOLLES (Denzell Lord), A True Relation of the Unjust Accusation of certain French Gentlemen, (charged with a Robbery, of which they were most Innocent) and the Pro- ceedings upon it, with their Tryal and Acquitall in the Court of Kings Bench, in Easter Term last. London, Printed by J. Darby, 1671. Sm. 4to, half calf, RARE, £3 18s. These French gentlemen, who were on a visit to England, went to see Hatfield House, but after doing so were apprehended in mistake for a band of highwaymen of whom Claude Duval was the leader.
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