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[Barnaud, Nicolas]. Le Reveille-matin des Francois, et de leurs voisins. Composé par Eusebe Philadelphe cosmopolite, en forme de dialogues. A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE PROTESTANTS OF EUROPE

[Bruce, John]. Report on the Arrangements which Have Been adopted, in former Periods, when France threatened Invasions of Britain or Ireland, to frustrate the Designs of the Enemy, by attacks on his Foreign Possessions, or European Ports, by annoying his Coasts, and by destroying his Equipments. N.p., n.d., but repeatedly dated within 21 December 1797 (in type), and 6 January 1798 (in the manuscript heading to B1r: see below); [with] BRUCE, John?, Military Memoir for the Defence of the Eastern District. N.p., n.d., but [London, 1798]; [and] LE MESURIER, Havilland. The British Commissary, in Two Parts ... London, Printed by T. Egerton ... 1798. NAPOLEON'S PROJECTED INVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN: THREE RARE AND IMPORTANT TRACTS

[European Trade]. A remarkably finished and handsome mercantile MS handbook, written in French in a fine italic hand, but clearly for use in Spanish Castile (prices throughout converted into 'Livres Castillanos', and destinations and taxes likewise focussed on Castile). PRE-NAPOLEONIC COMMERCE IN EUROPE: A FRANCO-SPANISH FORMULARY AND VADEMECUM 1808

[Geneva]. The Troubles of Geneva. With the warres which the Duke of Savoy hath made against it these three yeeres space. And the great victories which God hath lately given to the Citizens of Geneva. Trulie translated accourding to the French copie. THE MISERIES OF GENEVA, BY AN ELIZABETHAN POET/BOOKSELLER

[Köhler, Heinrich Karl Ernst von]. Zwei Aufschriften der Stadt Olbia. INSCRIPTIONS FROM ANCIENT OLBIA: FINE RUSSIAN PRINTING

[Lucas, Vrain-Denis]. Feuillet de Conches, Félix-Sébastien. Lettres inédites de Michel de Montaigne et de quelques autres personnages, pour servir a l'histoire du XVIe siècle. 'THE PRINCE OF FORGERS'

[Oldenbarneveld, Jan van]. Barnevels Apology: or Holland Mysterie. With marginall Castigations. THE DIRECT SOURCE OF A FLETCHER-MASSINGER PLAY

[Opsopäus, Johannes] ΣΙΒΥΛΛΙΑΚΟΙ ΧΡΗΣΜΟΙ, hoc est Sibyllina Oracula ex vett. codd. aucta, renovata, et notis illustrata a D. Iohanne Opsopoeo Brettano, cum interpretatione Latina Sebastiani Castelionis et indice. THE EXPOSURE OF THE ‘SIBYLLINE ORACLES’ 1599

[Romet, Nicolas Antoine]. Lettre de Pétrarque a Laure, suivie de Remarques sur ce Poëte, & de la Traduction de quelques-unes de ses plus joilies Pièces ... . AN IMAGINARY LETTER FROM PETRARCH TO LAURA

[Scotland, Church of (in fact written by Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston)]. The Protestation of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland, and of the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Borrowes, Ministers and Commons; Subscribers of the Covenant, lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the Mercate Crosse of Glasgow, the 28, and 29. of November 1638. THE REBELLIOUS SCOTTISH 'COVENANT' OF 1638

[Swiftiana]. Partridge, John. Merlinus Liberatus, being an Almanack for the Year of Our Blessed Saviour's Incarnation 1699 [through 1705]. THE BACKGROUND OF SWIFT'S 'BICKERSTAFF' HOAX: WITH PREDICTIONS OF 'BARBARITIES' EXPECTED FROM 'SALVAGE INDIANS' IN AMERICA

Abbot, George (1562-1633, Archbishop of Canterbury 1611-33). A Treatise of the Perpetuall Visibilitie, and Succession of the True Church in all Ages. THE DESCENT OF 'THE TRUE CHURCH'

Adair, Robert (Sir). Sketch of the Character of the late Duke of Devonshire. By R. Adair, Esq. M.P. BULMER IN MIDDLE HILL WRAPPERS

Balbi, Girolamo [=Hieronymus Balbus], Bishop of Goeritz. Hieronymi Balbi Episcopi Gurcen. De futuris Caroli Augusti successibus Vaticinium. [Colophon:] Bonon[iae] in Aedibus Io. Baptistae Phaeli. M.D.XXIX. Mense Nouemb[ris]. A PIONEER NEO-LATINIST'S LAST POETICAL FRUITS

Bedford, Arthur. A Serious Remonstrance in Behalf of the Christian Religion, against the horrid Blasphemies and Impieties which are still used in the English Play-Houses, to the great dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt of the Statutes of this Realm. VERY FINE, IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOROCCO

Bissel [= Bisselius], Johannes, S.J. Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria, ac sociorum eius, Libri XV. THE PERILS OF PEDRO DE VICTORIA, NOVELIZED BY BISSEL 1647

BOYLE, Roger, first Earl of Orrery The History of Henry the Fifth, and the Tragedy of Mustapha, son of Solyman the Magnificent. As they were acted at the Duke of York's Theater. ... London, Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman ... 1672. [Bound with:] Two New Tragedies. The Black Prince, and Tryphon. The first acted at the Theater-Royal by his Majesties Servants; the other by his Highness the Duke of York's Servants. Both written by the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery. London, Printed for H. Herringman ... 1672. A FINE RESTORATION ASSEMBLY 1672

Browne, Thomas (Sir). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths. THE VERY RARE FIRST STATE OF 'VULGAR ERRORS'

Brydges, Egerton (Sir). The Anti-Critic for August 1821, and March, 1822. Containing Literary, not Political, Criticisms, and Opinions. THE ANTI-CRITIC 1822

Chesneau, Nicolas [= Nicolaus Querculus, 1521-1581]. Democriti ad Heracliteum tuba. Nicol. Querculo Rhemo auctore. FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRANÇOIS RASSE DES NEUX

Collier, John Payne. The Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. ... In two Volumes. WITH THE RARE CANCELLANDUM

Cooper, Elizabeth [and William Oldys]. The Muses Library; or, a series of English Poetry, containing the lives and characters of all the known Writers; the Names of their Patrons; Complete Episodes, by way of Specimen of the larger Pieces, very near the intire Works of some, and large Quotations from others. Being a general collection of almost all the old valuable Poetry extant. THE FIRST REVIVAL OF 'OUR DESERTED POETS' 1741

Costabadius, Johannes [= Jean Costabadie] 'Aquitanus', of Tonneins. Epigrammatum libri octo. FRENCH PROTESTANT VERSE FROM SAUMUR, 1655 1655

Dalton, John. A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]. Manchester: Printed by S. Russell, 125, Deangate, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, London, 1808 ... [Printed by Russell & Allen, Deangate, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, London, 1810]. THE ORIGIN OF THE ATOMIC THEORY, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS

Davys, Mary. The Reform'd Coquet; a Novel. By Mrs. Davys, Author of The Humours of York. A PIONEERING IRISH WOMAN NOVELIST, LINKED WITH SWIFT, POPE, AND GAY

Dedekind, Friedrich. Grobianus. De morum simplicitate, libri duo. In gratiam omnium Rusticitatem amantium conscripti .... DEKKER'S SOURCE FOR THE GULL'S HORNBOOK

Diodorus Siculus. Histoire Universelle de Diodore de Sicile, servant à l'Histoire de l'origine des Peuples & des anciens Empires; traduite en François, avec des notes géographiques, chonologiques, historiques & critiques, par Monsieur l'Abbé Terrasson, de l'Academie Françoise. Nouvelle Edition. EDWARD GIBBON'S ANNOTATED 'READING SET' OF DIODORUS SICULUS 1758

Dolet, Étienne [= Stephanus Doletus, 1508-1546]. Genethliacum Claudii Doleti, Stephani Doleti Filii. Liber vitae communi in primus utelis, & necessaius. Autore Patre ... . Lugduni, Apud eundem Doletum, 1539 [Dedication A2v dated 7 February 1539]. THE PRINTER-MARTYR'S GENETHLIACUM

Duchesne, Léger [= Leodegarius à Quercu]. Praelectionum et poematum liber. DUCHESNE'S FIRST VOLUME OF VERSE AND CRITICISM

Eobanus Hessus, Helias [= Elias Eoban], and/or others. De generibus ebriosorum, et ebrietate vitanda. ANDRÉ SIMON'S COPY 1624

Estienne, Henri, the younger. Francofordiense emporium, sive Francofordienses nundinae. Anno M. D. LXXIIII, Excudebat Henricus Stephanus. A SCHOLAR-PRINTER AT THE BOOK FAIR, 1573

Eusebius, Bishop of Caeserea. Ευαγγελικης προπαρασκευης ... Evangelicae praeparationis lib. XV, ex Bibliotheca Regia ... Lutetiae, In officina Rob. Stephani, Typographi Regii, Regiis typis. M.D.X.L.IIII.; [with] EUSEBIUS, Ευαγγελικης αποδειξεως ... Evangelicae demonstrationis lib. X, ex Bibliotheca Regia ... Lutetiae, In officina Rob. Stephani, Typographi Regii, Regiis typis. M.D.XLV. [colophon dated April 1546]. EDITIONES PRINCIPES OF FAMOUS LITERARY FORGERIES

Farmer, Richard. An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, Esq. By Richard Farmer, M.A. Fellow of Emmanuel-College, Cambridge, and of the Society of Antiquaries, London. Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University; for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, in Cambridge [et al.] ... M.DCC.LXVII. 'THE SUBJECT IS NOW CLOSED'

Gay, John. Fables. By the late Mr Gay. In two volumes. 1757

Gay, John. The What D'ye Call It: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce.

Gerard, Henry, of Wadham College Oratio Terraefilij Oxoniensis, quae prima in novo Theatro habita Julij [10, the day-date left blank in our MS] Anno 1669./ Quaestio decidenda est hac, Omnis sensus fit tactus. ‘IN MY LIFE, I WAS NEVER WITNESS OF SO SHAMEFUL ENTERTAINMENT’ 1669

Goudelin [= Godelin, Goudouly or Goudouli], Pierre. Las Obros de Pierre Goudelin, augmentados de forço péssos, é le Dictiounari sus la lengo moundino. Ount es mes per aiustié sa bido, remarquos de l'antiquitat de la lengo de Toulouso, le trinfle del moundi, é soun Oumbro. 'THE HOMER OF LANGUEDOC'

Hierocles of Alexandria. [Graece:] Ierokleous philosophou Ypomnema eis ta ton Pythagoreion epe ta chrysa. Hieroclis Philosophi commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Ioan. Curterio interprete ... . Parisiis, Ex Typographia Steph. Prevosteau ... MDLXXXIII; [with] Hierocles, Aurea Pythagoreorum Carmina. Latinè conversa, multisque in locis emendata, illustratáque adnotationibus ... auctore Theodoro Marcilio. Lutetiae, E Typographia Steph. Prevosteau, haeredis Guil. Morelij in Graecis Typogr. Regij ... M.D.XXCV [i.e., 1585]. HIEROCLES AND THE 'GOLDEN VERSES'

Knight, Thomas Andrew. A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider Perry. CIDER AND PERRY

L'Hospital or L'Hopital, Michel de (1506?-1573), Chancellor of France. De Caleti et Guinae, oppidorum proximo hoc bello captorum, expugnatione, carmen longe doctissimum. Cuius auctoris ipse est, qui & illius erutitiss. epistolae ad Francisc. Guisorum Principem, proximè à nobis editae. ON THE SIEGES OF CALAIS AND GUINES

Littleton, Adam. Linguae Latinae liber dictionarius quadripartitus. A Latine Dictionary, in Four Parts. A FINE PRESENTATION COPY

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Saggi de' novellieri italiani d'ogni secolo: tratti da' piu celebri scrittori, con brevi notizie intono alla vita di ciascheduno. YOUNG PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW

Luther, Martin. A Commentarie of Master Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians. First collected and gathered word by word out of his preaching, and now out of Latine faithfully translated into English for the unlearned. LUTHER'S OWN FAVOURITE BOOK, PROMOTED BY FOXE

Macarius of Egypt, Saint, pseudo- [Graece:] Tou hosiou patros Makariou tou Aigyptiou homiliai 50. B. Macarii Aegyptij homiliae quinquaginta. Ex Bibliotheca Regia. Parisiis, M.D.LIX. Apud Guil. Morelium, in Graecis typographum Regium. ALLEGEDLY BY THE DESERT FATHER MACARIUS

Manilius, Marcus. M. Manili Astronomicon, a Josepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice Gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum. Eiusdem Josephi Scaligeri notae, quibus auctoris prisca astrologia explicatur, castigationum caussae redduntur, portentosae transpositiones in eo auctore antiquitus commissae indicantur. ‘PERHAPS THE HIGHEST POINT ON THE HIGH ARC OF [SCALIGER'S] SCHOLARSHIP'

Meurier, Hubert [= Hubertus Morus]. Huberti Mori Ambiani De pace carmen. FROM THE RASSE DES NEUX COLLECTION

Milnes, Richard Monckton. Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical. AN IDEAL ASSOCIATION COPY, MYSTERIOUSLY DOUBLED

Morel, Jean [=Joannes Morellus] of Rheims, 1539-1633. [Caption-title:] In hodiernam M. N. Ioannis Saulmon, inter suos commilitones loco & merito facilè principis, lauream ... lyricum carmen. 'HORATIAN' VERSE BY JEAN MOREL OF RHEIMS: ONE OTHER COPY RECORDED

Morgann, Maurice. An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff. THE GENESIS OF 'ROMANTIC' SHAKESPEAREANA 1777

Ness or Nesse, Christopher The Devils Patriarke, or a full and impartial Account of the notorious life of this present Pope of Rome, Innocent the 11th. Wherein is newly discovered his Rise and Reign; ... the Splendour and Grandeur of his Court; ... his most eminent and gainful Cheats ... his secret and open Transactions with the Papists in England, Scotland, France and Ireland ... to this very day. Together with the rest of his hellish Policies and infamous Actions of his wicked Life. A FINE GUTTER-PRESS BIOGRAPHY OF THE LIVING POPE, WITH A PREFACE BY TITUS OATES

New Daily Advertiser (The). Broadside mock-newspaper, headed (below banner title) 'No 2.] Covent Garden, Thursday. [Feb. 25.' PROOFS OF AN UNRECORDED POLITICAL SATIRE

Newton, issac Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. The third edition, corrected. JOHN DAVIES’S ANNOTATED COPY OF ‘OPTICKS’, WITH A TWELVE-PAGE MS MEMOIR OF NEWTON

Oughtred, William Mr. William Oughtred’s Key of the Mathematicks. Newly Translated from the Best Edition ... [and] recommended by Mr. E[dmond] Halley, Fellow of the Royal Society. TRUSTED BY NEWTON, TRANSLATED BY EDMOND HALLEY 1694

OULTON, Walley Chamberlain. The History of the Theatres of London: containing an Annual Register of all the new and revived Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, Farces, Pantomimes, &c. that have been performed at the Theatres-Royal, in London, from the year 1771 to 1795. With occasional Notes and Anecdotes. STAGE HISTORY, 1771-1795 1796

Percey, William, Gent. The Compleat Swimmer: or, the Art of Swimming: Demonstrating the Rules and Practice thereof, in an Exact, Plain and Easie Method. Necessary to be known and practised by all who studie or desire their own Preservation. THE SECOND (BUT FIRST PRACTICALLY DETAILED) ENGLISH SWIMMING BOOK

Ritson, Joseph. Bibliographia Poetica: A Catalogue of English Poets, of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centurys. With a short account of their works. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CLASSIC 1802

Ritson, Joseph. Northern Garlands. The Bishopric Garland; or Durham Minstrel ... The Yorkshire Garland ... The Northumberland Garland; or Newcastle Nightingale ... The North-Country Chorister ... edited by the late Joseph Ritson, Esq. WITH AN UNDESCRIBED CANCELLANDUM

Sambucus, Joannes [= Iános Zsámboky, 1531-1584]. Poemata quaedam Ioannis Sambuci Tirnaviensis, Pannonii, Patavii conscripta. POETRY OF THE HUNGARIAN EMBLEMATIST

Samuel, William An Abridgement of all the Canonical books of the olde Testament, written in Sternholds meter by W. Samuel Minister. The names of the books are in the next leaf following. SAMUEL’S VERSIFIED OLD TESTAMENT: ONE OF THREE KNOWN COPIES

Selden, John. ΘΕΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ: or, God made Man. A Tract Proving the Nativity of Our Saviour to be on the 25. of December. CHRIST BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY!

Sigonio, Carlo. Caroli Sigonii De antiquo iure civium Romanorum libri duo. Eiusdem De antiquo iure Italiae libri tres. Ab ipso auctore multis in locis aucti ... . Parisiis, Apud Allardum Iulianum ... M. D. LXXIII; [with] SIGONIO, Orationes [septem] Caroli Sigonii. Parisiis, Apud Allardum Iulianum ... M. D. LXXIII. PIRACY FOR THE LEARNED, 'PAR UN BROUILLON DE CESTE VILLE'

Socrates, pseudo- Socratis, Antisthenis, et aliorum Socraticorum epistolae. Leo Allatius hactenus non editas primus Graecè vulgavit; Latinè vertit, Notas adjecit; Dialogum, De scriptis Socratis, praefixit. THE SOCRATES FORGERIES, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN WILKES 1637

Spang, William. Motuum Britannicorum verax Cushi expisis Joabi & oculati Testis Prototypis totus translatus. SCOTS EXPATRIATE IN HOLLAND, 1630-64

Spinula, Publio Francesco. P. Francisci Spinulae Mediolanensis Opera. Poematon libri III. Carminum libri IIII. Epodon liber I. Carminum secularium liber I. Elegorum libri X. Hendecasyllaborum liber I. Epigrammaton libri III. Venetiis, Ex officina stellae Iordani Zileti, M D LXIII. WITH AN EPIGRAM ON THE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TASSO

Tarchaniotes Marullus, Michaël, et al. Poetae tres elegantissimi, emendati, & aucti. A CHARMING NEO-LATIN ANTHOLOGY

Thackeray, William Makepeace The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esqre. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. THACKERAY’S NOVEL SET IN BRYANSTON SQUARE: THE VAN DUZER COPY, WITH A LEAF OF MANUSCRIPT

Theronus, Vitalis. Reliquiae Poeticae R. P. Vitalis Theroni, Soc. Jesu Presbyteri. A JESUIT POET OF TOULOUSE, PRINTED BY THE 'LINGUAE OCCITANAE TYPOGRAPHUS' 1645

Tiler, Arthur. The History and Antiquities of St. Saviour's, Southwark; containing Annals from the first Founding, to the Present Time; List of the Priors and Benefactors; A particular Description of the Building, Ornaments, Monuments, Remarkable Places, &c., with Notes. 'THE ACTORS' CHURCH'

Topham, Edward. The Life of the late John Elwes, Esquire, Member in three successive Parliaments for Berkshire, first published in the paper of The World. THE MODEL FOR SCROOGE

Ussher, James, Archbishop of Armagh. Historia dogmatica controversiae inter orthodoxos & Pontificos de Scripturis et sacris vernaculis. Nunc primùm edita. Accesserunt eiusdem dissertationes II. de pseudo-Dionysii scriptis, & de epistolâ ad Laodicenos; antehac ineditae. Descripsit, digessit, & notis atque Auctario locupletavit Henricus Wharton. USSHER ON THE PAPAL FALLACY: A MINE OF TESTIMONIAL RESOURCES 1690

Vida, Marco Girolamo, of Cremona, Bishop of Alba. Christiados libri sex. [Colophon:] Cremonae in Aedibus divae Margaritae Anno a Partu Virginis M.D.XXXV. Mense Octobri Lodovic. Britan. Impr. FROM THE ARRIGHI PRESS AT CREMONA

Walpole, Horace. A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton. WALPOLE'S OWN SELF DEFENCE IN THE CHATTERTON WARS 1779

Wotton, Henry (Sir). Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or, a Collection of Lives, Letter, Poems, with Characters of Sundry Personages, and other incomparable pieces of Language and Art. Also additional Letters to several Persons, not before printed ... the third Edition, with large Additions. GIVEN BY IZAAK WALTON, THE EDITOR, TO SIR HENRY WOTTON’S 'LITTLE PAGE'

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