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Bruxellis, typis Eugenii Henrici Fricx, typographi regii,
1705. Device
on title, pages (8), 147; 334, (11), (3, blank), 2 parts (‘Historicus
Minor’ and ‘Historicus Major’) in 1 vol, 12mo, contemporary
calf, fully gilt spine: the binding a little worn at corners but
sound and strong and otherwise a very good copy.
COPAC has the BL copy only but that entry comprises ‘Historicus
Minor’ only.
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[HABERT (Louis) ].
Pratique du sacrement de penitence:
ou, Methode pour l’administrer utilement: imprimée par l’ordre
de Monseigneur l’evêque comte de Verdun, pour servir aux
confesseurs de son diocèse. Troisiéme édition, corrigée &
augmentée.
Paris, chez Denys Thierry,
1694. Pages (16), 533, (2),
small 8vo, contemporary calf, fully gilt spine: small snag at
headband and with some light marginal staiuning, but still a
good to very good copy.
An edition not found in COPAC. Attributed to Habert (1635-1718) in
NUC.
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€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
448
.
THOMASSIN (Louis).
Vetus et Nova Ecclesiae Disciplina
circa beneficia et beneficiarios … Editio Latina secunda post
duas Gallicanas auctior & emendatior.
Lugduni, sumptibus
Anisson & Joannis Posuel,
1706-05-05
Pages (32), 868: (12), 622 (but actually 934): (8), 632, (122), 3
vols, folio, nineteenth century plain half calf, gilt ruled and
lettered spines: a nice, clean, strongly bound copy.
His principal work, the one upon which his reputation rests. Innocent
XI wished to reward him by making him a cardinal, but the offer was
declined. This Latin edition is preferable to the French original, being re-
arranged in a more accessible form and greatly augmented. “The classic
historical work on Benefices. “ - Cath. Ency.
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€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
449
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THOMASSIN (Louis).
Vetus et Nova Ecclesiae Disciplina
circa beneficia, & beneficiarios, in tres partes distributa,
variisque animadversionibus locupletata … Accedit Tractatus
beneficiarius Fr. Caesarii Mariae Sguanin pro indemniter
salvandis juribus sanctae matris ecclesiae quoad beneficia
ecclesiastica … Editio postrema, cum Parisiensi accuratissime
collata.
Venetiis: typis Petri Savioni …,
1773
The title-pages each with woodcut device, pages (28), 495, (1,
blank): 537, (1, blank): 387, (1, blank), (77), (1, blank): 70, 3 vols
and supplement in 1 volume, folio, with a small, faint oval
stamp on the first title, none elsewhere, strongly bound in
contemporary roll-stamped vellum over wooden boards, with
vellum and metal decorated clasps, the upper securing clasp
from the upper board has come loose but is present and the
others are unusually strong and secure: a strongly bound, very
good-nice copy in an attractive contemporary binding.
The preferred Latin edition of the original French work on Benefices
and Canon Law (1679). Extensive additional material has been added
and the edition also includes the Tractatus Beneficiarius of C. M.
Sguanin. Thomassin (1619–95), French theologian and oratorian, was
considered one of the most learned men of his time.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
450
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THOMPSON (Wm.).
Sickness. A Poem. In three books.
For R. Dodsley …
1745-45-46
FIRST EDITION, pages viii, 47, (1, blank): (2), 51-104: (2),
107-159, wanting the half-title, 3 parts in l vol, 4to, nicely bound
in crimson morocco-backed marbled boards, with label: light old
marginal staining in places and worming in the upper outer
corner touching only the page numerals towards the end.
Foxon T 173-4-5.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SCOT (Walter), Capt.
A true
history of several honourable families of the... name of Scot,
in... Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of
ancient chronicles, histories, and translations of our fathers.
[with: ] Satchels’s Post’ral... Part Second.
Edinburgh: Printed by
the heir of Andrew Anderson 1688; and reprinted by Balfour & Smellie
1776. Pages (2), iii, (1, blank), 3 - 60; (4), 97, (3), 2 parts in 1
volume, 4to, contemporary calf, old neat rebacking, with label: a
nice copy.
Entirely in verse. Scott, a military man, describes himself on the title as
one who could write “nafshawne/But just the letters of his name”. He
hired schoolboys to write to his dictation. First published 1688, this is its
second edition.
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GAY (John).
The Beggar’s Opera …With the ouverture in
score, the songs, and the basses, engrav’d on copper plates. (The
ouverture and basses composed by Dr. Pepusch)
London: Printed
for Jacob and Richard Tonson,
1761. With engraved vignette title-
page incorporating a portrait of the author, pages (8), 56 and 46-
pages of engraved music, 4to, the title-page lightly and evenly
dusty and wanting the front blank flyleaves, a clean tear without
loss in three leaves of music, light fingering and signs of use but
still a very good, well-margined copy in an old, possibly
contemporary unlettered half calf over marbled boards, binding
lightly rubbed but sound and very srong.
The greatest stage success of its time, and one of the most perenially
popular, and influential, works of the 18C.
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€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
451
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THOMSON (James).
The Seasons. To which is prefixed
the life of the author, by Patrick Murdoch, D. D., F. R. S.
Printed
for T. Longman...,
1793
With 4 engraved plates (dated 1793) by Parker after Corbould,
pp (2), 272, (2, blank), with half-title, large 12mo, contemporary
straight-grained morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt ruled spine,
edges gilt: light foxing in places, boards lightly rubbed, still an
attractive copy.
A presentation copy from the noted diplomatist James Harris, first Earl
of Malmesbury (1746-1820): inscribed on verso of first front free flyleaf
“Isabella Brownlow / From her [?]much valued Friend / The Earl of
Malmesbury / 1793” and on facing recto of following flyleaf with a 20-
line verse inscription in the same hand, signed “M. “ and dated Oct 4,
1793, beginning “Fair Isabella, while these lines you read.... “
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
452
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THORNBURY (George Walter) and WALFORD
(Edward).
Old and New London. A narrative of its history, its
people, and its places.
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, circa
1880
Profusely illustrated, 6 vols, 4to, contemporary half morocco,
gilt, gilt lettered spines: just a little rubbed at corners but all
bindings sound and strong and otherwise an attractive set. (6)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
453
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THORPE (Benjamin).
Analecta Anglo-Saxonica. A
selection, in prose and verse, from Anglo-Saxon authors of
various ages; with a glossary. Designed chiefly as a first book for
students.
John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill,
1834
FIRST EDITION, pp xii, 268, (4, ads), 8vo, original cloth-
backed boards, with printed paper spine label, edges uncut:
small tear left and right of label, but binding strong, otherwise a
very good-nice copy in original state with the armorial booklate
of Francis Edward Freeland.
Thorpe (1781/2-1870), Old English scholar. This valuable anthology of
Old English texts was promptly adopted by the Rawlinsonian professor
of Old English at Oxford (Robert Meadows White). In it Thorpe sought
to promote ‘the study of the old vernacular tongue of England, so much
neglected at home, and so successfully cultivated by foreign philologists’).
It was praised with discrimination by his peer John Mitchell Kemble,
and up to 1876, when Henry Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Reader appeared,
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