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Intrigues Discovered. With the methods and arts to retrench the
potency of France by land and sea, and to confine that monarch
within his antient dominions and territories. Humbly submitted
to the consideration of the princes and states of Europe,
especially of England. Written in a letter from a person of
quality abroad, to his correspondent here.
Printed for R. Baldwin,
1681. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 31, complete with the initial
blank leaf, folio, recent paper wrapper: with some light
browning, but a very good copy.
Wing F 2185.
(2)
WAKEMAN (Sir George), MARSHALL (W.), RUMLEY
(W.) and CORKER (J.).
The Tryals of Sir George Wakeman
Barronet [sic]. William Marshall, William Rumley, and James
Corker, Benedictine monks. For high treason, for conspiring the
death of the king...
Printed for H. Hills, T. Parkhurst...,
1679.
FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 84, with initial blank leaf, folio, recent
wrapper: very good.
Wing T 2259. Wakeman, Roman catholic,
physician to Queen Catherine, was accused by Oates of planning to
poison Charles II. Oates lost considerable prestige by Wakeman’s
acquittal.
(3)
CHARLES II.
His Majesties Declaration to all his loving
subjects, touching the cause & reasons that moved him to
dissolve the two last parliaments. Published by his majesties
command.
Printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb,
and Henry Hills,
1681. FIRST EDITION, pages 10, (1, licence
leaf), folio, recent paper wrapper: with some light browning, but
a large and very good copy with some leaves uncut.
Wing C 3000. Charles ordered that this declaration - a clever appeal to
the loyalty of his people in which he outlines the violence and bad faith
of the opposition - be read in all chapels and churches throughout the
kingdom.
(4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
475
.
WAKEMAN (Sir George) and others: -.
Some
observations upon the late tryals of Sir George Wakeman,
Corker and Marshal, &c. By Tom Tickle-foot, the taborer, late
clerk to Justice Clodpate.
Printed for A. Brewster [I. e. for F. Smith],
1679
FIRST EDITION, pp 8, 7 (bis) -9, complete (signed A-C2),
folio, recent wraps: very good.
Wing S 4540. A perceptive contemporary analysis of the Popish Plot,
by a former clerk to an imaginary judge, written after the acquittal of
Wakeman and others had swung opinion against Oates.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
READING (Nathaniel): -.
The
tryal of Nathaniel Reading Esq; for attempting to stifle the kings
evidence as to the horrid plot … 24th. of April 1679 …
Printed
for Robert Pawlet,
1679. FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 71, with
licence leaf, folio, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
Wing T
2205. Reading, a Protestant attorney of some standing in his profession,
was treated by the bench with the greatest indulgence and allowed to
make a lengthy and unsupported discourse on the character of his
accuser, Bedloe. Found guilty, he was sentenced to the pillory, a fine of
£1000 & imprisonment for one year.
(2)
FORFEITED ESTATES: -.
A further report presented to
the right honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal in
partliament assembled, from the Commissioners and Trustees
[for Forfeited Estates] who acted in Scotland... with an
appendix thereto annexed.
Printed by John Baskett…assigns of
Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas’d,
1720. FIRST
EDITION, 12-pages, folio, recent wrapper: a very good to nice,
uncut copy.
Hanson 2597. Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’.
(3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
476
.
WALTHAM ABBEY, ESSEX.
Consecration of Waltham
Abbey Lodge, No. 2750. of Ancient, Free and Accepted
Masons, by the Right Worshipful Bro. the Right Hon. The Earl
of Warwick. Deputy Grand Master of England, and Provincial
Grand Master of Essex, on the 21st day of June, 1899.
No
printer, publisher, place or date
(1899)
With 28 actual photographs (8 by 6 inches), unsigned, mounted
on card and linen-hinged, 10-leaves text including title-page,
printed on one side of the leaf only, oblong 4to, original half
morocco, gilt, edges gilt, lettered on upper board “W. Bro. A. J.
Monk, / First D. C. No. 2750 / Presented by Bro. James Speller
1st W. M. No. 2750”: binding rubbed and worn and upper board
almost loose, light foxing of preliminary leaves, but images and
mounts clean
Presumably printed in a very limited number: not in COPAC, the BL or
WorldCat.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PATERSON (James),
ed.
The
Obit Book of the Church of St John the Baptist, Ayr; with a
translation, and an historical sketch, illustrative notes, index,
&c.
Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson …,
1848. FIRST EDITION,
with an engraved frontispiece view, pages xiii, 82, 4to, original
cloth: wanting a blank flyleaf, but otherwise a very good copy.
251 copies were printed.
(2)
PROCTER (Richard Wright).
Memorials of Manchester
Streets.
Manchester: Thomas Sutcliffe,
1874. FIRST EDITION,
with a Woodbury-type frontispiece and 27 plates (1 folding),
pages xxii, 32 (subscriber list), 388 and tipped-in advert slip, 4to,
original brown cloth, gilt: with some very light suggestion of
marginal foxing, but still a very good to nice, large-paper copy.
A
subscriber’s copy, with his armorial bookplate.
(3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
477
.
WALTON (Izaac) and COTTON (Charles).
The
Complete Angler, or contemplative man’s recreation …With
the lives of the authors: and notes, historical, supplementary,
and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. and the present
editor.
Printed for Samuel Bagster,
1815
With 2 engraved portraits, an engraved half-title, 12 engraved
plates and many engraved and woodcut text illustrations, pages
514, (20), 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt: with the usual light
foxing in places, but still a a very good copy.
Bagster’s second
edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HERBERT (Wm.).
Translations
from the German, Danish, &c. To which is added,
miscellaneous poetry [Part second... from the Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, German, &c. ]. [with: ] Select Icelandic Poetry...
from the originals, with notes. Part First [- Second].
Printed for T.
Reynolds, by I. Gold,
1804-1806. FIRST EDITIONS, each work
in two parts, pages 5, (2), 81, (3): ix, (4), 112: (2), xii, (3), 128:
(4), 89 and errata leaf, together two works in 4 vols, bound in l,
8vo, contemporary diced russia, gilt, gilt panelled sides, gilt
spine: llight browning of the first few leaves and with a snag in
the upper portion of each joint, but binding very strong: very
good copies.
(2)
CRIMINAL TRIALS.
Celebrated trials of all countries, and
remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence. Selected by a
member of the Philadelphia bar.
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A.
Hart,
1835. FIRST EDITION THUS, pages 4, 596, 8vo,
contemporary half calf: some light internal marginal staining,
relevant newspaper cutting mounted on end leaves, binding
rubbed and worn but sound and strong: a very good binding
copy. (6)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
478
.
WATSON (Richard), Bp of Llandaff, FRS.
A discourse
delivered to the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ely, on May 9th
& 10th, 1780.
Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon, printer to the
Uiversity; for J. Deighton, in Cambridge …,
1780
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 17, (1, blank), 4to, recent paper
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