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William de Veaux, but apparently none earlier than that. The
illustrations include a full-page woodcut of a flea (p. 140), clearly
copied from Hooke’s celebrated picture in Micrographia.
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MORAL ESSAYS.
Moral essays in praise of virtue.
Dublin: Printed by J. Scott, 12, South Cope-St.,
1824. With 2 full-
page woodcut illustrations, 180-pages, 12mo, original mottled
calf, gilt ruled and lettered spine: some light signs of use but a
good to very good copy and the binding strong.
Of this edition COPAC locates copies at L and O: there is also a copy
on-line in D. There were two other Dublin printed editions, both of
1821 and both of 160-pages, one printed by J. Scott, the other by J.
Jones.
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NATURE DISPLAY
ed.
Nature displayed: designed to
excite the youthful mind to piety and virtue.
Dublin: Printed by
Joseph Blundell, 187, Great Britain-Street,
1828. With frontispiece,
180-pp, 12mo, original sheep, gilt ruled and lettered spine: very
good.
Apparently, the only edition of this partial translation of J. F.
Martinet’s Katechismus der Natuur, Amsterdam, 1778-79, in the form
of dialogues between a father and son. COPAC has only C, NLS and
UCL. Astronomy, meteorology, geology, land and water, anatomy,
hearing and sound, are among the subjects discussed. Freeman, British
natural history books, 2780.
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€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
568
.
BEZA (Theodore).
Confessio Christianae fidei, et
eiusdem collatio cum papisticis haeresibus. Adiecta est altera
brevis eiusdem Bezae fidei Confessio. [with:] Quaestionum et
responsionum Christianarum libellus … Editio quinta. [and:]
Quaestionum et Responsionum Christianarum pars altera …
Editio secunda ab eodem recognita & aucta. Adiectus est index
quaestionum copiosus.
Geneva, Eustathius Vignon,
1577-77-77
Two works bound in one volume (the second work being in
two parts), with printer’s anchor device (each different) on each
title-page and with a large oval woodcut of religion over-
powering death on verso of first title-page, pages (16), 265, (14):
(16), 131: (16), 139, (5 blank - the final blank leaf wanting the
lower outer two thirds), in 1 vol, 8vo, contemporary blind-
stamped and unlettered calf: with some light signs of use and
the binding worn at the corners but sound and strong and
otherwise a very good unsophisticated copy with lightly crossed
through contemporary signature ‘Gulielmus [?]Fletchio’ on
title, and leaving the price, and the date Jul 3, 1580 untouched.
Adams B 900 (Tr & Cai), B 935 (Cai), and B. 938 (Cai). A popular
exposition of Calvinist beliefs (first published at Geneva in 1560), by
the great Reformer and translator of the Psalms, the most important of
the French Reformation theologians and Calvin’s literary executor.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
569
.
BIBLE, 1789.
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select
Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with
emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth: designed
chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting
manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures. To which are
subjoined, a short account of the lives of the evangelists, and
other pieces, illustrated with cuts. The fourth edition, with
additions, and other great improvements.
Dublin: Printed by B.
Dugdale, No. 150, Capel-Street,
1789
With numerous emblematic and hieroglyphic woodcut
illustrations throughout, 144-pages, including woodcut
frontispiece and advert leaf, 12mo, entirely untrimmed and
bound, preserving the original blue wrappers, in contemporary
plain sheep, inside covers overlaid with silk in lieu of
endpapers: some wear to binding extremities, but entirely
sound.
First and only 18C Dublin edition of this remarkable Bible for
children, first published in London in 1783. According to Hugo,
Thomas Bewick’s bibliographer, a number of woodcuts for the first
edition were engraved by Bewick during his term of employment with
the original publisher, Thomas Hodgson, in London. These form the
basis for all subsequent 18C editions, including the present one. For
some earlier and later editions of this enormously popular work, see
Osborne 758-59. Of this edition ESTC quotes seven locations, only one
(Southern Mississippi) in the U. S. A.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
570
.
BIBLE, DUBLIN, 1714.
The Holy Bible … (with Prayer
Book, Metrical Psalms both 1714 and Apocrypha).
Dublin:
[Printe]d by A. Rhames; for Eliphal Dobson, at the Stationers-Arms in
Castle-[street,] amd William Binauld, at the Bible in Eustace-street,
1714
Unnumbered pages, 3 vols bound in 1, folio, mid 18C Irish full
green morocco, broad gilt bordered sides, fully and richly gilt
spine, with label, gilt, edges gilt: the title leaf cut to border and
neatly backed, with the loss of a few letters in the imprint as
indicated by square brackets above, two old neat repairs to
small portion of inner margin of dedication leaf, without loss,
small piece neatly cut from lower outer corner of leaf H3 in
Apocrypha with the los of a few letters in a side note on verso
and with a small piece missing from the upper inner blank
margin of the final leaf of the table to the Psalms with the loss
of just a few letters, the attractive binding lightly rubbed and
worn but sound and strong, with signatures of William Balfour
and Mary Frances Townley Balfour on the title-page, the
armorial bookplate of Blayney Townley Balfour and with 19C
ms notes regarding family members on the front flyeaf (crudely
hinged with three strips of cellotape): a well-margined and very
good copy, attractively bound.
Darlow & Moule 928. The first King James version printed in Ireland.
There was another issue of the same year with the names of the
printers in the OT and NT imprints reversed.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
571
.
BIBLE, DUTCH, 1690.
Biblia Sacra. Dat is: de Heylige
Schriftuer, bedeylt in het Oude ende Nieuwe Testament …
t’Antwerpen by Jan Mourentorf … 1599 …
‘t Antwerpen
gedruckt. By Jan. Mourentorf …,
1690
With additional engraved title-page and with enraved title-page
to the New Testament, unnumbered pages, signed *6, A-Z6,
Aa-Zz6, Aaa-eee6, fff8; a-x6; A- S6, T4, complete with the
original blank leaf x6, folio, contemporary mottled calf, fully
gilt spine: the binding worn and rubbed but sound and very
strong, internally in very good to nice copy.
An edition not in Darlow & Moule (see 3300). Not in COPAC, but
Worldcat locates six coopies. It reprints the revision of the Louvain
Bible of 1599 which was based on the Clementine Vulgate of 1592. It
became the standard Bible for Dutch Roman Catholics.
€400-€600 (£320-£480 approx.)
572
.
BIBLE, HEBREW, 1753.
Biblia Hebraica manualis: ad
Hooghtianam, & optimas quasque editiones recensita, atque
cum brevi lectionum Masorethicarum, Kethiban et Krijan …
(Analysis et explicato … (and) Veteris Testamenti dictionarium
Hebraeo-Chaldaicum, ut cum Bibliis Hebraicis manualibus …).
Prostant Amstelædami,: apud Jacobum a Wetstein,
1753
With additional engraved title-page and 2 large folding
engraved plates, pages (10), 640: 320: 384: 72: 79, (3), 3 parts in
1 vol, 8vo, some light browning in places but otherwise a very
good copy neatly bound in recent boards.
Darlow and Moule 5155.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
TOURNELY (Honoré).
Praelectiones theologicae de ecclesia Christi, quas in scholis
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