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tomes or sections, by Henrie Bullinger minister of the churche of
Tigure in Swicerlande. Whereunto is adioyned a triple or three-
folde table verie fruitefull and necessarie. Translated out of
Latine into English by H. I. student in diuinitie.
Imprinted at
London by [Henry Middleton for] Ralphe Newberrie, dwelling in Fleete-
streate a little aboue the Conduite,
1577
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with a large printer’s device on
title-page, mostly printed in black letter throughout, pages (48),
108, 113 - 246, (2, blank); (3), 252 - 489, 491 - 781; (2), 812 -
1069, 1066(bis) - 1073, 1078 - 1142, (1, blank), wanting leaves
G7-G8 (pp 109-112), with the original blank leaf Q4, from p 492
onwards the even page numbers are on the rectos, 4to,
contemporary blindstamped unlettered calf: headband worn but
binding strong, stitching weak and some sections slightly sprung,
without the flyleaves, at end some old vellum ms strips in red,
black and blue, used in the binding, title-page lightly stained,
light marginal hair-line worming towards end, but not serious: a
very good, well-margined copy.
STC 4056. A translation of Sermonum decades quinque. Johann
Heinrich Bullinger (1504–75), Swiss reformer, successor of Huldrych
Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster. A
much less controversial figure than Calvin or Luther, whose importance
has long been underestimated; recent research shows that he was one of
the most influential theologians of the Protestant Reformation in the
16C. He was a personal friend and advisor of many leading personalities
of the reformation era and corresponded with Reformed, Anglican,
Lutheran, and Baptist theologians, Henry VIII, Edward VI and
Elizabeth I of England, Lady Jane Grey, Christian II of Denmark,
Philipp I of Hesse and Frederick III, Elector Palatine. In the time of
Elizabeth I he became something of an oracle among many of the
English higher clergy who had enjoyed his hospitality during the reign of
Mary. Elizabeth herself found his prestige a valuable support against the
more rigidly Calvinistic Puritans for her settlement of Church affairs;
and when, in 1570, Pius V made the final breach between the Papacy
and the English Church, it was to Bullinger that she turned to prepare
her reply to the Papal charges (ODCC). Bullinger’s life-span coincides
exactly with that of Matthew Parker (also 1504–75), the first reformed
Archbishop of Canterbury under Elizabeth I.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
612
.
BULPETT (Charles W. L.).
A picnic party in wildest
Africa. Being a sketch of a winter’s trip to some of the unknown
waters of the Upper Nile.
Edward Arnold,
1907
FIRST EDITION, with a folding map and 17 plates, pages xiii,
(3), 246, 16(adverts), 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: a bright, fresh
copy
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HORE (Edward Goode).
Tanganyika: eleven years in Central Africa. Second edition.
Edward Stanford,
1892. With a folding frontispiece, a portrait, 3
maps and 10 full-page illustrations, pages xii, (4), 306, (1), 8vo,
original blue pictorial cloth, decorated in silver: a very good copy.
(2)
BROOK (Charles John), Mrs.
Six weeks in Egypt. Fugitive
sketches of eastern travel.
London: Simpkin, Marshall …,
Huddersfield: E. W. Coates,
1893. FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, with
6 illustrs, pp vii, (1, blank), 238, (2, blank) and errata slip, cr 8vo,
original brown cloth, gilt: binding lightly discoloured, otherwise
a very good copy.
(3)
O’HAIRE (James).
Recollections of twelve years’ residence
(as a missionary priest) viz.: from July 1863 to June 1875, in the
Western District of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Selected chiefly from his diary.
Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son,
1877.
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 605 and four lists of subscribers on
(36)-pages, 8vo, original green cloth, by Galwey of Dublin, with
their ticket: with slight suggestion of fore-edge foxing, but still a
bright and attractive copy of a book usually found in poor state.
(4)
KINGSLEY (Mary H.).
West African Studies. Second
edition, with additional chapters.
Macmillan and Co.,
1901. With
portrait, 22 plates and folding map, pp xxxii, 507, 4(adverts),
8vo, original red cloth: spine evenly faded, otherwise very good,
with publisher’s small blind embossed stamp on title.
Kingsley, niece of the writer Charles Kingsley, died of typhus in June
1900, having nursed casualties of the Boer War.
(5)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
613
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BUNBURY (Sir Charles J. F.).
Journal of a residence at
the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the interior, and
notes on the natural history, and the native tribes.
John Murray,
1848
FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece and 4 plates, pages xii,
297, (3, advertisements), 8vo, recent boards, with label, uncut:
with some light fingering, but still a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GUYOT (Yves).
Boer Politics.
Translated from the French.
John Murray,
1900. FIRST
EDITION IN ENGLISH, pp xvi, 155, (1), 8vo, original printed
wraps: very good
Claimed, by Jules Hedeman of Le Siècle, in his 2-page preface, as more
up to date than the original French edition.
(2)
SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD TRUST COMPANY.
Verbatim
transcript of the proceedings at the first annual general meetings
of The South African Gold Trust and Agency Company,
Limited. Held March 13th, 1890. J. J. Hamilton, Esq., in the
chair.
(London: Keating and Co.)
(1890). FIRST EDITION, 10-
pages, 8vo, original printed paper wrappers: a nice, copy.
Not found in Mendelssohn (either edition), COPAC, etc. This gold
investment company declared a dividend of 100% at the end of its first
year.
(3)
LYTTLE (Richard).
Origin of the Fight with the Boers.
Sketch of South African history. Fourth edition. With new
chapters on the slavery question and native labour in mines.
(Belfast: Wm. Brown & Sons, Printers, 30 Chichester Street)
(1900).
Pages (2), (1) - 25, (1, blank), small 8vo, original pictorial printed
paper wrapper: a little tired, but a very good copy in original
state.
Hackett, South African War Books, page 166, cites, but does not locate,
copies of the third and sixth editions. COPAC has the 6th and another,
but unnumbered, edition, locating the LSE and ULRLS copies only. Not
found on-line in D. Title above quoted from the wrapper. The front
wrapper is not included in the pagination. The inside of the back
wrapper is numbered as page 25, and the outer back wrapper is blank.
Dated at end, January 5th, 1900. One of the most notable contemporary
pro-Boer pamphlets. It was heavily quoted in the press in both Britain
and Ireland. The Rev. Richard Lyttle, a Unitarian clergyman based at
Moneyrea, County Down, was a member of the Gaelic League and a
friend of the nationalist poet Alice Milligan.
(4)
CURRIE (Sir Donald).
Thoughts upon the present and
future of South Africa, and Central and Eastern Africa. A paper
read … at the Royal Colonial Institute, on Thursday, 7th June,
1877 …
London [no printer or publisher]
1877. FIRST EDITION,
pages 54, (2, blank), original grey printed paper wrappers: with a
small, light stamp on the title-page, otherwise a nice copy in
original state.
(5)
IRVINE (Thomas W.).
British Basutoland. The Basutos.
H.
J. Infield
(1881). FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages (2), 32, 8vo,
disbound, with the upper printed paper wrapper: with two small
stamps on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy.
(6)
CHESSON (Frederick Wm.).
The Basuto War. A brief reply
to Sir Bartle Frere’s article in “The Nineteenth Century”.
Published by P. S. King,
1881. FIRST EDITION, 16-pages and
original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, with a small stamp on the
title-page, otherwise a very good copy in original state. (7)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
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