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With engraved title-page, a medallion portrait of the author, 5
full-page woodcuts of military devices, etc., and 3 folding maps,
pages (6), 526, (34), without errors in pagination and with 37
lines to the page, 12mo, old vellum old rebacking in vellum,
with black morocco label, gilt: some light browning in places but
otherwise a strongly bound and very good copy.
Willems 421.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
VIRGIL.
Opera. Cum notis Thomas
Farnabae.
Amstelodami: ex officina Janssoniana,
1642. With
engraved title-page and 423-pages, 24mo, contemporary vellum,
yap edges: a nice copy with the Donoughmore book label. (2)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
630
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CALEPINUS (Ambrosius).
Dictionarium octolingue, in
quo Latinis dictionibus Hebrææ, Græcæ, Galiicæ, Italicæ,
Germanicæ, Hispanicæ, atque Anglicæ adiectæ sunt. Recensuit,
defœcauit, auxìtque multùm Ionne Passeratius in principe
Academia Pairsiensi Eloquentiæ Professor Regius, ……., hæc
noua Passeratii editio extulerit, omnes statim videant, unoque
oculi facilè cognoscant.
Genevæ, ex Typographia Matthæi Berjon
1620
The title-page printed in red and black, with large woodcut
device, pp (4), 846, (2, blank); 895, 1 vol in 2 parts, bound in 2
vols, folio, contemporary mottled calf, fully gilt spines, with
double labels, gilt: a small hole in the extreme lower outer blank
margin of title, the bindings rubbed and worn at corners, but
very strong: a well margined and very good copy with the small
18C printed book label of “BORDET Avocat” in each volume
and the title inscribed “Ex libris Caroli Petri [?]Chenetier” and,
in another hand at extreme inner top margin of title, “Ex dono
[?]D. S. P. “
Alston II. 92. Fist published, in Latin only, in 1502, then gradually
developed into a polyglot by the end of the 16C (Hebrew, Greek, French,
Italian German, Spanish and English). The “Calepine”, as it came to
be known, continued to be printed throughout the 16C and 17C.
“During the whole period of the Renaissance scarcely an important
dictionary was published which did not reflect directly or indirectly the
influence of Calepine. “ - Starnes, Renaissance Dictionaries.
(2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
631
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CALLCOTT (John Wall).
A Musical Grammar, in four
parts. I. Notation, II. Melody, III. Harmony, IV. Rhythm.
Printed for Robert Birchall …,
1817
THIRD EDITION, pages xix, (1, blank), 327, (1, blank), 12
(catalogue of music published and sold by R. Birchall), with the
half-title, large 12mo, original boards, uncut, recently and neatly
rebacked retaining the original endleaves: with some light
evidence of marginalia, but a very good copy, with the signature
of Jane Masters Underwood on half-title.
Edited by his brother-in-law, William Horsley. Callcott (1766-1821),
musician and composer, best-known as a glee writer of great power and
fecundity, ranked as one of the ablest and most popular composers of
his day. His ‘Grammar’ was a great success, often reprinted: this third
edition is the last with the author’s corrections. “For long the standard
elementary introduction. “ - Brown & Christie 3038.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SHEDLOCK (Emma L.).
A fairy
tale, forming an allegorical and pictorial exposition of the
elements of music. With twenty full-page illustrations by J. King
James. 1876.
(2)
HIGGINS (William Mullinger).
The Philosophy of Sound,
and History of Music.
Wm. S. Orr and Co.,
1838. FIRST
(ONLY) EDITION, with an attractive coloured engraved
frontispiece, additional engraved title-page and a few text
illustrations, pages viii, 256, 8vo, original cloth: the binding
lightly worn and shaken, but sound and, though a little dusty in
places, a very good copy.
(3)
BURROWES (John Freckleton).
The Thorough-Base
Primer: containing explanations and examples of the rudiments
of harmony; with fifty exercises. Fourth edition, with additions.
Published for the Author, by Chappell and Co....,
1829. Many music
examples, pp viii, 93; 36, large 12mo, original printed boards:
attractive. (4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
632
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CALMET (Augustin A.).
Dissertations qui peuvent servir
de prolegomenes de l’Ecriture Sainte. Revûës, corrigées,
considérablement augmentées, & mises dans un ordre
méthodique.
Paris, chez Emery …,
1720
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, with a folding engraved map
and 8 plates (1 folding), pages vi, (2), 94, (2), 822: (4), 428; 476:
(4), 168; 169-898, (2, adverts), pagination erratic in places but
complete, 3 vols in 5 parts bound in 3 vols, 4to, uniform
contemporary calf, fully gilt spines: bindings worn at headbands
but sound and strong, otherwise very good.
The valuable dissertations, here revised and corrected, from his first
exegetical work - the one upon which his reputation rests - “the value of
this book lies, however, not so much in its exegesis as in the dissertations
attached to it, which treat such topics as Hebrew poetry, music, weights
and measures, medicine, marriage customs, burial customs, military
organisation, circumcision, the Sanhedrin, and Hebrew schools and
sects, and are, for his time, remarkably full and judicious … “ - Jewish
Encyclopaedia.
(3)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
633
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CALVERT (Frederick): -.
The trial of Frederick Calvert,
Esq; Baron of Baltimore. In the Kingdom of Ireland, for a rape
on the body of Sarah Woodcock; and of Eliz. Griffinburg, and
Ann Harvey, otherwise Darby, as accessaries before the fact, for
procuring, aiding and abetting him in committing the said rape.
At the assizes held at Kingston, for the county of Surrey, on
Saturday, the 26th of March 1768, before the Hon. Sir Sydney
Stafford Smythe, Knt, one of the Barons of his majesty’s Court
of Exchequer.
Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour
[1768]
Pages 92, 97 - 165, (1, blank), complete thus in spite of
pagination jump, 8vo, neatly bound in recent half cloth over
marbled boards: a very good copy.
O’Higgins 3. 66a. Calvert, sixth Lord Baltimore (1732-71). His father’s
title was Irish but Frederick was born in England. His life is noteworthy
in part for scholarship, but more infamously for his libertinism. He was
the author of Tour in the East in 1763 and 1764, which Lord Orford
thought ‘no more deserved to be published than his bills on the road for
the post-horses’. His debauched lifestyle was the subject of much critical
comment. In 1769 he printed at Augsburg ten copies of Gaudia poetica
Latina, Anglica, et Gallica lingua composita, praised by Linnaeus, to
whom it was dedicated, as an ‘immortal work’. Caelestes et inferi,
published in Venice, followed in 1771. He died at Naples without
legitimate heir and the title became extinct. By his will he bequeathed
the province of Maryland in America to Henry Harford, a child
(ODNB).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SCOTT (Sir Walter): -.
Criminal
Trials, illustrative of the tale entitled “The Heart of Mid-
Lothian”, published from the original record; with a prefatory
notice, including some particulars of the life of Captain John
Porteous.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company,
1818. FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, pp(4), xxxvi,
344, 12mo, recent boards: very good.
Todd 123A. The 36-page preface by Scott, who may also have edited the
work.
(2)
ESPINASSE (Isaac).
A digest of the law of actions at nisi
prius. In two volumes.
Dublin: Printed for H. Chamberlaine, E.
Lynch (and thirteen others),
1794-93. Pages x, (34), 426: (2), (427)-
791, (67), 2 vols in 1, separate titles, continuous signatures and
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