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GLASS (Thomas), MD.
Twelve Commentaries on
Fevers. Explaining the method of curing their disorders, upon
the principles of Hippocrates. Translated by N. Peters.
Printed
for S. Birt, at the Bible and Ball, in Ave-mary Lane, and A. Tozer
bookseller in Exeter,
1742
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pp (2), xvi, 302, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: lightly
browned and binding lightly rubbed: a very good copy.
First published in Latin, 1742. Glass (1709-86), native of Tiverton,
considered the greatest English authority after Sir Wm Watson on
innoculation for the small-pox. BOUND WITH: A Catalogue of
Books printed for and sold by William Innysm in Pater-noster-Row.
[London, 1742]. Drop-title, (24)-pages, 8vo, lightly browned, but in
very good state. ESTC90 notes MBCo and PPL copies only.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
844
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GLASSIUS (Salomon).
Philologiae Sacra, quae totius
Sacro Sanctae Veteris & Novi Testamenti Scripturae, tum stylus
& literatura … Accedunt huic novissimae, summa cura
emendatae, editioni …
Amstelaedami, apud Joannem Wolters,
1711
With a fine engraved portrait of the author, the title-page in red
and black, with engraved vignette and pages (6), 64; 990, (122),
4to, contemporary calf: rubbed and label defective, but binding
strong and otherwise a very good copy.
Glassius (1593-1656). Lutheran theologian, one of the initiators of the
Weimarian Bible project. His greatest scientific work is his Philologia
Sacra (Jena; 1623-36), the first book which notices the grammatical
peculiarities of New Testament diction: highly praised by his
contemporaries as a key to Biblical difficulties.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
THOMASSIN (Louis): -
[LORIOT (Pierre Julien)].
Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de
l’Eglise touchant les benefices et les beneficiers, extraite de la
Discipline du R. P. Thomassin, prestre de l’Oratoire. Par un
prestre de la mesme congregation.
Paris, chez Jean Anisson …,
1702. FIRST EDITION OF THIS ABRIDGMENT, pages
(16), 902, (6), 4to, contemporary green calf, gilt bordered sides,
richly and fully gilt pine, with red label, gilt: the boards lightly
stained and with the occasional internal light marginal statin
but a very good copy in an sound and attractive binding.
Thomassin’s classic historical work on Benefices, “Ancienne et nouvelle
discipline de l’église touchant les bénéfices et les bénéficiers”, was first
published in 93 folio volumes, Paris, 1678-9.
(2)
FLORIOT (Pierre).
Morale chrétienne raportee aux
instructions que Jesus-Christ nous a donn’es dans l’oraison
dominicale. Sixiéme édition revue, corrigée & augmentée …
Paris, chez Guillaume Desprez,
1688. Pages (16), 1111, 4to,
strongly bound in recent boards: very light suggestion of
staining in the extreme upper outer blank margin but still a
large, clean and very good copy.
A successful work, first published 1672, reprinted well into the
following century.
(3)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
845
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GLEANINGS OF LITERATURE.
Gleanings of
Literature, or the miscellany of taste. Vol. I.
Dublin: Printed by
Charles Downes, for P. Oulton, 36, Dame-Street,
1805
ALL PUBLISHED, pages (6), xi, (15),554, (40, subscriber list),
with the half-title, 8vo, contemporary half calf over marbled
boards, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: the binding rubbed and
worn but still very strong and otherwise a very good copy.
Very uncommon: we last handled a copy in 1976. COPAC locates
copies at The National Trust, C, D and Dt. The D copy is without the
very extensve subscriber list and the C copy wants a leaf of text.
WorldCat locates only two copies – both at C, one being imperfect and
C on-line shows only the imperfect copy. The dedication to John
Willoughby signed Clare Sacheverell Forster (presumably the
compiler/editor). The (11)-page Preface begins “The following work
was principally compiled from the contents of a Common-place book,
commenced in the year 1792, and continued with little interruption to
the present time, notwithstanding the high authority of Doctor
Johnson, and others, against the utility of such a practice. ” The
contents list is in the following sections: - Religious and Moral, Natural
History, Useful and Important, Speculative and Critical, Historical,
Biographical and characteristic, Topographical and descriptive,
Antiquities, Miscellaneous, and, Poetry. A second volume, announced
for publication on July 1st, 1806, was never published.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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[GODWIN (Wm.)].
The History of the life of William
Pitt, Earl of Chatham.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Potts, Wilson,
Walker, and Byrne,
1783
the binding worn and rubbed but sound and strong, with some
browning and staining, but a good, sound copy, with armorial
bookplate of William King Atkinson, Justice of New
Hampshire state supreme court, 1803-05, with book number
‘42’ entered in manuscript.
First Irish edition of Godwin’s first book: the London edition was
published for the author during the same year. Godwin had just had a
crisis in his career as a clergyman in Suffolk, first failing to be
ordained, and finally being dismissed from his congregation. He
returned to London and began to write a planned series of political
biographies, of which this was the first. It was finished in November
1782, a paean to Pitt’s whig virtues as seen by Godwin, and with a
large part of the biography devoted to the last years of Pitt’s political
career and his attempts to reconcile the government with the rebellious
American colonies. This Dublin edition is considerably scarcer than the
London: ESTC records the same pagination as this copy, and locates
only five copies in North America. Another copy, similar binding, in
better shape and with some light internal staining, but still a very good
copy, is available at 550. 00.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
WALPOLE (Horace).
A catalogue
of the royal and noble authors of England, with a list of their
works. In two volumes. The third edition, corrected and
enlarged.
Dublin: Printed for George Faulkner … and Hulton
Bradley,
1759. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages 166, (2): (2), 147
- 288, (4), complete thus,2 vols in 1, large 12mo, contemporary
mottled calf, gilt ruled spine, red label, gilt: a handsome copy
First published at Strawberry Hill during the previous year. There was
another Dublin issue, also 1759, with a slightly different pagination
and without a title-page to the second volume. The eleven Irish peers
included are separately indexed.
(2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
847
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GODWIN (Wm.).
An enquiry concerning Political
Justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness.
Dublin: Printed for Luke White,
1793
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xiii, (1, blank), (21), (1, blank),
411: (23), (1, blank), 424, with the half-titles,2 vols, 8vo, upper
outer blank corner of first half-title torn off, old library stamp
on title-pages, light browning of text, sympathetically bound in
a pleasing speckled calf-backed marbled boards, gilt ruled
spines, with the original labels retained: still a very good copy
of this scarce edition.
Kress B 2528. His best known work of political theory. Written in the
early years of the French Revolution before the Terror had begun, it
provides a devastating critique of unjust government institutions and
optimistically proposes that individuals not the state can best provide
for their needs. He believed that political change could best be brought
about gradually and as a result of free discussion in small
communities. It has inspired many generations of radical thinkers.
(2)
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
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