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‘Metamorphoses’ and ‘Heroides’ and a 14-pp ‘Pastoral Elegy on the
Death of Delia’, the lady of the title.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
916
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HOPKINS (Ezekiel).
The Works of … collected into one
volume: containing: I. The Vanity of the World. II. A Practical
Ecxposition of the Ten Commandments. III. An Exposition on
the Lord’s Prayer … IV. Several Sermons and Discourses on
divers important subjects. With an alphabetical table to the
whole.
Printed for Jonathan Robinson, Awnsham and John Churchill
…,
1710
With a fine engraved frontrispiece portrait by Sturt, pages (8),
796, (7, index), (1, adverts), one signature misbound and
pagination erratic but complete, folio, contemporary unlettered
panelled calf: the binding rubbed and worn and in spite of
cracks in both joints still strong, light browning in places, but
overall, a very good, unsophisticated copy in original state.
Hopkins (1634-90), secretary to lord lieutenant Lord Robartes,
successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry. Most of his works were
posthumously published. Despite at least one contemporary complaint
that his preaching style was uninspiring, his works long survived him.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
PLATINA (Bartolomeo).
The Lives
of the Popes …Written originally in Latine … translated into
English … continued … to this present time … By Paul Rycaut,
Esq;
Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, to be sold by A. Churchil,
1688. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, without
the engraved portrait, pages (32), 416; 394, (18), folio,
contemporary calf, gilt spine, with label, gilt: wanting the blank
front flyeaves, the binding sound and very strong but rubbed and
worn at corners, a clean and very good, well-nargined copy.
Wing P 2403. With “Dungannon” on page 1 of text, and, on the inner
margin of endleaf “Remember what I say - Dungannon” and on the
inner margin of the end flyleaf “1690” (twice), all in the same
contemporary hand..
(2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
917
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HOPKINS (John).
Amasia, or, the works of the muses. A
collection of poems. In three volumes.
Printed by Tho. Warren for
Bennet Banbury …,
1700
FIRST EDITION, with Van Hove’s portrait of Hopkins in nice
state, pages (16), 112: (8), 90, (4), 97 - 144: (8), 175, 3 vols bound
in 1, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, recently and skilfully
rebacked, retaining all the original flyleaves and endleaves: with
some light browing: George Thorn-Drury’s copy with his neat
annotations on a front free endpaper stating which leaves are
cancels: a very good copy.
Wing H 2745. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 469. Sweeney 2365, ‘interesting
and scarce’. John Hopkins (fl 1700), younger brother of Charles, this,
his last work, is a collection of love verses and translations from Ovid.
Referring in the preface to his brother’s renderings of Ovid (‘very well
performed’) he observes ‘mine were written in another kingdom before I
knew of his’. A derisive notice of Hopkins is included in ‘A Session of
the Poets’, 1704-5. The portrait frontispiece of the author is subscribed
with his assumed name, ‘Sylvius’.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
918
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HORACE.
Opera, cum scholis veteribus castigavit, et notis
illustravit Gulielmus Baxterus. Varias lectiones et observationes
addidit Jo. Matthias Gesnerus; quibus et suas adspersit Jo.
Carolus Zeunius... Editio nova, priore emendatior.
Glasgow: in
aedibus academicis, excudebat Jacobus Mundell; Londini: prostant
apud G. G & J. Robinson, et T. Payne; Cantabrigiae, apud W. H.
Lunn; Edinburgi: apud J. Mundell & Soc.,
1796
Pages xxx, (2, blank),575, (1, blank), 4to, finely bound by
Charles Hering, with his ticket, in contemporary red straight-
grained morocco, gilt bordered sides, fully gilt and lettered spine,
inside gilt borders with floral device in gilt in corners, the
endpaper decoration repeated on the facing flyleaf (front and
rear), edges gilt, silk marker: small circular stamp of Milltown
Park (not repeated elsewhere) on the title-page, a large and
rather attractive copy, with the armorial bookplate of Edward
Taylor Massy, Cottesmore.
Described by Sandys as “one of the greatest scholars in the eighteenth
century” and “one of the foremost leaders of the movement known as
the New Humanism”, the editor of this work, Gesner (1691-1761), took
as the basis of his text Baxter’s edition of 1725. The present edition
contains the additional observations of Zenius. Gesner’s edition was first
published, at Leipzig, in 1752. “The [Leipzig] edition... and the
Glasgow edition, comprehending these additional remarks, may be
considered among the most beautiful and popular ones extant of the
poet. “ - Dibdin I. 110. The same setting of type was also imposed on an
octavo format. E. T. Massy (b. 1807) inherited the Massy family’s
substantial estate in Limerick, Ireland, in 1836. In 1839, he bought
Cotts from his father-in-law and started building a new house close to
the old house. The new house was completed in 1841 and called
Cottesmore.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
919
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HORACE.
Opera, cum scholis veteribus castigavit, et notis
illustravit Gulielmus Baxterus. Varias lectiones et observationes
addidit Jo. Matthias Gesnerus; quibus et suas adspersit Jo.
Carolus Zeunius... Editio nova, priore emendatior.
Glasgow: in
aedibus academicis, excudebat Jacobus Mundell; Londini: prostant
apud G. G & J. Robinson, et T. Payne; Cantabrigiae, apud W. H.
Lunn; Edinburgi: apud J. Mundell & Soc.,
1796
Pages xxx, (2, blank),575, (1, blank), roy 8vo, handsomely
bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt
bordered sides, gilt ruled and lettered spine, small crest in gilt at
head of spine, inside gilt borders, edges gilt, silk marker: with the
small circular stamp of Milltown Park on the title-page (not
elsewhere repeated), a large and rather attractive copy with the
neat ownership inscription of “C. J. Tindal, Trin. Coll. 1838” on
the blank flyleaf
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HOMER: - [Robert (Anthony)].
Clavis Homerica, sive lexicon vocabulorum omnium, quae
continentur in Homeri Iliade et potissima parte Odysseae: cum
brevi de dialectis appendice: nec non Mich. Apostolii Proverbiis
Graeco-Latinis: accessere etiam huic postremae editioni varia
elogia seu testimonia de Homero, ex diversis auctoribus, tum
antiquis, tum neotericis collecta.
Londini: impensis J. Walthoe, J.
Knapton (and eleven others) …,
1727. In Greek & Latin
throughout, pp (2), 340, (64), 36, without the advert leaf
sometimes found, 8vo, contemporary umlettered panelled calf: a
very good, strongly bound copy, with the neat contemporary
signatures of Charles and Edward Hendrick and the monogram
“d: y” in a similar hand at foot of title-page. (2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
920
.
HORN (W. O. von).
The Rhine. History and legends of its
castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns. By W. O. von Horn (W.
Oertel). With thirty-eight steel engrtavings. English edition.
Wiesbaden, Julius Niedner …Williams and Norgate … Philadelphia,
Schafer & Koradi, circa
1872
With 38 fine engraved plates of views, each with their mauve
tissue guard, pages (8),564, roy 8vo, original calf-backed red
cloth, gilt, with gilt overlay on the upper board, watered silk
endleaves, edges gilt: upper board lightly and evenly discoloured
but the binding sound and very strong, internally a fresh copy,
with the attractive plates in bright, fresh state.
There was another issue whose title-page called for “thirty-six
engravings” only.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LOCK (Charles G. Warnford).
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