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of “The Humours of Brighton”, &c. The third edition, corrected
and improved.
Printed for T. Groser … and sold by D. Fowler …,
1806. Pages 23, (1, imprint), 12mo, neat old cloth, gilt lettered
spine: a very good copy.
An edition not in COPAC, which has the first edition only (1801) and
locates the BL and Glasgow copies only.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1051
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LICETI (Fortunio).
Ad Epei securim encyclopaedia
Fortunii Liceti... olim in Pisano, & in Patauino, nunc in
Bononiensi archigymnasio philosophiam primaria, & eminenti
sede docentis.
Bononiae [Bologna]: typis Iacobi Montij,
1637
FIRST EDITION, with large woodcut coat of arms of dedicatee,
Cardinal Sacchetti, on title-page, mainly in Latin throughout
with occasional passages of Greek, with Latin translations of
Greek passages included, pp (8), 160, 4to, recent wraps: the
imprint and date is on a single line and is cut into but quite
legible, but still a well-margined and very good copy
Liceti (1577-1657) graduated from the University of Bologna in 1600
with a double doctorate in philosophy and medicine. He accepted a chair
in logic and physics at Pisa where he developed a reputation as an expert
on Aristotle. He is best remembered for his controversial works on genetic
anomalies, hieroglyphics and astronomical debates. Osler 5052. A
pattern poem, in Latin and Greek, in the shape of a twin-bladed axe or
hatchet on pages 6/7 and 123/4. A scarce exegesis of the pattern poem
The Hatchet, by the poet and grammarian Simmias of Rhodes. Pattern
poems are arranged so as to make the whole poem resemble the form of
an object. Simmias wrote three such poems entitled from their forms, The
Wings, The Egg, and The Hatchet. COPAC locates copies at O and C in
UK.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1052
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LIGHTFOOT (John).
The Works of … in two volumes.
With the authors life, and large and useful tables to each volume.
Also three maps: one of the Temple drawn by the author himself;
the others of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, drawn according to
the authors chorography, with a description collected out of his
writings.
London: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot …,
1684
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with a fine impression of the
portrait frontispiece by White, 3 folding engraved maps and 2
large text engravings, pages (32), xxxix, (1), (4), 147, (1, blank);
(10), 35,236-588,591-803, (1, blank); 809-1031, (5), 1049-
1104,2005-2070, (40): (12), 168, 171-275, (9),289-346, 345, folios
346-360; pages (4), 361-627, (3), 633-712; (4), 737-813, (1, blank),
1033-34, 1033(bis)-1355, (1, blank), (63), (1, adverts), complete
thus in spite of erratic pagination,2 vols, folio, contemporary
calf, with double spine labels gilt: the bindings rubbed, worn and
chipped at headbands but the joints secure and the bindings very
strong: internally in quite nice, fresh state.
Wing L 2051. One of the greatest of early Hebrew scholars. Edward
Gibbon said of him that he “by constant reading of the rabbis, became
almost a rabbi himself ”, and Schoettgen in the 19C wrote “Nisi
Lightfootus lyrasset, multi non saltassent. “ The first volume was revised
and corrected by George Bright and the second published by the care and
industry of John Strype.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1053
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[LILBURNE, John].
A Light for the Ignorant, or, A
Treatise shewing, that in the New Testament, is set forth three
Kingly States or Governments, that is the Civill State, the true
Ecclesiasticall State, and the false Ecclesiastical State. Whereunto
is added a true diffinition of a Visible Church of Christ.
(London), Printed in the Yeare, 1641.
20pp. 4to. Disbound. ESTC, R5165. Wing, L. 2138. Rare. Very
good.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
1054
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LINDSEY (Theophilus).
The apology of Theophilus
Lindsey, M. A. on resigning the vicarage of Catterick, Yorkshire.
The fourth edition.
Dublin: Printed for T. Walker, 75, at Cicero’s
Head in Dame-Street
1775
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages viii,236, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: lightly browned and with some light marginal pencil
markings, but still a very good copy.
Giving his reasons for leaving the Church of England and providing a
history of the doctrine of the Trinity and Unitarianism. It reached a
fourth edition by 1775, arousing both hostile and friendly criticism, to
which he replied in the preface to his next work, A Sequel to the
‘Apology’ (1776), which was the most elaborate, and in many respects the
most valuable, of his contributions to dogmatic theology. Lindsey’s
Unitarianism was firmly Socinian, involving belief in the divine unity,
and the humanity of Christ, together with a denial of Christ’s pre-
existence and atonement (ODNB).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[BROOME (Ralph)].
Letters from
Simpkin the Second to his dear brother in Wales; containing an
humble description of the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. with
Simon’s answer.
Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, and J. Moore,
1788.
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 46-pages, wanting half-title, 12mo,
recent paper wrapper: fore-edge cut close touchung text in places
but without serious loss: a good to very good copy.
An uncommon edition: ESTC locates eleven copies, five in Ireland, six in
US and none in the UK. Verse satire mocking Burke, Sheridan and other
members of parliament.
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TUCKER (Josiah).
Four letters on important national
subjects, addressed to … the Earl of Shelburne … first lord
commissioner of the Treasury.
Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, for
W. and H. Whitestone, W. Wilson, and P. Byrne.
1783. FIRST IRISH
EDITION, pp vii, (1, blank), 72, with half-title, 8vo, recent
wraps: very good.
Adams, The American Controversy, 82-92c. Sabin 97344. Tucker (1713–
99), economist and political writer, a controversial figure during his
lifetime, increasingly recognized as an important and original 18C
theorist. If his influence on the later economic ideas of Adam Smith
remains debatable, he was, as Marx thought, a competent political
economist (ODNB).
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PITT (Wm.): -.
Criticisms of The Rolliad, a poem; being a
more faithful portraiture of the present immaculate young
minister and his friends, than any extant. The several beauties of
that Inimitable poem are likewise carefully selected,
Dublin:
Printed for L. White, No. 86, Dame-Street, and P. Byrne, No. 35,
College-Green.
1785. Pages 47, (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
All published in this Dublin edition. Variously attributed. Political
satires on Pitt in the form of mock reviews of a mock epic, which
appeared from time to time in the ’Morning Herald. There were two
editions published at Dublin in 1785: in our issue the price on the title-
page is within square brackets.
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HOLROYD (John Baker), first Earl of Sheffield.
Observations on the manufactures, trade, and present state of
Ireland. By John Lord Sheffield. Part the first.
Dublin: Printed by
J. Exshaw, for the Company of Booksellers.
1785. ALL PUBLISHED
IN THIS EDITION, pages (4), viii,56, with the half-title and a
printed table (the latter bound between leaves B4 and C1), 8vo,
recent wrapper: a very good copy.
All published in this edition. Black 1414. At foot of p. 56: ‘The second
part will soon be published’. An edition not in Kress. Attacking Pitt’s
commercial propositions.
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DE LOLME (Jean L.).
The British Empire in Europe: Part
the first, containing an account of the connection between the
kingdoms of England and Ireland, previous to the year 1780. To
which is prefixed, an historical sketch of the state of rivalry
between the kingdoms of England and Scotland, in former times
…
Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street
1787. FIRST
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