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prose works. In this edition an ‘exact catalogue of all Milton’s works in
their true order’ is added at the end: this seems to be the first attempt at
a canon of Milton’s works, and thus the first Milton bibliography.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
JUVENAL.
The Satires of Juvenal
translated: with explanatory and classical notes, relating to the
laws and customs of the Greeks and Romans.
Dublin: Printed by
George Faulkner,
1769. Latin & English text on facing pages, pp
(12), 351, (7, index), (2, ads), 12mo, contemporary calf, with
label, gilt: inscriptions on title in contemporary hands reading
“John Blakeney / Grace Blakeney / Gertrude Fitzgerald /
Lisquinlan [Co. Cork]”: an attractive copy.
Edited by Thomas Sheridan, schoolmaster and friend of Swift. Of this
edition ESTC records copies at L, D, Dp, Dt / CtHT and TMM.
(2)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
1113
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MILTON, (John)
Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and
Whether it may be deduc’d from the Apostolical times by
virtue of those Testimonies which are alledg’d to that purpose
in some late Treatises: one whereof goes under the name of
James Archbishop of Armagh. London,
Printed by R. O. & G. D.
for Thomas Underhill ——-.
1641.
(4),24pp. First leaf is blank. 4to. Disbound. First Edition.
ESTC, R23425. Wing, M2133. Very Good. Important. John
Milton’s reply to James Ussher’s ‘The Judgement of Doctor
Rainoldes Touching the Originall of the Episcopasy. ’ in the
Smectymnuus controversy.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1114
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MINSHEU (John).
Minshaei emendatio, vel a mendis
expurgatio, seu augmentatio sui Ductoris in linguas... The
Guide into the Tongues. With their agreement and consent one
with another, as also their etymologies, that is, the reasons and
derivations of all or the most part of words, in these nine
languages, viz. 1. English. 2. Low Dutch. 3. High Dutch. 4.
French. 5. Italian. 6. Spanish. 7. Latine. 8. Greeke. 9. Hebrew,
&c.... The second edition.
Printed by Iohn Haviland,
1626
Pages (4), 760-columns, folio, with some light browning and
staining, but a good to very good copy in quarter calf, with
label, gilt.
NSTC 17946. Alston II. 106. This lexicon, first published 1617, was
the first English book to contain a list of subscribers. It is of
considerable value as a dictionary of Elizabethan English.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1115
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MIRABEAU (Gabriel-Honoré de Riquetti), comte de.
Enquiries concerning Lettres de Cachet, the consequences of
arbitrary imprisonment, and a history of the inconveniences,
distresses and sufferings of state prisoners. Written in the
dungeon of the Castle of Vincennes …With a preface by the
translator.
Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson,
1787
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with an engraved
frontispiece, pages (2), xvi, xv,520: (4), viii, 338, with the half-
titles,2 vols, 8vo, recently and attractively bound in quarter
crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered spines: a
very good copy.
First edition of an anonymous English translation of Mirabeau’s
scathing indict-ment of lettres de cachet: a celebrated attack on the
French government by one of the chief pre-Revolutionary theorists and
most eloquent political liberals. Vol two in this copy has an additional
title-page ‘On Lettres de Cachet and State Prisons. Written in the
dungeon of … by …, author of an essay on the Order of Cincinnatus
…’: this leaf is slit at foot as if for cancelling and is repaired with old
paper.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1116
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MISSON DE VALBOURG (Henri).
M. Misson’s
Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England. With
some account of Scotland and Ireland. Dispos’d in alphabetical
order. Written originally in French, and translated by Mr.
Ozell.
Printed for D. Brown, A. Bell, J. Darby …,
1719
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages (2), xii,
(1, blank), 367, (1, blank), (6, index), (2, adverts), 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: worn at
corners and joints cracked but the binding strong and internally
in very good to nice state.
Misson’s residence of three years gave him ample opportunity and
leisure to observe closely and intimately what he describes and relates.
His book is a valuable informant on life in England at the close of the
17th century (Cox). “Valuable comments by a French protestant
refugee. Authorship sometimes attrib-uted to his brother, F. Maximilien
Misson. John Macky’s A journey through England, 1714-22,
attempted to refute M. ‘s comments. “ - Davies & Keller 2380.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1117
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MITCHELL (Flora H.).
Vanishing Dublin.
Dublin: Allen
Figgis,
1966
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, with 50 coloured plates after
drawings by the author, small folio, original cloth: an
unmarked copy in the dust wrapper (not price-clipped).
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1118
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MODERATE INTELLIGENCER, Numb. 213.
The
Moderate Intelligencer Numb. 213: Impartially communicating
martiall affairs to the Kingdom of England. From Thursday,
April 12. to Wednesday, April 18. 1649.
(Colophon: Printed for R.
Leybourn … Imprimatur, Theo. Jennings)
(1649)
(12)-pages, 4to, disbound: light foxing, but a very good copy.
Commencing, in a larger type, with the resolutions of parliament for
the prosecution of the war in Ireland under Cromwell, and, at end,
“The Parl took into consideration the intellegence they had the day
before out of Ireland, which was, as those who come from Ulster say:
The British forces who you understood, had taken the Covenant, have
now declar’d for the proclaim’d King of Scotland & Ireland, & having
ascertained Carrickfergus, Colerain and Belfast, in the hands of
Covenanters, and by renewing the Covenant, they are set down before
London Derry … “, with the usual foreign news from Amsterdam,
Frankkfurt, Venice, etc.
And five other issues – Numb. 146, 191, 193, 218 and 221,
mainly very good. (See whytes.com for fuller description). (6)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1119
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[MONCK, née MOLESWORTH (the Hon. Mary)].
Marinda. Poems and translations upon several occasions.
Printed by J. Tonson,
1716
FIRST EDITION, pages (52), 156, (4, advertisements), 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt spine, label supplied: with a watermark
of a single letter ‘C’ and the contemporary signature of E.
Portland on the title-page: a nice copy.
Mrs Monck (1677?-1715), daughter of Robert, first Viscount
Molesworth, the republican Whig and Irish patriot to whom Swift
dedicated the fifth of his Drapiers’ Letters. This posthumous collection
of her verses, her only publication, was published by her father with a
lengthy dedication to Princess Caroline in which he deplores the
modern women ‘who think they show themselves the better Bred, by
how much more they approach to, and imitate the Rakish Wilder sort
of Gentlemen in the excessive love of Gaming, Snuff-taking, Habit,
and a Modish Neglect of their Husbands, Children and Families …’
She had taught herself Latin, Spanish and Italian and the collection of
63 poems includes translations from Tasso, Della Casa, Guarini,
Quevedo, Marino and Petrarch, with the originals on facing pages.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
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