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errata slip, roy 8vo, original parchment boards, gilt: a fine copy
in a lightly toned dust wrapper, with the original prospectus for
the work loosely inserted.
Limited edition of 1100 copies.
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€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
265
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KUMM (Hermann K. W.).
From Hausaland to Egypt,
through the Sudan. By H. Karl W. Kumm …
Constable and Co.
Ltd.,
1910
FIRST EDITION, with portrait frontispiece, 6 coloured plates
of butterflies, 2 other maps and some 86 other illustrations (13
full-page), pages xv, 324, roy 8vo, original pictorial yellow cloth:
a near fine copy.
“Kumm landed in Nigeria in 1908 with the intent of setting up
missions to counteract the spread of Islam, particularly in the Sudan.
While on his travels he enjoyed considerable sport … “ - Czech 90.
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MUIR (Sir Wm.).
The Caliphate:
irs rise, decline, and fall. From original sources. A new and
revised edition by T. H. Weir.
Edinburgh: John Grant,
1924. With
4 folding maps, pages xix, (1), 633, (3, adverts), 8vo, original
cloth, top edges gilt: the spine evently faded, otherwise a nice
copy.
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KUMM (Hermann K. W.).
The Sudan. A short
compendium of facts and figures about the Land of Darkness.
Marshall Brothers
(1907). FIRST EDITION, with a map and 41
plates, pages xiv, 224, 8vo, original cloth, gilt: wanting a blank
fly: a clean ex-library copy, outwardly attractive.
“Provides a wealth of statistical analysis of the Sudan, along with
historical and geographical notes. Of sporting interest is his chapter on
hunting cob and waterbuck, with a failed hunt for hippopotamus. “ -
Czech 90.
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€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
266
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L’ESTRANGE (Sir Roger).
The Relaps’d Apostate: or,
notes upon a presbyterian pamphlet, entituled, A Petition for
Peace, &c. The third edition.
London, Printed for Henry Brome at
the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1681
Pages (10), 70, 4to, recent paper wrapper, with fore and lower
edges uncut: a nice copy.
Wing L 1295.. A reply to Richard Baxter’s A petition for peace.
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CARTWRIGHT (Thomas), Bp.
A sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the
happy inauguration of our dread soveraign lord King James II.
In the College Church of Ripon, February the 6th. 1685/6.
London, Printed by J. Leake, and are to be sold by Walter Davis, in
Amen-Corner,
1686. FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 38, 4to, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Wing C 706. Cartwright (1634–
89) has been the subject of intense vilification, seen as the primary
clerical quisling of the Church of England under James II.
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ELLIS
(Philip), OSB.
Second Sermon preach’d before the King and
Queen, and Queen Dowager, in their majesties chappel at St.
James’s, upon All-Saints Day, November 1. 1685. Published by
his majesties command.
London, printed by Henry Hills, printer to
the King’s most Excellent Majesty, for His houshold and chappel,
1686.
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 32 and leaf of adverts for books
printed for Hills, 4to, recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Wing E
597. known as “Jolly Phil” which, it is said, happily expressed his
character.
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STILLINGFLEET (Edward).
A sermon preached at White-
Hall, February the 19th 1685/6. Being the first Friday in Lent.
London, Printed for Henry Mortlock, at the Phoenix in St. Paul’s
Church-yard.
1686. FIRST EDITION, 36-pages, 4to, recent paper
wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
Wing S 5658.
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MEGGOT or MEGGOTT (Richard).
A sermon preached
to the Artillery Company, at St. Mary le Bow, September 13.
1676.
Printed for Nathanael Brooke, at the sign of the angel in Corn-
hill, near the Royal Exchange,
1676. FIRST EDITION, with the
imprimatur leaf, pages (8), 36, 4to, recent paper wrapper: light
brown stain in upper outer corner, otherwise a good to very
good, well-margined copy.
Wing M 1625. Meggott, died 1692, dean of Winchester, school-friend of
Pepys who spoke in praise of one of his sermons. Meggot’s earlier
support for James did not prevent him from remaining a popular court
preacher and he delivered many sermons before William and Mary. He
remained in these court sermons a staunch defender of the Anglican
church.
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€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
267
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[LA BRUYERE (Jean de) ].
Les caracteres de
Theophraste, traduits du Grec, ou les caracteres avec les moeurs
de ce siecle. Dixieme edition [bound with: ] [BRILLON (Pierre
Jacques) ] Suite des caracteres de Theophraste; et des pensees de
Mr. Pascal.
La Haye; chez Adrian Moetjens,
1698
Pages (24), 54: (2), 88, 91-210, 221- 500; xxxiv, (4), (2, blank):
(4), 267, complete thus in spite of erratic pagination, in 1 vol,
large 12mo, contemporary calf, fully gilt spine: the binding
strong, but the backstrip worn at headband and the lowest panel
(of 5) of the backstrip is wanting: in clean, sound and very good
state.
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TERTULLIAN.
Apologeticus et
ad Scapulum liber. Accessit M. Minucii Felicis Octavius.
(Praefatio F. Balduini in … Octavium) …
Cantabrigiae, ex officina
Joan. Hayes … Impensis Henr. Dickinson & Rich. Green,
1686.
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages (8), 135: (2), 11: (66), 74, (2,
adverts for books printed for or sold by R. Green), 12mo,
original unlettered calf: the binding a little worn but sound and
strong and with some browning of fore-edges, still a very good
copy in original state.
Wing T 784. The first edition printed in
England of any Latin text by Tertullian, the first of the great Church
Fathers and ‘Father of Latin Theology’.
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EPICTETUS & CEBES.
… (Greek) … Ex editione Joannis
Upton accurate expressum. [Greek and Latin]. Glasguae, in
Aedibus Academicis excudebat Robertus Foulis …, 1748.
[bound with: ] CEBES. … [Greek] Accedit interpretatio Latina
[by H. Wolfius] ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. [Greek and Latin].
Glasguae, in Aedibus Academicis excudebat Robertus Foulis …,
1747.
Glasgow, Fouliis Press,
1748-47. Pages (2), 70; 24: 76; 19, (1,
blank), in 1 vol, 12mo, contemporary calf, with label, gilt:
wanting the two blank flyleaves and the upper board lose, but
otherwise very good copies.
Gaskell 108 and 81.
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HORACE.
Opera … Accesserunt variae lectiones … Editio
altera.
Cantabrigiae, typis academicis,
1701. Pages (6), 333, (1,
blank), 12mo, near contemporary calf: the binding rubbed but
sound and strong and otherwise a very good copy, with
ownership inscription by Hugh Gough, dated Oxford 1713,
signed by him, and with the later armorial bookplate of Edward
Hardman (4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
268
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[LA CALPRENEDE (Gaultier de Coste), Seigneur de.
Hymen’s Praeludia: or, Love’s Master-Piece. Being that so
much-admired romance, intitled, Cleopatra …Written
originally in French, and now elegantly render’d into English, by
Robert Loveday.
Printed and sold by J. Watson,
1736
With engraved frontispiece, pp xii, 360: 408: 408: 456: 432: 432:
431, (3, blank): 468, 8 vols, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled
spines, with red labels, gilt, the final volume in a differing
contemporary binding: some light browning in places but still a
not unattractive set with some wear to two volumes but all
bindings strong with no loose joints and with each vol bearing
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