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Rare: we have traced only the Spanish National Library copy. Our copy
is bound without signature Ffff, two leaves, pages 305-8.
Also with
this lot:
LEO I, St., Pope, ‘Leo the Great’.
S. S. P. P. Leonis
Magni Romani Pontificis eius nominis primi, Maximi
Taurinensis episcopi, Petri Chrysologi Ravennatis episcopi,
Fulgentii episcopi Ruspensis, Valeriani episcopi Cemeliensis,
opera omnia quae reperiri potuerunt. Cum indicibus necessariis.
Lutetiae [Paris], Hieronymi Drouart,
1623. With printer’s device on
both title-pages, the first title in red and black, pages (12), cols
544; pp (4), cols 549 - 706, pp (10), (2, blank); pp (12), cols (1),
445, pp (1, blank), (6), (2, blank): pp (12), cols (1), 25, 27 - 789,
pp (2, blank), (15), numbering erratic in places, but complete, 5
pts in 2 vols, bound in 1, folio, old half calf: the binding a little
worn but sound and strong and internally in very good to nice
state.
Dedication signed Ioannes Ulimmerius and dated 1575. COPAC has
three Paris editions dated 1623 (Oxford, Newcastle and Liverpool only)
but not this Drouart one.
(3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
396
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SELOUS (Frederick Courteney).
Sunshine and Storm in
Rhodesia. Being a narrative of events in Matabeleland both
before and during the recent native insurrection up to the date of
the disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force.
Rowland Ward,
1896
SECOND EDITION, with a folding map, 9 plates and a few
text illustrations, pages xxvii, (3), 290, (10, adverts), 8vo, finely
bound in recent quarter calf, gilt, top edges gilt: with the
occasional finger mark, but still a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HAMILTON (J. Angus).
The
Siege of Mafeking.
Methuen & Co.,
1900. FIRST EDITION,
with 16 plates and a large folding map (neatly repaired without
loss), pages x, (1), 332, 8vo, recent quarter calf, with label gilt: a
very good, nicely bound copy.
(2)
COMBES (Paul), the elder.
Cent ans de lutte. Les hêros
Boers. Prétorius - Kruger - Steijn - Joubert - Cronjé - Botha -
Ollivier - Dewet - Villebois-Mareuil, etc. Première guerre du
Transvaal (1881), le raid de Jameson (1895). La guerre anglo-
boer de 1899-1900.
Paris, Montgredien et Cie.,
[1901] (3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
397
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SERARIUS (Nicolas), SJ.
Commentarii in sacros
Bibliorum libros, Iudicum, & Ruth. Cum triplici indice …
[bound with: ] Comentarii in … Tobiae, Iudith, Esther,
Machabaeorum, cum triplici indice …
Lutetiae Parisiorum. Ex
officina Edmundi Martini,
1611
With a large woodcut device on each title-page, pages (12),
columns 802, pages (9): pages (12), columns 830, pages (14), 2
works in one volume, folio, strongly bound in recent boards:
with some slight marginal worming, but still very good copies.
Serarius (1555-1609), prolific author and important theologian,
professor at Würzburg and later at Mainz.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
398
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SHAKESPEARE (Wm.): - [Montagu (Elizabeth
Robinson)].
An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespear,
compared with the Greek and French dramatic poets. With
some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de
Voltaire.
Dublin: Printed for J. Potts, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine, J.
Williams, and W. Colles,
1778
SECOND IRISH EDITION, pages (2, blank), (6), 242, (2,
blank), complete with the half-title, 12mo, contemporary
mottled calf, wanting label, but an attractive copy.
An uncommon edition of a work first published, at Dublin, in 1769.
Offended by Voltaire’s contemptuous references to Shakespeare,
Montagu, the original ‘blue stocking’, undertook to refute him. Her
book, both sensible and sympathetic, fulfilled its purpose and was
greatly admired: Wharton regarded it as the most elegant and judicious
piece of criticism of his time.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
399
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SHAKESPEARE: -.
A Shakespeare Bibliography. The
catalogue of the Birmingham Shakespeare Library, Birmingham
Public Libraries.
Mansell,
1971
Pages xviii, 564: (2), 565-1148: (4), 1149-1540: (4), 704: (2), 705-
1404: (2), 1405-2100: (4), 2101-2753, 7 vols, 4to, original stiff
printed paper wrappers: a fine, unmarked, virtually as new set of
this important reference catalogue.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ALDIS (Harry G.).
A list of
books printed in Scotland before 1700, including those printed
furth of the realm for Scottish booksellers. With brief notes on
the printers and stationers. Printed for the Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society 1904. Photographically reprinted with
additions including entries for books published in 1700.
Edinburgh,
1970. Small folio, original cloth: a clean and very
good copy in a toned dust wraper. (2)
€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
400
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SHEBBEARE (John): -.
A fifth letter to the people of
England. On m—-l influence. And management of national
treasure.
London: Printed in the year
1756
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, 32-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
An anonymous rebuttal of John Shebbeare’s ’Fourth letter to the people
of England’ and his contentions concerning Minorca and America.
Shebbeare had accused the ministry of sacrificing British maritime and
colonial interests in North America by slavishly pandering to the
Hanoverian partialities of George II.
JAMES II, King of England.
the several depositions made in council on Monday, the 22d of
October, 1688. concerning the birth of the Prince of Wales. N.
B. Those mark’d with this mark, * were Roman Catholicks.
[1711?].
(2)
TINDAL: - LE CLERC (Jean).
Mr. Le Clerc’s Extract and
Judgment of the rights of the Christian Church asserted, &c.
Translated from his Bibliotheque Choisie, Tome X. To which is
prefix’d, a letter to a noble peer, occasioned by a late
presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex.
London, Printed for
A. Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane,
1708. FIRST
EDITION THUS, pages viii, 32, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
(3)
SHEFFIELD (John), Duke of Buckingham: -.
A character
of John Sheffield late Duke of Buckinghamshire; with an
account of the pedigree of the Sheffield-family: to which is
annex’d His Grace’s last will and testament, written with his
own hand.
Printed for J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall
1729. FIRST
EDITION, with 2 text engravings but without the portrait
usually found, pages (2), 48, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: with
some light foxing, but still a very good copy.
Greenough 191. The
two illustrations are of a house, probably Buckingham House.
(4)
WALPOLE (Robert), first Earl of Orford.
A short history
of the parliament.
London: Printed for T. Warner,
1713. Pages 31,
(1, blank), with the half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good copy.
Landis, European Americana 713/181. Attacking the treaty of Utrecht
and the commercial treaty with France.
(5)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
401
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SHEE (Sir Martin Arthur).
Rhymes on Art; or, The
Remonstrance of a Painter: in two parts. With notes, and a
preface, including strictures on the state of the arts, criticism,
patronage, and public taste.
London: Printed for H. Ebers, successor
to the late John Kerby …,
1805
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