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Item 304157Aphorismes civill and Militarie: Aplified with with Authorities, and Exemplified with Historie, out of the first Quaterne of Fr. Guicciardine...

[Dallington, Sir Robert].

Price: $2,000

London: Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613. First edition. The author, who translated part of The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, became Master of the Charterhouse. The work is dedicated to the young Prince Charles (later King Charles I) whose youthful portrait adorns the title verso. A fine, crisp copy. Read More Item Details for Aphorismes civill and Militarie: Aplified with with Authorities, and Exemplified with Historie, out of the first Quaterne of Fr. Guicciardine Add to Wish List

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Item 304145The Second Part of the Westminster Monster, whereunto is added Pembroke's Passe from Oxford to his grave.

(English Civil War).

Price: $1,800

np: 1648. Sole edition. "And would you know what here is meant / By Monster, 'Tis our Parliament." ESTC lists seven other copies of this scathing anti-Cromwellian work, though no other parts are traced. Read More Item Details for The Second Part of the Westminster Monster, whereunto is added Pembroke's Passe from Oxford to his grave Add to Wish List

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Item 304231The Character of a Trimmer.

Halifax, George Saville, Marquis of.

Price: $1,000

London: 1688. First edition. "In January, Halifax had anonymously distributed three manuscript copies of The Character of a Trimmer, one to the archbishop of Canterbury with a letter asking him to deliver it to the king. It circulated in manuscript until pirated for publication in 1688 ... Tory journalists had..... Read More Item Details for The Character of a Trimmer Add to Wish List

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Item 304238Scrina Sacra: Secrets of Empire, in Letters of Illustrious Persons. A Supplement of the Cabala.

[Halifax, George Saville, Marquis of].

Price: $600

London: for G. Bedel, 1654. First edition. "Professes to give impartially all the materials of the secret history of the last years of James, and the earliest of Charles, and especially those concerning the actions of Buckingham, the 'Subtleties of Spain,' and the 'Practises of our Home-Roman Catholics, and of..... Read More Item Details for Scrina Sacra: Secrets of Empire, in Letters of Illustrious Persons. A Supplement of the Cabala Add to Wish List

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Item 304127Album Verses, With a Few Others.

Lamb, Charles.

Price: $350

London: Edward Moxon, 1830. First edition. To help his friend and future son in law Edward Moxon (who was to marry Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola) Lamb prepared this collection of verses, along with a two-page dedication; this was Moxon's first publication. Read More Item Details for Album Verses, With a Few Others Add to Wish List

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Item 304319A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig.

Lamb, Charles.

Price: $80

[Concord, Mass]: Arranged and put into type by Will Bradley, and issued from the Sign of the vine, 1904]. First thus. Read More Item Details for A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig Add to Wish List

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Item 304321John Woodvil A Tragedy. ... To which are Added, Fragments of Burton.

Lamb, Charles.

Price: $1,200

London: Printed by T. Plummer, Seething-Lane for G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1802. First edition. Lamb's first play and Mary's first appearance in print. Pages 106-7 contain Mary Lamb's poem "Helen", her first appearance in print. At the end are some "Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book" ascribed to..... Read More Item Details for John Woodvil A Tragedy. ... To which are Added, Fragments of Burton Add to Wish List

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Item 304322Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Second Series.

[Lamb, Charles].

Price: $2,000

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. This is an unauthorized edition. The true “Second Series” was not published in England until 1833 under the title of “The Last Essays of Elia.” The editor of this present edition mistakenly..... Read More Item Details for Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Second Series Add to Wish List

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Item 304172Document signed ("Richard Lovelace"), appointing Isaac Hunt as Lovelace's attorney for the sale of Mungeam farm to John Mungeam of...

Lovelace, Richard.

Price: $4,750

29 March 1647. Rare Signature of Richard Lovelace. Extremely rare example of the signature of cavalier poet Richard Lovelace (1617-1657) — the only known privately owned example of his hand. Save for his "To Althea, from Prison", of which contemporary manuscript copies are known, Lovelace's work achieved limited popularity in..... Read More Item Details for Document signed ("Richard Lovelace"), appointing Isaac Hunt as Lovelace's attorney for the sale of Mungeam farm to John Mungeam of Smarden Add to Wish List

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Item 304123A Forest of Varieties. First [-third] part.

[North, Dudley, 3rd baron].

Price: $3,600

London: Richard Cotes, 1645. First edition. A miscellaneous collection of essays, letters, poems and devotional meditations composed at his Cambridgeshire house at Kirtling where he organized concerts at home with his children, grandchildren and servants. Rare, this is the only copy to appear at auction since 1975. Read More Item Details for A Forest of Varieties. First [-third] part Add to Wish List

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Item 304106An Eglogue, Occasion'd by Two Doctors Disputing upon Predestination [Ossbert MS].

Randolph, Thomas.

Price: $4,200

Mid-17th century. Randolph's Eglogue was first published posthumously in 1638; six scribal copies of the poem are known. Read More Item Details for An Eglogue, Occasion'd by Two Doctors Disputing upon Predestination [Ossbert MS] Add to Wish List

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Item 304148Characters of the Royal Family, Ministers of State, and of all the Principal Persons in the French Court, with a....

(Royalty, French).

Price: $600

London: Printed for Francis Coggan, Sold by John Nutt, 1702. First edition. An introduction to the French royalty and government, a sort of intel report on the eve of the War of Spanish Succession — the final page gives a tally of the French forces. Begins with "Character I: The King..... Read More Item Details for Characters of the Royal Family, Ministers of State, and of all the Principal Persons in the French Court, with a Short Account of the French King's Revenue, and of his Land and Naval Forces … Written by a French Nobleman to his Friend in England Add to Wish List

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Item 304112Mercurius Acquaticus or the Water-Poets Answer to all that hath or shall be Writ by Mercurius Britanicus.

Taylor, John.

Price: $2,200

[Oxford]: Printed [by Leonard Lichfield] in the Waine of the Moone, 1643. Sole separate edition. A reprint of Mercurius Britannicus, no. 16 (7–15 December, 1643, pages 121–126) that Taylor half parodies, half satirizes, piece by piece. This is one of the many pro-Royalist squibs published in the early years of..... Read More Item Details for Mercurius Acquaticus or the Water-Poets Answer to all that hath or shall be Writ by Mercurius Britanicus Add to Wish List

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Item 304111A Seasonable Lecture, or a most learned oration; disburthened from Henry VValker, a most Judicious Quandam Iron Monger, a late...

Taylor, John.

Price: $2,200

London: F. Cowles, T. Bates and T. Banks, 1642. This is the only edition recorded by ESTC. A fine copy with a distinguished provenance. Read More Item Details for A Seasonable Lecture, or a most learned oration; disburthened from Henry VValker, a most Judicious Quandam Iron Monger, a late pamphleteere and now (too late or too soone) a double diligent preacher. As it might be deliverd in Hatchame Barne the thirtieth day of March last, Stylo Novo. Take in short writing by Thorny Ailo, and now printed in words at length, and not in figures, by his olde Friend of one side. With new additions never before printed Add to Wish List

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Item 304113Westminster Fayre. Newly Proclaimed. My Muse thus venters to open her Ware, and bids you welcome to Westminster Fayre.

[Taylor, John].

Price: $1,800

[London]: Printed in King's-street, 22 Sept. 1647. First edition. A very good copy with a distinguished provenance. This work was published in the final proverty-stricken years of Taylor's life when he was running the Crown alehouse in Covent Garden. He still had to write the occasional piece, such as this..... Read More Item Details for Westminster Fayre. Newly Proclaimed. My Muse thus venters to open her Ware, and bids you welcome to Westminster Fayre Add to Wish List

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Item 304141Flores Solitudinis. Certaine rare and elegant pieces; viz two excellent discourses of 1. Temperance, and patience; 2. Life and Death...

Vaughan, Henry.

Price: $5,500

London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1654. First edition. In addition to his own Life of Paulinus, which contains a considerable amount of verse, this compilation includes Vaughan's translations from the Latin of two works by the Spanish Jesuit Juan Eusebio Nieremberg and..... Read More Item Details for Flores Solitudinis. Certaine rare and elegant pieces; viz two excellent discourses of 1. Temperance, and patience; 2. Life and Death. By I.E. Nierembergius. The World Contemned; By Eucherius, BP of Lyon and The Life of Paulinus, BP of Nola Add to Wish List

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Item 304144Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability That the language of ... China is the Primitive Language.

Webb, John.

Price: $5,500

London: Printed for Nath. Brook, 1669. First edition. Possibly the first work in China in English, this rare treatise on the supposed original language spoken by Adam and Eve, by the architect John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones. Harbsmeier notes that "Webb's contribution to Sinology is so important because..... Read More Item Details for Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability That the language of ... China is the Primitive Language Add to Wish List

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Item 304313Sighs for the Pitchers: Breathed out in a Personal Contribution to the National Humiliation the last of May, 1666.

Wither, George.

Price: $675

[London]: np, 1666. First edition. A fine example of Wither's political writing, this is a sequel to his 1664 Tuba-pacifica, warning against Anglo-Dutch hostilities. With the advent of the Second Anglo-Dutch war, he took up the cause again - speciically in the wake of the Four Day's Battle in May..... Read More Item Details for Sighs for the Pitchers: Breathed out in a Personal Contribution to the National Humiliation the last of May, 1666 Add to Wish List

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Item 304312Three Private Meditations.

Wither, George.

Price: $750

London: np, 1665. First edition. These brief reflections in verse embody the ongoing concerns of Wither. The first rallies against the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the second hopes for the safety of his wife and children during his imprisonment, and the final piece is a meditation on the horror of the..... Read More Item Details for Three Private Meditations Add to Wish List

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