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A short treatise upon the propriety and necessity of duelling. Illustrated with the ancient manner of combating and entering the lists, as in the Reign of Richard the IId. by the Dukes of Norfolk and Lancaster. Also, the Particulars of a Duel fought at the Cape of Good Hope, Between Two Officers in the East-India Company's Service. And, Authentic Particulars relative to A Duel fought near the City of -, in which is Related, Certain Circumstances of that black Affair and dreadful Transaction, never before made public; very sufficient to clear up, and set wight, the Opinions, Doubts, and Suggestions of the whole World. Dedicated without permission to the greatest scoundrel by many in - . By one, who was interested in the secret; but now in the publication.
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A catalogue of a large and fine collection of books, comprehending above thirty thousand volumes, ancient and modern, in most languages, including the libraries of the Reverend Edward Southwell, rector of Asterby, in Lincolnshire, of William Jones, M.D. and several others. Among other valuable and scarce books, are Hortus Malabaricus, 12 vol. Aristoteles, Du val, 2 vol. Plutarchus, Rualdi, 2 vol. Plato, Ficini Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. Galei Scriptores, 3 vol. Poetæ Græci, H. Steph. Aristophanes, Edit. Princeps Aristophanes, Kusteri, ... Dugdale's baronage - origines - summons - monasticon and continuation by Stephens, 3 vol. - Warwickshire Camden, 2 vol. Royal paper Stukeley's stone henge and abury, 2 vol. Many of the scarce counties Horsley's Britannia Romana Rushworth's collections, 8 vol, L.P. Tanner's Notitia monastica Religious ceremonies, 6 vol. Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Universal history, 23 vol. Chambers's dictionary, 4 vol. Locke, Bacon, Boyle, Selden, &c. Philosophical transactions, 68 vol. Lord Sommers's tracts, 16 vol. Encyclopedie, 50 vol. The books are in good condition, and will begin to be sold, for ready money only, January 1, 1782. By Lockyer Davis, in Holborn; and will continue on sale till all are sold. Catalogues (Price Six-Pence, to be returned in the purchase) may be had of Messrs. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Robson; in New Bond Street; Debret, Piccadilly; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's Street; Owen, Temple Bar; Sewell, in Cornbill; and at the place of sale, where ready money may be had for any Library or parcel of books.
Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791.Date: 1781]- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of Alexander Thistlethwayte, Esq; Late Knight of the Shire for the County of Hants; and of Various other valuable Collections of Books. Among which are the following Articles: Aristoteles & Theophrastus, 6 vol. Aldi Eustathius in Homerum, 4 vol. Romae Pindar, Oxon. - Euripides Barnesii-Dionysius Halicarn. Hudsoni, 2 vol. Ciceronis Opera, Victorii, 4 vol. ap Juntas Romanae Historiae Scriptores, 3 vol. Graevius, Gronovius, Sallengre, Polenus, &c. &c. 74 vol. velom Assemanni Biblioth. Orientalis, 4 vol. Critici Sacri, & Thes. Philolog. 13 vol. Majemonidis Manus Fortis, 4 vol. S. Augustini Opera, 12 vol. Edit. Bened. Biblia Polyglotta & Castelli Lex. 8 vol. Churchill's Voyages and Suppl. 8 vol. Ancient and Mod. Hist. 24 vol. elegant Le Bruyn's Travels, 3 vol. compleat Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. - Monasticon, Engl. 3 vol. L. P. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. best edit. Bp. Nicolson's Historical Libraries Bp. Tanner's Notitia Monastica Horseley's Britannia Romana Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, 1st edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Moreri, Dictionnaire, 10 tom. Martiniere, Dictionnaire, 10 tom. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Calmet's Dictionary, 3 vol. Ditto - French, 4 tom. Bayle, Dictionnaire, 5 tom. Les Habits du Levant, colorees Blair's Chronol. Tables and Maps, L. P. Atlas de M. Robert, Gr. & petit. pap. Le Cabinet du Roy de France, 26 tom. Ridinger's Works, compleat, 3 vol. Regenfuss's Book of Shells, coloured Clerck's Book of Insects, coloured Harris's Book of Insects, coloured Wilkes's Moths and Butterflies, coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. cuts, coloured Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. col. British Zoology, 132 plates, coloured Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. coloured Miller's 300 Plates of Plants, 2 v. coloured Works of Nat. Hist. by the Nuremberg Artists, 38 vol. coloured Sebae Thes. Rerum Naturalium, 4 vol. Rumphii Herbarium Amboin. 7 vol. Gualtieri Index Conchyliorum Morison's Hist. Plantarum, 2 vol. Commelini Hortus Amstelodam. 2 vol. Scheuchzer's Nat. Hist. of Bible, 8 vol. Aldrovandi Opera, 12 vol. cor. Russ. Willoughby on Birds, by Ray Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, 15 tom. 4to. Statue Venezianze, 2 vol. Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 vol. L. P. Houbraken's Heads, L. P. Major's Book of Prints and Poestum, 2 v. Opere di Piranesi, 8 vol. Smith's Metzotintos, 3 large vol. Antichita D'ercolano, 6 vol. Rossi, Statue Antichi e Moderni Adam's Ruins at Spalatro Le Roy, Ruines de la Grece, 2 tom. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent Chambers's Works of Architect. 2 vol. Montfaucon, Antiquite, 15 tom. gr. pap. Anderson's Diplomata Scotiae The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of each Book; and the Sale begins in August, 1772. By Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1772]- Books
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Bibliotheca biographica: a synopsis of universal biography, ancient and modern. Containing a circumstantial and curious detail of the lives, actions, opinions, writings, and characters of the most celebrated persons, of both Sexes, of all Ranks, in all Countries, and in all Ages: Alphabetically disposed. Particularly Emperors, Kings, Statesmen, Generals and Admirals; Popes, Cardinals, Prelates, Fathers and Arch-Heretics; Divines, Philosophers, Historians, Orators, Civilians, Physicians, Poets, learned Ladies, Painters, and Players. Including also, The personal as well as public History of our Sovereigns, from the Conquest; with many hundred Lives of British Worthies, whose virtuous Acts adorn the Annals of these Kingdoms. A Work equally calculated to inform, entertain, and improve; as preserving Memorials of noble Families, and distinct Accounts of important Transactions and memorable Events; the several Dates compared with the most accurate Chronological Tables extant. The whole affording a comprehensive Abstract of Universal History, and being in reality a convenient Repository to be occasionally consulted for the better understanding Authors, in Civil, Natural, or Ecclesiastical History; Divinity, Philosophy, Politics, and every other kind of Science. By Thomas Flloyd, Esq. ...
Flloyd, Thomas.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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A catalogue of books, containing many valuable articles, in ancient and modern literature. Among them are Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vols. Dalton's Manners of the Egyptians, plain or coloured Carter's Ancient Sculpture, 24 Nos. Gilpin's Tour, complete, 7 vols. Watt's Views, ditto Surveys of Essex, Kent, Surrey, &c. Antiquarian Society Prints Worlidge's Prints, old impressions D'auteroche Siberie, 4 vols grand papier Portraits des Hommes Illustres de Dannemarck Habits of the Levant, coloured Salvator's Roza's Etchings Picart's Temple of the Muses, l. p. Gower de Confessio Amantis, MS. on vellum La Roman de la Rose, ditto Rules of Winchester College, ditto Stuart's Athens, vol. 1. Dugdale's Monasticon Fuller's Worthies Harris's Voyages, 2 vols. best Hackluyt's ditto, 2 vols. best Barlow's Aesop Johnson on Gerarde Swammerdam's Insects Hudson's Dionysius, 2 vols. Dion Cassius Reimarii Justin - Venetiis, 1479 Rei Rusticae Edit. Princeps H. Stephens Thesaurus, Gr. 4 vols. l. p. Chinese Dictionary Sti. Basilii Opera, 3 vols. edit. opt. Sti. Bernardi Opera, 2 vols. edit. opt. Critici Sacri, et Thesaurus Philologicus, 12 vols. edit. opt. Pennant's Tours Phillips's Shrewsbury Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, fine copy Shaw's Travels, lest edit. Cook's Last Voyage, first impressions The Myrrour of Knighthood, 4 vols. Don Quixote, by Jarvis, 2 vols. with additional plates by Hogarth Thomson's Works, 2 vols. Swift's Works, 14 vols. Desagulier's Experim. Philosophy, 2 vols. Snelling's Coins Lavater's Physiognomy, 3 vols. Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, 2 vols. Strawberry Hill, Rabbit Woman (tracts relative to) with prints by Hogarth, &c. Gentleman's Magazines from 1731 to 1772, 42 vols. They are now selling, this day, 1792, for ready Money only, at the low Prices marked in the Catalogue, and on the first Leaf of each Book, by Thomas King, Book Seller, No. 25, New Broad-Street. Catalogues may be had of the following Booksellers, Messrs. Sewell, Cornhill; Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Chapman, Chandos-Street; Fletcher, Oxford; Merrills, Cambridge; at T. King's Great Room, King-Street, Covent-Garden; and at the Place of Sale.
King, Thomas.Date: 1792]- Books
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A compendious abstract of the history of the Church of Christ, from its first foundation to the eighteenth century. With a faithful and circumstantial account of the acts of the apostles-of the lives of the prinitive Christians-of the general persecutions raised against them by the pagan emperors-of the oecumenical councils-of the chief castors-of the condemnation of ancient heresies-of the defective systems of pagan philosophy-of the despersion of the Jews, the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem, and the vain attempt of the Emperor Julian to rebuild it-of the downfall of idolatry-of the suppression of schisms-of the conversion of nations-of the rise of mahometanism-of the crusades-with several other remarkable events and occurrences. Illustrated with a brief detail of the eminent virtues and apostelic labours of the Holy Fathers, learned doctors, ecclesiastical writers, renowned martyrs, and other great saints, who have flourrished in every age down to the present, &c. By the Rev. William Gahan, O.S.A.
Gahan, William, 1730-1804.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A catalogue of all the entire and well-chosen library of the late Mrs. Letitia Wiggett, deceased, At her late Dwelling-House, in St. George's Colgate, Norwich: which will be sold by auction, by Edward Crane, on Wednesday the 28th inst. and two following days: Consisting of an Air Pump, Mathematical, Philosophical, and other Instruments. - Amongst the books are Picart's Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. Spence's Polymetis, best Edition-Rapin and Continuation, 5 vol. - Montfaucon's Antiquities and Supplement, 7 vol. - Ancient and Modern Universal History, 27 vol. - Hill's Natural History of Fossils-Hook's Micographia, best Edition-Pennant's British Zoology, Elegant-Pitt's Atlas, 4 vol. Catalogues may be had at the Auctioneer's Upholstery Warehouse, White-Lion-Lane, Norwich, at 3d. each, which will be returned to every purchaser to the amount of five shillings. The whole to be viewed on Tuesday next from Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon 'till Three in the Afternoon. The Sale begins each Morning precisely at Half past Ten.
Crane, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1790?]- Books
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Dr. Stearns's tour from London to Paris. Containing, A description of the Kingdom of France - the customs, manners, polity, science, commerce, and agriculture of the inhabitants -Its Ancient form of Government,-And the New-Particulars concerning the Royal Family-Causes of the late Revolution-Proceedings and Decrees of the National Assembly-An Account of the Destruction of the Bastille, and of many dreadful Commotions which have happened in the Nation-With a minute Detail of the late grand Proceedings at the Champ De Mars. - The whole interspersed with a Variety of Reflections, humourous, moral, critical, and philosophical. After which is delineated, a new constitution: with a description of the road to liberty.
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Rev. Mr. Christr. Twynihoe, late of Turnworth, near Blandford, Dorset; consisting of A large Collection of the Classics, and many valuable Books in the Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Critical Literature, History, Divinity, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, In the Town-Hall, in Blandford, On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 21st, 22d, and 23d of August; 1775. And on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 28th, 29th, and 30th of August. By William Sollers. The Sale to begin each Day precisely at 10 O'Clock. The Library may be viewed the Saturday preceding the first Day's Sale. - Catalogues may be had of Wm. Sollers, Bookseller, in Blandford; Mr. Easton, Salisbury; Mr. Goadey, and Mr. Cruttwell, Sherborne; Mr. Woolridge, Shafton; Mr. ..., Wimborn; Mr. Rule, at Poole; and at the Post-Office in Weymouth.
Sollers, William.Date: 1775]- Books
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Catalogue of books, prints, and books of prints; being the collection of a gentleman of distinguished taste, which will begin to be sold by auction, on Monday the 29th of April, 1799, by James Vallance, at his Sale Room, No. 6, Eustance-Street; Among which are the following: Hume's history of England, Bower's superb edition, 37 nos. with first impressions of the plates. Grose's England and Wales, 8 vol. - English armory, 2 vol. - Ancient armory with plates, fine impressions, bound uniform. Ireland's medway-Thames and Avon, proof impressions. Memoirs of Count Gramont, with 70 plates, fine impressions. ... Naturalist's magazine, 7 vol. plates, coloured. Donovan's British birds, 3 vol. plates, coloured. Stockdale's editions of Thomson's seasons,-Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol.-s̆op's fables, 2 vol. and gay's fables, with fine plates, elegantly bound. Lavater's essays on physiognomy, 3 vol. with plates, elegant. A fine collection of the most correct and valuable editions of the classic authors, among which are those published by Barbou-Elzevir-Mattaire-Wakefield-Heyne-Hawkey-Baskerville Brindley, &c &c. The British classics, published by parsons and cook, &c. A very curious and elegant collection of English and Scotch poetry. Johnson's edition of the poets, with their lives, 75 vol. elegantly bound. - and Stevens's Shakespear, 15 vol. best edition, elegan. Dodsley's old plays, 12 vol. elegant. Minor Theatre, 7 vol. with plates, bound in blue Morocco. With a number of others equally valuable, and the whole in very elegant bindings. The sheet prints consist of a selection, after the pictures of the first Italian, French, Flemish and English masters. Gentlemen who cannot attend the sale, may have their commissions executed by James Vallance.-Hours of sale from 12 o'clock until 4 each day.
Vallance, James.Date: 1799]- Books
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Sael's catalogue for 1792, consisting of twenty thousand volumes; including two libraries lately purchased; and many rare and curious books, collected from various Parts of the Kingdom; with a choice Collection of the most esteemed modern Publications: The whole forming an extensive Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature; many of which are in elegant Bindings. Among others equally valuable are Speculum Ecclesiae, Liber Edwardi Confessoris, MS. Biographia Britannica, 4 vol. Blair's Chronology, best edit. Borlase's Cornwell. Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani, a Gibson, 2 tom. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vols. large paper. Camden's Britannia, by Gough, 3 vols. Nash's Worcestershire, 2 vols. Dee, Bramhall, Saunders, Agrippa, Hopkins, &c. on Witchcraft. King's Vale Royal, eleg. MS. notes. Dictionaries, by Chambers, Johnson, Ainsworth, Baretti, Motherby, Miller, &c. Leicester's Cheshire. Earl of Oxford's Col. of Voyages, 2 vols. Holy Bible, by Field, Wilson, Gill, Brown, Doway, Coll, &c. Morant's Essex, 2 vols. large paper. Peck's Stamford, large paper. Tanner's Notitia, by Nasmith. Scriptores Historiae Romanae, 3 tom. Plukenetti Opera, 4 tom. Homerus Gr. Hodierna, cum multis fig. Newton's Milton, 3 vols. eleg. Ferguson's and Gibbon's Rome, 9 vols. Pennant's Wales, London, and Scotland, 6 vols. New Test. by Tyndale, first edit. Vaughan's Antiquities. Fenn's Letters, 4 vols. Horae ad Usum Sarum, cum fig. MS. on vellum - 1498 Mountenay's Emblems, in seven languages. Gentleman's Magazine, 68 vols. Bell's Poets, 109 vols. Dodsley's Register, 31 vols. Gibbon's and Hook's Rome, 23 vols. eleg. Shakspeare, by Johnson, Stevens, Bell, Capel, and Malone, 51 vols. Ancient and Modern Universal History, 60 vols. Johnson's Poets, 75 vols. Hume's and Smollet's England, 13 vols. portraits. Voltaire's Works, 36 vols. Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian, 14 vols. British Classics, 40 vols. Which are now selling, for ready Money only, at the exceeding low Prices printed in the Catalogue. by G. Sael, Bookseller, at the English Library, Newcastle Street, Strand, London, Who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books, or Books exchanged. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange; Messrs. Merrills, Cambridge; Prince and Co. Oxford; Mr. Poole, Chester; and of the principal Book sellers in every County Town in England. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of G. Sael's future Catalogue, in either Town or Country, may depend on receiving it, by favouring him with their Address before the Publication. Country Dealers, and all Public Schools, &c. supplied with all Publications whatever, on the lowest Terms, and with the utmost Dispatch. Orders for Exportation punctually executed.
Sael, George, 1760 or 1761-1799.Date: 1792]- Books
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A catalogue of a most curious and valuable collection of prints, drawings, books of prints, and portfolios; Collected with great Care, and at a great Expence, by the late Jonathan Blackburne, Esq; of Liverpool. This collection consits of Near Ten Thousand of the finest Impressions of Historical and other Prints, both Ancient and Modern. The Historical Prints, Landscapes, &c. by Marc. Antonio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael, Vandyke, Mic. Angelo, Albert Durer, Hollar, Visscher, &c. &c. A great Number of the finest Foreign Portraits by Drevet, Edelinck, &c. &c. The Engraved English Portraits by Faithorne, White, Hollar, Cross, Pass, &c. &c. &c. The English Portraits in Metzotinto by Smith, Faber, M̀ardel, Becket, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, By Mr. Hutchins, At his rooms in King-Street and Hart-Street, Covent-Garden, On Monday, the 20th of March 1786, and the Twelve following Evenings, (sundays excepted) at Six O'Clock. To be viewed on Friday the 17th, and till the Sale. Catalogues may be had of Mr. Hutchins. - Price 2s. 6d.
Hutchins, Mr. (Hassil), active 1779-1789.Date: 1786]- Books
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Proposals for publishing a mathematical and philosophical dictionary; Containing an explanation of the terms, an an account of the several subjects. Comprized under the heads mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, both natural and experimental; with an historical account of the rise, progress and present state of these sciences: also memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent authors. Both ancient and modern, who by their discoteries or improvement have contributed to the advancement of them in two large volumes. With many cuts and copper-plates. By Charles Hutton, LL.D. F.R.S. And professor of mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: [1794?]- Books
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Librorum insignium & rarissimorum collectio elegans. A catalogue of Several Thousand Volumes of the most Learned and Celebrated Authors, Ancient and Modern, in History, Divinity, Physic, Natural History, Mathematicks, Philosophy, Poetry, Plays, &c. A large Collection of the most valuable Editions of the Classic Authors, and of the Greek and Latin Fathers; Books of Prints, Mapps, Architecture and the most elegant Writers in the French, Italian, Spanish and German Languages. Including Among other libraries lately purchased, Those of the Learned and Rev. Mr. Thomas Leavesly, and Of an Eminent Physician, Lately Deceased. Which will begin to be sold Cheap, the Lowest Price of each Article Printed in the Catalogue; On Thursday, December 6, 1749. By Lockyer Davis, at Lord Bacon's Head, near Salisbury-Court, in Fleet-Street. Where Catalogues may be had, and ready Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, likewise the Mss. Sermons of a learned Clergyman, deceased.
Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791.Date: 1749]- Books
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The method of teaching and studying the belles lettres, or, an introduction to languages, poetry, rhetoric, history, moral philosophy, physicks, &c. With Reflections on Taste; and Instructions with regard to the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, and the Stage. The whole illustrated with Passages from the most famous Poets and Orators, ancient and modern, with Critical Remarks on them. Designed more particularly for Students in the Universities. By Mr. Rollin, late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence in the Royal College, and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. ...
Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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Bibliotheca Pinelliana. A catalogue of the magnificent and celebrated library of Maffei Pinelli, Late of Venice: Comprehending an unparalleled Collection of the Greek, Roman, and Italian Authors, from the origin of printing: With many of the Earliest Editions printed upon Vellum, and finely illuminated; A considerable Number of curious Greek and Latin Manuscripts, of the XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. and XVI. Centuries; And the completest Specimen hitherto known to exist, of an Instrument written upon the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus, A. D. 572. The whole library is in singularly fine Preservation, And will be sold by auction, on Monday March 2, 1789, and the Twenty-Two following Days, (sundays excepted); The Sale afterwards to re-commence on Monday, April 20, and continue the following Thirty-Six Days (sundays excepted), at the Great Room, opposite the chapel, in Conduit Street, Hanover Square, London: To begin each Day at Twelve O'Clock. - To be viewed Ten Days preceding the Sale.
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Catalogue of books, prints, and books of print being the libraries of the Late Rev. Doctor Usher, F.T.C.D. Mr. Clarendon, and another gentleman which will begin to be sold on Wednesday the 22d of June, 1796, by James Vallance, at his Sale-Room, No. 6, Eustace-Street, the collection consists of a number of excellent books in various branches of literature; among which are the following: folio. Montsaucon's Grecian and Roman antiquities, with the supplement, 15 vol. first impressions of the plates. - Antiquities of France, 5 vol. with plates, Boydel's Shakespeare, with large and small plates, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Hodges's views in India fine impressions, bound in Russia. Miller's illustration of the sexual system of linnŭs, 3 vol. with plates coloured and plain, Rubens's landscapes, engraved by Bolswert. Kirby's perspective, fine plates, large paper. Overbeke's antiquities of Rome, 3 vol. impressions, large paper. Trajan and antonine columns, fine impressions, Chambers's dictionary, 5 vol. with plates best edition. Ancient and modern universal history 12 vol. Cooke's voyages, 10 vol. compleat, fine plates pressions of the plates, bound in green tu Pope's works and translations, 14 vol. copy. Spenser's fairie queene, 3 vol. with many designs, elegant. Ferguson's Roman republic, 3 vol. elegant. Doddridge's family expositor, 6 vol. plates, fine copy. With many others equally good. Most of the prints are fine impressions.
Vallance, James.Date: 1796]- Books
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A catalogue of a valuable collection of books, in all branches of learning, and most languages: comprehending several libraries and parcels of books, lately purchased. The Books in general are in good Condition. Among which are Folio. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured, and bound in Morocco Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent, R. P. Ruins of Palmyra Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. R. P. Universal Hist. Ancient and Modern, 24 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. Collection of Voyages, 8 vol. Russia Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. ... Locke's Works, 3 vol. Spence's Polymetis Holy Bible, bound in Turkey Patrick, Lowth & Whitby, 6 vol. Tillotson, Scot's, &c. Works Chamber's Dict. 2 vol. - Johnson's Dict. 2 vol. - Bayle's Dict. 5 vol. R. & S. P. - Ainsworth's Dict. 2 vol. Rymeri Foedera, 20 vol. Overbeke Reliquiae Urbis Romae, Russia Folio. Dion Cassius Reimarii, 2 vol. Polybius Casauboni Thuanus Buckleii, 7 vol. Plutarchi Opera, 4 vol. edit. opt. Hickesii Thesaurus, 2 vol. ch. max. Du Fresnes Glossarium, 6 vol. edit. opt. Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum S. Basilii Opera a Garnier, 3 vol. Hoffmanni Opera, 6 vol. Hortus Cliffortianus Gaulteri Index Conchiliorum Oeuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. Estampes de Crozat Desgodetz Edifices de Rome Overbeke Restes de L'ancienne Rome Dictionnaire de la Bible, par Calmet. 4 tom. Quarto. ... Oeuvres de Moliere, 6 vol. Ciceronis Opera Oliveti, 9 vol. Living a Crevier, 6 vol. Bacon's Works, 5 vol. Statures at Large, by Russhead, 9 vol. Philosophical Transactions, abridged, 11 vol. Which will begin to be sold cheap (the Prices printed in the Catalogue) on Monday, March 9, 1767, and continue on Sale every Day, by Charles Marsh, Bookseller, at Charing-Cross, Ten Doors below Northumberland House.
Marsh, Charles, -1782.Date: 1767]- Books
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Elements of geography, with the principles of natural philosophy, and sketches of general history. Containing I. The figure of the earth, and the Elements of Mechanics and Astronomy. II. The Oeconomy of the Sublunary Works of Creation, Living and Inanimate. Cohesion, Gravity, Magnetism, Electricity, Optics, Phonics, Pneumatics, Meteors, Hydrostatics, &c. the Structure of Fossils, Anatomy of Plants and Animals. III. Picturesque and General Sketches of the different Parts of the Earth, and the varied Appearances and Manners of its Inhabitants, both Man and Brute. With an Account of J. Cook's last Voyage, which, in accounting for the peopling of the remote Parts of the World, may serve the most incredulous as a Cord to bind together all the Nations of the Earth in one great Family, descended from one common Stock. Also, The History of Slavery, ancient and modern. IV. The Rise, Revolutions and Fall of the Principal Empires of the World. In which the Jewish History is, as the most important, most fully entered into; with a particular Account of the Siege and final Destruction of Jerusalem. V. Changes through different Ages in the Manners of Mankind. In which the Idolatry of the Ancients, the Testimonies of the Primitive Christians, and the Gothic and Feudal Manners, with the gradual Refinement of Europe therefrom, are particularly described. VI. Vii. Viii. IX. Descriptions of the different quarters of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their Divisions into Countries, Provinces, &c. their Climates, Soils, Animals, Plants, Minerals, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Commerce, Manufactures, Curiosities, Schools, Learning, Literati, Religious Profession, Language, Government, History, &c. Illustrated With Ten Copperplates. BY John Walker, Teacher of the Classics and Mathematics, Usher's Island, Dublin. Being principally the substance of a course of lectures addressed to his pupils.
Walker, John, 1759-1830.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The commentaries of Cæsar, translated into English. By William Duncan, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen.
Caesar, Julius.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Edwards's catalogue of a select collection of ancient and modern books, in every branch of science, valuable drawings and prints, painted from the antique; Including the choicest Part of the Libraries of Monsignor Salichetti of Rome, late Physician to the Pope; of Cav. Zanetti of Venice; and an Assortment of the rarest and most esteemed Articles, collected in various Parts of Europe. Zanetti's Orig. Drawings of Ant. Stat. 2 v. Books of finely colour'd Drawings from Herculaneum, the Baths of Titus, and the Vatican, &c. Capital Drawings of Birds by G. di Udino, a scholar of Raphael Lewin's Paintings of English Birds, on vel. Albert Durer's Engravings complete Vernet's Prints, first impressions Piranesi's Works complete, 16 vol. russia Gallerie de Dresde Luxemburg Gallery, first impression Museum Florentinum, 13 vol. russia Museum Clementinum, 3 vol. russia Sir W. Hamilton's Views of Naples, col. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiq. col. Antiquities of Herculancum, royal edition Worlidge's Gems, fine impressions Houbraken's Heads, large paper, 1st impr. Hogarth's Works, old impressions, morocco The Old French School of Engravers, 14 v. Tewrdancks, 1517, printed on vel. & illum. Telemaque, grand papier, 1734 Voyages Pittoresq. D'italie, Grece, France, Sicile & Suisse, 21 vol. Superb Manuscripts of the Classics on vel. Alcoran, folio MS. with rich illuminations Decamerone di Boccacio, 1527, pr. on vel. Campbell's Vitruvins Britannicus, 5 vol. Sir W. Dugdale's Works Chronicles by Froissart, Holinshed, &c. Rapin & Tindal, russia Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores, edit. ptima Rymeri Foedera Dc Bry Navigationes in Indias Gesneri Numismata Montfaucon Mon. Francoise, 5 tom. gr. p. - Antiq. & Sup. 15 tom. gr. pa. Lancelot du Lac, Cirongilio di Francia, Primaleon y Polendos, Olivante de Macedonia, Amadis di Gaula, Guerino il Meschino, &c. Edmondson's Baronagium Anglicanum, 6 v Physique Sacre, 8 vol. morocco Winkelman Monumenta Inedita, 2 vol. Ariosto Orlando Furioso, carta mass. Biblia Sacra Mogunt. 1462, pr on vel. with il. Boccacio II Decamerone, ediz. prima Petrarca, 1472 Decor Puellarum, 1461 Psalterium, Gr. & Lat. 1481. edit. primae Juvenal, 1470, edit. princeps Florus, edit. princeps Manilius, 1474, edit. princeps Sallustius, edit. princeps Terentius, edit. princeps C. Nepos, 1471, edit. princeps Hist. Augustae Scriptores, 1475, edit. prin. Plautus, 1472, edit. princeps Rei Rusticae Scriptores, 1472, edit. prin. Solinus, 1473, edit. princeps V. Flaccus, 1474, edit. princeps Celsus, 1478, edit. princeps Astronomi Veteres, edit. princeps Lascaris Grammatica Graeca, 1480 Anthologia Graeca, 1494, edit. princeps Apoll. Rhodius, 1496, edit princeps Caefar a Clark, morocco Lucretius, charta max. 1712 Lactantius, 1468, morocco Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 vol. Delphin Classics complete Catullus, &c. Vulpii, charta max. 6 vol. Periera Antoniana Margarita Eustatius in Homerum, 4 vol. russ. Marchi Architettura Militare Atlas de D'anville Jacquin's Drawings of American Plants, Hortus Vindobonensis, &c. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 10 vol. Merian's Surinam, coloured Petiver's Works Lister's Shells Sloane's Jamaica Various Bibles, with fine cuts Cook's Voyages complete, first edition Voyages de Chardin, Nieburh, Sonderat, de la Valle, &c. Booke called Caton, Caxton, 1483 Pylgremage of the Soule, Caxton, 1483 Parliamentary Debates complete, 120 vol. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. complete Monthly Review, complete The whole are in fine Condition, and many of them in elegant Bindings. They are now on Sale, 1790, (at the Prices printed in the Catologue, and marked in the First Leaf of every Book) At Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall, London. - The full Value for Libraries. - Books exchanged and Libraries valued.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1790]- Journals
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For one night only. At the theatre, Wisbech: Mr. Scriven presents his most respectful Compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Wisbech-Begs Leave to inform them he has at a great Expence purchased a Correct Copy of that truly admirable and entertaining Poetic and Prosaic Composition, called Collins's Evening Brush, Exhibited by the Author, in London and several of the Principal Cities and Towns in this Kingdom, to the most elegant and crowded Audiences-A Piece, allowed by all who have honoured it by their Attention to be replete with Wit, Humour, Satire, and Food for Laughter. On Friday Evening August 27th. 1790, will be presented a pasticcio, call'd Collins's Evening Brush. For Rubbing off the Rust of Care: Divided into four parts. Part I. An Exordium to the Audience, wherein the Author shews his wish to please, with a particular Attention to avoid giving Offence to any Individual, by a Sacrifice to the Shrine of Ill Nature, or the slightest Stab to moral Virtue Then follows as an Introduction to the Piece itself. The Brush Song. After which A Dissertation on Actors and Acting. The humorous contrast between Jack Sly and John Bull, the late David Garrick and Snip the Taylor. Hamlet and the Scot's Pedlar. The Tragedy Belwether, and Tragedy Bantam Cock. Concluding with a Comic Song, called Shakespear's seven Ages, In which will be Introduced The Infant, The Schoolboy, The Lover, The Soldier, The Justice, The Old Man, And Second Childhood. Part II. A Humorous Description of Parish Clerks. A critical dispute, Whether a Hedge Hog is an Animal, or a Vegetable; an Artifical or a Natural Curiosity. The Political Barber. The Learned Irish School-Master, teaching the Little Puny Whipsters their Cris-Cross-Row. Darby Logan, the Irish Bull-Maker. Concluding with an Irish Song. in which he gives a humorous Description of his Voyage from Dublin to London. End of Act II. - The Lass of Richmond Hill, by Mrs. Scriven: Part III. The Imperfect Norwich Actor, Dryden's Pegasus, The English Aristophanes The One armed Tragedian. And the Raw-Boned Actresses. Concluding with the Comic Song of, Ancient Rome contrasted with Modern London. A Hunting Song, by Mrs. Scriven. Part IV. A song, called the disgraced Roman General Bellisarius. The Puny Richard the Third. Concluding with a new comic song. During the evening The New Four & Twenty Fidlers. The Whole to Conclude with A Hornpipe by Mr. Sriven. Doors to be open'd at Six, and begin precisely at Seven O'Clock. - Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had at the Inns, Printing-Office, and of Mr. Scriven at Mr. Friend's in Deadman's-Lane.
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]