Volume 1

The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold / by William Thomas Lowndes.

  • Lowndes, William Thomas, 1798?-1843.
Date:
1871
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Credit: The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold / by William Thomas Lowndes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A, B, C, The, with the Paternos- ter, Aue, Crede, and ten Com- maundementes in Englysshe, newly translated and set forth at the Kynges most gracyous Commaunde- ment. London, by B. Lant. 8ro. Black letter. Printed on one side, to be folded so that the blank leaves may be pasted together, and form one leaf of two, or four small leaves of the whole sheet. Several other editions are noticed in Ames’ Typographical Antiquities. A, B, C, The Surfeit to. Lon- don, 1656. 12mo. A^dalla.—Arrival! and Enter- tainements of the Embassador Al- kaid Yaurar Ben Abdalla, with his Associate Mr. Eobert Blake, from Muley Mohammed Sheque, Empe- ror of Morocco, &c. London, 1637. 4to. With a portrait of the ambassador by Glover. Sotheby’s, in Dec. 1822, '2.1. 11s. Gordonstoun, 129, 4Z. 18s. Abdias. See Obadiah. Abdollatiph. AbdoUatiphi Historige ^Egypti Compendium, Arabice et Latine. Oxon. 8vo. In the British Museum. 'Hie Liber Inter rarissimos numerandus est, a Thoma Hyde edi cseptus est, sed morte erepto, nun- qiiam perfectus desinit Pagina 96.’ Bibl. Askev. No. 802, 3^. 3s. — AbdoUatiphi Historise ^gypti Compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Po- cockio Versum edendum curavit, Notisque Ulustravit, J. White. Oxon. 1800. 4to. 1/. Is. An edition of the Arabic only, 10s. 6d. A translation of this valuable work will be found in vol. xv. of Pinkerton’s Collection of Voyages and Travels, and in Part ii. of White’s ./Egyptiaca. — AbdoUatiphiBagdadensis Yita, Auctore Ibn Abi Osaiba, e Codd. MSS. Bodleianis descripsit et Latine vertit Johannes Mousley. Oxon. 1808. 4to. pp. viii. and 78, 6s. This volume should accompany the Com- pendium. Abdulkurreem. The Memoirs of Xhojek Abdulkurreem, who accom- panied Nadir Shah, on his Eetum from Hindostan to Persia; &c. translated from the original Persian, by Francis Grladwin, Esq. Calcutta, 1788, 8vo. pp. 219, 5s. Abel, Clarke. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Yoyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817. London, 1818. 4to. with maps and other engravings. Abel held an official appointment in Lord Amherst’s Embassy. Drury, 127,1^. 15s. Abel and Kilvert, 1641. See Wine. Abelaed, Peter.—Petri Abaelardi et Heloissse Epistolse, a prioris editionis erroribus purgatse, et cum Cod. MS. collatae, cura Eicardi Eawhnson. Lond. 1718. 8vo. pp. viii. and 279, besides the title and dedication to Dr. Mead. The best edition of Abelard’s letters. Bishop of Ely, 41, 7s. 6d. large paper. Drury, No. 1, russia, \l. 2s. Williams, No. 1, morocco, IZ. 14s. — Letters written by Abelard and Eloisa, with a succinct Accotmt of their Lives and Misfortunes, by John Hughes, Esq. To which are subjoined seven Poems by various Authors. London, 1808. 8vo. With 7 plates, 5s. Another translation of these letters will be found in theKev. Jos. Berington’s Lives of these unfortunate Lovers. Abendana, Isaac. Discourses of the ecclesiastical and civU. Pohty of the Jews. London 1709, 8vo. 3s. 6d. A sensible and judicious selection from the works of Abendana. Abeeceomby, David. Academia Scientiarium, or the Academy of Sciences, with the Names of those famous Authors that have written on every particular Science in Enghsh and Latin. Lond. 1687. 8vo. 5s. This writer likewise published a Dis- course on Wit. London, 1685. 12mo. 3s. Protestancy to be embraced. London, 1682, 8vo. 5s, — Patrick, M.D. The martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation. Edinb. 1711-15. fol. 2 vols. 11. 15s. to 2/. 2s. B 2