1518 MONMOUTH REBELLION. A Collection of Eight very rare original Black Letter Broadside Proclamations issued against the Duke of Monmouth and his adherents.

All folio size and in good condition, in buckram case. 1685.

£14 14s

I. June 13, 1685. On the Landing at Lyme in Dorset. Orders to seize the Duke and his adherents.

II. June 15. Against the spreading of a Traiterous Declaration by James Duke of Monmouth.

III. June 16.

Offering a reward of £5,000 for the Person of the Duke.

IV June 23. Proclamation for the apprehending of various adherents (named) of the Duke.

V. June 28. For the apprehending of Monmouth, Lord Gray, Armstrong, and Fer

guson.

VI. July 11. Proclamation for a Solemn and Publick Thanksgiving throughout the Kingdom for the Victories over the Rebells.

VII. July 19. Proclamation for the apprehending of Henry Lord Delamere, who had absconded.

VIII. July 26. To Summon in George Speake, Francis Charlton, John Wildman, Col. Danvers, and John Trenchard (adherents of the Duke of Monmouth).

1519 MONRO (Colonel Robert).

Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keyes Regiment) levied in August, 1626, by Sr. Donald Mac-Key Lord Rhees, Colonell for his Majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the Battaile of Nerling, to one Company in September, 1634, at Wormes in the Paliz. To which is annexed the Abridgement of Exercise, and divers practicall Observations, for the younger Officer his Consideration; ending with the souldiers Meditations going on service.

FIRST EDITION. Folio, original calf.

London, Printed by William Jones, 1637.

£5 5s

1520 MONTAGU (Richard, Bishop of Norwich). The Acts and Monuments of the Church before Christ Incarnate.

FIRST EDITION. Folio, magnificent copy in contemporary crimson morocco, g. e. London, 1642.

£5 5s

1521 MONTAIGNE (Michel de). The Essayes or Morall, Politike or Militarie Discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne.

First written by him in French. And now done into English by him that hath inviolably vowed his labors to the eternitie of their Honors, whose names he hath severally inscribed on these his Consecrated Altares John Florio.

Printed at London by Val. Sims for Edward Blount dwelling in Paules Churchyard, 1603.

THE FIRST EDITION OF FLORIO'S MONTAIGNE. Folio. Fine copy, newly bound by Riviere, in full crushed levant morocco extra, gilt back, g. e. London, 1603.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXXIII.).

£160

This copy contains both lists of "Errata" (one at the beginning, the other at end of volume), and, besides the usual commendatory verses, it has the poem by Samuel Daniel prefixed. These points are usually missing in most copies, both those described in Locker's Rowfant Catalogue, and in the Grolier Club Catalogue, are without them.

THIS FIRST EDITION OF FLORIO'S MONTAIGNE WILL EVER HOLD A
DISTINGUISHED PLACE IN A SHAKESPEARIAN LIBRARY AS ONE OF THE
BOOKS WE REALLY KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT THE GREAT POET READ,
FOR THE ACTUAL COPY USED BY HIM AND CARRYING HIS AUTOGRAPH,
IS PRESERVED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM."

Shakespeare has copied a few lines nearly literally in "The Tempest," Act II., Scene I.,
from the following passage in the present work:-

"It is a nation (would I answer Plato) that hath no kind of trafficke, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate nor of politic superioritie; no use of service. of riches, or of povertie, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupation, but idle, no use of wine, corne, or metal. The very words that import lying, falsehood, treason, dissimilations, covetousness, envie, detraction and pardon, were never heard amongst them."

Consult also Montaigne and Shakespeare," by J. M. Robertson.

KING CHARLES II.'S COPY.

1522 MONTANUS (Arnoldus). Atlas Japannensis: being Remarkable Addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan.

Containing A Description of their several Territories, Cities, Temples, and Fortresses; their Religions, Laws, and Customs: their Prodigious Wealth, and Gorgeous Habits; the Nature of their Soil,

Montanus (Arnoldus)-continued.

Plants, Beasts, Hills, Rivers, and Fountains, with the Character of the
Ancient and Modern Japanners.

Collected out of their several Writings and Journals by Arnoldus
Montanus.

English'd and Adorn'd with above a hundred several Sculptures, by John Ogilby, Master of His Majesties Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland. LARGE AND THICK PAPER COPY, with large plates and vignettes of the country of Japan, etc.

Thick folio, contemporary crimson morocco, gold panelled sides, and with the Royal Arms in centre, gilt edges.

£25

*** The Copy bound for King Charles II. of England, to whom the book is dedicated, the title and dedication being ruled in red.

THE FOUNDATION ROMANCE OF SHAKESPEARE'S "Two GENTLEMEN OF
VERONA AND PYRAMUS AND THISBE."

1523 MONTEMAYOR. Diana of George of Montemayor.

Translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong, of the Middle Temple, Gentleman. Woodcut title.

FIRST EDITION. Folio, a very fine copy bound by Bedford in full

levant morocco extra, gilt back and sides, g. e.

London, Edm. Bollifant, 1598.

£48

This old pastoral romance is credited with being the foundation of Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and of "Pyramus and Thisbe" in "Midsummer Night's Dream." The poetry with which it is bestrewn is repeated in great part in "England's Helicon, 1600," and in Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia."

It is said to have been partly translated by Sir Philip Sidney.

1524 MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS (Abbé de). The Count of Cabalis: or, the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, Exposed in Five Pleasant Discourses on the Secret Sciences. Done into English by P. A., Gent. With Short Animadversions.

12mo, original calf. London, Printed for B. M., 1680. From this work Pope borrowed the machinery of the Rape of the Lock.

18s

1525 MONTHLY AMUSEMENT (The). A periodical publication projected by J. Ozell, and consisting principally of translations from French and Spanish novels and plays. With engraved plate to each number.

Nos. 1-6, small 8vo, bound together in old calf.
London, Printed for D. Midwinter, April-Sept., 1709.

£1 16s

Consisting of translations from Cervantes' novels "La Gitanilla," "El Zeloso Estremeno," and "El Casamiento Enganoso," and Moliere's plays "The Misantrope." and "Le Malade Imaginaire."

1526 MONTROSE (Marquis of). I. G. De Rebus auspiciis serenissini Caroli Dei Gratiâ Magnae Britanniae Regis sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis, Comitis de Kincardin, etc., Commentarius.

1527

12mo, green morocco, g. e. 1647.

£2 2s

This book was writter under the title of I.. by the Rev. George Wishart, of Wischeart, of Edinboro', a Scotch Prelate, who was deposed from his Ministry and cast into prison for refusing to take the Covenant. On his release he joined the Marquis of Montrose, and under his conduct, this history, se much admired for its pure and elegant Latin, was written. "As he was led forth," Hume says, speaking of the execution of Montrose, "they made yet one effort more to insult him in this last and melancholy scene; the executioner brought that book which had been published in elegant Latin, of his great military actions, and tied it by a cord about his neck." It has been translated into English and printed at different times, but in its original Latin the book is of rare occurrence.

Montrose Redivivus, or the Portraicture of James, late Marquis of Montrose. Portrait.

12mo, original calf, rebacked. London, 1652.

£2 2s

1528 MORE (Henry). Psychozoia Platonica: or, a Platonicall Song of the Soul, consisting of foure severall Poems.

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, original calf.
Cambridge, by Roger Daniel, 1642.

The author, Henry More, was great-grandson of Sir Thomas More.

£3 10s

1529 MORE (Sir Thomas). The Historie of the Pitifull Life, and unfortunate Death of Edward the fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke his brother: With the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. With the two title-pages and the two portraits.

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, fine copy in morocco.
London, Printed by Thomas Payne, 1641.

£8 8s