188 MANUSCRIPT.-OWENSON (SYDNEY, afterwards Lady Morgan) THE LAY OF AN IRISH HARP, or Metrical Fragments, 1809. A TRANSCRIPT OF THE WORK PUBLISHED IN 1807 BEARING THE ABOVE TITLE, neatly written on 70 leaves of paper, sm. 4to., by a lady admirer of Miss Owenson, AND ADORNED WITH A WATER-COLOUR VIGNETTE OF AN IRISH HARP ON THE TITLE, AND A CLEVER EMBLEMATIC DRAWING IN COLOURS AT THE END OF AN EAGLE AND SERPENT. Inserted as frontispiece is A CHARMING MEDALLION STIPPLE PRINT AFTER ANGELICA KAUFFMAN BY T. KIRK, PRINTED IN COLOURS AND HEIGHTENED BY HAND, published 1 Jan., 1794, CONTEMPORARY IRISH STRAIGHT-GRAINED RED MOROCCO, triple gold fillet on the sides, enclosing two ornamental gold borders, flat back gilt in compartments, five of them containing an Irish harp, inside borders, g. e., £6 6s g.e., MARRICK PRIORY, YORKS.-See YORKSHIRE. 189 MARY 1.-PARDON UNDER THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND to Alvered Uvedale of Marrick, Yorks, alias Avery Uvedale of the Middle Temple, London, son and heir of John Uvedale, late one of the King's Council of the North, for all offences, including any against the Crown, committed before 1 Oct., 1553, dated Westminster, 17 Oct., 1553. Written in Latin on a sheet of vellum, 8 by 27 inches, WITH THE GREAT SEAL OF QUEEN MARY I. ATTACHED, upper portion and piece of the lower inscription broken away, £15 rare. * Documents with the Great Seal of Queen Mary I., or any portion of it, are excessively In the present case, owing, doubtless, to the recent death of her brother, Edw. VI., and the troubles of the time preventing the making of a new Great Seal, the Queen has used that of her brother. Endorsed at foot 15/4 T. Cotton. 190 MARY I.-ANNO MARIE PRIMO. Actes made in the Parliament begonne and holden at Westminster the V. daye of October, in the first year of the reigne of our most gratious Soueraigne Ladye, Mary . . and there continued to the XXI. day of the same moneth, that is to say, in the fyrst session of the same parliament. Excvsvm Londini in ædibus Iohannis Cawodi typographi Regia Maiestatis, Anno 1554. Sm. folio, black letter, long lines, text in English, ornamental woodcut border to title, formerly used by T. Berthelet (Beale 18, state 4), woodcut initials, FINE AND VERY LARGE COPY, half mottled calf, £12 128 * EXTREMELY RARE. Only 6 copies are recorded by Beale, including those in the British Museum, the Dunn Law Collection at Harvard, and the Huntington Library. In two parts, the first containing one act, repealynge certayne Treasons," &c., followed by a blank leaf, then title to the second part, Actes made in the second and last Session of this present Parliament . . . the XXIIII. day of October," &c., containing "An Act declaryng y Quenes highnes to haue bene borne in a most just and lawfull matrimony," An Act touching thincorporatio of the phisitions in Londo,' An acte for the reedifying of the paryshe Churche of S. Elens in Stangate, within the citie of Yorke," Acte of a Subsidie of Tonnage and Pondage," &c. Collation: A to E 4 in 6s, A 3 a blank leaf, and E 4 blank except for the colophon. Foliation: Title and last leaf none, II. to XXVII. Has the catchword all, or 39 66 66 191 MATHEMATICS (OLD). LIBRO DI ARITHMETICA ET GEOMETRICA SPECULATIVA ET PRATICALE: COMPOSTA PER MAESTRO FRANCESCO FELICIANO DA LAZESIO VERONESE Intitulato Scala Grunaldelli : Nouamente Stampato. Vinegia, per Francesco de Leno, 1563. Sm. 4to., ornamental woodcut border to title, numerous woodcut diagrams, &c., in the margins, slight water-stain, FINE LARGE COPY, with many uncut lower margins, half morocco, g. e., £4 10s *RARE, and one of the most important books on early mathematics. Its Author influenced all the later schools of mathematics. E MARVELL (Andrew).-See MEDICAL (OLD) PRIMROSE. 192 MEDICAL (OLD).-BOORDE (ANDREW) THE BREVIARIE OF HEALTH: wherin doth folow Remedies, for all maner of sicknesses and diseases, the which may be in Man or Woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Barbary, and English, concerning Phisick and Chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Phisicke: an English-man. Now newly corrected and amended, with approued medicines that neuer were in Print before this impression, and are aptly placed in their proper Chapters, by men skilful in Phisicke and Chirugerie. Imprinted at London by Thomas East, 1587. IBID., THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE BREUIARY OF HEALTH: named the Extrauagantes. IBID., 1587. IBID., 1587. The two parts in I vol., sm. 4to., black letter, border of printer's ornaments to each title, FINE COPIES, old scored russia, crest in gold on front cover, r. e., £30 *An extremely rare edition of this popular 16th century medical work, most copies of which have long ago been thumbed out of existence. Apparently there is no copy of this (the fourth) edition in America, as the Bibliographical Society's Short-Title Catalogue only records copies in the British Museum, Cambridge University Library, and Winchester College Library. Dr. Boorde was a very notable man during the reign of Henry VIII. To him we owe the first printed specimen of the Gypsy language, and he anticipated Shakespeare in his description of the English people, and also in his treatment of another of Shakespeare's topics-Englishmen's fantasticality in dress.-Dr. Furnivall in D.N.B. Collation: Part I., A to Q 8; Part II., A to C 8, D 4 leaves. 193 MEDICAL (OLD). GOEUROT (JEHAN, Docteur en Medicine) LENTRETENEMENT DE VIE. Cotenant les remedes de Medicine & cyrurgie, cotre toutes maladies suruenantes quotidiannement es corps humains. Lesquelles il a approuuees, & en ce petit liure inserees a sa reqste de Madame pour la sante vtilite & proffit de tout le monde. Le que depuis a este adiouste. ITE VNG REGIME SINGULIER COTRE PESTE, approuue sur plusieurs. Item en la marge plusieurs additions, & vne table pour plus facillemet trouuer le cotenu du dict liure, nouuellement iprime. Imprime a Lyo par Claude Veycellier, S.D. (c. 1531). Sm. sq. 8vo., lettres batardes, long lines, 25 to a full page, title in red and black within an ornamental woodcut border, 2 fine large ornamental woodcut initials, and many smaller ones, VERY FINE COPY, brown morocco extra, g. e., by Bedford, £25 * EXTREMELY RARE. No copy of this edition has occurred for sale for over 30 years, and only one copy of a later edition. It is one of the earliest works on the Plague. The author was physician to Francis I. of France. Collation: A to K in 88. 194 MEDICAL (OLD).-PRIMROSE (JAMES, Doctor in Physick) POPULAR ERROURS. Or the Errours of the People in Physick, first written in Latine by the learned Physitian James Primrose. Divided into foure Bookes. Profitable and necessary to be read of all. To which is added by the same Authour his verdict concerning the Antimoniall Cuppe. Translated into English by Robert Wittie Doctor in Physick. London, W. Wilson for N. Bourne, 1651. Sm. 8vo., fine engraved title by T. Cross, leaf of "The Explication" opposite, paper slightly age-discoloured in places, and a trifling worm-hole in last few leaves, fine copy, original sheep, £6 68 *The rare first translation in English of this curious book. The translator was the author of "Scarborough Spaw," and friend of Andrew Marvell, who has written a Latin verse of 18 lines and an English poem of 40 lines in praise of the translation. At the end is a four-page list of works printed for Nicholas Bourne. MEDICAL.-See DONDIS. MEDICAL.-See HENRY VIII., Anno XVIIII. et XV., for Foundation Charter of the Royal College of Physicians. KING CHARLES THE FIRST'S COPY. 195 MEXIA (Pedro) THE TREASVRIE OF AVNCIENT AND MODERNE TIMES, containing the Learned Collections, Iudicious Reasonings and Memorable Observations, not onely Diuine, Morrall, and Phylosophicall, but also Poeticall, Martiall, Politicall, Historicall, Astrologicall, &c. Translated out of that Worthy Spanish Gentleman, Pedro Mexia, and M. Francesco Sansouino, that Famous Italian, as also of those Honourable Frenchmen, Anthonie Du Verdier, Loys Guyon, Claudius Gruget, Parisian, &c. [by Thomas Milles]. London, Printed by W. laggard, 1613. ORIGINAL EDITION, folio (13 by 9 inches), printer's device on title (McKerrow 355), lower corner of title repaired, FINE LARGE COPY, with some rough edges and the blank leaf for A 1, ENGLISH LYONNESE BINDING OF SMOOTH BROWN CALF, the sides tooled with large solid corner-pieces, a fruit ornament at each outer angle, and the crowned arms of Charles I. within the Garter and scroll ornamentation in the centre, initials of a later owner, "P. B.," added, joints skilfully repaired, £14 148 An especially desirable copy, having been bound for Charles I., and a very fine example of an English royal binding. This volume was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1891. A very interesting work, gathered from many sources, and full of anecdotes and out-of-the-way information. From the press of the printer of the first folio Shakespeare, and published about 3 years before the poet's death. 196 MILL (Humphrey) POEMS OCCASIONED BY A MELANCHOLY VISION, or a melancholy Vision vpon diuers Theames Enlarged, Which by seuerall Arguments ensuinge is showed His gaudit musa tenebris. By H. M. London, printed by 1. D. [John Dawson] for Laurance Blakelocke, 1639. FIRST EDITION, sm. 8vo., FINE ENGRAVED EMBLEMATIC TITLE IN FOUR COMPARTMENTS WITH FIGURES BY JOHN DROESHOUT, separate titles to "Poems Pleasant and Profitable" and "Poems, concerning Death," a verse of 12 lines, "The Mind of the Frontispiece," faces the title, LARGE COPY, old scored russia, £12 128 " * VERY RARE. Owing to the unusual size of this copy, only three leaves of To the Reader" have a few letters just touched by a binder. In most cases, owing to the printing of the text, all the preliminary matter is cut into. From the library of John Drinkwater, with his autograph, a short note by him, and his bookplate. 197 MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES. THE FIRST PARTE OF THE MIROUR FOR MAGISTRATES, contayning the falles of the first infortunate Princes of this lande: From the comming of Brute to the incarnation of our sauiour and redemer Iesu Christe Imprinted at London by Thomas Marsh, Anno 1575. Cum Priuilegio. Sm. 4to., text in black letter, woodcut border to title (McKerrow 154), lower and fore-margin of it very slightly shaved, FINE LARGE COPY, morocco, £70 * EXTREMELY RARE. The second edition of an entirely new series of legends composed by John Higgins. The poems are seventeen in number, commencing with the legend of King Albanacte, the young son of Brutus, ending with the Tragedy of Irenglas, and including the Induction " by Higgins, Locrinus, Bladud, Forrex, Porrex, and Nennius. This edition is an accurate reprint of the former one, with the addition of the last legend of Irenglas, and of eleven stanzas more to the original five verses by The Authour at the end of Nennius, which were not in the first impression. Collation: * 6 leaves, A to L 2 in 8s, L 2 a blank leaf. From the Woolaton Hall Library, with autograph signature of T. Willoughby on title. See next item. |