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London: Henry Herringman, 1673. First Edition. Folio: 12 3/4 X 7 1/2 . Signatures: π1 2π2 A-3D4 3E2; Aa-Ppp4, Aaaa-Oooo4; ¶ An unusually fine, fresh, wide-margined copy, with a fine impression of the portrait. Bound in full contemporary calf with nicely gilt spine. Wing D320. The First Collected Edition, with prefatory material by Hobbes, 'The answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sr. William D'Avenant's preface before Gondibert', and poems by Waller and Cowley. Several of the plays originally published in blank verse are here printed for the first time, converted into prose. The volume also includes first printings of 'The Playhouse to be Let', 'Law Against Lovers', 'News from Plymouth', 'The Fair Favourite', 'The Distresses', and 'The Siege'. The posthumous collection was published under the watchful eye of "Lady Mary" D'Avenant. The poems reflect the attitudes of the Cavalier poets and the received tradition of earlier poets, particularly Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne. She no doubt also insisted on the fine… Read More

Antwerp: Ex officina Platiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605. First Edition. This copy is bound in contemporary calf with a Cross insignia in gold on the front board and Mary and the Baby Jesus on the rear board. A very nice copy, Quarto, 8 x 6 in. First (and only)edition. +-++4, A-Z4, a-t4. Daly & Dimler Jesuit series ;part one: J.144 p.150. Sommervogel vol. II, 1847: 7.: Landwehr EFBLC #186. Bibl. Belgica II, D 139. Praz 313.; Praz II 60; Funck 303. Brunet II, 536: "Les ouvrages de J. David sont recherchés ů cause des gravures de Th. Galle dont ils sont ornés." First edition. A very beautiful collection of emblems, written by a Belgian Jesuit. The illustrations consist of one frontispiece and 12 engaging plates which were engraved by engraved by Théodore Galle. Each one depicts the goddess "Occasio"which is the Latin name for Caerus, personification of opportunity whose comments and depicts both opportunity and neglected opportunity. A second part with continuous pagination, but its own title… Read More

London: 1697: William Rogers, 1697. Printed: 1697 1569-1626 Octavo , First Tate Edition A8,b8,B-H8 Bound in full early calf , it is a nice copy with spine label Sir John Davies (not to be confused with John Davies of Hereford) was a man of the same pattern, though without lord Brooke's memory of "the spacious days" and without his deep austerity He, too, was a man of affairs, and rose to a high position in the state His life, however, had not the same great beginning, and his was no smooth passage to fame Born in 1569, at Tisbury in Wiltshire, he went to Winchester and Oxford (partly, it appears, resident at New college, partly at Queen's college), and, like the majority of young men of the time, came, in 1587, to study law in London But he quarrelled with the frend to whom he had dedicated his Orchestra, Richard Martin, and, entering the hall, armed with a dagger, he broke his cudgel over Martin's head, who was eating dinner at the barristers' table In consequence of this outrage on the benchers, he… Read More

Augsburg: Hagenau(Augsburg): Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 30 September, 1501. [imp[re]ssi ... p[er] industriu[m] Henricu[m] Gran i[, 1501. Folio π6 [chi]6 a-b8 c6 d-e8 f6 g-h8 i6 k-l8 m6 n-o8 p6 q-s8 t6 v-x8 y6 z8 A8 B6 C-D8 E6 F-G8H6 I-K8 L6 M-N8 O6 P-Q8 R6 S-T8 U6 X-Y8 Z6 [&]8 l[eaves 12 and 358 blank ]. ( 13, 357 ff. ). This copy is bound contemporary blind-stamped leather over wooden boards from an Augsburg workshop operating between 1482 and 15. ISTC ip00252500, citing holdings at 15 locations globally with none in the US or UK; ISTC No.ip00252500; Hain 12557*; VD16 P1165; Sajó-Soltész p. 767; Günt(L) p.65; Wilhelmi 479a; GW M30525. Hagenau(Augsburg): Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 30 September, 1501. [imp[re]ssi ... p[er] industriu[m] Henricu[m] Gran i[n] imp[eri]ali oppido Hagenaw: expe[n]sis ac su[m]ptib[us] p[ro]uidi Joha[n]nis Rynman Finiu[n]t feliciter: Anno ... millesimoq[ui]nge[n]tesimoprimo. vltimo die Septe[m]bris] , (1430-1504). ¶ There is Early monastic ink title… Read More

London: printed for R. Lownes, and T. Davies, and are to be sold at their shops in St. Pauls Church yard, at the sign of the White Lion, and at the Bible over against the little north door of St. Pauls Church, 1658. Duodecimo: 12.5 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: A-G¹² H⁶. Adverstisement: "Books printed for, and to be sold by, Thomas Davis", p. [1] at end. The Second edition [same year as the first] corrected and augmented, with the addition of an index. With two leaves of eighteenth century English manuscript text at the end. This copy has been expertly rebound in seventeenth century style. With two leaves of eighteenth century English manuscript text at the end.. ¶This remarkable book is one of the most imaginative attempts to add a mechanistic development to the pharmacopeia. The Powder of Sympathy, is the substantive manifestation of Sympathetic magic which is based on the metaphysical belief that like affects like. But with ¶ Digby's 'discovery' of The Powder of Sympathy which facilitates an… Read More

Paris: Guy or Jean Marchant, for Jean Petit, 1509. Modern binding in 3/4 calf, marbled boards, marbles end leaves. With the . Ex libris of Jos Nève. Portrait of a philosopher at his writing table on verso of title page.(see back cover of this catalogue. Charming woodcut on last page (Marchant's device). Some nice woodcut initials. Marginal annotations and underlinings.. https://data.cerl.org/istc/id00226000 GW VII Sp.436a Goff D226; H 6197?; Aquilon p. 91; Frasson-Cochet 106; Moreau I 317: Moreau, Brigitte. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle. I:1501 -1510 #68; 367; Günt(L) 2256; Döring-Fuchs (D-51); Walsh 3631b; BMC(Fr) p.135; Erscheinungsjahr: [um 1509]. Panzer VIII 211. 272 G BM STC French,; 1470-1600, S. 135; Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, Bd.; 1, S. 317, Nr. 68 ; Iehan Petit (Renouard 883). - Jean Marchant (Renouard 708) Renouard, ICP, II, 1333; Haebler, III (marques de P. Gaudoul et de J. Petit); Renouard, 337 et… Read More

London: 1637: W. Stansby for J. Smethwick, 1637. Printed: 1637 1563-1631 Octavo, 5 1/4 x 325 in A-X12 This copy is bound in nineteenth century full red morocco, with gilt spine and edges Born within a year before Shakespeare, and dying when Milton was already twenty-three, he worked hard at poetry during nearly sixty years of his long life, and was successful in keeping in touch with the poetical progress of a crowded and swiftly-moving period His earliest published work tastes of Tottel's Miscellany: before he dies, he suggests Carew and Suckling, and even anticipates Dryden This quality of forming, as it were, a map or mirror of his age gives him a special interest to the student of poetry, which is quite distinct from his peculiar merits as a poet This edition of the poems contains "The baron's wars", "England's heroical epistles", "The legend of Robert Duke of Normandy", "The legend of Matilda", "The legend of Pierce Gaveston", "The legend of Great Cromwell" and "Idea" .

Edinburgh: 1711: printed by James Watson, in Craig's-Closs, 1711. Printed: 1711 Folio, First collected edition [4],xlv,[3],243,[1];iv,60p,plates : ports ; 20 William Drummond is the last significant figure in Scottish poetry before the Eighteenth Century The gap between him and Alan Ramsay indicates a crisis in Scottish literary culture brought on by the departure of the Scottish court to London with the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of Great Britain James had been a patron of poets, dabbled in poetry himself and delivered himself of Rewellis and Cautelis [Do's and Don'ts] for its composition Not only had the court been a centre of literary activity where men of letters such as Drummond's uncle, William Fowler, and his friend William Alexander of Menstrie, later Earl of Stirling, gained employment, it had also given authority to Scots as a literary language These conditions were now abolished Poets who had published their work in Scots, followed James in revising it and publishing… Read More

London: 1613: Printed by Humfrey Lownes, 1613.
Printed: 1613 1544-1590 Quarto in eight's, 7 x 5 inches Fourth collected edition, revised, with the Quadrains of Gui du Faur A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, Aaa-Qqq8, Rrr4 ¶This edition features the handsome engraved allegorical title page by William Hole This copy is in very good condition internally It is still bound in its original English calfskin boards, with large gilt lozenges on front and back boards, it has been sympathetically rebacked, and the binding is in good condition.¶ Saluste du Bartas's translations began to appear as verse pamphlets in the 1590's The first collected edition was printed in 1605, and was a work of enormous contemporary influence Shakespeare and Milton can be numbered among its readers, and indeed Milton's first English poems, two translations from the Psalms, are wholly in the style of Sylvester"Saluste du Bartas was a Huguenot, and served under Henry IV of France He is known as an epic poet La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578) was… Read More