IND A CHOICE OF EMBLEMES, AND OTHER DEVISES, For the moste parte gathered out of fundrie writers, AND DIVERS NEWLY DEVISED, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: wherein those that please,maye finde to fit their fancies: Bicaufe herein, by the office of the eve, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holfome preceptes, fhadowed with pleafant deuifes: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonifhing and amendment. To the Reader. Perufe with heede, then frendlie iudge, and blaming rafhe refraine: NST Fmprinted at LEYDEN, In the house of Chriftopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius. M. D. LXXXV I. No. 93. WHITNEY'S EMBLEMS. 91 DURFEY (Thomas) THE ROYALIST. A Comedy; as it was Acted at the Duke's Theatre. London, Printed for Jos. Hindmarsh, 1682. FIRST EDITION, 4to., fine large copy, mottled calf extra, r. e., £5 58 * This play met with good success, but, like most of Durfey's pieces, it is collected from Boccaccio and other old novels. The song of "Hey Boys, up we go! in the fourth act, is taken from A Shepherd's Oracle," by F. Quarles, 1644. ELIZABETH (Queen).-See HEATH. 92 ELZEVIR PRESS. CICERO (M. TULLIUS) OPERA, cum optimis exemplaribus accurate collata, Lugd. Batavorum, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1642. EDITIO ELZEVIRIANA PRIMA, 10 vols., 12mo., engraved title and portrait of Cicero in Vol. 1, printed title with Elzevir device to each of the other vols., very fine set, 130 mil., BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN OLD FRENCH RED MOROCCO, sides line tooled in gold with ornamental fleurons at each corner of the inner panel, backs richly gilt in compartments, edges of boards also tooled, g. e., BY A. DUSEUIL, £9 9s A charming set of the celebrated Elzevir edition of Cicero and the preferable issue, Vol. IX. having 301 pages. The volume containing the Epistolæ ad Familiares is bound to match the rest of the set by a different binder, but only a few years later. Very rarely met with in this choice state. The binding is a beautiful example of Duseuil's skill, in excellent preservation. 93 EMBLEMS.-WHITNEY (GEOFFREY) A CHOICE OF EMBLEMS, AND OTHER DEVISES, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writters, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geoffrey Whitney. A work adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: . . . To the Reader. Peruse with heede, then frendlie iudge, and blaming rash refraine: so maist thou reade vnto thy good, and shalt requite my paine, Imprinted at Leyden, In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, 1586. FIRST Edition, LARGE PAPER (8) by 6 inches), two parts in one vol., sm. 4to., title with Plantin device within lace border, large armorial achievement of the Earl of Leicester on verso, and his crest on title to the second part, CONTAINS 248 FINE WOODCUTS OF EMBLEMS, WITHIN LACE BORDERS, 23 OF THEM ORIGINAL, 23 SUGGESTED BY AND 202 IDENTICAL WITH THOSE OF ALCIATI, PARADIN, SAMBUCUS, JUNIUS AND FAERNI, outer margin of title very slightly repaired, REMARKABLY FINE COPY, dark blue morocco gilt, g. e., £38 *This celebrated work, on which Whitney's reputation depends, is very rarely found in good state, while on large paper it is excessively rare, not more than three or four copies being known. The Huth large paper copy sold for £94. The verses usually consist of one or more stanzas of six lines (a quatrain followed by a couplet), with appropriate motto, mostly addressed to relatives, including his Father, Brother, and Uncle, members of well-known Cheshire families, his countrimen of the Namptwiche in Cheshire," his old school, Audlem, the Earl of Leicester (to whom the work is dedicated), Sir Philip Sydney, Dean Nowell, and other eminent contemporaries, including the interesting poem, To Richard Drake, Esquire, in praise of Sir Francis Drake," with woodcut of Drake's ship on the top of a globe, showing his circumnavigation of the world, thus furnishing notices of persons, places, and things not to be met with elsewhere. The D.N.B. says: The work was the first of its kind to present to Englishmen an adequate example of the emblem books that had been issued from the great Continental presses, and it was mainly from it, as a representative book of the greater part of emblem literature which had preceded it, that Shakespeare gained the knowledge which he evidently possessed of the great foreign emblematists of the sixteenth century." Two leaves have been misplaced in binding. [SEE ILLUSTRATION.] 94 ELYOT (Sir T.) THE CASTEL OF HELTH corrected and in some places augmented by the fyrste authour therof, syr Thomas Elyot knyght the yere of oure lord 1541. Colophon: Londini in ædibus Thoma Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum [1541]. Sm. 4to., black letter, title within ornamental woodcut border (soiled and repaired and small piece of border in facsimile), fine woodcut of Elyot's arms on last page of table, woodcut initials (coloured), upper margin of folios 88 to end repaired, and a few words on the outer top corner of the last leaf in facsimile, water-stained at beginning, few small marginal worm-holes, one running throughout the book, VERY TALL COPY, calf with elaborate blind tooled borders on the sides, rebacked, r. e., £8 8s *THIRD EDITION AND EXTREMELY RARE. Of the first edition assigned to 1534 no copy is known. The book is a medical treatise of prescriptions for various ailments, and Elyot gives an account of the disorders from which he himself suffered. The fact that it was written in English by one who was not a doctor roused much wrath on the part of the medical profession. Elyot replied to his medical critics in the preface to this edition. A fine example of Berthelet's famous press. 94* EVELYN (John) PUBLICK EMPLOYMENT and an ACTIVE LIFE, with all its APPANAGES, such as Fame, Command, Riches, Conversation, &c., prefer'd to Solitude, London, J. M. for H. Herringman, 1667. FIRST EDITION, sm. 8vo., FINE LARGE COPY, new mottled calf extra, g. e., *The rare first issue, before the alteration in the title. Collation: A to 14 in 8's, including a leaf of imprimatur. BOOKPLATES. 95 EX-LIBRIS.-A FINE COLLECTION of upwards of 850 Bookplates, carefully selected, comprising Early English, Jacobean, Book-piles, Chippendale, Armorial, Pictorial, a few ladies' plates, and some by C. W. Sherborn; for the most part lightly attached to cards (some with Heraldic or Biographical Notes on reverse), the remainder loose, the whole enclosed in 9 cases, 8vo., cloth, £42 *The Collection includes the Early English dated plates of Sr. Samuel Barnardiston, Honourable Archibald Campbell, John Fortescue, Honble. John Haldane, Honble. Charles Hamilton, signed S. G. (Simon Gribelin), Ambrose Holbech, Sr. William Hustler, Sr. Thomas Littleton, Treasurer of the Navy, the undated one of Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and founder of the Harleian Society; the Jacobean plates of Ralph Carr of Cocken, Durham, Sir J. Hussey Delaval, Bart., Henry Hoare (bequest plate), size 5 by 3 ins., Henry Hoare, Goldsmith, London, dated 1704, John Hylton of Hylton Castle, John Smith, Durham, dated 1744; Chippendale plates of F. Blake Delaval, Robt. Dinwiddie (an American plate), Charles Delafaye, signed J. Skinner, sculp., Bath, and dated 1743, Bryan Edwards, Greenwich Park, Jamaica, signed Ashby, sculp., B. Hatley Forte, dated 1743, John Murray, William Wilberforce; Armorial and Trophy plates of Anon. [Sir Charles Frederick, K.B.], signed and dated, G. Haines, delin., W. H. Toms, sculp., 1752, size 5 by 4 ins., RARE, John Mitford, signed Sherwin, Sir Robert Peel, Bart.; Book-pile plates of Wm. Bateman, Thos. Bates, and Percival Beaumont; Pictorial plates of George Allan, Darlington, signed J. Bailey ft., dated 1780; R. H. Alexan Bennet, signed Hughes, Rev. H. Cotes, Vicar of Bedlington, woodcut by Bewick, dated 1802 (and others by Bewick), F. Marion Crawford, signed P. Avril sc., H. Brockman del., J. Gibbs, designer of St. Martin's Church, portrait, signed B. B. s. (Bernard Baron, sculpt.), dated 1736; Capt. W. Locker, Royal Navy, signed Dowling fec., Newport St.; some RABE ladies' plates, viz. : Henrietta Cavendish Holles, engraved by George Vertue, Sarah Chapman, the Honble. Mistris Primerose, and others; and some library plates, including Gray's Inn Library, engraved by J. Pine. 96 ERASMUS (D.) A VERY MERY AND PLEASAUNT HISTORIE DONE NOT LONG SINCE, in this realm of England. Written in Latine by Erasmus of Roterodame, Dialoguewise, vnder the title of a Coniuration or Spirite. Newly translated into English, by Thomas Iohnson. Imprinted at London, by Henrie Bynneman, for William Pickring, Anno Domini 1567. Sq. 12mo., text in black letter, A FRAGMENT CONSISTING OF TITLE AND 3 LEAVES ONLY, two of them with signatures A4 and 5 respectively (being folios 4, 5, and 8 of the work), printer's ornament in centre of title, title and folio 8 water-stained, very large, and on an undivided sheet, preserved in a case, £5 58 44 * HITHERTO KNOWN ONLY FROM THE ENTRY IN THE STATIONERS' REGISTERS UNDER THE YEAR 1566, A mery and pleasaunt history donne in tymes paste by Erasmus Roterdamus." NO OTHER COPY, COMPLETE OR INCOMPLETE, IS RECORDED. Relates to a dragon seen by Cardinal Pole in the sky near Richmond, Surrey, "within III. dayes the rumour had persuaded all England that there appered such a Monster." Also relates to a certain spirit who haunted Richmond Bridge, whose miserable howlings were sundry tymes hearde," &c. This fragment formed the end flyleaves of a copy of the 1572 English translation of Vegetius. 97 FOIX (Gaston de, Duc de Nemours, 1489-1512, Famous French General) LETTER SIGNED, I p., 4to., dated 20 Jan., no year, but about 1510-12, to Massimiliano Sforza, Duke of Milan, asking for an appointment for a person in whom he was interested, to any important benefice that might be vacant, and naming an abbey in Guienne, £6 68 A very rare autograph. Gaston de Foix was nephew of Louis XI., and was the son of Jean de Foix, Vicomte de Narbonne, and Marie d'Orléans, sister of the King. He went to Italy in 1510, and at the end of 1511 took over the command of the French Army in Italy, and on account of his daring exploits was called the "Thunderbolt of Italy." After winning the battle of Ravenna, 11 April, 1512, he was killed in a rash pursuit of the enemy. 98 FANE (Sir Francis) LOVE IN THE DARK, or the Man of Bus'ness. A Comedy acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesties Servants. In the Savoy. T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1675. FIRST EDITION, 4to., fine large copy, mottled calf extra, r. e., £8 88 46 A busy and entertaining comedy, the plot of which is borrowed from Boccaccio and Scarron. The Epilogue contains an interesting mention of Shakespeare: The great Wonder of our English Stage, Whom Nature seem'd to form for your delight, And bid him speak, as she bid Shakespeare write." Dedicated to John, Earl of Rochester. Contains a list of characters and performers. LETTER 99 FRANCOIS I., King of France, 1494-1547 (King, 1515-47). SIGNED "FRANCOYS," I page, folio, dated a Saint Germain en Laye," 11 July (1523), to his aunt the Duchess de Nemours, mentions his uncle, the Duke of Savoy, £5 58 * A very fine example of the rare signature of one of the most distinguished Sovereigns who ever swayed the sceptre of France. In 1520 took place the famous interview between him and Henry VIII., best known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold." a 100 FRANCOIS II., King of France, 1544-60 (King, 1559-60). DOCUMENT ON VELLUM SIGNED "FRANCOYS," I page, oblong folio, dated " Amboise," 1559, relating to the guardianship of the brothers of Seraphin Olivier, afterwards Cardinal Olivier, countersigned "Par le Roy Monsieur le Cardinal de Lorraine pnt. Laubespine," accompanied by another document on vellum, dated 1560, evidently relating to the same matter, £10 10s *The extremely rare autograph of the first husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. As he only reigned just over 16 months, and died at the early age of 16, this royal signature is one of the most difficult to procure of all French royalties. 101 FULLER (Thomas).-TRUTH MAINTAINED, OR POSITIONS DELIVERED in a Sermon at the Savoy: since Traduced for Dangerovs: now Asserted for Sovnd and Safe. By THOMAS FULLER, B.D., late of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge . . . Printed at Oxford, Anno Dom. 1643. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to. (2 or 3 slight flaws in the paper), contemporary calf (rebacked), £20 . * Collation A-C; A-C; A-K (last leaf blank) in 4's. FULLER'S REPLY TO JOHN SALTMARSH, of great rarity. This tract occupies a well-defined place in English Literature, but apart from that there are many other points of interest. The controversialists are both men of peculiar interest 102 FRENCH PORTRAITS.-PORTRAITS DES GRANDS HOMMES, FEMMES ILLUSTRES, ET SUJETS MEMORABLES DE FRANCE, gravés et imprimé en couleurs. A Paris, chez Blin, S.D. (1786-88). Large 4to., engraved title, dedication, and 64 BEAUTIFUL AQUATINT PORTRAITS AND HISTORICAL SCENES PRINTED IN COLOURS, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, waterstain on a few margins, 4 tiny holes in blank part of each page filled in, FINE AND ALMOST UNCUT COPY, old straight-grained green morocco extra, g. e., £95 *One of the most beautiful series of portraits and historical scenes printed in colours ever published, and of great rarity. The portraits include Louis XVI. after Benard, by Ridé (very fine), Henry IV., Vicomte de Turenne, Bernard du Guesclin, Prince de Condé (the Great), Maréchal Comte de Saxe, Jeanne D'Arc, Jeanne Laisné called Hachette, Gaston de Foix, Seigneur de Bayard, Comte de Dunois, Blaise de Montluc, Gaspard de Coligny, Duc de Berwick, Anne de Montmorency (Constable of France), Duc de Sulley, Colbert, and others, all after Sergent, engraved by himself, Ridé, Roger, and Morret. The historical scenes are mostly after Sergent, but several are after Duplessis Berteaux and Le Barbier, and include the Independance des Etats-Unis," with portraits of Louis XVI., Washington and Franklin, Battle of Fontenoi, Attack on Boulogne, Death of Coligny, &c. -- 103 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. DI TITO LUCREZIO CARO DELLA NATURA DELLE COSE, libri sei, Tradotti dal Latino in Italiano da Alessandro Marchetti, In Amsterdamo (Paris) a spese dell' Editore To. Po. 1754. 2 vols., 8vo., PRINTED ON FINE DUTCH PAPER, WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE FRONTISPIECES AND ENGRAVED TITLES AFTER EISEN BY LEMIRE, THE 6 PLATES AFTER COCHIN AND LE LORRAIN, BY LEMIRE, TARDIEU, AND OTHERS, THE 7 CHARMING VIGNETTES AFTER COCHIN AND EISEN, and the 5 iail-pieces after Cochin, Eisen and Vassé, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH MOTTLED CALF, triple gold fillet on the sides, back gilt in compartments, inside borders, g. e., BY DEROME, from the Wrest Park Library, with the bookplate of Earl de Grey, £12 10s * Contains some of the most beautiful examples of the work of those distinguished XVIIIth century French artists, Eisen and Cochin. 104 GAY (John) THE WHAT D'YE CALL IT, a Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce, London, Printed for Bernard Lintott, between the two Temple Gates in Fleet-street, N.D. (March, 1715). FIRST EDITION, 8vo., with engraved frontispiece, FINE LARGE COPY, calf, antique style, £12 128 46 * One of the rarest of Gay's pieces. It ridicules the popular tragedies of the day, and especially Venice Preserved." It contains one of Gay's most musical songs, that beginning "Twas when the seas were roaring," and has also a very interesting Shakespeare reference. The title page is reproduced by Mr. T. Wise in his library catalogue. |