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Muld Sacke:

OR

The Apologie of Hic Mulier : To the late Declamation against her.

Exprcft in a fhort Exclamation.

Non eft mollis è tervis ad astra via.
Muld Secke, Muld Sacke.

LONDON

Printed for Richaud Meigher, and are to be fold at his shops vnder Sam Clements Church, and at Westminhter Hall. 1610.

No. 204. TIILE-PAGE OF ONE OF THE 3 VOLUMES,

204 MAN WOMAN.-HIC MULIER, or the Man Woman Being a Medicine to cure the Coltish Disease the Staggers in the MasculineFeminines of our Times. Exprest in a briefe Declaration. Non Mistris, will you be trim'd or truss'd. omnes possumus omnes. London printed for J. T. and are to be sold at Christ Church gate, 1620 (last two figures cut off), large quaint woodcut on title, old morocco, g.e.

HÆC VIR, or The Womanish Man: Being an Answere to a late Booke intituled Hic-Mulier. Exprest in a briefe Dialogue betweene Hæc-Vir the Womanish Man and Hic-Mulier the Man-Woman. London, printed for I. T. and are to be sold at Christ Church gate, 1620, large woodcut on title, first word of title and several headlines slightly cut into, calf gilt, g.e.

MULD SACKE: or The Apologie of Hic Mulier: To the late Declamation against her. Exprest in a Short Exclamation. Non est mollis e terris ad astra via. Muld Sacke, Muld Sacke. London, Printed for Richard Meighen, and are to be sold at his shops under Saint Clements Church, and at Westminster Hall, 1620. FINE WOODCUT ON TITLE REPRESENTING A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MULD SACKE, THE FAMOUS CHIMNEY SWEEP, calf gilt, g.e. Together 3 vols, sm. 4to, £90

* A COMPLETE SET OF THESE EXCEEDINGLY RARE TRACTS IN PROSE AND VERSE, satirizing the tendency to perversion in the habits and employments of man and woman, more The woodcuts on the titles of the first two items, especially concerning the latter. besides being extremely interesting for the costumes depicted, emphasise this change in Each tract, and particularly Muld Sacke, is very scarce, but the no uncertain manner. three combined are of the utmost rarity, and have not occurred for sale for very many years.

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205 MANDEVILLE (Sir John) THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILLE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, KT. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes. Now publish'd entire from an Original MS. in the Cotton Library. London, 1725. LARGE PAPER COPY, 8vo, with duplicate titles, one in red and black, original panelled calf, rebacked, £5 10s

* A rare edition of these celebrated travels, and particularly so on large paper and in good state like the present example. With autograph signature of G. W. Dasent on fly-leaf. Some copies have titles dated 1727, and some with 1725 and 1727. This copy has both titles of the earlier date.

206 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.-BUCHANAN (George) ANE DETECTIOVN OF THE DUINGES OF MARIE QUENE OF SCOTTES, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretended mariage with the Erle Bothwell. And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces ctioun (sic for actioun) and aucthaoritie. Translated out of the Latin quhilke was written by G. B. Neither place, printer, nor date, but London, John Daye, c. 1572. Sm. sq. 8vo, text in black letter, VERY FINE COPY, red morocco extra, in the Roger Payne style, with the Christic-Miller arms in gold on sides, g.e., by Bedford, with the bookplate of James Bindley, £25

Heber Christie-Millcr * A very rare edition of this famous book (Scott's bibliograph of works relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, No. 81), from the Brand Brindley libraries. Has a MS. note on fly-leaf by Brindley relating to it. The binding is a choice example of Beaford's best work.

IN A BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN RED MOROCCO BINDING OF THE TIME,

TOOLED IN THE LE GASCON MANNER.

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207 MANUSCRIPT.-DIPLOMA WRITTEN ON VELLUM IN LATIN, 6 leaves (9 by 63 inches), granting a degree as doctor in philosophy to "D. FRANCISCVS MARIA FERRETUS civis Venetvs filivs excellentissimi D. Alovrsii I V Doctoris," granted by NICOLAVS CAOPENA Plebanus Sancti Joannis in Bragora, et Studii Generalis Venetiar. Concellarius, et Nos IVLIVS MALVICINI Artium, et Med. Doctor Collegii D. D. Philosophor, ac Medicor, Venetiar, Prior, et in hac parte Vicarius Imperialis," with colophon: "Datum et Actum Venetiis, 1644," beneath which are signatures of Malricini and Angelus Schietti. FINELY DECORATED THROUGHOUT, beginning with a full-page painting of the Malvicini arms superimposed on the crowned double-headed eagle of Austria, surrounded by elaborate flower and scroll border work, springing from two half-length nude female figures seated on a marble table at the foot of the page, while introduced in the top scroll work are figures of the Virgin and Child, St. Mark and St. Julian, opposite is a border of similar character, containing cherubs and nude children, with a large ornamental initial worked in gold, the other 8 pages have each a border of flower and scroll work, all the names of personages and capitals are in gold letters, THE WHOLE ILLUMINATED IN GOLD, SILVER AND COLOURS BY A SKILFUL VENETIAN ARTIST OF THE TIME, CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN RED MOROCCO, the sides richly tooled in gold with an elaborate design in imitation of the work of the famous French binder, Le Gascon, 4 of the original silk tiestrings still remain, BOTH ILLUMINATIONS AND BINDING ARE IN A FINE STATE OF PRESERVATION, £12

208 MANUSCRIPTS.-WARNER (Sir George) DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. W. DYSON PERRINS, Oxford University Press, 1920. 2 vols, folio, with 128 facsimile plates by Emery Walker, buckram, t.e.g., uncut, £10 10s

209 MAPS.-OLD AMERICAN AND OTHER MAPS.-PORCACCHI (Thomaso) L'ISOLE PIV FAMOSE DEL MONDO descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino. In Venetia, Appresso Simon Galignani & Girolamo Porro, 1572. FIRST EDITION, sm. folio, fine engraved title. and 30 maps in the text, all engraved from copper-plates by G. Porro, numerous large ornamental initials, printer's device on last leaf, FINE LARGE COPY, original limp vellum, holes for tie-strings, back broken at bands, £10 10s

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* A rare collection of highly interesting early maps, including a plan of Venice, England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, the Molucca Islands, &c. Those relating to America arc Spagnvola prima isola scoperta dal Colombo," with 5 pages of description; Cvba, with 1 pages of description; Isola et Terra di Santa Croce, ouero Mondo Nuouo,' a very important map showing the whole of North America (California as a peninsula and the North-West Passage), with 2 pages of description; plan of the "Citta e isola Temistitan" in Mexico; Mappa mondo, with interesting representation of North and South America; and "La carta da navigare," showing North and South America.

210 MAY (Thomas) A CONTINUATION OF LUCAN'S HISTORICAL POEM till the death of Ivlivs Cæsar. By T. M. London, Printed for James Boler at the Signe of the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1630. FIRST EDITION, sm. 8vo, WITH A BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THE FINE ENGRAVED TITLE BY T. COCKSON, 7 headlines slightly cut into and without the blank leaves for A1 and 2 and K8, BUT A VERY FINE LARGE COPY, WITH MOST OF THE LOWER MARGINS IN UNCUT STATE, old calf, rebacked, with the bookplate of North, Earl of Guilford, £10 10s

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* This first edition of May's original poem is very rare, especially in the fine state of the present copy. Dedicated to Charles I., contains the two leaves of The Complaint of Calliope against the Destinies," often wanting. For its Shakespearian interest see a full description in the catalogue of Capell's collection of Shakespeariana. Clarendon says that this supplement to May's translation of Lucan, for learning, wit, and language, is one of the best dramatic poems in the English language.

211 MAYER (John, Maister of Artes) A FOVREFOLD RESOLUTION, digested into two Bookes, very necessary to Saluation. Describing the World of Wickednesse and Miserie, the World of Glory, and Wisedome vnsearchable. Printed for Elizabeth Burby, and are to be sold at the White Swan, in Paules Church-yard, 1609. Thk. 12mo, printed within rules throughout, with the blank leaves except the first and final ones, mottled calf, £20

* Unrecorded by Watt, Lowndes, and Hazlitt. Not in the British Museum Catalogue of printed books, nor has a copy turned up in the Huth, Christie-Miller, and any other of the great libraries dispersed during the past 50 years. Mayer was a noted biblical commentator, and his life was spent in digesting the work of former commentators on the Bible and adding notes of his own. But for the delay in publication (1627-53) his work would have preceded the commentaries of Diodati and Jackson.

212 MEDICAL (OLD).

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COTTA (John, of Northampton, Doctor in Physicke) A SHORT DISCOVERIE OF THE VNOBSERVED DANGERS OF SEUERALL SORTS OF IGNORANT AND VNCONSIDERATE PRACTISERS OF PHYSICKE IN ENGLAND: Profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings: With Direction for the safest election of a Physition in necessitie. London, Imprinted for William Iones and Richard Boyle, dwelling in the Blacke-Friers, 1612. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, printer's device on title, water-stained at beginning, many headlines cut into, 2 or 3 cut off and 3 or 4 sidenotes shaved, half roxburghe, t.e.g., £6 10s

* VERY RARE. Chapter VIII. treats of the discovery of witchcraft, and Chapter IX. of wizards. Republished in 1617 with a new title. Cotta is best remembered by his The Triall of Witchcraft," printed in 1616.

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213 MEDICAL (OLD).-FIENUS (Johannes) DE FLATIBVS HVMANVM CORPVS MOLESTANTIBUS, Commentarivs Novvs ac Singvlaris. In quo Flatuum natura, causæ and symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili and expedita methodo indicantur. In officina Sanclandreana (i.e., Heidelberg, Peter Sanctandreanus or his successor H. Commelin), 1592. Sm. sq. Svo, printer's device on title (coloured), some old marginal annotations, original limp vellum, £6 6s

*RARE. Pp. 117-21 contain the chapter De curatione doloris dentium a flatuoso spiritu contracti," one of the earliest treatises upon dentistry. On the fly-leaves are a number of contemporary manuscript notes.

214 MEDICAL (OLD).-MORBUS EPIDEMIUS ANNI, 1643. Englands New Disease most Contagious at present in Oxford. With the Signes, Causes, Remedies. Published by His Majesties Command. Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, N.D. (1643). Sm. 4to, FINE COPY, calf, antique style, £5 5s

*RARE. An account of a malignant fever which broke out in Oxford in 1643, by some thought to be the plague.

215 MENDOZA (Antonio de) QUERER POR SOLO QUERER: TO LOVE ONLY FOR LOVE SAKE: A Dramatick Romance (in 3 Acts) represented at Aranjuez before the King and Queen of Spain, To Celebrate The Birthday of that King [Philip IV.], by the Meninas: which are a Sett of Ladies, in the nature of Ladies of Honour in that Court. Written in Spanish by Don Antonio [Hurtado] de Mendoza, 1623. Paraphrased in English by [Sir Richard Fanshawe], Anno 1654. Together with the Festivals of Aranwhez (sic for Aranjuez). London, Printed for William Godbid, 1670. Sm. 4to, separate title to the "Festivals," fine large copy (73 by 6 inches), ORIGINAL ENGLISH BLUE MOROCCO GILT, WITH THE CREST AND ARMS OF SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE IMPALING THOSE OF HIS WIFE STAMPED IN GOLD ON THE SIDE, £60

* On the verso of the title is an autograph presentation inscription dated 18 Nov., 1670, crossed out all but the date, probably written by Lady Fanshawe, the widow of the translator. The fine heraldic stamp on the sides is not recorded in Davenport's English heraldic bookstamps. It is in a fine state of preservation.

216 MEREDITH (George) WORKS, including Poems, Bibliography, and Various Readings. London, 1909-11. MEMORIAL EDITION, 27 vols, Svo, with portraits, views and illustrations by Millais, Patten, Wilson and others, new half calf extra, t.e.g., A CHOICE SET OF THE BEST EDITION, £37 10s

217 MILITARY.-[JENKINS (James)] MARTIAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND HER ALLIES, 1799-1815. London, J. Jenkins, N.D. (1815). Imp. 4to, WITH FRONTISPIECE, VIGNETTE TITLE, PLATE OF THE ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, AND 50 BEAUTIFUL COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER DESIGNS BY THE FAMOUS MILITARY ARTIST H. HEATH, ENGRAVED BY DUBOURG, SUTHERLAND, HASSELL AND OTHERS, representing the chief incidents in the Peninsular War, Egypt, Seringapatam, Monte Video, Napoleon's Expedition to Russia, Leipsic, the Allies in Paris, and Waterloo, VERY FINE CLEAN COPY, original half roan (worn), uncut, £13 108

*The finest work on the military achievements of a momentous and stirring period ever produced, and remarkable for the beauty of the colouring of its aquatint plates. Dedicated to the Duke of Wellington, the hero of the time.

218 MILTON (John) JOANNIS MILTONI ANGLI PRO SE DEFENSIO CONTRA ALEXANDRUM MORUM ECCLESIASTEN, Libelli famosi, cui titulus, Regii sanguinis clamor ad cœlum adversus Parricides Anglicanos, authorem recte dictum. Londini, Typis Neucomianis, 1655. ORIGINAL EDITION, sm. Svo, lower corner of N1 misprinted and missing words supplied in contemporary MS., two words covered over on last page in mending a tear, original sheep, £5 5s

*One of the rarest of the works in the controversy over Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio.

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