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	[ARBUTHNOT (JOHN)]: Le Procès sans Fin, ou l'Histoire de John Bull, Publiée sur un Manuscrit trouvé dans le Cabinet du fameux Sir Humfroy Polesworth, en l'annèe 1712. Par le Docteur Swift. A Londres, Chez J. Nourse 1754. 8vo, pp. xxiii [xxiv "Avis de l'Imprimeur"], 248, contemporary Dutch marbled boards, morocco label (chipped): no blank leaves before title-page or after last page of text, ex-library with faded library stamp on title-page. Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735) published the five pamphlets which comprise this work separately in 1712, and as The History of John Bull in 1712, and as Law is a Bottomless Pit in 1727; it was also included the Pope-Swift Miscellanies. The imprint here looks suspiciously false, lacking the press figures often found in English printings of this period; and the signatures are distinctively continental. This translation is by the Abbé Paul Francois Velly and first appeared in 1753. ESTC distinguishes between two issues, an 8vo (as above), N38661 (14 copies); and a 12mo, T147436 ("Printed for J. Nours" [sic] in 1753; 13 copies). GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 3378 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ARNOT (HUGO): An Essay on Nothing. A Quaint Jeu d'Esprit attributed to Arnot. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid..., 1886. Large 8vo, 250 x 190 mms., pp. [iv], 51 [52 ornament], including half-title, text printed within borders, limitation notice on verso of title-page, "This Edition is limited to 50 Copies," contemporary quarter red sheepskin, marbled boards; spine defective, covers detached. Arnot (1749 - 1786) delivered this as a paper before the Edinburgh Speculative Society, and it was first printed in 1776. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 5855 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[GENARD (FRANCOIS)]: The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, A Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work. London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; lacks all prelims, hole in inner margin of title-page with loss of "S" from "Satyrical," front joint wormed, upper front joints slightly cracked. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 2767 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[GENARD (FRANCOIS)]: The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, A Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work. The Second Edition London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. Small 8vo, pp. xxi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], including leaf of adverts (corner torn with slight loss) preceding title-page, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. A very good copy. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 4913 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[HAYLEY (WILLIAM)]: Essai Satirique et Amusant sur les Vielles Filles. Traduit de l'Anglois par M. Sibille. A Paris, Chez Le Tellier..., 1788. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 2 parts in 1. 12mo, pp. xvi, 172; [4], 224 [225 - 226 contents, 227 - 228 Approbation], contemporary French tree sheepskin; gilt spine missing about half its leather, joints cracked and tender. Hayley's Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids was first published in three volumes in 1785. This is translation of volume 1, and of chapter 1 of volume 2, only. The translator argues in his introduction that a translation of all three volumes would be much too long for most readers. The only copies I could locate in U. S. libraries were those of Harvard and UCLA. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 5134 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[HOLDSWORTH (EDWARD)]: Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-maxia. Londini: Veneunt Bernard Lintott, [1709]. 8vo (in 4s), 176 x 110 mms., pp. 19 [20 blank], disbound; top margin closely trimmed, with loss on title-page of about 2 mms. of title and of running-title and page numbers on other leaves. Holdsworth (1684 - 1786) wrote this comic poem on the Welsh after graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford. In the poem, a Welshman, Taffy, who has ingested some cheese and fallen asleep, wakes up to find a mouse in his throat feasting on the cheese, and, as said mouse tries to escape, he is trapped by Taffy's teeth. Foxon H280. ESTC T41624, with a printer's ornament on page 19; Aberdeen, BL (2), Cambridge, Hampshire Record Office, Longleat, National Library of Wales, Bodleian. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 6397 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	HONOUR. The Man of Honour. London [i. e., Edinburgh]: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXVII 1737. 8vo (in 4s), 193 x 127 mms., pp. 12, disbound; title-page with vertical soil mark and hole in imprint removing "on" of London, with contemporary annotations identifying names indicated by initial(s) only. The imprint is false, and this satire on the Whig ministry was printed in Edinburgh. Foxon M66. ESTC T62251: BL (2), NLS (3); Boston Athenaeum, Louisiana State University, Illinois, Texas (2). GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 6396 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	JUVENAL. The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into English Verse. By William Gifford, Esq. With Notes and Illustrations. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and CO...., 1806. 8vo, pp. [viii], lxxviii, 473 [474 blank, 475 - 480 Index], contemporary lightly mottled calf, spine ornately gilt, black leather label (very slightly chipped); spine slightly rubbed and dried. Gifford's translation was first published in 1802; a third edition followed in 1817. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 3794 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	NORTH-COUNTRY GENTLEMAN (A): A Panegyric on the Town of Paisley. By a North-Country Gentleman. [?Paisley] Printed in the Year MDCCLXV 1765. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 24, including half-title, late 19th century quarter red calf, gilt spine; half-title soiled with two small holes and mounted, some slight fingering of text, but a good copy. A humorous poem addressed by the poet to a lady resident of Paisley at whose house he had stayed. "This satirical fiction contains a compliment; as Mercury is the God of Trade, their obtaining his rod, signifies the dexterity of their manufactures; and his wings, the extensiveness of their commerce, both being then very flourishing." ESTC on-line suggests Paisley as the place of printing which, if correct, puts this piece four years earlier than first confirmed Paisley imprint. Uncommon: ESTC T94080 locates copies in BL, Cambridge, Glasgow University, and the NLS (3); there is also a copy at Guelph. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 610 US$ 913.55 \| JP¥ 80709] Book number: 6153 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[TICKELL (THOMAS], INTER ALIA: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship: With a Preliminary Discourse, by Sir John Hawkins. London: Printed for James Ridgway..., 1785. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 214 x 130 mms., pp [4], vii - xlvi, 5 - 130 [131 Errata, 132 adverts], disbound; lacks half-title. This work was called forth by the first poem by the new Poet Laureate Thomas Warton (1728 - 1790), an ode on the King's birthday. Tickell (1751 - 1793) and Joseph (1755 - 1803) were the prime movers and shakers of this satire on Warton and the Pitt government. It was frequently reprinted. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 6398 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	[ARBUTHNOT (JOHN)]: Le Procès sans Fin, ou l'Histoire de John Bull, Publiée sur un Manuscrit trouvé dans le Cabinet du fameux Sir Humfroy Polesworth, en l'annèe 1712. Par le Docteur Swift. A Londres, Chez J. Nourse 1754. 8vo, pp. xxiii [xxiv "Avis de l'Imprimeur"], 248, contemporary Dutch marbled boards, morocco label (chipped): no blank leaves before title-page or after last page of text, ex-library with faded library stamp on title-page. Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735) published the five pamphlets which comprise this work separately in 1712, and as The History of John Bull in 1712, and as Law is a Bottomless Pit in 1727; it was also included the Pope-Swift Miscellanies. The imprint here looks suspiciously false, lacking the press figures often found in English printings of this period; and the signatures are distinctively continental. This translation is by the Abbé Paul Francois Velly and first appeared in 1753. ESTC distinguishes between two issues, an 8vo (as above), N38661 (14 copies); and a 12mo, T147436 ("Printed for J. Nours" [sic] in 1753; 13 copies). GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 3378 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ARNOT (HUGO): An Essay on Nothing. A Quaint Jeu d'Esprit attributed to Arnot. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid..., 1886. Large 8vo, 250 x 190 mms., pp. [iv], 51 [52 ornament], including half-title, text printed within borders, limitation notice on verso of title-page, "This Edition is limited to 50 Copies," contemporary quarter red sheepskin, marbled boards; spine defective, covers detached. Arnot (1749 - 1786) delivered this as a paper before the Edinburgh Speculative Society, and it was first printed in 1776. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 5855 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[GENARD (FRANCOIS)]: The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, A Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work. London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; lacks all prelims, hole in inner margin of title-page with loss of "S" from "Satyrical," front joint wormed, upper front joints slightly cracked. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 2767 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[GENARD (FRANCOIS)]: The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, A Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work. The Second Edition London: Printed for Lockyer Davies..., 1753. Small 8vo, pp. xxi, 304 [305 - 312 Index], including leaf of adverts (corner torn with slight loss) preceding title-page, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. A very good copy. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 4913 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[HAYLEY (WILLIAM)]: Essai Satirique et Amusant sur les Vielles Filles. Traduit de l'Anglois par M. Sibille. A Paris, Chez Le Tellier..., 1788. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 2 parts in 1. 12mo, pp. xvi, 172; [4], 224 [225 - 226 contents, 227 - 228 Approbation], contemporary French tree sheepskin; gilt spine missing about half its leather, joints cracked and tender. Hayley's Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids was first published in three volumes in 1785. This is translation of volume 1, and of chapter 1 of volume 2, only. The translator argues in his introduction that a translation of all three volumes would be much too long for most readers. The only copies I could locate in U. S. libraries were those of Harvard and UCLA. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 5134 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[HOLDSWORTH (EDWARD)]: Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-maxia. Londini: Veneunt Bernard Lintott, [1709]. 8vo (in 4s), 176 x 110 mms., pp. 19 [20 blank], disbound; top margin closely trimmed, with loss on title-page of about 2 mms. of title and of running-title and page numbers on other leaves. Holdsworth (1684 - 1786) wrote this comic poem on the Welsh after graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford. In the poem, a Welshman, Taffy, who has ingested some cheese and fallen asleep, wakes up to find a mouse in his throat feasting on the cheese, and, as said mouse tries to escape, he is trapped by Taffy's teeth. Foxon H280. ESTC T41624, with a printer's ornament on page 19; Aberdeen, BL (2), Cambridge, Hampshire Record Office, Longleat, National Library of Wales, Bodleian. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 6397 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	HONOUR. The Man of Honour. London [i. e., Edinburgh]: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXVII 1737. 8vo (in 4s), 193 x 127 mms., pp. 12, disbound; title-page with vertical soil mark and hole in imprint removing "on" of London, with contemporary annotations identifying names indicated by initial(s) only. The imprint is false, and this satire on the Whig ministry was printed in Edinburgh. Foxon M66. ESTC T62251: BL (2), NLS (3); Boston Athenaeum, Louisiana State University, Illinois, Texas (2). GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 6396 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	JUVENAL. The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into English Verse. By William Gifford, Esq. With Notes and Illustrations. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and CO...., 1806. 8vo, pp. [viii], lxxviii, 473 [474 blank, 475 - 480 Index], contemporary lightly mottled calf, spine ornately gilt, black leather label (very slightly chipped); spine slightly rubbed and dried. Gifford's translation was first published in 1802; a third edition followed in 1817. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 3794 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	NORTH-COUNTRY GENTLEMAN (A): A Panegyric on the Town of Paisley. By a North-Country Gentleman. [?Paisley] Printed in the Year MDCCLXV 1765. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 24, including half-title, late 19th century quarter red calf, gilt spine; half-title soiled with two small holes and mounted, some slight fingering of text, but a good copy. A humorous poem addressed by the poet to a lady resident of Paisley at whose house he had stayed. "This satirical fiction contains a compliment; as Mercury is the God of Trade, their obtaining his rod, signifies the dexterity of their manufactures; and his wings, the extensiveness of their commerce, both being then very flourishing." ESTC on-line suggests Paisley as the place of printing which, if correct, puts this piece four years earlier than first confirmed Paisley imprint. Uncommon: ESTC T94080 locates copies in BL, Cambridge, Glasgow University, and the NLS (3); there is also a copy at Guelph. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 610 US$ 913.55 \| JP¥ 80709] Book number: 6153 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	[TICKELL (THOMAS], INTER ALIA: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship: With a Preliminary Discourse, by Sir John Hawkins. London: Printed for James Ridgway..., 1785. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 214 x 130 mms., pp [4], vii - xlvi, 5 - 130 [131 Errata, 132 adverts], disbound; lacks half-title. This work was called forth by the first poem by the new Poet Laureate Thomas Warton (1728 - 1790), an ode on the King's birthday. Tickell (1751 - 1793) and Joseph (1755 - 1803) were the prime movers and shakers of this satire on Warton and the Pitt government. It was frequently reprinted. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 183 US$ 274.07 \| JP¥ 24213] Book number: 6398 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.