Imprisonment for debt considered. With respect to the bad policy, inhumanity, and evil tendency of that practice. Translated from the Italian.

London: printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1772. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xvi], 40pp. With the half-title, in excellent facsimile. Drab boards. Roscoe, A246; ESTC T37075. Ex-library copy; deaccessioned with all the appropriate marks. ESTC records three copies: one at the British Library, one at Queen's University at Belfast, and one at Yale. It is conceivable that this was originally written by Beccaria; but there is no evidence to support this assumption. Good.

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Book number: 2339

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books

L'Innocente justifiee: Histoire de Grenade.

A la Haye: Chez Abraham Troyel, marchand libraire, dans la grand' salle de la cour, 1694. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [iv], 425, [iii]pp. *2, A12-R12, S10 [S10 blank]. Title-page in red-and-black. In three parts. Contemporary calf, repaired. With the bookplate of Parham House Sussex, and a note on the book by Harriet Anne Bisshopp, dated 1810. I do not know whether this refers to the mother or the daughter (nee Bisshopp, later Curzon). A fictitious imprint. Cf. Brunet, G. Imprimeurs imaginaires, p. 190. Copies at the University of Florida and Pennsylvania in the US, and at Oxford in the UK. Good.

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Book number: 2584

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books

Istoria della Vita, Crudelta, e Morte di Nerone Imperatore con la Morte de' Santi Pietro, e Paolo.

In Roma ed in Genova: Per il Franchelli. Con Licenza de' Superiori, n.d. [late seventeenth century]. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 6ff. [A6]. Modern wrappers. With a woodcut of Saint Peter and Saint Paul on the title-page. Good.

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Book number: 2238

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Religion

D.N. Jesu Christi Novum Testamentum, sive foedus.

Geneva: ex officina Francisci Stephani, 1567. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 113ff. Aa8-Rr8, Ss4. With the printer's device on the title-page. In a vellum binding. Illustrated with a woodcut map. Renouard, Annales de l'Imprimerie des Estienne, p. 159; Adams B1075. Some very old staining in the lower outer margin, running through many pages. Additionally, there is a wormhole running through the caption title in leaves 24 through 39 affecting the caption title in those leaves and the text on the first line in three to four leaves. Good.

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Book number: 553

Catalogue: Sixteenth Century Books, Religion

Keywords: BIBLE SIXTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS

The John Carter Brown Library Conference. A Report of the Meeting held in the Library at Brown University on the Early History of the Americas.

Providence, Rhode Island: n.p. 1951. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 62pp. Printed paper wrappers. Wroth's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Very Good.

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Book number: 002797

The Joy of Books: a few expressions of appreciation of the value and pleasure of good books: with some incidential mention of the new publications of the American Unitarian Association.

Boston: [C.L. Stebbins], 1906. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 12pp. Stiff paper wrappers. Very Good.

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Book number: 003089

D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. [EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED].

Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville, 1761. 0. Hardcover. Royal quarto. 240pp. Contemporary red morocco, repaired. Extra illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 plates by Wenceslas Hollar for the 1660 edition of 'Mores Hominum. The Manners Of Men, Described in sixteen Satyr, By Juvenal.' ESTC T92123; Gaskell 15; Brunet III 632; Bartram p. 73. Very Good.

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Book number: 003151

Kirchen=Gesangbuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinden ungeänderter Augsburgischer Confession.

St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1902. 0. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. 468pp. Black roan, heavily gilt and dated 1903. Rubbed. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With the bookplate of a Detroit bookseller, Geo. Huser, on the front pastedown. Good.

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Book number: 2389

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Religion

The Knickerbocker Gallery: a testimonial to the editor of the Knickerbocker magazine [i.e. Lewis Gaylord Clark] from its contributors. With forty-eight portraits on steel ... engraved expressly for this work.

New York: S. Hueston, 1855. 0. Hardcover. Large octavo. 1ff. [ix]-xiv, 15-505pp. Added title-page engraved with vignette. Lacks last few leaves. Bound in red morocco. Illustrated with 49 portraits, including the frontispiece. Good.

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Book number: 2390

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Kort begrip van 't leven en daaden, val alle de Engelsche koningen, waar in mede dat van Jacobus de Tweede, tegenwoordig regeerende, met eenige bysondere en gewightbaare aanmerking op sijn daaden. Uyt 't Engels vertaalt.

Tot Vrystad: in de Koning-Straat, [1688]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 8pp. Modern wrappers. Good.

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Book number: 2466

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books

The Ladies Wreath, a Souvenir for all Seasons.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d. [c. 1855]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 288pp. With an extra lithographed title-page and presentation pages. Bound in red morocco with gilt pictorial design on both covers. All edges gilt. Flat spine, gilt. Repaired. With four full-page engraved plates. Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855; Faxon 457a. Good.

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Book number: 2391

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

A Letter to a Person of Quality, Occasion'd by the News of the ensuing Parliament.

n.p. [London]: n.p. n.d. [1688]. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. 8pp. Caption title. Signed at end: R.S. In this edition, the signature mark "A" is below and to the left of the "N" in "Natural"; the catchword on A1r is "ce;". Disbound. No copy of this variant in North America and only five copies in the UK (four at Oxford and one in Cambridge). Good.

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Book number: 2443

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books

Liber Precum Publicarum, seu Ministerii Ecclesiasticae Administrationis Sacramentorum, aliorumque Rituum, & Caeremoniarum, in Ecclesia Anglica.

London: Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, 1574. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. [28], 299ff. a8, b4, c8-d8, A8-Z8, Aa8-Oo8, Pp4 (Pp4 blank? wanting). Title within a pictorial woodcut border. Nineteenth-century calf. Pollard & Redgrave 16427. With a pre-fire London bookplate. On June 19th 1574 Vautrollier was granted letters patent to print certain Latin books including Bezas Novum Testamentum (and presumably the present Latin liturgy). In fact the present work is a reprint of Wolfiums edition of 1572. Title-page mounted, with slight damage to upper part. Good.

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Book number: 2242

Catalogue: Sixteenth Century Books, Religion

Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Fifty Books Exhibited for the Roxburghe Club. [A.N.L. MUNBY'S COPY].

n.p. [London?]: n.p. 21 June 1962. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [iii]pp. Typescript; typed on recto only. Stapled. No markings. Printed paper wrappers. Munby's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Very Good.

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Book number: 002829

A List of the Printed Productions of George Watson Cole 1870-1936. With Comments by Friends.

Boston: The F. W. Faxon Company, 1936. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 28pp. Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, number 33. Printed paper wrappers. Wroth's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Very Good.

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Book number: 002796