DE LOLME (John Louis):

The Constitution of England; Or, An Account of the English Government: in which it is compared, both with the Republican Form of Government, and the Other Monarchies in Europe. A New Edition, Corrected.

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson...and J. Murray..., 1789. 8vo, pp. [viii], xv [xvi], 540 [541 - 559 Index, 560 blank], engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, black morocco label; front joint cracked, rare joint slightly cracked, top of spine chipped, some worming of front cover The first English edition of this work was published in 1775, and subsequent editions followed quickly. New material in this work takes up more than sixty pages.

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[DENINA (Carlo). (MURDOCH (John):

An Essay on the Revolutions of Literature. Translated from the Italian of Sig. Carlo Denina, Professor of Eloquence and Belles-Lettres in the University of Turin. By John Murdoch.

London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand; J. Robson in New-Bond Street; G. Woodfall at Charing-Cross; and T. Evans in Pater-Noster Row. [1771]. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. 12mo, 153 x 96 mms. , pp. [iv], viii, 299 [300 advert], in contemporary gray wrappers; slight staining of inner margin of title-page but a good copy. The Italian historian Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina (1731 – 5 December 1813) at Saluzzo and Turin. In 1753 he was appointed to the chair of humanity at Pinerolo, at the very young age of 22. Thirty years later he went to Berlin for a university post, having been invited by Frederick the Great. This work was first published in 1760 in Italian. Born at Ayr on 25 March 1747, the teacher and writer John Murdoch (1747–1824) was educated in Ayr and graduated from the Universit of Edinbugh. The Oxford DNB records that "After working as an assistant at a private academy, he became a schoolmaster at Ayr Academy, where Burns was one of his pupils. Murdoch described Burns as 'very apt,' although his 'ear' was 'remarkably dull,' and his voice 'untuneable.'" Later, he was one of Burns's correspondents. Oxford DNB adds "Among his publications were Essays on the Revolutions of Literature (1771), translated from Carlo Denina, A Radical Vocabulary of the French Language (1782), a collection of essays and fiction entitled Pictures of the Heart (1783), Orthography of the French Language (1788), and a work on spelling and pronunciation entitled The Dictionary of Distinctions (1811)."

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Book number: 10259

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DICTIONARY.

The Historian's Pocket Dictionary; Annexing Dates to The Memorable Occurrences, from The Earliest Period of History to The Present Time... Also The Sovereigns of England and Scotland, Distinguished Painters, &c. and Eminent Men of all Professions.

London: Printed for J. Murray..., and T. Wilkie..., no date [1789] 12mo, 134 x 78 mms., pp. viii, 352, contemporary calf, with the contemporary autograph "Mr. Campbell," and very faintly in pencil, "Hisy. of the 1687 ]?1607] Chless by F von Manning, Translated by Lord Egerton [transcription not guaranteed]" on the recto of the front free end-paper and later notes on the verso of the rear free end-paper, spine gilt to a crown motif in compartments, red leather label; spine chipped at base, front cover holding on for dear life. "Sometimes Murray even fabricated controversy to gain free publicity. The publication of his Historian's Pocket Dictionary in 1789 led to a case at the King's Bench (1 Dec. 1789( in which the Reverend John Trusler charged that Murray's book was a piracy of his Chronology, or the Historians Vade Mecum (1768). Murray had even reprinted Trusler's obvious errors. The press reported the case, but one newspaper saw through the 'farcical dispute' and exposed Murray (Master Calves-skin) and Truster (Doctor Sapscull)...." (William Zachs: The First John Murray [1998[, pp. 198 - 199.) Zachs 731. ESTC copies in Aberdeen, BL, NLS, Leighton, Private, National Trust; Cornell, Library Company of Philadelphia, McMaster, Laval.

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FERENTILLI (Agostino):

Discorso universale di M. Agostoino Ferentilli nel quale, Discorriendes, per le sei eta et le Quatro Monarchie si raccontano tutte l'Historie et l'origine di tutti gli imperii, Regni & Nationi, cominciano dal principio del mondo, fino all'annno MDLXIX. Nel Fine del quale si Mostro con diligente calcolo de'tempi, quanto havvia da durare il presente secolo, seguitando in cio l'opione di Elia Rabino, & di Lattantio Firmiano. Aggiuntiavi La Creatione del Mondo, Descritta da Fiole Hebreo< & tradotta dl medesimo Ferentilli. ConPrivilegio.

In Venetia Aperesso Gabriel Gigleo de AFerrrari, 1572. Small 4to, 195 x 142 mms., pp. [xvi], 231 [232 register], with separate title-page for La Creatione del Mondo, pp. [56], with printer's device on title-page, other woodcut illustrations, historiated initials, Dutch paste-down end-papers, contemporary vellum with ink title on spine; binding a trifle soiled, but a very good copy. OCLC notes that this work is a "Classical statement of the history of the world, arranged by its ages. This sort of work was of great importance in the developing philosophy of history and systems of the calculation of time in the last half of the century. The Creatione del mondo is one of a large number of treatises that comprise Philo's compendious commentary on the Book of Genesis. The Ferentelli translation first appeared in a Giolito edition of 1570, and was followed by numerous other editions of 1572, 1573, 1574, and 1575, which, according to Hoffmann, differ primarily in the addition of shoulder notes." In Creatione del Mondo, Ferentilli predicted that the world would end in 2021. Back to the drawing board, I guess. Bongi, S. Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari,; II:350-351; EDIT 16,; CNCE 18744.

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GIBBON (Edward). MILLER (Samuel):

Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century... Containing A Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature, during that period.

Printed at New York, London: Reprinted for J. Johnson..., 1805. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv Contents, xvi blank], 429 [430 blank]; [iv], 420; [iv], 356 [357 - 503 Index, 504 blank], uncut, original boards; last leaf of Index in volume 3 laid down on rear end-paper, spines renewed with cloth, corners worn, boards soiled, ex-library.

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GIBBON (Edward). FUGLUM (Per):

Edward Gibbon: His View of Life and Conception of History. Oslo Studies in English, Publications of the British Institute in the University of Oslo.

Oslo: Akademisk Forlag; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 176, original cloth, fine copy in slightly faded dust-jacket.

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Book number: 5308

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GIBBON (Edward). SWAIN (Joseph Ward):

Edward Gibbon The Historian.

London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1966. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 161, original cloth, fine copy in fine dust-jacket.

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GIBBON (Edward). PELIKAN (Jaroslav):

The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome And the Triumph of the Church.

San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiii, 133, portrait of Gibbon as frontispiece, 6 pp. colour illustrations in text, original cloth, fine copy in fine dust-jacket.

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GIBBON (Edward). TICKNER (F. W.), editor:

Gibbon's Story of Constantinople from "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

London: Dent; New York, Dutton, n. d., c. 1820. Small 8vo, pp. 284, 4 pp. chronological chart, original cloth.

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GIBBON (Edward):

Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in Six Volumes, Quarto, Abridged in Two Volumes, Octavo.

London, Printed for G. Kearsley..., 1789. FIRST ABRIDGED EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xi [xii blank], 569 [570 blank, 571-572 adverts]; xi [xii blank], 562 [563-564 adverts], contemporary calf, rebacked with old spines and labels preserved and laid down, new front free end-paper in each volume. A very good set, with the words "Philosopher & Infidel" in a contemporary hand bracketing Gibbon's name on the title-page. This abridgement of Gibbon's six massive quartos has been variously attributed to the Aberdonian schoolmaster and educational writer John Adams (1750 - 1814) in the BL catalogue and in the Oxford DNB; and to the Reverend Charles Hereford by other commentators. The same abridgement was published in Dublin in 1790. The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature gave it a brief mention in 1791: "Our opinion of Gibbon's history is already known to the public. Concerning the present work, therefore, we have only to observe, that it is abridged with as little variation as possible from the original language. Tge truth is, that the epitomiser has servilely adhered to the text, even in expressions which are not defensible, either upon the principles of grammar or analogy. The abridgment, however, gives a competent view of the subject, and will prove more convenient to many readers from the consideration both of time and expence." In the same year The Analytical Review had an axe to grind: "We must add, however, that so much of Mr Gibbon's stile is (perhaps unavoidably) preserved, that this publication can never be useful to young persons, who will not be able to understand perfectly the metaphorical flights, and the intricate phraseology of the author. It is even a question, whether the brevity of style essential to an abridgment has not rather increased the original obscurity.l" There are three ESTC listings for this work. T78371 locates copies in the BL, the Bodleian, Oxford University Trinity College Library, National Library of Wales; Huntington, Stanford and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Dublin edition of 1790, T78372: BL, National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Library; and in 1790 a reissue of the sheets of the 1789 edition, "Abridged and expurgated for 'the youthful mind' (vol.1, 2nd preliminary leaf)": Cambridge, Longleat House, Essex; Harvard Houghton, Library Company of Philadelphia.

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GIBBON (Edward):

Historia om romerska kejardonets aftagande och fall, af Eduard Gibbon, esq:r, Oafversatting af C. G. Wadstrom och J. F. Hedblad.

Orebro, tryckt hos N. M. Lindh. Pa. eget forlag, 1820 - 1834. FIRST SWEDISH TRANLSATION. 8vo, all volumes, 192 x 121 mms. original blue wrappers, uncut, with round library stamp on each title-page; fore-margins crushed and wrappers a bit soiled, but a very good set.Volume 1 [1820]: pp, [viii], 300 [301 – 307 index, 308 errata] Volume 2 [1820]: pp. [iv], 300 [301 – 308 index and errata] Volume 3 [1821]; pp. [iv], 264 [265 – 271 index, 272 blank]; lacks rear cover Volume 4 [1821]: [iv, 238 [239 – 243 index, 244 blank] Volume 5 [1822]: [iv], [258 [259 – 263 index, 264 blank; rear cover defective Volume 6 [1823]: [iv],248 [249 – 252 index] Volume 7: pp. [iv], 216 [217 – 220 index] Volume 8: pp. [iv],283 [284 – 289 index, 290 blank] Volume 9: pp. [iv], 213 [214 – 216 index]; 1826 Volume 10 [1829]: pp. [iv], 246 [247 – 249 index, 250 blank]; lacks rear cover Volume 11 [1829]: pp. [iv], 224 [225 – 228]; lacks rear cover 1829 Volkume 12 [1831]: pp. [iv], 290 [291 – 2906 index]; Volume 13 [1831]: pp. [iv], 283 [284 – 288 index; front cover torn Volum 14 [1832]: pp. [iv], 305 [306 – 310 index]; Volume 15 [1835]: [iv], 342 [343 – 345 index, 346 blank; Volume 16 [1834]: [iv], 282 The translators are , Carl Gustaf Wadström (1787-1841) and Johann Fabian Hedbland (1790 – 1854). They are indexed in Swedish Imprints1732 – 1833: A Retrospective National Bibliography (Volume 1), published in 1977 by Rolf du Riet and Gun-Britt du Rietz. In volume 5 of his Miscellaneous Works, Gibbon commented, "Superstition and clerical power reached the highest pitch in Sweden. At the time of their conversion, the Swedes adopted the whole papal system, and became Christians after the fashion of the twelfth century. They could not plead the authority of any ancient traditions; their history furnished them not with any argument the Roman faith, and their ignorance hindered them from seeking such arguments in the history of other nations, in reason, or in scripture." Norton, page 153. Copies in Yale University Library, University of Washington Library, National Library of Sweden. No copies located in UK libraries.

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GIBBON (Edward):

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition.

London: Printed for W. Allason...[et al], 1821. 12 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 16, [xxi] - xxxi [xxxii blank], 456; xi [xii blank], 486; vii [viii blank], 409 [410 blank]; vii [viii blank], 438; vii [viii blank], 427 [428 blank]; viii, 411 [412 blank]; viii, viii, 423 [424 blank]; viii, 375 [376 blank]; ix [x blank], 503 [504 blank]; ix [x blank], 382; x, 450; xi [xii blank], 508, engraved portrait of Gibbon in volume 1, engraved folding map in volume 3, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels, marbled boards; text a little browned. Norton 67.

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GIBBON (Edward):

History of the Saracen Empire. [And] History of the Saracens, by Simon Ockley.

London: Alex. Murray and Son…, 1870. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 450 2 + 16 pp. adverts, original cloth; title-page a little stained. The only clue to the juxtaposition of these two texts, the first extracted from Gibbon's Decline and Fall is a note on the verso of the title-page: "This composite volume contains the graphic pages of Gibbon, and the quaint details of Ockley - authorities on the subject, and carefully edited by A. Murray."

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GIBBON (Edward). JESSE (William):

Lectures supposed to have been delivered by the Author of A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion [i. e., Soame Jenyns], to a Select Company of Friends. Dedicated to Edward Gibbon, Esq.

Boston [Massachusetts]: Printed by E. Thomas and E. T. Andrews…, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 202, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label, gilt spine; front joint cracked, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of the "Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy Libray" on the front paste-down end-paper The so-called "Dedication" berates Gibbon for his representation of Christianity in the Decline and Fall. Not in Norton. Evans 25712.

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GIRAFFI (Alessandro), author. HOWELL (James), translator:

An Exact Historie of the Late Revolutions in Naples; and of their Monstrous Successes, not to be parallel'd by any Ancient or Modern History. Published by the Lord Alexander Giraffi in Italian, and (for the rarenesse of the subject) rendred to English, by J. H. Esq.

London: Printed by R.A. for R. Lowndes, 1650. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, 140 x 80 mms., pp. [viii], 206, title-page in red and black, and enclosed within a typographic border, the engraved frontispiece is the full-length engraved portrait, lightly coloured, of Masianiello, a.k.a. Tommaso Aniello (1620-1647), the Italian fisherman who played a leading role in the revolt against Spanish rule in Naples in 1647, later early 18th century panelled sheepskin; fore-edges very closely trimmed, title-page soiled, binding a little worn, with the top of the spine chipped, corners worn. A fair to good copy, with the early, neat ownership inscription of "John Edwards" in the upper half of title-page, and his autograph repeated upside-down on the verso of the last leaf. The translator of this Neapolitan history by Alessandro Giraffi is said to be "J. H." on the title-page, the initials of the political writer and historian James Howell (1594?-1666). The work translated by Howell is Giraffi's Le Rivolutioni di Napoli, published in Venice in 1647. The frontispiece in this edition depicts one of the two primary leaders of the 1647 revolt against Spanish rule in Naples: Masaniello, whose real name was Tommaso Aniello. Giulio Genoino was the second, and he was known as the "mind of Masaniello." Notably, Howell's own life was upturned by revolutionary events in his own country. As Wikipedia says, "On the eve of the English Civil War, he finally gained a secretaryship of the Privy Council, which according to one eminent critic, was 'very close to the type of appointment that he had sought for 20 years'. The conflict meant that he never took up the position, and at about the same time, he wrote his first book, or 'maiden Fancy', Dodona's Grove, which represented the history of England and Europe through the allegorical framework of a typology of trees." Howell "saw himself as a martyr to the royalist cause. On a visit to London early in 1643 he was arrested in his chambers, his books were seized, and he was imprisoned in the Fleet. There he remained for eight years…" (Oxford DNB). Howell's translation of Giraffi's account of the 1647 revolt was likely written while Howell was in prison, as the publication date of the first edition is 1650; and, according to Wikipedia, "[h]e was released in 1651". Oxford DNB hedges its bets,saying he was "release[d] from prison in 1650 or 1651." The historian David Como provides an erudite assessment of Howell's 1650 book: "That year, James Howell brought out a translation of Alessandro Giraffi's account of the Neapolitan tumults, which Howell entitled An Exact Historie of the late Revolutions in Naples. Howell was a well-travelled polyglot, with a pronounced taste for Italian culture, which helps to explain his attraction to this exotic fare; yet he was also a royalist sympathizer who had spent a considerable amount of time in prison for his allegiances. Although his motives for publication are uncertain, it seems likely that the book was intended as a sotto voce commentary on events in England, an invitation to readers to draw parallels between events in the two polities. Of course, by the time Howell went to press, the Neapolitan republic had collapsed and Spanish authority had been reasserted, thus perhaps rendering the analogy more poignant and, for Howell at least, exemplary. Whatever his motivation, Howell tapped into widespread popular fascination with the events in Naples. His rendition of Giraffi's book, with its crude woodcut of the plebeian rebel leader Masaniello, was an instant success …" (David R. Como, "God's evolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the Mid-Seventeenth Century" in Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions, ed. by Dan Edelstein and Keith Michael Baker (Stanford University Press, 2015), pp. 41-56, p. 47). Of seventeenth-century writers born in Wales, James Howell is one of the most important as well as most prolific. On the title-page of this copy of Exact Historie, there is the manuscript ownership inscription of one "John Edwards". This could be the early eighteenth-century Welsh poet John Edwards (1699-1776) or his later namesake John Edwards (1747-1792), also a significant Welsh poet. The former may be more likely, as the hand looks early. ESTC R21699.

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Book number: 10396

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