GOLDSMITH (Oliver):

An History of England, In a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son.

London: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery..., 1772. 2 volumes. 12mo, 167 x 108 mms., pp. 312; 280 [281 - 286 adverts], contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco labels; rebacking a little tight, but a good set with the contemporary autograph "Ja. Horsfall" on the top margin of each title-page. Goldsmith published this work anonymously in 1774, but it is a different work from that published in 1771, The History of England; presumably in the intervening years Goldsmith gained more confidence about the definite article. The former work is designed more for children, and the latter for adults. Roscoe, J147 (4).

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GOLDSMITH (Oliver):

The Roman History from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire. The Fourth AEdition.

London: Printed for C. Bathurst, L. Davis, W. Owen, G. Robinson, T, Cadell, T. Evans, and Leigh and Sotheby. 1781 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 207 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], x, 487 [488 - 498]; viii, 501 [502 - 512 index], contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, gilt spines, red morocco labels; boards a little worn, ex-library with shelf marks in white ink on spines and library stamp of Maynard Smith and Outran Smith Library on the lower margin of the front free end-paper in each volume. Goldsmith's Roman History was published in 1769. The Monthly Review, was rather hostile; after several pages, the reviewer concludes, "Upon the whole, this epitome cannot be perfectly understood by any but those who have read the histories from which it is extracted: it is indeed intended only as an outline, but as an outline it is very defective; it is sometimes broken, and sometimes distorted; yet, perhaps, after all, it is better for common readers to be content with the knowledge which it conveys, than to drudge through the other voluminous works of other writers for more."

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Book number: 10370

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HARRIS (William):

An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of James the First, King of Great Britain. After the Manner of Mr. Bayle. Drawn from Original Writers and State-Papers.

London: Printed for James Waugh..., 1753. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xv [sic = xiv; xv Errata, xvi blank], 255 [256 - 260 Appendix], contemporary calf; joints cracked but firm, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn.

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HOPETOUN (Earl and Countess of).

Two Silhouette Portraits. Two silhouette portraits, cut from dark silk and mounted on an off-white oval background.

1798. The silhouettes are framed in a silver (highly tarnished) bead pattern, with inscriptions on the verso of each: "Countess of Hopetoun/ Given to Jane Collett/ By Mrs. Hudson/ 1798" and "Earl of Hopetoun/ Given to Jane Collett/ by Mrs. Hudson/ 1798." The portrait of the Earl seems to have been damaged below the silhouette at some stage in the past 200+ years, and the silhouettes themselves seem a bit amateur. Likely candidates are James Hope-Johnstone, third earl of Hopetoun and de jure fifth earl of Annandale and Hartfell (1741–1816) and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Carnegie (1750–1793); or, more probably, John Hope, fourth earl of Hopetoun (1765–1823), and his first wife, his cousin, Elizabeth (d. 1801)` , fifth and youngest daughter of the Hon. Charles Hope-Vere of Craigiehall, and sister of John Hope (1739–1785).

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HUME (David):

The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar...[to the Revolution in 1688].

London and Edinburgh, Hamilton 1754 - 1762. FIRST EDITION of volumes 1 - 5, second edition of volume. 6 volumes. 4to, pp. viii, 424; viii, 446 [447 Errata, 448 blank]; viii, 402; [ii], [403] - 739 [740 adverts]; vi, 473 [474 advert]; v [vi blank], 459 [460 adverts], including half title in volumes 1, 2, and 3, and contents leaf for volume 4 bound in volume 3, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red leather labels; title-page for volume 6 slightly detached at inner margin, with title-page dated 1759, front cover volume 6 detached, joints and corners a bit worn. These volumes are all early issues, except for volume 6, of the work that Hume eventually called his History of England. The first volume, volume 5 in the collected set, was published in Edinburgh in 1754, by Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, with the title, The History of Great Britain. Vol. I. Containing The Reigns of James I. and Charles I. Volume 6 was the second volume to be published in 1757, this time in London by Millar, after Hume fell out with the Edinburgh publishers; it contains the history of the commonwealth and the reigns of Charles II and James II. In the present set, volume 6, actually the second volume to be published, is "The Second Edition, Corrected," and retains the original title, The History of Great Britain, with 3D3 being a cancel, so it is not an early issue. Proceeding backwards, in 1759, Hume published The History of England under the House of Tudor, in two volumes. Finally, he went back to the earliest data and published, in 1762, The History of England, from The Invasion of Julius Cæsar to The Accession of Henry VII. Millar later printed general title-pages for the six volumes and added an index, replacing the original title-pages which are retained in the above set, which also does not have the index. So far as one can tell, as the bibliographical record is still incomplete on the work's printing history, the above volumes are early if not the earliest issues and states of the work. Later editions of the work omitted two passages about Catholic "superstition" in the 1754 volume, on pp. 8 - 9, and pp. 25 - 27. An early reviewer of the 1754 volume. R. Flexman in the Monthly Review for March, 1755, charged Hume with indecent reflections on the protestant religion, as if it were "the casual effect of fanaticism and enthusiasm, than the amiable offspring of free enquiry and rational conviction." William B. Todd, "David Hume: A Preliminary Bibliography" in Hume and the Enlightenment, ed. W. B. Todd (1974), pp. 196 - 198. Chuo 47.

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Book number: 9754

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INB KHALDOUN. SCHULZ (Friedrich Eduard):

Sur le Grand Ouvrage historique et Critique d'Ibn-Khaldoun, appelé: Kitab-Ol-Iber we Diwan an -Ol, Moubteda Wel Khaber.

A Paris, A la Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupre Père et Fils..., 1825. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 221 x 144 mms., pp. [3] 4 -36, with several leaves containing text in Arabic script, original blue wrappers (frayed and worn). The Arab historian, historiographer, and sociologist Ibn Khaldoun (1332 - 1406) is best-known for the work about which Schulz has written his commentary, the Muqaddimah. Schulz (1799 - 1829) was one of the first scholars to uncover evidence of the Kingdom of Urartu, an area centred on Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands in ninth to sixth centuries B. C. The present work contains comments on and translations from the preface to the Muqaddimah. Copac locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, and Warburg Institute; WorldCat adds McGill, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire Strasbourg, and niversitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität.

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Book number: 8963

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JOHNSTONE (James), Chevalier de Johnstone:

Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746. Containing A Narrative of the Progress of the Rebellion; from its Commencement to the Battle of Culloden...Translated from a French MS. originally deposited in the Scots College at Paris, and now in the hands of the publishers.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown..., 1820. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iii] - xlix [l Errata], 348, engraved map as frontispiece, two engraved portraits; map partially detached at inner margin, b4 detached at inner margin. BOUND WITH: HALFORD (Henry), Sir: An Account of what appeared on Opening the Coffin of King Charles the First, in the Vaulty of King Henry the Eighth in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, on the First of April, MDCCCXIII. London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co..., 1813. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 19 [20 blank]; short tears in fore-margins not reaching text. 2 volumes in 1, contemporary calf, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (very rubbed); spine dried and rubbed, lacks label, corners worn. An insalubrious copy.

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Book number: 2803

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JUSTINUS (Marcus Junianus):

Justini historiam ex Trogo Trogo Pompeio lib. XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii.

Lvgd. Batavorum Ex officina Elzeviriana, Anno 1640. Small 12mo, 120 x 64 mms., pp. [xii], 294, 39 [40 - 93 Index, 94 blank], fine engraved title-page, contemporary red morocco, gilt panels on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, art nouveau bookplate on front paste-down end-paper; front cover detached, but an attractive copy. This is the first Elzevir edition to have Vossius' dedication to Thure Bielke.

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Book number: 7586

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KAMES (Henry Home), Lord:

Essays upon Several Subjects concerning British Antiquities; viz. I. Introduction of the Feudal Law into Scotland. II. Constitution of Parliament. III. Honour. Dignity. IV. Succession or Descent. With an Appendix upon Hereditary and Indefeasible Right. Composed anno M.DCC.XLV. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for M. Cooper..., 1749. 8vo, pp. [iv], 217 [218 blank, 219 - 220 Note], contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments; half of rear blank end-paper removed, portion of rear marbled end-paper torn away, spine rubbed with loss of gilt, lacks label, upper front joints cracked. Writing to Kames in June, 1747, David Hume said of this work that he had read the essays "with great Satisfaction, the Reasonings are solid, the Conjectures ingenious, & the whole is instructive. The Stile is also very good; correct & nervous & very pure...."

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Book number: 2570

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KERRY (Rev. Charles):

A History of the Municipal Church of St. Lawrence, Reading.

Published by the Author, Forbury Road, Reading, and Little Eaton, Derby, 1883. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 256, frontispiece, full-page illustrations in text, original cloth; corners worn, top of spine snagged and slightly defective.

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[LEPESANT DE BOILGUILBERT (Pierre)]:

Marie Stuart Reyne d'Ecosse.

Paris [L. Billaine] 1675. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 142 x 84 mms., pp. [4], 5 - 312, in three parts, with separate title-page for each part, contemporary vellum (soiled); text block pulling away from binding at hinges, title-page (part one) with paper strip recto and verso obscuring "Reyne" in title, notes in pencil on recto of front free end-paper. A modest copy. This was the first book that Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646 - 1714) published; he was later to achieve distinction as an economist. His first important work on economics, Le Detail de la France, appeared in 1695. In the preface, he alludes to representations of Mary by George Buchanan, whose mendacities were published in 1571, and the Jesuit Nicolas Caussin, whose La Cour Sainte (1624) represents Mary as a persecuted innocent in contrast to the cold-hearted and heretical queen, Elizabeth. Having consulted fifteen or sixten authors, Pesant declares "si je cite Candenus [sic] plus souvent que les autres, c'est parce qu'estant Sujet d'Elizabeth, ce qu'il dit passer pour une verite incontestable." I assume the work to which he alludes is William Camden's Annales (1625).

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Book number: 7843

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LIVY.

Le Deche di T. Livio Padovano delle Historie Romane, Tradotte nella lingua Toscana, da Iacopo Nardi cittadino Fiorentino, & nuouamente dal medesimo riuedute & emendate, con le postille parimente accresciute nelle margini del libro, che diachiarano molti uocaboli delle cose uecchie, piu degne di cognitione: & molti nomi di Paesi, & citta, fiumi, monti, & luoghi, illustrati conomi moderni. Etappress, la ualuta delle monete Romane, ridotta al pregio di quelle de tempionostir: insieme con la dichiaratione di tutte le misure, quanto e stato necessario alla piena intelligenza dell'autore. Allequali, per maggior satisfattion de lettori, habbiamo anchora aggiunto la Tauola de Re, Consoli, Tribuni militari con lad podesta Consolare, & Dittatori: che per i tempi correnti sono stati creati nella citta di Roma. Et appresso, la Tauola di tutte le cose, fatti, & detti notabili, nella presente opera contenuti.

Col priuilegio dello Illustriss, Senato Veneto, per anni xv. In Venetia M D XLVII. [From Colophon: In Venetia nella stamperia degli heredidi Luc'Antonio Giunti Fiorentino, Nell anno del MDXLVII. Nel mese di Marzo.] 1547. Large, thick folio, 309 x 212 mms., [21 leaves, including final blank], 485 leaves printed recto and verso, with engraved vignette on title-page and a Giunti engraved vignette on colophon, later 18th century quarter vellum, marbled boards, black morocco; upper inner margin and lower portion of title-page neatly repaired, lower front hinge slightly cracked, margins of last leaf very slightly frayed, corners worn, but a very good copy of this popular imprint. This edition was prepared by the Italian historian and classicist, Jacopo Nardi (1476 - 1563). Titus Livius, as the historian is formally known, composed his Ab urbe condita in the years 27 to 15 B. C., though only about 25% of the original is thought to survive. There was some dispute in the early 19th century about the editio princeps, which is the edition printed in Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz in two volumes in 1469. Nardi's edition was first published in 1540.

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[LOCKMAN (John):

A New History of England, by Question and Answer. Extracted from the Most Celebrated English Historians, Particularly M. de Rapin Thoyras. The Third Edition, Corrected, and very much Improv'd by the Author.

London: Printed for Tho. Astley..., 1736. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [viii], 231 [232 - 236 adverts, D3 signed D6, contemporary calf (worn); no free end-papers, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, later autograph "Alex Mitchell" on top margin of title-page. A poor copy. Lockman (1698 - 1771) published this also in a French and English version, viz. A New History of England, in English and French by Question and Answer. Extracted from the most Celebrated English Historians (1729; this seems to be the first edition). Also this present copy of the English only version is styled "The Third Edition" and was published in 1736, there is also a "Fourth Edition" published in 1732. Both versions of the work were popular throughout the 18th century. ESTC T155111 locates copies in BL and Bodleian; Library Company of Philadelphia and Chicago. A "Third Edition" of the French and English version was published by P. Vaillant in the same year.

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LUSIGNAN (Saveur):

A History of the Revolt of Ali Bey, against the Ottoman Porte, Including An Account of the Forms of Government of Egypt; together with a Description of Grand Cairo, and of several celebrated Places in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria: To which are added, A short Account of the present State of the Christians who are Sujbects to the Turkish Government, and the Journal of a Gentleman who travelled from Aleppo to Bassora. By S. L. The Second Edition.

London: Printed by James Phillips...; and Sold by C. Dilly..., 1784. 8vo, 204 x 123 mms., pp. xii, 259 [260 Erratum], folding engraved map before title-page, which appears to be a cancel, contemporary tree sheepskin, spine neatly restored with gilt rules across spine. A very good copy. Ali Bey al-Kabir (1728 - 1773) rebelled against his Ottoman rulers in 1768. The Ottoman Porte of the title is a name for the central government of the Ottoman Empire. The author, who purports to be a teacher of Greek and located at no. 27 Compton Street, Soho, also claims to have know Ali Bey. The reviewer of the first edition of 1783 in The Monthly Review seems to be a little sceptical of this identity, but nevertheless asserts, "This authentic account of such a revolution as that accomplished by Ali Bey, written by a person who was occasionally an eye witness of it, and had, from his connections in the country, many opportunities of acquiring the best information concerning it, will always deserve the attention of the Public." The Critical Review was certain of the author's accuracy: "The candor [sic] and simplicity of the present author are the strongest criteria of his veracity; and we have little hesitation in believing this short, but very satisfactory relation of the adventures of an amiable but unfortunate hero....," concluding that he endorses the narrative with "the warmest commendations both of the work and its author. We suspect him to be an Italian or from the opposite coast of the Gulf of Venice; but his candour [sic], veracity, and good sense, will be the most powerful recommendations in any line of life he may think fit to pursue." Lusignan adds a paragraph at the end of the preface not in the first edition to the effect that he has "added a New and Correct Map of Egypt, Syria, &c." ESTC T130751 calls for a plate or map in the first edition of 1783,

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Book number: 9194

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MACPHERSON (John):

Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government,Manners and Religion, of the Antient Caledonians, Their Posterity The Pict, and the British and Irish Scots.

Dublin: Printed by Boulter Grierson, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1768 FIRST IRISH EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 115 mms., pp. xxx [xxxi - xxxii Contents], 351 [352 blank], contemporary quarter calf; boards dark and soiled, spine a little fragile, slight soiling of text. In his ODNB articles, Paul J. deGategno writes, "Macpherson's most important work, the posthumous Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion of the ancient Caledonians, their posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots (1768), was a response to the Ossian phenomenon prompted by James Macpherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry and his translations of the epics Fingal (1762) and Temora (1763). An unabashed defender of Ossian and a recognized Celtic authority on antiquities, John had met James Macpherson (no relation) in September 1760 during the latter's search for Ossianic poems in the highlands. Having provided the poet with various documents on Celtic history as well as leads to various Ossian manuscripts, John recited passages of Fingal and the fragments often heard in his neighbourhood (Saunders, 123; Stafford, 117, 120). In turn James Macpherson later used material from the minister's Critical Dissertations, to which he may have contributed part of the preface, in his dissertations on the epics, as well as his Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland (1771), where he again acknowledged John's influence as an advocate of the Caledonian origins of the Scottish nation and as a critic of modern conjectural historians, such as William Robertson, whom John accused of 'looking with too much contempt on the origin of society' (Critical Dissertations, 18)."

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