GOLDSMITH (Oliver):

The Beauties of Goldsmith: or, the Moral and Sentimental Treasury of Genius.

London, Printed for G. Kearsley..., 1782. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [ii], xxxvi, 228, including engraved title-page with vignette portrait of Goldsmith and leaf of adverts after Contents, 19th century half calf, marbled boards (soiled and worn); front joint cracked, lacks label, spine rubbed. The title-page was changed to reissue it as a second/third edition. There is no edition statement on the title-page to the present copy, so it is probably the first issue (ESTC T146029: L, BMu, O; CtY-BR, CLU, IU, NjP, NIC).

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Book number: 4286

Catalogue: Miscellany

Keywords: miscellany beauties literature

LOZANO Y CASELA (Pablo):

Trescientas Sentencias Arabes: Quinientas Maximas y Pensamientos de los mas Celebres Autores Antiguos y Modernos; Y Cincuenta Pensamientos Originales del Mismo que ha redacto Los Anteriores.

Londres: Publicdo por R. Ackerman... y en Megio, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Chile, Peru Y Guatemala, 1832. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 143 x 91 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 93 [94 blank, 95 - 100 adverts for Ackerman imprints], circular bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, contemporary green morocco, title in gilt on front cover. A very good copy. Pablo Lozano y Casela (1749 - 1822) was one of the earliest Spaniards to become an Arabic scholar and a translator. This work is said to have been translated from the Arabic in 1793, but the earliest edition that I have found was printed in 1826. There are 500 maxims and 50 miscellaneous quotes. OCLC locates only the BL for this 1832 imprint and the Hamburg Staats und Universitatsbibliothek for the 1826 printing.

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Book number: 8959

Catalogue: Miscellany

Keywords: miscellany translation prose

MISCELLANIES.

Miscellanies Historical and Philological: Being a Curious Collection of Private Paper Found in the Study of a Noble-Man, Lately Deceas'd.

London: Printed for J. T. and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1703. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo,176 x 110 mms, pp. [x], 211 [212 blank], including half-title, recently rebound in full panelled antique-style sheepskin, morocco label. A fine copy, with the later autograph "Wm. Withers" on the top margin of the title-page. The items include "Sir Henry Sheere's Discourse of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Streights [sic] of Gibraltar," "Divers remarkable Orders of the Ladies at Spring-Garden in Parliament assembled" [a parody with numerous, if obvious, doubles entendres], "The Apology of the Duke of Lauderdale," "The Patent Creation of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey," " An Act concerning the Title, Name, and Dignity of the Earl of Arundell," "A Copy of a Commission for General...granted by Charles the Second," "Secret Transaction in relation to King Charles the First.: Written by Sir John Bowring," "An Advertisement...concerning Seminary Priests," "A Grant of the Arms for the Family of Gresham in Surrey," "The humble Petition of the inferiour Clergy of this Nation to the Parliament," and "A Copy of the Charter to the East-India Company." The preface states that the papers "were found among the manuscripts of the late famous M-- of H---", i. e. the Marquis of Halifax, but they have very little if anything to do with him. As ESTC T72876 notes, "The frontispiece mentioned in the preface appears never to have been issued."

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Book number: 6020

Catalogue: Miscellany

Keywords: miscellany History prose anthology