Chaucer, Geffrey [Geoffrey] (1343-1400) edited by Thomas Speght (1549-1621)

THE WORKES of our Ancient and learned English Poet GEFFREY CHAUCER, newly Printed. To that which was done in the former Impression, thus much is now added. 1 In the life of Chaucer many things inserted. 2 The whole worke by old Copies reformed. 3 Sentences and Proverbes noted. 4 The Signification of the old and obscure words prooved: also Caracters shewing from what Tongue or Dialect they be derived. 5 The Latine and French, not Englished by Chaucer, translated. 6 The Treatise called Iacke Upland, against Friers: and Chaucers A.B.C. called La Priere de nostre Dame, at this Impression added.

London, Adam Islip (2nd Speght edition). 1602 Title surrounded by elaborate woodcut border, copperplate portrait of Chaucer surrounded by arms of his Progenie, woodcut arms under 2nd Title & heading Knight's tale at Fol.I, woodcut initials throughout. Por. Folio 320x210mm early 19th century calf, edge panels & inner fleurons gilt, marbled end-papers (re-backed with original label & 3 gilt spine compartments laid on, tips worn, leather rubbed & marked), All Edges Gilt. Collated complete except for initial blank: [23 of 24]leaves, Chaucer portrait surrounded by arms of his progenie (supplied from another copy), 376 +[14] leaves (explanatory indexes, final errata leaf 3U8). Black Letter English text throughout. Coat of arms bookplate Edward Micholls Henriques [1837-1901], first 4 leaves slightly foxed at edges, else beautifully clean and crisp with good margins throughout. *Second Speght edition, much revised from his 1598 first, with help from Francis Thynne (1645?-1608), "the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted, and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speght's first edition. Of two hitherto unprinted pieces added to this edition, the 'Treatise called Jack Upland' is non-Chaucerian but the ABC is considered genuine" (Pforzheimer 178; also referenced by STC 5080 2nd edition, ESTC S107210).

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Cherbury)

LIFE OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY written by Himself and continued to his death. WITH LETTERS written during his residence at the french Court &c.

London, Saunders and Otley 1826 Copperplate frontis by Robert Graves . Octavo lacks covers but firm book-block xv+360pp Portrait with offsetting on the facing TP and first few pages sl.foxed else a very clean tight copy in a nicely printed edition.

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Sonstige Stichworte: courtier soldier 17th century England

Chilcott (publishers)

CHILCOTT'S DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF BRISTOL ancient and modern or a guide to Bristol, Clifton & the hotwells with topogrpahical notices of the neighbouring villages etc.

Bristol, Chilcott 1849 Copperplates (2 incl. fine harbour scene with shipping, road menders, carriages & shops) by S. Jackson + folding woodengraved view of factories + 3 maps & plans + text engravings . Small octavo green ribbed cloth with darkened paper label to spine (label damaged but still legible with loss of ry & l) Spine worn and with vents but covers secure/tips worn xxvi+(2)-429pp +a-m decorative & pictorial adverts for local shops and services. One plan with clean tear and no loss (taped on back). *A guide book including history & statistics of export & import, manufacture, railways etc. Also a section on the Bristol riots of 1831.

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Chomel,A.F edited by J.L.Genest

LECONS CLINIQUE MEDICALE faites a L'Hotel-Dieu de Paris .. FIEVRE TYPHOIDE

Paris & London, Bailliere 1834 . Octavo handsome green gilt half levant (spine slightly sunned) 548pp British Medical Library Association stamp on TP (& withdrawal stamp on FEP) and presentation to the library by Dr.Alin He???g (can't read). Dr. Cormack's name on FEP. Damp tide-mark to foot of pages but never obtrusive and pages clean, supple and tight. The volume deals with Typhoid by the French clinician-pathologists such as Chomel and his colleague Louis. They described the actual clinical and at post-mortem findings with clarity and great exactness, untrammeled by earlier preconceptions (see Bloomfield where the works on typhoid is fully described). Quite Scarce.

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Chrysologus,Petrus

SERMONES in Evangelia de Dominicis

Venice, Sarzina 1636 Titlepage with woodcut figural printer's mark. . Small octavo laced through vellum with yapp fore-edge old neat ink title blind ruled to spine & covers (slightly marked but neat and tight). Titlepage in red and black +[14]pp dedication +596pp containing 176 Sermons +[14]pp index. Two stamps of Bibliotheca Soc. Lainciensis to fly leaf & titlepage and ink inscription dated 1669. Text with side-notes of biblical references. Small worm holes to endpaper, titlepage & first leaf of dedication, no other marks, tears, holes until rear endpaper with one worm hole. *The sainted author was a famous preacher whose name means speaking Golden Words in Greek, and was Bishop of Ravenna in the 5th century. He was made a Doctor of the Church and the Ravenna mosaics are supposed to show a life-like portrait of him among the court entourage. Chrysologus was a compelling speaker with succinct sermons dealing with the Incarnation, Apostles' Creed, explanation of various heresies in simple clear language.

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Catholic Church

HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin and French. A la louenge de Dieu et de la tressaincte et glorieuse vierge Marie et a l'edification de tous bons catholiques ont esté commencées ces presentes heures a l'usaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir. Auec ung commun antiennes suffrages et oraisons de plusieurs sainctz et sainctes selon ledit usaige et plusieurs aultres comme on verra en la table. Imprimees a Paris par Gillet Hardouyn libraire demourant au bout du pont nostre Dame devant sainct Denis de la chartres a l'enseign de la Rose.

Paris, Gillet Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn. 1509 approx. Hand-coloured illuminations to EACH PAGE with 18 full page illustrations hand coloured and many smaller cuts in addition to the floral borders. . Octavo (205x132mm) in 18th century brown calf with gilt title HEURES ANTIQUE and decorated edges (corners & spine tips very worn), printed on parchment (gothic letter 33 lines on each text page with illuminated borders), 18 pages with full-page brilliantly hand-coloured and gilt-bordered illuminations. Leaves start with un-numbered blank, then Ai recto Title without ornament, anatomical man & 4 smaller figures on verso, Aii-4 (A4 Almanack & verso full page illuminated plate of female saint with chalice raising 2 dead men watched by crowd. Three Small (40x22mm) evangelists to next pages [first two smudged] B1 Judas kissing Christ as he is apprehended by soldiers while Peter draws his sword. B3v & B4r Elizabeth meeting Mary facing Annunciation. C2r King, Queen & attendants seeing vision of Mary & baby, C7r Crucifixion C8r Virgin on throne w.holy ghost & large congregation, D1r Birth of Christ in stable (some colour loss to blue of Virgin's robe), D3v Annunciation to shepherd, D6r Adoration of 3 Kings, D8v Virgin's robe & sl.smudging) E3r Flight into Egypt on donkey, E6v Death of Virgin, F5v Battle scene with horses, F6r Knight handing King a message, G4v King? & lady at table with servants bringing food, G5r Christ raising Lazarus.[some smudging] J3r =small resurrection of Christ w.angel + Mary J4r=small 2 female saints? K1r=small Martyrdom of St.Stephen [smudged] & K1v=small bishop baptizing K2r=small saint K2v=2 small saint Anthony + Small St.Anna [Anna smudged] K3r=small St.Mary Magdalen + small St.Katarine [sl.smudging] K3r= small St.Margaret [sl.smudged] + Small St.Barbara K4r=small St.Apolonia K5v=small Ressurection K8r=Angel gariel and Virgin L2v Ascension of Mary (Mary is uncoloured) L8r Finis L8v Laus Deo. First 2 leaves and corner of 3rd are browned & some fading/smudging. All full page illuminated plates are within a gold-wash architectral frame and these are often cropped at the top; J6r has dirt to blank lower corner. Last leaf browned and with 8mm round hole in vellum and damage to illuminated border. L7 with brown stain to upper corner but border & text still visible; lower brown stain affects blank margin only, L5 & 6 with minor browning mainly marginal. Every page that is not a full page illustration has a 160mm by 170mm or wider border with foliation, fruit, flowers & gilt as well as line spacers, red or blue ground to gilt initials, never fewer than 5 and often about 20 initials. *This is a full 8vo size (250x124mm) and not the more usual pocket size. Date of publication not given but certainly 1509 from address "au bout du pont nostre Dame" - by 1510 Hardouyn had moved to "pres du Palais". References: Bohatta 896, Inventaire chronologique 1509, no.108 (8°).

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Ciceronis, M.Tullii [Cicero] edited Christophori Wahl

ORATIONES SELECTAE opera et Studio Chistophpri Wahl Societatis Jesu Sacerdotis Interpretatione ac notis ad usum humaniorum Scholarum illustratae. Tomulus Tertius.

Tyrnaviae, Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu 1755 woodcut of pheonix being released by a recumbent man + woodcut tailpieces and illustrated initial letters to each part . sm.8vo handsome blindstamped covers + spine. 4 raised bands. [wear to foot of spine for less than an inch /hinges somewhat rubbed] dark bronzed edges with corner & hinge pointillism decorations. Titlepage with List of 7 topics on verso +3-410pp + [8pp=indeces] + 48pp of Appendix. Book plate to pastedown + neat inked name to front free endpaper and 6 leaves with lower corners creased. One page with lower corner torn away affecting the explanatory notes only. Contents of this volume includes Pro Cn. Plancio,+ In L.Pisonem +Pro Tit.Annio Milone + Pro Marco Marcello + Pro Rege Dejotaro + Philippica II in Antonium etc. The section on Milone has been numbered in ink on thirty leaves.The ink is mainly in the text margin but there is some show through from one side of the page to the next and a very few ink splatters. The text is printed with side notes and at the foot of the page there are two columns of commentary. There are also "Argumentum" before each oration. The book is neat,all pages well attached and the binding and foe-edge decoration contemporaneous.

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Ciceronis, M. Tullii [edited by Christophoi Cellarii]

SELECTAE ORATIONES Ad Exemplar Probatissimorum Codicum expressae cum Chistophori Cellarii argumentis, rhetorico artificio, verborum, rerum ac rituum interpretationibus. Additus est index adnotationum. Curavit & auxit, sed & sapietum Graecorum apothegmata subjunxit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius.

Amstelaedami, J.Wetstenii & G.Smith 1735 full page engraved frontispiece by J.V.D. Aveelon + engraved printer's mark to title . 8vo blind ruled tan leather on five raised bands. Paper label to spine [edges worn/leather with some marks/ front hinge partly split but held by cords] titlepage printed in red and black. [6pp=frontis.+title + to reader +Preface+ Chronologia & errata] + 390pp +blanl leaf + Greek & latin half title -41pp +[10pp= index] Winged horse bookplate to pastedown & J.Eyre to front end paper. One gathering slightly proud,inner paper hinge partly split and some corners creased but no tears. Else a neat tight clean copy,without notes or underlining.

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Clarke,Ebenezer) (no author given on titlepage but Preface signed E.C.)

WORSHIP OF BACCHUS A GREAT DELUSION illustrated by Drawings, Diagrams,Facts and Figures.

London, James Clarke & Co/United Kingdom Band of Hope Union 1876 Illustrations and diagrams . Square octavo brown gilt cloth with a gilt cask with "we can see through it" (tips worn/marked but sound) iv-86pp. Neat inscription on FEP dated 1878. Some signs of use including one clean tear which has been taped and 2 leaves with dusty, tatty margins but no loss of text. *Looking at alcholic drinks from a nutrional point of view, from statistical tables relating to mortality, from fatigue at work comparted in cold, hot or temperate climates. Much of the evidence is however anecdotal although at the end the author links diseases and mental and physical powers to abstinence or inebriation.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Iintoxicant temperance teetotal

Clavius, Christopher (1538-1612)

EPITOME ARITHMETICAE PRACTICAE nunc quinto ab ipso auctore anno 1606 recognita & multis in locis locupletata.

Moguntiae (Mainz), publ. Bernard Walther, printed by Joannes Volmari. 1614 Printers mark on title page, graphs & formulae in text. . Duodecimo (155x95mm), contemporary laced vellum covers (lacks fastening straps), spine & front cover with faded MS title & author's name, ownership note on pastedown from library of Augustinian Canons of Herzogenburg (Austria), dated December 1, 1617 with initials of monk who bought it, 340pp +[11]pp index, collated complete. Titlepage & next few pages stained, small marginal worm holes pp69-115, lightly browned with some water stains throughout. *Epitome of practical arithmetic, reviewed & supplemented in 1606 by author himself. First published Rome 1583, last printed London 1631. Clavius was an early proponent of the Gregorian Calendar, and one of most respected astronomers & mathmeticians in Europe.

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Cleland, Henry

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM PITT

London, Jsmes Cundee (Albion Press) 1807 Stipple engraved portraits (8) of Pitt, Lord Chatham, Melville and other politicians of the time. . Duodecimo red half roan marbled boards spine gilt ruled and titled (tips rubbed) All Edges Marbled. Frontis +Titlepage + iii-348pp +[4]pp index +[6]pp publishers book list. Portaits with a little foxing and some offsetting to opposite text page. Ownership to fly leaf and top margin of Preface else a clean tight copy. *Probably the first memoir of the life of William Pitt the Younger produced after his untimely death in 1806. Nicely illustrated with portraits in a pretty contemporary binding.

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Cleland,Henry Wilson

ON THE HISTORY AND PROPERTIES CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL OF TOBACCO a probationary essay presented to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow

Glasgow, For the author 1st first edition 1840 Plate after De Bry's Historia Brasiliana (1590) + lithographed Titlepage & dedication leaf . Quarto semi-limp full morocco leather blind tooled & gilt titled (foot of spine sl.damaged for 1cm/tips rubbed) All Edges Gilt 68pp. Cleland family copy with signature of James Dennistown Cleland on margin of TP and A.R. Dick Cleland 1882 on FEP. Small news cutting tipped onto FEP re tobacco. First & last leaf sl.foxed and the 2 leaves of "explication of the plate" & the De Bry plate have text & plate printed on India paper & mounted on stiffish mounts. These mounts show marginal damp mark not affecting the India paper. *Plates "on India" are often "special" copies of books, issued for more discerning customers at a higher price, as the India paper takes a crisper, better ink impression than printing on ordinary paper. An interesting paper delivered by Dr.Cleland, a lecturer on Mecical Jurisprudence in the School of Medicine in submission as a candidate for admission to the faculty of Physicians & Surgeons. Also includes a good bibliography on tobacco (cf. Wellcome 11, p.357 which lacks the final page).

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Cluveri,Phillippi [1580-1623]

COMMENTARIUS DE TRIBUS RHENI Alveis et ostiis,item de quinque populis quondam accolis, scilicet de Toxandris, Bat[avis], Caninef[ati]bus, Fri[sii]s ac M[arsa]cis : opus novum ex veteri historia... collectum / adjectae sunt tres tabulae geographicae.

Lugduni Batavorum, Joannem Balduinum; impensis Ludovici Elzeviri 1611 copperplate folding Map + 2 full pge maps + pictorial colophon woodcut eagle holding arrows & ribbon with Concordia Res Parvae Rescu 1595 . 5to vellum spined pastepaper boards [vellum reused from earlier/corners sl rubbed] titlepage +[5p=dedication] + [9p= poems +to reader +errata +contents] + 323pp +[9pp=index] + colophon leaf + [2p=blank] The titlepage mounted with loss of a few letters on 3 lines [see bracketed letters on title above] Test in latin but quite some Greek ptinyiny also. There are various fonts used in the text including black letter, italic etc. Also includes marginal printed side notes + 3 old ink marginal notes in latin added by a previous owner.Tipped into endpaper a sheet with french notes by a previour owner about Cluvier's life. Willems Elzevir p23 no.64

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Sonstige Stichworte: early geography history River Rhine German peoples

Martin von Cochem (1634-1712)

LIBELLUS INFIRMORUM Germanico Super additus .. Quomodo Administranda sint Sacramenta INFIRMIS Deinde Quomodo pie assistendum sit MORIBUNDIS .. Additae sunt selectiores BENEDICTIONES ET EXORCISMI ..Authore R. P. Martino Cochemensi, Ordinis Capucinorum Editio novissima Auctior & emendatior

Moguntiae & Francofurti, Joannis Mayer per Joannem Henricum Haeffner 1737 & 1736 Copperplate to back of titlepage with fullpage death bed scene, monk reading text to patient and his wife & family kneeling behind. . Duodecimo Two Parts in One Volume. Contemporary covers with paper spine label (old reback now repaired again/corners of lower cover lacking leather). Half title leaf +Titlepage +plate to verso then pp.5-117 +[2]pp index +verso blank; Titlepage dated 1736 to LIBELLUS BENEDICTIOMUN ET EXORCISMORUM with Censor's permission dated 1709 on verso + pp.3-288pp +[4]pp index. Ownership stamp J.F. Wolff to flyleaf, library label with release stamp to pastedown, 2 library stamps to half title, minor signs of use and a bit dusty else neat & tight, no tears or underlining. *The part on Exorcism & Blessings covers exorcism of water, bread & other items of Catholic rituals then driving Satan out of the body and fumigating to drive out evil: houses, stables, chickens & dovecotes, fields, vineyards, infected milk have to be purified. Also deals with fire, ships, and then after excorsim the same must be blessed, including military armour, food etc. and finally Absolution. Scarce.

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Coleridge,S(amuel) T(aylor)

FRIEND: a series of essays in three volumes, to aid in the formation fo fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, And Religion with Literary Amusements interspersed

London, Fenner New Edition 1818 . VOLUME 1 Only but complete within itself being the first 16 essays + 4 essays being The Landing-place: or essays interposed for amusement. Octavo half green roan (tips worn/rubbed) Top Edge Gilt ix+dedic. Errata + 356pp all but the gilt edge uncut. Name at head of TP else slight edge dusting but white and crisp with good margins and charming early 19th century bookplate on FEP.

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Sonstige Stichworte: essays