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An Epistle to Mr. Southerne, from Mr. El. Fenton
London: Printed for Benj. Tooke. . . and Bernard Lintott, 1711. From Kent, Jan. 28. 1710/11. [iv], 19, [1]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, two significant manuscript alterations in text; some browning throughout, but a sound copy, disbound. First edition of this fine literary poem, addressed to a playwright, and considering in some detail the drama of the preceding century. Shakespeare is praised, but condemned: he stoopd too low to please a barbrous Age. Johnso... more information
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Essai sur l'Histoire de la Société Civile
Paris: Chez la Veuve Desaint, 1783. Ouvrage traduit de lAnglois, par M. Bergier. 2 vols., 12mo. With the half-titles, slight and intermittent marginal staining to some gutters in Vol. I. A very attractive copy in contemporary French mottled calf, spines fully gilt with double labels and silk markers; spine of Vol. I just a little chipped at foot. First edition in French, of one of the major texts of the Scottish enlightenment. There is an interesting advertisement from the publisher stating tha... more information
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Poems and Songs
London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1682. [xxxviii], 141, [1]pp., 8vo. Title slightly soiled and a little minor staining at end, but an excellent copy in early twentieth century half blue morocco gilt. Second edition, with Additions and Amendments, including three new poems, and new commendatory verses by Nahum Tate. Flatman did much to popularize the pindaric in England, and his verses displayed, as James Sutherland has written, an unusually sensitive ear for rhythm, and...an ability ... more information
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The Sibylline Oracles translated from the Best Greek Copies,
London: Printed by R. Bruges, for J. Nicholson, 1713. and compar'd with the Sacred Prophesies, especially with Daniel and the Revelations, and with so much History as plainly shews, that many of the Sibyls Predictions are exactly fulfill'd. With Answers to the Objections usually made against them. [viii], xxiv, 336pp., sm. 8vo. Occasional mild browning, but a sound copy in worn contemporary panelled sheep; modern gilt-lettered reback. Some early pencilled annotations on a lower flyleaf, probabl... more information
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Christ Our Example
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1832. vi, 302, [4]pp., 12mo. With the half-title and two terminal leaves of errata and publishers advertisements; small ink release stamp of a Continental library on title verso. Untrimmed in contemporary purple cloth, morocco spine label; extremities a little worn. First edition, one of the most straightforwardly pious of this authors many religious writings. She is best known for her Assistant of Education. Although this book had a couple of subsequent Amer... more information
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$125.00
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