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Sigmond 1826
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1826
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A CATALOGUE OF THE VERY VALUABLE AND INTERESTING LIBRARY Of GEORGE SIGMOND, M. D. LEAVING BATH; Comprising the best and rarest Editions of the first Authors, both in Modern and Classical Literature; collected at a very great Expense, and most of the Works in the best Condition, and in elegant Bindings; WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. ENGLISH, ENGLISH, AND BECKS, At their Rooms, Milsom Street, Bath, On MONDAY, February 6th, and Two following Days, AT TWELVE O’CLOCK. PRICE ONE SHILING. Printed by George Wood, Bath and Cheltenham Gazette Office, Bath.

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CONDITIONS OF SALE. I. The highest bidder to be the purchaser; and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the lot in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. / II. No person to advance less than five per cent. at each bidding. / III. The purchasers to give in their names and places of residence, and pay down a deposit of 25 per cent. in part of payment of the purchase-money, if required; in default of which, the lot or lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold. / IV. The lots to be taken away at the buyer’s expense and risk with all faults and errors of description, on the day of the sale, and the remainder of the purchase-money to be absolutely paid on or before delivery, if demanded. / V. The Auction Duty to be paid by the Purchaser. / VI. Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money deposited to be forfeited; the lots uncleared shall be re-sold by public or private sale, and the deficiency (if any), together with all charges attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.|CATALOGUE, &c. [vignette][after N@]|End of First Day's Sale.[after N@120]|End of Second Day's Sale.[after N@240]|Finis. [seperating line] Printed by George Wood, Bath and Cheltenham Gazette Office, Bath.[after N@360]|In the Press, and speedily will be Published in 8vo. IRISH ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES, PART I. BY SIR WILLIAM BETHAM, F. S. A., ULSTER KING OF ARMS OF ALL IRELAND, KEEPER OF THE RECORDS OF THE LATE PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND, AND DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE RECORDS IN BIRMINGHAM TOWER, IN HIS MAJESTY’S CASTLE OF DUBLIN. [seperating line] CONTENTS. I. Introduction. — On Irish History and Antiquities generally. / II. An Account of an antient vellum MS. in the possession of the Author, containing a copy of the Holy Gospels, and an Office, or Ritual, of the ANTIENT Irish Church for the Visitation of the Sick, with the Creed and the administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist-written by Dimma, the son of Nathi, at the request of St. Cronan, the founder of the Abbey of Roscrea, in Tipperary, who died A. D. 619; - and also of the curious Brass Box, plated with silver and set with precious stones, in which it has been preserved—bearing an inscription, proving the box to have been repaired before A. D. 1230. — Embellished with coloured plates of the illustrations, fac simile specimens of the writing of the MS., and a plate representing the top of the Box. / III. THE Psalter of Columbkill. – A Description of the celebrated relick of the O’Donells, called the Caah, and of a MS. contained therein; written by St. Columbkill, the Apostle of the Northern Picts, founder of the Monastery of Icolmbkill in the Island of Hy, or Iona, and of that of Kells in the county of Meath. This Box was made by order of Cathbarr O’Donell, prince of Tirconnell, (who lived in the eleventh century,) for the preservation of the MS. has been handed down, from chief to chief, of the O’Donell family, to this day, and has never been out of their possession, or examined until now. A brief Memoir of this powerful and distinguished tribe, with Original Letters and Documents, and a Plate of the Caah. / IV. A description of a similar Box in the possession of the Author, bearing an inscription in the Irish Language, and the date of A. D. 503. This Box, of which a plate is given, is mentioned by Vallancey in the Fourth Volume of the Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, as being then in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Barnard, Rector of Fahan, in the county of Derry, afterwards Bishop of Limerick. / V. Observations on the Geraldine Knights, commonly called the White Knight, the Knight of Glynn, and the Knight of Kerry, with some account of their origin, and a sketch of the early history of the House of Desmond, from which they sprung. / VI. Original Letters of eminent Individuals connected with Ireland, with fac simile, autographs. [separating line] As abundant materials exist for the continuation of this work, it is proposed to pursue the publication by successive parts, from time to time, as leisure may permit, or as the desire of the antiquarian reader may seem to demand. Printed for William Curry, jun. & Co. and Hodges and M’Arthur, Dubin; Daniel Lizars, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Orme, Browne, and Greene, Paternoster-row, London.[after N@]

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FIRST DAY’s SALE, Monday, Feb. 6th. PUNCTUALLY AT TWELVE. [vignette] // FIRST DAY’s SALE, Monday, Feb. 6th. PUNCTUALLY AT TWELVE. / OCTAVO ET INFRA. [FIRST DAY’s SALE, Monday, Feb. 6th. PUNCTUALLY AT TWELVE.]

1 BURGH’s History and Anecdotes of Music in England, Italy, Germany, &c. 3
2 Collection of the French Anas 3
3 Le Theatre Anglois, being a Collection of the best English Plays literally translated into French 8
4 Echard’s Roman History 5
5 Smollett’s Gil Blas, with plates 4
6 Tom Jones, with plates 3
7 Wood’s History of the Antiquities of Bath, maps and plates 2
8 Robertson’s Navigation, and Leadbeater’s Astronomy 4
9 Beloe’s Herodotus 4
10 Gillies’s History of Greece 4
11 Warton’s History of English Poetry 4
12 Young’s Tour in Ireland 2
13 Mickle’s Lusiad 2
14 Lord Lyttelton’s Works 3
15 Telemachus, with plates, and Glover’s Leonidas, with plates 4
16 Ayre’s Life of Pope, rare 2
17 Savage’s Works, and Hervey’s Meditations 3
18 Carr’s Lucian, and Armstrong’s Miscellaneous Works 4
19 Livii Opera, Ruddimanno Accurante, morocco, Edin. 4 1751 “The most accurate edition of Livy that ever was published.” — Vide Harwood.
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20 Caesaris Commenteria, vellum, Venetiis apud Aldum 1575
21 Cicero de Philosophia, Aldus 2 1555
22 Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, Aldus 1513 and Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, Aldus 1562
23 A Collection of the best Classics, in duodecimo, printed at Amsterdam by the most correct printers, bound uniform in calf; 19 circa 1740 VIZ. Ovidius, 3 vols. Horatius, Virgilius, Juvenal, Ausonius, Plautus, Terentius, Sallust Cornelius Nepos, Tacitus, Florus, Caesar, Valerius Maximus, Justinus, Erasmus, Epictetus, Quintus Curtius.

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24 Warner’s History of Bath, maps and plates
25 Nicholson’s Historical Library 1776 “This edition is considered the best.” — Vide Dibdin.
26 Phillip’s Voyage to Botany Bay, maps and plates
27 Hanmer’s Shakespeare, 6 vols. with plates. Clarendon Press 1771
28 Weld’s Lakes of Killarney, with plates 1807
29 Rose’s Parthenopex de Blois, with plates
30 Roscoe’s Leo X., russia, elegant 4
31 Hayley’s Life of Milton and Phillip’s Life of Reginald Pole 2
32 Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera e Typographeo Clarendoniano 10 1783 “This is at last pronounced a useful and elegant edition.” — Vide Anecdote, Dibdin’s Library Companion.
33 Bills of the Theatre, Bath, from Sept. 1812 to 1825, inclusive 3
34 Vancouver’s Voyages, with plates 3 1798
35 Perouse’s Voyage, with vol. folio plates 2 1799
36 Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, morocco, Baskerville 1772
37 Juvenal et Persius; Lucretius; Terentius; Sallustius; Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, Baskerville, uniform 5
38 Virgilius, “edito vera,” fine paper, morocco, Baskerville “The best printed book the typographical art ever produced.” — Vide Harwood.
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39 Thucydidis Libri, Latine redditi, Laurentio Valla, sine loco aut anno, rarissmus
40 Phaedri Fabula, with frontispiece and plates, Editio Delphina 1671
41 Julius Pollucis Onomasticon, Greek and Latin, Frankfort 1608 and Auctores Latini, Dyonysii Godofredi 1595
42 Memoir of Italian Tragedy, Walker, morocco 1799
43 Rennel’s Memoir of Hindostan, with maps
44 Anderson’s Expedition to Egypt, and Dalrymple’s Voyages
45 Glass’s Canary Islands
46 Histoire de la Fête des Foux, curious, rare, and elegant, plates, calf.

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47 Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain, by Dibdin, Subscriber’s copy, large paper, very early impression 4
48 Speed’s Chronicle 1627
49 Josephus Havercampi, best edition, Greek and Latin 1726
50 Storia Fiorentina Varchi, “rarissimus,” “a perfect copy, with the last leaf.” Vide Brunet 1721
51 Senecae Opera Lipsii, vellum, with frontispiece 1632 For a minute description see Clarke’s Bibliography.
52 Historiae Romanae Scriptores, 2 vols. vellum 1621 and Camdeni Anglica Normanica et Hibernicia, Francoforti 1602 “This volume is of rare occurrence.” — Dibdin’s Library Comp.
53 Opera Aristotelis, Causauboni, 2 vols. 1590
54 Joannis Forduni Scotochronicon, Goodall, Edinburgh 2 1759 The best edition is that edited by Goodall. Dibdin.
55 Paradise Lost, with the original plates 1695
56 Hibernia Pacata, MS. title-page, with plates 1633
57 Hobbes’s Thucydides, with maps 1676
58 Polydori Virgilii Historiae, Basil 1533
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59 Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, printed by Berthelet the &{problem} vii yere of the most victoris reigne of our mooste gratious Souerygne Lorde Kinge Henry the VHJ., morocco, perfect copy. Vide Dibdin’s Typograph. “This rare book is an invaluable treasure to the lover of Shakespeare.” — Vide Douce.
60 Rycaut’s History of Peru, with plates 1788
61 Polybii Historiae, Basil 1549
62 Justini Martyri Opera, Lutetià, Stephani, Editio princeps, with the Latin translation in the latter end of the volume 1551
63 Pennant’s London, with many illustrations, large paper copy, splendid, in russia 2
64 Guthrie’s History of England, vellum 4
65 Smith’s Family Bible, with plates 2
66 Bailey’s Dictionary
67 Bankey’s Geography, with plates 2
68 Oldmixon’s History of the Stuarts 1730 ‘s History of England 1785
69 History of the Church, from Chronicles 1683

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70 Davies’s Life of Garrick 3
71 Paley’s Evidences of Christianity 2
72 Ferguson’s Roman Republic 3
73 Hayley’s Life of Cowper 4
74 Sinclair’s Code of Health 4
75 Luciani Opera, Greek and Latin, Cum notis variorum, vellum, Salmurii 2 1619
76 Titi Livii Opera, Cum notis variorum, Elzevir, Ed optima, vellum 3 1679
77 Suetonius, Pitisci, with the plates, Cum notis variorum 2 1690
78 Martial, 1701, Hesiod, 1701, Cum notis variorum, vellum 2
79 Statius, 1671, Florus, 1608, Cum notis variorum, vellum 2
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80 Cornelius Nepos, 1774, Quintus Curtius, 1708, Cum notis variorum, vellum 2
81 Phaedri Fabulae, 1718, Justin, 1683, Cum notis variorum, vellum 2
82 Pomponius Mela, 1722, Caesar, Elzevir, 1661, Cum notis variorum, vellum 2
83 Senecae Tragediae, 1682, Plautus, a prize copy to Joannes Antonius Elzevier, 1669, Cum notis variorum, vellum 2
84 Theatre des Auteurs du Second Ordre, 40 vols. containing a complete Collection of the best Tragedies and Comedies in the French Language
85 The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, 8 vols, printed by Bell, Edinburgh
86 Sterne’s Works, 6 vols. 1st wanting
87 Junius, 2 vols. with plates, and Walpole’s Reminiscences
88 Histoire de France 5
89 Phillip de Commines, with the plates 5 1723
90 Evans’s Old Ballads 4 1784
91 The Select Scottish Ballads, by Pinkerton 2 1783
92 The Musical Miscellany, with the Music 6
93 Dunlop’s History of Fiction 3 1814
94 Ossian’s Poems, with plates 3
95 Allan Ramsay’s Songs 4
96 Select English Songs, Johnson’s Edition, with Music, &c.
97 Shenstone’s Poems, and Prior’s Poems 4
98 George Alexander Stevens’s Songs, the Convivial Songster, and Muse’s Companion, with Music
99 Plutarch’s Lives, by Dryden and others 6
100 Marmontel’s Tales and Zimmerman on Solitude
101 Pinkerton’s Geography, Foster’s Calendar, & Brookes’s Gazetteer
102 Hooke’s Roman History, and Felton on Carriages 6
103 Charles XII. Jonathan Wild, Travels of Cyrus, Sturm’s Reflections, and four others
104 Virgilius Delphini, and 5 others
105 Life of Congreve, and 11 others
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106 Berchtold’s Essays for Traveller, Birch’s Negotitaion, & 9 others
107 Garden Directory, and 7 others
108 Merrick’s Tryphiodorus, Moccii Epistolae, and 7 others
109 Valerius Maximus, Tasso, Il Pastor Fido, Voyage Sentimentale, and 3 others
110 Cooke’s Hesiod, and 8 others
111 Marcus Aurelius Causauboni, and 8 others
112 Horatius Baskerville, Sallust Glasgow, Cato Janson, Tacitus Elzevir
113 Milton’s Paradise Regained, by Newton, and 4 others 6
114 Harris’s Justinian, Letters on England, and 6 others
115 Collins’s Poems, Gil Blas, Humphrey Clinker, Mackenzie’s Works, and Home’s Dramatic Works
116 Lempriere’s Dictionary, and 4 others
117 Chatterton’s Poems, and 7 others
118 Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Life of Beau Nash, and 6 others
119 Ovid, Pliny, Theocritus, Polydore Virgil, Heraclitus Ridens 2
120 Roman Missal illuminated, and 6 others.
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121 LIDIARD’s Life of the Duke of Marlborough, and Aaron Hill’s Works 7
122 Moore’s Travels, and Burke’s Letters 3
123 The Remembrancer; containing the best Account of the War between America and the Mother Country 5
124 Marlborough’s Campaigns, by Broderick, large paper, with the maps and Arms, and Mellish’s Travels in America
125 Warton’s Essay on Pope, and Dunlop’s Roman Literature 4
126 Lives of the Caesars, and Smith’s Xenophon
127 Bewick’s History of Quadrupeds, scarce. Newcastle
128 Rowe’s Plays, and Otway’s Plays 5
129 Six Old Plays, on which Shakespeare founded 6 Tragedies, and Inchbald’s Plays
130 Murphy’s Dramatic Works 7
131 Sheridan’s Dramatic Works, by Thos. Moore 2
132 Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare
133 Biographia Dramatica, continued by Jones 4 “The best edition of what has always been considered the best production on the subject.” — Dibdin. 4
134 Tragedies of Euripides, by Potter 2
135 Hawkins’s Old English Drama 3 1773 Vide Harris’s Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution. — p. 243.
136 Davies’s Dramatic Miscellany 3
137 Garrick’s Works, and Lillo’s Dramatic Works 4
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138 Sir C. Sedley’s Dramatic Works, beautifully bound in morocco, 2 by C. Smith, scarce
139 Southerne’s Dramatic Works, Evans’s Ed. morocco, bound by Smith, scarce 3
140 Shadwell’s Dramatic Works, the only edition, bound by Smith, in morocco 4
141 Lee’s Dramatic Works, morocco, bound by Smith 3
142 Velleius Paterculus, not. var. Lug. Bat. 1719 “Best Edit.” — Clarke’s Bib.
143 Ciceronis Orationes, cum notis variorum. Graevii. Amster. 6 1699 “The text of this edition is beautifully and correctly printed.” — Harwood.
144 Ciceronis Epistolae, cum notis variorum. Amster. 2 1784 “This is a very valuable edition, and is now a scarce book.” — Harwood.
145 Ciceronis Epist. ad Familiares, cum notis variorum. Amster. 2 1683
146 Ciceronis Opera Philosoph. cum not. var.; variis annis 3

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147 Biographia Literaria, by Berkenhout, and Gordon’s Sallust
148 Blackstone’s Commentaries 4
149 Smith’s Optics 2
150 Hume’s History of England 6
151 Pilkington’s Dictionary of Painters
152 Boyle’s Philosophical Works 3
153 Greek Testament. Baskerville, Clarendon Press 1763 “An elegant book” — Clarke.
154 Proverbia Graeca. Antwerp, Plantin 1612
155 Curious German Bible, Alsdorft 1753
156 Corsini Fasti Attici, vellum, et Miltoni Paradisus Amissus, Dobsoni 2
157 Hederici Lexicon, and Bradshaw’s Josephus
158 Jones’s Persian Grammar, Carven’s Letters, Keates’s Pelew Islands, and Brereton’s Poems
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159 The New Testament, in the Coptic, or Egyptian Language. David Wilkin’s Ed. Oxon. 1716 A beautifully executed Specimen of typography. This was Gilbert Wakefield’s copy
160 A volume of choice Engravings
161 Historia di Aretino, Venice, Orsato di Marmi eruditi 1560
162 Ludwig’s German and English Dictionary, Thesaurus Ling: Latin, English, and German, octavo 2
163 Bythneri Lyra Prophetica, and 4 others
164 De Moivre on Chances, and Hayley on Sculpture

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165 Calepini Dictionarium 1585
166 Taylor’s Hebrew Concordance, very scarce 2 1754
167 Ogilby’s Homer’s Iliad, with fine plates, a singularly beautiful copy 1760
168 Collier’s Geographical and Genealogical Dictionary, Appendix and Supplement 3
169 Leges Anglo Saxonicae. Wilkins 1721
170 Spence’s Polymetis, a most splendid and beautiful book - 1747
171 Iamblichus de Mysteriis Egyptiorum ex Aedibus Aldi 1516
172 Titus Livius apud Aldum 1692
173 Erasmi et Aliorum Adagia, typis Wechelianis 1629
174 Diogenes Laertius 1654
175 Scriptores post Bedam 1596 and Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores 1587 “This is a scarce book.” — Vide Dibdin.
176 Appiani Opera, Stephani, editio princeps, beautifully printed Paris 1551
177 Arriani Opera Stephani, 1575, Archimedes Paris, an excellent edition. Clarke — 1615
178 Matthaei Paris Opera, excellent edition — 1644
179 Baconis Opera Francofort 1665
180 Opera Virgilii et Persii. The Virgil printed at Venice, 1484, with the minor poems on large paper. — Vide Biblioth. Sper. 1484
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181 Shakespeare’s Works, London 7 1797
182 Beaumont and Fletcher, with the commentators 10
183 Massinger’s Works, by Gifford 4
184 Ben Jonson’s Works, by Whalley 7 1756
185 The Ancient British Drama, Millar 3 1810
186 Congreve’s Works, Baskerville edition, a beautiful copy, large paper 1761
187 Collection of curious old plays, quarto 1631
188 Terentii Comediae, 2 vols, in 1, Knapton 1751 “A beautiful and correct edition.” Clarke.
189 Opera Senecae, Variorum notis 3 “This edition of Seneca is one of the rarest and dearest of the octavo variorum classics; its typographical beauty is equal to its editorial correctness.” Dibdin. / “Editio optima,” Elzevir, morocco 3 1672
190 Aristophanis Comaediae, Basil, morocco 1532 “A beautiful and correct edition.” Clarke.
191 Levis’s Lingua Sacra, or Hebrew Grammar, vellum 5 1803
192 Mathias’s Greek Grammar 2 1820
193 Musae Etonenses, very scarce 1795
194 Sophocles, Brunck, Oxford 2 1808
195 Herodotus Reizii, Oxford 3 1814
196 Horatius Gesneri, et Homeri Ilias, Oxon
197 Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion 6
198 Bankes’s History of Rome, large paper 2
199 Du Roveray’s Gray, plates, large paper
200 King of Prussia's Works 13
201 Dryden’s Virgil, Tristram Shandy, Sorrows of Werter, and Burns’s Letters 6
202 Burn’s Justice of the Peace 6
203 Franklin’s Works, plates 3
204 Blair’s Sermons
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205 Dictionnaire de Pierre Bayle, Paris. - The last and best edition 16 1820
206 Blair’s Lectures 3
207 Spectator 8
208 Lord Chesterfield’s Letters 4
209 The novels of Richardson, edited by the Rev. Edw. Mangin, with his preface 19
210 Les OEuvres de Brantome, Leyden 15 1619 “The choice edition.”
211 Horatii, Ciceronis Opera, Delphini, et Homericus Seberi, Oxon, Typogr. Clarend.
212 Quintiliani Institutiones, Aldus 1521 “This is the best Aldine Edition.” - Clarke.
213 Horatius, Bond, vellum, Gronovius de Pecunia vetere. Elzevir 1656
214 Vigerus de Idiotismis Graecis, Apothegmata Graeca, Praerdium Rusticum, Salmasius. Elzevir
215 Turselinus, Opuscula Mythologica, Thesaurus Epitaphorum, Virgilius Evangelizans
216 Moore’s Observations on Italy, and Todd’s Life of Milton
217 Thornton’s Translation of the Plays of Plautus 5
218 Brooke’s Fool of Quality 5
219 Dodson’s Mathematical Recreations 3
220 Creech’s Lucretius, 2 vols., Clarke’s Translation of Vegetius, and Petronius Arbiter translated
221 Andrew’s Virgil, Baskerville, 1766, Lestrange’s Seneca, and Howell’s Medulla
222 Macintosh on the French Revolution, Ferriar’s Illustrations of Sterne, and Hints for a Young Princess, 2 vols.
223 Adventures of a Guinea, 4 vols., Hoyle’s Whist, and Wilke’s Speeches
224 Walpole’s Royal and Noble Author’s, Strawberry Hill, with the 1758 original engraving
225 Dibdin’s Bibliomania, original edition, Davis’s Oilo, History of Printing, and 2 Catalogues
226 Hutton’s Mathematical Recreations 4
227 Three works on Chess and 3 others
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228 Bernouilli’s Doctrines of Permutation, and 5 others
229 Gregory’s Christian Church, 2 vols., Alison’s Sermons, and Levis’s Letters to the Jews
230 Herbert’s Inns of Court, with plates, Williams’s Law Library, and Register of Authors 3
231 Rousseau’s Emilius, 4 vols., Harris’s Essays, and Beauties of Johnson
232 Moore’s Zeluco, Warner’s Walk through Bath, and 2 others
233 Bloomfield’s Farmer’s Boy, Meyler’s Poems, Dimond’s Sonnets, and 2 others
234 Criminal Trials, Devil on Two Sticks, and 6 others
235 Clarendon’s Irish Rebellion, Sir Wm. Temple’s Irish Rebellion, Comerord’s History of Ireland, and 2 others relating to Ireland
236 Les Causes célébres, or Collection of interesting Trials in France 11
237 Les Incas de Marmontel, Voyage en France, et en Paris, et Tables Chronologiques 7
238 Curious Political Tracts 8
239 Ditto [Curious Political Tracts 8], 4 vols., and Colquhoun on the Police of the Metropolis
240 Bolafrey’s Hebrew Grammar, Chart of Biography MS. Notes, Woolcombe’s Sermons, and 4 others.
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241 PRATT’s Harvest Home 3
242 Six Volumes of the most Interesting Pamphlets published during the French Revolution
243 Lowth’s Grammar, and 9 others
244 Edmund Burke’s Works 3
245 The British Cicero 3
246 Raynal’s Histoire Politique 8
247 The British Chronologist 3
248 Bolingbroke’s Letters, large paper, Guthrie’s Grammar, and Price’s Observations 6
249 Francis’s Horace, and Eyres’s French Tour
250 Boccacio, Ariosto, and Italian Dictionary 8
251 Guides on the Continent, various 6
252 Boileau, Henriade, Curiosités de Paris, and Guide de Paris 8
253 Oeuvres de Racine, de Chausset, and Contes de Lafontaine 10
254 Homeri Ilias, Clarke 2
255 Brunet Manuel du Libraire 4
256 Peignot Dictionnaire de Livres condamne, and Repertoire de Bibliotheque 4
257 De Bure Bibliographie Instructive 9
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258 Life of Servetus, Mandeville’s Dialogues, Life of Sancho, and Malcolm’s Antiquities 6
259 Caesaris Commentaria. Glasgow. Foulis 3 1750 “A good edition.” — Clarke. and Aristophanis Comediae, Gr. and Lat. 2
260 Six small volumes of the best Classics
261 Six [small volumes of the best Classics] ditto ditto
262 Six [small volumes of the best Classics] ditto ditto
263 Virgilius cura Knapton, medals and plates 2 1750 “A very beautiful edition.” — Vide Clarke. Justinian and Lucretius
264 Rollin’s Ancient History 8
265 Robertson’s Charles V. 4
266 _ [Robertson’s] Scotland 3
267 _ [Robertson’s] America and India 5
268 Demosthenis Orationes, Aldus 3 1554
269 Titus Livius, Aldus, 1518-19-20-21 4 This is the first and most valuable edition of the Aldine Collections of Livy.
270 Plinii Opera, with 4th vol. Index, rare 1536
271 Butler’s Hudibras, with Hogarth’s plates, and Ward’s Reformation 2
272 A Compendious and most Marveilous Historie of the Jewes Common Weale, by Joseph Ben Gorion 1575 See Malone’s note on Shakespeare’s King John, Act 2d, Scene 3d, who speaks of it as one of the rarest books in the English language.
273 Montani’s Hebrew Bible 4
274 Milton’s Poems by Newton, and Pursuits of Literature 3
275 Biblia Hebraica, Leipsic 1793
276 Dr. Johnson’s Works, complete 12
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277 Aurelius Victor, not. var. Amst. 1733 “Arntzenius has rendered this book perfect.” It is adorned with many fine plates.
278 Corpus Poetarum Classicarum 2 1616
279 Diogenes Laertius, editio princeps, Basil 1533
280 Jortin’s Life of Erasmus, with beautiful frontispiece, 1758, and Clarke’s Dissertation on the Tomb of Alexander, with plates 2
281 Quintiliani Opera, Oxford, distinguished for its accuracy and merit 1693 Opera Imperatoris Juliani, Paris 1630
282 Maximus Tyrius, Markland, Bowyer 1740 Vossius de Historicis Graecis 1751
283 Voltaire’s Henriade, the first edition, London 1728 A Subscriber’s Copy. This was published ìn England, with beautiful plates.
284 Two early printed Tracts of Euclid and Geometria Des Cartes, with three others
285 The Encyclopaedia Britannica, in 18 vols., with 2 vols. plates, beautifully bound in russia, a subscriber’s copy
286 Ainsworth’s Dictionary, beautifully bound in russia, to correspond with the Encyclopaedia 2
287 Johnson’s Dictionary, also bound in russia 2
288 Spencer de Legibus Hebraeorum Septem Auctores de Musica 1552
289 Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum, with the plates, Amst. 1738 Donatus de Roma vetustâ, with the curious plates
290 Fuller’s Holy War, Percival’s Iron Age, Cumberland de Legibus, and Cluverii Historia 4

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291 Poetae Graeci Veteres, 2 vols. in 1 1614
292 Historiae Anglicae Scriptores, Bowyer 1724
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293 Biblia Sacra Graece, Frankfort 1597 “An excellent and highly valued edition.” — Clarke.
294 Lloyd’s Dictionarium Historicum, History of Lewis the Eleventh, by Mathieu, translated by Grimston, Budaei Commentarium, in old wood binding, very scarce, 1530
295 The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt, imprinted at London, in 3 parts 1589 “This elaborate and excellent collection redounds as much to the glory of the English Nation as any book that ever was published in it.” Oldy’s Librarian.
296 Sallustius, 1481, rarissimus, Varii Auctores de philosophia Georgio Valla interprete, Venice, 1498
297 Virgilius Stephani, Paris. A valuable edition
298 Poetae Graeci Veteres 1606
299 Dionysius Halicarnassus Latine redditus Birago, Tarvisii 1484 This is one of the rarest books. — Vide Note.
300 Coxe’s History of Ireland, Honeywood’s Venice, Leybourn’s Recreations, and Cursus Mathematicus
301 L’Estrange’s Esop, and Lygon’s History of Barbadoes Very curious, with the plates
302 Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores Johnsoni, Stobaei Sententiae
303 Cornelius de Bruyn’s Voyage to Constantinople, in Dutch. “This singular work contains many very curious engravings, and is much prized.” — Vide Brunet, Delft. 1698
304 Biblia Hebraica. Pagnini. Scarce
305 Piso de India, Hooke’s Posthumous Works, and another
306 Burger’s Leonora, translated by Spencer, with Lady Diana Beauclere’s engravings, and Illustrations of Cavalry Movements for Yeomanry
307 Blair’s Chronology, and 3 others
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308 Addison’s Works, printed by Baskerville. A most superb copy 4
309 Destructorium viciorum, very curious Printed 1429
310 Fox’s History of King James, and Bolingbroke’s Abridgement
311 Wilkinson’s Atlas, and Vocal Music
312 Pennant’s Life, Dissertation on the plains of Troy, Bryant’s Exposition, and Toulmin’s Taunton
313 The Philosophical Transactions, from the first meeting of the Royal Society, in the year 1665, down to the year 1818, being 109 volumes bound in 73, in the most complete and best order, with all the very curious plates and illustrations. The work has been collated, and is considered perfect in every part. The old series (first in the possession of Dr. Mead, and then of Dr. Sims,) reaches to the year 1791, and has heen continued in the new series to the year 1818: This is supposed to be the best copy extant, as it was a subscriber’s; and has not been made up from single volumes, as is the case in all other sets
314 Birch’s History of the Royal Society 4
315 Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, and Hill’s Review of the Transactions. Scarce
316 Journal et Observations de Physique 15

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317 Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, best edition
318 Playfair’s Philosophy, and Peignot Manuel de Bibliophile 3
319 Laire Specimen Typographiae, and Dibdin on the Classics
320 De Miraculis vivorum, de Miraculis mortuorum. Rare. 2 “Les Deux Petits Traites singuliers par la matiere, qui en fait l’objet sont assez recherchès, et difficiles a trouver.” De Bure, 1441-2
321 Xenophontis Opera, 3 vols., Pophami Poemata
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322 Heliodorus (prize copy), Terentius Baskerville. Scaliger Stephani, Pervigilium Veneris, vellum
323 A splendid and elegant Library of the Works of Pope, adorned with beautiful plates from paintings of the first masters, and very early impressions, called Du Roveray’s edition, bound with great taste and richness 18
324 Walter Scott’s Edition of the Work, of Dryden, richly bound to correspond with Pope’s Works; a beautiful copy
325 Hebrew Bible, Greek Testament, and Grammar, bound together, and the Four Gospels in Hebrew and English Buxtorf’s Thesaurus Hebreae
326 Sybillina Oracula, Paris, 1539. Macrobius Gronovii, 1694, Litura Graeca
327 Grotius de Jure Belli, 2 vols., Zosimus, Oxon, 1679. Arrian, 1683. Dionysius Halicarnassus
328 Maclaurin’s Algebra, Smith’s Harmonics, and 4 others
329 Puffendorf, by Johnson, Lysiae Orationes, Aulus Gellius, 2 vols.
330 Ireland’s Shakespeare Papers, Clery’s Journal, and 6 others
331 Dictionnaire des Postes, and 7 others
332 Bibliotheca Heinsiana, and 7 others
333 Methodist’s Letters, 2 vols., Ferguson’s Astronomy, and 5 others
334 Law’s Serious Call, Whiston’s Theory of the Earth, Hobbes’s Ecclesiastical History, and 3 others
335 Adams’s Roman Antiquities, Julius Caesar, Roma Antica, Roma Moderna, and 6 others
336 Boetius de Consolatione Philosophiae, very rare 1497 Bu Bartas Divine Weeks, translated by Sylvester 1611
337 Variae Historiae, Aldus, 1521, Riccoboni Fragmenta Historicorum, 1579
338 Sale’s Koran, 2 vols., and Levi’s Dissertation on the Prophecies, 3 vols.
339 Boaden’s Life of Kemble, with plates for illustration 2
340 Hugo Grotius, Amster. 1657. / Danetii Dictionarium, 1701. / Cluverii Geographia, Quartos
341 Il Pastor Fido, Analyse des Infiniments Petits, Amusements Arithmetiques
342 Cohen’s Compendium of the Finances, Lawless’s History of Ireland, and Levi on the Prophecies, 2 vols.
343 Macintosh on the French Revolution, Burke on a Regicide Peace, and 3 others
344 Whyte’s Miscellanea Nova, Davis’s Bibliographical Tour, and 4 others
345 Lucan, Martial (Regent’s Edition), and 9 others
346 Anecdotes of the French Republic, and 9 others
347 Anecdotes de Bruyere, 2 vols., Spanish and English Dictionary, Virgil Travestie, and 5 others
348 Malone’s Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Shakespeare Papers, Anecdotes of the Revolution, Junius on the Paintings of the Ancients, and 6 others
349 Vertue’s Description of Hollar’s Plates, scarce, Memoires de Voltaire, and 6 others
350 Alfred’s Translation of Orosius, Dictionnaire de Rhimes, and 8 others
351 Opie’s Lectures on Painting, The Chess Grammar, 6 Dissertations on Troy, by Wakefield, Bryant, &c., Phaedo on the Immortality of the Soul, and Smith’s Book of Job
352 Miss Bowdler’s Essays, Evidence on the Slave Trade, and 8 others
353 Poetae Latini Minores, Meursius de Legibus Atticis, Terentius Knapton Buchanani Poemata, Priscian Stephani, and Ruddiman’s Rudiments
354 Maps and Pamphlets
355 Pamphlets
356 [Pamphlets] Ditto
357 Sundries
358 [Sundries] Ditto
359 [Sundries] Ditto
360 [Sundries] Ditto.