Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/124
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CAMPANELLA (Thomas) : His ApvicE To THE Kinc oF Spain—continued. ... that if the King of Spain become master of England and the Low Countries, he will quickly be Sole Monarch of all Europe, and the greatest part of the new world. Translated into English by Ed. Chilmead. . . . With an admonitorie Preface by William Prynne. Small 4to. Original calf. London, Philemon Stephens at the Gilded Lyon (1660). £18 18s A curious and interesting work. Chapter 31 is entitled “Of the Other Hemisphere, and of the New World.” This occupies 12 pp., and contains some curious statements: that Peru is half as big again as all Africa; that Noah sent over colonies into America, and peopled that whole tract of land from Peru, as far as Baccaleos, with inhabitants; etc. Chapter 32, “Of Navigation,” also relates to America, as well as other parts of the book. [107] CHARDIN (Sir John). Travers oF Sir JoHN CHARDIN INTO PERSIA AND YE East Inprgs, through the Black Sea and the Country of Colchis. Engraved portrait, title, folding map, and various large engraved folding plates of views. Folio. Original calf. London, Christopher Bateman, 1686. $2 158 [108] CAREW (Thomas). Porms, with a Maske. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes. The Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Small 8vo. Original calf (rebacked). London, Printed for H. M., 1651. 42 10s Signature of one leaf cut into. [109] CENTLIVRE (Mrs. Susannah). Works. Containing, Perjured Husband, Beaux’s Duel, Gamester, Basset Table, Love at a Venture, Love’s Contrivance, Busy Body, Marplot in Lisbon, etc. With a New Account of her Life. With engraved portrait of Mrs. Centlivre by I. Taylor. First Cottecrep Epirion. 3 vols., small 8vo. Original calf, gilt backs. London, ]. Knapton, etc., 1761. 46 10s [z10] CHARLES I. A Copy oF an INTERCEPTED LETTER From His Majesty, To the Lords and Gentlemen, Committees of the Scots Parliament, together with Officers of that Army. Printed on one side of a small folio sheet (inland). Carisbrook, Munday 31 July, 1648. Isis [x11] REMARKS ON A SERMON, Preach’d January the 31st, 1703/4. The Aniversary of K. Charles the Martyr. Or, Some Queries proposed to the Sincere, the Loyal, the Just, the Humble, and Courteous Dr. Kennet. 8 pp. Small 4to. Unbound. Printed for Edw. Poole (1704). tos 6d [112] [WALKER (William)]. Vinpiciaz contra TyraNnnos: a Defence of Liberty against Tyrants. Or, of the lawful power of the Prince over the People, and of the People over the Prince. Being a Treatise written in Latin and French by Junius Brutus [Hubert Languet] and translated out of both into English. Small 4to. Unbound, many leaves uncut. London, Richard Baldwin, 1689. 41 58 Original, printed in 1649 [1648], and reprinted at the Revolution as above. [18 ]