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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    [202] GODWIN (Francis). A CaTaLocur oF THE BisHors or ENGLAND, since the first planting of Christian religion in this Island, together with a briefe History of their lives and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of Antiquity. First Epition. Brack Lerrer. Thick 4to. Original vellum. Londint, Impensis Geor. Bishop, 1601. 45 58 The “Short Title Catalogue” only records one copy in America of this scarce and important work. Queen Elizabeth was so pleased with it that she immediately appointed its author bishop of Llandaff in succession to Dr. William Morgan. [203] GODWIN (Mary Wollstonecraft). Lerrers written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. First Eprrion. 8vo. Original calf. London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1796. 45 55 [204] GRAMMONT (Comte de). A Key to Count GramMont’s Memorrs. First Epirion. 12 pp., small 8vo. Calf. London, J. Baker, 1715. 45 58 This very scarce little piece was published the year after the first edition in English of Grammont’s “ Memoirs.” Keys are given to the identity of various persons mentioned in the ““Memoirs”’ and in some cases fuller details as to their lives. A short “Errata” at the end refers to the English edition. [205] GRAY (Thomas). An ELecy wriTrEN oRIGINALLY IN A Country CHuRcH YARD. The Eighth Edition, Corrected by the Author. 4to. Calf. London, R. Dodsley, 1753. 48 8s Early editions of this immortal elegy are scarce. [206] GRAYIANA. [DUNCOMBE (John)]. An Eventne ConTEMPLaTION IN A CottEcE. Being a Parody on the Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. By another Gentleman at Cambridge. First Epirion. 4to. Unbound. London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1753. #2 108 [207] [HALL (Joseph, Bishop)]. . Munpus Atrer er Ipem, sive Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrime lustrata. Auth: Mercurio Britannico. Wauth five curious engraved folding maps of fanciful representations of the “ Terra Australis.” OricinaL Epirion. 12mo. Original calf (rebacked). Frankfort, heirs of Rinialme, ~ (1605). 410 10s The scarce original edition of this satirical romance which is claimed to have been the prototype for Gulliver’s Travels. “ This strange composition, sometimes erroneously described as a political romance, to which it bears no resemblance whatever, is a moral satire in prose, with a strong undercurrent of bitter gibes at the Romish Church and its eccentricities, which sufficiently betrays the author's main purpose in writing it. It shews considerable imagination, wit, and skill in latinity, but it has not enough of verisimilitude to make it an effective satire, and does not always avoid scurrility. The manuscript had been entrusted some years before to a friend named Knight, who was responsible for the publication.” “Whalley, in his Inquiry into the learning of Shakespeare, states: “I cannot forbear mentioning a Latin book of Bishop Hall’s, equally valuable and forgotten, called “‘ Mundus Alter and idem,” where, under a pretended description of the ‘‘ Terra Australis,” he gives us a very ingenious satire on the vices and follies of mankind.” [ 36 ]