Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2206 2208 —__— Whitehall) (Robert). The English Rechabite; or, a Defyance to Bacchus and his Works: a Poem in LX VII. Hexastichs: wherein is rendred a plenary and full Account how Wines are pejorated (or reduced from better to worse); and by Admixture of what heterogenous bodies they become corrupted and marr’d. With a privy, light Search into Dame Nature’s Closet, how she orders her Matters as to Physick and Food for mortal Wights; by R. W. Foho, uwzbound. London, circa 1084. £4 4s Worlidge (j.). Vinetum Britannicum; or, a Treatise of Cider, and other Wines and Drinks extracted from Fruits growing in this King- dom. To which is added, a Discourse teaching the best way of improving Bees. Jllustrated with five plates. Post 8vo, grey calf. London, 1678. £1 1s — WINSTANLEY (William). The Lives of the most Famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief Essay of the Works and Writ- ings of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, to the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II. Brilliant wmpression of the fine portrait. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, ovzginal calf. London, Printed by H. Clark, 1687. £2 10s able that Winstanley (like Fuller, from whom he has borrowed) was unacquainted with the date of Shakespeare’s death, for he says, ‘This our famous comedian died an. dom. 16—, and was buried at Stratford-on-Avon.’ . . . Comparing Shake- speare with Jonson, he says, ‘Many were the wit-combats between him and Ben Jonson ; which two we may compare to a Spanish great Gallion, and an English Man of War; Mr. Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in Learning, solid, but slow in his performances, Shakespeare, with the English Man of War, lesser in Bulk, but lighter in sayling, could turn with all Tides, tack about, and take advantage of all Winds, by the quickness of his Wit and Invention. His History of Henry the Fourth is very much commended by some, as being full of Sublime Wit, and as much condemned by others, for making Sir John Falstafte the property of Pleasure for Prince Henry to abuse, as one that was a Thrasonicall Puff, and emblem of Mock Valour; though indeed he was a man of Arms every Inch of him, and as valiant as any in Age, being for his Martial Prowess made Knight of the Garter by King Henry the Sixth.’ ”’