Highlights

DEATH OF COSMO THE GREAT

1. ADRIANI, Giovanni Battista. (All by this author)

  Oratio Joannis Baptistatae Adrianii Habita in Funere Cosmi Medicis Magni Etruriae Ducis

Florentiae Ex Officina Iuntarum, 1574.

First edition, 4to., woodcut arms within title, woodcut portrait on verso ot title, (40)pp., disbound.

An oration on the death of Cosmo the Great, Grand Duke of Tuscany

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2. (ALSOP, Vincent ?). (All by this author)

  The Humble Address of the Presbyterians,Presented to the King by Mr. Hurst, Mr. Chester, Mr. Slater, Mr. Cox, Mr. Roswell, Mr. Turner, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Deal, and Mr. Reynolds. With His Majesties Gracious Answer.

(colop) (Edinburgh) Printed for J.W. And Re-Printed at Edinburgh by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1687.

Broadside, folio in two sheets rather fragile and frayed, but text complete, published one side as issued

Wing A 2913 (L, EN; MH, Y) Aldis 2692

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Cancel Title and New Preliminaries.

3. (ANDERTON, James). (All by this author)

  The Protestants Apologie for the Roman Church. Divided into three severall Tractes. Whereof the First concerneth the Antiquity & Continuance of the Roman Church & Religion ever since the Apostles times. The Second. 1. That the Protestants Religion was not so much as in being , at, or before Luthers first appearing. 2. That the Marks of the True Church are apperteyning to the Roman, and wholy wanting to the severall Churches begun by Luther and Calvin. The Third. That Catholics are no lesse loyall, and dutifull to their Soveraigne, than Protestants. All which is undertaken, & proved by Testimonies of the learned Protestants themselves. With a Conclusion to the Reverend Judges, and other the grave and learned Sages of the law. By John Brerely Priest.

(St. Omer. English College Press), 1608.

‘Second’ edition (enlarged), 4to., repair to lower blank margin of title, (26) 715 (1) 716-751, (72) pp., clean crisp copy in 18th Century panelled calf, some surface rubbing.

James Anderton (alias John Brereley, Priest) fl 1624, Catholic Controversialist from Lancashire - his first published work. In this reissue of the second edition, the title is a cancel to which are added new prelims which contain the first printing of the author’s ‘Advertisement to him that shall answer this Treatise’, i.e. Dr. Morton, later Bishop of Durham who had written criticising the first edition of 1604 (7 pp.) Early ownership signature of ‘Tho. Browne’ possibly Thomas Browne (1604-1673) Divine. STC. 3605. A & R 133.

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THORNHILL PROPERTIES AT ISLINGTON FIELDS

4. ANON.

  (Manuscript title) Plans of Houses &c Leased to Mtthew Hooker by George Thornhill Esq. MP. and Under Leases Granted by Matthew Hooker.

London , 1836 - 1855.

4to., title page, plus 51 double page entries with details of each set of plots in pen and ink together with groung plans of the plots hand coloured in red and green, the whole in a standard notes book bound in original half dark blue roan morocco, slight wear.

A detailed record of the Thornhill properties leased between 1836 and 1855 at Islington Fields, giving dates of lease, term, annual rent, observations and the name of the tenany and of of course the address. Each entry is accompanied by a plot plan with the house(s) hand coloured in red and the remainder of the plot in green. An invaluable record.

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SATIRE ON THE ROYALISTS

5. ANON.

  The Second Part of the Spectacles; or, Rather a Mulyiplying Glass, fitted for their use, which are not able to see with Spectacles: By the helpe whereof may be discerned many things at a distance, which are hardly to be seen otherwise, and not ordinarily taken notice of.

London Printed by G.Bishop, June 5. 1644.

Sole edition, 4to., woodcut illustration within title, 8pp, interleaved, bound in quarter vellum

A Satire on the Royalists. Wing S2316 (L,O,OW, Fairfax(this copy); Y,CLC,CH,WF,MIN,MH,NIC,)

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