17th-century English books
Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature
£2,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
[Gunpowder Plot]. Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia ... omnia ex Anglico à G. Camdeno Latinè versa. London: John Norton, 1607. First edition in Latin, 4to (17.8 x 14cm), 18th-century calf, title-page with armorial stamp in red ink and contemporary ink inscription (faded), contemporary marginalia and underlining, 19th-century bookplate (R. M. Beverley), initial and final blanks discarded, light browning, a few spots and marks, rear inner hinge gone [ESTC S102858; STC 11620];
Doddridge, Sir Robert, & others. The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquarian, viz. Mr. Justice Doddridge, Mr. Agar, Francis Tate, WIlliam Canden [sic], and Joseph Holland. Touching the Proceedings of the High-court of Parliament in English. London: William Leake, 1658. First edition, small 8vo (14 x 8cm), contemporary sheep, unidentified earl's crest gilt to spine, retaining initial blank and terminal advertisement leaf, bookplate (baron's coronet, name Sinclair, motto 'fide sed pugna'), spine worn [ESTC R210130];
'Philanax Misopappas'. Rawleigh Redivivus; or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Thomas Malthus, 1683. First edition, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8cm), early-19th-century tan calf, small hole in F4 affecting a few letters, engraved portrait frontispiece, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, marginal worm-trail from quire I to end (text unaffected) [ESTC R3409];
Forbes, William. Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversarium. London: Thomas Roycroft [and others], 1658. First edition, 8vo (15.8 x 10cm), contemporary blind-panelled sheep, old deaccession ink-stamp to title-page [ESTC R209737];
Baudier, Michel. The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain ... translated into English, by W. Vaughan. London: John Wilkins, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6cm), contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cross, binding worn, front inner hinge tender, hole in L8 costing a few letters, lacking either final blank or endpaper, ink-stamps (Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Glasgow) to endpapers, frontispiece recto and final page of text) [ESTC R6814];
and 16 others similar (these not collated), including: Ovid, De arte amandi ... Englished, 1662; Richard Gardiner, Specimen oratorium ... editio quinta, Oxford, 1675; Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8. inchoata, 1640 (binding worn); William Lawson, A New Orchard, and Garden ... as also, the Husbandry of Bees, 1652 (lacking several leaves); John Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned ... Second Edition, 1683 (frontispiece and title-page laid down); Peter Heylyn, Mikrocosmos ... sixth edition, 1639 (lacking at least final 2 leaves including blank, retaining woodcut architectonic title-page); Sir Robert Cotton, Cottoni posthuma, 1672 (lacking front board) and others, mainly in contemporary bindings (several bindings defective) (21)
Footnote
Note: The Actio in Henricum Garnetum was first published in English the previous year, as A True and Perfect Relation of the Proceedings at the Severall Arraignments of the Late most Barbarous Traitors.