Catalogue of the choice collection of books, forming the library of Zelotes Hosmer, esq., of Cambridge, Mass., ... which will be sold by auction, on May 7, 1861, and three following days1861 |
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... King of Scots , published from a manuscript of 1489. THE WALLACE ; or , The Life and Acts of Sir Wil- liam Wallace , of Ellerslie , by Henry the Minstrel , from a MS . of 1488. With Life of Barbour , notes and preliminary re- marks to ...
... King of Scots , published from a manuscript of 1489. THE WALLACE ; or , The Life and Acts of Sir Wil- liam Wallace , of Ellerslie , by Henry the Minstrel , from a MS . of 1488. With Life of Barbour , notes and preliminary re- marks to ...
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... King James and His Queen . This copy has the Extasie , 11 leaves -- and sonnets , 15 leaves ; both unpaged and very rare . It is priced in the Biblo . Angl . Poet . at £ 12.12 . ANOTHER COPY . 4to . half red mor . Oxford , 1603 Also a ...
... King James and His Queen . This copy has the Extasie , 11 leaves -- and sonnets , 15 leaves ; both unpaged and very rare . It is priced in the Biblo . Angl . Poet . at £ 12.12 . ANOTHER COPY . 4to . half red mor . Oxford , 1603 Also a ...
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... king . " It was answered by Milton in his " Iconoclastes . " The volume is extremely rare . 349 ELLIS , GEORGE . SPECIMENS OF EARLY ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES , chiefly written during the early part of the Four- teenth Century , with an ...
... king . " It was answered by Milton in his " Iconoclastes . " The volume is extremely rare . 349 ELLIS , GEORGE . SPECIMENS OF EARLY ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES , chiefly written during the early part of the Four- teenth Century , with an ...
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... King's Grace , London , 1532 " This work was originally printed by Caxton in 1483 ; and reprinted by Ber- thellette , 1532. " A remarkably fine copy , with Autographs of Sir Thomas Pope , afterwards from the Library of Lord Keeper North ...
... King's Grace , London , 1532 " This work was originally printed by Caxton in 1483 ; and reprinted by Ber- thellette , 1532. " A remarkably fine copy , with Autographs of Sir Thomas Pope , afterwards from the Library of Lord Keeper North ...
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... King Arthur , now first Printed from a MS . in Lincoln Cathedral . Folio , half mor . Brixton Hill , 1847 Privately printed , and strictly limited to seventy - five copies on thick , and fifty copies on thin paper ; the present copy ...
... King Arthur , now first Printed from a MS . in Lincoln Cathedral . Folio , half mor . Brixton Hill , 1847 Privately printed , and strictly limited to seventy - five copies on thick , and fifty copies on thin paper ; the present copy ...
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Page 6 - ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings taken from. Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern ; also Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing.
Page 109 - Works of, now first collected, with some account of the Author, and Notes by the Rev.
Page 69 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Page 24 - Vindida; or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &;c., purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable Errours and Corruptions in the true Copies.
Page 21 - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed ; By John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon, Deceased : Together •with a Glossary, By a Student of the same College.
Page 83 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 57 - London in Luster: projecting many bright Beams of Triumph : disposed into several Representations of Scenes and Pageants Performed with great Splendor on Wednesday, October ^.9. lti79, at the Initiation and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Dignified with divers delightful Varieties of Presenters, with Speeches, Songs, and Actions, properly and punctually described.
Page 76 - The Oxford Sausage: Or, Select Poetical Pieces, Written by the most Celebrated Wits Of The University of Oxford.
Page 46 - Some account of a collection of several thousand bills, accounts, and inventories, illustrating the history of prices between the years 1650 and 1750. Presented to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, by James Orchard Halliwell, esq., FRS, Hon. MRIA, Hon. MRSL, FSA, etc., Brixton Hill; printed for private circulation only: 1852.