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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... elegant and expensive bindings , by the best known workmen , and the works collated and perfect . After saying thus much on the character and condition of the Collection , we proceed to specify some of the works , naming some of those ...
... elegant and expensive bindings , by the best known workmen , and the works collated and perfect . After saying thus much on the character and condition of the Collection , we proceed to specify some of the works , naming some of those ...
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... elegant type , and copies in fine condition are justly sought after by the curious . - Dibdin . 33 ARISTOPHANES , COMEDIE GRÆCE . Folio , red mor . gilt back , sides and edges . 34 35 Printed by Aldus , Venice , 1498 " First edition of ...
... elegant type , and copies in fine condition are justly sought after by the curious . - Dibdin . 33 ARISTOPHANES , COMEDIE GRÆCE . Folio , red mor . gilt back , sides and edges . 34 35 Printed by Aldus , Venice , 1498 " First edition of ...
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... elegant mor . gilt Pickering , London , 1825-34 edges . Decidedly the best edition of this great author . 69 Baker ... Elegantly illustrated , 4to . cloth . Subscriber's copy . ļ 74 Balmanno , Mrs. 75 Bancroft , Geo . vols . 8vo . cloth ...
... elegant mor . gilt Pickering , London , 1825-34 edges . Decidedly the best edition of this great author . 69 Baker ... Elegantly illustrated , 4to . cloth . Subscriber's copy . ļ 74 Balmanno , Mrs. 75 Bancroft , Geo . vols . 8vo . cloth ...
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... elegant . " - Bibl . Angl . Poet . " Breton's Tracts are all rare . " The Praise of Vertuous Ladies . An Invective against the Discourteous Discourses of Certaine Malicious Persons , written against Women . Black Letter . First edi ...
... elegant . " - Bibl . Angl . Poet . " Breton's Tracts are all rare . " The Praise of Vertuous Ladies . An Invective against the Discourteous Discourses of Certaine Malicious Persons , written against Women . Black Letter . First edi ...
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... ELEGANT WORKES , written in his Youth and Familar Exer- cise with Sir Philip Sidney . Small folio , half calf . London , 1633 " It is singular that all copies of this work begin at page 23 , and run to page 82 with small signatures ...
... ELEGANT WORKES , written in his Youth and Familar Exer- cise with Sir Philip Sidney . Small folio , half calf . London , 1633 " It is singular that all copies of this work begin at page 23 , and run to page 82 with small signatures ...
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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.