D.D. Dean of Canterbury, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. The
second edition corrected.
London: Printed for
R. Bonwicke,
W. Freeman [and others],
1707.]
BJ1051 .C4
8vo. Parts II and III (only) in 1, lacks Part I. An imperfect copy, lacking the title and preliminary leaves.
Lowndes I, 423.
Arber III, 576.
Original sheep. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Originally in the library of the Eppes family, with several autograph signatures including Semple Eppes, L. Epes, and others, and various scribblings.
George Stanhope, 1660-1728, dean of Canterbury. This translation, of which the first edition was published in 1697, is dedicated to Sir William
Ellys.
[1617]
J. 154
Human prudence.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 65. no. 54, as above.
[
de BRITAINE, William.]
Humane Prudence, or the Art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. The
ninth edition corrected and enlarged . . .
London: printed for
Richard Sare,
mdccii
. [1702]
BJ1533 .P9 D4
16mo. 120 leaves; publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the last page; the Epistle Dedicatory to Edw. Hungerford, Esq,
signed W. de Britaine.
Halkett and Laing III, 115.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled end papers, s.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I;
with remains of the slip with his original chapter and shelf mark pasted on the title-page. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
William de Britaine, English writer. The first edition was published in London in 1680.
[1618]
J. 155
Les Moeurs de Panage.
16.
1815 Catalogue, page 65. no. 55, as above.
[TOUSSAINT,
François Vincent.]
[
Les Moeurs . . . Nouvelle Edition. Londres: chez
Thomas Wilcox,
1751.]
BJ1520 .T6
Sm. 8vo. 151 leaves only, should be 152; lacks the title and the frontispiece; collates *
2-8, **
7, A-R
8, S
1; xxviii, 273 pages, the last with Explication du Frontispiece, et du Fleuron.
Rebound in half red morocco, with the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. The
fly-leaves have been backed and on one is written in error the title-page for one of the 1748 editions; notes as to the authorship are also written on a fly-leaf, one stating the author to be Toussaint, the other Montesquiou.
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
François Vincent Toussaint, c. 1715-1772. This book, which was condemned to be burned, was first printed in 1748, and several times reprinted. The dedication
A Madame M. A. T *** is signed Panage.
[1619]
156
Steele’s Christian hero.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 67. no. 56, as above.
[STEELE,
Sir Richard.]
The Christian Hero: An Argument proving that no principles but those of religion are sufficient to make a Great Man . . .
The
eighth edition.
London: Printed for
J. Tonson,
mdccxxvii
. [1727]
PR3704 .C5
