Licencia. En
Madrid: por Don
Antonio de Sancha, Año de
m. dcc. lxxix
. Se hallará en su Libreria en la Aduana vieja. [1779.]
8vo. 2 parts in 1, 152 leaves, the last a blank, continuous signatures and pagination; pages 151 to 200 contain the Vocabulario
de Germania; half-title on N
5 for Espulsion
[
sic
--
Ed.
] de los Gitanos. Discurso del D
r. Sancho de Moncada, Catedratico de sagrada Escritura en la Universidad de Toledo . . .
Palau IV, 36.
Graesse VI, 153.
Ebert 19344.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
This work, edited by Juan Hidalgo, contains a collection of gypsy romances, written in the gypsy language with a vocabulary.
Sancho de Moncada of the University of Toledo was chiefly famous for a work on political economy published in 1619.
Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas, 1580-1645, Spanish satirist and poet.
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Las Eroticas, y Boecio de De Villegas.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 142, no. 25, as above, but omitting
De.
VILLEGAS,
Estevan Manuel de.
Las Eroticas, y Traduccion de Boecio de Don Estevan Manuel de Villegas. Tomo I [-II]. Con Licencia de los Superiores. En
Madrid: Por Don
Antonio de Sancha, Año de
m. dcc. lxxiv
. Se hallará en su Libreria en la Aduana vieja. [1774.]
PQ6498 .V5 1774
3 parts in 2 vol. 8vo. 224 and 124 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by Moles, engraved half-title by M. S. Carmona before the first and the second part of Vol. I, printed half-title before each part; Volume II contains Los Cinco Libros
de la Consolacion de Severino Boecio, traducidos por Don Estevan Manuel de Villegas.
Palau VII, 203.
Graesse VI, 321.
Entered by Jefferson, without price, in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Estevan Manuel de Villegas, 1589-1669, Spanish poet.
Las Eroticas is a collection of translations from Horace and Anacreon, and a number of original poems, first published in 1618. This is
the first edition to which the translation of Boethius, originally printed in 1665, was attached.
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Cowley’s works.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 141, no. 66, as above.
COWLEY,
Abraham.
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design’d for the Press, Now Published out of the Authors
Original Copies. The
Fifth Edition.
London: Printed by
J. M. for
Henry Herringman,
1678.
Folio. 6 parts in 1 vol. 290 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Faithorne; at the beginning An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley; Written to Mr M. Clifford, signed at the end
by T. Sprat; the separate titles for The Mistress, the Pindarique Odes, and Davideis are dated 1677.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. I, 458.
Hazlitt II, 147.
STC C6653.
Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667, English poet. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1656.
Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, the friend of Cowley, wrote this life of Cowley to Martin Clifford,
immediately after Cowley’s death in 1667. It was originally prefixed to Cowley’s
De Plantis, lib. 6, later amplified and printed in the 1668 edition of the English works, and frequently reprinted.
Martin Clifford, d. 1677, Master of the Charterhouse, was associated with the Duke of Buckingham, Thomas Sprat, and Samuel Butler, in the
production of
The Rehearsal
.
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