8
Sheringham de Anglorum gentis origine.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 26, as above.
SHERINGHAM,
Robert.
De Anglorum Gentis Origine Disceptatio . . . Quâ etiam de Veterum Britannorum Origine aliquoties disceptatur. In Annotationibus
Difficilia explicantur, & è re nata varia dubia Philologica discutiuntur. Authore Roberto Sheringhamo Cantabrigiensi, Collegii Gonvilii & Caii Socio.
Cantabrigiae: Excudebat
Joann. Hayes, Impensis
Edvardi Story,
1670.
DA155 .S552
First Edition. 8vo. 272 leaves, errata on the last leaf.
Lowndes IV, page 2380.
Hazlitt IV, page 356.
STC S3236.
A List of Books Printed in Cambridge at the University Press, 1521-1800, page 25.
S.C. Roberts,
A History of the Cambridge University Press 1521-1921, page 171.
Robert Sheringham, 1602-1678, English royalist divine, was one of the Fellows ejected from Cambridge University.
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Macpherson’s introdñ to the hist. of Gr. Brit. & Ireland.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 64, Macpherson’s introduction to the history of Gr. Britain and Ireland 4to.
MACPHERSON,
James.
An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland. By James Macpherson; Esq.
London: Printed for
T. Becket and
P. A. De Hondt,
1771.
DA135 .M172
First Edition. 4to. 155 leaves, publishers’ advertisement on the last page.
James Macpherson, 1736-1796, a native of Inverness-shire, chiefly known as the self-alleged translator of the Ossianic poems, travelled in
the American colonies and was for a time secretary to Governor Johnstone at Pensacola, West Florida.
An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, written for his private amusement, aroused opposition; a confutation of its statements was written by John Whitaker and
published in the following year. [See the next entry.]
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10
Whitaker’s refutation of Macpherson’s introduction.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 27, as above.
WHITAKER,
John.
The Genuine History of the Britons asserted. In a Full and Candid Refutation of Mr. Macpherson’s Introduction to the History
of Great Britain and Ireland. By the Rev. Mr. Whitaker, author of the History of Manchester.
[
London:] Sold by
Dodsley,
Payne,
Baker and Leigh,
Cadell,
White,
Lowndes,
Davis, [and others]
1772.
First Edition. 8vo. 156 leaves.
John Whitaker, 1735-1808, English historian.
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