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Item #WRCLIT79851 PHAEDRI, AUGUSTI CAESARIS LIBERTI, FABULARUM AESOPIARUM LIBRI QUINQU ; NOTIS...

PHAEDRI, AUGUSTI CAESARIS LIBERTI, FABULARUM AESOPIARUM LIBRI QUINQU ; NOTIS PERPETUIS ILLUSTRATI, & CUM INTEGRIS ALIORUM OBSERVATIONIBVS.

[Aesop]: Phaedrus:

Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet, 1667. [62],462,[204]pp. Octavo (18.5 x 12 cm). Contemporary vellum, short-title in manuscript on spine. Engraved frontis by Christopher Ganes, and 103 engraved half-page illustrations in text. Vellum somewhat handsoiled and darkened, bookplate, frontis trimmed close along fore- edge, short marginal tear.....

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Item #WRCLIT65808 A VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FROM THE FOUL ASPERSIONS OF SCHISM AND...

A VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FROM THE FOUL ASPERSIONS OF SCHISM AND HERESIE UNJUSTLY CAST UPON HER BY THE CHURCH OF ROME. PART I.

[Altham, Michael]:

London: Printed by J.H. for Luke Meredith, 1687. [2],38pp. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Title a bit foxed and smudged. with early ink authorship attribution, but a good copy. First edition, the more common variant with single rules on A2r, A3r and double rules on A3v. The subsequent part appeared.....

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Item #WRCLIT66083 REVERENDI IN CHRISTO PATRIS, LANCELOTI, EPISCOPI VVINTONIENSIS, OPUSCULA...

REVERENDI IN CHRISTO PATRIS, LANCELOTI, EPISCOPI VVINTONIENSIS, OPUSCULA QUÆDAM POSTHUMA.

Andrewes, Lancelot:

London: Excudebat Felix Kyngston pro R.B. & Andraea Hebb, 1629. [14],200,[blank];[2],87,[1 + blank]pp. Lacking A1 (blank except for signature mark). Quarto. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt labels. A2-3 a bit frayed and darkened at fore-edges, early ink name on title, with faint old seminary blindstamp.....

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Item #WRCLIT65585 ... OPERVM MORALIVM ET CIVILIVM TOMUS. Francis Bacon

... OPERVM MORALIVM ET CIVILIVM TOMUS ....

Bacon, Francis:

London: Exculum typis Edwardi Griffini .... 1638. [14],176,179-386,[16],475,[1]pp. (with occasional misnumbering as per Gibson). Large quarto. Contemporary gilt armorial calf, rebacked and recornered to style at some point in the 20th century, with the original label (chipped) laid down. Lacks the portrait frontis, marginal repairs and discolorations to title leaf.....

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Item #WRCLIT69950 LES ENLEVEMENS, COMEDIE. Michel Baron, Boyron

LES ENLEVEMENS, COMEDIE.

[Baron (Boyron), Michel]:

Paris: Chez Thomas Guillain, 1686. [4],56pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, marbled endsheets. Some foxing and mild discolorations, spine rather rubbed (but sound), bookplate, but a good copy. First edition. An uncommon book: OCLC/Worldcat locates a copy at Harvard, and another copy at Yale as part of a collective issue of.....

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Item #WRCLIT65552 THE INTERESTS OF PRINCES AND STATES. Slingsby Bethel

THE INTERESTS OF PRINCES AND STATES.

[Bethel, Slingsby]:

London: Printed for John Wickins ... 1680. [16],354,[4]pp., including preliminary blank and terminal adverts. Octavo. Old calf, side panels ruled in blind. Two early signatures on endsheet and first blank ("Edward Hoblyn"), another, somewhat later ("William Bickford, Dunsland"), in top margin of title (along with authorship attribution in the same.....

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Item #WRCLIT65849 [Title in Greek] VETUS TESTAMENTUM GRÆCUM EX VERSIONE SEPTUAGINTA INTERPRETUM,...

[Title in Greek] VETUS TESTAMENTUM GRÆCUM EX VERSIONE SEPTUAGINTA INTERPRETUM, JUXTA EXEMPLAR VATICANUM ROMÆ EDITUM, ACCURATISSIMÈ & AD AMUSSIM RECUSUM

[Bible - O.T. - Greek]:

Londini: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel: prostat autem venale apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye, sub signo Campanæ in Cometerio D. Pauli, 1653. [8],1279,[1]; 186,[2] pp. plus terminal blank. Quarto (signed in 8s), 195 X 143mm. Old vellum, titled and dated in manuscript on the spine. Terminal leaves slightly soiled, two ownership.....

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Item #WRCLIT66526 UNITY OF PRIESTHOOD NECESSARY TO THE UNITY OF COMMUNION IN A CHURCH. WITH SOME...

UNITY OF PRIESTHOOD NECESSARY TO THE UNITY OF COMMUNION IN A CHURCH. WITH SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE OXFORD MANUSCRIPT, AND THE PREFACE ANNEXED. ALSO A COLLECTION OF CANONS, PART OF THE SAID MANUSCRIPT, FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE ORIGINAL, BUT CONCEALED BY MR HODY, AND HIS PREFACER.

[Bisbie, Nathaniel]:

London: Printed in the Year, 1692. 72pp. Quarto. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Rather tanned, trimmed at top edge (costing page numbers) and at fore-corners; just a sound copy, albeit a bit shabby. First edition. A reply, in part, to a translation by Humphrey Hody of ANGLICANI NOVI SCHISMATIS REDARGUTIO.....

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Item #WRCLIT66045 LA LITURGIE ANGLOISE. OU LE LIURE DES PRIERES PUBLIQUES, DE L’ADMINISTRATION...

LA LITURGIE ANGLOISE. OU LE LIURE DES PRIERES PUBLIQUES, DE L’ADMINISTRATION DES SACREMENS, & AUTRES ORDRES & CEREMONIES DE L’EGLISE D’ANGLETERRE. NOUUELLEMENT TRADUIT EN FRANÇOIS PAR L’ORDONNANCE DE SA MAIESTIÉ DE LA GRANDE BRETAIGNE.

[Book of Common Prayer - French]:

A Londres: Par Iehan Bill, imprimatur du Roy, 1616. [544]pp. A-E4 [2]A-2R4; A-Z3 (plus blank). Quarto. Contemporary armorial calf. Titles within woodcut borders, decorated initials, contemporary typographic wastesheets utilized in binding. Light smear to 2H1v, occasional marginal tidemarks, a couple signatures starting, covers splayed and a bit discolored, lower joint.....

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Item #WRCLIT65562 [In Greek:] BIBLOS TES DEMOSIAS EUCHES KAI TELESEOS MYSTERION KAI TON ALLON...

[In Greek:] BIBLOS TES DEMOSIAS EUCHES KAI TELESEOS MYSTERION KAI TON ALLON THESMON KAI TELETON TES EKKLESIAS, KATA TO ETHOS TES AGGLIKANES EKKLESIAS... [bound with:] PSALTERION TOY DABID KATA TOUS HEBDOMEKONTA EIS TA TMEMATA, TA EN TE TES ANGLIKANES EKKLESIAS LEITOURGIA NOMIZOMENA, DIEREMEION....

[Book of Common Prayer - Greek]:

Cambridge: Exetypothe par’ Ioannou Phieldou [i.e. J. Field] ... 1665 &1664. [35],126; [2],171pp. 12mo. Contemporary unlettered calf. Cambridge crest on second title-page. Hinges cracked but cords sound, extremities worn, contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage and free endsheet, some spotting to A3-4, and minor soiling elsewhere; a good, sound copy. The.....

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Item #WRCLIT65539 LITURGIA, SEU LIBER PRECUM COMMUNIUM, ET ADMINISTRATIONIS SACRAMENTORUM,...

LITURGIA, SEU LIBER PRECUM COMMUNIUM, ET ADMINISTRATIONIS SACRAMENTORUM, ALIORUMQUE RITUUM ATQUE CEREMONIARUM ECCLESIAE, JUXTA USUM ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE....

[Book of Common Prayer - Latin]: [Durel, John (editor)]:

London: excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam in vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britaine, 1670. [382]pp. plus preliminary blank leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra. Upper joint cracked at top and bottom; corners worn, shallow loss at crown and.....

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Item #WRCLIT66472 THE FORM AND MANNER OF MAKING AND CONSECRATING BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS....

THE FORM AND MANNER OF MAKING AND CONSECRATING BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS.

[Book of Common Prayer - Ordinal]:

London: Imprinted ... by Robert Barker ... and by the Assignes of John Bill, Anno 1639. A8 (+/-A5) B6. Folio. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Minuscule worm penetration in upper margin, some soiling in margin of [B5], lower extremity of gutter a bit ragged, with some old soiling, but a......

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Item #WRCLIT65931 A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FUNERAL OF THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD JOHN ......

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FUNERAL OF THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD JOHN ... LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ....

Burnet, Gilbert:

London: Printed for Richard Chiswell ... 1694. [4],34,[2]pp. (p. 34 misnumbered '36'). Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Pencil scrawl on verso of half-title, very faint tide-mark, otherwise a very good, crisp copy. First edition of Burnet's funeral sermon for John Tillotson. This is the variant with 'Primate of England.....

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Item #WRCLIT65930 A SERMON PREACHED ON THE FAST-DAY, DECEMB. 22. 1680. AT ST. MARGARETS...

A SERMON PREACHED ON THE FAST-DAY, DECEMB. 22. 1680. AT ST. MARGARETS WESTMINSTER, BEFORE THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Burnet, Gilbert:

London: Printed by J.D. for Richard Chiswell ... 1681. [4],42,[2]pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. First edition. Some smudges to blank recto of order to print leaf, dusty at top and fore- edges, else a very good copy.

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Item #WRCLIT67072 GRADUALE ROMANUM JUXTA MISSALE EX DECRETO SACRO-SANCTI CONCILII TRIDENTINI...

GRADUALE ROMANUM JUXTA MISSALE EX DECRETO SACRO-SANCTI CONCILII TRIDENTINI RESTITUTUM ET CLEMENTIS VIII ....

[ Catholic Church - Liturgy and Ritual - Graduale]:

Leiodii [ie. Liége]: Ex Officina Typographica Clementis Plomteux ... 1772. [12],380,cxxxix,[1]pp. Folio (signed in 4s - 38 x 24cm). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Printed in black and red, with staves, headlines and some initials in red, other initials historiated and in black. Pictorial title vignette, with title within ornamented border.....

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Item #WRCLIT64900 NEONOMIANISM UNMASK’D: OR, THE ANCIENT GOSPEL PLEADED, AGAINST THE OTHER,...

NEONOMIANISM UNMASK’D: OR, THE ANCIENT GOSPEL PLEADED, AGAINST THE OTHER, CALLED A NEW LAW OR GOSPEL. IN A THEOLOGICAL DEBATE, OCCASIONED BY A BOOK LATELY WROTE BY MR. DAN. WILLIAMS, ENTITULED, GOSPEL-TRUTH STATED AND VINDICATED: UNWARILY COMMENDED AND SUBSCRIBED BY SOME DIVINES. APPLAUDED AND DEFENDED BY THE LATE ATHENIAN CLUBB.

Chauncy, Isaac:

London: Printed for J. Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry, 1692. [8],40pp. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Title leaf trimmed askew, with loss of a few letters along fore-margin, some headlines cut into, stain/fraying to lower fore-corner of four terminal leaves costing a few words from the last, faint.....

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Item #WRCLIT65815 CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICALL; TREATED UPON BY THE ARCHBISHOPS OF...

CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICALL; TREATED UPON BY THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK, PRESIDENTS OF THE CONVOCATIONS FOR THE RESPECTIVE PROVINCES OF CANTERBURY AND YORK, AND THE REST OF THE BISHOPS AND CLERGIE OF THOSE PROVINCES; AND AGREED UPON WITH THE KINGS MAJESTIES LICENCE IN THEIR SEVERALL SYNODS BEGUN AT LONDON AND YORK. 1640 ....

[Church of England]:

London: Printed by Robert Barker ... And by the Assignes of John Bill, 1640. [4],10, [42] pp. Collation: A-G4. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Decorated headpieces and initials. Early ink inscription in upper margin of blank A1, fore- margins markedly browned, just a good copy. First edition. STC and ESTC.....

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Item #WRCLIT65814 CONSTITVTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICALL, TREATED VPON BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON,...

CONSTITVTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICALL, TREATED VPON BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON, PRESIDENT OF THE CONUOCATION FOR THE PROUINCE OF CANTERBURY, AND THE REST OF THE BISHOPS AND CLERGIE OF THE SAYD PROUINCE: AND AGREED VPON WITH THE KINGS MAIESTIES LICENCE IN THEIR SYNODE BEGUN AT LONDON ANNO DOM. 1603. AND IN THE YEERE OF THE RAIGNE OF OUR SOUERAIGNE LORD IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND IRELAND THE FIRST, AND OF SCOTLAND THE 37. AND NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE DUE OBSERUATION OF THEM BY HIS MAIESTIES AUTHORITIE, VNDER THE GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND

[Church of England]:

London: Imprinted ... by Robert Barker ... Anno, 1604 [but ca. 1608?]. [120]pp. Collation: A-P4. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Elaborate floral headpiece on title. Light dust soiling, faint tidemark affecting last third of text block toward gutter at top, a few early ink annotations, but a good, crisp copy.....

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Item #WRCLIT65540 LA LITURGIE, C'EST À DIRE, LE FORMULAIRE DES PRIERES PUBLIQUES, DE...

LA LITURGIE, C'EST À DIRE, LE FORMULAIRE DES PRIERES PUBLIQUES, DE L'ADMINISTRATION DES SACREMENS, ET DES AUTRES CEREMONIES & COÛTUMES DE L'EGLISE, SELON L'USAGE DE L'EGLISE ANGLICANE: AVEC LE PSEALTIER, OU LES PSEAUMES DE DAVID....

[Church of England]: Delaune, Pierre, and John Durel [translators]:

London: Imprimée par R. Everingham, & se vend chez R. Bentley, & M. Magnes ... 1688 [and] 1686. [36],348,[148]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Corners and spine worn, head and toe of spine chipped, front pastedown loose but present; later bookplate on pastedown, signature on free endsheet: "Rich. Rycroft,".....

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Item #WRCLIT70242 [THE] IDOL OF THE CLOVVNES, OR INSURRECTION OF WAT THE TYLER, WITH HIS FELLOW...

[THE] IDOL OF THE CLOVVNES, OR INSURRECTION OF WAT THE TYLER, WITH HIS FELLOW KINGS OF THE COMMONS, AGAINST THE ENGLISH CHURCH, THE KING, THE LAWES, NOBILITY AND GENTRY, IN THE FOURTH YEARE OF KING RICHARD THE 2d ANNO. 1381.

[Cleveland, John]:

London: Printed in the year, 1654. [10],148pp. Small octavo. Extracted from previous binding, a.e.g. Scattered foxing and marginal, small burn hole in B3-4 affecting a few letters in one margin, title cropped at top with loss of 'The', otherwise a good copy. First edition, of two editions published the same.....

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Item #WRCLIT66727 AN APOLOGIE FOR SVNDRIE PROCEEDINGS BY IURISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL, OF LATE...

AN APOLOGIE FOR SVNDRIE PROCEEDINGS BY IURISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL, OF LATE TIMES BY SOME CHALENGED, AND ALSO DIUERSLY BY THEM IMPUGNED. BY WHICH APOLOGIE (IN THEIR SEUERALL DUE PLACES) ALL THE REASONS AND ALLEGATIONS SET DOWNE AS WELL IN A TREATISE, AS IN CERTAINE NOTES (THAT GOE FROM HAND TO HAND) BOTH AGAINST PROCEEDING EX OFFICIO, AND AGAINST OATHS MINISTRED TO PARTIES IN CAUSES CRIMINALL; ARE ALSO EXAMINED AND ANSWERED: VPON THAT OCCASION LATELY REUIEWED, AND MUCH ENLARGED ABOUE THE FIRST PRIUATE PROIECT, AND NOW PUBLISHED, BEING DIUIDED INTO THREE PARTES: THE FIRST PART WHEREOF CHIEFLIE SHEWETH WHAT MATTERS BE INCIDENT TO ECCLESIASTICALL CONISANCE; AND SO ALLOWED BY STATUTES AND COMMON LAW: THE SECOND TREATETH (FOR THE MOST PART) OF THE TWO WAYES OF PROCEEDING IN CAUSES CRIMINAL ... THE THIRD CONCERNETH OATHS IN GENERALL ... WHEREUNTO ... I HAUE PRESUMED TO ADIOINE THAT RIGHT EXCELLENT AND SOUND DETERMINATION (CONCERNING OATHS) WHICH WAS MADE BY M. LANCELOT ANDROVVES ....

[Cosin, Richard]:

London: Imprinted ... by the Deputies of Christopher Barker ... 1593. Three parts in one volume. [30],130,[10],140 [2(blank)]; [4],255,[1(errata)] pp. Small quarto. Old calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Title slightly smudged and soiled, old tide-mark in gutter of first two gatherings.....

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Item #WRCLIT65189 POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS WITH THE SOPHY. Sir John Denham

POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS WITH THE SOPHY.

Denham, Sir John:

London: Printed for H. Herringman ... 1668. [10],186,[4],97(with 43-4 duplicated),[1]pp. Octavo. Rather amateurish modern speckled calf, gilt label. Margins browned, with occasional old ink stains to top edge; a sound copy, but also a quite pedestrian copy. First collected edition. Both "The Destruction of Troy," and "The Sophy" have separate.....

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Item #WRCLIT65998 A COMPLEAT PARSON: OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ADVOWSONS, OR CHURCH LIUING. WHEREIN...

A COMPLEAT PARSON: OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ADVOWSONS, OR CHURCH LIUING. WHEREIN IS SET FORTH, THE INTERESTS OF THE PARSON, PATRON, AND ORDINARIE, &C ... NOW PUBLISHED FOR A COMMON GOOD, BY W.I.

Doddridge, John:

London: Printed by B.A. and T.F. for Iohn Groue ... 1630. [8],95,[1]pp. Small quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. A1 neatly detached, small ink burn mark in fore-margin of A1-2, lower blank fore-corner of A2 torn away, some tanning and modest foxing; a good copy. First edition. This copy exhibits reading.....

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Item #WRCLIT65534 AKPOAMA MEDICO-PHILOSOPHICUM, DE OPII USU, QUALITATE CALEFACIENTE, VIRTUTE...

AKPOAMA MEDICO-PHILOSOPHICUM, DE OPII USU, QUALITATE CALEFACIENTE, VIRTUTE NARCOTICA, ET IPSUM CORRIGENDI MODO ...

Döring, Michael (d. 1644):

Jena: Typis Johannis Beithmanni ... 1620. [16],164,[9]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary gilt vellum. Printed on extremely poor paper, so consequently foxed, and with signatures G-L very heavily browned, early ink name and underscore on title partially tranferred to following leaf and with ink erosion from the underscore; occasional marginal discolorations, short.....

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Item #WRCLIT41862 THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY MONSIEUR MAIMBOURG. John Dryden

THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY MONSIEUR MAIMBOURG.

Dryden, John [translator]:

London: Printed by M. Flesher, 1684. [58],524,731-966,49,[1],42pp. Small, thick octavo. Old calf (worn, lower board detached). Engraved frontis. Some slight marginal darkening, early ink name on title, lower fore-corners of last few gatherings show an intermittent minor discoloration, otherwise internally a very good, crisp copy. First edition of Dryden's translation.....

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