Department of Printed Books: Acquisitions 1965-1975 - British Library

Department oJ Printed Books
Acquisitions 1965-1975
English Books 1641-1700
By M. J. Jannetta
ARETINE, Peter, Cardinall of Rome, pseud. manuals. One of these. The crafty whore.
Strange & true newes from Jack-a-Newberries which offers to lay open 'the mistery and
six windmills: or The crafty, impudent, iniquity of bawdy houses' is known only by
common-whore (turnd bawd) anatomised, the copy in the Thomason collection; the other
and discovered, in the unparralleld practises is untraced,
of Mris Fotheringham, etc. Vnus: printed for Wine S =;8^=; C 118 c o
Rodericus e Castro, 1660. 4°: A*.
A brief but lively piece of pseudo-Aretinian
scurrility. In setting out the rules for the
government of Mistress Fotheringham's house,
the pamphlet refers to two other books which,
it is suggested, could prove useful as training
Straiige & true Ncyvcs
FROM
Jack-a-NcwberriesSixVVindmilUt
OR THE
Crafty, impudent. CommonAVhote
(turndBiwd) Anatoniif.-d,
And (Jiicn^'&'eili in ibc p
bcr «rt)orci, He^oi and RuoifCn, m their nunner ot
|i%*ifig, and cre£li>g i H^'f-Crwmm
CHltCK-CFFICE.
With fi^-c ind mcntyOrdc'isrecd on b/ cooi'cm of Mn* T
Binj Ltiwrtmt, Mrit Cmnu, Mrii Siiih, MTM Ba^fr
Mris X^tl, Mm DiMmnrJ, Kit HMrty J

which be refers in tbe preface to Psyche. The
poem was composed, we are told, as the task
he 'might safelyest presume upon, without the
Society of Books'. First printed in 1648, the
same sheets were reissued in 1651; the present
edition, not previously recorded, is a further
reissue of the original sheets, with a cancel
title-page. Tbe British Library now has copies
of all three issues.
Not in Wing.
C.i24.g.8.
BEHN, Aphra. A congratulatory poem to the
King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy
birth of the Prince of Wales. W. Canning,
1688, fol. A single sheet.
A rare poem by Mrs. Aphra Behn, the Restoration
dramatist, written to celebrate the birth
of James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender
(1688-1766), Only one other copy is recorded
in this country.
Wtng- B 1721.
C.i23.i.2.
BENEDICTUS, de Canfield [William Fitch].
A bright starre, leading to, & centering in,
Christ our perfection. Or, a manuell,
entituled . . . The third part of the Rule of
perfection . . . not... by any before published
in the English tongue, etc. Printed by M.S.;
sold by Henry Overton, 1646. 12°: A^B-L'-M*
(M4 blank).
An English edition of the first two parts of
F. Benet's Rule of perfection appeared at Rouen
in 1609; the third part was withheld, according
to the preface, because it treated of 'matters
somewhat high for the capacitie ofthe common
sort', though it was added in the French and
Latin editions printed at Paris in 1610, In this
edition, tbe first in English of the third part,
the epistle to the reader is signed by Giles
Randall, probably the translator.
Not in Wing.
Not in Clancy.
C.i24.aaa.3i.
BENESE, Richard. The hidden treasur[e]
discovered. By the surveyors schoolmaster ...
now revised and enlarged by Tho. Norton.
Printed by T.B., 1651. 8": A^ b- B-L^
This work is attributed on the title-page to
'Sir Ric. Benet', but it is in fact a mucb enlarged
and rewritten version of a work on surveying
published more than a century earlier by
Richard Benese, canon of Merton Priory. The
Library already has copies ofthe four recorded
sixteenth-century editions ofthe original work;
of this edition, two other copies are recorded.
Wtng^B 1867B.
C.iio.bb.2.
CASIMIR, John. [Catalogus medicamentorum
chymicorum] or The treasury of chymical
OR T H
TREASURY
O F
CHYMICAL MEDICAMENTS,
BEING A
CATALOGUE
O F
Mediants carefully and cxjflly prqiarcd
BY
JOHN
CASIMIR,
CE^RMAN CHYMIST 6c PHYSITIAN.
m WHICH ALSO
The moft predominant and mpning Dilcafoi and Dificmpcrs afRifling
Hiimanc Nature in tins Api, arc briefly hinted ar; togerher with
their Cure by appropriated and adapted Mcdicities, wlicTcin the
Aiirlior, (throiii;h [kBIcflfriK of God upon hU Endeavours J harli
btxTi \ery Succcfifiil : aod thofi-Remcdii-^which b> lo«ic Praflicc
and Kvpcricncr, he kith found both (ate and ifft-fiiul in'ri-fiorinp
lanpiiiiliinij and alUificd Nanire, he hath here iiubhihcd lor tht cood
otalL
^
The/gUowmg CbymirJ Mcdkamtttts and Prep^Jtians may
be btid a tbe Aiahr's Hf
In Gwe-CliMrtl>-fhm,Ni^ihuii-CMrt, ar e^northeTyr.rCiiWfl»
Keyj near LMmbjril-fintt., where any may be fiirntflicd witli wlat
Qjjnriiii-< they plnlV, eipccially tholt ^C^1O make jtrcat Voyacts,
tlioy being fuchas will keep their Virtues thrmiidhout all Climt-i
and parn ol the Word, being proptT lor IVivcntion a; well M
Cure,
London, Printed t, for riicAiiriior. i oS :.

medicaments, being a catalogue of medicines
carefully and exactly prepared by John
Casimir, etc. Printed by John Bringhurst, for
the author, 1682. fol,: A-B^ D-F^ (wanting
F2, presumably blank).
This work is apparently unrecorded, and
nothing is known of the author beyond his
description on the title-page as a 'German
chymist & physitian\ The catalogue of
medicines is followed by prescriptions for the
prevention and cure of all manner of diseases
and distempers. The title-page is unfortunately
cropped, with the loss of the first part of the
title, which is here supplied from sig. A2.
Not in Wing.
C. 124.^3.
The first book on book-keeping published in
Scotland, of whicb ten copies bave now been
located. Little is known of Colinson. He was
employed in 1685 in drawing up a statement of
the accounts between Lindsay and his Dutch
partners Solingen and Colmar, after they had
separated. He was also one of the arbiters to
whom their differences were submitted in
1686-7. This copy came from the library of
Cortachy Castle, seat ofthe Earl of Airlie.
C 5102.
C.ii2.g.io,
A COLLECTION of accounts of Newgate
executions, 1683-5. ^'o'-
CoGGESHALL, Henry. The art of practical
measuring easily performed by a two foot rule,
which slides to a foot . . , Containing, brief
instructions in decimal arithmetick . . . And
lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not
hitherto published. By H, C. Gent. [i.e.
Henry Coggeshall.] Printed for Thomas
Bennet, 1690. 12°: A^ B-K^ L^ (with one folding
plate; wanting Ai, presumably blank).
Coggeshall described the first version of his
slide rule in a pamphlet printed in 1677. This
was improved, and described in a revised and
enlarged publication, A treatise of measures by
a two-foot rule, which slides to a foot, of 1682;
and the Treatise was further revised and
enlarged to become The art of practical
measuring.
From the library of Harrison D. Horblit.
C 4890A.
Ci75.d.39.
COLINSON, Robert, Idea rationaria, or The
perfect accomptant . . . containing the true
forme of book-keeping, according to the
Italian methode, etc. Edinburgh: printed by
Davtd Lindsay, etc., 1683. fol.: *' 2*^ A-O^
==A-G^ ^h-W ^k-G^ H" 5A' B' C 2L^ (2L2
blank).
Of seventeen separate items, only three had
previously been recorded in Wing (B 490, two
copies; L 483, one copy; W 942A, one copy).
Ci75.e,i6(i-i7).
DRUMMOND, William. Poems, by that most
famous wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Printed for Richard Tomlins, 1656.
Compared with earlier editions, this collection,
which was edited by Edward Phillips, nephew
of John Milton, contains some sixty additional
sonnets, madrigals, and elegies. There
were two issues bearing the date 1656; the
other, ^Printed by W.H. and . , , sold in the
Company of Stationers', lacks the dedication
to Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet present in this
copy.
Presented by Mr. Arthur Gimson.
D 2202.
C.i27.e.2i.
DuTTON, John, John Dutton's, alias Prince
Dutton's farewell to Temple-Bar. Printed
for the author, 1694. 4^: A-D^ E^.

In tbis work, Dutton describes bis family background,
his upbringing, and the vicissitudes
of his life in London and the country. He seems
to have been at various times cook to the
Society of Serjeants Inn, travelling servant to
the assize judges on tbe Northern and the
Oxford Circuits, constable in the ward of
Farringdon Without, and—intermittently—
publican, moneylender, and pimp. The
pamphlet provides a valuable first-hand
account of everyday life in late seventeenthcentury
London, with many references to
known characters of the period. Only two
other copies are recorded.
^ D 2909B.
C.124.C.10.
ELTON, Richard. The compleat body ofthe
art military . . . To which is added a supplement
. . . Formerly written by Capt. Tho,
Rudd. Printed for W.L. and are to be sold hy
Henry Brome and Thomas Basset, 1668.
fol.: A- B 2B'* x" 2C-2K-' 2L- (with six
unnumbered plates).
Under the parliament, Richard Elton was
deputy-governor and later governor-general
of Hull. His treatise of military discipline, first
published in 1650, was reprinted in 1659; the
present edition, however, is the first to contain
the additional material written by the Royalist
military engineer and mathematician Thomas
Rudd. In his prefatory address the publisher
explains that treatises on the cavalry and
artillery were necessary 'to make good the
words of the Title'. Two other copies are
recorded in this country.
Wing- E 655.
C.i25.e.i8.
FALE, Thomas. Horologiographia. The art of
dialling, etc. Printed by Felix Kingstone, 1652,
Fale's only known publication, of which this
edition was the last to be printed. The Library
86
now has a copy of each ofthe recorded editions
of Fale's work, apart from STC- 10679.3,
a variant issue of the edition of 1626.
Wing F 310.
C.i26.e.io(i).
Horologiographia-^
THE ART OF
DIALLING:
Teaching, ao Eafie and Pcrtccft
Way to make all Kindes of
LS^
aiyflain Pimt haafoevtr fUndt •"•
With the draitfirg of the Twelve Sigacs, and
HfwrftmtifaMUutbem MS.
wliercunto is annexed the ma'iing
OffpeditlDletDddeligbc,ootoQclyfor Scudenctoftbc Am
M h d l I A H b d 6
Smrvtyvrs
By
ALE,
Z O ;V 7) 0 W, Pri oted by F B11 X KIN G
dwelling in Pitec-Nofto-Row, 1 6 5
FLAGELLUM muliebre or A satyr on lewd
women. Printed tn the year, 1695. 4": A-C^.
Three hundred and eighty-seven lines of
couplet and triplet verse, at the expense of
lustful, faithless womankind. Much of the
supporting evidence for the writer's charges is
drawn from instances in classical mythology.

Flagellum Mullebrc
OR A
SATYR
O N
Lewd Women.
^ crndelc, JHp
LONDON;
Printed in the Year, 1695.
One other copy of this pamphlet is now
recorded, at Yale.
Not in Wing.
C.i24.dd.io.
FLECKNOE, Richard. The mariage of Oceanus
and Brittania. An allegoricall fiction . . . To
be represented in musick, dances, etc. 1659.8°.
Richard Flecknoe is said to have been an
Irishman and a Roman Catholic priest; nowadays
he is probably better known as a by-word
for execrable verse. As Pope was later to thrust
immortality on a legion of scribblers in the
Dunciad, Dryden ensured the survival of
Flecknoe's name in his satire MacFlecknoe.
Like many of Flecknoe's works, the Mariage
is extremely rare: only the Huntington copy
was recorded by Greg and Wing.
WingY 1230A.
Gr^^ 8o3(A).
C.i23.d.26.
FOSTER, Samuel. Posthuma Fosteri: The
description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed
divers scales, and tbe uses thereof, etc.
Printed by Robert ($' William Leybourn, for
Nicholas Bourn, 1654. 4°: AHdiAi) B-C^
E-L"* M- (C2 signed 'D2\ 'D' subsequently
omitted from alphabetical sequence).
Samuel Foster published little in his own lifetime,
but many of his treatises were printed
after his death in 1652. In the edition of
Posthuma Fosteri, published in that year, his
editor Edmund Wingate complained that
imperfect copies of a number of his works had
already been printed. Wingate, on the other
hand, claimed to have access to the author's
own papers. This is an unrecorded reissue of
the 1652 edition, with a cancel title-page.
Not in Wing.
C.126.e.10(2).
THE
MA RIAGE
OF
0 C E AN V S
AND
BRITTANI A.
A N
Allegoricall Fiftion, really
decla

A GODLY
BALLAD of the just man Job.
Wherein his great patiefnce he do]th declare,
his plagues, and his miseries, and yet did not
dispare. The tune is, the Merchant. Printed
for F. Coles, J. Wright, Tho. Vere, and
W. Gilbertson, [c. 1645]. fol.
An apparently unrecorded ballad. Printed in
two columns on a single sheet.
Not in Wing.
C.i75.n.6.
HAYES, John. The bankers exchange: being
certain tables composed for the ready casting
up of bills of exchange, etc. Printed by William
Leybourn and Thomas James, 1676. fol.:
A summary relation of the past and present
condition of the upper levels lying in the
counties of Kent and Sussex, etc. Printed by
Roger Daniel, 1663. 4°: a-b* A-L** (wanting
ai, presumably blank).
This work appears to have been completely
unrecorded; nor is there any record ofthe work
by Powell to which it is a reply. The Library
already had in its collections a copy of a different
work by Powell on the Kent and Sussex levels,
as well as his answer to Herlackenden (or
Harlackenden), entitled The animadverter
animadverted.
Not tn Wing.
C.112.C.13.
This work appears to be unrecorded; the titlepage,
however, contains some account of its
author, who advertises his services as teacher
of calligraphy, arithmetic, and accountancy,
and as proprietor of a boarding grammar
school 'wherein he teacheth the Latine and
Greek tongues'. The Library has also a copy
of a reissue of the same sheets with a cancel
title-page dated 1720.
From the Kenney collection.
Not in Wing.
Gallery of Ghosts O H1208B.
C.ii3.h.9.
HAYWARD, Edward. The sizes and lengths
of riggings, etc. Printed by Peter Cole, 1655.
fol.: A- B-U- (U2 blank; 'D' is omitted from
the alphabetical sequence).
See ^Recent Acquisitions, Department of
Printed Books', British Library Journal, i
(i975)>93-4-
WtngH 1229.
C,i75.dd,23.
HERLACKENDEN, Thomas. Animadversions
on several material passages in a book written
by Sir Nath. Powel Baronet. Intituled,
HoBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, sive de materia,
forma, & potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et
civilis. Apud Johannem Tomsoni, id'jfi. 4":
This edition of the Levtathan is not recorded
in Wing, or in Macdonald and Hargreaves's
bibliography of the writings of Thomas
Hobbes. It is, however, closely related to
nos. 45 and 46 in their list. In NUC, no. 46
(Londini, 1678) is described as a reissue ofthe
1670 Amsterdam edition (no. 45) with sheets *
and Bbb reset. This copy is another, presumably
earlier, reissue of the Amsterdam
edition, again with sheets * and Bbb reset.
Not in Wtng.
C.i23.fff.ii(i),
LA CHARRIERE, Joseph de. A treatise of
chirurgical operations . . . To which is
annex'd a general idea of wounds . . .
Translated ... by R.B, Printed for Dan.
Brown, 1695. 12": A P'- Q^.
A translation of one ofthe first published works
on surgical operations. Only one other copy is
recorded in this country, in the library of the
Royal College of Surgeons. The translation

TREATISE
OF
CHIRURGICAL
Afcer the
Neweft, and moft exad Me
thod toundcd on the Strufture
of the PARTS.
CONTAINING
Thei,- Caui« Signs, Symptons,
together Wirh their Explanation
and au:^y curioas Obfevitions. '
To wh'ch
General • Idea of
N D S.
The first edition ofthe laws ofthe island after
it came into English possession in 1655. The
preface, containing 'A short account of the
island', is by Francis Hanson, Wing records
only two other copies in this country.
Purchased with the aid of Mr. Arthur Gimson.
Wing} 124.
Sabin 35623.
C.ii2.aa,i9.
[LouBAYSSiN DE LA MARCA, Francisco.]
The amorous travellers, or The nightadventures.
Written originally in Spanish by
a person of honour [i.e. F. L. de la Marca].
Translated into French . . , and into English
by J.B, Printed by A.C. for Jonathan Edwin,
1671. 8^ A-t B-08 PMP4 blank).
The first English edition of Loubayssin de la
Marca's novel Enganos deste siglo. The French
version from which the English translation was
subsequently made (perhaps by John Bulteel)
was printed in 1639 under the title Les
tromperies de ce siecle.
Wing^ A 3021A (recording two copies of a 1671
edition with variant imprint).
Esdatle,p. 148.
was reprinted in 1712, This copy belonged to
Joseph Gulston, eighteenth-century collector
and connoisseur; his library was auctioned in
1783, but the present item was not listed in the
sale catalogue.
Not in Wing.
C.111.ff.2.
THE LAWS of Jamaica . . . 1683. To which is
added, A short account ofthe island and the
government thereof. With an exact map of
the island. Printed by H. Hills for Charles
Harper, 1683. 8«: a-d« A-O^ (with one folding
plate).
MAUCLERC, Julien. A new treatise of architecture,
according to Vitruvius . . . Set forth
in English by Robert Pricke. Printed by
J. Darby, and are to be sold by Robert Pricke,
1669. fol.: A-B- C-H' (with an engraved
portrait and forty-nine engraved plates).
The first architectural work to be published
by Robert Pricke, who also translated it. He
was evidently taking advantage of the architectural
activity in London subsequent to the
Great Fire; he advertises in the imprint 'other
Books and Prints, as Maps, Copy-Books,
Chimney-pieces, &c.' The original French
edition was published in 1600 in Paris, and
reprinted there in 1648, but Pricke had new

plates engraved and added some of bis own.
Only one other copy is recorded in this country;
three copies have been located in America.
WingM 1326.
C.i8o.cc,i.
MAUGER, Claude. Claudius Mauger's French
grammar with additions . . . The thirteenth
edition, exactly corrected and enlarged by
the author, etc. Printed by R.E. for R. Bentley
and S. Magnes; to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1688.
The author, 'late Professor of the Languages
at Paris, and now at London', claims that in
this thirteenth edition of his grammar he is
correcting errors which had crept into the
previous four. He also assures his readers 'that
there are no Words nor Phrases in my Grammar
but are very Modish'. Previously unrecorded,
NUC records one other copy in America.
Not in Wing.
C.i24.aaa.i.
Apparently a reissue with a cancel title-page
of the sheets of Newton's Art of natural
arithmetick, etc., which was entered to Robert
Walton in the Term Catalogues in 1671 (see
Gallery of Ghosts, N 1051c; a copy, dated
[1673], is now recorded at CLU-C). The work
had been advertised by its earlier title in
another textbook of Newton's, also printed by
Walton, the School pastime for young children:
or The rudiments of grammar, etc. which was
entered in the Term Catalogues in 1669.
From the Kenney collection.
Wing N 1054 (recording one other copy).
C.ii2.aa.22.
THE
Double Eternity,
OR,
Cljoict.
[NEWPORT, Maurice.] The double eternity,
or the inevitable choice. [The author named
in the preface as Mr. Niewport, i.e. Maurice
Newport.] Printed hy M. Clark for the author,
1695. fol.: A' B-D-,
The epistle dedicatory of this work is signed
J. L., presumably the translator, who refers in
his preface to this verse description of heaven
and hell as 'a part of Mr, Niewport's Poem
Dedicated to King Charles II under the Title
of Vivat Rex'. The Latin original first appeared
in 1665, No other copies of this translation
appear to have been recorded.
Not in Wing.
C.i23.k,6.
Dcut. x-tx. 19.
Iftnt frt before jou lift atij
tbrrrfurt tl)ao/§ life.
Priiwil by M. Ovk lot ilit Author.
and
NEWTON, John. The compleat arithmetician:
or. The whole art of arithmetick ... By
J.N. Philomath (John Newton). Printed for
John Taylor and Christopher Browne, 1691,
8°;
NICOLE, Pierre. Moral essays. Contain'd in
several treatises on many important duties . ..
Third volume. Printed for R. Bentley and
M. Magnes, 1680. 12°: A"* B-Q|^ R^
90

T H E
Compleat Arithmetician:
Or, the whole Art of ^
Sltitljmetitfe,
VULGAR and DECIMAL,
In a Plain and Eafie Method, fuitablei
CO the Msaneft Capacity.
In which the Multiplication and DlvlCioti
of Numbers of Several Denominations,
and the Rule of Alligation are mor'*
fully explained than in any Trcatile ot
this Nature, yet Extant.
By J.N. Ph.ilomuh.
L 0 N D 0
Printed for Joljn
Cl):iilopljcr 25;otonc at
^^^rd. MDC:
at the Ship , and
ia S. P^HPI
A translation of part of the Essats de morale of
Pierre Nicole, one of the most distinguished
of the French Jansenists. Two volumes of an
English translation, the first entitled Moral
essays and the second Of the education of a
Prince were printed for Magnes and Bentley
in 1677 and 1678. The separately published
third volume was previously known only from
the third edition (1696), of which a single copy
is recorded, at Harvard. The British Library's
copy of the first edition has been placed with
volumes one and two of the first edition,
already in the Library at C.ii2.aa.2o.
Not in Wing.
O'DowDE, Thomas, The poor man's physician,
or the true art of medicine, as it is
chymically prepared and administred , . .
The third edition. Printed for F. Smith, 1665.
8": A-G«(G8blank).
No other editions of this work appear to be
recorded, and the only other known copy of
this edition is at Glasgow. O'Dowde's claims
for the virtues of his cures are disputed by
William Johnson, who wrote Ayvpro Maari^.
Or, Some brief animadversions upon two late
treatises; one of Master George Thomsons . . .
The other of Master Thomas O'Dowdes, called.
The poor mans physitian, etc., 1665, on behalf
of the Galenists in the Royal College of
Physicians. Johnson refers in this work to the
three editions of O'Dowde's book, dismissing
his case histories as 'a long Catalogue of
counterfeit Cures', and his profession as
'Pseudochymist'.
WingO 139A.
C,i24.c.i2.
OLDYS, Alexander. An ode, by way of elegy,
on the universally lamented death of the
incomparable Mr. Dryden. Printed and sold
by most booksellers, 1700. fol, A-C-.
A pindaric in eight strophes. In the poet's
vision Dryden is welcomed into the 'Heav'nly
Quire' by his illustrious predecessors. Three
other copies are recorded.
Purchased with the help of Mr. Arthur Gimson,
through the Friends ofthe National Libraries.
Wing O 267.
Macdonald 303.
C.i23.k.i
OVID. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, by
George Sandys. The eighth edition. Printed
for E. Brewster, T. Basset, etc., i6go. 12":
A late but apparently very rare edition of
Sandys's translation (first published complete

OVIWS
iSlETAMORPHOSIS
ENGLISHED,
UEORGE
BY
SANDtS.
The Eighth Edition,
4
copy ofthe 1663 edition was acquired from the
Patent Office, the earliest known edition of this
extremely influential work. At least seven
editions appeared. The second edition is larger
than the first which appeared before the Great
Fire, and the translator expresses the hope that
'both old and young will rejoyce at the rebuilding
of London, a second happy restoration,
inferiour only to that of his Majesties
person and government'.
WingV 205.
C.i75.h.i9.
PERKINS, Peter. The seaman's tutor: explaining
geometry, cosmography and trigonometry
. . . Compiled for the use ofthe Mathematical
School in Christ's Hospital—London, etc.
Printed for Obadtah Blagrave, 1682. 12°.
Only two other copies are recorded, one in
Dublin and one in America. No other edition.
LONDON:
; Printed for E. Bretvfier, T. B^fer,
M. Wotton, G. Corners^ and A.
Ropt 6
in 1626). The only other copy recorded in
Wtng is at Harvard {NUC lists two additional
locations).
C.ii8,b.25,
PALLADIO, Andrea. The first book of architecture
. . . Translated out of Italian . . , By
G.R. (Godfrey Richards) . . . The second
edition corrected and enlarged. Printed by
J.M., and sold by G. Richards and by Sam.
Thomson, 1668. 4**.
The Library's original copy of this edition was
destroyed in the war. It is an extremely rare
book, and was, until the apparently unique
92

T H E
E X P L A I N I N G
GEOMETRY,
COSMOGRAPHY, ^
A N D
TRIGONOMETRY.
WITH
Requifice TABLES
OF ,
Longitude and Latitude of Sea-Ports, Tracrfc
Tables, Tables of Eafting and Wefting, Meridian
Miles, Declinations, Amphrudcs,RcfraftioDSjUfcof
the Compar5jK3lendar,Meafiire
ofthe Earth's Globe, Life of Inflrumcnts and
Cliarts, Difference of Sailing, Efiimation of
a Ship's Way by the Log, and
Currents, &c.
Compiled for the Ufe of the MathemacJcdl
School in Chrifi's Wpltd'London, His
Majcfty cfi.gr/gjll, hb'Royal Foundation.
By Mr. ?. Virgins, lace Mafler of char Mjtiiematical
School.
LONDOS, Pnnced for ObddUh
16S2
nor any other work by Perkins is known,
though the Tutor is advertised in Richard
Mount's 1706 edition of Colson's Mariners
new kalendar. This copy is unfortunately
imperfect, wanting H7,8, one plate and part of
a volvelle.
From the Kenney collection.
WingV 1559.
C.i26.e.ii.
[PoMFRET, John.] The choice. A poem. By
a person of quality [i.e. John Pomfret].
Printed, and are to be sold by J. Nutt, 1700.
fol.:A-C-(Ai blank).
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Of Pomfret's best-known poem Secombe
remarks in his article on the author in D.N.B.,
'It is an admirable exposition in neatly turned
verse of the everyday epicureanism of a cultivated
man'. Narcissus Luttrell's copy of this
first edition, now at Harvard, bears in MS.
the date i Dec. 1699. By 1702 the poem had
been reprinted at least three times in London
and once in Norwich.
Wing P 2794.
Cup.500.pp.10.
[SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FENELON,
Frantjois de. Archbishop of Cambrai.] The
education of young gentlewomen. Written
THE
DUCATION
YOUNG
L* OF "^f' Z'**^^
GENTLEWOMEN.
Written Originally in the
FR EMC H;
AND
From thence made / - '
ENGLISH.
And improved
For a Lady of QUALITY
LONDON:
Printed for M. R, and fold b}
/. Leighzn5 D.Midwinter^zi tht
Rofe and Crown in 5t. Pjul'^i
Church-Yard. 1699.

originally in the French, etc. [The author
named in the preface as the Abbot de Fenelon.]
Printed for N.R.; sold by T. Leigh t£ D. Midwinter,
1699. 12": A6(±A2) B-G'^ P.
According to the preface, 'making English'
required more than a straightforward translation
of the Roman Catholic Fenelon's original.
For the most part, the work is considered to be
appropriate for young ladies of any faith, for
'the Abbot is not extreamly superstitious, and
seems to have added but unwillingly some
strokes of Popery'—and these, the translator
confesses, he has not scrupled to revise. NUC
records one other copy of this translation, in
the Folger Library.
Not in Wing.
C.i24.dd.8.
the earliest recorded edition was that of 1687;
all the seventeenth-century editions are
extremely rare, being known only by single
copies.
Nottn Wing.
C.i4i.b.i2.
SMITH, William. Poema, in honorem
dignissimi Dom. Di Guilhelmi Turner
equitis aurati, urbis Londini PrsEtoris.
Excudebat Jacobus Cotterellus, 1669. 4**: A-EH.
Nothing appears to be known about the author,
except that he wrote and published several
similar congratulatory poems between 1660
and 1686. The subject of the present poem.
Sir William Turner, became Lord Mayor in
1669.
[SHAKESPEARE, William.] The history of
King Lear, acted at the Queen's Theatre.
Reviv'd with alterations. By N. Tate. Printed
for R. Bentley, and M. Magnes, 1689. 4":
A"^ B-H^ /- (wanting Ai, I2, blank?)
First printed in 1681, this is the second edition
of Nahum Tate's adaptation of Lear. Although
the alterations enraged Addison, they were
evidently approved of by eighteenth-century
audiences, and the ending, which celebrates
the marriage of Edgar and Cordelia, and the
triumph of Lear, perhaps accounts for
Johnson's singular preference.
WingS 2919.
C.i75.ff.9.
SHEWRING, Adam. The plain dealing
poulterer; or A poulterers shop opened, etc.
Printed hy E.C. for H. Brome, 1664. i2«:
Shewring's pocket-book contains hints on
choosing and preparing 'four-footed beasts'
(hare and rabbit), as well as land- and waterfowl,
designed, it is claimed, 'to be as useful
for the Seller, as for the Buyer'. Previously,
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Not in Wing.
C.i23.d.2i.
SMYTHIES, James. Leandro: or. The lucky
rescue. A novel. Printed for the author, and
sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,
1690. 12°: A' B-F^ GK
Nothing seems to be known of James Smythies,
beyond the information in J. Venn's Alumni
Cantabrigienses. The present novel seems to
be his only published work, and rather
curiously unites the contemporary taste for
romantic fiction with a topical interest in the
fate ofthe French Protestants. The misfortunes
of Leandro and his father Arcanius are of a kind
which must have been quite familiar from the
experiences of the vast numbers of French
refugees who had arrived in England after the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
This copy once belonged to Narcissus Luttrell
and bears the price and the date when he
acquired it.
Presented by the Master and Wardens of the
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper
Makers.
Not in Wing.
C.i34.b.i7.

Imprimatur,
Uejlrange,
May i6.
The Plain Dealing
POULTERER;
OR
A foukerers
Shop Opened,
WITH
All Sores of Warc,and how t3
know rlie Young h'om the
Old, b:in^ Dead sr Alive.
Alfo how to Feed and Fatten
Fowl in a /hort t:me ; widi
other things r\ecctrary to be known.
Very ufeful for Gentlemen and
others, that they may not be
Deceived.
By ^dam Sher^ing a Poulterer...
If that yoH intend will to f y
Be mfe in Cho-^fmg Ponhcrs -ware.
l9vd$n, Printed by E. c, forH. Breme ac
hOH in ivy
TEMPEST, Sir Richard. A discourse touching
choyce of religion, [c. 1658]. 8*^: A^ a^ B-K^
(K8 blank).
Tempest's discourse is written in defence of
his choice ofthe Roman Catholic faith. Internal
evidence suggests that the book was printed
before 1660, and Sir Richard, who served as
colonel of a regiment of horse under Charles I,
is believed to have died in 1662. A free endpaper
bears the date 1658. This copy originally
formed part ofthe Inner Library ofthe Eyres
of Hassop, descendants of the author, and
a staunch Roman Catholic family. One other
copy is recorded, in Ushaw College, Durham.
(The Tempest family came from co. Durham.)
Purchased for the British Library by the Friends
ofthe National Libraries.
Not in Wing.
Not in Clancy.
C.175.a.38.
THE TONGUE COMBATANTS, or A sharp
dispute between a comical couragious grasier.

DISCOVRSE
touching Choyce of
RELIGION.
By S'. RicHAKD TEMPEST
Baronet.
Antiquam exquirite matreniy
VirgiL
Judgeyee what Jfy, Ads
Apoftles.
and a London bull-feather'd butchers . . .
wife. With the comical humours ofthe joviall
London gossips, in a dialogue between a maid
a wife and a widdow, etc. Printed for Andr.
Thorncome, 1684. 4°: A-C-* D'.
The first part is a rhetorical prose dialogue or
flyting between a grazier and a butcher's wife.
The themes are as old as the literary genre: the
wife is an intolerable scold, while the grazier
abets the butcher in drunkenness and profligacy.
The second part is also anti-feminist
satire, of an equally traditional kind. It is a
doggerel verse dialogue in dramatic form.
complete with prologue, implied entrances and
exits, and a charming song sung by a boy in
the person of a seduced maiden. It has not,
however, been noticed in any of the standard
lists of seventeenth-century plays.
Not in Wing. C. i i6.ee. i.
[WiDDOWES, Thomas.] The just Devil of
Woodstock, etc. 1649 [1660]. 4": A-B-* C^.
A narrative of events which occurred in October
1649, showing that the Devil himself disliked
the doings of 'that detestable usurper Oliver
Cromwell' and of his commissioners. The date
in the imprint is false; the preface refers to
the delay in printing, and comparison with
a variant issue reveals that the true date is more
likely 1660. Only one other copy of this issue
is recorded.
Wmg W 2091 A.
THE
TONGUE COMBATANTS,
O R.
A Sharp difpute between a Comical
Coiiragious Country
GRASIER>
And a LONDON BuU-feather'd
h(i[thcrs TwidinE, Twatling, Turbulent, Thundering,
rciDpcftiou5, Terrifying, Taancing, Troubleibmc,
Tallcaiivc Tongu'd
WIFE.
With the Comical Humours of the
JoviaU LONDON
GOSSIPS.
Ill a DIALOGUE between a Maid
a }Vife aiid a Widdorr, over a Cup
of the Creature.
LONDON, Printed for Andr. Thorncome
y at the Dog and Oloiv
on London-Bridge. 1684.
C.i27.e.22.

[WiNSTANLEY, William.] Poor Robins perambulation
from Saffron Walden to London:
performed this month of July, 1678. Printed
for T.E. and are to be sold by the general
assembly of hawkers, 1678. 4": A-C"*.
The evidence for Winstanley's authorship of
this and other 'Poor Robin' volumes is discussed
by Sir Sidney Lee in D.N.B. He
compares the tone of these verses, and oC Poor
Robin's jests, with that of John Taylor, the
water-poet. Taylor is mentioned on p. 19. One
other copy is recorded at Harvard, though the
book is mentioned in Hazlitt and Lowndes.
It is also listed in S. E. Brydges's Censura
literaria, where it is described as 'now become
curious by the local notice of various places'.
Wtng'W 3076.
C.i3i.de.i9.
NOTES ON OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTORS
KEITH BROWN: Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies,
University of Oslo.
PAULINE BURDON: Visiting Lecturer in English, Central London Polytechnic.
CECIL H. CLOUGH: Senior Lecturer in History, University of Liverpool.
R. F. GREEN: Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada; Killam Fellow.
HANS HENNING: Director ofthe Zentralbibliothek der deutschen Klassik, Weimar.
RUDiGER JOPPIEN: Curatorial staff of the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Cologne.
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