German religious instructional text, printed in Germantown, Pennsylvania by Peter Leibert and Michael Billmeyer, one of their first publications. Leibert & Billmeyer, who opened up shop in Germantown in 1784, were in some ways the successors to Christopher Saur, having acquired much of his stock following the liquidation of Saur's firm.

London: Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, 1647. 46, [2] pp. NOTE: first two pages wanting (i.e., the initial order-to-print leaf). Quarto. ESTC R12041; Wing E1541. Disbound, partially detached. 46, [2] pp. NOTE: first two pages wanting (i.e., the initial order-to-print leaf). Quarto. ESTC R12041; Wing E1541.

Classic work of poetry and prose by the grandfather of Charles Darwin, demonstrating a great command of botanical knowledge, and presaging the development of the theory of evolution. Several of the plates are by William Blake. This first American edition is rather attractively printed. Bookplate of Edward T. Lyon, and his owner inscription on the front flyleaf.

Attractive volume of eighteenth-century poetry. Names in a period hand inked to front pastedown and front free endpaper; several notes in text in a similar hand, but text mostly clean.

Provenance: armorial bookplate of the Right Honorable Lord Fraser of Lovat; front free endpaper dated October 21, 1773 and later manuscript note from about 1928.

First Edition of this work attributed to John Eachard, the DNB says of him and this work: "This work, which brims over with wit and humour, had a rapid sale, and passed through many editions. The author represents the contempt with which the clergy were generally regarded as being in great measure due to a wrong method of education or the poverty of some of the inferior clergy." Eachard became Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge in 1675, and Vice-Chancellor in 1679. This copy with the armorial bookplate of James Hustler (d.1769), of Acklam, Yorkshire, England, affixed to the verso of.....

The second edition of this historical text with Howes's additions. Gift inscription dated 1902 to front free endpaper; shelving marks and slip to spine, old library stamp (St. Paul Reference Library) to final printed leaf. Numerous pagination errors corrected in pencil in a modern hand. **EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES MAY APPLY**

Late 18th-century work of comparative theology of Judaism and Hinduism, though produced with expectedly shoddy evidence about the two (really more than two) faiths.

Early publication of the important posthumous work by Condorcet (cf. PMM 246, first edition), appearing two years after the first edition. This issue is without a named publisher or place; this fact combined with the relatively cheap paper it is printed on suggests clandestine publication due to piracy or wanting to avoid the scrutiny of the French revolutionary government which Condorcet helped form, but under whose custody he ultimately perished.

French translations of The Tatler, the English periodical. The content was largely originally written by Sir Richard Steele, with some contributions by Joseph Addison. Each volume with armorial bookplate.

Late 18th-century work on ship navigation. Signed on the page opposite title by the publisher, Racine (not the author), as a mark of authenticity.

One of the major histories of the Quakers. Bookplates of: Rockford; Alfred Heacock Whittaker. Owner marks of John Moss of Manchester, 1759 to front free endpaper and title.