683C Almeloveen, Theodorus Jansson van. (1657-1712) Theodori Janssonii Ab Almeloveen M.D. De Vitis Stephanorum, Celebrium Typographorum Dissertatio Epistolica, In qua De Stephanorum stirpe, indefessis laboribus, varia fortuna atque libris, quos orbi erudito eorundem officinae emendatissime impressos unquam exhibuerunt, subjecto illorum Indice accuratius agitur: atque obiter multa scitu jucunda adsperguntur. Subjecta est H. Stephani Querimonia Artis Typographicae. Ejusdem Epistola de statu suae Typographiae. ad Virum Clarissimum Joan. Georg. Graevium. Amsterdam: Apud Janssonio-Waasbergios, 1683 SOLD Octavo, 5.9 x 3.8 in. First edition. †2, A-S8, T6. An engraved portrait of Robert Stephanus in the form of a marble bust appears opposite the dedication. This copy is in perfect condition internally. It is bound in full contemporary Dutch parchment over stiff boards, with laced case construction. The binding is clean, undamaged, and in perfect contemporary condition. “Although printers and publishers had previously published trade lists and catalogues of their books, this is the first instance of a comprehensive retrospective bibliography of a printer or group of printers. “An excellent life of Henry Stephanus, as well as others of the rest of his family, was written by Maittaire, but which does not supersede those formerly published by Almeloveen. These together are among the best illustrations of the philological history of the sixteenth century that we possess.” (Hallam) The first part of the text consists of the biographies of the family members. The second part contains a complete bibliography of all of the books printed under the Stephanus name. Breslauer & Folter, 81; Schreiber #293; Bigmore & Wyman I, 5. Click for Larger Image 232B Anonymous, Pamphlet. (1651) To Xeiphos ton Martyron. [Greek] Or, A Brief Narration Of The Mysteries of State carried on by the Spanish Faction in England, since the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to this day for the supplanting of the Magistracy and Ministry, the Laws of the Land, and the Religion of the Church of England, especially and particularly declaring, how, when, and where, Cromwell and his party were confederate with the Spanish Faction, and how he and they are resolved to overthrow the Protestant Laws, and Religion, in the Church and State of England, and Scotland. Together VVith a Vindication of the presbyterian party, both of Church-men and States-men in the Kingdom of England, Scotland, and Ireland, against the Independent and Popish party, who are both united and confederated to destroy them, and their Religion. Printed by Samuel Brown, English-Bookseller at the Hague, 1651 SOLD Quarto, 7.4 x 5.3 in. First edition. A2, B-P4. This copy is a bit worn and in some places stained; the title page is slightly darkened. Overall, however, it is a complete and sturdy copy. It is bound in quarter nineteenth-century red morocco with marbled paper boards. The blind embossed seal of G.H. Radford appears on the front free end-leaf. This anonymous work, prepared during the time of the Commonwealth and Protectorate in England, or from the execution of Charles I until the Restoration of Charles II, was printed in Holland. It plays upon anti-Catholic paranoia and sentiments, and in particular with the Spanish Church. The writer espouses the Protestant cause, and re-tells the events surrounding Charles I’s fall from power. Wing X-2.   265B Ashby, Richard. (1663?-1734) A Salutation of Love: Being A Tender Exhortation For The Incouragement of Enquirers, Who are seeking after the true God, and of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, whom to know is Life Eternal. Written in true Love to all People, but more particularly to the Inhabitants of Norfolk. By Richard Ashby. London: Printed and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street, and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-Street, 1699 $320 Quarto, 8 x 5.8 in. First edition. [p]2, B-C4. The title page is inscribed with the signature of Amos Lockwood, “from his friend M.B.” This copy has untrimmed deckle edges throughout, and is browned throughout. It is stab stitched, and mounted in a quarter calf binding. Ashby was a member of the Society of Friends this pamphlet is a spiritually instructive work, which begins with an explication of the weighty question, “What is a Man profited, if he should gain the whole World, and lose his own Soul?” Wing A-3941.   618C Ausonius, Decius Magnus. (310-393/4) Avsonii Galli Poetæ Disertissimi Omnia Opera Nvper Maxima Diligentia Recognita Atqve Excvsa. Florence: Sumptu Philippi Iuntæ 20 May, 1517 $700 Octavo, 6.25 x 3.75 in. A-N8 (lacking A2). This copy is in good condition internally. It is bound in the leaf of a twelfth century manuscript. The binding has been rebacked with parchment. “This edition, which is called by Harles a very rare one, was printed by Philip Junta, whose prefatory address to Count Frederick Valmontoni informs us with what care and trouble it was compiled, and how the preceding editions were crowded with errors. Consult Bandini’s Annal. Juntar. part ii, 120. In the Bibl. Pinell. no. 9372, it is called ‘Liber rarissimus.’ See too Harles’s Brev. Not. Lit. Rom. vol. i, 718.” (Dibdin) “Partly for his ability, partly for his concrete political power, partly for his conciliatory attitude, Ausonius was highly esteemed by his contemporaries. The emperor Theodosius, addressing him with great respect, asks him for a copy of all his writings, and Symmachus, one of the leaders of the pagan senatorial group, engages in an extensive and friendly correspondence with him, on literary topics as well as others. Yet his success diminished in time, a process continued down to the excessively negative evaluations of some recent criticism, which is not inclined to forgive those superficial and joking, if not downright fatuous, attitudes of good-natured play with language and meter that are the most personal aspect of Ausonius’s poetry, and perhaps his principal merit. “The two religions [paganism and Christianity] coexisted peacefully at all social levels [in the fourth century], and sometimes even within the same family. Moreover, the presence within each of the two religions of a great range of positions brought it about that a Christian and a pagan might not be hindered by sectarianism and might agree on various problems more readily than two Christians or two pagans. Ausonius thus belongs to the Christian sector but is far removed from extreme strictness, and he is determined to defend everything in paganism that could be used to glorify Rome and the Empire.” (Conte) Adams A-227; Isaac 13394; Dibdin I, 345. Click for Larger Image 614C Bacon, Francis. (1561-1626) Of The Advancement And Proficiencie Of Learning: Or The Partitions Of Sciences Nine Books. Written in Latin by the most Eminent, Illustrious and Famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Counsellour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats. London: for Thomas Williams at the Golden Ball in Osier-Lane, 1674 $1,100 Folio, 11.5 x 7 in. Second edition. One unsigned leaf (portrait), [A]-[K]4, [L]2, A-Z4, Aa-Vv4 (final blank and genuine). The engraved portrait of Bacon from 1626 is bound opposite the title. This copy is in good condition, with some minor scattered staining and tears. It has been recently rebound in full calfskin, antique style. This is the second complete edition in English of Bacon’s De Augmentis Scientiarum, which was first printed in Oxford in 1640. This work is an expansion of the The Twoo Bookes, which was printed in 1605, and enlarged in Latin to nine books and published in 1623. “While Bacon’s predominant passion was natural science, he was a man of the Renaissance who, unlike many of his critics, never lost sight of the whole range of knowledge. The Advancement of Learning is the most attractive of his philosophic works because it is the most broadly comprehensive and humane, because its strength and vision are least impaired by dead technicalities, and because it is, with the Essays, the great example of his English prose. The Advancement of Learning is at once a defense of human knowledge, a sharp-eyed scrutiny of its defects, and an ambitious project for its improvement and progress. Book I refutes the libels of fools and zealots against the dignity of the human mind; Book II, an essay in epistemology, sketches that ‘great instauration,’ or reconstruction, of the aims and methods of human learning which Bacon envisaged as the major work of his age. Thus the book both evaluates the rich accretions of Renaissance culture and sketches a methodology for refining and extending the gains of the modern intellect.” (Baker) Gibson #142; Wing B-312.   605C Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint. (1090-1153) Homiliae super euangelio Missus est angelus Gabriel. [Cologne: Printer of Augustinus ‘De Fide,’ about 1473] SOLD Quarto, 7.7 x 5.75 in. First edition. a-d8. 32 leaves; complete. This copy is large and in good condition internally. It is rubricated throughout, with Lombardic in red initials added in the spaces left for the capitals. Contemporary readers’ notes in more than one neat hand are found in the margins throughout, with pointing fingers. The binding is modern vellum over stiff boards, and is in good condition. Only two editions of this particular work were printed before 1501. The second edition is quite rare, with Goff recording only one copy in the U.S. (at Harvard). Any edition is rare at auction. The various unsigned and undated books printed at Cologne in the 1470’s are particularly interesting because of their connection to English printing. In the early 1470’s, William Caxton was in Cologne learning printing. According to Wynkyn de Worde’s afterword to the first English edition, Caxton is supposed to have assisted in printing the unsigned and undated Cologne imprint of the Bartholomaeus De Proprietatibus Rerum. (see Goff B-131; BMC I, 234) “Bernard is most deeply permeated by the feeling of owing everything to the grace of God, that on the working of God rests the beginning and end of the state of salvation, and that we are to trust only in his grace, not in our works and merits. From the forgiveness of sin proceeds the Christian life. Faith is the means by which we lay hold of the grace of God. Man can never be sure of salvation by resting his hope upon his own righteousness, for all our works always remain imperfect. On the other hand, Bernard does not deny that man can and should have merits, but they are only possible through the preceding and continually working grace of God; they are gifts of God, which again have rewards in the world to come as their fruit, but without becoming a cause of self-glory. Before God there is no legal claim, but an acquisition for eternity through the work of the pious, made possible and directed by God’s grace. […] Bernard has always been regarded as a main representative of Christian mysticism, and his writings have been much used by later mystics and were the main source for the Imitatio Christi.” (Shaff-Herzog) Goff B-399; BMC I, 233; GW 3932; Hain 2863*; Pell 2100; Proctor 1095; Oates 570; not in Walsh.   735C Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Incipit officiu[m] beate et gloriose virginis marie secundum co[n]suetudinem romane eccl[es]i[a]e. Northern Italy, mid-15th century $17,000 Octavo, 4 x 2.75 in. One gathering of 12 leaves; four gatherings of 10 leaves; one gathering of 11 leaves; three gatherings of 10 leaves; one gathering of 4 leaves; eleven gatherings of 10 leaves; one gathering of 5 leaves: 221 leaves total. This book of hours opens with a miniature of the Virgin and Child on a gold background, surrounded by a floral border and an blank shield for a coat of arms (reproduced on our back cover). There are also eleven large initials in blue with red penwork surrounding. The smaller initials are in red and blue throughout, with capitals stroked in yellow. This copy is bound in later green velvet over wooden boards which have been rebacked. It also has a silver clasp and catch. “The core of a Book of Hours—the eight services which make up the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary—was designed to be said at particular times of the day. These services are modeled on the fuller services said daily by the clergy. […] “In addition to the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Book of Hours usually contains a variable number of other texts and devotions. These commonly include a calendar, showing the feast and saints’ days throughout the year, extracts from the Gospels, short Hours in honor of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit, the Seven Penitential Psalms with litany and collects, the Office of the Dead, and special prayers to the Virgin, the Holy Trinity and various saints. Most of this material is usually in Latin, though one or two popular vernacular prayers, such as the ‘Doucle Dame,’ are commonly included. “During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries copies were made in their hundreds to suit all tastes and pockets, ranging in quality from magnificently illuminated masterpieces, individually ordered by the wealthy and great, to modestly written small volumes with little or no decoration.” (Backhouse)   655C Browne, John. (1642-1700?) A Compleat Treatise Of The Muscles, As they appear in Humane Body, And arise in Dissection; With Diverse Anatomical Observations Not yet Discover’d. Illustrated by near Fourty Copper Plates, Accurately Delineated and Engraven. By John Browne, Sworn Chirurgeon in Ordinary to His Majesty. Non Nobis Nati. [London] In the Savoy: Printed by Tho. Newcombe for the Author, 1681 $7,000 Folio, 12.7 x 7.75 in. First edition. [p]4, ¶1, a-d2, e3, A-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Hhh2 (original blank Hhh2 present). The following dozen engraved plates, which are otherwise singlets extraneous to the collation, have conjugates present that have been printed on one side only with explanations of the tables: (plate numbers, in signatures) VIII, in O; X, in S; XV, in T; XII, in V; XIII, in Y; XIIII, in Z; XV, in Aa; XVI, in Bb; XVII, in Cc; XVIII, in Dd; XIX, in Ff; and XXXVII, in Eee. This work contains an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author bound opposite the title, and thirty-six of thirty-seven full-paged engraved plates of people in various stages of dissection. The purpose is to illustrate the organization of the muscles. The subjects are generally depicted standing on various sorts of pedestals, often holding open their own gaping flaps of skin. This, combined with the presence of distinctive individual features on many of the dissectees, such as mustaches and hair styles, creates a rather eerie effect overall. The missing plate, number twelve, is seldom found as it illustrates the “Accelerator Penis,” and must have been considered obscene. It has been removed from this copy. Little is known of the English engraver whose signature appears on some of these illustrations. Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers says that Nicholas Yeates was “obscure” and flourished around 1681. This is a lovely copy, in good condition internally throughout. It has been recently rebacked, retaining the original seventeenth century gold-tooled spine and label. Therefore, the book’s overall appearance has gone virtually unchanged since it was first printed and bound 320 years ago. According to Lowndes, the copies of this work that contain Browne’s portrait are printed on large paper. “Browne was a well-educated man, and in all likelihood a good surgeon, as he was certainly a well-trained anatomist according to the standard of the day. […] His treatise on the muscles consists of six lectures, illustrated by elaborate copper-plates, of which the engraving is better than the drawing. It is probably the first of such books in which the names of the muscles are printed on the figures. Browne’s portrait, engraved by R. White, is prefixed in different states to each of his books.” (DNB) The present work is based on William Molins’s Myskotomia, and the plates are based on Giulio Casserio’s (1552-1616) Tabula Anatomicae. In its later editions, this work appeared under the title: Myographia Nova. Wing B-5126; ESTCR 20507; Russell 101; Cushing B762; Wellcome III, p. 251; Eimas 642.   445C Buccapaduli, Antonio. (1530-1593) Antonii Bvccapadvlii de Pontifice Max. Declarando. Ad Amplissimos S.R.E. Cardinales. Oratio. Habita in Basilica B. Petri VII. Id. Septemb. Anno MDXC. Rome: Ex Officina Marcantonii Muretti, 1590 $220 Quarto, 8 x 5.25 in. A6. This copy is bound in early marbled paper over boards. Internally, the copy is in good condition with slight age browning throughout. This oration by Buccapaduli was delivered on September 7, 1590, on the occasion of the election of Pope Urban VII by the cardinals. “Sixtus V having died 27 August, 1590, the cardinals, 54 in number, entered the conclave at the Vatican on 7 September, and elected Cardinal Giambattista Castagna (1521-1590) as Pope on 15 September. A few days after his election he became seriously ill. The Pope confessed and communicated every day of his illness. He once expressed a desire to remove to the Quirinal, where the air was purer and more wholesome, but, when told that it was not customary for the Pope to be seen in the city before his coronation, he remained in the Vatican. He died before the papal coronation could take place and was buried in the Vatican Basilica.” (CE) Buccapaduli spoke for Popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V, and on this occasion he delivered an opening speech to the assembled Cardinals on behalf of the recently deceased Pope Sixtus V. Adams B-3011 (the copy catalogued by Adams contains only four leaves, whereas our copy consists of six).   081C Cicero, Marcus Tullius. (106-44 B.C.) Le Epistole famigliari di Cicerone. tradotte secondo i ueri sensi del-l’auttore, & con figure pro prie della lingua uolgare. Ristampate di nuouo, & con molto studio ricorrette. Venice: (Aldi Filli) Con priuilegio del Sommo Pontefice, & della illustrissima Signoria di Vinegia, 1551 $675 Octavo, 5.6 x 3.8 in. The fourth printing of the second Aldine edition. A-Z8, AA-OO8, PP10. This copy is bound in full calf, quite worn, with later end-papers. The spine has been gilt in compartments and it has a label giving the title and author. Cicero, a skilled jurist and orator of great renown, was at the forefront of the politics of his day. He became consul in 63 B.C. During his consulship, he suppressed the Catilinarian conspiracy. The questionable legality of his actions left him open to the attacks of Clodius Pulcher, whom he had earlier offended. Cicero was, as a result, exiled. He returned to Rome in 57 B.C., at which time, he was sought after by both Pompey and Caesar during their attempts to consolidate power. A staunch Republican, Cicero rejoiced at the death of Caesar. Unfortunately, he also spoke out against Antony who, in retaliation, put Cicero’s name on the proscription list. Cicero was later beheaded in the forum. Cicero’s involvement in Roman politics gave him voluminous material for his letters, which were addressed to the dignitaries of the day. His “surviving correspondence is an invaluable collection of evidence for his biography, for the history of the time, and for Roman social life.” (OCD) “Among his extant works are more than eight hundred letters on politics, literature, domestic affairs, etc., which are considered as equal in value to any of his productions and are rich in materials for a history of his time. They are also highly prized as models of exquisite Latinity and as exhibiting a freshness and vivid reality which are seldom if ever found in a historical narrative.” (Thomas) The letters, ranging from gossip reported by Caelius to the moving letters of consolation from Servius Sulpicius Rufus on the death of Cicero’s daughter, Tullia, give a sense of Cicero both the man and the statesman. His humor and knowledge is everywhere evident. On one occasion, he cleverly conceals his sadness over the fall of the Republic in a letter challenging a friend to a gustatory duel. In another, he describes in detail a meeting of the conspirators who killed Caesar at which he was present. This Italian copy, translated by Paulus Manutius, is well regarded. The son of the famous printer, Aldus Manutius, Paulus was a Ciceronian scholar, whose commentaries on the letters Ad Familiares was published posthumously, in 1592. Renouard A.A., AIA, p. 152, 12. Click for Larger Image 017C Collier, Jeremy. (1650-1726) A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, &c. Being a Reply to Mr. Congreve’s Amendments, &c. And to the Vindication of the Author of the Relapse. By Jeremy Collier, M. A. London: Printed for S. Keble at the Turks-head in Fleetstreet, R. Sare at Grays-Inn-gate, and H. Hindmarsh against the Exchange in Cornhil, 1699 $600 Octavo, 7.25 x 4.5 in. First edition. [A]2, B-K8 (lacking the two final blanks: K7 and K8). This copy has recently been rebound in full sheepskin, antique style. The contents are in good condition. A year prior to the publication of this work, Collier published his Short View. Congreve immediately mounted a defense of the English stage. This is Collier’s refutation of Congreve’s failed defense. “[Jeremy Collier was] a famous English theologian and non-juring bishop. […] His talents and attainments were of a high order. In politics, he was an ultra-Tory; his religious opinions were nearly identical with modern Puseyism. In 1688, he was so zealous a Jacobite that he renounced his preferments rather than take the oaths to William III; and he wrote several works against the new regime. […] In 1698, he published his celebrated work, a Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, which, says Macaulay, ‘threw the whole literary world into commotion. […] There is hardly any book of that time from which it would be possible to select specimens of writing so excellent and so various. He was complete master of the rhetoric of honest indignation. The spirit of the book is truly heroic.’ Congreve appeared in defense of the stage, but his answer was a complete failure; and a great reform in the English drama was the result of Collier’s work.” (Thomas) “Collier’s greatest achievement, his attack on the corruptions of the stage, began with the publication of his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, in March 1697/8. While this pamphlet attacks the English dramatists generally, it deals most sharply with contemporary writers, and especially with their latest works. It appeared at a time when the immorality of the theater had reached its utmost pitch, when ladies, if they could not resist going to see a new play, went in masks, and when it was generally recognized that a play could scarcely please the public unless it was grossly indecent. Collier’s mode of dealing was unsparing and courageous. Full of righteous indignation, he delivers his blows, if perhaps with something less than the cool skill which generally marks his attacks, still with a force and vigor that were equally effective. He was hindered by no fear and by no respect of persons. Dryden and Congreve receive no more deference than D’Urfey. In spite, however, of the passion, the scorn, and the sarcasm he displays, he does not even here throw off the pedantry of the learned controversialist. […] The Short View is a noble protest against evil. It had a marvelous success. Even before it appeared, there were some faint signs of an impending reaction, and its readers found that it gave distinctness and expression to feelings of which they had hitherto been scarcely conscious. Much, too, that had passed almost unnoticed in a play, assumed its true character when it appeared as part of a mass of obscenity, and people were shocked at remembering that such things had given them pleasure.” (DNB) Wing C-5248. Click for Larger Image 015C Comber, Thomas. (1645-1699) An Historical Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes, from Scripture, Reason, and the Opinion and Practice of Jews, Gentiles, and Christians in all Ages. Designed To Supply the Omissions, Answer the Objections, and Rectifie the Mistakes of Mr. Selden’s History of Tithes. By Tho. Comber, D.D. London: Printed by S. Roycroft, for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1682 $500 Quarto, 7.5 x 5.7 in. First edition. A4, *A4, a4, *a2, B-Z4, Aa-Ii4. This copy has been recently rebound in full calf, in antique style. The pages are clean, with only minor foxing to the first and last few leaves and slight browning to the title page. There is an ex libris plate from James Harrop Dransfield on the front paste-down. It shows a head in profile impaled upon a sword with the motto “Cutta Cavat Lapidem Non Vi Sed Saepe Cadendol.” “I have reason to believe many have been encouraged to commit by that current and commonly received Error, That Tithes are not due by Divine right, but only by humane positive Constitutions. For in the days of our Fathers, while the Divine right was generally maintained and believed, it was thought a matter of Conscience to pay Tithes justly. But now they that are either so cunning to avoid discovery, or so great to despise the punishments of the Law, do without scruple in part, or in whole, substract or detain their Tithes, and by this false Principle are perswaded it is no Sin that they need to repent of, so that the same Error that encourages them to do this great injury to the Church, causeth them to do a greater to their own Souls.” (Comber’s Epistle Dedicatory) Comber blames the common occurrence of this error on Selden’s work on tithes, from whom the argument is borrowed. Comber seeks to straighten out this legal mess. Wing C-5472.   613C Council of Trent. (1545-1563) Sacrosancti et Oecvmenici Concilii Tridentini. Pavlo III. Ivlio III. Et Pio IIII. Pontificibvs Maximis Celebrati Canones Et Decreta. Recèns accesserunt duorum eruditissimorum virorum D. Ioannis Stealli Theologi & Horatii Lvtii Iurisconsulti, vtilissimæ ad marginem annotationes: quibus sacr[a]e Scriptur[a]e, superiorum Conciliorum, iuris Pontificij, veteru[m] Ecclesi[a]e Patrum, tum citata, tum consonantia loca fideliter indicantur. Addita prætereà sunt ad finem Pii IIII. Pontificis Maximi Bullæ unà cum triplici utilissimo Indice. Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Viduam & Filios Io. Moreti, 1615 $750 Octavo, 6.8 x 4.25 in. A-Y8. This copy is in good condition internally; it is bound in full contemporary limp parchment, with laced case construction. The binding is somewhat wrinkled and stained, but still performing its intended function. This copy has an almost complete chain of Dutch provenance attached to it. On the verso of the title is the seventeenth century manuscript note of Henry Jacob, pastor of Velp, in Gelderland, the Netherlands in 1634, who passed ownership of this book to the Capuchin brothers of Velp in 1670. On the title is an eighteenth century stamp of Capuchin brothers of Slikgat. The most modern stamps, probably from the nineteenth century, are on the front and back end papers. At this point the Bibliotheca Domus Nuland, of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart, in the province of Noord Brabant, owned this book. We acquired the book and imported it from Holland. “The Ecumenical Council of Trent has proved to be of the greatest importance for the development of the inner life of the Church. No council has ever had to accomplish its task under more serious difficulties, none has had so many questions of the greatest importance to decide. The assembly proved to the world that notwithstanding repeated apostasy in church life there still existed in it an abundance of religious force and of loyal championship of the unchanging principles of Christianity. Although, unfortunately, the council, through no fault of the fathers assembled, was not able to heal the religious differences of western Europe, yet the infallible Divine truth was clearly proclaimed in opposition to the false doctrines of the day, and in this way a firm foundation was laid for the overthrow of heresy and the carrying out of genuine internal reform in the Church.” (CE) The members attending the Council of Trent also agreed upon a list of books that they found unsuitable and therefore resolved to ban. This list is printed in this volume, after the general history of the Council.   602C Culpeper, Nicholas. (1616-1654) Pharmacopœia Londinensis: Or The London Dispensatory Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, now living of the said Colledg. Whereunto is added, 1. The Vertues, Qualities, and Properties of every Simple. 2. The Vertues and Use of the Compounds. 3. Cautions in giving all Medicines that are dangerous. 4. All the Medicines that were in the Old Latin Dispensatory, and are left out in the New Latin one, are printed in this fourth Impression in English with their Vertues. 5. A Key to Galen’s Method of Physick, containing thirty three Chapters. 6. What is added to the Book by the Translator, is of a different Letter from that which was made by the Colledg. By Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology; living in Spittle-fields neer London. Scire potestates Herbarum, usumque medendi Maluit, & mutas agitare (inglorius) artes. Virgil. London: Printed for Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange, 1653 SOLD Folio, 10.9 x 7.25 in. Fourth edition. First published under the title: A Physicall Directory, in 1649. A-B2, C1, D-Z2 (S2 and Z2 omitted); Aa-Zz2, Bbbb-Llll2. Both the Yale and Harvard copies are lacking the leaf S2 (pp. 55-56). This copy is lacking the portrait frontispiece of Culpeper. Because this imprint seems to have been cobbled together from old sheets it presents a few mysteries to the cataloguer. There are three jumps in page numbering and signing custom. The title page is cancelled, and a few leaves integral to signatures seem to have been intentionally omitted. Based on the ESTC entry, citing eleven libraries holding this work in Great Britain, and nine libraries holding in the U.S., it is certain that Z2 was omitted, and that the title page is a cancel (only two libraries hold copies with the cancellandum present). Our copy, like Harvard’s and Yale’s, omits S2, which Yale considers a defect, and Harvard considers an original omission. The fact that all three are lacking this particular leaf leads us to believe that S2 was simply omitted intentionally in the publication. The cancellandum has been mounted on light transparent tissue, and an old signature has been clipped from the top blank margin. This copy is bound in later quarter goatskin and marbled paper boards. “In 1649 Culpeper brought himself into wider note by publishing an English translation of the College of Physicians’ Pharmacopœia under the title of A Physical Directory, or a Translation of the London Dispensatory. This unauthorized translation excited the indignation of the College of Physicians, which was fully reflected in the royalist periodical, ‘Mercurius Pragmaticus,’ pt. ii, no. 21 (4-9 Sept. 1649). The book is there described as ‘done (very filthily) into English by one Nicholas Culpeper.’ The translation has none of the defects here attributed to it, and the abuse was obviously inspired by political opponents [Culpeper was a parliamentarian and supported the religious sectaries] and the societies whose monopolies Culpeper was charged with having infringed.” (DNB) This is a fabulous book, absolutely overflowing with interesting medical treatments and ‘receipts,’ or medicinal preparations made with herbs. Wing C-7525, cancellandum present; ESTC R2908.