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The five days debate at Cicero's house in Tusculum : upon 1. Comforts against death; 2. Patience under pain; 3. The cure of discontent; 4. The government of the passions; 5. The chief end of man. Between master and sophister
Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Wase, Christopher (1625?-1690)
1683
Title within double line border. Page 276 misnumbered 176.
The odes and satires of Horace
Horace; Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Rochester, Laurence Hyde Earl of; Horace
1715
Numbering of pages 126-127 and 161-176 repeated, and pages 143-160 omitted in pagination; text continuous. A piracy of Tonson's edition of the same year.
Bentivolio and Urania : in six books
Ingelo, Nathaniel (1621?-1683)
1669
Books 5-6 have special title page: Bentivolio and Urania, the second part in two books...London, 1669.
Letters of wit, politicks and morality
Guevara, Antonio de; Aristaenetus; Bentivoglio, Guido cardinal (1579-1644); Bussy, Roger de Rabutin comte de (1618-1693); Fontenelle M. de (1657-1757); Cheek, Thomas; Savage, John (1673-1747); Boyer, Abel (1667-1729)
1701
Paging irregular: pp. 157-176 omitted and pp. 337-347 misnumbered 327-437. Sig. D6 (fly-title to "Six select epistles out of Aristaenetus") not included in pagination. "Epistle dedicatory" signed: A...
Tully's offices : In three books
Cicero, Marcus Tullius; L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
1681
With engraved additional title page as frontispiece. With one-page booklist at end.
The heroyk life and deplorable death of the most Christian King Henry the fourth
Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621); Grimeston, Edward
1612
Part-title of second part reads: A panegyre: containing the life and heroyck deeds of the most Christian King Henry the fourth. The third part has separate title-page, reading: "The tropheis of the ...
The critick : Written originally in Spanish
Gracián y Morales, Baltasar (1601-1658); Rycaut, Sir Paul (1628-1700)
1681
Sig.Q is duplicated; and sig.P is omitted (the pagination is incorrect, O8 being paged 207-8 and Q1 paged 211-12).
The epistles of Clio and Strephon : being a collection of letters that passed between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France who took an affection to each other, by reading one another's occasional compositions, both in prose and verse
Fowke, Martha; Porter, John (fl. 1729); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Bond, William (1735)
1729
Attributed to Martha Fowke and William Bond in Day cited below. Signatures: A-H12 I⁶. With booklist of J. Hooke, [4] p. at end. "A critical essay, containing some remarks upon the nature of ep...
Court-tales: or, A history of the amours of the present nobility : To which is prefixed, a compleat key
Oldmixon, John (1673-1742); Crull, J (1713); Walsh, William (1663-1708)
1720
Attributed by NUC both to Jodocus Crull and to John Oldmixon, being a version of the latter's "Court of Atlantis", 1714. "Aesculapius" by William Walsh on pp.153-178 [i.e.162], with pp.161-176 and r...
England's reformation : (from the time of K. Henry VIII. to the end of Oates's plot.) : A poem in four cantos. Adorn'd with copper plates (v.1-2)
Ward, Thomas (1652-1708)
1747
Signatures: vol. 1: A² B-Y⁸; vol. 2: [A]² B-O⁸. In vol.2 pp.161-176 and their sigs. are printed in the wrong order. Vol. 1: [4], 336 p., [8] leaves of plates; vol. 2: [4], 207, [1] p., [6] l...
Fables and tales from La Fontaine : in French and English : now first translated : to which is prefix'd, the author's life
La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695)
1734
French verse and English prose on facing pages. Possibly printed by William Bowyer. See ESTC. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ B-T⁸ U⁴. Sig.c2 signed b2. Sig.K3 signed K4, in error. Error in paging...