SARUM PROCESSIONAL, continued: phon). Explicit Proceftionale ad vfus infignis Ecclefie £ s. d. Sm. 4to., black letter, printed in red and black, with all the music; a few trifling wormholes at the beginning; in the original London binding of oaken boards covered with stamped calf [John Kingston and Henry Sutton] 1554 84 00 A very fine copy of a very rare edition. Seven copies only are mentioned by Mr. Dickinson in his list of service books, and I can only trace two other copies having occurred for sale during the last twenty years. The Processionals are among the rarest of English liturgical books, because, in the first place, there were less of them needed for publication, and in the second place, they were most eagerly sought for and destroyed by the Protestants of Elizabeth's reign, as from their very name and nature they were identified with the most detested ceremonies of the pompous Church of Rome. COLLATION: a-A8 B (the last blank). 53 SCOTTISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. THE BOOKE OF COMMON THE PSALTER, OR Pfalmes of David: After the Tranflation fet forth In 1 vol. sm. folio, black letter; two catchwords very slightly cut into; a fine sound copy, in purple morocco extra, rich dentelle borders on sides, full gilt back, gilt edges, by Clarke and Bedford, with the bookplate of John Naylor Edinburgh, 1637 Commonly known as Archbishop Laud's Book of Common Prayer, as he and Bishop Wren were associated with the Scottish bishops in preparing it, though Laud asserted that he had been desirous of introducing the English Book of Common Prayer without alteration. The book was very unpopular and was soon withdrawn. The attempt to use it in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Sunday, 23 July, 1637, occasioned a riot, which is popularly said to have been started by a woman named Jenny Geddes who flung her stool at the head of the Bishop of Edinburgh, David Lindsay. The above is a copy of the EARLIEST ISSUE with the catchword "Certaine" on the last page, which refers to the two leaves" Certaine Godly Prayers", forming part of a supplement which it was decided not to proceed with. AMERICANA 54 BOTERO (Giovanni). A BRIEFE DESCRIP-TION OF THE Whole worlde WHEREIN IS PARTI-cularly defcribed, all the Monarchies, Empires, and Kingdomes of the fame; with their feuerall titles and fcituations thereunto adioyning AT LONDON Printed by T. Iudfon, for Iohn Browne... 1599. Sm. 4to., corners of one or two leaves mended, the word 'finis' and three other words on the last page being restored in facsimile; brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Rivière 12 12 0 1599 30 00 EXTREMELY RARE; I cannot trace the sale of another copy. There was no copy in the Brinley, Barlow, Murphy and Lefferts collections. The last few chapters are devoted to America. One passage, relating to Virginia, is of much interest: "The Englishmen also desirous by 55 CASAS. : NARRATIO REGIONVM INDICARVM PER HISPANOS QVOSDAM deuastatarum verissima: prius quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum... Hispanicè conscripta. Anno vero hoc 1598. Latinè excusa. FRANCOFFRTI, Sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis. Anno M.D.XCVIII. Sm. 4to., with fine engraved title and 17 engravings by De Bry and Jod. a Winghe; a fine copy in old French red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Derome Frankfort, 1598 56 EDEN'S VOYAGES. (Title :) THE Hiftory of Trauayle in the VVeft and Eaft Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes... VVith a difcourfe of the Northwest pafiage. Gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richard Eden. Newly fet in order, augmented and finished by Richarde VVilles. Imprinted at London by Richard Iugge. 1577... Sm. 4to., a blank portion of the title mended, and slightly waterstained in parts; old sheep gilt 1577 One of the most important works in English geographical literature. In its first issue of 1555 it had come into the world as the first English Collection of Voyages. In 1577 it was re-edited by Willes. On the title page is the almost contemporary signature of Thomas Horton, who bought the book for 4s, and the somewhat later one of Robert Bateman; also the eighteenth century signature of William Spencer. 57 FOXE (L.). (Fol. 1 bears signature A on the obverse, and . 1635. De £ s. d. 660 18 18 0 Sm. 4to., with a fine and perfect impression, carefully mounted on linen, of the very rare map with the Fox in the corner; a tall сору in green morocco gilt, gilt edges 1635 31 10 0 The extremely rare first edition. In the edition published a few years ago by the Hakluyt Society, the editor dwells upon the great intrinsic value of Foxe's text and map, and upon the rarity of the book when complete. Henceforward the North-west Fox must rank among the chief of the early English books relating to the Hudson's Bay region; and the value of the original edition ought to increase proportionately. Some of the accounts of anterior voyages given by Foxe, including the important expedition of Sir Thomas Button in 1612, COLLATION: 6 preliminary leaves and pp. 1-168; four pages of 58 [FRANKLIN (Benjamin)]. A Narrative of the late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown. With some Observations on the same. Printed in the year M, DCC, LXIV. 8vo., 31 pp.; loosely stitched, as issued, entirely uncut [Philadelphia] 1764 20 0 0 "So far had the infection spread which caused this action, and so much had fear seized the minds of the people, or perhaps both, that neither the printer nor the writer, though supposed to be as nearly connected, as Franklin and Hall were at that time did insert either their names or place of abode."-Bond's Pennsylvania, Vol. II, p. 328. Hildeburn however gives Anthony Armbruster as the name of the printer. 59 FRANKLIN PRESS. CATO'S MORAL DISTICHS Englifhed in Couplets. PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by B. FRANKLIN, 1735. Sm. 4to., 24 pp.; a fine copy in blue levant morocco, with rich gilt tooling, enclosed in a marbled board case Philadelphia, 1735 120 0 0 EXTREMELY RARE. Only three copies besides this have been sold since 1880. In the Printer's Preface, Franklin says: "It would be thought a Piece of Hypocrisy and pharisaical Ostentation in me, if I should say, that I print these Distichs more with a View to the Good of others than my own private Advantage: And indeed I cannot say it; for I confess, I have so great Confidence in the common Virtue and Good Sense of the People of this and the neighbouring Provinces, that I expect to sell a very good Impression." The translator was James Logan. "The collection of moral precepts, in Latin verse, which has come down to us under the name of an unknown 'Dionysius Cato,' was a standard text book for young scholars in the Middle Ages, and until the last century. If they can be regarded as classic this tract may pass for the first translation of a classic which was both made and printed in the British colonies.' Hildeburn. 60 HAKLUYT. THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAF FIQVES AND DISCOVE-ries of the English Nation, made by 3 vols. in 2, sm. folio, the plain foremargin of one leaf With the seven suppressed leaves of the Voyage to Cadiz in 1596 On the title-page of the 1598 issue of Vol. I, the Cadiz Voyage was announced, but the leaves containing it were suppressed by 61 HARCOURT (Robert). A RELATION OF A VOYAGE TO 62 Sm. 4to., the last leaf slightly defective; unbd. 1613 24 00 the same. Sm. 4to., a fine, large copy in old calf gilt, having a long MS. note, apparently in the author's own handwriting, on the last blank page of the book, giving additional particulars as to the best time for the voyage, and concerning the climate, etc. 1613 32 0 0 FIRST EDITION. 44 leaves, with signatures A-L in fours, including all preliminary matter.-The voyage began on the 23 March, 1608-9, and the author returned to Bristol on February 2, 1609-10. The writer of the MS. matter above referred to was perhaps not the author but his cousin, Thomas Harcourt, who accompanied him. He states that "the navigation is short for it may bee sayled with an ordinary winde in six weekes." The preface gives a sketch of the other settlements made or attempted in America by Spaniards and Englishmen. A copy of this book is priced by a German bookseller in his latest 63 HUBBARD (William). A NARRATIVE OF THE TROUBLES WITH WILLIAM HVBBARD .. · In 1 vol., sm. 4to., with the excessively rare genuine "Map of New-England, Being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had,' the correct earliest issue, known as the "White Hills' £ s. d. variety, as distinguished from the "Wine Hills" variety done probably for the London edition; in the original sheep binding, enclosed in a red morocco pull-off case 1676 650 00 This fine and perfect copy, in the original binding, of one of the most sought for of American books, is of paramount importance on account of its associations. THE BOOK BELONGED TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, and has been the property of the Hawthorne family of Salem for more than two hundred and twenty-five years. The name of the first emigrant of the name is at the top of the title-page: William Hawthorne Senior, his booke, 1677. The first owner has been described in the Introduction to The Scarlet Letter: "This grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor, who came so early, with his Bible and his sword, and trod the unworn street with such a stately foot, and made so large a figure, as a man of war and peace." The second owner was his son, not less famous, the "witch judge" of Salem. His autograph is at the bottom of the title-page: John Hathorne his booke. The same autograph occurs on both fly-leaves, front and back, the last with the date 1682 added. Of him his descendant in The Scarlet Letter says: He "inherited the persecuting spirit, and made himself so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him. So deep a stain, indeed, that his old dry bones in the Charter Street burial-ground, must still retain it, if they have not crumbled utterly to dust!" The book seems next to have descended to John Hathorne's son Joseph, whose autograph is on the front fly-leaf: Joseph Hathorne His Book 1739/40. He seems to have been a man of quiet, peaceful pursuits and was, according to Hawthorne's biographer, known as "Farmer Joseph." Other members of the family who have written their names in the book are: "John Hathorne" and "J. Hathorne, Junr." both differing from the signature of the "witch-judge," one probably that of his son, the other of his grandson; "William Hathorne, His Book. Parama[ri]bo, December ye 12-1716," probably the son of William Hawthorne, first, and brother of John Hawthorne, first, and a sea captain; "Nathaniel Hathorne" several signatures, one dated "March ye 12th 1789/90," probably the grandson of Joseph Hathorne and the father of the author. Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, came into possession of the book in 1838, and his autograph signature, accompanied in each case by the date 1838, is found in four places in the volume. On the blank leaf which completes signature "n" he has written: Nath! Hawthorne's Book, given him by his Kinswoman, Miss Susan Ingersoll. 1838. A MOST REMARKABLE VOLUME OF THE HIGHEST INTRINSIC INTEREST, AND WITH THIS INTEREST ENHANCED BY ITS ASSOCIATIONS AND ITS LONG ARRAY OF FAMOUS NAMES. From Major William Hawthorne, the founder of the family, who himself led more than one expedition against the Indians, to Nathaniel Hawthorne, most retiring and gentlest of men, is a far cry-but this book has passed from one to the other, through what hands and under what circumstances the names of intermediate owners enable us partly to guess. |