18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Ancient Dress. 51 Copper-Engraved Plates.
Lens, André Corneille. Le costume ou essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l’antiquité, prouvé par les monuments. Liege: Aux dépens de l’auteur, chez J.F. Bassompierre, 1776. 4to (24.9 cm, 9.8"). xxxi, [1], 411, [1] pp.; 51 plts
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PITT:
The “Late Great
Commoner”[Lloyd,
Charles]. An examination of the principles and boasted disinterestedness
of a late Right Honourable gentleman. In a letter from an old man of business,
to a noble lord. London: J. Almon, 1766. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 34, [2 (adv.)] pp.
[bound with]
Short considerations vpon some late extraordinary grants. And other particvlars
of a late patriot’s condvct. London: J. Almon, 1766. [2], 5–31, [3
(adv.)] pp.
• Examination: ESTC T33662; Sabin 41680. Short Considerations: ESTC T48138. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder; sewing mostly gone with last few leaves separated. Title-page with small numerical stamp and both early and later inked notations; inner margin of first text page with institutional stamp; pages otherwise clean. Collation of second piece matches other recorded holdings.
Humane Understanding Locke, John. An essay concerning human understanding ... the seventh edition, with large additions. London: A. & J. Churchill and S. Manship, 1715;
J. Churchill & Samuel Manship, 1716. 8vo (20.1 cm, 7.9"). 2 vols. I: [32], 371, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking frontis.) II: [16], 340, [28] pp. 
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Provenance: Each front pastedown with the armorial bookplate and title-page with the early inked ownership inscription of John Waldie. A blue paper slip below the bookplate shows that this was shelved with “Natural History, Science &c.” being “No. 64.”
• ESTC T65491; NCBEL, II, 1837; Printing & the Mind of Man 164. Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments; front joints cracked, back joints starting, leather chipped at spine extremities and rubbed along board edges, spines with faint traces of inked call numbers visible. First text pages each with stamped numeral in lower margin; lower edges institutionally rubber-stamped; one back free endpaper with slip. Frontispiece of vol. I lacking. Occasional early marks of emphasis in margins, some inked and some pencilled; one pair of leaves with rough edges from awkward cutting. Occasional light spotting, pages generally clean. One page with lower outer corner torn away, not touching text. Last index page adhered to back free endpaper. Actually, attractive!
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Separation of Church & State — RELIGIOUS LIBERTYFirst Collected Edition Locke, John. Letters concerning toleration. London: A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston & B. White, I. Rivington, et al., 1765. 4to (29.5 cm, 11.6"). Frontis., [8], 399, [1 (blank)] pp.
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This is a lovely, “gentleman's library” edition, well printed with generous margins.
Provenance: Two text pages and back pastedown with flourished ownership inscriptions of Richard Wood, Jr., dated 1780.
• ESTC T114245; Graesse, IV, 243; Lowndes 1380; Allibone 1113–14. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding lightly rubbed/scuffed overall, joints starting from top and front hinge (inside) starting; spine with a chip and a small paper label. Front pastedown with three bookplates most tantalizingly layered over one another, the most recent being from a 19th-century social club library; front free endpaper with pencilled and inked numerals in an early hand. Pages age-toned and faintly to moderately spotted; minor offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. (26302)
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Hippocratic AphorismsLoew von Erlsfeld, Johann Franz. Nova et vetus aphorismorum divi senis Hippocratis interpretatio iuxta mentem veterum et recentiorum in publica cathedra ingenuae juventuti medicae pragensi explanata .... Francofurti & Lipsiae: Johannis Ziegeri, 1711. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). Frontis., [14], 1180 (i.e., 1172), [48 (index)] pp. (pagination skips 361–68, text uninterrupted).
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The title-page of this volume is printed in red and black; the engraved frontispiece portrait is signed “A.C.F.”
Scarce. Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 find only three U.S. and two overseas locations.
• Contemporary half mottled sheep with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides and edges with a few small scuffs, leather chipped at head of spine and along parts of back joint. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829 and with stamp (no other markings). Mild browning and spotting, with a few leaves more notably foxed; one leaf with ink stains. Pagination skips from 360 to 369, with text uninterrupted as shown by catchword and signature. 
A stout, rather handsome volume.
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