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174042573Amsterdam: No Publisher Listed 1740. Hardback. 2nd edition. Period Vellum binding 12mo 132 leaves; 17 cm. In Hebrew. Mayer Sulzberger's copy with his bookplate. Like the Mishnah Mishnat Hasidim is arranged in "Sedarim" which are divided into "massechtot" and subdivided into "perakim." With an introduction entitled: Olam Katan. Includes index. Title-page has ornamental border. <br> Raphael Immanuel ben Abraham Hai Ricchi 1688-1743 was an "Italian rabbi cabalist and poet.After having studied Talmud under Nathan Pinkerle rabbi of Alessandria della Paglia Ricchi became tutor in the houses of several wealthy Jews. He was thus successively employed at Göritz Fiorenzuola Finale in Modena and Venice; in the last-named place he opened a school. He then went to Triest where he was ordained rabbi in 1717 by Hillel Ashkenazi rabbi of Canea after which he was invited to the rabbinate of Görz.<br> Owing to his great love for cabalistic studies and to his ascetic tendencies Ricchi resolved to settle in Palestine. He arrived at Safed in 1718 and during his stay there of two years he occupied himself with the study of the works of Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital. He was also reordained rabbi by Hayim Abulafia. In 1720 an epidemic broke out in Palestine and Ricchi was compelled to return to Europe. <br> On the voyage he and all his fellow passengers were captured by pirates and brought to Tripolitza whence through the efforts of Abraham Halfon Ricchi and his family were allowed to return to Italy. He then occupied the rabbinate of Florence till 1723 in which year he removed to Leghorn where for twelve years he engaged in business as a merchant. He spent twenty months in travel visiting Smyrna Salonica Constantinople Amsterdam and London and in 1735 set out for Palestine spending two years at Aleppo and three at Jerusalem. In 1741 he returned to Leghorn and in 1743 while traveling in Italy for the purpose of selling his works he was killed by robbers who buried his body by the shore of the Reno. Six days later some Modena Jews discovered the remains and brought them to Cento for burial.<br> Ricchi's most important work is the above-cited 'Mishnat Hasidim' a cabalistic work begun in 1726 at Leghorn. <br> Like the Mishnah it is arranged in orders 'sedarim' which are divided into treatises 'massektot' and subdivided into chapters 'peraim' the names of the six Mishnah orders being taken in a cabalistic sense. But the chief divisions of the work are three termed 'mafteot' besides the introduction entitled ''Olam Kaon' = 'microcosmos' in which Ricchi endeavors to popularize the Cabala. <br> The first main division is the 'Maftea ha-'Olamot' in which the worlds are treated. It contains: 1 the order of Zera'im treating of the cabalistic cosmology and of metaphysics and divided into seven massektot and eighteen chapters; 2 the order Kodashim treating of the realm of emanation 'olam ha-azilut' which is styled 'the holy of holies' and containing twenty massektot and seventy-eight chapters; 3 the order ohorot treating of the three other realms namely those of creative ideas 'beri'ah' creative formations 'yezirah' and creative matter 'asiyah' and divided into nine massektot and twenty-seven chapters; and 4 the order Nezikin treating of the demons and 'kelifot' and divided into six massektot and seventeen chapters. <br> The second main division entitled 'Maftea ha-Neshamot' contains the order Nashim treating of souls in twelve massektot and forty-eight chapters. The third main division entitled 'Mafteah ha-Kawwanot' contains the order Mo'ed divided into fifty-eight massektot and 371 chapters and treating of the Kawwanah. It will be seen that the number of massektot in this work is 112 corresponding to the numerical value of the sacred name ; and the number of chapters 547 equal to the numerical value of Ricchi's name plus twelve the number of its letters. <br> The sources for this work besides the Zohar are mostly Isaac Luria's and Hayyim Vital's writings of which the 'Sefer ha-Gilgulim' 'Kanfe Yonah' and 'Shulhan 'Aruk' may be particularly mentioned. Ricchi drew also from other cabalists" M. Seligsohn in JE 1905.<br> NYU houses their copy in the Mitchell M. Kaplan Collection of Rare Judaica and Hebraica. Aviva Ben-Ur's Ladino catalog list #14. Judge Mayer Sulzberger "was closely associated with Isaac Leeser and assisted that scholar in editing The Occident contributing to it a partial translation of Maimonides' "Moreh Nebukim." After Leeser's death Sulzberger edited vol. xxvi. of The Occident. He was one of the founders of the Young Men's Hebrew Association which he served as president; and he has taken great interest in the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia of which he has been vice-president since 1880. He was from the beginning in 1888 chairman of the publication committee of the Jewish Publication Society of America; was one of the original trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund; and interested himself in the establishment of agricultural colonies at Woodbine N. J. and in Connecticut.Sulzberger had one of the best private libraries in America; it contained a very large number of Hebraica and Judaica" WIkipedia. SUBJECTS: Cabala -- Early works to 1800. Siddurim -- Texts. Judaism -- Ari rite -- Liturgy -- Kabbale -- Ouvrages avant 1800. Siddour -- Textes. Cabala. OCLC: 904949349. OCLC lists only 2 copies of this 1740 2nd edition worldwide NYU & Cambridge and only 3 copies of the first edition of 1727.<br> Boards slightly bowed with front hinge starting. Remains of 19th Century paper label on spine. Lacks front blank pastedown. Jewish institutional bookplate in addition to that of Sulzberger. Paper toning but strong. About Very Good- Condition. Attractive copy of early edition of an important cabalistic text. RAB-67-7. Amsterdam: [No Publisher Listed] unknown
179148770Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman ve-David Yisraelig'ah 1791. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg-. Two volumes large quarto. Vol.1: 2 157. Vol.2: 3 158- 274 1 35. Double-sided leaves. Rebound in modern burgundy mottled faux-leather boards with gilt lettering on the front covers gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. Edges of the book block in red. Title pages bordered with small woodcut motifs.<br /> <br /> The first printed edition of this commentary on the Talmudic tractate Bava Batra by famed mediaeval Spanish Rabbi Meir Abulafia aka 'The Ramah' c. 1170 – 1244. The work is one of only three surviving parts Tractates Bava Batra Sanhedrin and Kidushin plus the fourth chapter of Tractate Gittin from his larger series of his Talmudic commentaries known as Yad Ramah meaning "Hand of the Ramah" or "The Upraised Hand". The final section of the second volume contains Shiyur Shitah Mekubetset with its own title page a subsequent commentary on the work by Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi c. 1520 – c. 1592 and an approbation at the start of the first volume by editor Yosef Elia Halevi. The first volume includes a few illustrated figures and diagrams on leaf 123.<br /> <br /> Text throughout in Hebrew printed in Rashi script in a two column format.<br /> <br /> Bindings with minor rubbing bumping and damp staining to the corners. Minor scratches and smudges to the covers. Title page in volume one torn along the left margin. Title page of volume torn along the left margin with no loss of text. Title page of volume 2 with tears worming and staining with some loss of text. Volumes quite clean overall with only minor sporadic staining in the margins. Worming throughout both volumes with some loss of text mostly in the second volume. A few pages throughout the volumes have been repaired with tape. Bindings in very good- interiors in good- to good condition overall. Scarce. Hebrew title: יד רמה<br /> Authors: רבי מ×יר הלוי ×בו××œ×¢×¤×™×™× ×”×¨×ž"×” יוסף ×ליה הלוי בצל×ל בן ××‘×¨×”× ××©×›× ×–×™<br /> Publication: ש××œ×•× ×™×§×™ בדפוס ×”×©×•×ª×¤×™× ×ž×¨×“×›×™ × ×—×ž×Ÿ ודוד ישר×ליג'×”<br /> <br /> Bibliographic references: Vinograd- Salonica 407. Mordekhai Nahman ve-David Yisraelig'ah hardcover
1732C204435London: J. Walthoe G. Conyers J. Knapton R. Knaplock et al. 1732 Hardcover. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in recent marbled boards leather spine label with gilt titles. Very good indeed. Excellent condition. J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, et al., hardcover
1732006985London: J. Walthoe & 14 Others 1732. Perhaps the best-known play by the second-greatest playwright of the Elizabethan stage.This is a Near Fine copy of an early edition; very scarce.Marbled paper-covered boards with titling in gilt on a leather spine label. Clean text; 96 pages complete. Light toning throughout but textblock remains sharpand clear. The spine label has some tiny chips at the edges which do not intrude into the title. . Early Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. J. Walthoe & 14 Others Hardcover
1756140939597London: Printed for D. Midwinter 1756. First Edition Thus. Very Good. First edition thus complete in 7 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf with morocco title labels and raised bands to spine. Very Good. Lightly marked with joints worn with several starting to split wear to edges heavier at spine ends. Title label missing on Volume III and partially perished on Volume I. Damage affecting the first 20 or so pages of Volume 7. A handsome set. Printed for D. Midwinter unknown books
17171316026London: J Walthoe M Wotton J Nicholson et. al 1717. Second. Second printing 16mo 448 pp in full contemporary calf with blindstamped decorations five bands on replaced spine with gilt highlights gilt no.2 embossed on spine.<br /> Edgewear chipping to leather foxing to endpapers yellowing to text pages binding tight except for a detached signature at pp 349-354. 1316026. FP New Rockville Stock. J Walthoe, M Wotton, J Nicholson, et. al unknown books
1716279London: J. Walthoe et al. 1716. First octavo and first illustrated edition. Armorial Fine Full Morocco. Good. First illustrated and first octavo set of The Works of Ben Johnson in beautiful armorial fine full morocco. Ben Johnson was Shakespeare's contemporary and rival considered second only to the Bard in importance and eminence by modern scholars during the reign of James I. Though at the time the distinction of superior literary merit was less clear.<br /> <br /> Set Condition: Good detached front board on Vol. I Scarce set to find complete.<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1716 by J. Walthoe et al. in London. First octavo edition and first illustrated edition of The Works of Ben Johnson. Large paper edition. Rebound early 19th century by John Clarke in the style of 17th century fine French bindings for Rev. Theodore Williams of England 1785 -1875. <br /> An armorial full morocco fine binding. Covers with centered coat of arms of Thedoore Williams tooled in gilt. Raised spine bands separate compartments lavishly tooled and ruled in gilt; two compartments with gilt lettered and decorated morocco spine labels. All board edges ruled in gilt. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and turn-ins ruled in triple gilt fillets with corner fleuron devices. Endpapers refreshed. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2". Copper engraved plates and woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Collated and complete in six volumes including all 12 plates inlcuding frontispiece: <br /> <br /> Vol I: 512 pages 5 leaves of plates. Every man in his humour; Every man out of his humour; Cynthia's revels or The fountain of self-love; Poetaster<br /> <br /> Vol II: 2 448 pages 4 leaves of plates. Sejanus: his fall; Volpone or the fox; The silent woman; The alchymist<br /> <br /> Vol III: 488 pages 1 leaf of plates. Catiline's conspiracy; Epigrams; The forest; Entertainments masques speeches & c<br /> <br /> Vol IV: 455 1 pages 2 leaves of plates. Bartholomew Fair; The staple of news; The devil is an ass; The magnetick lady or Humours reconcil'd<br /> <br /> Vol V: 2 432 pages. A tale of a tub; The sad shepherd or A tale of Robin Hood; Under-woods: consisting of divers poems; Mortimer's fall; Masques<br /> <br /> Vol VI: 2 414 10 pages. Masques; Horace's Art of poetry translated into English verse; The English grammar; Explorata or Discoveries made upon men and matter; The new inn or The light heart; Epilogue<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Volumes are Good overall. Front board detached in Volume I. Refreshed endpapers.<br /> <br /> Exterior and Binding: Volume I with front board detached and back board three-fourths detached may detach during shipment. Several volumes with vertical cracks down spine. Heavily rubbed joints cracking. Rubbed and worn extremities. Areas of soiling and darkening of leather.<br /> <br /> Interior: Descriptive note of set adhered to front pastedown of Volume I. Pages are generally clean and bright and off white to lightly toned. Light to sporadic foxing. Several areas with professionally repaired tears and neat marginal paper restoration. Some pencil writing and partially erased pencil writing on blanks. A few passages with marginalia in pencil in a 19th century hand. A few plates with very light offsetting. Other signs of light handling like some bent or nicked corners or light creases. No ex libris marks or former owner bookplates.<br /> <br /> PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> Theodore Williams 1785 - 1875 was the son of James Williams of Westmoreland Jamaica. He was the Vicar of Hendon for sixty-three years. As a young man he collected a magnificent library which he had sumptuously bound. The majority of his collection were bound by Charles Lewis or John Clarke often in the style of 17th century fine binding. His library was sold at auction in London in 1827. He lived almost another 50 years post-sale. An uncommon example of a cured bilbiomaniac - an example to which I cannot relate!<br /> <br /> ABOUT BEN JOHNSON <br /> <br /> Benjamin Jonson June 1572 – August 1637 was an English poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humors. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour 1598 Volpone or The Fox c. 1606 The Alchemist 1610 and Bartholomew Fair 1614 and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded by most modern scholars as the second most important English dramatist after William Shakespeare during the reign of James I.<br /> <p>Jonson was a classically educated well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy personal and political artistic and intellectual. His cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era 1603–1625 and of the Caroline era 1625–1642.<br /> <br /> In 1616 Jonson received a yearly pension of 100 marks about £60 leading some to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate although the royal family never formally granted him the title.<br /> <br /> There are many legends about Jonson's rivalry with Shakespeare. Thomas Fuller relates stories of Jonson and Shakespeare engaging in debates at the Mermaid Tavern. That the two men knew each other personally is beyond doubt not only because of the tone of Jonson's references to him but because Shakespeare's company produced a number of Jonson's plays at least two of which Every Man in His Humour and Sejanus His Fall Shakespeare certainly acted in. Jonson's most influential and revealing commentary on Shakespeare is the second of the two poems that he contributed to the prefatory verse that opens Shakespeare's First Folio. This poem "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us" did a good deal to create the traditional view of Shakespeare as a poet who despite "small Latine and lesse Greeke"60 had a natural genius. The poem has traditionally been thought to exemplify the contrast which Jonson perceived between himself the disciplined and erudite classicist scornful of ignorance and skeptical of the masses and Shakespeare represented in the poem as a kind of natural wonder whose genius was not subject to any rules except those of the audiences for which he wrote.</p> . J. Walthoe, et al. unknown
1717005586London: J. Walthoe and Ten others 1717. Ben Jonson 1572-1637 stands second only to his friend Will as the major dramatists of the Elizabethan stage. Initially reprinted in 1716 from the edition of 1692; this is a Good only copy of a presumed Second Printing from a year later. Not common. Containing the plays "Sejanus his Fal;" "Volpone; or the Fox;" "Epicaone; or The Silent Woman;" and "The Alchemist. A Comedy." Two of these plays remain in constant reperatory today. Full leather binding; stamped smooth calf; five raised bands on the spine with titling and decorations in gilt. Clean text; frontis engravings; 448 pages; lightly toned. Unfortunately this copy has suffered a separation of the covers and the spine is heavily rubbed; all is present however. Please note the condition issues; Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. A worthy candidate for a rebind. Second Printing. Disbound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Walthoe [and Ten others] Paperback
1716006022London: F. Walthoe and Ten others 1716. Volume Six only of 6 of plays and masques by the second-greatest Elizabethan playwright after his friend Will Shakespeare. This is from the first octavo edition published "Containing: Masques. Horace's "Art of Poetry Translated into English Verse."The English Grammar. Explorata: Or Discoveries made upon Man and Matter. The New Inn: Or The Light Heart." First Edition Thus. Scarce. Full leather binding with five raised bands and decorative gilt on the spine. Complete text; 425 pages toned but unfoxed; all page-ends stained red. Disbound - both covers are present but unattached; chips to head and foot of spine; gilt very dulled. Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. Quite well worth the effort. First Thus. Disbound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F. Walthoe [and Ten others] Paperback
1716006024London: F. Walthoe and Ten others 1716. Volume Three only of 6 of plays and masques by the second-greatest Elizabethan playwright after his friend Will Shakespeare. This is from the first octavo edition published "Containing Cateline's Conspiracy. Epigrams. The Forest. Entertainments Masques Speeches Etc." First Edition Thus. Scarce. Full leather binding with five raised bands and decorative gilt on the spine. Complete text; 488 pages toned but clear and unfoxed; all page-ends stained red. Disbound - both covers are present but unattached; chips to head and foot of spine; gilt very dulled. Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. Quite well worth the effort. First Thus. Disbound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F. Walthoe [and Ten others] Paperback
1716006025London: F. Walthoe and Ten others 1716. Volume One only of 6 of plays and masques by the second-greatest Elizabethan playwright after his friend Will Shakespeare. This is from the first octavo edition published"Containing Every Man in his Humour. Every Man out of his Humour Cynthia's Revels; Or the Fountain of Self-Love. Poetaster." First Edition Thus. Scarce. Full leather binding with five raised bands and decorative gilt on the spine. Complete text; 512 pages toned but clear and unfoxed; all page-ends stained red. Frontis illustration of "Every Man in His Humour." Disbound - both covers are present but unattached; the half-title page is present but loose. Chips to head and foot of spine; gilt very dulled. Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. Quite well worth the effort. . First Thus. Disbound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F. Walthoe [and Ten others] Paperback
171628755J. Walthoe M. Wotton J. Nicholson J.Sprint G.Conyers B. Tooke D. Midwinter T. Ballard B. Cowse J. Tonson and W. Innys 1716. New edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/not applicable. Lowndes 1230 '8vo. 6 vols. with portrait and plates. A bookseller's reprint of the old copy'. An attractive set for the bookshelf. Contemporary full calf with much later calf rebacking ie new spines raised bands two labels to each spine modern endpapers. A clean tight and sound set rubbed at edges. Text blocks/plates show some foxing and age staining but this is not severe and mainly affects first and last leaves in each volume as often found. No inscriptions or bookplates. Portrait frontispiece in vol. 1 and ten full page engraved frontispiece plates to certain plays. These plates are in the first 4 volumes only presumably because that is where the longer plays are to be found. Full collation on request. Approx. size 8" by 5". Heavy item - overseas customers please enquire re shipping costs. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28755. . J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, J. Nicholson, J.Sprint, G.Conyers, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, T. Ballard, B. Cowse, J. Tonson, and W. Innys hardcover
1716006021London: F. Walthoe and Ten others 1716. Volume Five only of 6 of plays and masques by the second-greatest Elizabethan playwright "Containing A Tale of a Tub. The Sad Shepherd: Or A Tale of Robin Hood. Under-Woods: Consisting of divers Poems. Mortimer's Fall. Masques." First Edition Thus - from the first octavo edition of Jonson published in six volumes. Full leather binding with five raised bands and decorative gilt on the spine. Complete text; 431 pages toned but unfoxed; all page-ends stained red. Disbound - both covers are present but unattached; chips to head and foot of spine; gilt very dulled. Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. Quite well worth the effort. Early Printing. Disbound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F. Walthoe [and Ten others] Paperback
1756140939597London: Printed for D. Midwinter 1756. First Edition Thus. Very Good. First edition thus complete in 7 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf with morocco title labels and raised bands to spine. Very Good. Lightly marked with joints worn with several starting to split wear to edges heavier at spine ends. Title label missing on Volume III and partially perished on Volume I. Damage affecting the first 20 or so pages of Volume 7. A handsome set. Printed for D. Midwinter unknown
17561701250012D. Midwinter; W. Innys and J. Richardson; J. Knapton; T. Wotton; et al 1756-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Five octavo volumes of seven. Lacking Volumes III and IV. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards raised bands red leather spine label. Wear to edges minor chipping and rubbing to spines. Dampstaining to boards. Armorial bookplate of Francis Perrott. Marginal dampstaining in each volumes affecting text in Volume II VI and VII with Volume VI being mostly completely dampstained. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. D. Midwinter; W. Innys and J. Richardson; J. Knapton; T. Wotton; et al hardcover
173235449London: Pr. for J. Walthoe G. Conyers J. Knapton et al. 1732. 12mo 16.8 cm 6.6". Frontis. 96 96 100 35 1 pp. without the general title-page. <br><br>Volpone The Alchemist and Epicoene: Or the Silent Woman: Three of Jonson's most popular and enduring comedies happily followed by "A True and Exact Catalogue of All the Plays and Other Dramatick Pieces That Were Ever Yet Printed in the English Tongue in Alphabetical Order." The plays were also issued separately; and while the title-page giving "The Three Celebrated Plays of That Excellent Poet Ben Jonson" published by W. Feales is not present here the presence of => the Volpone plate engraved by Jan Van der Gucht and several pagination errata seem to indicate that this is indeed Feales's omnibus edition.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate a crowned lion rampant billetty labelled "A.C.J.L."<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary speckled calf framed and panelled in blind with roll-bordered panel in plain calf blind-tooled corner fleurons. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T79993. Binding as above rebacked some time ago with mottled calf spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt floral decorations in compartments; upper corners refurbished edges and extremities rubbed hinges inside cracked volume holding. A copy without the general title-page and with bookplate as above. First and last few leaves including frontispiece with offsetting to margins from pastedowns; back free endpaper with a corner torn away; pages age-toned with some instances of mild foxing. => A nice 18th-century look at Jonson with the bonus of the contemporary theatrical catalogue. Pr. for J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, et al. hardcover books
173245803London: J. Walthoe.And sold by W. Feales at Rowe's Head over-against Clement's Inn Gate 1732. Very Good. London: J. Walthoe.And sold by W. Feales at Rowe's Head over-against Clement's Inn Gate 1732. 12mo 17 cm; lacking series title page else complete. Woodcut frontis and section headers. Full contemporary boards in calf leather blind tooled at margins and board edges with gilt decoration and morocco leather label to spine. Boards generally scuffed and rubbed with minor abrasions to covers and rubbing to spine cracking slightly at hinges. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Endsheets offset at margins by leather and glue underneath with brief pencil to pastedown and penned date and name to top of first free endsheet. Lacking the title page though all volume title pages present. Interior toned and foxed throughout as expected. <br /> <br /> Four volumes bound together including a catalogue of English language plays and dramatic works up to 1732. Jonson's plays were often comedies and satires and influenced comedic drama beyond his era. He is considered to be the second most important Renaissance dramatist right behind Shakespeare to whom he will always be compared. What a fate. <br /> <br /> ESTC T79993. J. Walthoe...And sold by W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, over-against Clement's Inn Gate unknown
1732AQ20588London: Printed for W. Feales 1732. 2 96; 96; 100; 35pp 1. Each of the plays has a separate dated title page pagination and register. With an engraved frontispiece and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed lower joint split loss to head of spine corners bumped. Internally clean and crisp occasional inked highlighting to terminal catalogue. A collection of dramatist Ben Jonson's 1572-1637 most popular works; including his comic masterpiece The Alchemist 1610 - one of the only Renaissance plays besides the works of Shakespeare to have achieved longevity and remain popular with audiences throughout the intervening centuries. The three plays are subjoined by 'A true and exact catalogue of all the plays and other dramatick pieces that were ever yet printed in the English tongue in alphabetical order: continu’d down to April 1732' also issued separately. The list compiled by bookseller William Feales ‘Where may be had Variety of Plays’ though rather comprehensive is of limited bibliographical scope as it provides only the titles with no regard for authorship or publication details. That said it does furnish each entry with an abbreviation denoting the genre: 'Those Plays that have this Mark are Acting Plays: Those with C. stand for Comedy T. for Tragedy T.C. for Tragi-Comedy O. for Opera and F. for Farce'; an intriguing early eighteenth-century publishing curiosity clearly calculated for a commercial rather than scholarly readership. ESTC T79993. 12mo. Printed for W. Feales unknown
1716005568London: Stationers' Syndycate 1716. After Shakespeare Ben Jonson 1572-1637 is often considered the greatest Elizabethan playwright. This late-career satire was much indebted lifted from Aristophanes and first performed in 1625; it was first published in 1631. This is a Very Good Plus copy of an early printing from the so-called "Booksellers' Edition" the work of a London syndicate of publishers. Scarce to RARE as are all of Jonson's early works. Disbound; removed from a larger volume most likely Walthoe's 6-volume edition with leather remains on the spine.The play is complete consisting of pages 139-248 of the original book. The text which includes an engraved plate and headpiece is nicely preserved very clear with light toning. . Early Printing. Disbound. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stationers' Syndycate Paperback
1716006076London: Stationers' Syndycate 1716. This is a Very Good Plus copy of an early printing; all of Jonson's works are scarce to RARE in commerce. Disbound from a larger work; consisting of the Title Page and Induction then pages 366 to 455. Clean text; tanned and with some spotting but perfectly readable. Early Printing. Disbound. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stationers' Syndycate Paperback
1716005666London: Stationers' Syndycate 1716. After Shakespeare Ben Jonson 1572-1637 is considered the greatest Elizabethan playwright. First published in 1631. Here is an early printing of one of his comedies printed one hundred years after its first performance. This is from the so-called "Booksellers' Edition" the work of a London syndicate of publishers. Early printings of Jonson's works are scarce to RARE. Disbound; removed from a larger volume most likely the six-volume set from Walthoe with leather remains on the spine The play is complete consisting of the Title Page Prologue Dramatic Personae then pages 253 to 361 of the original book. Very Good condition with a clean text lightly toned with page ends browned. . Early Printing. Disbound. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stationers' Syndycate Paperback
174133561741. : 75 . 2 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 56 Pages / 2 Blank pages Binding: Contemporary Half Leather Duodecimo 12mo Height cm: 19 CM Width cm: 125 CM Thickness cm: 05 CM hardcover
179191406London:: John Bell. Very Good. 1791-1792. Hardcover. Three complete plays bound in one volume. Six illustrated plates. First edition thus. Duodecimo half bound in green leather with gilt lettering and design along the spine marbled boards top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Light edge wear leather portions are mostly faded to brown occasional foxing throughout text block else very good. Binding is sound and tight. . John Bell, hardcover books
1791446799London : Printed for the proprietors under the direction of John Bell 1791. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Poor copy in contemporary gilt-blocked leather over paper-wrapped boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Further scans images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; 134 pages plate. Contents; Includes an advertisement and a biographical note on Ben Jonson unattributed. Subjects; 1701-1800. English drama Comedy 18th century. English drama 17th century. London : Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell hardcover
171549239Amsterdam: Jan Boom 1715. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto. asterisk4 a-f4 -blank f4 A-3F4 = 235 leaves. 54 415 1 blankpp. Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs boards somewhat bowed spine darkened early manuscript title in Hebrew and Latin at spine. Old owner entry at top margin title memorial label at front paste-down. A very good copy amply-margined with fine crisp text throughout.<br /> <br /> Important edition of this Aramaic version of the biblical books of Chronicles attributed to Joseph ben Hiyya d. 333 a Babylonian amora and head of the Pumbedita academy near present-day Falluja Iraq. "Ben Hiyya was also distinguished in biblical exegesis and left an Aramaic translation of parts of the Bible which is often quoted. It is not to be assumed however that Joseph translated the whole Bible though the Aramaic translation of the Books of Chronicles is ascribed to him. Enc. Jud. The editio princeps edited from an Erfurt manuscript by Matthias Frederick Beck and accompanied by substantial annotations was published at Augsburg in 1680. "After this David Wilkins gave the public an edition from a Cambridge manuscript of which the text was more pure and more complete. The critic should unite both these editions the former for the value of its learned notes and the latter for its full and accurate text†The Biblical Repertory. <br /> <br /> The Coptic scholar David Wilkens 1685–1745 was born of Prussian parentage in Memel Lithuania. Little is known about his education in Germany probably in Berlin or how he acquired his knowledge of ancient and Semitic languages which was extensive rather than profound. He referred to the antiquarian Ezechiel Spanheim the elector of Brandenburg's ambassador in England from 1701 to 1710 as his former teacher. By 1707 Wilkins was studying at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and had encountered a group of clerical protectors in London. In 1709 engaged in preparing a history of the patriarchs of Alexandria which remained in manuscript and the editio princeps of the Coptic Bohairic New Testament the Novum Testamentum Aegyptium 1716 he left for the continent. He called on scholars examined manuscripts in Vienna Rome and Paris and stopped in Amsterdam in 1714 to see to the publication of his first works -- an edition of the Aramaic paraphrasis of the books of Chronicles and an Armenian version of the apocryphal third epistle to the Corinthians 1715 -- and of John Chamberlayne's polyglot edition of the Lord's prayer to which he contributed. Wilkins was an industrious scholar. In the three years he spent as librarian at Lambeth he made important contributions to the cataloguing of manuscripts. In 1721 he edited the Anglo-Saxon laws in 1725–6 the complete works of John Selden and in 1731 the Coptic Pentateuch. His main work was his Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae an account of British church councils from 446 to 1717. Wilkins had many detractors -- John Gagnier the professor of Arabic at Oxford who deplored his incompetence in Arabic and Hebrew Edward Harley who described him as ‘a very great scoundrel’ and the cantankerous Thomas Hearne who as librarian at the Bodleian had watched him turn from a young man ‘of a civil Courteous and modest behaviour’ into ‘a vain ambitious man of little judgement tho' great industry’ ready to ‘do anything in the World for a little Money’ Alastair Hamilton: "Wilkens David" -- ODNB online.<br /> <br /> Provenance: From the library of G.H.A. Juynboll 1935-2010 the celebrated scholar of Islamic Hadith literature with his printed memorial label at front paste-down. Hebrew title: ×ª×¨×’×•× ×©×œ דברי ×”×™×ž×™× ×¨××©×•× ×™× ×•××—×¨×•× ×™× ×™×¡×“×• ר×ש ישיבה בסורי×<br /> <br /> References: The Biblical Repertory 1834 6:248-249. Brunet 3:574 - "Livre recherché et peu commun". Enc. Jud. 10:229. Le Long Bibliotheca sacra 1723 1:92B. Le Long-Masch 2.1 p. 48: “Multo correctior est editio ac praecedens Beckiana.†long note in which the relation with the never published version by Clarke is discussed. Cf. D&M 2416: The editio princeps of the Targum on Chronicles printed from an Erfurt MS. and edited with a Latin translation by M. F. Beck Augsburg 1680-3 2 vols 4to. The present edition is “a more complete form of the text from a Cambridge MS. . edited with a Latin translation by D. Wilkins. Jan Boom hardcover
