to which an ideal value has been attached, remembering the remark of Johnson, "that no book is so worthless as not to contain something good." It is also to be remembered, that scarcely any two persons agree in their estimation of a book, and that their taste and judgment are influenced by their attachment to particular pursuits. On the other hand, he is sensible that he may unconsciously have omitted articles of importance, more especially very recent publications, from the difficulty of keeping pace with the daily productions of the press. For these, and all other omissions, he trusts to the candour of his readers: all who have had occasion to search for information on a particular subject, must be aware that much valuable matter has escaped them, notwithstanding the most careful inquiries. It would be a waste of time to name the particular sources which have been consulted. A single glance will, the Editor flatters himself, ensure credence to his statement, that many hundreds of volumes have been constantly referred to, and that, in numerous instances, the books noticed have been carefully examined. The merit of indefatigable industry will not, he hopes, be denied him; and though his labours have not required either genius or splendid talents, he, nevertheless, trusts that he may be deemed a safe and useful pioneer to the present and future explorers of the inexhaustible mines of British Literature. The traveller well knows the importance of a road-book and direction posts; the mariner is equally sensible of the value of charts and beacons; and the youthful and ardent literary husbandman, on entering the immeasurable fields of knowledge, will soon learn from the assurances of the veteran labourer, as well as from his own experience, that his progress will be painful, his success uncertain, without the assistance which, the Editor humbly hopes, these volumes will supply. The little that remains to be said is an acknowledgment, the sincerity of which must supply its deficiency in expression, of the Editor's gratitude to the numerous friends by whose kind assistance and advice his labours have been at once cheered and benefited; more particularly To the Right Honourable THOMAS GRENVILLE, who is no less the master of the contents, than of the property of his books, and who, in the most obliging manner, tendered him the use of his splendid library, as well as of his interesting catalogues, with which, it may be hoped, he may be induced to favour the public. In common with most persons interested in literary pursuits, the Editor is under many obligations to PHILIP AUGUSTUS HANROTт, Esq. to whose late curious and extensive library liberal access was always afforded him. To Messrs. PAYNE and Foss, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. PICKERING, and especially Mr. RODD, for their constant advice and most useful suggestions, he is eminently obliged. To Mr. R. H. Evans he is particularly indebted for many valuable hints, and for the loan of the sale catalogues of the numerous important libraries which have passed through his hands, which exhibit a profound knowledge of his profession. To Messrs. SOTHEBY he begs to return his thanks for access to their extensive series of catalogues. Gratitude demands a strong acknowledgment to the late WILLIAM MEREDITH, Esq., under whose hospitable roof this Manual was commenced in the year 1820. By the late RICHARD HEBER, Esq., (who, as a collector, united the judgment of a Cotton with the princely munificence of a Harley,) he was honoured with approbation and encouragement, and with the offer of access to his immense literary treasures. 1st January, 1834. W. T. L. FOREIGN LITERATURE. Dr. Dibdin, in the seventh volume of the Catalogue of the magnificent Library of Earl Spencer, quotes the following remarks of M. Ebert, the celebrated German Bibliographer: 'Let us be told what real advantage has accrued to learning from the SPENCER LIBRARY, which has been extolled to satiety, .... or the collections of other [English] Bibliomanes ? Not so much as to enable the Nation, otherwise so mercantile, to produce a Manuel du Libraire of its own, of which, from their constant buying, they are hourly in need,' &c. This reproach is, to some extent, it is to be hoped, removed by the BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL, and the Editor begs to announce his intention of publishing a similar work on Foreign Literature. THE Bibliographer's Manual. B.-See AN- A. P.-Eubulus; or, a Dialogue TROBUS, Benj. wherein a rugged Romish Ryme A. F.-A (inscrybed Catholicke Questions Letter sent by to the Protestant) is confuted, and F. A. touching the Questions thereof answered the Proceed- by P. A. Aberdene by Edward ings in a private Quarelland Vn kindnesse, between Arthur Hall and Melchisedech Mallerie Gentlemen to his very Friend L. B. being in Italy. With an Admonition by the Father of F. A. to him, being a Burgesse of the Parliament, for his better Behaviour therein. (London, by Henry Bynneman, 1579-80.) 4to. Black letter, 16 sheets (128 pages). For this publication, which was adjudged a false and seditious libel by the House of Commons, Hall was imprisoned six months, fined 500 marks and expelled the house. It presents à curious view of the habits and manners of the young men of family and fashion in the reign of Elizabeth. It is reprinted in the Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana. A. H.-Partheneia Sacra, or the mysterious Garden of the Sacred Parthenis. Paris, by John Cousturier, 1633. 8vo. Written by an English Catholic. The engravings are neat, and the poetry above mediocrity. Bindley, Pt. ii. No. I, 2414, 11. 11s. 6d. Lloyd, 11. 12s. White Knights 3068, mor. 21. 148. Fonthill Library, 3146, 31.95. A. J.-See ALLEN, J. Raban, 1627. 4to. Aberdeen. A. R. Attributed to Patrick Forbes, Bishop of A. T.-The Masaere of Money, by 'T. A. London, 1602. 4to. In verse, probably written by Thomas Acheley. Roxburghe, 3342. A. T.-History of the Azores, or Western Islands. Lond. 1813, 4to. With maps and other engravings. Dedicated to the Earl of Moira, by T. A. Captain of Light Dragoons, 7s. A miserable compilation. A. W. See AUERELL, Wm. ABAUZIT, Firmin. Reflections on the Eucharist, on Idolatry, on the Mysteries of Religion, with Paraphrases and Explanations of sundry Parts of Scripture, &c. &c.; translated from the French, by E. Harwood, D.D. Lond. 1770. 8vo. 4s. The author of this work, by profession an Arian, was the correspondent and friend of Sir Isaac Newton. Another edition, entitled "Miscellanies," appeared in 1774, 8vo. Abauzit likewise wrote an Essay on the Apocalypse, which was ably answered by Dr. Twells. B Аввот, Charles, D. D. Flora Bedfordiensis-arranged according to the System of Linnæus, with occasional Remarks. Bedford, 1798. 8vo. pp. 370, with six plates, 5s. Аввот, George, (successively Bishop of Litchfield and London, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.) Quæstiones sex, totidem Prælectionibus in Schola Theologica Oxoniæ, pro Forma habitis, discussæ et disceptatæ Anno 1597. Oxoniæ, 1598. 4to. pp. 224, and an index, 7s. 6d. Reprinted at Frankfort, 1616, 4to. by Abr. Scultetus. according to Ant. à Wood, was commonly called Abbot's Geography, there have been many editions, viz. 1599, 1600, 1603, 1608, 1613, 1617 (the ninth), 1620, 1624, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1642, 1656, 1664. Аввот. The Life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. To which are added the Lives of his two Brothers, Dr. Robert Abbot, Lord Bishop of Salisbury; and Sir Morris Abbot, Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Guildford, 1797. 8vo. with four plates. In this will be found an account of the hospital at Guildford, founded by this Arch bishop, with copies of the charter and sta tutes. Heath, 1589, 9s. 6d. Nassau, Pt. i, 2, 10s. Аввот, John. The natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia. -Edited by Sir J. E. Smith, M.D. London, 1797. folio. 2 vols. pp. 203, with 104 coloured plates. A sumptuous work, but in little estimation, as the plates are not considered Edwards, No. 742, morocco, 181. 10s. Saunders in 1818, morocco, 14l. accurate. Exposition upon the Pro-mation. phet Jonah. Lond. by Richard Field, 1600. 4to. 5s. Dedicated To Thomas Baron of Buckhurst, Lord Treasurer,' 638 pages, Reprinted in 1613. Abbot was one of the prelates appointed by James I, to translate part of the New Testament into English. A, B, C, The, with the Paternoster, Aue, Crede, and ten Coinmaundementtes in Englysshe, newly translated and set forth at the Kynges most gracyous Commaundement. London, by R. Lant. 8vo. Black Letter. Printed on one side, to be folded so that the blank leaves may be small leaves of the whole sheet. Several other editions are noticed in Ames' Typographical Antiquities. Treatise of the perpetual Visibility and Succession of the true Church in all Ages. Lond. 1624. pasted together, and forin one leaf of two, 4to. With Abbot's arms impaled with those belonging to the see of Canterbury. Published anonymously. Briefe Description of the whole World. Lond. 1634. 12mo. With a frontispiece, containing the author's portrait, by W. Marshall, 5s. Nassau, pt. i. No. 1. 10s. Of this work, which A, B, C, The Surfeit to. London, 1656. 12mo. ABDALLA.-Arrivall and Enter tainements of the Embassador Alkaid Yaurar Ben Abdalla, with his Associate Mr. Robert Blake, from Muley Mohammed Sheque, Emperor of Morocco, &c. London, 1637. 4to. With a portrait of the ambassador by Glover. Sotheby's, in Dec. 1822, 21. 11s. Gordonstoun, 129, 41. 18s. ABDIAS. See OBADIAH. Abdollatiphi Historise Ægypti Compendium, Arabice et Latine. Oxon. 8vo. In the British Museum. 'Hic Liber inter rarissimos numerandus est, a Thoma Hyde edi cæptus est, sed morte erepto, nunquam perfectus desinit Pagina 96.' Bibl. Askev. No. 802, 31. 3s. - Abdollatiphi Historiæ Ægypti Compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio Versum edendum curavit, Notisque illustravit, J. White. Oxon. 1800. 4to. 11. Is. An edition of the Arabic only, 10s, 6d. A translation of this valuable work will be found in vol. xv. of Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages and Travels, and in Part ii. of White's Ægyptiaca. Abdollatiphi Bagdadensis Vita, Auctore Ibn Abi Osaiba. E Codd. MSS. Bodleianis descripsit et Latine vertit Johannes Mousley. Oxon. 1808. 4to. pp. viii. and 78, 6s. This volume should accompany the Compendium. Abdulkurreem. - The Memoirs of Khojek Abdulkurreem, who accompanied Nadir Shah, on his Return from Hindostan to Persia; &c. translated from the original Persian, by Francis Gladwin, Esq. Calcutta, 1788. 8vo. pp. 219, 5s. ABEL, Clarke. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817. London, 1818. 4to. with maps and other engravings. Abel held an official appointment in Lord Amherst's Embassy. Drury, 127, 11. 15s. Abel and Kilvert, 1641. See Wine. ABELARD, Peter.-Petri Abælardi et Heloissæ Epistole, a prioris Editionis Erroribus purgatæ, et cum Cod. MS. collatæ, Curâ Ricardi Rawlinson. Lond. 1718. 8vo. pp. viii. and 279, besides the title and dedication to Dr. Mead. The best edition of Abelard's letters. Bishop of Ely, 41, 7s. 6d. LARGE PAPER. Drury, No. 1, russia, 11. 2s. Williams, No. 1, morocco, 11. 14s. Letters written by Abelard and Eloisa, with a succinct Account of their Lives and Misfortunes, by John Hughes, Esq. To which are subjoined seven Poems by various Authors. London, 1808. 8vo. With 7 plates, 5s. Another translation of these letters will be found in the Rev. Jos. Berington's Lives of these unfortunate Lovers. ABENDANA, Isaac. Discourses of the ecclesiastical and civil Polity of the Jews. Lond. 1709. 8vo. 3s. 6d. A sensible and judicious selection from the works of Abendana. ABERCROMBY, David. Academia Scientiarum, or the Academy of Sciences, with the Names of those famous Authors that have written on every particular Science in English and Latin. Lond. 1687. 8vo. 5s. This writer likewise published A Discourse on Wit. London, 1685. 8vo. 3s. Protestancy to be embraced. London, 1682, 8vo. 5s. &c. ABERCROMBY, Patrick, M.D. The martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation. Edinb. 1711-15. fol. 2 vols. 11. 15s. to 21. 2s. The first volume abounds in the marvel- lous, but the second is valuable on account of its accurate information respecting the British history in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Roxburghe, 8771, 51. 7s. 6d. An edition was published 1762, 8vo. 4 vols. Abercromby likewise published two tracts, in answer to Defoe's History of the Union. ABERDEEN, George, Earl of. An Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture. London, 1822. post 8vo. pp. 217. Published at 7s. |