Sales catalogue 314: Ellis

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 314: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16 ies Ellis, 29, New Bond Street, W. | cerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their Languages, Names, Surnames, Empreses, Wise speeches, Po6esies, and Epitaphes. At London, Printed by G. E. for Simon Water- son. 1605. Sm. 4to, First EpitTion, with additional epitaphs in MS. at end, fine copy, limp vellum, £4 10s. Dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, of Conington, by M.N., the last letters of Camden’s two names, from * my Lodging, XII. Iunii. 1608.”’ He styles it ‘“‘ only the rude rubble and out-cast rubbish (as you know) of a greater and more serious work,” i.e., his ‘* Britannia.” On page 8 of ** Certaine Poemes, or Poesies, Epigrammes, Rhythmes, and Epitaphs of the English Nation in former Times ” is to be found the passage, ‘* These may suffice for some Poeticall descriptions of our auncient Poets, if I would come to our time, what a world could I present to you out of Sir Philipp Sidney, Ed. Spencer, Samuel Daniel, Hugh Holland, Ben Johnson, Th. Campion, Mich. Drayton, George Chapman, John Marston, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, & other most pregnant witts of these our times.” On page 13 in the article on Languages, ‘‘ And howsoever our Indian or American discoverers say, that in every fourscore mile in America, and in every valley almost of Peru you shall finde a new language.” CHARLES I.—Basilika. The Workes of King Charles The Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other Papers concerning the Differences betwixt his said Majesty and His two Houses of Parliament. London, 1662. Folio, coat of arms by Houuar, engraved title-page by Hertochs, with medallion portraits of the King, and 2 plates, original calf, with the Royau Arms in gilt on sides, £7 10s. COWLEY (Abraham), Works. Consisting of those which were formerly Printed: and those which he Design’d for the Press, now Published out of the Authors Original Copies. London, Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1672. Folio, with portrait of the author by Faithorne, tall copy, original calf, £2 10s. In this copy are inserted four leaves of verses on the death of Mr. Abraham Cowley, and at the end the table of Contents which first appeared in 1688. On the title- page is the signature Juliana Brabazon ; apparently this was the wife of the Hon. Chaworth Brabazon who after- wards, in 1707, succeeded his brother Edward as Earl of Meath,