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TUSSER, THOMAS.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
146 [i. e.,
148], [3] pages. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 19th-century diced russia, badly worn,
spine defective, covers detached; contents browned with occasional soiling and later mar-
ginalia, contemporary signature on title.
London: T. R. and M. D., 1672
[200/300]
Later edition of a verse guide to agriculture and household management originally published in
1557 as A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie and in expanded form under the present title
in 1573. Wing T3369.
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USSHER, JAMES, Archbishop of Armagh.
Annales.
[10], 554, [10]; [4], 702, [22]
pages. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary calf gilt, spines damaged, recased, endpapers
renewed; occasional browning and light marginal dampstaining. 18th-century ownership
inscription of the Marques de Alegrete; bookplate and embossed stamp of Alfonso Cassuto.
London: J. Flesher for L. Sadler, 1650; J. Flesher for John Crook, 1654
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION
of the author’s most famous work, a world chronology in which he calculated
the date of Creation as 23 October 4004 B.C. Wing U147-48. With the oversize bookplate
of Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), Bishop of Avranches and principal editor of the
Delphine series of Latin classics, on the rear pastedown in each volume.
183
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VALLANCEY, CHARLES.
A Grammar of the Iberno-Celtic, or Irish
Language.
8 engraved plates. [8], li, [1], 192 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, crudely
rebacked, front cover detached; dark stain in upper outer corners through first half of vol-
ume, scattered marginalia. Signature of Richard Twiss on title; bookplates and signature of
Francis Massey O’Brien. Dublin: R. Marchbank for G. Faulkner et al., 1773
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
.
The author (d. 1812) was an English Hibernophile who believed that the
origins of ancient Irish civilization could be traced to the Middle East and that Gaelic was
related to Phoenician and Algonquian.
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VARILLAS, ANTOINE.
Anekdota Heterouiaka; or, The Secret History of
the House of Medicis.
[78], (of [80]), 470 pages; lacks first (blank?) leaf. 8vo, contempo-
rary calf, rebacked, cover corners partly restored; occasional browning, scattered marginal
foxing.
London: R. E. for R. Bentley and S. Magnes, 1686
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
.
Wing 111B.
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