BRATHWAITE, RICHARD. The English Gentleman, John Haviland for Robert Bostock 1630, black morocco, covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt, g.e., by C. Walters, scuffing to corners and extremities of spine, lacking final blank, folding leaf a trifle creased and frayed, a few border-rules shaved, slight darkening throughout, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by Robert Vaughan, preceded by folding letterpress "Draught of the Frontispiece" leaf, Grolier Wither to Prior 66, STC 3563; bookplates of Marshall C. Lefferts, Henry W. Poor, Walter T. Wallace, and Harry and Caresse Crosby -- GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS. His Devine Weeks and Workes Translated...by Josuah Sylvester, Humfrey Lownes [for Arthur Johnson 1611], 2 parts in one, nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, edges stained yellow, joints and extremities scuffed, upper inner hinge split, spine faded, foxing to title and colophon leaf, upper margins slightly soiled, Third edition in English, incorporating Thomas Hudson's translation of "The Historie of Judith," engraved title by William Hole, two full-page woodcuts, woodcut printer's device, small text illustrations, ornaments and initials, STC 21651, Lucius Wilmerding copy --Sir KENELM DIGBY. Observations on the 22. Stanza in the 9th Canto of the 2d. Book of Spencers Faery Queen, for Daniel Frere, 1644, calf, broken, lacking A1 and B8 ?blank, Second edition, Wing D-1440 -- ROBERT MAY. The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery, Printed by R. W. for Nath. Brooke 1660, old calf, worn, lacking last two leaves (publisher's advertisement), frontispiece mounted, lower corners of first and last few leaves torn with slight text loss, browning and soiling, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait, small woodcuts in text, Simon 1029 (1678 edition), Wing M-1391 (citing British Library, Library of Congress and UC Berkeley only), together four vols., 8vo-small 4to, all London. (4)

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BRATHWAITE, RICHARD. The English Gentleman, John Haviland for Robert Bostock 1630, black morocco, covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt, g.e., by C. Walters, scuffing to corners and extremities of spine, lacking final blank, folding leaf a trifle creased and frayed, a few border-rules shaved, slight darkening throughout, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by Robert Vaughan, preceded by folding letterpress "Draught of the Frontispiece" leaf, Grolier Wither to Prior 66, STC 3563; bookplates of Marshall C. Lefferts, Henry W. Poor, Walter T. Wallace, and Harry and Caresse Crosby -- GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS. His Devine Weeks and Workes Translated...by Josuah Sylvester, Humfrey Lownes [for Arthur Johnson 1611], 2 parts in one, nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, edges stained yellow, joints and extremities scuffed, upper inner hinge split, spine faded, foxing to title and colophon leaf, upper margins slightly soiled, Third edition in English, incorporating Thomas Hudson's translation of "The Historie of Judith," engraved title by William Hole, two full-page woodcuts, woodcut printer's device, small text illustrations, ornaments and initials, STC 21651, Lucius Wilmerding copy --Sir KENELM DIGBY. Observations on the 22. Stanza in the 9th Canto of the 2d. Book of Spencers Faery Queen, for Daniel Frere, 1644, calf, broken, lacking A1 and B8 ?blank, Second edition, Wing D-1440 -- ROBERT MAY. The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery, Printed by R. W. for Nath. Brooke 1660, old calf, worn, lacking last two leaves (publisher's advertisement), frontispiece mounted, lower corners of first and last few leaves torn with slight text loss, browning and soiling, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait, small woodcuts in text, Simon 1029 (1678 edition), Wing M-1391 (citing British Library, Library of Congress and UC Berkeley only), together four vols., 8vo-small 4to, all London. (4)