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[TROTTI DE LA CHETARDIE, chevalier (d.1703)]. Instructions for a Young Nobleman. Translated by Ferrand Spence. London: R. Bentley and S. Magnes, 1683. 12° (142 x 83mm). 10pp. ‘Table’ and one leaf of advertisements at end. (Upper margins cropped affecting headline on A6 and occasional page numbers, light marginal browning, a few spots.) Contemporary calf, double blind fillet on sides (spine chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sarah Walcot (inscription on front blank). ONLY EDITION OF THIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION of Trotti's Instruction pour un jeune seigneur. The table and the advertisement leaf in this copy are not called for by ESTC which lists just 6 copies. An incomplete work is bound in at the end. Wing T-2307.
LAWSON, George (d.1678). An Examination of the Political Part of Mr. Hobbs his Leviathan. London: R. White for Francis Tyton, 1657. Small 8° (165 x 103mm). (Lightly waterstained throughout, stronger in last third.) Contemporary calf, modern paper label on spine (quite rubbed, lacking free endpapers). Provenance: Hen. Clayton (old inscription on front blank) – Jasper More (bookplate). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The first certain publication of George Lawson, a clergyman and political writer from Shropshire, and ‘one of the more balanced and perceptive of contemporary critiques of Hobbes’ (ODNB). Wing L-706.
DREXEL, Jeremias (1581-1638). The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternitie. Translated by Ralph Winterton. Cambridge: Roger Daniel, to be sold by Tho. Rooks, [1666]. 12° (118 x 73mm). Engraved title-page and 9 plates. (Light browning and spotting, N9 with printing flaw.) Late 18th-century green morocco, wide gilt floral border on sides, gilt spine, gilt edges (small abrasion mark on rear cover). Provenance: ‘Ellen Hester Mary Edwards, July 5, 1770’ (inscription on title verso) – Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate). A later edition of Winterton’s translation of Drexel’s De aeternitate considerationes, admired for its small plates. Wing D-2175.
LAWSON, George (d.1678). An Examination of the Political Part of Mr. Hobbs his Leviathan. London: R. White for Francis Tyton, 1657. Small 8° (165 x 103mm). (Lightly waterstained throughout, stronger in last third.) Contemporary calf, modern paper label on spine (quite rubbed, lacking free endpapers). Provenance: Hen. Clayton (old inscription on front blank) – Jasper More (bookplate). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The first certain publication of George Lawson, a clergyman and political writer from Shropshire, and ‘one of the more balanced and perceptive of contemporary critiques of Hobbes’ (ODNB). Wing L-706.
DREXEL, Jeremias (1581-1638). The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternitie. Translated by Ralph Winterton. Cambridge: Roger Daniel, to be sold by Tho. Rooks, [1666]. 12° (118 x 73mm). Engraved title-page and 9 plates. (Light browning and spotting, N9 with printing flaw.) Late 18th-century green morocco, wide gilt floral border on sides, gilt spine, gilt edges (small abrasion mark on rear cover). Provenance: ‘Ellen Hester Mary Edwards, July 5, 1770’ (inscription on title verso) – Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate). A later edition of Winterton’s translation of Drexel’s De aeternitate considerationes, admired for its small plates. Wing D-2175.
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