![PAMPHLETS -- [HEAD, Richard (?1637-1686)]. O-Brazile, or the inchanted Island being a perfect relation of the late discovery and wonderful dis-inchantement of an island on the north of Ireland: with an account of the riches and commodities thereof. Edinburgh: re-printed 1675. 8pp. (Upper margin closely shaved, lightly soiled.)](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05476_0089_000(pamphlets_--_head_richard_o-brazile_or_the_inchanted_island_being_a_pe042056).jpg?w=1)
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PAMPHLETS -- [HEAD, Richard (?1637-1686)]. O-Brazile, or the inchanted Island being a perfect relation of the late discovery and wonderful dis-inchantement of an island on the north of Ireland: with an account of the riches and commodities thereof. Edinburgh: re-printed 1675. 8pp. (Upper margin closely shaved, lightly soiled.)
A RARE WORK describing an imaginary island off the cost of Ulster. This is the second edition, known in only 2 other copies (BL and NLS); the first and third editions, also printed in 1675, are also rare and no copy of any edition has sold at auction in over 35 years. The work is dated and pseudonymously signed by Richard Head: Londonderry, March 14. 1674. Wing H1270.
Bound with 10 other pamphlets, including:
BURNET, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5825. -- BURNET, Gilbert. The Unreasonableness and Impiety of Popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5935. -- BURNET, Gilbert. A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France by the papists, in the year 1572. London 1678. Wing R814. -- USSHER, James (1581-1656). Strange and remarkable prophefies and predictions of the holy, learned and excellent James Usher. Licensed, November the 16th. Printed 1681. Wing U226. -- [?HUBERT, William] The Puritan Convert or, a discourse by the way of a letter. 1676. Half-title. Wing H3246A. -- BOLDE, Samuel (1649-1737). A Sermon against persecution and the time when the brief for the persecuted protestants in France, was read in the parish church. London, 1682. Fourth edition. Wing B3491. -- [?PEARSON, Anthony] Of Tything amongst the Iewes, 37pp., added before is a manuscript page: 'Anthonie Pe[a]rson's Booke against Tithes who turning Quaker afterward turned so carnall as I was certainly informed that he died in agonies of conscience.' -- BRITTEN, William (d.1669). Silent Meeting, a wonder to the world; yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of god, scornfully called Quakers. London, 1660. Wing B4825. -- [SMITH, William (d.1673)]. An Holy Kiss of Peace, sent from the Seed of Life. London,1660. Drop-head title. Wing S4307.
11 pamphlets in one volume, 4° (183 x 142mm). (Some browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, quite rubbed). Provenance: 2-page manuscript letter by ?T. Cuthur to T. Hodgkin (tipped-in on front endpaper, dated Newcastle, 23 August 96, explaining that Mr Cuthur is giving this book to T. Hodgkin as a thank you because Mr Hodgkin helped him financially sometime back) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate).
A RARE WORK describing an imaginary island off the cost of Ulster. This is the second edition, known in only 2 other copies (BL and NLS); the first and third editions, also printed in 1675, are also rare and no copy of any edition has sold at auction in over 35 years. The work is dated and pseudonymously signed by Richard Head: Londonderry, March 14. 1674. Wing H1270.
Bound with 10 other pamphlets, including:
BURNET, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5825. -- BURNET, Gilbert. The Unreasonableness and Impiety of Popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5935. -- BURNET, Gilbert. A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France by the papists, in the year 1572. London 1678. Wing R814. -- USSHER, James (1581-1656). Strange and remarkable prophefies and predictions of the holy, learned and excellent James Usher. Licensed, November the 16th. Printed 1681. Wing U226. -- [?HUBERT, William] The Puritan Convert or, a discourse by the way of a letter. 1676. Half-title. Wing H3246A. -- BOLDE, Samuel (1649-1737). A Sermon against persecution and the time when the brief for the persecuted protestants in France, was read in the parish church. London, 1682. Fourth edition. Wing B3491. -- [?PEARSON, Anthony] Of Tything amongst the Iewes, 37pp., added before is a manuscript page: 'Anthonie Pe[a]rson's Booke against Tithes who turning Quaker afterward turned so carnall as I was certainly informed that he died in agonies of conscience.' -- BRITTEN, William (d.1669). Silent Meeting, a wonder to the world; yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of god, scornfully called Quakers. London, 1660. Wing B4825. -- [SMITH, William (d.1673)]. An Holy Kiss of Peace, sent from the Seed of Life. London,1660. Drop-head title. Wing S4307.
11 pamphlets in one volume, 4° (183 x 142mm). (Some browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, quite rubbed). Provenance: 2-page manuscript letter by ?T. Cuthur to T. Hodgkin (tipped-in on front endpaper, dated Newcastle, 23 August 96, explaining that Mr Cuthur is giving this book to T. Hodgkin as a thank you because Mr Hodgkin helped him financially sometime back) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate).