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FAGE, John. Speculum aegrotorum. The sick-mens glasse... a true and infallible judgement of the life or death of a sick body. London: B. Alsop and T.F. for William Lugger, 1638. 4° (178 x 130mm). Partly in black letter, with tables of the moon's and sun's influence. Contemporary speckled calf ruled in blind (rebacked, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on colophon verso. Second edition, following the first in 1606. RARE. Only three holdings in North America. AE records no sale since 1964. STC 10666.
RANDOLPH, Thomas (1605-1636). Aristippus, or the Joviall Philosopher ... proving that quartes, pintes and pottles are sometimes necessary authors in a scholers library. London: Thomas Harper for John Marriot, to be sold by Richard Mynne, 1630. 4° (171 x 129mm). Partly in verse. (Title lightly soiled and crease-marked, slight soiling to E2r, without final blank.) Modern brown morocco, spine gilt lettered between two bands, gilt edges (one band rubbed). One of three editions in 1630, this edition without rules on the title-page. Two copies of it recorded at Oxford, but no others in the British Isles. Greg, II, 431,2 (b); STC 20686.5. (2)
RANDOLPH, Thomas (1605-1636). Aristippus, or the Joviall Philosopher ... proving that quartes, pintes and pottles are sometimes necessary authors in a scholers library. London: Thomas Harper for John Marriot, to be sold by Richard Mynne, 1630. 4° (171 x 129mm). Partly in verse. (Title lightly soiled and crease-marked, slight soiling to E2r, without final blank.) Modern brown morocco, spine gilt lettered between two bands, gilt edges (one band rubbed). One of three editions in 1630, this edition without rules on the title-page. Two copies of it recorded at Oxford, but no others in the British Isles. Greg, II, 431,2 (b); STC 20686.5. (2)