18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Why Believers Believed . . .
Chalmers, George. An apology for the believers in the Shakspeare-papers, which were exhibited in Norfolk-Street. London: Thomas Egerton, 1797. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). iv, 628 pp.; 1 plt.
Single-click the image where the hand appears on• ESTC T138271; Lowndes, II, 404; Allibone, 2036. Recent quarter morocco over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution; pages slightly age-toned, one with pencilled underlining/emphasis.
Why the Believers Believed — A SupplementChalmers, George. A supplemental apology for the believers in the Shakspeare-papers: Being a reply to Mr. Malone’s answer, which was early announced, but never published. London: Thomas Egerton, 1799. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). vii, 654, [2] pp.
Single-click the image where the hand appears on• ESTCT61515; Allibone, 2036; Lowndes, II, 404. Recent quarter morocco over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution; pages age-toned.
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One
Newly Titled — One New Account 
Entirely
Chamberlayne, John. Magnæ
Britanniæ notitia: Or, the present state of Great Britain, with divers
remarks upon the antient state thereof...the two and twentieth edition of the
south part call'd England, and first of the north part call'd Scotland; with
improvements.... In two parts. London: Pr. for Timothy Goodwin, Matthew Wotton, Benjamin Tooke, Daniel Midwinter,
and George Wells, 1708. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9").
Frontis., [10], x, [10], 756, [27 (index)], [1 (blank)] pp.
The
frontispiece portrait, engraved by R. White, depicts Queen Anne.
• ESTC T54583. Contemporary calf, blind-panelled and spine with printed paper title and shelving labels; worn and abraded, with loss of leather to head of spine. Title-page with line reading "Present State" excised, repaired some time ago by backing upper part of page with similarly colored paper; title-page and one other with inked ownership inscriptions. Endpapers and pastedowns doodled on in an early hand, with lower inner portion of front free endpaper torn away; frontispiece with a few small ink marks. Pages age-toned.
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PERSIA in
10 Volumes & 79 Plates Chardin, John. Voyages de Mr. le chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient. Paris: André Cailleau, 1723. 8vo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 10 vols.
I: Frontis., [10], 254 pp.; 1 fold. map. II: 334 pp.; 4 fold. plts., 5 plts. III: 285, [1 (blank)] pp.; 4 fold. plts., 3 plts. IV: 280 pp.; 2 fold. plts., 3 plts. V: 312 pp.; 4 fold. tables, 5 plts. VI: 328 pp.; 4 plts. VII: [10], 15–448 [i.e.,
446] pp. VIII: 255, [1 (blank)] pp.; 10 fold. plts., 6 plts. IX: 308 pp.; 1 double-spread fold. plt., 8 fold. plts., 19 plts. X: [22], 3–220, [82 (index)] pp. 
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Explaining It to the
French Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. Manifeste contenant les droits de Charles III. roy d'Espagne, et les justes motifs de son expedition. La Haye: Estienne Foulque, [1704]. 4to (19.3 cm, 7.6"). [2], 26 pp. (27–36 lacking).
Scarce: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only one holding, in the U.S. (i.e., Louisville, KY).
• Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with small inked numerals; last leaf with upper outer corner torn away and reattached some time ago. Lacking pp. 27–36. Complete up to (but only partly including) the Extrait of the Contrat de Mariage between Louis XIV and “Marie Therese” of Spain. (23745)
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Wisdom,
Censored —
Post-PURCHASE?!Charron, Pierre. De la sagesse. Paris: Jean-François Bastien, 1783. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). Frontis., xviii, 768 pp.; 1 plt. (damaged/censored).
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particular copy seems to have incurred someone’s personal wrath, as the
plate illustrating the allegory of Wisdom has had its central (nude) female
figure excised. The much more staid frontispiece
portrait of the author, done by Pruneau, is undamaged.
• Contemporary mottled calf framed in triple gilt fillets, spine gilt extra, all page edges marbled; binding with expectable acid-pitting and minor cracking of the leather over the spine and joints. One (and only one) signature foxed, leaves otherwise clean. A handsome book, defaced in a way that is depressing but also interesting.
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American
Conscience — 1771
Chauncy, Charles. A compleat view of episcopacy, as exhibited from the fathers of the Christian church until the close of the second century.... Boston: Pr. by Daniel Kneeland, 1771. 8vo. x, 474 pp., [2] ff.
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A Double Fore-Edge Painting onTreasured & TreasurableChurch
of England. Liturgies. Book of common prayer. Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the
Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1791. 8vo (25.5 cm, 10"). [196] ff. [bound with] Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. The whole book of psalms, collected into English metre. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1793. 8vo (25.5 cm, 10"). [60] ff.
striking double fore-edge painting depicting (in one direction) the medieval Abbey Church of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, with a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground, and in the other direction the western facade of Westminster Abbey, with passing pedestrians.
Single-click any image where the hand appears onProvenance: The front fly-leaf bears an inked inscription reading “From this Book our 4 Dear Children were Babtized [sic] by the Rev. S. Good, Rector of St. Anns Blk. Friars, And afterwards Christened by their Dear Uncle the Rev. Charles Brown, Rector of Whitestone, near Exeter, Devon.” The children's baptismal dates range from 1806 through 1814.
• ESTC T93069; Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1791/7. Binding as above, leather slightly worn over joints and extremities. Front fly-leaf with collector's small bookplate, reverse with inscription as above, title-page with owner's name and date (1806) inked in upper margin. Pages clean.
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BCP / BIBLE / PSALTERChurch
of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common
prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of
the church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter
or psalms of David, painted as they are to be sung or said in churches. London:
Thomas Baskett (assigns of Robert Baskett), 1758. 4to (25.4 cm, 10"). Frontis.,
[54] ff. Bible. [with]
Bible. The Holy Bible, containing the Old
and New Testaments ... Oxford: Pr. by the University Printer, 1731. Frontis.,
[548] ff.; 52 plts. [with]
Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold
and Hopkins. The whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre ... London:
Pr. by A. Wilde for the Company of Stationers, 1729. [26] ff.
Click any image where the hand appears on above two hundred historical cuts curiously engraved from designs of ye best masters,” while the separate title-page for the New Testament gives the publication information, “Printed by the Assigns of His Majesty’s Printer, and of Henry Hills deceased,” 1730.
Solid and handsome.
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Beautifully
Printed Charming
Fore-Edge Painting
Church
of England. Liturgies. Book
of common prayer. Book of common prayer, and administration
of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to
the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David,
pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. And the form or manner of
making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons. London:
Thomas Baskett (assigns of Robert Baskett), 1758. 4to (27.5 cm, 10.9"). [232]
ff. [bound with]
Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. The whole book of
psalms; collected into English metre. London: J. Bettenham & H. Woodfall,
1751. 4to. 56 pp.
Click any image where the hand appears on Binding: Contemporary straight-grain dark blue morocco now tending to olive, covers framed with a gilt single fillet; round spine with raised bands, blind roll on each band, and each band defined by gilt rules above and below it. Spine with compartments stamped in blind, gilt-stamped title, and gilt-stamped decorations at head and foot; place and date of publication in gilt at base of spine. All edges gilt; fore-edge painting as above.
• ESTC T081415; Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1758/1. Binding as above, corners a bit rubbed and joints somewhat more so, with upper and outer cover edges showing some fading. Front pastedown with small shelving number slip and small bookplate of a private collector. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean save for minor bleed to some outer margins from the fore-edge painting. Beautiful.
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He GaveHimself the Last WordChurchill, Charles. The conference. London: G. Kearsly, 1763. 4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). [2], 19, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking half-title).
• ESTC T1702. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Half-title lacking. Title-page and two others stamped by a now-defunct institution; leaves with reinforced tears at inner margins.
Ciceronian Orations — Translated & with NotesCicero, Marcus Tullius. The principal orations of Cicero, translated with notes, classical and original by Captain John Rutherford. London: Pr. by H. Goldney for T. Cadell, 1781. 4to. Frontis., [1] f., xix, [1 (blank)], 499, [1 (blank)] pp. 
• ESTC T137815; Schweiger, II, 231. Contemporary quarter long-grained sheep over marbled paper; spine gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled brown. Sheep somewhat abraded and peeling, covers rubbed and chipped around the edges. Light foxing on frontispiece and title-page. Light soiling on last blank page. (11867)
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On Wesley’s Death — By a Friend & Co-LaborerCoke, Thomas. The substance of a sermon preached in Baltimore and Philadelphia, on the first and eighth of May, 1791, on the death of the Rev. John Wesley. London: Pr. by G. Paramore for G. Whitfield, 1791. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.1"). 20 pp.
• ESTC T48777. On Bishop Coke, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin, slightly shaved at top. Lightest waterstaining to upper edges and faint spotting around sewing holes in inner margins; pages otherwise clean, with some minor creasing.
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Choir Boys' Colegio
Colegio de Nuestra Señora de la Asumpcion (Mexico City).
Constitvciones de el Colegio de Nvestra Señora de la Assumpcion, y el glorioso patriarcha Señor San Joseph, de la infantes de el coro de esta santa iglesia metropolitana de Mexico. Dispvestas y ordenandas por el m. ilustre señor venerable dean, y cabildo de dicha iglesia. Mexico: En la Imprenta Real del Superior Govierno, de Da. maria de Rivera, 1734. Small 4to. 18 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Very rare: Not in OCLC or RLIN. We locate only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library.
• Medina, Mexico, 3319. In plain wrappers as issued. A very good copy. (12054)
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A “Discourse” Still Much Read — 18th-Century, Newburyport CopyColes, Elisha. A practical discourse of God’s sovereignty. With other material points derived thence.... Newburyport [MA]: Edmund M. Blunt, 1798. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.2"). 372 pp.
• Second American edition, following a Philadelphia printing in 1796, of this popular religious treatise; the Practical Discourse went through numerous editions due to its success among dissenters. Calvinistic in its tendencies, the work discusses the Doctrines of Election, Redemption, and Effectual Calling (a distinction of Coles’s creation, separating the concept from calling “which is outward only, and prevails not,” p. 225), among other topics.
Single-click the image, for an enlargement. • ESTC W24802; Evans 33532. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding abraded with leather cracking over the spine, spine label lettering rubbed. Pages age-toned, with some spots of foxing.
“Ignorance
is the Foundation
of Atheism,Collins, Anthony. A discourse of free-thinking, occasion'd by the rise and growth of a sect call'd Free-thinkers. London: 1713. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.8"). 178, iii–vi pp. 
a landmark work of
rationalistic religion. Opinions continue to vary, even in modern criticism, regarding whether Collins's work promoted deism or atheism; he himself claimed that increased independent critical thinking was responsible for the decline in belief in witchcraft.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. This copy has the two preliminary leaves bound in at the back (mispaginated as vi as seen in most copies) , but it is lacking the final advertisement leaf. The catchword on p. 7 is “allow'd.”
• ESTC T31966; Allibone 411–12. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page with author's name inked in an early hand and with very elegant institutional pressure-stamp; title-page verso with shadows of pencilled numerals, first text page with inked numeral in lower margin. Final advertisement leaf lacking. Light offsetting and faint spotting (mostly confined to margins), pages otherwise clean. (20740)
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For
Liberty &
Determinism
— First, YouDefine
the Terms [Collins,
Anthony]. A philosophical inquiry concerning human liberty. The second
edition corrected. London: R. Robinson, 1717. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.375"). [1] f., vi
pp., [1] f., 118 pp.
• ESTC T134533. On Anthony Collins, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XI, 363–64. In recent blue-green wrappers; ex-library with stamps, including a very, very faint one on title-page. Uncut; traces of soiling in top margins, and occasional light ink-stains elsewhere.
Damnation
sans
Gender
Limitation[Combe,
William]. The diaboliad...also, the diabo-lady: Or, a match in Hell. London
pr., Dublin repr., 1777. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 97, [1 (blank)] pp.
• ESTC T77101; NCBEL, II, 647. Marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Half-title spotted, title-page and two others stamped by a now-defunct institution, title-page also with traces of paper affixed to upper margin; pages otherwise clean. One ESTC listing calls for plates; most holdings, however, do not report any and OCLC listings do not note any.
A Scandinavian “Tour” — Bewick’s EngravingsConsett, Matthew. A tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark. In a series of letters, illustrated with engravings. Stockton: Pr. by R. Christopher for the author, 1789. 4to (27 cm, 10.6"). [8] ff., 157 (i.e., 158) pp.; 8 plts.
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• ESTC T75355; Hugo, Bewick Collector, 40; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 420. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides and leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and with gilt-stamped decorations within compartments. Title-page with inked annotations; dedication leaf and a few other pages very faintly stamped by a now-defunct institution. One upper outer corner repaired. Pages age-toned, with occasional foxing and some offsetting around the plates; frontispiece and title-page more notably browned.
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