6 RARE 18TH CENTURY BOOKS
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1.) Book Title: Scarronnides, or, Virgile travestie; a mock-poem, on the first & fourth books of Virgil's Ænæis in English burlesque.
Author: Charles Cotton Esq.Publisher: London: Charles Brome at the West end of St. Paul's Church, 1709.
Binding: 7"h x 4.5"w, leather binding with impressed decoration over paper.2.) Book Title: Collection of Essays, Epistles and Odes.
Author: Alexander Pope.Publisher: London: T. Daniel, W. Thompson and J. Steele, 1758.
Binding: 6.75"h x 3.75"w, leather over paper boards.Notes: Front cover off and much of the leather around the edges is off, without spine.
3.) Book Title: Vol. IV of VIII - Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy Who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe.
Publisher: London: A. Wilde for S. And E. Ballard, J. Bretherton, W. Meadows, T. Cox, R. Were, J. Clarke, S. Birt, D. Browne, et al.Date: 1753.
Binding: 6.75”h x 4.25”w, leather binding, gilded letters and spine detail.Notes: Front and back cover separated.
4.) Book Title: Vol. II of an unknown number Sanctorum Patrum Opera Polemica de Veritate Religiones Christianae contra Gentiles, et Judaeos. Ad Commodiorem Usum edit Sodalitas Major Acdemia Wirceburgensis.
Publisher: Wirceburgi (Wurzburg). Ex Officina Libraria Staheliana, 1778.5.) Book Title: Die Sämmtlichen Werke des Herr Ewald Christian von Kleist I (All the works of Herr Ewald Christian von Kleist, I).
Author: Ewald Christian KleistPublisher: 1789 Wien (Vienna): Fur F. A. Schrambl Bey Ign. Alberti, 1789.
Binding: 5.75”l x 3.875”w x 1”d.6.) Book Title: C. Valerii Catulli, Albii Tibulli, et Sexti Aurelii Propertii Selecta, et Casta Carmina notis illustrata. Venetiis.
Publisher: Typographia Remondiniana, MDCCLV (1755).Binding: 6.375”h x 3.875”l, vellum.
Notes: Hand written notes to the endpapers and numbered notations in the margins sporadically.PROVENANCE:From the treasured mahogany bookshelves of a second-generation bibliophile specializing in history and travel literature.
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