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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, including extracts from Sir R. Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido [first published in 1646], and from [G.J.] Vossius, Rhetorices Contracta. On the fly-leaf is roughly scribbled the name of Richard Temple. Paper; ff. 18. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Duodecimo. Gerard Joha...
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK belonging to, and for the most part in the hand of, Edward Vernon, D.D., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury (ob. 1761). The contents are:-(1) "A brief account of the nature, end and use of chronology." f. 3;-(2) "De origine scribendi": a treatise i...
COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from various authors, by Thomas Astle. On f. 32 is a recipe "to make decay'd letters appear in an old MS." Paper; ff. 32. Circ. 1760. Sm. Quarto. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Commonplace-book: circ. 1760. includes: f. 32 Recipes: To revive decayed letters in o...
COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from Caesar's Commentaries and from Sir Clement Edmondes's "Observations" on the same, with shorter quotations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius. Paper; ff. 199. Early XVIIIth cent. The name "Madame Willten" appears on the inside cover. Folio. Madame ...
ETRUSCAN ANTIQUITIES, including copies of several Etruscan inscriptions from J.C. Amaduzzi's Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum [1771], with translations in the hand of Thomas Astle; a list of Umbrian epithets of Jupiter; a hymn to Jupiter, with translations; and a description of a statue of Jupiter ...