THE Art of Restoring; or the Piety and Probity of General Monk, &c. 8vo. sewed, 3s. In this pamphlet is the following epitaph : Here lies GEORGE MONK, He did a great thing, Made a Duke and a King. This truth verifies, That whoever will rise, Must be content to have KNAVE Writ over his Grave. .1714 2 Abbey of Kilkhampton, 8oo. sewed, 3s...........1788 A bitter but witty collection of Epitaphs on the prominent Irish personages of that day. 3 Account of the Preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, portraits, 8vo. boards, 7s. 6d. 1803 The best edition of the Text; as Sir D. Dalrymple, the editor, has added several curious Royal and other Letters. 4 Account of the late establishment of Presbyterian Government by the Parliament of Scotland, 1690, 4to. sewed, 3s. 6d. ... 1693 5 A Cat may look upon a King, 8vo. half bound, 7s. 6d. Amsterdam 1714 A bitter satire on the Kings of England, particularly the Stuart's; and very scarce. 6 An account of the late Establishment of Presbyterian Government by the Parliament of Scotland, 1690, 4to. sewed, 5s....... B 1693 Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Henry Addington's Administra tion, boards, 8vo. 3s... ... 1802 8 Advantages of the Hanover succession, 8vo. sewed, 1s. 6d. A bitter attack on that illustrious family. 1744 9 Adolphus's Cabinet of Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, heads, 2 v. in 1. boards, 21. 10s. 1799 Contains excellent biographical sketches of many interesting characters of the present reign, and many portraits not elsewhere to be found. 10 History of the Island of Anglesey, with Memoirs of Owen Glendower, Ato sewed, 7s. 6d. ........1775 11 Angeloni's Letters on the English Nation, 2 v. 8vo. very neat, 12s...... 1756 These Letters, really written by Dr. Shebbeare, are very excellent. They expose with great argument, point and humour, the vices, follies, and weak side of the nation. 12 Albemarle's (George Duke of) Observations on Political and Military Affairs, fol. very scarce, 17. 11s. 6d. 1671 13 Anglorum Speculum; or, The Worthies of England in Church and State, wherein are illustrated the Lives of the most eminent Persons since the conquest, 8vo. brown calf, scarce, . 56. Od..... 1684 14 Arcana Aulica; or Walsingham's Manual of Prudential Maxims for the Statesmen and the Courtier, 32mo. 3s ôd. 15 The Assembly Man, 4to. sewed, 3s.... 1652 1662 This witty production is from the admirable pen of Sir John Birkenhead. The frontispiece is deficient, otherwise the Tract would be worth 11. 1s. 16 The Bishop of Rochester's (Atterbury) Relation of the wicked Contrivances of Stephen Backhead, and Robert Young, against the Lives of several Persons, by forging an Association under their hands, &c. 800. Atterbury's Plot was communicated by the Pretender's Agents to the Regent Duke of Orleans, and he betrayed it to George I. 17 The penitent death of John Atherton executed at Dublin 1640, by Dean Bernard 1641. Sermon at the Funeral of the said Bishop Atherton, by N. Bernard Dean of Armagh, 4to. half bound, very rare, II. Is. Dublin 1641 The Bishop was condemned for the most shameful and unnatural crime that ever was perpetrated. It is only to be equalled by a somewhat similar amour of King James 1. with a Sow, related by Dalrymple-The Bishop was unquestionably an infamous character, but there' is reason to believe that he suffered unjustly. The chief witness against him, who was afterwards hung, confessed at the gallows that he had accused Atherton unjustly. 18 Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer, 8vo. sewed, 7s. 6d. A secret history of the Pretender, 1745 19 Ayre's (William) Life of Pope, 2 v. 12mo. half bound, portraits, 7s. 6d........ 20 Ayscu's Historie, contayning the Warres, Treaties, Marriages, and other occurrents betweene England and Scotland, from King William the Conqueror, untill the happy union of them both in our gracious King James, 4to. 17. 11s. 6d.........Ą. E'd. 1607 An uncommonly rare and curious work. It gives the contemporary History of England and Scotland, from the Conquest, in Juxta position, purged from all extraneous or partial matter, and was written for the use of Prince Henry. 21 Bayle's Brief Chronycle of Syr Johan Oldecastell the Lorde Cobham, front. with portrait, and Appendix of Original Instruments, large paper, 17. Is.....1729 This book is not common. 22 Bacon's Historical and Political Discourse on the Laws and Government of England, from the first times to the end of Queen Elizabeth's, fol. 15s.........1689 The design of this work, says Bishop Nicholson, is to blacken all the Kings, and to shew that all they had good in them was derived from the People. This, observes Lord Grenville (an infinitely superior authority) is an unjust account: the work contains much useful and valuable matter. 23 Bacon's History of Henry VII. fol. 10s. 6d... . . . 1622 24 Dr. Barnard's Life of Dr. Heylin, with a refutation of Baxter, front. 8vo. 6s.... ..1683 Heylin though a most infatuated Tory, was, as this Life shews, an honest and consistent character. It contains much curious matter on the occasion and objects of his political and other works. 25 Life of John Barwick, D. D. with Letters of Charles I. in his confinement, King Charles II. and Clarendon, when in Exile, portraits, 8vo. 7s. 6d..........1724 A book full of interesting original matter on the Civil Wars. It gives Letters of Charles I. stating the means he employed to escape from the Isle of Wight; and several very curious from Charles II. and Lord Clarendon, a little previous to the Restoration. ... 26 Dr. Bates's Life of Baxter, 12mo. 2s. 1692 27 Batesii Vitæ selectorum Virorum, 4to. 15s....... 1681 28 Bates Elenchus Motuium Nuperorum in Anglia, portraits 8vo. 9s. 1663 The Doctor, like the Vicar of Bray, throve under every Sun; he e was Physician to Charles I. and afterwards to Cromwell whom he highly venerated. He regained the same employment under Charles II. by pretending that he had poisoned. Cromwell. His work had the assistance of Lord Clarendon, and is well worth reading. 29 History of the Life of Mayor John Bernardi, 4s. 6d. 1729 30 Berkenhout's Biographia Literaria, or Biographical History of English, Scotch, and Irish Authors, 4to. boards, 1. 1s. Od. 1777 This is the first volume of an extremely valuable work, which like many others, was relinguished from want of Patronage. 31 Birch's Life of Tillotson, 8vo. 10s. 6d. ... 1752 This excellent Memoir is much indebted to a short-hand volume of the Archbishop's, which Mr. Philip Gibbs decyphered for Dr. Birch. 32 Birch's Historical View of the Negociations between the Courts of England, France, and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617, 8vo. 7..... ....1749 33 Birch's Inquiry into the share which King Charles I. had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan 174 in which Mr. Carte's imperfect account of that affair is impartially considered, 8vo. 98. 34 Biographical History of Sir William Blackstone, with a Catalogue of his Works, and a Nomenclature of Westminster Hall, 8vo. boards, 6s.. 1782 35 Bisset's (Dr.) Life of Burke, 2 v. 8vo. boards, portrait, 6s. 1800 36 Bisset's Life of Dr. Sacheverel, 8vo. half bound 7s. 6d. 3 1710 Sacheverel is here painted in the most detestable colours Dunton says that it would be of great service to the Protestant interest to bring the Doctor to a speedy public trial for the crimes which this work accuses him of. 37 Biographical, Literary, and Political anecdotes of several of the most eminent Personages of the present age, 3 v. 8vo. boards, 18s.... ...1797 Compiled by Mr. Almon. It contains much very curious matter, in accounts of the writers of the Political Tracts at the beginning of the present reign, and also a reprint of some scarce Political Essays by the Burkes, &c. which had appeared in the Newspapers and elsewhere. 38 Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, |