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2761 BRAITHWAIT (RICHARD). A SURVEY of HISTORY: Or, A NURSERY FOR GENTRY. Contrived and Comprized in an Intermixt Discourse upon HISTORICALL and POETICALL Relations, &c. By Richard Braithwait Esquire, Oxon. Imprinted at London by I. Okes, for Iafper Emery at the Eagle and Child in Pauls Church yard next Watlin street. 1638.

4to, full dark blue crushed levant morocco, richly gilt back, panels on sides, with corner ornaments, and broad gilt inside borders, gilt edges, BRILLIANT IMPRESSION of the ENGRAVED TITLE by WILLIAM MARSHALL, CONTAINING the AUTHOR'S PORTRAIT. VERY FINE COPY.

2762 [BRAITHWAIT (RICHARD).] Drunken BARNABY'S | Four Journeys to the | NORTH of ENGLAND. | In Latin and English Metre. | Wittily and Merrily (tho' an Hundred | Years ago) compos'd; found among some old | musty Books that had lain a long time by in | a Corner, and now at last made publick. | Together with BESSY BELL. | LONDON | Printed for S. Illidge, under Serle's Gate | Lincolns-Inn New-Square. 1723.

12m0, Third Edition, bound in full spanish calf. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERAUTOGRAPH of the Irish Author, SAMUEL WHYTE, on title.

PLATES.

2763 BRENDE (JOHN). THE HISTO- | RIE OF QVINTVS | Curcius, conteyning the Ac- | tes of the greate Alexander | translated out of La- | tine into Englishe | by Iohn | Brende. Imprinted at

London by Rycharde Tottell. 1553.

4to, First Edition, Black Letter, bound in full-polished brown sprinkled calf, gilt back and edges, gilt inside borders. ELABORATE WOOD-ENGRAVED BORDER TO

TITLE.

Lower margin of title and a few leaves skillfully repaired.

2764 BREREWOOD (EDWARD). ENQUIRIES | TOVCHING | THE DIVERSITY | of LANGVAGES, and RELIGIONS | through the chiefe parts of the | world. | WRITTEN | By Edw. Brerewood | lately professor of Astronomy | in Gresham Colledge in | LONDON. | LONDON | Printed for IOHN BILL. | 1614.

4to, FIRST EDITION, old polished calf, blind tooling on sides, title within elaborate engraved border. Bound in at end is: "De Ponderibus et Pretiis, veterum nummorum, etc.," by the same Author, Londini: 1614.

Pages 96-98 are devoted to an argument to prove that the INHABITANTS of AMERICA are the OFFSPRING OF TARTARS.

2765 [BRETON

(NICHOLAS).] PASQVILS | Mad-cappe, | Throwne at the Corruptions | of these Times. | With | His MESSAGE to Men | of all Estates. | London Printed by A. M. for Francis Falkner, ❘ and are to be fold at his Shop neere vnto St. | Margarets-hill in Southwarke.

4to, bound in full brown calf, with SMITH. Fine pictorial device on title. BOOK-PLATE, BEAUTIFUL COPY.

2766 [BRETON (NICHOLAS).]

1626. corner ornaments on sides, gilt edges, by C. From the W. H. CRAWFORD LIBRARY, with

CORNV-COPIE. | PASQUIL'S NIGHTCAP: | or, | ANTIDOT for the HEAD-ACHE. | LONDON, | Printed for THOMAS THORP. 1612. [Reprinted by C. WHITTINGHAM, at the CHISWICK PRESS, MDCCCXIX. (1819).]

8vo, boards, uncut. Cut of the GLOBE THEATRE on title.

2767 BRIGHT (T.) A | TREATISE | of | MELANCHOLY. CONTAINING THE | CAVSES THEREOF, AND | Reasons of the flrange effects it worketh | in our minds and bodies: with the Phy- | sicke Cure, and spirituall confolation | for such as haue thereto adioyned | afflicted Confcience. | The Difference Be- | twixt it, and Melancholy, &c. | By T. BRIGHT Doctor of Phisicke. Newly Corrected and amended. LONDON: Printed by William Stansby. 1613.

12mo, full brown sprinkled calf, gilt back and borders, red edges, title dust-stained. BOOK-PLATE of W. H. THOMPSON.

The Prototype of BURTON's famous work, "The Anatomy of Melancholy."

2768 BROME (ALEXANDER). A | Canterbury | TALE, | TRANSLATED | Out of CHAUCER'S old English | Into our | NOW VSVALL LANGVAGE. | Whereunto is added the | Scots Pedler. | Newly enlarged by A. B. | (London) Printed in the yeare 1641.

4to, half calf, red edges, small ink-stain on last page. THE FIRST PUBLICATION of ALEXANDER BROME.

2769 BROME (ALEXANDER). A | Congratulatory | POEM, | ON | The Miraculous, and Glorious Return | of that unparallel'd KING | CHARLES the II. | May 29.1660. | By ALEX. BROME. | LONDON,| Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun | in Ivy-Lane 1660. 4to, FIRST EDITION, half russia, a few leaves cut close at top.

2770 BROME (ALEXANDER). SONGS | and other | POEMS. | By | ALEX. BROME, | Gent. | LONDON, | Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun | in Ivy-Lane. 1661.

12m0, FIRST EDITION, full sprinkled calf, gilt back, rough gilt edges. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT by HERTOCHS. Contains the duplicate pages (127-142) not always found. Inside margin of title repaired, cutting off two letters.

PASQVILS Mad-cappe,

Throwne at the Corruptions of these Times.

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London Printed by A. M. for Francis Falkner, and are to be fold at his Shop neere vnto St. Margarets-hill in Southwarke. 1626

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