Seminar: November 2005

One in a series of Sarum Research Group meetings: part of the Sarum study group on gothic cathedrals and related topics.

John Mustain: Rare books at Stanford Library

My thanks to John Mustain for putting together this list of the documents we saw. Click on the small photos for larger samples.
-- john wilkes

1. Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742. An universal etymological English dictionary comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ....
The 8th ed. with considerable improvements. London, Printed for D. Midwinter, etc., 1737.
John Hancock’s copy

2. Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716. The history of Japan ... Written in High-Dutch ... and translated ... by J. G. Scheuchzer...
London, Printed for the translator, 1727.

3. Catholic Church. Horae.
[Tournai, 1486 or 1497].
Included are the following parts: Calendar, Hours of  the Cross, Hours of the Holy Ghost, Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Penitential Psalms, Lessons from the Four Gospels, Litany of the Saints, and Diverse prayers.  There are five miniatures and twenty large initials done in the Franco-Flemish style which followed the school of the brothers Van Eyck; the illumination also shows the influence of the School of Fouquet. Mary was the most popular expression of faith and devotion in the Middle Ages and her prayer book, the Book of Hours, was a favorite of lay persons throughout Europe.  Many copies were executed by the finest artists of the period and were viewed among the rich as status symbols. In Latin and French, Gothic minuscule script.

4. Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. Monasticon anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England ....
London, J. Bohn, 1846.

5. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Basilike. The workes of King Charles the martyr: with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament.
London, Printed by J. Flesher for R. Royston, 1662.

6. Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books ....
The 4th ed., adorn'd with sculptures. London, Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, 1688.
The first folio edition and the first illustrated edition.

7. Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses : With observations and inquiries thereupon.
London, Printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry ... [for] the Royal Society ..., MDCLXV [1665].

8. James I, King of England, 1566-1625. The workes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Pvblished by Iames, bishop of Winton, and deane of His Maiesties chappel royall ....
London, Printed by Robert Barker and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings Most Excellent Maieste. Anno 1616

9. Locke, John, 1632-1704. An essay concerning humane understanding. In four books.
London, Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for T. Basset, and sold by E. Mory, 1690.

10. Sandford, Francis, 1630-1694. The history of the coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellent monarch, James II : by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c., and of his royal consort Queen Mary ....
A Amsterdam : Chez P. & J. Blaeu, Janssons à Waesberge, Boom, & Goethals, 1702.

11. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. [Principia] Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Autore Is. Newton ....
Londini, Jussu Societatis Regiæ ac Typus Josephi Streater. Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas. Anno 1687.

12. Wither, George, 1588-1667. A Collection Of Emblemes, Ancient And Moderne: Quickened VVith Metricall Illvstrations, both Morall and Divine: And disposed into Lotteries, That Jnstruction, and Good Counsell, may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation.
London, Printed by A. M. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1635.

13. Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent. Discorso della religione antica de Romani : insieme vn'altro Discorso della castrametatione, & disciplina militare, bagni, & essercitij antichi di detti Romani
In Lione, Appresso Guglielmo Rouillio, M.D.LXIX [1569]
Translation of Du Choul's Discours de la religion des anciens Romains, first published Lyon, G. Rouillé, 1556. His Discours sur la castrametation et discipline militaire des Romains first published Lyon, G. Rouillé, 1555.

14. Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Le imagini degli dei degli antichi, del Signor Vincenzo Cartari regiano, novamente ristampate & ricorette. Nelle quali sono descritte la religione degli antichi, li idoli, riti & ceremonie loro ....
In Padoa, appresso Pietro Paulo Tozzi, 1608.

15. Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une societé de gens de lettres. Mis en ordre & publié par m. Diderot ... & quant à la partie mathematique, par m. d'Alembert ...
Paris, Briasson [etc.], 1751-65.

16. __________________ A Volume from the plates series that accompanies the above.

17. Pomey, François, 1618-1673. [Pantheum mythicum. English] The Pantheon : representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes, in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue / written by Fra. Pomey, of the Society of Jesus ... for the use of the Dauphin .... The third edition, wherein the whole translation is revised, and much amended, and the work is illustrated and adorned with elegant copper-cuts of the several deities, &c.
London, Printed for Charles Harper ..., 1701.

18. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Aeneis. By G.S.
Imprinted at Oxford, By Iohn Lichfield, 1632.
With an additional title page, engraved. This and some of the plates are signed by Franz Cleyn, artist, and Salomon Savery, engraver.

19. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. The history of the valorous and wittie knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha; translated out of the Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII[-MDCXX]
Chelsea, The Ashendene Press, 1927-1928.
One of twenty copies printed on vellum.

20. Racine, Jean, 1639-1699. Theatre de Jean Racine. Orne de cinquante-sept estampes d'apres les dessins de M.M. Prud'hon, Gerard, Girodet, Chaudet, Serangeli et Peyron, peintres et statuaires.
A Paris, De l'imprimerie de P.Didot l'aine, 1813.

21. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. [Metamorphoses. French & Latin] Les metamorphoses d'Ovide en latin et François ... / de la traduction de Mr. Pierre Du-Ryer Parisien ...
Edition nouvelle, enrichie de tres-belles figures. A Amsterdam : Chez P. & J. Blaeu, Janssons à Waesberge, Boom, & Goethals, 1702.

22. Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712. Emblemata amatoria = Emblems of love = Embleme d'amore = Emblemes d'amour : in four languages : dedicated to the ladys. 
London, Sold by R. Bently ... S. Tidmarch ... &c., 1683.

23. Sammes, Aylett, 1636?-1679? Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians : wherein the original trade of this island is discovered, the names of places, offices, dignities, as likewise the idolatry, language, and customs of the primitive inhabitants are clearly demonstrated from that nation, many old monuments illustrated, and the commerce with that people, as well as the Greeks, plainly set forth and collected out of approved Greek and Latin authors : together with a chronological history of this kingdom, from the first traditional beginning, until the year of Our Lord 800, when the name of Britain was changed into England ....
London, Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for the author, 1676.

24. Apuleius. Lamovr de cvpido et de Psiché mere de volvpté, prise des cinq & sixiesme liures de la Metamorphose de Lucius Apuleius philosophe. nouuellement historiée & exposée en vers francois ... Leonar. Galter. fec. & excu.
[Paris?, 1590?].
Versified by Jean Maugin and illustrated by Léonard Gaultier. Reprint of the 1586 edition, with the date on t.-p. and last plate omitted.

25. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. [Metamorphoses. German & Latin] P. Ovid Nasonis XV Metamorphoseon ... a Cr[i] spiano Passæo laminis æneis incisæ ... .
Cologne, Apud Crisp Passæum chalcographum, [1607?].

26. Purcell, Henry. Te Deum & Jubilate for Voices and Instruments Made for St. Cecilia’s Day.
Manuscript, signed, 1694.

27. Purcell, Henry. Te Deum & Jubilate ...
1^st printed edition, 1697.

28. Day, T. A. Illustrations of mediaeval costume in England : collected from mss. in the British Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, etc.
London, T. Bosworth, [1851].

29. Hakewill, James, 1778-1843. An attempt to determine the exact character of Elizabethan architecture, illustrated by parallels of Dorton house, Hatfield, Longleate, and Wollaton, in England; and the Palazzo della Cancellaria, at Rome. By James Hakewill ...
London, J. Weale, 1835.