"The most noble and spirited translation I know in any language."-Pope
A Large Paper Copy of Dryden's Vergil Illustrated with 101 Engraved Plates

Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 B.C.); Dryden, John (1631-1700), translator; Hollar, Wenceslas (1607-1677), artist
The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals , Georgics, and Æneis. Translated into English Verse; By Mr. Dryden. Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures.

Folio: SECOND EDITION (first 1697). A LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with an engraved... >FULL DESCRIPTION<

With the Expanded Servian Commentary, "Servius Auctus"

Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 B.C.)
P. Virgilii Maronis cum Veterum omnium Commentariis et Selectis recentiorum notis Nova Editio. Inscripta Viro Amplissimo Gualtero Valkenier I.U.L. Reip. Amstelodamensis Consuli et Senatori. Ex officina Abrahami Commelini. MDCXLVI.

Quarto: With a fine engraved title page illustrating the Georgics, Eclogues and Aeneid. This copy is bound in contemporary, blind-stamped Dutch vellum with ties. The binding is a little soiled and the upper joint...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

"The Devisers and Fyrste Fyneders Oute"
The Tudor English Translation of Polydore Vergil's "De Inventoribus Rerum"

Vergil, Polydore (1470?-1555); Langley, Thomas (d. 1581), translator
An abridgemente of the notable worke of Polidore Virgile. Conteining the deuisers and fyrste fyneders oute aswell of antyquities, artes, ministeries, feactes and ciuill ordinaunces, as of the rites, and ceremonies, commonlye vsed in the churche: and the original beginnin of the same. Compendiouslye gathered and newlye perused by Thomas Langley

Verheiden's Dedication Copy With Fifty Engraved Portraits of the Protestant Reformers

Folio: FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with an engraved title page, one allegorical plate, and 50 engraved portraits of the Reformers. This a fine, tall copy, bound in contemporary stiff vellum with the remains of green silk ties. With Verheiden's autograph dedication inscription, beautifully written on the engraved title page. >FULL DESCRIPTION<

Karlstadt's Views on Purgatory

Westerburg, Gerhard (d. 1558)
Vom Fegfewer un[d] stand der verschayde[n] selen, ain Christliche mainu[n]g nit wie bißher fürgebe[n].

Quarto: With a beautiful, white-on-black, woodcut title page by Hans Weiditz. One of three printings in the year of the first edition of Gerhard Westerburg's book on purgatory. This is Westerburg's first publication, in which he espouses the views of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt, of whom he was a devotee. The book caused him to be...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

Crucial to the Formation of the Anglican Church & Elizabeth's Victory over the Puritans

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury (1530?-1604).
The Defense of the Aunsvvere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.

Folio: SECOND EDITION, printed in the year of the first, of the future Archbishop of Canterbury's reply to Thomas Cartwright. In this book Whitgift set out his view (opposed to that of the Puritans) of the...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

"Wilkins' two books 'Discovery' and 'Discourse' were written to make known and to defend
the new astronomy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo." (Kenney)

Wilkins, John (1614-1672)
A discovery of a new vvorld, or, A discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon. With a discourse concerning the probability of a passage thither. Unto which is added, a discourse concerning a new planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the planets.

"One of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time"- Wood

Willughby, Francis (1635-1672); Ray, John (1627-1705), translator.
The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq; fellow of the Royal Society.

Folio: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Willughby's Ornithology, "the first systematic classification of the birds of the world"(Wood). After Willughby's early death in 1672, John Ray took over his notes, and having edited the incomplete manuscript and added his own observations published his friend's work, in Latin, in 1676. >FULL DESCRIPTION<

The Exorcism of Jeanne Fery

WITCHCRAFT. Buisseret, François, Archbishop of Cambrai (1549-1615)
Warhafft: und gründtlicher Bericht, sehr wunderlich: unnd gleichsam unerhörter Geschichten, so sich unlangst zu Bergen in Henogau, Ertzbisthumbs Cambrai, mit einer beseßnen, und hernach widererledigten Closterfrawen verloffen.

Quarto: FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION of this gripping account of the possession and exorcism of the 25 year old Dominican nun Jeanne Fery, a victim of self-mutilation, possessed of multiple... >FULL DESCRIPTION<