London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698. First and only edition. ESTC R29682; Wing C5845; NCBEL II, 751. A nine-page poem that obliquely praises Charles Montague, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who as Congreve's patron, was responsible for getting the poet-playwright cushy government posts such as a commissioner of the malt lottery.....
London: Printed for R. Sare, F. Saunders and Tho. Bennet, 1697. First edition in English. ESTC R5377; Wing Q188. ¶ The first English translation of Francisco de Quevedo's La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna con Seso, a biting satire of Spanish politics and the follies of the times, written.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695. Third edition. ESTC R21080; Wing C5861; NCBEL II, 751. William Congreve's elegy on the death of Queen Mary and his first separately published poem. It went through four editions (including one in Dublin) in 1695. Ink signature on the title-page of Buchan, dated London.....
Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. ¶ The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in.....
[London: Printed for C. M., 1681]. First edition. Macdonald 1; ESTC R2918; Wing H316; NCBEL II, 1040. The first published work by George Saville (1633-1695), First Marquess of Halifax, a response to the pamphlet A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend, published in the spring of 1681.....