London: Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, 1697. First edition, separate issue. ESTC R14052; Wing B1928; cf. Bibliotheca Fictiva 39. The seminal treatise by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) on the authenticity of ancient texts, most notably the alleged letters of the 500 BC tyrant Phalaris, which Bentley convincingly demonstrated on.....
London: Printed for Edw. Husbands, 1643. First edition. ESTC R17603; Wing E1780. An interesting document issued 18 November 1643, at the beginning of the English Civil War, that called for the protection and preservation of libraries and archives from sale or dispersal by the Committees for Sequestration, which were confiscating.....
London: Printed for Edward Castle, 1696. First edition. ESTC R18928; Wing A4188; NCBEL II, 1682. The only book by John Aubrey (1626-1697) printed in his lifetime, a compilation of entertaining anecdotes which he styled “A Collection of Hermitic Philosophy.” It contains anecdotes on numerous subjects: Omens, dreams, apparitions, voices, impulses.....
London: Printed for Joseph Wilde, at the Elephant at Charing Cross, 1700. First edition, one of two variants. In this one the dedication is signed "E. L." ESTC R223814 records nine copies (Durham, Oxford Bodleian, National Trust, Folger, UCLA, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Beinecke); Wing A226C. Informed and lively observations on.....