BERNARD QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE, No. 676

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424 SPINOZA (B.). *Traetatus Theologico-Politicus Cui adjunctus est Philosophia S. Scripturae Interpres. Ab Authore longé Emendatior.* Anno Dom. 1674.

8vo., a fine copy in contemporary calf.

1674
£10

A scarce edition of Spinoza's most important work.

425 STAFFORDSHIRE PARISH REGISTER SOCIETY. A Set of the Publications from the Commencement in 1901 to 1931.

38 Registers in 61 vols., 8vo., sewed and boards, as issued, some bindings a little stained. *Privately printed, 1901-31* £26

426 STAMP ACT. The Charters of the following Provinces of North America; viz. Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay, and Georgia. To which is prefixed, a faithful Narrative of the Proceedings of the North American Colonies, in consequence of the late Stamp-Act. London... M DCC LXVI...

4to., a fine copy with the folding map; half crimson morocco, fore and lower edges uncut.
1766.
£35

The rare map is entitled "A New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries, 1763." It extends far to the West of the Mississippi, and northwards to James Bay. The long and interesting account of the reactions of the Colonists to the Stamp Act passed the previous year is contained in eighteen pages of small type, printed in double columns.

The book is generally described as a quarto, and in fact measures 9½ x 7½ inches, but it is technically a folio, gathered in twos and with vertical chain lines.

427 STELLA (Fra Giuseppa Maria). Breve Instrvttione alli Giovani per imparare con ogni facilità il Canto Fermo, divisa in dve parti... In Roma, Nella Stamparia di Iacomo Fei d'Andr. F. M. DC.LXV.

Sm. 4to., FIRST EDITION, with a woodcut diagram and musical notation; contemporary *limp vellum, back-strip torn at foot*. Rome, 1665 £10 10s.

The title and following leaf slightly defective and repaired and several leaves stained. Also a small hole in on leaf just touching one letter.

With library stamp of Bibl. Gust. C. Galletti, Florence, on the title.

428 [STEPHAN (Peter)]. Der Schatzbehalter.

Folio, *Gothic letter*, 353 of 354 leaves, the first a blank cut away; with 96 fine full-page woodcuts (including 5 repeats) after the designs of Michael Wolgemuth, ENTIRELY UNCOLOURED; neatly rubricated throughout; a very fine and large copy in nineteenth century calf, gilt edges. Nuremberg, Koberger, 1491 £900

The splendid woodcuts illustrating this book were designed by Michael Wolgemuth and are considered by many to be the finest work of their kind produced in Germany before the advent as a master engraver of his famous pupil Durer. Fine uncoloured copies of this book are extremely rare.

The type is the same as that used in the famous German Bible of 1483.

Hain, 14507; Proctor, 2070; B.M.C., II. 434.

* See illustration on p. 87.

429 STEPHENSON (Marmaduke). A Call from Death to Life... Written by Marmaduke Stephenson; Who (together with... William Robinson) hath... suffered Death, for bearing Witenesse to the same Truth, amongst the Professors of Bostons Jurisdiction in New England... And also the True Copy of a Letter... from a Friend in New England which gives a brief Relation of... their Martyrdom, with some of the Words which they exprest at the time of their suffering... London, Printed for Thomas Simmons... 1660.

Sm. 4to., a library stamp on the title; red levant morocco, gilt edges, by Rivière. 1660 £50

EXTREMELY RARE. First edition of the most important of all the tracts recording the persecutions of the Quakers of New England.

This is a typical instance of the bigotry of both Magistrates of Boston and Quakers. Stephenson and Robinson were arrested for preaching Quakerism, which was against the law. They were sentenced to be banished under pain of death if they returned. They returned, suffered the penalty, and became martyrs. Copies of this interesting little tract are extremely difficult to obtain, especially in such good condition as the above.

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STEVENSON (Robert Louis), *continued*:

In addition there are five coloured drawings for future issues of "The Sunbeam Magazine." These are all about 6 × 4 ins. each, and two are signed "R.S."

All these coloured drawings are broadly humorous in character, the drawing being very spirited and the colours vivid.

This unique example of some of Stevenson's earliest work was formerly in the possession of Mrs. Isobel Strong of Santa Barbara, California, who inherited it from her mother Mrs. R. L. Stevenson. It was sold with all Mrs. Strong's other Stevensoniana by the Anderson Auction Company in New York in 1914, when it realised the considerable sum (in those days) of $1450.00. It was also exhibited at the Grolier Club, New York, in the same year.

\*\* See frontispiece.