18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Early
Illustrated Effort
at a DICTIONARY
for
the Masses
Bailey, Nathan; Philip Miller; Thomas Lediard; George Gordon. Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant ... illustrated with near five hundred cuts, for giving a clear idea of those figures, not so well apprehended by verbal description ... the second edition with numerous additions and improvements. London: T. Cox, 1736. Folio (35.5 cm, 13.9"). [460] ff.; 1 plt., illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The title-page is printed in red and black; a full-page plate shows an orrery (for which word there is an unusually long entry) from multiple perspectives, while many of the in-text woodcuts are depictions of heraldic terms, or mathematical and scientific concepts. Etymological information is provided in “Antient British, Teutonick, Dutch Low and High, Old Saxon, German, Danish, Swedish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, &c. each in its proper Character” (from the title-page). 
Our photographic detail, third image from left, above, highlights the (endearing!) ambition and achievement of this large volume.
• ESTC T87976; O'Neill B-5; Vancil 12. On Bailey, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets, rebacked, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; sides acid-pitted and scraped. 19th-century endpapers. Title-page with old-fashioned, round institutional pressure-stamp; light soil and old inkblots (also light!) in upper portion. Pages a little browned right at edges; light or faint waterstaining visible in first third of volume, usually to lower margin only; one leaf with tear from outer margin just touching text, without loss; one lower outer corner torn away, with loss of one letter from catchword. 
A sound, pleasant copy of this handsome and interesting production. (25002)
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“Christian
Alarm-Clock!”Barcia y Zambrana, José de. Despertador christiano, divino, y eucharistico, de varios sermones.... Madrid: Por Alonso Balvàs a costa de Francisco Laso, 1727. Folio (30 cm, 11.875"). [6] ff., 406 pp., [13] ff.
Provenance: Bookplate of Stellita Stapleton (first half of 20th century; see image above right).
• Palau 24060. Contemporary limp leather with traces of ties; binding worn with a little holing. Title-page torn and repaired with some obscuring of letters; paper browned and text dog-eared with some staining and tattering, resulting in no apparent loss of text. Inked ownership inscriptions on title-page.
TWO
Quaker Classics
for
Philadelphians,
1788
Barclay, Robert. A catechism and confession of faith, approved of and agreed unto, by the general assembly of the patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, Christ himself chief speaker in and among them. Philadelphia: Joseph James, 1788. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.7"). viii, 147, [3] pp. [issued with] The ancient testimony of the people called Quakers, revived; by the order and approbation of the yearly meeting, held for the provinces of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, 1722. Philadelphia: Joseph James, 1788. 34 pp. 
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Provenance: Front fly-leaf inscribed “Thomas G. Arnolds Book Coventry,” inked in an early hand.
• ESTC W37335; Evans 20950; Sabin 3366. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and very slightly sprung, spine scuffed with foot chipped. Pages age-toned and variably waterstained, with occasional edge nicks and crumpled corners; yet not brittle or nasty and the volume quite pleasant for reading. (24391)
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Defining
“Child” for Baptismal Purposes — RAREBarker, Thomas. The duty, circumstances, and benefits of baptism, determined by evidence ... with an appendix, shewing the meaning of several Greek words in the New Testament. London: B. White, 1771. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). x, 208, [6 (index & errata)] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The author was a dedicated observer of meteors and comets and published several well-received works on those subjects in addition to his religious and philosophical treatises.
Rare: OCLC and ESTC locate only one U.S. holding, since deaccessioned; there are only two holdings found in the U.K.
• ESTC T68482. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; yellow wrapper with early hand-inked title bound in. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped and a five-digit number inked twice to the first page of the preface; no other markings. First and last few leaves with minor foxing; other scattered spots mostly confined to margins. Occasional pencillled annotations. (25768)
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A Marblehead Puritan Printed in LondonBoston Distribution Barnard, John. Sermons on several subjects; to wit, a confirmation of the truth of the Christian religion. One sermon. Compel them to come in. One sermon. The Christian hero, or the saints victory and rewards, in 6 sermons. London: Pr. for Samuel Gerrish, & Daniel Henchman, in Cornhill Boston, New-England, 1727. 8vo. 190 pp. 
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 3471; ESTC T65667; not in Alden & Landis. Contemporary sheep, modestly tooled in blind; leather dry and abraded. Ex-library with call number on spine, shelf marks in pencil, bookplate on front pastedown, and rubber-stamp on title-page. (20159)
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ANOTHER
of Benezet's Causes
Benezet, Anthony. The mighty destroyer displayed, in some account of the dreadful havock made by the mistaken use as well as abuse of distilled spirituous liquors. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1774. 8vo (17 cm; 6.625"). 48 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. While the title-page merely says the piece is “by a Lover of Mankind,” Benezet's authorship was well established by Evans.
• Bristol B3689; Shipton & Mooney 42555; Hildeburn 2980; ESTC W26174. Not in Blake. Recent quarter calf, old style, with marbled paper sides. Text cockled, with stray stains and age-toning; title-page crumpled. Original edition, not a modern reprint. (27123)
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Anti-Catholic Polemic Bennet, Thomas. A confutation of popery, in III. parts. Cambridge: Pr. at the University Press for Edmund Jeffery, 1701. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). [16], 355, [1] pp. (lacking 2 final adv. ff.).
Click the images for enlargements. • ESTC T77127; Allibone 165. Recent brown marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label; two final leaves of advertisements (only) lacking. Title-page with old signature, this leaf and next several soiled/stained, with edge repairs; other outer edges waterstained lightly to moderately and with occasional short tears especially at beginning and end, with last leaf reinforced. Some corners dog-eared. Sound, and except for that title-page signature, unmarked. (26518)
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“Remarks” — A Reply Bentley, Richard. Remarks upon a late discourse of free-thinking: In a letter to F.H. D.D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. London: John Morphew, 1713. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). [2], [3]–85, [1(blank)] pp. (57/58 omitted in pagination).
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• ESTC T53380. On Bentley's response to Collins, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page with author's name inked in an early hand, dedication with dedicatee's name (Francis Hare) inked in the same hand. Title-page with two spots of light staining; pages otherwise clean, with a very few early inked marginalia. (20745)
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Collins? Bentley, Richard. Remarks upon a late discourse of free-thinking: In a letter to F.H. D.D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. Part the second. London: John Morphew & E. Curl, 1713. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [4], 82, [2] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • ESTC T53381. On Bentley's response to Collins, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Faint crease lines occasionally visible, pages otherwise clean. (20751)
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