quently reprinted.-Lond. Tegg, 1832, 12mo. 3s. New edition, edited by his Son; with a Life of the Author, by Sir J. B. Williams. Lond Jackson and Walford, 1837, 18mo. 3s. 6d. reduced, H. G. Bohn, 2s. LARGE PAPER, fcap. 8vo, with port. and vignette of Macclesfield Church, 7s. 5d. reduced, 3s. Sacred Literature: shewing the Holy Scriptures to be superior to the most ce lebrated Writings of Antiquity; by the Testimony of above 500 Witnesses, and also by a Comparison of their several Kinds of Composition. In twelve Books, To which are added, Epistles and Extracts from some of the most early of the Christian Fathers. The whole intended not only to recommend the Bible as superior to all other Books, but as a moral and theological Repository for Christians of every Rank and Degree. By the Rev. David Simpson, M.A. Birmingham, 178890, 8vo. 4 vols. 1l. 4s. A Key to the Prophecies; or a concise View of the Predictions contained in the Old and New Testaments. 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This is a republication, with additions, of the folio work, with lithographic plates instead of dried -Fourth edition, considerably specimens. abridged, but revised, and with the addition of a chapter on the Weeds of Agriculture. Lond. 1838, 8vo. with 45 coloured plates, pub. at 17. 10s. SINCLAIR, George. Hydrostaticks, or the Force, Weight, and Pressures of fluid Bodies made evident by physicall and sensible Experiments; together with some miscellany Observations, the last whereof is a short History of Coal. Edinb. 1678, 4to. Statistical With a frontispiece and plates. Gor- Account of Scotland, drawn up donstoun, 2121, 11s. Some copies were reissued with a new title, 'Natural Phi- from the Communications of the losophy, improved by new experiments, Ministers of the different Parishes. 1681, 4to.' Edinb. 1791-99, 8vo. 21 vols. Ars Nova et Magna Gravitatis. Roter dami, 1669, 4to. 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He died Dec. 9. 1850, at the advanced age of 82. writer of this (H. G. B.) knew him well, and has given an account of him in his letter-press to Gillray's Caricatures, pp. 456-7. The position of Elizabeth the Usurper and pretended Quene of Englande. 1588. BROADSIDE, Consisting of 81 lines. Printed on a sheet measuring nineteen inches by seventeen and a half. This scurrilons Excommunication is in substance the famous Bull of Pope Sixtus V., but with considerable and remarkable variations. It was intended to be posted on the walls throughout England, if the Armada had been successful, and sets forth the reasons why Elizabeth is not worthy of wearing the Crown of England, or even to live; and threatens with Excommunication and corporal punishment all persons who after this Notice shall yield obedience to, or in any way assist her; and it promises to all those who will lend assistance to the cause. Plenary Indulgence, and pardon for all their sins. It describes her as 'an heretike,' 'a bastard, conceyved and borne by incestuous adultery,' an unjust usurper, 'a perjurer,' 'a murtherer,' and with other similar epithets. On the failure of the Expedition this broadside was so studiously suppressed and de- SKELTON, John. Poetical Works. stroyed, that its very existence has been (Now first accurately printed from denied. It is supposed to have been printed at Antwerp, and, although attri- existing Manuscripts and ancient buted to Cardinal Allen, is considered editions.) With Notes, and some to have been really penned by Father Account of the Author and his Robert Parsons. The only copy known was marked in Mr. Henry G. Bohn's Writings, by the Rev. Alexander Guinea Catalogue at 51. 5s., and lingered Dyce. Lond. T. Rodd, 1843, 8vo. there for more than a year. The same 2 vols. published at 17. 12s. resold at Sotheby's, Dec. 1st, 1862, produced 311. An Oration of Pope Sixtus V. upon the Death of the late French King Henrie III. with Anti-Sixtus a Confutation. SKELDON HAUGHS; or, the Sow is flitted. 1818, 4to. Printed at the Auchinleck private press of Sir Alex. Boswell, Boswell, 3070, 17. Eyton, May, 1848, 7s. 25 Gutch, 1858, 19s. THICK PAPER. copies printed. Bandinel, Aug. 1861, 27, 11s. An Addenda to Vol. 2, pages 485, was delivered after the publication, but in some copies is wanting. |