Collectanea adamantæa. - II. Kempes Nine Daies Wonder, performed in a journey from london to norwich...
Edinburgh.
Privately printed, 1884.
vii, [1], 42pp. With a half-title.
[Bound with:] Collectanea adamantæa. - VII. Lucina sine Concubitu. A letter humbly addressed to the royal society; in which is proved , by most Incontestablr Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may conceive and be brought to bed, without any Commerce with Man. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1885. [2], 32pp. Title in red and black.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XVIII.] A history of amulets by martin frederick blumler. Englished from the latin by S. H., Gent...Vol. I. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 45pp, [1]. With a half-title.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XVIII.] A history of amulets by martin frederick blumler. Englished from the latin by S. H., Gent...Vol. II. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 47 [i.e. 43]pp, [1]. With a half-title.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XXII.] Pathomachia: or, the battell of affections. Shadowed by the faigned siedge of the citie pathopolis... Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 52pp. With a half-title.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XXI.] A charitable remonstrance addressed to the wives and maidens of france, touching their Dissolute Adornments, together with Two Curious Elegies... Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 56pp. With a half-title.
8vo. Handsomely bound by William Jackson of Aberdeen in contemporary gilt-ruled half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G., marbled endpapers. Ever so slightly rubbed and discoloured. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby to FEP, morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle to recto of FFEP.
[Bound with:] Collectanea adamantæa. - VII. Lucina sine Concubitu. A letter humbly addressed to the royal society; in which is proved , by most Incontestablr Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may conceive and be brought to bed, without any Commerce with Man. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1885. [2], 32pp. Title in red and black.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XVIII.] A history of amulets by martin frederick blumler. Englished from the latin by S. H., Gent...Vol. I. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 45pp, [1]. With a half-title.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XVIII.] A history of amulets by martin frederick blumler. Englished from the latin by S. H., Gent...Vol. II. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 47 [i.e. 43]pp, [1]. With a half-title.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XXII.] Pathomachia: or, the battell of affections. Shadowed by the faigned siedge of the citie pathopolis... Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 52pp. With a half-title.
[And:] [Collectanea adamantæa. - XXI.] A charitable remonstrance addressed to the wives and maidens of france, touching their Dissolute Adornments, together with Two Curious Elegies... Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1887. 56pp. With a half-title.
8vo. Handsomely bound by William Jackson of Aberdeen in contemporary gilt-ruled half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G., marbled endpapers. Ever so slightly rubbed and discoloured. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby to FEP, morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle to recto of FFEP.
A coherent sammelband of six reprints of obscure sixteenth century English tracts, edited and privately printed in limited runs by antiquary Edmund Goldsmid (1849-1894).
Provenance: William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, co-founder of the eponymous bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Following his purchase of the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, Foyle built an extensive personal library. In July 2000, following the death of his daughter and successor Christina, the library was dispersed at Christie's over three days, at the time being the most valuable English private library ever to be offered in Britain or on the Continent. Those books that remained with the family were sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2023 following the death of Foyle's grandson Christopher.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 31060
Provenance: William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, co-founder of the eponymous bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Following his purchase of the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, Foyle built an extensive personal library. In July 2000, following the death of his daughter and successor Christina, the library was dispersed at Christie's over three days, at the time being the most valuable English private library ever to be offered in Britain or on the Continent. Those books that remained with the family were sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2023 following the death of Foyle's grandson Christopher.
