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AESOPI PHRYGIS FABULAE GRAECE ET LATINE, cum Aliis Quibusdam Opusculis: Quorum Indicem sequens pegella indicabit.
Basileae [Basel]: Typis Joan, Jacobi Genathi, 1616. 520, [6 Index] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Cotemporary full plain vellum. 10 x 7.5 cm. Some browning; split to the vellum on the spine; else a very good copy, contained in a modern calf-backed clamshell box.
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THE YOUNG MAN'S COMPANION: Or, Arithmetick made Easie. With plain directions for a Young Man, to attain to Read and Write true English, and Short-Hand or Characters. And also very easie Rules for measuring Land, Globes, Steeples, Walls, Barrels, Timber, Stone, Boards, Glass, and the like, both by Arithmetick, and Gunter’s Line: The use of the Carpenter’s Plain Rule, and several Tables of Measuring, for those that have not learned Arithmetick. The use of Gunter's Quadrant, Dialling, Colouring within and without Doors; choice Rules for the Pruning of Fruit-Trees, Innoculating, and several ways of Grafting; as also Angling, and Experiments of the Honey-Bee. Choice experiments in physick and Chyrurgery, making several sorts of Wines, Cordials, Strong-Waters, Syrups, Oyls, Salts, Lozenges, Electuaries. With choice Presidents in the law, and Advice upon them. Many good Sayings of the Learned, in the School of Virtue, and very useful Coppies in Verse for a Writing-School. Together with many other useful things, to encourage Youth to the Love of Virtue, to please God. With an Alphabetical Table, for the ready finding of any Matte herein contained. Written in a plain Stile, whereby an ordinary Capacity may attain the same, without a Tutor. The fourth Edition, with very large Additions. By William Mather.
More details Price: £3,500.00