8807*OLIVIER'S (G. A.) Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia; 2 vols. in 1, 4to, with maps and 16 plates, very neat, 10s. 6d. 1801 8808 OLLENDORFF'S (H. G.) New Method of learning to read, write, and speak a Language in Six Months, adapted to the German; 8vo, boards, 12s. 8809 8810 the same; 8vo, cloth, 14s. 1838 1841 Key to the Exercises in the New Method; 8vo, 6s. 1841 8811 O'MEARA's (Barry) Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St. Helena; 2 vols. 8vo, ports. (pub. at 17. 8s) bds. 16s. 1822 8812 ONESIMUS, the Pulpit, or a Biographical and Literary Account of eminent popular Preachers, interspersed with Clerical Criticism; 3 vols. 8vo, half-bound calf, 12s. 1809-16 8813 OPERA. The Lyric Muse revived in Europe, or a critical Display of the Opera in all its Revolutions; fcap 8vo, 3s. 1768 8814 OPIE'S (Mrs.) Poems; 12mo, frontispiece, calf gilt, 5s. 1811 8815 OPPIAN'S Halieutics, or the Nature of Fishes, and Fishing of the Ancients, in Verse, by Jones & Diaper; 8vo, 7s. Oxf. 1722 8815* the same; royal 8vo, LARGE PAPER, neat, 12s. ib. 1722 8816 ORANGE. Apologie or Defence of the most noble Prince William of Orange; small 4to, last leaf MS. hf.-bd. 8s. Delft, 1581 A very scarce and curious work. It was most carefully suppressed by the King of Spain, immediately after its publication.-See Du Fresnoy. 8817 Order of the Hospitalls of R. Henry the Eighth and R. Edward the Sirth (St. Bartholomew's, Christ's, Bridewell, and St. Thomas's); small 8vo, neat, 10s. 1557 This facsimile was printed at the expense of Mr. Secretary Pepys. 8818 O'REILLY'S (Bernard) Greenland, the adjacent Seas, and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a Voyage to Davis's Strait, during the Summer of 1817; 4to, charts and plates (pub. at 27.10s. in bds.) half-bound calf, gilt, 17. 18. 1818 The author has devoted a large portion of his work to the description of Arctic Zoology. 8819 ORFORD'S (Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of) "Very Witty" Last Will and Testament; 8vo, uncut, scarce, 8s. 1745 My hands I bequeath to that honourable and worthy patriot my Lord Gower, being fully persuaded that by their help he may chance to keep the Great Seal, or any other great office of the court, from slipping so often out of his fingers. This legacy may also be of great use to his lordship, in his nouvelle capacity of a courtier; for I am credibly informed that his lordship is not much experienced in receiving a bribe," &c.-" My legs I bequeath to Sir John C-n, to help him bear up the enormous weight of his broad b-tt-m, and his most unwieldy corporation.""-"To his Grace the Duke of Bedford I give 20001. in consideration of his small fortune and expensive manner of living."- To the good-natured people of Great Britain I leave the sole right of purchasing and perusing this my last will and testament." 8820 ORFORD's (Horace Walpole, Earl of) ANECDOTES OF PAINTING IN ENGLAND, and some Account of the principal Artists, &c. digested and published from the original Papers of George Vertue; with a Catalogue of Engravers who have resided in England; 5 vols. small 4to, numerous fine portraits, neat, 41. Strawberry Hill, 1765-71 Anecdotes of Painting. A new Edition, with considerable Additions by the Rev. James Dallaway; 5 vols. royal 8vo, PROOF IMPRESSIONS of the numerous beautiful Portraits on INDIA PAPER (pub. at 157.15s.) bds. 61.6s. J. Major, 1828 8821 8822 ORFORD'S (Horace Walpole, Earl of) Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, 15s. 8823 8824 8825 8826 8827 8828 Lists of their Works; the same; 2 vols. 12mo, neat, 6s. "It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole; firstly, because he was a nobleman; and secondly, because he was a gentleman; but to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters, and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the Ultimus Romanorum,' the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy, in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may."-BYRON. Letters to George Montagu, Esq. royal 4to, (pub. at 17. 11s. 6d.) bds. 15s. 1819 8829 8830 the same; royal 4to, half-bound calf, 13s. 1818 8831 the same, with his Letters to the Rev. W. Cole and others; 2 vols. in 1, royal 4to, calf extra, 17. 1s. 1818 8832 Letters to the Rev. William Cole and others; royal 4to, (pub. at 17.78.) boards, 12s. 1818 8833 8834 1818 8835 8835* 8836 8837 8837* the same; royal 4to, half-bound calf, 12s. Letters to the Earl of Hertford, with Mr. Walpole's Letters to the Rev. Henry Zouch; royal 4to, portrait (pub. at 17. 11s. 6d.) boards, 14s. 1825 Private Correspondence; 4 vols. 8vo, port. bds. 17. 1820 Letters to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany; edited, with a Memoir, by Lord Dover; 3 vols. crown 8vo (pub. at 17.11s. 6d.) boards, 18s. 1834 Letters: Bentley's Collective Edition, containing nearly 300 additional now first published from the originals; 6 vols. 8vo, portraits, cloth, 37. 12s. 1839-40 "Whatever may be thought of his other works, his letters are deserving of unqualified commendation. They are full of wit, pleasantry, and informa tion, and are written with singular neatness and sprightliness."-Edinb. Rev. "The letters of Horace Walpole are master-pieces in their way; that in which they shine unrivalled, is their accurate reflection of the passing scenes of each day, pointed by remarks equally witty and sarcastic. A new Democritus seems to have assumed the pen, to sneer at the grave follies of the human species.”—Quarterly Review. Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; royal 8vo, FINE 18s. 1768 8838 ORFORD'S (Horace Walpole, Earl of) Miscellaneous Antiquities; 2 parts in 1, 4to, uncut, 5s. Strawberry Hill, 1772 8839 8840 8841 8842 Containing: Accounts of Ancient Tournaments, and Life of Sir Thomas Wyat the elder. Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Chatterton; 8vo, uncut, 8s. ib. 1779 Essay on Modern Gardening; with the French Translation by the Duc de Nivernois; 4to, uncut, 10s. ib. 1785 Memoirs of the last Ten Years of the Reign of George II, from the original MSS. found in the Chest left by his Lordship's Will to be opened by the first Earl of Waldegrave who should attain the age of Twenty-one after the year 1800; 2 vols.roy.4to,ports.(pub.at57.5s.)bds.17.10s.1822 the same; 2 vols. royal 4to, calf extra, 27. 12s. 6d. 1822 "The facts, such as were not public, I received chiefly from my father and Mr. Fox, both men of veracity, and some from communication with the Duke of Bedford at the very time they were in agitation. I am content to rest their anthenticity on the sincerity of such men; at the same time, I beg it may be remembered that I never assert any thing positively, unless from very good authority; and it may be observed, that where I am not certain, I always say, it was said, it was believed, it was supposed, or use some such phrase."-Lord Orford's Postscript. 8843 ORIENTAL HERALD and Journal of General Literature, conducted by James S. Buckingham, from its Commencement in January 1824 to December 1829; 72 Nos. 8vo, (published at 127.12s.) sewed, 41.10s. 1824 8844 ORMEROD'S (GEORGE) HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE and CITY OF CHESTER; compiled from original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished MS. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a personal Survey of every Township in the County; incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities; 3 vols. folio, portrait and plates, russia, marbled edges, 271. 8845 1819 another copy; 3 vols. folio, portrait and plates, morocco, extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, 317. 10s. 1819 8846 ORMEROD's (George Waring) Manual of Local Acts for Man 8847 chester and Salford; royal 8vo, boards, 9s. the same; royal 8vo, law calf, 12s. 1838 1838 8848 ORME'S (R.) History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from 1745 to the present Time; 3 vols. 4to, FIRST EDITION, maps and plans, in old calf gilt, 31. 10s. 8849 8850 8851 1763-78 the same; 3 vols. 4to, map and plates, neat, 31.3s. 1775-78 the same; 3 vols. 1775-78.-Orme's Historical Fragments, 1805. Together, 4 vols. 4to, calf gilt, 41. 14s. 6d. Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire of the Morattoes, and of the English Concerns in Indostan, from the year 1659. To which is prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; 4to, portrait, bds. 18s. 1805 8852 ORME'S (Wm.) Bibliotheca Biblica; a select List of Books on Sacred Literature, with Notices, Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical; 8vo, calf gilt, 15s. Edinburgh, 1824 8853 ORMONDE's (James, Duke of) Conduct in the Campagne of 1712; 4to, scarce, 8s. 1715 8854 OROSIUS, the Historian, translated into Anglo-Saxon by Alfred the Great, with an English Translation from the AngloSaxon (by the Hon. Daines Barrington, and Notes by J. R. Forster); 8vo, uncut, scarce, 17. 10s. 1773 8855 ORPHEUS' HYMNS, translated, with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus, by Thos. Taylor; 12mo, sewed, 4s. 6d. 1787 Mystical Hymns, translated by T. Taylor; crown 8vo, (pub. at 10s. 6d.) bds. 5s. 8856 Chiswick, 1824 8857 ORRERY'S (Earl of) Parthenissa, that most fam'd Romance ; the six volumes complete in one, folio, neat, 8s. 1676 8858 ORRERY's (John, Earl of) Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dean Swift; 8vo, portrait, neat, 3s. 1752 8859 OSBECK'S (P.) Voyage to China and the East Indies; O. Toreen's Voyage to Surate; and C. G. Eckeberg on Chinese Husbandry; translated by J. R. Forster; to which are added a Faunula and Flora Sinensis; 2 vols. 8vo, plates, nt. 8s. 1771 "Travels, embracing scientific natural history, by competent persons, are rare and valuable. The nature of this work is sufficiently indicated by the title, and its merit by its having been translated by Forster."-Stevenson. 8860 OSBORNE'S (F.) Works (Advice to a Son; Traditional Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth & King James; Essays, &c.) small 8vo, neat, 5s. 8861 1673 Seasonable Expostulation with the Netherlands; small 4to, 2s. Oxford, 1652 8862 OSBORNE'S (Thomas) Catalogues of his Books for 1752, 1753, and 1754; 6 vols. 8vo, neat, scarce, 17. 10s. 1752-54 8863 OSORIUS (Hieronymus, Bp. of Arcoburge) Perle for a Prince; an Epistle to the most excellent Princesse Elizabeth, by the grace of God Quene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, &c. Translated oute of the Latten into Englishe, by Richard Shacklock; small 8vo, morocco, gilt edges, very rare, 27. 12s. 6d. Antwerp, MDLXV This work was written by Osorius to persuade Queen Elizabeth to turn Catholic Strype giving an account of it in his Annals, vol. i. p. 451-52, says: "To make it still more common, it was translated into French, and printed in France. This gave great offence." Strype appears not to have been aware of this English translation. 8864 OSSIAN'S POEMS, in the original Gaelic, with a literal Translation into Latin by Robert Macfarlan; a Dissertation, by Sir John Sinclair, and a Translation of the Abbé Cesarotti's Dissertation on the Controversy respecting the Authenticity of Ossian, with Notes and a Supplemental Essay by John M'Arthur; 3 vols. imperial 8vo, large PAPER, red morocco, gilt edges, rare, 31. 13s. 6d. Poems translated by James Macpherson; 2 vols. crown 8vo, plates, calf neat, 10s. 1807 1803 8865 8866 Poems, by James Macpherson, with Dissertations; 2 vols. 8vo, (pub. at 17.10s.) boards, 10s. 1807 8866* the same; 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, 16s. 1807 8867 8868 the same; 2 vols. royal 8vo, Large paper, bds. 14s. 1807 the same; 2 vols. 12mo, half-bound, 8s. 1806 it. "I read this book," says Dr. Parr, " when a boy, and was enamoured with When at college, I again read Ossian with increased delight. I now, although convinced of the imposture, find pleasure in reading Macpherson." Bibliotheca Parriana. 8869 OSSIAN'S Poems, attempted in English Verse, by the Rev. J. Shackleton; 2 vols. 8vo, boards, 7s. Birmingham, 1817 8870 Fingal, in verse, by G. Harvey; 8vo, (pub. at 10s.) 3s. 1814 8871 OSTERVALD'S (J. F.) Arguments of the Books and Chapters of the Old and New Testament, with practical Observations translated by John Chamberlayne; 2 vols. 8vo, 16s. 1811 8872 OSWALD PAPERS. Memorials of the Public Life and Character of the Right Hon. James Oswald of Dunnikier; contained in a Correspondence with some of the most distinguished Men of the last Century; 8vo, portrait (published at 16s.) boards, 10s. Edinburgh, 1825 Containing letters by Lord Kames, Hume, Adam Smith, Robertson, Bubb Doddington, Lord Halifax, &c. &c. 8873 OTES' (Titus) Narrative of the Horrid Plot; folio, uncut, 5s. 1679 8874 Vindication of himself and the Reality of the Plot; folio, uncut, 4s. 8875 1679 Tryals, Conviction, and Sentence for Perjury; folio, uncut, 4s. 1685 8876 OTTLEY's (William Young) History of Engraving upon Copper and Wood, with an Account of Engravers and their Works, from the Invention of Chalcography, by Maso Finiguerra, to the Time of Marc-Antonio Raimondi ; 2 vols. 4to, with many finely executed fac-similes of early Engravings (pub. at 81. 8s.) boards, 37. 10s. 1816 Collection of One Hundred and Twenty-nine Facsimiles of scarce and curious Prints by the early Masters of the Italian, German, and Flemish Schools, illustrative of the History of Engraving, with Introductory Remarks, and a Catalogue of the Plates; imperial 4to, LARGE PAPER, with PROOF IMPRESSIONS ON INDIA PAPER (pub. at 91. 9s.) half-bound morocco, uncut, 6l. 6s. 1828 8877 The fac-similes of the Niello-Engravings, formerly in the possession of Sir Mark Sykes, are executed on silver, in exact imitation of the originals, besides which an impression of each plate is given on India paper. As very few copies have been printed, the work must soon become scarce. 8878 OTTO's (A. W.) Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy, translated from the German, with additional Notes and References, by J. F. South; 8vo, (pub. at 14s.) boards, 10s. 1831 8879 OTWAY'S (Thos.) Works, (Plays, Poems, and Letters) with Life by Dr. Johnson; 2 vols. 8vo, portrait, calf gilt, 18s. 1812 the same; 8vo, 2 vols. 8vo, portrait, boards, 15s. 1812 Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy; and the Cheats of Scapin, a Farce; 4to, 2s. 6d. 8880 8881 8883 1701 8882 OVID's Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Epistles, Amours, and Metamorphoses, translated into English Verse, with Notes, by the most eminent hands (Addison, Dryden, Congreve, Gay, Pope, and others); 4 vols. 12mo, plates, 12s. 1747-51 Art of Love, Remedy of Love, and Epistles, with his Amours, translated into English Verse by the most eminent hands, with Notes; 2 vols. 12mo, 8s. Tonson, 1735-6 Art of Love, the First Book; and Hero and Leander, from the Greek of Musæus (in English verse by Thomas Hoy); small 4to, half-bound, 88. 1682 8884 |