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J. & J. LEIGHTON, Ltd.
259 [FREEMASONS]. MATRE DEI (J. a) Adumbratio Liberorum Muratorum,
seu Francs-Massons, cujus eorum societas, Origo, Ritus, Mores, &c., deteguntur.
£3 3s. Madrid, 1751
Sm. 8vo, orig. sheep, full gilt back, clean copy. At end are Bulls of Popes Clement XII.
and Benedict XIV against the craft of Freemasonry, also an edict of the king in Spanish. “ A
violent invective ” : rare. A copy recently priced £4 10s.
260 FREEMASON’S Calendar for 1795, containing besides the usual Matter...
a great variety of Articles concerning Masonry. £3 10s. 1795
8vo, contempy. English binding of straight grain blue moro., decorated on sides with broad
gilt borders formed of festoons and Masonic emblems, g.e., fine copy, interleaved with blank
paper.
261 [FRITH (J.)] A Pistle to the Christen Reader. ^[ The Revelation of Anti-
christ. ^[ Antithesis, wherein are compared togeder Christes actes and our holye
father the Popes. £8 10s.
“ Malborow,” Hans Luft, [? Antwerp, Hillenius], 12 July, 1529
Sm. 8vo, old straight grain blue morocco, blind ornams. g.e., title neatly inlaid, some margins
stained but large and sound with errata and blank at end. First ed. of one of the first books
printed in English against the Pope, and published under the name of Richard Brightwell.
The 5th book from this press. Sayle 6272 (the 2nd example of this press in U. Lib.Cambr.).
B.M. copy is mutilated (Cat. 272). The “ Antithesis” is from the German of Luther or
Melanchthon, cf. Murray German Catal. 255. The Britwell copy sold for £10. 5s. by auction :
a copy recently priced £12 12s.
262 FROISSART (Jean) Les Cronique de France, d’Angleterre, d’Escoce, &c.
£32 Paris, [? G. Couteau] for A. Verard, 12 Oct., 1518
Sm. fol., 4 vols in 2, 17th Cent, calf, full gilt backs, 2 or 3 end margins strengthened, part of
blank margin cut off one leaf, loss of 2 or 3 letters on another : large sound and very desirable
copy with 3 orig. blanks and leaf of Register in Vol 3 : the rare Fourth edition, especially so
being uniform throughout with the large device of Verard on each title and at end of Vols 1
and 4 (6 places in all) : this is seldom the case, most copies being mixed as to publishers, for
the ed. was produced conjointly for Verard, Regnault and Petit: finely printed in lettres
batardes, numerous ornam. initials. Macfarlane, Verard 282. Early large armorial ex-libris
in 1st vol. Numerous MS. notes, pedigrees, coats of arms, etc., of persons mentioned in text
added in margins and on blanks by one of the early owners whose names, &c., are written
on fly-leaves, viz., Che livre chy apertien a Monsr. de Rassenghien, 1527 : and in same hand,
Adolf Vilain contre ches turs ira Vailant de son cors et dieu laimera (this owner was killed on
the field of battle against the Turks), Sans reproche, Vylain, 1550 : Pour ung espoir, Rasseng-
hien : Pense m’y faict, Isenghien, 1583 : De Herselle : &c.
Reproduction see page 43.
263 FROISSART, P. de COMINES, C. SEYSSEL. Tres Gallicarum rerum
scriptores, a J. Sleidano e gallico conversi. £4 4s. Frankfort, A. Wechel, 1578
Sm. fol., 18th Cent, calf, full gilt back and sides, with gilt arms of Henri, Comte de Bruhl (1700-
63), Minister to Augustus III., king of Poland : a rare stamp, as the whole of the Comte de
Bruhl’s library (62,000 vols) was bought by Prince Xavier de Saxe, and afterwards passed
to the Public Library of Dresden. (Guigard II. 98). J. F. Vandevelde’s in 1801. Seyssel’s
work, de Repub. Galliae & Regum officiis, is seldom met with. See also COMINES, ante.
264 FRY (F.) Description of the Great Bible, 1539, and the Six editions of
Cranmer’s Bible, 1540 and 1541, printed by Grafton and Whitchurch; also of
the editions, in large folio, of the authorized version of the Holy Scriptures,
printed in 1611, 1613, 1617, 1634, 1640. £14 1865
Large folio, half morocco. Illustrated with facsimiles of titles, and with passages from the
editions, &c., on 51 plates : printed on vellum : also with an original leaf of each of the
editions described.
Catalogue No. 8, N.S.
Telephone : Regent 1610
J. & J. LEIGHTON, Ltd.
259 [FREEMASONS]. MATRE DEI (J. a) Adumbratio Liberorum Muratorum,
seu Francs-Massons, cujus eorum societas, Origo, Ritus, Mores, &c., deteguntur.
£3 3s. Madrid, 1751
Sm. 8vo, orig. sheep, full gilt back, clean copy. At end are Bulls of Popes Clement XII.
and Benedict XIV against the craft of Freemasonry, also an edict of the king in Spanish. “ A
violent invective ” : rare. A copy recently priced £4 10s.
260 FREEMASON’S Calendar for 1795, containing besides the usual Matter...
a great variety of Articles concerning Masonry. £3 10s. 1795
8vo, contempy. English binding of straight grain blue moro., decorated on sides with broad
gilt borders formed of festoons and Masonic emblems, g.e., fine copy, interleaved with blank
paper.
261 [FRITH (J.)] A Pistle to the Christen Reader. ^[ The Revelation of Anti-
christ. ^[ Antithesis, wherein are compared togeder Christes actes and our holye
father the Popes. £8 10s.
“ Malborow,” Hans Luft, [? Antwerp, Hillenius], 12 July, 1529
Sm. 8vo, old straight grain blue morocco, blind ornams. g.e., title neatly inlaid, some margins
stained but large and sound with errata and blank at end. First ed. of one of the first books
printed in English against the Pope, and published under the name of Richard Brightwell.
The 5th book from this press. Sayle 6272 (the 2nd example of this press in U. Lib.Cambr.).
B.M. copy is mutilated (Cat. 272). The “ Antithesis” is from the German of Luther or
Melanchthon, cf. Murray German Catal. 255. The Britwell copy sold for £10. 5s. by auction :
a copy recently priced £12 12s.
262 FROISSART (Jean) Les Cronique de France, d’Angleterre, d’Escoce, &c.
£32 Paris, [? G. Couteau] for A. Verard, 12 Oct., 1518
Sm. fol., 4 vols in 2, 17th Cent, calf, full gilt backs, 2 or 3 end margins strengthened, part of
blank margin cut off one leaf, loss of 2 or 3 letters on another : large sound and very desirable
copy with 3 orig. blanks and leaf of Register in Vol 3 : the rare Fourth edition, especially so
being uniform throughout with the large device of Verard on each title and at end of Vols 1
and 4 (6 places in all) : this is seldom the case, most copies being mixed as to publishers, for
the ed. was produced conjointly for Verard, Regnault and Petit: finely printed in lettres
batardes, numerous ornam. initials. Macfarlane, Verard 282. Early large armorial ex-libris
in 1st vol. Numerous MS. notes, pedigrees, coats of arms, etc., of persons mentioned in text
added in margins and on blanks by one of the early owners whose names, &c., are written
on fly-leaves, viz., Che livre chy apertien a Monsr. de Rassenghien, 1527 : and in same hand,
Adolf Vilain contre ches turs ira Vailant de son cors et dieu laimera (this owner was killed on
the field of battle against the Turks), Sans reproche, Vylain, 1550 : Pour ung espoir, Rasseng-
hien : Pense m’y faict, Isenghien, 1583 : De Herselle : &c.
Reproduction see page 43.
263 FROISSART, P. de COMINES, C. SEYSSEL. Tres Gallicarum rerum
scriptores, a J. Sleidano e gallico conversi. £4 4s. Frankfort, A. Wechel, 1578
Sm. fol., 18th Cent, calf, full gilt back and sides, with gilt arms of Henri, Comte de Bruhl (1700-
63), Minister to Augustus III., king of Poland : a rare stamp, as the whole of the Comte de
Bruhl’s library (62,000 vols) was bought by Prince Xavier de Saxe, and afterwards passed
to the Public Library of Dresden. (Guigard II. 98). J. F. Vandevelde’s in 1801. Seyssel’s
work, de Repub. Galliae & Regum officiis, is seldom met with. See also COMINES, ante.
264 FRY (F.) Description of the Great Bible, 1539, and the Six editions of
Cranmer’s Bible, 1540 and 1541, printed by Grafton and Whitchurch; also of
the editions, in large folio, of the authorized version of the Holy Scriptures,
printed in 1611, 1613, 1617, 1634, 1640. £14 1865
Large folio, half morocco. Illustrated with facsimiles of titles, and with passages from the
editions, &c., on 51 plates : printed on vellum : also with an original leaf of each of the
editions described.
Catalogue No. 8, N.S.
Telephone : Regent 1610
