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An Account Of Several Travels Through a great part of Germany: In Four Journeys. I. From Norwich to Colen. II. From Colen to Vienna, with a particular Description of that Imperial City. III. From Vienna to Hamburg. IV. From Colen to London. Wherein The Mi

Browne, Edward.

London:: for Benjamin Tooke,, 1677. First Edition.. " He went to Italy and came home through France, and it is by his description of this and of several subsequent journeys that he is best known. In 1668 he sailed to Rotterdam from Yarmouth and went to Leyden, Amsterdam, and Utrecht, visiting museums, libraries, and churches, attending lectures, and conversing with the learned. He went on to Antwerp, and ended his journey at Cologne on 10 Oct. 1668. His next journey was to Vienna, where he made friends with the imperial librarian Lambecius, and enjoyed many excursions and much learned conversation. He seems to have studied Greek colloquially,.... more information

Price: 1500.00 USD

A Brief Account Of Some Travels In divers Parts of Europe, Viz.Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Frivli. Through a great part of Germany, And The Low-Countries. Through Marca Trevisana, and Lombardy

Browne, Edward.

London:: Benjamin Tooke,, 1685. Second Collected Edition.. Browne (1644-1708) physician, son of Sir Thomas Browne was most famous for his travel accounts. "He went to Italy and came home through France, and it is by his description of this and of several subsequent journeys that he is best known. In 1668 he sailed to Rotterdam from Yarmouth and went to Leyden, Amsterdam, and Utrecht, visiting museums, libraries, and churches, attending lectures, and conversing with the learned. He went on to Antwerp, and ended his journey at Cologne on 10 Oct. 1668. His next journey was to Vienna, where he made friends with the imperial librarian Lambecius, and.... more information

Price: 850.00 USD

Clavis astrologiae elimata: or A key to the whole art of astrology new filed and polished. In three parts. Containing I. An introduction; by which an ordinary capacity may understand the grounds thereof, and how to set a figure upon any occasion: with the

Coley, Henry & Johannes Kepler.

London:: for Benjamin Tooke & Thomas Strawbridge,, 1676. Second, expanded, edition. First English Edition of Kepler's Tables.. Coley, Henry 1633-1695?, mathematician and astrologer. " He was the adopted son of the astrologer, William Lilly, who constantly makes reference in his works to Coley's merit as a man and as a professor of mathematics and occult science. He is best known by his celebrated work, ÔClavis Astrologi¾ Elimata; or a Key to the whole Art of Astrology, new filed and polished,Õ which was first published in 1669 (not in 1663, as stated by Sibly), and of which a second and enlarged edition was published in 1676... Coley attained considerable distinction as a mathematician. We are told by his.... more information

Price: 1500.00 USD

Poems and Songs.

Flatman, Thomas.

London:: S[arah] & B[ennet] G[riffin]. for Benjamin Tooke & Jonathan Edwin,, 1674. First Edition.. Flatman (1637-88) was a poet and esteemed miniature-painter. "ÔA Thought of DeathÕ (which Pope imitated in ÔThe Dying Christian to his SoulÕ) and ÔDeath. A Song,Õ are singularly impressive; the ÔHymn for the MorningÕ and ÔAnother for the EveningÕ are choice examples of devotional verse; and some of the lighter poems, notably the paraphrases of select odes of Horace, are elegant. Flatman's ÔPoems and SongsÕ were first collected in 1674, 8vo, and reached a fourth edition in 1686. Prefixed are commendatory verses by Walter Pope (only in first edition), Charles Cotton, Richard Newcourt, and others. In the third and fourth.... more information

Price: 1250.00 USD

Poems and Songs. The Second Edition With Additions and Amendments.

Flatman, Thomas.

London:: S[arah] & B[ennet] G[riffin] for Benjamin Tooke & Jonathan Edwin,, 1676. Flatman (1637-88) was a poet and esteemed miniature-painter. "ÔA Thought of DeathÕ (which Pope imitated in ÔThe Dying Christian to his SoulÕ) and ÔDeath. A Song,Õ are singularly impressive; the ÔHymn for the MorningÕ and ÔAnother for the EveningÕ are choice examples of devotional verse; and some of the lighter poems, notably the paraphrases of select odes of Horace, are elegant. Flatman's ÔPoems and SongsÕ were first collected in 1674, 8vo, and reached a fourth edition in 1686. Prefixed are commendatory verses by Walter Pope (only in first edition), Charles Cotton, Richard Newcourt, and others. In the third and fourth.... more information

Price: 850.00 USD

Poems and Songs. The Third Edition With Additions ans Amendments.

Flatman, Thomas.

London:: Benjamin Tooke ,, 1682. Flatman (1637-88) was a poet and esteemed miniature-painter. "ÔA Thought of DeathÕ (which Pope imitated in ÔThe Dying Christian to his SoulÕ) and ÔDeath. A Song,Õ are singularly impressive; the ÔHymn for the MorningÕ and ÔAnother for the EveningÕ are choice examples of devotional verse; and some of the lighter poems, notably the paraphrases of select odes of Horace, are elegant. Flatman's ÔPoems and SongsÕ were first collected in 1674, 8vo, and reached a fourth edition in 1686. Prefixed are commendatory verses by Walter Pope (only in first edition), Charles Cotton, Richard Newcourt, and others. In the third and fourth.... more information

Price: 450.00 USD

Bound volume of 5 Trials, presided over by the notorious Lord Chief Justice, known as the "hanging judge".

JEFFRIES, Sir George

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1864 very good(+). First. Separate paginations. Narrow folio, old leather, worn; front cover detached. London: Benj. Tooke, 1684. First Editions .... more information

Price: 4500.00 USD

Memoirs And Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical. Made in a late Journey Through the Empire Of China… 1698

Le Comte, Louis David

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1698 Good+. Second Edition, "very much corrected, with the Addition of a Map of China, and a Table." 8vo, original calf with newer spine (probably early 20th C.) 517 pp., index. With frontispiece, folding map, folding table, and two folding engraved plates (Observatory at Pekin, and the Emperor's Throne), collated complete. Good+ copy, covers well rounded and dry, hinges very good and firm, contents good+ to VG; some worming to the first several pages including title page and frontispiece portrait of Cam-HY the Emperor of China, map complete but with separation along one of the folds (6 inches), a few very short.... more information

Price: 600.00 USD

Cursus mathematicus, Mathematical Sciences in Nine Books. Comprehending Arithmetick, Vulgar, Decimal, Instrumental, Algebraical. Geometry, Plain, Solid. Cosmography, Celestial, Terrestrial. Astronomy, Theorical, Practical. Navigation, Plain, Spherical. T

LEYBOURN, WILLIAM.

London:: Printed for Thomas Basset, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham and John Churchill,, 1690. Very Good +. 4to(31.4 x 19.4 cm). Contemporary calf. Collation: [xvi] [1] 2-904, [96- Tables] pp. + [44] leaves of plates, many folding, one loosely inserted from another copy. The portrait of Leybourn by White is present as frontispiece. There are several maps in text. The binding has raised bands on spine, which has been laid down on later leather. There is some loss in upper panel and ends to old leather spine. The covers have stamped decorative panel with inner and outer tooling. There is some loss to leather, as do corners. The pastedowns are absent. There are several bookplates of previous.... more information

Price: 6000.00 USD

The Fate of Capua. A Tragedy As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields.

SOUTHERNE, THOMAS.

London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1700., Paper a little browned, but otherwise a very nice copy, with wide margins.. First edition.. 4to, modern brown three quarter morocco marbled paper sides, gilt lettering. Half-title and two pages of publisher's terminal ads present. .... more information

Price: 650.00 USD

Eight Chirurgical Treatises, On These Following Heads: (Viz.) I. Of Tumours. II. Of Ulcers. III. Of Diseases of the Anus. IV. Of the Kings-Evil. V. Of Wounds. VI.Of Gun-shot Wounds. VII. Of Fractures and Luxations. VIII. Of the Lues Venera.

Wiseman, Richard.

London:: for Benjamin Tooke and John Meredith in Trust for Royston and Elizabeth Meredith,, 1705. Fourth edition.. "Wiseman ranks in surgery as high as does Sydenham in medicine." G&M 5573. "Wiseman deserves notice as the first of the really great surgeons who lifted the surgical profession from its state of subordination to the physicians."DNB. "The 'severall treatises' encompassing over 600 case histoties, deal with tumors, ulcers, diseases of the anus, scrofula, wounds, gunshot wounds, fractures and luxations, and veneral diseases. Wiseman was the first to advocate primary amputation of a badly injured or diseased limb rather than to wait until the onset of infection; he also practiced flap amputation rather than the circular or guillotine amputation method.... more information

Price: 1250.00 USD