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)Mercury enthroned on a plinth, attended by a woman, a cherub, and a satyr. The plinth is covered with a carpet inscribed ‘Hermathena’. Engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe. Probably from Historie der Kerken en Ketteren, by ‘Godfried Arnold’ (Christopher Irenaeus), 2 vols., 1701.)

(A man pruning a vine, subscribed with the motto ‘Non odit tamen’. Below the device is the imprint ‘Amstelredami, | Sumptibus Henrici Laurentii Bibliopolæ. | Anno cIↄ Iↄc xliv’, printed partly in capitals. Probably from Operum theologicorum [quatuor tomi], by Caspar Sibelius.)

(A burin being sharpened on a whetstone, within the motto ‘Terar dum prosim’, in capitals, surrounded by two cherubs and two sphinxes. Engraved by Joseph Mulder from a design by B. van Overbeke. Below the device is the imprint, ‘Amstelædami, | Apud Henricum Wetstenium.’, printed in capitals.)

(A woman supporting a crown, with horns of plenty, etc., on either side. Above the device is the imprint, ‘Paris, | [..]mprimerie de François le Cointe | rüe des Sept-Voyes, prés le College de Reims.’, printed partly in capitals.)

(A caduceus held by two hands, below a flying horse, with two horns of plenty in front; the whole within an elaborate frame incorporating various figures.)

(A caduceus held by two hands, below a flying horse, with two horns of plenty in front; the whole within an elaborate frame incorporating figures labelled, in capitals, ‘Fides’, ‘Spes’, ‘Prudentia’, ‘Fortitudo’, ‘Charitas’, ‘Patientia’, ‘Justitia’, and ‘Temperantia’. The design incorporates printer’s marks containing the initials ‘CDAS’. Below the device is printed in capitals ‘Hanoviæ,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)

(A head breathing on two hands holding a heart, within two mottos: ‘Verbis initur, manibus contrahitur, corde conservatur societas’ and ‘Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur’; the whole within an elaborate frame. Below the device is printed in capitals ‘A Lyon,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)

The items assigned are as follows: the copyright of ‘The Modern Practice of the Court of Exchequer in Prosecutions relating to his Majesty’s Revenue of the Customs’, with 95 books (lot 12); the copyright of ‘a Vindication of Providence or a True Estimate of Human Life, in which the Passions are Considered in a New Light [etc.]’, by Edward Young, with 820 books (lot 17); the copyright of ‘Friendship in Death [etc.]’, by Elizabeth Singer ‘since Rowe’ (lots 53–6); and the copyright in ‘the Ocean, a Poem’ by Edward Young and ‘a Sermon called, an Apology for Princes’ (lot 60). Consideration, £212 10s. 6d. Witnessed by John Worrall and Francis Gosling.

Caen.—Encloses ff. 19–24.

(Dated 15 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Dugua has noted: ‘j’ai fait usage de ces pièces pendent mon sejour à lisieux du 16 au 18 ventose [6–8 Mar.].’)

(Dated ‘Aug= 1750=’, and postmarked 23 Aug. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’.)

(Engraved by Abraham Blooteling. Cf. f. 29r.)

Date of '1842?' suggested in pencil beside the ballad sheet, but the election referred to is that of 1841.

Numbered 15.

Headed ‘Ad D.D. Gul. Bennettum de Grubbet, Equitem, De Morte D.D. Gul. Scot de Thirlestane, Equestris itidem Ordinis, qui obiît Edini 8vo Octobris M D CCXXV. Jo. Kerrus.’ First line: ‘Mi Bennette, tuus jacet Sodalis’. Followed by detailed notes in Latin.

(A fleur-de-lis, between the letters ‘L A’, in an elaborate frame.)

(Minerva and an owl, standing either side of an olive tree. Minerva holds a shield bearing the head of Medusa and a banner inscribed ‘Ne extra oleas’. This device appears in Descartes’ Tractatus de homine (1677).)

(Two flying storks, one feeding the other, in a landscape, within an ouroboros.)

(Engraved by I. David, from a design by F. C. The central illustration depicts two vipers, one with the head of the other in its mouth, forming a circle around the motto ‘Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris’, all within a roundel with female figures on either side. Above the roundel is a monogram of the letters ‘IASDT’, and below it a printer’s mark containing the initials ‘I A S’. This device appears in the edition of Paracelsus’s works published by the brothers in 1668.)

(The central illustration depicts a porcupine below the motto ‘Mordentes sauciabuntur’, within a strapwork frame. This device appears at the end of Icones operum misercordiae, by Giulio Roscio (1586).)

(The illustration depicts the visit of the Magi, within a strapwork frame. At the foot is a printer’s mark containing the initials ‘F. M.’)

(Engraved by Picquet. The central illustration depicts two flying storks, one feeding the other, surrounded by the motto ‘Honora patrem tuum, et matrem tuam, ut sis longæus super terram. Ex. xx.’ and by various depictions of filial devotion. At the head are the printer’s arms, and at the foot his mark containing the initials ‘S. C.’ This device appears in Nicholas Abram’s Commentarius in tertium volumen orationum M. T. Ciceronis (1631). Below the device is printed in capitals ‘Lvtetiae Parisiorum,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)

Most of the title has been cut off.