London : Printed for John Newton, at the Three Pigeons, over-against the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet Street, 1694. First Edition London : Printed for D. Browne, sen. & jun. W. Mears, F. Clay; Fletcher Gyles; and T. Osborne, 1727. Second Edition
Account of the Isle of Jersey, The Greatest of those Islands that are now the only Remainder of the English Dominions in France, With A New and Accurate Map of that Island
8vo, [-]6-1. B-P8, Q4, 1 folding map, cont. sprinkled calf, moroccon label on spine, edges sprinkled red, hinges a littleworn, small loss at foot of spine, otherwise sound, engraved armorial bookplate of “James Leigh Esq. Adlestrop” (an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother) on front pastedown and his signature on front fly.
Falle's Account of Jersey, 1694, which included discussion of the island's institutions and natural history, was the first and for a long time the standard work on Jersey, reprinted as late as 1837. The present copy once belonged to an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother, Cassandra.
Wing F338
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. published in his life-time; together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England; and the life of the author. By ... Edmund Lord Bishop of London. To which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henr Spelman, never before printed: ... With a compleat index ...
Folio 2 vcols in 1, engraved portrait, 2 folding tables, title in red and black, (13 lls), xxvi, 190 pp, (91 lls), Title to vol 2 (”Reliquae Spelmannianae”), (7 lls), 256 pp, (12 lls), some foxing in places, old half calf, marbled boards, later endpapers, newly rebacked, engraved armorial bookplate of “ Robert and Cecilia Tubbs” inscription on front fly leaf “F. Stroud Read / Brondesbury Park, August 25 . 1922”
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