... ארבע ועשרים ..., Bible. O.T. Hebrew. 1739., and Bible. O.T. Ladino. 1739.
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BEIN MLd291 739a: Imperfect: vol.4 (Hagiographa, except for the five Scrolls) wanting. Vol.1, some leaves mutilated; vol.2 lacks leaves 54-55; vol.5 t.p. badly mutilated, of leaf 3 only a stub remains. Damp-stained. and Hebrew and Judaeo-Spanish (translated by Abraham Assa) in parallel columns. With Rashi's commentary.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac Watts. Other entries include epitaphs and psalms. The volume also contains some of Hamby's own religious verses as well as verses by several of his Norfolk acquaintances. The work is prefaced by an introduction which declares that although a preface seems needless when the volume is meant for "one private person," the preface will be useful to those who will read the work after his decease. The preface provides an autobiography of Hamby, focusing on his development as a writer.
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Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms., Autograph on title page: M. Toms., Binding: contemporary full morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Title on spine: Manuscript Poetry., Marbled endpapers., and Pasted in: engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hamby, "de Wymondham in Com. Norfoliciae."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Written when the author was 18, partly in answer to Wollaston's Religion of nature, and addressed to Mr. J(ames) R(alph) He printed, he says, only a hundred copies, of which he gave a few to his friends; and afterwards, disliking the piece, he burnt the rest except one copy.--J. Crossley in Notes and queries, ser. 1, v.5, p. 6 (Jan. 3, 1852)l9
Copy presented to Yale college by Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse, through Benjamin Colman; with manuscript note on fly-leaf and manuscript corrections on the title page and in the text by Jonathan Edwards.
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The error on the title page is due to the confusion of Hampshire county in Massachusetts with New Hampshire province.
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Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-market
General history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates
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Attributed to Defoe by Professor John R. Moore of Indiana university. and The frontispiece noted by Sabin, and found in the 1st and 3d editions are wanting in this copy.
Attributed to Defoe by Prof. John R. Moore of Indiana university., Paging irregular: p. 431-441 numbered 417-427., and Up to p. 414 and from the second p. 417 to the end, the book is a reissue of the 2d edition, 1724. Between p. 416 and 417 of the original [?] pages of new matter have been added, mostly made up of chap. XVII. Of Capt. John Gow, alias Smith."