See Wood’s Fasti Oxon., i. 457. The title and each page are within bounding lines. The author gives as one of his reasons for printing the sermon, that it was very wet when he delivered it, so that his auditors were few.
2. Butler, Charles. ΣΥΓΓΕ´ΝΕΙΑ. | DE PROPINQVITATE | Matrimonium impediente, | Regvla. | Quæ vna omnes quæstionis huius | difficultates facilè | expediat. | [line] | Authore Carolo Bvtler, Magd. | [line, then motto, then device.]
Impr. 60: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [4] + 71 + [1]: p. 11 beg. linea recta: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: (3–4) “Ad Lectorem”: 1–71 the work.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., iii. 210.
3. Carpenter, Nathanael. GEOGRAPHY | DELINEATED | FORTH IN TWO | BOOKES. | CONTAINING THE SPHÆRICALL | AND TOPICALL PARTS | THEREOF. | By Nathanael Carpenter | Fellow of Exceter Colledge | in Oxford. | [motto: then device.]
Impr. 61: 1625: sm. 4o: pp. [18] + 274 + [18] + 286 + [4] + 4 folded leaves, see below: pp. 11 beg. Earth & Water, 111 VVorld may be, also 11 teration next, 111 monstrated in: Pica Roman. Contents:—(3) title: (5–7) dedication to the earl of Pembroke: (9–15) “... contents of each chapter of the first booke ...”: (17–18) “To my Booke”, a poem: 1–274 the first book: (5) a titlepage:—“GEOGRAPHY | THE SECOND | BOOKE. | CONTAINING THE GENERALL | Topicall part thereof. | By ... [&c. exactly as first title, imprint and all, but different motto]: (7–9) dedication to the earl of Montgomery: (11–18) “A table of the ... contents of the second booke ...”: 1–286, the second book: (1) Apology for erratas and an omitted diagram: (2) “Errors ...”. There should be four diagrams on folded leaves, after pp. (8) “The Analysis of the first Booke”: 252 “A Table ...”: (18) “The Analysis of the seconde Booke”: 228 “A Table of the Climates ...”. The omitted diagram would have followed p. 62 of the second part.
See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 422, and 1635 C. The treatise is of the theory and principles of Geography, not of details like Heylyn’s Microcosmus. The author maintains that the earth is the centre of the universe, the sun and planets revolving round it! There are many woodcut diagrams in the text.
4. G., T. AN | ANSWER | TO | VVITHERS | MOTTO. | Without a Frontispice. | WHEREIN, | Nec Habeo, Nec Careo, Nec Cvro, | are neither approued, nor confuted: | but modestly controuled, | or qualified. | [mottos, a quaestio and responsio] | [two lines.]
Impr. 50: 1625: (eights) 12o: pp. [96], signn. A-F8: sign. B 1r beg. whom Princes: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r title: A 2r, “The Booke to the Reader”: A 2v, “Virgilius de litera Pythagorea”: A 3r-A 4v “To Master Wither himselfe”, signed “T. G. Esquire”: A 5r-A 6v “To the Reader”, signed as before: A 7r-B 2r, “The Introduction”, in verse: B 3r-F 6v, The Answer, in three parts: F 7–8 [not seen].
Very scarce. George Wither’s Withers Motto, Nec habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo, was published in 1621 and consists of reflexions on human affairs: this book is a poetical satire on those reflexions, and on the character of Wither. The author is unknown.