Narrates of his being set down in China by his Birds, and his being taken for a magician by the Country People, and preserved from their fury by a Chinese Mandarin, etc., etc.
102 Curiosa. The Wonderful, Surprising and Uncommon Voyages and Adventures of Captain Jones, to Patagonia. Curious engraved frontispiece. 8vo. New ¾ polished brown calf extra, gilt tooled back. London, 1766. $7.50
Contains among, his other adventures "His Loves with the Queen of No-land," etc.
103 Curiosa. Thomas Deloney: His Thomas of Reading and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada. Edited with Notes and Introduction, by C. R. Aldrich and Lucian S. Virtland. Woodcuts. Small 4to. ½ vellum, board sides, uncut. New York, 1903. $7.50
Edition limited to only 50 numbered copies, printed at the Westminster Press, entirely on Japan vellum.
104 Curiosa. The Muses' Library; or, a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons to the Reign of King Charles II. Containing the Lives of Characters of all the known writers in that interval, the names of their patrons; complete episodes, by way of specimen of the larger pieces; very near the entire works of some, and large quotations from others. 8vo. new ¾ polished brown calf extra, full gilt tooled back, with blue levant labels, gilt tops, uncut. London, 1738. $7.50
First and scarcest volume of the series. A general collection of almost all the old valuable Poetry extant, now so industriously enquir'd after, tho' rarely to be found, but in the Studies of the Curious, and affording entertainment on all subjects, Philosophical, Historical, Moral, Satyrical, Allegorial, Critical, Heroick, Pastoral, Gallant, Amorous, Courtly and Sublime.
105 Crabbe (George) Poetical Works. With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by his son. With exquisite vignette engraved frontispieces and title-pages by Finden, 8 vols. 12mo. New ¾ straight-grained green morocco extra, gilt tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. London: John Murray, 1834. $40.00
An extremely fine set of these choice poetical writings, prettily illustrated, and placed in a handsome binding.