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DAVIES, SIR JOHN
A discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued,
nor brought under obedience of the Crowne of England until the beginning
of His Majesties happie raigne - London: 1612. 4to. pp. [iii], 287. Lacking
‘A’ leaf at start. This is the copy from which the 1969 University Press fac-
simile edition derived, a fact that explains why the reprint lacks the original
A1 leaf. Apart from that, good in modern calf with the bookplates of John
Haddon Hindley and Hindley of Hindley. STC 6348. Sweeney 1320.
€300 - €500
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DAVIES, SIR JOHN
Nosce teipsum. This oracle expounded in two elegies. 1. Of humane
knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof - London:
1599. 8vo. pp. [iv], 81, 28, 49. The Harold Greenblatt / Beverley Chew
copy. Very good in nineteenth century full morocco. STC 6359. Sweeney
1325 quoting the 1st edition of 1599 but also making reference to this col-
lected edition.
€600 - €1,000
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DAVIES, SIR JOHN
Le primer report des cases & matters en Ley resolves & adjudges en les
courts del roy en Ireland - Dublin: Printed by John Frankton, 1615. Folio.
pp. [xxiv], 97. A very good copy in modern calf.
STC 636. Sweeney 1327
€400 - €600
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A declaration shewing the necessity of the Earle of Strafford’s suffering -
[London] 1641. 4to. pp. [11]. Quarter calf. Very good. Wing D 795.
“Consider we therefore his physiognomy; posture of person, proud car-
riage, and insolent behaviour, it may easily foretell the future, as falling
leaves Winter; for his palled colour sheweth revenge; his sower face,
cruelty; his stooping and looking to the earth, avarice; his gate, pride;
and his demeanour, insolency; for revenge is odious in greatnesse, cruelty
abhominable in governours, avarice hatefull to God and man, as appeares
by his sole ingrosing comodities in Ireland, and therefore he will bee homo
hominibus lupus”. Sweeney 1356.
€200 - €300
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DENHAM, SIR JOHN
The famous battel of the catts, in the Province of Ulster, June 25 - London:
1668. 4to. pp. [i], 11. Apart from a titlepage paper flaw removing one let-
ter, this is a fine clean copy with wide margins in modern quarter calf and
cloth sides. Wing D 1001. In verse. Sweeney 1377.
€500 - €800
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A description of the passage of Thomas, late Earle of Strafford, over the
River of Styx, with the conference betwixt him, Charon and William Noy -
[London] 1641. 4to. With a large woodcut on the titlepage. A good copy in
modern quarter morocco. Wing D 1166. Sweeney 1396.
€200 - €300