First Edition of Bunny's Treaties on Divorce
On Divorce for Adulterie, and Marrying Againe:. that there is no sufficient warrant so to do. With a note in the end that R.P. [i.e. Robert Parsons] many yeers since was answered.
Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1610.
First edition. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/2 inches; 175 x 138 mm). [2], 171, [3, not to reader], [6, table] pp. With a folding chart.
Contemporary full calf, boards decoratively paneled in blind. Some chipping to edges and blindstamping. Top of spine with a small split. Contemporary manuscript notes on front free endpapers. Many leaves throughout volume trimmed close. In Bunny's work, page is trimmed at lower margin of 2 index leaves and table just touching text. Top margin of first two works trimmed close, occasionally affecting the headline. Overall very good.
"This treatise was written in 1595 and sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury: Bunny describes in a preface the circumstances of its being written and the reasons for withholding it from publication until 1610."
"In 1610, Edmund Bunny published his Of Divorce, etc., written in 1595, in which he supports the opposition of the established church to remarriage. In the "Advertisement to the Reader," Bunny gives some interesting sidelights on the times. Of the controversy in hand, he says that it was one 'as wherein divers of great learning have already dealt,' but he does not mention any by name. He says also that the practice of divorce and remarriage was by no means unusual..." (English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653 By Chilton Latham Powell).
Bound in a volume after the following two titles:
GATAKER, Thomas. Of the Nature and Use of Lots: A Treatise Historicall and Theologicall... Second Edition, Reviewed, Corrected, and Enlarged. London: John Haviland, 1627.
Second edition, Reviewed, corrected, and enlarged; with addition of answer to some further arguments; by the author. First edition was printed in 1619. [16] 416, [4] pp. With the two final leaves of quotations and errata.
"A reply to: Balmford, James. A short and plaine dialogue concerning the unlawfulnes of playing at cards or tables, or any other game consisting in chance. " (ESTC S102918).
[and]
GATAKER, Thomas. A Just Defence of Certaine Passages in a Former Treatise Concerning the Nature and Use of Lots, against Such Exceptions and Oppositions as Have Beene Made thereunto by Mr. I.B. [i.e. James Balmford].London: John Haviland for Robert Bird, 1623.
First edition. [8], 270, [6] pp. With publisher's "An aduertisement to Mr. Balmford" on the final leaves.
"A defense of Gataker's 'Of the nature and use of lots', in reply to 'A modest reply to certaine answeres, which Mr. Gataker B.D. in his treatise of the nature, & use of lotts, giveth to arguments in a dialogue concerning the unlawfulnes of games consisting in chance' by James Balmford." (ESTC S102920 ).
ESTC S107056. ESTC S102920. ESTC S102918
HBS 68579.
$5,500.
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