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The Retospect: Or, Review of Providential Mercies: With Anecdotes of Various Characters, and an Address to Naval Officers – Aliquis (Richard Marks)

The author was formerly a Lieutenant in the Rpyal Navy, and now a Minister in the Established Church

Published in London by James Nisbet of Oxford Street, 1816, a first edition.

A contemporary half leather binding. 12mo. 239 pages. Green leather spine and corners over marbled boards. Corners lightly rubbed and scuffed but nicely presented and tightly bound. Spine with 5 raised bands with blind-stamp decorated compartments and original red leather title label. Clean text throughout. A very good copy of this scarce book especially the 1816 edition.

Marks, Richard (1778–1847) was born in 1778 at North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Marks. Enlisting in the wartime navy in 1797, he found a ready outlet for a self-described partiality for water, gunpowder, and ‘deeds of dangerous enterprise. Here he recalls how he immediately immersed himself in the opportunities for ‘unabated licentiousness’ of contemporary shipboard life, ‘the broad road of destruction, loud in blasphemy, and ever ready to burlesque the Holy Scriptures’. Two narrow escapes from shipwreck in successive ships seemed only to confirm him in a life he openly describes as deliberate rebellion against God. After returning to England in 1810, following thirteen years of unrelenting sea service, Marks relinquished prospects of further advancement in the navy in order to follow an inner call to the ministry. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge and in 1813 he was ordained as a priest. He gave up his naval half pay, and served an initial seven-year curacy in a remote village parish. From 1820, following these ‘wilderness years’, as he later called them, he ministered for the remaining quarter century of his active life among ‘the humble cottagers’ of Buckinghamshire, as vicar of Great Missenden

Aliquis had experience

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S Petri Basilica – Giovanni Faldo – c1670

An original copper engraving by distinguished Italian 17th century architect, draftsman, engraver Giovanni Battista Faldo (1648-1678) published by Giovanni Giacomo De Rosis (1627-1691) a leading publisher in Rome a firm established by his father many years earlier.

A superb example on folio sized hand laid paper. The strong image taking central position measuring 30cms x 17cms.

A lovely early example of St Peter’s Basilica

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Lives of Twelve Good Men John Burgon – Relfe Brothers Binding– 1891

Published by Murray, London 1891. A second edition now including portraits of each of the illustrious subjects. Bound by Relfe Brother as a prize binding in full rich red polished calf with, five raised bands to spine with separate black leather title label. Gilt work to spine and board edges and gilt shield of Malvern College to front. Marbles end papers continuing to all page edges. A bruise to the spine top that can be forgiven for such a delightful copy – internally fine. A substantial book – 1.1kgs.

The author was the Anglican Dean of Chichester and this work is regarded as a superb biographical record of these influential 19th Century men …..1. Martin Joseph Routh: the learned divine — 2. Hugh James Rose: the restorer of the old paths — 3. Charles Marriott: the man of saintly life — 4. Edward Hawkins: the great provost — 5. Samuel Wilberforce: the remodeller of the episcopate — 6. Richard Lynch Cotton: the humble Christian — 7. Richard Greswell: the faithful steward — 8. Henry Octavius Coxe: the large- hearted librarian — 9. Henry Longueville Mansel: the Christian philosopher — 10. William Jacobson: the single-minded bishop — 11. Charles Page Eden: the earnest parish priest — 12. Charles Longuet Higgins: the good layman — Appendices: A. Dr. Routh’s library; B. Dr. Routh’s Latin inscriptions; C. The beginning of American episcopacy; D. Authorship of the `Tracts for the times.’; E. Irreligious character of the Oxford University Commission of 1877-81. The case of Magdalen College; F. The colleges of Oxford, essentially ecclesiastical foundations; G. The colleges of Oxford intended for the encouragement of learning in the sons of poor parents; H. Mr. Reginald Wilberforce as a biographer.

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The Retospect: Or, Review of Providential Mercies: With Anecdotes of Various Characters, and an Address to Naval Officers – Aliquis (Richard Marks)

S Petri Basilica – Giovanni Faldo – c1670

Lives of Twelve Good Men John Burgon – Relfe Brothers Binding– 1891

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