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16th - 19th Century Fine and Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts, and Atlases James Howell (Howel) (1594-1666) Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren Divided Into Four Books Partly Historical, Political, Philosophicall Upon Emergent Occasions by James Howell Esq; One of the Clerks of His Late Maties Most Honble Privy Councell London 1673 James Howell ( Howel ) - (1594-1666) Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. Divided Into Four Books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophicall, Upon Emergent Occasions. by James Howell Esq; One of the Clerks of His Late Maties Most Honble Privy Councell Printed for Thomas Guy, at the corner shope of little Lumbard-street and Cornhill, near Woolchurch Market, 1673. Includes folded fullpage Illustrated Engraved Frontispiece displaying woodcut portraits of King Charles I, Phylosophia, Historia, Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and others. The words "Historical, Political, Philosophicall," are gathered by a left brace on title page. Contemporary calf binding with professionally restored raised banded spine. It has been collated and is complete with its leaves clean and crisp - [16], 510, [26] pages - 8vo. Early Manuscript Signature Inscriptions on front endpaper of "Benjamin Bulgin 1699" and "Fra: Bluett". Howell's letters were largely written to imaginary correspondents while he was imprisoned in the Fleet, 1643-51, as a Royalist or as an insolvent debtor is not entirely clear. It is the work upon which his reputation rests and may "be credited with an immediate literary influence in making the penning of fictitious correspondence a fashionable art. (DNB) Howell is one of the earliest Englishmen who made a livelihood out of literature, but it is in his Epistolae, that his literary power is displayed at its best. Philosophic reflection, political, social, and domestic anecdote, scientific speculation, are all intermingled with attractive ease in the correspondence which he professes to have addressed to men of all ranks and degrees of intimacy. (Idem) The letters include discussion of language, religion, wine, tobacco, witchcraft, and Sir Walter Raleigh and his expedition to Guiana. PAYMENT - CREDIT CARDS DISCOVER - MASTERCARD - VISA - AMERICAN EXPRESS SHIPPING - USPS / FEDEX
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