Included in this list , Four works by Early Modern Women, A leveler, Doctors, Quakers, New World Natural History, Poetesses, A master of ancient satire, Cosmology .

1) Edward Brown 1677, 2) Anne Finch 1701, 3) Q. Horatius Flaccus 1481, 4) Francesco Redi 1685, 5) Martha Simmonds 1656 6) William Walwyn, 1696 7) Judith Zins-Penninick 1663

#1. An account of several travels through Germany 1677

First edition of an intriguing illustrated travelogue by a Physician the son of Sir Thomas Browne.

863J Edward Brown 1644-1708. 

An account of several travels through a great part of Germany: in four journeys I. From Norwich to Colen. II. From Colen to Vienna, with a particular description of that imperial city. III. From Vienna to Hamburg. IV. From Colen to London. Wherein the mines, baths, and other curiosities of those parts are treated of. Illustrated with sculptures. By Edward Brown M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians of London, and of the Royal Society.

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1677.                       Price $2,500

Folio 20 x 15 cm. (4),179pp. Signatures: A²-B-Z⁴ Aa²; Plus 1 page of publisher’s ads. Illustrated with 6 copper engraved plates (3 are double-page & 1 with an old repair)

 Bound in modern antiqued boards, paper label on front cover. Title and final leaf a bit browned.

 “A very interesting work, with acute observations and judgements; of particular importance is the information Browne provides on early mines and mining techniques” (Blackmer).  Browne grew up whetting his intellect on his famous father’s library, and as an adult embarked on several grand tours through Europe. His reports reveal an acute attention to the curious objects he encountered on his travels, as well as a healthy interest in books and librarians—in Vienna, he befriended Ludwig’s famous librarian Peter Lambeck. In his accounts he devotes special attention to the mining operations he encounters, as well as to the “curious artificers” he meets in Germany, who work surprisingly cheaply and whose work is inspected for fraud by government officials. The Charming engravings depict The whirlpool in the Danube-river, St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna, Fshes of the Danube-river, The bear-garden of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, And miners. All but one of these intriguing plates are signed John Oliver1616-1701, engraver. 

ESTC No.: R19778; Wing B5109. see Duveen Alchemy, p. 103 (second edition) Arber’s Term cat.; I 253;  Kress Lib : S.1447; Goldsmiths’-Kress no. 02195.0.; OCLC,; 20888835

https://datb.cerl.org/estc/R19778

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#2

Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea  and Anne Wharton Two Female Wits!

A poetic miscellany with early modern female ownership with contributions of two Poetesses.  777E Anne Wharton, (née Lee) 1659-1685 (contributor) Anne Finch Anne Countess of Winchilsea (Contributor) John Sheffield Buckingham 1647-1721 A Collection of Poems: Viz. The Temple of Death: By the Marquis of Normanby. An Epistle to the Earl of Dorset: By Charles Montague, Lord Halifax. The Duel of the Stags: By Sir Robert Howard. With Several Original Poems, Never before Printed, By The E. of Roscommon. The E. of Rochester. The E. Orrery. Sir Charles Sedley. } { Sir George Etherege. Mr. Granville. Mr. Stepney. Mr. Dryden, &c. London: Printed for Daniel Brown at the Black Swann and Bible without Temple Bar; And Benjamin Tooke at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1701. Price $2,200Octavo 19 x 11cm. Signatures: A⁴, B-2E⁸, 2F⁴ (Bb3 missigned “B3”) Bound in contemporary panelled calf, raised bands, reback’d, gilt spine and morocco label. A very good copy, being internally very crisp and clean. A revised and enlarged edition of A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, published in 1693, this itself being an expansion of the first edition of 1672. (see #844J)     Silence, you Winds; listen, Etherial Lights,     While our Urania sings what Heav’n indites. (Waller) The miscellany’s title-poem is a translation by the Earl of Mulgrave of Philippe Habert’s elegy ‘Le Temple de la Mort,’ in spite of the scorn expressed in the publisher’s preface for the French nation, and ‘the Servile way of following their Modes’.  An essay on poetry, by J. Sheffield, 1st duke of Buckingham.–Horace: of the art of poetry, by Horatius Flaccus.–An essay on translated verse, by the earl of Roscommon.–Coopers hill, by J. Denham.–The duel of the stags, by R. Howard.–The temple of death, by P. Habert.–Macflecknoe, by J. Dryden; with Spencer’s ghost, by J. Oldham–Lecretius.–The plague of Ahtens (!) by T. Sprat.–The spleen, by A.K. Finch, contess of Winchilsea.–A letter from Italy, by J. Addison together with The mourning muse of Alexis, by W. Congreve.–The Kit-Cats, by R. Blackmore.–The campaign, by J. Addison.–Pastorals, by A. Philips.–Faction display’d, by W. Shippen.–Baucis and Philemon, by J. Swift; as also An ode upon, by W. Dillon, 4th earl of Roscommon.–Muscipula, by E. Holdsworth. This is the Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple of Death’ miscellany of Restoration poetry, retaining most of the poems from the third edition (1693) and adding much material, including all the poems on pp. 172-282 – with contributions from Stepney, Arwaker and Congreve – and the poems at the end (pp. 391-453), among them ‘The Spleen’ by ANNE ( Kingsmil) FINCH, Countess of Winchilsea. The Poetry Foundation , which misses the date of the poem The Spleen, writes “possibly Finch’s most well-known poem, was first published anonymously in 1709. [Actually FIRST PRINTED HERE]  The ode was immediately popular and received much attention for its accurate description of the symptoms of melancholia—the disease often associated with the spleen—which Finch suffered from throughout her life. The speaker begins by acknowledging that hypochondria is also often associated with the spleen, the “pretended Fits,” the “sullen Husband’s feign’d Excuse,” and the coquette’s melancholy pose, “careless Posture, and the Head reclin’d.” She then proceeds to undermine these portraits of feigned illness, treating the disease as a real and terrifying affliction:           From Speech restrain’d, by thy Deceits abus’d,             To Deserts banish’d or in Cells reclus’d,             Mistaken Vot’ries to the Pow’rs Divine,             Wilst they a purer Sacrifice design,          Do but the Spleen obey, and worship at thy Shrine. The DNB writes “WHARTON, ANNE (1632?–1685), poetess, born in Oxfordshire about 1632, was the second daughter and coheiress of Sir Henry Lee, third baronet, of Ditchley, by Anne, daughter of Sir John Danvers, knight, of Cornbury. On 16 Sept. 1673 she married, as his first wife, Thomas Wharton (afterwards first Marquis of Wharton) [q. v.], to whom she brought a dowry of 10,000l. and 2,500l. a year. In 1680 and 1681 she was in Paris, and both then and afterwards had some correspondence with Dr. Gilbert Burnet [q. v.], who sent poems for her to criticise, among them his ‘Paraphrase on the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah, in imitation of Mrs. Anne Wharton.’ Her own ‘Lamentations of Jeremiah paraphrased,’ written apparently in 1681, appeared in the collection entitled ‘The Temple of Death,’ 1695  (it was reprinted with some addition in the second volume of ‘Whartoniana,’ 1727, pp. 64–92). Her ‘Verses on the Snuff of a Candle’ appeared in the first volume of ‘Dryden’s Miscellanies’ (1684, i. 144); her ‘Penelope to Ulysses’ in Tonson’s ‘Ovid’s Epistles by several Hands,’ of 1712, and some minor pieces, including a song, ‘How hardly I conceal’d my Tears,’ is published here in 1701 before ” Tooke’s ‘Collection’ (1716, p. 209), and in other miscellanies. Her ‘Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Rochester’ (in the ‘Examen Miscellaneum’ of 1702, p. 15) drew from Waller the lines to ‘fairest Chloris,’ commencing ‘Thus mourn the Muses!’ and her ‘Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer,’ some tumid verses commencingWaller pays the lady the somewhat doubtful compliment of assuring her that she was allied to Rochester ‘in genius as well as in blood.’ The kinship in either case was remote; the earl’s mother was aunt to Anne’s father, Sir Henry Lee. Her verses were also commended by Dryden, who upon the death of her elder sister, the Countess of Abingdon, in 1691, wrote the panegyrical poem ‘Eleonora.’ Anne Wharton died at Adderbury on 29 Oct. 1685, and was buried at Winchendon on 10 Nov. following. Her marriage had proved childless and unhappy, and it was only the good counsel of Burnet that prevented her from leaving her husband about 1682. A collection of ‘Copies of Mrs. Wharton’s Poems’ was appended to the Bodleian copy of Edward Young’s ‘Amoris Christiani mnēmoneutikon’ (1686). In addition to her printed writings, Mrs. Wharton left in manuscript a blank-verse tragedy in five acts called ‘Love’s Martyr, or Witt above Crowns.’ The subject is the love of Ovid for Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus. The tragedy, formerly at Strawberry Hill, now forms Additional MS. 28693. A portrait, painted by Lely, was engraved by R. Earlom. Another, engraved by Bocquet, is given in Walpole’s ‘Royal and Noble Authors’ (1806, iii. 284). [Ballard’s Memoirs of Learned Ladies, p. 297; Burke’s Extinct Peerage, pp. 347, 582; E. R. Wharton’s Whartons of Wharton Hall, 1898, p. 47; Nichols’s Lit. Anecdotes, v. 644; Waller’s Poems, ed. Drury, 1893, p. 342; General Dict. x. 122; Nichols’s Select Collection of Poems, 1780, i. 51, ii. 329, iii. 44, iv. 356; Chaloner Smith’s Mezzotint Portraits, p. 258, where Anne Wharton is wrongly entitled marchioness.] English Short Title Catalogue Nº T116471; Case 151(e); Greer & Hastings, The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10(a), 20. 182. Prinz (Rochester) VII,21. *https://datb.cerl.org/estc/T116471

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#3 Q. Horatius Flaccus, Opera 1481 with two ancient commentators.

“denique sit quidvis,

simplex dumtaxat et unum”

860J Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 BCE)

Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Opera. Comm: (Pseudo-) Acron, Pomponius Porphyrio. Ed: Ludovicus de Strazarolis and Raphael Regius

[Treviso : n.pr. for Michael Manzolus, not before 13 Aug. 1481] Imprint[Venice] . . Price $8,500

Folio 30 x 20cm Signatures: A⁸B¹⁰C⁸D⁴E⁸F-G⁶a–q⁸r⁶. (184 leaves) First Edition of Horace with both of his ancient commentatorsAcron and Porphyrio. Bound in modern marbled gilt calf. A very large and clean copy, many pages have two deckle edges, with marginal indexing on a few signatures in red, others in brown ink.

The history of the printing of editions of Horace and his commentators.

First printed in Venice about 1471-2, then in Milan about 1475, 1476,1477, Venice again 1478 &1479. The next edition was Leipzig 1492, All of these editions are without commentary. Acron’s commentary was Published with out the Opera in Milan in 1479. At Florence in 1482 there is an edition of the Opera with the Landinus commentary, then again in Venice 1483-86. The Edition offered here is the FIRST to have the commentary of Helenius Acron and Pomponius Porphyrion who are both said to have flourished in the third century, these commentaries are revised by Raphael Rgius (ƒl. 1480-1500+) and Ludovicus de Strazaroliswhich make up the first 50 pages of this book.

The unique charm of Horace’s lyric poetry arises from his combination of the metre and style of the distant past—the world of the Archaic Greek lyric poets—with descriptions of his personal experience and the important moments of Roman life. He creates an intermediate space between the real world and the world of his imagination, populated with fauns, nymphs, and other divinities.
He denounces corrupt morals, praises the integrity of the people of Italy, and shows a ruler who carries on his shoulders the burden of power. Other Augustan themes that appear in Horace’s lyric verse include the idea of the universal character and eternity of Roman political dominion and the affirmation of the continuity of the republican tradition with the Augustan principate. At some stage Augustus offered Horace the post of his private secretary, but the poet declined on the plea of ill health. Not withstanding, Augustus did not resent his refusal, and indeed their relationship became closer.

“Horace’s success as a poet can be measured partly by how difficult he is to imitate and translate and by how many admirers have sought to do both. Readers in the Middle Ages looked to Horace as a moralist and as a literary critic and appreciated the Satires and Epistles more than the more difficult Odes. The enthusiasm of the Italian Renaissance poets Petrarch (14th century), Landinio, and Politian (late 15th century) for the Odes encouraged the popularity of Horace’s lyric. Horace was one of Montaigne’s (16th century) favorite poets. The themes and poetics of both the lyrics and the satires greatly influenced Ben Jonson (late 16th, early 17th century), Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Milton, and Dryden (17th century). The Odescontinued to be springboards for much of both public and private 17th-century English lyrics. Pope was the leading Horatian poet writing in English during the 18th century, the Age of Augustanism, especially imitating Horace’s hexameter poetry, while Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Byron, and Rudyard Kipling were among Horace’s enthusiasts in the 19th century. Horace continued to inspire modern poets, among them Ezra Pound. 

While the different genres of his work have specific qualities, they all share in being Horatian, a quality that many have tried to define. In Nietzsche’s view, Horace’s peerless artistry separates him from all other poets. Compared to Horace’s Odes, “All the rest of poetry becomes, in contrast, something too popular—a mere garrulity of feelings” (“What I owe to the ancients,” Twilight of the Idols, 1) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/horace ]

This is a rare edition only 38 copies are known in the world, 14 in Italy; On the place of printing, see P. Scapecchi in Studi Trevisani, 2.4 (Dec. 1985), p.23. Where the Treviso hypothesis is argued against the common Venetian attribution. Suggesting that this is one of three books produced during 1481 by this Venetian press and was printed at the expense of Michael Manzolo in Treviso. Yet neither the printer nor the circumstances of printing of this volume are certain. Assigned in BMC to books printed at Venice for Manzolus, but it ‘may well be Trevisan’ (BMC V p. xxvi)”

“The next group comprises Proctor’s nos. 4750- 52 and was headed by him’ Michele Manzolo, second press’. The three books of which it consists, being no more than seven months apart in time (23 May-r 5 December, 148 I), are here still kept together, but the heading has been modified so as to read: BOOKS PRINTED FOR MICHAEL MANZOLUS, in consequence of Dr. Reichling’s discovery of copies of three editions signed by Manzolus at Treviso in July, 1481, and February and March, 1482 (Appendices, nos. 518, 116r, 1755), the latest date previously connected with his Treviso press being December, 1480. This sequence of dates makes it highly probable that the career of Manzolus at Treviso was continuous from J 476 to the spring of 1482, and it is to be noted that only one of the three Venetian books in question contains his name, and that even this asserts no more than that he paid for its production (Priscian, lB. 21817). Indeed, the earliest member of the group, Dondis’s Aggregator, ‘Venetiis impressa’ on 23 May (lB. 21813), has no necessary connexion with Manzolus at all, beyond the fact that he used its type for one single book, completed at Treviso in the previous December. The Horace’ sine nota’ completed about August (lB. 21815), on the other hand, is connected with Treviso and Padua rather than Venice by the letters of dedication on I band 5Ia and may well be Trevisan; both its types had previously been employed there by Manzolus. Thus the Priscian alone satisfies all requirements in being unquestionably Venetian and unquestionably Manzoline as well. 

The information that the roman type of about 112 mm. ~ [P.]) was used by Manzolus at Treviso in July, 1481, is due to the kindness of Dr. M. Fava, the Director of the National Library at Naples. What roman fount occurs in the books of 1482 is not known to
the present cataloguers. •

BOOKS PRINTED FOR MICHAEL MANZOLUS

DATES. The three books catalogued below, with dates ranging from May to December, 14th, appear to be the only Venetian editions that can be connected with Manzolus. See Introduction.’ The Livy of 1483 ascribed to Manzolus at Venice by Panzer (iii. 198. 717) on the authority of Maittaire is presumably due to a misdescription of the genuine Treviso edition of 1480 (Hain 10I34, lB. 28366).
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https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00451000

 GW 13457;  Goff H451;  BMC V 315 (IB. 21815);  Bod-inc H-203;  CIBN H-275.

Located US copies: The Walters Art Museum, Bancroft Library, Yale, Free Library of Philadelphia, Princeton Univ., Brown University, add Pauline Fore Moffitt Library, University of California General Library.

This copy appeared in The Laurence Whitten catalog Sixteen A selection of one Hundred Eighteen books Printed books of the Fifteenth Century 1982 # 49. And Sold to Dr E.J. Marsh, from whose Daughter I purchased it. I have found only one auction record for this edition and this was for a defective copy, lacking the first 50 leaves. Sold by Sotheby Park Bernet October 15 1979 

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857J Francesco Redi (1626 –1697)

Francisci Redi Nobilis Aretini, Experimenta circa varias res naturales, speciatim illas Quæ ex Indiis afferuntur. Ut & alia ejusdem Opuscula, que paginâ sequenti narrantur.

Amstelaedami : Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685.                               Price Sold

857J Francesco Redi Francisci Redi Nobilis Aretini, Experimenta circa varias res naturales, speciatim illas Quæ ex Indiis afferuntur. Ut & alia ejusdem Opuscula, que paginâ sequenti narrantur. Amstelaedami : Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685.                               Price Sold The frontispiece signed by Cornelis Decker, allegorically depicts Redi’s confrontation with his opponent. Here Minerva, now seated at a richly bedecked experimental table with microscope, receives the natural wealth of the ‘Indies.’ Staring down upon a native carrying an armadillo and offering up a serpent’s stone, she reproves him for not testing the phenomenon experimentally.Duodecimo; 13 x 7.5 cm Signatures: π⁴ \ first blank leaf) A-O¹² P⁴. bound in modern quarter calf over boards. This work contains an added engraved title page, 2 full page engravings and 10 folding engravings. With very light staining, small tear on leaf 19/20 no loss of text. signature N1-12 made with inferior paper and foxed as with most copies. This is the stand alone second volume of Redi’s Opusculorum. It includes Latin translation of Redi’s 1664 work on the poison of vipers plus response to criticism of that work by Alexandrum Morum and Abbatem Bourdelot.   Redi studied venomous snakes to dispel popular myths about them. He demonstrated that it is not true that vipers drink wine, that swallowing snake venom is toxic, or that venom is made in a snake’s gallbladder. He found that venom was not poisonous unless it entered the bloodstream and that the progression of venom in the patient could be slowed if a ligature was applied. His work paved the foundation for the science of toxicology.     This book is dedicated to Father Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). And here Redi criticized Kircher on the unreliability of Jesuit experimental science. Redi’s image of nature in the laboratory is part of a diptych [begun by the engraved title to “De Insectis” and] completed by the illustration..of his “Experiments on Diverse Natural Things, Particularly Those Which Come from the Indies,” (Experimenta circa varias res naturales, speciatim illas Quæ ex Indiis afferuntura) further response to the philosophical precepts imbedded in Kircher’s “Subterranean World.”  In this series of experiments, reported in the form of a letter to Kircher, Redi tackled the myth of the serpent’s stone, fabled to possess remarkable creative powers through its magnetic action on any venomous wound. Kircher supported this view and conducted numerous experiments with it at the Roman College to publicize its success; Redi politely responded that no living creature had ever been cured of anything by the application of the serpent’s stone.As Redi constantly affirmed in his writings, ‘I do not put much faith in matters not made clear to me by experiment.’ Like the frontispiece Of Minerva Pointing uncompromisingly toward the books and microscope in front of her, the tools of natural philosophy, Minerva challenges ‘Received Wisdom’ to confront the Learned Past and the Experimental Present. She has become the symbol of the experimental dialectic that characterized natural history and natural philosophy in general by the mid-seventeenth century.”, Redi’s “investigations of several botanical and zoological specimens, including some brought from India; among them were Chinese star anise, ‘stones’ from cobras and iguanas, vanilla beans, and a leaf from the chinchona tree. The treatise is in the form of a letter to to Athanasius Kircher” (Norman). “Raro” (Prandi). The Woman Fish Image of a mermaid from Francesco Redi, Opusculorum pars prior; sive, Experimenta circa generationem insectorum (Amsterdam, 1686), 11, plate between D4 and D5.The mermaid in Redi’s image of a ‘pece muger’ (fish woman) was said to exist off the coast of Brazil, but also quotes Fr Philip of the Blessed Trinity (1603-1671), a discalced Carmelite friar, who noted that these ‘sirens’ lived near the island of St Laurence in the western part of Africa and were called ‘fish women’ by the Portuguese. Indonesian leachThe araticu fruit comes from the Annona Xylopiifolia tree and is also known as Araticu-Jaí. The name comes from the Tupi language and means “fruit of soft mass”.The adjective “Jaí” means “crooked or twisted or striated” and refers to the fruit’s shape.Kircher and Redi exchanged correspondence expressing mutual admiration, as noted in Fletcher’s paper, Medical Men in the Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher (Janus LVI, 4. 1969). Prandi, D. Redi 40. :Haller, Albrecht von. Bibliotheca Medicinæ Practicæ I; 531; Sabin 68516; cf :Baldwin, M. (1995). The Snakestone Experiments: An Early Modern Medical Debate. Isis, 86(3), 394–418. http://www.jstor.org/stable/235020https://www.jstor.org/stable/235020?read-now=1&seq=3#page_scan_tab_contentsComment

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#5 Lost sheep, Female Quakers 1656.

861J Martha Simmonds [Simmons; née Calvert] (1625-1665)

A lamentation for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. With an invitation to have them turn in their mindes to the true shepherd of their soules. ALSO, something in discovery of the nakedness of all professions, who are found in the words without the life and power. Written by one of the children of the Light, who is known to the world by the name of Martha Simmonds, [sic]

London : printed for Giles Calvert, at the Black spread Eagle neer the west end of Pauls, 1656 Price: $4,500

Martha Calvert was probably born January 1624. She was the younger sister of the booksellers George and Giles Calvert. Giles’s shop at the Black Spread Eagle in St Paul’s Churchyard, London, which was the leading outlet for the works of early Quakers.

Martha Simmonds, in this, all but hidden, book emphatically demonstrates how The Anglican Church are the lost sheep of Israel and how ‘The children of light” will expose the evil acts of profits and ministers and render them with more than words.

I am sure that this pamphlet while published in three editions, was hardly popular and most copies destroyed. 

Bernadette Smith, The Testimony of Martha Simmonds (2008) writes: “Perhaps the reason for the continued hiddenness of the early Quaker women’s writings is the failure of successive generations to question both the structure and nature of theological discourse, which has excluded women. Martha Simmonds has been among this hidden group of women for four centuries and I hope to present her as one of a group of Quaker women who were able to consolidate their mission through the utilisation of, and engagement with, the contemporary cultures of print, religious discourse and apocalyptic preaching which made them unique as a group, if not unprecedented.

The Last decade of Marth’s life was one of religious turmoil. Martha moved to London to live with her brother and was converted to Quakerism in about 1654, and wrote several pamphlets about her new faith, three of which were published by her brother Giles Calvert: When the Lord Jesus Came to Jerusalem 1655 ½ sheet  One UK copy two variations.  (2); A Lamentation for the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel   1655 Haverford, 1655 , 1656 Ucla & Lib Co. of Philad (3); and O England, thy Time is Come  Haverford. [for a total of 7 publications represented in fewer than 20 copies]

As soon as a year after her conversion Martha was very active and by December 1655 she had been imprisoned several times in Colchester for interrupting church services and walking through the town in sackcloth and ashes. In about 1655 she married Thomas Simmonds who had recently returned to London after several years as a bookseller in Birmingham. In March 1655 the Quakers established the Bull and Mouthas their main London meeting place, where Thomas opened his bookshop; he became their principal publisher the following year.  But Martha Simmonds was interpretation of Quakerism was a situational one, and Almost a performative  expression of an individual relation with God .  Martha  and other women began in 1656 to interrupt Quaker meetings led by Francis Howgilland Edward Burrough, singing and chanting “innocency”.   Some male Quakers considered her a witch. H. Larry Ingle argues that “she was certainly a powerful woman, a fact that helps explain the degree of opposition to her.” According to Ingle one of the problems was that like many Quakers “she spoke in a language that could not be read literally but was peppered with metaphors and images that had meaning to her but to few others…. it is easy to see how her enemies – and she had many in and outside the Children of the Light – could consider her a witch.” 

Bernadette Smith, has attempted to recover Simmonds’ reputation in her article The Testimony of Martha Simmonds (2008). Smith argues that male writers have constantly referred to Simmonds as a”‘possible witch”, a “Ranterish woman”. Smith quotes Andrew W. Brink sees Simmonds as the “model for Eve and compares Eve’s supposed deception of Adam to Simmonds’ part in Nayler’s downfall… Simmonds: would not leave him (Nayler) alone in London or in Bristol, following him… much as Satan tracked Eve until he (Satan) implanted the self-destructive idea of becoming a goddess.”  

New ESTC Beta R184168, Wing S3792 

https://datb.cerl.org/estc/R222389

Two US copies 1) Library Company of Philadelphia 2)UCLA William Andrews Clark .

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#6 Family medicine 1696

William Walwyn, (1600-1681) Physick for families. Or, The new, safe and powerful way of physick, upon constant proof established; enabling every one, at sea or land, by the medicines herein mentioned, to cure themselves, their friends and relations, in all distempers and diseases. Without any the trouble, hazzard, pain or danger of purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, glisters, blisters, opium, antimony and quicksilver, so full of perplexity in sickness. By William Walwyn physitian. London : printed, by J.R. and are to be sold by the author, 1696.  $2,500Octavo,14 x 9 cm.  signatures: A2-K8 Lacking a frontispiece A1 portrait of William Walwyn engraved by R. White. Third edition, the first was printed in 1674.  This copy is bound in a red textured cloth with “Birmingham Medical Institute” on the spine as well as “Walwyn’s Physic-1696.” This copy is lacking the portrait  which is supplied in xerox.William Walwyn, the son of Robert Walwyn, was born in Newland, Worcestershire, 1600. As a young man he was apprenticed to a silkman in Paternoster Row. Later he started his own business and joined the Merchant Adventurers Company.  As a Puritan, Walwyn supported the Parliamentary army during the Civil War. In 1645 he published a pamphlet, England’s Lamentable Slavery. In 1646 Walwyn joined with John Lilburne, and John Wildman to form a new political party called the Levellers.  Their political programme included:  voting rights for all adult males, annual elections, complete religious freedom, an end to the censorship of books and newspapers, the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords, trial by jury, an end to taxation of people earning less than £30 a year and a maximum interest rate of 6%.   Walwyn became the leader of the Levellers in London and in September 1647 helped organize a petition demanding male suffrage. Walwyn, along with John Lilburne and Richard Overton, published An Agreement of the People. When the reforms were opposed by officers in the New Model Army, Walwyn called for the soldiers to revolt. On 28th March 1649, Walwyn was arrested and charged with advocating communism. After being brought before the Council of State he was sent to the Tower of London. On his release The Leveller leaders were released from prison in November 1649 following Lilburne’s trial and acquittal. Walwyn pledged his loyalty to the Commonwealth by taking the Oath of Engagement and returned to quiet family life at his home in Moorfields. He became interested in medicine and began practicing as a physician during the 1650s, publishing several medical tracts and handbooks. He died in January 1681. Walwyn wrote a large number of pamphlets arguing for religious toleration. His best known work included The Fountain of Slander Discovered(1649), Counterfeit Preaching (1649) and Just Defence(1649). William Walwyn died in 1681.

Two Copies in N.America: U.S. National Library of Medicine , University of Minnesota ,UCLAOther copies I have located are at British Library and University of Birmingham ( which is this copy and was sold by them) Wing (2nd ed.), W690 

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#7. Worthy Proverbs by Judith Zins-Pennick 1663

862J Judith Zins-Penninck (1631-1664) [Caton, William, translator]

Some worthy proverbs left behind by Judith Zins-Penninck, to be read in the congregation of the saints· Translated into English by one that testifieth, that God is no respecter of persons, for whosoever worketh righteousness, and feareth him, of what nation, countrey, trib or language soever he or she be, such find acceptance with the Lord. W.C.

London : printed for William Warwick, 1663. Price. $ 4,500

Quarto [2], 10 p.  Signatures; Bound in modern plain wrapers

Judith Zinspenning, daughter Conrad Zinspenning and Catharina de Mol who were Mennonite, and afterwards a Baptist. Judith was married in 1652 to the Mennonite physician Jacob Willemsz Sewel. She showed such a deep religious inclination that her father said: “It is a pity that this girl is not a boy, who then in time might become an eminent instrument in the church.” Judith joined the Quakers in 1657, after hearing William Ames. She became an eloquent minister, visited England in 1663, was author of A Serious Reproof to the Flemish Baptists, 1660, a Book of Proverbs (translated into English by William Caton, London, 1663), An Epistle, and other short books. She died at Amsterdam on 10 September 1664, aged 34. Her husband predeceased her. 

“You foolish Virgins, how have you been sleeping away your precious time“

With Quakerism she found the lively inner “Spirit.” The Sewels left the Mennonites and became ardent “instruments” of Quakerism. The Sewel home became a place for Quaker meetings. She was the first woman to lead worship services.

In 1663 she traveled to England with William Ames’ successor William Caton, where she developed further intimate contacts with the Quakers. She preached and wrote several books, including Een ernstige berispinge aen de leeraers van de ulaemsche doops-gesinde gemeinte ende de leeden derselve In Amsterdam : [publisher not identified], 1660 . She became a victim of a plague epidemic on her return to The Netherlands. Years later her son noted Dutch historian and lexicographer Willem Sewel published her writings in Eenige schriften en zendbrieven. . . nu tot verderen dienst gemeen gemaakt (1684). He also included a warm tribute to her in his Historie.  

The present work is in fact a letter comprised of a series of proverbs of various lengths and on a great variety of subjects, focused on achieving wisdom and love through service and obedience to God and by supporting “them that are stumbling.” The work is signed in type “Your Friend and Sister, Judith Zins-Penninck” and datelined at the end from Colchester on June 2, 1663. The text is an English translation by Quaker William Caton (1636-1665) of the original Dutch. Zins-Penninck (or Zinspenning, as her name is sometimes found) was a deeply religious Mennonite until she was converted to Quakerism by missionary William Ames in 1657. She became a valuable missionary herself, hosting Quaker meetings at her house and preaching the Quaker doctrine in England in 1663, the same trip that produced the present work. Sadly, she contracted the plague on her way back from England to the Netherlands and died the next year. 

•Note. The subsequent history of William Bradford in America, his work, and
his connection with the Keith schism, is part of Pennsylvania history.
ºNote. Judith Zins-Penninck or Zins-Penning, was a Dutch woman, the wife
of Jacob Williamson Sewel, and the mother of William Sewel, the well-known Quaker
historian. She died at Amsterdam, in the, 7th month, 1664. A copy of the above
tract, which is somewhat rare, is in the Haver ford College Library. (See Smith’s
Catalogue of Friends’

ESTC No.: R25223; Wing Z13; Smith, J. Descriptive catalogue of Friends’ books, II, p. 979. 

https://datb.cerl.org/estc/R25223

Locations: 1) Folger Shakespeare, 2)Friends Historical Society of Swarthmore College, 3)Harvard, 4)Haverford, 5)Huntington, 6)Yale .

I could not find any book by Judith Zins-Penninck in APC . In the 1906 book auctions records I only found this ! 

“William Warwick, bookseller in Colchester (?), 1663. His name is found on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Some Worthy Proverbs Left Behind by Judith Zins-Penninckt to Be Read in the Congregation of the Saints.’ Translated into English by one that testifieth that God is no respecter of persons, for whosoever worketh righteousness, and feareth him, of what Nation, Countrey, Tribe or Language soever he or she be, such find acceptance with the Lord. W[illiam] C[aton], London, Printed for William Warwick, 1663.”

W. Warwick also printed “A Testimony,” etc., to Edward Burrough, in 1662; and William Ames’s “Sound out of Zion,” in 1663. The imprint, as given by Smith, “London. Printed and are to Be Sold by William Warwick,” would seem to imply that in 1662 and 1663, Warwick was resident in London, and not Colchester, as the Dictionary supposes. (Smith 1 : 367 ; 1 : 28.)”

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