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WORKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF BIBLIOPHILE MICHAEL LILIENTHAL (1686-1750).
COLLINS, ANTHONY (1676-1729). A Discourse Of Free-Thinking, Occasion´d By The Rise And Growth Of A Sect Call´d Free-Thinkers. London1713. 8vo. vi pp., p. 3-180 (last leaf blank). First edition.
Upper part of title-leaf missing, replaced by manuscript title in ink by a contemporary hand (M. Lilienthal?).
"In England this essay, which was regarded and treated as a plea for deism, caused a great sensation, eliciting several replies, from among others William Whiston, Bishop Hare, Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, and Richard Bentley, who, under the signature of "Phileleutherus Lipsiensis", roughly handles certain arguments carelessly expressed by Collins, but triumphs chiefly by an attack on the trivial points of scholarship, his own pamphlet being by no means faultless in this very respect. Jonathan Swift also, being satirically referred to in the book, made it the subject of a caricature"(en.wikipedia.org). Anthony Collins [1676-1729], English philosopher, proponent of deism . BOUND WITH:

BENTLEY, RICHARD (1662-1742). Remarks Upon A Late Discourse Of Free-Thinking: In A Letter To F. H[Are]. D.D. By Phileleutherus Lipsiensis [I. E. R. Bentley]. I-II. London (Printed by John Morphew / Printed for John Morphew ..., and E. Curl, ...) 1713. 8vo. 88 (pp. 57-8 omitted in pagination), [4], 84 pp. incl. 2 pp. of publisher´s catalogue (Cornelius Crownfield at the University-Press in Cambridge). First edition.
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EDWARDS, JOHN (1637-1716). Some Brief Observations And Reflections On Mr. Whiston´s Late Writings, Falsly Entitul´d Primitive Christianity Reviv´d: Shewing, The Unreasonableness, Partiality, And Inconsistency, Of His Whole Performance... London (Printed for J. Lawrence ... and J. Wyat, and R. Robinson ...) 1712. 8vo. [2], xiv, 72 pp. incl. 4 pp. of publisher´s advertisement (Proposals for printing by subscription ...). First edition. BOUND WITH:

ANONYMOUS. Reasons For Not Proceeding Against Mr. Whiston, By The Court Of Delegates. In A Letter To The Reverend Dr. Pelling, Rector Of St. Ann´s Westminster. Humbly Offer´d To The Consideration Of The Publick. By A Lover Of Truth And True Religion. London (Printed for A. Baldwin) 1713. 8vo. 32 pp. First edition. William Whiston [1667-1752]. BOUND WITH:

(STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD, 1635-99). The Life And Character Of That Eminent And Learned Prelate, The Late Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet, Lord Bishop Of Worcester. Together With Some Account Of The Works He Has Publish´d . London (Printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry and George Mortlock) 1710. 8vo. 152 pp. including frontispiece portrait of E. Stillingfleet, engraved by R. White after M. Beal. First edition. BOUND WITH:

POINTER, JOHN (1668-1754). An Account Of A Roman Pavement, Lately Found At Stunsfield In Oxford-Shire, Prov´d To Be 1400 Years Old . London (Printed by Leonard Lichfield, for Anth. Peisley) 1713. 8vo. [8] pp. including engraved frontispiece (Outlines of the Chief Figures on the Pavement), 40 pp. First edition. BOUND WITH:


TERRAE-FILIUS. The Speech That Was Intended To Have Been Spoken By The Terræ-Filius, In The Theatre At O[Xfor]D, July 13. 1713. Had Not His Mouth Been Stopp´d By The V. Ch[Ancelo]R . London (Printed: And sold by E. Smith) 1713. 8vo. [8], 32 pp. (last leaf blank). First edition. Terræ-filius: a student (as at Oxford University) formerly appointed to deliver a satirical oration. BOUND WITH:

Britain´s Alarm To All True Protestants. Shewing The Great Danger We Are In Of A Popish Successor, And The Inevitable Ruin That Will Ensue There-Upon To Our Religion And Liberties, With Suitable Means To Prevent That Dreadful Judgment. By A Sincere Lover Of The Protestant Religion, And The Protestant Succession In The Illustrious Family Of Hanover. Printed at Edinburgh, and Reprinted at London (for A. Bell ... and sold by J. Baker ...) 1714. 8vo. 24 pp. First edition. BOUND WITH:

DUNTON, JOHN, 1659-1733). Neck Or Nothing: In A Letter To The Right Honourable The Lord --- Being A Supplement To The Short History Of The Parliament. Also The New Scheme (Mention´d In The Foresaid History) Which The English And Scotch Jacobites Have Concerted For Bringing In The Pretender, Popery And Slavery. With The True Character Or Secret History Of The Present Ministry. Written By His Grace John Duke Of ... London (Printed by T. Warner) 1713. 12mo. 60 pp. First edition. Possible contributor John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough [1650-1722].
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JOHN CHURCHILL, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH (1650-1722). Churchill´s Annals: Being A Compleat View Of The Duke Of Marlbrough´s Life And, Glorious Actions, Both In The Field And Cabinet . London (Printed for S. Popping) 1714. 12mo. [8], 48 pp. First edition.

8vo. Contemporary vellum, partly worn, some soiling. Old annotations on first endpaper (Index of present works). From the library of Michael Lilienthal, with his book-plate inside front cover.

Michael Lilienthal (1686-1750) was an important Königsberg pietist, editor, cultural historian, bibliographer, and book collector, publishing prolifically in both Latin and German.
Lilienthal also worked as a librarian in Königsberg, serving as the assistant librarian at the university library from 1714-15 (the same position Kant would later occupy), and then beginning in 1726 as head librarian at the city library (a six-room affair that included an important collection of mathematical and physical instruments), where he developed a large collection of pietist books. Lilienthal possessed an enormous library himself, and his extensive published bibliographies on bible scholarship and church history (1740, 1741, 1745, 1746) were to a large extent lists of his own holdings. The only comparable bibliophile in Königsberg at the time was Daniel Salthenius], who died just six days after Lilienthal.
His literary activity included editing three local periodicals: Erleutertes Preußen, 5 vols. (1724-8, 1742), Acta Borussica, 3 vols. (1730-32), and Preußische Zehenden, 3 vols. (1740-44), for which he also wrote many of the articles.
Lilienthal was the first at Königsberg, and among the earliest in Germany, to lecture on literary history (historiam literariam and notitiam autorum). His De historia literaria (1710) sketched a plan for studying the origin and growth of the sciences in a country, as well as their basis of support, such as schools, universities, learned societies, libraries, book printers, scholars and their writings. In addition, his pietist hymnal became one of the most popular of the century.
Lilienthal was also an avid coin collector and one of the first to pursue this historically, his collection of thalers numbered close to 800, which he described in a publication of 1725, and which eventually grew to a description of 2384 by the 4th edition (1747), laying the basis for a definitive history of this coin.

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2019-12-11