Author: HUARTE (Juan):
Title: A Treatise of the Education and Learning Proper for the Different Capacities of Youth; Founded on the Principles of Natural Philosophy: Whereby all Parents, Tutors, and Governors of Youth, may be informed what Sort of Learning best suits with each Genius: By the due Observation whereof, they may be enabled to adapt the Studies of their Children and Pupils to their respective Capacities, and thereby lay a just Foundation for their future Fame and Fortune. Principally extracted from the Examen de ingenios of the famous Spaniard Dr. John Huartes: A Work so universally admir'd, that it has been translated into Latin, and all the Modern Languages.
Description: London: Printed for C. Rivington..., J. Osborn..., and J. Leake. 1734. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. 12mo, 170 x 93 mms., pp. [iii] - xxiii [xxiv blank], 168. BOUND WITH: [HOWE (Charles)]: Devout Meditations: Or, A Collection of Thoughts upon Religious and Philosophical Subjects. By a Person of Honour. Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1751. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 170 x 93 mms., pp. iv, 185 [186 blank]. 2 volumes in 1. Bound in contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, in pretty wretched condition, with boards and spine rubbed, joints tender, soiling of title-page, remains of circulating library, Gainsbrough [sic] on front paste-down end-paper, the later autograph "R. J. Burdon/ Heanor/ 1885" on the recto of the front free end-paper. Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529 - 1588) Examen de Ingenios para las Ciencias in 1575, and the first English translation by Richard Carew was published in 1594. The translation here is by Edward Bellamy. For Howe's work, ODNB notes, "His Devout Meditations, or, A Collection of Thoughts upon Religious and Philosophical Subjects, edited by George Macaulay, who had married Howe's granddaughter Leonora Bathurst, was first published posthumously and anonymously in 1751. The second and subsequent editions, from 1752, included an admiring preface by Edward Young, author of Night Thoughts. Later editions were edited by Dr George Macaulay." ESTC T109373 locates copies of Bellamy's translation of Huarte in BL, Cambridge, Leeds, and Wellcome; UCLA, Pennsylvania (2); and Adelaide. For Howe's Devout Meditations, ESTC has two issues published in 1751, with a variant title-page: Meditations Devout and Philosophical, or, A Collection of Thoughts upon Religious and Philosophical Subject [sic]; the present copy conforms to ESTC T58643, with copies in BL, NLS (2), Bodleian, St. Andrews; UCLA, Yale, Toronto (2).

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