Book trade references in the Lapthorne-Coffin correspondence 1683-1697
edited by Michael Treadwell and Ian Maxted.
Letters not from Richard Lapthorne, 1682 and 1683
Z/19/40/8B folder 6 item 53
9 May 1682 Moses Pitt to Richard Coffin
Sr
As for your Brother Prideaux he is not in London
but I beleive he is still in Oxford Always
when he comes to London he takes up
his lodging at my House As for the
Bookes you desire they sall be sent you by
the next Torington Caryer I am
| Your most Humble | |
| Lond: May 9th | Servt |
| 1682 [or 3?] | Moses Pitt |
| Taverneirs Travells 2d volm fol | 0 . 8 . 0 |
| Stillingfleets Letter to a Deist 8o | 0 1 . 6 |
| Morrice Agt Baxter | 0 5 . 0 |
| Term Catalogue | 0 0 0 |
| Weekly Memoires | 0 1 6 |
| _______ | |
| 0 16 0 |
Z/19/40 folder 5 items 62-64(5 items in all)
21 April 1682
[62] Walter [Dight] bookseller of Exeter to Richard Coffin
Worthy Sr
I have this day delivered into ye Biddyford Carr[yer]
to Mr Price [?] Score of val[...] written not doubting [your]
worsps Good likeing and in ye binding of ye book[s I have]
been better then my promise or yor worspf ex[pectations]
but know that Velthuysii op could not be bd fo[r?]
was it to be bound in one vollum but in [two?]
I have so done so that yn you are to chose [ ]
of another 4to to yor note as I have [ ]
mine wch is but just for you well know [that]
is but for binding of one vol on yor n[ame?]
I have gilt Geldons dis syris to make [ ]
to ye Senydris the wch I wold no[ ]
had they not been one author t[ ]
not charge to you for ye gilding
yor worspp may do as usuall pay it [ ]
ill be allowed by Sr yor wops m[ ]
| freind & Servant [ ] | |
| Exon Aprill 21th 1682. | |
| Alegambe Bibliotheca & c - - - | 1 [ ] |
| for binding it | 0 [ ] |
| Delrius Disquis magic - - - | 0 [ ] |
| [to continue] |
[62] 9 Aug 1682 Letter from Walter Dight of Exeter to Richard Coffin as to several books brought from Holland
Worthy Sr
I have underwritt what I have brogt over as to [ ]
of those books yu might have an[...?] unto of [ ]
ther prices as to wch you shall be supplied wth o[ ]
others on ye Catoge last sent per carryer by [ ]
Exon 9th Agust 1682 yor obleigd freind & servant
| Walt Dight | |
| [... ] Aldrorandus opera 12 vol bound - - - - | 18 : 0 : 0 |
| St. Chrysotomis opera 8 vol savill - - - | 5 : 0 : 0 |
| Idem on ye new Testament Gr & Lat 5 vol | 4 : 0 : 0 |
| Biblia fratun polonarum 8 vol fol - | 8 : 0 : 0 |
| Erasmi epist. cum molacton 2 vol fol bound - | 1 : 10 : 0 |
| Calvini opera 9 vol. fol bound - - - | 8 : 0 : 0 |
| Agustini oper froban edition 10 vol in ye long[...?] | |
| best edit val[...?] | 8 : 10 : 0 |
| Epistopius opera 2 vol - - - | |
| Foresti opera - - - | |
| Lusitani opera 2 vol - - - | 1 : 10 : 0 |
| Rospicianus de Leuplis - - - | 0 : 15 : 0 |
| Groti operia 4 vol - - - - | 4 : 10 : 0 |
| [to continue] |
18 Nov 1682 Walter Dight to Richard Coffin
19 Apr 1683 Walter Dight to Richard Coffin
[undated] [is this the one endorsed by Coffin:]
Mr Dights letter wherein hee gives mee an accot of the bookes bought for mee at ye Auction of Dr Henifries his bookes in Holland but not dated but receid about ye beginning of June 1683
[Includes:]
| [Gulden & stuiver] | [English] | |
| Godfridi opuscula 3 : 10 | 0 : 7 : 9 [?] | |
| Codex Theodosianus 52 : 0 | 5 : 17 : 0 | |
| Scardi Lexikon 8 : 10 | 0 : 17 : 0 | |
| Spgeling lexikon 5 : 15 | 0 : 11 : 6 | |
| ________ | ||
| [... ] | ||
| for my labor risk & profit | 1 : 10 : 0 | |
| ________ | ||
| 17 : 1 : 3 |
[Lapthorne letters 1683 & 1685, 1687]
This page last updated 10 Mar 2002
© Michael Treadwell, Ian Maxted, 2001.
