Frontispiece by J. Van der Gucht after Eberlein.
DEFOE, DANIEL.--An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. Being An Account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not. As also How we may distinguish between the Apparitions of Good and Evil Spirits, and how we ought to Behave to them. With A great Variety of Surprizing and Diverting Examples, never Publish'd before. . . . London, Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts. . . . M DCC XXVII. _8vo, red morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
First edition, with six plates by J. Van der Gucht.
DEFOE, DANIEL.--Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom. [Ten lines of verse beginning "Loose Thoughts, at first, like subterranean Fires"] London: Printed for T. Warner, . . . M DCC XXVII. _8vo, panelled calf, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by Rivière._
DEFOE, DANIEL.--A Treatise concerning The Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed: shewing I. The Nature of Matrimony, its Sacred Original, and the true Meaning of its Institution. II. The gross Abuse of Matrimonial Chastity, from the wrong Notions which have possessed the World, degenerating even to Whoredom. III. The Diabolical Practice of attempting to prevent child-bearing by Physical Preparations. IV. The fatal Consequences of clandestine or forced Marriage, thro' the Persuasion, Interest, or Influence of Parents and Relations, to wed the Person they have no Love for, but oftentimes an Aversion to. V. Of unequal Matches, as to the Disproportion of Age; and how such, many ways, occasion a Matrimonial Whoredom. VI. How married Persons may be guilty of Conjugal Lewdness, and that a Man may, in effect, make a Whore of his own Wife. Also, many other Particulars of Family Concern. [Ten lines of verse as in the first issue] London; Printed for T. Warner, . . . M. DCC. XXVII. Price 5 s. _8vo, Spanish calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Pratt._
Second issue of "Conjugal Lewdness," printed June 10, with a new title-page, but the same sheets, including the uncorrected Errata at the end.
DEFOE, DANIEL.--The Memoirs of an English Officer, Who serv'd in the Dutch War in 1672. to the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713. Containing Several Remarkable Transactions both by Sea and Land, and in divers Countries, but chiefly those wherein the Author was personally concern'd. Together with A Description of many Cities, Towns, and Countries, in which he resided; their Manners and Customs, as well Religious as Civil, interspers'd with many curious Observations on their Monasteries and Nunneries, more particularly of the famous one in Montserat. On the Bull-Feasts, and other publick Diversions; as also on the Genius of the Spanish People, amongst whom he continued several Years a Prisoner of War. No Part of which has before been made publick. By Capt. George Carleton. London, Printed for E. Symon, . . . M DCC XXVIII. _8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._