Publisher:
Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, etc., 1793.
Seller ID: 56904
Disbound. Old stitch holes & leather remnants at spine. 8vo. Some foxing, light chipping at edges, very good. This looks to be the first Dublin edition of the Third Part [Parts 1 & 2 were published in London in 1792]. A satirical expose' of British aristocracy; due to its identifiable portraits of some members of élite society, its publisher was fined £100 and imprisoned in Newgate Prison. Many editions exist. View More...
Pasadena: Roy Vernon Sowers, [nd]. This is a Christmas card sent out by Roy Sowers Rare Books, with a small printed colophon and a tipped-in woodcut extracted from Pinder's "Beschlosner Gart des rosenkranz marie", 1505. The woodcut measures 3 x 2.75 inches. Sowers was Canadian; a biography of him was published in Toronto in 1997. View More...
Publisher:
London: Allen & Unwin, 1920. First edition.
Seller ID: 57118
Stiff wrappers with blue-gray paper wrapper, printed label on front cover. The spine has perished, very good otherwise. Inscribed by Poel to Constance Smedley Armfield at the top of the title page, and with two letters from Poel to her tipped-in. A nice association copy. View More...
Original wrappers, spine taped. 24pp. Number on upper title, author & title written along spine, a clean very good copy. Decorative woodcut on title, also headpiece & tailpiece woodcuts. An uncommon work by Johann Pütter, on the difference between public and private schools. View More...
Original yellow printed wrappers. Wrappers foxed at edges, a clean very good copy. Bilingual, in Russian and French. On the study of soils at the Museum in Kazan, Russia. View More...
Publisher:
London: Parker, 1846 & 1850. First editions.
Seller ID: 56982
Two volumes. The first (1846) is rebound in buckram, the title leaf worn and mounted. lxxi + 52pp. 8 large folding plates mounted on stubs. Ex-library copy with typical stamps and markings; the plates are all in decent condition. The second work (1850) is in half-calf, marbled end papers, worn. 83pp. The title and following leaf are detached, and the folding frontispiece is sadly missing from this copy. Some red notes on title. Library markings and stamps. // The copy of the Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun (1846) ends at Page 52; a printed notice at the front explains that this volum... View More...
4to. Blue-green wrappers. 22 pages. Spine splitting, wear to edges, old vertical crease, about very good. This contains a 10-page article on Carl Wilhelm Scheele, important 18th century chemist, by Dr. Eisenach. View More...
Jenae: Wertherianis, 1715. Disbound. 36 pages. Glue remnants on spine from previous binding, upper edge trimmed into running title on some leaves, very good. Published in Germany, this looks to be a treatise on the proverb "De Mortuis Non Nisi Bene", which basically means: "of the dead, nothing unless good" or, speak no ill of the dead. Text in Latin. View More...
Palermo: Neila Reale Stamperia, 1799. First Italian edition. 89 pages, plus 8 folding charts. Contemporary marbled wrappers, some chipping to the spine, moderate wear to corners, and some creases to the charts; a very good copy. Translated from Rose's 1799 work: A Brief Examination into the increase of the Revenue, Commerce, and Manufactures of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799 (which was a sequel to his similarly-titled work of 1793). View More...
4to. 956pp. plus index. Full armorial vellum. Extra engraved title; title page printed in red & black with a woodcut design. Folding map of Rome by Septimio Severo [Urbis Veteris. Romae delineatio]. Seven inserted plates (two folding). Slight external cracking of upper hinge, some rubbing of vellum, a very good copy. Originally published in 1583, a popular work on Roman life and antiquities which saw many editions. This 1743 edition was the last published. View More...
London: W. Phillips, 1803. First edition. 28 pages, stitched, pasted into contemporary plain gray wrappers. Chipping to spine and corners, modest edge wear, small number penned onto lower front wrapper; a very good copy. A short posthumous biography of Rutter by his wife Hester. Thomas Rutter was from Bristol, a minister with the Society of Friends (Quakers) for over 40 years. He died in 1800. View More...
Blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and 9 inserted plates, one folding. A very nice clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, edges of jacket a bit trimmed. A scarce account of a Scottish town in the 18th century. View More...
Folio. Full vellum, burgundy morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Extra engraved title dated 1702. Portrait of the author, and 59 copper engravings in the text. The second edition; first published in three separate parts (1625 - 1637). An extensive work on the preparation and use of oils and unguents (perfumed ointments) in Biblical times. Armorial bookplate of Carlo Archinto [Feu M. Le Comte Archinto] on the front fixed end paper. Dust-soiling of end papers, some minor marginal stains to a few late leaves, but a clean and excellent copy. This Amsterdam edition was reprinted in 1710, and agai... View More...
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1877. Oblong 4to. Red leather designed and lettered in gilt. Blue coated end papers. All edges gilt. Piece chipped from base of spine, some edge wear and scuffing, short split along upper front hinge; very good otherwise. The front end paper is creased, and has some light chipping to its edge. One plate is partly loose, and stands out slightly. Internally very clean and white, with no foxing of the plates. Sixteen engravings in outline by Henry Moses, from the designs of Moritz Retzsch. View More...
London: Printed for T. Graves, 1683. First edition. 4to., 4 pages. Quite chipped at edges, tape repair to spine, 1 x 2 inch piece cut from upper corner of second leaf, with some loss of text (perhaps 20 words on each side). Russel was involved in the Rye House Plot, a plan to ambush the king, and was executed in 1683. View More...
First edition. 4to. Disbound, the spine secured by a full-length strip of cloth tape. A few stains to margins, paper very browned and brittle, considerable marginal chipping, particularly to later leaves; generally very good otherwise. Written in reference to the succession of the Duke of York, later James II. View More...
Volume 1 Only. Green blind-stamped flexible cloth, printed paper label on front cover. 144pp. Yellow coated end papers. Frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Eight pages of ads at the front dated 1852. Chipping to spine, rear hinge splitting, very good. The frontispiece depicts a locomotive: Lord Of The Isles. This is Volume 1 only; Volume 2 appeared in 1853. View More...
Red cloth, designed and lettered in black, pictorial paper label on front cover. Frontispiece and 20 illustrations. A nice clean copy in the pictorial dust jacket, which has some chips and wear but is still sound. A very scarce book, especially in the dust jacket. Shrubb was famous for middle and long distance running, setting 28 world records during a long career. View More...
Washington: William Greer, 1828. 560 pages. Volume 1, Numbers 1 - 4. All four numbers of this journal bound into a single volume. Contemporary boards, corners quite worn, rebacked with a brown cloth spine and new end papers sometime in the late 20th century, from the look of it. Complete with 39 plates printed on 38 sheets (one is a double), of which several are folding. Subjects include spinning and weaving. Some faint library stamps on the initial few and final leaves, quite heavily foxed in the early numbers, cleaner toward the rear of the volume. There are a few short tears in margins, pa... View More...
Vol. 1, No. 1. The first issue of this short-lived periodical. Folio: 29 X 47.5 cm. 58 pages. Pictorial wrappers. This copy is disbound, with some wear to the spine. There is some moderate soiling and edge wear to the outer wrappers, and a closed tear partway across the front wrapper (not touching text or illustration); basically very good otherwise. Internally the sheets are all clean, with no stains or blemishes. Sensational grotesques by Austin Spare, several double-page; also art by Charles Ricketts, Frederick Carter, Frank Brangwyn, and others. Literary contributors include De la Mare & Y... View More...
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