Category: Antiquarian

The History of the Royal-Society of London, For the improving of Natural Knowledge. The Second Edition Corrected.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London: Printed for Rob. Scott, etc., 1702. Second Edition.

Seller ID: 57014

Small 4to. Full calf, rebacked, the spine lettered in gilt on a burgundy panel. Engraved licence leaf of Will. Morrice, engraved Royal Society arms on verso. Two folding plates present. Some discoloration of early and late leaves and end papers, in general a clean, very good copy. Bookplate of Charles Spratt on the inner front cover, so, a family copy. The first edition was published in 1667; a Third Edition appeared in 1722. A contentious work, the first edition had a complex publishing history. This is the revised Second Edition of 1702.
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The History of the Royal-Society of London, For the improving of Natural Knowledge. The Second Edition Corrected.

By: Sprat (Thomas)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London: Printed for Rob. Scott, etc., 1702. Second Edition.

Seller ID: 57015

Small 4to. Full calf, disbound. Engraved licence leaf of Will. Morrice, engraved Royal Society arms on verso. Two folding plates present. Upper cover detached, the book broken into two parts at page 233. Piece cut from upper title. Spine chipped and edges worn, in need of a binder's attention. An ALS of 1908 tipped to the first leaf indicates that the book was owned by a descendant of the author: Charles Spratt. The first edition was published in 1667; a Third Edition appeared in 1722. A contentious work, the first edition had a complex publishing history. This is the revised Second Edition of...
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Image for A True Account and Declaration of The Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King, His Present Majesty, and the Government: As it was Order'd to be Published by His Late Majesty. [bound with]: Copies of the Informations and Original Papers Relating to the Proof of The Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King, His Present Majesty, and the Government: As it was Order'd to be Published by His Late Majesty.

A True Account and Declaration of The Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King, His Present Majesty, and the Government: As it was Order'd to be Published by His Late Majesty. [bound with]: Copies of the Informations and Original Papers Relating to the Proof of The Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King, His Present Majesty, and the Government: As it was Order'd to be Published by His Late Majesty.

By: Sprat (Thomas) [published anonymously].

Price: $875.00

Publisher: In the Savoy: Printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1685. First edition.

Seller ID: 57016

4to. Full calf, rebacked, the spine lettered in gilt on panels of red and brown. Marbled page edges. Old calf covers rubbed and worn at edges, a clean very good copy otherwise. Bookplate of Malcolm Stuart Farmer on the inner front cover; ownership signature of "R.H.W. Whitehurst / 1803" on front end paper. Also an ownership signature: "Robert Furnese / 1713" on the upper title page. What look like two signatures erased from the title, and the author identified in pen beneath the title. The license leaf with engraved Arms of James R. is present. This copy of the variety having "Thomas Newcomb" ...
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Image for The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second Year Of He Peloponnesian Warr. First described in Greek by Thucydides; Then in Latin by Lucretius. Now attempted in English, By Tho. Sprat.

The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second Year Of He Peloponnesian Warr. First described in Greek by Thucydides; Then in Latin by Lucretius. Now attempted in English, By Tho. Sprat.

By: Sprat (Thomas) [translating Thucydides]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London: Printed by E.C. for Henry Brome at the Gun, 1667.

Seller ID: 57013

Small 4to. Half-calf & brown boards, the spine lettered in gilt. Upper cover and first leaf detached, lower cover and final leaf hanging by a thread, basically detached; leaf D1 has a tear affecting a few letters of text; in general a clean very good copy. Trimmed a bit close, occasionally touching on page numbers, but with no loss. Ownership inscription on an early blank dated 1908. Includes the initial engraved Licence Leaf of Roger L'Estrange dated 1665, and the final ad leaf: "A List of some choice Books, Printed for Henry, Brome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane". Two gatherings of blank leaves boun...
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Image for The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second Year of the Peloponnesian War. First Described in Greek by Thucydides, Then in Latine by Lucretius. Now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.

The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second Year of the Peloponnesian War. First Described in Greek by Thucydides, Then in Latine by Lucretius. Now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.

By: Sprat (Thomas) [translating Thucydides]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: London: Printed by Andrew Clark for Henry Brome at the Gun, 1676.

Seller ID: 57012

8vo. Full calf, rebacked, spine titled in gilt on a dark brown panel, date in gilt at the base of the spine. A clean very good copy. Bookplate of Samuel Kerrick S.T.P. on the inner front cover, and his signature on the blank leaf preceding the title. Thomas Sprat's rendering in verse, first published in 1659, of this famous passage from Thucydides. There were six editions in the 18th century; this is the 1676 4th edition. Sprat was an English writer who held numerous positions within the Church, becoming Bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of London. Wing...
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Image for Memoire sur le Lemithochorton, Reconnu Vermifuge Specifique dans les Hopitaux Militaires, & par les observations des Medecins de France.

Memoire sur le Lemithochorton, Reconnu Vermifuge Specifique dans les Hopitaux Militaires, & par les observations des Medecins de France.

By: Stefanopoli (Dimo) [Dimo Stephanopoli de Comnène]

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: 54840

[No Publisher], 1778. 4to. Disbound, remnants of binding clinging to spine. 24pp. Contemporary inscription on the title, undated, from Lyon, which may concern the distribution of this book. The final leaf is defective, having had the bottom two inches mostly torn away; this has affected the text on page 23 with the loss of two or three lines, and has touched the text at the bottom of page 24. Very scarce. Worldcat records a copy dated 1777, with 20 pages. This 1778 edition is not listed. Concerns the use of the plant Lemithochorton (also known as Corsican Moss, or Rock Moss) as a vermifuge, us...
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Observations on Three Cases of Scurvy.

By: Stefansson (Vilhjalmur)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago: AMA, 1918.

Seller ID: 57133

Original printed wrappers, stapled. 11pp. Fine condition, a short crease in the rear wrapper. An offprint, "Reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association Nov. 23, 1918, Vol. 71, pp. 1715-1718. An uncommon pamphlet.
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Image for Evolution, and the Cost of the Human. An Address (Originally prepared for the Civic League of New Orleans). Giving a Sketch of the Development of The Earch From Chaos to Yesterday. The Haunting Cry of the Mighty Past. The Hope of the Future.

Evolution, and the Cost of the Human. An Address (Originally prepared for the Civic League of New Orleans). Giving a Sketch of the Development of The Earch From Chaos to Yesterday. The Haunting Cry of the Mighty Past. The Hope of the Future.

By: Stephenson (E. Frank)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: St. Louis: The Author, (1911). First edition.

Seller ID: 51180

Original blue-green wrappers, front cover lettered in black. 90pp. Lacking the spine and back wrapper, edges chipped, ownership signature and date on front wrapper; about very good otherwise. A curious blend of science, religion and philosophy. Uncommon.
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Image for Programma De Coniungendo Eruditionis Antiquae Et Novae Studio Quo Sub Auspicia Operarum Scholasticarum Post Exactas Ferias Cereales Ad Orationem De Fallacibus Instituendae Iuventutis Compendiis A ... IO. Mich. Heusingero In Ill. Gymnasio Gothano ... Conrectore ... Die XVIII. Sept. Hora VII. Matut. ... Habendam Illustres Musarum Patronos Humanitatisque Fautores Atque Cultores Observanter Invitat Io. Henricus Stuss Gymn. Rector

Programma De Coniungendo Eruditionis Antiquae Et Novae Studio Quo Sub Auspicia Operarum Scholasticarum Post Exactas Ferias Cereales Ad Orationem De Fallacibus Instituendae Iuventutis Compendiis A ... IO. Mich. Heusingero In Ill. Gymnasio Gothano ... Conrectore ... Die XVIII. Sept. Hora VII. Matut. ... Habendam Illustres Musarum Patronos Humanitatisque Fautores Atque Cultores Observanter Invitat Io. Henricus Stuss Gymn. Rector

By: Stuss (Johann Heinrich) & Johann Michael Heusinger, others.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Gothae: Literis Reyherianis, 1730.

Seller ID: 56466

Printed self-wrapper, 12pp. Decorative headpiece. Marbled paper strip on spine, some wear to corners, old library stamp on title, a very good copy.
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Frank Sugg's Cricket Annual. Edited by Frank & Walter Sugg. [Cover Title: Frank Sugg's Pocket Cricket Annual. 1902.)

By: Sugg (Frank) [Cricket Annual]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Liverpool: Frank Sugg, 1902.

Seller ID: 56722

Red printed flexible cloth covers. Very good condition. Several illustrations, and numerous pictorial ads.
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Mr. Meek's Notes on my Preliminary Report of the Geology of Kansas, as Edited by Dr. Hayden.

By: Swallow (Prof. G.C.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: St. Louis: Knapp, 1868. First ediiton.

Seller ID: 55831

Original printed wrappers, sewn. 20pp. Vertical creases, some wear to fore-edge of wrappers, very good. An offprint (From the Transactions of the Acad. of Sci. of St. Louis, vol. II., pp. 507-526.)
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How It Must Work: In an Address to the Freeholders and Electors of the United Empire.

By: Teynham (Henry Francis Roper-Curzon, Baron)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54805

London: Ridgway, 1832. First edition. 8vo. [44]pp. Disbound. Small stains, very good. Advocates various political reforms, and a closer alliance with North America.
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The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor. Vol. II.

By: The Satirist

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London: Printed for Samuel Tipper, 1808.

Seller ID: 55387

8vo. Full calf, spine gilt. Some scuffing of spine and covers, rear blank removed, scattered foxing throughout, contemporary ink inscription on title; otherwise generally tight and very good. This is the second volume, containing the issues of March, April, May, June, and July, 1808 (the July issue is misdated 1807). Each number has a folding frontispiece; the first three are in colour. Considerable wear to the plates, which have been split and repaired with varying degrees of expertise; the first plate has been reassembled using glued paper strips, the others principally with what looks like ...
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An Inquiry into The Nature and Effects of The Paper Credit of Great Britain.

By: Thornton (Henry)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1807. First American edition.

Seller ID: 55491

272 pp. Old calf. Spine very chipped, no label, both covers detached, very good otherwise. A rough but complete copy which will benefit from a trip to the binder. An earlier edition was published in England in 1802 under a slightly different title.
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Told By The Taffrail. By Sundowner. Author of "Rambles in Polynesia", .... "Above the Clouds in Ecuador", Etc.

By: Tichborne (Henry) [writing as: Sundowner]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. First edition.

Seller ID: 57054

Original light green cloth, front cover stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. 311pp. This is the Canadian issue, with "BRIGGS" at the base of the spine. Inner hinges cracking, some wear to tips, a very good copy. Tales of Fiji, the South Seas. Uncommon.
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Image for Association Francaise Contre L'Abus du Tabac et des Boissons Alcooliques. Compte-Rendu de la Quatrieme Seance Annuelle - 1873 - (Extrait du Bulletin de l'Association).

Association Francaise Contre L'Abus du Tabac et des Boissons Alcooliques. Compte-Rendu de la Quatrieme Seance Annuelle - 1873 - (Extrait du Bulletin de l'Association).

By: Tobacco. [Anti-Tobacco].

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 53379

Paris: Au Siege de L'Association, 1873. Original blue printed wrappers. A 44-page pamphlet. A bit of wrinkling to covers, light chipping at edges, a clean very good copy. An organ of the anti-tobacco association,
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Image for Le Flux-Moteur de La Maree. Employee Comme Force Motrice. A N'Importe Quelle Distance de la Mer. (Invention brevetee en France et a l'Etranger.

Le Flux-Moteur de La Maree. Employee Comme Force Motrice. A N'Importe Quelle Distance de la Mer. (Invention brevetee en France et a l'Etranger.

By: Tommasi (Ferdinand)

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 54775

Paris: Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole / Eugene Lacroix, 1869. 34 pages. Tables and illustrations in the text. Red half-morocco, marbled end papers, owner's monograph in gilt on the upper cover. Upper cover detached, modest edge wear, very good otherwise. Errata slip affixed to the verso of the title. Text in French. An English edition appeared in London in 1871. A treatise on tide-power.
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Hurae. floris fructusque partes / Magnoliae. floris frucusque partes.

By: Trew (Christoph Jakob) and Georg Dionysius Ehret.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: [Nuremberg, 1754].

Seller ID: 56172

A folio engraving, coloured, on laid paper. This is plate XXXV from Christoph Trew's PLANTAE SELECTAE (1750-1773). This plate of the Magnolia is from part 4 (Decuria IV), published in 1754. Plate size is 29cm x 44cm, on a sheet measuring 33,5cm x 49cm. Some tiny marginal tears at top, slight wrinkle to lower right margin, a very clean and attractive copy with original colouring. Drawn by the eighteenth-century botanical artist George Dionysius Ehret, Trew's 'Plantae Selectae' is considered to be one of the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical books. This plate provides close-up details of ...
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Magnolia foliis ovato oblongis ad basin et apicem angustis, utrinque virentib.

By: Trew (Christoph Jakob) and Georg Dionysius Ehret.

Price: $675.00

Publisher: [Nuremberg, 1765].

Seller ID: 56171

A folio engraving, coloured, on laid paper. This is plate LXIII from Christoph Trew's PLANTAE SELECTAE (1750-1773). This plate of the Magnolia is from part 7 (Decuria VII), published in 1765. Plate size is 29cm x 44cm, on a sheet measuring 33,5cm x 49cm. Some tiny marginal tears, a very clean and attractive copy with original colouring. Drawn by the eighteenth-century botanical artist George Dionysius Ehret, Trew's 'Plantae Selectae' is considered to be one of the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical books.
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Image for Das Holzerne Pferd von Ludwig von Urlichs. Mit Einer Photographischen Abbildung. Vierzehntes Programm des V. Wagner'schen Kunstinstituts.

Das Holzerne Pferd von Ludwig von Urlichs. Mit Einer Photographischen Abbildung. Vierzehntes Programm des V. Wagner'schen Kunstinstituts.

By: Urlichs (Ludwig von)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Wurzburg: Stahel'schen Buch- & Kunsthandlung, 1881.

Seller ID: 55542

4to Printed wrappers. 21pp. Mounted photographic illustration at rear. Chipped at edges, vertical crease down center, tear in rear cover, about very good. The photograph at the rear is very faded and oxidized, not very legible.
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Category: Antiquarian