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1748372039Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn; A. Miller in the Strand; and J. Osborn in Paternoster Row London 1748. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. This 1748 map provides a detailed representation of Roman Gaul covering regions such as Narbonne Lyon and Aquitaine. It was engraved by Emanuel Bowen a renowned cartographer of the time known for his intricate and highly detailed maps. The engraving was printed in London by T. Osborne A. Miller and J. Osborn.1 folding plate. Close cropped at the left margin. Untidily folded at right side. Size: 20 x 30 cms. Category: Universal History; PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; Printed before 1800; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn; A. Miller, in the Strand; and J. Osborn, in Paternoster Row unknown
1747AQ15403London: s.n. 1747. 7pp 1. Advertisement for 'J. Marmaduke bookseller' to verso of final leaf. Disbound. Manuscript annotation to head of title-page a trifle marked foxed. The sole printing of an anonymous list demonstrating that objections levelled towards the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation are comparable to those in opposition of incarnation. ESTC records only a single copy BL. ESTC T231733. 8vo. [s.n.] unknown
177253544Frankfurt/Main: Burgerlicher Ausschuss und Burgerl. Neuner 1772. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Small Folio. 168pp. Rebound in decorative paper-covered boards with manuscript title on tan spine protected by modern mylar. Red edges. Marginalia. Decorative headpiece and historiated initial. <br /> <br /> ".latam nec non concedendo facultatem concipiendae vovae originariae Judaeorum Francosurtensium conditioni praefentique eorum statui accommodatae ordinationis & c. Anwälde beeder Kayserlichen verordnet und bestättigter Collegien des Burgerlichen Ausschusses und Burger. Neuner in Frankfurt Intervenientenby der Sache Gemeiner Judenschaft zu Frankfurt contra den Magistrat daselbst die Cramläden und Gewölber außer der Judengasse betreffend. Mit beylagen." continuation of title page<br /> <br /> Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II King of Hungary Croatia and Bohemia's 1771 ordinance regarding Jewish storefronts and houses in Frankfurt with reviews by officials of the city and attachments. The address to the emperor includes passages showing uninhibited disdain for the Jews: ". that the Jews in Frankfurt since their first admission and up until now have been detrimental and onerous for the Christian Frankfurt merchants." <br /> <br /> The extensive report respectfully requests confirmation of the ordinance providing several attachments making their case. The attachments include A B C1 C2 C3 and C4 plus D and the text of previous ordinances providing a historical outline and details regarding the treatment of Jews historically with secondary attachments concluding with an ordinance from 1616. Contains a list of houses and occupants for both sides of the Judengasse at rear closing with the emperor's confirmation. Signed in print by Hans Ludwig von Ulm for the emperor and Johann Rudolph Bucher for the city.<br /> <br /> Text in German Gothic script. Some light wear along edges of binding with spine showing several small to medium chips at head middle including label and tail of spine. A couple of small chips at front joint of spine. Printed label "Ex bibliotheca Johannis Augusti Speltz J.U.D etc. with manuscript number 113 on inside front cover. Block in very good condition. Burgerlicher Ausschuss und Burgerl. Neuner hardcover
174529218Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard and Hippolyte-Louis Guerin 1745. A handsome 18th century edition. With handsome initials tables calendars printed music etc. 12mo in contemporary full calf the spine with gilt tooled compartments between gilt tooled flat bands the tools feature palm fronds the cross and the sacred heart. aii-cii 564 cxxxix 18 pp. Well preserved the leather is a bit worn but less then is typically found for books used daily in churches the text still quite clean and fresh and solid lacking ai title. A HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROMAN BREVIARY FROM FRANCE. The Breviary was the liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church prior to 1974. It contains all the public or canonical prayers hymns the Psalms readings and notations for everyday use especially by bishops priests and deacons in the Divine Office. Jean-Baptiste Coignard and Hippolyte-Louis Guerin hardcover
1780SAV109Paris: Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois 1780. Hardcover. Good. 1780-1781. Sixteen volumes pocket 18mo 133 x 74mm. Printed on fine laid paper. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled French calf ruled in gilt with olive morocco lettering labels marbled endpapers gilt edges. This beautiful miniature set was executed at the solitary expense of the Count d'Artois 1757-1830 later Charles X of France and numbered in full 64 volumes; the aim of which collected various sets of French works in verse and prose. Influential Enlightenment writers were thus compiled here many of them French female authors and limited to an overall printing of 100 copies by the famed printer Didot of Paris. Consisting: 1 DE LA FAYETTE Madame 1634-1693. "Zayde." 1780. 3 vols. 156 135 and 166pp. A classic novel with stories on the political social and cultural communities of early modern Spain. 2 DAUCORT Claude Godard d'Aucour 1768-1826. "Le Berceau de la France." 1780. 2 vols. 175 and 152pp. Rare first published in 1744 as a history of French civilization. 3 RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "l'Histoire d'Aloïse de Livarot." 1780. 77pp. 4RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "Les Amours de Roger et de Gertrude." 1780. 79pp. 5 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. Ismene and Ismenias. Roman Grec." 1780. 115pp. 6 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Le Prince Gerard Comte de Nevers et la Belle Euriant sa mie." 1780. 171pp. 7 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire du petit Jehan de Saint." 1780. 182pp. 8TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire de Tristan de Léonois." 1781. 212pp.9 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. "Confessions du comte de ." 1781. 2 vols. 129 and 128pp. First published in 1742 a popular "portrait gallery" of the illustrious French. 10 TENCIN Claudine Guérin de 1682-1749. "Le Siege de Calais. 1781. 2 vols. 122 and 126pp. First published anonymously in 1739. 11ARNAUD François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d' 1718-1805. Sargines. 1781. 130pp. Good. Only light edgewear and some bumped corners slightest spots otherwise crisp and clean interior. The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Counts heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didots prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count dArtoiss collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. <br/><br/>The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Counts heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didots prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count dArtoiss collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné (collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois) hardcover
1720ABC_49529Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk 1720. Modern half sheepskin parchment with the manuscript author and title on the spine beige decorative paper sides. Oblong royal 4to ca. 23 x 29 cm. With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page and 16 unnumbered engraved views 15 x 18.5 cm. A complete set of sixteen views of the magnificent palace gardens mazes fountains sculpture ponds and pavilions of the Royal estate Het Loo near Apeldoorn in the Netherlands the most splendid country estate of King William III of England William of Orange. This estate was the finest example of Anglo-Dutch formal gardens garden art and architecture. Pieter Schenk I 1660-1711 originally published the present views in his six-part Paridisus oculorum 1702 where Het Loo was ''undoubtedly the highlight of the series'' Anglo-Dutch Garden p. 201. The six parts were also issued separately with the dedications to the owners serving as title-pages as is the case here.William of Orange 1650-1702 bought the medieval castle Het Loo in 1684 when he was Dutch head of state and it quickly became his favourite hunting lodge. He had it completely rebuilt under the architect Jacob Roman 1640-1716 beginning in 1686. When William and his wife Mary Stuart were crowned King and Queen of England in 1689 however work on the estate was greatly expanded on a royal scale with sculpture commissioned from Romeyn de Hooghe and the elaborate fountains and gardens shown in the present prints. By the time Schenk produced the present print series just before William's death in 1702 it was one of the world's grandest royal residences. The present set of Schenk's prints is watermarked Strasbourg Bend = IV similar to Heawood 73 & 78 from ca. 1720 so it may have been published by Pieter Schenk II soon after his father's death.The binding shows very slight traces of use. The leaves are very lightly foxed. Otherwise a fine wide-margined copy of the prints of the William of Orange's splendid royal estate Het Loo.l The Anglo-Dutch Garden 68; Hollstein Dutch & Flemish XXV p. 290 1428-1443; Springer Bibl. Overzicht pp. 43-44; STCN 840916604 7 copies 1 incomplete; Wurzbach II p. 576 no. 311 Pieter Schenk, unknown
1747511396Despilly 1747. Leather. NEAR FINE. Devotional / Ascetical treatise on the Mass by the Italian Cistercian Cardinal Giovanni Bona 1609-1674. xiii 184pp. 24mo in 'cat's paw' mottled calf with 4 raised bands ornate floral stamped spine panels and burgundy morroco spine label red edges marbled endpapers bookseller's ticket to front pastedown and flyleaf verso -- Guimar Libraire in Nantes. Just a trifle rubbed at the extremities leather splitting at the ends of both joints but hinges very strong light and shallow tidemark to top edge; a very clean and attractive copy. Despilly unknown
1789057160Edinburgh: Mundell & Son 1789. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. EDINBURGH : 1789. It is not known when and where the first edition appeared; the second a duodecimo is dated 1672. Text complete. Old calf-leather; all corners reinforced with leather at some point; spine grey paper with simple lettered label; grey end-papers. All edges gilt. Cover stamped in gold with Name; 'B. Bolger'. Internally VERY GOOD INDEED. Ideal to have rebound. vii 555 pages. All editions are scarce and often incomplete. Only one copy of this edition is recorded in the British Library. JOHN AUSTIN or Austen born 1613 at Walpole Suffolk England; died London 1669 was an English lawyer controversial writer and one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society. He was a student of St. John's College Cambridge and of Lincoln's Inn and about 1640 became a Catholic. He was well regarded in his profession and was looked on as a master of English style. His time was entirely devoted to books and literary pursuits. He enjoyed the friendship of such scholars as the antiquary Thomas Blount Christopher Davenport Franciscus a Santa Clara John Sergeant and others. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Inklings Keswick Literature Rarities Theology and History. . Published by Mundell & Son SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Mundell & Son hardcover
179131131Budae Buda: Typis Regiae Universitatis 1791. Very Good. Budae Buda Hungary: Typis Regiae Universitets 1791. First Edition. Folio 35.5cm.; full contemporary roan spine in six compartments with printed paper spine label all edges stained red; xxiv3933pp.; woodcut illus. as well as initials head- and tail-pieces. Leather rather scuffed and worn along spine ends and corners old paper shelf label to upper cover textblock unevenly toned and lightly foxed very occasional contemporary marginalia to earlier leaves else a Very Good sound copy overall. <br /> <br /> Detailed account of the first year in the reign of Leopold II who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1790. He died suddenly just eighteen months later in March 1792 at the age of forty-four. Typis Regiae Universitatis unknown
173031900En Sevilla Impressor Mayor de dicha ciudad Seville: Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada 1730. Fine. Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada En Sevilla Impressor Mayor de dicha ciudad Seville 1730 15 x 20 cm relié First edition. Large arms of Utrera on second leaf. Title in red and black with a floral frame. Contemporary vellum spine titled in ink smudged. One tie in good condition spine partly detached. Traces of glue to final endpaper. A good copy without significant faults generally fresh. A monograph on the town of Utrera in the south-west of Spain not far from Seville in the province of Andalusia. The town has a rich history recorded events from which stretch back to the 13th century when Alfonso X conquered Seville. Archeological digs have shown that the town was inhabited even before the Roman period. 20th century ex libris with an image of a 16th century hand press. Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada hardcover
1757396Pragae Prague: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu Ad. S. Clementem 1757. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 2 vols. 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches. Vol. 1: 1 ffep half title title 1 - 260 7 unnumbered pages 261 - 644 lacks numbering for 645-46 but collates 647-696 4 unnumbered pages 697 - 790 1 rfep. Vol. 2: Ownership inscription "Collegia Soc. Jesu Confluentia" to front pastedown 1 ffep half title title 473 numbered pages 169 unnumbered pages. Both volumes with numerous decorative capitals and printer's devices of styles and methods ranging from post-incunabula to baroque engraving. All page edges rouged. Bound in contemporary white blindstamped goatskin with 2 of 4 engraved fore-edge clasps. Spines with four raised bands and red spine label with gilt "Institut Societ Jes Tom number. A fine and unusual tour de force of Jesuit and printing history includes excellent example of St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises and mentions of missions in Canada Brazil and Japan among others. A rare imprint. Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu Ad. S. Clementem unknown
174514082AB1745. 3 parts in 1 volume. Nürnberg and Leipzig Geyer 1745. 175 : 105 cm. Title 734 pages. Contemporary full calf spine richly gilt back label. BOUND WITH: Grammont Philibert Comte de. Die vergnügten Abwechslungen der Geschäfte auf dem Lande oder egebenheiten des Grafen von Grammont aus dem Französischen des Grafen Anton Hamilton übersetzet. Stockholm and Leipzig Kiesewetter 1745. 390 pages. - Booth works in first edition and extremely rare. - Title-pages with small collectors-stamp Exlibris last fly-leaf with some annotations by the previous owner. unknown
172314638AB1723. 3 parts in 1 volume. Paris d'Antoine-Urbain-Coustellier 1723. 165 : 105 cm. 7 leaves 112; 64; 56 pages. Contemporary full calf spine richly gilt red title.label on spine. First critical edition of Villon edited by Eusebe de Lauriere and P. du Cerceau. Based on the collection of Coustelier where this is the most thought after. The first seven leaves contain: title-page aux lecteurs tables privilege du roy. The three parts are: Le petit testament de F. Villon 112 pages. - Les repues franches. Le franc archier de Baignollet. Le dialogue de messieurs de Mallepaye et de Baillevant 64 pages. - Lettre a Monsieur de en lui envoyant la nouvelle edition des Ouevres de Francois Villon 56 pages. The letter is by P. de Cerceau. 'La seule edition ancienne que l'on puisse recontrer apres celle de 1542'. - Nice copy in contemporary binding. - Joints a bit rubbed right joint a bit damaged otherwise fine. - Rare. - Brunet II 544; Tchemerzine V 980. unknown
17922807London: F. Dodsley 1792. Early Edition. Leather bound. Very Good. 4 1/4 X 7 1/8 Inches. Early fine leather binding with gilt decoration to covers and spines. Four raised hubs. Stated "Tenth Edition" in each of the four volumes. Missing frontis illustrations else complete. A bit of scuffing to covers and spines but a tight set overall. Light foxing throughout. F. Dodsley unknown
1792252168Edinburgh: Printed by J. Robertson South Bridge-Street 1792. Second edition revised and enlarged. The first edition 1791 was of 240 pages. Pp. 335 1 on a proposed translation of Buchanan. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red spine label. Spine defective ends worn cracked but holding internally clean. Second edition revised and enlarged. The first edition 1791 was of 240 pages. Pp. 335 1 on a proposed translation of Buchanan. 1 vols. 8vo. Assembly of literary essays and poems by Francis Garden Lord Gardenstone 1721-1793 judge and landowner in Kincardineshire.<br /> <br /> "He was a man of many peculiarities one of which was an extreme fondness for pigs. It is related that a visitor called on him early one morning before he was up and being shown into the bedroom in the dark stumbled against something which gave a terrible grunt. At this Gardenstone said 'It is just a bit sow poor beast and I laid my breeches on it to keep it warm all night'" ODNB citing an anecdote in Kay A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Printed by J. Robertson, South Bridge-Street unknown
1779284Paris: De Imprimerie de Lottin l'aine 1779. Leather Bound. Very Good . 8 vols. 4 ¼ x 7 inches. Each volume bound in matching contemporary full speckled calf with four green ribbon markers all of which are present. The spines are matching with six compartments and five raised bands. In one compartment of each volume is the name of the season the four "secular" seasons rather than the seasons of the Christian Kalendar and in a second compartment is the title "Missel de Paris" in gilt lettering. The remaining compartments have extensive gilt decoration. Gilt decoration along the edges of the boards. Each volume has contemporary hand-marbled endpapers. All page edges are gilt. Each volume has occasional and unobtrusive library stamps of Bibliotheca Pusieana Oxon. and library markings on the front endpapers and there is the expected shelf wear to the edges and corners with a few small losses. The interior of the volumes is otherwise bright and clean and free of significant marking soiling or staining. The descriptions of each volume are as follows: Hyver Winter 1 partie: 2 ffep 3 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 324 numbered pages Missal cclviii numbered pages Commun des Saints 1 iv numbered leaves Supplement 2 rfep with slight loss to tail. Hyver Winter 2 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 368 numbered pages Missal cclix Commun des Saints viii iv numbered pages Supplement 2 rfep. Printems Spring 1 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 440 numbered pages Missal ccxi numbered pages Commun des Saints xi numbered pages Supplement 1 rfep. Printems Spring 2 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 428 numbered pages Missal ccxxv numbered pages Commun des Saints xi numbered pages Supplement 2 rfep. Été Summer 1 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 416 numbered pages Missal cclv numbered pages Commun des Saints viiii numbered pages Supplement 2 rfep. Été Summer 2 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 330 numbered pages Missal cclv numbered pages Commun des Saints viiii numbered pages Supplement 2 rfep. Automnie Autumn 1 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 404 numbered pages Missal cclv numbered pages Commun des Saints viiii numbered pages Supplement 2 rfep; slight loss to head of spine. Automnie Autumn 2 partie: 2 ffep 4 unnumbered leaves Kalendar 368 numbered pages Missal cclv numbered pages Commun des Saints viiii numbered pages Supplement 2 rfep Pusey House is a center of Anglo-Catholic worship and Study at the University of Oxford named after the prominent Tractarian Edward Bouverie Pusey. The Oxford or Tractarian Movement was a movement of High Church Anglicans eventually developing into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement the members of which were often associated with the University of Oxford argued for the recovery of traditional aspects of the Christian faith subsequently lost and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology and conceived of the Anglican Church as one of three branches of the Catholic Church. A nice copy of this scarce dual language missal according to the Use of Paris with a unique provenance. De Imprimerie de Lottin l'aine unknown
178916956AB1789. Londres 1789. 20 : 13 cm. 204 pages. Contemporary boards. 'Exemplaire tres correct'. Die 'Pieces justificatives' nach Seite 173. Verteidigungsschrfit der Gräfin de La Motte welche zwei Jahre zuvor aus dem Gefä#ngnis ausbrach in das sie wegen ihrer Rolle in der 'Halbandaffäre' gebracht wurde. Sie erhebt darin schwere Vorwürfe gegen die Königin von Frankreich Maria Antoniette. Ab Seite 173 sind angebliche Briefe Maria Antoniette und Kardinal Louis de Rohans welche die Schuld der Königin und ihre eigene Unschuld beweisen sollen. Diese und andere Veräffentlichung Valois de Saint-Rémys trugen viel zur steigenden Unbeliebheit der Königin beim französischen Volk bei. - Einband teils stärker berieben. hardcover
173459334Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff 1734. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf gilt spine red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal" which was applied to revenue "derived from public land mines salt-works. etc. and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary 1949. apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff unknown
1741339750Vindobonae : Universitas 1741. 8 45pp. Folio. Later red cloth. 8 45pp. Folio. unknown
1764ST17496-042London: Printed for the Author 1764. FIRST EDITION. 520 x 365 mm. 20 3/4 x 14 1/4". iv 8 subscribers list 33 pp. <br/> Attractive modern light green half morocco gilt by J. F. Newman of Dublin his ticket on front pastedown raised bands spine panels with central patera ornament two darker green morocco labels reinforced hinges edges untrimmed. WITH 61 SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS 14 plans and elevations 47 views ON 54 PLATES eight double-page six folding by Bartolozzi and others. Front flyleaf with ink signature of Francis D. Bedford dated October 1886. Cicognara 3567; Fowler 2. Spine sunned to a light olive shade one corner bumped one plate with a little browning along the fold occasional mild marginal foxing or trivial smudges but A FINE COPY--fresh bright and clean internally with deep impressions of the type rich impressions of the plates and generous margins in a binding with few signs of wear.<br/> <br/> This is an extremely appealing copy of one of the great architectural books of the 18th century described by Cicognara as a "magnificent and grandiose work." Scottish architect Robert Adam 1728-92 was a product of the Scottish Enlightenment and moved in intellectual circles that included historian William Robertson who wrote the introduction here David Hume and Adam Smith. His interest in architectural drawing was stimulated by books in his father's extensive library which DNB tells us contained "a working collection of illustrated architectural books in English French and Italian and a series of manuals on architectural draughtsmanship." This curiosity developed into a passion during his 1755-57 tour of Italy which "was in every way a period of intense professional training during which the skills learned in Scotland were tested and given an international gloss by the Roman circle in which he now moved." DNB At the center of this circle was French architect antiquarian and artist Charles-Louis Clérisseau 1721-1820 the leading authority on Roman antiquities and architecture who introduced Adams to among others the great Piranesi. With Clérisseau as guide and tutor he explored and sketched various sites before arriving at the un-surveyed fortress palace built by the former emperor Diocletian at Spalatro the modern-day Croatian city of Split. Adam undertook a survey of the building and drew the architectural plans and elevations for this work while Clérisseau sketched views of the ruins. Adam planned this book as a way of promoting his career as an architect and worked with Clérisseau to have engravings made for it. According to Thom "while the traditional plans elevations and sections--what Robert Adam called the 'Geometricals'--were generally supplied by English engravers like Rooker Patton and Walker the all-important picturesque views and perspectives which Adam thought were essential to convey the emotional impact of the remains of Diocletian's Palace were engraved in Italy mostly by Bartolozzi Paolo Santini and Zucchi." Adams also wrote the architectural commentary. The publication was a success praised by the "Critical Review" in October 1864 as possessing "a taste and execution that has never been equalled in England." As DNB observes "during these two Roman years Adam succeeded in transforming himself from a provincial and rather green Scottish architect into a cosmopolitan figure ready indeed to put into effect 'the Antique the Noble & Stupendous.'" Now based in London he embarked on a distinguished career specializing in country houses and townhomes that reflected the deep influence classical architecture and his Italian sojourn had on his work. Our copy was once owned by another artist Francis Donkin Bedford 1864-1954 who exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy and illustrated books during the Golden Age of children's book illustration in the late 19th and early 20th century. Printed for the Author unknown
177540401à Berlin avec Privilége du Roi à Amsterdam: Jean Julien Hummel PN 356 1775. 4 volumes. Folio. Quarter dark tan mottled calf with marbled boards decorative cut paper label to uppers with titling in contemporary manuscript. <br /> <br /> Violino primo: 1f. recto title verso blank 3-15 pp.<br /> Violino secondo: 1f. recto title verso blank 3-14 pp. <br /> Viola: 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 4-15 pp.<br /> Basso: 1f. recto title verso blank i blank 4-15 pp.<br /> <br /> With a fine illustrated title to each part depicting two groups musicians within an elaborate border incorporating vegetation and animals. Engraved throughout.<br /> <br /> Small circular handstamp of the "Musik=Schule des Cantons" of Solothurn Switzerland to to each title.<br /> <br /> Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; upper hinges slightly split; "Oberlin 1812" in contemporary manuscript to front pastedown of each part. Minor signs of wear soiling and staining; some annotations in pencil.<br /> <br /> A very good crisp and attractive copy overall. Rare. RISM H 6244 three holdings all incomplete. <br /> <br /> These quartets were formerly thought to be by Haydn. <br /> <br /> "Hoffstetter's musical ideas are memorable easily accessible and popular in style but his working out of material does not attain Haydn's concentration. Apart from three viola concertos which might suggest that he was himself a viola player he composed various pieces of church music. His masses show some uncertainty in tonal structure. Writing to F.S. Silverstolpe on 11 January 1802 he confessed as much and acknowledged that 'everything that flows from Haydn's pen seems to me so beautiful and remains so deeply imprinted on my memory that I cannot prevent myself now and again from imitating something as well as I can'. Appropriately several of his works became known under Haydn's name." Hubert Unverricht in Grove Music Online. Jean Julien Hummel [PN 356] unknown
179955420Philadelphia: Re-Printed by William Conover 1799. Second American Edition. 12mo 18.5cm. Contemporary tree calf; 320pp. Small perforation at leaf E6 costing a few characters but no loss of sense. Leaf L4 is bound out of order before L3 with marginal loss but no loss of text. Else a complete sound and Good copy in a contemporary binding worn with front joint cracked through held by threads. Ownership signature of a Henry Rogers dated 1801 to front pastedown. <br /> <br /> A popular 18th-century utopia described in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction on-line as "one of the first Lost World novels in the literature" and "probably the first to suggest that the lost race in question may be Ancient Egyptians." Often attributed to Bishop Berkeley but in fact the work of another Catholic divine Simon Berington; in any case not a translation of any Italian work and "Gaudentio di Lucca" a synonym. Gaudentio which describes an imaginary African kingdom of Mezzorania where "Nature is the source of all that is good for mankind" originally appeared in London in 1737 and proved immediately popular going through a succession of French and German translations prior to the death of the author in 1755. The first American edition appeared in Norwich Connecticut in 1796; ours is the second American edition printed in Philadelphia three years later. Both editions are institutionally plentiful but rather uncommon in commerce. SARGENT p.11 the 1st ed. LEWIS p.18. NEGLEY 93. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 1125 citing only this edition. EVANS 35183. Re-Printed by William Conover unknown
176312399no place but Sheffield UK: no imprint 1763. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo ccciv 304pp. plus Index. A very good copy in contemporary full calf with wear to the spine ends otherwise crisp clean and sound quite well-preserved. Errata slip neatly tipped onto the verso of the title page. Volume III only of this mid-18th century English guide to prayers in English and Latin for the use of English Catholics. OCLC attributes authorship to Charles Cordell an influential English Catholic priest academic and bibliophile. Scarce in the trade with few auction records; presumably much scarcer than Anglican volumes from the period given the much smaller population of English Catholics during the period as compared with Anglicans. OCLC records just over a dozen holdings of the whole set. Though an odd volume rather than a whole set a rich text which documents the daily and liturgical prayers and traditions of English Catholics during this period. [no imprint] hardcover
1780076375London: J. P. Coghlan. 2xv1458pp 8th edition hardback full brown contemporary calf with ten engraved plates including frontispiece vignette to title page front board detached many ownership signatures with family details to end-papers concerning: Joseph Laws Winifrid Law Thomas Law William Mintridge John Latchford Elizabeth Mintridge Joseph Bowyer &c p 125 closed tears edge tear to one plate losses to spine and corners rubbed soiling to leaves through use text complete ESTCT180971 a roman catholic recusant work binding copy . Fair. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 1780. J. P. Coghlan hardcover
