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First edition, 8vo (195 x 135 mm), [6], 258 + 16pp., of publishers adverts, with half-title, title and prelims spotted, minor waterstain to lower margins, front endpapers stained, orig. decorated cloth, neatly rebacked with orig. spine laid-down, lower portion of upper cover lightly stained. A rare Utopian novel. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of R. C. Hyde; Bookplate of Max Salomon.
First edition, 4 vols., royal 8vo ( 250 x 155 mm), xxv, [1], 495, [1]; xxi, [3], 612; xiii, [1], 556; xxiii, [3], 570 pp., half-titles and frontispieces in each volume, 45 fine heliotype photographic plates, marbled endpapers, finely bound in nineteenth-century red morocco, five raised bands, four compartments gilt tooled extra, the other two gilt lettered direct, some minor rubbing, uncut, t.e.g. a very handsome set. Provenance: With the bookplate of Baroness Burton of Rangemore Hall to each volume; Bookseller's invoice (Frank Woore of Derby) made out on April 11th 1950 with Mr. C. Brown being the recipient. Ormerod, p. 9.
First edition, viii, [2], 117pp., with engraved title-page, a little foxed and stained, final line of imprint cropped, text occasional spotted and lightly browned, marbled endpapers, cont. full straight-grained red morocco, gilt border on sides, flat spine, gilt, extremities a little rubbed. Dibdin's rare suppressed first separate publication, being preceded only by his contribution to the 'European Magazine'. Dibdin did not think much of his first effort as he emphatically stated in his 'Bibliomania' "I struck off 500 copies, and was glad to get rid of half of them as waste paper; the remaining half have been partly destroyed by my own hands... My only consolation is that the volume is now exceedingly rare". Jackson, 1; Windle & Pippin, A1.
First edition, 2 vols., 4to (280 x 220 mm), viii, [14], 365, [3], 110; viii, 623, [1]pp., Large paper copy, large folding engraved map of the County with a boarder consisting of 16 engraved views, slightly spotted with a 1 inch closed tear to inner margin, 8 plates, numerous illustrs., and pedigrees, unopened, orig. green watered cloth, orig. printed spine label to vol. I chipped, otherwise a very nice set. This book was planned to comprise of two volumes, each in two parts. Only part 1 of each volume was published as here, no more published. Vol. 1, part 1: Containing a variety of geological, mineralogical, commercial, and statistical information ? vol. 2, part 1: Containing the parochial and family history, biography, and statistical information. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of John Gretton, Stapleford.
First edition, 4 vols., 12mo, [4], 350; [4], 419, [1]; [4], 396; [4], 353, [1]pp., all half-titles present, cont. cloth-backed marbled boards, red morocco title labels lettered in gilt, several splits to joints otherwise a nice set. Garside, Raven & Schw?erling, 1820: 57.
First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (240 x 160 mm), 864; 753pp., orig. cloth. Volume 1 records full details of all known prose novels in English first published in the British Isles from 1770 to 1799, with the second volume continuing on to 1829. Except for some forty titles of which no surviving copy could be found, all the entries are derived from actual examination of the books themselves. A particularly important facet of volume 2 is that information includes a study of the recently discovered Schloss Covey collection of English novels in Germany, the holdings of which, for the years 1796-1834, are more comprehensive than any other library, including the British Library.
First edition, 5 vols., large 8vo, 464; 400; 369; 459; 445pp., ex-library with the usual markings, frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 and 4 (both offset onto title-page), cont. red half calf, worn, remains of labels, some light staining, joints starting, uncut. The very scarce catalogue of this outstanding collection of English topography. Lists over 6,500 works with detailed collations, arranged primarily by county.
8 Volumes, 8vo, vol. 1 has neat pencil notes to verso of front free endpaper, orig. cloth, dust wrappers, a very nice set. A complete set in eight volumes. Volume one, 1854-April 1874. pp. xi, [v], 525; Volume two, April 1874-July 1879. pp. [iv], 352; Volume three, August 1879-September 1882. pp. [iv], 372; Volume four, October 1882-June 1884. pp. [iv], 326; Volume five, July 1884-August 1887. pp. [iv], 465; Volume six, August 1887-September 1890. pp. [vi], 443; Volume seven, September 1890-December 1892. pp. [iv], 488; Volume eight, January 1893-December 1894. pp. [vi], 448.
In 8o, pp. 507, t. tela con impressioni a secco e titoli oro al dorso, ritratto del Lavater in antiporta e 80 inc. f.t. Tradotto da Thomas Holcroft con le memorie della vita dell autore. Nona edizione con 400 profili e altre incisioni. Ninth edition with upwards of four hundred profiles, and other engravings. Some defects at binding. Rimontate le carte bianche. Minimi difetti alla legatura. Firma di proprieta (5123/ LAVATER - ENGLISH IMPRINTS - PHISIOGNOMY - PSYCHIATRY - FISIOGNOMICA)
An extraordinary suite of 30 etchings by Ablett, in his purest boudoir style, printed on extremely fine laid Japanese paper. EACH ETCHING IS SIGNED IN THE PLATE, AND EACH ETCHING HAS A REMARQUE DRAWN IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST (as a rule, remarques are engraved, but in this case each one is an original drawing). Folio. Loose as issued. In perfect condition. EXTREMELY RARE.
pp. [2], 55. Signatures: A^(4)(-A1) B-G^(4) H2. There are two settings of this same edition known (no priority as to first issue, and many copies contain mixed formes). This setting has the title page with a small version of the royal arms; and on the verso a large, full page, engraved version; and the last line of D4v begins: as ever'. **Short contemporary Ms. note on title: 'This p'lament began Apr. 16, 1640 & was dissolved May 5 folowing.' Small 4to. 190 mm. Later blue boards binding; leather title strip lettered in gilt. Clean and attractive copy. Charles I (1600-1649), King of Great Britain and Ireland. In his early disputes, arguments, and battles with the Scots, tried a new tool. He resolved to call an English parliament, and to ask for means to enable him to make war effectually upon Scotland. The discovery of an attempt made by the Scottish leaders to open negotiations with the king of France led him to hope that the national English feeling would be touched. In the meanwhile the English privy councillors offered him a loan which would enable him at least to gather an army without parliamentary aid. The Short parliament of 1640 was opened by the King on 13 April with a few words indicative of the gravity of the situation, the task of more fully setting forth the royal wishes and intentions being devolved upon the Lord Keeper (Baron Finch). Under Pym's leadership the Parliament showed itself disposed to ask for redress of grievances as a condition of a grant of supply, and it subsequently refused to give money unless peace were made with the Scots. On 5 May Charles dissolved parliament by means of this Declaration. Getting money by irregular means, he proceeded to push on the war, and formed an Irish army to join the mutinous and un-warlike Royal army. Terrified and exasperated Englishmen, believed that this army would be used in England to crush their liberties. The Scots knew that the opinion in England was in their favour, and they had already entered into communication with the parliamentary leaders. On 20 Aug. they crossed the Tweed, defeated part of the royal army at Newburn on the 28th, and soon afterwards occupied Newcastle and Durham. Charles's money was by this time almost exhausted, and he was obliged to summon the English peers to meet him in a great council at York, as there was no time to get together a full parliament. The great council met on 24 Sept. It at once insisted on opening negotiations with the Scots, and sent some of its members to London to obtain a loan to support the army during the progress of the treaty. Charles had now agreed to summon another parliament, and the negotiations opened at Ripon were adjourned to London. Possibly written by John Finch, Baron Finch of Fordwich (1584-1660), Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper. STC (2nd ed.) 9262; Thomason, E.203[1]; Lincoln's Inn. Catalogue of Pamphlets, 1506-1700. The attractive First Edition of a scarce and important pamphlet. KING CHARLES I DISSOLVES THE "SHORT PARLIAMENT". **PRICE JUST REDUCED! STC 2
Very Good English Original autograph letter signed (ALS) by Percy Smythe Strangford, (1825-1869), about Heinrich Julius Klaproth's manuscript, saying it was translated from a Russian book, "officially confided to him when at Turkestan in 1805 or thereabouts". 18x11,5 cm. In English. 30 lines in 2 p. Letterhead in Persian beneath a coronet, dated 19 November 1868. Heinrich Julius Klaproth, (1783-1835), was a German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, orientalist, and explorer. As a scholar, he is credited along with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, with being instrumental in turning East Asian Studies into scientific disciplines with critical methods. Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, (1825-1869), was a British nobleman and man of letters. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of the 6th Viscount Strangford, the British Ambassador, Ottoman Turkey, Sweden, and Portugal. During all his earlier years Percy Smythe was nearly blind, in consequence, it was believed, of his mother having suffered very great hardships on a journey up the Baltic Sea in wintry weather shortly before his birth. His education began at Harrow School, whence he went to Merton College, Oxford. He excelled as a linguist and was nominated by the vice-chancellor of Oxford in 1845 a student-attache at Constantinople. While at Constantinople, where he served under Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Smythe gained a mastery not only of Turkish and its dialects but of almost every form of modern Greek, from the language of the literati of Athens to the least Hellenized Romaic. He had already a large knowledge both of Persian and Arabic before going east, but until his duties led him to study the past, present, and future of the sultan's empire he had given no attention to the tongues which he well described as those of the international rabble in and around the Balkan peninsula. On succeeding his brother as Viscount Strangford in 1857 he continued to live in Constantinople, immersed in cultural studies. At length, however, he returned to England and wrote a good deal, sometimes in the Saturday Review, sometimes in the Quarterly Review, and much in the Pall Mall Gazette. A rather severe review in the first of these organs of the Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines of Emily Anne Beaufort (1826-1887) led to a result not very usual, the marriage of the reviewer and the author. Percy Smythe was president of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1861-64 and 1867-69.
This is a very good hardcover copy, a bound volume, containing 13 issues of this rare journal. The 12 monthly issues plus a Special Number brought out in August. All covers bound in. The pea-green cloth covers have titles and the journal masthead device in gilt to the front cover. Generally clean outside, but spine tips frayed, top and bottom front corners worn and the spine rear outside hinge worn. Binding firm and tight. All 12 monthly issues plus the special number with articles and advertisements from the trade. Occasional illustrations, but mostly articles, notes on firms and producers, new products, soaps, confectionery, mineral water and tobacco trades, etc. A wealth of information on the trade in 1929. The journal was founded by John C.Umney in 1910, with Volume 1, and continued through Volume 60 in 1969. This volume edited by Archibald C.Merrin. Contains the index for the year. Bound volumes quite rare. 11" high X 8" wide, each issue about 36 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
First Complete Edition in Latin, folio (345 x 210 mm), 10, 1324, [29]pp., first issue with Italic type headlines, without the half-title which has a portrait of Bacon on the verso, old library stamp on blank margin of title which is printed in red and black, without the unsigned 'Bibliopola ad Lectorem' leaf (often missing), tear on inner blank margin of Z4, text slightly browned at end, cont. calf boards detached, lacks spine.
First edition, folio (380 x 270 mm), x, 210, [2], xxxvipp., title in red and black, 8 mounted albumen prints (145 x 200 mm) by John Cruttenden of Maidstone, images faded at edges, lithographic plan hand-coloured outline, double-page pedigree and double-page facsimile letter, fore-edge of frontispiece and title page neatly strengthened, neat repair to inner margin of leaf G3 marbled endpapers, attractively rebound in the style of a late eighteen-century panelled calf binding, gilt, with red and black morocco labels to spine. Leeds Castle was the country seat of Charles Wykeham Martin (1801-1870), an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1841 and 1870. Cruttenden had exhibited two of his images of Leeds Castle at the Photographic Society's 1861 Exhibition. Gernsheim, 458.
L'edizione originale francese è stata stampata nel 1957: Samuel beckett, "Fin de Partie", Edition de Minuit. 8vo. 60. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Prima edizione inglese (First Edition). .
Scena di strada affollata di uomini e donne, una bancarella appesa con conigli e altre carcasse che attraversano il primo piano, due uomini che parlano in primo piano a destra e una veduta di edifici cittadini, uno con un timpano a gradini a sinistra, sullo sfondo; secondo stato pubblicato, con l’aggiunta del cielo. Acquaforte con mezzotinto, 1906, firmata a matita in basso. Una bella impressione, stampata su carta giapponese avoriata, con margini, condizioni perfette. Secondo William Gaunt si tratta di una delle quattro acqueforti realizzate il Catalogue of Frank Brangwyn's Etchings, preparato da Frank Newbolt e pubblicato dalla Fine Art Society in un'edizione limitata di 150 esemplari nel 1908. Sir Frank William Brangwyn era un artista gallese, pittore, acquerellista, stampatore, illustratore e designer. Brangwyn nacque a Bruges, in Belgio, dove suo padre, William Curtis Brangwyn, si trasferì dopo aver vinto un concorso organizzato dalla corporazione belga di San Tommaso e San Luca per progettare una chiesa parrocchiale. Brangwyn era un artista di tutti i mestieri. Oltre ai dipinti e ai disegni, produsse progetti per vetri colorati, mobili, ceramiche, vetreria da tavola, edifici e interni, fu litografo e illustratore di libri. Bibliografia W. Gaunt, The etchings of Frank Brangwyn, n. 69 II. Street scene crowded with men and women, a market stall hung with rabbit and other carcases running across the foreground, two men talking in the foreground to right and a view of town buildings, one with a stepped gable to left, in the background; second, published state, sky put in. Etching with mezzotint and surface tone, 1906, signed on pencil at the bottom. A fine impression, printed on contemporay china paper, with margins, perfect condition. One of four etchings made for and included in, the Catalogue of Frank Brangwyn's Etchings, prepared by Frank Newbolt and published by the Fine Art Society in a limited edition of 150 in 1908, according to Gaunt. Sir Frank William Brangwyn was a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and designer. Frank Brangwyn was born in Bruges, Belgium where his father, William Curtis Brangwyn, moved after winning a competition organised by the Belgian Guild of St Thomas and St Luke to design a parish church. Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, table glassware, buildings and interiors, was a lithographer and woodcutter and was a book illustrator. Bibliografia W. Gaunt, The etchings of Frank Brangwyn, n. 69 II.
1 vol. in-folio br., Mifao, IFAO, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire, 1998, XVI-456 pp. Very good copy. Très bon état. Anglais
In-8°; 4 voll. piena pelle con fregi e titolo in oro al dorso.
2 vol. 4to hardcover, Blackwell Reference, Oxford, 1996, XXVIII-618 pp. ; XXX-642 pp. Fair (some foxing on edges and oil stains on a few pages, otherwise good copy) Anglais
Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of Splendid Manuscripts, Chiefly upon Vellum in various Languages of Europe and the East, formed by M. Guglielmo Libri. Mathematical, Medical and other Scientific Works, Ancient Italians poets and Prose Writers, autograph Mss. of Tasso, Galileo, Kepler, Leibnitz, &c., Wich will be sold by auction bu S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, on Monday 28th of March 1859 [ With : ] Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Precious Manuscripts and Objects of Art and vertu of M. Guglielmo Libri, Which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, on june 1 1864, 1 vol. in-4 reliure demi-chagrin maroquiné brun, dos à 5 nerfs, xlviii-260 pp. et 37 planches, 1190 numéros ; 2 ff., 44 pp. et 15 planches Très intéressant exemplaire (reliure frottée, bon état intérieur), provenant de la bibliothèque du grand libraire Georges Heilbrun (avec son ex-libris), et bien complet de l'intégralité des prix d'adjudications (pour le premier catalogue) porté en margé à l'encre (prix de départ et prix d'arrivée). Guglielmo Libri fut certainement le plus grand voleur de livres et de manuscrits précieux du XIXe siècle ; il pilla notamment la bibliothèque Inguimbertine de Carpentras, la bibliothèque Royale, la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, etc. Devant les soupçons qui pesaient sur lui, il réussit à s'enfuir en Angleterre où il réalisa pour une véritable fortune les trésors qu'il avait dérobés. Catalogue Lemouel, 10 octobre 2012 Anglais
A Poem. 56 vignette incise nel testo Bella rilegatura con fregi in oro e nervetti. Taglio dorato. 8vo. pp. VIII - 284. . Ottimo (Fine). Ex libris. . .
Very slight shelfwear. ; Vol. 1; 1.2 x 9.6 x 6.4 Inches; 545 pages
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 4. VERY SCARCE
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original brown half-leather bdg. with a clip. "Poesie" title on black cloth front cover. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic script). [2], 153, [3] p. Completely handwritten with numerous pages. All edges gilt. This unique manuscript is probably an early sketch written in Ottoman script to be used later for its first edition published by Maarif Vekâleti [i.e. Turkish Ministry of Education] in 1947 in modern Turkish with Latin letters. The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan. The book is an expanded version of the Red Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930. It begins with a full-page citation of the famous passage in Plato's Republic, Book VII, laying out the allegory of the cave. The book made frequent reference to the quantum theory of radiation, initiated by Max Planck in 1900, to Albert Einstein's general relativity, and to the new theories of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg and Schrödinger, of whose philosophical perplexities the author seemed well aware. The book was denounced by the Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, because "Jeans has written a book called The Mysterious Universe and I loathe it and call it misleading. Take the title... I might say that the title The Mysterious Universe includes a kind of idol worship, the idol being Science and the Scientist." A second edition appeared in 1931. The book was reprinted 15 times between 1930 and 1938 and again in September 2007. Salih Murat Uzdilek (1891-1967) was the first to translate this book into Turkish, printed in 1947 under the title "Esrarli kâinât". Although there's no sign in this manuscript, probably the author is Uzdilek. He was a Professor of Physics at Istanbul Technical University, graduated as a naval officer in 1908. It was his father Mehmed Sefik Bey, who as a mathematics teacher introduced him to the study of the subject. Salih Murat developed an interest in the history of mathematics through readings of books by F. Cajori and D. E. Smith. Uzdilek studied engineering in London prior to the First World War, where he was invited to present a communication on the "Introduction of logarithms into Turkey" at the Napier Tercentenary organized by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25-27 July 1914. The paper published in the Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume (1915) was based on the research by Salih Zeki Bey, historian of science and Rector of Istanbul University between 1913 and 1917, published in his Kamus-i Riyaziyat (Encyclopaedia of Mathematics 1898). His findings indicate that Yirmisekiz Mehmet Çelebi, the Sultan's envoy to France, had been presented an astronomical text which included logarithms by the astronomer Jacques Cassini during his visit to the Paris Observatory in 1714. It was this collection that led to the introduction of logarithms into Turkey. Kalfazade Ismail Efendi, a timekeeper, and mathematician compiled an introduction to logarithms for his translation of the astronomical tables of J. Cassini in 1772, which is considered the first work on logarithms, into Turkish. Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi, renowned for his works in mathematics and logic, completed his Logaritma Serhi (Commentary on Logarithms) in 1787. After his return to Istanbul, Salih Murat Uzdilek was invited by the Austrian Dean of the School of Engineering, Prof. Philipp Forchheimer, to give physics lessons at the school. Prof. Uzdilek pursued his interest in the history of mathematics and physics throughout his long career. He was also an active researcher in the physics of sound and music and contributed to the contemporary tonal system of Turkish music. In his later years, Prof. Uzdilek was invited to lecture at the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei.
