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175028292Mostly London various imprints and dates 1750-1800 1750. First editions with a few exceptions. The majority of the plays have been disbound and many retain remnants of leather spines. Approximately 150 volumes all 8vo all disbound except for 30 in bound volumes. ¶ A fine representative collection of published plays from the London stage 1750 to 1800 including works by several playwrights who remain well known and others who have been relegated by time and fashion to theatrical by-paths viz: Miles Peters Andrews John Burgoyne Susannah Cibber the two George Colmans Henry Seymour Conway Hannah Cowley Richard Cumberland Charles Dibdin Thomas Dibdin Samuel Foote David Garrick Elizabeth Griffith Thomas Holcroft Elizabeth Inchbald Charles Kemble Edward Moore Arthur Murphy Frederick Reynolds Frances Sheridan George Alexander Stevens et al. A complete list with bibliographical details is available via pdf on our website www.brickrow.com on the catalogues page. <br/><br/> Mostly London, various imprints and dates, 1750-1800 hardcover books
1734130729London: Read 1734. hardcover. very good. 2 vols. folio contemporary 3/4 calf; spines worn marbled boards rubbed inner hinges strengthened light browning p. 229 of vol. II torn with loss of text. London: T. Read 1734 1735. Very good.<br/><br/> Trials begin with Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 and conclude in 1722. Included are the trials of several conspirators in the murder of Thomas Overbury.<br/><br/> Read unknown books
173075293London: Printed for Walthoe et al. Very Good. 1730. Contemporary Calf. 14 by 9 inches 35.5 x 23 cm. small folio in a contemporary paneled calf binding with six raised bands but heavily abraded worn and defective. The text block is complete and clean and sound in 998 pages Volume I ONLY of 6 volumes; with the title page printed in red and black. Trials included date from 1388 to 1648 and include cases related to High Treason Murder Heresy etc. . Printed for Walthoe et al unknown books
1751204039London: W. & J. Mount & T. Page 1751. unbound. very good. Sea Chart. Uncolored engraving. Image with text measures 18.5" x 11.75".<br/><br/> From the "English Pilot" a composite sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This map of St. Peters in Newfoundland was part of the fourth book "The West-India Navigation" published by W. & J. Mount & T. Page in 1751. The Mount family was active in publishing in various manifestations for many generations from the 1650s to 1800. On the back of the page is a beautiful print of two Auks along with a description of the birds and their abundance in this area. These birds were eventually hunted into extinction.<br/><br/> W. & J. Mount & T. Page unknown books
1790260927Boston: Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West 1790. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Joints a bit tender; tiny chip at tail of spine. A beautiful unrestored copy and with Pierce family inscriptions on the endpapers. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. With unusual ownership painting on the endpaper identifying the Psalms as belonging to Benjamin Pierce's Book 1791 and depicting a man up a tree by way of ladder either to send apples to another man seated below or to read his psalms aloft in peace-- let the viewer be the judge! <br/><br/>The following leaf includes a calligraphic presentation in 1799 to James Pierce who notes its use by "the society in Brattle Square" which we take to mean the then Congregational and later c. 1805-1876 Unitarian Church on Brattle Street in Boston Massachusetts. <br/><br/>The church distinguished itself by its somewhat relaxed attitude toward rigid Calvinist practices and by iits array of important ministers: Benjamin Colman 1699-1747; William Cooper 1716-1743; Samuel Cooper 1747-1783; Peter Thacher 1785-1802; Joseph Stevens Buckminster 1805-1812; Edward Everett 1814-1815; John Gorham Palfrey 1813-1831; and Samuel Kirkland Lothrop 1834-1876. The parishioners were no less esteemed: John Hancock Samuel Adams Joseph Warren John Adams Abigail Adams Richard Clarke Elizabeth Greenleaf Jane Mecom John Lowell Lydia Hancock Henry Cabot Lodge James Bowdoin 1676-1747 and many others. Hans Gram played organ in the late 18th century. The Pierce family's early days in America perhaps coming as early as about 1620 were spent largely in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and their legacy includes Benjamin Pierce governor of New Hampshire 1827-1830 as well as ten generations spent in what is now an historic landmark of seventeenth-century architecture currently serving as a museum in Dorchester Massachusetts. It is difficult to place exactly which Benjamin Pierce and James Pierce this copy belonged to in the large and lively family. Evans 22351 Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West unknown books
176730761London: Printed upon Stamped Paper.by J. Almon 1767. 1 vols. 15 1/2 x 22 inches. Broadside folded on stub. Tear into text near stub browning and some small holes along folds else very good. 1 vols. 15 1/2 x 22 inches. George III. Covers the years 1761 through 1766. The editor notes "Retrospects of certain Matters are sometimes useful and often entertaining. I which ever Light these lists are viewed it will be Satisfaction sufficient to th Editor if he has contributed any thing towards either.the Intention here being to give no more than the Political Changes or Alterations of Men in the most honourable and lucrative Employments occasioned by the various predominance of parties.". Printed upon Stamped Paper...by J. Almon unknown books
175622212London: Printed for J. Morgan 1756 1756. First edition one of two issues; this one without the errata on page 76. ESTC T22278; Eddy Samuel Johnson Book Reviewer in the Literary Magazine 26; Hanley Samuel Johnson Book Reviewer pages 134-36. First and final leaves a little dust-soiled; very good copy. 8vo modern brown quarter buckram blue paper boards gilt lettering. With half-title. ¶ A defense of Admiral John Byng 1704-1757 of the Royal Navy who was on trial for treason based on dubious charges. He was found guilty and was tragically executed the following year. Shebbearre 1709-1788 a pamphleteer and contrarian wrote numerous tracts during the political crises of 1755-56 attacking the misadventures of the English government abroad. None according to Shebbearre were more blatantly wrongheaded than the trial of John Byng. Shebbearre's perceived lack of patriotism landed him in prison and he was roundly criticized and lampooned by the likes of Johnson Smollett and Griffith. Johnson eventually sided with Shebbearre in the Byng matter and approvingly reviewed An Appeal to the People in the Literary Magazine in October 1756. ESTC attributes An Appeal to John Byng himself and he did write pamphlets in his own defense but both Hanley and Eddy show convincing evidence that this was indeed by Shebbearre. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. Morgan, 1756 unknown books
175023108London: Printed by Thomas Baskett 1750 1750. Sheets separating at the fold; very good copy. Folio disbound 8 pages. ¶ An act passed by parliament under the reign of George II that attempts to discourage swearing by establishing a set of fines for the offenders: first time offenders could be fined from one to five shillings; seamen soldiers and government employees were fined at rates lower than gentlemen; and swearing within earshot of a constable could land one in a house of corrections or the stocks. Swear not! <br/><br/> London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1750 unknown books
172741004London: R. Wilkin 1728 i.e. 1727. 64mo 4 cm 1.57". 6 154 2 155278 6 pp.; 16 plts. <br><br>Delightful example of an illustrated thumb Bible this being => the earliest known prose appearance of such according to Adomeit. Wilkin printed this tiny volume in 1727 and Adomeit notes that "copies are most commonly found with date altered in ink to 1728" as is indeed the case here "but there seems to be no difference between the copies outside of this change." In addition to the two engraved title-pages the text is illustrated with => 16 minscule engraved plates.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Full black calf gilt extra board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adomeit Thumb Bibles B16 see also p. xvi; ESTC N64949; Opie L 25. Binding as above slightly expectably sprung spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean. => A remarkable copy of a desirable item. R. Wilkin unknown books
176030339In the Savoy: Printed by Catherine Lintot Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen 1760. First edition. xii 354 6 357-468. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary blind stamped calf more recent red leather title label. Nice copy. Bookplate of Dn. Pedro Forstall. First edition. xii 354 6 357-468. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilbert who died in 1726 was highly lauded by Blackstone. The final two sections on Debt and the Constitution are of great interest o. Printed by Catherine Lintot, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; for W. Owen unknown books
1772349<p>First edition thus. 11" x 9". Full brown polished calf by Riviere & Son spine with raised bands and gilt stamped brown morocco labels marbled endpapers a.e.g. slight west to extremities. Very good. No foxing. Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Small leather bookplate of Robert Hartshorne Highlands New Jersey on the front pastedown.</p> Baskerville hardcover books
17049200United Kingdom various 1704-1710. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Nine sammelband pamphlets bound in blind stamped decorative calf overlay recased with brown cloth boards; apparent shelf wear and toning to leaves each pamphlet constitutes approximately 16 pp. 8 vo. Scarce copies of all in disbound condition so this bound aggregate is a rare and singular entity. <br/><br/>A collection of poetry tracts in the 18th century assembled and bound as a set showcasing typical and popular poetry writing and style in England. This was a common practice to gather political satire and literary tracts and bind them together generally at the discretion of the owner or in some cases the printer and/or bookseller. The majority of these works are poetry written as political satire towards the Tory government. This method of binding separate works 'sammelband' also speaks to contemporary collecting and publishing practices. <br />The bound volume lists separate works as follows: <br />attrib. Ward Edward. "The Pleasure of a Single Life or the Miseries of Matrimony. Occasionally Writ upon the many Divorces Lately Granted by Parliment. With the Choice or the Pleasures of a Country-Life." London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars near the Water-fide 1709. <br /> <br />Wilmot John. Earl of Rochester John Freke. "The History of Insipids a Lampoon By the Lord Roch---r. With his Farewell. 1680. Together with Marvil's Ghost. By Mr. Ayloff." London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars near the Water-fide 1709. <br /> <br />Blackmore Richard. "The Kit-Cats a Poem. To Which is Added the Picture in Imitation of Annacreon's Bathillus. Also also the Coquet Beauty by the Right Honorable the Marquis of Normanby." London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars near the Water-fide 1709. <br /> <br />Anon. "A Well-Timber'd Poem on Her Sacred Majesty; Her Marble Statue and Its Wooden Enclosure in Saint Paul's Church-Yard." Psalm XXII. 16. The Wicked have Enclosed Me. London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars near the Water-fide 1712. <br /> <br />Cavendish William. "The Charms of Liberty: A Poem. By the late Duke of D--. To Which is added Epigrams. Poems and Satyrs." Written by Several Hands. London: Printed in the Year 1709. <br /> <br />Shippen William. "Faction Display'd. A Poem. From a Corrected Copy." London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars near the Water-fide 1709. <br /> <br />Dryden John. "Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem." London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills in Black-fryars near the Water-fide For the Benefit of the Poor1708. <br /> <br />Wilmot Earl of Rochester John. "Poems on Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy. To which is added Advice to a Painter. Written by the Right Honorable John late Early of Rochester." London: Printed and Sold by Booksellers of London and Westminster 1710. <br /> <br />Milton's Sublimity Asserted: in a Poem. Occasion'd by a late Celebrated Piece Entituled Cyder a Poem; in Blank Verse by Philo-Milton. London: Printed for W. Hawes and Sold by J. Morphew near Stationer's Hall and Stephen Fletcher Bookseller in Oxford 1709. hardcover books
176822414London: Printed for T. Davies 1768 1768. First edition. ESTC T3451; NCBEL II 841; Fleeman 68.12HC/1a. First and final leaves slightly foxed; fine copy. 8vo modern brown boards stamped with black lettering. With half-title. ¶ The first of three plays by John Hoole 1727-1803 translator and aspiring writer. Hoole was a friend of Samuel Johnson and a member of his Essex Head Club. Johnson wrote the dedication to Cyrus and John Hawksworth wrote the epilogue. Hoole was best known for his translation of Tasso which earned him the nickname of "Tasso Hoole." See the ODNB. <br/><br/> London: Printed for T. Davies, 1768 unknown books
17944016Leeds 1794. Large 4to 308 x 240 mm. 12 leaves text comprising 3 printed titles each with a 6-page description of the items in the catalogue in German French and English and 45 engraved plates of which one folding containing 186 designs numbered 1-152 with an additional 34 numbered and lettered designs for "tea-ware" tea- and coffee-ware in the French and English descriptions. Paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys and shield with capital letters L V G below Lubertus van Gerrevink. Some light scattered foxing and offsetting plate 20 with closed tear to top margin just entering plate area without loss folding plate 26 torn across and repaired. Modern retrospective calf gilt edges red-stained extremities very lightly rubbed. Provenance: contemporary notes in Portuguese on the blank verso of the last plate; Duncan Grant Warrand loosely inserted ex-libris; Martin Woolf Orskey bookseller 1925-2018 signature at end with purchase date 1972. A multi-lingual catalogue of pottery produced by Hartley Greens and Co. for the use of traveling salesmen. Founded circa 1756 at Hunslet south of Leeds the company gained a reputation for its elegant cream-colored earthenware in the classical style known as creamware a type of earthenware made from white Cornish clay combined with a translucent glaze to produce a characteristic pale cream color. Hartley Greens and Co. so dominated the market that their products came to be referred to as Leedsware or Leeds pottery. Although some of the pieces in this catalogue are for display or special use Leeds pottery was generally a more everyday pottery than that of Wedgewood their principal rival and hence its survival rate is low. The earlier pieces before around 1775 were furthermore unmarked making attribution uncertain thus rendering the firm's printed catalogues all the more important. The present catalogue was "one of the earliest pattern books published in England by pottery manufacturers for the use of their travellers with illustrations of all the articles produced by the firm" Solon. It shows the creamware as issued from the studios before jobbers and importers added colored glazes. Shown are terrines sauce boats salts jugs egg cups covered terrines and bowls cake plates cruet stands candlesticks urns tea services and a remarkable tulip vase among other useful objects of the table many with ornaments some in the characteristic openwork or perforated style. All 186 designs are numbered and identified in the accompanying plate lists. The variety is impressive. Copies of the Leeds catalogues were often cut up by jobbers who relied on the illustrations to transmit orders accurately rather than trusting to written descriptions of the forms. Their consequent rarity makes the publishing history of the catalogues difficult to unravel. The earliest catalogue appeared in 1783 with the text in English only and 41 plates. The Danish National Library has a copy with the text in English and French and the English title dated 1786. Another copy of the present 1794 edition is held by the V&A but it has only 41 plates. Meanwhile there are also copies of a 1794 edition at Yale and RISD with the English text only but with 71 plates. The plates were reissued in 1795 and 1814 or 1815 these undated issues are identified by the watermarked dates of the paper they are printed on. Most of the variously dated copies seem to be reissues of the same plates. Most of the variously dated copies seem to be reissues of the same plates. A comparison of this copy to the Winterthur copy from 1814 which is digitized shows that the same plates were used with the addition of an engraved oval label " Leeds Pottery" on each plate up to and including plate 38 a compotier from which emerges a large cross after which the designs diverge. The editions or issues after 1795 do not have the very useful text with gives the name function and size of each piece: "As the price lists and the general title had been printed independently from the plates and not in sufficient quality to accompany the sets of engravings these late copies are generally found without the title and the printed description of the objects. These price lists now very rare were printed in English French German and Spanish. As the prices were subject to constant revision prices are added with pen and ink" Solon. Our copy is unpriced. Altogether OCLC locates fewer than a dozen copies some incomplete of various issues or editions of the Leeds pottery catalogue. Cf. M.-L. Solon Ceramic Literature 1910 p. 196. unknown books
178223249London: Printed for J. Dodsley 1782 1782. First edition. ESTC T130218; NCBEL II 554; Lowndes page 1197. Very good copy. Small 8vo contemporary sprinkled calf skillfully rebacked red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. ¶ A collection of eight essays by the accomplished poet essayist and wit Soame Jenyns 1704-1787 who here writes about among other things universal being cruelty to animals civil liberty and religious establishments. "This little volume is very highly commended in the Retrospective Review" - Lowndes. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782 unknown books
179728174Birmingham England 1797. Oblong quarto. 7 1/2 x 11 inches. 143 engraved plates 13 folding on laid paper priced throughout in manuscript. Period calf-backed marbled paper covered boards<br/> <br/>Provenance: W. G. & Co. inscription on front endpaper<br/> <br/>A rarely encountered pattern book or trade catalogue of 18th century English furniture hardware including drawer pulls keyholes hinges locks castors bolts watch stands and more.<br/> <br/>By 1770 over thirty different brass foundries operated in Birmingham England making it the epicenter of furniture hardware design in the last quarter of the 18th century. At roughly the same period trade catalogues like the present began to be issued by both furniture and hardware makers alike. Although most of the brass foundry trade catalogues of this early period have no indication of the foundry the present pattern book is inscribed W. G. & Co. on the front pastedown. In all nearly 1000 designs are shown on the 143 plates from rather simple hinges and hooks to incredibly ornate pulls knockers watchstands etc. Although no engravers's names are identified it has been suggested that the foundries themselves produced such plates utilizing the talents of their own craftsmen who by their very occupation would have been highly skilled at etching on metal. Such pattern books "illustrate the beginning of what was then a new movement in the conditions of the crafts namely the growth of the organised factory as a means of production and distribution as compared with the earlier limitation of these functions to the efforts of individuals" Young.<br/> <br/>Cf. Hummel Charles F. "Samuel Rowland Fishers Catalogue of English Hardware." Winterthur Portfolio Vol 1 1964: 188-197; cf. Symonds R. W. "An Eighteenth-Century English Brassfounders Catalogue." Magazine Antiques Feb. 1931: 102-105; Young W. A. comp. Old English pattern books of the metal trades: a descriptive catalogue of the collection in the V&A Museum. London: HMSO 1913. unknown books
179426207New Haven: Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin 1794. 4to 26.3 cm 10.4". 1168 pp. lacking frontis. portrait pp. 12128. <br><br>First American edition following the British first of 170003 of this successful and remarkably often reprinted New Testament with commentary by Anglican clergyman William Burkitt one online database erroneously describes a few holdings of this edition as having been printed in 1793. The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne called it a "deservedly popular work" with much "practical utility"; Spurgeon admired it too and useful in its way it still is.<br>Â Â Â Â The Biblical verses with interspersed exegesis are printed in double columns. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W32224; Evans 26668; Hills English Bible in America 47; O'Callaghan 49; Trumbull Connecticut 423; Horne Introduction to the Critical Study & Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures III 54. Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked with speckled calf spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; original leather rubbed edges and corners refurbished. First few leaves institutionally pressure-stamped. Title-page with edges browned and chipped margins repaired with tiny losses to two letters carefully supplied by hand; dedication leaf with repaired tear; last leaf with repaired tear. Pages age-toned with intermittent offsetting and foxing some corners bumped a few edge chips. Frontispiece and pp. 12128 early parts of Mark lacking. A sturdy handsome Bible for family use. Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin hardcover books
1735WRCAM53055London; Edinburgh 1735. Five volumes. Slightly later calf bindings. Good plus. An assemblage of five sammelbands collecting over forty English and Scottish pamphlets addressing religious and political issues in Britain at the beginning of the 18th century. Published during a period of renewed strife they contain much immediate reaction and strong opinion to contemporary events such as the Jacobite Rebellion and present varying arguments concerning sectarian disagreements of the era. <br> <br> Sammelband A: Jacobite Rebellion <br> <br> 1 Pittis William: JUS SACRUM OR A DISCOURSE WHEREIN IT IS FULLY PROV'D AND DEMONSTRATED THAT NO PRINCE OUGHT TO BE DEPRIV'D OF HIS NATURAL RIGHT ON ACCOUNT OF RELIGION &c. 2nd Edition. London: John Baker 1712. 44pp. ESTC N36438. <br> <br> 2 Merke Thomas: THE LATE BISHOP OF CARLISLE'S SPEECH AGAINST THE DEPOSITION OF KINGS; AND IN VINDICATION OF HEREDITARY RIGHT AND THE LINEAL SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN OF THESE REALMS. London: John Morphew 1714. 23pp. ESTC T37588. <br> <br> 3 Toland John: Defoe Daniel: THE JACOBITISM PERJURY AND POPERY OF HIGH-CHURCH PRIESTS. London: J. Baker 1710. 151pp. ESTC T29031. <br> <br> 4 Defoe Daniel: AND WHAT IF THE PRETENDER SHOULD COME OR SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF THE ADVANTAGES AND REAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PRETENDER'S POSSESSING THE CROWN OF GREAT-BRITAIN. London: J. Baker 1713. 40pp. ESTC N16439. <br> <br> 5 Burnet Thomas: SOME NEW PROOFS BY WHICH IT APPEARS THAT THE PRETENDER IS TRULY JAMES THE THIRD. London: J. Baker 1713. 1028pp. Lacks half title. ESTC N23541. <br> <br> 6 James Prince of Wales: MEMOIRS OF THE CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGE: WITH SOME PRIVATE PASSAGES OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE KING JAMES II NEVER BEFORE PUBLISH'D. London. 1712. 78pp. Lacks title and second leaf. ESTC T39134. <br> <br> 7 Defoe Daniel: REASONS AGAINST THE SUCCESSION OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER WITH AN ENQUIRY HOW FAR THE ABDICATION OF KING JAMES SUPPOSING IT TO BE LEGAL OUGHT TO AFFECT THE PERSON OF THE PRETENDER. London: J. Baker 1713. 245pp. ESTC T65926. <br> <br> 8 Dunton John: SEEING'S BELIEVING: OR K- --G G----RGE PROV'D AN USURPER; AND HIS WHOLE REIGN ONE CONTINU'D ACT OF CR-TY AND OP-N AND OTHER NOTORIOUS FAIL-NGS. London: S. Keimer 1716 xiv14511pp. Lacks titlepage. ESTC N21067. <br> <br> 9 Quevedo Francisco de: THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT RESISTANCE AND NON-RESISTANCE DISCUSS'D IN MORAL AND POLITICAL REFLECTIONS ON MARCUS BRUTUS. London: J. Baker 1710. 95pp. ESTC T34049. <br> <br> 10 Resistance Theory: ST. PAUL AND HER MAJESTY VINDICATED. IN PROVING FROM THE APOSTLE'S OWN WORDS ROM. XIII. THAT THE DOCTRINE OF NON-RESISTANCE AS COMMONLY TAUGHT IS NONE OF HIS. London: A. Baldwin 1710. 26pp. ESTC T143636. <br> <br> 11 Divine Right: THE PREROGATIVE OF PRIMOGENITURE. SHEWING THE RIGHT OF SUCCESION TO AN HEREDITARY EMPIRE DEPENDS NOT UPON GRACE &c. BUT ONLY UPON BIRTH-RIGHT. London: W. Boreham 1718. 44pp. ESTC T89361. <br> <br> 12 Wake William: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S SPEECH TO THE KING IN PARLIAMENT. London: W. Boreham 1720. 232pp. Lacks half title. ESTC N16111. <br> <br> 13 Jacobite Rebellion: A FULL ANSWER TO THE DEPOSITIONS AND TO ALL OTHER THE PRETENCES AND ARGUMENTS WHATSOEVER CONCERNING THE BIRTH OF THE PRETENDED PRINCE OF WALES. London: 1712. 56pp. plus folding map. ESTC T146455. <br> <br> 14 James Prince of Wales: THE MEMORIAL OF THE CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGE ON OCCASION OF THE PRINCESS SOBIESKI'S RETIRING INTO A NUNNERY. London: W. Wilkins 1726 viii24pp. ESTC T124385. <br> <br> 15 Defoe Daniel: A JOURNAL OF THE EARL OF MARR'S PROCEEDINGS FROM HIS FIRST ARRIVAL IN SCOTLAND TO HIS EMBARKATION FOR FRANCE. London: J. Baker 1716. xvi32pp. ESTC T69396. <br> <br> Sammelband B: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy <br> <br> 1 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION AND INDULGENCE. 2nd Edition. Edinburgh. 1703. 40pp. ESTC N16050. <br> <br> 2 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION AND INDULGENCE THE SECOND PART. Edinburgh. 1704. 2100pp. ESTC T79512. <br> <br> 3 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION AND INDULGENCE THE THIRD PART. Edinburgh. 1705. 8184pp. ESTC N16051. <br> <br> Sammelband C: William Pulteney & Robert Walpole <br> <br> 1 Pulteney William: THE POLITICKS ON BOTH SIDES WITH REGARD TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS STATED FROM THEIR OWN WRITINGS AND EXAMINED BY THE COURSE OF EVENTS.2nd Edition Corrected. London: H. Haines 1734. 72pp. ESTC T10149. <br> <br> 2 Pulteney William: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CONDUCT OF OUR DOMESTICK AFFAIRS FROM THE YEAR 1721 TO CHRISTMAS 1733.3rd Edition Corrected. London: H. Haines 1734. 72pp. ESTC T32735. <br> <br> 3 Walpole Robert: SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICK FUNDS THE PUBLICK REVENUES AND THE ANNUAL SUPPLIES GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT. London: J. Roberts 1735. 110pp. ESTC T49251 <br> <br> 4 Pulteney William: THE CASE OF THE SINKING FUND AND THE RIGHT OF THE PUBLICK CREDITORS TO IT CONSIDERED AT LARGE. London: H. Haines 1735. 1382pp. ESTC T20277. Sammelband D: Jean-Baptiste Girard Affair / English Anti-Catholic Tracts <br> <br> 1 Cadiere Marie-Catherine: THE CASE OF MRS. MARY CATHARINE CADIERE AGAINST THE JESUIT FATHER JOHN BAPTIST GIRARD. Edinburgh. 1730. 2vi80pp. Titlepage defective. ESTC T45814. <br> <br> 2 Girard Jean-Baptiste: THE DEFENCE OF F. JOHN BAPTIST GIRARD. PART I. 3rd Edition. London: J. Roberts 1732. iv40pp. ESTC N43731. <br> <br> 3 Girard Jean-Baptiste: THE DEFENCE OF F. JOHN BAPTIST GIRARD. PART II. 2nd Edition. London: J. Roberts 1731. 282pp. ESTC T32227. <br> <br> 4 Girard Jean-Baptiste: THE DEFENCE OF F. JOHN BAPTIST GIRARD. PART III. London: J. Roberts 1731. vi1051pp. ESTC 32228. <br> <br> 5 Campbell Archibald: THE CASE RESTATED; OR AN ACCOUNT OF A CONVERSATION WITH A PAPIST. London. 1713. 4100pp. ESTC T149928. <br> <br> 6 Hutchinson Francis: A COMPASSIONATE ADDRESS TO THOSE PAPISTS WHO WILL BE PREVAIL'D WITH TO EXAMINE THE CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY SUFFER. London: D. Midwinter 1716. 2viii3-176pp. ESTC T72525. <br> <br> Sammelband E: Miscellaneous English Religious Tracts <br> <br> 1 Higden Wiliam: THE CASE OF THE ADMISSION OF OCCASIONAL CONFORMISTS TO THE HOLY COMMUNION BEFORE THEY RENOUNCE THEUR SCHISM CONSIDER'D. 2nd Edition. London: Samuel Keble 1708. 2046pp. ESTC T200086. <br> <br> 2 Mackenzie George: A VINDICATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN SCOTLAND DURING THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES THE II. Edinburgh: James Watson 1712. 62pp. Final two leaves defective. ESTC T58742. <br> <br> 3 Church Polity: PRIMITIVE CHURCH GOVERNMENT IN THE PRACTICE OF THE REFORMED IN BOHEMIA. OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE ECCLESIASTICK ORDER AND DISCIPLINE AMONG THE REFORMED. Edinburgh 1703. 1656pp. ESTC 114573. <br> <br> 4 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION AND INDULGENCE. 2nd Edition. Edinburgh 1703. 40pp. ESTC N16050. <br> <br> 5 Ramsay James: A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT; CONCERNING TOLERATION. Edinburgh. 1703. 13pp. ESTC T63770. <br> <br> 6 Skene J.: PLAIN DEALING WITH THE PRESBYTERIANS BY WAY OF ANSWER TO A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT CONCERNING TOLERATION. Edinburgh 1703. 27i.e. 24pp. ESTC T61158. <br> <br> 7 Hay Richard: AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGINE sic OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE STEWARTS. Edinburgh: William Adams 1722. 439pp. ESTC T117169. <br> <br> 8 Barclay John: JOHN BARCLAY HIS VINDICATION OF THE INTERCESSION OF SAINTS THE VENERATION OF RELICKS AND MIRACLES AGAINST THE SECTARIES OF THE TIMES. London: Mary Thompson 1688. 220pp. ESTC R215790. <br> <br> 9 Ford Simon: BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD. A SERMON PREACH'D BEFORE THE LORD MAYOR AND THE COURT OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF LONDON ON JUNE THE 5th 1692. London: A. and J. Churchill 1692. 429pp. ESTC R13623. <br> <br> 10 Turner Francis: A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE KING ON THE 30/1 OF JANUARY 1680/1. BEING THE FAST FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I. OF BLESSED MEMORY. London: J. Maycock for R. Royston 1681. 47pp. ESTC R4027. <br> <br> 11 Lockhart George: THE CASE OF MR. GREENSHIELDS FULLY STATED AND DISCUSS'D IN A LETTER FROM A COMMONER OF NORTH BRITAIN TO AN ENGLISH PEER. London. 1711. 23pp. ESTC T20083. <br> <br> 12 Burnet Gilbert: A SERMON PREACHED ON FAST-DAY DECEMB. 22 1680. AT ST. MARGARETS WESTMINSTER BEFORE THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS. London: Richard Chiswell 1681. 242pp. ESTC R19858. <br> <br> 13 Garden George: THE CASE OF THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND THOSE OF THE EPISCOPAL PERSWASION CONSIDERED AS TO THE GRANTING THEM A TOLERATION AND INDULGENCE THE SECOND PART. Edinburgh. 1704. 2100pp. ESTC T79512. unknown books
17727109Edinburgh: J. Robertson 1772. 8vo. 1 f. 346 pp. <br><br>Scarce first edition of this private translation a classical Latin paraphrase of the psalms in dactylic hexameters by George Buchanan 150682 with an accompanying Latin prose version and an English translation by Andrew Waddel. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T124032; not in Darlow & Moule. Ex-library: library buckram covers pressure-stamped spine with gilt title and paper shelf label. Fine chipping at head and foot of spine. Front pastedown with bookplate; rear free endpaper with charge pocket. Hinges inside open but sewing holding. Front free endpaper detached. Interior rubber-stamps including one on title-page. Lightly age-toned throughout. Some dog ears a few obscuring page number. Inked ownership inscription on title-page. J. Robertson hardcover books
176067973Bible in English Complete with the Apocrypha BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His MajestyÃs Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.Price 6s. unbound. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham 1760. Joseph Bentham's Bible. Eight octavo volumes 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 142 mm. Unpaginated. A8-Z8 Aa8-Oo2; E4-I2; Oo3-Zz8 Aaa8-Ddd2; A8-E3 2 blank I3-M8; Eee8-Uuu2 pp. This copy with the price of 6s. printed on title-page and with the Apocrypha. There is another state according to Herbert that is priced 4s. and is wanting the Apocrypha. It is possible that they sold the leaves with and without the Apocrypha thus the difference in price. Because the sheets were sold unbound it is possible that they were issued as parts. 31 leaves from the Apocrypha E4 through I2 are misbound into Volume IV. In their correct spot are bound 2 blank leaves. Old Testament and New Testament have separate title-pages. With a chart page after the Old Testament and after the New Testament. Bible is complete. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled paper boards. Ink title to spine of each volume. Previous owner's bookplate and signature dated 1770 on front pastedown of each volume. Title-page of each volume with some old ink manuscript notes to top margin. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped. Some minor staining and wrinkling to bottom margin of signature Iii. Overall very good or better copy. Just two years after Joseph Bentham published this present copy his Bible of 1762 was marked the "standard edition" according to Darlow & Moule. Herbert 1131. HBS 67973. $2250 Printed by Joseph Bentham hardcover books
179168436Very Rare Early American Edition of a ChildrenÃs Pocket Bible BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Abridged: Or the History of the Old and New Testament. Illustrated with Notes and Adorned with Cuts. For the Use of Children. Two lines from Luke. Boston: Samuel Hall 1791. Early American edition and first Samuel Hall edition second Boston edition. There were only a total of five Children's bibles published in America before 1791. The First American edition was printed in Boston in 1782 by Robert Hodge for N. Coverly followed by a Worcester Massachusetts 1786 edition by Isaiah Thomas 1786 and 1788 Philadelphia editions and a 1790 New York edition. Our present copy was published the year after the New York edition. Thirtytwomo 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches; 104 x 67 mm. 4 vii-ix 8 18-173 1 pp. With frontispiece of Adam and Eve and fifty-nine crude but charming woodcuts illustrations depicting stories from the text meant to appeal to young children. The stories that have been abridged for use in this Bible generally consist of the more well- known stories which would be of interest to children such as Creation Adam & Eve and Jonah and the Whale from the Old Testament as well as the birth baptism and crucifixion of Jesus from the New Testament. Listed in Evans but not in Sabin. We could find no copies of this edition at auction and only one copy found at the Massachusetts Historical Society. All early American editions are rare and only two complete copies of the New York 1790 edition since 1976. There was the 1786 Worcester edition at auction in 2008 but it was incomplete. Contemporary marbled paper over boards repacked with matching paper. Inner hinges strengthened. Bound without endpapers. Some soiling and toning throughout. One leaf page 145 with some fraying to the edges not affecting text. Overall very good particularly for a childrenÃs book. The rarity of this book can somewhat be contributed to its very small size and that it was intended for the use of children. Something as delicate and tiny as this Bible in the hands of a child had little hope for a bright future. ìBy 1789 Bible story collections specifically for children had existed in the mother country for nearly a century an active market in the American colonies had not opened up. Neither American Protestants nor American Catholics of whom were growing in numbers seemed ready to give Bible stories to their children. In the 1780Ãs the American situation changed radically. Boston printers pirated NewberyÃs Holy Bible Abridged; in 1786 the astute Worcester printer Isaiah Thomas followed suit; and by 1815 The Holy Bible Abridged had been printed in urban and provincial print centers all over the America northeast.î The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer Shipton & Mooney 46126 Bristol B7648 Welch D.A. Amer. childrenÃs books 6127 ESTC W1077 Brinley 5815. HBS 68436. $6500 Samuel Hall hardcover books
17572222049<p>First French edition. Octavo. Translated by Robert Towneley. With English text on opposite pages. Frontispiece portrait and 14 engraved b/w plates three of which are folding. Contemporary speckled leather edges stained red spine labels joints partially cracked. Good. 3 volumes each with errata. No signatures.</p><p>Each volume with heraldic bookplate.</p> hardcover books
1712WRCAM53913Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson 1712. 23pp. 12mo. Dbd. Small closed tear from top edge of titlepage. Trimmed close at top edge occasionally affecting pagination. About very good. One of four printings of this satirical pamphlet variously attributed to John Arbuthnot or Jonathan Swift. The work poses as a prospectus for a treatise on political lying; an actual full length treatise was never published. This Edinburgh printing is scare with ESTC locating only four copies at the National Library of Scotland the Folger Shakespeare Library the University of Illinois and Princeton. ESTC T171029. Printed by James Watson unknown books
178822408London: Printed for J. Robson and W. Clarke 1788 1788. First edition. ESTC T11081 state 2 without a pressmark on page 74 and with a single flower on page 75; NCBEL II 177. Title-page and final leaf a little dust-soiled; small stain on the front free endpaper; fine copy. 4to modern red quarter morocco red cloth boards gilt lettering. ¶ The only performed play by the poet Bertie Greatheed 1759-1826 a member of the group that fancied themselves as the "gli Oziosi" the idle ones. He was friends with Hester Lynch Piozzi who wrote the epilogue to The Regent. It opened at Drury Lane in April 1788 with John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons in leading roles but it did not last beyond nine performances. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. Robson and W. Clarke, 1788 unknown books
17673087Cambridge: John Archdeacon 1767. Two vols. 6.75 x 4.25". Contemporary Scottish black morocco spine in six compartments red morocco lettering pieces in the second others with gilt saltire with small flowers covers framed with distinctive interlocking tool impressed individually. Red and black PRINTED book labels of Elisabeth Hall dated 1769 pasted onto "Dutch gilt" endpapers. Some modern glue is visible in the inner hinge of the lower cover of vol. 2. Two original binder's blanks at the front and back of both volumes. Suitable for exhibition and study. This well preserved set of Scottish bindings is further distinguished by FOUR copy-specific letterpress bookplates printed in red and black no doubt in Scotland which reads in full: <br/><br/>"Elisabeth Hall Her Bible. 20th June. MDCCLXIX." <br/><br/>Concerning this printed bookplate it would appear that the present volumes contain the only known impressions of it thereby meriting inclusion in ESTC and elsewhere.<br/><br/>The tools on the front cover of the bindings have not been matched with published examples but the spine treatment and endpapers are decidedly Scottish.<br/><br/>That the Psalms were printed in Edinburgh Alexander Kincaid 1763 leads us to the conclusion that the present bindings are not only Scottish but that the original owner of them Elisabeth Hall was certainly Scottish herself.<br/><br/>John Archdeacon's 1767 Cambridge Bible is not in the National Library of Scotland. Unsurprisingly NLS has four copies of Alexander Kincaid's 1763 Psalms two of which are in the Bindings Collection: Bdg.s.8072 and Bdg.s.1002. John Archdeacon unknown books
