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1790008075London: Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson & J. Bew 1790. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. Second English Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. RARE. The Second English Edition five volumes in 2 series: 2 & 3 published 1790. Bound uniformly in contemporary calf red leather title labels and small round black volume labels in gilt with gilt rules The armorial bookplates of Charles MacKenzie Esq. of Kilcoy front paste downs. Very Good Plus calf a bit darkened joints starting at top edge Vol. III but holding nicely a bit of period writing in ink front end pages the interiors clean and lovely. Of this 2nd English Edition Tobias Smollett said; "We found the first translation so faulty that it is with pleasure we see the work again undertaken by some more competent author. Our present translator has executed his task with accuracy and fidelity; but to translate Rousseau is a labour of difficulty it is bending the bow of Ulysses which few weaker hands can perform." The Critical Review or Annals of Literature 1756-1763 p. 360 Lowndes IV 1585. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, & J. Bew, Hardcover
1790027102Basil Basel: J J Tourneisen / J L Legrand 1790. Reprint . Speckled Calf / Boards. Very Good . 8 1/2" Tall. Viii 414; Vi 367; Viii 340 Long Index To All Volumes At End. Published 1790. Four Volumes 21.3 X 13.7 Cm. Original Or Very Early Spotted Calf 6 Spine Compartments With Two Morocco Labels On Each Volume Gilt Decorations And Borders On Spine Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards Spotted Calf Tips Light Blue Endpapers. Lightly Used Single 1/8" Deep X 3/16" Long Chip At Top Of Spines Of Vols 2 And 3 Hinges Solid. Bookplates Of Lady Frances Compton; She Is Noted By Jane Austen's Father As A Visitor To Their Household In The Early 1790'S Which Makes For An Interesting Association As There Is Speculation That Jane Austen Used Shaftesbury As A Source For Her Ideas Of Morality. Although There Is No Evidence That Austen Had Access To This Copy Of Shaftesbury It Is Possible That She Discussed The Ideas With Lady Compton Or Even That This Particular Set Was Read By Jane Austen. <br/> <br/> J J Tourneisen / J L Legrand hardcover
1798025167London: G.G. And J. Robinson 1798. Third Edition Corrected . Quarter Morocco. Fine. 8 5/8" Tall. Third Corrected Edition. Two Volumes. Marbled Boards Skillfully And Beautifully Bound In Modern Quarter Morocco With Morocco Tips Red Morocco Labels Compartments On Spine With Gilt Decorations And Rules. Half-Title To Volume I Is Present. Printing And Mind Of Man Title For First Edition. In Revising The First Edition Of Political Justice 1793 In 1796 Godwin Remarked That He Had Not Yielded "A Proper Attention To The Empire Of Feeling." He Further Thought That "Not Only The Passions Of Men But Their Judgments Are To A Great Degree The Creatures Of Their Sympathy." These Judgments Contradict His Earlier Opinions In The First Edition That Reason Alone Can Determine Human Action. Godwin Regarded This Third Corrected Edition 1798 As His Final Thoughts. <br/> <br/> London: G.G. And J. Robinson unknown
1755D21040Continental Europe 1755. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Full contemporary green parchment over boards a bit bowed. Thick quarto-format 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches manuscript in Latin on laid paper consisting of approximately 900 pages in a neat hand in brown ink; with several engravings bound in including a fine portrait of Rene Descartes. Nicely preserved; a very handsome manuscript indeed. <br/><br/> hardcover
1737008315London: Printed by James Purser 1737. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Sixth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Three volumes in sumptuous contemporary binding of dark brown calf with broad intiricate gilt dentelle bordered covers with large diamond centerpieces enhanced by delicate floral tools the backs with six raised bands with five of the compartments with floral gilt tooling marbled end papers with narrow gilt dentelle all edges gilt. Vol. I with tipped note card "to Robt. Smart donor the Rev. W. Chafin. Mr. Rolling & Miss Floyd present their compliments to Mr Smart & by his acceptance of Lord Shaftesburys Works Mr. Chafin & Miss Floyd consign to Mr. Smart". Each title page with inked inscription "Robt.Smart Donor Rev W. Chafin 1802". Vol. I with engraved frontis portrait and two title pages with vignettes and headpiece Vols. II and III with title page vignette and headpiece all by Gribelin. Very Good gilt at spines dulled joints showing wear but holding nicely small edge tears to end pages of Vol. I light wear at corners and spine ends. Internally clean and bright free of any toning or foxing. A lovely set in 18th century fine presentation binding. Printed by James Purser Hardcover
172241709Litteris Johannis Mulleri Giessen 1722. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper text in Latin title lightly age-browned; disbound sewed as issued a remarkably well-preserved bright crisp copy. The eminent German jurist's last published work. Ludovici 1671-1723 was appointed successively privy councillor vice chancellor and Professor Juris Primarius at the University of Giessen. COPAC locates but two copies in the UK both bound with other titles in the Bodleian. RARE. Litteris Johannis Mulleri, Giessen, unknown
1796025170London: G.G. And J. Robinson 1793 1796. Second Edition . Quarter Calf. Near Fine. Octavo. Second Corrected Edition Stated First Printing With 1796 Dates On Title Pages. Two Volumes. Contemporary Marbled Boards Skillfully And Beautifully Re-Backed To Style In Bright Quarter Leather Compartments On Spines With Red Morocco Labels Gilt Decoration And Gilt Rules Leather Tips. Half-Titles Blank Free Endpapers And Errata Present In Both Volumes; . Printing And Mind Of Man Title For First Edition. In Revising The 1793 First Edition Of Political Justice 1793 In 1796 Godwin Remarked That He Had Not Yielded "A Proper Attention To The Empire Of Feeling." He Further Thought That "Not Only The Passions Of Men But Their Judgments Are To A Great Degree The Creatures Of Their Sympathy." These Judgments Contradict His Earlier Opinions In The First Edition That Reason Alone Can Determine Human Action. Thus The Second Edition Not The First Represents In This And Other Ways Godwin's Evolved Thoughts. Engraved Nineteenth Century Bookplates Of C. B. Farwell 1823-1903 U. S. Congressman And Senator From Illinois Founder Of Lake Forest University And Brother Of Prominent 19Th Century Businessman J. V. Farwell Chicago's Leading Wholesale Merchant Prior To The Rise Of Marshall Field. An Attractive Well Preserved Solid And Readable Set With Some Loss Of Original Paper On Edges Of Boards No Damage To Front And Back Of Boards. Bookseller's Ticket Of C. Ambery Of Manchester On Top Of Front Board Of Vol 1. <br/> <br/> London: G.G. And J. Robinson (1793) unknown
1791025208London: J. Johnson 1791. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 11 15/16" Tall. Frontispiece Portrait By William Blake. Iii Viii Iv 756 Vii. One Volume Quarto Edition With The Blake Frontispiece Complete With Two Preliminary And Two Final Blanks. The Beginnings Of Western Scientific Philosophical Psychology Here Enlarged From The 1749 German Original With Additional Notes And A Biographical Sketch And Portrait. Original Spotted Calf Five Bands Morocco Label All Compartments Tooled With Gilt Designs And Rules. Edge Wear Front Hinge Cracked Externally But Binding Sound Original Endpapers Not Re-Backed No Names Or Marks Except A Few Pencil Notes On The Front Pastedown. Per Wikipedia David Hartley Frs 1705 - 1757 Was An English Philosopher And Founder Of The Associationist School Of Psychology. Like John Locke He Asserted That Prior To Sensation The Human Mind Is A Blank Slate. By A Growth From Simple Sensations Those States Of Consciousness Which Appear Most Remote From Sensation Come Into Being. And The One Law Of Growth Of Which Hartley Took Account Was The Law Of Contiguity Synchronous And Successive. By This Law He Sought To Explain Not Only The Phenomena Of Memory Which Others Had Similarly Explained Before Him But Also The Phenomena Of Emotion Of Reasoning And Of Voluntary And Involuntary Action. His Attempts At Explicit Albeit Somewhat Obvious Analysis Of The Mechanics Of Mental Activity Laid An Important Framework Of Discussion For Subsequent Academic Psychology. <br/> <br/> J. Johnson hardcover
176613977London: Printed for L. Allcock 1766. 1766. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First English Language Edition. First English edition. 8vo. Full calf covers ruled in gilt spine lettered and ruled in gilt. 316 pp. Some scuffing to edges and hinges ownership signature and stamp at the head of the title page; a clean very good copy in general. Translated from the French work published in 1765: "La Philosophie de L'Histoire. Par feu l'Abbe Bazin." The book was published in French under the Bazin pseudonym to protect Voltaire from persecution but this English edition appeared the following year under his own name. As in the Mcgill copy Patrick Lee Collection this copy has the page number '44' printed upside-down and page number '93' printed as '39'. There was at least one edition in French published in London in 1765 but this 1766 edition appears to be the first in English. Printed for L. Allcock, 1766. Hardcover
1777007710Groningae: Apud Jacobum Bolt 1777. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE. 9 institutinal holdings worldwide according to Worldcat. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards red leather label back with gilt decorations and rules. 14 300 p. Text in Latin. Very Good back repaired in keeping rubs to corners small letter in ink front paste down inscription concering Grotius dated 1839 page facing title page text clean and fresh. " 'The Universal Law of Nature or of Mankind' as it is represented by Grotius examined by Henry Lewis Wichers". Apud Jacobum Bolt Hardcover
1761SZEPEBKS007642ILondon: B. Low and Co. 1761. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo 19x12.5 cm. - xv1256 pp. - Contemporary full leather with 5 bands on spine; corners and edges slightly worn. - Title-page printed in red and black. - Many engraved illustrations tables including 5 multiply folding and mathematical formulae. - Front outer hinge slightly cracked else fine lacks front free end-paper title-page somewhat soiled. On last page: in old handwriting in ink with large letters "Thomas Kellet's Book" and some mathematical notations. - Richard Turner 1720-1791 Church of England clergyman and educational writer. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 4 copies. <br/> <br/> B. Low and Co. hardcover
17922291994London: Published for D. Jordan Piccadilly 1792. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ninth edition printed in the same year as part two's original release and just a year after the first appearance of part one. ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. Rebound in grey paper-covered boards with paper spine label and new end sheets. Brief pencil marginalia on just a couple pages a few pages very faintly foxed otherwise an exceptional copy. 1792 Hard Cover. viii 110 2 xiii 14-142 2 pp. 4to. Both parts of Paine's famous work in defense of political revolution. The first part was originally printed in 1791 and the second part followed the next year. "Rights of Man 1791 a book by Thomas Paine including 31 articles posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790." "Thomas Paine February 9 1737 O.S. January 29 1736 - June 8 1809 was an author pamphleteer radical inventor intellectual revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Thetford Norfolk Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful widely-read pamphlet Common Sense 1776 advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and The American Crisis 1776 - 1783 a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. The historian Saul K. Padover in the biography Jefferson: A Great American's Life and Ideas refers to Paine as "a corsetmaker by trade a journalist by profession and a propagandist by inclination." Paine greatly influenced the French Revolution. He wrote the Rights of Man 1791 a guide to Enlightenment ideas. Despite not speaking French he was elected to the French National Convention in 1792. The Girondists regarded him as an ally so the Montagnards especially Robespierre regarded him as an enemy. In December of 1793 he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris then released in 1794. He became notorious because of The Age of Reason 1793 - 94 his book advocating deism promoting reason and freethinking and arguing against institutionalized religion and Christian doctrines. He also wrote the pamphlet Agrarian Justice 1795 discussing the origins of property and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income. Paine remained in France during the early Napoleonic era but condemned Napoleon's dictatorship calling him "the completest charlatan that ever existed". In 1802 at President Jefferson's invitation he returned to America where he died on June 8 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his criticisms and ridicule of Christianity. Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly hardcover
1759000395Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano. Impensis Jacobi Fletcher Bibliopol. Oxon. Et J. Rivington & J. Fletcher London 1759. Hardcover. See Description. Third Oxford Edition. 8vo. pp. 16 401 31. With frontispiece of Socrates. Title page is printed in red and black. Greek text with the Latin version of J. Leunclavis. Pages are clean and crisp with occasional faint spots of marginal foxing. Inscription written in a miniscule old hand on verso of front free end paper. Period fine binding in full deep red morocco - smooth spine gilt in five compartments with a fer à l' oiseau center stamp and arabesque corner pieces. Front and rear covers framed with a simple triple line gilt fillet border. The interior contains inner dentelles and blue paste-paper end sheets. Tiffany bookplate of Michigan business man and avid book collector Albert May Todd known as "the Peppermint King" on the inside front cover. The binding is in an excellent state of preservation with some rubbing on the outer corner tips of the boards. All edges are gilt. An ownership note dated 1814 is written in a miniscule old hand on the verso of the front fly-leaf; a later penciled inscription bellow apparently notes that the book was in a Sotheby's auction Dec. 5-9 1927. Xenophon 428-354 b.c.e. Athenian aristocrat soldier and historian. His Memorabilia in four books records the reminiscences of Socrates with the intent of defending the sage against charges of impiety towards the gods. The discussions also focus on education and management of state. ESTC T145020; Schweiger I p.338. <br/> <br/> E Theatro Sheldoniano. Impensis Jacobi Fletcher, Bibliopol. Oxon. Et J. Rivington & J. Fletcher, London hardcover
1768D19610Tours 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 4to. Full contemporary sponge-decorated calf spine tooled in gilt with label; small loss to headcap. Written on laid paper in a clear consistent hand throughout. 831 pages plus index. Title page created with stamps or stencils and bearing an episcopal wax seal. Small drawing of a cat to endpaper opposite title. According to the colophon the text transcribed by Joseph-Henri Edmond Quirit de Coulaine "philosophicus alumnus" dictated under a "celeberrimo philosophiae professore" of Tours named Bourguin or perhaps Bourquin. A very handsome manuscript indeed in its original binding. <br/><br/> hardcover
1749007717Glasguae Glasgow: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1749. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. Later Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. xi 1 209 3 pp. with a final leaf of advertisements. Bound in contemporary full calf five raised bands bordered in gilt rules leather label tooled edges. Very Good Plus end pages toned at edges covers lightly rubbed text quite clean and fresh. A quite handsome and well-bound copy of this uncommon edition of Lucretius's classic work. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Hardcover
1703biblio45<p><b><i>Bouhours Dominique. 1628-1702 Les Entretiens D'Ariste Et E'Eugene. Nouvelle Edition très-exactement corrigée. A Amsterdam Aux depens D'Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire chez qui l'on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de Musique. M. DCCIII 1703</i></b> </p><p>Duodecimo. 3 blank 3 versoscene title page A12-I12 K12-R12 R12 includes 4 blank. Bookplate of Nicolai Joseph Foucault 'Comitis Consistoriani' Two Lions holding a crowned lion within the Crown. French Calf with marvelous gold filigree Emblem on the front and back of the same lion. Five raised spines in period gold gilt. Some edge and binding abrasion but otherwise tight. Internally clean but with fading print probably not washed but just running out of ink.</p> Title Page Printed in <b>Red and Black</b> by Roger in Amsterdam in 1703 the year after Dominque Bouhours death this elegantly bound book was once owned by <b>Nicolai Joseph Foucault and has his wonderful bookplate as well as his deeply embossed Seal on the front and back of the book.</b> Period blind stamp binding with 6 wonderful compartments. There is some minor separation of the leather along the spine but that is easily repaired. The book is tight crisp and is in overall very good condition. Dominique Bouhours 15 May 1628 - 27 May 1702 was a French Jesuit priest essayist and neo-classical critic. He was born and died in Paris. Bouhours entered the Society of Jesus at the age of sixteen and was appointed to read lectures on literature in the Collège de Clermont at Paris and on rhetoric at Tours and Rouen. He afterwards became private tutor to the two sons of Henri II d'Orléans duc de Longueville. First Amsterdam Edition. He was sent to Dunkirk to the Romanist refugees from the Commonwealth of England and in the midst of his missionary occupations published several books. In 1665 or 1666 he returned to Paris and published in 1671 Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène which was reprinted four more times at Paris twice at Grenoble and afterwards at Lyon Brussels Amsterdam Leiden and other cities. The work consists of six conversations entretiens between two companionable friends whose Greek- and Latin-derived names both mean "well-born" in the agreeable discursive manner of the well-informed amateur as it had become established in the salons— "the free and familiar conversations that well-bred people have honnêtes gens a by-word of the précieuses of the salons when they are friends and which do not fail to be witty and even knowledgeable though one never dreams there of making wit show and study has no part in it."1 The subjects erudite but devoid of pedantry are the Sea considered as an object of contemplation the French language Secrets True Wit "Le Bel Esprit" The Ineffable "Le Je ne sais quoi" and Mottoes "Devises" all expressed in flawless idiom and effortless allusions to the Classics or Torquato Tasso. The popularity of Bouhours' discursive heuristic Entretiens extended to Poland where Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski imitated them in Dialogues of Artakses and Ewander. His thoughts on the elusive je ne sais quoi that was in vogue in the seventeenth century expressed through his characters ends in assessing it a mystery that escapes a rational inquiry. It determined by its delicate presence its grace and invisible charm the sense of what pleases or displeases in Nature as well as Art and remained an essential part of the French critical vocabulary until the advent of Romanticism.2 His Doutes sur la langue française proposés aux Messieurs le l'Académie française Paris 1674; corrected second edition 1675 was called "the most important and best organized of his numerous commentaries on the literary language of his time"3 when it was edited in a critical edition. His doubts are collected under five headings: vocabulary phrases and collocations grammatical constructions clarity and stylistic consistency in each case setting literary quotations under scrutiny. His standards expressed in the suggestions he offered for improving each example showed the way out of ambiguities skirting incongruous juxtapositions and untidy constructions. The work was widely accepted and Bouhours standards are still the accepted norm among literate readers today. The chief of his other works are La Manière de bien penser sur les ouvrages d'esprit 1687 which appeared in London in 1705 under the title The Art of Criticism Vie de Saint Ignace de Loyola 1679 Vie de Saint François Xavier 16824 and a translation of the New Testament into French 1697. His letters against the Jansenists had a wide circulation. His practice of publishing secular books and works of devotion alternately led to the mot qu'il servait le monde et le ciel par semestre. Bouhours died at Paris in 1702. According to the book Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Bouhours' dying words were "I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is used." D' Estienne Roger
1725035981London: Assigns of J. Sowle 1725. Second Edition Corrected . Original Full Leather. Very Good. 12 7/8" Tall. X 699 Xvi Index 4 Pp Catalog At End. Original Simple Full Calf Five Bands Morocco Spine Label Yellow Endpapers. "Second Edition Corrected". Worn Fraying At Corners Front Hinge Patly Cracked Nicely Refurbished. Contents Clean Slight Wear Pp 123-126 Partly Detached. Original Signatures Of Joseph Pike On Front Pastedown Title Page 1 And Rear Endpaper; Pike D. 1729 Wrote "An Epistle To The National Meeting Of Friends In Dublin" One Of Three Important Early Treatises On Quaker Conduct The Other Two Written By Penn And Barclay. Additional Ownership Information Of The Quakers Sarah And Margaret Beale Myrtle Hill Terrace CorkAnd John And Fanny Edmondson Dublin 1860. An Exceptional Association Copy Of An Important History. <br/> <br/> Assigns of J. Sowle hardcover
1794037740London: Edward Jeffrey 1794. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Lxvii 288 Pp. First Printing. Original Tree Calf Re-Backed Long Ago With A New Red Morocco Spine Label Gilt. Very Large Heraldic Bookplate Over An Earlier Postage-Stamp-Size Bookplate Which Left A Faint Offset On The Facing Page. Some Page Numbers And Brief Reader's Notes On Rear Pastedown One Line In Ink The Others In Pencil. Boards Quite Worn Calf Frayed Through Almost Entirely Along Edges Re-Backing Entirely Intact And Secure. <br/> <br/> Edward Jeffrey hardcover
1750DK5363Lipsiae: Ex Officina Langenhemia 1750. HB. Brown paper covered boards 12 mo xvi 488 8 pp. all edges of text block stained blue. Crusius 1715-1775 was a German philosopher and theologian educated and later professor at the University of Leipzig whose works were very influential on the formation of Immanuel Kant's philosophical work. His theological works were influential in the Pietist movement and had an impact on later works by the evangelical theologian Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg 1802-1869. This copy with a bookplate on the front pastedown stating that it was acquired from the library of E. W. Hengstenberg as part of his estate and donated to a Baptist seminary in 1875. No indications of ever having been a library copy. No marks in book binding tight. Cover show minor edge wear lower corners bumped faint number hand-written top of spine. Book condition VG. Text in Latin. Ex Officina Langenhemia hardcover
176349376Aux Delices 1763. Reprint. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Size: 18mo 5 1/2 - 6 1/2". 181 98pp. Text is in French. Front hinge cracked. Front joint split. Front board remains only loosely affixed at top band. Spine worn. Titlepiece absent. Scattered foxing. Previous owner's address in pencil and ink signature to title. Front end paper loose but present. Covers slightly worn. Corners bumped. First published 1759. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; French Language; Philosophy. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49376. . Aux Delices hardcover
1748000028Glasgow: Robert Foulis 1748. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo in 4s. pp. 8 362. Copper engraved vignette medallion portrait on title page as well as on p. 72 Ii verso and on p. 304 Pp verso. Bound in 19th century straight grain green morocco. The gilt crest and initials of Rev. Theodore Williams are stamped in gilt on the front cover. His coat of arms is also stamped in gilt on the rear cover. All edges are gilt. A penciled note on the inside end-leaf attributes the binding to J. Clark. Armorial bookplate of William Proby K.P. 5th Earl of Carysfort 1836-1909 by artist Charles W. Sherborn on inside front cover " Earl of Carysfort Elton Hall 1894." Color along hinges neatly touched up; some discoloration on the boards near the spine. Interior is generally clean with minor spots of foxing; some extremely faint damp staining is present on lower inner margins. Printed on good quality paper. James Geddes 1710-1749 Scottish lawyer / advocate who also spent much time studying the poets and philosophers of antiquity. He died young from consumption a year after the publication of his book. Geddess "Essay" is mainly a discussion of Platos literary style symbolism and mysticism. Mention is also given to Xenophon Herodotus Thucydides and Demosthenes. See Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Gaskell 109; ESTC T131056; Lowndes p. 871 "A learned and entertaining essay displaying some learning and ingenuity." <br/> <br/> Robert Foulis hardcover
17926457London: A. Hamilton. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1792. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. Two full leather volumes spines in six compartments separated by gilt borders and decoration gilt lettering on red labels in one compartment. Junius is the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a series of letters contributed to Henry Sampson Woodfall's Public Advertiser a popular English newspaper of the day between January 21 1769 and January 21 1772. Junius' aims were to discredit the ministries of the Duke of Grafton and subsequently of Lord North and to draw attention to the political influence of George III who was trying to establish his own "personal government" by selecting his ministers from a group of subservient friends. Junius used ferocious sarcasm in attacking the public and private lives of Grafton and his associates the Duke of Bedford the Earl of Bute and Lord Mansfield. Finally in his 35th letter he attacked King George himself causing a storm of indignation and prompting the government in 1770 to unsuccessfully prosecute the printer Woodfall for seditious libel for having printed the letter. Junius' views were those of a radical Whig and an ardent supporter of William Pitt Earl of Chatham who had been succeeded in office by Grafton in 1768. But Junius failed in his aims for the ineffectual Grafton's fall in 1770 merely signaled the advent of Lord North's ministry. Apart from their significance as a literary controversy and their importance in the history of the freedom of the press Junius' letters are notable for their style and the unsolved mystery of their authorship. They display little stylistic variety and their tone hardly ever changes from that of sustained personal invective and of bitter merciless sarcasm but the writing has a fine boldness and liveliness an urgency and blunt eloquence that still arrest the reader. Many attempts to discover Junius' identity have been made including claims for Sir Philip Francis the chief candidate; William Petty-Fitzmaurice 2nd Earl of Shelburne later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne; and Laughlin Macleane who was Shelburne's undersecretary. Some 45 other candidates have been proposed less convincingly. Current opinion favors Sir Philip Francis. Expertly refurbished former owner's name in an extremely elegent hand on each title page library bookplates on each fep and a number written in the lower margin of the first text page of each volume no other indications of library identification corners bumped and worn hinges strong pages supple both volumes appear unread. VERY GOOD. . Ex-Library. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xxxiv 227; 259 37 pp . A. Hamilton hardcover
1784008015Paris: The Author 1784. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. RARE WorldCat shows only eight institutional holdings. Portrait of René Descartes engraved on copper frontispiece Vol. I. Very Good quarter calf over paper covered boards expertly rebacked early 19th c. with gilt lettering and rules decorative end papers. Boards bumped and rubbed at edges. Vol. II with six fold-out plates engraved on copper at the end of the volume representing geometric figures diagrams of astronomy a terrestrial globe instruments of physics and the 12 astrological signs. Introduction and author's notes in French text in Latin and in French. Internally quite clean and lovely with no toning. . The Author Hardcover
1719025475London: James Knapton 1719. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8" Tall. Title Page " A Discourse Concerning The Being And Attributes Of God The Obligations." Fifth Edition Corrected 1719 Title Page To First Part "A Demonstration Of The Being And Attributes Of God." Fifth Edition Corrected 1719 Xxvii 135 Title Page To Third Part "A Discourse Concerning The Unchangeable Obligations Of Natural Religion And The Truth And Certainty Of The Christian Revelation" Fifth Edition Corrected 1719 Xxii 344 Title Page To Fourth Part "Several Letters To The Reverend Dr. Clarke" Second Edition 1719 3-42 Two Page Catalog Of Clarke's Publications At End. Nicely Bound In Full Spotted Calf Red Morocco Spine Label Ornately Gilt Spine And Bands Elaborately Gilt Rules And Decorations On Boards Gilt Tooled Edges Hand Marbled Endpapers Edges Of Page Block Colored Red. Very Well Preserved Hinges Strong No Cracking To Joints Light Wear With No Chipping Or Losses Or Cracking. Bookplate Of John Ward And Signature Of Rodney Ward Dated 1723. A Pencil Note "Master Of Wigton's Hospital Leicester" May Refer To One Of The Two Mr. Wards. <br/> <br/> James Knapton hardcover
179120402Venice: Simonem Occhi. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1791. New Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. "Christian Morality: From the Sacred Scriptures Traditions the Councils the Fathers and Excerpts from Notable Theologians." Original full vellum. Book One of Three. First published in 1709 this is the "New Edition" of 1791. In Latin. . Covers mildly worn and scuffed with only one small worm-hole pages clean and supple with only light foxing. VERY GOOD. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 500 pp . Simonem Occhi hardcover
