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17973301Paris: D' Antoine Bailleul 1797. Hardcover. Good . 2 Vols. 8vo lxvii 1 424p.; vii. 1 470p. Half-titles. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt designs to spines two red morocco spine labels marbled endpapers. Board corners worn and edges rubbed leather cracked at front joint of volume 1 with burn mark to rear board nick to one label of volume 2 leather chipped at head and heel of both volumes. Volume 1 half-title weak but still firmly attached offsetting to half-titles and title pages text clean throughout with minimal foxing. Text in French. D' Antoine Bailleul hardcover
1748104546Paris : Saillant 1748. 195x125mm. 151 130 VIII - 118 pages ÂŽdition bilingue: franÂais - grecque ancien reliure havane marbrÂŽ de lՎpoque avec au dos lisse ornÂŽe ˆ ÂŽa grotesque et de double filets dorÂŽs et dÕune piÂce verte de titre et dÕauteur dorÂŽs. Plats encadrements dorÂŽs. Toutes tranches rouge. Coiffe supÂŽrieure abimÂŽe autrement bel exemplaire intÂŽrieur trÂs propre. 485 Saillant unknown
1783H21472Paris: Chez la Veuve Desaint 1783. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Vol. 2 only but complete in itself the first volume being the edition of Aristotle by Camus with his translation this volume being his notes and commentary important in itself. Small quarto original period leather good with general rubbing and wear to boards lacking a good bit of the spine leather well bound contents very good slightly toned occasional foxing. 850 4 pp. Chez la Veuve Desaint hardcover
1768060424Paris: Chez Saillant libraire rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais MDCCLXVIII Saillant Charles 1716-1786 bookseller 1768. First Edition . No Binding. Very Good Plus. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. PARIS : 1768. THREE WORKS BOUND-TOGETHER: Ocellus Lucanus de la nature de L'univers. BOUND TOGETHER with Time e de Locres de l'ame du monde. AND Lettre d'Aristote a Alexandre sur le systeme du Monde. Incorrectly attributed to Ocellus of Lucania cf. Oxford classical dict. 3rd ed. p. 1058. Dedicatory epistle addressed to the Academie des inscriptions & belles-lettres by the translator Batteaux who presents the translation of the three authors Ocellus Timee and Aristotle. Greek text with French translation on facing pages; introductory matter and notes in French. Disbound; text-block excellent. Flat spine old leather. All edges dark-blue original marbling. Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED. Each work with half-title page and printed title-page. viii 118 iii 130 iii 150 i pages. Referenced by: Sowerby E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1293 Referenced by: BN CXXVI column 377. Referenced by: Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie 1964 ed. 797. Referenced by: BN FRBNF31030382. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Ideal for a rebind. A Paris : Chez Saillant libraire rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais MDCCLXVIII. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Chez Saillant, libraire, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, MDCCLXVIII Saillant, Charles 1716-1786 [bookseller] unknown
1798LC020Imprenta de Don Benito Cano 1798. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Traducido al castellano por José Goya y Muniain aunque según el filólogo Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo la traducción fue en realidad de Pedro Luis Blanco y plagiada por Goya y Muniain. Madrid Imprenta de Don Benito Cano 1798. 19 x 27 cm VIII 138 pp. Texto paralelo en griego. Encuadernado con tapas de pergamino el lomo está rajado. El interior está en muy buen estado de conservación con unas pocas manchas de óxido dispersas. Firma del dueño anterior en la página titular. No incluye el retrato grabado de Aristóteles. The Book Cellar & Henschel. <br/> <br/> Imprenta de Don Benito Cano hardcover
178812834London: Printed for John Stockdale 1788 First edition of Pye's translation of Aristotle's Poetics. This translation was revised and corrected and appended to Pye's A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle 1792 a work which is "valuable in the history of aesthetics and literary theory for its sensible and pertinent applications of Aristotle's theory to English writers from Shakespeare to Sterne" John Valdimir Price. This first edition of his translation is far scarcer than Pye's Commentary…; ESTC lists only five copies in America. Slightly later full calf. Covers decoratively ruled in blind spine decoratively stamped in gilt with leather label. Marbled edges. . Small octavo. Engraved title-page. Errata slip pasted on last page of ads. Spine faded occasional foxing front hinge starting to crack. Overall a good clean copy. Pye 1745-1813 a country gentleman and Member of Parliament from Berkshire with degrees from Magdalen College Oxford was the author of numerous poems and plays the best known of which is his epic poem in six books Alfred 1801. He succeeded Thomas Warton as poet laureate in 1790 and held the office for twenty-three years dutifully producing yearly odes on the king's birthday and numerous patriotic pieces. Though his poetry is little read today his translations and commentary have endured more successfully. Printed for John Stockdale, hardcover
17928001London: Printed for and sold by all the Booksellers 1792. 16mo pp. 491 1 engraved folding frontispiece. Several woodcuts within pagination. Contemporary roan spine divided by triple gilt rules. Some foxing and toning. Binding rubbed front joint cracked but cords holding spine defective at head and foot. Contemporary ink manuscript price to front pastedown. A typically rare printing of this perennial clandestine bestseller of reproductive health. ESTC locates only two copies in the UK at the BL and Glasgow University Library with further copies in Poland and the US. Besides the usual woodcuts of ‘monstrous births’ within the text this copy has an engraved folding frontispiece featuring ‘the form of a child in the womb disrob’d of its tunicles proper and common’. ESTC T118669. Printed for, and sold by all the Booksellers unknown
180045444London Miller Law and Cater n.date Ca.1800. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. spine gilt titlelabel with gilt lettering. Hinges weakening corners bumped. A bit of leather lacks on backcover. IV3171 pp. 8 textillustrations in woodcut. A few brownspots. <br/><br/><em>A very popular work containing medical extracts from various writings first published in 1690 and published in more than 40 editions onwards. Wellcome II p. 56 listing many editions but not this one. </em> hardcover
1793955Z28London: Printed for and sold by all the Booksellers 1793. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4". None. An eighteenth century edition of this important and controversial work on sex childbirth and pregnancy considered to be the first English sex manual and written anonymously under the guise of being a work of the famed philosopher Aristotle. A new edition of this important work. In a contemporary calf binding retaining original endpapers.An eighteenth century edition of this important midwifery work and early sex manual. The work was falsely attributed to the celebrated philosopher Aristotle though the work was written anonymously by a Pseudo-Aristotle due to the nature of the work and often considered to be the work of Doctor William Salmon. This volume contains four parts with the first part being 'Aristotle's Complete Master-piece' the popular and controversial sexual guide often considered to be the first English sex manual. The work discusses the benefits of mutual sexual pleasure and the enjoyment of intercourse stating the importance of women's pleasure for successful procreation. These ideas were unusual for the time period and the book was supposedly banned due to the explicit nature of the work though this has not been proven.The rest of the work is a midwifery book discussing fertility pregnancy and childbirth including a discussion about virginity stating that virginity cannot be determined by the state of a women's hymen a statement very ahead of its time. In contemporary full calf retaining the original endpapers. Externally joints cracked tender to the rear with slight rubbing to the extremities and joints marks to the boards and slight loss to the head of the spine. Marks to the rear endpapers. Internally firmly bound with minimal age toning and only the odd spot. Owner's signature to the verso of the front free endpaper. Very Good Printed for and sold by all the Booksellers hardcover
180020AC120125P10London: Cocker Harris and Finn c. 1800s. Hardcover; Leather. Acceptable. 5.5" x 3.5. Signed by Other. c. 1830s. Cocker Harris and Finn London. Acceptable. Signed by Henry Poole with mysterious inscription "from a lady"—signature appears consistent with Henry Poole 1814-1876 from the prominent family of London clothiers who established the renowned Henry Poole & Co. on Savile Row tailors to royalty and the British elite though definitive attribution cannot be confirmed. Name and date 1831 inscribed on leather cover; if the Savile Row Poole he would have been approximately 17 years old at time of inscription. Hardcover. Full leather worn & chipped in areas bottom 0.5" spine missing front cover detached all pages intact back cover secure. Moisture damage to frontispiece & endpages. Small format 5.5" x 3.5". vi 312 2pp. Illustrated w/ period engravings incl striking frontispiece depicting Aristotle with classical figures & anatomical woodcuts throughout. Text fully readable & intact. Intriguing provenance: this scarce pseudo-Aristotelian collection covers procreation midwifery and sexual health—provocative material for a respectable young gentleman of the era suggesting a clandestine gift "from a lady." Ships from the USA quickly and with care boxed for shipping. Cocker, Harris, and Finn hardcover
1789d4104London: Payne & Son. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Front hinge cracked and very weak. Small stain to head of prelims. Bookplate to front paste down. Slight foxing. Content in overall good condition. 1789. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 270mm x 220mm 11" x 9". xix 565pp index. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Payne & Son hardcover
