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1774ME1081London:: Printed and Sold at No. 76 Fleet-Street 1774. 1774. 4to. iv xv 1 68 pp. Original full calf gilt spine; neatly rebacked to style preserving original endsheets. Inscribed by an early owner "This Book belonging to Monsieur Pierre Monneron." Extremely rare. This is the first edition in English of the ghazals of Hafez translated by one of the leading Persian orientalists of his day John Richardson FAS of Wadham College Oxford and famous for his seminal work written in conjunction with Sir William Jones the work being A Dictionary Persian Arabic and English 1777. / Hafez was previously unknown to the western world until Count Karl Emerich Reviczky von Revisnye 1737-1793 the Hungarian Orientalist and bibliophile 'discovered' him and brought his poetic classic to Europe with this Vienna printing. The work features an extensive text on Hafez and a translation of selected ghazals . Reviczky von Revisnye also issued in 1784 1794 a catalogue of his Greek and Latin library using the pseudonym of "Periergus Deltophilus". In the prefatory essay for that volume he shows an interest in the printing of Nicolas Jenson Aldus Manutius and the Estiennes. / Hafez was born in Shiraz Persia and lived approximately from 1325/26–1389/1390. He is considered a mystic and poet. His life and poems are the subject of much analysis commentary and interpretation influencing post-fourteenth century Persian writing more than any other author. FULL TITLE: A Specimen of Persian Poetry; or Odes of Hafez With an English Translation and Paraphrase. Chiefly from the Specimen Poeseos Persicae of Baron Revizky Envoy from the Emperor of Germany to the Court of Poland. With Historical and Grammatical Illustrations and a complete Analysis for the assistance of those who wish to study the Persian language. Printed and Sold at No. 76, Fleet-Street, 1774. unknown books
1800046742London: Rousseau 1800. Early Edition. Hardcover rebound in cloth. Very Good Condition. Early edition later printing of the first edition 1777-80 and before the second 1806 - with errata notes on omissions and a list of subscribers. Rebound in brown buckram a few seminary library marks call numbers to base of spines slight scattered foxing some staining to titles circular stain in top margin of volume 2 for first 100 pages or so; quite clean overall. xlviii 14 2144 numbered by column; xix 6 2286 columns.<br/><br/>Originally issued for use by the East India Company it was published with various additions notably by Charles Wilkins until 1892. Size: Folio. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 046742. Rousseau hardcover books
1800046742London: Rousseau 1800. Early Edition. Hardcover rebound in cloth. Very Good Condition. Early edition later printing of the first edition 1777-80 and before the second 1806 - with errata notes on omissions and a list of subscribers. Rebound in brown buckram a few seminary library marks call numbers to base of spines slight scattered foxing some staining to titles circular stain in top margin of volume 2 for first 100 pages or so; quite clean overall. xlviii 14 2144 numbered by column; xix 6 2286 columns.<br /> <br /> Originally issued for use by the East India Company it was published with various additions notably by Charles Wilkins until 1892. Size: Folio. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 046742. Rousseau hardcover
1787WRCAM9161Dublin 1787. 160pp. of 167 lacking the entire appendix but with the entire main text. Dbd. Ex-lib. with stamps some scattered foxing titlepage stained. Good. Attributed to Joseph Richardson this essay investigates aspects of the commercial treaty signed between France and Great Britain at Versailles in 1786. Richardson a lawyer and journalist is expert in his use of commercial statistics. OCLC locates only six copies of this scarce Dublin edition which was also printed in London the same year. OCLC 24395761. London edition: GOLDSMITHS 13419. KRESS B1330 B1331. unknown books
1762ANT70251762. Law William Leather bound first edition of the complete works; each work is separately paginated there are 19 works in all. The volumes are bound in rubbed and crudely but soundly respined full tree calf. The endpapers and title leaves have General Theological Seminary Library New York bookplates. There is some light foxing in places and the last 60 leaves of the volume eight have marginal creases and tears without loss. hardcover
1787165902London : Printed for J. Debrett Opposite Burlington-House Piccadilly 1787. First Edition. Paperback. Very good ex-library copy in the original calf over marble boards with minor library marks remaining. Raised bands with gilt-blocked titling. Minor generalized wear to the bands and panel edges. Remains uncommonly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 176 pages; Physical desc. : 176 i. E.167 p. Last numbered page misnumbered. With a half-title and a final errata leaf. Subject: France - Commerce - Treaties. Great Britain - Commercial treaties London : Printed for J. Debrett, Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly paperback
