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181934051819. Aquatint printed in colors with additional hand-coloring. Originally published by the artist Newcastle: 1819. A modern impression printed on hand-made wove paper with wide margins and in excellent condition. Thomas M. Richardson was a Newcastle-based artist who began his career as an engraver of local views. From 1818 he exhibited paintings in several places in London including the Royal Academy. Views of his native city and its environs were a staple of his output. In this view we can identify several buildings which still stand: the neoclassical Moot Hall with its porticoed entrance and the Castle Keep behind it. Toward the center of the composition the neo-Gothic spire of St. Nicholas' church now cathedral rises above a terrace of houses. unknown
180890020Paris, Dentut, Imprimeur-Libraire 1808 In-8. Reliure de l’époque pleine basane havane marbrée, XXII-308 pp. Reliure légèrement frottée.
1886108549Rouen Mégard& cie, libraires-éditeurs. 1886 381p 1 volume IN4.Reliure en demi-chagrin cerise d'époque. Dos à nerfs très orné. Tranches dorées.Ouvrage orné de gravures en noir H.T . Traduction par E.Delauney.
1886RO70051497MEGARD Bibliothèque Morale de la Jeunesse. 1886. In-4. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 381 pages illustrées de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Frontispice illustré. Tranches dorées. Couverture avec belle illustration en couleurs de Souze. Ouvrage bien conservé, bel exemplaire.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
183348774London England: Smith Elder & Co 1833. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London England: Smith Elder & Co 1833. Numerous b/w illustrations including full-color frontispiece. 429 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark green cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Recently rebound with old spine laid-on; light spotwear to cover and rear board; light scattered foxing; ownerÕs signature to top edge of title page; pages lightly toned. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover books
1834020203PA: Key & Biddle 1834. Book. G. Hardcover. NAP. Book has cover soiling and wear to its original boards and spine with approximately 20% of the paper spine label missing. Front free endpaper has a stain owner's signature occasional foxing thus good plus. No name is given for the author on the title page. . Key & Biddle Hardcover
1848SKU1166702Richard Bentley 1848. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1848; London; very poor copy; printed brown paper covers for protection; spine is missing; board covers are missing; Plate of James Richardson Esq is included but not attached; interior pages are intact and contain major foxing and wear; 440 pages Richard Bentley hardcover
18486522London: Richard Bentley 1848. First Edition. First edition ex-library. Measuring approximately 9" x 6" with 440 and 482 numbered pages respectively. Complete in two volumes.<br /> <br /> The volumes are in good plus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the cloth boards. Library markings on the spine and both pastedowns. Interior pages have moderate foxing. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #O8-106. Richard Bentley unknown
1848355544London.: Richard Bentley. 1848. 1st Edition. Publisher’s blindstamped green cloth. Good spine worn and glue-repaired corners bumped slightly shaken bookplates to pastedowns light foxing to frontispieces and tissue guards. 8vo. 23x14.5 cm. Uncommon first edition of this famous travelogue complete with the map. Heavy set may require extra shipping weight: 3.3 lb. Two engraved frontispieces plus one additional plate scattered woodcuts in text one folding map. Richard Bentley. hardcover
1848168912London: Richard Bentley 1848. Richardson's explorations in the nineteenth century have been most unjustifiably neglected First edition of this detailed travelogue by an English explorer and abolitionist. Richardson 1806-1851 joined a Sahara-bound expedition leaving Tripoli in 1845 hoping to "gather information on the legitimate and slave trades in the interior and in the unfulfilled expectation that he would be made vice-consul at Ghadames a strategically important market town. From Ghadames he travelled to Ghat a very important slave market but there was forced by ill health and lack of equipment to turn back travelling via Fezzan and reaching England in 1846" ODNB. His account includes descriptions of the major cities in the Fezzan region trade routes and oases as well as the culture religion and traditions of the Tuaregs. Richardson also frequently refers to the trans-Saharan slave trade and the position of slaves in local Tuareg communities. The Royal Geographical Society reviewed Richardson's Travels favourably upon publication: "These volumes are useful contributions to our knowledge of the interior of the imperfectly known regions of Northern Africa; and they describe some hundreds of miles of desert routes over which no Europeans had previously passed as well as several of the cities of the Desert of which we had not before received accounts from European visitors" p. lix. 2 vols octavo 215 x 130 mm. Engraved frontispieces similar plate engraved folding map wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary pale polished calf spines with raised bands red and brown morocco spine labels richly gilt in compartments double-gilt fillet borders on covers marbled edges and endpapers. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. Slightly rubbed and scuffed occasional foxing gilt bright. A very good copy. Gay 1530; Howgego II R13. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society vol. 18 1848. hardcover
184891137London: Richard Bentley 1848. First edition of this account of James Richardson's 1806-1851 first expedition to Africa. Richardson was an English explorer and ardent anti-slavery campaigner; he considered the slave trade to be "the most gigantic system of wickedness that world has ever seen" Wright Libya Chad and the Central Sahara p. 68. In 1845 Richardson joined a Sahara-bound expedition leaving Tripoli. With it he travelled to "Ghadames became the first European to visit Ghat and after a nine-month long and arduous journey through Fezzan arrived safely back in Tripoli" Embacher cataloguer's translation. His account includes descriptions of the major cities in the Fezzan region trade routes and oases as well as the culture religion and traditions of the Tuaregs. Richardson also frequently refers to the trans-Saharan slave trade and the position of slaves in local Tuareg communities a subject he had already discussed in his "Report on the Slave-Trade of the Great Desert" written for the Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend upon his return to London in 1846. Upon publication the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society wrote of Richardson's Travels: "These volumes are useful contributions to our knowledge of the interior of the imperfectly known regions of Northern Africa; and they describe some hundreds of miles of desert routes over which no Europeans had previously passed as well as several of the cities of the Desert of which we had not before received accounts from European visitors" JRGS vol. 18 p. lix. 2 vols octavo 221 x 137 mm. Engraved frontispieces 24 woodcuts in text and one engraved folding map. Original green morocco-grain cloth titles to spines gilt decorative frames to boards in blind Glasgow coat of arms gilt-stamped to front boards pale yellow endpapers. Glasgow High School prize copy with bookplates to front pastedowns. Spines sunned corners and spine ends bumped inner hinges of Volume II cracked but holding firm short closed tear to folding map stub. A very good set. Embacher p. 247; Gay 1530; Hess & Coger 5679; Howgego II R13. hardcover
184815040London: Richard Bentley 1848. With 3 engraved plates 2 of which are frontispieces a large folding map and 24 text woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards; foxing limited to endpapers overall in excellent shape. First edition of this account of Richardson's first expedition to Africa. The idea to reach the “celebrated Oasis of Ghadames . . . amidst the most appalling desolations of the Great Saharan Wilderness†came to Richardson via the accidental reading of a brochure on a table in the Algiers public library. This glance resulted in a journey from Tunis and Tripoli in Libya to Ghadames and Ghat in the middle of the Sahara chronicled in his Travels in the treat desert of Sahara. Readers travel with Richardson and his group through cities trader routes and more oases learning the language the culture and the religion of the people whom they encounter. It is as fascinating and rich as any nineteen th-century travel narrative.<br /> <br /> A review in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society states: “These volumes are useful contributions to our knowledge of the interior of the imperfectly known regions of Northern Africa; and they describe some hundreds of miles of desert routes over which no Europeans had previously passed as well as several of the cities of the Desert of which we had not before received accounts from European visitors†Vol. 18 p. lix. Indeed Richardson returned to the area in 1850 to cross the elevated plain of the Hammada the first European to ever do so. It was on that journey that he died of a mysterious illness.<br /> <br /> Richardson 1806-1851 was an English explorer with an ambition to propagate Christianity and suppress slavery in Africa. He frequently refers to the trans-Saharan slave trade and the position of slaves in local Tuareg communities. Richard Bentley unknown
1875148660Toronto 1875. Booklet. Very good. 16 p. 15 cm. Booklet. Small dent in pages throughout. Light soiling to covers. <br/><br/>Lists Toronto's Masonic Lodges. Local advertising. unknown
189147217London: Longmans Green & Co 1891. Very Good-. London: Longmans Green & Co. 1891. First Edition. Octavo 19cm; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth top edge gilt dark brown glazed endpapers; xii400pp.; photographic autotype portrait frontispiece. Moderate scuffing to cloth margins frontispiece very nearly separated contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and later ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown; About Very Good overall. Longmans, Green, & Co unknown
189135033Longmans Green 1891. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers Spine frayed at extremities. Longmans, Green hardcover
189144536London: Longmans Green And Co Ltd 1891. Shaken lightly rubbed and bumped small tear to head of spine front gutter cracked with the odd crack to binding within closed edges foxed else tidy enough pp clean and bright. Cloth. Good Minus. 8vo. Longmans, Green And Co Ltd Hardcover
1854WRCAM54205London 1854. xi11711 erratapp. plus thirty-three mounted lithographic plates seventeen double- page. Half title bound after the titlepage. Quarto. 20th-century half polished calf and marbled boards spine gilt leather label. Minor scuffing to boards. Modern bookplate on front pastedown light occasional foxing. Very good. The first edition of this zoological publication from the voyage of the Herald with descriptions of fossil bones from Eschscholtz Bay. The first part of this work appeared in 1852; in 1854 it was completed and issued with a new titlepage. The lithographs depict all manner of mammalian fossils including full skeletons of the bighorn and musk-bull and detailed illustrations of their parts with skulls spinal bones and more. Also includes three excellent plates featuring lizards and six of various fish. Rare; not in Hill or ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. <br> <br> "Sir John Richardson was a distinguished British naturalist and arctic explorer. In 1819 he was appointed surgeon and naturalist to Franklin's first arctic expedition and subsequently to the second. The scientific results of these expeditions he described in contributions to Franklin's NARRATIVES. He also wrote the natural history accounts of several other arctic voyages. The present work is one of these." - Lada-Mocarski. FORBES 2049. LADA-MOCARSKI 139. SABIN 71033. hardcover books
1839144944London: Henry G. Bohn 1839. xii180 pp. Quarto 28 X 22.5 cm. Bound in an attractive modern full dark blue straight grain morocco. Gilt decoration on spine and gilt decoration on boards. All edges speckled red. Marble endpapers to match. Modern bookplate on the front pastedown. Half title. 50 hand-colored engraved plates by Sowerby on the title page but there are actually only 44 plates 3 engraved geological plans with hand-colored details and 1 folding hand-colored engraved plate of geological sections. One extra uncoloured plate not called for after Plate 44. Overall a very attractive and fresh copy with very bright colouring. A very rare item. An IMPORTANT WORK NOTED for ITS STRIKING COLORED PLATES of BIRDS REPTILES MAMMALS and MARINE LIFE. The collections and notes were done during the four-year voyage of the Blossom a voyage to assist the expeditions of W.E. Parry and John Franklin. The notes are by John Richardson mammalia Nicholas A. Vigors birds George T. Lay and Edward T. Bennett fishes Richard Owen crustacea William Buckland geology and John Edward Gray reptiles and shells. As Beechey explains in the introduction the appearance of this work was long frustrated and it was only after a full eight years that it saw publication. In no uncertain terms he states "that it the delay has been occasioned entirely by Mr. Gray's failing to furnish his part in spite of every intercession from myself and others." As also noted by Beechey although the nature of the Blossom's mission prevented long stays in any one locality the crew did collect an astounding number of rare and exotic species from a good variety of locations. Hill 96; Sabin 71032. Lada Mocarski 105. 1839 Henry G. Bohn hardcover
1876elala208Darlington: Bailey & London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1876. 1876. oblong folio. ff. 21title & descriptive text the latter printed on verso only. 21 humourous lithographed plates. original cloth-backed printed wrs. rubbed & soiled some thumb-soiling in margins minor pinhole worming in last third of text. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Darlington: Bailey & London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1876. Hardcover
1876029034Darlington: Bailey Horse Market 1876. Book. Good. card cover>. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 76p. profusely illustrated decorated cover spine edges and corners rubbed from handling o/w sound. Bailey, Horse Market Paperback
181126106London: Printed for William Miller and James Carpenter 1811. The father of the modern novel of the serious or pathetic kind First collected edition of this major 18th-century author whose works Jane Austen "knew. by heart" ODNB. Anna Laetitia Barbauld called Richardson "the father of the modern novel of the serious or pathetic kind". The editor was Dublin-born Edward Mangin 1772-1852 of Huguenot origins a contemporary of Southey at Oxford ordained into the Irish church; he published several volumes of essays and translations and a three-decker novel George the Third 1807. After a spell as a naval chaplain he spent most of his life at Bath and having a substantial income was able to study and write full-time. The delicately engraved portrait of Richardson is the work of Edward Scriven who "became eminent in his profession" ODNB. 19 vols octavo 179 x 117 mm. Fine stipple engraved portrait frontispiece of Richardson by Edward Scriven after Mason Chamberlin. Attractively bound to style in half speckled calf red morocco labels marbled sides and edges endpapers renewed. Neat early ownership inscription to head of each title page "Hilder Sandhurst". Portrait offset to title page of vol. I. A nice clean set in a handsome period-style binding which has the virtue of opening easily at the printed page. NCBEL II 917. unknown
1812140947913London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks 1812. First Edition in English. Very Good. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle one of 50 sets printed and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile and Bronte family benefactor Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861. <p>Incomplete set with eight of ten volumes present of the complete translation. Uniformly bound by "J. Mackenzie Binder to the King" in contemporary half morocco over French Curl marbled boards with spines lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt 4to. Very Good with wear extremities rubbed sporadic foxing hinges slightly tender. <p>Volumes include: 1. The Organon 1807. 2. The Treatises on the Soul 1808. 3.The History of Animals 1809. 4.The Treatises on the Parts and Progressive Motion on Animals etc. 1810. 5. The Rhetoric 1811. 6. The Great Edemian Ethics 1811. 7. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle 1812.8. The Metaphysics first edition of 1801. <p>The first collected English translations of Aristotle's works from Orphic fragments by Neoplatonist scholar Thomas Tyler 1758-1835. Provenance of famed bibliophile and collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer whose well-curated and respected library expanded to nearly 20000 volumes. Bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin remarked that she was "the head of all female book collectors in Europe." Known for her philanthropic endeavors she donated a sum of 50 pounds to Patrick Bronte father of Charlotte Bronte when he was widowed in 1821. Currer also contributed an unknown amount to the Clergy Daughter's School that the Bronte sisters attended. Scholars postulate that Charlotte chose the non de plume of "Currer Bell" for her first published 1847 novel Jane Eyre in honor of Currer's philanthropy. A desirable set even without Currer's bookplate that seldom comes up for sale. Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks unknown
1883400695London : H. Sotheran 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Library copies. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. The set remains particularly well-preserved overall. Minor library marks remain. Physical description: 12 v. : ports ; 23 cm. Contents: v. 1-3. Pamela or Virtue rewarded.--v. 4-8. The history of Clarissa Harlowe.--v. 9-12. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. Subjects: Richardson Samuel 1689-1761; Eighteenth century literature; English fiction; English literature. London : H. Sotheran hardcover
18835770177Henry Sotheran & Co. 1883. Volume 1-12. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Library sticker on front cover.Majority of volumes cited as being of a limited edition of 750 copies. Medium 8vo.Volumes 1234 and 12 rebound. Vols 13 and 12 bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on backstrip. Vols 2 and 4 bound in green cloth with black leather quarter binding and gilt lettering on backstrip with heavier wear. Remaining volumes bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt borders on backstrip. Bumped corners and some shelf wear with chipping to backstrip ends. Backstrip of vols 6 to 9 have been secured with clear tape due to some tearing. Several volumes have split hinges. Frontispiece in vol 1. Title page semi detached in vol I. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some light foxing except in vol 4 which is quite grubby. And volume 12 which has several pencil markings. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item11900grams ISBN: Henry Sotheran & Co. hardcover
1883122284Henry Sotheran 1883. First Edition. 3/4. Very Good. 12 vols. Limited to 750 numbered sets and edited by Leslie Stephen. Vol. 8 is brown cloth as are the others but the cloth is lighter then the other vols. This vol. is almost identical but it bears a limitation number unlike the other 11 vols. Henry Sotheran unknown
