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1770103721770. Hand-coloured engraving. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches. A wonderful romantic view in the grand tradition of the picturesque English landscape.<br/> <br/>Towards the middle of the eighteenth century a trend developed amongst English artists and printmakers which sought to visually record the natural beauties of England and Wales. Sparked by a sense of national confidence and patriotism English printmakers began to publish topographical prints of the important sights in the British Isles. In addition to being a visual record of the countryside they were meant to encourage public recognition of the beauty and history of England. They were aimed at English and foreign tourists who desired a memento of their travels or at those vicarious tourists who collected topographical prints instead of traveling. This is a wonderful example of a picturesque eighteenth century landscape print. By trimming the image within the platemark and mounting it on a decorative washline background the print has the effect of a landscape painting. The likeness is heightened by the addition of added body colour in the image and the use of a heavy painterly technique of engraving. This practice was common amongst engravers and printsellers who wished to capitalize on this trend for picturesque landscapes of the English countryside. This print is from the famed Oettingen-Wallerstein collection which was compiled over two centuries by various members of the royal household. The collection is known for its stunning impressions and the immaculate condition of its prints.<br/> <br/>Clayton The English Print 1688-1802 p. 155; Lugt Les Marques de Collections Supplement 2715a. unknown books
1770103701770. Hand-coloured engraving. Title is inscribed in a contemporary hand on verso of sheet. In excellent condition. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 13 1/2 x 19 inches. A wonderful continental view in the grand tradition of the romantic landscape.<br/> <br/>Towards the middle of the eighteenth century a trend developed amongst artists and printmakers which sought to visually record the natural beauties of their surroundings. English printmakers began to publish topographical prints of the important sights in the British Isles and on the Continent. Theses image not only inspired a sense of national pride but also served as cherished mementos for eager collectors on the "Grand Tour". Prints and paintings of Ruins and antiquities were aimed at English and foreign tourists who desired a reminder of their travels or at those vicarious tourists who collected topographical prints instead of traveling. This is a wonderful example of a picturesque eighteenth century landscape print. By trimming the image within the platemark and mounting it on a decorative washline background the print has the effect of a landscape painting. The likeness is heightened by the addition of added body colour in the image and the use of a heavy painterly technique of engraving. This practice was common amongst engravers and printsellers who wished to capitalize on this trend for picturesque landscapes. This print is from the famed Oettingen-Wallerstein collection which was compiled over two centuries by various members of the royal household. The collection is known for its stunning impressions and the immaculate condition of its prints.<br/> <br/>Clayton The English Print 1688-1802 p. 155; Lugt Les Marques de Collections Supplement 2715a. unknown books
1780265361780. Pastel on laid watermarked paper. The sheet retains signs of having been stretched as these types of portraits typically were. Dampstain upper right corner tear lower right corner otherwise excellent condition. A strikingly well done portrait of a successful European gentleman with piercing eyes.<br/> <br/>Pastel portraits were popular in Europe Great Britain and America during most of the 18th century especially in the 1770s and 80s. They provided a more rapid way of rendering a likeness in bright colors that didn't yellow. This was a golden age for portrait painting which exemplified the optimistic views of the Enlightenment: a sitter was not ashamed to show his or her wealth contentment or character. Our self -assured subject looks directly at the viewer with piercing eyes calm practical not likely to be fooled. It is an astounding accomplishment; we feel that this was exactly how he was. The artist allowed himself or herself there were a number of excellent female pastel portraitists particularly in France to be subject entirely to what was seen and sensed about this strong indomitable personality.<br/> <br/>Baetjer & Shelly Pastel Portraits. Images of the 18th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011. unknown books
178426075Londres i.e. Paris: Et se trouve à Paris chez Pissot 1784. First Edition. Octavo; pp. 6264pp.; 4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco double ruled in gilt flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good attractive copy. Pechmeja's best-selling prose poem published anonymously under the patronage of one Madame de Beauvau presumably the Marquise de Boufflers. The work enjoyed both enthusiastic and scathing reviews from the most celebrated literary figures of the time. Readers admired the work's literary beauty and its touching description of friendship while others found fault with the moral and economic message which would be described as socialist in the modern sense. Among the most notable Télephe detractors was the author Jean-François de la Harpe who wrote "The author seems like Rousseau to make a crime out of private property without which no society could exist. He doesn't want children to inherit their fathers' fortunes as if inheritance wasn't a natural right and as if the fathers themselves didn't work for the sake of their children" my translation. Others including the relatively enthusiastic reviewer the Baron von Grimm were nonplussed by Pechmeja's dour description of the fate of man and the injustices of oppression maintaining that while virtue must always be exercised little happiness can ultimately be experienced even with the purest intentions my paraphrase of Michaud and Grimm. Grimm rejects comparisons made to Fénelon's novel Les Aventures de Télemaque 1699 saying that if Marmontel's Les Incas 1747 is the Télemaque for the age of the encyclopedia then Télephe is the Télemaque for economists. Within three weeks of publication sales had dropped dramatically and while the book was reprinted once in the 1790s and subsequently translated into English and German Télephe never re-experienced its initial popularity. ESTC T132203.<br/> <br/>References:<br/> <br/>Baron von Grimm and Denis Diderot's Correspondance Littéraire Philosophique et Economique Vol. XII mars 1794 pp. 80-3. <br/> <br/>Joseph Fr. Michaud Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne Vol. 33 pp. 244-6. . Et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot unknown books
1793899051793. EHON. TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI. 3 Vols. Osaka Kawachiya Kihei and Kawachiya Eisuke Kansei 5 1793. 25.8 x 18.5 cm. Original dark blue covers string-bound Japanese style fukuro toji with the pink printed paper title labels. A nice 18th century edition of this work in good impression. Originally published in the 1720's. Though the artist is unnamed several candidates have been mentioned including Ooka Shumboku. 18th century editions of Toba-e books are becoming increasingly uncommon. In a custom clasped chitsu case. The covers are worn but overall a good copy of this book. An excellent example of the somewhat madcap humor of the Toba-e genre. With a bookseller's advertisement at the end which indicates this edition of the book was part of a series of Toba-ehon brought out by the same publisher - SANGOKUSHI OGI NO MATO and TOBA GURUMA. unknown books
17712992London: printed for J. Cooke 1771. First Edition. Very good. Engraved print framed behind glass. Print size: 215 x 133 mm slightly cropped affecting several letters. Frame size: 342 x 263 mm. Slight foxing some browning along edges upper left corner slightly curled in. A striking 18th century engraving of a great and terrible Wicker Man. It would appear that an image of the iconic Wicker Man first appeared in print in 1610 with the publication of John Selden's "Jani Anglorum." We find it again in Aylett Sammes's "Britannia Antiqua Illustrata" 1676 which clearly influenced the anonymous artist of the present engraving -- and many others who followed. <br/><br/>It is believed that so-called Wicker Man statues were ritually burned by the ancient Druids; that they were at times filled with human sacrifices may be an early modern fabrication. The caption of our print promotes these wild and terrifying claims: "The Wicker Colossus of the Druids wherein Malefactors Prisoners of War and sometimes Innocent Persons when there was a deficiency of the former were Burnt as Sacrifices to their Deities."<br/><br/>This particular print appeared opposite page 77 in the 1771 edition of Spencer's "Complete English Traveller. printed for J. Cooke unknown books
1710290254London. : Jacob Tonson. 1710. Contemporary full leather raised bands. . Fair boards detached many leaves darkly toned text still tightly bound and attached to spine. Small folio 32x20.3 cm. . Folio edition published for the House of Peers. Pages 77-84 with no page number on the verso. weight: 2.8 lb. Jacob Tonson. hardcover books
174427491London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet 1744 1744. Second edition; first published in 1637. ESTC T51881. Fine copy. 8vo disbound 30 pages. The story of a famous miser who operated a ferry boat on the Thames near where the London Bridge eventually went. John Overs was frugal to a fault and from his appearance it was thought he was poor. But he died a rich man leaving wealth to his beautiful daughter. <br/><br/> London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet, 1744 unknown books
1796005264no place listed: No publisher listed 1796. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First presumed edition. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 8 pages of text. Disbound from larger volume. The word "Christian's" in the title is misspelled "Chistian's." Title page is illustrated with two woodcuts. Paper is slightly foxed with minor browning to fore-edge of final leaf. Gives four or eight lines of advice "When you first awake" When arising from your Bed" Putting on your Cloaths" Leaving the Room" "Washing yourself" "At Breakfast" Going to School or Labour" " At Labour" "Returning from Labour at Noon" "Before Dinner" "After Dinner" "Returning to Labour" "At Labour" "Returning from Work" "Having got home" "In the evening" "Before Supper" "At Supper" "Entering your Bed-Chamber" "Undressing" "Lying down in Bed" and "Waking in the Night." The final page is a hymn of 24 lines the first two of which are "Awake my Soul awake and cry To God that reigns on high." An uncommon chapbook; religious devotional tract; ephemeral item; possibly Scottish. No publisher listed Paperback books
1714TB25672London 1714. First Edition. Second Impression with additional characters. Good in a 19th century binding of 1/2 leather and pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 4 1/2" with the front and rear hinges and joints about to separate. The pages remain tightly bound with only the front and rear pages showing any age toning and foxing. 43 pages of text. Although described as a "Second Impression" on the title page this may be a revised edition and possibly a piracy. Foxon W157/8. hardcover books
1741295688London: J. Roberts 1741. unbound. very good. 40 pages. 12mo disbound but still firmly sewn; pages lightly toned. London: J. Roberts 1741. A very good copy.<br/><br/> J. Roberts unknown books
1719WRCLIT66441London: Printed for W. Mears . and Sold by J. Bettenham 1719. 751pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Old ink numbers in top margin of title leaf and lower margin of A2 a few small faint spots very good. First edition of this pointed reply to Wagstaffe's pamphlet: " The author. appears very formidable in his title-page and promises mighty Feats . But when we come to his performances we find this mighty champion no better than a Knight-Errant." ESTC locates two copies in North America: Emory and General Theological. ESTC T39938. Printed for W. Mears ... and Sold by J. Bettenham unknown books
180048809London: Geo. Shade 1800. Large 4to pp. 2. Disbound from a collection. Paper little darkened o/w VG. Geo. Shade unknown books
175627951London: Printed by Malachi for Edith Bates Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates and sold by W. Owen 1756 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block The English Novel page 140. Hinges rubbed and starting but sound; light damp-staining to the endpapers; very good copy. 12mo contemporary sprinkled calf gilt rules. One page of publisher's terminal advertisements. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In the 1770s Mrs. Piozzi wrote to Dr. Johnson that she had found a copy of this "strange book about Corporal Bates which I bought and read . . . and found to be the very novel from which Sterne took his first idea . . . even the name Tristram itself seems to be borrowed from this stupid history of Corporal Bates forsooth." See Helen Sard Hughes "A Precursor of Tristram Shandy" in the Journal of English and German Philology vol. 17 no. 2 who concludes that the story of Corporal Bates "was but one of many minor novels which in halting fashion prepare the way for the more perfect works of masters coming after . . ." Contemporary ink signature of Robert Parsons on the front paste-down. <br/><br/> London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756 unknown books
1749136504London: Henry Lintot 1749. hardcover. Three tables 32 372pp. 4to full contemporary calf raised bands gilt-lettered spine label; corners bumped top of hinge starting. London In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot for Daniel Browne 1749. Scarce. Very Good .<br/><br/> Not in Halkett & Laing.<br/><br/> Henry Lintot unknown books
173728073London: Printed by J. Applebee for J. Hazard J. Brindley J. Worrall J. Jolliffe C. Corbet Ward and Chandler E. Withers R. Dodsley and W. Warner 1737 1737. First edition second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year under the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains the running title Gallick Reports. ESTC N6568 which records six copies of this issue Cambridge Columbia Cornell Harvard Princeton and National Library of Medicine; cf. ESTC T116539 for the first issue. Two leaves misbound following the preface; title-page somewhat soiled and with a small hole not affecting the text; edges of the binding rubbed; very good copy. 12mo contemporary sheep skillfully rebacked red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. Five pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. ¶ An unusual collection of seven "extraordinary" and "surprizing" French criminal cases as recorded by an anonymous English author who has also supplied an interesting 43-page preface on French law. Among the cases is the 16th century story of Martin Guerre later used by Janet Lewis for her novella The Wife of Martin Guerre Colt Press 1941; that's followed by stories of a man who "debauched" a young woman but is saved from execution by that woman; Mary Margaret de Aubrey who poisoned her father and two brothers; the celebrated history of Urbain Grandier condemned as a Magician; a child claimed by two women to be its mother; Madam Tiquet who attempted to "assassinate" her husband. Interspersed with the cases are relevant extracts from French law the king's edicts against witches and poisoners etc. Modern nautical bookplate on the front free endpaper of Robert J. Hayhurst retail pharmacist and book collector. <br/><br/> London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R unknown books
1781291930London: MacGowan 1781. hardcover. very good. 2 Volumes. 33 engraved maps & plans 3 folding & 28 engraved plates. Thick 4to unpaginated text in double columns. Full contemporary calf. Heraldic bookplate in each volume. London: MacGowan 1781. Scarce. Well-worn and joints cracked but attractive and overall very good.<br/><br/> The work contains numerous entries for North American battles of the Seven Years' War American Revolutionary War &c. including Annapolis Royal Beauséjour Brandy-Wine Lake Champlain Charlestown Fort Frontenac Louisbourg Fort Necessity Fort Niagara Penobscot Fort Pitt Quebec Saratoga Ticonderoga New York &c. Appended are an essay on fortification.<br/><br/> MacGowan unknown books
173048552London: Printed by A Moore for the Ghost of Phil. Horneck at the Sign of Dr. Hermodactyll's Head 1730. 1st printing ESTC T106069. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Bit of soiling to outer leaves. Prior owner marginal notes identifying individuals discussed in the text. Overall Very Good. 28 pp. Lacks half-title leaf. T.p. printer's device. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>A political satire of the times; the imprint is false. Printed by A Moore, for the Ghost of Phil. Horneck, at the Sign of Dr. Hermodactyll's Head unknown books
1718WRCLIT66444London: Printed by J. Roberts 1718. viii64p. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Somewhat soiled and foxed; just a sound copy. One of three editions of this appeal for reform to appear under Roberts' imprint that year with variant subtitles and paginations. ESTC N5153. Printed by J. Roberts unknown books
1709WRCLIT41620London: Printed in the Year 1709. 8pp. Modern cloth and boards. Browned with some marginal nicks and small chips and a few discolorations in lower third. Just a good intact copy. One of two editions noted in Foxon this being one of the copies with 'some' as the last word on 3:1. An anti-Marlborough poem attributed by Nichols to William King though Foxon doubts that attribution. FOXON B125. ESTC T21437. Printed in the Year hardcover books
170527020London: Pr. for G. Sawbridge 1705. 8vo 18 cm 7". lxxx 391 15 pp. <br><br>First edition. WorldCat and ESTC locate only six copies in the U.S. Anti-Quaker anti-Catholic anti-Anabaptist.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: ExRochester Seminary library with its pencilled note to first page of preface "From the Buckland Library presented by John H. Deaver. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC N5294. 20th-century black textured cloth signed Rochester Bindery; exseminary library as above with its bookplate on front pastedown old-fashioned rubber-stamp to title and library pencilling including provenance note above. Early inked note to top of title-page undeciphered and a little trimmed at top by a binder probably not the most recent one; otherwise an occasional very old underlining in ink or a more recent reader's pencilled "X" marking a passage. Paper very good. => A clean strong copy. Pr. for G. Sawbridge hardcover books
1717291250A Chambery par Jacques Gorrin. circa 1717. Publisher’s scrap paper wraps stabbed binding. . Good front cover tattered title page soiled. 8vo. 16x10 cm. . French text. Rare table of exchange rates. No copies located on Worldcat. weight: 0.1 lb. A Chambery par Jacques Gorrin. paperback books
1800291157No place.: No publisher. circa 1800. Old half mottled leather over marbled boards leather spine label with gilt title. . Very good lacks title page. 8vo. 21.5x14.5 cm. . French text. 37 leaves bound in 16 of which have contemporary notes regarding exchange rates and interest rates the others blank. weight: 0.8 lb. No publisher. hardcover books
1794WRCLIT43145Dublin: Printed for William McKenzie 1794. 226pp. Octavo signed in 4s. Extracted from bound volume. Wanting half-title and terminal leaf ads or blank E1 trimmed out of register with loss of a few letters at fore-edge a few smudges else a good copy. First edition. A curious work distinctly in the style of a sermon but possibly simply an expression of loyalty to the Monarch and anti- Catholic sentiment posed in that style by a secular writer. Scarce. ESTC locates only three copies none in the U.S. BRADSHAW 2395. ESTC T192703. Printed for William McKenzie unknown books
17977395Mexico City: Zuniga y Ontiveros 1797. First edition. Small folio 28 x 20 cm pp 2 140 3. A collection in Latin of church protocol for the diocese of Michoacan as used by the cathedral chapter of Valladolid now Morelia printed for the bishop of Michoacan Antonio de San Miguel Antonio a Sancto Michaele. Medina Mexico 8711. This work is quite rare: 6 copies listed on OCLC only two at auction over many years. Some evidence of worming to inner margin not affecting textand all repaired; otherwise very good copy in contemporary vellum with handsome bookplate of Mexican bibliophile Jose G. Herrera Alcala. <br/><br/> Zuniga y Ontiveros hardcover books
