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179268343A Collection of Five Political Tracts from the Years 1792-1793 Anonymous. Six essays on natural rights liberty and slavery consent of the people equality religious establishments the French Revolution which were greatly approved and have been in much request since their original appearance in the Public Advertiser. London Printed for S. Woodfall 1792. First edition. 8 48 pp. We could find no copies at auction and only four are listed at libraries according to ESTC N62745 Bound with ANDERSON George. A general view of the variations which have been made in the affairs of the East-India Company since the conclusion of the war in India in 1784. By George Anderson. London Printed in the Year 1792. First Edition. 8 102 2 blank 11 folding appendix tables pp. With half-title and 11 folding appendix tables. There have been no copies at auction since 1978. George Anderson was a colonial official and writer. In 1792 he published this present highly regarded study as to the condition of Indian trade and finance. ESTC T97303 Bound with Anonymous Callender James T. The political progress of Britain; or an impartial account of the principal abuses in the government of this country from the revolution in 1688. The Whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part first. Edinburgh Printed for Robertson & Berry 1792. First edition. 80 pp. We could find no copies at auction in over 50 years. Previous owner's old ink notes on blank verso of title-page. "In February 1792 Callender published in the Edinburgh Bee the first of eight parts of what was to become a very successful pamphlet The Political Progress of Britain. As an inflammatory critique of imperialism war and corruption with a strong Scottish nationalist flavour Callender's work rivalled Thomas Paine's in its radicalism. It sold well although not in the numbers of the Rights of Man." Oxford DNB. ESTC T43967. Bound with CARLYLE Alexander. A sermon on the death of Sir David Dalrymple Bart. Lord Hailles; from Eccles. VII.3. Preached In the Church of Inveresk on Sunday the 9th day of December 1792. By Alexr. Carlyle D. D. F. R. S. E. Chaplain to His Majesty & Minister of that Parish. With an address to the congregation suited to the circumstances of the times. Edinburgh Printed for John Balfour 1792. First edition. 33 1 blank pp. We could find no copies at auction in over 50 years. ESTC T53279. "Carlyle was a Church of Scotland minister and memorialist. During the French Revolution he was equally conservative in regard both to domestic issues.and to foreign issues such as the war with France which he exalted as a divinely sanctioned cause and a test of British virtue and resolve in three published sermons including: Sermon on the Death of Sir David Dalrymple Bart. Lord Hailes 1792." Oxford DNB. Bound with Mallet du Pan M. Jacques. ConsidÈrations sur la nature de la rÈvolution de France et sur les causes qui en prolongent la durÈe. A Bruxelles et se trouve a Londres chez Owen 1793. Early edition. viii 79 1 table pp. ESTC T75704. Mallet du Pan was a Swiss journalist who "Published with the approval of the foreign representatives a work which was to make a prodigious sensation and which is still the best know of his writings his Considerations on the Revolution." Mallet du Pan and the French revolution by Mallet Bernard. He is considered a pioneer of modern political journalism. Octavo 8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm. All tracts bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some occasional foxing but otherwise very clean. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. Outer hinges cracked but holding. Top of spine chipped. Otherwise a very good copy. HBS 68343. $5000 Printed for S. Woodfall hardcover books
1739WRCLIT64483London: Printed for T. Reynolds 1739. 8pp. Folio. Later boards. Some pencil annotations in the text boards a bit soiled otherwise very good. First edition. An anonymous poem on the modern peers identified by Foxon as possibly by the same author as BRITANNIA'S PRECUATION 1741 and THE HIBERNIAN POLITICIANS 1740 someone "possibly named Gardiner." FOXON S354. ROTHSCHILD 221. ESTC T4631. Printed for T. Reynolds hardcover books
1765154541London: Printed for W. Nicoll 1765. 12mo two volumes pp. 1-2 i-iii iv-x xi-xiv 1 2-336; i-viii 1 2-358 full calf all panels ruled in gold edges speckled red. First edition. Highway robbery piracy on the Thames murder rape a midwife tried for "not doing his duty" and more. Female miscreants are well represented. Many of the cases concern conspiracy forgery. counterfeiting and fraud. ESTC T114036. Half titles present lacks front free endpaper in volume II a very clean attractive copy. Scarce in commerce. #154541 Printed for W. Nicoll unknown books
17937441Mexico City: Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros 1793. First edition. Quarto 20.4 x 15.8 cm pp 10 ii 165 3 with striking copper-engraved frontispiece plate by Jose Simon de la Rea of Maria Ignacia de Azlor the founder and spiritual head of the Convento de la Sagrada Compania de Maria Santissima de la Ensenanza de Mexico. This important convent which still exists just off the zocalo in Mexico City was popularly called the Ensenanza because it served as a school for the daughters of the elite in the city. The foundress was the daughter of wealthy parents which enabled her to buy the property for the convent and adjacent school. The fine portrait of Azlor shows her with rosary standing at her desk with pens ink wells sea etc. In th eprologue it is stated that the nuns in the convent themselves wrote the book - an unusual source of authorship most of these nuns' biographies being written by men. Rare in commerce a half a dozen in a hundred years; OCLC shows some 20 copies in library collections. Medina Mexico 8255 This copy is has the marca de fuego of the Colegio de San Fernando in Mexico City identified in the Navarro edition of Beristain vol. 5 Supl. p 595 a center of Franciscan missionary activity; the old shelf numbers are still faintly visible on the upper spine; the back free end-paper is lacking; there is some very minor pin-hole worming in the some of the margins not affecting the text. It is bound in a contemporary original mottled full calf binding spine with red title label and gilt fillets and panels. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros unknown books
17977411In Modena 1797. Full-Leather. Very Good. 12mo. 87 pages 1 page of ads. Bound in contemporary full brown leather floral end papers; marbled edges. Internally very clean and bright. A very good copy. <br/><br/> hardcover books
17400000645Italy 1740. Contemporary vellum on boards. Very Good. Tom I. 4to20.5 x 15.0 cm. Contemporary vellum with ink label on spine. There are no free endpapers or title page.Text block attached to boards by threads; all edges with marbling. Collation: 298 pp.293-298 blank 38 ll 3 folding containing 99 numbered ink drawings. The drawings are labeled as numbered Figures for each of the five V Tabula. These illustrations are grouped into V Tables with a Tabula IV Supplement for a total of 6 Tabula of images: Tab. I - 6 ll 18 Fig.; Tab. II - 4 ll 23 Fig.; Tab. III - 8 ll 17 Fig.; Tab. IV -6 ll 19 fig.; Tab.IV Suppl. - 9 ll 17 Fig.; Tab.V - 5 ll 5 Fig. There is a colophon on p. 286. <br />Note in Italian on front free pastedown mentions the colophon on p. 286 which reads “FINEM POSUI DIE I JUNY MLCCXXXX/ SUB DISCIPLINA U.J.D. MAR. I J LAMA. This manuscript was completed on June 1 1740. <br />There is a Tabula Index for the manuscript on pp. 289-292. Beneath the title is the Introduction that is followed by Liber I Physica Generalis or Book I General Physics. <br />The remainder of the manuscript text is organized with four 4 Dissertations different areas of physics that are treated with a number of chapters or addition of theorems as pertinent to the theme of Dissertation. Reference to figures at rear is made by noting the figure number in the margin that is found for the particular chapter in one of the Dissertations. The index at rear contains detail information for each Dissertation Chapter number and where appropriate Theorems. <br/><br/>Writing is in a fine hand and drawing very accurate and well laid out on page. <br />Although the ink writing in spine indicates volume 1 major areas of physics viz. motion of bodies mechanics friction color optics etc. are covered. hardcover books
176834481London: Pr. by M. Lewis & Son & sold by G. Keith & T. Luckman 1768. 8vo. 2 32 pp. <br><br>A reply to Stephen Addingtons Eusebes to Philetus: a series of letters from a father to a son; it Includes Eusebes' letter to Philetus one pp. 1-6.<br>Â Â Â Â ESTC gives this as "Second edition" which words are not found on the title-page here and does so without listing any other edition! ESTC locates only two copies worldwide one in Wales and the other being this copy now deacessioned. But WorldCat locates two more copies one in Scotland and one in Kentucky.<br>Â Â Â Â A check of the Scottish OPAC shows that is a false report being for a microform copy. The copy in Wales is the source of the "Second edition" and that OPAC reports a typographical error on the title-page not found on this copy. The copy in Kentucky is a bit miscatalogued as to publisher and imprint data. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T170992. Removed from nonce volume. Title-page slightly darkened. "No. 3" inked in the top right hand corner. Pr. by M. Lewis & Son, & sold by G. Keith & T. Luckman unknown books
1767291242Leige.: F.J. Desoer. 1767. Contemporary full mottled leather raise bands spine in 6 compartments with gilt decorations and titles on leather labels. . Very good moderate wear to covers contents clean and tight. 8vo. 17.7x11 cm. . French text. An uncommon little encyclopedia of general knowledge. weight: 1.7 lb. One folding plate illustrating surveying methods. F.J. Desoer. hardcover books
17904138London: Published by Robert Sayer 1790. Hand-coloured mezzotint. State vi/viii. A remarkable portrait of Lord Grosvenor's Pangloss by the master equine painter George Stubbs.<br/> <br/>George Stubbs is considered to be one of the greatest English painters. His ingenious animal and sporting pictures remain unrivalled in their passionate depiction of emotion and their commitment to naturalistic observation. Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to the painter Hamlet Winstanley a relationship that quickly ended leaving the young artist to his own education. In contrast to contemporary academic theory Stubbs attached great importance to the belief that art should imitate nature not the work of other artists. He spent years carefully studying human and equine anatomy so that he could truthfully represent natural form and movement. A result of this study was his famous Anatomy of the Horse which details with beautiful engraving the various elements of a horse's anatomy from skeletal form to muscular definition. By the 1760's Stubbs had developed a considerable reputation as a sporting artist and had attracted a number of distinguished patrons. Continuing in search of innovation Stubbs began experimenting with a myriad of different mediums becoming accomplished in both enamels and printmaking. Through arduous application he became a talented mezzotint engraver and worked with ease in both soft ground and etching techniques. Stubbs' masterful paintings inspired some of the greatest engravers of the day to reproduce his work for publication including his own son George Townly Stubbs who reproduced with faithful accuracy the sublime emotion inherent in his father's exquisite works. Stubbs was elected Director of the Society of Artists and a Royal Academician and today his prized paintings are housed in some of the finest museums in the world. Stubbs was often commissioned to paint accurate portraits of specific racehorses for proud aristocratic patrons who wished to highlight their horses' racing success. This practice is expertly exemplified with this magnificent print of Pangloss Lord Grosvenor's beloved horse. Pangloss was foaled in 1755 and named after a character in Voltaire's Candide; little is known about Lord Grosvenor's horse apart from the fact that his racing career was ended by a broken leg. This print was the second of a series of engraved horse portraits begun by the publisher Ryland in 1771 and extended by Robert Sayer in 1777. Although the inscription on the print establishes Stubbs as the painter the painting has not been identified making this print extremely intriguing since it is the only record of Stubbs' lost work.<br/> <br/>Lennox-Boyd George Stubbs 20 vi/viii; Gilbey Life of George Stubbs no.39; Siltzer The Story of British Sporting Prints p.270. Published by Robert Sayer unknown books
1768247699Paris. : Chez Les Libraires Associes a L’Usage Diocese. 1768 . Contemporary full calf gilt decorations all edges gilt. . Good lacks spine label gilt faded on covers and edges corners bumped child’s pencil scribbling to verso of half title and second ep some damp damage to rear eps still a good tight complete copy with very little foxing. . 12mo. 17.2x10 cm. Breviary and missal with Latin and French text in parallel columns. Chez Les Libraires Associes a L’Usage Diocese. unknown books
17737080London: Pr. for J. Almon 1773. 4to 26 cm 10.25". 28 xx pp. <br><br>This anonymous pamphlet is an attack on vol. I of the Memoirs of Great-Britain & Ireland from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II 1771 by Sir John Dalrymple 17261810. "Illustrated by collections of state papers from Versailles and London these Memoirs caused some sensation from their revelations as to the motives actuating some of the more eminent statesmen of that time" DNBespecially Lord Russell and Algernon Sydney. The second pagination sequence contains letters in support of the pamphlet "From the Public Advertiser. March 5 1773" and a "List of books printed for J. Almon. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T12257. On Dalrymple see: The Dictionary of National Biography XIII 42425. Removed from a nonce volume; first and last pages soiled; 6-digit number rubber-stamped on title-page. Chipping in upper inner corners of first three leaves; shallow chipping and dog-earing to the whole with soiling on the edges and corners. Pr. for J. Almon unknown books
1787169933Caen: Chez G. le Roy 1787. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. 4 xxv 355;4 400 4pp. 12mo handsomely bound in full contemporary brown speckled calf; triple fillet borders and ornate gilt-stamped spines; all edges red. Caen: Chez G. le Roy 1787. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Chez G. le Roy unknown books
17417395Erfurt: Jungnicol 1741. Hard Cover. 12mo. 327 pages. Bound in tan boards vellum spine with title printed in black. Title page printed in red and black. A very handsome tight copy; text block is very clean; first few leaves with faint stain. <br/><br/> Jungnicol hardcover books
17449535Lisboa: Luiz Joze Correa Lemos 1744. 4to. 48 pp. <br><br>Recounting of important events of the century supposedly translated from a French-language Amsterdam-printed item. Later plain paper wrappers front wrapper with inked title and date. Luiz Joze Correa Lemos unknown books
1767263958Avignon 1767. hardcover. 174 2 pages.12mo contemporary mottled calf with gilt-decorated spine outer joints and spine ends a bit worn; marbled endpapers and page edges. Avignon: publisher not identified 1767. Second printing.<br/><br/> A very good clean copy of this uncommon book -- OCLC lists only 3 copies of this printing.<br/><br/> unknown books
1751WRCLIT52451London: Printed for R. Griffiths 1751. 17 i.e. 191pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume some tanning and corner creases small natural hole in blank margin of title else very good. First and only edition of this unsigned caution about laxity among the parish clergy leading to an increase in Popery as well as "swearing drunkeness robberies whoredom adultery and almost all manner of wickedness." ESTC online locates three copies only the Huntington copy resides in North America and as in those copies p.19 in this copy is misnumbered '17.'. ESTC N25558. Printed for R. Griffiths unknown books
1793182624No place. : No publisher. 1793. 1st edition. Publisher's decorated paper wraps. . A very good untrimmed copy bright text with some page rippling. . 8vo. French text. Scarce in this edition. No publisher. paperback books
1770307572Paris: Desventes de Ladoué 1770. First edition. xvi 359 iii; 334; 360pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf. With the bookplate of the Vicomte de Noailles engraved by Agry in each volume. Upper joint of vol. III with short start at foot otherwise a fine and fresh copy. First edition. xvi 359 iii; 334; 360pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary Satire of Rousseau's 'Émile'. A satirical response to Rousseau's Emile ou l'Education 1762. Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau's dictum "le véritable précepteur est le père" for the narrator's father M. d'Erigny grew up poor and gained wealth through his friendship with a government minister; his child has been spoiled from infancy. <br/>While M. d'Erigny is drunk his mistress gets him to sign an order from her jeweler for 20000 francs of precious stones and skips out. The extravagance is discovered and the father becomes miserly in the extreme. The son now 15 years old is entrusted to a unscrupulous précepteur or tutor who involves the youth in a swindle and vanishes with the money. <br/>This is a confessional so we learn it all: the narrator soon discovers love and devotes himself to pleasure using the family name to run up accounts everywhere before being deceived and fleeced. M. d'Erigny is furious; Madame intercedes: his debts are paid and he is sent off to exile in a provincial town. He is befriended by a well-connected gentleman but repays this trust with deceit. Besotted with an actress he forges a criminal denunciation of a rival but his scheme is discovered and his in consigned to "une de ces maisons de force" a private prison for the reform of licentious youth. <br/>To escape this close confinement the narrator embarks with a flotilla of colonists bound for the island of C in the new world. His mother's continued good influence follows him across the ocean cushioning him from the worst excesses of a brutal colonial regime amply detailed. Florainville a mistress who has managed her money well comes to the colony to rescue him but falls afoul of the corrupt Intendant and her health fails her. She dies but not before she has made him her legatee. The narrator assists the colonial governor in prosecuting the Intendant and returns to France. He retires to a rural abbey and contemplates his experiences. Before long he becomes the benefactor of a village community and sees it thrive.<br/>Only edition of this little-known work of fiction set partly in the Americas. OCLC records two copies in N. America Princeton UCLA two in France and one at Trinity College Dublin Desventes de Ladoué unknown books
1772WRCLIT43024Dublin: Printed for the Author and sold by the Booksellers 1772. 479pp. Small octavo signed in 4s. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. A bit dusty faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library but a good copy. First edition of the first part; a second part 19pp was published early the following year. An assemblage of ruminations extending from the macro to the micro beginning with the effects of the Great Flood on nature and men the development of commerce and finally commerce and trade affecting Ireland with abundant reference to Molyneux Petty et al. Pages 70-79 consist of over one hundred queries in the style of Berkeley. Both parts were reprinted in London and Goldsmiths lists only the 1774 London printing of the second part. HIGGS 5612. BRADSHAW 4590. BLACK 818. ESTC T125064. Printed for the Author, and sold by the Booksellers unknown books
1779289620No place Amsterdam. : Au Temple de la VeriteÌ. 1779 . Publisher’s plain wraps stabbed. . Very good untrimmed in the wraps corners dog-eared. . 8vo. 21x13.5 cm. . French text. Consists of: Lettre d'une anonyme à un anonyme ou Procès de l'esprit et du coeur de Mr. d'Alembert. - Lettre à M. Fréron par Mme de La Motte. - Lettre de Mme de Saint-G à M. Fréron. - Extraits du "Journal de Paris". weight: 0.2 lb. Au Temple de la VeriteÌ. paperback books
1768012600Milan Italy: Giuseppe Maganza 1768. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xvi 384 pages of text. Original full vellum binding with minor to moderate shelfwear and soiling; spine is neatly detached at one hinge but could be repaired. Small old paper label at bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription in Italian on the front endpaper and previous owner's name neatly written on the title page "C. L. Campbell." Title page is illustrated by an engraved allegorical vignette. Text is clean and attractive. Giuseppe Maganza Hardcover books
17857343Madrid: Pantaleon Aznar 1785. First printing. Small octavo 2 ff pp 164. History of two famous royal impersonators in Spain of King Sebastian of Portugal who disappeared after being defeated in battle presumably killed. Senor Espinosa was a pastry chef -- un pastelero. Bound in full period calf original marbled endpapers. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Pantaleon Aznar unknown books
1789183453No place.: No publisher. 1789 . Contemporary half speckled calf over speckled boards. red spine label with gilt title. Corners light bumped light foxing otherwise a very good tight copy. 8vo. 18x11 cm. . French text. Scarce edition of the correspondence of Mirabeau denouncing the corrupt Prussian court. The book was censored by the French government hence the anonymous author and publisher. weight: 0.6 lb. No publisher. hardcover books
1797184023Paris.: Perronneau. 1797. 1st edition. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards gilt spine title. . Good plus moderate shelfwear corners bumped minor dampstaining along foredge. . 8vo. 21x12 cm. . French text. Early biography of Marie Antoinette by the royalist Montjoye. Portrait frontis plus 2 additional plates. Perronneau. hardcover books
1779229185Paris Belin 1779. 1779. Small 8vo. Title vignette. Half title page. 16 page preface xx 301 pages 2 pages royal publication license dated September 9 1778. In a nice contemporary binding of speckled calf spine with brown morocco label and gilt acorn designs within gilt-ruled compartments marbled edges and endpapers signature with pages 281-288 is misbound but the text is complete. Fine clean copy. The Knights Templars were cruelly persecuted by Philip IV of France in 1307-13. With imprint of the printer de Chardon rue Galande at end of the license leaf. Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Paris, Belin, 1779. hardcover books
