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199575659Museum; Et Al. New. 1995. Paperback. 0935640487 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 48 pp. With 25 ills. 8 col. . 30 x 20 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum; Et Al paperback
200777102Whale and Star. New. 2007. Hardcover. 0967360897 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 128 pp. With 59 ills. 57 col. . 24 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Whale and Star hardcover
192433619Boston: Allyn & Bacon. As New. 1924. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Good condition except some underlining marginal notes most in pencil tear to illus between pages 40 and 41 though no losses some discoloration. -- From The Academy Classics. -- Illus. With black and white photos. -- "Edited with a Life of Macaulay Notes Glossary and Aids to Study by Samuel Thurber and Louise Wetherbee"; also includes notes to the teacher selections from The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Esq. -- with a bonus offer--; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall . Allyn & Bacon, hardcover
1887973F41DLondon: Clarendon Press 1887 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. James Boswell's complete six volume biography of Samuel Johnson beautifully bound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work to be edited by George Birkbeck Hill. In beautiful signed half calf bindings from Roger de Coverly & Sons this is an excellent and complete six volume set of James Boswell's biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The first edition thus being the first edition edited by George Birkbeck Hill and including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales'.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to four volumes two further engraved plates and six folding plates. Collated complete.A landmark work in the development of the modern biography in English many have claimed it as the greatest biography ever written. Nevertheless this biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life with Boswell making various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censoring his comments.Although his true passion was music the bookbinder Roger de Coverly trained with Zaehnsdorf and assisted at a stationer"s before opening his own bindery. In half morocco signed bindings with marbled paper covered boards and gilt detailing to back strips. A touch of rubbing to front joints otherwise externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
030367London: Alex Hogg Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Recently rebacked in full calf leather with raised bands and title label all decorated in gilt. Original covers show significant wear. n.d. circa 1786 Pages repaired where possible. Foxed some dog-earing small tears occasional spotting offset and writing. A single wormhole p3-32. Pages hand-numbered: iv 552 pp. Top of p. 302 chipped affecting the titles on both sides of the page. Contains 242 of 247 plates including 49 of 51 county maps. Three papers laid in: decorated strip inside the front cover part of a receipt p213 a piece of newspaper used as a bookmark p327. This book was released in parts necessitating gathering and organizing them according to the second index which is missing its final page. Alex Hogg Hardcover
18311051London: John Murray 1831. Fine Leather Bound by Bayntun. VG. Extra Illustrated. A complete five volume set in VG/Near Fine condition beautifully bound by Bayntun in full crushed Morocco with double rule blind stamp details to boards six compartments and five raised bands to spines with bright gilt details and title. Small amount of wear to leather extremities. Leather to spines darkened. Binding and hinge are excellent silk end papers and paste downs AEG. Pages are bright and clean without marks some light sporadic foxing. Extra illustrated with 227 extra plates 50 of which are in color. Books measure 8.5"x5.75". 195 years old. An attractive set in scarce Bayntun binding. John Murray unknown
176822862London 1768. 8vo. for Edward & Charles Dilly in the Poultry Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled polished calf sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold gold-tooled board edges red sprinkled edges. With an engraved coat of arms on the title page and a large engraved folding map of Corsica. 2 parts in 1 volume. XII 2 384 pp. Second edition of a delightful and important travel book by James Boswell 1740-1795 best known as the friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His first major publication it includes a journal of his 1765 visit to the new Republic of Corsica which had declared its independence from the Republic of Genoa in 1755 as well as his memoires of the Republics founding father and president Pasquale Paoli 1725-1807. Boswells work made the new republic and its leader famous and helped give them legitimacy. It proved so popular that three more editions appeared before the end of 1768. It is divided into two parts the first giving a detailed description and history of Corsica and the second containing a journal of Boswell's voyage to and travels on the island. It was especially this latter part that excited the public being a lively account of Boswell's quixotic adventures in Corsica and his association with President Paoli.The large folding map newly made for Boswell's account by his servant Thomas Phinn and dated 1768 is one of the rare maps solely devoted to the island. The work was translated within a few years into Dutch German French and Italian.With the bookplate of John Measure mounted on the front pastedown. The edges and corners of the boards are very slightly scuffed the top outer corner of the front board is bumped. The leaves and plate are somewhat browned. Otherwise in good condition.l Cox I pp. 138-9; ESTC T26158; cf. Lowndes The Bibliogr. Manual of Engl. Lit. I p. 242 first ed. hardcover
1793lsj02London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly. G : in good condition without dust jackets as issued. Minor rubbing and wear to boards - volume 2 with sm. area of loss to leather on front board. Previous owner's inscriptions to feps. Corner tear to pp17-18 vol 1 with no loss to text. Ink dedication laid-in to volume 1. 1793. Second Edition revised and augmented. Full leather covers. 200mm x 150mm 8" x 6". xxxvi 603pp 34pp 711pp. Engraved frontis plate of Samuel Johnson after Joshua Reynolds volume 1; folding plates volume 2 and to rear of volume 3. First octavo edition of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'. Published April 3rd 1793. Second Edition second state: v.1 p.135 line 10 states 'give' as in corrected version. Front endpaper of volume 1 with pasted copperplate inscription relating to Francis Barber Dr. Johnson's manservant and heir: 'Francis Barber the faithful valued black son of Dr Samuel Johnson who died in the infirmary of Stafford February 13th 1801'. Previous owner's name John Darlington and date of 1853 to feps. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Henry Baldwin [for] Charles Dilly hardcover
1887806F33Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887 . First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. James Boswell's complete six volume biography of Samuel Johnson beautifully bound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work to be edited by George Birkbeck Hill. In beautiful signed half calf bindings from Frost & Co. of Bath this is an excellent and complete six volume set of James Boswell's biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. The first edition thus being the first edition edited by George Birkbeck Hill and including both Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' and Johnson's 'Diary of a Journey into North Wales'.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to four volumes two further engraved plates and six folding plates. Collated complete.A landmark work in the development of the modern biography in English many have claimed it as the greatest biography ever written. Nevertheless this biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life with Boswell making various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censoring his comments. In signed half calf bindings with gilt detailing to back strips and cloth covered boards. Light fading to back strips otherwise externally lovely. Binder's stamps to verso of front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
178623288London: Printed for Alex Hogg n.d but 1786. hardcover. Rebacked as noted covers show some scuffing corners reinforced sometime in the distant past 2 pages with mends to lower margins otherwise text and plates very clean and quite free of foxing with scattered mostly minor offsetting from plates to text. Overall a very nice copy. Folio 40cm original sheep rebacked retaining spine and lettering piece; iv 42 pp. introductory the remaining text an unpaginated 520 pp 247 plates including 51 mostly full-page county and regional maps some with 2 images on the plate plans and including a large folding plate at rear a facsimile of the 1648 document indicting Charles II. 4-page subscriber list and 4-page index to the plates at rear. Plates many with multiple images on the plate include besides castles and various antiquities 3 each of English coins and seals. <br/><br/>The work was issued in 100 parts apparently in rather random sequence. Gatherings are unsigned throughout and in this volume part numbering ceases after part 70. However the instructions to the binder at the tail of the last index page makes suggestions for creating order and these have mostly been followed though the Cambridgshire map is found late in the volume opposite the "Description of Cambridge Castle" rather than opposite the descriptive text for the County in part 31. Maps are by Thomas Kitchin and first appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760 except the Yorkshire map which is by T. Conder 1784. See Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection Leeds 1947 p53. According to Lowndes the plates are copied from Francis Grose Printed for Alex Hogg hardcover
1768010150Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry London 1768. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New modern calf with raised bands and spine label Embossed in gold similar to original spine new parchment end papers. Large fold-out map with early tape mend and slight creasing at for-edge else Fine. Half-title present Occasional browning mostly at initial and ending pages 1/4" dia.marginal brown spot pp.47-60. xxi xxii blank 2 contents 382 pages blanks at end replaced with new parchment. Near Fine overall in a Fine binding. First Edition First State of Boswell's first important book. E2 and Z3 are cancels. A handsome copy of this important work. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, London Hardcover
179366491London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1793. First London octavo third edition overall following the first of 1791 and the Dublin octavo of 1792; 3 volumes pp. 2 xviii xvii-xxxix 1 i-xxxvi 2 603 1; 2 634; 2 711 1; frontispiece portrait folding "Round Robin" plate folding facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; original blue paper-covered boards roan shelfbacks titles printed in black on spines mostly rubbed away on volumes I and II; spines rubbed and worn with chips out at the tops and bottoms joints cracked; good copy at best but uncommon in original boards uncut. This copy has the extra leaf c3 in volume one with "additional corrections" and all the misprints identified by Rothschild with the exception that page 408 of volume three is printed incorrectly. "The text of the second edition . deserves a close study. Although we believe that the third represents the form in which Boswell would ultimately have arranged the supplementary material we can never be sure of it for this edition was the last actually published in his lifetime. There were also many pleasant and characteristic sentences introduced in this edition which naturally dropped out when the text was shaken together by Malone." Pottle 81. Rothschild 468. printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry unknown
179923381London: printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly 1799. First Malone edition 4 volumes 8vo pp. xxxi 1 452; 2 490; 2 475; 2 514; engraved frontispiece portrait by Baker after Reynolds folding engraved facsimile of Johnson's handwriting folding engraved Round Robin plate; labels gone on all but the last volume but generally a very good sound copy in contemporary full calf. The second edition was something of a botched effort by Boswell and the result was a book "painfully at variance with his own standards of ordered arrangement" although much new important material was added. It was left to Malone to "shake together" Boswell's second and the third "is now generally regarded as the definitive edition" Pottle. Pottle 82. printed by H. Baldwin and Son for Charles Dilly unknown
17688282Glasgow Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly London 1768. 1768 xxi 3 382 p. Folding map of Corsica. First edition. Modern calf binding to style. The spine with raised bands and a contrasting label. The map has a repair on the fold near the cartouche and is the state with the imprint inserted but with neither scale nor degrees round the border. Marginal offset onto the adjacent page shows that the map was refolded when it was repaired otherwise the text is clean tight and well margined throughout. Glasgow, Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, London, hardcover
1930169940London: G. Bell and Sons 1930. A beautiful "Kelliegram"-style binding First edition first impression of Shepard's profusely illustrated edition. Everybody's Boswell was the second in a series of three popular abridgements of historical works; the immediate success of Everybody's Pepys in 1926 led to this version of Boswell which was followed by Everybody's Lamb in 1933. All were illustrated by Shepard with rich attention to period detail. This copy with its elaborate pictorial onlay is decorated in the "Kelliegram" style one of the many innovations of the English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family's bindery was an established part of the London trade. It was founded in 1770 by John Kellie as the name was then spelled and carried on by successive family members into the 1930s. Octavo 190 x 124 mm. 54 plates folding map at rear illustrated title page all by E. H. Shepard. Contemporary binding of green morocco by Rivière spine decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt decorative frames to covers enclosing multicolour onlay morocco illustration to front cover gilt central tool to rear gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers edges gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Spine a touch sunned gilt central tool to rear a little rubbed small mark to rear free endpaper. A near-fine copy. hardcover
18338643Louisiana: William Boswell Notary 1833. A bill of sale for 'Three Slaves' - in fact three enslaved children of 15 14 and 13 - who were sold by Roswell Beebe future benefactor of Little Rock in Arkansas to John Gusman owner of huge tracts of land on the west side of the Louisiana river Bayou Bonfouca. Prepared for and signed by the New Orleans notary William Boswell the document records the result of the auction sale and the sums involved as well as detailing the age abilities and characters of the three youths at the centre of the transaction. A particularly complete example of its kind this document also includes the buyer's promissory note to pay for the three young men. Horrific as such documents are they are frequently the only documentary evidence left by lives lived before emancipation and central to the task of reconstructing the existence of their subjects. We acquired this manuscript in Glasgow itself a city with longstanding connections with slavery and the slave trade. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Eight page booklet written on foolscap sized paper 34x21cm with old folds and secured by a red silk legal tie. The paper is browned and flaky damaged along the foreedge of all four sheets and with a detached triangle of paper at the upper outer corner of the first sheet. Blind stamp of the notary William Boswell as well as his signature. The condition is extremely delicate with closed tears along several of the folds. Written in a secretarial hand the first sheet is headed by printed particulars of the sale which took place on 6th December 1833 the document being made in the 'State of Louisiana Ciry of New Orleans' and issued by William Boswell in the presence of 'Boswell Beebe of this City' following an auction by 'Hewlett and Bright auctioneers' transferring ownership to John Gusman. The three enslaved people were: 'Jourdan' a 15 year old of 'mild disposition' who was sold for $910 having been previously acquired from Abner Robinson. Second was '"Elias" a negro aged fourteen years. smart active and intelligent. and his brother "Scye"' a boy of thirteen together for $1610. The two brothers had been acquired from Clement Townsend. Attached is the promissory note made in payment and endorsed by J W Zacharie the bill of sale having been witnessed by Edward Barnett and Emile Wiltz. William Boswell has signed off the document as a true copy at the bottom of the fourth page with the promissory note attached opposite. On the verso of this third leaf is a docket title recording this as 'Copy of Sale from Boswell Beebe to Henry Spearing 5th December 1833' with several additional annotations which confirm completion of the contact and payment. HISTORY: The seller of the enslaved boys was Roswell Beebe 1795-1856 the first benefactor of the city of Little Rock; their buyer John Gusman owned a large tract of land on the west side of the Bayou Bonfouca which included a brick works no doubt the intended workplace of the young men. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1833 William Boswell, Notary unknown
176830119London: For Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry 1768. The First English Edition the second overall in the same year as the first which was printed in Glasgow and ia essentially identical. With fine provenance a Baskerville family copy with bookplate showing one of their crests and their motto Spero ut Fidelis "Illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica" an exceptionally well detailed well pressed and attractive large folding engraved map bound at the front. With half-title which is frequently lacking title-page with engraved vignette featuring the arms of Corsica. 8vo handsomely bound in full contemporary calf the spine with double gilt ruled raised bands one compartment gilt lettered the boards framed with double-fillet gilt rules board edges hatched in blind original endleaves. xxiii 384 pp. A handsome copy well preserved in its original binding with the text in fine condition especially fresh and clean and with strong impression the leaves unpressed and the binding sturdy and tight with just a bit of minor wear or rubbing along the tips and shoulders some normal offset to a few prelims and end leaves from the original binder's work. The folding map is in a fine state of preservation unusually so. THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING OF BOSWELL'S FIRST SIGNIFICANT WORK ONE WHICH WOULD HELP LAUNCH HIS FAME AS ONE OF THE FINEST MEN OF LETTERS OF HIS AGE. This edition was published only months after the first edition which was an immediate success and sold out within six weeks. This edition also sold out within weeks.<br> Boswell supported the Corsican struggle to become an independent nation and considered himself one of the island's chief sponsors. "Following the island's invasion by France in 1768 Boswell attempted to raise public awareness and rally support for the Corsicans. He sent arms and money to the Corsican fighters and made an arduous and dangerous journey to Corsica to meet General Pasquale Paoli leader of the insurgents seeking the island's independence from the Genoese. Paoli at first suspected Boswell was a spy but quickly came to like his improbable young visitor saw an opportunity for promotion of the Corsican cause in Britain and consented to a series of interviews" - Pierce<br> The text includes Boswell's keen observations on many topics including military matters and arms commerce government and religion. It also includes many accounts of his own experiences.<br> Boswell was rightfully very proud of this work. Within his lifetime it went through many many editions. Within just a short time of its original appearance it had been translated into Dutch Italian German and French; and sold as well abroad as it did in Britain. It was in fact a most remarkable success and the first step towards one of the most distinguished literary careers of the age.<br> Concerning the provenance it has been claimed that the family of Baskerville can trace descent from the Emperor Charlemagne Hugh Capet King of France Kenneth King of Scotland Rodrick King of Wales and MacMorrough King of Leinster in Ireland. The Baskervilles have a truly royal ancestry and their pedigree which has been authentically deduced and duly registered in the College of Arms is a large one. Burke writes of the family as 'one of the most ancient and honorable in England.<br> Their connection with Herefordshire began with the ancestor who came over to help William the Conqueror from Normandy. For Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry hardcover
179333744London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly 1793. 3 volumes. First Octavo Edition revised and augmented by Boswell with the corrections cancels and misprints. This copy also with the "Additions received after the Second Edition was printed" pp. i-xxii "A Chronological Catalogue of the Prose Works of Samuel Johnson LL.D" which is the first attempt at a Johnson bibliography pp. xxiii- xxxi and thirteen letters to Bennet Langton and one to the Earl of Bute. Most of this material was issued here for the first time and was not in the first edition quarto. Engraved portrait frontispiece after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Also with the folding ‘Round Robin’ plate and a folding plate of with a facsimile of Dr. Johnson's handwriting. 8vo handsomely bound to style the bindings of three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines gilt decorated and gilt lettered within compartments separated by raised bands. portrait titlexviii ixvii-xxxii xxxix Alphabetical Table of Contents xxxiii-xxxvi 603; 634; 711 pp. A fine and handsome copy well preserved the bindings in very pleasing condition with only very slight mellowing at the spine panels tight and strong with virtually no wear the text-blocks crisp clean and unpressed. IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION IN HANDSOME BINDING. The first 8vo edition of what is perhaps the greatest biography ever written in the English language. The "chronological catalogue of the prose works of Samuel Johnson" appears in this edition for the first time. This set with the alphabetical table of contents before the text rather than at the end of volume 3 as is often the case and with the scarce leaves of corrections and additions following the contents.<br> Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic Poets--Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists--Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators than Boswell is the first of Biographers." Macauley in the Edinburgh Review 1831. Boswell learned a great deal about the art of biography from his subject and brought to his task boundless curiosity persistence and zest.<br> Boswell had been collecting material for this work since his first interview with Johnson in 1763 and was confident that his kind of biography "which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world and of his publications but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations is the most perfect that can be conceived and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared. Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly hardcover
1768030767Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full leather gilt rebacked and rubbed at edges. Sporadic foxing on the interior. First edition. xxi 3 382pp. Contains a folding map that still has tape stains from an earlier repair and the newer repair has been done with archival quality materials. A small tear remains near the top and the edges are dirty. The map has neither a scale nor degrees in the margins. Gaskell 278-279 Also contains six manifestos in Corsican. Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly Hardcover
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6454Six engraved plates on five folding sheets. xii 122 pp. 8 pp. of Debrett ads lacking the leaf with directions to the binder. 8vo cont. calf joints a trifle cracked at head & tail flat spine gilt green morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. Debrett 1792.<br/> <br/> “Second edition with many additionsâ€of this work specifically on the cultivation of water meadows first published in 1779. “Francis Forbes had recommended water meadows and had given some instruction how to make and manage them and several other previous writers had done the same while the actual practice had been fairly common in parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire Gloucester and Dorset for at least two centuries…The methods of construction and management were only to be found of course by seeking through a mass of general information and some one came to the conclusion that a specific treatise on the subject was necessary. A suggestion was made to George Boswell of Piddletown Dorset a local expert that he should write such a book.â€â€“Fussell II p. 121. <br/> <br/> In the present edition Boswell vigorously replies to criticisms levelled at him by the Rev. Thomas Wright in his pamphlet An Account of the Advantage and Method of Watering Meadows 1789.<br/> <br/> A very good copy lacking the leaf of directions to the binder. Stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust on the front paste-down. unknown
1768719241768. BOSWELL James. An Account of Corsica the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Contemporary full speckled calf gilt-ruled raised spine bands red morocco spine label. Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly 1768. First edition. Pottle 24. With -title and first edition of the large folding map. Some wear to head of spine very small amount of faint scattered foxing else very good or better. unknown
183549655London: John Murray 1835. Hardcover - as published. VG 10 vols minor wear and rubbing to extrems. t.e.g. three quarter green leather & decorative endpapers five raised bands gilt decoration an gilt lettering on the spine. Fold outs intact. . John Murray, hardcover
1848307450London: Henry G. Bohn 1848. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume 25 engraved plates and facsimiles. 10 vols. 12mo. Near contemporary half calf maroon morocco spine labels. Slight rubbing to extremities an attractive set. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume 25 engraved plates and facsimiles. 10 vols. 12mo. Henry G. Bohn unknown
