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18078763Scotland: Published for The Author 1807. First edition Privately Printed in a run of 120 copies only. Folio. 27pp text with 43 etchings as called for with tissue guards. Bound in contemporary full tree calf decorated and ruled in gilt with a large gilt central ellipse by Scott of Edinburgh. Later restoration to the binding has involved strengthening of corners extremities and a full respine with the original spine laid on. The work was done a while ago and was very professionally executed leaving the binding strong solid and still remarkably handsome. Internally clean with some gloriously wide margins a set of ink initials C.L.S. to the front pastedown and a large note pasted to the front flyleaf detailing the origins and provenance of the book:</p><p>"This volume belonged to Frances Lady Douglas sister of the 2nd Duke of Buccleuch and Wife of Archibald 1st Lord Douglas Son of 1st Marquess of Douglas created Peer 1790 of Douglas House Petersham. The C.L.S. opposite is Caroline Lucy Scott Daughter of the above Lord and Lady Douglas and wife of Admiral Sir George Scott of Gala. Lady Douglas was born in 1752. The Douglas Library where this copy entered trade was sold in 1931 at Petersham. M.H.G."</p><p>Elizabeth Countess of Sutherland as is evidenced by this work was an accomplished and skilled artist that much is undeniable. This accomplishment has been rather overshadowed by her role in the incredibly damaging and inhumane uprooting and impoverishment of thousands of her native Scottish tenants through the process of mass family eviction that is now known as The Highland Clearances. The historic occupants of the Sutherland estates traditionally smallholder tenants crofters and the like were evicted en masse men women and children to make way for "agricultural improvements" in the shape of highly profitable sheep farms and other projects not native to the area but guaranteed to swell the coffers of the Countess' estates. In part this highly skilled and evocative collection of engravings perfectly capturing the lonely and awe inspiring remoteness of the Orkneys was only enabled by a lifestyle of leisure and freedom that was directly funded by the misery of the very people whose land she so ably documented artistically. One of the most challenging exercises in separating the art from the artist we have thus far encountered.</p><p>The identity of M.H.G. is unknown but they clearly knew their stuff; a beautifully executed collection of etchings from an aristocratic origin and with an equally aristocratic provenance. Scarce and complicated. Published for The Author unknown
1954mon0000084325William Sessions Limited 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Second enlarged edition. In original red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Clean text sound binding. William Sessions Limited hardcover
Z1-T-006-01006LGC Information. Used - Good. Sticker on cover. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some wear and barcode page may have been removed but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. LGC Information unknown
1564BTETM0002433S.l. : s.n. 1564 no place no name/publisher given 1564. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm . Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Very good internally: occasional light browning; ink inscriptions at foot of title; woodcut initials.together 3 works in one vol. bookplate of The Law Society to front free endpaper and of Captain J. G. Michiels to front pastedown. Binding: contemporary calf; covers detached text block sound but needs re-casing. A good group of humanist tracts relating to the Council of Trent. References: VD16 E 4633; VD16 B 8341; VD16 C 1402. Collation: pp. 163 Please see Photos as part of condition report. 1564 With Provenance DILUCIDA EXPLICATO veraque demonstratio ob quas causas Illustres Electores et Principes atque adeò ipsi status confessionis Augustanae patroni hoc factiosum ac suspectum concilium ab ipso Pius IV Trent indictum sua legatione aut societate dignati non sunt: Rom. Caes. Maiestati oblata. S.l.: s.n. 1564. Bound with: Claude Briton as Claudius Britonius Haeduus. De vera ecclesiae constituendae ratione ad patres in Council of Trent liber. Cologne: Maternus Cholinus 1564. Georgius Cassander. De sacra communione Christiani populi in utraque panis & vini specie Consultatio Cologne: Gottfried Cervicornus 1564. By Anon Provenance: Bookplate of The Law Society to front free endpaper and of Captain J. G. Michiels to front pastedown Synopsis: Dilucida explicatio : anonymous on the title; VD16 lists it as s.l. s.n. place/printer not stated. The content is clearly aligned with the Augsburg Confession party it says so in the title. Claude Briton Claudius Britonius Haeduus: issued in/at Cologne printer/publisher Maternus Cholinus supplied by VD16/holding records; extent commonly given as 63 leaves. Cassander: VD16 attributes the work to Georgius Cassander and supplies Cologne Cervicornus as printer; a detailed bibliographical description including signatures is also recorded in specialist library cataloguing. A coherent sammelband of mid-Reformation Latin tracts responding to the aftermath of the Council of Trent and the contested question of what counts as a legitimate peace-making settlement: Dilucida explicatio anon.: a polemical explanationexplicitly from the standpoint of patrons of the Augsburg Confessionarguing why electors princes and estates declined to participate in the council convoked under Pius IV at Trent presented to the Emperor. Briton De vera ecclesiae : an ecclesiological/programmatic tract addressed to the council fathers on the true basis for constituting the Churchpart of the wider humanist/irenic argumentation around reform authority and settlement. Cassander De sacra communione : Cassanders well-known consultatio on whether restoring communion under both kinds bread and wine is advisable for Catholics even if not held strictly necessary by divine lawwritten in the service of religious concord. Format: Hardcover Octavo Standard 8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Language: Latin Published By: S.l. : s.n. 1564 no place no name/publisher given Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Very good internally: occasional light browning; ink inscriptions at foot of title; woodcut initials.together 3 works in one vol. bookplate of The Law Society to front free endpaper and of Captain J. G. Michiels to front pastedown. Binding: contemporary calf; covers detached text block sound but needs re-casing. A good group of humanist tracts relating to the Council of Trent. References: VD16 E 4633; VD16 B 8341; VD16 C 1402. Collation: pp. 163 Please see Photos as part of condition report. SKU: BTETM0002433 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request [S.l. : s.n.], 1564 no place, no name/publisher given hardcover
1796013503Berwick : Printed and sold by R. Davidson 1796. 4 volumes bound in 1. Book measures 20x16.5.cm. First volume. A Roll of the Burgesses of the Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed According to Seniority. Printed by R. Davidson. Printed Berwick.1796. Collation 448viipp. Second volume. Dito title. Printed and sold by H. Richardson. Berwick. 1799. Collation 454viipp. Third volume. Dito title. dito printed. 1806. Collation 447viipp. Fourth title. Lacking title page and half title dito title 57viiipp period 3pp manuscript list. Bound in period or early half calf calf corners marble boards gilt band lines leather label. Binding rubbed worn hinge joints worn but boards holding. Generally a good binding. Internally heavy browning to first title some persistant light spotting heavier in places occasional annotation. Pages in good condition. A good copy. F. Half Calf. Good Plus. Small 4to. Printed and sold by R. Davidson Hardcover
178555306Newport 1785. Three-page folio manuscript approx. 13" x 16"; previous folds paper toned considerable dampstaining but the text remains legible; several short splits at the folds; good. Joanna Brown was the daughter of Nicholas and his wife Rhoda Jenckes Brown. Sadly Joanna died at the age of nineteen apparently of a flu-like illness. Nicholas Brown Sr. 1729-1791 was a Providence merchant who co-founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations which was renamed Brown University after Brown's son Nicholas Brown Jr. in 1804. Brown was a active supporter of both the College and of the First Baptist Church in America throughout his life. Upon his death in 1791 Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman of Boston gave his eulogy. This manuscript opens with: "Memorandum of the state of mind & sum circumstances of Joanna Brown Daughter of Nicholas Brown & Rhoda his whife sic. In her last Illness. She Departed this Life January the 18th at abt 4 after two in the morning aged nineteen years wanting five Days--with a Consumption. On blank day of June being Sunday & a remarkably hot day Joanna was out that afternoon to meeting abt 3 OC there came up a Hard squall of wind & sum rain after meeting she went up to her Aunt Pages and is said she wet her feet however in the evening she went with sum of her young company Sat out under Capt Pages buttonwood trees in his yard and caught such a cold as not to be able to go out of chambers the next day the next day had sum complaints of pain in her side with a fever." Joanna was taken to Newport "for a Sea Upland air" and had an herbal medicine prescribed by Dr Stiles of New York "called by them boneset" but after a visit to "Uncle John B and his wife Nabby" in "Popersquash" in Bristol for several days in July she was no better. "She had taken the P. herb according to direction with such others means as thot advisable while in Newport by Drs Eyers & Easton during which time we had many letters from Dr Eyers & herself most of which rather gave her case to be mending tho with no grait Incouragement at any time However in my own opinion she was no better when returned." Joanna's illness lasted over six months before she died and the writer gives much detail concerning both her illness and the question of how to relay to her that she was likely to die. "About the 22nd of December I wrote a friend that she was very low & as to her state of body could not continue but a little while.Was much wasted and could not sit at the table by herself. She was ready for Gods call & expected grait Love for Christ & Trusting in God.she died with great tranquility of mind.yet Satan was busy about her often darkning & discouraging her tho' afterwards for sum weeks before her end was much more releaved from the influence of the Adversary--see copy of 2nd letter to Mr Stillman ." Presumably Rev. Samuel Stillman had been contacted concerning her imminent demise. The manuscript is unsigned but it was probably written by someone very close to her in her last illness--possibly either a nurse or housekeeper or perhaps some lower level Baptist preacher--not James Manning then pastor of the First Baptist Church-- judging by the spelling. The provenance according to Dan Seigel is "from William Goddard's papers" but the handwriting is not his nor her father's or step-mother's. <br/><br/> unknown books
1826SET37-B-3Edinburgh: Neill & Co. 1826-1833. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". None. A scarce three volume set of catalogues. Three of four volumes. Lacking volume four which was published later. The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted. The society is now an independent non regulatory association of solicitors however it still maintains the Category A listed Signet Library part of the Parliament house complex in Edinburgh. This is a private library which was opened in begun in 1810. In cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally sound with some bumping. Slightly rubbed. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting throughout. Very Good Neill & Co. hardcover
75906Denbighshire Historical Society. 1111. Hardcover. Very Good. A complete run from volume 1 to volume 51 nicely bound in maroon cloth in 15 books illustrated and with original card covers bound in; Octavo . Denbighshire Historical Society hardcover
62346Flintshire Historical Society. 1111. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 1911 to Volume 35 1999 earlier volumes entitle 'Record Series' nicely bound in 11 books in dark blue cloth with original card covers. First 5 book 8.5"x5.5" later books 9.5"x7"; Octavo . Flintshire Historical Society hardcover
147135London 1778. 12 vols in 10. 12mo 6½ x 4¼ ins. Contemporary uniform tree calf spines gilt diced in six compartments with contrasting labels boards gilt tooled at edges blue sprinkled edges some light marks on boards - otherwise a VG set. Pp. various illus with 3 engraved plates 1 vol I and 2 vol X some toning on prelims; previous owner's engraved card on front paste-down of each vol; no inscriptions. London, 1778 unknown
1634621894 pages text in Spanish pamphlet is about the betrayal and death of throughout Duchy of Friedland and the state of things in Germany as of 1634 Published by Francisco de Ocampo paperback
1761GT279London: M. Thrush 1761. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. 160pp The Scotch Portmaneau was a satire relating to the influence of Lord Bute anon; Bound with THE HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF MARGARET COMMONLY CALLED PEG ONLY SISTER OF JOHN BULL by Adam Ferguson. iv188pp. Printed for W. Owen London 1761 1st edition. TWO RARE BOOKS bound in original half-calf binding with marbled boards. Adam Fergusson was known as Fergusson of Raith and a leading Scottish Philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment. Two contents pages with 2 line errata footnote. With an armorial bookplate of 'The Right Honorable George Rose'.'Constant and True'. Rose was a contemporary of Adam Fergusson 1744-1818 and a close friend of Lord Nelson and has the claim to be the last man in England to see Nelson alive.He was Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1807-1812. <br/> <br/> M. Thrush hardcover
1762778L26Cambridge: J Baskerville 1762. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. The beautiful Baskerville printing of this mid-eighteenth century 'Book of Common Prayer'. Baskerville was an innovative type designer and printer. His typefaces were greatly admired by Benjamin Franklin. The Baskerville type is regarded as a transitional serif typeface intended as a refinement of the old-style typefaces of the period such as Calson. With 'Price Five Shillings unbound' to the title page. ESTC citation number T87220. Collated complete.A mid-eighteenth century edition of the common prayer and psalms published after a long period of taunt religious turmoil in England.'The Whole Book of Psalms' collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others. Sternhold was an English courtier and was the principal author of this first English metrical rendition of the Psalms.With a table of a calendar containing table of lessons throughout the year guiding the reading on which prayers to read at morning and evening.Bookplate of R. H. S. Truell to the front pastedown. In a full straight grained morocco binding. Externally sound. Rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Loss to the head of spine. Former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown Sir Charles E Kent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spot. Good J Baskerville hardcover
1731600P21London: W Pepper 1731. First edition. Disbound. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. An extremely scarce political pamphlet from 1731 written anonymously and regarded as attacking the Prime Minister Robert Walpole. The first and only edition of this work. Written anonymously and purtporting to be a speech given by 'The Grand Seignior to his Janizaries'. This work uses many forms of rhetoric to discuss war and the role of a 'Sovereign Judge' in a satirical manner. Walpole's own foreign policy was to avoid wars so that he could lower taxes. With a frontispiece of a Turkish infantryman. Walpole was the first British Prime Minister and held the position for twenty years. This pamphlet was published in 1731 and has been regarded by critics to be an attack on Walpole with the ESTC notes on this work support this view. Walpole had many enemies who were prominent in the literary scene such as John Gay Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson. With only one entry of this work in the ESTC. no. T106325. Pamphlets became a powerful source of strife in the seventeenth and eighteenth century with dozens being published about each any every political moral or social situation. They were often printed anonymously providing a sense of protecting for the person writing it. Disbound without both boards but with evidence of having been previously bound. Externally generally smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Small contemporary ink inscription to the head of first page. Internally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to the edges. Blind stamp to the title page. Chip to the head of pages five and nine not affecting text. Otherwise just the odd spot. Very Good W Pepper unknown
1980014923Great Britain: Rampant Lions Press. 1980. Limited to 80 copies.This copy not numbered. Book measures 39x28.cm. 50pp. From an edition limited to 80 copies signed by Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh at end of Foreword. Bound in full blue leather raised bands gilt lines leather label blind dentells. Binding in near fine condition. Colopone/number page states bound by Morrell this copy bound later in a none issue binding. Internally pages clean and bright throughout. A very nice attractive copy.F. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus Near Fine. Folio. Rampant Lions Press.
1879mon0000081106House of Lords 1879-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges due to age. House of Lords paperback
187739388Stockholm 1877. Tvær-folio. Samt. halvlæderbind med forgyldt tekst på permer. Med 55 plancher de fleste vandskjoldede. Folio oblong. Contemporary half calf bindig with gilt lettering to boards. With 55 plates depicting the World exhibition of 1876. Most plates with dampstaining. hardcover
187739388Stockholm 1877. Tvær-folio. Samt. halvlæderbind med forgyldt tekst på permer. Med 55 plancher, de fleste vandskjoldede. Folio oblong. Contemporary half calf bindig with gilt lettering to boards. With 55 plates depicting the World exhibition of 1876. Most plates with dampstaining.
199610975Crewe: Bentley Motors Limited 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. DESCRIPTION: Bound in fine green leather with Bentley device to front. Housed in similar green leather case with "Azure" to top left corner. Language: English. Book Condition: Fine DJ Condition: Near Fine: Minor rubbing to a few edges Size: 16cm by 22cm. Bentley Motors Limited hardcover
110270London c. 1818. . Hand-coloured lithograph mounted; overall size: 38.1 x 45.7 cm.<br /> The print depicts a Synagogue scene with two rows of choirboys singing vigorously and a group of women sitting on the top left.<br />A copy of the print is held in the collection of The British Museum.<br /> The British Museum 18781012.380. London, c. 1818. unknown
97711Constantinople Ashkenazi brothers 1754. . Folio modern blind-tooled burgundy-brown calf; occasional slight warming to leaves text in Hebrew; 1 66 71 ll.<br /> Tractates of Moed starting at Pesachim and Nezikin. With a commentary written by Rabbi Yehoshua Benbenashti called 'Sdei Yehoshua' the field of Joshua.<br /> Constantinople, Ashkenazi brothers, 1754. unknown
16801606c.1680-1720. Original woodcut printing block depicting The Last Judgement with the Heavenly City at the top with shining light above two gateways with gardens leading towards it Jesus Christ and four angels in front and with human figures in the foreground including a horse-drawn cart taking away the damned. 78 x 83mm. Old manuscript label to the side: "Last Judgement / White collection". The block remains in very good condition indeed with only a touch of minor old loss to the foot of the lower border. Accompanied by an impression taken from the block printed on high-quality modern paper. A splendid late seventeenth- / early eighteenth-century woodcut printing block depicting The Last Judgement with a resplendent Heavenly City at the head.</p><p>The present block originates from the workshop of the pioneering Newcastle printer John White 1689-1769 who inherited a large collection of blocks most likely including the present one from his father also John White the York-based printer. White's collection of blocks subsequently descended through a series of Newcastle printers: Thomas Saint Thomas Angus George Angus Emerson Charnley and William Dodd. The present wood-cut is reproduced in Charnley's 'Specimens of Early Wood Engraving: being impressions of woodcuts from the collection of Mr. Charnley' Newcastle: 1858 and Dodd's subsequent 1862 edition. A large portion of White's original collection of blocks now resides at McGill University. unknown
68208London: James S. Virtue 1857. History / Art / Architecture Small folio 34 x 25cm pp.250. Illustrated with twenty-one steel engraved plates and numerous wood-engravings throughout the text. Bound in contemporary half dark blue morocco titled in gilt. Some dampstaining mostly marginal a few light marks within. Binding worn joints starting or cracked in places. Very good. In 1853 the Crystal Palace building was moved from Hyde Park in London to suburban Sydenham. It was set up with a number of permanent fine arts courts Assyrian Egyptian Greek Roman Renaissance etc and industrial courts. Owen Jones and Digby Wyatt were responsible for the fine arts courts. It was until its destruction by fire in 1936 a great center of popular entertainment instruction and cultural activities. The present work describes in great detail the various courts and exhibits both fine arts and industrial. London: James S. Virtue, [1857] unknown
1891803R51London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1891. Cloth. Good. 13.5" by 9". None. A very scarce complete collection of the 1891 British Census bound in smart cloth by Nottingham Public Library and complete with folding maps. The United Kingdom Census 1891 recorded the total population of England Scotland and Wales as over thirty-three million; it was the first Census to ask about the number of rooms in a household as well as the first to allow women to undertake it and to ask Welsh inhabitants whether they spoke Welsh.Five volumes being: 'Preliminary Report and Tables of the Population and Houses Enumerated in England and Wales and in the Islands in the British Seas'.Volume I. 'Area Houses and Population. Administrative and Ancient Counties'.Volume II. 'Area Houses and Population. Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts' illustrated with eight folding maps in colour.Volume IV. 'General Report with Summary Tables and Appendices'.'Islands in the British Seas: Isle of Man Jersey Guernsey and Adjacent Islands'.A scarce original source for England's population at the close of the nineteenth century.From Nottingham Public Library; with their label to the front library binding and plates to the front pastedowns and endpapers. In a recent full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the extremities and the heads and tails of the spines. One volume is in a black cloth as opposed to blue; this volume has wear to the head where the backstrip is lifting and internally its pages are age-toned and worn at the edges. Internally generally firmly bound; 'Islands in the British Sea' is strained noticeably to both hinges. Pages are age-toned to the edges and occasionally rather delicate with some occasional repairs to leaves. Good Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1925011648Paris: A. Picard 1925. 39 volumes. From 1925-1966 lacking 194041424345. Books measures 22.5x14.5.cm last 12 volumes measure 23.5x19.cm. Bound in quarter cloth with marble boards leather title labels. Cloth faded. All bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally pages and plates in very good clean condition. A very nice collection of volumes. . Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. A. Picard Hardcover
