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1747k4988Dublin: Peter Wilson printed for. G : in Good condition. Inner hinges cracked. Ink inscription to front pastedown Occasional light water-staining largely confined to borders. One or two page edge-tears not impinging. 1747. Seventh Edition. Leather cover. 180mm x 120mm 7" x 5". iv 321pp 3pp ads. . Peter Wilson [printed for] hardcover
1758003912London: A. Millar and R. and J. Dodsley 1758. Hardcover. Good . A New Edition Corrected by the Author." iii 315 1 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands and double gilt rules. Double gilt-ruled border on each board. All page edges speckled red. "Notes": p. 309-315. Publisher's advertisements for A. Millar on one page following text. Lacking frontispiece. Small printed bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Samuel Eakin dated 1763. Most of another small printed bookplate dated 1793 has been removed. Former owners' names on front fixed endpaper largely erased. Former owner's name in pencil at head of p. 1: "S.P. Shinn 1860." Lacking frontispiece; otherwise in Good Condition: edges rubbed; joints starting but solid with minor loss at head of front joint; small hole in leather on front board; lacking both free endpapers and lower corner of last leaf with minor loss from publisher's advertisement; foxing; former ownership marks as noted; otherwise clean and tight. A. Millar, and R. and J. Dodsley hardcover
179805310090216C Cooke London 1798. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A Leather-bound pocket sized volume containing 3 works in the "Cooke's Pocket Edition of the Original and Complete Select British Poets or Entertaining Poetical Library containing the most esteemed Poetic Introductions Superbly Embellished". Each work starts with a vignette illustrated title-page contains inset illustrations and there is a total of five additional plates the plates are dated in the late 1790's the title-pages do not include a publication date. The leather binding has black spine labels and gilt decoration to the spine and the edges the covers are rubbed both external hinges are cracked but the covers remain firmly attached the binding is sound there is an inked name and number on a front end-paper pages are clean but darkened more so in the last of the works. The green silk bookmark ribbon is still attached. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05310090216. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. C Cooke hardcover
176420808London: R. and J. Dodsley 1764. Hardcover. Good. Vol 1 – viii 345 pgs contents. Vol 2 – contents 392 pgs. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.Polished brown calf. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. 5 raised bands. Leather labels. Engraving frontis’. Some engraved vignettes. Condition of books is GOOD; Edges of spine and spines quite worn front and back hinges cracked corners worn and bumped. Spines have allover deterioration/crackling. Leather labels damaged. Vol 2 has mouse damage to bottom of spine. Top edge of text block darkened. Foxing throughout. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front pastedown. Owner’s name in ink on title page. Vol 1 last pg of contents torn half missing and dark stain on front cover. Vol 2 back pastedown stained with numbers in ink.RGRR R. and J. Dodsley hardcover
17642936London: R. and J. Dodsley 1764. Hardcover. Good. Vol 1 – viii 345 pgs contents. Vol 2 – contents 392 pgs. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.Polished brown calf. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. 5 raised bands. Leather labels. Engraving frontis’. Some engraved vignettes. Condition of books is GOOD; Edges of spine and spines quite worn front and back hinges cracked corners worn and bumped. Spines have allover deterioration/crackling. Leather labels damaged. Vol 2 has mouse damage to bottom of spine. Top edge of text block darkened. Foxing throughout. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front pastedown. Owner’s name in ink on title page. Vol 1 last pg of contents torn half missing and dark stain on front cover. Vol 2 back pastedown stained with numbers in ink.RGRR R. and J. Dodsley hardcover
177305315080255Printed by A Ward York sold by Robert Horsfield T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman York London 1773. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Brown leather with gilt framing and raised bands to spine. Corners bumped spine ends worn front hinge cracked but cover securely attached by cord rear hinge sound internal binding sound small bookplate on inside of front cover previous owners' names and dates of 1778 and 1912 on front end-paper end-papers darkened pages clean. Poet born in Hull Yorkshire Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05315080255. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Printed by A Ward, York, sold by Robert Horsfield, T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman, York hardcover
1753008689Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis 1753. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition of Collected Works. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. xii 219. Bound in contemporary calf with a lovely 20th c. reback and fresh end papers. Near Fine light wear at corners. Less common in commerce than the 1749 edition printed by Urie. Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis Hardcover
1777L2487John Bell. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1777. No Edition Stated. Leatherbound. Two Volume set; both volumes have rubbing to edges of covers front cover is mostly detached from vol. 1 but hanging on by the bottom thread cracking along spine of vol. 2 but covers are still attached chipping at top and bottom spines and also to bottom corners of vol. 2 light toning/foxing to pages a few corners creased; not bad condition for their age! Leather bound w/gilt decorations along edges marbled endpapers ; 388 pages . John Bell hardcover
1758006518London: J. and R. Tonson 1758. Hardcover. Good -. 16 272 p. frontispiece portrait of the author; 16 cm. Contemporary full speckled calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-ruled border on each board. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Jacobi Solis Cohen 1838-1927 covering up earlier inscription showing two hands raised in priestly blessing; he is known as the father of laryngology. Bookplate on front free endpaper of Donald Fuller Torrey signed R. W. C. for Robert Weir Crouch 1865-1943. In Good- Condition: spine is heavily sunned with loss at ends; front board is almost detached; leather is rubbed; lacking 1-cm. along upper edge of title page where a former owner's name was removed; pages are clean and tight. J. and R. Tonson hardcover
1788005070Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1788. Hardcover. Very Good. Nouvelle Edition plus complette que toutes les précédentes." 405 3 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf; modern spine repair with japanese tissue and gilt-tooled leather spine label. All page edges red. Woodcut tailpieces. Voltaire's satire about the life of Joan of Arc was banned in much of Europe and hence very popular. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; spine repaired with japanese tissue; edges of first and last leaves darkened from glue used on fixed endpapers; some pages lightly browning; otherwise clean and tight. Marc-Michel Rey hardcover
1790c2066London: Alex Hogg. G : in good condition. Edgewear to cover. Title page cropped at lower edge with slight loss of text. Pencilled notation on frontis verso. Some browning and foxing within. Some offsetting. 1790. First thus. Full leather hardback. 270mm x 220mm 11" x 9". iv 497pp ads. Frontis engraving portrait of Virgil. Further copper plate engravings and maps within. Includes a list of subscribers. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Alex Hogg hardcover
1746016599Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant Libraries 1746. Good condition. A solid reading/reference copy. SEE PHOTOS. Moderate wear/fraying to spine ends and corners. Internally clean and unmarked with only minimal foxing to a few pages. 8 cm wide by 14.5 cm tall. Attractive marbled endpapers. All edges tinted red. Bound in contemporary full brown leather sprinkled calf with a red leather spine label chipped/rubbed. Front joint partially cracked 1 inch but still holding firm. Previous owner's name in pencil easily erasable if so desired. 1746 edition MDCCXLVI. Hardcover. Good condition. xlix 279pp. Chez Desaint & Saillant, Libraries Hardcover
17752248London: W. Hay 1775. Hardcover. Very Good . Scarce. Complete in 3 volumes. 12mo. Full blue leather 5 bands and gilt tiles on spine. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers with gilt decoration on leather at pastedown. Vol. I ii 170pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue has a piece missing from the edge of the last page & small tear no text effected. Vol. II 230pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue. Vol. III 247pp plus index. Authors include Langhorne Russel Macfarlane Cunningham Ogilvie Scoto Britannus Dunbar Bellentyne Pennycuick Lindsay Archibald Scott Fergusson Alexander Robertson Murray Graham Drummond etc. Particularly in the first volume many of the poems and songs are attributed to “a gentleman†or similar. The subjects range from parodies to eulogies folk songs to love songs and all that life entails. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns single stamp on front & rear endpapers first and last pages blind stamp on reverse of title pages. A very good set of these rare volumes. W. Hay hardcover
1724000423Leiden: Samuelem Luchtmans 1724. Hardcover. See Description. Second and best Burmann edition. 4to. pp. 154 760 96. With engraved frontispiece depicting the Argonauts. Title is printed in red and black with vignette medallion depicting an ancient rowing ship. Very faint library stamp in outer margin of title and on p. 101. Bound in attractive modern half calf with marbled boards and end papers. Original spine label is preserved. Interior is generally clean with periodic mild scattered foxing; occasional small tears are neatly sealed; some staining present on the bottom outer marginal corner of some leaves. Gaius Valerius Flaccus was a first century c.e. Roman poet. His surviving epic verse work the "Argonauticon" describes the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the legendary Golden Fleece. The work exists in eight books but was left incomplete by the author. This edition of the "Argonauticon" was edited by Pieter Burmann 1668-1741 a professor of History and Eloquence at Utrecht and Leiden. He compiled and included copious notes from previous scholars. Detailed indexes are given in the rear. Burmans edition also contains the "Supplement of Pius" and the "Argonautica of Orpheus." Schweiger II p. 1100; Dibdin II p. 516; Brunet V 1046 "Bonne edition"; Graesse VII. <br/> <br/> Samuelem Luchtmans hardcover
17851234E230Parigi Paris: Teofilo Barrois 1785. Reprint . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. viii 326; 333 1 2 ads. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches 13 x 20 cm. Complete two volume set. Full mottled calf leather bindings. Spines with morocco author and volume labels and gilt decoration. Gilt fillet border to boards. Red dyed page edges marbled endpapers. Chipping to labels of Volume I. Rubbing to spines wear to corners of boards. Good solid bindings. Small stamp to verso of front free endpaper of both volumes Williams Library Cheltenham. Old inked owner's name to leading blank in both volumes. A few lightly pencilled margin notes text is otherwise very clean throughout. Italian language. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 5 x 8 inches 13 x 20 cm. Teofilo Barrois hardcover
1795009014Tours and Paris: chez Letourmy and Berry 1795. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Translated Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "traduction nouvelle adresse´e du Donjeon de Vincennes par Mirabeau l'aine´ a` Sophie Ruffey." No dates published 1795-96. A portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Voysard after Borel frontispiece to volume I; portrait of Sophie engraved by Elluin after Borel frontispiece of volume II; engraving by Dupreel after Marillier frontispiece of volume III 12 figures out of text engraved by Elluin after Borel. Finely bound in contemporary green straight-grain morocco all edges gilt gilt inner dentelles with added ruling and decorative gilt acorn motifs at corners on paste downs & flyleaves armorial book plate. Very Good corners and spine ends rubbed spines darkened light soiling to boards modest scattered toning. Laid into Vol. I an engraved portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Mariage after F. Bonneville that appears to have been taken from another publication. A handsome set in period binding. chez Letourmy and Berry Hardcover
1799d0562daLondon: G G & J Robinson; R Baldwin and others. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Hinges cracked and weak. 1799. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 160mm x 100mm 6" x 4". lxiii 238pp. 4 engravings by Courbold. Includes 'The life of the Author' by Patrick Murdoch and an essay on 'The Plan and Manner of the Poem' by J. Aikin. . G G & J Robinson; R Baldwin and others hardcover
1766008703London: Printed for A. Millar 1766. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Four volumes including sixteen full page engraved plates in contemporary calf backs gilt with lovely armorial floral bookplates of Nathaniel Highmore. Very Good old bookseller's catalogue listing tipped at front end page Vol. I joints showing wear and starting to open at ends boards worn gilt at spines dulled. Printed for A. Millar Hardcover
1774007452London. xxviii preliminaries 209pp. Illustrated by four engravings by Paul Fourdrinier after: William Kent. Rebacked at some stage preserving the original spine. Old signature on the front free endpaper. . Very Good. Full-Leather. 1774. hardcover
17675925London: T. Evans 1767. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 8 1n. 234 pgs plus advert pg. This is the 1767 printing in a 20th c. linen binding with an 18th c. leather title label on spine probably used when rebound. Condition of the text is GOOD ; with mild to moderate foxing throughout but highly readable. Sides of text block are darkened more so at top. Binding tight. Linen boards are slightly worn at corners and ends of spine covers very clean. Spine darkened. A rarity. Poetry. RGR. T. Evans hardcover
1786001915Naples Italy: Giuseppe-Maria Porcelli 1786. Hard Cover. Near Fine. One volume containing both books with separate title pages and pagination. 260 254 p.; 16 cm. 20th-century polished calf spine with five spine compartments between raised bands. Black morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Small white oval label in upper right-hand corner of title page of book one with an embossed image of a bird holding a branch. Stamped at head of book one title page: Discarded Sold. The two books of Gierosalemme Libberata make up volumes 13 and 14 of Collezione di Tutti i Poemi in Lingua Napoletana. Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered translated into the Neapolitan dialect by Gabriele Fasano. The poem tells a romantically fictionalized story of the First Crusade with Christian knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon fighting to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims. In Near Fine Condition: lacking first leaf the series title page of book 1 the series title page of book 2 is present; occasional light foxing; otherwise a clean and very attractive copy. Giuseppe-Maria Porcelli unknown
179237204London: Printed By J. Dodsley. Good; Outer joints cracked front boards nearly detached musty foxing. 1792. Leather. Bound in marbled calf with gilt ruled borders on front and rear boards and gilt-tooled spine with leather label. Marbled endpapers. Two engravings portraits of Tasso and Hoole. xix 326 pp 14 pp index. Hoole's English translation of this epic poem written by the 16th century Italian poet worked on while Hoole was supposed to be studying law. Front pastedown bears bookseller label and two previous owner bookplates including that of Philip Hone Federalist Mayor of New York from 1825-1826 and one of the founders of the New York Mercantile Library rechristened the Center for Fiction in 2005. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Printed By J. Dodsley hardcover
1767g7175Vercelli: Presso Il Panialis. Cover rubbed with some worming defunct. Contents heavily damp-stained at gutter with some impact on text at either side. 1767. First Edition. Original quarter calf marbled board cover. 240mm x 180mm 9" x 7". 74pp. Vignettes on title page and at end paper. Text in Italian. . Presso Il Panialis unknown
1800001266New York: John Furman 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30 44 34 p.; 14 cm. 18mo. Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767 with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding. John Furman hardcover
1738biblio19<p>Extremely Rare Book Publication! The only library that has a copy of this book is the: Bayerishe Staatsbibliothek. Le Lacrime di San Pietro di Luigi Tansillo Poema Sacro con Gli Argomenti ed Allegorie Di Lucrezia Marinella ed Un Discorso Di Tommaso Costo. Giuntavi in Questa nuova Edizione la Raccolta delle sue Rime notabilmente accredsciuta. In Venezia Appresso Francesco Piagentini. MDCCXXXVIII 1738. ConLicenza De Superiori E Privilegio.<br /><br />In Venice: Francisco Piacentini 1738 1738. 3 parts in a volume in-4° 255x185mm pp. 1 XXIV 160 XXXII 83 Nice mottled calf leather binding with gold filigree in bands on the spine. Original multi-colored internal boards with edging blue swirls decorate with an arabesque style. Text on two columns of the ten songs of the "Tears of Saint Peter" similar to the compositions of a religious character of the same Cost "spiritual Rhymes over the effusion of the blood of Our Gentleman" "Sonetti to the image of the Crocifisso" sonetti and the songs of the Tansillo in one collection are considerably increased in this edition. The arguments and the allegorie that precede the proemiale text are of Lucrezia Marinella transcribed here as written in her original hand. This edition appeared first in Barezzi in 1602. The edition originates them of the poema is of Vico Equense 1585. It shapes itself as rising of along "I plant spiritual" of the apostle Peter nearly 1300 lines uniform in 15 books. Beautiful and corrected settecentesca edition of the main Tansilliani Poetici. Brunet V 654. Also referenced in Brunet 298 From the library of Le Comte F. de Gramont- A poet who is referenced in "A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields" by Toro Dutt 1880: London: C. Kegan Paul & Co.; Dated 1809. With a pouncing lion insignia on the spine in gilt. Some edge damage along the spine and end sewing at head of spine is nearly gone.Collation: 2-Blank; 4; tt8; A8-I8; K8.Discoros Del Signor Tommaso Costo Per lo quale si dimostra questo Poema delle Lagrime di S. Pietro del Tansillo. Essere per opra sua rimesso come dall' Autore fu lasciato scritto.Collation: A8-B8.Sonnetti e Canzoni del Signor Luigi Tansillo.Collation: a8; b7.Stanze del Signor Luigi Tansillo.Collation: b1; c8; d5 Idue Pellegrini del Signor Luigi Tansillo Collation: 1; A2; e6; f4; 2-Blank Lucrezia Marinella Vacca /Marinelli 1571-1653 We know more about the publishing history of Lucrezia Marinella's works than we do about her life. When other women were publishing anonymously or under a pseudonym Marinella's name was on most of her books and she was known by all Venice as the author of the rest. She apparently used the feminine form of her last name; some editors have used the family form "Marinelli." Lucrezia was the daughter of a Venetian physician who wrote works on medicine two on women's health and on philosophy. We know nothing of her mother nor of when her father died do we know that he was dead by 1600. Someone saw to it that Lucrezia was given an education that included philosophy and classical as well as vernacular literature. At some point she married a physician Girolamo Vacca and had at least two children a son and daughter. When Marinella was 24 years old her first work was published La colomba sacra poema eroico The holy dove a heroic poem a biographical epic in ottava rima on an early Christian martyr. Her next publication was the Nobilta et l'eccellenza delle donne co' difetti et mancamenti degli uomoni The nobility and excellences of women and the defects and vices of men printed in 1600 and enlarged in 1601. Between 1603 and 1606 six more works were published although some appear to have been written earlier: a heroic poem and a prose work on Mary; poems on Francis of Assisi and on Justina another early Christian martyr; a collection of Marinella's sonnets and madrigals and a pastoral verse novel Arcadia felice. After 1606 there is a gap of 12 years before her next publications --- an allegory based on the story of Cupid and Psyche and a poetic biography of Catherine of Siena --- and then another 11 years before she published in 1635 what historians of Italian literature consider her masterpiece L'Enrico overo Bisantio conquistato Henry or Byzantium gained. We don't know the connection between these gaps and her life as a wife and mother. By the 1590s the Roman influence that we call "Baroque" had come to Venice. It grew in part out of the Catholic Church's need to reach out to people to instruct and to arouse them more directly than it had done before. For literature the result was an emphasis on vernacular writing with a strong emotional appeal. All of Marinella's writing reflects the Baroque but in different ways and from a feminine perspective. She usually wrote in the heroic verse form but sometimes in a combination of verse and the "poetic prose" that she saw as capable of the same elevation as poetry. Many of Marinella's books were lives of religious figures but almost always about women and then always with the emphasis on their heroism rather than on more passive virtues. She wrote of the heroic resistance of the women Columba and Justina; her book on Catherine of Siena was on the "heroic deeds and marvelous life"; her life of Mary apparently the most successful during her lifetime was on Mary as "empress of the universe"; in a later edition of her early poem on Francis Clare of Assisi's "glorious passion" receives equal billing. Her secular writing also fused the extravagance of the popular chivalric tales and heroic epics with a Christian but feminine view of morality. One satirically allegorizes the myth of Cupid and Psyche as a conflict between body and soul; another is a pastoral verse drama that makes fun of human love. L'Enrico overo Bisantio conquistato is an epic in the style of Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata but with stronger more self-reliant women. To date the only work of Marinella's that has been translated into English is part of her Nobilta et l'eccellenza delle donne. It differs from her other writings in being a polemical treatise a genre in which extravagant statement and personal attack were acceptable. Forty-five years later Marinella would write Essortationi alle donne et a gli altri Exhortations to women and others in which she would qualify some of the more extreme views expressed in Nobilta. But in 1600 Marinella would say whatever she needed to say in order to refute the misogynist statements of earlier writers particularly the treatise of Giuseppe Passi who had published Dei donneschi defetti The defects of women in 1599. Although it differs in purpose from her other works Nobilta shares with them Marinella's Baroque qualities of intensity extravagant rhetoric and emotional appeal; it also shares their confidence in a woman's ability. In 4 Legat. in m. pergam. con tit. in oro su tassello pp.2nn.XXIV 160 XXXII 83 con una bella tavola a p.pagina all'antiporta incisa in rame da Zuliani Veneto frontalini finalini e capilettera figurati. Magnifico esemplare in barbe di questa rara edizione. Brunet 298.</p> Piagentini, Francesco hardcover