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1849119928London: Published for the Booksellers. Good with no dust jacket. 1849. Unknown. Hardcover. A Small 5" x 3.25" x 0. 5" Early copy of this work first published in 1836. The book quickly became a best seller and was published in many different editions across the world. NO DATE but circa 1836/1860s . An attractive early UK copy in azure blue cloth boards with blind stamped decoration with the title 'Maria Monk' in a gilt border to the spine and a gilt vignette religious Nun and child illustration to the front board. A little rubbed to all extremities and corners a little 'soft' but no damage. A slight lean to the book. Clean and sound. Internally No Inscriptions but the odd light mark /spots - mainly to the blank margins. Pale lemon endpapers somewhat discoloured with age. xii 184 pp. Decorative Chromolithographic frontispiece by Scott & Riley. The content of the book ends at page 178 but is followed by 5pp 'Extracts from Public Journals Relative to the Truth of Maria Monk's Disclosures'. 1836. The horrifying scenes the book describes ALLEGEDLY took place at the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal; these include the illicit relations between nuns and the neighbouring monks; infanticide; torture; murder; etc. An attractive mid-19th century binding of this Anti-Catholic work. See Images. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall . Published for the Booksellers, hardcover
1831AQ22321London: J. Tabby 1831. Single bifolium. 2pp. A trifle creased to extremities some marking to gutter split at head. The highlight of this double-page playbill is the detailed 'order of scenery' included for the popular Regency hippodrama Timour the Tartar by Matthew Gregory 'Monk' Lewis' 1775-1818 Gothic novelist and dramatist. Timour which debuted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in late April or early May 1811 is believed to be the first play expressly written to feature horses. This performance featured horses from Cooke's Circus which appeared in several different performances at the Theatre Royal in May 1831 and their involvement in three scenes is explicitly detailed here. . J. Tabby unknown
1882058553William Clowes 1882. Not Given . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Folio - 12 x 10 Inches Tall. Music score. LONDON : 1882. Large volume. Hardback. Music score. Original dark blue-green cloth; blind-lettered cover. Yellow end-papers lacks rear free e-p. Title-page printed in red and black. Bright tight and clean. Binding slightly dulled. No owner name or internal markings. VERY GOOD INDEED. x 58155 pages. Index. Folio; approx. 12 x 10 inches. Heavy volume; extra postage required. Will be well-packed for shipping. London: William Clowes. <br/> <br/> William Clowes hardcover
1884060108William Clowes 1884. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Plain-Song; pointed. FIRST PLAIN-SONG EDITION. LONDON : 1884. Hardback. Music; Plain-Song; Pointed. Original red cloth; gilt-lettered cover. Black end-papers. Title-page printed in red and black and text music also throughout. Bright tight and clean. Binding slightly faded. No owner name or internal markings. VERY GOOD INDEED. ix 32 ii 126 pages. 8vo. Will be well-packed for shipping. London: William Clowes. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> William Clowes hardcover
1801k3298Poughnill: G Nicholson / H D Symonds. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed and with inscribed label to front cover. Ink inscription to upper edge of title page. 1801. Reprint. Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 140mm x 110mm 6" x 4". 252pp index; 161pp. One folding plate of the Hotel Dieu; engraved title vignette. Chesterfield's 'Principles of Manners and Conduct' selected from 'Letters to His Son' first published in 1872 ; Maria Monk's 'Awful Disclosures' first published in 1836 - this volume published c. 1854. . G Nicholson / H D Symonds hardcover
1858072416Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co. 1858. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good . First Edition. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with ornate blind debossed border and gilt decorative title. Two lectures given by the medical missionary and explorer David Livingstone after his return to England from his travels in Africa 1841–1856 form the core of this book which was originally published in 1858 the year when Livingstone set off on the British Zambezi expedition. The book also contains a biography a letter from Adam Sedgwick then Professor of Geology at Cambridge and a thorough appendix covering the scientific results of the journey describing the geography mineralogy diseases and the language and cultural aspects of the peoples Livingstone encountered. Finally Livingstone reports on the needs and prospects for further missionary work in Africa. Although Livingstone himself felt his calling was now to pursue purely scientific exploration he hoped that the lectures and their subsequent publication would encourage other missionaries to continue his work of evangelization. 2 fold out maps. Pagination complete: vii 1 xxx xciii 1 1-47 4 52-81 1.<br><br>CONDITION: Southern Bible institute stamp on front flyleaf and titlepage. Corners are bumped. Covers are mildly rubbed and chipped around the edges. Spine has been rebacked in black with original title attached as a label. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Full refund if not satisfied. Deighton, Bell and Co. hardcover
1822H29705London: A. J. Valpy 1822. Wraps. Very good. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer" a compilation of various pamphlets speeches articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. This is actually three different pamphlets with three title pages with continuous pagination from p. 303-355; the middle pamphlet is a stated third edition. The consensus seems to be that the first and third pamphlets are by Samuel Butler and the middle one the letter to the Bishop of Bristol is by James Henry Monk. A scheme was passed in 1822 for an annual honours examination in classics to which those who had obtained honours in the Senate House Examination were to be admissible. This was a limited concession only since the candidate for classical honours had first to win mathematical honours while there was no similar condition the other way but the foundation of the Classical Tripos does mark an important broadening of the field of study. In the same year a scheme for a Previous Examination was passed which provided that in their fifth term men should pass an examination in the Greek Testament Paley's Evidences and a Greek and a Latin author though the standard was elementary. The general academic level was rising all round. The mathematical curriculum was deepened and extended; the tests for medical degrees were made more stringent; the evils of non-residence and inefficiency among the professoriate were gradually removed. In 1809 Monk was elected Regius Professor of Greek in succession to Porson. The establishment of the classical tripos at Cambridge was in great measure due to his efforts. In 1822 he was appointed Dean of Peterborough. Very good short tear to front page minor expert strengthening along spine. A. J. Valpy unknown
1829001075London: Veneunt Appud B. Fellowes 1829. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo medium. Half-bound calf over tan marbled boards. xiv 2 188 p.p. Text in Greek with Latin annotations. Some light rubbing to edges and spine ends. Trimmed pages and light sporatic foxing. Tears to the upper margin of two leaves starting p. 187 text unaffected. Interior crisp clean throughout. Else in very good condition. Veneunt Appud B. Fellowes hardcover
18491306110014Bachelier 1849-01-01. 5th. Hardcover. Acceptable. Quarto. Fifth edition. 504 p. 5 fold out plates. 27 x 21 cm. Original marbled boards corner bound in leather. Modern paper to spine modern paper spine label. Lacking frontispiece. Library stamps ink stamps to each plate. Gaspard Monge as the inventor of descriptive geometry and the father of differential geometry. Bachelier hardcover
1812044535Paris: Klostermann 1812. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary half calf wear at corners spine a little dry old ownership stamps to endpaper and title. 336pp. Guyton-Moreau on "combustion du diamant" with a folding plate. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 044535. <br/><br/> Klostermann hardcover
1815044529Paris: Crochard 1815. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary half calf wear at corners spine a little dry old ownership stamps to endpaper and title. Folding plate at rear 332pp. Guyton-Morveau on disinfectant fumigation. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 044529. <br/><br/> Crochard hardcover
1807044530Paris: Bernard 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary half calf wear at corners spine a little dry old ownership stamps to endpaper and title. 336pp. Guyton on wine; Parmentier on Chaptal on chemistry applied to the arts. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 044530. <br/><br/> Bernard hardcover
1811043294Paris: Klosterman 1811. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners stamp to title page bump to one edge quite clean internally. 344pp and five folding plates 4 of them of Edouard Adam's distilling equipment laid in. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 043294. <br/><br/> Klosterman hardcover
1813043298Paris: Klosterman 1813. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners stamp to title page bump to one edge quite clean internally. 336pp one plate. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 043298. <br/><br/> Klosterman hardcover
1813043297Paris: Klosterman 1813. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners stamp to title page bump to one edge quite clean internally. 336pp three folding plates. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 043297. <br/><br/> Klosterman hardcover
1854M7535Baltimore: Jacob Monk 1854. Some minor discolourations and some marginal chipping and staining not affecting the map altogether a very good copy laid down on original canvas as a scroll on two wooden rods. . Notes: Inset map of the world sits beneath the title in the lower left corner. It is centred on the Americas and charts the course of Wilkes' circumnavigation of the globe in the 1840s. To its right sits an index of counties and towns. Above the title on the left side are a legend and scale. On the right by the mid margin is a table of distances. The oceans are decorated with tall ships and the whole map sits within a decorative floral border.<br><br>This map marks the dawn of the Manifest Destiny era of American history. Soon after the American victory of Mexico large new states and territories were carved out from the newly acquired land. Here we see the newly formed California and Texas along with the Oregon and Washington territories securing the country's claim to the Pacific coast. With California's gold rush getting into full swing the map accentuates many details of that state's gold region. North-South tensions are revealed in the ambiguity of the central states and territories: Northern interests sought to create a massive Nebraska territory which would have included present-day Kansas; however Southern lawmakers pressed Congress to make two separate territories. Size : 1405x1500 mm 55.31x59.06 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Reference: Wheat 794 earlier edition; Rumsey 603. Category: Maps Central America; Maps North America; Maps West Indies Whole; Maps Wall Maps; Jacob Monk unknown
1811500049770Payne Mawman 1811. Hardcover. Fair. Paper covered boards. Inked title on spine . Euripides Hippolytus Coronifer. Ad fidem manuscriptorum ac veterum editionum emendavit et annotationibus instruxit J. H. Monk. <br/> <br/> Payne Mawman hardcover
189467516Printed in Canada: L. J Demers & Frere 1894. First edition. Cloth over boards. Good. Hardcover full brown cloth over boards. 8vo. 4 508 5 pp. Illustrated with a b/w photographic plate frontispiece and a full-page b/w engraved portrait of the author. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Short title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Gilt laurel ornament stamped on front board. Foxed edges. Pages slightly age toned but still bright and clean. Square and strong. Spine darkened. Boards marked with bumped/frayed corners. A newspaper clipping St. Gabriel February 1897 of a poem has been pasted onto the front flyleaf r. Good condition overall. L. J Demers & Frere unknown
1805330London: D. N. Shury for J.F. Hughes 1805. First Edition. Very good in later speckled calf with gilt edges and spine marbled endpapers minor browning to a few pages and endpapers but generally clean and tight housed in a marbled slipcase. First edition of Monk Lewis's translation from the German of Zschokke's sensational gothic romance Abällino der grosse Bandit first published in 1793.<br /> <br /> In Coleridge's view this work exhibited the "wonder of effects produced by supernatural power without the means" and the plot follows the adventures of a banished and starving aristocrat who seeks employment as a hired assassin.<br /> <br /> 8vo. viii 340pp. 4 errata and ads. Wolff 4113. NCBEL III 743. Summers pg. 252 noting a few copies contain an 1804 date on the title page this copy with 1805. Thomson Voller and Frank pg. 254. D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes unknown
1891620746Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Introduction by Max Maury. Illustrated by Auguste Leroy. 400pp. Illustrated with engravings. Custom bound without the original wrappers in half blue morocco decorative paperboards spine with raised bands furrowed in gilt creating five compartments the middle compartment with a gilt device the compartments above and below with "Rosario" and "Monk Lewis" in gilt respectively pages with deckled edges and decorative endpapers matching the boards. Bound at the Haverhill Bindery with their ticket on the front pastedown "Chase Bros. Prop. 15 Washington St." Boards and spine worn spine slightly cocked the paper on the front board with a small abrasion and some edgewear to the pages overall still a very good copy with the binding sound and tight. A worn but nonetheless charmingly bound copy of Matthew Gregory Lewis' disturbing and controversial novel originally published in 1796. Laird & Lee Publishers hardcover
1890011661United Kingdom: Temple Company 1890. Hardcover. Good/NO Dustwrapper. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. or The Female Monk. A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Reprinted from the Waterford Edition Preface dated 1794. Classic occult tale of lust degradation and murder with a deep felt comment on the state of the Catholic church. First published in 1796 and banned for many years and went through many edited editions. Reprinted. Temple Company London - No Date c1890s. viii 320pp hb No Dust-wrapper covers rubbed & marked pages browned good <br/> <br/> Temple Company hardcover
1836C218529London: Printed for the Booksellers 1836. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 384pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration. Covers somewhat worn inner hinges starting otherwise near very good. With 2 frontispieces and 4 plates. Printed for the Booksellers, hardcover
1836039767New York: Howe & Bates 1836. First Edition . Hardcover. Poor. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. vi blanks ii title-page and verso Pp. 11-231. Volume measures approximately 6.25" x 4.25" x .75". This Howe and Bates edition contains a preface dated January 11 1836 and consists of 20 chapters plus a conclusion. Bound in original heavily worn green cloth with worn paper label to spine. Binding a bit cocked. Volume admits to several small bumps and short tears to extremities along with tears and splitting to paper to length of joints. Medium to heavy wear and soiling to cloth. Bookseller label Joseph McDonough Rare Books Albany N.Y. to front paste-down. Some internal soiling and medium to heavy foxing to paper. Minor tears and chips to extremities of leaves here and there with no effect on the text. Final blank printer's blank admits to an approximately 4" mostly closed tear. Short tear to back paste-down. Overall a largely well preserved copy. RARE edition <br/> <br/> Howe & Bates hardcover
1836FB3670 /17<p>Green cloth binding with gilt title and black decoration on the spine and front board</p><p>FIRST EDITION EROTIC and NOT PERCEIVED TO BE AN AUTHENTIC TALE Maria Monk June 27 1816 – summer of 1849 was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed 1836 claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The book is considered by scholars to be an anti-Catholic hoax. Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk was published in January 1836. In it Monk claimed that nuns of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of the Montreal convent of the Hôtel-Dieu whom she called "the Black Nuns" were forced to have sex with the priests in the seminary next door. The priests supposedly entered the convent through a secret tunnel. If the sexual union produced a baby it was baptised and then strangled and dumped into a lime pit in the basement. Uncooperative nuns disappeared. Monk's story contains various inconsistencies. In her account she stated that there were three convents in Montreal: 1st. The Congregational Nunnery. 2nd. The Black Nunnery or Convent of Sister Bourgeoise. 3rd The Grey Nunnery. The Congregational Nuns were the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys not the Sisters of Charity as Monk stated at the beginning of her text; the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph whose habits were black but who were not typically called "Black Nuns" operated the Hotel-Dieu where Monk claimed that she entered and suffered and it was not founded by "Sister Bourgeoise" ; and it was the Sisters of Charity who were commonly known as the Grey Nuns. It is known that Monk lived in an asylum in her early years and that one of the nuns mentioned in her story was actually a fellow patient in the asylum. There is some evidence that Maria Monk had suffered a brain injury as a child. One possible result of this alleged injury could be that Monk might have been manipulated and might not be able to distinguish between fact and fantasy. Another possible result of the alleged injury could be that Monk had little understanding of the devastating result of her claims. It has been suggested though not proven that Monk was manipulated into playing a role for profit by her publisher or her ghost writers. Scholars consider the book a hoax.</p> The Booksellers. hardcover
185440766Bruxelles: C. Muquardt and Etablissement Géographique 1854. 8vo 23x145 cm. Editor's wrappers sl. soiled traces of use uncut. ii116 pp. with 42 engraved figures in text "Tableau des Conventions de la Géométrie Descriptive" with 4 leaves with engraved 'Notations' and 2 large folding lithographs each 40 x 25 cm. Paper age-toned but the whole in good condition. - Rare C. Muquardt and Etablissement Géographique unknown
