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1756189581Berolini: A. Haude et I.C. Speneri 1756. Leather bound. VG pages are lightly age toned as expected with age of book binding is secure and pages are otherwise clear. Bound in green leather with gilt border gilt design on spine; color illustrted end papers; XVIII 180 138 pp all edge gilt. Text is in Italian and Latin. The life of excellent emperors is added to the French translation by the care of Ioanne Petro Millero. A. Haude et I.C. Speneri hardcover
175938825London: P. Miller 1759. Faint foxing left margin a bit chipped. P. Miller unknown books
175938825London: P. Miller 1759. Faint foxing left margin a bit chipped. P. Miller unknown
175572962London: 1755-71. This beautiful engraving from 'Figures of the Most Beautiful Useful and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardener's Dictionary' was published by Philip Miller in London in 1755. It was engraved by T. Jeffreys. Philip Miller 1691-1771 was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physick Garden in London and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his extensive knowledge of plants. Copper engraving. Plate size: 335 x 215 mm Very good condition. unknown
1768049258A Yverdun: N.p. 1768. First Edition First Printing . Leather Bound. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 16mo. 332 pages. Hardcover bound in early full speckled calf with raised bands and gilt tooling on the spine. Binding housed in a modern removable clear mylar jacket. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Hinges sound; headcap of the spine is chipped. The binding is rubbed and abraded at the fore edges. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Text is toned and is generally clean. Not an illustrated work. Text is in French. A translation of the title into English is "Treatise on the Planting and Cultivation of the Principal Vegetable Plants Collected from the English Dictionary. <br/> <br/> N.p. hardcover
17623156Late 19th century half calf has long outlived its usefulness: boards detached spines chipped. Closed tear to title page of vol II; otherwise a very good set. Full page sur blanc engravings include frontispieces to most individual works including Volume 1: Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter; Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton; Britannia; Liberty; The Castle of Indolence; etc. Volume 2: Sophonisba; Agamemnon; Alfred; Edward and Eleonora; Tancred and Sigismunda; Coriolanus. Not to be confused with the 12mo editions sans illustrations. With errata.; 24x30cm; 9.5x12 in.; xxvi468524 pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request. A. Millar hardcover
1737347983London: J. Watts 1737. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 6 76 i.e.75 pp. Lacks the title page and advertisements else complete page 75 misnumbered 76. Near contemporary owner's signature in neat ink on page 1 after the dedication and prologue just beneath the headpiece. Professionally bound in modern period-style laid paper wrappers. A very good copy with moderate scattered spotting. James Miller poet playwright and divine was celebrated for his parody and wry wit which made him many enemies. A handsome copy neatly bound in folded wrappers with endleaves. J. Watts unknown
1782828911782. C. Plummer. Doncaster. 1782. First edition. A Contemporary and Locally Printed response to the death of the Marquis who was at that time Yorkshire's most important resident. Twice Prime Minister and for his time a fair landlord who mangaed his estates in Ireland well. A slim volume - the original 30 pages have been bound with 18 blank pages before the title and with ten at rear. Full patterned calf with a modern reback and new marbled endpapers. Pages browned with occasional light foxing otherwise a clean and useful copy of a scarce item. unknown
1765WRCAM46139New England 1765. Pen-and-ink on laid paper with the road colored in sepia and with water elements in green with a yellow wash border within the gradients on seventeen of eighteen sheets. Sheet size: 27 1/2 x 214 inches overall if joined. Minor repairs one small blank section in the upper border lacking. Very good. Provenance: Sir Francis Bernard Colonial Governor of Massachusetts 1712-79; by descent to Robert Spencer Bernard Nether Winchendon House Buckinghamshire England. A truly massive road map measuring over seventeen feet from east to west showing the roads across the colony of Massachusetts in great detail. It is one of only a handful of road maps to survive from the colonial era. It was created for Sir Francis Bernard then colonial governor of Massachusetts. <br> <br> In November 1969 noted historian of cartography William P. Cumming discovered in the family home of Sir Francis Bernard "a collection of maps that in purpose and type differed so markedly from the more usual military coastal and general colonial maps of the time that it stands out in both interest and importance. These were domestic maps of a gentleman's estates and the roads to them.Probably Sir Francis's most important contribution to cartography was to have careful surveys made of the roads from Boston.westward to Albany New York on a one-inch to two-thirds-mile scale. It was along part of this Albany to Boston road that the American rebels dragged the heavy cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga that set up on Dorchester Heights forced General Howe's evacuation of Boston in 1776.No route maps as detailed as these except for two short New Jersey road maps are known for any other section of the eastern seaboard until those of Christopher Colles in 1789" Cumming pp.29-30. <br> <br> The present manuscript map depicts the road across Massachusetts but does not extend as far as Albany. The road divided into miles throughout extends from Boston to Springfield where it splits into two westward routes to Albany: the first a more southerly route via Great Barrington Massachusetts which ends on the present map at a point approximately thirty-three miles from Albany; and the more northerly route which is shown on the map as far as Northampton just past the Connecticut River. The map is done on a very large scale of approximately two-thirds of a mile to the inch with towns rivers mountains residences meetinghouses and numerous taverns identified along the way. Cumming records this map as four separate entries i.e. MP21-24 although with an incorrect sheet count. <br> <br> Comprised of eighteen sheets one narrow blank sheet is missing the top half of the map is comprised of ten narrow sheets varyingly long and short while the bottom half is comprised of eight uniform sheets each measuring 18 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. The sheets are as follows: <br> <br> 1 Southeast corner of the map blank except wash border. <br> <br> 2 Blank except for wash border with a segment of rhumb line. <br> <br> 3 missing but would clearly be blank except for wash border with section of rhumb line <br> <br> 4 Text reading "Boston to Albany." <br> <br> 5 Text reading "Way to Spr-" with part of the southern road. <br> <br> 6 Text reading "-ingfield" with part of the southern road including Springfield and the Connecticut River. <br> <br> 7 A small sheet containing text reading "and" and part of the southern route. <br> <br> 8 blank except for wash border <br> <br> 9 blank except for wash border <br> <br> 10 Southwest corner of the map blank except for wash border. <br> <br> 11 Northeast corner of the map containing Medford Boston and the route as far as Framingham. <br> <br> 12 Text reading "the road" with the northern route from Sudbury to Westborough. <br> <br> 13 Text reading "from" with the route from Shrewsbury to Leicester. <br> <br> 14 Text reading "by" and "road b-" with the route from Brookfield west to Coy's Hill and the Porpoodock Mountains. <br> <br> 15 Text reading "-y way of Northampton to Albany" showing the route from Belchertown to Northampton including part of the Connecticut River and the Hadley Mountains. <br> <br> 16 Text reading "Gr-" with part of the route showing Blandford. <br> <br> 17 Text reading "-eat Barrington" showing the route from the Farmington River to Tyringham. <br> <br> 18 Northwest corner of the map showing Great Barrington and a bit beyond to the Massachusetts-New York border. <br> <br> Sir Francis Bernard became the colonial governor of Massachusetts in late 1759 shortly after British troops were victorious in the Battle of Quebec. That decisive French and Indian War victory opened a vast region for renewed English settlement and trade thus necessitating the need for more accurate surveys of the roads. The present manuscript map was surveyed and drawn by talented military mapmaker Francis Miller in 1765 for Bernard the details of which are recounted by Bernard in a 1766 letter to Lord Barrington: <br> <br> "I am desired to certify to your Lordship that at the beginning of the Year 1764 Genl Gage at my Request gave Leave to Ensign Francis Miller of the 45th regiment then stationed in Newfoundland to come to Boston to assist me in some Works of Public Surveying which I had undertaken in pursuance of resolutions of the general Assembly & partly by Orders from England. Mr Miller being then at an outpost & not easily relieved did not arrive at Boston till Nov in that Year when the Season for actual Surveying was over. He was employed that Winter & Spring following in protracting the Surveys made that Summer among which was a compleat Route from Fort Pownal on the River Penobscot to Quebec & some other curious explorations of the Eastern parts of New England hitherto unknown to Englishmen: of which elegant Maps drawn by Mr Miller have been transmitted to the Board of Trade. Early in the Last Summer I employed M' Miller having previously informed Genl Gage of the Intention to make an actual Survey from Boston to Albany & back again by another Way being near 200 Miles; & afterwards from Boston to Penobscot being above 200 Miles; by which Means a true Geometrical Line of 400 Miles in length through part of New York & all the habitable part of New-England has been obtained which will afford great Assistance to the Ascertaining the Geography of this Country & its Sea Coast. After this Survey was finished he was employed in protracting the Same & making Drawings thereof which he has done with great Accuracy & Elegance" Bernard to Barrington Jan. 1 1766 quoted in THE BARRINGTON-BERNARD CORRESPONDENCE p.103. <br> <br> This important manuscript map detailing the route from Boston westward towards Albany constitutes among the earliest of American road maps. CUMMING BRITISH MAPS OF COLONIAL AMERICA Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1974 pp.29-30 and Appendix A. THE BARRINGTON-BERNARD CORRESPONDENCE Cambridge: Harvard University 1912. unknown books
1767151933London. 1767. Seventh Edition. Leatherbound. Fair. Front and back covers are detached but still present; 1; 290 pages . hardcover
1790H10GLTBN14DLondon: W. Miller 1790. Hardback full marbled calf gilt title to spine. Corners repaired. New end-papers. Inner hinges re-inforced. 27cm x 19.5cm. xlvii 142pp. Engraved title page. Cracking to spine with small losses. A little occasional foxing/grubby marks to contents. A rather pleasing copy. h10. Hard Cover. Good. W. Miller Hardcover
17905972London: W Miller 1790. Hardback. Poor/No Jacket. 969 4to. No title page; title and year inferred chiefly from Preface i-x Edward Miller Doncaster March 1790 then an additional page and a half the Preface ending at xii. Subsequent contents: Explication of foreign words one page Musical Publications by Dr Miller a list one page Subscribers' Names all these to xlvii Index p1 and then the Psalms 2-142. The Preface is the first printed page the front free end paper the only blank page; this copy thus appears to meet the collation of the 1790 edition but missing the first 3 pages. It also meets ESTC's General Note referring to the Preface as " signed and dated: Edward Miller. Doncaster March 1790". This copy ends with page 142 so is missing 4 pages at the end. Binding is very delapidated calf with 'Millers' Psalmody' to spine. Condition notes: In a very poor way. Spine strip cracked and split with loss; text block broken; boards very worn stained and bumped. Tears to margins of some pages page 142 being the worst affected; this page is also very soiled. Some pencil scribble here and there. W Miller hardcover
1790059204London: Published by W. Miller No. 5 Old Bond Street and to be had at all the music shops. 1790 1790. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - 12 x 10 Inches Tall. Music score. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1790. Hardback. Engraved title-page and Dedication page; To the most Revered Father in God William Lord Archbishop of York. Music Score and Words. Later professional rebind. Calf-leather spine; raised bands; marbled boards. Original gilt label to spine. Internally fresh and clean. Scarce in such nice condition. Neat contemporary owner name; no internal markings. Bright tight and clean. NEAR FINE iii xlvii 142 pages. Contains sixteen settings by Handel including three 'said to be Handel's'. Title p.i dedication p.iii preface pp.i-xii explication p.xiii author's works p.xiv list of subscribers pp.xv-xlvii and Index p.1. Referenced by: BUC p.676. B/II p.294. Will be well-packed for shipping. Folio; approx. 12 x 10 inches. Published by W. Miller No. 5 Old Bond Street and to be had at all the music shops. 1790. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Published by W. Miller, No. 5, Old Bond Street, and to be had at all the music shops. [1790] hardcover
1745WRCLIT57771London: Printed for J. Watts.and sold by B. Dod. 1745. 45-35pp. Small octavo. Full polished calf spine elaborately gilt extra by Riviere. Bound without four terminal leaves of ads noted by ESTC title slightly smudged and dust-soiled trimmed a bit close costing a few catch- words and signature marks otherwise a good copy handsomely bound. First edition. An adaptation to the English stage of Moliere's SGANARELLE published the year after Miller's death. It was produced at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane in February and includes a Prologue by Mr. Havard. NCBEL II:796. ESTC T42283. Printed for J. Watts...and sold by B. Dod... unknown books
1734WRCLIT57773London: Printed for J. Watts. 1734. 8879pp. Small octavo. Three quarter mottled calf gilt label for Dulau. Joints rubbed title a bit dust-soiled but internally very good with the terminal ads. First edition. With a Dedication to the Countess of Hertford and a Prologue spoken by Mr. Mills. NCBEL II:796. ESTC T41459. Printed for J. Watts... unknown books
18001359539New-York: Collins & Co.; T. & J. Swords; John Forbes; 1800; 1802; 1803; 1806; 1808; 1809; 1811; 1812. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavos 10 volumes 1800-1812 non-inclusive some with plates. Good- to Good; all but one volume fully bound in contemporary leather Vol V 1802 bound in marbled paper with leather to spine all have spine labels with gilt titling but of varying styles; all have tears and surface marks to covers most front hinges somewhat compromised but bindings all else tight; text blocks show age toning and several have liquid damage that extends to pages; foxing and age toning to pages throughout; plates present and intact though some with deep age toning and foxing; title page and first several pages of Second Hexade Vol. VI show insect damage; previous owner bookplate to front pastedown of Vol. V 1802 "Ex Libris Henry Barton Jacobs;" previous owner name stamped on title pages of several volumes "Isaiah Matlack;" MF consignment. Volume III 1800<br> <br /> Volume V 1802<br> <br /> Volume VI 1803<br> <br /> Second Hexade Volume III 1806<br> <br /> Second Hexade Volume V 1808<br> <br /> Volume IV 1809 Second Hexade Volume VI<br> <br /> Volume 2 1811 Third Hexade Volume II<br> <br /> Volume 3 1811 May June July<br> <br /> No. 1 Volume I 1812<br> <br /> Third Hexade Volume III 1812<br> <br /> <br /> The Second Hexade Volume III 1806 contains one of the earliest printed accounts of the Lewis and Clark expeditions in particular making reference to a manuscript copy of "A Map of those parts of North-America situated between the 35th and 51st degrees of latitude and the 89th and 124th degrees of longitude" that was been sent to the Secretary at War with other copies made under the direction of Gen. Dearborn for the inspection of Congress. 1359539. Special Collections. Collins & Co.; T. & J. Swords; John Forbes; hardcover
1800537T. and J. Swords Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College New York 1800. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book . Bound volume with complete year's issues of early American medical journal. Quarter bound leather over marbled boards worn at corners. Front hinge worn with 1 1/4" crack at top and 1/2" chip at top of spine. Title in gold on red leather panel on spine; listed as "First Hexade2" in gold on black leather panel. Articles include research reports from Joseph Priestley. News in each issue includes obituaries of doctors. Text block tight with light foxing; light water stain at top of pp. 1-7. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: MEDICAL; History; Antiquarian & Rare. . Main Picture: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Title page. Picture 2: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Front cover and spine. Picture 3: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Detail of title on spine. Picture 4: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Page with article from a letter by Joseph Priestley about one of his experiments. Picture 5: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Page with a letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania Thomas Mifflin about preventing the return of the Yellow Fever. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 537. . T. and J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College hardcover
1800021885New York: T. & J. Swords Printers to the Faculty at Columbia College 1800. Second edition 1800. Bound volume of four quarterly issues of this influential medical publication providing news of medical breakthroughs studies of diseases and living conditions ongoing research etc. Full calf with tan spine label gilt lettering and spine ruling 455 pages. Covers rubbed especially at the extremities spine ends chipped text block sound fairly uniform foxing personal library label of of C. N. Gallup M.D. on the front pastedown. A worn but sound copy. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. & J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty at Columbia College Hardcover
1782LTH28-C-12London; Edinburgh: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme; Bell; P. Byrne 1782-1803. Leather. Good Only. 6.5" by 4". Unamed. A collection of four Georgian plays performed at theatres across the UK. A lovely example of the popular theatre of Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. This volume contains: The Jew; A Comedy in Five Acts by Richard Cumberland Esq. As Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald Speed the Plough; A Comedy in Five Acts; As Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden by Thomas Morton Esq. Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald Mahomet the Imposter. A Tragedy by the Rev. Mr Miller. As Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Regulated from the Prompt-Book by Permission of the Managers by Mr Hopkins Prompter John Bull: Or An Englishman's Fireside. A Comedy in Five Acts As Performed at the Theatre Royal in Dublin by George Colman Esq. With engraved frontispieces to two of the plays. In a half-calf binding with marbled boards. Externally rather worn with rubbing and wear to the extremities. Joints are cracked and there is some slight loss to the backstrip. Internally firmly bound. Pages have some foxing and handling marks throughout. Good Only Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Bell; P. Byrne hardcover
1780C1536a<p>2 volumes in one: 320 pages with diagrams and index; 320 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Volumes 7 and 8. Betts: 7-15 First edition.</p><p><em>The Huddersfield College Magazine</em> chess section was superseded by the <em>British Chess Magazine</em> after 1880 with no more published. In 1872 John Watkinson started a chess column in the Huddersfield College Magazine. Eventually the single page column became a small magazine exclusively devoted to chess - <em>The Huddersfield College Chess Magazine</em>. Finally this magazine evolved into the<em> British Chess Magazine</em> which is still going strong today. The columns provide an interesting glimpse of the local Huddersfield & Yorkshire chess scene at the time before eventually becoming more nationally and internationally oriented in later years. In English Descriptive notation One of the early chess magazine published.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Provenance from the Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia with their stamp on end papers and pasted down. Heavily rubbed at edges corners bumped and rubbed through some occasional internal soiling and pencil marginalia previous owner's neat pen signature on title front endpaper detached. Over all a good copy of a scarce chess item.</p> J E Wheatley & Company hardcover
1734319London: Printed for the author and sold by C. Rivington at the Bible and the Crown In St. Paul's Church-yard 1734. 3rd. vary rare 3rd edition 8vo xv 278 index full calf tooled panel boards raised bands gilt design spine panels with red leather label edge wear rubbing joints working head and tail worn with original binding in tact engraved frontispiece numerous wood cut head pieces tail pieces and initial letters. One of the earliest and most well-regarded of the gardener's "Kalendars." This popular work by Miller the most well known 18th century English horticulturalist before Arthur Young first published in 1732 went through fifteen editions in the author's lifetime. Text very clean Very Good Copy. $500 Printed for the author, and sold by C. Rivington, at the Bible and the Crown, In St. Paul's Church-yard hardcover
1762100365<p>8vo contemporary calf Illustrated 369 11 pp. Ex-library copy binding scuffed in places with blind library stamp on upper cover Westminster Public Library and shelf number on the spine small piece missing from top of spine hinges are a little weak small library stamp at foot of title and stamp on verso of title and front free endpaper bookplate and library sticker on endpaper bar code sticker on front endpaper normal aging and some minor creasing; still a very decent copy. Miller was the gardener of the Chelsea Physic Garden for the Society of Apothecaries and this was his most popular work Henry Vol. II p.221. According to Hunt Miller’s work which was published in many editions beginning in 1732 was the most popular Gardener’s Calendar in the 18th century. The work includes five black and white folding plates. Hunt p. 186. Henry Vol. II p. 221. </p> books
1760287862London: Printed for the Author and Sold by John Rivington C. Hitch and L. Hawes R. Baldwin and others 1760. Twelfth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The twelfth edition with frontispiece and five folding plates and a Short Introduction to the Knowledge of the Science of Botany pp. 371-417 freely adapted from Linnaeus's early works on binomial nomenclature and descriptive systemic botany. The preface states that "to this edition of the Gardeners Kalendar the author was advised to subjoin a short Introduction to the Science of Botany; in which the definitions of terms of art which are used in the present favourite system of Doctor Linnaeus should be explained for the benefit of practical gardeners . the whole was prepared for the press before the translation of Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica published by Mr. Lee made its appearance." This is presumably one of the first English explanations of Linnaeus's taxonomic work which was still being fleshed out by Linnaeus though it is certainly the first of Philip Miller's popular works to be based on the Linnaean system and also the first with more than simply a frontispiece; the five additional folding plates depict examples of plant Families from the Short Introduction. Index and publisher's advertisements at the rear. Full calf with wear to the joints and beginning of separation to the front joint. ESTC T59406. British Museum A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus 463-4. Very Good binding. Printed for the Author, and Sold by John Rivington, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Baldwin, and others unknown books
174819957London: John and Francis Rivington 1748. Eighth edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 343 & 9 page index. 20 x 13 cm. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by John Pine an accomplished engraver and friend of Hogarth. First published 1731. The author was Gardener of the Chelsea physic garden of the Society of Apothecaries and this work his most popular see: HENREY Vol.II p.221. Raised bands leather spine label printed in gilt text clean. John and Francis Rivington unknown books
175135890London: for John and James Rivington 1751. 8vo. xviii 343 11pp. Frontispiece engraved by J. Pine. Publisher's advert on the terminal page. Title page paper-backed. Early calf rebacked endpapers renewed.<br/> <br/>One of the earliest and most well-regarded of the gardener's "Kalendars."<br/> <br/>This popular work by Miller the most well known 18th century English horticulturalist before Arthur Young first published in 1732 went through fifteen editions in the author's lifetime. This ninth edition is described on the title as having the addition of "a list of the medicinal plants which may be gather'd in each Month for use."<br/> <br/>Henrey 1136; ESTC T73179. for John and James Rivington unknown books
