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1799BOOKS057994ILondon: A. Strahan Printers 1799. HC. very good rebound in 1/2 green leather hardcover. Volume I 347pp; and Volume II 374pp. Very clean and tight set rebound in green leather spines with marbled boards and endpapers. A. Strahan, Printers unknown
173057024Pierre Dunoyer. Very Good. 1730. Reprint. Hardcover. "Memoirs of the Marquis de Feuquière lieutenant-general of the King's armies; Containing his Maxims on War and the application of Examples to Maxims. Multicolored marbled endpapers full calf binding. Five raised spine bands decorated gilt spine. Red title label. All edges red stain. Two fold-out maps bound-in. Leather starting at upper spine. Binding otherwise sound inner pages unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages . Pierre Dunoyer hardcover
1737BOOKS313113VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1737. Stationery. 100 Thousand acres for William Cory Samuel Heath William English John Dyer Francis Sylvester Catherine Cory William Cosby Elizabeth Mills Catherine Hunt Timothy Bagly Charles O'Neill Sarah Hunt and Danial Bagly. Mostly from Ireland. To be Surveyed by Cadwallader Colden. This was land that the King did not own. It became a folly sale. . 4to. 6 pp. Early ribbon tied fold stains. No watermark. Minor holes in fold. . unknown
179926127Northampton MA: William Butler 1799. Good. Northampton MA: William Butler 1799. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary sheep red gilt spine label half perished; vii8-4482pp. A-3H4 3I1 collated and complete. Leather rather scuffed and dried contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper textblock complete but broken with leaves Z-3L4 separated and a bit worn at extremities. A Good copy only. Printed errata and errata cancel to p. 449.<br /> <br /> EVANS 35583; SABIN 72975. William Butler unknown
175495186Erlangen 1754. Hardcover. Poor. This volume only of 3. 74 of 76 plates and maps plus 2 unnumbered facsimiles. Old full leather. 25 cm. Backstrip almost entirely detached along rear joint. Lacks 2 plates numbers I and XXXIII. Old ownership stamp Marie Steiger Zamoyska and a couple of others covered up. German text. Pococke did put a nose on his illustration of the Sphinx and had some other inaccuracies. Despite such errors Pococke's book is generally regarded as one of the best early accounts of travel in the Middle East. This is not the finest of copies but it is an inexpensive and serviceable copy of the 1754 German edition of the Pococke's Egyptian volume. hardcover
175595187Erlangen 1755. Hardcover. Poor. This volume only of 3. 63 of 67 plates and maps numbered XXXVII-CIII. Old full leather. 25 cm. General wear. Cover almost entirely detached at front hinge. Lacks 4 plates or maps numbers XLIII LIX LXII and LXIII. Old ownership stamp Marie Steiger Zamoyska and a smaller hard to deciper circular stamp. German text. Pococke did put a nose on his illustration of the Sphinx in the Egyptian volume and had some other inaccuracies. Despite such errors this is generally regarded as one of the best early accounts of travel in the Middle East. This is not the finest of copies but it is an inexpensive and serviceable copy of the 1755 German edition of the Pococke's volume on travel in Ottoman-controlled 18th century Greece including Thrace and elsewhere in Europe. hardcover
1747045257Henry Lintot Assignee of Edward Sayer Esq for J Stephens et al 1747. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. '.From the Second of King James I to Trinity Term the Twenty-first of King george II 1747 inclusive. Examined by the Originals. To which are now added many useful RULES of Court omitted in former Collections and a Translation in Opposite Columns of the Rules heretofore Printed in Latin: Together with large Notes Remarks and References shewing the antiant and present Practice of the said Court: and a new Alphabetical Table to the Whole. The Second edition with additions. Bound with Rules and Orders and Notices in the Court of Common Pleasat Westminster from the Thirty-Fifth of King Henry VI. Second edition. and a Table to the Rules of Practice in the Court of Common Pleas. Fully bound in leather. 5 raised bands to spine. '1' on spine. Remains of hand-written library sticker to spine. .'No. 30' written in ink to front endpaper. <br/> <br/> Henry Lintot (Assignee of Edward Sayer Esq) for J Stephens et al hardcover
1795000172No Place: No Publisher 1795. Double-sided broadsheet printed in landscape on one side and portait on the other approximately 330mm x 200mm. Slightly browned one or two spots of foxing with old folds 'County Subscr. 179A' in ink to reverse. Showing the income and expenditure of the local defences against invasion in and around Newcastle including the erecting of beacons and new roads 'for the speedy conveyance of Artillery' the reverse is a list of debtors who have yet to pay their subscriptions. Not found in ESTC. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 8vo Oblong. Broadsheet. No Publisher Paperback
1799030880London: J Debrett 1799 Blue cloth on boards with gilt titles and library reference number on spine. This has been rebound for Plymouth Naval History Library. The 1799 contents are original and in very tidy condition. The rebound end papers contain bookplate and stamp of the Naval library and verso of titla page bears library stamp otherwise contents are clean and flat. There is a library bar code on the rebound rear end paper. Library stamp of folio fore-edges. This is Volume I which has the English to French vocabulary. This is a very scarce volume. J Debrett hardcover
1758T374Dublin: John Exshaw Dame Street 1758. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. 8vo. 369-425pp. A disbound copy of the Dublin version of the Gentleman's Magazine for the month of July 1758. Fine fresh paper with no foxing wear or marks. The title-page lists 19 articles on the title-page and includes a fine copy of the rare folding sheet map 'A New and Accurate Map of Germany Drawn from the latest surveys Discribing the Port Roads & Distances from Town to Town according to the original Map of the Prussion Routs Published at berlin By Richd Bennet Engineer'. Engraved by S. Wheatley.33x26 cms. Trifle margin crop lower corner. Title-page call for a map of the Channel Islands but Germany map present. Please email for photos. <br/> <br/> John Exshaw, Dame Street unknown
180074114London: Vernor & Hood J. Wallis & Crosby & Letterman 1800. 12mo. xii 300 pp. Sheepskin boards rebacked onto a matching brown calf with black bands and gilt lettering. Engraved frontis and title illustration. Slight loss to head of spine; little nicks to calf and inside boards. Light foxing and marks to leaves. Bookplate of J. O. Edwards to front paste-down endpaper. Possibly a copyright copy 'I have assigned over all right. ' from M. Kennedy to John Purdie written in ink to verso of frontis dated to 1801 and 'M Kennedy now John Purdie' written to top of contents page. . Good. Full Leather. 1800. Vernor & Hood, J. Wallis & Crosby & Letterman 1800 hardcover
17550083071755. Very Good. Handwritten parchment deed folded. On 2 Aug. 1755 a quadrupartite deed involving #1 Thomas Benfield of Cheltenham in Gloucester County innholder; #2 Thomas White the elder of the same place yeoman and Thomas White the younger of the parish of Cheltenham yeoman; #3 John Ellis of the city of Gloucester ironmonger; and #4 Daniel Cooke of Cheltenham of the city of Gloucester tallowchandler. Relates to about 6 acres of land in the parish of Cheltenham. Signed by Thomas Benfield and both Thomas Whites each with a wax seal. Six blue 6-pence stamps along one side; one GR 248 stamp on the outside. In Very Good Condition: separation at one fold with minor loss; light soiling; solid. unknown
1762500016064London: Browne Worrall Schuckburgh 1762. Second edition. . Hardcover. Poor. 4to. very nice internally.front board detached. surface loss to boards. Small loss to spine ends. <br/> <br/> Browne, Worrall, Schuckburgh hardcover
1762500016063London: Brown Worrall Schuckburgh 1762. 2nd Edition. . Hardcover. Good. 4to. very nice internally. worn boards cracked joints. <br/> <br/> Brown, Worrall, Schuckburgh hardcover
17112110502150908978Not Available 1711. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
1795038682Paris Circa 1795 1795. Original Antique Engraving . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Original Antique Color Stipple Etching On Laid Paper. Text At Bottom Left "Peint A La Gouache Par Vangorp" At Bottom Right "Grave Par Malles Sic Sous La Direction De Bonnet" With Title "Le Dejeuner De Fanfan" Below In Large Script. Plate Mark 35.5 X 28 Cm. Overall 18 3/8" X 12 5/8". Jean-Baptiste Mallet 1759-1835 Was A French Painter. Pupil Of Simon Julien In Toulon Then Of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon In Paris It Is Also Said Pupil Of Mérimée Mallet Made Small Gouaches And Watercolors Which Constitute A True Chronicle Of The Society Of Directory And The First Empire . As A Genre Painter He Also Created Troubadour Paintings Geneviève De Brabant La Salle De Bains And Gallant Works L'heure De Rendez-Vous . The Work Of Jean-Baptiste Mallet Was Influenced By Greuze Fragonard Born Like Him In Grasse And Louis-Léopold Boilly . <br/> <br/> unknown
1795015966Paris Circa 1795 1795. Original Antique Engraving . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Original Antique Color Stipple Etching On Laid Paper. Text At Bottom Left "Peint A La Gouache Par Vangorp" At Bottom Right "Grave Par Malles Sic Sous La Direction De Bonnet" With Title "Le Dejeuner De Fanfan" Below In Large Script. Plate Mark 35.5 X 28 Cm. Overall 18 3/8" X 12 5/8". Jean-Baptiste Mallet 1759-1835 Was A French Painter. Pupil Of Simon Julien In Toulon Then Of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon In Paris It Is Also Said Pupil Of Mérimée Mallet Made Small Gouaches And Watercolors Which Constitute A True Chronicle Of The Society Of Directory And The First Empire . As A Genre Painter He Also Created Troubadour Paintings Geneviève De Brabant La Salle De Bains And Gallant Works L'heure De Rendez-Vous . The Work Of Jean-Baptiste Mallet Was Influenced By Greuze Fragonard Born Like Him In Grasse And Louis-Léopold Boilly . <br/> <br/> unknown
175244743Berlin Haude et Spener 1752. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres" tome VI 1750 pp.144-162. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Marggraf's importent investigation of the so-called "Bologna-Stone" in which he found that its base is different from lime it is heavier and more soluble. In this memoir he anticipated Lavoisier’s conclusions by identifying the constituents of gypsum as waterlime and vitriolic acid.Bologna stone any of the dense silvery white stones first found 1603 on Mount Paderno near Bologna by an Italian cobbler-alchemist Vicenzo Cascariolo who synthesized from them a luminescent material that glowed at night after being exposed by day to the Sun. Originally thought to be the philosopher’s stone that was believed capable of transmuting base metals into gold Bologna stone ultimately was shown to be the mineral barite barium sulfate. </em> unknown
175045043Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1750. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Tome I. Pp. 261-282 and 2 engraved plates. A small tear to lower margin of first leaf no loss. <br/><br/><em>First printing of an importent memoir in hydraulics in which Petit-Vandin demonstrated that - contrary to the long held belief that float-boards on water-mills ought to be so proportioned that when one of them was in vertical position or at the middle of its immersion the next one should be just entering the water - the more float-boards such a wheel has the greater and more uniform will be the effects. </em> hardcover
1748AQ23312London: Printed for R. Dodsley 1748. xiv 2 192pp. With a half-title. Title in red and black. Contemporary calf recently rebacked contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed corners exposed. Scattered spotting. The first volume of the younger William Melmoth's bap. 1710 d. 1799 Letters on Several Subjects appeared in 1748 with the second appearing the following year. Though considered to be largely fictionalised they do contain some autobiographical truths being illustrative of Melmoth's preferred themes of morality arts rhetoric antiquity and the pressing matter of cruelty to insects. Printed under the pseudonym of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne the work would become a best-seller for publisher J. Dodsley reaching the tenth edition by 1795. Samuel Johnson was not however an admirer once commenting; 'From the author of Fitzosborne's letters I cannot think myself much in danger. I met him only once about thirty years ago and in some small dispute reduced him to whistle.' ESTC T96245. Second edition. 8vo. Printed for R. Dodsley unknown
1784AQ14479London: Printed for J. Dodsley 1784. xii 452pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary tree-calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece spine richly gilt. A trifle rubbed splitting to joints some loss to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate to FEP an internally clean and crisp copy. The first volume of the younger William Melmoth's bap. 1710 d. 1799 Letters on Several Subjects appeared in 1748 with the second appearing the following year. Though considered to be largely fictionalised they do contain some autobiographical truths being illustrative of Melmoth's preferred themes of morality arts rhetoric antiquity and the pressing matter of cruelty to insects. Printed under the pseudonym of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne the work would become a best-seller for publisher J. Dodsley reaching the tenth edition by 1795. Samuel Johnson was not however an admirer once commenting; 'From the author of Fitzosborne's letters I cannot think myself much in danger. I met him only once about thirty years ago and in some small dispute reduced him to whistle.' ESTC T96244. Ninth edition. 8vo. Printed for J. Dodsley unknown
1795AQ21658London: Printed for J. Ridgway 1795. xxxii 396 154pp. 'Political miscellanies' has separate pagination and register. With an engraved frontispiece and an engraved title page vignette. With an 'Advertisement to the fourth edition' implying that this is the fourth edition. Contemporary tree-calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece gilt. Extremities rubbed small worm-hole to upper joint. Offsetting to title occasional spotting. A collection of satires on Pitt and his followers by Richard Tickell Richard Fitzpatrick Joseph Richardson George Ellis and others that originally appeared in the Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser for 1784 and after. Each number of the 'Criticisms on the Rolliad' professed to be a commentary of a new epic that had just appeared. The Rolliad took its name from John Rolle M.P. 'Probationary odes' purported to be the competitive essays of Warton's rivals for the Laureatship. ESTC T133708. 8vo. Printed for J. Ridgway unknown
1728Ant48661728. Manning Robert Half calf rubbed and worn. Front board detached Ramsgate Abbey library book plate unknown
1797461393Printed for Cadell and Davies London 1797. Good. 1797. Hardcover. hardback 8vo xii564pp owner's name on title page some light foxing throughout otherwise clean and internal binding sound full leather rubbed lacks spine title label joints cracking but boards still firmly attached; Good condition . Printed for Cadell and Davies, London, 1797. hardcover
179028124London: J. Johnson 1790. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. 105 pp 3 pp publisher's adverts. Hardback bound in contemporary calf gilt decorated with six panels on spine. Marbled end papers. Leather covers scuffed and rubbed otherwise Good condition. <br/> <br/> J. Johnson hardcover