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17036081703. Copper-line engraving. 255mm by 200mm platemark. The Surgeon removing a growth from the back of his patient<br /> Copper-line engraving published in Paris 1703.Coelemans was a Flemish engraver and David Teniers the Younger a famous Flemish artist.Horizontal printer's crease visible from reverse but barely visible from front. Rare unknown
172531757AB1725. First Edition. London In the Savoy Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq. for T. Corbett at Addison's Head 1725. Small Octavo. 3 unnumbered 224 8 unnumbered pages. Original full leather. Binding in very porr condition but still in its original state. Needs repair. Interior very good with pre-owner's name in ink on titlepage: "RMA Mainish - 1825". Extremely scarce publication. Price reflects condition. Giles Jacob 1686 8 May 1744 was a British legal writer whose works include a well-received law dictionary that became the most popular and widespread law dictionary in the newly independent United States. Jacob was the leading legal writer of his era according to the Yale Law Library. The literary works of Giles Jacob did not fare as well as his legal ones and he feuded with the poet Alexander Pope both publicly and in literary form. Pope named Jacob as one of the dunces in his 1728 Dunciad referring to Jacob as "the blunderbuss of the law". Jacob is remembered well for his legal writing though not so much for his poetry and plays. Giles was born in Romsey Hampshire and was baptized on 22 November 1686. Among eight children Giles was the only son of Henry and Susannah Jacob. Henry Jacob was a maltster who lived until 1735. Giles Jacob's legal training included employment by Thomas Freke and then as a secretary to Sir William Blathwayt. Working for Blathwayt he engaged in litigation and dispensation probably in manorial courts. Jacob's first book The Compleat Court-Keeper 1713 gives detailed and practical instructions for how to administer estate matters. He combined this with a chronological summary of statute law and the combination was financially successful. Jacob always had an interest in contemporary poetry and the literary life and in 1714 he wrote a farce called Love in a Wood or The Country Squire. This play was never produced. He persisted however and in 1717 he wrote a satire of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock in the form of The Rape of the Smock. The poem was low and bawdy and the next year he wrote a serious work titled Tractatus de hermaphroditis about the legal status of intersex people published by Edmund Curll in 1718 along with the first English-language publication of Ioannes Henricus Meibomius's A treatise of the use of flogging in venereal affairs. Title page from an 1811 edition of Jacob's The New Law Dictionary. In 1719 two works appeared by Jacob both very successful. The first was Lex constitutionis which was a thoroughly researched compendium of statute law common law and criminal law schematized according to which powers of the executive branch of the government were involved. While the work's fame and usefulness were surpassed in a few years Jacob's book was a well regarded analysis. The same year he produced the first volume of the Poetical Register with a second volume in 1720. This work provided biographies of contemporary authors as well as earlier ones. According to the literary editor Stephen Jones: He is generally accurate and faithful and affords much information to those who have occasion to consult him. It cannot be denied that he possessed very small abilities; but he was fully equal to a task where plodding industry and not genius must be deemed the essential qualification. In the Poetical Register Jacob criticized the play Three Hours After Marriage 1717 which had been written by John Gay with anonymous assistance from John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope. Jacob wrote that its scenes "trespassed on Female Modesty". He subsequently criticized that play for "obscenity and false Pretence". Jacob had admired Pope had been on good terms with him and had submitted the biographical entry of Pope in the Poetical Register to Pope himself for correction. Jacob likely did not realize that Three Hours After Marriage had been anonymously co-authored by Pope. In The Dunciad of 1728 Pope pounced: Jacob the scourge of grammar mark with awe Nor less revere him blunderbuss of law. Pope explained Jacob's offense as follows: "he very grossly and unprovoked abused in that book the Poetical Register the authors friend Mr. Gay". The play Three Hours After Marriage was panned by most critics as obscene and literary historian Thomas Lounsbury has explained that no one criticized the play "without incurring from Pope an enmity that never died out". In 1725 Jacob wrote The Student's Companion and regarded it as his favorite of the books he had written. It was a guide to studying law with practical tips reviews and indexes. In 1729 his most famous work nine years in the making appeared: A New Law Dictionary. It combined a dictionary of legal practice with an abridgment of statute law and it reached its fifth edition by the time of Jacob's death. As late as 1807 "Jacob's Law Dictionary" was still a very profitable copyright. His last work was Every Man his Own Lawyer which outsold even the law dictionary. It was a self-help book for average citizens who might be involved in litigation. Jacob's legal writings were of a practical and descriptive sort often compared unfavorably to the analytic and theoretical treatises by authors like William Blackstone. But according to historian Julia Rudolph authors like Jacob had a different purpose in that they "were dealing with the problem of knowledge management or 'information overload' and in response to this problem the learning of the law was systematized alphabetized and organized." Jacob's most successful non-legal writing was of a similarly practical and descriptive sort. Jacob married Jane Dexter in 1733 and they had at least one daughter also named Jane.4 He and his family moved to Staines Middlesex where he died on 8 May 1744. Wikipedia hardcover
1774Pa455London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1774. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 4to. .From the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Third to the Thirteenth Year of George the Third Inclusive.xii xiv x 926pp index xiv to the eleventh volume. The Statutes from 1771-1773. INCLUDES 14 Statutes relating to Plantations. Inscribed 'Langley Brackenbury Spilsby'. Spilsby is a small town in the East Lindsay district of Lincolnshire England. Bound in the orginal soft leather full calf binding with red morocco labels to the spine and front boards. Five raised bands to the the spine. Damp stain affecting the front leaves but no loss or wear. A very tight copy in the original binding. <br/> <br/> Charles Eyre and William Strahan hardcover
1728056508London: E. Curll in the Strand 1728. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece. LONDON : 1728. First published Latin 1723 in Quarto and then in English in 1727. Volume two has title-page dated 1727. Hardback. Full brown two-tone panelled calf. All edges sprinkled. Two volumes bound as one. From the library of Geo. Fleming Bishop of Carlisle in his hand to fly-leaf. Engraved frontispiece. Boards detached; ideal for a new spine; restoration. Boards VERY GOOD polished calf. A tight volume. Essentially tight and clean with very minor staining here and there. VERY SCARCE. Essentially a nice copy worthy of a new spine. x 244 131 pages. With 'The State of Those who Rise' - title page dated 1728 48pp with 'The Heathen Notions of the State of the Dead' and 'Resurrection A Poem' by Mr. Addison - sixth edition 38pp. Index 8pp. Will pack well. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Literature Theology and History. <br/> <br/> E. Curll in the Strand hardcover
1798305722London: H. D. Symonds. Good. 1798. Ex-library. Hardcover. Ex-library copies with label on each spine. Ink stamps on each title page and reverse. Newer cloth library binding not buckram. Pages have scattered very slight foxing. Volume One has slight damp stain to upper edges of pages. ; In four volumes. . H. D. Symonds hardcover
17931161The Sporting Magazine 1793. Hardcover. Fair. Poor. 1793 The Sporting Magazine. Covers & most of spine missing. Formerly bound in leather this volume has only one-third of the spine leather remaining & that is flaking off. However the pages are well sewn together & the free endpapers are still present. Pages have a variety of small stains & a few closed edge tears but are NOT brittle. Page 17-18 has been torn out leaving only one corner remaining. Page 195-196 has a long open tear at spine. Some pages have nicks chips or small holes in text. 2 plates out of 12 are MISSING. All of the plates have foxing on edges; some plates have stains as well. One plate has a repaired closed tear. Includes index instructions to binder & Racing Calendars from March-June 1793. 384 24 pages. 'Sold by J. Wheble.' PLATES: Moonshine a Celebrated Deer - The Oatland Stakes at Ascot - View of the Veterinary College - The Death of the Fox - Attack of Mr. Munro by a Tiger - Lurcher - Stag Chase through the Thames - Creeper - Partridge shooting - Dog Kennel at Goodwood. Plates missing: Otter hunting & Cricket match. The Sporting Magazine hardcover
1762r021.172GB: Ebenezer Wilson 1762. Owner's name at start of both volumes. 177 x 105 mm. 346 and 388 pages. Both volumes recently professionally REBOUND in brown leather with five raised bands gold rules and gold lettering to spines. Third Edition. Hardback. VG. Ebenezer Wilson Hardcover
1716WRCLIT65972London: Printed for John Baker at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster Row 1716. 4351pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume untrimmed. Somewhat dusty and lightly foxed upper blank fore-margin of half-title torn away otherwise a good copy. First edition. ESTC locates a single edition but with the date inferential 1716. The present copy is explicitly dated. The occasional attribution to Ayliffe is noted by ESTC but is problematic as the issues herein pertain to charges of disturbing the peace and political rowdiness while at a tavern rather than to the issues that preoccupied Ayliffe at the time. ESTC locates 9 copies in North America. ESTC N24401. Printed for John Baker, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster Row unknown books
1799271076Dublin: Printed by George Grierson 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 53pp. Rebound in brown cloth gilt spine. Light scattered foxing about near fine. Pitt's influential speech arguing for the successful Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies. ESTC T58113. Printed by George Grierson hardcover
17852341099Edinburgh: D. Paterson 1785. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Lacks volume I. Volume II: Lacks front free endpaper. All volumes: Loss to spine head and spine base boards rubbed stained ink and pencil name. 1785 Full-Leather. 335; 312; 288; 292; 304; 324; 287 pp. Seven volume set volumes II-VIII. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England lasting from 1711 to 1712. Each "paper" or "number" was approximately 2500 words long and the original run consisted of 555 numbers beginning on 1 March 1711. These were collected into seven volumes. The paper was revived without the involvement of Steele in 1714 appearing thrice weekly for six months and these papers when collected formed the eighth volume. Eustace Budgell a cousin of Addison's and the poet John Hughes also contributed to the publication. In Number 10 Mr. Spectator states that The Spectator will aim "to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality". The journal reached an audience of thousands of people every day because "the Spectators was something that every middle-class household with aspirations to looking like its members took literature seriously would want to have." He hopes it will be said he has "brought philosophy out of closets and libraries schools and colleges to dwell in clubs and assemblies at tea-tables and coffee–houses". Women were a target audience for The Spectator because one of the aims of the periodical was to increase the number of women who were "of a more elevated life and conversation." Steele states in The Spectator No. 10 "But there are none to whom this paper will be more useful than to the female world." He recommends that readers of the paper consider it "as a part of the tea-equipage" and set aside time to read it each morning. The Spectator sought to provide readers with topics for well-reasoned discussion and to equip them to carry on conversations and engage in social interactions in a polite manner. In keeping with the values of Enlightenment philosophies of their time the authors of The Spectator promoted family marriage and courtesy. D. Paterson hardcover
179014107London, J.Johnson, St.Paul's Church-Tard, 1790. Origi.Lederband, 8°, 405 Seiten.
1719113097London: in Cornhill. Good with no dust jacket. 1719. Second Edition. Hardcover. Full Leather with gilt banding and decorative impressed border. The leather is worn and is rubbed to all extremities and is through to the boards in many edges particularly the corners. Five Raised bands to the spine. The front hinge has split up the full length and there is some splitting to and bottom to the rear hinge however all 'strings' are holding tight and the boards are tight and secure. A small 1. 75" x 1. 75" oval piece of leather is missing to the top of the rear cover. Burgundy/gilt title label rubbed. All page fore-edges browned and dusty/grubby. Internally Plain endpapers - discoloured to the edges and an 'L' shaped cut to the top where an old name in ink has been cut off ! . 12pp Title page /Prelims and Publisher's Preface xxxviii Preface 2pp Index/Errata 54 pp - The Socinian Controversy Disscussed The First Dialogue blank 7pp Mr Leslie's Answer blank 77pp The Second Dialogue blank 73pp The Third Dialogue blank 44pp The Fourth Dialogue 11pp The Fifth Dialogue blank 48pp The Sixth Dialogue 7pp Contents blank. 24pp Title Page = 'A Reply to the Vindication of the Remarks upon Mr. Leslie's First Dialogue on the Socinian Controversy. By the Author of the Dialogues' 4pp 44pp Title Page = 'Mr. Leslie His Answer to the Examination of His Last Dialogue Relating to the Satisfaction of Jesus Christ in a Letter to the Author. With a Supplement in Answer to Mr. Clarendon's Tratise of the Word Person' 4pp 24pp. Title Page 'A Supplement in Answer to Mr. Clarendon His Tractatus Philosophico-Theologicus or A Treatise of the Word PERSON. . The paper colour varies throughout in the different sections - from very white/black to light browny/black but the text block is generally VG Clean and Tight. An ORIGINAL very early 2nd edition of this scarce title. Charles Leslie 1650-1722 a nonjuring Church of Ireland clergyman who later resided in England. In spite of his opposition to Roman Catholicism he became a strong Jacobite and Tory supporter after the Revolution of 1688-89 spending several periods in exile abroad and serving as protestant chaplain to the exiled Stuart court in France and Italy. He was a prolific writer on political and theological subjects. Images available on Request. ; Small 4to 8.5" - 10" tall . in Cornhill. hardcover
180026332002090141800-01-01. Single Issue Magazine. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear.has writing on cover. 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
177764533Boston MA: J. Gill Printer to the General Assembly 1777. The first Fourth of July anniversary oration. First edition. 8vo. 3 - 37 pp. Sewn as issued but without the half-title. A little worn some ink stains scattered foxing. With several textual correction in ink likely by the author. Later an errata sheet was printed for some copies including these same textual corrections. With a contemporary ink inscription on the verso of the last leaf: "the gift of Dr. W. Gordon/ to G. Woods march 17th 1786." <br/>Evans 15317. Rosenbach Judaica 69 with full page illustration of the title page: A sermon "read at this the first Fourth of July celebration held in America." Rev. Gordon was chaplain to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and wrote a four-volume history of the Revolution. Well represented in institutional libraries uncommon in the trade. <br/><br/> J. Gill, Printer to the General Assembly unknown books
17121671London: N.p. 1712. 8vo. 36pp. Disbound. Linen binder's tape on spine. N.p. unknown books
1705113011London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe and Sold By J. Nutt Near Stationers-Hall. Fair with no dust jacket. 1705. First Edition. Hardcover. The Title continues = ." With a Collection Of Poems Satyrs Letters Dialogues Essays Characters Maxims of State Valuable Speeches in both Houses of Parliament by Several Lords and Commons: Printed from Original Manuscripts that give a light into the Secret History of the Times. Written by the Late Duke of Buckingham; Duke of Lauderdal; Marquis of Halifax; Earl Of Rochester; Sir William Temple Sir Edward Seymour; Mr Dryden; Sir George Etherege. ; Mr. Cowley; Mr. Otway; Captain Ayloffe; " and many others . In the probably original full leather boards with a burgundy dulled gilt title label. The boards are scruffy scuffed and scraped with corners through to the boards some leather loss and the front hinge is split and holding on with 5 of the 6 'strings'. There is some leather loss to the top and bottom of the spine and the spine has a centre 'crack' throughout - but all boards/spine are present and holding tight. The page fore-edges are pretty age browned. Internally = plain endpapers - browned and with some light marks/grubbiness - with a full page b/w engraved portrait frontispiece of 'George. Duke. Marquess and Earle of Buckingham ' . A former owners' name in old faded ink at the very top of the title page. 14 xiii 3 264 pp. Some page standing 'proud' of the other edges and a couple of pages coming loose due to gapping in the gutters but overall the text block is clean bright and tight-ish. The print is a good deep colour in general throughout. Quite Scarce in First Edition. Ask for further detail if required. See IMAGES ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and Sold By J. Nutt Near Stationers-Hall, hardcover
171534417London Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page on Tower Hall no date c. 1715. Folio. 53X35 cm. Cont. hcalf with marbled boards. Rebacked and recornered in old style with raised bands. Engraved typographical titlepage with a large engraved vignette showing the English King's Coat of Arms. With all 15 double-page engraved sea-charts numbered 1-15 in lower right corners. Neat repairs to inner margins of free endpapers and titlepage. Some browning to charts. Chart 5 45x755 cm having the right margin shaved reaching the printed frame. <br/><br/><em>Second edition of this scarce "Atlas Maritime". According to Shirley it was first published by Richard Mount and Thomas Page in 1701 and re-issued with undated title as this in ab. 1715 but with the charts unchanged and a new engraved titlepage. A third issue came out in 1737 with a dated title. The fine charts are copied from Pieter Mortier's famous "Neptune Francois" 1693-1702 and reduzed in size."The charts in this early Mount & Page atlas "The Sea-Coasts of France" are re-engravings reduzed in size from the charts in the French Neptune of 1693. The charts may also be found in the 1702 edition of Mount and Page's Atlas Maritimus Novus." Rodney Shirley. - Not in Phillips. - Shirley Vol. II: M.M&P - 12 b. </em> hardcover
175535632London: Scots Magazine 1755. First Edition. Leather bound. Defective. Octavo. 12 monthly issues bound in one volume. 648 pages 16 pages partial index. No illustrations in this volume. Brown calf leather binding with red leather title labels on the spine. Defective. Missing all the preliminary pages. Missing index pages and rear end papers after the name "Stuart". Leather covers are rubbed and edge worn. Outer joints and inner hinges are cracked. Covers are loose but attached. Title page has light damp stains and a small scuff. Pages 159 160 have an edge tear resulting in minor loss of print. The first page is present in the January issue. Defective.<br /> <br /> A sampling of subjects covered in this volume include East India Company Mutiny Bill; Sir Isaac Newton on the ancient year; Affairs in Spain Barbary and France; An Account of Mr. Johnson's English Dictionary; Improvements of the musket and of church-music; 'Pensylvania' German Protestants; Importance of British Plantations; Gov. Dinwiddies Speech to the assembly of Virginia; Gov. Dobb's message to the assembly of N. Carolina; Affairs in the United Provinces and the Plantations; General Braddock's defeat with the lists; Further accounts of the fatal action in America; Affairs in France and the Plantations; Different accounts of General Braddock's defeat; An Examination of the Edinburgh Review; A New History of 'Pensylvania'; Of the French 'incroachments' in America; Gov. Glen's interview with the Cherokee Indians; Speeches of Indian Chiefs and several more articles. Contents also include European history public affairs parliament acts births deaths marriages poetry book reviews and more. Interior contents are mostly in good condition. Volume published during the French Indian War era in America. Scots Magazine unknown
1779AQ19207London: Printed for J. Almon 1779. 12pp. Uncut stitched as issued. Central horizontal crease lightly spotted and dust-soiled. The sole edition in original state of an anonymous verse satire mocking one of several follies on the Hertfordshire estate of Thomas Villiers first Earl of Clarendon 1709-1786; a 'low wooden Building of an oblong Form covered with thatch' referred to as the 'Scotch Hut' designed to serve as a pigsty. In prefatory remarks the author explains that he refers to Thomas Villiers 'Euphorbus' as 'I should have blushed to call you in plain English a Swineherd'. ESTC T47191. First edition. Quarto. Printed for J. Almon unknown
17082010210097London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe and are to be sold by B. Bragge 1708. Hardcover. Acceptable. Octavo 20 cm. Bound in contemporary Cambridge-style calf. 14 xvi 14 288 pages two engraved plates. No frontispiece illustration the book begins with the title page. A couple pages loose. Burnaby's translation altered and enlarged by Wilson and others. Cf. Bibliographical Society London. Transactions v. 10 p. 182. "The charms of liberty": pages 281-288. ESTC T105571. London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and are to be sold by B. Bragge hardcover
1753006609Fronting Stationers Hall & Ipswich: P. Stephens and W. Craighton 1753. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti or /above title In Question and Answer: With The Lives and Travels of the Virgin Mary and Joseph of our Saviour Jesus Christ his Apostles & an Explanation of the Fixed and Moveable Feasts in Commemoration of their lives and Martydoms and their Successors in the Church carried down to the present Time. Designed for use in Schools and nesessary in all Families. To Which is added a Supplement describing the Universe the Calculation of Time and the Regulation of Seasons Months and Years. A brief Chronology from the creation to our SAVIOUR'S Birth Tables of Scripture-Measures Weights and Coins accurately calculated and by decimal Arithmetick reduced to our English valuation; a large catalogue of remarkable Scripture Names the characters and Conditions of them in general. An a Form of Prayer founded on the Scriptural Accounts of our fall in Adam and glorious Restoration of Jesus Christ. Illustrated with Eleven Curious Copper-Plates engraved by the best hands. The Third Edition Improved. Printed for the Author and sold by all other Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland 1753 Price bound Two Shillings and Six Pence Fair-/No dust jacket heavy finsih loss& some chipping & cracking to full leather boards w/ornate inlaid gilt trimmed rectangular/tringangular centered designed motief on front & rear. Corners are worn rounded partially away spinestirp edging is taped w/black makeshift rebinding 1"x1/4" chip on spinestrip marbled endpapers cracked hinges 1/4" dampstain on top edges of front endpaper & pastedown Frontis engraved portrait of Rev.Christopher Brown with his books/Labeled : Divinity Philosophy Astronomy History Chronology & Geography & Poem by Creech & also Latin Verse Dedication page to His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales w/engraved 3"x4" print of Royal Coat of Arms Profusely illustrated w/fascinating engraved plates; one of which is dedicated to Thomas Lord Bishop of London; of which depicts Holy Land map w/old english navigational globed sphere and Lords of England gathered in specualtion. This book is Intriguing! 200pp. Finis. . Fair-. Full-Leather. 1753. Fronting Stationers Hall & Ipswich: P. Stephens and W. Craighton, 1753 hardcover
172956866London, Joseph Downing, 1729. priv.Lederband der Zeit, kl.8°, 141 Seiten.
1710WRCLIT66407London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer 1710. 32p. Octavo. Sewn untrimmed. A bit dusty dime- size spot in extended fore-margin of first several leaves else very good. First edition printing in octavo format. Copies were also printed in 4to with altered pagination. Smalridge 1662 - 1719 later Bishop of Bristol was highly regarded as a poet and essayist -- he was among those suspected of having written A TALE OF A TUB and earned praise from both Swift and Johnson. ESTC N13204. GOLDSMITHS 4638. KRESS 2676. Printed for Jonah Bowyer unknown books
174500281582Dublin: G. Risk G. And A. Ewing and W. Smith 1745 Leather spine raised bands red title plate boards tight some edgewear foxing. Translated from the French. Printed by A. Reilly. 305 pgs. Catalogue of books printed. Very rare Dublin edition OCLC list 0 holdings. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Owner's Name. Full-Leather. Very Good. G. Risk, G. And A. Ewing, and W. Smith, hardcover
