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1868142402060026Longmans Green and Co 1868. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1868 PRINTING. REBOUND BY LIBRARY WITH NEWER COVERS. Ex-Library with usual markings: catalogue sticker on spine stamp on endpapers. Pages show few instances of underlining or annotation mostly clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show shelf wear rubbing to corners and edges scuffing along spine. Binding tight hinges strong. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover
1802WRCAM32884London: I.R. Smith 1802. Handcolored mezzotint 17 1/2 x 19 inches. Small tear in lower margin slightly affecting image and caption. Minor edge wear and dust soiling. Mounted on heavy card. Fair only. Archivally matted protected with mylar sheet. Later issue after the first of 1789. A striking mezzotint engraved by J.R. Smith after a 1785 painting by Joseph Wright showing an Indian woman looking out over a serene ocean while her deceased husband's tomahawk war club and quiver hang above her on a dead tree. In the background a steaming volcano and thunderclouds complete the pastoral scene. When the painting was first exhibited in 1785 this description accompanied it: <br> <br> "This picture is founded on the custom which prevails among the savage tribes of America where the widow of an eminent warrior is used to sit the whole day during the first moon after his death under a rude kind of trophy formed by a tree lopped and painted; on which the weapons and martial habiliments of the dead are suspended. She remains in this situation without shelter and perseveres in her mournful duty at the hazard of her own life from the inclemencies of the weather." <br> <br> Though Wright never travelled to America he depended heavily on James Adair's HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 1775 for anthropological information for this painting. The original remains at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Quite rare. Not on OCLC. I.R. Smith unknown books
18902374Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. London. Paris, and New York. Publishers to the Queen. Designed at the Studios in England. Printed at the Fine Art Works in Bavaria. [Vers 1890]. Ensemble de 5 ouvrages (19 x 12,7 cm). N° 3613, 3618, 3620, 3621, 3623. Chacun de (12) pp. avec deux planches chromolithographiées légendées : couvertures de carton souple glacées, la première chromolithographiée.
180558119Arbroath: J. Findlay 1805. First Edition. 4to 472 485. Two volumes volume one has a frontis portrait of Queen Mary. Bound in contemporary 3/4 cald and marble boards spines well worn front cover of volume 2 almost separate some minor foxing but nice margins inside a good set. Heavy. J. Findlay unknown books
1806D16198Printed by J. Finlay Arbroath For James Morison Bookseller Perth 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. Two small quarto volumes bound uniformly in modern 3/4 navy blue morocco and blue cloth. pp. 472 and 485. Lacking portrait frontispiece and map in first volume. Repair to top of final leaf in first volume with loss of some text. But overall a fresh handsome set. <br/><br/> Printed by J. Finlay, Arbroath, For James Morison, Bookseller, Perth hardcover books
1805d925.002aGB: Arbroath: Printed By J. Findlay . 1805. Contemporary full leather. Spines ruled and decorated in gold with gold on burgundy title labels. Main texts of 492 and 479 pages. List of subscribers at end of Vol 2 continues pagination to 490 with an extra leaf of "Subscribers Names Continued". "George Dempster 1805 p £1-5" written at top of each titel page. George Dempster Esq Dunnichen is a subscriber. Frontispiece in Vol 1 has been REMOVED. There is no map or other illustrations. Minor marks to endpapers. Books are generally quite clean and tight but some occasional spotting and stains. Books are in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB 2021 £8 Packed weight 2200g. . Hardback. G/No DW. Arbroath: Printed By J. Findlay .. Hardcover
1806D16198Printed by J. Finlay Arbroath For James Morison Bookseller Perth 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. Two small quarto volumes bound uniformly in modern 3/4 navy blue morocco and blue cloth. pp. 472 and 485. Lacking portrait frontispiece and map in first volume. Repair to top of final leaf in first volume with loss of some text. But overall a fresh handsome set. <br/><br/> Printed by J. Finlay, Arbroath, For James Morison, Bookseller, Perth hardcover
185611298London: Sherwood and Company; James Cornish Booksellers 1856. Fourth Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Fourth Edition. Full Calf. "This essay is intended as a foundation for belief in revealed religion in connection with the theory of celestial influences or astrology." Richard James Morrison 15 June 1795 - 5 April 1874 was an English astrologer commonly known by his pen name Zadkiel and best known for the series known as Zadkiel's Almanac. Morrison in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac. In this annual pamphlet he published predictions of the chief events of the coming year. Morrison wrote with the signature Zadkiel Tao-Sze. Morrison wrote such articles as The New Principia or true system of astronomy in which the Earth is proved to be the stationary centre of the Solar System 1868 which made him a charlatan in the eyes of scientists. In 1863 he won a libel suite against Admiral Sir Edward Belcher who wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Morrison was "the crystal globe seer who gulled many of our nobility about the year 1852." He was awarded twenty shillings one pound damages but was deprived of his costs. The Athenaeum 16 May 1874 p. 666 noted that Morrison was "the restorer and Grand Master in this country of Tao-Sze a secret society intended to be of immense power and to outshine the Free-masons but which most probably by his death is reduced to two members and inanition". Robert Cross Smith 1795-1832 was an English astrologer writing under the pseudonym of "Raphael" Starting on upper and rear joints cracking rubbing to extremities repair to folding color plate otherwise tight bright and unmarred. Full blind stamped red calf with worn gilt decorative vignette. Red titling on tp. and charts. Elaborate large folding frontispiece printed in colors unprofessionally repaired backed with linen. xix 66pp. Illus. color b/w. Sherwood and Company; James Cornish, Booksellers unknown
189054424London: Royal Institution of Great Britain 1890. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Creased vertically; moderate foxing. Handwritten in ink at the top of the first page "With the author's compliments." In this brief history of the discovery the author examines the interpretation of the term "photography" which literally translates to writing with light; therefore although unable to "fix" the affects of light upon silver Johann Heinrich Schulze would be the first photographer. Meldola remarks upon the work of Niepce Daguerre and Fox Talbot et al for laying the photochemical foundation from which all subsequent processes derive. <br /> <br /> Raphael Meldola 1849 - 1915 was a noted professor of organic chemistry member of numerous scientific societies and author of The Chemistry of Photography 1889. <br /> <br /> WorldCat locates a single copy at Cornell. Royal Institution of Great Britain] unknown
18497267London: David Bogue 1849. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1849 1st edition of this very attractive study of the open timber roof of the Middle Ages. "Illustrated by Perspective and Working Drawings of Some of the Best Varieties of Church Roofs; with Descriptive Letter-Press". VG in its decorative blindstamped panels. Bright gilt-design and lettering to the front panel and spine as well. Light fraying along the spine crown otherwise very clean. Beautiful steel-engravings thruout and with their original tissue-guards. Tall quarto striking hand-colored frontispiece. Careful meticulous former owner margin notes in pencil to the text and tasteful bookplate Charles Grant Ellis at the front pastedown. <br/><br/> David Bogue hardcover books
1849000710London: David Bogue 1849. Collation viii87pp 20 full page plates. Bound in modern half calf calf corners cloth boards. Library number on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally no loose pages no writing or marking occasional library mark. Pages and illustrations in very good clean condition. Book measures 25x31cms. C. First Edition. Quarto. David Bogue hardcover
1850016664W Kent & Co 1850. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Ex libris John Hall FRIBA. Slight yellowing to endpapers. A robust unmarked copy in original dark embossed boards that are bumped at the corners but in other respects hardly worn. Slight fadint to the spine and light rubbing to its head and foot. Gilt titling on spine fully legible if not as bright as it once was. <br/> <br/> W Kent & Co hardcover
1849025558David Bogue 1849. Hardcover. Good. Nice first edition hard cover copy in publisher's cloth binding. good Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No Amazon international order on this title. Size: Folio David Bogue hardcover
184933133London: David Bogue 1849. 4to. pp. viii. 87 & 43 lithographic plates including 5 finished in colour. In the original blind stamped dark green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. There is a publisher's advert for works by the author pasted to the front pastdown beneath which is a small nobleman's bookplate the name Shelbourne is also written in pencil at the head of the title page. Also another owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper . Near Fine. Publisher's Cloth. First Edition. 1849. David Bogue 1849 hardcover
1849BMM4505London: David Bogue 1849. Illustrated by Perspective and Working Drawings of Some of the Best Varieties of Church Roofs with Descriptive Letter-Press; Lovely black & white illustration 5 have color; Rebound with original cloth laid over blind covers decoration gilt covers devices; gilt spine title & pale apricot pastedown/endpapers; A very good text block in a fresh binding by John Buller of Bessenberg Bindery; 87 text pages. Size: 9.75"x12.25". Hardcover. David Bogue Hardcover
1849856A23London: David Bogue 1849. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12.5" by 10" . Not Stated . The first edition of this large paper study of medieval architecture lavishly illustrated. The first edition of this work. With forty-three full page plates three in colour and further vignette illustrations in text. Collated complete. Dedicated to the architectural feature of open timber roofs of the middle ages written by Raphael and J Arthur Brandon architects and authors of 'Parish Churches' 'An Analysis of Gothic architecture' &c. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture Canterbury School of Architecture and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with light wear to extremities bumped to head and tail of spine back strip faded. Internally firmly bound. Light minor spotting scattered to leaves pages otherwise generally very clean throughout. Very Good David Bogue hardcover
18497267London: David Bogue 1849. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1849 1st edition of this very attractive study of the open timber roof of the Middle Ages. "Illustrated by Perspective and Working Drawings of Some of the Best Varieties of Church Roofs; with Descriptive Letter-Press". VG in its decorative blindstamped panels. Bright gilt-design and lettering to the front panel and spine as well. Light fraying along the spine crown otherwise very clean. Beautiful steel-engravings thruout and with their original tissue-guards. Tall quarto striking hand-colored frontispiece. Careful meticulous former owner margin notes in pencil to the text and tasteful bookplate Charles Grant Ellis at the front pastedown. David Bogue unknown
1898121231London: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1898. Good. Father Tuck's "Little Treasures" Series. No. 1525. 12 p. 26 cm. Colour and b&w drawings. Staplebound card covers. Front cover illustration. Soiling to covers esp. on rear. Tear at bottom of rear board through all pages. Creased upper front corner. Light soiling to interior. <br/><br/> Raphael Tuck & Sons unknown
1833D19135London: To be had at the Prinicpal booksellers 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 19th century 3/4 leather and boards. Spine nicely gilt. Text in both English and French. Scattered foxing as typical. Illustrated throughout. <br/><br/> To be had at the Prinicpal booksellers hardcover
1891111111113531W. Foulsham and Co 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. W. Foulsham and Co.; London 1891. Hardcover. A Very Good green cloth binding with black lettering and black decorative design on front board black lettering on spine blind stamped decorative design on rear board binding intact rubbing along board and spine edges bit of warping/bubbling of buckram front and rear board near spine slightly curled board corners with small abrasions bit of crimping to spine edges age toning to pages some discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers bit of scattered foxing to front and back matters starting hinges small soiled stain mid fore-edge small crease top corner rear free endpaper without Dust wrapper. A nice overall clean and unmarked copy. 32motricesimo-secondo or approx. 3.75 x 5.75 inches. 108pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. W. Foulsham and Co hardcover
1820P5280Italy c.1820. Very Good. Notes: The tondo circular painting was popular in Renaissance Florence for private apartments. <br> Image Size : Platemark Size : Paper Size : 353x356 mm 13.90x14.02 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Engraving Categories: Religious Christianity; unknown
180720249London: Johnson J. Et Al. Poor with no dust jacket. 1807. First Edition. Hardcover. Oversized six volume set. Calfskin titled in gilt marbled textblock edges. 1807 new edition. Poor to fair condition. Ex-library with bookplates and reinforced/taped spines a few library stamps. The first volume is in the poorest condition. Hinges cracked and boards detached on V. 1 and boards nearly detached in other volumes. Scattered foxing. The pages are still reasonably well attached to the spines and the contents are quite legible. The leather board edges are frayed and deteriorating. Scarce. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Johnson, J. Et Al hardcover
1807SET23-B-1London : J. Johnson F. C. and J. Rivington et al 1807-9. Leather. Very Good. 12" by 9.5". None. Three scarce complete sets of early nineteenth-century publications of influential Medieval and Early-Modern Era chronicles uniformly and finely bound. Holinshed's Chronicles also known as Holinsheds Chronicles of England Scotland and Ireland is a collaborative work published in several volumes and two editions the first in 1577 and the second in 1587. In 1548 Reginald Wolfe a London printer conceived the idea of creating a "Universal Cosmography of the whole world and there with also certain particular histories of every known nation." He wanted the work to be printed in English and he wanted maps and illustrations in the book as well. Wolfe acquired many of John Leland's works and with these he constructed chronologies and drew maps that were up to date. When Wolfe realised he could not complete this project on his own he hired Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison to assist him. Wolfe died with the work still uncompleted in 1573 and the project changed to a work about just the British Isles was run by a consortium of three members of the London stationers. They kept Raphael Holinshed who employed William Harrison Richard Stanyhurst Edmund Campion and John Hooker. In 1577 the work was published in two volumes after some censorship by the Privy Council of some of Stanyhurst's contribution on Ireland. Shakespeare used the revised second edition of the Chronicles published in 1587 as the source for most of his history plays the plot of Macbeth and for portions of King Lear and Cymbeline. Richard Grafton c. 15111572 was King's Printer under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was a member of the Grocers' Company and MP for Coventry elected 1562-63. On the accession of Edward VI Grafton was appointed King's Printer and this gave him the sole right to print all Acts and Statutes. He had held the appointment for six years when on the King's death he printed a proclamation of the accession of Lady Jane Grey in which he signed himself "Printer to the Queen." For this he was cast into prison by Mary I. John Cawood became Queen's Printer and Grafton's career as a printer ended. In prison Grafton compiled an Abridgement of the Chronicles of England which he published in 1563. To this he added in 1568 A Chronicle at Large. Enguerrand de Monstrelet c. 1400 20 July 1453 French chronicler belonged to a noble family of Picardy. In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the gavenier i.e. receiver of the gave a kind of church rate at Cambrai and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence. He was for some time bailiff of the cathedral chapter and then provost of Cambrai. Little else is known about Monstrelet except that he was present not at the capture of Joan of Arc but at her subsequent interview with Philip the Good duke of Burgundy. Continuing the work of Froissart Monstrelet wrote a Chronique which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444 when according to another chronicler Mathieu d'Escouchy he ceased to write. Monstrelet's own writings dealing with the latter part of the Hundred Years' War are valuable because they contain a large number of documents which are certainly and reported speeches which are probably authentic. This publication of Monstrelet's chronicles are the first English translation translated by Thomas Johnes. 'Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normany by the English their explusion thense and of other memorable events that happened in the Kindom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII and continued by others to the year MDXVI'. Holinshed contains facsimiles of the original 1586 titles and a handwritten 'list of Kings of Scotland from Holinshed's History' loosely inserted. Grafton contains facsimiles of the original 1569 titles and a table to the rear 'declaring the reignes of euerie King of this Realme'. Monstrelet has vignette titles and volume v is made up of 51 plates one folding collate complete. Armorial bookplates of Coulthart of Coulthart and Collyn 'Virtue non Verbis' to front pastedown of every volume. Three sets uniformly bound in decorative full diced calf. Externally very attractive with a lovely patina to the spines. There is some wear and rubbing to the extremities occasioning slight loss to some of the spine leather: very slight to the heads and tails of most volumes and in the cases of volume II of the Holinshed and volume I of the Grafton more loss affecting the gilt lettering.There are a few marks to the boards. Of the twenty-six joints three are starting fifteen are cracked and delicate and four boards are held by the cords only. So in need of osome reinforcement at modest cost for this important set. Internally they are all firmly bound. Generally bright and clean with some instances of age-toning ranging mild to bad occasional off-setting from the text and some intermittent scattered spotting and the odd severely spotted page. The Holinshed set has marks to page V of volume i small spill burns to the gutters of some pages a closed tear to page 3 of volume i dusting and tide marks to volume ii and an ink note to the verso of the front free-endpaper of volume i. Grafton has a few small dustmarks. Monstrelet has some instances of light foxing and ink marks to page 2 of volume III. Some spotting to the bookplates. Very Good J. Johnson, F. C. and J. Rivington et al hardcover
1898008551LONDON: HARMSWORTH BROS / THE AMALGAMATED PRESS 1898. 1st Edition . Decorated Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. ARTHUR RACKHAM; T H ROBINSON etc. An extremely attractive set of the Harmsworth magazine in 12 bound volumes. The contemporary cloth bindings reflect the progress of the magazine through its different incarnations from the Harmsworth Magazine through the Harmsworth London Magazine to the London Magazine the latter two printed by The Amalagamated Press. The books are classic Victorian / Edwardian collections with fascinating articles and stories by the popular writers of the day including H G Wells E Nesbit Rafael Sabatini and Cutcliffe Hyne among many others. The bindings are in excellent condition in mint green with gilt and black debossed design creating a uniform binding set on the shelf. There are some variants. The majority of bindings use Arabic numerals for the volume number though with Vols 1 and 2 using Roman numerals hence the numbering goes I II 3 4 etc. The bindings are clean and tight with sharp edges and surprisingly bright and clean cloth. They have clearly been well kept and the high quality China clay paper is white bright and clean with solid attractive bindings. In all this is a lovely set and an excellent example of the high quality magazine format for which the late Victorian / Edwardian era is rightly famous. Offered at £25 per volume plus shipping. Please note this heavy set will require extra shipping. Approx 22 kilos when packed. <br/> <br/> HARMSWORTH BROS / THE AMALGAMATED PRESS hardcover
1888059715London: Catty & Dobson 1888. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. General rubbing to cloth especially moderate spine lean and bumped corners. Petite volume with 107pp margin notations on approximately 5pp. Volume II. Catty & Dobson Hardcover