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175338780London: Printed for and sold by the Booksellers 1753. First edition. 12mo. xxviii 140 pp. Contemporary full sheep spine with raised bands renewed gilt lettered red label old ink ownership stamp of a John Beard to the front free endpaper. Repairs to the spine some wear to the corners semicircular brown stain to the fore margin of the last leaves a decent copy. London: Printed for and sold by the Booksellers unknown
17609579Durham United Kingdom 1760. Unique. Very Good. Unique. Reverend William Gilpin 1724- 804 was an English artist Anglican cleric schoolmaster and author best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque style of landscape painting. In 1768 Gilpin published his popular "Essay on Prints" where he defined the picturesque as"that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture" and began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty" based largely on his knowledge of landscape painting. During the late 1760s and 1770s Gilpin traveled extensively in the summer holidays and applied these principles to the landscapes he saw committing his thoughts and spontaneous sketches to notebooks. This particular watercolor study features the High Force waterfall at the River Tees in Durham England with two figures in the foreground surrounded by lush landscape. Gilpin brought attention to the area with his sketching journals influencing tourism and commenting on the sublime and beauty of nature. Bright and unmarred original painting. No visible wear. Single leaf color wash and ink with sepia tones mounted on board includes monograph embossed on right corner 10.25x7.5 unknown
1720629C21Oxford: J. Parker; F. C. and J Rivington; Clarendon Press 1817-20. Leather. Good Only. 12" by 9.5". None. A five volume set of works by Reverend Richard Mant and Reverend George D'Oyly being a comprehsive annotated copy of the bible alongside a copy of the Book of Common-Prayer. Reverend Richard Mant edition of the Bible alongside a copy of the Book of Common Prayer. An annotated bible with numerous notes and additional by the two clergyman Richard Man and George D'Oyly. Reverend Richard Mant was a English clergyman who notable wrote numerous works of religious history. Highly ranking in the church Mant became was appointed Bishop of Down Connor and Dromore. Bound in a quarter reverse calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. This work has been prepared and arranged by Reverend Richard Mant alongside Reverend George D'Oyly. Reverend George D'Oyly was a cleric academic and theologian. Among his most notable literary works include this collaboration with Richard Mant. Published under the direction of The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In a half reverse calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally worn with heavy rubbing and bumping to the spine and extremities. Heavy loss to the extremities of the front and rear boards. The front and rear boards of volume I are detached but present. Crack to the front and rear joints of The Book of Common Prayer the front and rear joints of volume I and to the rear joints of volume III and IV. Age toning to the fore edge of each volume. Heavy offsetting to the front and rear endpapers with light spotting. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly cockled with the occasional spot. Good Only J. Parker; F. C. and J Rivington; Clarendon Press hardcover
1790fleetwodchristNewcastle: W Thompson 1790. Hardcover. Pages show toning and foxing fi. The Life of our Saviour Jesus Christ containing an accurate and universal history of our glorious Redeemer from his birth to his ascension into Heaven together with His Holy Evangelists Apostles and Disciples. A full Defence of Christianity. Published by W Thompson in 1790. Rare massive volume in original heavy leather boards with full engravings.Pages show toning and foxing first few pages bumped and separated but all present large engravings show toning binding solid binding weak at hinges heavy leather boards show edge wear and light bumping W Thompson hardcover
1793876M4Exeter: Cadell Johnson and Dilly; Cadell Dilly and Murray; Messrs. Cadell and Davies 1793-1806. First edition. Leather. Good. 17" by 11". Not Stated. A scarce first edition copy of this topographical study of Devonshire in three volumes bound in one volume. The first edition of this scarce work rebound in a full morocco binding with the original leather laid down to the boards.Reverend Richard Polwhele's three-volume history of Devonshire; one of his two major works on county histories the other exploring Cornwall. Polwhele 1760-1838 was a Cornish clergyman poet and historian.Volume I provides a general description of Devonshire and then information on the weather topography geology flora and fauna and agricultural practices of the county. Following this is a history of the county from the first settlements and the arrival of Julius Caesar to the Saxons and Normans then to King Charles I and finally to the late 18th century. Volumes II and III provide information on the Diocese of Exeter and the various archdeaconries of Exeter Barnstaple Totnes and surrounding areas.Volume I was published by Cadell Johnson and Dilly Exeter 1797. Volume II was published by Cadell Dilly and Murray Exeter 1793. Volume III was published by Messrs. Cadell and Davies Exeter 1806. Volume I is paginated individually then there is a continuous pagination from the section of Volume II titled 'Archdeaconries of Exeter Barnstaple and Totnes' until the end of Volume III. In this particular volume pages 247-48 and 381-82 of Volume II are not cancels. Volume I is lacking the map and all volumes are lacking plates; otherwise issue points match ESTC citation no. N17500.Page of corrections to the rear of the volume. Rebound in a full morocco binding with original leather laid down to the boards. Externally sound with rubbing to the boards and extremities. Bumping to the extremities. Losses to the original leather to the extremities. Institutional library bookplate to the front paste down with library stamp to the title page verso of the title page the dedication page and the fifth page of the second part of Volume II.Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot. Small closed tear to the upper extremities of the title page dedication page and first page with a small repair to the tear to the first page. Tape repair to the fore edge of the last page and to the upper extremity of page 337 of Volume II. Good Cadell, Johnson, and Dilly; Cadell, Dilly, and Murray; Messrs. Cadell and Davies hardcover
173743574Ingolstadt, Johann Andreas de la Haye (gedruckt von Maria Magdalena Riedlin [Riedl] in München), 1737. 8°. 32 Bll., 362 S., 18 Bll.; 7 Bll., 318 S., 23 Bll.; 6 Bll., 283 (1) S., 20 Bll.; 7 Bll., 432 S., 20 Bll.; 7 Bll., 413 (1) S., 25 Bll., Ldr.-Bde. d. Zt. a. 5 Bünden m. reicher Rückenverg. u. je 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildern.
17523004Amsterdam, 1757 1752, XVI, 271 pp In 8 demi basane à dos plats, complets de ses deux étonnantes planches déplantes, intérieur frais.
1748006881En Valladolid: En La Imprenta De La Plazuela Vieja Por Roldan 1748 SCARCE with no copies showing up in OCLC. 18 333pp 1 printed on laid paper bound in full polished calf gilt lines on spine outer page edges look as if they had been stained red at one time and are now faded marbled endpapers. Page 203 is mis-numbered 303; Page 335 is mis-numbered 333. After the Title leaf text begins "na por sus ventas" which may indicate that a leaf or leaves may be lacking prior to the 18 un-numbered pages. Notations on the front endpaper and the free endpapers including names. Occasional item laid-in which may show offsetting to the page. Text is in Spanish. En La Imprenta De La Plazuela Vieja, Por Roldan hardcover
176553988London: Printed by W. Bowyer for A. Millar in the Strand 1765. Third Edition. Frontispiece in Volume I by Hoare of Ralph Allen on engraved t.p. 204; 331; 338 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Polished contemporary calf gilt spine. Very good. Third Edition. Frontispiece in Volume I by Hoare of Ralph Allen on engraved t.p. 204; 331; 338 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Printed by W. Bowyer, for A. Millar, in the Strand unknown books
176553988London: Printed by W. Bowyer for A. Millar in the Strand 1765. Third Edition. Frontispiece in Volume I by Hoare of Ralph Allen on engraved t.p. 204; 331; 338 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Polished contemporary calf gilt spine. Very good. Third Edition. Frontispiece in Volume I by Hoare of Ralph Allen on engraved t.p. 204; 331; 338 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Printed by W. Bowyer, for A. Millar, in the Strand unknown
17509755Aberdeenshire: Unpublished 1750 - 1902. A rich family album compiled by Lucy Gwendoline Duff grand daughter of the Rev James Grant in the early 20th century preserving family documents printed obituaries and tributes and a fine selection of photographs which together trace the achievements and history of the Grant family dating back to the mid 1700s in the Glenbuchat Badenoch and Towie ares of Aberdeenshire. Much of the album is dedicated to the line of the Rev. James Grant 1822 -1902 great grandson of the Laird and Miss Oliphant a native of Towie Aberdeenshire a graduate of Aberdeen University in 1840 and later minister at Dunoon in 1846 and then Ordiquhill. The Rev. Grant married Katherine Stewart Forbes Watson and they went on to have 9 children listed on the family tree and 5 grandchildren. A hand drawn family tree contains c.45 family names beginning with the Grant and Gordon families who united in the early 1700s through the marriage of the Laird of Tullachgorum of Badenoch a Grant and Miss Oliphant of Auchavaich Glenbuchat a Gordon. Seemingly compiled by a grand daughter of the Rev. Grant Lucy Gwendoline Duff the album provides rich detail revealing the lives of further member of the family and recording the geographical spread of the family throughout Old Morlich Banff Ordiquhill Fordyce Banchory Colinton Edinburgh America John Grant b.1759 'went to America maybe father of General Grant' and later Manchester and London. The stories of many family members include those of the Rev. James Grant's sons John Forbes Watson Grant and Lachlan Gordon Duff Grant and many of the women in the family including his grand daughter Lucy Gwendoline Duff. To the rear of the album a delightful collection of 14 responses to a Book Of Tastes set of questions include answers by Nelli C S Grant and Mary C Grant both dated 1897. DESCRIPTION: Original half morocco album slightly rubbed in very good condition. Contents clean and legible. Laid in and pasted in ephemera. 69pp. excluding blanks.Ephemera and 13 photographs pasted and laid in includes: INDIVIDUAL ITEMS INCLUDE: 1. A handwritten list of the family names and dates of birth of the Rev. James Grant's father and his aunts and uncles born between 1748 - 1765. Written in a contemporary hand. 2. A handwritten record of the Rev. James Grant's parents Robert Grant 1763 - 1838 and Isobel Ross 1782 -1849 and his 3 siblings William Isobel and Robert. Written in a contemporary hand. 3. A double page family tree dating 1748 - 1895 listing c 45 family members. 4. An ornately designed family register document recording the children born to Rev. James Grant Minister of Old iquhill and Katherine F Watson naming seven children born between 1849 - 1860. 5. A full page supplement to the Banffshire Journal April 14 1896 depicting the Rev James Grant M.A. D.D. Minister of Parish of Fordyce. 6. A hand written 3 pp. biography of the life of the Rev. James Grant. 7. Numerous paper cuttings recording the career achievements of the Rev. James Grant. 8. A booklet reprinted from the Banffshire Journal of January 8th 1895 honouring Dr and Mrs Grant. 9. Paper cuttings recording the Ministerial Jubilee and obituary of the Rev. R. Grant of Stracathro Rev. James Grant's brother. Dated Dec. 24th 1901. 10. A memorial text and paper cuttings celebrating the work of Caroline Stuart Grant 1856 - 1930 the daughter of Rev. James Grant. 11. Magazine cutting celebrating the life of the late Dr T.A. Stewart 1846 - 1904 HM Chief Inspector of Schools IN Scotland. Married to the Rev. James Grant's daughter Katherine. 12. Death notices for family members including Duff Grant of Kensington Mansions Earls Court. 13. A contemporary handwritten Banns of marriage and handwritten account of the marriage in 1819 between George Watson Castletown of Braemar and Jane Mc Hardy daughter of Findlat Mc Hardy farmer. The mother and father of Katherine Forbes Watson. 14. A handwritten character reference for George Watson in the hand of Hirom Watson Elder dated Braemar July 27th 1820. 15. An obituary and an In Memoriam for Dr John Forbes Watson dated 1892 an ex East India Company employee and researcher of the influence of food and climate on the human body. son of Rev James Grant and Katherine Stewart Forbes Watson. 16. A hand written letter outlining the career of Rev. John Forbes Watson Grant MA of St Stephen's Parish Edinburgh an alumni of the Aberdeen Department of Philosophy in 1877. 17. A handwritten will and testament by Robert Grant 1763 -1838 father of Rev James Grant naming his wife Isobel Ross and son William Grant as his sole executors. 18. A handwritten last will and testament of Isobel Ross Grant dated 1849 and a a pen portrait of Lachlan Gordon Duff Grant son of Rev James Grant. 19. A studio photograph of Helen K Grant aged 6 and a half months marked to rear 'Uncle John's elder daughter'. 20. Aberdeenshire studio portrait titled ' my grandmother on my father's side of the family'. 21. Nellie and May Grant taken by George Shaw Art Studios Edinburgh. 22. Photograph of 'Mother 1917' 23. Photograph of 'Auntie Katie daddy's sister and her husband Tom Stewart on their presentation to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria at Holyrood House'. 24. 'Uncle Tom Stewart and his wife Katherine'. 22. Photograph of 'My grandfather the Rev James Grant'. 23. Photograph of 'Daddy's elder sister Aunt Katie'. 24. Photograph of 'My father Lachlan Gordon Duff Grant'. 25. Photographh of the probable compiler of the album Lucy Gwendoline Duff daughter of Lachlan Gordon Duff and grand daughter of Rev Jmaes Grant who was Lady Superintendant of nurses of Manchester Royal Infirmary and is photographed in her nursing uniform. 26. Photograph of 'Mother'. 27. Family portrait 'at Ellengowan'. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1750 Unpublished unknown
173898727Venezia: Presso Niccolo Pezzana MDCCXXXVIII 1738. 1738. Very good. - Quarto 9 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Hardcovers two volumes uniformly bound in full cream vellum with the title embossed in gilt within gilt decorated bronze panels on the spines. The cream covers are slightly stained. There is a spot of rubbing to the bottom of the first volume's front hinge with damage to the vellum of the rear cover of that volume. The title page of the first volume is printed in red and black with the collation as follows volume 1: half title title with printer's mark pages i-lxxxiii 1 pages 1-217 220-221 220-221 224-225 224-630 & 1-34. Pages 218-219 and 222-223 are skipped in the numbering without any loss of text; pages 220-221 and 224-225 are repeated in the numbering. The second volume's collation is as follow: title with printer's mark pages iii-xxv 1 pages 1-192 1-4 193-609 & 1-31. Each volume is illustrated with an engraved headpiece by Carlo Orsolini c.1703-c.1780. In volume 1 the Creation is pictured and in volume 2 the Annunciation. Each volume is further enhanced with pictorial initials and tailpieces. There is a tear to the inner edge of the folding plan not affecting the image. The first volume's text block is cracked opposite the title page with a tiny tear to the bottom of the inner edge of that volume's slightly pulled title signature. There are remnants of an early brown paper stamp to the verso of the first volume's title page resulting in a tiny hole to that page. There is offsetting to the first three leaves of the second volume from a paper stamp which once adhered to the verso of that volume's title page. There is occasional staining and minor foxing throughout. Very good. <p>The work was first published in French in 1718. It is here translated into Italian by the Venetian Carmelite Arcangelo Agostini 1660-1746 writing under his pseudonym Selvaggio Canturani. It is a history of the Old and New Testaments up to the destruction of Jerusalem.<p>The folding plan of Herod's Temple is accompanied by 4 pages describing its numbered sites. The volumes also contain detailed chronological tables. Venezia: Presso Niccolo Pezzana, MDCCXXXVIII (1738). hardcover
1779019100London: Printed for the Authors; And sold by J. Harrison No.18 Paternoster Row; the Booksellers of Oxford and Cambridge; and all other Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland. 1779. Hardcover. Fair. Calf hardcover. Cover very worn with loss of calf from cover slight loss to spine ends and corners. . old worm hole affecting first 100 pages. Inner front joint cracked. Many illustrations one has a tear in it. Pages toned. <br/> <br/> Printed for the Authors; And sold by J. Harrison, No.18, Paternoster Row; the Booksellers of Oxford and Cambridge; and all other hardcover
1766016077London: Printed for S. Crowder 1766. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The Second Edition. Folio 21 x 32cm. The second edition with additions and improvements; pp. iv 45 iii publisher's adverts; engraved frontispiece map of the world five further engraved plates of maps and one engraved plate of globes ten engraved figures and diagrams within the text. Contemporary half textured calf binding with marbled paper boards expertly restored with a new spine in matching style re-corned. contents clean and tight a few small marks/reading wear; frontispiece plate with a couple of short edge-tears expertly and inconspicuously repaired a few corners re-tipped. A very good well-presented copy. Scarce. Printed for S. Crowder Hardcover
179177089Bath:: Printed by R. Cruttwell 1791. First edition. contemporary tree calf; gilt spines; all edges marbled. Old ownership notations on blank leaves in two of the volumes; some scattered foxing restricted to several gatherings. The joints have been neatly and expertly reinforced and are generally attractive tight and sound. . 4to. Large folding map; forth engraved plates and one circular engraved text illustration. . Additional postage applicable for these large heavy volumes. Printed by R. Cruttwell, unknown
172748999Gray's-Inn: Printed for D. Browne fen. & jun. W. Mears F. Clay withoutTemple-bar Fletcher Gyles 1727. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Full Tooled Leather Over Boards. Hinges Split And Tender."The English Works Of Sir Henry Spelman K. Published In His Life-Time: Together With His Posthumous Works Relating To The Laws And Antiquities Of England: And The Life Of The Author." By The Right Reverend Father In God Edmund Lord Bishop Of London. To Which Are Added Two More Treaties Of Sir Henry Spelman Never Before Printed: One Of The Admiral-Jurifdiction And The Officers Thereof: The Other Of Ancient Deeds And Charters. With A Compleat Index To The Whole. The Second Edition. London: Printed For D. Browne Fen. & Jun. W. Mears F. Clay Without Temple-Bar Fletcher Gyles In Holborn And T. Osborne In Gray's-Inn. M.Dcc.Xxvii. Tooled Leather Over Boards Raised Bands With 7 Compartments Raised And With Extra Gilt. On Spine With Title In Gilt. Folio. Evidence For Inclusion In Wythe's Library Wythe Referred To Spelman's Works In His Case Report For Field V. Harrison "Sir H. Spelman Somewhere Condemns The Common Lawyers Of His Own Time For The Small Acquaintance They Had With The Principles And Rationale Of Their Profession."6 Brown's Bibliography7 Includes The First 1723 Edition Of The English Works Of Sir Henry Spelman As The Work Intended By Wythe's Reference. He Bases The Selection Of This Title And Edition In Part On The Copy Thomas Jefferson Sold To The Library Of Congress In 1815.8 The Wolf Law Library Followed Brown's Suggestion And Purchased A Copy Of The Same Edition. Printed for D. Browne, fen. & jun. W. Mears, F. Clay, withoutTemple-bar, Fletcher Gyles Hardcover
1788970F34Worcester: J. Tymbs; Mr. Smart; Mr. White; Mr. S. Hayes 1788. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A signed example of the very scarce first edition of Rev. John Hawkins's theological work which reflects contemporary tensions between church doctrine and the rising tide of rational dissent. The very scarce first edition of this theological pamphlet from Reverend John Hawkins.Signed by Hawkins to the half title with 'from the author' to the head of the leaf. Leaf trimmed to fore edge resulting in the absence of the 'or' of 'author'. Hawkins offers a direct response to the Unitarian theologian Joseph Priestley"s criticisms of Trinitarian doctrine and the Church of England. Hawkins defends those who subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles particularly the doctrines of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ which Priestley had publicly rejected.ESTC No T103454Rebound in half calf with endpapers renewed.Retaining the half title.A signed example of this very scarce late 18th century theological work. Rebound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards and with endpapers renewed. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. Signed by author to half title which is trimmed to fore edge resulting in the absence of the 'or' of 'Author'. Small tide mark to half title title page and following three leaves. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed J. Tymbs; Mr. Smart; Mr. White; Mr. S. Hayes hardcover
1781999F49London: J. Fielding 1781 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 15.5" by 11". William Blake. Impressively illustrated throughout - with four plates engraved by William Blake - this is Rev. John Herries's very scarce educational edition of the Holy Bible complete with Apocrypha and beautifully bound. An early edition of Reverend John Herries's scarce edition of the Bible which was first published the year prior.Complete with both volumes bound in one each with a title page in red and black ink.Illustrated with a frontispiece and ninety-eight further engraved plates including five maps. Four of these plates were engraved by celebrated poet and artist William Blake. Collated complete.Strikingly bound in full calf with a green and navy calf onlay to the centre of the front board. Rebacked with back strip laid down retaining original endpapers.ESTC T95015The work compiles the full text of the scriptures together with devotional essays historical notes reflections moral guidance and practical exposition that aim to make the Bible's teachings accessible and edifying in everyday life. Rebacked in full morocco calf bindings with back strip laid down. Retaining original endpapers. Extensive gilt detailing to back strip and board perimeters with gilt design to centre of front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Neat restoration to title page at gutter. Very Good Indeed J. Fielding hardcover
178717559Lyon, Aimé de La Roche, 1787 ; 2 tomes in-4, veau marbré, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièces de titre rouge et de tomaison vert-empire, roulette décorative dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges cirées (reliure de l'époque) ; XXXVI, 444 ; 404, armes de Antoine de Malvin de Montazet gravées sur bois au titre ; impression sur deux colonnes.
172256<p>Officina de Pascoal da Sylva 1722. It has a stamp from the Barão de Muritiba's private library time marks it has discreet insect bites.</p> Officina de Pascoal da Sylva
17020044481702 Paris, André Pralard, 1702. In-12 veau fauve marbré, dos cinq nerfs, caissons dorés, pièce de titre maroquin grenat, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). Infimes traces d'encre en tête du feuillet de titre, probables restes d'un ex-libris manuscrit en grande partie effacé.
177346406198, 1773 ; in-4, basane brune marbrée de l’époque. 335 pagesTraduction inédite en vers des Métamorphoses. Le premier feuillet indique : «Monsieur Girard Prêtre curé de Bémécour proche Breteuil Diocese d'Évreux, est autheure de cette traduction des Métamorphoses d'Ovide en vers françois, que j'ay transcrite sur l'original écrit de sa main, que M. Girard Curé de Préaux au Perche, son frère et son héritier me confia (...) pour revoir l'ouvrage en entier, ce que l'auteur prévenu par la mort, n'avoit pu faire. Et parce qu'il jettoit sur le papier ses vers à mesure qu'il les composoit quoy que de differente mesure, j'ai donc rangé chacun d'eux en sa place, avec attention à la ponctuation régulière, ainsi qu'aux virgules ( ... ) ce qui dez lors me fit naître le dessein de chercher les moîens de le mettre au jour à la faveur de l'impression. Mais dans le temps que je m'occupois de ce projet avec mon ami, à peine lui avois-je remis en main le manuscrit, que la mort me l'enleva aussi en peu de jours ( ... ) Je m'adressai donc à une personne aussi distinguée par son goust connu pour les sciences, que par sa haute naissance [Monseigr le Duc de Sully note] qui m'honoroit de la bienveillance...» Ce dernier lui répondit qu'il avait a présenté l'ouvrage à divers imprimeurs, en vain. « Nous ne sommes plus, Mr dans le tems où le goust pour les bons ouvrages les faisoit rechercher ; de frivoles écrits, des nouveautés dangereuses, l'appétit du gain par le prompt et prodigieux débit, qui s'en faict chez le vulgaire qui les dévore, tout cela ferme chez les imprimeurs l'entrée aux bons écrits ( ... )» Ce manuscrit est de la main de P. Le Sueur, curé de Ménil-Erreux(Orne) Page 319 on lit : « Achevé de transcrire le présent ouvrage malgré ma main rebelle et tremblante, ce 16 Novembre 1773 et de mon âge 74 ans et 7 mois accomplis. P. Le Sueur curé de Ménil Erreux». Ce Girard avait fait paraître anonymement un recueil de fables à Rouen en 1729 , ainsi lit-on dans Archives du bibliophile, bulletin de l’amateur II, 2810 que Les Malheurs des enfants du Parnasse est “suivant une note manuscrite, de M. Girard, curé de Bemecourt...”Page 266 on trouve la table des 24 Métamorphoses. Suit (pp. 268 à 319) une série de notices sur les dieux, héros et personnages mythologiques de Métamorphoses « pour donner au lecteur une idée de l'antiquité payenne, du nombre et de la turpitude de ses dieux et déesses et de l'extravagante imagination de l'homme abandonné à ses propres lumières, disons-mieux, à ses propres ténèbres ». Les pages 320 à 35 contiennent : J.B. ROUSSEAU. Stances sur les misères de l'homme avec une traduction latine de ce poème ; une homélie en latin sur la Résurrection de J. Christ par le R.P. Pierre VAULGEARD, bénédictin, professeur de rhétorique pendant 42 ans au Collège de Tyron au Perche. «Je la prononçay le jeudy d'avant la quasimodo 1716 dans la classe de Rhétorique ( ... ) comme elle eut un grand applaudissement, je l'ay conservée précieusement jusqu'icy. Ce morceau d'éloquence est peut-être unique en son genre». - Suit : L'Horloge de Sable, figure du monde par un Solitaire. Ce poème de Gilles de CAUX (1682- 1733) avait paru à Paris chez Sevestre en 1714
17519755En Amberes, Marcos-Miguel Bousquet y Compania, 1751-1756. 16 volumes in-12, demi-veau brun à coins, dos lisses ornés de filets, étoiles et titre dorés, étiquettes de titre marron, de tomaison vertes, tranches jaunes. Rares rousseurs, papier parfois légèrement bruni.
170997894Paris, Jean Mariette, 1709, in-12, [24]-591-[9] pp, Veau marbré havane, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches rouges, Édition originale de cette biographie historique de Georges Kastrioti ou Skanderbeg, héros national albanais, célèbre pour avoir tenu tête à l'Empire ottoman et avoir rendu à l'Albanie son indépendance. Pris en otage par l'empereur turc Mehmed Ier alors qu'il est encore enfant, il reçoit une éducation militaire et entre dans l'armée turque pour laquelle il remporte plusieurs batailles. Selon l'usage, au décès de son père, le sultan devait le nommer comme son successeur mais il place un autre homme à cette place. Skandeberg décide donc de s'évader et de reprendre son fief perdu. Alors que ses effectifs sont fort réduits, il parvient à maintenir l'Albanie indépendante jusqu'à son décès. Pour composer son ouvrage, le père jésuite Duponcet a traduit et abrégé l'ouvrage de Marino Barlezio (ou Martin Barlet) De vita e moribus ac rebus adversus Turcas gestis Georgii Castrioti, paru à Rome sans date pour l'édition originale puis à Strasbourg en 1537. Il précise dans sa préface qu'il s'agit du seul ouvrage de première main dont il dispose à ce sujet mais que trouvant l'ouvrage trop long, il en a retranché les digressions inutiles. Il attribue aux ottomans ce manque de sources, émettant l'hypothèse de la destruction systématique de ce genre de documents pour effacer Skanderberg de l'Histoire. Malgré ce vide, il reste un symbole pour l'Albanie et il a inspiré d'autres auteurs, Voltaire et Ronsard notamment, ainsi que Vivaldi qui lui consacre un opéra éponyme. Rare, le Worldcat n'en recense que 4 exemplaires de cet ouvrage en France, le CCfr, 9 exemplaires. À l'étranger, seule l'université de Princeton semble en posséder un selon HathiTrust. Ex-libris Pontchartrain. Baker, III, 295; G. Brunet, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, 123d. Couverture rigide
1796007817Philadelphia : Re-printed for Richard Lee by Dunning Hyer and Palmer - Printers 1796. First American Edition. Hardcover. This complete two-volume first U.S. edition of 1796 is bound in contemporary marble calf. The bindings feature gilt ruled spines with rectangular gilt-printed burgundy spine labels and circular gilt-printed black spine labels. Condition is good plus. The period bindings remain fully intact the boards still firmly connected. As might be expected the bindings show age and wear the boards and spines variously scuffed the corners worn through. The text blocks have a slight swell the boards a slight outward warp. The contents of both volumes are notably clean the endpapers browned the contents less so. Spotting is minimal appearing substantially confined to the endpapers and page edges. The same single clearly vintage owner name is inked to the upper right corner of each title page. <br /> <br />This U.S. edition RE-PRINTED FOR RICHARD LEE in Philadelphia in 1796 by DUNNING HYER AND PALMER PRINTERS followed the British edition of 1795 J. Ridgeway London. This work was the product of the incarceration of the author - Reverend William Winterbotham 1763-1829. Winterbothams prosecution was a celebrated instance of overreaction by the authorities through nervousness in the wake of the French Revolution. <br /> <br />The sixth of fifteen children Winterbotham left school after an argument with the schoolmaster and thereafter apprenticed to a silversmith. He eventually started in business for himself as a silver buckle-maker but illness forced a temporary return to his parents. His early dissolute life changed when he underwent conversion. In 1787 he began to preach and in 1789 became a Baptist. In this newly found zealous life he ran afoul of the politics of the day. <br /> <br />In a sermon on 5 November 1792 on the double anniversary of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and the revolution of 1688 Winterbotham made reference to the French Revolution and to contemporary abuses as he saw it of the contract between king and people. This aroused local feeling and a prosecution was talked of. In an attempt to put matters right he preached a sermon on 18 November but on 25 and 26 July 1793 he was tried at the Exeter assizes for both sermons and found guilty. The result was a significant fine and imprisonment most of which he spent at Newgate prison. <br /> <br />It was in Newgate that Winterbotham wrote An Historical Geographical and Philosophical View of the Chinese Empire as well as An Historical Geographical Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States. Upon release from Newgate in November 1797 Winterbotham returned to preaching. He was publicly ordained in 1801. He was frequently invited to preach around the country and in 1812 was one of the signatories to the formation of the Baptist Union. ODNB <br/><br/> Re-printed for Richard Lee by Dunning, Hyer and Palmer - Printers hardcover
