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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
1840793J49London: John Hearne 1840. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. A third edition copy of this scarce work on the history of coinage in England bound in decorative cloth by Edmonds & Remnants London. Complete in three volumes.Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London with their binder's plate to the rear pastedown of Volume I. This work gives a comprehensive historical account of British coinage from earliest period until the Victorian age. In the third edition which has been corrected enlarged and with the addition of the index. Volumes I and II contain the historical account and index and Volume III contains 160 plates depicting coinage from different monarchical reigns. Also including a folding map. Collated complete. Written by Reverend Rogers Ruding an English cleric and academic during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the Vicar of Malden Surrey from 1793 until 1820. This copy came from the library at Julians Park Hertfordshire the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie 1902-1968. She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. Rebound in decorative cloth by Edmonds & Remnants London with their binder's plate to the rear pastedown of Volume I. Externally smart with some rubbing to the joints and extremities. Some shelf wear and a few marks to the boards. Joints to Volume III are strained but firm. Internally hinges to Volume III are tender but firm. All volumes firmly bound. Scattered spotting to the first and last few pages of Volume I and II but otherwise pages bright and clean. Scattered spots to the plates in Volume III. Very Good John Hearne 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
18723849Lyon, Imprimerie d'Aimé Vingtrinier, 1872, (1874) in-4 (315 x 235 mm.) (2) ff., XII-714 pp., (1) f., ill. n/b in-texte, 2 pl. n/b (portraits gravés), reliure demi-maroquin rouge à gros grain, dos à faux-nerfs, dos insolé, coins légèrement frottés, ex-libris collé sur contreplat, envoi de l'auteur sur page de faux-titre, très bel exemplaire.
2011006988Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2011. Un volume di 1216 pagine cartonato editoriale illustrato. Dimensioni: 22x29 cm. Ottime condizioni. 365 tavole nel testo 1 pieghevole. Contributi in lingua italiana francese tedesca e spagnola. Collana Bibliotheca Archaeologica 47. L'Erma di Bretschneider unknown
1974011166Paris 1974 Librairie Honoré Champion Full-Leather 1st Edition
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
1898007763Wellington: Government Printer 1898 SPECIMEN copy being only 111pp of the 'A' section of the Maori lexicon and 21 disconnected samples of the English lexicon cover titled in gilt 'Maori-English Lexicon of the New Zealand Tongue by the Rev. W. Colenso F.R.S. & F.L.S. Specimen' blind panelled cloth lightly handling bumped original black endpapers rear one has minor edge tear three small pen 'ticks' to half-title printed slip tipped onto title 'With Author's Compliments' xii 1-111 iv -21pp The complete lexicon was never issued pp 17-21 at rear are Colenso's letters to the General Assembly of the New Zealand Government concerning his work on the lexicon Bagnall C1195 scarce. association copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Government Printer hardcover
66-0066Vienna: Jos. Schlesinger 1930. 8vo. Hebrew = English. Very good in maroon cloth with clear plastic protector. Extensive color illus. by well-known Jewish artists of era including some very fine lithography. Color printing on every page in form of dashed red border around text. Multicolor embossing on cover takes form of Torah ark. Front endpaper starting. Rear hinge cracked back cover slightly scuffed. Spine edges slightly frayed. P. 641 misprinted as 461. A revised translation by the Reverend Abrahamsons. Inscribed "In remembrance of the engagement of Miss Rosalind Gilbert to Mr. Arthur Bernstein. Vienna: Jos. Schlesinger, 1930. hardcover
194220500Stamford CT: The Overbrook Press 1942. Cloth. Fine/Very Good . A very sharp copy of the 1942 1st edition limited to 150 copies. Tight and Fine in a clean VG example of the publisher's fragile glassine dustjacket with very light creasing and chipping along the front panel's top-edge. 16mo edited by Richard Cheney Otto Wurzburg Vincent Eaton and Alain White. The Overbrook Press unknown
103348Madrid D. Leonardo Nuñez de Vargas 1817. 20 tomes en 20 volumes. 1 frontispice. CCLXVI. 146 pages. LXIV. 358 pages. XL. 1 carte dépliante en noir hors-texte. 388 pages. LXXXVI. 378 pages. C. 287 pages. LXXXII. 322 pages. XCVI. 310 pages. LXXIV. 314 pages. XC. 310 pages. XCII. 312 pages. . XXVIII. 396 pages. XL. 400 pages. CXL. 239 pages. CCXII. 231 pages. CLXXXVIII. 256 pages. CLXVII. 134 pages. 76 pages de table générale. CCCLXII. VIII. 419 pages. XVI. 424 pages. XVI. 437 pages. 22x15 Cm. Demi-cuirs à coins bruns. Dos lisses à motifs dorés. Auteur pièces de titre et tomaisons en lettres dorées. Plats et dos frottés. Quelques petits accrocs au cuir. Coiffes accidentées aux tomes 2 4 6 7 11 12 et 14. Petits trous de vers en dos en tomes 7 10 12 et 20. Coins émoussés. Juan de Mariana était jésuite théologue et historien espagnol. La Historia General de España est son oeuvre majeure publiée pour la première fois en latin en 1592 sous le nom de "Historiae de rebus Hispaniae" puis suite à son succès en langue espagnole entre 1601 et 1609. On y observe de très nombreuses pages de tableaux chronologiques notamment aux quatre derniers tomes composés uniquement de ceux-ci. Au premier tome on trouve un portrait en noir de l'auteur en frontispice. Au troisième tome est insérée une carte de l'ancienne Espagne en noir datant de l'année 1817 et dessinée par le géographe Don Juan Lopez. Quelques rousseurs éparses sans gravité ainsi que des mouillures claires. L'intérieur des volumes est en bon état général. Jolie conservation. Madrid, D. Leonardo Nuñez de Vargas, 1817. unknown
10 vols., 8vo., cloth, a near fine set. Much-needed and high quality facsimile reissue of the original edition published 1847-54. Comprises the complete works together with Heber's 'Life'. NOW VERY SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT
125467Toronto: Anon Green/Wesleyan Printing Establishment 1860. hardcover xi 424pp. Very good no dust jacket. 12mo. Fine ribbed olive-brown stamped cloth. Pages 11-14 have separated but are present and whole. Spine is faded thought the gilt title may still be read. Corners lightly bumped; occasional foxing throughout; inner hinges lightly starting at page 315. Internally very clean. Frontispiece. Kah-Ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By was an Ojibwe missionary and the first person to translate some of the Christian prayers and hymns into Ojibwe. As well he wrote the first comprehensive history of the Ojibwe people. This memoir was published posthumously. Anon Green/Wesleyan Printing Establishment Hardcover
004965London: Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 1846-5. Scarce. Three volumes bound in one with 8 issues total. Various pagination. Includes Volume I: No. 12 June 1864; Volume II: No. 13 August 1864 No. 14 September 1864 No. 15 October 1864 No. 16 November 1846 and No. 17 December 1864; Volume III: No. 18 January 1865 and No. 21 April 1865. Full modern teal cloth gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some light rubbing to spine and corners. Ex-library from the Benjamin Smith Lyman Collection given as a memorial to the Forbes Library Northampton MA. Bookplate to front pastedown. Embossed library stamp and pointilist ex libris of Forbes Library to title page of Vol. I. Perforation to title page of Vol. I repaired with tape to verso. A few stains and pencil annotations to interior. Some creasing to pages. A fascinating publication documenting life in China and Japan in the mid-1860s from the perspective of a Westerner. Messrs. W.H. Allen & Co hardcover
18687371Edinburgh London Dublin:: A.Fullerton and Co. 1868. First thus. Near Fine. A handsome Near Fine Set in Two Volumes. Royal Octavo 7 x 10 inches. Quarter calf over black textured cloth. Gilt tooled/ lettered spine in five panels with four raised bands. Gilt lettering on black set in panels two and four. Marbled endpapers. Printed by Fullerton and MacNab Edinburgh. Boards lightly scuffed corner tipped with light edge wear minor rubbing to head and foot of spine yet both volumes are solid and firm. Light scattered foxing; most plates and maps are bright and clean. Tidy period owner's signature on prelims of both volumes. Illustrated with all 59 maps plans and steel engraved plates listed in the 'Directions for Placing the Plates' plus one additional plate. Two plates View of Edinburgh and Loch Ken and Castle misbound but present. Vol I: 1 lxxviv 846p frontispiece engraved half-title vignette plus 17 maps 11 plates. Large engraved map of Scotland by G.H Swanston torn and detached from Volume I but extant. Vol II: 1 872p frontispiece engraved half-title vignette not called for in Vol II but present plus 20 maps and plans 7 plates. A fine Gazetteer introducing the natural political and ecclesiastical view of mid-nineteenth century Scotland illustrated with a complete county atlas various geographical maps city plans plans of ports and harbours and interesting pastoral views with folk engaged in seasonal activities; picnicking fishing harvesting as well as animals rural and formal architecture walled castle gardens estuaries river and loch views with sailing vessels atmospheric Highland views from the river at sunset waterfalls Inchyre and Balmarino Abbeys St. Giles Church Donne Castle Dumbarton Castle Edinburgh Castle with the New Chapel Tower and a nice view of Edinburgh near St. Anthony's Chapel with plant gatherers in the foreground Estuary of the Clyde city plans of Glasgow Edinburgh and Leigh Perth Bridge Loch of Awe Eke Ken and Castle. Ports and Harbours on the West Coast. An attractive collection of richly engraved plates by Thomas Dick Joseph Swan W. Forrest McGregor after drawings by J. Flaming W. O. Hill JP Houston and J. Stewart. Fine hand-colored maps of clusters of islands shires and cities all embellished with decorative and floral surrounds. Quarter Calf A.Fullerton and Co., hardcover
123487aafCarouge (Léman) : De l'imprimerie de J.B. (Jacques-Barthélémy) Spineux, An 10., 1802, gr. in-8vo, 1 feuille de titre avec vign. gravée + 317 p. (+1 fautes à corr.), non rogné, non couronné, brochure originale muet, pièce de titre ms. sur papier au dos.
105163boussod Valadon & co 1896. first edition small folio full vellum with ornate gilt rule and gilt tooling teg marbled eps 202pp illus VG light soiling and discolouration to boards moderate foxing more pronounced at prelims bookplate to front pastedown A MAGNIFICENT DELUXE VOLUME boussod, Valadon & co 1896 hardcover
1843853N10London: Edward Moxon 1843-1845 . Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Nont. Famed for their collaboration this set contains the complete dramatic works of Renaissance playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Comprising the complete dramatic works of Renaissance playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher this set of eleven volumes includes bibliographic and performance notes as well as a biographical memoir of the dramatists by Reverend Alexander Dyce. With a frontispiece to the first two volumes. Includes their collaborative plays The Woman Hater Cupid's Revenge and The Noble Gentleman. In a full calf binding with gilt stamping to the spines. Externally generally sound. Volumes III V and XI are missing a spine label. The joint front joint has failed to volumes I II VI VIII and X so the front boards are detached. The front joint to volumes III and IV and the rear joint of volume I are extremely tender and may the boards may detached with further handling. The calf is torn to the rear joints of volumes III V VI VII IX and X but has been repaired. The front joint of volume VII is starting but firm and both the front and rear joints are starting but firm to volume XI. The rear hinge is starting and is a little tender to volumes VII and VIII. Internally firmly bound with a little strain to the rear of volume III. Aside from the plates pages are generally bright and clean with some occasional light spots and the odd bit of marginalia in pencil. Good Edward Moxon hardcover
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
1825mon0000141508Longman and Co 1825-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable. Hardback/Hard cover. Longman and Co hardcover
114753Edinburgh: Printed for the Author 1794 presumed first. Leatherbound xl 504pp. Very good no dust jacket. Quarter leather with spine and corners showing wear. Marbled boards show significant wear. Minor dampening stains throughout. Shows dirt where thumbed. Previous owners name in ink to front free end-paper. Something is scratched out on reverse title and shows through to title. Oddly on page 297 the words "HELP. LORD" in red could be blood as is raised to the touch. Surprisingly clean otherwise! Scarce. Printed for the author by T. Gillet; and sold by Messrs. Robinsons T. Cadell jun. And W. Davies successors to T. Cadell and T. Kay; and W. Creech J. Dickson and E. Balfour. Printed for the Author Hardcover
183542110Puebla Mexico: Imprenta del hospital de S. Pedro 1835. First edition. Modern quarter brown cloth over marbled boards leather spine labels stamped in gilt. Frontis and pp.265/6 lacking but provided in facsimile on matching paper; title page toned otherwise a very clean sharp copy in a fine modern binding. Frontis in matching period facsimile 265 2 pp. 24mo. Dual language text on facing pages in Nahuatl and Spanish by the otherwise unidentified "Cura del Obispado de la Puebla." One of a number of catechisms printed during the period in Puebla which had become a locus of religious publication. Sabin 23424. Field 516. Pilling 1251. Icazbalceta 104. Catalogue of Pre-1840 Nahuatl Works Held by The Lilly Library 40. Viñaza 436. Imprenta del hospital de S. Pedro hardcover books
a873921805. Fully handwritten manuscript very neatly written but in tiny ink letters. Octavo 40 213 leaves or 426p. original 3/4 leather with marbled boards and spine label. Opens to title page. Good Plus cover rubbed and worn; label worn off backstrip. Text clean. No ownership marks. Intact; binding secure. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
1823003004Edinburgh U.K.: William Oliphant 1823 First edition. Three quarter black calf over marbled boards 6 compartments with raised bands of sienna and gold gold title all edges gilt. Frontispiece engraving of Rev. Malan by T. Unwins engraved by J. Horsburgh. 444 pp. Ffep missing. A collection of extracts of religious writing consistent with the teaching of the Scottish and English Churches from the renowned Swiss evangelist. Rev. Malan chose passages he felt were not only theologically important but beautiful to read. Gilt faded. Rubbing to boards and extremities. Light foxing on title facing frontispiece. Binding is very tight. A very scarce book in very good condition. William Oliphant hardcover
1880000978Good. 1880. Leather. On offer is the original handwritten diary of the Reverend G.E. Ihison. It appears the young Reverend is newly installed in Clinton Congregational Church and there are immediate problems he must deal with. In neat tight script Rev. Ihison reveals immediately of his writing a Mr. Duncan refusing the pastoral position in Benton Harbor Congregational Church. He further details all his contacts congregants welcoming him new purchases and moving into his new home with his wife Ellen. Local historians and collectors will delight as the Reverend fully names all his contacts visitors and occasions attended. There are a great number of entries dealing with his personal economy. The leather binding is in rough shape and the text block is still attached but beginning to separate at the front pages.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Michigan Ann Arbor Religion Church Collection Charity genealogy Personal Memoir Handwritten hand written autograph autographs signed letters document documents manuscript manuscripts writers writer author holograph personal Americana Religion Pioneer Florida FL Education ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT . hardcover