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17753220Bath: S. Hazard for T. Mills 1775. 8vo. xvii 3 445 1 pp. Modern full calf red morocco spine label. Displeasing glue residue in gutter margin of first blank and title-page both of which are a little browned age-toning throughout not objectionable; top edge of textblock with stain near the head-cap which did not permeate through the text itself. Provenance: Mary Knowles contemporary signature on title - see below. A good copy with faults and priced accordingly. Was the "Mary Knowles" who first owned this 18th-century English translation of Boehme's first work the same as the well known English Quaker mystic poet feminist and abolitionist namely Mary Morris Knowles 1733-1807. While we have been unable to procure an autograph of Mary Morris Knowles with which to compare the two signatures if she did not own this particular copy of Boehme it is almost certain that she had in her library at least one of Boehme's texts.<br/><br/>This edition was published by Thomas Mills ca. 1735-1820 formerly a clerk in the one of the Countess of Huntington's chapels where he preached "in the Methodist way." It is not without interest that in 1778 Mills became a Quaker sic.<br/><br/>A German shoemaker turned mystic Boehme's writings found renewed interest in England during the late 18th century influencing Quakers Methodists and mystics alike William Blake in particular. Indeed Blake "inherited from Boehme the ideas which formed the foundation of his philosophy and his myth" Gerald Bentley "William Blake and the Alchemical Philosophers" B.Litt. Thesis Oxon. 1954 p. 233<br/><br/>Our copy is COMPLETE. The only other copy of this edition on the market is both ugly and seriously defective lacking everything after p. 390.<br/><br/>ESTC T216620. On Mary Knowles see: J. Jennings Gender Religion and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing 2006. J. Jennings "Mary Morris Knowles: Devout Worldly and 'Gay'" in: Quaker Studies Mar. 2010 vol. 14 No. 2 pp. 195-211. S. Hazard for T. Mills unknown books
1785870031785. PLENCK Joseph Jacob. TOXICOLOGIA seu Doctrina de Venenis et Antidotis. Toxicology or the Knowledge of Poisons and their Antidotes. Vienna: Rudolph Graeffer 1785. First edition. 338 16 pp. Octavo calf worn at extremities; front board detached. Small amount of faint spotting else fine internally. unknown books
17740000222Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn 1774. Second edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. 2nd edition. Folio Contemporary full calf with some ware and loss to ends of spine . Collation: 12 1-184 4p. with 51 copper-engraved plates. Internally this is a clean and bright copy with only minor spotting. <br/><br/>Leupold unlike his contemporary Newton was a designerand builder of instruments. In this work Leupold provides information and illustration of numerous devices that he built that were useful in handling water. This is a posthumous reprinting of his earlier edition in 1724which was the 2nd volume of his larger work Theatrum machinarum. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn unknown books
17294770London: Timothy Atkins 1729. 64pp. Disbound. Some marginal notations at rear. Top edge closely trimmed touching the word "The" of the title and a few page numbers. A satire on Joseph Betty's sermon "The Divine Institution of the Ministry." The imprint is probably false. Timothy Atkins unknown books
1720607721720. Best Edition of Jacob's JP Manual Jacob Giles 1686-1744. The Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace In All its Parts. As an Abridgment of the Common Law And of All the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace Constables and Other Parish Officers Under Them Compleat Down to this Time; And Some Special Law-Cases to Illustrate the Same. With Great Variety of the Most Authentick Precedents of Precepts Summons Warrants Examinations Commitments Indictments &c. Regularly Interspersed Fitting all Occasions for Putting of the Laws in Force. Also the Chairman's Charge in the Quarter-Sessions; Proceedings in Trying of Criminals Motions and Trials of Causes Relating to Settlements &c. And the Particular Power of Mayors Given by Statute with Precedents of Warrants &c. in all Cases. To Which are Added A Concise Account of the Constitution and Government of a Considerable Workhouse for Employing of the Poor Within the City of Bristol. An Alphabetical Table Shewing what Acts of Parliament do Concern the Business of a Justice. And a Compleat Table to the Whole. Corrected Improv'd and Continued to this Present Year 1720. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1720. viii 502 42 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf rebacked in period style raised bands and lettering piece to spine hinges mended. Some rubbing to extremities with some wear to corners light toning to text. Later owner signature to front free endpaper brief annotation to rear pastedown internally clean. $750. Third edition. This is the final and most complete edition. The first edition appeared in 1717. It was reissued in 1718 with new preliminaries. In the third edition Jacob has "continued the statutes to the present year; added many new entire heads and precedents never before printed; a very great number of references and variety of cases and resolutions in the superior courts" preface. He also added about 100 pages of new material. One of the most interesting features is the detailed six-page description of the workhouse at Bristol. It forms part of a full chapter devoted to the Poor Law pp.324-348. OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition in North American law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue T136996. unknown books
1758691481758. Philadelphia: W. Bradford 1758. Folio. Philadelphia: W. Bradford 1758. Folio. The First Retrospective Compilation of New Jersey Law An Interesting Association Copy New Jersey. Leaming Aaron Compiler. Spicer Jacob Compiler. The Grants Concessions And Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey: The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments And Other Material Transactions Before the Surrender Thereof to Queen Anne The Instrument of Surrender And Her Formal Acceptance Thereof Lord Cornbury's Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon. Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed By the General Assembly And Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the said Province With Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested Containing the Principal Matters in the Book. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Bradford 1758. iv 763 pp. Folio 11-1/4" x 7". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing boards partially detached crack through center of backstrip wear to spine ends corners bumped and worn later owner bookplate of Robert Leaming Montgomery to front pastedown front free endpaper detached and somewhat edgeworn. Moderate toning to text faint dampspotting in places dampstaining to margins of title page and a few other leaves "J. Fisher Leaming Esq/ from Henry Pennington/ May 13 1850" to front free endpaper tipped-in annotation in early hand concerning the Monmouth Patent to following endleaf later owner inscription of John Lawrence dated 1812 to head of title page. Book housed in lightly rubbed recent cloth slipcase morocco lettering piece to spine. An interesting association copy. $2000. First edition. With indexes for East Jersey and West Jersey. The third official compilation of New Jersey law and the scarcest according to Felcone it is the first to print fundamental laws constitutions and documents from 1663 to 1702 and session laws from 1668 to 1702. "This handsome volume generally known as Leaming and Spicer's Laws was prepared under the authority of an act of Assembly passed in 1752 and is the largest work issued from the press of Wm. Bradford. Subscribers' names were first solicited in February 1755 the compilers having spent nearly two years in its preparation. Three more years were consumed in printing and it was not until May 1758 that i. unknown books
1758652631758. Philadelphia: W. Bradford 1758. Folio. Philadelphia: W. Bradford 1758. Folio. The First Retrospective Compilation of New Jersey Law New Jersey. Leaming Aaron Compiler. Spicer Jacob Compiler. The Grants Concessions And Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey: The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments And Other Material Transactions Before the Surrender Thereof to Queen Anne The Instrument of Surrender And Her Formal Acceptance Thereof Lord Cornbury's Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon. Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed By the General Assembly And Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the said Province With Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested Containing the Principal Matters in the Book. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Bradford 1758. iv 763 pp. Folio 11-1/4" x 7". Later sheep raised bands black fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing to boards and spine and extremities small recent bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Internally quite clean and fresh with very light foxing in places small tear to fore-edge of leaf Z6 pp. 549-550. A very appealing copy. $2000. First edition. With indexes for East Jersey and West Jersey. The third official compilation of New Jersey law and the scarcest according to Felcone it is the first to print fundamental laws constitutions and documents from 1663 to 1702 and session laws from 1668 to 1702. "This handsome volume generally known as Leaming and Spicer's Laws was prepared under the authority of an act of Assembly passed in 1752 and is the largest work issued from the press of Wm. Bradford. Subscribers' names were first solicited in February 1755 the compilers having spent nearly two years in its preparation. Three more years were consumed in printing and it was not until May 1758 that it was ready for delivery. Up to that time 170 copies had been subscribed for and the editors say in the Pennsylvania Journal May 11. 1758 'a number of copies yet remain not subscribed for' and 'any person may be supplied' until 'the 17th of July next after which we will not further extend the sale'": The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws 165. Benedict Acts and Laws of the Thirteen Original Colonies and States 270. Felcone New Jersey Books 156. unknown books
1728RW1451London:: John Senex 1728. 1728. 8vo. iv 187 1 pp. 4 folding plates decorative headpieces. Original gilt-stamped calf modern red leather gilt-stamped spine label raised bands; rubbed joints cracked upper spine mended. Ownership stamp of "P.G." Very good. Rare. First edition in English; first printed in Leiden in 1727 as Matheseos universalis elementa. "This work translated into Dutch 1728 and English 1752 sic is of didactic rather than original merit but it was significant for its invitation to mathematicians to elucidate systematically Newton's Universal Arithmetick which 'sGravesande exemplified by his own explanation of two passages from Newton's book. 'sGravesande found the lighthearted treatment of infinitesimals and the infinite in Bernard de Fontenelle's Elemens de la geometrie de l'infini Paris 1727 unacceptable and he maintained his objections in the Journal litteraire against Fontenelle's rejoinder 1730." – DSB V p. 510. REFERENCES: ESTC no.: T187811; not in Babson. John Senex, 1728. hardcover books
1741LV1792London:: Henry Lintot for T. Woodward D. Browne J. Shuckburgh T. Osborne and W. Smith E. Wicksteed 1741. 1741. 8vo. viii 522 22 pp. Index. 20th-century half calf over blue buckram 5 raised spinal bands gilt-stamped red leather spine label; cloth lightly rubbed. Title-page signature upper margin. Very good. Fourth edition "with large Additions and Amendments and the Precedents in English." This comprehensive treatise on landlord and tenant was one of Jacob’s most successful works first issued in 1713. Jacob "a native of Romney Hampshire received a legal education and subsequently became steward and secretary to the Hon. Wm. Blathwayt. Jacob was the author of more than thirty works of which twenty-five were law books. Of all these publications the only ones now in request are: 1. Complete Court-Keeper or Land-Steward’s Assistant" and three others CDEL p. 859. Allibone Samuel Austin and John Foster Kirk. "Jacob Giles." Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: 1859. Henry Lintot for T. Woodward, D. Browne, J. Shuckburgh, T. Osborne and W. Smith, E. Wicksteed, 1741. hardcover books
1713183155London: Printed by J. Nutt assignee of E. Sayer for B. Lintott and T. Ward 1713. Hardcover. G/Poor covers are detached and heavily worn. Spine is heavily worn. Pages show slight foxing and toning but in nice shape for age This is certainly a re-bind candidate. Full leather covers ridged spine. vii 1 488 21 pages. Error in page numbering:Pages 144 173 and 457 numbered 148 73 and 467 respectively. Containing first the nature of Courts leet and Courts baron . Secondly the manner of holding Courts leet Courts baron and Courts of survey . Thirdly the manner of keeping the Court baron for trying of actions . Fourthly precedents of contracts conditions covenants . Fifthly the power and authority of the lord and of the steward. Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of E. Sayer, for B. Lintott and T. Ward hardcover books
1710001702Hamburg: Thomas von Wierings 1710 - 1714. Full Vellum. Very Good. An emblem book from a Dutch master! 8vo. Abundantly illustrated with 39 engraved plates eight of which are folding and 168 text engravings. The set includes Cats' most famous and beloved works some of which became deeply etched into the national consciousness including "Sinn und Liebes=Bildern" "Josephs Selbst Streit" Der Mannlichen Achtbarkeit" "Heuraht" "Galathea" "Spiegel der alten und neuen Zeit" "Frau=Ring" containing "Der Welt Anfang/Mittel und Ende" "Alterthum/Land und Garten=Leben" "Aspasia" Primarily in German with some Latin. Some soiling to the contemporary vellum which nonetheless is bright and attractive. A few trivial closed tears and minor cracking to the spines. All volumes tight and generally clean. <br/><br/> Thomas von Wierings hardcover books
17124343Rome: Francesco Gonzaga 1712. Extremely rare first edition of this luxuriously illustrated anthology of extracts from papal sermons delivered between 1703-09 in Latin prose and facing Italian verse: an unusual example of Baroque ecclesiastical culture from the pontificate of Clement XI. On the basis of extreme rarity and contents the volume numbers among those commemorative and honorific volumes which were never sold in the trade but offered as a ceremonial gift to cardinals ambassadors and other important personagescorroborated by the ownership inscription in the present volume by a monsignor during Clements papacy. The volume is singular in our experience for its contents. Latin extracts of Clements sermons generally rather brief are printed on the left side of the page then freely and somewhat copiously versified in Italian by the poet Guidi. The sparsity of the elegantly printed text leaves positively wasteful margins! Each sermon is preceded by a full-page engraving on the subject of the sermon the Holy Family adoring the Christ Child for Christmas the Resurrection for Easter etc. designed by Pietro Leone Ghezzi one of the principal artists in Clements retinue and engraved by Roman engravers generally also associated with Clementine projects Frey van Westerhout etc. The designs were made expressly for the present volume and are echoed as it were in a series of initials and vignettes devoted to the same theme; as such they must have been engraved for the present volume and not simply taken from the printers stock. If somewhat overshadowed by Maratti in his lifetime and by his epoch-making role as the first professional caricaturist Ghezzi 1674-1755 was nonetheless an important painter of religious subjects who worked on Albanis most prestigious public projects. The surfaces of Ghezzis paintings were considerably less finished than those of Maratti and he seems more receptive to Venetian color and unfinishednessthus showing a different aspect of Albani taste. Ghezzi was commissioned in 1712 the year this book was published to paint The Election of St. Fabian for the Albani Chapel in S. Sebastiano fuori le Mura. Within the next decade he helped paint the frescos the ancient basilica of S. Clemente and the nave decoration of St. John Lateran. His portraits including one of Clement XI are unusually informal and realistic possibly due to Ghezzis experience at caricature. Alessandro Guidi 1650-1712 who translated the sermons was a prolific Arcadian poet. OCLC records a single copy Berkeley and we locate no additional American copies. Large 4to. 28 x 20.5 cm engraved portrait of Clement XI xvi pp. full-page engraving 213 pp. including 5 full-page engravings paginated with text. 18th-c. vellum over boards spine with 5 raised bands and red morocco label gilt-stamped; covers with large blind-tooled central ornament blind-tooled filets and ornaments. Short tears at head and foot of spine and a few nicks there. Early inscription on front pastedown mentions Monsignor Bianchini Prelato Domestico e Camerario segreto di S. Santita Papa Clem. XI. Mild finger-soiling in margins of title and a little foxing on some text leaves but overall a very fine attractive copy. Francesco Gonzaga hardcover books
1774KK6504Goettingae: Impensis Victorini Bossiegel 1774. Editio Quarta. Hardcover. Very Good. Period full morocco spine gilt edges stained red ornate endpapers; 12mo 7 x 4.25 inches; pp. 14 432 22 index. Heavily scuffed; chipping at spine tips and along joints. Text block faintly browned but clean and unmarked excepting a contemporary ownership signature discreet even lovely on the FFEP. <br/><br/> Impensis Victorini Bossiegel hardcover books
1774LV2001Paris:: Jos. Barbou 1774. 1774. Small 8vo. Collation: a8 A-2D8. Pagination: xvi 427 5 pp. Engraved frontispiece by Gravelot and De Longueil printer’s device on title engraved head and tail pieces. Modern full calf blind tooled border gilt-stamped red morocco spine label all edges gilt recent endpapers; moderate browning and foxing notch in bottom margin of E3 with no effect on text. Very nice copy. Vaniere 1664-1739 some-times called "the Virgil of France" became a Jesuit and a highly regarded late Latin poet who was professor and rector of schools belonging to the Jesuits in Montpellier Toulouse and Auch. The present pastoral work regarding a country farm is considered to be his best Latin poem and some believed it raised him to the level of the best Latin poets of the period. The fourteenth poem is about bees. Other books offer poems on horses or cattle 3 of trees 5 & 6 seasonal work 7 & 8 garden 9 wine 11 farmyard 12 stagna ponds 15 and Vivarium: the warren and the park 16. Vaniere died at Toulouse while endeavoring to finish a Latin and French dictionary. Jos. Barbou, 1774. unknown books
17080000284TiguriZurich: Sumptibus authoris typis Gessnerianis 1708. <br/><br/>First unequivocal demonstration that images contained in rock were from prehistoric animals mainly fish. Sumptibus authoris, typis Gessnerianis unknown books
17490000178Bassani: ex Typographia Remondini 1749. First Italian edition. Contemporary vellum. Very Good. 1st Italian Edition. 8vo 17.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary vellum. Collation 28 244; 5 246-571 21 pp. 18 folding engraved plates. The binding has worm hole at bottom of front cover at hinge. Covers have circles with internal geometric lines; some soiling present on front cover more so on back. Textblock has worming in clear areas at base of spine and about 2 cm in from fore edge with no loss to text. All edges of text block have decorative red blue and brown streaks. Internal condition of text is very good clean and bright. <br/><br/>This is the first Italian edition of Gravesande's student text book of Newton's physics and the most influential introduction to Newton before 1750. Although the work was published in 1723 it was not accepted in Catholic Italy until 1749. Gravesande was a Dutch philosophe and mathematician member of the Royal Society of London and laid down the foundations for teaching physics. He was the most influential exponent of Newtonian science outside England. This work is an abridged viersion of his "Physices Elemnta Mathematica" and is the first textbook of Newtonian Physics. ex Typographia Remondini hardcover books
1741WRCAM37910Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford 1741. 32pp. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Contemporary ink inscription "Jacob Taylor" in upper margin of titlepage; contemporary ink correction on p.27. Cellophane tape joining signature at spine occasional minor foxing. Else bright clean and very good. In a half morocco and cloth box. An almanac by Jacob Taylor who published his important Pennsylvania almanac for the years 1700 to 1746. It is a distinct possibility that the present copy was owned and signed by Taylor as his inscribed name on the titlepage is accompanied later in the volume by a manuscript correction to a poem "manumated" becomes "manumitted". Taylor took the poetry in his almanacs seriously printing excerpts of PARADISE LOST in 1741 and composing well-received verse of his own. In addition to the calendar this 1746 almanac contains a substantial amount of poetry; lists of courts fairs and Quaker meetings; and a discussion of Hannibal's oath before the gods. This he concludes with a quote from the 1739 almanac of "R. Saunders" Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard on the dangers of false wit and pride in the present age commenting favorably on Saunders "By wicked Wit the Truth is often drown'd; Here certain Truth adorn'd with Wit is found" p.23. <br> <br> Taylor's almanac was printed by different Philadelphia printers over time. Some were printed by Franklin but this one was issued by Andrew Bradford one of Franklin's rivals and the son of William Bradford the first printer in Philadelphia. DRAKE 9634. EVANS 4818. ESTC W22747. Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford hardcover books
17502420Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son 1750. Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching platemarks 400 x 207 mm. sheets 435 x 277 mm. deckle edges numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius excudit A. V. Augustae Vindelicorum. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine. Rare suite of six rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's designs for a folding screen. This apparently unrecorded issue bearing the imprint of the Augsburg print-publisher Johan Jakob Haid and his son Johann Elias Haid is a re-issue of the plates which first appeared in 1729 with the signature of Jacob Wangner and the imprint of the heirs of Jeremias Wolff. OCLC locates a single copy of the Wolff issue at the Bibliothèque nationale de France photographs of the engravings are reproduced in the BnF online catalogue which misspells the artist's name as "Wagner". Wangner's engravings were based on the almost equally rare suite of six plates after Watteau commissioned by Jean Julienne and engraved by Crépy fils Louis Crépy in 1728. For the present issue the engraver's signatures barely visible in the BnF images were removed. The title appears at the foot of the first plate. Each engraving presents a central figure or scene set within a frame of delicate rococo allegorical and ornamental design. Three show the Comédie italienne figures of Pierrot/Gilles Harlequin and Columbina a woman playing the lute on a rug-bedecked stage a pair of allegorical figures flanking an awning above and at bottom the smiling visage of a Commedia dell'Arte character of the opposite sex. The remaining pastoral scenes of courtship or douceur de vie are set within naturalistic elements two with streams flowing over a dripping shell-shaped basin or ledge under which a ghostly face can be dimly discerned. Two painted screens based on these designs were sold at Sotheby's London on Feb. 12 2008 and again on 28 Oct. 2010 with the addition of a third painting from the series. I locate no other copies of the issue with the Haid imprint. On the Wolff issue cf. W. Augustyn "Augsburger Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert" in Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen 1997 p. 820 citing E. Isphording Gottfried Bernhard Göz 1708-1774 1997 pp. 35 ff. On the Crépy engravings cf. Guilmard Maitres ornemanistes p.145; Dacier & Vauflart 159-163; E. de Goncourt Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre . d'Antoine Watteau 1875 p. 224 nos. 309-314; G. Glorieux À l'enseigne de Gersaint: Edme-François Gersaint marchand d'art sur le Pont Notre Dame 1694-1750 2002 pp. 190 & 192; Mark Millard Collection: French Books no. 170.35 5 of the 6 plates. Johann Jacob Haid & son unknown books
1774WRCAM35113APhiladelphia: Printed by John Dunlap 1774. x2411pp. 12mo. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. The "gentleman of foreign extraction" was actually Jacob Duche a notorious Philadelphia Loyalist distinguished for having been appointed Chaplain of the Continental Congress and then turning the tables on his fellow revolutionaries by predicting their defeat and urging the recall of the Declaration of Independence. He was cursed as a traitor and took refuge in England in 1777. The letters contained herein relate mostly to describing prominent Philadelphia residents and institutions. The author gives an account of the Quakers and writes favorably of Philadelphia and of America in general. His ingenious pseudonym "Tamoc Caspipina" is an acronym derived from his position of "The Assistant Minister of Christ's Church and St. Peter's in Philadelphia in North America." There exists another Philadelphia issue of this work printed the same year as the present one by Robert Bell. BRINLEY SALE 3135. HILDEBURN 3008. EVANS 13259. SABIN 21055 ref. DAB V pp.476-77. Printed by John Dunlap hardcover books
173631721Lipsiae: Apud haer. Joh. Frid. Braunii 1736. 4to 21.4 cm 8.4". 30 736 73539 7371216 96 pp. <br><br>Sole edition: Edited by theologian Johann Gerhard Meuschen 16801743 this volume presents a prominent Christian Hebraist's analysis of alleged Talmudic references to Jesus and the New Testament accompanied by a variety of contemporary writings similarly focused on how Jewish texts could shed light on the New Testament. In addition to Balthasar Scheidt 161470 professor of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg also represented here are Johann Andreas Dantz a.k.a. Danz or Dans 16541727 Herman Wits and Jakob Rhenferd 16541712; the largest part of the volume including several treatises on Jewish baptismal rites is by Dantz professor of Hebrew and theology at Jena noted for his strictly Christological interpretation of the Old Testament.<br>Â Â Â Â The title-page here is in red and black sporting an engraved title vignette. Ornamented with woodcut head- and tailpieces the latter repeated once and a few woodcut initials the primarily Latin text incorporates numerous quotations printed in Hebrew several in Greek three in Arabic and one in Syriac; the sole German quotation is printed in black-letter.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Bookplate of Johann Christian Wilhelm Diederichs 175081 a philosopher and professor of Oriental languages at Göttingen and Königsberg laid in along with those of two seminaries plates formerly affixed to front pastedown. Front fly-leaf and one page each with an inked annotation in the same 18th-century hand possibly Diederichs'. Recent speckled papercovered boards spine with printed paper label; title-page with faded 19th-century institutional rubber-stamp and bottom edges with another stamp lower outer portion of Diederichs bookplate partially torn away. Two leaves each with small paper flaw one marginal one affecting a few letters without loss of sense; a few corners dog-eared. Pages gently age-toned with minor to moderate offsetting and occasional slight spotting; first and last few leaves with margins browned by offsetting from old binding. Two early inked annotations as above and a scattered handful of small inked text corrections. => A thick sturdy fistful of a book. Apud haer. Joh. Frid. Braunii hardcover books
172967423First Edition of Jacob's "Most Enduring and Successful Work" JACOB Giles. A New Law-Dictionary: Containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; and also the whole law and the practice thereof Under all the Heads and Titles of the same. Together with such Informations relating thereto as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law and our Manners Customs and Original Government. Abstracted from all Dictionaries Abridgments Institutes Reports Year-Books Charters Registers Chronicles and Histories Published to this Time. And fitted for the Use of Barristers Students and Practisers of the Law Members of Parliament and other Gentlemen Justices of Peace Clergymen &c. By Giles Jacob gent. London In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling assigns of E. Sayer Esq; for J. and J. Knapton J. Darby A. Bettesworth F. Fayram W. Mears J. Pemberton J. Osborn and T. Longman C. Rivington F. Clay J. Batley and A. Ward MDCCXXIX. 1729. First edition. Large quarto 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 318 x 210 mm. Text in two columns. Unpaginated. 772 pp. A-5D4 5E2. Contemporary full calf rebacked. Boards are tooled in blind. Spine with a newer red morocco spine label. Boards rubbed. Previous owner's old ink signature on front free endpaper. Front and rear endpapers laid-down. Some light toning. Overall a very good copy internally very clean. Jacob Giles bap. 1686 d. 1744 was a legal and literary author. "Jacob's most enduring and successful work A New Law Dictionary first published in 1729. The dictionary had taken nine years to research and write and set a new precedent by being the first published guide to English law that combined an abridgement of statute law with a dictionary of legal practice and terminology. A New Law Dictionary reached its fifth edition in 1744 the year of Jacob's death;." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ESTC T137460. HBS 67423. $2850 Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling... hardcover books
1726D12957Nuremberg: Weigel 1726. Hardcover. Very Good. Early calf rebacked; 8vo 210x124mm; pp. 14 197 11 tables plus frontispiece. No plates. Scarce. <br/><br/> Weigel hardcover books
1773WRCAM48817AMannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey 1773. 16358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary black half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn small paper label at foot of spine. Small ink stamp on titlepage and verso of map. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Second issue with some corrections after the first printing of the previous year of this rare account of Lower California by the German Jesuit Jacob Baegert. Baegert lived in Baja California for seventeen years 1751- 68 and spent most of his time at the Mission of San Luis Gonzaga leaving after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He provides some important details on the culture of the Indians of Baja California including the Pericues Guiacuras and Cochiemes. Wagner states that the German Jesuits were especially dissatisfied toward the end of the Jesuit regime in California and Baegert's bitterness is evident in his book: ".it was a land full of ferocious beasts and even more ferocious Indians the soil was poor the water undrinkable and there was no fuel to be had." The fine and important map was made by the fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak and is described by Streeter as "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768 after the expulsion of the Jesuits." The top right corner of the territory present-day Arizona is labeled rather ominously "Los Apaches Barbari." The excellent plates which were apparently not issued with all copies depict male and female California Indians. The NUC locates only three copies of this second issue. <br> <br> A prime early account of Baja California with an important map and plates of the region. HOWES B29. HILL 46. COWAN p.27. SABIN 4363. BELL B5 1772 ed. STREETER SALE 2442. BARRETT 129. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 157. MEADOWS BAJA CALIFORNIA 1. GRAFF 137 1772 ed. Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey hardcover books
1773WRCAM48817Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey 1773. 16358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary patterned paper boards expertly rebacked and recornered to style preserving original leather label. Internally clean. Very good plus. Second issue with some corrections after the first printing of the previous year of this rare account of Lower California by the German Jesuit Jacob Baegert. Baegert lived in Baja California from 1751 to 1768 and spent most of his time at the Mission of San Luis Gonzaga leaving after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He provides some important details on the culture of the Indians of Baja California including the Pericues Guiacuras and Cochiemes. Wagner states that the German Jesuits were especially dissatisfied toward the end of the Jesuit regime in California and Baegert's bitterness is evident in his book: ".it was a land full of ferocious beasts and even more ferocious Indians the soil was poor the water undrinkable and there was no fuel to be had." The fine and important map was made by the fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak and is described by Streeter as "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768 after the expulsion of the Jesuits." The top right corner of the territory present-day Arizona is labeled rather ominously "Los Apaches Barbari." The excellent plates which were apparently not issued with all copies depict male and female California Indians. The NUC locates only three copies of this second issue. <br> <br> A prime early account of Baja California with an important map and plates of the region. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Dawson's Book Shop of Los Angeles for $150 in 1968. HOWES B29. HILL 46. COWAN p.27. SABIN 4363. BELL B5 1772 ed. STREETER SALE 2442. BARRETT 129. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 157. MEADOWS BAJA CALIFORNIA 1. GRAFF 137 1772 ed. Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey hardcover books
1772WRCAM46993Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey 1772. 163581pp. plus two engraved plates on one sheet and folding map. Small octavo. Modern half vellum and marbled boards spine gilt. A bit of light age toning an occasional light fox mark. Three small purple ink spots in lower portion of map. Near fine. First printing of this rare and important account of Lower California by the German Jesuit Jacob Baegert. Baegert lived in Baja California for seventeen years 1751-68 and spent most of his time at the Mission of San Luis Gonzaga leaving after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He provides some important details on the culture of the Indians of Baja California including the Pericues Guiacuras and Cochiemes. Part one is an overview of California its climate and products; part two describes the inhabitants; and the third part contains an account of the introduction of Christianity to California. Wagner states that the German Jesuits were especially dissatisfied toward the end of the Jesuit regime in California and Baegert's bitterness is evident in his book: ".it was a land full of ferocious beasts and even more ferocious Indians the soil was poor the water undrinkable and there was no fuel to be had." <br> <br> The fine and important map was made by fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak and is described by Streeter as "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768 after the expulsion of the Jesuits." The top right corner of the territory present-day Arizona is labeled rather ominously "Los Apaches Barbari." The excellent plates which were apparently not issued with all copies depict male and female California Indians. <br> <br> A prime early account of Baja California with an important map and plates of the region. HOWES B29 "b." HILL 46. COWAN p.27. SABIN 4363. BELL B5. STREETER SALE 2442. BARRETT 129. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 157. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST pp.154-155 & item 631. MEADOWS BAJA CALIFORNIA 1. GRAFF 137. PILLING PROOF SHEETS 203. PALAU 358393. Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey hardcover books
