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1757A2DFNA01U79OAmsterdam: Petrus Schenk II & son vol. II: Petrus Schenk III 1757. Red half sheepskin blue-grey paper sides ca. 1800. Imperial folio 50 x 34 cm. With 2 title pages in red and black each with the same engraved allegorical device a double-page engraved dedication plate with 2 large cartouches showing the arms of the Beemster polder and of the 9 members of its water authority and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates the folding plates numbered as 2 to give plates I-XXV vol. I I-XXIV and I-VI vol. II. Further with 1 woodcut tailpiece and bands of cast fleurons. Second edition of both volumes of a remarkably detailed set of scale construction drawings plans sections elevations perspective views etc. including many detail drawings of individual parts of 18th-century Dutch waterworks with the accompanying letterpress descriptions and notes. It includes locks sluices bridges pumps pile drivers an ice-breaker an elaborate water-bailing mill and more. Most of the plates measure about 45 x 54 cm with the folding ones about 52 x 76 cm. At least most of the plates depict existing works and the text occasionally gives some historical information. The drawings are so detailed and give such a clear picture of how the mechanisms functioned that one could use them to reconstruct the works shown.A fine copy nearly untrimmed with only some false folds in the half-title and an occasional minor defect in the paper. Plate 23 in volume 1 has no number but it may have been trimmed off at the head. The inside front hinge has partly separated from the book-block but the binding is otherwise good. A fine copy of a magnificent display of Dutch hydraulic engineering.l Bierens de Haan 3818.5 & 4839.5 vol. II only with later ed. of vol. I; STCN 2 & 4 copies of the 2 volumes; not in Berlin Kat.; Roberts & Trent Bibl. Mechanica. Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), unknown
175751848Amsterdam Petrus Schenk 1757-74. Large folio. 55 x 345 cm. A large uncut copy in contemp. marbled boards spine gone and later backed with buckram original corners in leather a bit bumped. Stamps on foot of first title-page. Halftitel title-pages in red/black with engraved vignettes. 22 engraved leafs with dedications 14;28 pp. and 25 24 large double-page or triple-page folded engraved plates 6 additional plates only sometimes present. With a total of 55 plates. On thick heavy paper wide-margined and internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>Second edition. "Tileman van der Horst and Jan Schenk produced the Theatrum Machinarium Univesale one of the most celebrated works on the construction of all those elements so necessary to keeping life dry in Amsterdam the place of the book’s publication. It was perhaps the most important work then produced on dikes sluices dams weirs canals and swing-bridges the very elements of existence in Holland. Jan Schenck was the engraver of this work which may also be the most accurate and the most sumptuously illustrated book of its type in Holland in the 18th century - the technical aspects of the rendering was just superb." - Brunet V1082 - Graesse VII 258. </em> hardcover
17241596Leipzig: Ch. Zunkel 1724 1724. First Edition. Very Good . Folio; 14 1/16 x 9 1/4 inches 360 x 234 mm; 11 240 pp. 2 II; title printed in back and red with 71 copperplate engraving by Krügner Böcklin Uhlich and others after Leupold. Most of the plates are folding and attached to a blank so that they may be consulted while reading the accompanying text. The plate at page 71 has a revolving volvelle. Contemporary speckled calf rebacked but retaining its original spine with gilt floral decorations in compartments and gilt title on tan calf label. Pages supple and evenly toned with scattered foxing some dampstain and occasional ink marks; first leaf with wormholes in the lower margin without loss of text or image plate LXVII with expertly supplemented corner tear; corners bumped and some scratches on boards; stamped on front endpaper illegible. All conditions consistent with the nature and age of the volume.<br /> Poggendorf I 1438; Ferguson p. 45-46. The Theatrum Machinarum Generale is the first volume of the 10-volume magnum opus of Jacob Leupold 1674 - 1727. It is extensively illustrated with copper plate engravings that fold out so that they can be viewed while consulting the text. What is particularly striking is the strong systematization that is lacking in most works of this period. The technical devices are always described in such a way that the isolated basic elements are first explained and then placed in their functional context. The illustrations show among other things draw wells water wheels pumping stations excavators pumps valves and fountains. Leupold was a German physicist mathematician instrument maker engineer and was director of mines to the Elector of Saxony. His seminal work Theatrum Machinarum Generale "The General Theory of Machines" was published in Leipzig between 1724 and 1739 with the last volumes issued after his death. The Theatrum was the first systematic analysis of mechanical engineering the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering hitherto published. It included ahead of its time a design for a high-pressure non-condensing steam engine the likes of which were not built until the early 19th century. Ch. Zunkel, 1724 unknown
177431672Leipzig: Breitkopf Und Härtel Lpz. . Very Good with no dust jacket. 1774. Hardcover. Machinery; German Language; Engravings; Folio 13" - 23" tal; 5 164 6 4 plts; 112 188 pages; Theatrum machinarium oder Schau-Platz der Heb-Zeuge : in welchem nicht nur angewiesen wird wie durch Menschen und Thiere gewaltige Lasten bequem fortzubringen sondern auch mancherley Arthen der vornehmsten gebrauchlichsten dauerhafftigsten und curieusesten wie auch simplesten Machinen Lasten von ungeheurer Grosse und Schwehre so wol von einem Orth zum andern nicht allein fuglich fortzuschaffen als zu erheben niederzulassen und mit Geschicklichkeit von einer Seite zur andern zu wenden vorgestellet werden. -------------16.5 x 10". Folio modern buckram. With 56 plates one foldout with lightly frayed edge. Light to moderate foxing. Complete with 1/2 title. BOUND WITH: Theatrum machinarum generale = Schau-Platz des Grundes mechanischer Wissenschafften das ist Deutliche Anleitung zur Mechanic oder Bewegungs-Kunst : darinnen nicht nur die funff einfachen Rust-Zeuge und die dabey nothigen Lehr-Satze deutlich erklaret . Sondern auch die so genannten ausserlichen Kraffte als der Menschen Thiere Lufft Feuer Wasser Gewichte und Federn nebst ihren hierzu dienlichen Eigenschafften und behorigen Machinen beschrieben werden_ _. Theatrum Machinarum Generale. Schau-Platz. Leipzig: Breitkopf 1774. Neu aufgelegt. Folio. With 71 plates. Light to moderate foxing. Markings on bottom edge. OCLC 258219387 - for 1st title locating 2 copies. 2nd title located no copies. A German study of hydraulics with pulleys levers and other such machines. 5 164 6 4 56 plts; 112 188 71plates. A total of 127 impressive and clear full page plates are in the two works combined. Firmly bound in cloth. . Breitkopf Und Härtel, Lpz. , hardcover
1737143528Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk 1757 part II dated 1737. Dutch waterways delineated in contemporary quarter sheep A handsome publication illustrating the technology behind the Dutch waterways their canals windmills bridges and boats. The first part was first issued in 1736 the second in 1737 here a secondary issue with a title page of 1757 the second part keeping a date of 1737 presented in the original trade binding of quarter sheep. 2 parts folio 555 x 347 mm. Titles printed in red and black with engraved printer's device double-page engraved dedication leaves in part I. Complete with all 47 double-page plates 20 in part I 27 in part II many folding with the consecutive numbering I-XXV in part I I-XXV and I-VI in part II but with some folding plates numbered as two. Contemporary red quarter sheep marbled paper sides. Rubbed worn around extremities but binding holding well and unrestored contents generally clean. A very good copy. Bierens de Haan 4836; Brunet IV 568 note; Graesse VII 258. unknown
17442401020031In Verlegung Hans Jacob Bischoffs Buchhaendlers Basel 1744 . Hardcover. Good. Thick folio. Rebound in handsome marbled paper boards. Red leatherette spine label. 8 1216 8 p. index 1200 illustrated woodcuts in text. First few pages conserved with japan paper margins worn some loss to bottom margins of allegorical engr. title. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Refs: Nissen BBI 1311. Pritzel 10532. Heilmann Krauterbücher p. 343. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. In Verlegung Hans Jacob Bischoffs, Buchhaendlers, Basel hardcover
172735955Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel and Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1727-1739. Folio. (372x239mm). Two parts in one volume. Contemporary vellum, two cuts in spine, modern slip case. Provenance: Book plates of Arnaud de Vitry and Andras Gedeon. Stamps to half-title and title-page, from Stadtbibliothek Augsburg - sold as duplicate. First part: (14], 200, (4) pp. and 45 plates, numbered I-XLIII (plate III with volvelle). Second part: (12), 100, (94) pp. and 40 plates on 36 sheets, numbered I-XL. All plates intact. An exceptionally fine copy.
172735955Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel and Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1727-1739. Folio. 372x239mm. Two parts in one volume. Contemporary vellum two cuts in spine modern slip case. Provenance: Book plates of Arnaud de Vitry and Andras Gedeon. Stamps to half-title and title-page from Stadtbibliothek Augsburg - sold as duplicate. First part: 14 200 4 pp. and 45 plates numbered I-XLIII plate III with volvelle. Second part: 12 100 94 pp. and 40 plates on 36 sheets numbered I-XL. All plates intact. An exceptionally fine copy. <br/><br/><em>The scarce first edition of the of the eighth and tenth volumes each volume being a complete work in itself of Leupold's magnificent ten-volume "Theatrum Machinarum" - one of the first encyclopedias of technology being the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering published hitherto. Complete sets of Leupold's Theatrum are virtually never found and Ferguson stated in his bibliography of technology that he had never seen a complete set. Each volume is complete in itself. The eighth volume is of particular interest in the history of computers as it deals mainly with calculating machines. This volume contains detailed descriptions of the calculating machines of Schott 1668 Grillet 1673 Leibniz 1674 Poleni 1709 and Leupold himself. The tenth volume is a supplement to the series published after Leupold's death by Ernst Scheffler. It deals with odometers gyrometers step counters and other devices for the measurement of distances. This volume is furthermore of importance because it contains the 90 page general index to the entire series. Hook & Norman: Origins of Cyberspace no. 6 volume 8 only.Honeyman Sale lot 1997 volume 7 and 8.Macclesfield Sale lot 1242 volume 8 only.Ferguson: Bibliography of the History of Technology pp.45-46.Wolf: A History of Science Technology & Philosophy in the 18th Century pp.657-8. </em> hardcover
17261595Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel 1726. First Edition. Near fine. 4 parts in one volume; Folio13 1/3 x 8 7/8 inches 337 x 228 mm; half title title printed in back and red 57 copperplate engravings thus divided:<br /> Theatrum Staticum Universalis 1726 half title blank title blank dedication to Charles VI 3 Foreword 3 Contents 2 92 pp 19 plates; <br /> Theatrum Hydrostaticum pp. title blank 2 197 - 236 7 plates <br /> Theatrum Aërostaticum: title blank contents 2 241 - 308 23 plates<br /> Theatrum Horizontostaticum: title blank Contents 1 blank pp. 313 - 332 Index 3 Errata 8 plates. <br /> Contemporary half-binding in brown leather with speckled boards spine with gilt decorations in compartments and gilt title; contemporary leather binding with gilt decorations in compartments on spine and gilt title; edges red; corners bumped and some scratches on boards; binding tight and square with a surface split at title page. Pages clean and supple with very light and even toning. Stamps of the Royal Engineering Artillery Library of Hanover on half title and title pages.<br /> <br /> Poggendorf I 1438; Ferguson p. 45-46. The Theatrum Staticum Universalis is the 6th volume of the 10-volume magnum opus of Jacob Leupold 1674 - 1727. It is extensively illustrated with copper plate engravings that fold out so that they can be viewed while consulting the text. What is particularly striking is the strong systematization that is lacking in most works of this period. The technical devices are always described in such a way that the isolated basic elements are first explained and then placed in their functional context. The illustrations show among other things draw wells water wheels pumping stations excavators pumps valves and fountains.<br /> <br /> Leupold was a German physicist mathematician instrument maker engineer and was director of mines to the Elector of Saxony. His seminal work Theatrum Machinarum Generale "The General Theory of Machines" was published in Leipzig between 1724 and 1739 with the last volumes issued after his death. The Theatrum was the first systematic analysis of mechanical engineering the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering hitherto published. It included ahead of its time a design for a high-pressure non-condensing steam engine the likes of which were not built until the early 19th century. Christoph Zunkel unknown
1721Gen55191721. Addison Joseph Hardbacks the books are bound in library cloth there is some light wear the bindings are sound. The endpapers have a library plate. There is some light foxing throughout the texts are otherwise clean. hardcover
173565511London W. Lewis 1735. First Edition. Hardback. Full contemporary aniline calf professionally and sympathetically re-backed. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. Board edges only very slightly rubbed. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 461 pages; Description: 8 p. L. 461 p. 1 l. 21 cm. Notes: Signatures: A-Z8; Aa-Gg8. Form/Genre: Tragedies. Subjects; Literature--English--18th Century. Literature--Early Works to 1800. London, W. Lewis hardcover
173744146London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley and C. Corbett 1737. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 12mo 6 1/2 x 4". Volume I: i-xxii iii-viii i-cxxxiv-135-384pp. The second pagination iii-viii is the table of contents of Volume II. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais and two fold-out copper engravings between pp. xvi-xvii and pp. 252-253; Volume II: 2 v-x 11-251pp. Fold-out copper engraved frontispiece full page engraving facing page 188 fold-out plate at page 217; Volume III: i-iv v-xx 21-22 3-367 5pp Index. Fold-out copper engravings facing pages 108 191 & 229 last plate missing its folded part; Volume IV: i-v vi-xc 1-281 1 blank 8 Contents 4pp Adverts. Fold-out engraved frontispiece fold-out plate facing page xxix and full copper plate facing page 49; Volume V: i-lxiv 1-267 5pp Contents. Fold-out plates facing pages 41 and154 and full-page plate facing page 149. On page 189 features the text of a poem titled "Bottle!" within the illustration of a bottle. Contemporary full spotted calf with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Title pages in red and black lettering. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Books housed in a later cloth covered slipcase.<br /> <br /> First English translation of Francis Rabelais' first critical edition by Jacob Le Duchat 1711 containing the followings works:<br /> <br /> - Volume 1: The First Book of Rabelais Treating of the Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua<br /> - Volume 2: The Second Book of Rabelais Treating of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings Of the Good Pantagruel<br /> - Volume 3: The Third Book of Rabelais's Works<br /> - Volume 4: The Fourth Book of Pantagruel<br /> - Volume 5: The Fifth Book of Rabelais Treating of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings Of the Good Pantagruel<br /> <br /> This work is complete with its 15 copper plates including 11 fold-out with only one missing its folded part Vol. 3 page 229. A few plates are unsigned and the remaining bear the signatures of engravers Henry Roberts and Nathaniel Parr.<br /> <br /> Slipcase rubbed. Each spine partly reinforced by binder's tape not affecting gilt lettering. Armorial bookplate of contemporary previous owner on inside of each front cover George Manners with the armorial motto "Pour y Parvenir" So as to accomplish. Ex-Libris of last previous owner on inside of each back cover G. Eisenberg. Front hinge of first volume repaired. Sporadic age-toning and minor foxing throughout. Slipcase in overall good- to good bindings in good- interior in good to very good condition. Jacob Le Duchat 1658-1735 was a French literary scholar whose 1711 edition of the works of Rabelais was the first to include historical and critical commentary. "Le Duchat’s is the first of the critical editions. It takes account of differences in the texts and begins to point out the variations. His very numerous notes are remarkable and are still worthy of most serious consideration. He was the first to offer useful elucidations and these have been repeated after him and with good reason will continue to be so. Le Duchat’s commentary was translated into English by John Ozell for his 1737 edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel." For more information see: Rabelais François ca. 1483-1553 The Works of Francis Rabelais. Translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux; with explanatory notes by Duchat Ozell and Others. Volume I Books 1 2 and 3 to Chapter 13. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux translators. London: H. G. Bohn 1851. Introduction. Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley and C. Corbett hardcover
1730241452London : Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1730. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in near fine aniline calf with decorated boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 16 295 1 clxiii 1 p. 4 leaves of plates 1 folded : ill. port. ; 12 . Subjects; Waller Edmund 1606-1687. English poetry — Early modern 1500-1700. English drama — 17th century. English letters — Early modern 1500-1700. Speeches addresses etc. English. Great Britain — Court and courtiers — Early works to 1800. Genre; Illustrated. London : Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand hardcover
1725663P20Savoy: E. and R. Nutt 1725. First edition. Leather. Fair. 7.5" by 5". None. A very scarce first edition of Giles Jacob's first and his favourite of his law works laying out the basics of law practice for students. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. This work is an octavo with the signatures running as A2 a4 B-P8 Q4. ESTC citation number T137466. With an index titled 'A Table of the Heads'. Collated from the ESTC complete. This work is a guide to studying law containing many practical tips reviews and indexes. The work is descriptive and practical and provides a very useful resource for students of law describing what the author believed to be the most fair and well constructed law system in the world. Written by Giles Jacob a British legal author. He considered this work to be his favourite. Though he was best known for his legal writings he also had a great interest in poetry and literature and published a farce called 'Love in a Wood or The Country Squire' and the satire 'The Rape of the Smock' and the more serious 'Tractatus de Hermaphroditus'. However his most famous work is 'A New Law Dictionary' published in 1729 which took Jacob nine years to write. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page 'Ex Libris Nicholas Gibbard'. In the original calf binding. Externally sound. The front board and front endpaper are detached but present. A little loss to the head of the front and rear boards. Some rubbing to the boards. Discolouration to the spine. Lacking the spine label. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Rear hinge and joint are strained but remain firm. Front free endpaper is detached but present. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lighty age-toned and generally clean with the odd spot. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page. The occasional ink annotation to the margins. Fair E. and R. Nutt hardcover
172531757AB1725. First Edition. London In the Savoy Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq. for T. Corbett at Addison's Head 1725. Small Octavo. 3 unnumbered 224 8 unnumbered pages. Original full leather. Binding in very porr condition but still in its original state. Needs repair. Interior very good with pre-owner's name in ink on titlepage: "RMA Mainish - 1825". Extremely scarce publication. Price reflects condition. Giles Jacob 1686 8 May 1744 was a British legal writer whose works include a well-received law dictionary that became the most popular and widespread law dictionary in the newly independent United States. Jacob was the leading legal writer of his era according to the Yale Law Library. The literary works of Giles Jacob did not fare as well as his legal ones and he feuded with the poet Alexander Pope both publicly and in literary form. Pope named Jacob as one of the dunces in his 1728 Dunciad referring to Jacob as "the blunderbuss of the law". Jacob is remembered well for his legal writing though not so much for his poetry and plays. Giles was born in Romsey Hampshire and was baptized on 22 November 1686. Among eight children Giles was the only son of Henry and Susannah Jacob. Henry Jacob was a maltster who lived until 1735. Giles Jacob's legal training included employment by Thomas Freke and then as a secretary to Sir William Blathwayt. Working for Blathwayt he engaged in litigation and dispensation probably in manorial courts. Jacob's first book The Compleat Court-Keeper 1713 gives detailed and practical instructions for how to administer estate matters. He combined this with a chronological summary of statute law and the combination was financially successful. Jacob always had an interest in contemporary poetry and the literary life and in 1714 he wrote a farce called Love in a Wood or The Country Squire. This play was never produced. He persisted however and in 1717 he wrote a satire of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock in the form of The Rape of the Smock. The poem was low and bawdy and the next year he wrote a serious work titled Tractatus de hermaphroditis about the legal status of intersex people published by Edmund Curll in 1718 along with the first English-language publication of Ioannes Henricus Meibomius's A treatise of the use of flogging in venereal affairs. Title page from an 1811 edition of Jacob's The New Law Dictionary. In 1719 two works appeared by Jacob both very successful. The first was Lex constitutionis which was a thoroughly researched compendium of statute law common law and criminal law schematized according to which powers of the executive branch of the government were involved. While the work's fame and usefulness were surpassed in a few years Jacob's book was a well regarded analysis. The same year he produced the first volume of the Poetical Register with a second volume in 1720. This work provided biographies of contemporary authors as well as earlier ones. According to the literary editor Stephen Jones: He is generally accurate and faithful and affords much information to those who have occasion to consult him. It cannot be denied that he possessed very small abilities; but he was fully equal to a task where plodding industry and not genius must be deemed the essential qualification. In the Poetical Register Jacob criticized the play Three Hours After Marriage 1717 which had been written by John Gay with anonymous assistance from John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope. Jacob wrote that its scenes "trespassed on Female Modesty". He subsequently criticized that play for "obscenity and false Pretence". Jacob had admired Pope had been on good terms with him and had submitted the biographical entry of Pope in the Poetical Register to Pope himself for correction. Jacob likely did not realize that Three Hours After Marriage had been anonymously co-authored by Pope. In The Dunciad of 1728 Pope pounced: Jacob the scourge of grammar mark with awe Nor less revere him blunderbuss of law. Pope explained Jacob's offense as follows: "he very grossly and unprovoked abused in that book the Poetical Register the authors friend Mr. Gay". The play Three Hours After Marriage was panned by most critics as obscene and literary historian Thomas Lounsbury has explained that no one criticized the play "without incurring from Pope an enmity that never died out". In 1725 Jacob wrote The Student's Companion and regarded it as his favorite of the books he had written. It was a guide to studying law with practical tips reviews and indexes. In 1729 his most famous work nine years in the making appeared: A New Law Dictionary. It combined a dictionary of legal practice with an abridgment of statute law and it reached its fifth edition by the time of Jacob's death. As late as 1807 "Jacob's Law Dictionary" was still a very profitable copyright. His last work was Every Man his Own Lawyer which outsold even the law dictionary. It was a self-help book for average citizens who might be involved in litigation. Jacob's legal writings were of a practical and descriptive sort often compared unfavorably to the analytic and theoretical treatises by authors like William Blackstone. But according to historian Julia Rudolph authors like Jacob had a different purpose in that they "were dealing with the problem of knowledge management or 'information overload' and in response to this problem the learning of the law was systematized alphabetized and organized." Jacob's most successful non-legal writing was of a similarly practical and descriptive sort. Jacob married Jane Dexter in 1733 and they had at least one daughter also named Jane.4 He and his family moved to Staines Middlesex where he died on 8 May 1744. Wikipedia hardcover
1730303645Bernard Linkot. Fair. 1730. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with label removed from spine. Newer cloth library binding not buckram. Slight damp staining to lower portion of pages throughout darker on first several leaves. Pages are generally very slightly foxed heavier on first few and last few leaves. Spine labels are chipped. . Bernard Linkot hardcover
1731BS68TANSavoy: Bernard Lintot 1731. Hardback full-calf. Decorative blind-stamped boards. 20cm x 13cm. v 220pp 4. Third edition 1731. Small losses to spine ends binding slightly worn. Previous owner's initials to front pastedown. A pleasing copy. bs68 . Hard Cover. Good. Bernard Lintot Hardcover
1719005094London: Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for Bernard Lintot 1719. 12 ii-v 220pp 4 4pp 8. Contemporary full calf raised bands spine in six panels covers with double line border in blind covers with scalloped edge in blind to the side nearest the spine. Upper cover with numbers and writing in ink stain to upper cover extremities lightly rubbed corners bumped upper joint split from foot to first band but holding well. Front pastedown has come unglued and is damaged with some loss lower pastedown unglued but complete lacks ffep ink notes scribbled through to lower ffep former owner's name to lower pastedown minor browning throughout. Sweet and Maxwell page 548. First Edition. Hardback. Fair. 8vo. Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for Bernard Lintot Hardcover
17932340792Boston / Worcester: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1793. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Lacks pp. 81-88 107-112. Boards rubbed with a few abrasions and bookworm holes wooden boards beneath leather splitting along horizontal with some loss from rear endpaper ownership marks of Benjamin Church of Hubbardston Massachusetts on rear endpaper dated 1799. Church was a lieutenant in the United States Army and his tombstone reads "In memory of Lieut. Benjamin Church who died June 23 1806. in the 30 year of his age. His death was occasioned by a fall from a frame.". 1793 Full-Leather. xvi 17-112 pp. ESTC W22054 Evans 25695. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews hardcover
17933647Leonard Worchester Isaiah Thomas: Worcester Massachusetts 1793. First Edition. First edition. This book measures approximately 5.5" x 9" with 91 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in poor condition. Lacking front and rear boards and several pages at the rear. Large piece of the right side of the title page is missing. Heavy foxing and staining throughout textblock. <br /> <br /> This book contains early and rare American music composed by Jacob French a singer and one of the first American composers sometimes called "Yankee tunesmiths".<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory # N1-15. Worcester Massachusetts unknown
1723AQ32419London: Printed and Sold by A. Bettesworth 1723. In two volumes. xxvi 6 444 i.e. 344; 2 vii 13 334pp 22. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a further 12 engraved plates. Errata slip pasted to verso of A8 Vol. I. Contemporary panelled calf later rebacked contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed some surface loss to boards corners exposed. Leaves lightly browned scattered spotting small marginal hole to leaf R8 of Vol. I very occasional early manuscript annotations. A 'poetical register' composed by Giles Jacob 1686-1744 best remembered for his legal writings. It catalogues a canon of English poets in alphabetical order. Jacob's poetry and plays were less well received and his work earned him a place in Pope's Dunciad as 'the blunderbuss of the law'. ESTC T137465. 8vo. Printed, and Sold by A. Bettesworth hardcover
1720205887London: E. Curll 1720. First Edition. Armorial bookplates Lloyd Vincent Almirall; internally clean externally worn especially on spines. Two vols. 8vos frontispiece 2 vii 15 334 22; frontispiece xxvi 4 328 9; contemporary panelled calf recased and rebacked; gilt dentelles marbled edges. Large paper copy with engraved portraits and index in each volume. E. Curll unknown
1723442400London : Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth W. Taylor and J. Batley; J. Wyat and C. Rivington; E. Bell and W. Meadows and J. Pemberton and J. Hooke 1723. N. I. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Good copy professionally recased. Scattered foxing. Physical description; 444 pages 20 cm. Subjects; Poets English ; Biography ; Early works to 1800. English poetry ; Bio-bibliography. English drama ; Bio-bibliography. Dramatists English. English drama. English poetry. London : Printed, and sold by A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor, and J. Batley; J. Wyat and C. Rivington; E. Bell and W. Meadows, and J. hardcover
1720QQ0045No publisher 1720. Original speckled calf double gilt frames to boards raised bands and recent typescript paper label to spine. Small 8vo 10.5 x 17cm. Mild chipping to top spine. Lacking front and rear free endpapers and blank endpages but text block complete including title=page. Bookplate and library shelfmark sticker to inside front board together with inscription 'Ex libris Tho Cornforth'. This is possibly the Fr. Thomas Cornforth who arrived in the Dorset village of Marnhull in 1725 and under the patronage of the Lords of the Manor the Catholic Hussey family built a presbytery which was to remain the focus of local Catholic worship until the consecration of a church in 1832. Two typescript title-labels to inside rear board. Head- and tail-pieces. Minor soiling to p. 267. Jacob Merlo Horstius was a German Catholic theologian based in Cologne. Best known for his ascetic writings his 'Paradisus animae christianae' was first published in 1644. Blom suggests that this English translation by 'T. M.' was the work of Catholic bookseller and publisher Thomas Meighan. Blom 1854. ESTC T092138. 1st edition thus. Text block sound and unmarked. Text block sound and unmarked. Good/Fine. 570 6. No publisher Hardcover
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
