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344 p. + Color frontis. Joe Elliott's bookplate. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, soiled. Hardbound. PA 40
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Salvage operations along the Essex and Suffolk coasts.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
244 p., illus., many in color. Map of 1840 India on endpapers. First published in 1853 Hardcover Very good condition good
Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly chipped dustwrapper.
Two volumes in one. Continuous pagination: 240 p. Foxed. Withdrawn XLib stamp of Lebanon County Historical Society on first fly leaf. 24mo. 130 mm. Original full leather binding. Edges rubbed. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt. Slight loss at head of spine. S&S/AI 37999. Hardbound. Very Good. AI BX 7
pp. xii, (13)-218, (6) [An Elegy]. Includes half title. Quarter loss bottom of pages 21 & 22. Lacks front fly leaves. Browned but not brittle. Light dampstain. Age stain. Early manuscript ownership of Moses Young and David Young. Stamped ownership of Henry Kollock on half title. 12mo. 165 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Front board detached. Loss head of spine. Hardbound. Poor. EVANS 27115. PALIB 6
8vo., with a frontispiece in photogravure, and 7 plates in photogravure; cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. With the engraved bookplate of A.R. Trevor. Scarce
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. xxvi, (1), 193; vi, 3-200 + Engraved Half Title and Frontis in Volume I. Volume I probably lacks printed title page. Some foxing. 175mm. Rebound in plain brown cloth. First published 1748. Contains: Vol. 1. Meditations Among the Tombs; Reflections on a Flower Garden; A Descant on Creation. Vol. 2. Contemplations on the Night. Contemplations on the Starry Heavens. A Winter Piece. James Hervey (1714-1758), English divine, and a zealous writer. His style is often bombastic, but he displays a rare appreciation of natural beauty. This, his earliest work, is said to have been modelled on Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflexions on various Subjects. It went through many editions in the late 18th century. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION BX 11
Vie de Mademoiselle De Lenclos - Aggiunto, preceduto da pagina bianca con titolo manoscritto "Antidoto"; Le Tombe e le Meditazioni d'Hervey tradotto in italiano da D. L. B. terza edizione corretta in Firenze presso Guglielmo Piatti, 1807 (rara opera del teolgo inglese) 1 (2 Tomi + 1) 13x8 cm., legatura in mezza pelle con angoli, fregi e titoli in oro su tasselli, pagg. 205; 204; 108; ritratti dei 2 protagonisti protetti da velina, in antiporta, in lingua francese, leggeri segni di usura, ma buon esemplare. Etichetta e timbri di Biblioteca privata, regolarmente pervenuto.
A Avignon, chez Jean Albert Joly 1792. In-16 relié demi-basane de l'époque, dos lisse pièce de titre marouin rouge. 192 pages.(Traduites de l'anglais par M Le Tourneur). RELIE AVEC : LA ROCHEFOUCAULT DUC DE : MAXIMES ET REFLEXIONS MORALES A Nismes chez J Gaude 1791 de 120 pages RELIE A LA SUITE : LE NOUVEAU SECRETAIRE DU CABINET CONTENANT DES MODELES DE LETTRES FAMILIERES SUR TOUTES SORTES DE SUJETS, AVEC DES INSTRUCTIONS SUR LES TITRES QUE L'ON DONNE AUX PERSONNES EN PLACE, ET SUR LA MANIERE DE REDIGER LES PETITIONS ; SUIVI DE MODELES DE LETTRES DE CHANGE ET DE BILLETS, AVEC DES DETAILS SUR LES JOURS DE GRACE, LES PROTETS, ET AUTRES OBJETS QU'IL EST NECESSARE DE CONNAITRE DANS TOUS LES ETATS ; TERMINE PAR DES MAXIMES SIMPLES SUR LA FACON DE SE COMPORTER DANS LE MONDE POUR PLAIRE ET REUSSIR DANS LES ENTREPRISES QU'ON SE PROPOSE. A Paris, à la librairie économique 1805. 108 pages.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text, and double-page map coloured in outline, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board framed and blocked in black and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy. Abridged version of the original edition of 1880. AN OUTSTANDING COPY. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Two Volumes. Illustrated with thirteen full page Engravings. Offsetting from engravings. Volume one: dated 1817; Volume two: dated 1813. Manuscript inscription in both volumes "The Rev. Steward ? Jenkins from his friend Mrs. Stephenson". 215mm. Original full leather bindings diced diaper pattern with an acanthus leaf border. Spines decorated in gold with raised bands and original leather labels. Volume one: front board detached, loss at tail of spine, corners rubbed with loss. Volume two: front board fragile, binding rubbed with small loss at corners. James Hervey (1714- 1758) was an English clergyman and writer. His earliest work, Meditations and Contemplations, said to have been modelled on Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflexions on various Subjects, within fourteen years passed through as many editions. Theron and Aspasio, which first appeared in 1755, and was equally well received, apart from the objections of Wesley and others. Hardbound. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! . ENGSETS BX 5
Front cover portrait of Lieutenant-General Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, C.B. The Russian Stand on the Five Rivers and the Battle of the Carpathians; Photos and illlustrations include: Germany's Christmas Day Air Raid on London; Bird's-eye view of Cuxhaven Harbour, at the mouth of the River Elbe; Full-page photographic portrait of Lieut.-General W.P. Pulteney, K.C.B., D.S.O., Commanding Third Army Corps; Austrian General Steger Steiner and staff in Galicia; 28-ton Austrian seige gun which fires a thousand pound projectile; and more. Covers secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
14 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Chris Collingwood and (some later volumes) Robert Papp. The sequence comprises: A Close Run Thing (1999); The Nizam's Daughters (2000); A Regimental Affair (2001); A Call to Arms (2002); The Sabre's Edge (2003); Rumours of War (2004); An Act of Courage (2005); Company of Spears (2006); Man of War (2007); Warrior (2008); On His Majesty's Service (2011); Words of Command (2015); The Passage to India (2018); The Tigress of Mysore (2020). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
8vo., First Major Edition, with a copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 9 copper-engraved plates and 52 woodcut illustrations and embellishments in the text, one or two plates very faintly foxed (with some resultant faint offsetting to facing leaves); most handsomely bound in late nineteenth century navy blue crushed full morocco, sides with triple frame border in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a geometric floral design, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, a splendid, crisp, clean copy in superb signed period binding. With the engraved gilt trade ticket of Pickering on front paste-down, and the binder's stamp 'BM Pickering' on front free endpaper verso. The first Major edition of Walton's great biographical collection, issued as a complement to the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Compleat Angler. Walton lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's where Donne was vicar; his life of his friend was written in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of the poet-clergyman's sermons. The other subjects were also personal friends; their biographies were first published in 1651 (Wotton), 1665 (Hooker), 1670 (Herbert) and 1678 (Sanderson). In this copy the portrait of Henry Wotton (called for at p.87) is placed as frontispiece to the volume as a whole; the portrait of Hooker (called for at p.161) is placed at p.166; the plate 'The Advocate' (called for at p.377) is engraved as 'The Pleader' and placed at p.378. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWARD COMPTON AUSTEN LEIGH TO LORD FRANCIS HERVEY WITH THE FORMER'S NEAT HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1865 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Austen Leigh was Master at Eton while Hervey was a pupil. A UNIQUE AND QUITE OUTSTANDING ETON ASSOCIATION COPY OF A WORK RATED BY JOHNSON AS 'AMONG HIS MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS'.
