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1792227295London: Hookham and Carpenter 1792. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. xi iv 258 270 pp. Bound in marbled boards with leather spines and corners; decorated in gilt on the spines; headbands. The boards are worn and there is some chipping at the head and foot of the spines; each volume has a previous owner's name inside; the dedication page in Volume One is loose. The full title is: SELECT VIEWS OF THE LIFE REIGN AND CHARACTER OF FREDERICK THE GREAT - King of Prussia. Containing besides many profound Remarks on the prominent Features of the Reign and Character of that unrivalled Sovereign serving to Illustrate His Posthumous Works two very remarkable Letters of the Empress of Russia to the Author; a great Variety of Anecdotes relating to eminent political and literary Characters of Great Britain and other Countries; and also an authentic Exposition of the Origin and True Causes of the British Alliance with Prussia translated from the German of Dr de Zimmerman First Physician to His Britannic Majesty at Hanover Knight of the Russian Order of Wlodimir and Member of several Literary Societies by Major Neuman of the Nassau Guards. Hookham and Carpenter Hardcover
1771007778Dublin: J. Milliken 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. The Second Edition Corrected and enlarged." xii 1 leaf of an engraved plate folded 51 50-284 20 p.: 1 in-text engraved illustration tables; 20 cm. Contemporary full calf; modern bonded leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: Six Weeks Tour. Folded plate often bound as frontispiece is here bound following p. xii. Bookseller's advertisements on final pages following index. Error in pagination: page numbers 50 and 51 are repeated. Former owner's name at head of title: John Morrison. Title page continued: "Describing particularly I. The present State of Agriculture and Manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions in different Counties. V. The State of the Working Poor in those Counties wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and copper-plates of such newly invented implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known." In Very Good Condition: modern repair of spine with Japanese tissue; corners rubbed; folded plate and pages are clean and crisp. J. Milliken hardcover
170352920011127R Knaplock London 1703. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Antiquities of Canterbury. In two parts. I. A Survey of that Ancient City with the Suburbs and Cathedral etc. Also Mr Sumner's Discourse called Chartham News or a Relation of Some Strange Bones found at Chartham to which are added some Observations concerning the Roman Antiquities of Canterbury. II. Cantuaria Sacra:or Antiquities: i Cathedral and Metropolitan Church; ii Archbishopric; iii Late Christ-Church Priory and present Collegiate Church founded by Henry VIII; IV Archdeaconry of Canterbury; V Monastery of Saint Augustine of the Parish Churches Hospitals and other Religious Places that are or have been in or near that City. The whole is illustrated and adorned with several useful and fair sculptures" This volume contains a total of 20 engravings. These comprise of: a fold-out map/plan; a single map; 4 fold-out plates; 14 single plates including frontis. Contains: Free end-paper; frontis.; title page for work; title page for Part I ; Dedication to William Archbishop of Canterbury; Preface to the Reader 3; Preface to New Edition 7; Table of Chapters; Map; pages 1-192; Account of Chantries 3; Appendix pages 1-80; Table index 4; title page for Part II Preface 2; page 1-178; Appendix to the Supplement page 1-70; Table to Part II index 3; Errata 1; free end-paper. Contemporary full leather with banded spine and blind decoration to covers residue of gilt decoration against bands no spine-label. Loss to leather on both front and rear covers and significant wear front cover is detached rear is attached but fragile. Internal binding is sound. End-papers are darkened and marked. Upper and lower margins of pages are marked by water stains but pages are otherwise clean and text is bright. Plates have crisp and clear definition and are free from foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52920011127. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. R Knaplock hardcover
177305315080255Printed by A Ward York sold by Robert Horsfield T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman York London 1773. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Brown leather with gilt framing and raised bands to spine. Corners bumped spine ends worn front hinge cracked but cover securely attached by cord rear hinge sound internal binding sound small bookplate on inside of front cover previous owners' names and dates of 1778 and 1912 on front end-paper end-papers darkened pages clean. Poet born in Hull Yorkshire Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05315080255. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Printed by A Ward, York, sold by Robert Horsfield, T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman, York hardcover
1722007782London: Printed for W. Taylor J. Pemberton E. Symon W. Chetwood J. Lacy and J. Clarke 1722. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes: 2 vi 356 p.; 4 243 1 p.; 19 cm. 8vo Signatures: v. 1. A4 B-Z8 Aa2 -- v. 2. A2 B-Q8 R2. Contemporary speckled calf with blind-tooled decoration on each board with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled title: Vertot's History Gilt-tooled volume number in third compartment of each with gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges speckled red. Titles in double line borders. Woodcut head pieces tailpieces and initial articles. Translation of Histoire critique de l'établissement des Bretons dans les Gaules. Dedication signed by the translator John Henley. Engraved armorial bookplate on each fixed endpaper: "Strickland Freeman Esqr. Fawley Court Bucks 1810." Strickland Freeman d. 1821 inherited Fawley Court from his uncle Sambrooke Freeman in 1782. He wrote works on horsemanship and botany. Although his will was probated in 1822 and some sources state that he died that year he died in Nov. 1821 according to Debrett's. Circular red stamp on title page verso of each volume of Pennsylvania State University Library. In Very Good Condition: minor loss at spine ends; vol. 2 has modern repair of joints with Japanese tissue; vol. 1 lacking back free endpaper; both volumes have modern repair of hinges with Japanese tissue; pages are clean and tight. Printed for W. Taylor, J. Pemberton, E. Symon, W. Chetwood, J. Lacy, and J. Clarke hardcover
1770003648Paris: Saillant & Nyon. Volume 2 only. Bound in full leather with marbled e.p.s ribbon marker. Published Paris: Saillant & Nyon 1770. 4to. 8" x 10 1/4" xx518 pp. illustrated with 21 full page portrait plates. Mild seaparation cracking at the outer hinges minor scuffing text clean and bright. About very good. . Very Good. Hard. 1770. Saillant & Nyon unknown
1778W2346Paris: Vaugondy 1778. The image is 9 3/8 inches by 11 inches on a folded sheet measuring 11 1/4 inches by 16 3/8 inches. Original hand-colored in outline map of the German Empire by Didier Robert de Vaugondy circa 1723-1786. He and his father Gilles Robert de Vaugondy were the premier French cartographers of the 18th century. This map was published circa 1778 in Vaugondy's Atlas Portatif. The map is guaranteed to be more than 240 years old. It is in about very good condition: clean and bright withjust s few small spots of foxing; edges of paper are tanning well away from the image; binding edge is rough. First Edition Thus. Single Sheet. Very Good-. 9 3/8 inches by 11 Inches. Map. Vaugondy
17752248London: W. Hay 1775. Hardcover. Very Good . Scarce. Complete in 3 volumes. 12mo. Full blue leather 5 bands and gilt tiles on spine. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers with gilt decoration on leather at pastedown. Vol. I ii 170pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue has a piece missing from the edge of the last page & small tear no text effected. Vol. II 230pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue. Vol. III 247pp plus index. Authors include Langhorne Russel Macfarlane Cunningham Ogilvie Scoto Britannus Dunbar Bellentyne Pennycuick Lindsay Archibald Scott Fergusson Alexander Robertson Murray Graham Drummond etc. Particularly in the first volume many of the poems and songs are attributed to “a gentleman†or similar. The subjects range from parodies to eulogies folk songs to love songs and all that life entails. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns single stamp on front & rear endpapers first and last pages blind stamp on reverse of title pages. A very good set of these rare volumes. W. Hay hardcover
176130349Unknown: Unknown. 1761. 0 To Be Determined. Soft Cover. Very Good in No DJ As Issued dust jacket. "Historiae Romano-Germanicae Periodus Carolingica" refers to the Carolingian period within the context of Romano-Germanic history specifically analyzing the era of the Carolingian dynasty roughly 8th–10th centuries as it relates to the evolution of the Empire law and structure in Europe. Title page detached but present else very good. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. iv 204 pages . Unknown paperback
17579999_00267Londres Nourse & Vaillant; Amsterdam Harrevelt; Utrecht Spruit 1757. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Four parts bound in three volumes. Small octavo. Pp. iv 232; ii 268; ii 271. Title-pages printed in red and black. Different woodcut device to each title-page. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. HARDCOVER uniformly bound in contemporary half vellum and marbled boards manuscript lettering to each spine in neat contemporary hand; first blank small old institutional stamps to verso of title small chip at blank margin of one title-page and one internal leaf. A lovely set in a very good condition untrimmed preserved entirely in the original state in the first binding. ~ FIRST EDITION. Jean-Baptiste Colbert Marquess of Torcy 1665-1746. H-2 OUT <br/> <br/> Londres, Nourse & Vaillant; Amsterdam, Harrevelt; Utrecht, Spruit hardcover
1744056151London: Tanner John. 1744. HEAVY. 4 xli 10 722 54pp frontis portrait 3 plates showing arms of 213 monasteries. Original/contemporary full calf leather. 6 raised bands gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Cracking to joints boards intact very minor interior foxing small amount of worming to bottom margin of last few pages not affecting text. Tanner's county-by-county survey of former monastic houses before the dissolution this copy with the armorial bookplates of William Harrison and Henry Thomas Ellicombe. Second Edition Revised & Enlarged. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Folio. Tanner, John. Hardcover
1781000911Dublin: Marchbank 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 Volumes To which is added the trial of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great Full leather with spines carefully repaired in brown coated cloth. Interiors good: some foxing but pages are supple. Marchbank hardcover
1783004429London: T. Stackhouse 1783. Map. Fine. Matted hand-colored copper engraving. Image size: 14.5 x 15.25 inches. Mat size: 22.75 x 23.75 inches. A beautiful example of this map of Eastern Europe showing the jurisdictions as titled on the map of Moscow Woronesk Bielgorod Kiow Smolensk Novogorod Nisi Nowogorod Penzinskoi Alatyrskoi Galicoskoi Chlynowskoi Solkamskoi Kaygorodskoi Soli Wyczegokkoi Jarenskoi Peczora Mezeskoi Archangel Carelia the Kingdom of Kazan and Russian Lapland as well as parts of Poland Ukrain Livonia Lithuania Finland and Siberia. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. T. Stackhouse unknown
17921206T039London: J. Debrett 1792. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxiv 336 22. Very Good. 5.25 x 8.75 inches 13.5 x 22 cm. First English language edition. Translated with considerable additions from the third Russian edition Obozrenie Rossiiskoi Imperii 1790. Recent half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands red morocco title label gilt ornament to each compartment. Good solid binding a little light foxing text is otherwise very clean throughout. Complete with the fold-out map and large fold-out plate of arms and uniforms of the different governments of the Russian Empire both with old paper repairs to reverse. Errata to final page. Lacking the half-title. One of the first geographical descriptions of Russia. Includes modern day Estonia and Latvia as the Riga Governorate. ESTC: T188833 & T203474. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 8.75 inches 13.5 x 22 cm. J. Debrett hardcover
1705001483Leyden Neth: Hendrik van Damme 1705. Very Good. 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: 4 4to. Disbound. Woodcut initial letter. Not in Knuttel. A poem praising John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough as a military hero. In Very Good Condition: disbound and without stitching; leaves are separating at fold; pages are clean and bright. Hendrik van Damme unknown
1710001488Haarlem Netherlands: Wilhelmus van Kessel 1710. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 24 p.; 22 cm. Signatures: A-C4 4to. Woodcut title vignette of a bird feeding baby birds in a nest with a banner reading "Trouw Moet Blyken" and woodcut initial. Knuttel 15891. A very scarce poem from the War of the Spanish Succession. In Good Condition: lightly soiled and foxed primarily in the margins; lacking stitching; outer leaves are largely separated. Wilhelmus van Kessel paperback
176884324Edinburgh: J. Bruce Printed for the Editor 1768. First Thus . Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket as issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original by Pons Augustin Alletz. ESTC T114424. Covers rubbed; prelims dampstained and marked but still very readable; front free flyleaf removed; binding and contents sound; occasional marking and dampstaining throughout readability of text not affected. xvi 4 568p. <br/> <br/> J. Bruce Printed for the Editor hardcover
17935316Paris Buisson; Lyon Bruyset; London J. Deboffe 1793. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Nine volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 428; 378; 399; 426; 414; 408; 395; 412; 530. Plus engraved frontispiece portrait of Richelieu and folding engraved view both to volume I; engraved frontispiece to volume III; 2 folding charts to volumes V and VI respectively; 3 engraved portraits to volume VII; large folding engraved bird's-eye view of the Fort of S. Phillipe to volume IX. All 9 half-titles present. Extended errata and notes at the end of Volume IX. HARDCOVER uniformly bound in half brick-red morocco and marbled boards spines lettered and numbered in gilt sides gilt ruled edges nicely marbled and sprinkled marbled endpapers some rubbing to extremities some spotting and browning as usual. A lovely set in a very good condition excellent plates. ~ Second edition revised considerably corrected and augumented. Armand-Jean Duplessis du Clessis Cardinal duc de Richelieu 1585-1642; Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie 1752-1813. C-4 <br/> <br/> Paris, Buisson; Lyon, Bruyset; London, J. Deboffe hardcover
1794006316Edinburgh: James Robertson 1794. Good. Carefully corrected and many sentences added which owing to the low tone of voice used by some of the witnesses are omitted in the London copy. The public may therefore by assured that this is the genuine edition." 195 1 p. engraved frontispiece portrait; 20 cm. 8vo. Disbound; housed in new brown clamshell box with gilt-tooled spine label. Sold in London by D.I. Eaton J. Jordan W. Ramsey and J. Marsom. Publisher's advertisement for records of the trials of Muir Palmer and Skirving on one page following text. ESTC T122114. Maurice Margarot 1745-1815 was one of the founders of the London Corresponding Society which sought parliamentary reform in England. In 1793 he was arrested and charged with sedition. He was convicted and transported to New South Wales in May 1794. After his return to England in 1810 he testified regarding corruption in New South Wales. In Good Condition: disbound; first blank leaf and frontispiece portrait and last several leaves are partially detached; last 3 leaves have closed tear from the gutter; light soiling; a few pencilled marginal notations. Clamshell box is in Fine Condition. James Robertson unknown
17531196A011Haya Haia/Geneva Palmyra: A Spese Di Errigo-Alberto Gosse E Comp / All' Insegna Della Verita 1753-1755. Hardback. Printed pages: 4to xxxii 524 viii 573 viii 564 xii 560 xii 303 1 blank 84 46 index. Very Good Minus. 8 x 10 inches 20 x 25.5 cm. Complete four volume set plus uniformly bound first edition of the posthumous works volume. Contemporary vellum bindings with some splits to edges staining to spine of volume V. Musty smell some light foxing. Stain to upper corner of early leaves in volume III. Portrait frontis and one further plate in volume I. Italian language. An early printing of Giannone's landmark history of the Kingdom of Naples. A scarce complete set. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a very heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate - a postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Please contact us for an accurate postage cost for your location. Size: 8 x 10 inches 20 x 25.5 cm. A Spese Di Errigo-Alberto Gosse E Comp / All' Insegna Della Verita hardcover
175184282Sherborne: Printed for R. Goadby and Sold By W. Owen 1751. 2nd Ed . Full-Leather. Good reading copy/No Jacket as issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Top board detached. spine has small loss; boards rubbed and worn at corners; Text block and contents sound. 388p. <br/> <br/> Printed for R. Goadby and Sold By W. Owen hardcover
17820005107London: Printed for the Author and sold by S. Hooper 1782. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo; xvi 192 pages modern quarter sheep extra gilt spine marbled boards. Rare. <br/><br/>First issue without the "Additional Subscribers" Eddy & Fleeman Preliminary handlist of books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson subscribed 48. After a military career Parker prospered as a theatrical performer and raconteur treading the boards throughout the British Isles. "His wit humour and knowledge of the world rendered him at one time an indispensable appendage to convivial gatherings of a kind - DNB." Dr. Johnson Sir Joshua Reynolds and others befriended him and both are listed here in the Subscriber's List. He was a prominent Freemason. Included here is his Dissertation on Masonry dedicated to George Montagu. ESTC T128727. Engraved frontispiece. Printed for the Author, and sold by S. Hooper hardcover
177545627J Dodsley 1775. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good hardback. Light edgewear pages gently tanned but still crisp. Free endpaper and half title has slight area of grubbiness along shelf edge. 4to half calf with marbled boards red leather title label and gilt lettering. Blind and gilt decoration to spine. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. J Dodsley hardcover
179805221101064T Becket; T Hurst London 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Three works bound together in marbled end-papers but is missing covers and spine. Binding of the text-block is sound and pages are clean. The works consist of: "A Translation of the Passages From Greek Latin Italian and French Writers Quoted in the Prefaces and Notes to the Pursuits of Literature a Poem in Four Dialogues To Which is Prefixed a Prefatory Epistle Intened as a General Vindication of the Pursuits of Literature fromvarious Remarks which have been made upon that Work" The Third Edition printed for T Becket Pall Mall London in 1798. ; "Chalmeriana or a Collection of Papers Literary and Political Entitled Letters Verses &c. Occasioned by Reading a Late Heavy Supplemental Apology for the Believers in Shaekespeare Papers Reprinted from the Morning Chronicle in which They First Appeared - Collection the First - " includes in foreword abridged "The Fable of the Bee and the Spider" from Swift's Battle of the books and No. I dated Sept 4 1799 through to No XI and No. XII dated Nov. 29 1799 Printed for T Becket Pall Mall London by D Jacques Lower Soane Street Chelsea in 1800. "Prose on Various Occasions Literary and Political Collected from the News-Papers" Printed for T Hurst Paternoster-Row London by Jacques and Vo. Lower Sloane Street Chelsea and consisting of: Three Letters of the Pursuits of Literature for the Morning Herald May and June 1799; An Account of the Literary Opera called Semiramide in Londra as it was performed Under the Direction of Sir Joseph Banks in Soho Square; An Account of the Sale of a Literary Vessell Extraordinary named the Rvenge at aLloyd's Coffee House Morning Chronicle; The Order of the Procession observed in the Literary Funeral of the late George Chalmers; The Apologist and the Sovereign or Words of Comfort in a Letter from Barbador; The Apparition of the Ghost of the late George Chalmers; The Letters Political and Literary of Laurentius Musambertius occasioned by the Appearanceof the Poem called The Soverereign by Charles Small Pybus; The Orgies of Thespis or the Mysteries of Parnassus and Castle Howar in a letter from Petronius on the Earl of Carlisle's Tragedy of The Step-Mother; Barbadoro's Third Letter to William Pitt; An Account of the Imperial Concert at the Great Room at the Opera House on April 23 1800; Some Account of an Unpublished State-Work in MS in Prose and Verse entitled "The Imperial Metamorphosis" in 1801. Printed for T Hurst Paternoster-Row London by Jacques and Co. Lower Sloane Street Chelsea in 1801 Third edition of first work and first edition of second and third works. lxxv 104 viii 94 viii 112. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05221101064. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. T Becket; T Hurst hardcover
172250318061202R Gosling Fleet Street Londini London 1722. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Transcription of a 12th Century document in the Cotton Library the Honour of Richmond. Contemporary worn calf leather binding with cracked joints covers held only by cords loss at spine-ends. Consists of: free end-paper; red and black title-page with vignette loss on lower corner text not affected names of Subscribers; Praefatio with decorated header capital and footer xxxv pages pencil note on page v; Fold-out pedigree marked near right edge and darkened in fold; Four plates showing fourteen seals; Fold-out map "Richmondia Comitatus et Alvertunae Schira" and elevation of Richmond Castle; Plate showing two kings/princes and seven knights; Main text 106 pages in red and black with header vignette and decrated footer occasional light pencil note in margin; Genealogia Comitun Richemundiae Post Conquestum Angliae in red and black with header and footer; Index Cognominium 7 pages; Index Locorum 6 pages; Appendix. Quae in eo continentur versa ostender pagina 220 pages together with 5 double page pedigrees with heraldic crests; bound-in handwritten note in Latin; Observations pages 221-268 with vignette header decorated capital; Double page engraving showing Richmond additional vignettes two plates showing crests; Additamenta pages 269-286; Index Cognominum 17 pages; Index Locorum 13 pages. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50318061202. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. R Gosling, Fleet Street hardcover
