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15683182London: William Seres 1568. 4to 216 x 147 mm. 8 118 leaves. Roman italic and greek types; printed shoulder notes. 8-line historiated woodcut initial opening the dedication 4-line initial opening the text. Title a bit soiled and ink-speckled some old crease marks to corners dampstaining in lower portion of last 30 or so leaves a few small stains including early inkstains in some lower margins.Contemporary London binding of ca. 1570 by the "Macdurnan Gospels Binder" of brown calf over pasteboard both covers gold-blocked and -tooled to a center- and corner-piece design with large cornucopia corner tools Foot K1 and K2 at center the gold-blocked arms of Elizabeth I within the Garter and surmounted by a coronet Oldfield British Armorial Bindings stamp 1 a semis of small gilt trefoils smooth spine gilt with small tools and intersecting fillets evidence of two fore-edge ties edges gilt the gilding largely faded; a few small gouges old restorations to corners obscuring the corner edges of five of the eight cornerpieces and to upper board edges joints and extremities of spine; modern folding case.Provenance: Elizabeth I of England supra-libros the binding probably commissioned and presented to her by the dedicatee Peter Osborne; Richard Latewar 1560-1601 preacher and Neolatin poet neat inscription on title consisting of two lines of Latin verse praising this posthumous work Bernardus niveos moriens imitates olores / Edidit hos dulces in sua busta sonos signed with his Latin name Richardus a Sero Bello a correction f. 98r and five marginal notes apparently in the same hand ff. 4v of the dedication 27v 31r 48r 65r 83v; Latin motto or quotationat end in a different early hand; John Wright purchase inscription on title stating that he paid 12 pence for the book in 1613 Johannes Wryght p. 12 d / 1613 a few marginalia probably in the same hand some marginal notation symbols and light underlines; with Bernard Quaritch catalogue 166 January 1897 Examples of the Art of Bookbinding no. 21 the text of the catalogue on a typed sheet mounted inside front cover. First Edition of a devotional treatise by a reformist Yorkshire preacher bound for presentation to the Queen.This was John Bernard's only published work. The manuscript was found in Bernard's study after his death by his brother Thomas who had it published dedicating the volume to Peter Osborne the lord treasurer's remembrancer of the exchequer. "According to Thomas Bernard his brother wrote the Oratio pia early in Mary's reign when the persecution of protestants was beginning. Supported by much classical and patristic learning John Bernard pursues the question of 'where the true tranquillitie of the minde may be founde' English translation of 1570 The Tranquillitie of the Minde 35. His standpoint is firmly evangelical. Proclaiming a scripture-based religion he rejects clerical celibacy and the doctrine of purgatory and asserts that if no morally worthy priest is available to comfort those troubled in conscience the latter should go instead to 'the lay man which is indued with the same giftes that are in a godly Minister'" Oxford DNB. The work was printed by the noted Protestant printer William Sere who had received letters patent for the printing of psalters primers and prayer-books in 1554; he lost this privilege under Queen Mary and regained it upon the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558.The "MacDurnan Gospels Binder" a shop or binder active from the 1560s to the early 17th century after about 1580 the shop's material is associated with the binder John Bateman derives its name from the 9th-century Gospels of Maelbright MacDurnan Abbot of Armagh d. 927 now in the Library of Lambeth Palace which was bound in this London shop for Archbishop Matthew Parker the bindery's main patron. "Besides binding manuscripts for Parker and presentation copies of books in whose production he was concerned this bindery bound presentation copies of books produced by most of the leading members of the London book trade between 1567 and 1577" Nixon Five Centuries. Nixon and Miriam Foot recorded nine bindings from the shop originally owned by Queen Elizabeth not including this one which appears neither in Nixon's 1970 census of 34 books bound in the shop nor in Foot's 70-item addendum to his census. Others were owned by King James I Henry Prince of Wales Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester William Cecil Lord Burghley and other luminaries.This binding is decorated with a pair of the distinctive cornerpiece blocks that characterize the shop's work; they are reproduced by Miriam Foot in The Henry Davis Gift volume I plate facing p. 40 as nos. K1 and K2. She reproduces two bindings decorated with these blocks dated by her to ca. 1567 and 1570 cf. vol. 1 no. 3 = vol. 2 no. 48 and vol. 2 49. Another binding with the same cornerpiece blocks though with modern overpainting is held by the Folger Shakespeare Library and reproduced in their Bindings Image Collection STC 17518. The present binding may have been commissioned for presentation to the Queen by Peter Osborne Officer of the Exchequer to whom the work is dedicated. The inscription by the poet and divine Richard Latewar who died in 1601 appears to indicate that the volume passed out of Queen Elizabeth's hands before that date.STC 1924. Cf. Howard M. Nixon Five Centuries of English Bookbinding 21; Nixon "Elizabethan Gold-tooled Bindings" Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer Mainz 1970 census pp. 254-262; Miriam Foot Henry Davis Gift I:35-49; Paul Needham Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings no. 87. William Seres unknown books
15592653London: : Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood Printers to the Quenes Maiestie 1559. FIRST EDITION of the first visitation articles of Elizabeth’s reign. . Quarto:. 18 x 13 cm. 14 pp. Collation: A-B4 lacking blank leaf B4 Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border McKerrow & Ferguson 83 with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial of Arcas and Callisto appears on leaf A2. With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey Dyson 1582-1633 at the foot of the title page. The bookplate of Albert Ehrman with his motto “Pro Viribus Summis Contendo†is affixed to the front pastedown. This was lot 270 in the 1978 sale of Ehrman’s library. Very rare. ESTC locates 4 copies in the U.S.: Folger Huntington Harvard Yale. First edition of the first visitation articles established for the reformed church after Elizabeth’s accession. The visitation articles are a series of 56 questions that were to be asked by church commissioners as they visited each parish within the kingdom. They include inquiries into the number of people imprisoned starved or burned at the stake during Mary’s reign; the number of known drunkards adulterers brawlers sorcerers book burners possessors of unlawful books and minstrels or others who “do use to synge or saye anye songes or dytties that be vyle or uncleane and especially in derision of anye godly ordre nowe sette forth and established†in a given parish. “On 19 July 1559 Elizabeth issued a royal proclamation publishing her fifty-three ‘Injunctions’ which set forth to the clergy the form and substance of the Elizabethan Church established by the 1559 Act of Uniformity. Besides calling ‘all ecclesiastical persons’ to observe all the laws that restored to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the ‘state ecclesiastical’ the Injunctions specified that educated and licensed preachers should preach the Word of God or lacking such preachers that homilies should be read; that accessories for Catholic worship should be removed from churches and that Bibles should replace them… They called upon the Queen’s subjects to live in charity and to avoid religious epithets like ‘papist’ or ‘schismatic’ as words of reproach. Among the Injunctions one called for press licensing to deter printed books against the religious settlement… Besides those statutes that established Elizabeth’s succession and Church settlement among the earliest acts of Elizaneth I’s first Parliament were those that extended the Marian treason statutes. The first of these included in the definition of high treason writing or printing anything saying that the Queen was not entitled to rule or that someone else was. The second act extended the Marian statute that criminalized false slanderous and seditious news about the Queen.†Clegg Censorship and the Press 1580-1720 pp. 9-10 That the re-implementation of Protestant reforms was of paramount importance for Elizabeth is reflected in the second and third articles: The second article inquires “Whether in theyr Churches and chapels al ymages shrynes al tables Candelstickes Trindelles or rolles of Mare Pictures Payntynges and al other monuments of fayned and false myracles Pylgrymages ydolatrye and superstition be removed abolished and destroyed.†While the third asks whether the vicars… “openly playnley and distinctlye recite to theyr paryshners in the Pulpit the Lordes prayer the Belief and the tenne commaundements in Englyshe.†Further each parishioner is to be “admonished… that they ought not to presume to receive the sacrament of the body & bloud of Christ before they can perfectly recite the Lordes prayer the articles of the faith and the x. commaundementes in Englyshe.â€Article 12 And of course the old rite is to be suppressed. In article 9 the Commissioners are asked to discover whether any of the vicars curates or ministers declare “anyte thynge to the extollynge or settynge forth of vayne and superstitious religion pylgrimages reliques or ymages or lyghtyngge of candelles kyssinge knelynge eckynge of the same ymages.†The question regarding sorcery seems to encompass the work of midwives: “Whether you knowe any that doe use charmes sorcerye enchauntmentes invocations circles witchcrafts southsayinge or any lyke craftes or ymagniationes invented by the Devyll and specyallye in the tyme of womens travayle.†As regards books the 46th article asks “What bokes of goddess scripture you have delivered to be burnte or otherwise distroied ad to whom ye have delivered the same.†And the 52nd concerns “makers bringers biers sellers kepers or conveyers of anye unlawfull books whiche might styre or provoke seditionâ€. Provenance: Humphrey Dyson 1582-1633 a scrivener and notary was a noteworthy English book collector with possible ties to Shakespeare's circle. “Humfrey Dyson d. 1633 book collector was probably the son of Christopher Dyson d. 1609 wax chandler of the parish of St Alban Wood Street London and his wife Mary. He was practising as a notary public by 1609 when he witnessed Christopher's will and continued to do so until shortly before his death drawing up wills and other documents. He was a citizen of London as a member of the Wax Chandlers' Company from 1603 and married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Speght d. 1621 the editor of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate. “Dyson is notable chiefly for the enormous library he amassed. No catalogue of the library is known apart from six notebooks All Souls College Oxford MS 117 listing in order of date of publication those books ‘touching as well the State Ecclesiasticall as Temporall of the Realme of England’: in 1631 these alone totalled nearly 1100. He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature; in some instances his is now the unique surviving copy. Nearly all the extant printed proclamations of Queen Elizabeth I's reign belong to the seven sets each of which he collected together bound and provided with its own specially printed title-page 1618. Dyson printed nothing else but he collaborated in the 1633 revision of John Stow's Survey of London—an edition that included many copies of acts of parliament and of the common council of London. “Dyson died between 7 January 1633 when he made his will as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry London and 28 February 1633 when it was proved. In it he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘my noble friend Sir William Paddy … to be by him put and given to the library of St John's College in Oxford’. He directed simply that his other books be sold by William Jumper; a great many of them were acquired by Richard Smith d. 1675 and were dispersed when his library was sold in 1682. Thomas Baker wrote: ‘There are Books chiefly in old English almost in every Library that have belong'd to H. Dyson with his Name upon them’ Hearne 7.369.â€Nigel Ramsay ODNB STC 10118 Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, unknown books
16113462Latin manuscript on vellum with large 6 in diameter suspended black wax seal of James I of England and autograph of Anne of Denmark dated July 23 1610 granting title to Corrodownan Manor in County Cavan Ulster to one John Browne Gent. of Gorgiemill near Edinburgh and his descendants during the Plantation i.e. colonization of Ulster under James I beginning in 1609. The colonists were settled on land confiscated from the Irish inhabitants following the conquest of Ulster 1594-1603 under James's predecessor Elizabeth I. The Plantation was intended to consolidate royal control of Ulster and repress rebellion by importing a substantial Protestant population. Like John Browne and indeed James himself many of the new colonists were Scottish. Some of these families went on to form the backbone of the Protestant Ascendancy in the province. John Browne and his heirs however were not among them. Sir George Carew sent by the king in 1611 to report on the progress of the Plantation noted that "he Browne . sent an agent who took possession set the lands to the Irish returned to Scotland and . performed nothing." The land was sold in 1613 to another Scottish colonist Archibald Acheson. Acheson's descendants were raised to the peerage of Ireland in 1806 as Earls of Gosford and still owned the property in the late nineteenth century. The first nineteen lines of the document grant the Scottish Browne the rights and privileges of James's English and Irish citizens. Especially notable are the requirement that the grantee maintain an adequate supply of arms for defense against the king's enemies lines 77-80 the attempt to encourage the growth of towns 74-76 and the ban on sale of the property to "mere Irish" or to anyone who failed to acknowledge the sovereign as head of the church thus excluding all Catholics by swearing the Oath of Supremacy 114-121. See Rev. George Hill The Conquest of Ireland. An Historical Account of the Plantation of Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century 1608-1620 Belfast 1877 308; idem Plantation Papers. Containing a Summary Sketch of the Great Ulster Plantation in the Year 1610 Belfast 1889 188-190; F.J. McCaughey Arvagh. Sources for a Local History Arvagh 1998 16.; Moiré chemise lined with exact recess for seal housed in handsome ruled red morocco clamshell case with gilt title to front cover and raised bands gilt particulars and decoration to spine; gilt rolled edges. Two leaves 65 x 81 cm; the first illuminated with a portrait of the king. Stain to upper left see image.; 65 x 81 cm; 1 pages; Signed by Notable Personage Related; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . hardcover books
174536894Edinburgh 1745. 1st printing ESTC T30512. Broadside printed recto only. Complete printed text supplied on request. On an old mount broadside previously folded and repaired with slight loss of a few letters not affecting sense or legibility. A triangular section to the upper right blank margin lost & supplied no text affected. Some expected age-toning & soiling. A Good copy. Large headpiece 4.3 cm x 15 cm. Large initial capital letter 'W'. 30.3 cm x 22 cm. <br/><br/>Charles best known today as the instigator/leader of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745 in his effort to restore an absolute monarchy to the United Kingdom which culminated in defeat at the Battle of Culloden essentially signaling the end of the Jacobite cause. This broadside issued at the apex of the rebellion highlights the extent of Charles' belief in his claim to the throne for in it he declares the parliament at London to lack legitimacy; next he brands traitor & rebel all who attend said parliament; and finally he declares the "pretended union of these Kingdoms now at an End." A very rare survivor of this tumultous time of British history this broadside is known in only 6 copies per ESTC none on this side of the pond. unknown books
04810London: Messrs. Fores 1838. Queen Victoria's Coronation Procession in Scarce Panorama<br/>One of the Earliest Examples of Royal Memorabilia<br/>A Near Fine Example<br/><br/>PANORAMA. VICTORIA Queen of England 1819-1901. Fores' Correct Representation of the State Procession on the Occasion of the August Ceremony of Her Majesty's Coronation June 28th 1838. Sixty Feet Long. Price £1. 11s. 6d Colored 16s Plain. Also Accurate Views of the Interior of the Abbey During the Ceremony. London: Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & Fine Print Repository and Frame Manufactory August 20 1838. <br/><br/>First and only edition and issue. Small oblong quarto cover size: 4 7/8 x 8 inches; 123 x 203 mm. Thirty-three hand-colored sections in a continuous strip 4 x 675 inches; 103 x 17145 mm; of full procession scene in aquatint. An exceptional example with just a few of the folding illustrations expertly strengthened on verso at crease.<br/><br/>Publishers pink ribbed cloth covers bordered in blind front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a border of crowns and flowers. expertly rebacked to style complete with the original brass clasp and catch. An excellent example.<br/><br/>Only one other copy in 1997 of this scarce and splendid keepsake panorama has come to auction since 1970.<br/><br/>On June 20 1837 King William IV died and his niece Princess Victoria became Queen at the age of 18. Her coronation was held at Westminster Abbey a year later on June 28 1838; this panorama illustrates her procession to Westminster. The coronation was a huge occasion for celebration and four hundred thousand visitors descended upon London to see the new Queen being crowned. <br/><br/>In her diary the nineteen-year-old Victoria set down an account of this the greatest day in her young life:<br/><br/>"I was awoke at four o'clock by the guns in the Park and could not get much sleep afterwards on account of the noise of the people bands etc. etc. Got up at seven feeling strong and well; the Park presented a curious spectacle crowds of people up to Constitution Hill soldiers bands etc. I dressed having taken a little breakfast before I dressed and a little after. At half-past nine I went into the next room dressed exactly in my House of Lords costume."<br/><br/>"At 10 I got into the State Coach with the Duchess of Sutherland and Lord Albemarle and we began our progress. It was a fine day and the crowds of people exceeded what I have ever seen; Their good humour and excessive loyalty was beyond everything and I really cannot say how proud I feel to be the Queen of such a nation.<br/><br/>". After the ceremony At about half-past four I re-entered my carriage the Crown on my head and the Sceptre and Orb in my hands and we proceeded the same way as we came-the crowds if possible having increased. The enthusiasm affection and loyalty were really touching and I shall ever remember this day as the PROUDEST of my life! I came home a little after six really not feeling tired. At eight we dined."<br/><br/>"On the day of Queen Victoria's coronation four hundred thousand visitors descended on London to see the new queen. Fores publishing house had been established in the 1780s by Samuel William Fore 1761-1838 with his shop in Piccadilly London. It specialized in caricature and memorabilia and was at one time reputed to have the largest collection of caricatures." Bobins.<br/><br/>Abbey Life 539; Bobins IV 1303. London: Messrs. Fores, 1838 unknown books
162516043JLondon: Whitehall May 28 1625. CHARLES I King of England. Original Document Signed "Charles R". Bifolium with affixed wafer seal on the second sheet address verso text written in brown ink in a legible courthand signed at the head of the first leaf recto approximately 28 lines dated Whitehall 28th of May 1625. Some minor foxing minor wear to folds. Framed with an engraved portrait of the King. The document is addressed to a group of Scots peers including Sir William Oliphant. "Having understoode that a submission was sent to our late dear father from diverse gentlemen and others neighboring within the . of Glenalmond the right and title that they pretended thereto." Whitehall unknown books
166044488London: Printed for James Davis and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. 1st Edition Abbott 1043; Wing G351. Later binding by Riviere & Son full red morocco triple gilt border rule to boards. AEG. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling five raised bands. Gilt stamped title to spine. Gilt dentelles. Very minor binding wear. Age-toning to eps & text paper. A handsome & pleasing VG - Nr Fine volume. 8 131 13 pp. A6 blank. 12 pages of bookseller offerings conclude volume. Engraved frontispiece restored lower corner. 12mo; A6 B - G12 A1 = Frontis. 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" 14 cm x 8.3 cm. <br/><br/> Printed for James Davis, and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard hardcover books
1835291674London: Willaim Darton and Son 1835. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Darton's Counties of England complete with 42 decorative engraved map 3 of which are folding with original hand-coloring. The maps have attractive vignettes of sights within each county and references to the "Hundreds" and "Market Towns and Market Days". Some offsetting as is usual. This is a later state of "Complete Atlas of the English Counties" begun by Thomas Dix of North Walsham and completed by William Darton in 1822. Undated but the imprint on most maps reads "London: William Darton & Son 58 Holborn Hill" which was Darton's company name only between 1835 and 1837. Rebacked in calf with a new spine label. Very Good binding. Willaim Darton and Son unknown books
108053Rare wax Great Seal of Queen Victoria presented with a large elaborately illustrated patent granted to William Edward Newton. Housed in a custom metal case the patent measures 7 inches in diameter and depicts Queen Victoria on the Royal Throne flanked by two ladies in waiting. The seal is affixed to the patent with a red braided twine. Partially printed on vellum the patent is dated 1858 and grants William Edward Newton the rights to his invention which made "improvements in the hanging and arranging of cylindrical conical or spiral steel railroad springs for Railway carriages" with elaborate engraved royal and botanical headpieces and borders and the original blue paper seal. Housed in the original royal presentation box with gilt royal coat of arms. In near fine condition. hardcover books
181740606Boston: Cummings and Hilliard 1817. 52 pp. b/w plates. <br /><br />A great rarity and the primary document relating to the sea serpent of Cape Ann one of the most widely reported serpent sightings in American maritime history. First seen in Gloucester harbor in 1817 the creature reappeared off the coast in 1818 and 1819. Knowledgeable mariners and shore bound onlookers of all sorts reported sightings. A minister gave a detailed description of the monster which was reported in Boston papers. The Linnaean Society sent three objective observers to the scene and this is their report. In the spirit of strict scientific inquiry it cites about twenty depositions by locals provides information about a Norwegian sea snake to whom the mysterious serpent might be related then gives a detailed description of Scoliophis Atlanticus a baby sea serpent about three feet long killed upon the sea shore by some laboring people of Cape Ann. The account closes with another sighting from Long Island. The folding plate of the baby serpent opens to nearly thirty inches. Pages untrimmed. Handsomely rebound in antique style quarter leather over marbled boards with spine label. Cummings and Hilliard hardcover books
1777D17899Oxford: Wright and Gill sold by Crowder and Jackson 1777. Hardcover. Good. and A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches London: Printed by Mary Harrison 1774; with forty-nine of the fifty-two engravings interspersed through the first two titles viz. engraved frontis portrait of George II engraved title plates numbered 2-51 with the omission of plates 10 26 and 27 all hand-colored contemporary or near-contemporary. Small 8vo. Contemporary full red sheep tooled in gilt spine worn and laid down; a.e.g. Two early women owner's signatures to front blank one dated 1813. Various manuscript notes in pencil to front leaves. This is an especially scarce suite of engravings not in ESTC. The engravings depict the usual religious subjects but end with plates depicting the Gunpowder Plot martyrdom of Charles I and restoration of Charles II; Book of Common Prayer ESTC T82211; Psalms ESTC N67336. <br/><br/> Wright and Gill, sold by Crowder and Jackson hardcover books
166540968Cambridge: James Field 1665. 12mo 14.5 cm 5.75". 18 ff. 126 pp. 1 blank f. <br><br>also bound in Bible. Psalms. Greek. 1664. title-page in Greek romanized asPsalterion tou David. Kata tous Hevdomekonta. Cambridge: James Field 1664. 12mo. 1 f 171 1 blank pp. lacks blank leaf k6.<br>Â Â Â Â The mid-17th century was a low point in the history of English typography but in this pair of Anglican religious texts James Field printer to the University of Cambridge produced => a very good example of the printer's art of Greek printing especially in the use of a small point size. The guiding force behind their production was James Duport 160679 dean of Peterborough and master of Magdelene College Cambridge a noted scholar of Latin and Greek and supporter of the university press. The preface to the Book of Common Prayer is signed with his initials and it is established that he was the editor of the Psalms; the texts were almost certainly issued together but are also at times found individually in contemporary binding.<br>Â Â Â Â Field's minute typography here is dense and presented chiefly in double-column format in both works; and instead of woodcut head- or tailpieces and xylographic initials he deploys printer's ornaments to enliven the text at the top of some sections and occasionally elsewhere. => The layout is overall lovely and thoughtful and the printing is extremely clear and precise.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary morocco with covers framed in a single blind fillet; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers all edges gilt. => All pages ruled in red in the best style of the era.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Isaac Watts 16741748 the godfather of English hymnody is also fondly remembered for his Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament a work that was reprinted over a thousand times. His ownership signature is on the blank leaf opposite the BCP title-page here. Later the volume was owned by Charles Mayo 17671858 a scholar of Old English who dated his ownership as "St. John's College Oxford 1787." Most recently in the library of American collector of Greek printing Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â BCP: Benton Book of Common Prayer 2nd ed. p. 25 no. 122; ESTC R24205; Wing 2nd ed. B3632; Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 453. Psalms: STC R204252; Wing 2nd ed. 1994 B2720A. Bound as above extremities a little rubbed with small chip at head of spine and edges of label chipped; joints strengthened some time ago and volume varnished. Inscriptions and small booklabel as above; pages gently age-toned otherwise clean. => A solid and attractive copy of an attractive production with wonderful provenance. James Field hardcover books
1800225275England 1800. Watercolor drawing. 31.8 x 45.7 cm. 12-1/2 x 18 inches. Framed and matted. Watercolor drawing. 31.8 x 45.7 cm. 12-1/2 x 18 inches. Superb hilltop view of the old port in this village in North Devon showing several large frigates anchored in the bay sloops moored in the harbor cattle grazing on the slopes sea and sky in the distance. unknown books
159613898London: Christopher Barker 1596. First Edition. Ornamented opening initial. 1 vols. 16 x 11 inches framed to 21 1/2 x 17 inches overall. Frayed along right hand margin touching a few letters old folds and small rust-stain at top left margin else fine and despite the defects noted an attractive item. First Edition. Ornamented opening initial. 1 vols. 16 x 11 inches framed to 21 1/2 x 17 inches overall. Elizabeth I Orders Price Controls 1596. A handsome black-letter proclamation forbidding in view of scarcities the raising of the price of "corne" in England wheat and the making of starch. Issued "At our Mannor of Greenwich the last day of July in the xxxviii yeere of our Raigne."<br/><br/>A FINE ELIZABETHAN DOCUMENT OF ENGLAND'S ECONOMIC HISTORY. New STC 8251; Steele A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns 884; Hughes and Larkin Tudor Royal Proclamations 781; not in Kress or Goldsmith Christopher Barker unknown books
192515760New Hampshire : New England Telephone and Telegraph Company 1925. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 9 x 11 1/2 inches. Thick boards covered in grey coated linen. Bulks 2 1/2 inches thick at the spine. Bound in boards secured by two screw posts. An archive of more than one hundred 7 1/2 x 11 inch photographs each mounted on linen. Tonality of the images is excellent. The front cover is stamped "Outside Plant - General Store and Garage Equipment - General Tools and Implements as Included in Inventory and Appraisal of Property New England Telephone and Telegraph Company State of New Hampshire as of April 1 1925" <br/><br/>The photographs are divided into sections each under a different tab. Each section of photographs is preceded with a financial page noting the value of the infrastructure being documented. A sample section is "Exchange Pole Lines Summary - Reproduction Cost - Fully Owned and Jointly Owned". Most photographs have typed explanations at bottom. Other section headings are Pole Lines Exchange Poles Toll Poles Aerial Cable Exchange Aerial Cable Toll Aerial Cable Exch. Aerial Wire Toll Aerial Wire UG Conduit UG Cable Exch UG Cable Toll UG Cable Motor Vehicles this section empty Other Accounts Submarine Cable GNL Tools and Implements. Boards. The first category tab has a stamp "Exhibit No 14 New England Tel & Tel Co New Hampshire P.S.C. No D. 964 Witness GK Manson". A legal expert advised us that this archive was probably 'an exhibit compiled for use in a state rate case - a substantial portion of which consisted of proving that the physical plant included in the company's 'rate base' on which it was allowed to earn its 'fair return' was 'used and useful' and fairly valued.' In other words NE Telephone was attempting to prove that the rates it charged to customers were fair and appropriate based in part on the inventory and property documented here.<br/><br/>A fascinating view into the state of the art in telephone/telegraph cabling and outside plant as well as how that infrastructure was used to justify rates in 1925. Archives of this nature are certainly scarce on the market and worthy of study and preservation. While individual photographs are found occasionally groupings like this which tell a story larger than the sum of their parts are quite uncommon.<br/><br/>Major Mason organized the 401st Telegraph Battalion from the NE Tel and Telegraph Company and was involved in analysis of the Transatlantic Cable see Circuits of Victory by Lavine. New England Telephone and Telegraph Company unknown books
166537826En te Kantabrigia: Ioannou Phieldou 1665. 12mo 14.5 cm 5.75". 36 126 2 blank pp. <br><br>as issued with the same publisher's Bible. Psalms. Greek. 1664. Psalterion toy Dabid kata tous Hebdomekonta eis ta tmemata ta en te tes Agglikanes Ekkesias leitourgia nomizomena diegemenon. 12mo. 1664. 2 115 3 11771 1 pp. and Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1665. Tes kaines diathekes apanta. 12mo. 2 419 1 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â First edition of this Greek translation of the Book of Common Prayer. The preface is signed "I.D." i.e. James Duport a popular professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge who had the year before printed a translation of the Psalter which appears here with the BCP as issued under a separate title-page and Ordinal along with the Greek New Testament and Apocrypha the title-page of the New Testament being an insert and the Apocrypha having separate pagination. This is only the second translation of the BCP into Greek following the first by Elias Petley in 1638. There were apparently two settings of this edition produced by printer John Field in the same year under the same title and imprint with priority not established; the present example has line six of the main title-page all in capital letters and the "Alma mater Cantabrigia" device following the last page of the Psalter but while the sun is on the left and the cup on the right of the Psalter title-page device they are reversed on the New Testament title-page apparently indicating that the New Testament is from a variant post-dating the BCP and Psalter.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary mottled calf Cambridge-style covers framed in double gilt fillets and panelled in triple gilt fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled compartments.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inscription in red pencil: "Gibson's / Queens / Oxon. / 1787." Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Biblos: Wing rev. ed. B3632; ESTC R204258; Griffiths 45:3. Psalterion: Wing B2720A; ESTC R204259. Tes kaines diathekes: Darlow & Moule 4702; Wing B2733. Bound as above worn and showing expectable acid-pitting with edges extremities and spine rubbed; spine label cracked with loss of central portion of label. Endpapers with early inked annotations in Greek and English. Central portion with top-marginal faint to light waterstaining generally though not always but a sliver; one leaf with tear from outer margin into text with loss of one letter; one leaf with short tear along paper flaw without loss of text. Final work with early inked underlining; rear fly-leaf with a few jotted references in Greek. => A scholar's copy of this nice example of early English Greek liturgical/scriptural printing. Ioannou Phieldou hardcover books
164844496London 1648. Early edition Madan 21; Almack 15; Wing E-270. Full red morocco leather binding 18th C with elaborate gilt decorative stamping to front & rear boards; raised spine bands; gilt stamped title in second compartment & gilt stamped decorations in the remainder. AEG. Gilt dentelles. Marbled eps. Binding with minor signs of use & wear. Recent bookseller notes to preliminary blank with modern London bookseller ticket to front blank. Frontis is a touch grubby and shows a tiny bit of edge chipping. Title leaf floated with period signatures of Robert Bridge and Joseph MacIntyre. H2 with small hole along gutter. Pale staining to margins heavier to first half of the volume. Tiny worm run to edge of first couple of leaves and some tiny runs to margins in places. Scattered pale marginal foxing. Withal a handsome VG copy of this title. 4 302 16 pp. Numerous mispaginations throughout. Double-page engraved frontispiece by William Marshall "designed for this edition". Madan. 8vo: A - U8 D1 mis-signed as E1 ¶4 a4. 6-1/4" x 3-13/16" 16 cm x 9.7 cm. <br/><br/>A lovely copy of this famous Royalist publication purporting to be the memoirs of the recently executed King. So controversial was it that Parliament commissioned an answer with John Milton's Eikonoklastes. Milton was the first to cast doubt on its authorship and Madan's New Bibliography of the Eikon Basilike demonstrated that while Dr. John Gauden was the author he worked closely from Charles' manuscripts. hardcover books
1693221334all published in London: by various publishers 1693. All first editions unless otherwise noted. 1 vols. All Sm. 4tos. Contemporary panelled calf rebacked with cloth tape. Shaken front flyleaf detached. All first editions unless otherwise noted. 1 vols. All Sm. 4tos. Kings and Clergy. Interesing collection of sermons from the Anglican clergy during the reigns of the Stuart monarchs Charles II r. 1660-85 and James II r. 1685-88 in which fears of a Roman Catholic dynasty led to James II's eventual overthrow and the invasion of William & Mary. The sermons contained herein are as follows:<br/><br/>1. Du Moulin Peter. A Sermon Preached in the Metropolitical Church of Canterbury October 17 MDCLXXII at the funeral of the Very Reverend Thomas Turner D.D. Dean of the same church. 2 29 pp.: Printed for Henry Brome 1672<br/><br/>2. Turner Francis. A Sermon preached before the King of the 30/1 of January 1680/1. Being the Fast for the Martyrdom of King Charles I of Blessed Memory. 47pp. Printed by J. Macock for R Royston 1681<br/><br/>3. 3. Turner Francis. A Sermon Preached before the King of the 30th of Januarym 1684/5/ Being the Fast for the Martyrdom of King Charles the First of Blessed Memory. By Francis Lord Bishop of Ely and Almoner to His Majecty. 2 30pp. Printed for Robert Clavell 1685<br/><br/>4. Turner Francis . A Sermon Prached before Their Majesties K. James II and Q. Mary at their Coronation in Westminster-Abbey April 23 1685. 2 30pp. Printed for Robert Clavell 1685<br/><br/>5. Turner Francis. A Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chappel on the 7th of May 1682. 8 32pp. Printed by J. Macock for R. Royston 1682<br/><br/>6. Sprat Thomas. A Sermon Preach'd to the Natives of the County of Dorset Residing in and about the Cities of London and Westminster at St. Mary Le Bowe on Dec. 8 1692 being the Day of their Anniversary Feast. 40pp. Printed by Edward Jones 1693<br/><br/>7. Fleetwood William. A Sermon Preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall February the 12th 1692/3. 31 1pp. Printed for Thomas Newborough 1693<br/><br/>8. Fleetwood William. A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at St. Mary le Bow on Friday the 11th of April 1692. Being the Fast-Day. 29 1 2 blank. Printed for Thomas Newborough 1692<br/><br/>9. Fleetwood William. A Sermon Preached at Guild-Hall Chapel December the xi 1692. Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen. 29 3pp. Printed for Thomas Newborough . 1693<br/><br/>10. Dove Henry. A Sermon Preached bfore the Right Honorable The Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Court of Aldermen. At Bow-Church on the Feast of S Michael 1682. The Day for the Election of a Lord Mayor. 6. 31pp. Printed for Benj. Tooke 1682<br/><br/>11. Smythies William. A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable Sr. Thomas Stampe Lord Mayor the Court of Alderman and Citizens of London September 29th. 1692 at the Election of the Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing. 2 blank 6 22 1pp. Printed for J. Southby 1692<br/><br/>12. Sprat Thomas. A Sermon Preached before the Artillery Company of London at St. Mary Le Bow April 20. 1682. The second edition. 4 31pp. Printed for John Baker . 1682. by various publishers unknown books
176030966Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod 1760. 8vo 24.5 cm 9.6". 544 pp. <br><br>Second edition of Cambridge University printer John Baskerville's Book of Common Prayer including the Psalter the articles of religion and state prayers for George II. This impression printed in the same year as the first edition features decorative page borders; its title-page matches the description of Gaskell's Group 2 with the third line printed in roman and the price listed as "Seven Shillings and Six Pence unbound." The final text leaf is Ll2; there are interpolated signatures rz between Q and R.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary red morocco framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll; later rebacked with red morocco spine beautifully stamped in foliate and geometric designs originally gilt but now virtually entirely black/blind. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate "A ma puissance" of the Earl of Stamford. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC N32874; Gaskell Baskerville 12. Binding as above extremities rubbed sides with small scuffs. Front pastedown with bookplate as above bookplate bearing inked numeral in red. Pages gently age-toned with a few instances of light spots of foxing otherwise clean. => An attractive production in an attractive copy. John Baskerville for B. Dod unknown books
176235341Cambridge: John Baskerville & B. Dod 1762. 12mo 16.9 cm 6.7". 392 pp. <br><br>with Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. 1762. Sternhold & Hopkins. The whole book of Psalms collected into English metre . . . Birmingham: John Baskerville 1762. 12mo. 122 pp. and Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. 1762. Tate & Brady. A new version of the Psalms of David fitted to the tunes used in churches. Birmingham: John Baskerville 1762. 12mo. 104 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â One of the last of Cambridge University printer John Baskerville's great series of printings of the Book of Common Prayer including the Psalter the articles of religion and state prayers for George III. The BCP is followed by two versions of the Psalms the older rendition by Sternhold and Hopkins and the newer by Tate and Brady.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of collector William Gott 17971863 father of John Gott Bishop of Truro with motto "Nec temere nec timide." Neat note on rear free endpaper indicating book was purchased from the Pickering firm and then rebound by Hayday.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Signed binding done by James Hayday 17961872 an eminent London binder: Early 19th-century dark blue morocco spine gilt extra. Covers framed in gilt rolls surrounding central gilt-stamped composed medallions; board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt. Front free endpaper stamped "Bound by Hayday. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â BCP: Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1762:8; Gaskell 20; ESTC T87226. Sternhold & Hopkins: ESTC T87252; Gaskell 21. Brady & Tate: ESTC T107540; Gaskell 22. Binding as above light rubbing to extremities small scuffs to covers; back free endpaper with => small inked annotations regarding purchase and binding costs. First few leaves browned varying degrees of mild to moderate foxing elsewhere. A handsome example of both Baskerville's printing and Hayday's binding skills. John Baskerville & B. Dod unknown books
182032724Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820. Thick 8vo; inserted engraved title-p.; bound with A New Version of the Psalms of David 1825; contemporary full red straight-grain morocco covers with elaborate gilt borders gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine a.e.g.; hinges strengthened extremities rubbed and worn 2 small ink spots on back cover; all else very good. With a large fore-edge painting showing Oxford from the countryside. <br/><br/> printed at the Clarendon Press, by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood unknown books
1692D4272Amsterdam: n.p. Chez Pierre Brunel 1692. First Edition in French. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 232 pp. Title in red and black with etched royal cypher. 120 copper engraved commemorative medals by Adriaen Schoonebeeck. Added engraved title page signed by Romeyn de Hooghe dated 1691. 12 full-page etchings signed by de Hooghe that depict festival constructions for Williams entry into The Hague in 1691 and also portraits of William and Mary among other emblems. Engraved headpiece and initial decoration on dedication leaf signed by Schoonebeck followed by full-page engraved leaf honoring Chevalier with depictions of Atlas Aristotle and other muses. Full contemporary vellum blind-stamped with central lozenge design; very slight foxing or staining engravings fresh; covers slightly bowed. Initialled bookplate P.M.G to front pastedown. First Edition in French of this biography of William III of England extensively illustrated to show important events in the monarchs life. This work was privately printed for Nicolas Chevalier who was a hobbyist and coin collector. A large proportion of Dutch print-making at the end of the 17th century focused on William III. An almost categorical personality cult surrounded the stadtholder-king. Among the print-makers Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 was an important and prolific late Dutch Baroque engraver and caricaturist. He is best known for his political caricatures of Louis XIV and propagandistic prints supporting William of Orange. De Hooghes 12 etchings of triumphal arches for this work are adaptations of plates in the works by Bidloo and Tronchin de Breuil published in 1691 and 1692. Adriaen Schoonebeek c. 1657- 1705 is often mentioned because of his appearance as witness for the prosecution in a court case against de Hooghe that formed the climax of a slanderous exchange of pamphets between Orangists and members of the Amsterdam faction in 1690. These animosities did not prevent re- employment of both engravers in executing plates for this Nicolas Chevaliers 1692 illustrated volume on numismatics and the life of King William. Rare. Worldcat locates only 3 copies in institutional collections in North America. Brunet I1838; Graesse II 25; Landwehr 81 <br/><br/> [n.p., Chez Pierre Brunel?] hardcover books
1970CAT0131New England 1970. Two plastic albums 10 ½ x 11 inches. A lovingly arranged and annotated product of someone's obsession with New England's churches. Nearly all photos 3 ½ square. A few of the churches have multiple photos. Most photos are shot from a similar three quarters frontal view though some are frontal. The repeated perspective shows a respect for the vernacular forms though it is unclear if the photographer's interests were architectural or historical in nature. The photographer travelled throughout New England with the breakdown of churches as follows: 206 in Massachusetts forty-six in Connecticut forty-eight in Maine eighty-six in New Hampshire sixteen in Rhode Island and six in other states. <br /> <br /> A fine collection impeccably preserved in the original albums which read "Memories" on the front. unknown books
176248991Cambridge: printed by J. Baskerville printer to the University 1762. 12mo 198 leaves; this copy with the cancellans title page the last line reading "Price Five Shillings unbound" and without the star & lozenge slip pasted over the last line; bound with: Brady N. A New Version of the Psalms of David. Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville 1762 52 leaves; together in contemporary full green goat fancy gilt borders on covers with floral devices in the corners enclosing a central gilt lozenge gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments unlettered a.e.g.; the binding is darkened and slightly worn and 2 old bookseller descriptions are tipped in at the front; all else quite good and sound. An old note in pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper proclaims this to be an "Irish binding." "Baskerville printed three octavo editions of The Book of Common Prayer. The first which appeared in 1760 was set in long lines of Great Primer. There were two impressions one with and the other without a border round each page . cancelled title pages were substituted later in 1760 and in 1761. The second edition appeared later in 1760 . and two impressions were printed with and without borders. It was first published at 7s. 6d but in 1761 the price was raised to 8s.6d. The Royal Prayers are found in the second state only as cancels. The third and final edition was published in 1762 set in long lines of Great Primer without borders" Gaskell. Gaskell 20 and 22. <br/><br/> printed by J. Baskerville, printer to the University unknown books
1649402219London: printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston 1649. 12mo 165 x 95 mm; 6½ x 3¾ inches. Engraved double-page portrait by William Marshall. Early 20th-century half calf marbled boards all edges gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Light wear to extremities; a few occasional pale stains lacks terminal blank generally fresh. FIRST EDITION third state with correct pagination in quire G. Originally attributed to Charles I the bibliographer Falconer Madan believes it was written by John Gauden who probably included some authentic writings of the king. Though the title-page reads 1648 it was published on 9 February 1649 ten days after the king was beheaded in the aftermath of the English Civil War. The famous allegorical frontispiece by William Marshall depicts Charles I as a Christian martyr. The work was so successful in its portrayal of the king that at the Restoration a special commemoration of the king on 30 January was added to the Book of Common Prayer. Charles I is the only saint formally canonized by the Church of England. ESTC R10559; Madan 1c; Wing E270. . <br/><br/> [printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston] hardcover books
