William Camden (Camdeno Guilielmo)MareMagnum
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In 8°; (16), XVI, 856, 42 (ultima carta bianca) pp. Bella legatura coeva in piena pergamena molle con titolo parlato al dorso. Tiolo chiosato da mano coeva al dorso. Bel ritratto della regina Elisabetta I a carta *8v. realizzato da Crispian van Queboren nel 1625 ed assente nelle edizioni precedenti. Frontespizio in rosso e nero. Due antiche firme di appartenenza al margine basso del frontespizio. Testatine e finalini ornati. Esemplare leggermente brunito a causa della qualità della carta elzeviriana ma mai in modo fastidioso o intenso e nel complesso in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Questa prima edizione elzeviriana, considerata la più completa e corretta, di questa celebre storia d’Inghilterra ebbe anche una contraffazione nel 1677. Lo studio è considerato come la principale fonte storica dell’età elisabettiana. L’opera che si basa principalmente sulle carte private di Lord Burghley, contiene numerose parti inerenti alla storia americana e fu grandemente apprezzata da Francis Bacon. Camden considerato fra i padri della moderna storiografia e figlio del celebre pittore Samson, fu anche celebre umanista e cartografo oltre ad abile antiquario. Lavorò a questa che fu la sua opera principale tutta la vita continuando a raccogliere informazioni e materiali dai principali personaggi della sua epoca aggiornando così il suo lavoro ad ogni nuova edizione. Sembra che oltre al materiale di Burghley, l’autore disponesse di materiale e testimonianze passategli da Sir John Fortescue , ultimo “Chancellor of the Exchequer” di Elizabeth, e di Henry Cuffe “the Earl of Essex’s secretary”. Bibl.: Willems 475. Edizione tra le meno comuni. Very good copy.
pp. [4], 61, [1] + Plus 28 beautiful plates printed in colours from wood blocks; and an added title page, with a colored vignette, lettered in gold gilt. Each leaf on heavy board-like paper. All edges gilt. Large 8vo. 260 mm. Some damp stain on the light fly leaves and plate tissues, but generally quite clean. Original full green morocco leather binding, handsomely decorated in gold gilt, designed by Albert Henry Warren. Pencil autograph ownership of H. Allen Anderson (who was the author of 'The Chief : Ernest Thompson Seton and the changing West.' Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) was one of the finest of English nineteenth century woodblock colour printers. The son of a ship's master, he was apprenticed at age 14 for seven years to William Forth, a Bridlington bookseller and printer. In 1831 he started his own business in Driffield, as music seller, bookbinder and printer, bookseller and stationer. He became a master of hand-coloured wood engraving. The process started with an accurate painting of the subject. (In this case the paintings were by F.A. Lydon, a local youth who served his apprenticeship with Fawcett and stayed with him until 1883). The picture was then carved, with meticulous attention to detail, on a wooden block of pear or boxwood (which he imported, matured, sawed and sliced and surfaced by his own hands). Placed in a printing press the block gave a black-and-white print, which was then hand-coloured with high-grade inks (often by Fawcett's 'clever' wife with his participation and direction). Many of his books were were published by Groombridge, of London. This work is usually found with that imprint. Indeed, we have been unable to locate any other copy anywhere with Bell and Daldy as publishers. This work is mentioned in many references including: Burch.'Colour Printing and Colour Printers'; McLean. 'Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather'. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W45 BINDINGS
Three Volumes. XLib. Engraved bookplate of R. Wellwood, Esq. in two of the volumes. Bookplate of Juniata College in all three volumes, given by Miles Murphy. XLib stamps embossed in blind on title pages and elsewhere. 12mo. Original full leather bindings. All boards very fragile, and detaced - or almost detached. Small loss at head and tail of spines. Extremities worn with some loss. Gilt lettered spines. Raised bands. Spines lack leather labels. Stated Second edition - see notes at the end of this entry. Hardbound. Very good. Priced to allow for restoration. "In the last month of 1769, Smollett's health compelled him, to leave England. He went to Italy, and, in the spring of 1770, settled in a villa near Leghorn. Here, he wrote his last and most agreeable novel, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. In its way, this is another picaresque story, insomuch as, during its progress, the characters (who relate everything in letters to their friends) pursue their travels in England and Scotland. But its tone and temper (owing, possibly, to the influence of Sterne, possibly, to the pacific mood which often blesses the closing days of even the angriest men) are very different from those of Roderick Random and of Peregrine Pickle. Smollett the humourist, of whom we have had but brief glimpses in his earlier works, is more evident here than anywhere else. Matthew Bramble, the outwardly savage and inwardly very tender old bachelor, his sister Mrs. Tabitha Bramble, smart Jery Melford, their nephew, and his sister Miss Lydia, Mrs. Winifred Jenkins, the maid, and Humphrey Clinker himself, the "methodist" manservant whom they pick up on their travels - all these are characters more deeply and kindly seen than any of their predecessors except Hawser Trunnion. The best among them all is Lismahago, the Scottish soldier, needy, argumentative, proud, eccentric - a figure of genuine comedy, among whose many descendants must be reckoned one of great eminence, Dugald Dalgetty. The novel is planned with a skill unusual in Smollett's fiction. In Richardson, the device of telling the story in letters leads to wearisome repetitions and involutions. Smollett contrives to avoid much repetition; and the story, though loosely built, as picaresque novels must be, goes steadily and clearly forward to reach a more or less inevitable ending. This was his last work. He died at his villa in September, 1771, and is buried in the English cemetery at Leghorn." - Cambridge History of English and American Literature; CBEL II 964. This is apparently a piracy that shares the basic appearance of the second authorized edition. The date could possibly be false -- as this edition could have been printed anytime after Sept. 1771. The ESTC has neglected this edition (there's no entry for it), - Thanks to Jim May for this information. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 5
Three volumes in one. pp. vi, 128; [8], 205, [1]; v, [1], 187, [1]. Uncut. Deckle edged. Some foxing, but a very very nice copy in a recent binding of quarter calf over marbled boards. Henry Taylor (1711-1785) was "among the last of the divines of the Clarkean school; but he outran his master, openly espousing the Apollinarian heresy, this he did in (this) series of letters. [The work] abounds in learning and in argument, but is very discursive. The seventh letter, On Miracles, was separately reprinted by his son William" - DNB. It is this discursive quality that most attracts our attention today. Roth, Magna Anglo-Judaica, 287: 70. ESTC T101250-2. Quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W144
Two volumes. pp. [2], xxvi, 486; xi, 731, [1]. Large 4to. 250 mm. x 300 mm. Modern plain full navy blue leather bindings. Hardbound. Very good+. A wonderful work of history, folklore, nostalgia, and sociology by the Newcastle antiquary, John Brand (1744-1806). The first volume deals with holidays and customs associated with them, such as: New Years Eve; Valentine's Day; customs surrounding many long lost feast days; Easter; pagan mid-Summer rites and dances; Allhallow Even; Yule and Christmastide; Harvests; Etc. The second volume deals with customs and ceremonies relating to life events and common folklore, such as: marriage; death; communion; sailors going tp sea; fairs; fairies; devils and witchcraft; omens; charms; divination; Etc. There are also over 30 pages describing games and sports, including: Archery; Boxing; Foot-Ball; Goff or Golf; Nine Pins; Races; the Ring; Wrestling; etc. & etc. First issued as a small octavo in 1777, Brand continued collecting materials for a revised edition for the rest of his life. He acquired a large amount of additional information from the statistical enquiries in Scotland instigated by Sir John Sinclair. A second edition was planned in 1795, but Brand was apparently overwhelmed by the task of arranging systematically so much material. He did not live to complete the project. Instead the collections were purchased after his death by a bookseller for L600 and were incorporated into this new edition by Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869). It still stands as an entertaining and essential starting point for studies of English folklore and customs. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150
Twelve Volumes. Engraved illustrations. All edges marbled. Slightly age stained. 12mo. Original full cloth bindings, decorated in blind. Gilt lettered spines. Slight loss at head and tail of spines. Hardbound. A large collection of English plays. Each work bound with an individual title page, and sometimes an engraved frontispiece. Pagination not continuous. Fascinating collection of early nineteenth century plays. A very nice set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SET/W56
(1) [Title page], 7 [Advertisement], 2 [Appendix to the Preface], (1) [Contents], 152 + Facsimile title page of the 1613 edition printed on very light paper, dampstained on inner corners. Mounted title page ruled and printed in red and black. Printed off-white paper with an engraved pictorial inset (showing Lee Priory?). Wide margins. Penciled manuscript margin notations. Ruled in black throughout. Illustrated with engraved initials and small drawings. All edges gilt. 295mm. Disbound. Though not stated, this is a Limited Edition. Less than 100 copies were printed (some sources indicate that there were as few as 10). The collection includes a series of fourteen sonnets to 'Celia,' in which the writer seems to refer to the death of his wife and to his second wooing; some tender epistles and elegies; six 'Visions,' on the model of Du Bellay. DNB. Sir Egerton Byrdges (1762-1837) was an English bibliographer, antiquary, genealogist, Member of Parliament, and one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club. At his home he set up the Lee Priory Press in 1813 and enticed Johnson (the author of 'Typographica') & Warwick, who had worked for Bensley, to work for him to produce "reprints of some of the most curious tracts of former days, in which there shall be an attempt to add beauty of typography and wood-engraving. the books have an agreeable elegance, and at the time of their publication they were highly admired." - Roderick Cave. Hardbound. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC W42
Boards with light rubbing to extremities as well as light bumping to corners. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Small marginal cut to fore edge, affecting first few pages. Very light dampstaining to bottom margin and rear boards; A rare Baedeker clone including rear ad section and rear fold-out map ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; vi, 362, 12 pages
Four volumes. 8vo. Handsome original mottled calf bindings. Front board of volume one detached, but otherwise in very good condition. A good friend of Samuel Johnson, the Irish born Goldsmith was one of the most productive authors in a prolific age of London publishing. First Edition. NCBEL II, 1199. VERY SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W138
Bound in Three Volumes. (Volume One: Part I, II; Volume Two: Part II; Volume Two (bound in volume 3): Part III, IV, V). Age stained. XLib blind stamp on title and dedication page of volume one. Title pages printed in red and black with unusual decorations of a sea creature like dolphin and spear. 240mm. Virtually disbound. (very worn leather and marbled boards detached; lack spines). Mirror for Magistrates is a collection of English poems and prose from the Tudor period, by various authors, which retell the lives and the tragic ends of various historical figures. "the entire work contained almost one hundred lives, covering the period from Albanact in 1085 BC to Elizabeth in 1603 and written over 60 years. popular and highly regarded during the Tudor period. Philip Sidney, mentions the work in his Defence of Poesy, saying that it was "meetly furnished of beautiful parts". The influence of the work was evident in many contemporary works such as Albion's England by the poet William Warner and Cromwell by Michael Drayton which was actually included in the 1610 edition. It was also significant for its development of the form of tragedy in English literature, with Higgins' story of Lier and Cordila providing a source for Shakespeare's King Lear. Full sets of this remarkable and important work are rarely encountered today. This is perhaps worthy of a nice rebinding. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. ENGSETS BX 4
Nine Volumes. Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait engraved by W. H. Worthington in Volume One. Frontis foxed with offsetting on title page. Bookplate of Andrew Murray Williams in all volumes. Bookplate of Juniata College, gift of Mrs. John Lowman in all volumes. XLib stamps embossed in blind on all title pages and elsewhere. Top edges gold. All edges XLib stamped. 8vo. Original full leather bindings. Boards ruled in gold with embossed gold designs and lettered "Munificentia Hulmiana". Spines decorated and lettered in gold. XLib call marks on spines. Spines rubbed. Spine on volume one backed with brown cloth retaining original leather spine. Volume Nine lacks spine and front board detached. Loss at head of spines of Volumes Seven and Eight. Slight loss at head of spine on Volume Two. Spines should by backed. JUN5 BOX 7
pp (3), 37, (1) [Contents], 70, (1) [Alphabetical Index]. Title page printed in red and black and decorated with an engraving. Title page printed in black and red with an engraved pictorial inset (Lee Priory?). Ruled in black throughout. Wide margins. Some penciled margins notations. All edges gilt. 290mm. Disbound. This is only the second work issued by the press in quarto. This impression was limited to only One Hundred Copies. First Edition thus. "This was the first attempt to collect into one volume, all the poetical pieces said to have been written by Sir W. Raleigh." - Brushfield. Sir Egerton Byrdges (1762-1837) was an English bibliographer, antiquary, genealogist, Member of Parliament, and one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club. At his home he set up the Lee Priory Press in 1813 and enticed Johnson (the author of 'Typographica') & Warwick, who had worked for Bensley, to work for him to produce "reprints of some of the most curious tracts of former days, in which there shall be an attempt to add beauty of typography and wood-engraving. the books have an agreeable elegance, and at the time of their publication they were highly admired." - Roderick Cave. Hardbound. Very good. Colin Frankin, The Private Presses, 1969; Armitage, Raleigh, 109; Brushfield, Raleigh, 280; Lowndes XI. 220, No 3 & Lowndes VII 2041. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC W42
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Outer hinges a bit gapping, but holding strongly together. Former owner's name on front free endpapers. Light occasional foxing. Some of the pages opposite engravings are lightly shadowing ; Decorative blindstamped boards with gilt ornate decoration. All edges gilt. Numerous steel engravings. Rear folding map. Rare; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages
pp. xv, 134, [ii] + Two nice engraved plates. 4to. Worn contemporary full leather binding; boards detached. Should be rebacked. With the engraved armorial bookplate Sir Edmund Antrobus, an uncle of Walpole's friend, the poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). Antrobus is famous as the owner of Stonehenge. Walpole's splendidly written and much celebrated defence of King Richard, influenced most later historians and commentators. Though Walpole was no great historian, he nevertheless well understood that all `history is written by the victors' and records from the past should be reviewed with some scepticism. This is one of the earliest attempts to rehabilitate a character previously stamped with infamy. These doubts provoked several answers, which are criticized in a supplement edited by Dr E. C. Hawtrey for the Philobiblon Society (1854). First Edition. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151.
(ca. 21 x 14,7 cm). One photograph. Original photograph, black/white. Minimal signs of use, very good condition. The original photograph seems to show Alec Guinness in his world wide known famous role of Obi Wan from the Star Wars Trilogy. He signed the photograph with: "Good wishes. Alec Guinness / 1988".
LIVORNO, (LIVOURNE, Italie)P. Meucci - 1825 - 7 volumes In-8 - Reliure demi-veau à coins (frotté), Armoiries aux 1 & 4 Plats avec mention dans un cartouche "The society of writers to the signet"- rousseurs - 2 grandes cartes dépliantes HT - 215, 180, 208, 236, 220, 276 & 227 pages - Rare - Envoi rapide et soigné Amérique - Storia sdella guerra americanan (Guerre américaine)
London: Seeley and Burnside, 1830. Cloth; 8vo. Xvi, 451 pages. Second edition, revised and corrected. Morocco leather title band. Printed on fine laid paper with deckle edge. Illustrated with tables. Allen's chief work, and a remarkably full and detailed account. The author was a dissenting layman, and master of a school in Hackney. Jews -- Social life and customs. Judaism -- Customs and practices. Note (s) : Bibliographical footnotes. Some browning and foxing; top right corner of front board bumped; very good condition. (BR-2)
Complet in 2 volumes, Volume I: [10] + 711pp. with frontispiece (author's portrait), Volume II: [ii],496 = [viii],88 + [viii],168 pp., title pages in red and black with engraved printer's mark, 24cm., text in Latin, contemporary hardcover bindings in full leather (gilt title and decorations on spine, some rubbing at ends, small loss of leather at lower end of spine/joint of vol.2), old owner's handwritten ex-libris at title page of vol.1, red edges, text clean and bright, good condition, [Volume 2 contains two appendices, I: MUSGRAVE Guilhelmus, De Arthritide Symptomatica Dissertatio (viii + 88pp., Editio nova, 1757) & II: ID., De Arthritide Anomala sive Interna, Dissertatio (viii + 168pp., Editio nova, 1757)], P93796
Complet in 2 volumes, Volume I: [10] + 711pp. with frontispiece (author's portrait), Volume II: [iv],496 = [viii],168 pp., title page of vol.1 in red and black, title pages of both volumes with engraved printer's mark, 24cm., text in Latin, contemporary hardcover bindings in full leather (gilt title and decorations on spine, some rubbing at ends), two ex-libris in each volume (one tipped in on backside of front board, and one small stamp on first blanco endpaper), red edges, text printed in 2 columns, text clean and bright, good condition, [Volume 2 contains an appendice: MUSGRAVE Guilhelmus, De Arthritide Anomala sive Interna dissertatio (viii + 168pp., Editio nova, 1749)], P93797
Original Wraps. 12mo. [8], 36 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In English, with some Hebrew and Latin in the margins. A sermon on 'The Churchs Duty for Received Mercies, ' on 1 Samuel 12: 24, delivered at the Church of Margaret, Westminster, by John Greene (d. 1660) , Pastor of Pencombe, a Presbyterian and Reformed minister, and a member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. Subjects: Sermons, English - 17th century. Fast-day sermons - 17th century. Fast-day sermons. Sermons, English. 1600 1699. Bible. O. T. Samuel, 1st XXII, 24 Sermons. OCLC lists 21 copies. Lightly soiled and aged throughout, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (SPEC-40-47)
8vo., First Edition, with large folding coloured chart on japon as frontispiece, wanting [blank] front free endpaper; original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, lemon endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With 6pp Salvation Army catalogue at end. William Booth founded the Salvation Army in 1878. In 1890, the same year that Stanley published 'In Darkest Africa', he published his most important work with deliberate irony. Here he analyses the causes of the pauperism and vice of the period and proposes a remedy by ten expedients. These include land settlement, emigration, rescue work among prostitutes and at the prison-gate, the poor man's bank, and the poor man's lawyer. Booth's powerful arguments were convincing, money was liberally subscribed and a large part of the scheme was carried through. Printing and the Mind of Man, 560.
3 vols., 8vo., Third Edition; strongly bound in mind-nineteenth century half morocco, straight-grain red cloth boards, backs with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green floral endpapers, a very good, bright, firm set.
Ensemble des 4 dialogues reliés en un volume in-12, demi-chagrin à coins vert bronze, dos à nerfs plats surlignés de filets dorés, titre doré, daté en pied, tranches marbrées (rel. du XIXe). Edition originale des quatre "Dialogues de Pasquin & de Marforio", pamphlets dialogués, que Le Noble distribuait par intermittence et auxquels ses contemporains donnèrent le nom de "Pasquinades". "L'un des plus remarquables publicistes en France à la fin du XVIIe siècle". "Le 'Cibisme' (d'après le nom du cardinal Cibo) et le 'Songe de Pasquin' (…) se rapportent à la chute de Jacques II renversé par son gendre avec la complicité du pape, le 'Couronnement de Guillemot et de Guillemette' (Guillaume III et Marie d'York), le grand 'Sermon du docteur Burnet', prononcé pour cette circonstance, et le 'Festin de Guillemot' ont trait aux événements d'Angleterre" ('Sources de l'Histoire de France', n°1956). Les pièces sont reliées dans le désordre. Mors frottés. Bon exemplaire.
In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, (4), 221, (2) p. de table, planche gravée. Réédition révolutionnaire du texte de John Milton publié en 1650, augmentée d'une préface de l'éditeur et d'additions. Milton y affirmait ses principes républicains et légitimait l'exécution du roi Charles Ier. L'ouvrage, qui est ici publié à la veille de l'exécution de Louis XVI, fait un parallèle dans la préface, entre les deux régicides. "La déclaration des deux maisons du Parlement (...)" (p. [151]-196) et "La déclaration des Communes d'Angleterre" (p. [197]-221) possèdent tous deux une page de titre particulière. La planche représente la décapitation de Charles 1er. (Manque à Martin & Walter). Bon exemplaire.
8 (sur 9) volumes in-12, plein veau blond marbré et glacé de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, filets d'encadrement à froid sur les plats, filets dorés sur les coupes, tranches rouges. Richard Steele, éditeur original du "Spectateur" fut principalement aidé par Addison, Hughes, Budgel, Eusden, Pope, Pearce, Byron, Grove et Tickell. Si le traducteur des premiers volumes n'est pas connu, la "France littéraire" attribue à l'encyclopédiste Elie de Joncourt la traduction des deux derniers. (Barbier, IV, 560). Le neuvième volume est un volume de "supplément". Le volume 7 manque. Défaut à un coin du tome VI. Ex-libris gravé de l'époque, surmonté d'une couronne de marquis, non identifié. Bel exemplaire bien relié à l'époque.
