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174716510London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King. 1747. pp. 791-794 plus title as issued folio disbound. Minor foxing. Very Good. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King... unknown books
174716509London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King. 1747. pp. 903-906 plus title as issued folio disbound. Scattered foxing. Very Good. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King... unknown books
175316514London: Thomas Baskett Printer to the King. 1753. pp. 219-226 plus title as issued folio disbound a bit roughly. Minor foxing. Else Very Good. Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King... unknown books
173716521London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King. 1737. pp. 203-204 plus title as issued folio disbound. Light tanning scattered foxing. Good. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King... unknown books
176912527London: Printed by Mark Baskett Printer to the King. 1769. 1 title 1031-1036 pp as issued Disbound. Tanned scattered light stains Good. Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King... unknown books
174229879London: Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1742. Folio 7.75" x 12.25". 2 733-739 1 blank pp. Disbound else Near Fine. Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. unknown books
176930572London: Printed by Mark Baskett Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1769. Two folio leaves attached at left edge with archival tape. 1-title 1 blank 47-48 pp as issued. Very Good. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty unknown books
177430571London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan Printers to the King's Most Excellen Majesty 1774. Folio two leaves folded. 1-title 1 blank 323-324pp as issued. Very Good. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King's Most Excellen Majesty unknown books
D11629n.d.: n.p. likely early-to-mid 19th century. Ephemera. Near Fine. Collection of 20 engraved plates seeming extracted from the same source style and size is uniform though some are captioned in English some in French; 184x154mm. Small chip and/or closed tear to the top edge of two of the plates otherwise fine. Views of Hamstead Oxford Wiltshire Somersetshire Gloucester Middlesex Canterbury. <br/><br/> n.p. unknown books
291857West Bromwich: Eld & Blackham. hardcover. very good. Many illustrations including black-and-white photographs and full page color lithographic plates. viii 648 pages thick 4to gilt-stamped and decorated red cloth a.e.g; front flyleaf lacking spine ends mended few spots of soiling to cover. West Bromwich: Eld & Blackham ca. 1885. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Eld & Blackham unknown books
180819696London 1808. 126pp. Five engraved plates 3 folding 2 full-page many in-text illustrations. bound with SECOND REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE HIGHWAYS OF THE KINGDOM. ORDERED TO BE PRINTED 30TH MAY 1808. pp 127-193 1 blank. bound with THIRD REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE HIGHWAYS OF THE KINGDOM. ORDERED TO BE PRINTED 17TH JUNE 1808. pp 195-215 1 blank. One full-page plate. Folio disbound title leaf of First Report loosened collated complete. Very Good. <br/><br/> The Committee was charged with determining the "use of Broad Wheels and to examine what shape is the best calculated for ease of draught and the preservation of the Roads; also to suggest such additional Regulations as may contribute to the preservation of the Turnpike Roads and Highways of the Kingdom." Thus the Committee investigated Wheels Carriages "in general" and "The Construction of Highways." The Committee conscientiously consulted the latest and most advanced thinking of the day and presents it here. OCLC locates copies only at the Library of Congress and the University of Indiana. <br/>OCLC 4499251 2. unknown books
177736809London 1777. Large folio unbound and untrimmed. 708 1 errata 1 blank pp as issued. Occasional light toning else Near Fine.<br/><br/> ESTC explains that the Journal whose entries end on 18 September 1760 was not printed until 1777. Entries appear on a variety of topics some concerning the French and Indian War. For example a bill would prohibit exportation of goods from America to anywhere except Great Britain page 37; King George decrees the "vigorous prosecution of a just war with France" page 301; Great Britain and Prussia will cooperate against France and keep America page 304. <br/>ESTC T166648 7 copies in five locations all in England as of May 2020. unknown books
180711915Philadelphia 1807. 86pp bound in attractive modern plain wrappers. Tanned scattered fox Good. <br/><br/> Dedicated "To Those Members of Congress Who Have the Sense to Perceive and the Spirit to Pursue the True Interests of their Country" the pamphlet attacks English invasions of American sovereignty. Referring to the British ship Leopard's assault on the Chesapeake the author says that "The attempt to search a public ship of war appears to us unjustifiable; and more especially so on our own coast." The author predicts correctly that the British would offer reparations and thus avoid war over the incident; and offers unflattering opinions on Jefferson-- "a schemer perpetually occupied with some strange out-of-the-way project"-- and Madison "a man of feeble mind." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 8126. 76 NUC 0820739 4. Not in AI. unknown books
173533237England 1735. Elephant folio 24-1/2" x 30-1/2". Completely in ink manuscript on stiff vellum some words written in larger lettering or bolder print. Bottom edge folded up and held with five red wax seals and vellum strips. Strip of three embossed blue Sixpence Royal tax stamps at left edge "Colony to Saml Clarke" in manuscript directly beneath it. The names of Joseph Lodge Elizabeth Lodge Jonathan Pickering Ann Pickering and John Hamblins written along the bottom edge between the seals. Docketed on verso: "The 9th October 1735/ Joseph Lodge & wife/ Jonathan Pickering/ To John Hamblin/ Joseph Rust." Old folds light spotting and dustsoiling of verso recto quite clean. Beautiful document. Near Fine.<br/><br/> This appears to be a deed from England as Wortham Hall Hopton Botesdale and Thelnetham are all of Suffolk County England. Joseph Lodge 1693-1759 lived and died in Needham Norfolk County England. Elizabeth his wife 1699-1739 died in Norfolk as well. 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
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
1870028333Albany: Joel Munsell 1870. First Edition. Cloth. Good Condition. Nice copy with a few library markings. Moderate wear to green cloth boards with heavier wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine. One puncture hole through cloth in the middle of the spine but not affecting gilt lettering or structure of the binding. Binding is still tight and interior is bright and clean. Top page edges gilt. 312 pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; New England; Antiquarian & Rare; Boston; Inventory No: 028333. <br/><br/> Joel Munsell 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
1974243531Eugene: Center for Educational Reform 1974. Magazine. 63p. 8.5x11 inches wraps worn and stained table of contents stained else good condition. Center for Educational Reform unknown books
1920165101920. Watercolor signed "J.Heseldine" lower left inscribed as title on verso. 1 vols. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. Watercolor signed "J.Heseldine" lower left inscribed as title on verso. 1 vols. 5 x 7 inches. The watercolour is one of a series of travel scenes done in Cornwall England about 1920. Cornwall was at the time a favourite holiday resort on the western coast of England. unknown books
1920165111920. 1 vols. watercolour signed "J Heseldine" lower left inscribed as title on verso 5 x 7. This watercolour is one of a series done by the artist of scenes in Cornwall England in the 1920s when Cornwall was a favoured holiday resort. 1 vols. watercolour signed "J Heseldine" lower left inscribed as title on verso 5 x 7 unknown books
20857Boston: Communist Party of New England 194-. 16p. wraps foxed some creasing. Anti-war. Replies to letters and speeches by Florence Luscomb Theodore Smith and Alfred Baker Lewis secretary Socialist Party by Otis Archer Hood Phil Frankfeld and Jack Green. Communist Party of New England unknown books
19718333Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1971 Third and best printing of this classic. "This is copy number 94 of a certified Limited Edition of 300 copies especially printed and bound for the 101 Ranch Rodeo Foundation Inc.". Foreword by Glenn Shirley. Pp. xxx 255 plus 53 photographs. Map endpapers. Appendices index. Full light brown leather gilt. A very fine as new copy with pictorial dust jacket as issued fading to jacket spine as usual. Famous western author Glenn Shirley provides a stunning historical foreword for this printing. This issue is also the first to incorporate further illustrations from the original and very rare 1937 first edition the second was that same year. The 101 Ranch is considered the best history of this great Oklahoma ranch and its owners. Collings covers the founding in the 1870's to the later Wild West Show continued ranching operations and final bankruptcy in the 1930's. This special printing is super scarce. First edition: Adams Herd: 504; Adams Six-Score: 22; Rader: 870. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1800WRCLIT62002London: Printed and Dublin Reprinted: by John Gough 1800. 28pp. 12mo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Somewhat soiled and occasionally foxed faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library but a sound copy. Denoted the "Fourth Edition" but the first Dublin printing reported by ESTC following three uncommon London printings beginning in 1798. ESTC Online locates copies at NLI and the Royal Irish Academy only. ESTC 7167853. by John Gough unknown books
5603London: Various publishers Various dates. Leather. Good. Octavo 18 cm; three works in one volume. The Book of Common Prayer: Oxford: for Thomas Guy 1682. 168 of 169 leaves lacks printed title page. Engraved title page torn at upper right with some loss. Worm trails. Collation varies from ESTC copy pi A-U8 X4 lacking pi; engraved title page showing a cathedral nave; armorial tail piece with crest of Charles II. The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior.: London: printed by John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1679. 192 leaves. Collation varies from ESTC entry and from any of the copies collated in Darlowe and Moule viz: Aa8-Aaa8. The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others. London: The Company of Stationers 1684. 2 131 19 pages last blank. Bound in contemporary full calf tooled in blind with floral and geometric motives on both boards. Binding worn. Armorial bookplate of Robert Andrews 1703-1763 on lower pastedown. Armorial bookplate of William Long 1817-1886 on upper pastedown showing the Long crest and motto with handwritten inscription to Elizabeth Hare Long from her aunt Elizabeth Nott "grandaughter sic of Robert Andrews." Manuscript family record of births and deaths on front blanks and on inserted leaf in the hand of Robert Andrews 1703-1763 lawyer and property developer. "No builder or developer played a greater role in making the Grosvenors' Mayfair estate a byword for high-quality Georgian housing" according to DNB. Andrews became the attorney for many of Britain's aristocratic families including that of Frederick Prince of Wales. [Various publishers] hardcover books