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179545416London: T. Becket.S. J. Neele sculpt. Strand 1795. 8vo pp. 8 95; engraved title page; 19th-century full green gilt-ruled morocco gilt spine in 6 compartments 4 of which adorned with small red lozenges t.e.g. others uncut red glazed endpapers; upper cover and front free endpaper separated textblock fine. A piracy the paper watermark dated 1795. ESTC T220624. <br/><br/> T. Becket...S. J. Neele, sculpt. Strand unknown books
175148822Glasguae: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1751. 12mo pp. 282 xxiv 282 6; contemporary full vellum manuscript titling on spine; vellum a bit soiled else very good. The final 3 leaves consist of advertisements for Foulis books and proposals for an edition of Plato. Gaskell 218. <br/><br/> In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis hardcover books
179154094London: printed and sold by the author 1791. First edition 8vo pp. xxxii 344; engraved portrait slightly offset onto title-p. woodcut of the branch on p. 285; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards front joint restored a little rough but effective; a good sound copy. Lackington 1746-1815 was a prosperous and innovative bookseller who according to the Wiki thing "is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade . He is best known for refusing credit at his shop which allowed him to reduce the price of books throughout his store. He printed catalogues of his stock; according to Lackington's biography the first edition contained 12000 titles. He bought whole libraries and published writers' manuscripts. He also saved remaindered books from destruction and resold them at bargain prices firmly believing that books were the key to knowledge reason and happiness and that everyone no matter their economic background social class or gender had the right to access books at cheap prices." <br/><br/> printed and sold by the author hardcover books
175631029Berlin: Haude et Spener 1756. Fourth edition originally published Berlin 1746 small 8vo pp. xxiv 380 4; woodcut title-page vignette and several head- and tail-pieces throughout; contemporary speckled tan calf spine in six compartments stamped in gilt in 5 and lettered in gilt in 1 speckled red edges; extremities rubbed and worn bottom of spine chipped away joints starting but sound; good or better. An early example of the "highspot" tradition of collecting listing 100 titles in a variety of subjects that were "must-haves" for the 18th-century book collector. <br/><br/> Haude et Spener unknown books
172642734Edinburgh: John Baskett and Company 1726. Thick 8vo unpaged; text in double column; contemporary paneled dark brown goat boards tooled in gilt spine in 6 compartments elaborately gilt-tooled a.e.g. marbled endpapers; boards and extremities scuffed small loss to spine head neat restoration to top of front board and corners; lacking front free endpaper contemporary owner's ink scribbles on title page and verso with blots affecting the following leaf; same contemporary owner's signature "Will Dalrymple" on p. 4 and again on the last page of the Book of Revelations and rear free endpaper. Text followed by 3 pp. of tables and 60 pages of The Psalms of David in Metre. Citing the quarto edition of the same year Darlow & Moule note that this is apparently the earliest Edinburgh Bible to bear the J. Baskett name on title page. Darlow & Moule 760. <br/><br/> John Baskett and Company hardcover books
171925279Edinburgh: James Watson 1719. 16mo lacking all before Z2 the text beginning with The Proverbs; separate title page for the New Testament ruled in red throughout; contemporary red goatskin with an all-over gilt design in the "cottage-roof" style rebacked the gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments neatly laid down a.e.g.; the extremities are worn and rubbed but the binding is sound and attractive. <br/><br/> James Watson unknown books
176326567Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendoniano 1763. 8vo pp. 4 676; printed in beautiful Greek types throughout; contemporary full calf rubbed at edges rebacked ca. early 20th century and preserving the old red morocco labels scuffed. Engraved bookplate of Earl Cornwallis. This is the only book printed in the Greek type that Baskerville himself designed and cut which is also the only Baskerville type that survives to this day. Gaskell add.2 noting that 2000 copies of the octavo edition were ordered printed by the Delegates of the University and 500 of the quarto. <br/><br/> e typographeo Clarendoniano unknown books
176248821Cambridge: printed by John Baskerville printer to the university 1762. First duodecimo Baskerville edition 12mo 198 leaves collating as in Gaskell; the title a cancellans as described by Gaskell with the price of "five shillings unbound"; bound with: Sternhold Thomas & John Hopkins. The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre. Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville 1762. 55 of 61 leaves wanting K2-L6; first Baskerville edition; together in contemporary full red morocco elaborate gilt borders on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments without letters a.e.g.; extremities lightly rubbed but generally a very good copy in a nice binding. Gaskell 20 "Baskerville agreed with the University to print an edition of 4000 copies" and 21 respectively. <br/><br/> printed by John Baskerville, printer to the university unknown books
179934138Hartford 1799. Folio newspaper pp. 4; the front page of the newspaper is entirely a catalogue for "books lately received from London Dublin and elsewhere" in 6 columns listing approximately 600 titles under ten headings Law Medicine Language Novels Arts & Sciences etc. "for sale at their store opposite the North Meeting House Hartford." An interesting look at a successful bookseller's stock at the end of the 18th century. Page 2 prints a 2-column speech by President John Adams. Central fold partially split some toning of the paper else very good. See Evans 35346. <br/><br/> unknown books
172643856London: J. Darby and 8 others 1726. First English edition 5 volumes 12mo; woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary calf recently rebacked gilt spines red and black gilt spine labels all edges red; some minor scuffing else a very attractive near-fine set. Memoirs of Queen Anne by "the Queen Regent's chief Companion and Confident and who has likewise added an Account of the Troubles of King Charles I. not to be met with in Clarendon or any other English writer being the Substance of several Conversations betwixt his Queen then in Exile at the French Court and the Author of the Memoirs." See Brunet III 1929-30 for the first Amsterdam 1723 edition; 3 copies in OCLC none outside the United Kingdom. <br/><br/> J. Darby [and 8 others] unknown books
172925494London: A. Bettesworth J. Hazard et al. 1729. Small 8vo pp. 14 450; engraved frontispiece title-p. printed in red and black; bound without the half-title in later full polished tree calf double gilt borders on covers enclosing a central oval made in ink and applied to the bindings by a transfer process; the spine in green gilt-decorated morocco with red morocco label; upper joint slightly cracked else very good. <br/><br/> A. Bettesworth, J. Hazard, [et al.] unknown books
175125500Oxford: Thomas Baskett 1751. Thick 8vo pp. 32 the balance uinpaginated; 48 engraved plates one with tear in the corner affecting caption tear in the foremargin of U4 in the Psalter causing loss to a few letters; bound with as issued A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation. London John Beecroft 1751 engraved frontispiece pp. 56; bound with The Whole Book of Psalms London: printed by C. and J. Ackers for the Company of Stationers 1750 unpaginated; together 3 volumes in contemporary full straight-grain black morocco elaborate gilt and blind-tooled borders on covers with cherubs' heads hourglasses leopards sythes etc. gilt-decorated spine a little dull a.e.g.; good and sound or better. <br/><br/> Thomas Baskett unknown books
172744644Paris: Gabriel-François Quillau fils 1727. 12mo pp. 14 xxi 3 700 2; text in double column; full contemporary brown morocco gilt gilt spine in 6 compartments the bottom compartment with the initials CP or CF a.e.g. marbled endpapers; edges very slightly scuffed else fine. A beautiful copy. Cambridge only in OCLC as of October 2016; Darlow & Moule 3797. <br/><br/> Gabriel-François Quillau fils unknown books
176327288Cantabrigiae. Prostant venales Londini apud Gul. Sandby . Cantabrigiae: apud G. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer 1763. Small 8vo pp. 12 207; title page printed in red and black 2 engraved portraits and 13 engraved plates all signed "P. S. L. sc"; printer's imprint on p. 229: "Cantabrigiae: typis academicis excudebat Josephus Bentham." A nice copy in contemporary full red goatskin gilt floral border on cover gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments black gilt-tooled morocco labels in 2; a very nice copy in a handsome binding. This copy with a distinguished American provenance bearing the engraved armorial bookplates of Edward Everett the Unitarian clergyman and statesman and also that of a William Everett likely related. <br/><br/> apud G. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer unknown books
179126049London: printed and sold by the author 1791. First edition 8vo pp. xxxii 344; engraved portrait slightly offset onto title-p. woodcut of the branch on p. 285; uncut; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards spine a little perished and with an early leather repair to the joints; a good sound copy with the bookplate of Lee Edmonds Grove. Laid in is a letter addressed to Lackington dated Salisbury Nov. 16 1804 from John Malham 1747-1821 miscellaneous writer of arithmetics navigational texts and religious stories among others who was apparently in arrears with Lackington: "The misfortunes into which I have sometimes fallen in the past have been productive of the most serious evils.at present every resource is totally drained that I have much difficulty from my own bad health and a young sickly family to subsist from week to week." He tries to persuade Lackington into accepting "at a fair price.any of my publications as the Arithmetic or the Sermons. I should wish to balance the account in that way to your satisfaction - being the only means in my power." Malham goes on optimistically: "I should wish to see your catalogue to look forward to better days which yet I hope for." <br/><br/> printed and sold by the author hardcover books
177382405New Haven: Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green 1773. First edition of American Protestant clergyman James Dana's second published response to Jonathan Edwards' Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will preceded by Dana's prior examination of the same subject published anonymously in 1770. Octavo original three-quarter period calf over marbled boards gilt titles to the spine morocco spine labels raised bands. A rare and desirable example illustrating the tensions that shaped the Evangelical Revival in eighteenth century America. Widely regarded as "one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians" American revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards' theological work was firmly rooted in Reformed theology. In his major work The Freedom of the Will Edwards argued that although humanity possesses free will they are inherently depraved and bound to sin and therefore require divine guidance and grace. Regarded as inclining to Arminianism fellow Protestant clergyman James Dana first came into conflict with Edwards when he was ordained and and made pastor of Congregational Church in Wallingford Connecticut. Dana published his first Examination of Edwards' The Freedom of the Will anonymously in his continued Examination which revealed him as the author of both works Dana argued against Edwards' "denial of moral rational liberty; his distinction of natural and moral necessity and attributing the origin of evil to the want or withdraw of divine assistance." Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green hardcover books
175852672La Haye: chez Pierre de Hondt 1758. First edition 2 volumes in 1 volume as usual folio pp. 4 330 6 Catalogue des Livres qui se trouvent a La Haye chez Pierre de Hondt; 4 328 28; title pages printed in red and black text in double column engraved plate genealogical tree of the Estienne dynasty several engravings in the text woodcut initials and ornaments; a very nice copy in contemporary cat's-paw calf gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments red morocco label in 1. Designed as a supplement to Bayle's Dictionnaire historique. "Prosper Marchand was a bookseller and an editor to whom the literary world is greatly indebted . He died in 1756 and left his library and manuscripts to the University of Leyden. He wrote among other works Le Dictionaire historique . the original manuscript of which 'was all written on little pieces of paper of different sizes some not bigger than one's thumb-nail and written in a character so exceedingly small that it was not legible to the naked eye. It has been said that this is the first book printed with the help of a microscope' Watt. It is however a work full of erudition although the style is charcetrized as not being very pure" Bigmore & Wyman II p. 23. The catalogue of books offered by De Hondt at the back of the first volume is an impressive 12-column affair listing approximately 200 titles in French and Latin. <br/><br/> chez Pierre de Hondt unknown books
176558364Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville 1765. First and only edition 18mo in sixes 96 leaves †2 a-c6 d2 B-N6 O2; later half brown morocco over marbled boards bound by George A. Zabriskie with his armorial bookplate on upper pastedown gilt decorated spine in five compartments gilt-decorated dentelles marbled endpapers; boards rubbed and bumped title page chipped losing the "V" in vocabulary with contemporary inscription moderate foxing good and sound. A dictionary in the "hard words" tradition omitting "the common words of the language" and designed for the use of "young ladies and gentlemen too who have not had the advantage of a liberal or learned education" Preface. Halkett & Laing Kennedy and Alston attribute the work to Baskerville himself - an attribution of which I've always been dubious. In the noted dictionary collector Tom Rodger's copy of Alston he attributes it to Joseph Priestley. George A. Zabriskie was an antiquarian of many talents and in addition to being a successful businessman collector Grolier Club member was a prolific and capable amateur binder. Many of the books in his library were bound by his own hand. Gaskell 31; Vancil p. 245; Kennedy 6264; Alston V 237. <br/><br/> printed by John Baskerville hardcover books
179624282London: T. Longman B. Law et al. 1796. 12 volumes 8vo frontis portrait in vol. 1; slightly later full crimson straight-grain morocco gilt-decorated spines black morocco labels marbled edges and endpapers; spines a little darkened extremities rubbed occasional cracking occasional mild tide-marks to covers; overall a good sound set. "A direct reprint of Murphy's first edition of 1792 without correction or rearrangement" Fleeman. Courtney & Smith p. 164; Fleeman87.3W/4. <br/><br/> T. Longman, B. Law [et al.] unknown books
175325278London: R. Ware W. & D. Baker et al. 1753. 12mo pp. 168; bound with a 23-p. Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper drop title a single gathering of 12 leaves the first trimmed at the bottom without loss and likely separately printed; engraved frontispiece portrait by Van der Gucht; original full black goatskin gilt roll-tooled border enclosing an elaborate central panel with double gilt roll-tooled floral border floral motifs in the corners gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments marbled endpapers a.e.g. blue silk bookmark; spine very slightly discolored else near fine throughout. ESTC records only the Univ. of Leeds National Trust and the British Library copies none of which with the Order for the Administration. OCLC adds the National Library of Scotland. <br/><br/> R. Ware, W. & D. Baker [et al.] unknown books
179946120Boston: Manning & Loring for Joseph Nancrede 1799. First American edition small 8vo pp. 8 9-132; very nice Boston binding of full red sheep double gilt-rules on covers smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 6 panels with urns and anacanthus leaves green morocco label in one gilt-decorated board edges marbled endpapers; first free flyleaf excised; a few minor scuff marks but a very good copy in a handsome 18th-century American binding. Presentation in an early hand on the title page: "Harriet Stickney presented by my mother Miss Mary Stickney." Among the poems are a short poem to Mary Wollstonecraft poems on the slave trade and Botany-Bay Ecologues. The last 7 pages consist of ads and publisher's announcements. Evans 36345; NCBEL III 255. <br/><br/> Manning & Loring for Joseph Nancrede unknown books
170320165London: printed by M. Bennet for Dan. Brown et al. 1703. First edition in English folio pp. 34 431 1 17; full contemporary paneled calf red morocco label; slight crack at the bottom of the lower joint else a very good sound copy. The Dedication is signed J. G. i.e. James Gatherer. With the early ownership inscription of "Ph: Fowke M.D.A.D. 1703" with a six-line inscription in Latin and Greek beneath it and a number of additional notes in his hand throughout in the margins and on the rear blank flyleaves. Phineas Fowke 1638-1710 was a Yorkshire physician who graduated from Cambridge in 1668. He practiced in London and was admitted as a fellow in the College of Physicians in 1680. See DNB. <br/><br/> printed by M. Bennet, for Dan. Brown [et al.] unknown books
177833016Oxford: at the Clarendon Press: sold by Charles Bathurst London; and by Daniel Prince Oxford 1778. First edition 4to pp. 4 vi 2 250; contemporary full red goat elaborate gilt floral borders on covers incorporating urns smooth gilt spine in 6 compartments green morocco label on 1 gilt edges and turn-ins a.e.g.; minor wear prelims moderately foxed else a fine bright copy. A binding perhaps made for presentation. The book reached a 5th edition by 1844. <br/><br/> sold by Charles Bathurst, London; and by Daniel Prince, Oxford unknown books
176632438Birmingham: Johannis Baskerville 1766. 8vo pp. 2 388; engraved frontispiece; contemporary red straight-grain paneled morocco gilt-lettered direct on smooth gilt-decorated spine interlocking gilt border on covers a.e.g.; pages foxed a little wear at the extremities but in all a nice copy with a painting on the fore-edge of a country manor house atop a knoll surrounded with trees; the painting seems a trifle faded but it is likely 19th century possibly done at the time this book was given as a prize to William Semicot Brickwell Trinity College Oxford 1818. With a later engraved bookplate of R. Nash Brickwell. Gaskell 34. <br/><br/> Johannis Baskerville unknown books
176424563Londres: aux depens de la compagnie 1764. 8vo pp. xvi 384; engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved plates; 20th-century full crimson straight-grain morocco by Zaehnsdorf decorative gilt border on covers gilt-paneled spine and preserving the original blue printed wrappers which are bound in. First published without plates at Louvain in 1755. This is likely a 'variorum' edition probably Dutch based on the first authorized edition of 1762 Geneva with variant readings from earlier piracies. Bengesco 491. <br/><br/> aux depens de la compagnie unknown books
