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Descripción: Cairo Bulaq AH 1840, 1256. Text in Ottoman Turkish, woodcut heading, 136 pp., contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, spine a little worn, a crisp clean copy. Princeton University has a copy of an 1847 reprint published in Istanbul. No copies on COPAC or RLIN; listed by OCLC (same collation as this copy) but without location. Nº de ref. de la librería 80089

Descripción: London: C. Mercier for T. Payne, 1805. First Edition, occasional light spotting, xxi, [3], 471, [1] pp., contemporary olive green half calf, a good copy. An important work in the history of aesthetics, confirming Knight's reputation as the arbiteron national taste. Its impact on contemporaries was considerable and by 1808 it had run to three further editions. Nº de ref. de la librería 80091

Descripción: London: John Murray Albemarle Street, 1837. First Edition, frontispiece, vignette on title-page, 6 plates, 4pp. list of books at end, vi, 399, [1], 4 pp., original cloth, spine expertly rebacked with the original spine, a good copy. Nº de ref. de la librería 80087

Descripción: Printed by Adam Islip for the Company of Stationers, 1607. 4to, with the circular stamp of Birmingham Law Society on title, mostly black letter, numerous early Ms. ink annotations in the wide blank margins, [1], 85 leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, lettered in gilt on spine, a nice copy. STC 23218. Nº de ref. de la librería 80090

Descripción: Port Louis: de V. Devaux J. W. Jefferys Printer Intendance Street, 1847. 8vo, presentation inscription on front free endpaper "Presented to His Excellency Sir W. Gomm, by his most obedient humble servant L. Bouton, Sect. to the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences.", 2 folding lithograph plates at end of Mr. Carie's pump, 99, [1], xxiv, 100-187, xxv-lxx1, [1] pp., contemporary red morocco, gilt, hinges slightly rubbed, the upper cover with presentation inscription in gilt, with the armorial bookplate of Sir James Gomer Berry, a nice copy. Field Marshall Sir William M. Gomm was Governor of Mauritius, 1842-49. The text which is part in French and part in English includes a letter from the Hon. Mr. G. C. Cuninghame on the Dodo being on the islands of Mauritius, Bourbon, and Rodrigues, about 200 years previously (pp.91-93), and a fascinating discussion on how people and boats could have reached Madagascar from the Malays, with further interesting comments on the Malayan language (pp.136-148). Other interesting topics include the cultivation of canes at Bourbon Island, a new mode of preserving and cutting canes, the diseases of canes, preservation of the roots of the manioc, and electricity applied to the growth of plants. Nº de ref. de la librería 80086

Descripción: London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1823. 2 vols. in one, First Edition, a little foxing in the text, viii, 336; iv, 334 pp., contemporary half calf, spine with gilt ornaments in compartments, morocco label, a nice copy. Phillips was a Worthing banker who later lived in Brighton, and was one of the first members of the Horticultural Society when it was established in 1804, and in 1825 a fellow of the Linnean Society. There are chapters ion individual trees and shrubs, as well as descriptions of the plants and their uses, and directions for their treatment. Nº de ref. de la librería 80092

Descripción: De Graaf Nieuwkoop. Reprint of the -01 Edition 1973, 1900. 2 Parts in one, orig. cloth. Bibliographical descriptions of 184 Bibles and 191 New Testaments in the French language published during the 15th and 16th centuries. Nº de ref. de la librería 30541

Descripción: London: Charles Hindley, 1887. 8vo, xlii, 308pp., frontis., numerous coloured illustrs., orig. buckram, printed paper label on spine and upper cover, uncut. Jemmy Catnach, the printer, son of John Catnach, printer in Northumberland, and who founded the press, justly earned the distinction of being one of the great pioneers in the cause of promoting cheap literature. Nº de ref. de la librería 30536

Descripción: Scloar Press, 1989. Revised Edition, 64 plates, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Antique and Collectors Fayre. "an essential reference, full of interest and information. a monumental volume". Nº de ref. de la librería 30542

Descripción: Oxford University Press, 1961. Second Edition, 4to, xxvi,218pp., from the reference library of Toby Rogers, frontis., 26 facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. Nº de ref. de la librería 30528

Descripción: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition, 4to, xvi, 538, [2]pp., frontis., 30 plates, illustrs., orig. decorated cloth, spine lightly faded, uncut. Nº de ref. de la librería 30530

Descripción: Sampson Low Marston and Co. Ltd, 1928. First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 60 plates (some coloured), orig. buckram, t.e.g. a nice copy. An excellent account of the colour printers of the nineteenth century and processes, containing much information not to be found elsewhere. Nº de ref. de la librería 30529

Descripción: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition, 4to, xvi, 538, [2]pp., frontis., 30 plates, illustrs., orig. decorated cloth, uncut, a very nice bright copy. Nº de ref. de la librería 30531

Descripción: Raleigh Publications, 2007. Large 4to, 540pp., 392 illustrs., (12 coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. Continues on from the first volume in documinting the printed cartographic reord of the discovery of the continent from 1670 to 1700. Nº de ref. de la librería 30538

Descripción: London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715. First Edition, imprimatur leaf, engraved frontispiece, [4], 219, [5] pp., contemporary panelled calf, hinges partly cracked, label, a nice copy. Written by the judge, traveller, diplomatist and pamphleteer, Sir Thomas Burnet, (with the collaboration of George Duckett). In fact the correspondence between Burnet and Duffett (Roxburghe 1914) makes it clear that this was a joint production. This political satire on the statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is far from being destitute of wit and humour and takes the form of an account of Martin Powell (fl.1709-29), the somewhat physically deformed showman who ran a celebrated puppet-show in Covent Garden. It also, of course, adopts the title of Swift's celebrated 'Tale of a Tub' (but is not recorded by Teerink-Scouten in the list of this work's spurious sequels etc.). Nº de ref. de la librería 80084

Descripción: London: J. Leath, 1842. First Edition, large folding map of Eastern Tennessee, folding lithograph plates of Mossy Creek Farm, Jefferson County Tennessee, xii, 71, [1] pp., original blind stamped brown cloth, expertly recased with new endpapers, original printed paper label on upper cover, a near fine copy. "The foreword, dated at London on July 21, 1842, advocates British emigration to America. The author claims to have resided some years in the valley of East Tennessee. he describes east Tennessee, includes numerous statistics, lists the types of occupations that would insure ready employment, gives advice to prospective emigrants." - Clark, Travels in the Old South, 111, 239. It appears that the book was issued to promote the sale of 179 farms in East Tennessee by the East Tennessee Land Company. The large scale map shows the valley of the Tennessee and Holston rivers, with a projected "Branch Railroad to Knoxville" running up the valley. Kress, C5958; Goldsmith, 32580; Sabin, 82755; Streeter, 1671. Nº de ref. de la librería 80085

Descripción: At London Printed by Adam Islip for Thomas Wight, 1604. Newly corrected & imprinted, with new additions, title within a decorative border, black letter throughout, 3 contemporary ink notes in the blank margins, small pieces missing from lower blank margins of P1 and Z3 just touching the text but with no loss, with the 4 final contents leaves, faint pink stain (ink?) on tip of lower corner of 25 leaves, 176, [4] leaves, modern vellum, new endpapers and ties, a nice copy. The first dialogue is a modified translation of his "Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia." STC, 21577. Nº de ref. de la librería 80082

Descripción: London Written June XIII. MDCLX. and there Imprinted the same year, 1660. Second Edition?, slight foxing, small rust hole in B1 affecting 3 letters, the pagination is erratic but the signatures and text are continuous, [12], 148, 151-166 pp., nineteenth century calf, neatly rebacked, edges gilt and gauffred, the Huth copy with the label, a very good copy. One of three editions in the same year, this with the errata formerly printed on L8 corrected, but introducing the new errors 'Condering-Glasse' and 'June XIII. DMCLX' in the caption title on page 1. Wither, at odds with the authorities or the Stationers for most of his career, and a conspicuous supporter of Cromwell's government, expessed some apprehension at the Restoration."George Wither is known to most readers as the subject of a short essay by Lamb. He had a stormy life. His harmless verses frequently gave offence and the author became well acquainted with the inside of the Marshalsea and Newgate. During the Civil War he took arms for the Parliament and became successively captain, major, and major-general. The Royalists caught him and were about to hang him, when Sir John Denham pleaded for his life on the ground that while Wither lived he (Denham) could not be called the worst poet in England." - George Sampson. Wing, W3193; Wither to Prior, 1065 (note). Nº de ref. de la librería 80083

Descripción: Imprinted at London: By Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes for the Company of Stationers, 1618. Title within woodcut border, inscription on B1 recto "Sr. John Francklin. Dorothy Francklin.", woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, text in black letter throughout, lacking blank A8, [14], 464, 467-486, 489-568, [44] pp., contemporary blind-ruled calf, gilt in compartments, brown morocco label, a nice copy. Monuments to Sir John and Dorothy Francklin are in St. Dunston's church, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire. They also owned other books in the Macclesfield Library. STC, 23332. Nº de ref. de la librería 80081

Descripción: London Printed by T. Mabb for Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, 1665. First Edition, engraved portrait-frontispiece of Charles 11, folding map, the dedication is signed R. C., [16], 176 pp., modern half calf, spine gilt, label, all edges gilt, a nice copy. Wing, C4602; Sabin, 13514. Nº de ref. de la librería 80080

Descripción: At London Printed by Thomas Purfoot. An Dom, 1617. 8vo, old Ms. quote on blank verso of title, decorative woodcut border around the title, ownership inscription of Adam Keys on leaf following title, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials, illustrations and figures in the text, occasional marginalia, with the four final contents leaves, minor repair to inner margin of Ff6 affecting two letters, minimal worming in lower blank margin of the last few leaves, without the final blank, [8], 198, [25] leaves, modern vellum, gilt joints cracked, some loss to spine, a good copy. Baker, writer on arithmetic and astrology, published "The Well-Spring of Sciences" in 1562, that was said by Henry Phillippes, who edited and enlarged the work in 1670, to have been one of the first and 'one of the best books on arithmetic which had appeared up to that date in this country.' In Baker's Epistle 'To the Right Worshipfull the Gouerners, Assistants, and the rest of the Companie of Marchants [sic] Aduenturers: .', excusing himself for not entering fully into the merits of arithmetic, on the grounds that 'where good wine is to sell, there need no garlande to be hanged out.'***** Also in the work are 42 pages of tables of weights and measures that were used in the main European cities and centres of trade. STC, 1217; Rara Arithmetica, pp.327-330; De Morgan, p.24. Nº de ref. de la librería 80078

Descripción: London: Printed by the Assigns of J. Sowle at the Bible in George-Yard Lombard Street, 1715. Third Edition, 12mo, the preface is signed T. R., the divisional title-page to Katharine Evans' 'A brief Discovery .' is dated 1663.[2], iii-vi, 7-216 pp., half calf. Arrested on a missionary trip to the Middle East, Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers produced "This is a True Relation ." during their imprisonment under the Inquisition. Evans and Cheevers were Quaker missionaries and pamphleteers whose missionary work began during the Interregnum. Evans, the more prolific writer of the two, has left records of her own sufferings during the 1650s. She was stripped and whipped at Salisbury in the 1650s, and endured other forms of persecution because of her beliefs. But the women's collaborative writings are the direct result of their later period of imprisonment. The women smuggled letters, psalms and pamphlets of their suffering from the prison in Malta, this miscellany of documents were published in 1662, and republished in 1663. Nº de ref. de la librería 80079

Descripción: Dublin: Published for Her Majesty's Government. Hodges and Smith, 1837. First Edition, 4to, hand-coloured geological map of the Parish of Templemore, folding plan of the City of Londonderry (foxed), 8 other plans, 1 view, 7 natural history plates (2 hand-coloured), illustrations in the text, 9, [3], 336, [2], 16 pp., original embossed cloth, hinges shaken, but a very good copy. Nº de ref. de la librería 80077

Descripción: Stamperia Bimbi Cortona, 1884. First Edition, large 8vo, 284pp., orig. printed wrappers, some small tears, uncut. Nº de ref. de la librería 30518

Descripción: Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by W. Creech and C. Elliot Edinburgh and T. Cadell London, 1784. First Edition, 4 large folding engraved plates of various different ploughs. [6], 255, [1] pp., contemporary tree calf, rebacked, label, a good copy. James Small, agriculturist and plough maker, was born at Upsettlington in the parish of Ladykirk, Berwickshire. He served an apprenticeship with a carpenter and plough maker at Hutton, Berwickshire, and about 1758 he went to Yorkshire to work for a Mr Robertson, maker of wagons and carriages at Doncaster. He returned to Scotland in 1763 and started to experiment with ploughs to establish which worked with the least draught.He enjoyed patronage from several leaders of Scottish society. Henry Home, Lord Kames, encouraged him in the publication of his treatise. Sir John Sinclair, a leader of progressive agricultural opinion in Scotland, was another champion of Small and his work. Small did not forget his first investor, Renton, who in 1784 became the dedicatee of his "Treatise of Ploughs and Wheel-Carriages." The book made Small the first to set out the scientific principles of plough design in print, building upon and clarifying the work of previous thinkers on the subject as well as expressing his own theories. This treatise was the standard text on plough design for fifty years. Goldsmith, 12571. Nº de ref. de la librería 80076

Descripción: London: Printed by Knight and Compton; Sold by H. D. Symonds, 1802. First Edition of this translation, no half-title, text continuous despite the irregular pagination, [iii]-vii, [1], 5-164 pp., contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, black morocco label, with the armorial bookplate of the Earls of Granard, a fine copy. A women's advice book, 'L'Ami des Femmes.' Paris, 1758, first published in English as 'The Ladies Friend', in 1766, but its popularity was such that nearly half a century later it was published and read in new translations and editions. The translator adapts and updates the text for English readers, including in his list of writers English women such as Mrs. Piozzi, Hannah More, and Elizabeth Smith. The women to whom Villemert addresses his advice are those of the court, who should be permitted to study, mainly in order to avert ennui which leads to vice. Nº de ref. de la librería 80074

Descripción: Basilæ Petri Pernæ opera atque impensa. Cum Privilegio, 1576. Revised Edition, printer's woodcut device on title, text clean and bright throughout, [22], 494, [22] pp., contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, a very nice copy. Cato's treatise on agriculture (De Agricultura or De Re Rustica) is the only work by him that has been preserved. It contains a miscellaneous collection of rules of good husbandry, conveying much curious information on the domestic habits of the Romans of his age. This book of lessons on plant and animal husbandry is edited by the Swiss Physician, Theodor Zwinger (1533-1588). Adams, C1126. Nº de ref. de la librería 80075

Descripción: Leeds: Walker and Laycock, 1887. 2 vols., one of 500 copies, portrait, Frank Broohead's copy with his bookplate, quater vellum, a littl soiled, a couple of small nicks to head and foot of spines, morocco title labels to spines, uncut. Nº de ref. de la librería 80058

Descripción: Gouda Printed by John & Andrew Endenburg Priviledged Printers of the City, 1718. First English Edition, woodcut of Gouda City Arms on title with some light browning on upper portion, [32] pp., modern boards, a nice copy. A translation from the Dutch of "Uitlegginge van de wyd-beroemde en vermaarde glazen" by the author.*****A history of the Sint Janskerk cathedral in Gouda, with full descriptions thirty-one stained glass windows. After a disastrous fire in 1552, that destroyed most of the stained-glass windows, the glass painters Dirck and Wouter Crabeth were commissioned to produce new windows. By the year 1555, three years after the fire, the first window was introduced, and by 1603 thirty-one superb stained glass windows had been installed. The cathedral in Gouda now contains the most significant examples of sixteenth-century Dutch stained glass in the Netherlands. Each of the stained glass installations have been analysed in chronological order. Fourteen of the were crafted by the Gouda glass painters Dirck and Wouter [Walter] Crabeth between 1555 and 1571, showing an incomparable reference on a neglected aspect of Renaissance art. Evans, Bibliography of Stained Glass, p.65: the British Library, Bodleian and Huntington copies only in the ESTC. Nº de ref. de la librería 80066