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Postcard 3½ x 5½". Condición: Very Good. circa 1980; Unposted; Chrome.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Octavo volume. Contemporary calf binding with raised bands and gilt decorative tooling to spine; later purple cloth repair present to spine section, as shown. Boards with marbled paper, heavily worn with rubbing, scuffing, edge wear, and loss to corners. Spine rubbed and worn but remains intact and solid. Text block complete. Pages age-toned throughout with expected foxing and light staining consistent with age. Title page present and clear. Binding sound despite cosmetic wear; hinges holding. No loose pages noted. A well-used but honest early 19th-century volume. Condition: Fair to Good (for age) — structurally sound, cosmetically worn.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 204 pages (complete). A stoic copy. Pocket sized. Astonishingly for a Scotsman Thomson is now best known for his composition of the lyrics of 'Rule Britannia'. In his day, however, it was his poetry that inspired the British Romantics and beyond. Full leather. The boards are considerably worn. The faces are scuffed, worn, marked. The contents are benign. The first free page has two previous owner notations (one dated 1825, the other 1962). The contents are amiable, convivial, clean, clear, benign, certain. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Xii, *336, 248; Xi, [3], 516; Xiii, [1], 511, [1] Errata. Complete With Half-Titles. 5 Folding Hand-Writing Facsimile Plates & 1 Engraved Plate Of Seals. Three Volumes In Matching Polished Olive Calf, Five Raised Bands, Two Morocco Labels, Gilt In Other Compartments, Gilt Rules At Borders, Gilt Edges Of Boards. Most Complete Edition Published To This Date, With A Long Preliminary Essay.No Names Or Bookplates, Pages Clean, No Bookplates. Front Board Of Volume 1 Detached, Needs New Cords Only; Other Hinges Tight. Laid In Loosely Are Two Further Nineteenth Century Discussions Of Junius; Two Clippings Of Bookseller's Listings Of Junius Are Attached To Front Pastedown Of Volume I. Per Wikipedia, Junius Was The Pseudonym Of An Anonymous British Writer Who Contributed A Series Of Letters To The Public Advertiser, A London-Based Political Newspaper Run By Henry Sampson Woodfall, From 21 January 1769 To 21 January 1772. The Signature Had Been Already Used, Apparently By The Same Writer, In A Letter Written On 21 November 1768. These Works, Along With Numerous Other Personal Letters, Were Included In His Letters Of Junius Collection That Was Published In 1772. Facsimile Plates (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. A new edition. Frontis, xi, [1], 110, [2]p, ill. Occasional spotting, heavy on one or two leaves. Original polished calf, front board holding on cords and calf worn at head of spine. A decent copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 7th ed. xii, 309p. Full calf, worn, but binding tight and contents clean. Advertisement on behalf of the author of this abridgement on p. [iii]. Title watermarked 1810. Names to front endpaper: George Hall / Dartford / Kent; William Hall / February 1st 1816.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair. Contemporaneous full calf. Front board detached. Five raised bands and gilt lettering and gilt lettered tile to spine. Covers worn and corners rubbed round. Ownership inscription of 'William Lindley' of Chatton, dated 1737 to free front and rear endpaper and fly-leaf. Leaves toned and with a touch of foxing and damp-staining and a little general thumbing and marking. Illustrated with several copper plates engraved by David Lockley. 7 1/2". The Rev. Michael Malard, a French Protestant refugee, was tutor for that language to the princesses, daughters of George II for whom he wrote this instructional book. The book was intended to provide universal knowledge and to 'put them into a condition of being never seduced by Popery' 'to make godly and understanding youths' 'to make greater improvements in the French tongue' and as a 'Traveller's Guide into the finest Towns and Places of Europe, Asia, and Africa'. Contents include scientific subjects such as 'Of Clouds' 'Of the Thunderbolt' etc, chapters on travel, venerated cities and such additions as 'Of the Parisian Gang', occult matters, eg - 'Of Witches, Charmers, Enchanters, Chiromancers, and Necromancers.' 'If one can raise the Devil with Agrippa's Book' and lots of chapters concerned with Popery. This title is described in 'A Biographical History of England. Volume 3' by Rev. Mark Noble - 1806 as "now seldom to be met with; as, besides being a sort of school-book, in which service numbers of the copies were very likely to be worn out, it is a work that would certainly be destroyed by the Roman Catholics whenever it came in their way". David Lockley (ilustrador).…

Half-Leather. Condición: Very Good. 3 works in 1 volume, 1793/1793/1796, printed by T Colvill / T Colvill / R Morison , 83 [1]: 43 [1]: 98 [2] pp, later half morocco, plain boards (rubbed), last work has a folding table at the end, the first work is state A (last leaf with advert and errata to verso) but lacks plates and map called for by ESTC (my state B copy also has no plates or map - see my book number 9132), small hole in B2 of the second work with the loss of2 letters, some light browning (heavier in the third work), 8vo (217x134mm), ESTC T64556/122447/180007 (showing only 3 copies of the last work worldwide - all in the UK).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Seventh Edition. Eight volumes, complete matching set. Frontispiece at front of Vol I, (xxvi, a separate overall preface, note to the reader, and index, for the entire set),(xx), 312; (xxiv), 276; (xxii), 287; (xxii), 288; (xxii), 276; (xxii), 264; (xiv), 248; (xviii), 280. Volumes 1-4 and 7-8 with 1718 publication date, Volume One stated Nineteenth Edition on volume title page with 1718 date [this volume having appeared earlier and being reprinted prior to the other volumes), Volumes 2-4 and 7-8 stated Seventh Edition; Volumes 5 and 6 with 1717 date and stated Seventh Edition on title page, with publisher "Tooke" spelled as "Took". Despite the variation in dates and edition statements, In matching contemporary full calf bindings, 5 bands, red and black morocco spine labels, elaborate gilt tooling on spine and edges. An excellent set, light fraying at a few tips, bindings and hinges solid, gilt still bright, spine labels intact, light even foxing to text blocks, pages square and undamaged. The origins of the work are complex and disputable, but the manuscript by Marana survives at least for the early volumes, one or more of the later volumes likely being English additions. Important for the light it shows on what Europeans thought was happening, rather than for exact reporting on what was actually occurring. See Bibliographical Society of America LII (1958), PMLA LXXII (1957), Revue de litterature compares XXXII (1958), and the Times Literary Supplement 12/24/1982 and 7/1/1983 to appreciate the variety of views regarding the authorship of the later volumes. Defore wrote a continuation of this series in 1718, not present here. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 4th Edition. 1st edition. Large 8vo., xvi + (1 blank) + 2 - 530 + (2) pages complete. Original half tan leather binding, dutch floral covered boards, graised gilt bands and lettering on spine. Original white end papers. Covers : few very slight cuffs to spine, slight rubs corners, else clean and unmarked. Contents : very small mark leading outside edge pages els very clean, tight and unfoxed. Clean tight attractive copy. VG.+.…

New Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 312 pages. Subjects; Charles XII, King of Sweden (1682-1718). 1 Kg.

New Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 312 pages. Subjects; Charles XII, King of Sweden (1682-1718). 1 Kg.

Quarter-leather. Condición: Good/Very Good. 2 volumes, 1792/1793, printed by Grant & Moir, (ii) x [2] 359 [1]: xi [iii] 13-372pp, engraved frontispiece to volume one (lightly stained and finger marked), engraved title vignettes, recent calf backed marbled boards, green morocco spine labels (slightly rubbed), new endpapers, some pages lightly browned, marginal stain to the first c50 leaves of volume one, title page of volume two spotted, some finger soiling, volume two rather better internally than volume one, 12mo (186x107mm), ESTC T161325 / T161324.…

Full-Leather. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First thus. ESTC T58751. Front joint just beginning to split, all sewings holding firmly, a few light stains on boards. Text clean and unmarked. 1713 Full-Leather. Full calf, gilt titles on spine label, blind-stamped double rule and designs on front and rear boards, gilt decorations on board edges, five raised spine bands. A collection of essays on morality by the noted lawyer and politician whose concern with social order and ethics inform all of these writings. Originally published in the 17th century, this 1713 printing is the first appearance of all five works in a single volume, and includes separate title pages for each work dated 1711. Includes commentary on religious zealotry, atheism, greed, honor, virtue, etc. Full title: Essays upon Several Moral Subjects, Viz.: The Religious Stoic: Or, A Short Discourse on These Several Subjects: Of Atheism. Superstition. World's Creation. Eternity, Providence, Theology. Strictness of Churches. Of the Scriptures. Of the Moral and Judicial Law. Of Monsters. Of Man and his Creation. Of the Immortality of the Soul. Of Faith and Reason. Of the Fall of Angels; and what their Sin was. Of Man's Fall. Of the Stile of Genesis. Why Man fell. A Refutation of the Millinaries, &c., with A Friendly Address to the Fanatics, of all Sects and Sorts.; A Moral Essay, Preferring Solitude to Publick Employment, And all its Appanages: Such as Fame, Command, Riches, Pleasures, Conversation, &c.; Moral Gallantry: A Discourse Wherein the Author endeavours to prove, That Point of Honour, (abstracting from all other Ties) obliges Men to be Virtuous. And that there is nothing so Mean (or unworthy of a Gentleman) as Vice. To which is Added, A Consolation against Calumnies: Shewing how to bear them Easily and Pleasantly. Written in Return to a Person of Honour, and at his Desire subjoin'd to this Discourse, because of the Contingency of the Subject.; The Moral History of Frugality, With its opposite Vices, Covetousness, Niggardliness, Prodigality, and Luxury.; Reason. An Essay.; to which is Prefix'd, Some Account of His Life and Writings. With an Index to the Whole. "Mackenzie, Sir George, of Rosehaugh (1636/1638 - 1691), lawyer and politician, was born in Dundee either in 1636, as most sources assert, or in 1638, as his own works suggest. To coincide with Charles II's restoration in 1660, Mackenzie published his first work, entitled Aretina, or, The Serious Romance, often regarded as 'the first Scottish novel'. Defending the didactic value of romance-writing as serving to show 'what should be done', he proceeded to incorporate a thinly veiled allegorical account of the recent civil wars within his tale (preface, 7). As justice-depute, Mackenzie became involved in the notorious series of trials staged during one of the largest witch-hunts in Scottish history, when, in sixteen months between 1661 and 1662, over 600 people were accused of acts of sorcery and diabolism. While not denying witchcraft's existence, Mackenzie was disturbed by the ways in which he believed 'poor Innocents die in Multitudes by an unworthy Martyrdom, and Burning comes in fashion', and he therefore insisted on the strictest degrees of judicial rigour and impartiality to dispel popular superstition and hysteria (ibid., Sixteenth pleading, 1.89). Amid recrudescent religious sectarianism, Mackenzie published Religio stoici (1663), attacking 'those mad-cap Zealots of this Bigot Age' (sig. A2r). Reprinted eight times during the Restoration, his tract denounced religious persecution, arguing that to punish 'the body for that which is a guilt of the soul' was as unjust as penalizing one family member for the crime of a relative (ibid., sig. A6r). In 1665 Mackenzie's Moral Essay Preferring Solitude to Publick Employment attracted the attention in London of Abraham Cowley, who allegedly 'sent all about town in vain to get the author' (Vickers, x) before John Evelyn penned a devastatingly skilful rejoinder rejecting Mackenzie's showy elevation of le.…

Condición: Good. 10th edition, corrected. Full contemporary sheep, G+. [viii]+xxx+554+[16]pp, red morocco lettering piece to the spine. The last page of text is a list of school books printed by C Bathurst. Leather rather worn & scuffed with a small section missing from the rear board, corners worn though, spine scuffed & worn with loss to the head & tail, hinges cracked but holding firmly. Gather Nn is a little loose in the binding resulting in the fore edge being worn, occasional ink splash & smudge, a nice copy. Selections from the speeches & addresses of the Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero [ 106 BC - 43BC ], the text here being that of the original Delphin edition, and edited by Charles de Hallot Merouille. 825 grams.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. An excellent revised edition of this incredibly influential, eighteenth-century fishing manual. This a revised late edition of Richard Bowlker's The Art of Angling, originally published c1758 by M. Olivers of Worcester. Bound in the publisher's original binding with gilt illustration to front board and spine. Binder's embossed stamp to final free end paper. With a coloured, lithograph frontis and interspersed with numerous, in-text engraved vignettes. Collated Complete.Widely regarded as the first manual on angling, Bowlker's work proved foundational to the practice of fly-fishing.This edition with a Ludlow publisher's advertisement page and twelve pages of advertisements for the London publisher's recent works to the rear. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, smart. With light rubbing to the extremities and signs of damp staining only to the lower extremity of boards. Light tide marks to rear end paper. A previous owner's inscription to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. The occasional spot and marginal age toning. Very Good. Not Stated (ilustrador). book.…

2nd. Edn. 3 Vols. 8vo. (22cm. tall x 13cm.). pp. viii, 588; xi, 518; & xiii, 424*. 5 folding facsimiles of Junius' manuscript letters. 1 engraved plate of Junius' seals.From the library of Campbell of Stonefield with his circular bookplate on each front pastedown. In a mid - 19th Century full calf binding by J. Carss, Glasgow. Red leather gilt labelled spines with gilt ruled raised bands. The panels are blind stamped. Boards have blind ruling. There is slight rubbing of the leather, and Vol. I has a 4cm. scuff on the lower edge of the front board. There is some foxing throughout. The last 3 leaves of Vol. III. have had 7cm. repairs to the inner margins. *It would appear that these damaged leaves were all that was salvaged from the later signatures of this volume at rebinding. It ends at 224 and 254 pages are called for. This results in the loss of 8 of the miscellaneous letters. This is still a handsome sound set.…

With circa 19th century bookplates of Miss Jones, Stamford Hill. 4 volumes. Bindings light shelfwear only, very attractive. Light foxing, largely to outer leaves, plates offsetting. Very Good+ Early dark purple calf decorated elegantly in gilt, red calf lettering pieces, gilt inners, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled The Ninth Edition, Revised and Augmented.…

Seventh Edition. Full contemporary aniline calf [panels blind-tooled], recased in matching modern calf. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. An exceptional example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 248 pages; Physical desc. : [14], 248p. ; 12°. Subject: Europe - History - 17th century. Spies - Europe - Early works to 1800. ESTC citation no. : T228384. Associate reference; Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 429. 1 Kg. …

Seventh Edition. Full contemporary aniline calf [panels blind-tooled], recased in matching modern calf. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. An exceptional example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 248 pages; Physical desc. : [14], 248p. ; 12°. Subject: Europe - History - 17th century. Spies - Europe - Early works to 1800. ESTC citation no. : T228384. Associate reference; Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 429. 1 Kg. …

Full Calf. Condición: Near Very Good. Complete in 8 volumes. Books measure 16.5x10.cm. Printed 1707-1708. Bound in full period or early calf, raised bands. Calf rubbed, scuffed with wear loss on head/tail of spines, hinge joints split, but all boards holding firm. Internally, pages clean. A nice set. Size: 12mo.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Octavo. Three volumes. I: [xvi], 495, [xxvii]pp.; II: [vi], 676, 9xxvi]pp.; III: [iv], 464, [xxxii]pp. Fourth edition. Contemporary calf, repaired. With frontispiece portrait of Montaigne. With the bookplate of Huron College Library in Volume One, and the armorial bookplate of William Perceval Hope Pollock of Ardmor Co. Waterford in Volumes Two and Three. ESTC T111809.…

Modern Quarter Calf. Condición: Near Very Good. First Edition. Some discoloration and staining, mostly confined to margins. Solitude, Religion, Reason, and Frugality are among the subjects of these essays. 442 pp.

Unbound. Condición: Poor. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. 6th Edition Corrected. First Printing. Contents include: The Preface, Frontispiece of portrait of LEstrange [missing]; Life of Aesop (29 pages); the index; Section of Fables (550 pages) [548] as follows: Aesop, Barlandus, Anlanus, Abstemius, Poggius and Miscellany Fables. [No. 500 missing - supplied with print-out] . Covers lacking. Binding copy. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 548 pp. …

First collected edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, *336, 248; xi, [1], xiii, [3], 511, [1] errata; 6 engraved folding facsimiles on 3 sheets; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spine; vertical crease in the spine on volume I, some chipping along the joints, minor cracking at extremities, corners bumped, but all else very good and sound. "The secret of the authorship of these letters which puzzled the men of the last century still remains unsolved, and it may be added that with our present information it is practically insoluble" (Halkett & Laing III. 327), although current scholarship seems to suggest that they are the work of Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818). "The first of the letters of Junius appeared in Woodfall's Public Advertiser in London, Jan. 21, 1769. Further letters appeared irregularly until 21 Jan. 1772. The series attracted enough attention to make it profitable for various booksellers to bring out editions of the letters before the series was concluded. At least 16 of these unauthorized partial editions were published before the end of 1771. In addition, individual letters were published in other political collections" (NCBEL, II, 1178).…

Condición: Very Good. 12mo; 5 1/4 x 2 7/8 in. (134 x 77 mm); almanac and calendar bound into one volume. 1. Rider's Merlin, 60 pp. + 13 blank sheets for notes and a woodcut "Anatomical Man," printed in black and red ink; 2. Court and City Register, vi + 282 pp. printed in black ink. Title pages of both are mounted in succession at the beginning of the book. Contemporary red morocco with flap, elaborate gilt decoration, four raised bands, black morocco title label to spine, white metal clasp; Dutch gilt endpapers, a.e.g.; green silk pocket to contain cards etc. on the back of the book is torn and partially missing. Binding worn and soiled, as is typical of an object of daily use, but binding is tight and square, and pages clean and bright, a few tightly cropped. Calendar 1: Rider's British merlin: For the year of Our Lord God 1774. Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Adorned with many delightful and useful verities fitting all capacities in the islands of Great Britain's Monarchy. With notes of husbandry, fairs, marts, high roads, and tables for many necessary uses. Compiled for his country's benefit, by Cardanus Rider. [Anatomy of Man's body (where body parts correspond to zodiac signs), Chronology of Creation and History; Table of Kings, Principal Roads; etc. Sign A in red and black ink; Price in square brackets: (Price stitched Nine-pence.)] Calendar 2: The court and city register, or, gentleman's complete annual kalendar, for the year 1774: Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament, II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, &c. With many Improvements, and the Addition of some new Lists [House of Peers, Commons, Royal Household; Postal routes, fees, and delivery times; military branches and officers; Hospitals; Universities and top posts. etc.; Price from imprint: Price 2s. bound; or with an Almanack 2s. 9d. bound] [ESTC T45014, N4862]. A beautifully-bound and much used almanac and calendar for the year 1774, full of useful and curious information ranging from planting and farming suggestions for each month of the year in the Merlin, to a plethora of information about the running of the British state, society and commerce. RIDER'S BRITISH MERLIN was a pioneering and popular almanac, printed between 1656 and 1830. The name of its author, Cardanus Rider, is a pseudonym for Richard Saunders (1613 -1687?), a physician and astrologer who began publishing his astronomical data and miscellaneous information on health and farming for a wide public. The Merlins inspired Benjamin Franklin's most successful commercial endeavor: POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. Franklin published them under the pseudonym Richard Saunders(!) and included not only serious and practical information but also jokes and hoaxes. It was a bestseller in the American colonies and printed up to 10,000 copies per year, bringing wealth to Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack was so popular that Napoleon ordered it translated into Italian and later it was also translated into French. "The name Cardanus is a reference to the mathematician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano. He is well known for his scientific career and the first use of negative numbers. Along with his accomplishments in the mathematics, he spent much of his life as a physician and working on the sciences. It would make sense for an almanac, that has information about science and medicine, to have a reference to a prominent polymath." (Michigan State University, Rare Books and Special Collections, XX AY751 .R54 1726) As in this case, the Merlin was sometimes bound with another yearly publication that detailed government, military, academic and commercial information.…