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Such an occasional, vicarious encounter does little justice to the fame Crabbe enjoyed in his lifetime. A friend of Burke, and later Scott (who called him the ‘English Juvenal’ in Waverley), Crabbe was a poet whose realism, ‘preceding even Cowper and anticipating Wordsworth, was the first important indication of one characteristic movement in the contemporary school of poetry’ (DNB). Byron thought him ‘though nature’s sternest painter, yet the best’. ‘Wordsworth said that the poems would last as long as anything written in verse since their first appearance. Miss Austen said that she could fancy being Mrs Crabbe. Jeffrey reviewed him admiringly, and in later years Edward FitzGerald, the translator of ‘Omar Khayyám,’ wrote an admiring preface to a selection in which he says that Lord Tennyson appreciates them equally with himself. Cardinal Newman speaks of the “extreme delight” with which he read “Tales of the Hall” on their appearance. Thirty years later he says that a fresh reading has touched him still more, and a note, after a further lapse of twenty years, endorses this opinion. “A work which can please in youth and age seems to fulfil (in logical language) the accidental definition of a classic”’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CRABBE (George)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25783150533,"sku":"2633","price":495.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2633.jpg?v=1488213496"},{"product_id":"the-plays-of-william-shakespeare","title":"The Plays of William Shakespeare","description":"London: Printed by T. Bensley for Wynne \u0026amp; Scholey and J. Wallis. 1805.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Volumes. 8vo. Endpapers and edges marbled. Portrait on frontispiece of volume 1. Engraved vignettes to title pages of each volume and title pages of individual plays. A Fine set in a contemporary quarter deep red morocco over marbled boards. The tips more graceful than usual with gilt rules to the borders. Spines with gilt ruled compartments and titles.","brand":"SHAKESPEARE, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25783150661,"sku":"2636","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2636_a513f67d-f153-40ee-9e9a-db5ed1073edd.JPG?v=1489079153"},{"product_id":"thelypthora","title":"Thelypthora","description":"\u003cp\u003eThelypthora; or, a treatise on Female Ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the Divine Law: Under the following Heads, viz. Marriage, Whoredom, and Fornication, Adultery, Polygamy, Divorce; With many other Incidental Matters; particularly including An Examination of the Principles and Tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c.33. commonly called The Marriage Act. In two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: for J.Dodsley, 1780.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Edition. 2 vols, 8vo, (220 by 142mm) pp.xxiv, 412; [iv], 432, [x] indexes. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Paper repair to blank upper margin of first title, faint even browning. Early modern brown levant, spines in six compartments with raised bands gilt, gilt decoration in four compartments, lettered and numbered in two, marbled boards and endpapers; slight shelfwear only. Bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription of \"Babington\" dated March 1790, early pencilled marginalia throughout (most angry-looking crosses). Very good\/near fine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA scandalous anonymous work. Martin Madan (1726-90), first cousin of William Cowper, had already attracted public attention when, in 1750 he made the career switch from lawyer to Methodist preacher, but the impact of this book, in which he advocated polygamy and argued elaborately that it was in accordance with Christianity, was sensational. His patroness, Lady Huntingdon, told him even before publication that she had a petition against it signed by three thousand people, and the scandal attending its publication immediately engulfed the author. 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Full tree-calf, decorated with gilt edges, spine with gilt bands and burgundy morocco label with gilt lettering. Extremities slightly rubbed, but otherwise a fine crisp copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBonnet’s philosophical defence of Christianity was originally articulated in his “La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l’état passé et sur l’état futur des êtres vivans” (1769) and “Recherches philosophique sur les preuves du christianisme” (1770). Bonnet’s early work on insect reproduction, in particular, his discovery of parthenogenesis and the reconstitution of earthworms, led him to argue that science supported the biblical accounts of miracles and resurrection. Miracles, and the evidence for them, are a central theme of this work, which also looks at the problems of proving religious revelation. He concluded that to deny the bases of Christianity was contrary to “the clearest principles and rules of found logic”. 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Three Volumes. 8vo in 4s (210x125mm). pp. \u003cstrong\u003eVol. I. pt. I\u003c\/strong\u003e: xiv, [2], 242, [2];\u003cstrong\u003e pt. II\u003c\/strong\u003e: [iv], 208; \u003cstrong\u003eVol. II. pt. III. Divisions 1, 2 \u0026amp; 3\u003c\/strong\u003e: [ii], 440; \u003cstrong\u003eDivision 4\u003c\/strong\u003e [ii], viii, 79. \u003cstrong\u003eVol. III. Pt. IV; \u003c\/strong\u003e[iv], 96, \u003cstrong\u003ePt VI\u003c\/strong\u003e; 33-224 [1], \u003cstrong\u003ePt V; \u003c\/strong\u003e[ii], 1-32 (see below for explanation). Mottled calf, edges decorated in gilt. Spine decorated in gilt with contrasting lettering pieces in red (title in gilt) and green (volume number in gilt on a contrasting red circle). Some shelfwear and rubbing, particularly to the hinges which are cracking in places although sound. Some slight scuffing to the upper and lower covers of volume III. Edges sprinkled green. The contents are in excellent condition (save where noted below) with no significant, marking or foxing. All three volumes are profusely illustrated with charming and fascinating engravings of the subject matter. The plates are fine and the fifteen folding maps in volume I are in excellent condition with many of them outlined in colour. The only major flaw is on page 79 of part IV of Volume II (i.e. the very last page) which has been repaired following a tear to the bottom corner but there is some loss to the text. Ownership inscription of Eleanor Clarke in each volume. It is rare to find The General Preceptor complete with all its parts and plates present and this is a particularly good set although (as explained) there are eccentricities in the pagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume I contains Part I (Geography) and Part II (History and Chronology). 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In a way, this is understandable as Drawing and Architecture seem to sit apart from the other subjects dealt with in this volume. However, the binder has clearly gone against his instructions. Although this is a wonderfully informative set with the most extraordinarily ambitious range of knowledge on display, in places it does appear that the binder has been in a rush. But, as this is an encyclopaedia it does not, perhaps, matter (and it is rather charming for it adds to the eccentricity of the whole project) because everything that should be here is here. A hugely entertaining and educational work, impossible to summarise, delightful to dip into. If you want to know what genteel young people were expected to know in the late 18th century (and it was a lot), you will find it here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FITZGERALD, Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809465093,"sku":"2923","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2923_6.jpg?v=1504282284"},{"product_id":"the-school-of-arts","title":"The School of Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003eOr, An Introduction to Useful Knowledge, being a compilation of real Experiments and Improvement, in several pleasing Branches of Science on the following subjects, viz...The Second Edition with very considerable additions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Murray. n.d. [c.1790].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition, two parts in one volume. 8vo in 4s. (215x127mm). pp. xv, [i], 319 [1bl], [2]; [viii], 112, 133-176, [1]. With twenty four folding engraved plates, errata leaf at the end of each part. The second part has a separate half-title. Light browning on the last few leaves and occasional foxing but a good copy with the contemporary bookplates of John Bell and Robert Pick, leather booklabel of Robert Honeyman (1979 sale, IV, 1741). Marbled boards, with some scuffing and wear, rebacked in calf, original red gilt label replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Robert Honeyman collection of Scientific Books. An encyclopaedia of scientific information and craft secrets, covering mechanics, electricity, pneumatics, optics, clock making and astronomy in the first part: the second part covers drawing, etching, aquatint, gilding, silvering lacquering, varnishing, casting in plaster, glues, stains, microscopic slides etc. Some of the sections on optical equipment make reference to contemporary instrument makers and Imison recommends James Wood of Southwark for demonstration models. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IMISON, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":5774173995037,"sku":"3008","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3008_1.jpg?v=1521731226"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-great-yarmouth","title":"The History of Great Yarmouth","description":"\u003cp\u003eLynn: Printed and sold by W. Whittingham; R. Baldwin; H. Gardner; W. Lane.. 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Surely a minority view among even the most loyal of residents but Yarmouth is a handsome town with a long and interesting history as this attractive book makes clear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[PARKIN, Charles]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":5774174060573,"sku":"3025","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3025_3.jpg?v=1521733133"},{"product_id":"libro-del-ascenso-y-descenso-del-entendimiento","title":"Libro del ascenso, y descenso del entendimiento.","description":"\u003cp\u003eMallorca: En la Oficina de la Viuda Frau. 1753.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst vernacular edition. 4to. 195x140mm. pp.[viii], [2] plates, 252. Folding table of contents and folding woodcut illustration preceding A1, woodcut vignettes to text. Title-page trimmed and extended at lower margin (probably to erase inscription), a couple of pages lightly browned. Contemporary Spanish limp vellum, title in ink to spine, lacking ties. Some internal cracking at the hinges and the usual warping. An excellent copy of a very rare book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst vernacular edition. The Catalan philosopher and missionary Llull (c.1232–c.1316) is best known for his ‘great art’, a theory of logic which, he believed, united all strands of knowledge under one universal method. This elaborate, mystically inspired universal system of knowledge was intended to convert unbelievers. The present text is a prefiguration, written in 1304, of his grand theory elaborated a year later in the Ars magna. It proposes that there is a ‘ladder of understanding’ of eight entities and twelve questions, representing the hierarchy of Creation through which the intellect can arrive at knowledge of each entity. This process is illustrated and tabulated in the two plates preceding the text; the illustration exemplifies Llull’s use of the figure of the wheel, for which he became famous. First published in Valencia in 1512, the Liber de ascensu et descensu intellectus (as it was entitled in Latin) was republished in the city of Llull’s birth, Palma de Mallorca, in 1744. This Spanish translation followed soon afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LLULL, Ramón","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12232438481007,"sku":"2884","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/RCH_3752.jpg?v=1529679803"},{"product_id":"the-ramble-an-anti-heroick-poem","title":"The Ramble: An Anti-Heroick Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen Corner. 1682.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo (175x114mm). pp. 128 (including initial blank A1). Contemporary black morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. The Heber (?) - Britwell - Hayward - Bradley Martin - Edwards copy, with modern bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and J.O. Edwards. Lightly rubbed with some wear to corners, a little marginal browning, still a fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander Radcliffe trained in law but deserted his studies to become a soldier, reaching the rank of captain before turning to writing bawdy verse in the tradition of the poetic rake established by the 1680 edition of Rochester’s Poems on Several Occasions. The title poem here, Radcliffe’s best known work, starts with a knock at the door which the author is in bed with a whore. He embarks on a nightmarish low-life ramble through Restoration London, visiting theatres, gambling dens and coffee houses before returning to his bed to be sick. 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From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, the front pastedown has the bookplate from the South Library. An attractive volume bringing together a series of letters by Thomas Pyle in support of Benjamin Hoadly's (Bishop of Bangor) Whiggish Low Church supinity. The final letter is a reply to Pyle. The whole controversy has an air of Big-endians versus Little-endians although it now appears to be little more than a minor crack in the great rift in English political life currently manifested in the tribal wars between Leave and Remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. A Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Bangor wherein is considered the true Notion of Religious Sincerity, as available to the Salvation of Men; and of Church Authority, with respect to the Distinctions between Real, Mere and Absolute Authority. In Answer to the Exceptions of Mr Law. In a Letter to a Member of the University of Cambridge. 1718.\u003cbr\u003e2. A Second Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Bangor. 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A nice copy, with contents in particularly good condition, of one of the seminal works of the eighteenth century.","brand":"CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31311752265839,"sku":"3285","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20200316_153425_resized.jpg?v=1584375556"},{"product_id":"the-plate-glass-book","title":"The Plate-Glass-Book","description":"London: Printed for the Author; and sold by W.Owen et. al. 1764.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourth Edition, Enlarged. Third edition of the Compleat Appraiser. Tall 12mo in 4s. (198x75mm). pp. xxv, [1], 170, [2], iv, 46, 46a-h, 47-74. Twentieth-century quarter brown morocco with small arts and crafts style decorative motifs on the joints, brown cloth covered boards. Slight rubbing to the joints and mild bumping to the corners. Overall in very good condition. Internally very good, some browning to edges of title page and final leaf. Gathering Gg has been repaired affecting the text but not legibility. Modern endpapers and blank preliminaries stamped \"Birmingham Assay Office Library\". ESTC locates three copies of this edition in UK institutions and four in the US.","brand":"A Glass-House Clerk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37298470518975,"sku":"3454","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3454_6.jpg?v=1604080615"},{"product_id":"lambert-de-saumery-pierre-the-devil-turnd-hermit-or-the-adventures-of-astaroth-banishd-from-hell-a-satirical-romance-1741-and-1742-3230","title":"The Devil turn'd Hermit: or the Adventures of Astaroth Banish'd from Hell. A Satirical Romance.","description":"Exposing. With great Variety of Humour, in a Series of Conversations between that Demon and the Author, The scandalous Frauds, lewd Amours, and devout Mockery of the Monks and Nuns; the Intrigues of Courts; the Ambition, Avarice, and Cruelty of Ministers; the Insincerity, Luxury, Prostitution, and Ingratitude of many private Characters; with other Capital Vices of the present Age. Founded chiefly on real Facts, and interspersed with the Portraits and secret History of most of the considerable Persons that have lived in\u003cem\u003e Europe\u003c\/em\u003e within these thirty Years past. \u003cem\u003eTranslated from the Original French of Mr de M***.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon: Printed and sold by J. Hodges, J. Robinson, J. Wilcox and J. Brindsley (Vol. II printed for T. Waller). 1741 and 1742.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eThe natural order of things is all reversed\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition in English. In two volumes (the second without the attribution to M de M***). 12mo (Vol I, 12mo in 6s). 164x91mm. pp. xii, iv, 276; x, 254. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary calf, double fillet in gilt to covers, rebacked with most original spines laid down., compartments decorated with double fillet in gilt, red morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed. Internally very good with a little marking in places and a small hole to the title page of volume two, not affecting legibility. Edges sprinkled red. Of the four variants described by ESTC, this is the first, containing the misnumbered preliminary pages, vii and xii instead of viii and xi respectively. Front pastedowns have armorial bookplate of Henry Corbet A.M. and the label of Richard Corbet, Adderley. Sir Henry was the Rector of Adderley and the last of the Corbet Baronets of Adderley and Stoke dying in 1750 without issue. Richard Corbet lived at Adderley Hall. He died in 1872. Rare in commerce and institutionally. ESTC locates five copies of the first volume in the UK and ten in the US and only two copies worldwide for the second volume. A very good copy of this vicious but amusing attack on loose French morals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003ePierre Lambert de Saumery's scabrous satire on the French Catholic Church was first published, in two volumes, in Amsterdam in 1741 as \u003cem\u003eLe diable hermite\u003c\/em\u003e. It was clearly an immediate success being translated into English that same year, with the second English volume appearing the following year. de Saumery seems to have been an extraordinary figure. He was born in France to Calvinist parents who moved to England when Pierre was a child. He was brought up and educated in England and, at 29, became a Calvinist minister. He then travelled around the continent as a preacher ending up in Liège where he converted to Roman Catholicism. It has been suggested that his conversion was inspired less by theological conviction than by the hope of gaining access to the courts of ecclesiastical grandees. If that was so, then he was clearly successful as after a few years he published this \"Satirical Romance\" of life at the court of a Prince-Bishop. The conceit is that Astaroth has left hell to wander Europe where, despite having \"seen in hell a great many devilish tricks\" he discovers, among the French aristocracy (both secular and ecclesiastical) a venality, immorality and corruption that shock even him. \"The natural order of things is all reversed in this region. They sleep in the day, riot in the night, and shorten life by unheard-of excesses. The soul is a stranger to all sincerity, and all compassion. Double-dealing, imposture, scandal, and ostentation are the only virtues known to courtiers\". Shortly after publication of Le Diable Hermite, de Saumery escaped to the Netherlands, reconverted to Calvinism and died in Utrecht in 1767.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"[LAMBERT DE SAUMERY, Pierre]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584715350207,"sku":"3230","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3230_2.jpg?v=1606475632"},{"product_id":"de-legibus-et-consuetudinibus-angliae","title":"De Legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae","description":"\u003cp\u003eLibri quinq; in varios tractatus distincti, ad diversorum et vetustissimorum codicum collationem, ingenti cura, nunc primu typis vulgati: quorum quid cuiq; infit, proxima pagina demonstabit. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Richard Tottell. (apud Richardum Tottellum).. 1569.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 290x195mm. [16], 172, 175-444 leaves. (leaf 439, misnumbered 437). Pagination is as called for by ESTC, collates complete. Imprimatur at foot of title page, \"Cum privilegio\". Early 17th century full legal calf, blind ruled to covers. Raised bands to spine, author's name in manuscript on second compartment. Foot of the spine has some worm holes and wear with loss. Some rubbing and scuffing to covers. Internally excellent. Slight waterstaining and worm holes to the head of the gutters and worming to the lower right corner of last forty leaves. Tear to corner of leaf 3C4 with no loss of text, and a clean tear to leaf 3G4 covering the last ten lines of text but there is no loss of text. Contemporary ink annotations to initial blank and head of title page. Ownership inscription (scored through but clearly legible) to head of title page: \"Daniel Dun, prec (i.e. price) xi.6\". An excellent copy with an important provenance of the work which surveyed and defined the English common law for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by F.W Maitland as “the crown and flower of English jurisprudence”, De Legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (“On the Laws and Customs of England”) by Henry of Bratton (whence Bracton) represents, remarkably, given its great length and the detail and density of the text, only part of the originally conceived work designed to explain and analyse (with all authorities fully cited and, in some instances, entire cases transcribed) the whole of the common law. Despite this, Bracton (the work is often referred to simply by the name of lawyer and priest generally accepted as the final editor and reviser of the manuscript) is about ten times longer than the only previous English legal treatise by de Glanville (see previous item). Bracton, although enormously important in the development of an English precedent-based approach to the resolution of legal disputes, draws also “on Roman law for some of the more abstract organizing principles of the treatise”. This use of continental civil law by Bracton neatly encapsulates the essential difference between English and Roman law, the latter operating in the empyrean of a priori jurisprudential theory, the former grounded solidly in the everyday, making its decisions by reference only to what has gone before. One hesitates to mention it but this difference in legal thinking identified in the thirteenth century resonates in the biggest question facing England and its relationship with the rest of Europe in the twenty first century. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BRACTON, Henry de","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584715841727,"sku":"3273","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3273_2.jpg?v=1606244503"},{"product_id":"the-cenci-a-tragedy-in-five-acts","title":"The Cenci. A Tragedy. In Five Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: C and J Ollier. 1821.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition. pp. xvii (but xv), 104. Lacking half title. The original book has been disbound and the pages cut, very neatly and expertly and then carefully pasted at the hinge edge on a leaf of plain white paper so that the leaves of text are interleaved with the plain leaves. This is one way in which prompt books were made, allowing for notes and directions to be written on the plain leaves without disturbing the text. The leaves of text are cut to measure 151x95mm and the plain paper is 235x190mm. Bound in contemporary tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Rebacked with spine lettered in gilt. The centre of the upper and lower covers has a circular morocco label stamped in gilt with a coat of arms around which, in a circular band is stamped in gilt in gothic lettering, Johannes Ludovicus Gautier. Apart from some scuffing to the boards and bumping to the corners, the binding is in very good condition. Internally it is in fine condition with a little marking to the blank pages. On the verso of the front free end paper is inscribed in Gautier's hand, \"8vo. 1819. Italy Printed. 8vo. 1821. 2 Edition London. Collated. 1823.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis unique and somewhat eccentric book contains an interesting story and set of connections. The name on the label on the covers is Johannes Ludovicus Gautier. Almost nothing is known about him but we do know that he bought books from the collection of the actor John Philip Kemble. The collection included numerous prompt books belonging to Kemble, including Shakespeare’s King John and Julius Caesar (which are held at the Folger) and William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer (at the Huntington). John Kemble retired from the stage in 1817 and mainly lived abroad until his death in Lausanne in 1823. It seems that most of his books were sold in Switzerland in 1821. Those bought by Gautier are all bound in the same way as this copy although some of them have Kemble’s arms and name on the upper cover in the same style as those of Gautier’s. It seems that Gautier had all the books he acquired from Kemble bound in this way. Although there is no evidence on the book itself that Kemble owned this prompt book of The Cenci, the connections and associations all point to his having done so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShelley wrote The Cenci in 1819 intending that the part of Beatrice be played by Elizabeth O’Neill. Shelley had seen her perform at Covent Garden Theatre and, although he was not, as Mary Shelley noted, particularly keen on the theatre, he was so struck by O’Neill that he composed his first play for her. In the event, she retired from the stage in 1819 when she married a wealthy Irish MP. John Kemble was the leading male actor at Covent Garden until his retirement and a powerful figure in the London theatre. He was visiting Dublin in 1814 and, one evening at the theatre, saw Elizabeth perform. He was so impressed that he brought her to London that year where she made her debut as Juliet to huge acclaim. Given the connection between Kemble and O’Neill and Shelley’s fascination with Elizabeth, it seems likely that Kemble and Shelley would have met in the years before Shelley wrote The Cenci. After the play was published, in Italy in an edition of 250 copies, Shelley asked a friend to approach the manager of Covent Garden Theatre (Kemble and O’Neill’s theatre) to see if it could be staged there. The manager, Thomas Harris declared The Cenci “so objectionable” that it could not be put on. Despite this, a second edition of the work was published in 1821. \u003cbr\u003eIt is quite possible that John Kemble retained his links with Covent Garden theatre and that he acquired this copy through his connections there. The copy has clearly been prepared for use as a prompt book. The fact that the 1821 edition has been prepared in this way suggests that there were still plans to try and stage The Cenci. Perhaps Kemble harboured thoughts of putting on his own production or perhaps he was given this by a theatre colleague who had made it for his or her own use in some future production. It is a fascinating and tantalising object.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584717381823,"sku":"3327","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3327_4.jpg?v=1606478407"},{"product_id":"remarks-on-the-present-defective-state-of-fire-arms","title":"Remarks on the Present Defective State of Fire-Arms,","description":"\u003cp\u003eshewing The Danger to those who carry them: together with an explanation of a newly invented Patent Gun-Lock, of which All the present Disadvantages are removed, and Simplicity, Security, and Durability substituted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed for the author by T. Egerton. 1795.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo in 4s. (208x130mm). pp. [2], xxv, 3-88. K4 blank. Loosely inserted is a letter of 1993 from the Bodleian Library confirming that K4 in their copy is blank and setting out the full collation, this copy conforming to that. Contemporary red full grain morocco in fine condition. Decorative gilt borders to the upper and lower covers. Spine lavishly decorated in gilt, Greek-key design turn-ins. All edges gilt. Very slight rubbing at the head and foot of the spine. Marble endpapers. A very handsome binding. Internally near fine with only minimal spotting in places. Front pastedown has the royal armorial bookplate of \"E D C\". This is Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover, one of the sons of George III. He was created Duke of Cumberland in 1799 and this book would have been bound for him at about that time. ESTC records copies in the BL, Bodleian and The Codrington Library together with five copies in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSir George Bolton was intended for a career in the army but instead spent much of his working life as the tutor to the daughters of George III, teaching them writing, geography and arithmetic. Alongside this tutoring of the sisters of the former owner of this book, Bolton worked on improving the musket gun-lock. Until Bolton designed his lock, the safety mechanism on both military and sporting firearms was so poor that accidents were frequently caused by guns going off at half-cock. Bolton’s self-acting and detachable bolting lock was made by mathematical instrument makers rather than gun makers who were, apparently, disinclined to follows his designs. It revolutionised gun safety. The lock was patented in 1795, the year of the publication of this book. In 1799, Bolton left Great Britain for his wife’s family estates in the St Vincent, West Indies which had been damaged by a slave insurrection in, coincidentally, 1795. It seems almost certain that Bolton, as he left England for the Caribbean, gave this copy to Ernest Augustus who then had it bound and his bookplate pasted in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOLTON, G[eorge]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37881970655423,"sku":"3191","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20201109_115953_resized.jpg?v=1609260370"},{"product_id":"two-autograph-manuscript-volumes-of-the-political-history-of-europe","title":"Two autograph manuscript volumes of the Political History of Europe.","description":"\u003cp\u003en.p. n.d. c1780.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo volumes, being volumes III and IV of a four volume Political History of Europe. Manuscript on thick laid paper. 285x210mm. Paginated on verso with even numbers only. The text is on the recto of each leaf with occasional notes and references set out opposite.\u003cbr\u003eVol. III: Germany [1] - 142; Switzerland: [143]-[215], 216-220 bl; Italy: [221]-372, [373]-376 bl; Turky (sic) [377]-[415]. Error in pagination at pp 114\/115 but text is continuous and complete. \u003cbr\u003eVol. IV. Title [1]-2; Russia: [3]-[39], 40-44 bl; Poland: [45]-[73], 74-78 bl; Sweden: [79]-[101], 102-108 bl; Denmark: [109]-[121], 122-126 bl; Holland: [127]-[159], 160-164 bl; England, [165]-[189], 190-196 bl; General Recapitulation: [197]-[205]\u003cbr\u003eVolume III, contemporary half calf, marbled paper covered boards, recently rebacked, spine lettered in gilt. Volume IV, contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, rubbing and wear to corners and edges, cracking to joint with upper cover and rubbing to spine. Both volumes have the armorial bookplate of the author Charles Abbot on the front pastedowns. Both volumes are internally fine. The text is particularly clear and legible.\u003cbr\u003eCharles Abbot (1757-1829) was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1802-1817 and is regarded as one of the most distinguished holders of the post, responsible for many important reforms to the administrative functioning of the Lower House. Abbot's father had been a Fellow of Balliol and was a priest and schoolmaster. He died when Charles was only three. Charles's mother then married Jeremiah Bentham, the father of Jeremy. The stepbrothers were close, corresponding throughout their lives. Before entering Parliament, Abbot was a lawyer following a brilliant academic career at Oxford and the University of Geneva where he studied civil law in 1778-79 after which he returned to Oxford to continue further legal studies. Although these two volumes are undated, they appear to have been written during these Oxford years at the beginning of the 1780s. There is no reference to any historical event later than 1779 although there is a note towards the end of the very last chapter on the history of England mentioning a source dated 1783. This was year that Abbot was called to the Bar and joined the Oxford and Chester circuits. By 1792, he was practising in the equity courts in London and in 1795 he was elected to the House of Commons. We are confident therefore in attributing this substantial and learned work to Abbot's student years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the title of his work suggests, he concentrates on political history with an emphasis also on legal and economic matters but Abbot's mind is wide-ranging and, from the evidence of just these two volumes, it is clear that he was an enormously erudite man with a piercing intellect. Abbot's approach is to locate the essence of a nation's character and historical spirit and then build the narrative around this central idea while weaving in penetrating analysis and opinion. A measure of the seriousness of Abbot's mind can be discerned in his closing comments: \"In this Ocean of Oppression \u0026amp; Corruption, all resources are to be sought for by wise and Honest men, which may render them independent of the artificial wants of Society, \u0026amp; the arbitrary caprices of Sovereigns; - Virtues founded on principle rather than instinct; Principles, founded on solid experience, \u0026amp; indestructible by the Sophisms of false Philosophy; a constant Love of Liberty \u0026amp; unshaken Resolution to sacrifice everything to it\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABBOT, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40486169804991,"sku":"3487","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20210519_162639.jpg?v=1629474694"},{"product_id":"ehrenpforte-arc-triomphal-de-lempereur-maximilien-i-the-triumphal-arch-of-maximilian-i","title":"Ehrenpforte. 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Some splitting of cloth at joints but holding firm, front free endpaper renewed and helping reinforce front inner hinge, a few trivial marks at corners, but an excellent copy, clean, and fresh, with clear impressions printed on strong laid paper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourth impression of Dürer's Ehrenpforte, one of the great giant woodcuts of the Renaissance, printed from the original sixteenth-century blocks under the supervision of Adam Bartsch. The blocks are now preserved at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work was intended for assembly as a gigantic wall print measuring approximately 3.5 x 3 metres (11 x 9 feet). The Hapsburg emperor Maximilian I had insufficient funds to hold a triumphal procession or erect an arch in stone. His place in the imperial Roman tradition was nevertheless guaranteed through the truly monumental scale of this triumphal arch on paper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe arch was originally conceived by the Tyrolean court painter and architect, Jörg Kolderer, as a miniature. Under the direction of the Emperor, Johannes Stabius provided the program of the whole arch and the five sheets of prose commentary at the foot. Dürer supervised the execution of the multi-block print and also contributed ornamental details (see Strauss p. 504). The 192 blocks (174 survived) of varying size were cut in the workshop of Hieronymus Andreä in Nuremberg. Although probably conceived in 1512, the project was not completed till August or September 1517, despite the date of 1515 on the base of the arch. A large part of the design was the work of Dürer's assistants, Springinklee and Traut. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the first of 1517, second and third editions were published in 1526-28 and 1559. The fourth impression of 1799 was printed from 174 surviving blocks with eighteen etchings by Bartsch to replace the missing blocks (including the Battle of Utrecht, Maximilian's coronation, and the First Congress of Vienna; the twenty-fourth panel shows a new image of the Battle of Pavia); the Dürer block of the Burgundian Wedding was replaced by an earlier block of Springinklee. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this copy the latter-day printed matter has been discarded, that is, the 1799 double-page letterpress title and \"avertissement\" leaf at the beginning and double-page letterpress \"avis au relieur\" (actually a plan showing how the wall print should be assembled) at the end. What remains is the complete fourth impression of the original work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e from the library of the French sculptress Félicie de Fauveau (1801–1886) who as a fervent royalist had taken refuge in Florence, with a gift inscription in French at the foot of the first flyleaf, presenting the book to her in spring 1843. Her studio on Via degli Serragli was a regular stop for international travellers on the Grand Tour, and she had many influential friends and admirers, including Elizabeth and Robert Browning, who had also made their home in Florence. \u003cbr\u003eFauveau was a friend and art adviser to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812-1880). Lord Lindsay, as he was then styled, made several visits to Italy in the 1840s in preparation for his work on art, Sketches of the History of Christian Art (1847), which was in part inspired by Fauveau's religious sentiment. 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Contemporary sprinkled calf, triple fillet border in gilt to upper and lower cover. Five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt with crown, thistle and flower pattern. Second compartment with tan lettering piece, lettered in gilt. Some wear to boards, rubbing and rubbing to spine and joints. All edges red. Internally in fine condition. Diagrams throughout. Marbled endpapers. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, the front pastedown has the bookplate from the South Library and embossed stamps with Macclesfield Coat of Arms to title and dedication. ESTC locates 11 copies in the UK and 10 in the US. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Gray (d1769) was a mathematician who taught at Marischal College (later Aberdeen University) where he was also Rector towards the end of his life. Accordingly, his Treatise on Gunnery is a highly technical affair, complex but also rather beautiful in the way of serious mathematics. 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Contemporary diced russia, double fillet gilt border with gilt roll border inside. A further gilt roll border to the central panel. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Some wear to head and foot of spine but otherwise a handsome binding in a very good condition. Internally very good, some foxing and the front free endpaper is loose. Overall an excellent copy of a fascinating book which lists and describes all the charitable activity in Norfolk from large donations in Norwich to very modest charitable work in tiny villages (such as teaching young people how to knit). Zachary Clark was a Quaker from Downham. The preface (written by Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist and a friend of Clark's) describes how Clark was concerned at the extent to which charities failed to carry out their purposes. It seems that in some cases, the abuses were quite basic and blatant, such as failing to hand over money intended for the poor. 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The fourth containeth a short compend of all the councels generall, nationall, and provinciall ... Devided into 16. centuries. ... Collected out of sundry authors both ancient and moderne; by the famous and worthy preacher of Gods word, Master Patrick Symson, late minister at Striueling in Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed by I[ohn]. D[awson] for Iohn Bellamie. 1624.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition thus. 8vo. 190x145mm. pp [8 leaves], 243, 246-438, 438-466, 468-770 (i.e. 700). Quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards, although the paper is almost completely lost from the lower board. Corners strengthened, some rubbing to upper cover but overall in nice condition. Internally very good save to some water staining in the first book. A nice copy of a scarce book. Rare in commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished posthumously (Patrick Symson died in 1618 aged 52), The Historie of the Church is a corrected and edited version of A Short Compend of the History of the first Ten Persecutions moved against Christians, (1613–16) and A Short Compend of the Growth of the Heresies of the Roman Anti-christ (1616). The Historie is divided thematically. The first part sets out the church’s relationship with secular rulers from Augustus Caesar to Elizabeth I. The second part deals with Bishops, Popes Patriarchs etc; the third part concerns heresy and heretics and the fourth is a history of church councils and ecclesiastical doctrines. \u003cbr\u003eSymson (also Simson) was from an ecclesiastical family (his uncle was Archbishop of St Andrews and his father a Church of Scotland minister as well as a classics teacher). He became a minister himself in 1577 while continuing to teach Greek in his father’s school in Dunbar). Even though his uncle was his Archbishop, Symson was strongly opposed to the principle of episcopacy and even refused the offer of a bishopric. Despite these anti-establishment leanings, he was happy to accept an appointment in Stirling, a Royal residence which meant being presented to the King (James VI, later the First of England). Symson preached frequently to the King who, even if he did not always agree with his minister, admired his intellect and theological rigour, being a learned connoisseur of such matters. As well as being a brilliant scholar, Symson was a highly regarded parish minister with a strong pastoral vocation. He helped bring peace to the somewhat disorderly streets of Stirling and he always remained in the parish at times of plague, carrying out his even if it put his own life in danger. 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Text in parallel columns, 56 lines to the full column: Rheims New Testament printed in roman type on the left, the Bishops' version in italics on the right, both divided in verses, all arguments, marginal notes, and other annotations of the Rheims NT printed at the end, interspersed with the confutations, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces. In excellent condition throughout with only one small marginal repair to the foot of 4A2 (not affecting the text) and some slight foxing. Modern calf decorated in blind to covers and spine. brown morocco labels to spine lettered in gilt. Front pastedown has label of Brian E. Fortune. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very good copy of the first edition of William Fulke's refutation of the arguments and accusations contained in the Rheims New Testament of 1582 (see previous item). Fulke was described by a contemporary as \"that profound, ready and resolute doctor, the hammer of heretics, the champion of truth\". He was fully committed to the idea that the Pope and the Church of Rome were the Antichrist and much of his work involves a point-by-point unpicking of Catholic theology both in writing and in public debate, most famously with Edmund Campion in the Tower of London. He was so concerned to counter Catholicism on its own terms that he inadvertently drew attention to theological arguments that would otherwise have remained obscure and unknown. This method of forensic disputation, with its unintended consequences, is evident in this Bible where the Rheims New Testament and the Bishops' version are printed \"in full, side by side, with Fulke's commentary at the end of each chapter. This tandem printing secured for the former a publicity which it would not otherwise have obtained, and was indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611\". 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Internally very good, some waterstaining to a few of the early leaves (1i (title page)-2ii and 2vii-3ii), marking to leaf r3. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper crossed out. Overall in excellent condition. Introductory text in gothic type. Title page printed in red and black as are some of the tables. The title page has the printer's device of Lucantonio Giunta: \"Il Giglio Fiorentina\", the Florentine Lily which is the symbol of Florence. Giunta was born in Florence in 1457 although he left for Venice in 1477 and began publishing books in 1489 producing over 400 books until his death in 1538.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval astronomy was a science of mathematical and numerical tables designed to determine the position of the planets and stars and so help solve problems relating to the earth’s movements. Among the earliest examples in the west was Ptolemy’s second- century Mathematike Syntaxis (also known as the Almagest). This work formed the basis of Western astronomy and underpinned the Alfonsine Tables first produced in Spain in 1252. By the fifteenth century these texts had become corrupted and unreliable. In his Tabule, Bianchini (1410-1469), the professor of mathematics and astronomy at Ferrara and the astronomer to the d’Este court, sought to correct these and to revive the Ptolemain model. His work transformed Renaissance astronomy. This 1526 edition is a significantly expanded version of the 1495 edition. Both are based on Bianchini’s manuscripts which were known and consulted by later scientists including Regiomontanus and, especially Copernicus who copied Bianchini’s auxiliary tables for computing planetary latitudes. 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Some minor tears to paper at the spine and to upper and lower covers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translator of the \u003cem\u003eHuetiana\u003c\/em\u003e is not named but we have identified him as John Duncombe, a priest and scholar who, as is clear from the introduction, also translated \u003cem\u003eA Tour of Stockholm. \u003c\/em\u003eDuncombe was a contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Gentleman's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and some of his translations of the\u003cem\u003e Huetiana\u003c\/em\u003e appeared there and are exactly the same as those in this manuscript. As the manuscript contains translations from the\u003cem\u003e Huetiana\u003c\/em\u003e which did not make it into the\u003cem\u003e The Gentleman's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, it must have been done by someone with access to Duncombe's work after his death. Our firm view is that this is his widow Susanna Duncombe, née Highmore. Her parents, adopting the principles set out by John Locke in \u003cem\u003eSome Thoughts Concerning Education, \u003c\/em\u003etook her intellectual development extremely seriously\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eShe wrote poetry as well as translating verse from Latin, Spanish, French and Italian and was an accomplished artist. Susanna was part of the circle of highly educated women around Samuel Richardson (his \"literary daughters\") with whom she corresponded and whose \u003cem\u003ePamela\u003c\/em\u003e was illustrated by Susanna's father, the artist Joseph Highmore. She had a long courtship with John Duncombe who made her the heroine of his poem \u003cem\u003eThe Feminiad \u003c\/em\u003e(1754) in which Susanna (as \"Eugenia...The muse's pupil from her tend'rest years\") is praised for her \"ingenious allegory\" of Fidelio and Honoria and their search for happiness. Susanna and John married in 1761 and moved to Canterbury where they lived in the Cathedral Close, Susanna illustrating her husband's own writings including a translation of Horace. After John's death in 1786, she lived a life of quiet retirement with her daughter and several cats. Susanna died in 1812 and this manuscript produced in a beautifully artistic hand dates from the early years of her widowhood. Despite her skills as a poet, Susanna published little and it seems that her intellectual accomplishments found fuller expression through conversation and correspondence. An aptitude for the finely honed aperçu made her well suited to working on this manuscript translation of the short essays, table-talk and \"ana\" of Huet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was a priest and scholar with an international reputation. He was part of the court of Queen Christina of Sweden where he made important discoveries in the Royal Library. His intellectual range was vast, stretching from biblical and classical scholarship to anatomy and natural history, mathematics and astronomy and the theory and practice of translation. His library of books and manuscripts was left to the Jesuits and then bought by the French Royal Collection. Huet's wide-ranging mind is brilliantly displayed in the \u003cem\u003eHuetiana\u003c\/em\u003e which brings together short essays on Gardens, the Origins of the name of the Alps, Cicero, the Fidelity of a Dog, the Dread of Thunder, geometry and the Decay of Learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSold with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHUET, M. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHUETIANA\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eou Pensées Diverses de M.Huet, Evesque D’Avranches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParis:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eChez Jacques Estienne\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e1722\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition. 12mo. 160x93mm. pp. xxiv, 436, [16]. Contemporary speckled calf, spine lavishly decorated in gilt, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert J Hayhurst. Slight loss to head and foot of spine and light cracking to head and foot of joint with upper cover. Internally very good and overall a nice copy of the first edition of the Huetiana edited by Abbé d’Olivet, a member of the Académie Française. It is from this edition that the manuscript translation has been taken.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand with: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConstable's Miscellany. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConstable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, \u0026amp; the Arts. Vol. X. Table Talk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eTable-Talk; or Selections from the Ana. 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Some foxing in places but otherwise, internally very good with the plates in excellent condition. Handsomely bound in slightly later red straight-grained morocco, upper and lower covers decorated with two double fillet borders in gilt enclosing a continuous \"drawer-handle\" design in blind and framing a continuous swag and drop border in blind. Spine with five double raised bands, decorated in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt to the second and fifth compartment. Edges of the boards decorated in gilt. Turn-ins decorated in gilt with a wavy dotted line and ears of wheat with a flower motif in the corners. All edges gilt. The binding is of a very high standard. It is unsigned but the tooling and overall design conforms to the work of the German emigré binders and we would tentatively attribute the binding to either Christian Kalthoeber or John Bohn and we would date it to the 1790s or the very early years of the 1800s. \u003cbr\u003eJohn Watson (1723-1783) was that perfect eighteenth-century combination of clergyman and antiquary. He was the curate of Halifax between 1750 and 1754 and retained links with the town throughout his life. Starting with Druidical remains and moving through Roman affairs, Watson brings the reader up to the eighteenth century. He covers the history of Halifax and provides details of the main buildings in the town as well as exploring fascinating byways such as \"Remarks on the Dialect of Halifax\",\"Vocabulary of Uncommon Words used in Halifax\" and \"A Catalogue of Plants Growing in the Parish of Halifax\".","brand":"WATSON, The Reverend John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985761378495,"sku":"3730","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3730.Halifax_1.jpg?v=1664905129"},{"product_id":"experiments-and-observations-on-the-atomic-theory-and-electrical-phenomena","title":"Experiments and Observations on the Atomic Theory and Electrical Phenomena","description":"\u003cp\u003eDublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell. 1814.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. pp. [6], 180. 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In 1789, he published a ground-breaking work on combustion which, tangentially and incidentally, anticipated John Dalton’s atomic theory. In 1792 Higgins returned to Ireland where he divided his time between a job as chemist to the Irish Linen Board advising on bleaching and dying and a position at the Royal Dublin Society where he was given freedom to carry out experiments in a laboratory equipped to his specifications. It was during these years that Higgins developed and crystallised his ideas on atomic theory leading to the publication of the present provocative book in 1814 in which he implied that John Dalton’s 1808 work New Systems of Chemical Philosophy had plagiarised his experiments. Higgins was working and writing at a time of great activity and important developments in the field of atomic theory and his role and influence continues to be debated by scientists today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HIGGINS, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332730720447,"sku":"3819","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/RCH_0507.jpg?v=1682596958"},{"product_id":"ballads-in-imitation-of-the-antient","title":"Ballads in Imitation of the Antient","description":"London: Printed for T.N.Longman and O.Rees. 1801.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly edition. Small 8vo. pp. [6], 201, [1bl]. Contemporary calf, double fillet borders to boards, rebacked to style with gilt decoration and black morocco label lettered in gilt. Edges and corners rubbed with a little wear to the latter. All edges speckled. Internally near fine. A very nice copy of the first book published by Ireland following his exposure as a forger. Rare in commerce, only two copies appearing at auction in the last fifty years. \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Henry Ireland was a type familiar in the world of letters and books - the clever but rackety fantasist. He absorbed from his father, a publisher, a fascination with Shakespeare and, perhaps more significantly, the forgers Chatterton and Macpherson. A spell working for a lawyer gave him access to old documents which he studied and copied before taking the plunge and forging a deed containing Shakespeare's signature. His father, thinking it real, was thrilled. Ireland began to produce more \"Shakespearian\" documents claiming that they were from an anonymous collector. When even a letter from Shakespeare to Elizabeth I was authenticated by contemporary experts, Ireland overreached himself and brought forth a \"new\" play, Vortigern and Rowena. Ireland's doubters, led by the Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone, began to circle and the first (and only) performance of the play was disrupted, in part by its leading actor John Philip Kemble who repeated a line including the words \"solemn mockery\". Although the young Ireland immediately confessed, both he and his father were disgraced, the latter dying in 1800 and William being forced to eke out a thin living as a poet, historian and satirist. \u003cbr\u003eBallads in Imitation of the Antient was a clever attempt at redemption. It was published in Ireland's name so no-one could accuse him of forgery or fakery but the book played into the contemporary taste for bogus antiquarianism which floated somewhere between historical truth and historically inspired fiction. And, of course, \"Imitation\", of which Ireland was clearly a master, can be both.","brand":"IRELAND, W.H.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332730753215,"sku":"3820","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3820.Ireland_1.jpg?v=1682596854"},{"product_id":"fables-choisies-mises-en-vers-par-j-de-la-fontaine","title":"Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeiden: Chez Luzac \u0026amp; van Damme. 1786.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition with these illustrations. Three volumes. 8vo in 4s. 195x115mm. Vol. 1, Tome Premier (1786), Tome Second (1764): pp. xxiv, [4], 79 [1bl], two engraved frontispieces, 45 engraved plates; [4], 78, 50 engraved plates. Vol. 2, Tome Troisieme (1770) and Tome Quartrieme (1775): pp. [4], 69 [1bl], 43 engraved plates; [8], 108, 45 engraved plates. Vol. 3, Tome Cinquieme (1786) and Tome Sixieme (1786): pp. xliv, II, 89 [1bl], 42 engraved plates; iv, 152, 50 engraved plates. Beautifully bound by P. Affolter (signed on verso of front free endpaper) in tan calf, gilt triple fillet to upper and lower boards. Spine with five raised bands, four compartments decorated with a thistle motif surrounded by gilt stars and dots inside a decorated border, second compartment with a maroon label lettered in gilt and third compartment with a brown label decorated and lettered and numbered in gilt. Dentelles decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; yellow, red and green silk ribbons. In superb condition with only the very lightest of shelfwear. Probably best known for his lavish fin-de-siecle work in the Art Nouveau style, Paul Affolter began his career (he opened his workshop in 1800) producing elegant, understated but technically assured work and so, although this handsome and immaculate binding is undated, it is almost certainly from this early period. Internally very good but some foxing and browning. The plates (275 plus the two frontispieces) by Jan Punt, Reinier Vinkeles and Abraham Delflos are in excellent condition and it is their quality that accounts for the twenty-eight year gap between the beginning of this project and its end. The engravings are after those done by Jean Baptiste Oudry for the 1755-1759 folio edition (save for the frontispiece after Picart). This octavo edition was first proposed in 1758 which is the date on some of the earliest plates. It was hoped to issue each volume at six-monthly intervals but the engravers worked so slowly that the edition was not finished until 1786. The first volume was then given a title page with that date with the later volumes being given the dates of their completion. The last plates, the work of Vinkeles, a student of Punt, are dated 1781. It was certainly worth the wait as it is a lovely set enhanced by Affolter's binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LA FONTAINE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332730818751,"sku":"3823","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3823.Fontaine.jpg?v=1682596382"},{"product_id":"columnensis-familiae-nobilissimae-sre-cardinalium","title":"Columnensis Familiae Nobilissimae S.R.E. Cardinalium","description":"Rome: Typis Hæredum Corbelletti. 1650.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 237x180mm. ff. [40]. Engraved title page and nineteen engraved portraits. 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Rare in commerce, we have been unable to trace any copies appearing at auction records. \u003cbr\u003eFerdinando Ughelli (1595-1670) was a Cistercian monk and historian whose most important work, the nine volume \u003cem\u003eSacra Italia \u003c\/em\u003ewas, despite its errors, a ground-breaking book. \u003cem\u003eColumnensis familiae\u003c\/em\u003e is a slighter work, charming and attractive, telling the story of members of the Colonna family who became Cardinals.","brand":"UGHELLUS, Abbas Ferdinandus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731474111,"sku":"3890","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3890.Collonna_3.jpg?v=1682530962"},{"product_id":"a-discourse-of-fish-and-fish-ponds","title":"A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds","description":"London: Printed for E. Curll. 1713.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 176x110mm. pp. [8], 79, [1]. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with four raised bands, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. In excellent condition. Internally very good with some browning and foxing, slightly heavier to title page. Attractively decorated with a variety of head and tailpieces and wood engraved initials. Front pastedown has ownership inscription: \"E.Kynaston. 1743\". A very nice copy of \"the principal English work of early date on fish culture\". Roger North was a politician and lawyer (\"one of only two honest lawyers I ever knew\" according to the Earl of Clarendon). On his retirement from public affairs in 1688, North retired to Norfolk where he devoted his time to music (he wrote extensively on music theory), architecture and the organisation of his estate at Rougham. This small book on Fish and Fish-ponds was intended as a guide for other landowners who \"have a Mind to divert themselves with the most reasonable employment of beautifying and improving their own estates\". It was a popular book, further editions appearing in 1714, 1715 and 1726.","brand":"[NORTH, The Hon. Roger]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731605183,"sku":"3894","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20230412_085418.jpg?v=1682528243"},{"product_id":"pictura-loquens","title":"Pictura Loquens;","description":"Amsterdam: ex Officina Hadriani Schoonebeek. 1695.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly edition. 8vo. 180x112mm. [16], 240, [16]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait on verso of title page and sixty engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeeck. Slightly later full calf, borders in blind and gilt, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Turn ins decorated with gilt roll. All edges gilt with delicate gauffering. Internally near fine save for a closed tear to E7 (not affecting text). A very nice copy of the only edition of this attractively illustrated work on history painting which takes its title from Simonides of Keos's observation \"Poema pictura loquens, pictura poema silens,\" (Poetry is a speaking picture, painting a silent poetry). To demonstrate the truth of this, Smids and Schoonebeeck each picture accompanies a text from Latin poetry or history with an explanation of the meaning of the text. So we find Hercules alongside an extract from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Aeneas carrying Anchises to safety with the relevant passage from Virgil. The text is by Ludolph Smids, a classical scholar from Groningen while the excellent engravings are by Adriaan Schoonbeeck who had his own printing works in Amsterdam before moving to Moscow in 1698 at the invitation of Peter the Great where he ran an engraving workshop.","brand":"SMIDS, Ludolph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731703487,"sku":"3901","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3901.Pictura_3.jpg?v=1682529694"},{"product_id":"antiquities-historical-and-monumental-of-the-county-of-cornwall","title":"Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.","description":"London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. 1769.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition, extensively revised and regarded as the best. Folio (367x230mm), pp. xvi, 464. Two maps (one double page), twenty-five plates (one double page) and ten vignettes in the text (a total of thirty seven illustrations, all engraved). Contemporary diced russia, gilt, panelled spine with double raised bands. Marbled endpapers, front pastedown has bookplate of Robert Frederick Green dated 1909. Light spotting to maps and slight offsetting from plates, otherwise very clean and fresh. A handsome copy in excellent condition throughout. \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Borlase was a Cornishman by birth and devoted his life to the recording of Cornish antiquities and natural history. He was in many ways an archetypal eighteenth-century antiquary with a fascination for the physical remains of his region (which contained some of the most impressive English megalithic monuments after Wessex) and a taste for the recovery of the historical origins of his culture. The Antiquities records his own surveys of the stone monuments of Cornwall, with plates after his own drawings, and relates them to the ancient religion of the druids, thus presenting the megaliths as temples of the earliest British religion.","brand":"BORLASE, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731834559,"sku":"3908","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3908_5.jpg?v=1682605060"},{"product_id":"dionis-nicaei-rerum-romanarum","title":"Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum","description":"Lutetiae [Paris] Ex officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne]. 1551.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 252x166mm. pp. 357, [3]. Red morocco, single fillet gilt border, spine lettered in gilt. Gauffered edges. Marbled endpapers. Verso of front free end paper has the book label of John Sparrow and a manuscript shelfmark and, in pencil (in Sparrow's hand) the inscription \"The editio princeps from the Lamoignon Library\". This was one of the great French libraries belonging to generations of the Lamoignon family of statesmen, lawyers and scholars with close connections to the French monarchy. Corners slightly worn, joints rubbed and hinges a little weak but overall a very good and internally excellent, a lovely crisp copy, beautifully printed. There are some marginal notes in pencil and loosely inserted is a handwritten note by a previous owner (S.Fuller) describing the book and also stating that \"This was in Lamoignon's Collection at Payne's\", a reference to the great sale in Paris of the collection in the early 1790s by the London bookseller Thomas Payne. \u003cbr\u003eJoannes Xiphilinus was a monk and scholar who lived in Constantinople in second half of the eleventh century. His Epitome of Cassius Dio's \u003cem\u003eRoman History\u003c\/em\u003e has been described as \"one of the more ambitious works of middle Byzantine historiography\" and the major source book for the study of the Roman empire from the Julio-Claudians to the Severans, Dio's later books having been lost.\u003cbr\u003eDio was an important writer for the humanist \"Printer to the King\" Robert Estienne: it was for his 1548 editio princeps of Dio's Roman History that Estienne employed the engraver Claude Garamond to design a Greek type which was used again three years later in Xiphilin's\u003cem\u003e Epitome\u003c\/em\u003e. This confluence of classical and Byzantine scholarship and bibliographic innovation would certainly have appealed to John Sparrow.","brand":"DIO CASSIUS [John Xiphilin]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42365032923327,"sku":"3918","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3918.DioCassius_3.jpg?v=1685019676"},{"product_id":"the-workes-of-geffray-chaucer","title":"The Workes of Geffray Chaucer","description":"London: Wyllyam Bonham. n.d. [1550].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThird collected edition, ESTC describes it as one of four variants of this date with different publisher's names in the colophon. The text is the version edited by William Thynne. Folio. 295x197mm. ff. [8], cxciii, cxciii-cc, ccii-ccvii, ccx-cclxxi, cclxxiii-cclxxvii, cclxxix-ccclv. Lacking final blank leaf. Printed in double columns, woodcut initials and woodcuts of the Knight and the Squire. The Romaunt of the Rose has a separate title. Full brown sheep, single fillet border to covers, with corners decorated with crowned garlands framing dolphins. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt. Red edges. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Mr Baron Maule and Kenneth Rapoport. Front free endpaper has armorial bookplate of Newton Hall, Cambridge and ownership inscription of Jo. Maule. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss. Hinges strengthened. Some damp-staining to first gathering which is also a little loose. A very nice copy in a smart eighteenth century binding of the Thynne edition published jointly by four London booksellers. Although all copies are undated, William Bonham (the publisher of this copy) is known to have been at the Red (Reed) Lion address in 1551 so a date of 1550 is generally agreed. All variants are rare, ESTC recording this one in seven UK libraries and eight in the US.","brand":"CHAUCER, Geoffrey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42365033251007,"sku":"3936","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20230515_175505.jpg?v=1685015533"},{"product_id":"the-herball-two","title":"The Herball","description":"London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers. 1636.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThird edition. Folio. 340x225mm. pp. [40], 30, 29-30, 29-402, 373-1630, [48]. [72]. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Engraved title page by John Payne. Bound by C. Kalthoeber (label on verso of front free endpaper) in \"russia extra\" with a border of continuous \"drawer-handle\" design in blind. Inside this is a gilt double fillet enclosing a further, smaller \"drawer-handle\" design. At the corners of the outer border are the Beckford and Hamilton crests, this book having been in the collection of William Beckford who used two crests, a heron's head with a fish in its beak (the Beckford crest) and an oak tree with a saw which was the Hamilton crest, his younger daughter having married the Duke of Hamilton. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine decorated in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt to the second compartment. Turn-ins decorated with a Greek key pattern in gilt. All edges gilt. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery. On the verso of the front free endpaper is a manuscript note in Rosebery's hand which reads \"R. Beckford Sale. Lot 115\" and the Sotheby's catalogue entry from the Beckford sale is pasted onto the front pastedown. This copy was sold in the \"Second Portion\" of the Beckford Library on 11th December 1882. Joints and corners strengthened and repaired. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and some marks to lower cover but otherwise a very good copy. Internally near fine save for an old stain on G2. John Gerard first published his Herball in 1597 and although it was a success, it was regarded as not entirely accurate. After Gerard's death in 1612, Thomas Johnson set about revising the work. 1633 saw the first appearance of his \"enlarged and amended\" edition which included Plantin's much improved woodcuts. This is a particularly nice copy, bound by one of the great German emigre binders and with a superb provenance.","brand":"GERARDE, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42365130277055,"sku":"3925","price":6750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3925Herball_8.jpg?v=1685021170"},{"product_id":"a-naval-expositor","title":"A Naval Expositor","description":"London: Printed by E. 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Thomas Blanckley (1717-1753) was the Clerk of the Survey at Portsmouth Dockyard and Commissioner of the Victualling Office. In other words, a man who knew his ships.","brand":"BLANCKLEY, Thomas Riley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427218657471,"sku":"3988","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20230722_171937.jpg?v=1690302854"},{"product_id":"officium-beata-maria-virginis","title":"Officium Beatæ Mariæ Virginis","description":"\u003cp\u003eS. Pii V Pontificis Maximi jussu editum, et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate recognitum. Con l'Uffizio de'Morti, Sette Salmi ed altre diverse Orazioni.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenetiis: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana. 1758.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. (180x106mm) pp. [8], 405, [3]. Six engraved plates, one signed M. Heylbrouck and an engraved vignette to title page. Text in Latin and Italian. Contemporary Italian sheep, covers with elaborately tooled gilt borders, fan sprays at the inner corners. Centre of the boards have leaf motifs and two gilt oval frames with green morocco onlays bearing initials \"G.P\" (upper cover) and \"A.P\" (lower cover). Flat spine decorated in gilt with leaf motifs, with three green morocco onlays lettered and decorated in gilt. Edges to boards tooled in gilt. All edges gilt and gauffered with a delicate leaf pattern. Attractive green endpapers. In very good condition with one or two small worn spots. Internally excellent with a little foxing in places. Book label of John Saks loosely inserted along with a slip of paper from Christie's reading \"Lot No. 191\/1 10 Jun 1981\" when a number of Saks's books were sold. \u003cbr\u003eSaks (the grandson of the founder of the eponymous shop and a vice president of the family firm) was a Fellow of the Morgan Library and a member of the Grolier Club. His celebrated library was particularly strong in the private presses of Ashendene, Kelmscott and Doves but he also built up a fine collection of eighteenth century Venetian books of which this beautifully bound Book of Hours is a lovely example.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOK OF HOURS.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264041151,"sku":"3953","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3953.BookofHours_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1690368561"},{"product_id":"odi-dellabate-giuseppe-parini-gia-divolgate","title":"Odi dell'Abate Giuseppe Parini gia' divolgate.","description":"\u003cp\u003eParma [Bodoni]: Nel Regal Palazzo. 1791.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e152x102mm. pp. [2], viii, 180. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. Upper and lower covers with double fillet borders framing corner-pieces combining rococo and baroque designs and an elegant rococo centre-piece. Spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Some slight marking to upper cover, corners lightly worn and a tiny worm hole at the top of the upper joint. Internally very good save for two tiny (and barely visible) worm holes on the inner margin at the gutter and some worming to the bottom margin of the last eleven leaves. Overall an excellent copy in a stylishly restrained rococo binding. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully printed by the Bodoni Press, this edition of Parini's Odes appeared in the same year as the first edition published in Milan. Giuseppe Parini made his name as a satirist of the Milanese aristocracy (he had been badly treated by the Duke of San Gabrio while tutor to his son) but he also wrote a libretto (Ascanio in Alba) set by the sixteen year old Mozart. He was a priest (hence \"dell'Abate\") and, briefly, a reluctant politician. 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All edges gilt, turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and joints but otherwise a beautiful little binding in excellent condition. Internally very good but with a small portion of the title page repaired with later paper, affecting a few letters. Slightly browned in places but overall a very good copy. Title page has inscribed ownership initials \"W.J.K\" and on the verso of the front free endpaper is the surname beginning with \"K\" which possibly reads \"Kenyon\" but is unclear. Contemporary annotations through the first half of the book presumably by \"W.J.K\". Some copies of the Specimen eloquentiae exterioris include the text of two of Petrus Francius's own orations but these are not called for and are not in all copies (for example the copy at the BnF does not have them while that at the Bodleian does). \u003cbr\u003ePetrus Francius (Pieter de Frans – 1645-1704) trained as a lawyer but made his career as a professor of Rhetoric, History and Greek in Amsterdam. His teaching methods were demanding – he expected his students to develop their rhetorical skills by reciting the speeches of Cicero and Demosthenes from memory. He was famous for his lectures and his own public speeches and for the recitations of his poetry which drew on his favourite classical authors, Horace, Pindar and especially Ovid. The present book begins with the text of Cicero's speech Pro Archia (62BC) in defence of the Roman poet Archias who had become entangled in a political dispute. Francius takes this speech as the starting point for a set of detailed rules governing the ideal \"rhetorical performance\". The first part contains thirty nine regulae circa pronuntiationem and fifty six regulae circa actionem.","brand":"Petri Francii [Petrus Francius]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264270527,"sku":"3958","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3958.PetrusFrancius_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1690306677"},{"product_id":"grant-of-probate-of-the-will-of-john-bennett-dated-19th-november-1657","title":"Grant of Probate of the will of John Bennett dated 19th November 1657.","description":"Grant of Probate of the will of John Bennett of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent to Anne Bennett his relict and executor named in the will. Single sheet, 152x131mm. 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Everyday Court documents (such as grants of probate) from the Commonwealth appear to be uncommon, their interest lying in what they reveal about the fluid and flexible conservatism of the English legal system, not much changing save for the name of the person in whom the State was embodied - King or Commoner, it made little difference.","brand":"[OLIVER, Lord Protector].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264499903,"sku":"3973","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3973.Cromwell_inPixio.jpg?v=1690305968"},{"product_id":"proposals-for-printing-a-very-curious-discourse-in-two-volumes-in-quarto-intitled-pseudologia-politika-or-a-treatise-of-the-art-of-political-lying-with-an-abstract-of-the-first-volume-of-the-said-treatise","title":"Proposals for printing a very curious discourse, in two volumes in quarto, intitled, Pseudologia politikē; or, a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume of the said treatise","description":"London: printed for John Morphew. 1712.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. 182x118mm. pp. 22 [2pp. advertisements]. Sewn into modern grey wrappers. Final page has small stamp of Yale University Library Jun 18 19[81?]. In very good condition. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) was highly regarded by contemporaries for his clever, supple mind and sharp pen. He was a member of the Scriblerus Club where he knew Pope and Swift (the latter is often said to have a hand in this work although he denied it) who admired Arbuthnot and felt that he should have taken greater credit for his talents as a writer, doctor and mathematician. More of his work would have survived had Arbuthnot not allowed his children to play with his manuscripts, scrawling over them and using them to light fires. Arbuthnot's thoughts on the art of political lying (which were never - and never meant - to progress beyond this short, entertaining, Proposal) are developed out of the simple idea of \"convincing the People of Salutary Falshoods, for some good ends\" and the alarmingly cynical view that \"the People…have no Right at all to Political Truth\". Of course, this is meant to be satire...but only just.","brand":"[ARBUTHNOT, John]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264565439,"sku":"3974","price":325.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3974.Arbuthnot.jpg?v=1690305827"},{"product_id":"summary-and-free-reflections-in-which-the-great-outline-only-and-principal-features-of-the-following-subjects-are-impartially-traced-and-candidly-examined","title":"Summary and free reflections, in which the great outline only, and principal features, of the following subjects are impartially traced, and candidly examined","description":"Chelmsford: Clachar, Frost, and Gray. 1783 [but 1788].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall 8vo. 153x95mm. pp. xvii [i], 115 [1]; Part X, \u003cem\u003eAn endeavour to prove that reason is alone sufficient to the firm establishment of religion [1785]\u003c\/em\u003e: 31 [1]; \u003cem\u003eAn Appendix to the Tenth Part:\u003c\/em\u003e 64;\u003cem\u003e A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit..., 1787,\u003c\/em\u003e vi, 82; \u003cem\u003eA Postscript to the Physical Enquiry..., 1787\u003c\/em\u003e; 6, [4], 7-34; Part XI and XII: [141] -178; \u003cem\u003eA Free Enquiry into the Enormous Increase of Attornies...\u003c\/em\u003e, 1785 iv, 68. Modern half calf, marbled paper covered boards, original red roan label on spine, lettered in gilt. Ex-library (Leyton Public Library) with a few old ink stamps and some underlinings in blue pencil. Some slight foxing and browning in places but overall a very good copy of a eccentric and eclectic set of essays by an even more eccentric figure. \u003cbr\u003eGiven the confusing pagination, some bibliographical help might be required. The book is in the twelve parts set out in the table of contents. The first 115 pages are parts I-IX. There then follows Part X with a separate title page dated 1785 which has replaced the original part X from the 1783 edition (thus explaining the absence of pp 117-140) and which is given a separate number in ESTC (T110738). The appendix to part X follows although the addition four page \u003cem\u003eA form of daily prayer for the professors of rational theism\u003c\/em\u003e dated 1788 is not present. Parts XI and XII of the main work are then bound in after two additional works not mentioned in the contents but which, according to ESTC (T110739 and T110740), were possibly intended to be published with the \"Summary\". The final work also has a separate ESTC number (T110742). Trust that is clear. \u003cbr\u003eHenry Jennings was what might, charitably, be called a \"character\". He is best known now as a collector although, despite a few wise purchases not least a marble dog judged by Horace Walpole to be the one of the best animal statues in classical art, he might, he seems to have been more of a hoarder. He was often in and out of the debtors' prison, lived in squalor and ate modestly, regarding \"a feast [as] the conversion of gold into excrement\", and alone, accompanied only by a bronze bust of a Roman goddess. Unsurprisingly, his mind was well-stocked and full of opinions, as is clear from this wide ranging and somewhat bizarre collection, all parts of which are rare, none showing more than eight copies on ESTC.","brand":"[JENNINGS, Henry Constantine]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264630975,"sku":"3980","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3980.Jennings_2.jpg?v=1690305644"},{"product_id":"a-treatise-on-ship-building-and-navigation","title":"A Treatise on Ship-Building and Navigation.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With The Construction and Use of a new invented Shipwright’s Sector, for readily laying down and delineating Ships, whether of similar or dissimilar Forms. Also Tables of the Sun’s Declination, of Meridional Parts, of difference of Latitude and Departure, of Logarithms, and of artificial Sines, Tangents and Secants. By Mungo Murray. Shipwright, in his Majesty’s Yard, Deptford. To which is added by way of appendix, and English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, Mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French Marine. The whole illustrated with eighteen Copper Plates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed by D.Henry and R.Cave. 1754.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. [4], iv, [4], 3-268, 73 [1]; [4], 70, [4]. Eighteen folding engraved plates including one with a volvelle. Contemporary calf, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Upper cover slightly creased, corners bumped and a little worn. Head of spine rubbed and foot of spine chipped with loss of c1cm. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Thomas Hall. Internally very good with only a little foxing and browning in places. 'The elements of naval architecture: .. By M. Duhamel du Monceau' has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.Loosely inserted is a leaf from a manuscript ship's logbook (370x240mm) dated 11th-14th June describing part of a voyage of the Ship \u003cem\u003ePrince Augustus \u003c\/em\u003e(an East Indiaman) commanded by Francis Gostlin. but overall a very good copy of this exhaustive, detailed and ground-breaking work on ship-building. As Murray says in his preface, \"though the art of Ship-building is of the utmost consequence to the trade and security of this nation...I cannot think of a subject which has been so little treated of in our language\". 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With two exuberantly engraved title pages. The engraver is Hans Georg Bodenehr. Front pastedown has an inscription by an Anton Pruska (c1900) who was a sculptor and teacher. The first two leaves of part one have been coloured by hand. Text printed in red and black. Bound in half pigskin, paste paper covered boards. Edges coloured red. Covers rubbed and worn. Internally very good with some foxing and browning but overall a very good copy of Mattsperger's \"Rebus\" Bible intended to introduce children to Bible stories by telling them through pictures accompanied by short simple texts. In addition to Biblical texts, there are proverbs and moralising secular tales. To us these appear charming, occasionally amusing visual story books but in the 17th and 18th centuries, these books were a vital tool in the spread of biblical learning among the young and the semi-literate.","brand":"[Mattsperger, M.]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42886945538239,"sku":"4187","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4187.RebusBible_6.jpg?v=1709218062"},{"product_id":"euclides-ab-omni-na-vo-vindicatus","title":"Euclides ab omni nævo vindicatus","description":"\u003cp\u003eMediolani: Ex Typographia Pauli Antonii Montani. 1733.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 227x175mm. pp. [XVI], 142 [2bl], 6 folding plates with 55 diagrams. Contemporary vellum, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt flower motif. Covers a little marked and soiled. Some foxing and browning but otherwise very good internally. An excellent copy of a scarce book of which Worldcat locates only sixteen copies worldwide. We have traced no copies at auction. \u003cbr\u003eGirolamo Saccheri (1667-1733) was a Jesuit priest and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time although the significance of his revolutionary ideas was not fully appreciated until 150 years after his death. As a young man, he taught at a Jesuit college in Milan where he encountered the mathematical work of the Ceva brothers. He spent most of his life teaching philosophy, theology and mathematics at the University of Pavia. \u003cem\u003eEuclides ab omni nævo vindicatus\u003c\/em\u003e is Saccheri's third work on mathematics and the work for which he is best known. As he died in 1733, it is possible that he never saw it published. Although Saccheri is regarded as the father of non-Euclidean geometry, he did not set out to disprove Euclid's parallel postulate but, rather, prove it. Indeed, as the title of the book makes clear, it is an attempt to vindicate Euclid. It was in rejecting a contradiction of Euclid's second postulate (that a terminated line can be produced indefinitely) that Saccheri raised the possibility that straight lines are finite. Although he did not realise it at the time, this idea is now regarded as the basis of elliptic and hyperbolic geometry which refutes Euclid's second and fifth postulates. \u003cbr\u003eAlmost exactly 100 years later Nikolai Lobachevsky and Janos Bolyai, independently of each other, published the foundational texts of non-Euclidean geometry, a term first used by their contemporary Carl Friedrich Gauss. But none of these men knew of Saccheri: as we said, this is a rare book. It was not until another Italian mathematician, Eugenio Beltrami, published a paper in 1889 comparing Saccheri's work on Euclid's parallel postulate to that of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, that he was brought to the attention of the mathematical world. 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Contemporary calf, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gilt and small round black labels numbered in gilt. At head of spine, in gilt, is the Pelican of Mercy and the motto, \"Pandite Coelestes Fortae\". This is the crest of James Gibson of Ingliston, Writer to the Signet whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedowns. Also with the label of Donald and Mary Hyde, who formed one of the great libraries of eighteenth-century literature and whose Samuel Johnson collection was donated to the Houghton Library at Harvard. Slight split to the head of joint with upper boards and corners a little bumped. Housed in a custom-made box. Internally very good but with some foxing, heavy to a few leaves in volume two. The illustrations (although unsigned and unattributed, they are almost certainly by the Irish artist William Mulready). An extremely nice copy of the rare first issue in a smart contemporary binding. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Mary providing the adaptations of the comedies and Charles the tragedies (the history plays and Roman plays were not adapted), \u003cem\u003eTales from Shakespear\u003c\/em\u003e was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century and the first to present Shakespeare's plays in a form suitable for children. Its popularity did much to broaden Shakespeare's appeal and ensure the flowering of his Victorian cult. The title page shows Charles Lamb as the sole author, Mary's contribution going unacknowledged until the seventh edition in 1838. A strange omission given that the book was published by William Godwin (Thomas Hodgkins was employed to run The Juvenile Library) whose strong-minded wife must, one would imagine, have lobbied for Mary's work to have been recognised.","brand":"LAMB, Charles.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105343013055,"sku":"4086","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/P1015395HEADSHOT.jpg?v=1713453546"},{"product_id":"historia-compendiosa-dynastiarum","title":"Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarum","description":"Oxford: H.Hall. Impensis Ric: Davis. 1663.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition thus in the Arabic edition and Latin translation by Edward Pococke. 4to. 203x155mm. pp. [12], 368, [90], 66, [5bl], 565, [2]. The final part (565, [2]) in Arabic paginates from the rear of the book. The two blanks are present. Three parts in one volume (i.e. the Latin translation, the Supplementum and the Arabic edition), each with its own title page. Bound in twentieth century brown full calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt to spine. Contemporary manuscript title to fore-edge. Some light fading to the spine, slight toning to edges of first and last leaves and a small hole to foot of the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall in very good condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Middle East scholar R.M.Burrell. His important library of books on the Middle East was sold by Sotheby's in 1999 (this was lot 319).\u003cbr\u003eOn 17th October 1630, Edward Pococke (1604-1691) arrived in Aleppo as Chaplain of the Levant Company. While there, he deepened his study of the languages and culture of the region and began to collect Arabic manuscripts. In 1636, Pococke returned to England at the request of Archbishop Laud who had recently established a Chair of Arabic at Oxford and wanted Pococke to be the first holder of it. One of the manuscripts brought back by Pococke was the \u003cem\u003eal-Mukhtasar fî'l-Duwal\u003c\/em\u003e ('History of the Dynasties') of Abu'l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286). The lack of material in England on Islamic history and geography meant that Pococke felt unable to prepare his edition and translation and so he secured a sabbatical from Oxford and sailed for Constantinople where he spent the next three years collecting manuscripts. He returned to England shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War and it was only in 1650 that he published extracts from the \"History\" in his \u003cem\u003eSpecimen historiae Arabum\u003c\/em\u003e which included other material culled from his now extensive collection of manuscripts. Pococke was a Royalist and the years of the Protectorate were hard: he almost lost his professorship and his priestly living. At the Restoration he returned to Oxford and began work on the complete \u003cem\u003eHistoria Compendiosa Dynastiarum. \u003c\/em\u003eFinally, in 1663, almost thirty years after Pococke had returned from Aleppo with the manuscript of \u003cem\u003eal-Mukhtasar fî'l-Duwal\u003c\/em\u003e his far-reaching \u003cem\u003eHistoria \u003c\/em\u003ewhich opened up Arab history to Western was published and \"remained the standard edition until the twentieth century\" (ODNB).","brand":"ABUL-PHARAJIO, Gregorio [i.e. Gregory Bar Hebraeus or Abu'l-Faraj]. 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Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Charles Barclay, for whom the book was probably bound. A pencil note on a blank preliminary records that this copy was bought at the George Nassau sale in 1824 for £2 15s. Corners worn and and some slight fading and rubbing to spine. Some foxing and browning. The four leaves of gathering M have been cropped with the loss of a few words but otherwise this is a very nice copy of a rare book with a good Norfolk provenance. JISC Library Hub locates eight copies in the UK, with Worldcat adding a further two, plus four in the US and one in Germany. Only two copies appear in the auction records, both lacking the final blank. \u003cbr\u003eRobert Kett was a wealthy Norfolk farmer and Lord of the Manor of Wymondham but he is best known as the leader of the 1549 rebellion that bears his name. The principal cause of the revolt was the enclosure of land. Although Kett had enclosed his own land, he recognised that his cause lay more with these rebels than with the grander gentry who were the real target. Kett agreed to the destruction of his own enclosures, joined the rebels and offered to lead them in what Nevill called their \"wasting, burning, robbing\". Clearly a man of some charisma, Kett found himself at the head of a small army of nearly 20,000 protestors. They marched on Norwich and set up camp on Mousehold Heath, common land on the edge of the city. When a royal army arrived to quash the revolt, a ferocious battle ensued, Kett was captured, sent to the Tower of London, tried, convicted and brought back to Norwich where he was hanged from the walls of the Castle and his body left to rot. \u003cbr\u003eHistory being written by the winners, the early official accounts of Kett's Rebellion were uniformly hostile to poor Robert. Alexander Nevill's \u003cem\u003eNorfolke Furies\u003c\/em\u003e first appeared in Latin in 1575. It accused Kett \"of an impudent boldnesse, an unbridled violence\". But then Nevill was the establishment's man – his patron was the Archbishop of Canterbury. His was the account that would remain the accepted one until the nineteenth-century. Even so, it seems strange, given that \u003cem\u003eNorfolke Furies\u003c\/em\u003e deals with one of the most celebrated popular revolts against the ruling, landed, Latin-reading elite, that it was not published in English until 1615, when there appeared this translation first written in the 1590s by a local vicar, Richard Woods \"who beheld part of these things with his yong eyes\". \u003cbr\u003eThis copy has a nice Norfolk provenance. Charles Barclay was a noted bibliophile and a member of the East Anglian banking Quakerocracy. As well as being prominent philanthropists, the Barclays also used their wealth to do what most rich Englishmen do - buy lots of land. One hopes that Charles, on his Norfolk estate, read this book closely so that he would have learnt how to deal with a contemporary Kett keen to rattle the cages of the local landowners.","brand":"NEVILL, Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105344028863,"sku":"4153","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4153.Furies_2.jpg?v=1713193782"},{"product_id":"a-survey-of-the-cathedral-church-of-worcester","title":"A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Worcester","description":"London: Printed for the author. 1737.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 248x195mm. pp. vi, 124; 222 (Account of the Bishops of Worcester); 8, 210 (Appendix, Chartae Originales and index). Engraved folding frontispiece and twenty five engraved plates and numerous engravings in the text and a folding plan of the cathedral. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with corners repaired. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Carolus Gandolphus Hornyold and, on the verso of the front free endpaper, the plate of John Vincent Hornyold and a handwritten note on the title page \"Charles Gandolfi Hornyold bought at Worcester 1869\". The Hornyolds are an old Catholic family with estates in Worcestershire. A nice copy of a splendid example of eighteenth century antiquarianism. William Thomas was the grandson of a Bishop of Worcester. A fine scholar and poet, Thomas worked on a book about Chaucer begun by John Urry and edited the second edition of Dugdale Antiquities of Warwickshire. This survey of Worcester Cathedral is his best and most lasting work. A copy is in the Royal Collection.","brand":"THOMAS, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105344422079,"sku":"4181","price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4181.Worcester_3.jpg?v=1713189849"},{"product_id":"the-book-of-common-prayer-4","title":"The Book of Common Prayer","description":"London: Published for John Reeves. 1801.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12mo. 157x97mm. Unpaginated. Contemporary red morocco, wide gilt and blind roll-tooled borders to the covers, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Very smart green silk doublures. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Terry. With a New Version of the Psalms by Brady and Tate. A very pretty early nineteenth-century Prayer Book.","brand":"Church of England","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43138065236159,"sku":"4206","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20240229_104804_inPixio.jpg?v=1713271341"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/collections\/antiquarian_cc032904-ded4-4d21-bc78-24c4bca1d256.jpg?v=1776277968","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/collections\/antiquarian.oembed?page=4","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}