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Paris: Chez Humblot (de l'imprimerie de Quillau). Very Good+. 1767. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols in 1 pages; Contemporary full calf, mottled decorative staining, flat spine separated into panels by gilt rules with floral tools in gilt in the center of each panel but the second, which has a red morocco titling label lettered in gilt, swirl marbled endpapers, edges of the text block marbled to match. A lovely binding of the time of publication, showing just a touch of the lightest rubbing along the hinges and corners; a clean and pleasing copy in choice condition. A significant and sucessful novel in epistolary form by one of the masters of the genre, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (1714 - 1792). The author was born in 1713 as Marie-Jeanne Heurles de Laboras and was to endure a dramatically adverse situation before she was a year old, when her father was convicted of bigamy. The usual form of the author's name is a result of her 1734 marriage to an actor and… Leer más

La Haye: Henri du Sauzet. Very Good-. 1715-1717. First Edition. Leather. Engravings; 1000+ pages; Two volume set comprising four parts with separate titlepages. Title pages printed in red and black. Bound in contemporary full calf, five raised bands at spines; title and volume number labels missing, decorative stamping to compartments, but most gilt rubbed/flaked away; leather rubbed at extremeties and worn away at hinges and spine ends. (xviii), 207, (i), (iv), 211-464, (xii); (x), 240; (vi), 299, (v) pp. Illustrated with two frontispieces by Frans van Bleyswyck (duplicates - one in each volume), four title page vignettes (of printing presses), and four engraved portraits. Portraits include Guillaume Postel [(1510-1581), a French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist]; Laurentio Costero, Harlemensi [Laurens Koster of Harlem, long suggested as having been an inventor of printing with moveable type]; Poggius Bracciolinus [Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), an Italian scholar,… Leer más

New York: Printed for and Published by the BOOKSELLERS. Fair. 1796. First Edition Thus. Disbound. (4), ii, (1), 4-144 pages; To the whole is added a Sketch of the life of Our Blessed Saviour, The Holy Apostles &c. Recommended by the Revd. Rowland Hill, M.A. Poem. Quite Scarce; informative and historical despite its flaws. Front leather covered board present (detached and chipped/rubbed at all edges), partial leather backstrip, rear board missing, lacks ffep. Detached frontispiece illustration (copper engraving?) of a tree of human qualities, rooted in Faith and Repentence, a trunk of Hope and Love, branched with Fidelity, Compassion, Prudence, Charity, etc. and with Grace shining down from above. Sadly, the frontispiece is missing lower left corner, title at bottom and a strip of the lower right margin. Original owner's name on verso "Jane Barclay her book / Ano Domnia 1798", still a compelling image. Titlepage is also detached and chipped on all edges (all printed… Leer más

Amsterdam: J. Fr. Bastien. Very Good. 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 331 pages; Contemporary marbled sheep, flat spine decorated in gilt, black label, swirl-marbled endpapers, edges stained red. Binding somewhat rubbed and cracking along the front hinge. This is a very good copy of the FIRST EDITION. This work was reprinted later in the same year, under a different title: "Observations sur la trois siecles de la Litterature francoise, a M. S *** [l'abbe Sabatier]. " This has the same imprint, but is in 12mo. The text is the same according to Barbier III: 621 & 637. De Manne attributes this book to G. -M. Butel-Dumont, but De Backer does not agree. Abbé Jacques Lenoir-Duparc, a Jesuit scholar, wrote this bitter critique of a work by Abbé Antoine Sabatier de Castres entitled Trois siecles de la litterature francoise. He accuses Sabatier of partiality, affectation and an excess of moral zeal in rendering his judgments upon the works of certain French… Leer más

Paris: Chez Laporte Libraire, rue Christine, M.DCC.CXV. Very Good. 1795. Hardcover. 12 vols pages; Twelve volumes, 8vo, contemporary full calf, flat spines, covers with a decorative "cloud" or flame pattern, executed in acid-staining, delicate gilt borders. The flat spines have gilt-lettered labels in red and black; two of the other panels have gilt-tooled decorative "urns" -- the other two panels have an all-over pattern of gilt tools within a diagonal grid of rules. There are plum-colored endpapers, and the edges of the text-blocks are decoratively stained to match the boards. There is some cracking along the hinges and some light rubbing and wear, but the boards are all attached, and this is a sound and handsome set of a landmark of French Eighteenth century book illustration. With 33 full page plates after designs by Marillier, Eisen, and Le Barbier -- engraved by de Ghendt, de Longueil, de Launay, Halbou, Lingée, Fessard, Godefroy, Née, Ponce,… Leer más

London: Printed in the Year MDCCXXI. Good+. 1721. Softcover. 4 p.l., 3-144 pages; Disbound, small octavo, gathered in fours. Untrimmed edges. This anonymous volume makes an appearance in Halkett and Laing (IV, 315) -- attributed as "[Thomas Fulford?]" The English Short Title Catalogue repeats this, watered down a bit to "Sometimes attributed to Thomas Fulford." Fortunately, the DNB steers us in a different direction. Under the long article about one "Charles Dodd" we learn that the man who wrote under that name was really born as Hugh Tootel. As an English Catholic, he had ample reason to be evasive of easy identification. DNB attributes this 1721 work to Tootel/Dodd, without any question marks or equivocation. The first part of the title is a clear clue to the author's Catholic faith, being a salutation from the Catholic Mass -- PAX VOBIS (meaning "peace to you"). The long subtitle can easily be parsed as philosophically Catholic.… Leer más

Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus. Very Good+. 1740. Hardcover. 80 pages; Bound in vellum-backed marbled boards with tan leather spine label -- uncut (early 19th century? ) The spine is somewhat darkened, but generally an excellent copy of this scarce little book. An early owner has copied Brunet's complimentary description on a slip of old paper -- "Ce petit volume de 80 pp. Est le plus rare, peut-etre, de ceux qui sont partie de la collection des auteurs latins imprimes par Comino..." [Brunet V: 616]. Also quoted on this same slip, from Hebenstreit p. 223 "Editio ex Cominianis rarissima..." And from Ebert number 22114 "Very few copies printed" According to Brunet, this is a preliminary offprint of material included in the third volume of Comino's edition of Muret's works. A charming small volume, admired and sought by classicists for two centuries. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has… Leer más

Bouillon [now Belgium]: aux dépens de la Société Typographique. Very Good. 1775. First French Edition. Hardcover. 2 p.l., xii, 13-340 pages; Marbled paper-covered boards with a spine of tan leather with a pressed vertical grain, flat spine with title lettered in gilt centered between two gilt ornaments, pale yellow endpapers. Folding engraved plate (depicting 11 subjects). Minor tide marks on the title page, otherwise an excellent, clean copy. First edition with a French text -- "Édition Françoise du livre publié en Latin à Manheim, sous le titre de Physiologie des mousses." Written by the noted Belgian physician, and botanist Noël Martin Joseph Necker -- the personal physician to the court of the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim. The ruler of Necker's time, Prince Charles Theodore won praise from the subjects of the Electorate Palatinate by founding an academy of science, building up the museums' collections… Leer más

London: Printed for the Author. Fair. 1760. First Edition. Disbound. vi, (2), 120 pages; Sold by T. Kinnersley in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and to be had of all other Booksellers in Town and Country. OCLC 504455151 ESTC t126448 This book lacks most of the leather backstrip and the entire rear board; the front calf covered board is present, but detached. The ffep and title page are still attached to the front board; the rest of the text block are held firmly by the original stitching and remainder of the spine. Text is clean, but for a couple brief pencil notes, marking where the reader left off. Quite a scarce volume; a good cadidate for rebinding. "Most of the pieces in this entertaining miscellany originally appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post." These anonymously published essays skip from a reminiscence of the author's charming youthful infatuation with his nurse and a string of other women into adulthood, to a day at an auction house, to his arrival at… Leer más

A Londres: Fenchurch-Street. Very Good-. 1785. First Edition. Full Leather. xii, 334, (2) ads pages; Imprime par Galabin et Baker, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, aux depens de l'auteur ; et se vend chez J. Boosey, King-Street, dans Cheapside. Contemporary sheepskin, flat spine "paneled" by plain horizontal rows of gilt dots. Extremities rubbed through, joints cracked, upper board held by cords, top corner of front board chipped, other corners leather rubbed through. There is an early ink inscription in a childish hand: "Sir Thomas, Esquire / French Book 1788" and stamps of kingly image on front endpapers; likely owner's surname "May" on ffep torn - missing about half; rear free endpaper lacking. Leather cracked lengthwise at spine. Text block clean, with a few toning spots. Despite the wear and minor depredations of nearly 240 years, this copy has survived intact and in fairly good order. Most educational books are worn to bits, and other examples… Leer más

London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junr. and W. Davies. Good. 1796. First Edition. Leather Bound. xxxi, (1), 94 pages; Text block clean and secure in binding, all three engravings present (toned and offsetting to opposite pages), halftitle present, but titlepage lacking (supplied in facsimile). Full calf binding with leather title label and gilt ruling at spine, binding rubbed and front board nearly detached. Illustrations by Thomas Stothard, engraved by James Heath, J. Neagle and T. Parker. Former owner's name on second blank -- "A. B. Hagner" -- Alexander Burton Hagner (1826–1915) was a United States federal judge. Born in Washington, D.C., Hagner attended St. John's College and received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1845 before reading law to enter the Bar in 1848. He was in private practice in Annapolis, Maryland from 1848 to 1879 and served as a Maryland State Representative from 1854 to 1855. In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes nominated Hagner to… Leer más

Prag [Prague]: bey Wolfgang Gerle,. Very Good-. 1773. First Edition. Softcover. 16 pages; Unbound (possibly extracted from a volume). Very light soiling to the title page and final page. Ignaz von Born [1742-1791] was a mineralogist and metallurgist, who became a significant figure in botany, and other branches of natural history. He was also a prominent freemason, (whose writing influenced Mozart, both as a mason, and as a major source for the structure and intellectual foundations of "The Magic Flute." Indeed, some writers suggest that Born was the inspiration for the role of Sarastro). Born was also a satirist, and an influential anti-clerical writer. Wikipedia calls Born "the leading scientist in the Holy Roman Empire during the 1770s in the age of Enlightenment." He was born into a noble family, in the Grand Principality of Transylvania. He was educated in a Jesuit college in Vienna, but left the Jesuits after sixteen months to study law at Prague… Leer más

Dublin: McAllister. Fair. 1792. First Irish Edition. Full Leather. [4], 288 pages; Full contemporary calf binding quite worn; boards detached, leather pieces chipped away at spine ends, rubbed through at corners and edges, lettering rubbed through on leather title label at spine, peeled at lower part of rear board. Text block securely stitched with much of backstrip intact; lacks ffep. 18 leaves have some paper loss at lower inner corner; of which, two leaves have some loss to bottom two lines of text. Extant text block begins with half-title bearing ownership signature "W. W. Lewis / Feb 21 1882"; followed by titlepage with earliest ownership "Jno. Alex Binns / July 25th 1811 / Leesburg Virginia" ESTC N22768. OCLC 994060207 ; OCLC 17381929. Listed in Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 509. PROVENANCE: John Alexander Binns, c.1761–1813, American agriculturist, b. Loudoun co., Va. He was one of the first to experiment with gypsum as a fertilizer and to… Leer más

Neapoli [Naples, Italy]: Excudebat Joseph Raymundi. Very Good. 1753. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. (12), 335 (1 errata) pp pages; Mid-eighteenth century sprinkled brown calf, raised bands and decorative gilt stamped decoration in spine panels with red title label, edges of the text block stained red. The dedication copy of the Latin edition of Dr. John Arbuthnot's last book -- [An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies, London, printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, 1733]. With the bookplate of the dedicatee of this 1753 first Latin edition -- Niccolò Fraggianni. A full page engraved portrait of Fraggianni is included facing the text of the dedication of this edition to him. The binding displays some insect damage along portions of the outer gutter margins, and at the red leather titling slip on the spine. Internally, there is some minor damage, which gets progressively less apparent, to the front endpapers, the half title and title page. At the rear, there is… Leer más

Holmiae (Stockholm): Joh. Laur. Horrn. Very Good. 1731. Hardcover. Engraved Plates; Very good, in 19th century red half morocco with some wear and rubbing at extremeties. This is the preferred edition of the great work on Scandinavian numismatics (rare first edition was 1691) -- with 1780 bibliography added at end. Illustrated by engraved plates of coins. Elias Brenner (1647 – 1717) was a Finnish born, Swedish artist, draftsman and antiquarian. He is especially known for his work as a portrait miniaturist and a numismatist. In 1663, he was enrolled at Uppsala University where he first studied theology and later archeology. In 1668, he entered service as a draftsman in the Antiquity College (Antikvitetskollegium) which had been established at Uppsala by King Gustav II Adolf during 1667. He became a technical assistant and worked principally for Johan Hadorph (1630–1693) who was director-general of the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet). In 1673, he… Leer más

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: excudit Joannes Wolters. Very Good+. 1705. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. [36], 128, 343, [1] pages; Contemporary full polished calf, five raised bands on the spine, title label on red leather lettered in gilt mounted to the second panel, the others have decorative tooling stamped in gilt, plain endpapers, edges decoratively sprinkled red. A superb copy, missing the edge of the cap to the bottom of the spine (barely noticeable on the shelf) -- and showing only a bit of light rubbing along the front hinge and at the points of the corners. A useful and learned chronology of the Roman consuls. The author, Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloven, was a Dutch physician who also spent considerable time and energy as the editor of various classical and medical works. He was born at Mijdrecht, near Utrecht, where his father was minister of the reformed church. He studied at Utrecht University under a variety of well known professors, and, although he did… Leer más