Resultados de búsqueda: Libros de Roger Middleton

London, John Murray, 1830.. 3 VOLUMES, COMPLETE SET, FIRST EDITIONS 1830-1833, PRESENTATION SET to "W(illiam) L(onsdale) (geologist, see below) from the author" inscribed on half-title of Volume I and "Lieut. Lonsdale from the author" on front endpaper to Volume II (see attached images). The signature on Volume 1 is either in a secretary's hand or Lonsdale's, but the signature on Volume 2 is in Lyell's hand. Mixed set, Volume 3 from another set and slightly trimmed. 8vos, approximately 215 x 135 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, VOLUME 1: engraved frontispiece, 2 maps, 1 folding, 1 half page, 1 half page engraved view and 33 text illustrations; VOLUME 2: hand coloured aquatint frontispiece, folding hand coloured map, 8 text illustrations; VOLUME 3: Hand coloured frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, coloured map, 88 text illustrations, pages: Volume 1, xvi, [1]-511 including index plus 17 page Murray catalogue dated June 1830; Volume 2, xii, [1]-330, including index plus 16 page catalogue dated December 1831, Volume… Leer más

London, printed by W. Bulmer and Co. And sold by G. Nicol, Bookseller to his Majesty, Pall-Mall, and Messrs. White, Booksellers, Fleet-Street, 1797-1802.. FIRST EDITION 1797-1802, "ONCE OWNED BY THE RASHLEIGH FAMILY, AND PRESENTED TO MRS WILIAM POOLEY FROM MRS WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, NOVEMBER 1827", plus written underneath "DONELAN DONAVAN GARGRAVE".. 4to, approximately 270 x 215, 10½ x 8½ inches, 2 volumes, complete set, each with its own separate title page, bound together in1 volume. 54 engraved aquatint plates, 49 hand coloured, 28 in Part 1 and 5 uncoloured and 21 hand-coloured in Part 2, tissue guards in Part 2 only. Pages: [4],1-56, [2]; [4],1-23, [2], title of Volume 1 repaired at upper margin, not affecting text, title of Volume 2 with the text "the second part" and "imprint date" supplied in printed text pasted in, ink inscription to title ('Uncle to Wm. Pooley of Truro'), 2 neat ink corrections to pages 15 & 53 probably in the hand of Philip Rashleigh, neat pencil notes to 19 outer margins,… Leer más

London, printed by J.C. for Will. Crook, at the Green-dragon without Temple-bar, 1670.. Title continued: Herein is set forth the ways, and all the circumstances necessary for the planting a vineyard; with the election of the soil; the scituation [sic] thereof; the best way for the planting of the young plants; the best time and manner of proyning; the turning and translation of the ground; with other necessary observations. Also, the fashion of wine-presses; the manner of brusing and pressing grapes; and how to advance our English wines. SECOND EDITION 'Enlarged above half by the author',1670 (the first of 1665 had only 27 pages). Small 8vo, approximately 160 x 100 mm, 6¼ x 4 inches, 1 folding plate, pages: [32], 1-92, followed by 3 pages of adverts, last page blank, signatures: A8, a8, B-G8. Bound in full calf, original speckled calf covers, new calf spine, gilt lettered label, gilt rules and date to spine. Slight scuffing to covers, occasional age-browning and small brown spot, otherwise a very… Leer más

FRANCE, no date, circa 1799.. NO TITLE or PUBLISHING DETAILS, PAPER HAS WATER MARKS, SEVERAL WITH "MONTG" on 1 PAGE and "LFIER" ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE ( Montg(o)lfier)? and several with a few capital letters not making any recognisable word, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4¾ inches, 84 hand coloured plates, some with French captions beneath, fore-edges stepped and notched as issued, original marbled wrappers. LACKS INSTRUCTION SLIP (probably many slips are missing, once the conjurer had mastered the trick, he wanted to keep the trick secret), small repair to bottom of spine, covers slightly worn at edges, corners worn with slight loss to tips (see attached images), occasional small pale brown spot to blank margins, edges and a few corners of plates slightly dusty, a few other tiny marks, otherwise a very good copy. 7 subjects each with 12 plates, the changes are: Harlequin; Le Pere; l'Abbe; Soldat; Flowers; La Mere; Playing Cards. The earliest description of the blow book appeared in Reginald… Leer más

A PARIS, L. Blaublom pour Jaques Kerver, aux deux Cochetz, Rue S. Jaques, 1546.. FIRST FRENCH EDITION 1546. Translated from the Italian. Folio in sixes, approximately 345 x 215 mm, 13½ x 8¼ inches, 181 woodcuts of various sizes, 13 full page, large arabesque initials, leaves: [vi], 1-157, [1] (numbered on rectos only), the initials "M" on leaf C6 recto and "F" on leaf D3 verso, were originally printed from crible blocks but arabesque initials have been tipped in over them, modern full morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, blind floral decoration between raised bands to spine, tiny gilt fish to centre of lower cover, blind decoration to covers, new cream endpapers, housed in a slipcase of marbled paper covered board with leather surround at opening. TITLE PAGE AND LAST PAGE (COLOPHON), ARE VERY GOOD FACSIMILES ON OLD PAPER (a pencil note on first pastedown states that it was purchased from Quaritch, London booksellers, in 1977, and that the facsimiles were done in line block and… Leer más

London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598-1600.. SECOND EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 3 VOLUMES IN 2, the first 2 volumes bound together, complete set, 1598, 1599, 1600. NOT A MATCHING SET as Volumes 1 & 2 are large paper. LACKS THE MAP, 4 LEAVES IN THE SECOND VOLUME ARE FROM A NORMAL SIZE COPY OF THE SAME DATE. LACKING "A briefe and true report of the honourable voyage vnto Cadiz", suppressed and excised by order of Queen Elizabeth after the disgrace of Essex, the 7 Cadiz leaves were simply removed from the end of Volume 1. Folio, in sixes, the page size of the first 2 volumes 310 x 200 mm, 12¼ x 8 inches, a tall untrimmed copy (as listed in Pforzheimer), quite scarce as most sets are the same size as our Volume 3 (280 x 185 mm, 11 x 7 inches), pages: [24], 1-606; [16], 1-312, 1-204; Volume 3: [16], 1-868, pictorial and decorated initials and ornaments, first 2 volumes bound together in half calf, marbled boards, early gilt lettered red morocco label, raised bands, Volume 3 bound in… Leer más

London, imprinted R. Jugge, Printer to the Queenes Majestie, cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis,1577.. Bishops' version, 1577, LACKS FIRST TITLE PAGE, according to Darlow and Moule no copy containing the general title can now be traced. Small 4to, bound in eights (sometimes erroneously described as an octavo, it is really a small quarto, see Darlow & Moule), approximately 205 x 155 mm, 8 x 6 inches, 60 lines, title page to New Testament and divisional titles to the second and third parts of the Old Testament, and to the Apocrypha, all have a patterned border with a small royal coat of arms at the top and a pelican feeding its young at the bottom, publisher's device on colophon with pelican and 2 allegorical figures, 1 half page woodcut of the Garden of Eden, 1 full page of the 12 tribes and the Tabernacle, 3 maps in the text and 2 full page maps, historiated initials, pages ruled in red, leaves: [36 of 40], 1-103, [1 - blank]; title page to 2nd part, 106-252; title page to 3rd part, 254-500, 581-592;… Leer más

London, printed by Adam Islip, at the charges of Thomas Wight, 1598.. TITLE CONTINUED: In this Impression you shall find these Additions: 1, His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2, His Life collected. 3, Arguments to every Booke gathered. 4, Old and obscure Words explaned. 5, Authors by him cited, declared. 6, Difficulties opened. 7, Two Bookes of his never before printed. SIXTH EDITION, THE FIRST EDITION OF CHAUCER to be edited by Thomas Speght 1598. Folio bound in sixes, approximately 305 x 200mm, 12 x 8 inches, engraved portrait frontispiece of Chaucer surrounded by a genealogical chart of his "Progenie", title page within architectural border, 3 highly decorated divisional title pages, full page arms on verso A6, woodcut illustration of the Knight at the head of the Knight's Tale, decorative initials, small coat of arms on the second leaf of the Life of Chaucer, text in double columns and black letter. Pages: [54], 1-394, [1], [26]. A Catalogue of Translations by John Lidgate, of The Old and… Leer más

London, H. Woodfall, jun., 1742.. 2 volumes divided into 7 books, based on materials collected by John Perceval, Second Earl of Egmont, privately printed, revised edition with imprint H. Woodfall, jun. 1742. Volume 2 revised and partly written by William Whiston. A SPECIAL HAND COLOURED EDITION. This set was given to William Upcott, a well known librarian and bibliophile, who has written a note in ink on the first free endpaper with his signature stating that the books were given to him by the family of George Baker. This is confirmed in Dibdin's The Library Companion which states: "the copy of copies' is that in the possession of Mr Baker, of St Pauls Churchyard, belonging to his late brother". Many coats of arms throughout, all hand coloured and most heightened with gold and silver gilt. Small 4to, approximately 230 x 140 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 19 portraits, 1 an engraved plate of Sir Philip Perceval Kt, the other 18 are in mezzotint by J. Faber, all with hand coloured coats of arms and all but one… Leer más

London, John Fielding, in Pater-noster Row, 1786.. THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SEPARATE ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Illustrated with 2 maps on 1 sheet, a chart of New Holland, New South Wales, Botany Bay, and the New Discovered Islands in the North and South Pacific Ocean, hand coloured in outline,1786, corrected second impression with longitude East from the meridian of Greenwich omitted from the first printing in frame at foot. Small slim folio, page size: approximately 235 x 185 mm, 9¼ x 7½ inches, no binding, stitched as issued, publisher's small device on title page, price one shilling and six-pence at bottom of title page, note to reader about the chart on reverse of title page, pages: [2], 33, [1] - adverts mentioning books by Captain Cook, loosely laid in purpose-made covers of modern half dark blue morocco over blue cloth sides, gilt title to upper cover, white pastedowns, in matching cloth slipcase with morocco round edges of opening. Title page slightly dusty with 2 small creases… Leer más

Oxford, printed for Henry Hall for Ric. Davis and B. Took, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church Yard, 1680.. TITLE CONTINUED: To which in this Edition are subjoynd divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles. TWO PARTS, EACH WITH ITS OWN TITLE PAGE, SECOND EDITION 1680, OFTHE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST (but the first to include the second part), FIRST EDITION 1680 of EXPERIMENTS AND NOTES. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, pages: [20], 1-440, [28], 1-268, without the inserted 'advertisement' leaf (as often), a facsimile advert tipped in on last pastedown, full contemporary speckled panelled calf, paper label with old ink title, original endpapers. Spine worn and glued down, covers slightly pitted, paper label chipped at edges, upper hinge cracked but still attached on cords, inner paper hinges cracked, first inner paper hinge strengthened with binder's cloth, slight staining to title page, author's name in old ink to title page, another crossed out, 2 small edge… Leer más

Impressum Rome per Eucharium Silber: alias Franck. Anno domini Mcccclxxxvii (1487). Septimo Idus Iunii.. INCUNABLE 1487. First collected edition issued by Silber, divided into 4 parts: De re militari; Aelianus Tacticus: De instruendis aciebus [translated by Theodorus Gaza]; Frontinus: Strategematicon; Pseudo-Modestus: De vocabulis rei militaris [edited by Joannes Sulpicius Verulanus]; the date occurs at the end of each part. Small 4to, approximately 200 x 135 mm, 7¾ x 5¼ inches, first leaf blank to recto and on verso editor's prefatory epistle, no title page as issued, no signatures, catchwords or numbering, text in Latin, initial spaces with printed guides, [a-f8 g10; h-i8 k4 l8; m-r8; s6], 33 lines to a full page, 140 leaves (280 pages) including 1 blank, 24 pages with text illustrations depicting tactical formations, bound in full crushed morocco by Hardy-Menil, his name in minute gilt letters in the dentelles at the foot of the first pastedown, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt coat… Leer más

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568. (Colophon dated 1567).. TITLE CONTINUED: traduictes en vers francois. TWO WORKS BOUND TOGETHER AS USUAL. The poem by Nicander precedes Des Venins with a separate title page dated 1567. FIRST FRENCH EDITION 1568. 8vo, approximately 220 x 160 mm, 8½ x 6¼ inches, Plantin's pictorial device to each title page, decorative and pictorial initials, approximately 62 woodcuts of venomous snakes, plants, fungi, animals, reptiles, fish, frogs, scorpions, dragon, a mad dog with rabies. POEM by NICANDER pages: [2], 3-90, [2] - abridged life of Nicander and errata; DES VENINS: [8], [1-2] 3-333 plus [7] - last page blank, Le Content des Privileges, dated 1565, on verso title page, fine binding in 19th century polished panelled calf by bookbinder Roger de Coverley (his name just visible at top of first pastedown), 3 gilt lettered labels and extra gilt decoration to spine, gilt fleurons and rules to covers and a central gilt coat of arms of the 5th Earl Spencer (John Poyntz… Leer más

London, printed by M.S. for Henry Overton, and Benj. Allen, and are to be sold at their shops in Popes-head Alley, 1645.. TITLE CONTINUED: arraigned and executed in the county of Essex. Who were arraigned and condemned at the late sessions, holden at Chelmesford before the Right Honorable ROBERT, Earle of Warwicke, and severall of his Majesties justices of peace, the 29 of July, 1645. Wherein the severall murthers, and devillish Witchcrafts, committed on the bodies of men, women, and children, and divers cattell, are fully discovered. Published by authoritie. FIRST EDITION 1645. Small slim 4to, approximately180 x 135 mm, 7¼ x 5¼ inches, pages: [8], 1-36, the preface is signed: H.F. Modern calf spine, gilt lettered label to spine, marbled boards. Boards rubbed with shelf wear to edges, title page and last page, lightly dusty, slight shaving to outer margins, affecting the first letters of the printed marginal notes in the Preface, pale age-browning and stains to margins, Chirk Castle noted in ink on… Leer más

London, John Murray, 1830.. FIRST EDITIONS, COMPLETE SET, 3 VOLUMES 1830-1833. 8vos, approximately 215 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, VOLUME I: engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved folding map, 1 engraved plate and 33 text illustrations; VOLUME II: hand coloured aquatint frontispiece, folding hand coloured map, 8 text illustrations; VOLUME III: hand coloured frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, coloured map, 88 text illustrations, pages: Volume I, xvi, [1]-511 including index, plus 1 page publisher's advert; Volume II, xii, [1]-330, including index; Volume III, xxxi plus Errata, [1]-398, [1]-110 - Appendix, Glossary and Index, plus 3 pages publisher's adverts, half-title in Volume I and III, not called for in Volume II, rebound at sometime in modern half crushed morocco, 2 gilt lettered labels and gilt decoration to spines, new pale blue endpapers, gilt top edges, gilt decorated dividing lines. Foxing to the black and white plates in Volume I with offset to pages opposite (see attached images), pale foxing to… Leer más

London, Tinsley Brothers, 1867.. FIRST EDITION 1867, 3 volumes, complete set in original publisher's cloth. 8vo, approximately 188 x 122 mm, 7¼ x 4¾ inches, pages: (i)-iv, 1-298, (2 - imprint leaf); (i)-iv, 1-269, (2 - blank); (i)-iv, 1-263, (1). Bound in the original publisher's green cloth, ornate blind design on covers, gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spines, original yellow endpapers, all uncracked. Books leaning slightly, spine gilt very slightly worn on all 3, gilt at top of spine on Volume I mostly worn off, not affecting title, head and tail of spines slightly worn with minute nicks to cloth, spine cloth on Volume I slightly vertically concave, hinges lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped and slightly worn, some tips just showing board, small blind stamp of original bookseller on front endpaper of Volume I, neat early signature (Kempthorne) on front endpaper in each volume, a few pages protruding very slightly from text block, some of these lightly browned at edges, Volume I: title… Leer más

London, published by Longman Brown Green and Longman Paternoster Row; and J. Jones 111 Jermyn Street, 1848.. FIRST EDITION 1848, edited by FREDERIC TOLFREY. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, lithograph frontispiece and title page, 8 hand coloured plates of flies with tissue guards, pages: xxiv, 1-240 last page blank, origInal publisher's cloth, gilt title, decoration and date to spine, blind decoration to covers, original yellow endpapers. Binding rebacked preserving original spine and lightly rubbed, new cloth slighty visible at head and tail of spine, corners slightly worn, inner paper hinges cracked, binding sound, old ink name to first pastedown and first free endpaper, previous owner's light pencil notes to margins and plates, easily erased if of no interest, pale age-browning to plates, frontispiece has pale blue colouring to water, tiny pale stain to lower edge of blank side of lithograph title page, a few lower corner tips at the beginning have small shallow turning… Leer más

London, E. Tyler for John Crook, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Ship in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1655.. TITLE CONTINUED: Wherein all the particular Provinces are accurately described, as also the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People. Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Country. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1655, IN TWO PARTS, EX LIBRARY COPY. 4to, approximately 280 x 180 mm, 11 x 7 inches, portrait frontispiece, large folding map, costume plate, portrait frontispiece before the title page of Bellum followed by a map, all engraved, pages: [10], 1-308, plus 2 pages of adverts, rebound in full modern calf, gilt lettered label with gilt rules and date to spine, gilt design to upper cover, blind decoration to both covers, marbled endpapers. Blind stamp to frontispiece hardly visible, round ink stamp to the blank side of both title pages and 1 in an outer margin not affecting text, pale withdrawn stamp under the round stamp on verso… Leer más

London, printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for John Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, 1613.. TITLE CONTINUED: Together with the art of planting, grafting, and gardening after our latest and rarest fashion. A worke never written before by any author: and now newly compiled for the benefit of this kingdome. By G.M. 1613. Two volumes. FIRST VOLUME: Title page, Dedication leaf and Epistle leaf, A Former Art of the English Husbandman followed by the First and Second parts of the English Husbandman. Small 4to, 180 x 140 mm, 7¼ x 5½ inches, 39 woodcut illustrations in the text of varying sizes, 1 image showing the first architectural model with explanation, of a plain country man's house to appear in print, headpieces and decorative initials, pages: [76], 1-132, ink numbers omitted on pages 4, 5, 8, signatures: [par.]², A-I4, ²B-R4, ²S². Bound in contemporary limp vellum with binding cord in inner margins, ink title to spine, large engraved bookplate of the… Leer más

No publisher, date or printer, (1830).. NO TITLE, PUBLISHING DETAILS or CAPTIONS UNDERNEATH the PLATES, AN UNUSUAL TALL EXAMPLE, circa 1830, approximately 215 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 112 hand coloured wood engraved plates, 7 subjects, each with 16 illustrations, plus 16 blank pages as required, fore-edges stepped and notched as issued, full soft leather sheepskin on card, LACKS INSTRUCTION SLIP (probably many slips are missing, once the conjurer had mastered the trick he wanted to keep it secret). Binding rubbed, spine worn with some loss, hinges cracked, but still holding, pale age-browning throughout, small closed tear repaired to outer edge of first blank leaf, inner paper hinges cracked, stitching slightly loose in places, no loose pages, occasional small pale brown spot to blank margins, edges and a few corners of plates slightly dusty, small nicks to a few edges, a well used copy. The changes are: Harlequin; dancing girl with garland; prancing black American with paddle steam ship in… Leer más