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AN ÉMIGRÉE SPANISH LIBERAL'S FICTIONAL DESCRIPTION OF CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES first edition 3 vols. 12mo. viii, 345, [1 (blank)], [2 (advts.)]; [2 (title)], 422; [4 (half-title & title)], 450, [2 (advts.)]pp., half-title in vol. 3 only as called for, original blue boards with drab paper spines, printed paper title labels, one gathering lightly foxed, Vol. 2 with detached front board, without front free endpaper and with an old repair (with quite closely matching paper) to lower part of its spine, some other minor wear to binding but otherwise a very good copy in its original state. Two volumes with contemporary inscription "Sandoval/ A Donegall" on front board. Garside 1826:53 Wolff 4164 (his copy rebound, wanting half-title & advertisements) Gutierrez (Valladolid, 1795 - 1885 ), Spanish liberal politician, translator and writer of novels in English, during a long trip through Europe to escape the reactionary regime of the Spanish monarch Ferdinand VII spent the winter of…
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Sandoval: or, the Freemason: A Spanish Tale. By the Author of "Don Esteban."
de LLANOS Y GUTIERREZ, Valentin Maria]
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Scacchia, Ludus: A Poem on the Game of Chess.: Written by Marcus Hieronymus Vida, and translated into English verse by the Rev. Samuel Pullein, A.M.
de VIDA, Marcus Hieronymus & PULLEIN, Samuel
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ONLY EIGHTEENTH IRISH-PRINTED BOOK DEVOTED TO CHESS - PRIZE WINNER FOR BEST WRITTEN & PRINTED IRISH BOOK OF 1750 first edition tall 8vo. (in fours) vi, 95, [1 (blank)]pp. printed on thick paper and with generous margins, engraved diagram of a chess board and pieces in p.1, the original Latin and English verse translation printed on facing pages, contemporary half calf, spine with raised bands and a red morocco label, marbled paper on sides, nice copy. Contemporary signature on a preliminary blank "Revd. P. Kitchens". ESTC t138045 FOXON P1158Pullein, writing from Trinity College, provides a two-page verse dedication to the Archbishop of Armagh and a two-page preface which outlines of the rules of chess (both in English). Although various Dublin printings of Hoyle's Games contained a chapter on chess this is the only book printed in Ireland in the eighteenth century solely on chess.Vida (Cremona 1470 - 1566), distinguished both as a prelate and as a Latin poet, first published this work on the…
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A Sermon, preached before His Excellency Samuel Adams, Esq.: Governour, His Honour Moses Gill, Esq. Lt. Governour, the Honourable the Council, Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 27th, 1795: being the Day of General Election.
de FOBES, Peres (or Perez)
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SERMON CLAIMING REPUBLICANISM DIVINELY INSTITUTEDfirst edition 8vo. (in fours) [4], (5)-42, [2 (blank)]pp., large ornamental headpiece on p.5, later half dark tanned roan, marbled sides, smooth spine direct lettered in gilt, small closed tears or cuts (no loss) at upper margin of the first two leaves repaired on versos, joints little rubbed, very good fresh copy.
ESTC w29303 locating copies only in BL and O outside of the U.S.A.Forbes (1742-1812), was the Pastor of the church in Raynham, President pro-tem of Brown University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He seems to have specialised in sermons on public occasions; in 1784 he preached at the execution for burglary of one John Dixon.This sermon reflects a key moment in the politics of the young Republic and the special political character of Massachusetts. George Washington, who was in the middle of his final term as President, was attempting to hold the balance between two political forces, the Federalists, who had created… Leer más
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man illustrated by Henry Alken.
de ALKEN, Henry
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THE HUMAN CONDITION - HUMOUROUS HAND-COLOURED PLATESfirst edition oblong folio (26.8 x 33.5 cms.) 7 plates drawn and engraved by Alken with contemporary hand colouring as issued, 1 leaf of text (printed on recto only), original printed buff wrappers, front wrapper printed to serve as a 'title page', secured by a pink ribbon through stab holes at right-hand margin, wrappers lightly soiled, some dustiness and minor marking at plate margins and a few grubby marks at outer lower marginal corners, very lightly creased where once folded, loosely laced into later stiff plain wrappers. Uncommon.
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The Siamese Tales: being a Collection of Stories told to the son of the Mandarin Sam-Sib, for the purpose of engaging his Mind in the Love of Truth and Virtue. With an historical account of the Kingdom of Siam. ... Translated from the Siamese.
de BREWER, George]
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SAILOR'S TALES OF THE EAST FOR YOUNG PERSONSIN THE MANNER OF GOLDSMITHESTC t112304 Garside, Raven, and Schowerling The English Novel 1770-1829, 1796:18 Block, p.216.This anonymous collection was intended for a juvenile audience. It was reprinted in Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1797 (Welch American Children's Books .. to 1821, 126). Welch attributes the book to Brewer. "These stories were not translated from the Siamese, but the scene was laid in Siam to make the story more interesting to young people" [Welch].Brewer (bap. 1766), writer, "in his youth he served as a midshipman ... and visited America, India, China, and Scandinavia. In 1791 he was made a lieutenant in the Swedish navy. Afterwards abandoning the sea, he read for law in London, and established himself as an attorney" [O.D.N.B.]. He published novels in 1791 and 1795, the first while still in the navy, and had a couple of plays performed. "In 1800 Brewer published a pamphlet entitled The Rights of the Poor, dedicated to 'Men who have great power,… Leer más
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Sinai and Palestine
de FRITH, Francis
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS folio (45 x 32.5 cms.) [6 (title, half title & contents)], 36 leaves with mounted albumen photos (circa 23 x 16 cms.), each of these leaves with an accompanying plain paper guard leaf and a leaf of printed text, half-title with a smaller albumen photo (11.5 x 14 cms.), publishers reddish-brown morocco over thick bevelled boards, sides with multiple decorative borders in gilt (together c. 4.5 cms. broad), front cover gilt lettered "Sinai/ and/ Palestine./ -/ Francis Frith", board fold-ins gilt, very skilfully rebacked in matching morocco and the spine beautifully and very richly gilt tooled in panels to match the original, one panel gilt lettered, original marbled endpapers reused, all edges gilt, Inscribed on verso of the endpaper "R. E. Price/ from T [or J?], B. Merriman/ April 13th 1866". Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839 - 1875, 195 Frith was the first major photographer of the Middle East, and of England. The 37 photographs of…
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Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti: with translations of them and an introduction by Ezra Pound
de POUND, Ezra [translator]
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first English edition 8vo. [8], 135, [1 (printer's slug)], 32 (Swift's advts.)pp., original streaky grey cloth, front board and spine gilt lettered, edges untrimmed, free endpapers lightly toned, small pale mark (splash?) on front board, spine very slightly darkened, else a nice copy.Gallup Pound Bibliography, B4Published in both American and English editions in April and May 1912 respectively. The number of copies printed of the English edition is unknown but Swift went bankrupt later in 1912 and Pound himself "states in the bibliography of his work which he supplied for T. S. Eliot's anonymous Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry (1917) that the bulk of this edition was destroyed by fire, presumably at the binders, where the sheets were being held as late as November 1914" [Gallup]. "Contents identical with the American edition, except for slight revisions in the Introduction and in some of the translations" [Gallup]. The medieval Italian poet Cavalcanti became "a strong influence on a number of… Leer más
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The Stage-Coach: containing the Character of Mr. Manly, and the History of his Fellow-Travellers ... Second Edition
de SMYTHIES, Miss, of Colchester]
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ONLY ONE OTHER COPY RECORDED2 vols. 12mo. viii, 265; viii, 303pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, sides with a double gilt fillet border, spines with raised bands highlighted by double gilt fillets, russet morocco title labels gilt, direct numbered gilt, front joint of vol.I mostly cracked but tight, slight cracking of joints in vol.II, child's drawings in pencil (easily removable) on two endpapers, else very good.ESTC n36371 locating a single copy only (University of Chicago)First published in 1753 (B.L. and Cambridge only in Britain) and republished in Dublin in 1754 and 1762 (both very rare) and in Berwick in 1789. Miss Smythies (fl. 1753-59) also published two other novels, The Brothers (1758) and The History of Lucy Wethers (1754), and a story for children.
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Statistical Thermodynamics: Course of Seminar Lectures delivered in January - March, at the School of Theoretical Physics
de SCHROEDINGER, Erwin
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THE RARE FIRST PRINTINGIMPORTANT LECTURES ON THEORETICAL PHYSICSfirst edition 4to. [2 (title & contents)], 136 leaves hectographed on rectos only, typescript with the mathematical formulae, symbols, &c. inserted into the original typescript in hand-writing, original black cloth-backed stiff orange wrappers, front cover lettered in black, slight water mark near foot of front wrapper with a corresponding spot of orange dye on to the following 2 leaves, title slightly foxed, very good. Rare.The scarce first publication in typescript form of Schrödinger's important attempt to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics which he expounded in his seminar lectures of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. In this form the lectures were published in a very small edition. The lectures were republished in 1946 in a slightly revised form in a public edition under the same title."The idea of this seminar is to develop briefly one simple,…
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Sweeney's Flight.: Based on the revised text of Sweeney Astray [by] Seamus Heaney Photographs by Rachel Giese With the complete revised text of 'Sweeney Astray'
de HEANEY, Seamus & GIESE, Rachel
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WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HEANEY TO A FRIENDfirst edition thus and of the revised text 4to. [10], 117pp., 35 fine full-page photos, green cloth gilt, fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Inscribed on endpaper "Dear Kathleen/ Enjoy your flight/ Love/ Seamus/ 6th August 1992".
Brandes & Durkan, A34h The text of Sweeney Astray was revised for this edition."The American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney's original kingdom of Dal-Arie. She has resourcefully followed the clues to topography and the natural world in Sweeney's wanderings, and gathered together 34 exceptional photographs which Seamus Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from his Sweeney Astray. He has revised many of his stanzas for inclusion [here] .... The whole of the revised text of Sweeney Astray is printed in the second part of the book. Mr. Heaney has written a preface to this joint work in which he reflects on the relation of… Leer más
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Switzerland. Its Mountains and Valleys.: With four hundred and eighteen illustrations after original drawings by eminent foreign artist engraved by A. Closs.
de KADEN, Woldemar]
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A VERY HANDSOME COPY IN A DE-LUXE PUBLISHER'S BINDINGfirst edition, American issue folio (35.5 x 27 cm.) xiv, 487pp., 90 plates of wood-engraved illustrations, numerous large wood-engraved illustrations throughout, publisher's deep brown morocco backed brown cloth (imitating morocco), deep and elaborate border blocked on front cover in gilt and on rear cover in blind, central panel of front cover with 'Switzerland Illustrated' blocked in gilt in large and very elaborate lettering, spine titled and with large pictorial design of a mountain blocked in gilt, all edges gilt, title page lightly foxed, else a particularly nice clean firm copy. Uncommon in the de-luxe binding and rare in this condition.
This is a reissue of the London edition published by Bickers & Son in 1878. These are the London printed sheets with a New York title page.
A rather splendid work with fine illustrations which are from drawings, paintings by Bauernfeind, Braith, Calame, Dill, Disen, Eckenbrecher, Franz, Grob, Haberlin,… Leer más
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A System of Familiar Philosophy in Twelve Lectures
de WALKER, Adam
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FRESH & HANDSOME COPYEXPOSITION OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES[Full title] A System of Familiar Philosophy in Twelve Lectures being the Course usually read by Mr. A. Walker. Containing the Elements and the Practical Uses to be Drawn from the Chemical Properties of Matter the Principles and Application of Mechanics; of Hydrostatics; of Hydraulics; of Pneumatics; of Magnetism; of Electricity; of Optics; and of Astronomy. Including every Material Modern Discovery and Improvement to the Present Time. Illustrated by Forty-nine Copper-Plates, neatly and accurately Engraved. A New Edition; in Two Volumes.second edition 2 vols. 4to. (iii)-xvi, 354; iv, 251, [25 (index)], [1 (blank)], [2 (advts.)]pp., 49 folding plates, contemporary full polished tan calf, sides with a double blind fillet border, spines panelled by broad raised bands which are decorated in blind and highlighted in gilt, large blind tool in panel centres, black morocco title and volume labels lettered and highlighted in gilt,…
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