GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS, SONGS, DESCRIPTIVE, MORAL AND PASTORAL. POEMS BY THOMAS GRAY & NATHANIEL COTTON. de GRAY, Thomas. Nathaniel Cotton.: - 1799

London, printed for M. Jones, 1802-1803.. FIRST EDITIONS 2 volumes 1803 and 1802, by George Barrington Superintendent of the Convicts. To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES 1803. 8vo, approximately 210 x 125 mm, 8¼ x 5 inches, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved title page with hand coloured vignette of an aborigine fishing from a boat, a folding hand coloured map of NSW, 10 hand coloured plates including 4 views of Sidney, A Native Family, The Cape of Good Hope, The Peak of Teneriffe, Pinchgut Islands, Spotted Hyena and Camelopard, the last 2 on 1 plate, pages: (8), 1-467, (5 - index), lacking Directions to the Binder, not always included in this edition, bound in modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled sides, raised bands, gilt rules and gilt ship motif in compartments, 2 dark brown gilt lettered labels. Pale age-browning to text, occasional pale foxing to a… Leer más

London, Baynes and Son et al., 1825.. 2 volumes, 1825. Bound by Florence Paget(?) listed in Women Bookbinders, signed "F P 1906" on rear lower dentelle of Volume1. Small volumes with small print, approximately 120 x 65 mm, 5 x 2½ inches, engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume, coat of arms with motto "honi soit qui mal y pense" to each title page, pages: 1-443; 1-430, bound in full plain morocco, gilt titles to spines, blind decoration to the end of each raised band, double rules to dentelles, gilt rule to edges of covers, edges stained red. Spine of Volume 2 slighty faded, a few light stains to covers, pale browning to frontispiece and title page of Volume 1, strip of brown offset from dentelles to all first and last free endpapers, occasional pale spot, otherwise a very good clean tight set. Paget was a pupil of Douglas Cockerell, and exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Society in 1899. In 1902 she was chosen to bind the copy of the Form and Order of Service which King Edward VII used at… Leer más

London, David Nutt, 1898.. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 1898, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES (THIS IS COPY 202) AND SIGNED BY THE FAMOUS NORFOLK PHOTOGRAPHER, P. H. EMERSON. Large 8vo, approximately 265 x 195 mm, 10¼ x 7½ inches, illustrated with 4 photogravures with tissue guards, 1 being a portrait of P.H. Emerson, nine line drawings and seventy-six illustrations from photographs, and including eighteen sheet pedigrees, pages: xiv, 1-168 plus large Appendix of Authorities numbered in roman numerals, i-cxxxv, bound in publisher's pale green cloth. Slight wear at head and tail of spine, cloth faded, spine darkened, corners slightly worn and 1 corner bumped, endpapers and half-title foxed, title page lightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, John Murray, 1845.. FIRST EDITION 1845, Volume I ONLY of 2, DEFECTIVE COPY LACKING 3 LITHOGRAPHS NOW REPLACED WITH SLIGHTLY SMALLER FACSIMILES. 4to, approximately 305 x 230 mm, 12 x 9 inches, engraved Dedication leaf, addressed to Emperor Nicholas I, 12 monotinted lithographic plates of views including frontispiece, 3 in facsimile, 2 lithographed plates of fossils in the Appendix, 5 folding hand coloured engraved plates of sections and 2 large folded hand coloured engraved maps, the last large map of Russia and Ural Mountains approximately 780 x 620 mm, 31 x 24 inches, numerous drawings and diagrams in the text, pages: xxiv, (pages 1-8 wrongly inserted between pages xvi-xxiv), 40 leaves with facing pages with the same number, 41-700 including index, lacks half-title. Rebound in modern quarter morocco, 2 gilt lettered red labels to spine, blue cloth covers, all edges gilt, new cream endpapers. Frontispiece and Dedication page laid down on cream paper, both with pale staining, pale staining to… Leer más

NEW-YORK, published by E. Duyckinck, 102 Pearl-Street. Nicholas Van Riper, Print. 1814.. Title continued: By which the meanest may perform the whole without the help of a Teacher. Together with the use of all the instruments belonging thereto. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED Abundance of New and Rare Inventions. Seventeenth Edition, 1814. LACKING FRONTISPIECE, facsimile pasted to inside front cover, 12mo, approximately 130 x 80 mm, 5¼ x 3¼ inches, facsimile frontispiece, woodcuts in the text, [1], 5-107 pages, full old calf. Binding worn and creased, leather soft and flexible, spine has stitching down the spine (see attached image), closed tear to first page of text repaired with small pieces of document repair tape, tip of lower corner repaired, 1 margin has small repair, tip of 1 corner missing, not affecting text, corners crease due turn down, a few chips to margins, pale browning and staining throughout, no loose pages, fair condition, well used copy of a scarce New York printing. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO… Leer más

Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, and Sterling and Kenney, 1833.. FIRST EDITION 1833, complete set, Naturalist's Library series. Small 8vo, approximately 180 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, portrait frontispiece to each volume of Linnaeus and Pennant, hand-coloured vignette on each engraved title page, and 64 hand-coloured plates with tissue guards engraved by W. H. Lizars, who was a painter and engraver as well as publisher, plus memoirs of Linnaeus and Welsh zoologist Thomas Pennant, original wrapper in front of first volume. Pages: Volume 1: [16], 147, plus 40 pages of adverts; Volume 2: [4], iv, [3], 1-166 including index, plus 46 pages of adverts, both title pages are duplicated in Volume 2, pagination of prelims in Volume I slightly erratic but collated and guaranteed complete, rebound in quarter green morocco over marbled sides, gilt title and decoratiolns to spines, new endpapers. Slight offsetting from portraits onto engraved titles, ink name (James Drummond) on both half-titles dated 1862, very occasional… Leer más

London, Baynes and Son et al., 1825.. 2 volumes, 1825. Bound by Florence Paget(?) listed in Women Bookbinders, signed "F P 1906" on rear lower dentelle of Volume1. Small volumes with small print, approximately 120 x 65 mm, 5 x 2½ inches, engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume, coat of arms with motto "honi soit qui mal y pense" to each title page, pages: 1-443; 1-430, bound in full plain morocco, gilt titles to spines, blind decoration to the end of each raised band, double rules to dentelles, gilt rule to edges of covers, edges stained red. Spine of Volume 2 slighty faded, a few light stains to covers, pale browning to frontispiece and title page of Volume 1, strip of brown offset from dentelles to all first and last free endpapers, occasional pale spot, otherwise a very good clean tight set. Paget was a pupil of Douglas Cockerell, and exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Society in 1899. In 1902 she was chosen to bind the copy of the Form and Order of Service which King Edward VII used at… Leer más

London, printed for J. Johnson, 1784, reprinted and published by Sanders Cones and Co., Mission Row Calcutta, 1848.. TITLE CONTINUED: General of ten thousand men in the army of the Mogul Empire, and formerly Commander-in Chief the artillery of Hyder Ali, and of a body of European troops in the service of that Prince. English edition translated from the French. 1848, first published in 1784. Tall 8vo, approximately 240 x 160 mm, 9¾ x 6½ inches, 3 hand coloured portraits and 1 black and white engraving of the Throne of the late Tippoo Sultaun, pages: vi, 1-388, 4 extra pages 253-256 marked with an asterisk, no duplication of text and 4 extra leaves in the Appendix, unnumbered between pages 376 & 377, making a total of 400 pages, bound in full Victorian morocco, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and gilt decoration to covers, marbled endpapers, narrow gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Binding rubbed and rebacked using original spine, shelf wear to edges of covers, thin black stain to lower cover,… Leer más

London, John Murray, 1882.. Seventh thousand 1882, corrected by Francis Darwin, 190 x 135 mm, 15 text illustrations, pages: vii, 1-328 including index, plus 1 page publisher's catalogue, original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind decoration to covers, original brown endpapers. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, corners slightly worn, small dark stain to to lower cover, pale foxing to endpapers and title page, small ink name or scribble on first blank endpaper, otherwise a very good clean copy. See R. B. Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin page166, No. 1364. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1862.. VOLUME 1 ONLY OF 2 VOLUME SET, ORIGINAL EDITION. FIRST EDITION 1862. Tall 8vo, approximately 260 x 165 mm, 10¼ x 6½ inches, 34 tinted lithographs by Vincent Brooks, 3 folding, 4 full page line diagrams and many small text illustrations, pages: xxiv, 1-431, original publisher's pebbled green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, blind decoration to covers, pale yellow endpapers. Binding rubbed, slight wear to head and tail of spine, head of lower hinge has 15 mm (¾ inch) split and 3 other tiny holes, lower cover has pale patchy fading and stains, corners slighty worn and slight shelf wear to edges, inner paper hinges cracked, pale offset from folding frontspiece to title page, otherwise a very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.