1834. 4to, 23.5 x 18.5 cm, [5] + 37 leaves. Period half leather, manuscript on rectos only. Includes a hand-colored and hand-drawn general map of England and Wales, and 37 hand-colored and hand-drawn county maps (some showing two counties together) with manuscript descriptions in brown ink below. Boards very worn with both covers detached and spine lacking; pale spotting, but the colors are bright, internally in very nice condition. Unusual and beautifully executed manuscript atlas from the 1830's. Preliminary leaf lettered with the following: "C. COLEING at Mr. Harris' Academy, ABINGDON". [Book #50303]
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University of Rochester Press, 1999. Hardcover. New book. New in New DJ. [Book #5764]
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London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Hardcover. (35.5 x 25 cm), [4] leaves + 42 hand-colored plates, including leaf of address. Period half morocco and marbled boards, red morocco cover label. Rebacked, wear to board edges; title page creased; pl. 13 with marginal tear, scattered small stains/finger soiling (mostly marginal); very good or better. This is a reissue of the original 1822 edition. It has 42 rather than 43 plates; it seems that given the popularity of the work the later issues were often done without a plate or two. This copy with modern bookplate of Norman and Janey Buchan. Tooley 37. [Book #50046]
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Oxford University Press, USA, 2000. Hardcover. slight shelfwear, otherwise like new. As New. [Book #6135]
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Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, [1560]. First of two volumes, dedicatory epistle dated 1560. 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm), [32] 776 pp. Woodcut initials. Bound in full mottled calf, gilt spine, spine labels lost.; all edges stained red. Binding secure but cracked internally, light dampstaining at page edges throughout; very good overall. [Book #50131]
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Venice: [Philippus Pincius], 1513. 8vo (16 x 11 cm), 152 (of 153), [2 (of 3)] leaves (lacks title page and final blank leaf). Gothic type, woodcut initials. Missing title page replaced by hand-written leaf, perhaps contemporary with binding (mid 20th c.?). Quarter-leather binding over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Leaves toward beginning end with significant chipping at corners, occasional old ink marginalia, otherwise a very good copy, solidly bound. [Book #50330]
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Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1549. Two volumes in one. 4to (22 x 16 cm), 1-152 [8], 1-176 [11] pp. Printer's device on t.p., woodcut illustrations of ships, costumes, vases, and decorated initials throughout. Full limp vellum with ink title at spine, with moderate soiling and a bit of loss at the head of the spine. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very good, solid binding, interior clean. Adams B35. [Book #50282]
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London: Printed by J.F. for William Lee, 1651. The sixth edition of "Sylva sylvarum", bound with "New Atlantis. A worke unfinished" [n.p., n.d], and "History naturall and experimentall, of life and death, or of the prolongation of life", printed for William Lee and Humphrey Moseley in 1650. Small folio (27 x 17 cm), modern three-quarter leather binding over marbled boards. [20], 1-218, [22] pp.; [4] 1-36 pp.; [8], (1)-6 4pp. First work with engraved portrait and additional engraved title page. Moderate rubbing to edges and corners of binding, 2cm missing from upper right corner of t.p., blind-stamp ownership mark on t.p. and following preliminary leaf, both with a light dampstain, and the latter also with a small dark stain and faint ink number stamp; else very good. [Book #50137]
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The Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1660. 8vo (205 x 120 mm), [16], 592, [13] pp. with added engraved title page (dated 1665), engraved portrait (dated 1651), 66 engraved illustrations and 5 of the folding plates. One illustration (liber I, tabula XIII, p.49) pasted over with the same from a later Dutch edition. Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Covers worn, front board detached, lower panel of spine strip perished; added title torn along gutter, top 1/4" of title-page gone, some aging and soiling within, but internally very good. Very Good. [Book #50089]
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Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2000. Hardcover. New book. [Book #1989]
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Paris: Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1617. 8vo (18 x 11 cm), [22], 595, [1] pp. Printer's device on title page, several woodcut initials. Full contemporary vellum binding, title in ink at spine. Vellum somewhat soiled, front hinge cracked, yet book is solid and largely unmarked. Small red ex-library stamp from St. Hyacinth Seminary in MA on p 27 and rear pastdown, old ink inscriptions on front endpaper and title page. Early edition of this important work, first published in 1613. [Book #50205]
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Cambridge University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Shelfwear, otherwise very good, unmarked text. Very Good. [Book #6212]
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Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover. pencil underlining and notes, wear to dustjacket. Good. [Book #5980]
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London: John Knapton, 1756. Folio (52 x 35 cm), [4], 216 pp. Period calf with the gilt seal of Sir Charles Bayot at the center of each cover, rebacked with later calf, raised bands with gilt ruling, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers dating from the rebacking; with 108 copper-engraved plates by Jacobus Houbraken and George Vertue. Rare large paper issue, with finely engraved portraits of British luminaries from the 14th to 18th centuries. Included are literary icons such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Dryden and Alexander Pope; royal personages including Henry VIII and various of his queens (but oddly not his daughter, Queen Elizabeth); men of science and philosophy, among them Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, William Harvey and Robert Boyle; adventurers Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh; and politicians and nobility too numerous to count. Each portrait is accompanied by a biographical sketch of about 11⁄2 pages on following leaf. Covers with varnish over the leather somewhat crackled, rubbing to joints and extremities, corners chipped and showing; marginal dampstaining to last several plates; still very good or better. [Book #50324]
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Venice: Caesar Arrivabenus, 1518. 8vo (14.5 x 9.5 cm), [16] 143 [1] leaves. Decorated woodcut initials, printer's device on final leaf. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, chipping and slight loss at spine. Old ink notations on blank leaves and first printed leaf, otherwise paper is bright and clean, a very good copy. [Book #50224]
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Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. New book, no dustjacket as issued. [Book #5876]
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Routledge, 2002. New book, slight shelfwear, no DJ issued. [Book #5301]
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Routledge, 2002. New book, slight shelfwear, no DJ issued. [Book #6493]
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Paris: Estienne Michaellet, 1687. 4to (22 x 17 cm), [4] 81 [1] pp. Engraved title page vignette and headpiece on following leaf. Modern binding in full vellum. Very good with minor soiling on just a few leaves. [Book #50328]
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University Of Chicago Press, 1983. Hardcover. Printing error has caused "crinkling" & overlap of a few pages. Minor bumping & general shelfwear with light wear to corners of cover. otherwise very good. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Banco Rari 229. Monuments Of Renaissance Music Series, Volume VII. Music volume of two volume set. 645 pages. Very Good. [Book #6204]
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Paris: Claude Jombert, 1722. 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm), [20], 130, [6] pp. Second edition, with 14 copper-engraved plates, most folding. Full period calf binding, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. The rules and custom for architectural designs and drawings, published the year following the first edition. A bit of extremity wear, some internal aging, otherwise very good. [Book #50125]
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London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751. 12mo (13.5 x 8 cm), [8], 98, [2] pp. Contemporary leather binding, all but detached and with significant wear, repaired at spine with cloth library tape. Contents intact, with chipping at edges of first 2 leaves, notes in old hand on final two blanks. Bookplate on front pastedown and purple ink stamp on t.p. of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. [Book #50155]
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University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Hardcover. NB: different edition-- "Robert Burns, The Merry Muses of Caledonia, A collection of bawdy folksongs, ancient and modern," edited by James Barke and Sydney Goodsir Smith, 1959. Yellow cloth, lacks DJ, otherwise like new, unmarked. Very Good. [Book #5936]
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Monasterii Westphaliae: Bernhardi Raesfeldi, 1659. 8vo (16 x 9 cm), [32], 628, [28] pp. Engraved frontispiece mounted on later paper. Full leather with clasps intact, blind-stamped title on black label at spine, all edges speckled. Loss at head and foot of spine, top joint cracked, leaves toned; small red ink institutional stamp from the Austrian town of Mittelberg on preliminary leaves and rear pastedown; otherwise a near fine volume, solidly bound. [Book #50270]
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London: Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh... and T.Davies..., 1768. First edition. 8vo (215 x 125 mm), [4], vii, 257pp. with half-title, and engraved frontispiece by C. Grignion after S. Wale. Period half calf and marbled boards, morocco spine label. Rubbing and wear to covers, front board detached, spine label a bit chipped; offset to title from the frontispiece, ink name of Bateman, 1768, 26 x 57 mm piece clipped from lower right not affecting text; still a nice copy internally, worthy of repair. Dramatic account by a midshipman aboard the Wager, one of the ships commanded by George Anson on his expedition to the Pacific in search of Spanish treasure. The ship was wrecked on an island off the Chilean coast, and the survivors were tended by the Indians until discovered and taken prisoner by the Spanish authorities. Later freed, Byron rose to vice-admiral, and in 1765 took possession of the Falkland Islands for Britain, nearly provoking a war with Spain. The present narrative, immediately popular with the public, supplied the author's grandson, the poet Lord Byron, with many particulars for the shipwreck in Canto II of Don Juan. [Book #50090]
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