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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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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Padua: Cribellianis, 1645. 8vo (16.5 x 10 cm); 304 [24] pp. Printer's device on title page, woodcut initials, numerous engraved illustrations of creatures and oddities. Full vellum over boards, title in ink at spine, speckled edges. Modern bookplate and pencil notations on front pastedown; front hinge starting but secure. Slight loss at top of title page from erasure of name (not affecting text), otherwise in very good condition, leaves clear and unmarked. [Book #50368]
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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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Poitiers: Jean & Enguilbert de Marnef, freres, 1545. Folio (31 x 21 cm), [14] 245 ff. Printer's device on title page, full page woodcut opposite dedicatory letter ([leaf]2v). Contemporary vellum, title and "Bibliothèque de Bec" in ink at spine. Four leaves lacking (ff. 74-77). Title page fragile, repaired at gutter. Wear and chipping at edges, especially the preliminary leaves as well as the final few. Woodcut leaf loose at lower gutter, and torn, but holding. Printed advertisement pasted to front pastedown, which is separating from binding. Vellum discolored, rubbed at edges with slight loss at corners, foot of spine. Underlining and marginal notes in brown ink throughout. A well-used but sound copy overall. [Book #50347]
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Paris: Estienne Loyson, 1677. Fourth of four volumes. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm), [4] 298 [6] pp. Contemporary calf, gilt title and decoration at spine, marbled edges. Leather rubbed, loss at one corner, and at hinges of lower spine. 4cm tear at outer edge of title page (slight loss of text); otherwise in very good condition internally, leaves crisp and clean. [Book #50323]
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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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[Rome]: [Antonio Blado, d'Assola], [1533]. Folio (30 x 20 cm); 397 (of 398) numbered ff. Engraved title page and initials. 19th-c. (?) binding, stiff boards with quarter vellum over marbled paper (ex-library label on front pastedown dated 1878). Binding rubbed and a bit soiled, title page with repairs to paper at top and bottom and a small tear in the middle of the leaf, f. 312 also has a small (7 cm) closed tear (no loss to text), uniform darkening and small stains to occasional leaves; despite these faults, a good, solidly bound copy. [Book #50352]
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Lyon: Claudius Langloys, 1675. 8vo (13 x 20 cm), [16], 880, [18], 23, [1] pp. Title page in red and black. Full vellum binding, title in ink at spine; vellum repaired at spine, front upper corner of binding missing. All leaves with deckle edges, separated but not trimmed. Some mild to moderate foxing throughout, otherwise good. [Book #50250]
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Venice: Andreas Torresanus and Bartholomaeus de Blavis, 1485. 4to (24 x 17 cm), 78 leaves (numbered by hand in ink, some errors in this pagination, corrected in recent pencil). Printed in red and black gothic type, 2 columns, 66 lines. Leaves [1] and [70] blank, register and printer's device on final leaf (recto); this copy also has a manuscript index on the verso of the first leaf. Relatively recent full vellum binding, title label at spine reads "Institution Clementis Papae Quinti 1485." Occasional slight spotting at edges of leaves, otherwise in fine condition. ISTC: ic00732000, HC *5434, Goff C-732. [Book #50357]
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Basel: Henricum Petrum, 1540. Folio (31 x 20 cm), [12] 278 [2] pp. Printer's device on title page and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials throughout. Quarter-vellum and marbled paper binding, title in ink at spine. Title page reinforced, many leaves with darkening at edges or dampstains. Title page also has areas of darkening, ex libris stamp, and the name of the publisher is crossed out in brown ink; inscription at bottom of page. A very good copy overall, complete. Adams 2712. [Book #50373]
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London: R. H. Laurie, 1821. Large folio, 50.7 x 39 cm. With 12 copper-engraved maps (all but one double-page), hand-colored in outline. Bound in marbled boards with calf spine, contents tipped-in on archival paper stubs. Spine worn, splitting to joints, rubbing; mild toning to maps, previous owner's signature dated 1822 on front free endpaper; maps near fine; binding very good. Map titles include: Orbis Veteribus Notus; Orbis Romani; Britannia Romana by J. Horsley; Gallia, Italiae, Graeciae by M. D'Anville; Greece and its Colonies as they existed in the Fourth Century before the Christian AEra by J.D. Barbié; Asiae Minor et Syriae; Palaestina; AEgyptus; and Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the British Isles by M. D'Anville. [Book #50297]
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