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xvi [4, ads] 220 pp. Engraved frontispiece and a few engraved text illustrations. 16mo, old full sheep. Huitieme edition. Front joint nearly broken; some worming to the leather of the spine;

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 4 X 6 Inches. In vii, 247 Pages. Full brown leather with red leather label on spine. Condition of the book is Fair; exterior joints are cracked and hinges are very weak but holding, spine and covers are scuffed, text is generally very clean with a few pages with light foxing. Volume 2 only. Letters stack.

First Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age.Some library marks remain. Physical description; vol. I (only): 389 pages. Subjectsl Carlo Goldoni. Italian Drama. Genre; Drama. 1 Kg.

Full Leather. Etat : Fair+. No Jacket. New Edition. 328 pages; Leather covers are rubbed and scuffed; Spine label remains good; Free end leaves have been removed; Frontispiece is partially torn away from binding, with a one inch mostly closed tear into image; Frontispiece with additional general edge wear; Title page just a little soiled; A couple signatures (grouping of leaves) are sprung; Volume remains tight and contents are otherwise intact and fairly clean.

First Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age.Some library marks remain. Physical description; vol. I (only): 389 pages. Subjectsl Carlo Goldoni. Italian Drama. Genre; Drama. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Etat : V.g. 1st English Edition. Vol II [of 2] only. 441-880pp. Original full calf with morocco labels, raised bands, worn and chipped to the front board. The dictionary from NIT to the end. 2 engraved plates and a table of chemical symbols as called for. Half-title and tile pages both present.The binders instructions call for 2 plates only at the rear of volume 2. 'With full explanations of the qualities and modes of acting of chemical remedies, and the fundamental principles of the arts, trades, and manufactures, dependent on chemistry / translated from the French'. Pierre Joseph Macquer (Paris, 1718-1784). The original French edition was entitled 'Elemens de Chymie' and published in 1766. The French edition was 8vo and the two volumes has over 1300 pages. Important work known as the first modern book on chemistry. The English translation of Macquer's dictionary (London, 1771) by the Scot James Keir was five years after the French and he added material Black, MacBride and Cavendish. A scarce item. 260x205mm. [Cole Chemical Literature 874].

Leather. Etat : Fair. None (illustrateur). First edition. A scarce collection of sixty-three letters on various literary subjects by Martin Sherlock, the first edition. The first edition of this scarce work.Complete in two volumes.Half-title is present to each volume.An anthology of letters by the Reverend Martin Sherlock, Chaplain to the Earl of Bristol.The letters in this volume discusses various literary figures and topics, such as Aristotle, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Virgil, and la Fontaine, containing a total of sixty-three letters.Sherlock dedicated this work to the 4th Earl of Bristol, Frederick Hervey.Collated, complete. In a quarter calf binding with paper to the boards. Externally, front board is held by one cord only. Lacking the paper to the fron tboard. Boards and spine are rubbed. A small amount of loss and lifting to the head and tail of the spine. Crack to the head and tail of the rear joint. Light bumping to the extremities. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Closed tear to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with a few scattered spots. Small chip to the half-title. Leaf I4 in Volume I is working loose. Fair. book.

Ganzleder der Zeit. Etat : Sehr gut. XVI, 220 S., 2 Bl. Einband berieben und bestossen, papierbedingt gebräunt. - Text französisch. - Il est supcrflu d'inisiter sur l'utilité des FABLES : elle est généralement reconnue j'ajouterai seulement que les suivantes ne font pas toutes originales : j'ai taché de les rendre nouvelles, par les changemens que j'y ai introduits, & de les embellir par le tour que j'ai donné à la narration. Je ne me suis pas mis en peine d'inventer de nouveaux acteurs ; ceux qu'on trouve dans ies livres, m'ont sussi. Au lieu d'entrer dans des discusïîons critiques sur le mérite des auteurs modernes, qui m'ont précédé dans ce genre d'écrire, je me contenterai de faire quelques remarques sur les principales beautés de l'APOLOGUE. Ce qui y plaît aux personnes de bon goût, & ce qui a toujours de nouveaux agrémens pour elles, c'est une certaine gaieté, un charme particulier, un je ne fais quel enjouement qui est plus facile à concevoir qu'à expliquer, & dont LA FONTAINE est le meilleur modèle. Je ne prétends pas que mon ouvrage puisse être comparé au sien ; ma plus grande ambition étoit d'imiter ce célèbre écrivain, & d'égayer les récits, où il m'a semblé que l'action en étoit susceptible, par des peintures naïves, gracieuses & naturelles, & par des images riantes, vives & enjouées. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550.

Leather. Etat : Good Only. Not Stated (illustrateur). A charming collection of over one-hundred French fables, an educational volume with an extensive French-English dictionary to the rear. The fifth edition.In the original French.A collection of charming traditional French fables, totaling one-hundred and forty educational tales for children.The second half of this work comprises of an extensive index, detailing the French words appearing in the fables, and their English translations.Illustrated with a frontispiece.By Jean Baptiste Perrin, a French educator who settled in Ireland.Collated, lacking the endpapers, however the text is complete. In a full calf binding. Externally, worn, with loss of leather to the joints, heavier to the rear joint, and to the extremities, heavier to the front board. Loss to the spine, mostly to the head and tail. Light rubbing to the boards and spine. Surface crack to the spine. Front hinge is weak, front board held by two cords only. Rear hinge is weak but less weak than the front joint. Lacking the endpapers. Pencil doodles to the paste downs. Internally, binding is a little strained in places. Pages are lightly age-toned with the occasional spot. Ink note of the date to the tail of the title page. A small amount of worming to the head of the gutter between pages 69 to 142, never affecting the text. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Volume 1 only. Bound in full leather with minor wear, rubbing, edgewear, soiling, starting joints, and loss on the spine ends. Fold-outs intact and with minor tears at the edges. Pages are tanned with minor foxing.

Leather. Etat : Good Only. None (illustrateur). The new edition of Louis Chambaud's two-volume English and French dictionary, bound in full calf. In the original French and English. Bound in full calf. The first edition of this text was printed two years earlier, in France. This is a New Edition, carefully corrected and enlarged with more words, proverbs, idioms etc. Volume I is a French-English dictionary, and volume II an English-French dictionary. With the armorial bookplate of L. H. King Norman to the front paste down and an ink inscription to the title page of volume I. Retaining the original half title to each volume. Bound in full calf. Retaining the original endpapers and half titles. Externally, a little worn, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, causing slight loss to the leather. Cracking to joints, held by cords. A little loss to spine labels, with some vertical cracks to the spine. Stamp to the head of the spine of volume I. Bookplate to the front paste down, with light spotting to endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound, a little strained after the half title to volume II. Pages are a touch age toned, with the odd mark. The occasional tear to page, with the first few pages to volume II a little tender. Good Only. book.

Full-Leather. Etat : Very Good. Very good two volume complete set. Full original calf with gilt ruling, green and red leather spine labels titled in gilt. With the armorial bookplates of James Bimington. Scarce.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Book condition: fair, very scarce copy of this two volume set by the chaplain to the Earl of Bristol, 30 letters in vol. one, 33 letters in vol. two, contains references to Shakespeare, full leather binding, two of four boards missing, other two detached, endpapers detached, all pages present, full leather binding, vol. one has one inch piece missing from spine, bookplate of Thomas Murdoch on one pastedown, both interiors very clean with no marks or tears, bindings tight, 4 x 6 inches, * Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer. * NOAMZ.

2 vols. Written by Sillery, Madame the Marchioness of [Stephanie Felicite du Crest de St. Aubin Genliss]. 7.25 x 4.5", later half leather; marbled boards, 296pp; 291pp + Contents, covers rubbed with some minor abrasions to spines, extremities bumped, hinges loose, SIGNED BINDINGS by "Simson, Hertford", pp mildly toned with scattered foxing and finger soiling, ink and inkstamped names else a very nicely preserved set. FIRST EDITION.

In-12 (16,5 cm) (1) c. (antiporta) XVI 220 (4). Vignetta incisa alla prima favola. Legatura, un po' usurata, in piena pelle. Cerniere allentate e antiporta slegato. L'opera è dedicata al Principe di Galles, Giorgio Augusto Federico, da cui l'antiporta. Perrin pubblicò questo lavoro per la prima volta nel 1771 e ci furono un totale di 13 edizioni nel 18° secolo. Le favole sono stampate in francese, seguite da un indice per ciascuna favola, che spiega le parole e i loro equivalenti inglesi. Alston XII, 471.Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on first page of text.Loose hinges and unattached frontispiece.The work is dedicated to the Prince of Wales, and the emblematic frontispiece pays tribute to him. Perrin published this work first in 1771 and there were a total of 13 editions in the 18th century. The fables are printed in French, followed by an index for each fable, explaining the words and their English equivalents. Alston XII, 471. French language. Lingua francese 18mo Secolo.

Boards. Etat : Very Good. viii 275 (containing 550 numbered columns) [1] [79] [1]pp, half title, original boards (worn), paper spine with title in ink (heavily worn with loss), uncut, one gather lightly toned, two short tears in the lower margin of G7, ex Easton Neston Library (until 2005 the seat of Lord Hesketh) with shelf label on front pastedown, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 8vo (225x140mm), Henrey 719.

Second London edition, and first authorized separate edition. Vol. 1: Frontis. portrait, extra engraved vignette of SJ to tissue guard, vii, (1), 480; vol. 2: iii, (1), 471; vol. 3: iii, (1), 462; vol. 4: iii, (1), 505 pp. 4 vols. 8vo. The first authorized separate edition of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets they first appeared as the "Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets,"(10 vols, 1779-1781). A contemporary and uniform set of Johnson's masterwork of critical literary observations, all volumes uncut, in the original boards. The arms on the bookplate suggest that the previous owner who has signed and dated each title page "Fitzwilliam / 1781" is William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833). A subsequent owner has attempted to rub out the Fitzwilliam name and the crown on the bookplates. Courtney, 141-42; Fleeman 79.4LP/5. Provenance: [William, 4th Earl?] Fitzwilliam, with the Fitzwilliam's arms on the bookplate in 3 of the volumes; then from the estate of Huguette Clark Original blue-gray boards (8.75 x 5.25 inches), uncut. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Trotter after J. Reynolds, without imprint, additional engraved portrait cut and mounted onto tissue guard, uncut. Backstrips parished, but the volumes are solid. Frontispiece spotted occasionally and some light staining or dampstaining; housed in two cloth chemises and slipcases. Vol. 3 leaf Q1 torn Vol. 1: Frontis. portrait, extra engraved vignette of SJ to tissue guard, vii, (1), 480; vol. 2: iii, (1), 471; vol. 3: iii, (1), 462; vol. 4: iii, (1), 505 pp. 4 vols. 8vo Second London edition, and first authorized separate edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Octavo. [xii], iii, [iii], 40, [442]pp. With a half-title and two final leaves of appendix. One of the front free endpapers detached. Contemporary calf. Spine ends chipped; corners worn. Volvelle of the Horary Circle by Barak Longmate (1738-1793), genealogist and heraldic engraver. Bookplate of Lord Walsingham on front pastedown. ESTC T113730.

hardcover. Etat : Buono (Good). Quattro volumi di cm. 22,5, pp. lxviii, 307; xi, 359; viii, 414 (2); viii, 394 (2). Con 24 tavole in rame ripiegate f.t. fra cui 22 vedute, un albero genealogico e una carta geografica dell'Italia Meridionale. Bella legatura coeva piena pergamena, dorsi lisci con fregi in oro e titoli su tasselli bicolore. Bell'esemplare, fresco, genuino ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Terza edizione, con menzione fittizia di seconda edizione, di questo famoso resoconto di viaggi in Sud Italia del Swinburne (Bristol, 1743-Trinidad, 1803). L'edizione originale era apparsa a Londra in due voll. nel 1783-85. Le principali località interessate nell'itinerario di viaggio sono: Napoli, Sorrento, Taranto, Reggio Calabria, Paestum, Palermo, Agrigento, Siracusa, Messina, Tropea, Roma e Avezzano. Cfr. Pine-Coffin 773: "A more comprehensive work than Brydone's Tour"; Mira, II, 392. Book.

1st edition. [8], 255. [1] pp. 'Errata et Addenda' last page. Illustrated with 24 fold-out copperplate engravings (complete). Plates XI & XXI with split along lower portion of fold line, with slight extention into plate on XXI; no loss in either case. Plate XII with 2 3+" horizontal tears from right edge, no loss. Others crisp. 4to: 4 A - 2I4. 11-1/8" x 8-1/4" Binding rather worn, though cords holding soundly; chip to spine crown. Some foxing. Period signature of T. W. Pullan. Many period notes & corrections. Withal, a VG copy. Period brown quarter-calf binding with marbled paper boards.

12mo., pp. xvi, 220, [4, advertisements], with an engraved frontispiece of two young scholars being ushered to school, possibly children of the Prince of Wales, to whom the book is dedicated; contemporary sheep with blind fillets, spine slightly defective at head and foot but withal a very good copy; signature on pastedown and title-page of the politician Thomas Orde Powlett, sometime chief secretary for Ireland, afterwards governor of the Isle of Wight.Seventh edition of a popular educational work first published in 1771. Jean Baptiste Perrin (fl. 1767-98) worked as a private French tutor in Dublin. He was a prolific author of works for learning French (the advertisements at the end list 18 of them, several commended by the Monthly Review). The 140 short fables here, ancient and modern, are mainly animal fables but occasionally involve humans such as a fisherman, huntsman, shepherd, or merchant. Instead of a vocabulary they are followed by a 'General Index' of common words and a hundred-page 'Particular Index of the Words, and their Signification in English' line by line, fable by fable.Alston XII, 473. ESTC locates five copies: BL, Bodley (2); Columbia, and St. Louis Public Library. Language: French.

Two volumes bound in one, the second work first edition, 8vo, (xvi), 190, 206, (2) pp. Contemporary bookplate of Mere Hall, Cheshire. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked. Chaplain to the Earl of Bristol, Sherlock travelled with the Earl's party through Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and the first work includes an account of his visit with Voltaire.

First edition, first issue of this important botanical work on Australia and New Zealand, also published in a folio edition of eight copies the same year. This was the first scientific work, and in fact one of the earliest publications of any kind, published as a result of Cook's second voyage. It lists the botanical discoveries made during the voyage, following a Linnaean classification system. The descriptions are by Anders Sparrman, and the engravings are after drawings by the younger Forster. The Forsters, father and son, travelled as scientists on the second voyage. Characteres. was one of the earliest publications resulting from that journey. Marra's surreptitious narrative had been published the previous year, and in 1776 only this and the anonymously written Second Voyage Around the World appeared. In 1777 both the Forsters' narrative and the official account by Cook were published, along with Wales and Bayly's Astronomical Observations, followed a year later by the Forsters' Observations. The rush to get Characteres in print should probably be seen in the light of the quarrel with the Admiralty over the Forsters' claims to publishing rights for their official account of the voyage. This preemptive scientific publication may well have been intended to show the strength of the Forster claim. The Forsters' intellectual arrogance has earned them considerable ridicule, including some criticism of the present work "owing to the minute scale on which the plants were drawn as compared with the size of the paper" (Holmes). The Hill catalogue notes, "it has been said to be the foundation of our knowledge of New Zealand, Antarctic and Polynesian vegetation.," but scientifically it is now seen as rather slight. Nevertheless, the book is one of the earliest sources of our knowledge of the plants of Australia and Polynesia, it has considerable significance for the history of Cook's second voyage, and it is one of a perhaps surprisingly small number of monuments to the major scientific achievements of the three voyages. BEDDIE 1385. HILL 627. HOLMES 17. NISSEN BBI 644. PRITZEL 2981. SABIN 25134. ROSOVE ANTARCTIC 139. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Titlepage slightly soiled and cleaned, some scattered stains, else a nice copy.

First edition, in which Davy discusses the Chinese, Hebrew, and Greek writing systems, as well as the "symbolic writing" of the Egyptians. The folding tables show Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Persian, Arabic, and Coptic letters. Davy's observations on the origin of writing are "conjectural" because he argues that, besides the account of God giving letters to Moses on Mount Sinai, only interesting but uncertain conjectures can hope to explain the existence of alphabetical writing. The book concludes with a postscript, pp. 123-[127], containing "Conversation between Queen Elizabeth and Dr. Symson" and a "Hymn to Isis". Davy (1722/3-1797) also wrote Letters Addressed Chiefly to a Young Gentleman (1787), which includes a discussion of Ptolemy's doctrine on music. Octavo (212 x 122 mm). 3 engraved plates, 2 of them folding; engraved vignette on title, engraved armorial shield on dedication leaf, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary sprinkled leather, sometime rebacked, marbled edges. Reback rubbed, corners worn, inner hinges reinforced, a sprinkle of foxing at foot, overall a good copy.