ALLIES, Jabez

On the Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities of Worcestershire.

London and Worcester, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. and R. Groombridge, 1840. A good, tight, copy. Original printer's buckram boards, printed label to spine. Printed by Deighton and Co. Worcester. Two engraved plates, engraved tail-piece, subscribers' list. Small tear to spine head, a little loss to title label, mild internal foxing else very good. Author's presentation copy to a Mr Davidson Esq with a later owner's (Mr Frederick Houghton) neat ex-libris to paste-down. Jabez Allies (1787 – 1856) was an English folklorist and antiquarian. Born at Lulsley, Worcestershire, where his family had resided for generations. He was one of the earliest writers on folklore. In early youth he was deeply impressed by the lingering relics of Roman and Saxon days and by the pastoral life that characterised his native place and later in life and threw light upon vestiges of Roman occupation in his native county. Hardback.

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Book number: 37226

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Keywords: Roman|Antiquarian|Featured|Saxon|Worcester|Folk Lore|Ex-Libris|Ancient World

ANON (Ex libris Hely Hutchinson)

Authentische Akten Stücke Als Beiträge Zur Statistik Der Dänischen Staaten in Den Letztern Siebziger Jahren Aus Den Papieren Eines Ehemaligen Staatsmannes Am Hofe Dieses Nordischen Reiches.

Lübeck, 1795. 8vo. half calf marbled boards, 326 pp. No publishing details. Possibly printed in Lübeck. Text in German and in French. 10 folding tables. In very good condition internally. Crisp and clean. Neatly re-backed in ruled calf, contemporary marbled boards. With John Hely Hutchinson's armorial bookplate to paste-down. THAARUP 629 (1825).

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Book number: 38083

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Keywords: Antiquarian|Featured|Central Europe|Economics|History|Denmark|Ex-Libris

Audot [July (French) Revolution].

Evenémens de Paris, Des 26,27,28 & 29 Juillet 1830: Par Plusieurs Témoins Oculaires. Quatrième édition, Continuée Jusqu'Au Au Serment de Louis-Philippe 1er, Et Augmentée de la Chartre, Avec L'Indication Comparée Des Nouvelles Modifications, de Plusieurs Articles Intéressans, Et de la Marche Parisienne, de M. Casimir Delavigne, Avec la Musique.

Paris, Audot, 1830. Original blind-stamped morocco, 16 mo. 135x85 mm, all edges gilt, 215pp./ Strikingly printed on paper coloured blue, white and red - with 1p. music. Upper board starting but generally strong, spine head pulled a little, lacks front free end-paper and one blank at rear. Otherwise a very good tight copy. Fourth edition. Les soixante-douze premières pages imprimées sur papier bleu; pp.73-144 sur papier blanc et pp.145 jusqu'à la fin sur papier rose. COPAC gives one copy of 5th edition.

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Book number: 37518

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Keywords: Featured|Revolution|Antiquarian|History|France

BARNABAS HERMAS James Ussher, Edward Bernard

Epistola: [Tou Hagiou Barnaba Tou Apostolou Epistole Katholike]. ??? ????? ?a??aßa T?? ?P?St???? Ep??T??? ?a??????. Sancti Barnabae Apostoli, Epistola Catholica. Accessit S. Hermae Viri Apostolici Pastor. Oxoniae : E Theatro Sheldoniano 1685

Oxford Oxoniae, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1685. 12 mo.(74x128mm), 2 parts in one.Contemporary full calf, ruled and decorated in blind, raised bands to spine, no label. Title vignette depicting the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. [36], 115, [29], 200, [4] p. Last leaf blank. Text printed in red and black. Includes index. Complete with all pages. Internally in very good condition, tight and crisp. No annotations. Spine head chipped, upper hinge a little fragile, paste-downs unstuck. Text of Barnabas' Epistle printed in red and black. Includes index. The so-called Epistle of Barnabas was probably written by a Christian at Alexandria ca 70-100 A.D. S. Hermae Pastor has divisional title page. Greek text with Latin translation on parallel pages; S. Hermae Pastor in Latin only. Wing B849. ESTC R1408.

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Book number: 38078

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Keywords: Classics|Classical Greek|Latin|Religion|Featured|Antiquarian|Bible |Theology

BEIDL, Emil Julius

Der Freimaurerbund. [Freemasons]. Offenes Schreiben an Vorurtheilsfreie Männer über Das Wesen, Die Einrichtung Und Die Entstehung Des Freimaurerbundes.

Wien Vienna, Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1874. Monograph, sewn, 39pp. A sound copy, tight and clean. Covers age-marked. Freemasons. Self published. Hardback.

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Book number: 37198

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Keywords: Germany|History|Freemasons|Freimaurer|Featured

BENNETT, S..

A New Explanation of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, Upon the Principles of Gravitation.

New York, For the author, 1816. A very nice copy indeed. Later, sympathetic binding in paper-covered marbled boards, 79pp. folding plate in back. Very crisp and clean inside, plate a little browned with edge rough-cut as usual. Appears unused. Used; Very Good " Mr Bennett is, we think, a man of considerate ingenuity.. he says he has meditated on the subject of tides for more than ten years.. ": Analectic Magazine Philadelphia, 1817. Hardback.

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Book number: 37246

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Keywords: Science|Featured|Antiquarian|Gravity|Newton

BERSUIRE, Pierre [Berchorius, Petrus. Bercheure. Berceure. Berthore]

Morale Reductorium. Liber Bibliae Moralis: Fratris Petri Berthorij Pictauie[N]Sis: Ordinis Diui Patris Benedicti... Morale Reductoriu[M] Sup[Er] Tota[M] Biblia[M] Quattuor Et Triginta Libris Co[N]Su[M]Matu[M]. Adiectis Biblie Co[N]Corda[N]Tijs.

Basel. In inclyta Basilea, Adam Petri, 1515. Folio, 19th century full calf, raised bands to spine, boards blind rolled at edges, marbled end-papers. [12], 221, [i] leaves (AA-BB6, a-z6, A-O6 lacking blank O6). Title page in red and black with decorative architectural border by Urs Graf. Adam Petri' s mark depicting arms of Basel supported by two basilisks). Latin, black letter, in two columns. Generally in very good condition. Spine decorations rubbed, upper hinge starting. Internally very tight and crisp, no annotations nor marks of ownership. Old worm holes to much of text, but isolated and not affecting integrity of paper; legibility may be very slightly affected on some leaves. Lacks final blank (O6). Rare post incunabula printing of Biblical work by the Benedictine monk Pierre Bersuire (c.1290 – 1362). The Reductorium Morale to the Sacred Scriptures in thirty-four books, embracing all the books of the Bible. Also known as the Liber Bibliae Moralis. Printed at Ulm and Strasburg in 1474, in Basel in 1515, and in Lyon in 1536. Bersuire was noted for his extraordinary memory and his early encyclopaedic work in Biblical commentary. The printer and publisher, Adam Petri, was one of the first in Basel to work with illustrators, collaborating with the notorious Urs Graf as well as Hans Holbein the Younger. The present volume features an Urs Graf decorated title page with publishing details and Petri's device inset.

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Book number: 37777

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Keywords: Bible |Latin|Antiquarian|Featured|Classics

BLOCH, Iwan (Ivan)

Beiträge Zur Aetiologie Der Psychopathia Sexualis: Mit Einer Vorrede Von Prof. Dr. Eulenburg. Erster Theil. (Association Copy B J Morse)

Dresden, H R Dohrn, 1902. Contemporary or later plain cloth with author name faintly to spine. B J Morse's illustrated ex libris to paste-down and his name and college to t.p. (1924). Mild damp spotting to title and last page. Crease to fep else very good, clean and tight. This book translated to: "Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of all Races in all Ages". Iwan (Ivan) Bloch (1872-1922), German dermatologist and psychiatrist, is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's MS and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904. According to Sigmund Freud, Bloch's studies were instrumental in the development of the anthropological approach to the theory of sexuality. B. J. Morse, Italian and German scholar, spent some pre-war years in Trieste, Osnabrück and other cities, where he began his contacts with German and Italian writers. He was a poet, critic and scholar, a notable translator of poetry (especially Rilke). Morse was made a knight of the Italian Republic in 1966. Hardback.

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Book number: 36613

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Keywords: Sexology|Erotica|Featured

BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (?*) BURCKHARDT, M. (also Hadji Ibrahim)

Travels of M. Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia. From the Calcutta Journal.

London, Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. Bride-Court, Bridge-Street. 1819. Disbound from a larger volume, 32 pp. In very good condition. Clean, crisp. *Extracts from an unnamed traveller's journal recounting his meetings with Burckhardt, together with several letters from Burckhardt to the author. The unnamed diarist is almost certainly James Silk Buckingham. (Compare the journal entry for Nov. 27 1813 in this work with a similar passage in Buckingham's autobiography). 'From the Calcutta journal'. Published as no. 5 of v. 2 of the publisher's New Voyages and Travels. Letters, some signed by the writer's Mohammedan name: Ibrahim, or, Hadj Ibrahim. (COPAC) .

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Book number: 38748

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Keywords: Travel|Featured|Africa|Antiquarian|India

BUSCH, Moritz [Julius Hermann].

Wunderliche Heilige: Religiöse Und Politische Geheimbünde Und Secten.

Leipzig, Verlag von Fr. Wilh. Grunow. 1879. 8vo. contemporary half textured calf, raised bands to spine, lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt. Edges stained red, marbled end-papers. v+358[i] pp. Text in German. In very good condition. Very clean and tight. Known usually as only as Mortiz Busch, this German publicist and traveller later became Bismarck's press-agent. The present work on secret religious and political sects and societies covers: The Druze, Dervishes, Shakers, Millenarianism, Carbonari and Sicilian Mafia amongst others.

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Book number: 37505

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Keywords: Binding|Bible |Antiquarian|Featured|Religion|German|Theology

CAMPE, J[ohann] H[einrich]

Kolumbus [Columbus] Oder Die Entdekkung Von Westindien (Amerika) Ein Angenehmes Und Nützliches Lesebuch Für Kinder Und Junge Leute. Erster Theil: Die Entdekkung Von Westindien (1782), Zweiter Theil: Entdekkung Von Amerika (1782), Dritte Theil: Entdekkung Von Amerika (1788).

Tübingen, bey Wilh Heinr Schramm und Joh Friedr Balz, 1782 - 1788. Three parts in one volume. 12 mo. 10.5 x 18 cm. Contemporary leather-backed publishers' boards, [xii]+312+291+272 pp. Title vignettes and tail-pieces. No maps or plates. Lacks half title. Well loved: spine somewhat scuffed and creased, boards also, title page age-grubby. However, book tight and internally clean with a few contemporary owner annotations to paste-downs. The story of Christopher Columbus written for children. First parts first published in Hamburg, 1781, third part in 1785.

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Book number: 37475

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Keywords: Americas|Antiquarian|Travel|Featured

COMMON PRAYER.

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed As They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches.

London, John Baskett, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, And by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Mills, deceas'd, 1720. 12mo. contemporary or later red morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, boards gilt ruled, floral gilt decoration, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. Title and entire text printed in black and ruled red, title double ruled. Common Prayer etc. unpaginated, Select Psalms and Hymns with separate title also ruled in red, [i]xxi[i]+60pp. 3 blanks. In good condition although upper board very weak but holding, leather to spine cracked, spine head chipped, somewhat rubbed, internal thumbing. Hinder and Giles family trees to prelims. 22 pages of music with Scale on last page. Hardcover.

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Book number: 24827

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Keywords: Common Prayer|Psalter|Featured|Bible|Religion|Bible |Theology

[CONDER, Josiah] [Sidney Hall, Henry Adlard engr.]

Russia. The Modern Traveller [Volume 17]: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe. Russia.

London, for James Duncan; Oliver and Boyd Edinburgh; M. Ogle Glasgow; and R. M. Tims, Dublin , 1825. 12mo. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and decorated in compartments, morocco labels lettered gilt. 338 pp. 2 folding maps engraved by noted engraver and cartographer Sidney Hall (1788?–1831), two steel engravings by Henry Adlard (active 1824-1869). Maps and plates complete as called for. Small two centimetre piece unfortunately missing form spine head. Otherwise a very good copy. Boards and edges just a little rubbed. Internally very crisp and clean. Josiah Conder (1789–1855) as well as being a clergyman, an editor and writer and a popular hymn-writer, was also a prominent abolitionist and supported the repeal of British anti-Jewish laws. His most ambitious work was the thirty-volume worldwide geographical work: "The Modern Traveller".

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Book number: 38760

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CONGREVE, William (Marsh, Higgons, Falkland, Bracegirdle)

The Old Bachelor.

n.p. n.p. n.d. Early (?) eighteenth century edition in 8vo. volume I. Disbound. [viii]134[ii] pp. (a4, B - I8, K4). Disbound, prelims and endmatter a little age darkened, very light marginalia. All in all sound, no tears, no loss. No publishing details. To Mr Congreve" by J. Marsh, To Mr Congreve.. Bevil Higgons, Prologue.. Lord Falkland, prologue.. Mrs Bracegirdle, Dramatis Personae including Mr Betterton and Mrs Bracegirdle. Epilogue.. Mrs Barry.

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Book number: 38064

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[CROSBY, B..]

[ View of London; or, the Stranger's Guide Through the British Metropolis. Containing an Account of Its Curiosities, Amusements, Commerce, Public Buildings, and Every Other Object Worth the Attention of the Curious Visitor. As Well As the Resident in This Vast Capital].

[London], [Printed for B. Crosby & Co. Stationers'-court, Paternoster-row By Lewis and Co Paternoster-row]. [1803-1804]. Scarce guide. 12mo. contemporary sheep, untitled, 138[ii]pp. Title page in facsimile. James' Price's copy dated April 12th,1855 with copious ink notes in his hand to paste-downs and f.e.p. verso. Notes regard his ownership "Steal not this book for fear of shame..", and also, to the blank end matter, notes on the contemporary expenditure of the Russian Empire!! Lacks title page and any half-title (title page present in facsimile). First printed page is 'Preface'. Spine ends chipped, edges rubbed. Preliminaries and end-matter a little grubby but internally tight and clean, no loss, no annotations. A little foxed here and there. A series of descriptions of interesting and significant sights for the tourist, with a helpful appendix explaining the Bills of Mortality and the methods of punishment of seduction. Rare early 19th C./Regency guide to London.

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Book number: 38802

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Keywords: Travel Guide|Travel|Britain|Featured