ARTICULI.

Articuli pacis inter serenissimum ac potentissimum principem ac dominum, dominum Carolum, ejus nominis secundum, Magnae Britanniae Regem ab una, & celsos ac praepotentes dominos Ordines Generales Foederatarum Belgii Provinciarum, ab altera parte conclusae.

Hagae-Comitis: apud Hillebrandum à Wouw, 1667. 4to. [28]p. Signed A-C in fours, followed by quire D of 2 leaves. Woodcut device on title. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. ***** Although the title-page has the imprint "Hagae-Comitis: apud Hillebrandum à Wouw, 1667", this is an 18th-century impression which appears in a collections of treaties concluded by the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. STC Netherlands, 294207031.

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Book number: GA0005

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Keywords: Netherlands, Charles II, treaties, antiquarian

BARTOLI, Cosimo

Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secondo le vere regole d'Euclide, & de gli altri piu lodati scrittori.

Venetia: per Francesco Franceschi Sanese, 1589. 4to. 145, [3] leaves; 2 folding plates; numerous woodcuts within text; engraved medallion portrait of Bartoli on leaf A2 recto; woodcut initials throughout. Quires signed A-S in eights followed by quire T of four leaves. 17th-century parchment, modern endpapers. Marginal paper repairs in first quire, not affecting text; minor corner repairs on final two leaves; ink stain visible on top edge, bleeding into upper margins of quires F-T but not affecting text. Early ownership inscriptions (deleted and illegible) on verso of title-page and on A2 recto; early marginal annotations in ink (slightly cropped) on H3 verso, K5 recto and O3 verso. Adams B277; BMC STC (Italy) p. 73; Smith, Rara mathematica, p. 135, note.

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Book number: GA0099

Catalogue: Antiquarian miscellaneous

Keywords: architecture, surveying, mathematics, antiquarian

BROWN, John.

An estimate of the manners and principles of the times. By the author of Essays on the characteristics, &c. [John Brown]. The fourth edition.

London: Printed for L. Davis, and C. Reymers, Printers to the Royal Society, 1757. 8vo. 221, [3]p. Title page in red and black. Final (advertisement) leaf 'Books printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, Booksellers in Holborn'. 18th-century speckled calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border; rebacked with new red leather title labels. Corners slightly scuffed. Lightly sprinkled red-edged leaves. 19th-century owners' names in ink on free front end-paper and on front flyleaf. "It is a vigorous indictment against the English nation. Admitting that his countrymen have still some spirit of liberty, some humanity, and some equity, he argues that their chief characteristic is 'a vain, luxurious, and selfish effeminacy.' At our schools the pupils learn words not things; university professorships are sinecures, on the grand tour, our young men learn foreign vices without widening their minds." Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. ESTC T147622

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Book number: GA0031

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CARO, Annibale.

Gli Straccioni del commendator Annibal Caro.

[Napoli: 1720?] 12mo. Quires signed: A-G in sixes followed by quire H of 2 leaves. 87, [1]p. Half-title only. 19th-century parchment; gilt ornaments in spine compartment, red leather title label; red-edged leaves. Bound before: VARCHI, Benedetto. La suocerà commedia di messer Benedetto Varchi. [Napoli: 1720?]. 12mo. Quires signed: A-L in sixes. 130, [2]p. Half-title only. The final page ends: Già in Firenze Appresso Bartolommeo Sermartelli MDLXIX.

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Book number: GA0011

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Keywords: Italian, drama, antiquarian

CASAL RIBEIRO, José Maria do.

Rome et l'Europe: qu'est-ce que la convention du 13 septembre?

Lisbonne: Imprimerie Franco-Portugaise, 1864. 8vo. 66, [2]p. Modern marbled wrappers.

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Book number: 17/018

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Keywords: Italy, France, Europe

CHIOGGIA.

M D XCIII. Adi 30. Nouembre. Nel Collegio de gli Eccellentiss. Signori X. Delegati dall' Excellentiss Senato in virt� della Parte di esso Senato d“ 28. Aprile 1592. essistente in Chiozza.

Ristampata in Verona: appresso Francesco dalle Donne, 1603. 4to. [12]p. Single quire of 6 leaves signed 'A'. Woodcut arms on title; woodcut initial at beginning of text on A2 recto. Frequent contemporary underlining and marginal notes. Contemporary card covers. An official printed document relating to the canals and waterways of Chiogga, a small island at the southern entrance to the Lagoon of Venice.

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Book number: GA0130

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Keywords: Italy, Chiogga, Venice, antiquarian, canals, waterways, proclamation

COOK, George.

Views in London and its vicinity. Complete in forty-eight plates, engraved on copper, by George Cooke, from drawings by Callcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. After the original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke.

London: published by Longman and Co.; J. & A. Arch; Hodgson, Boys, and Graves; and Mrs G. Cooke, Barnes, [1834]. Fol. [4], 7p. 48 plates, interleaved. Some slight spotting on interleaving and occasionally on margins outside plate area; a little slight discolouration on engraved area of plates 2, 11, 16-18, 27, 29-32, 43, 48; slightly heavier discolouration on plates 35, 41, 44-45; most pages lightly yellowed at edges. Dark indigo sheep, gilt; heavily scuffed at corners, edges and at joints; narrow surface tear (approx. 2' long) on leather of front cover; gold-tooled spine; all edges gilt; marbled end-papers. **** George Cooke and his elder brother, William Bernard, were the sons of a German immigrant named Guch. After serving his apprenticeship with the line-engraver, James Basire senior, George assisted his brother on plates for The beauties of England and Wales. Between 1814 and 1826 he was engaged on 15 plates for his brother's Picturesque views on the southern coast of England, based largely on drawings by Turner. He also did engravings from Turner water colours for the Picturesque tour of Italy (1820) and produced illustrations for a number of travel books and English county histories. However, Cooke's cherished project was this series of 48 views of London and its environs and he persuaded a number of distinguished fellow artists to supplement the contributions of himself and his son. Edward. B. Adams, London illustrated, 1604-1851: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates, no. 149.

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Book number: 13/020

Catalogue: Antiquarian miscellaneous

Keywords: London, topography, views, engravers

COWMEADOW, John William. BICKNELL, Alexander

Alfred. König der Angelsachsen, oder der patriotische König. Ein Trauerspeil in fünf Aufzügen. Nach dem Englischen frey bearbeitet von Professor Cowmeadow.

Grätz: 1796. 8vo. 118p. Original blue paper wrappers (worn). Marginal stain on pages 13-14. An adaptation by John William Cowmeadow of Alexander Bicknell's The patriot king; or, Alfred and Elvida (London: 1788).

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Book number: GA0012

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Keywords: King Alfred the Great, drama, German

DIAKONOW / DIAKONOV, Petr Ivanovich.

Guide médical de Moscou. Traduit du russe par A. Tastevin.

Moscou: Imprimerie de la Société I.D. Sytine, 1897. [4], iv, 84 pages. 1 folding coloured plan of Moscow (in very good condition, without tears). Russet brown cloth covers, with slight stain on front cover and crease at upper corner of rear cover. At head of cover title: XII Congrès International de Médecine. The text is divided into six sections: 1. General medical statistics for Moscow - births and deaths. 2. Institutions for the teaching of medicine - Faculty of Medicine at the University of Moscow and other teaching bodies - with details of personnel and courses. 3. Medical administration and public health. 4. List of hospitals with details of their foundation, staff, number of patients treated in 1896. 5. Medical journals published in Moscow. 6. Other related institutions. Rare. No copy in British Library. NUC records just two copies: John Crerar Library and Yale Medical School.

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Book number: GA0054

Catalogue: Antiquarian miscellaneous

Keywords: Moscow, Russia, hospitals, medicine, antiquarian

EUSTACE, John Chetwode.

A classical tour through Italy an. MDCCCII. Fourth edition. To this edition, carefully revised, corrected and amended, is added a description of the most remarkable excavations of Pompei subsequent to the author's tour, with a plan of that ancient city, and references to the same, and moreover an itinerary of the posts on the principal roads, and a list of the most celebrated, and commodious inns throughout Italy.

Leghorn: Printed and sold by Glaucus Masi, 1818. 12mo. 4 vols. Vol.1: xxiv, 486p. Vol.2: 508p. 10 engraved plans of churches in Rome. Vol.3: 629p. Folding engraved plan of Pompei. Vol.4: 512p. Quarter calf, speckled paper-covered boards, gold tooled spines; spines rubbed and with wear at corners and at head and foot of spines. Armorial bookplate of Mure of Caldwell. **** Eustace's tour of Italy took place in 1802 when he travelled with Philip Roche, Robert Rushbroke and John Cust (later Lord Brownlow, to whom the book is dedicated). "Publication was delayed by what the author called 'frequent avocations' and by other excursions in the intervening years. When it finally appeared, it had an immediate success and reached seven editions by 1841.The work presents a reasonable and well balanced account of all aspects of Italian life, though the author, who was a Catholic priest, is said to have repented later of some of his more liberal expressions of opinion." - R.S. Pine Coffin, Bibliography of British and American travel in Italy to 1860, 802/2.

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Book number: GA0049

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Keywords: Italy, travel, Pompei

EVELYN, John.

Numismata: a discourse of medals, antient and modern. Together with some account of heads and effigies of illustrious, and famous persons, in sculps, and taille-douce, of whom we have no medals extant; and of the use to be derived from them. To which is added a Digression concerning physiognomy.

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle Temple-Gate, in Fleetstreet, 1697. Fol. [8], 342. [14]p. Quires signed A-Xx in fours, followed by Yy-Zz, Aaa in twos. Title in red and black. Occasional slight marginal discolouration. Contemporary panelled calf, showing wear at corners and joints, and at head and foot of spine; rear cover scuffed; spine undecorated, title-label lost; discolouration from turn-ins evident at outer edges of endpapers. Armorial bookplate of James Alexander McCash of Gallowhill overlaying a removed earlier bookplate. Wing E3505; Keynes 104.

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Book number: XT064

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Keywords: medals, engraving, numismatics, physiognomy

FEARNE, Charles.

The trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a court martial, as taken by Mr. Charles Fearne, judge-advocate of His Majesty's fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the desire of the court-martial. To which are added, a copy of their lordships memorial to the King, in relation to the sentence passed upon Admiral Byng; a copy of the King's order in council for transmitting to their lordships a copy of the report of the twelve judges, in relation to the said sentence: and also, a copy of that report. And a copy of the warrant from their lordships for carrying the said sentence into execution.

London: Printed for R. Manby; J. Whiston and B. White, and W. Sandby; J. Newbery; and W. Faden, 1757. Fol. 1-36, *37-*38, 37-76, *73-*76, 77-130p; Appendix: 1-19p. [i.e. 21] (page numbers 9-10 repeated). Contemporary calf (slight scuff marks on covers and wear at corners, front joint very slightly loose); red leather title label on spine, gilt bands (with slight wear at head and foot of spine). Armorial bookplate of Carrier Tompson on front pastedown; ownership inscription " Carrier and Margt. Ann Tompson Sept 22d. 1810" on title-page. ESTC T20812.

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Book number: GA0157

Catalogue: Antiquarian miscellaneous

Keywords: John Byng, Admiralty, navy, naval, trial, military, Battle of Minorca, Seven Years' War

FENNING, Daniel

The royal English dictionary: or, a treasury of the English language ... To which is prefixed, A comprehensive grammar of the English tongue ... The second edition improved.

London: Printed for R. Baldwin, J. Richardson, S. Crowder, B. Collins, J. Coote, and J. Wilson and J. Fell, 1763. 8vo. [a]-c in fours; B-3N in fours (the signature M omitted by the printer [no gap in text]); followed by a second sequence of signatures A-3S in fours. viii, 16 p. and thereafter unpaginated IMPERFECT: wanting 3 leaves i.e. 3Q2-4 of the second sequence of signatures, resulting in a gap in the text between 'Unbosom' and 'Warily'. Repaired and given new brown goatskin spine and corners, new end-papers.

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Book number: GA0018

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Keywords: dictionaries, English language

FIELDING, Henry

Amelia.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [1751]. 12mo. 4 vols. Vol. 1: xii, 285p. Vol. 2: viii, 262. [1]p. Vol. 3: ix, 323p. Vol. 4: vii, 296p. 19th-century calf with binders' ticket 'Bound by Cecil & Larkins for F.W. Stibbs'. Covers decorated with a triple-fillet gold border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spines with red leather title labels and green leather volume number labels; gilt turn-ins; yellow-edged leaves; marbled blue endpapers. Slight rubbing at corners, joints and at head and foot of spines. Joints a little loose and inner joints strengthened sympathetically with narrow strips of blue buckram to match the marbled endpapers. Small paper flaw in outer margin of pages 1-2 in vol 2 (not affecting text); likewise in outer margins of pages 1-4 of vol. 3 (not affecting text); two clean tears in pages 293-296 of vol. 4 (carefully repaired and with no loss of text). Bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke on all front pastedowns. ***** First edition of Amelia, Fielding's 'favourite child', a novel of social protest and an experiment in new techniques, especially in irony and in subtle characterisation. Robert Alter argues that the novel pioneers 'the masterful interlocking of separate lives through shared experience that gives Middlemarch such remarkable coherence. - 'Fielding's problem novel' in his Fielding and the nature of the novel, pp.141-178. The Rothschild Library: a catalogue, 853. H. Fielding, Amelia, edited by M.C. Battestin (Appendix VII: Bibliographical descriptions, pp.583-4). ESTC t089846.

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Book number: 13/042

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Keywords: English

GAGARIN, Jean Xavier.

La Russie sera-t-elle catholique?

Paris: Douniol, 1856. 8vo. viii, 169p. Original printed wrappers mounted on new boards. New end-papers. Very small worm hole in top margin, not affecting text. A plea, by a Jesuit of Russian birth, for reconciliation between the Russian Orthodox Church and Rome. Printed as appendices are: the Decree of Eugenius IV (6 July 1439) on union with the Eastern Church, the Bull of Clement VIII (23 December 1595) concerning reunion with the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Brief of Benedict XIV (26 March 1755) on Eastern rites. De Backer Sommervogel, vol.3, col.1090, no.4.

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Book number: GA0055

Catalogue: Antiquarian miscellaneous

Keywords: Russia, religion, antiquarian, Jesuit