[HOVENDEN (Robert)]

Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Hovenden. Privately Printed. Part I [all published].

London: Taylor and Co., 1872. First edition, 4to, 36pp., orig. green printed wrappers. Rare, JISC Locating the Bodleian and National Library of Wales copies only.

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Book number: 37759

Keywords: GENEALOGY PRIVATELY PRINTED FAMILY HISTORY

[YOUNG (Arthur)]

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk; Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. Third edition, 8vo (220 x 140 mm), x, [1], 432pp., hand-coloured folding engraved map,, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional spotting and off- setting, recent cloth, leather title label to spine.

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Book number: 36677

Keywords: AGRICULTURE SUFFOLK COMMERCE ECONOMICS FARMING

[YOUNG (Arthur)]

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln; Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1808. Second edition, 8vo (230 x 135mm), vii, [1], 490, [6]pp., 3 hand-coloured engraved maps, 11 engraved plates (3 folding, cont. boards, rubbed and peeling, joints cracked, uncut.

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Book number: 37659

Keywords: AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS LINCOLN LINCOLNSHIRE

[MORE (Hannah)]

The General Resurrection, and Day of Judgment: being a description, taken from scripture, of some of the events which will come to pass at the end of the world.

London: Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41, and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : And J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly ; Bath : By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [c. 1810.] 12mo, 15, [1]pp., woodcut to title page, disbound. Two poems included: An hymn on the second coming of Christ (p. 11); The Day of Judgment, or, The grand reckoning (p. 12-15). A Cheap Repository Tract.

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Book number: 40039

Keywords: CHAPBOOKS CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACT RELIGIOUS TRACT EDUCATION HAWKERS NEWSMEN JUVENILE POETRY

[YOUNG (Arthur)]

General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and internal improvement.

London: Printed by B. McMillan, 1804. First edition, xix, [1], 236 + 2pp., of adverts, with half-title, one hand-coloured folding map with short closed tear, 9 engraved plates (2 folding), cont. half calf, upper hinge cracked, lower cover detached. Provenance: From the library of The Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.

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Book number: 40230

Keywords: AGRICULTURE HERTFORDSHIRE ECONOMICS

[BERNERS (Dame Juliana)]

The Gentlemans Academie. Or, The Booke of S. Albans: containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Chris 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G. M. [i.e., Gervase Markham].

London: Printed [by [Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard, 1595. Small 4to (181 x 126 mm), [4], 95, [1] leaves, 3 parts in one, additional section titles to parts 2 and 3 but with continuous pagination and signatures, lacking the 4 blanks (A1 [bearing signature 'A'], L3-4 and Dd4) but skilfully replaced with near-matching slightly later paper, the first blank with inverted inscription of 'Peter Martin, his book, 1754' at foot of recto, 116 woodcut coats-of-arms, occasional minor spotting and some very trivial pin-prick wormholes to blank marginal extremities, a few scattered blue pencil crosses to margins and a few words similarly underscored on leaves N1-3, small marginal repair not affecting text on Cc1, nineteenth-century diced calf with five raised bands, corners rubbed through to boards, slightly cracked at foot of joints, al edges gilt. A very good copy of Markham's revised version of Juliana Berners' Boke of St. Albans (1486), the first printed book in English on hunting, and hawking. The first book addresses falconry and provides remedies for the diseases of hawks; the second examines the hunting of deer, boar and hare and supplies a list of hunting terms; and the third book constitutes a full account of heraldry. In his dedication of this work Gervase Markham writes "To the Gentlemen of England: and all the good fellowship of Huntdman and Falconers. Gentlmen, this Booke intreting of Hawking, Hunting and Armorie; the originall copie at Saint Albans, about what time the excellent Arte of Printing was first brought out of Germany, and practised here in England: which Booke, bicause of the antiquitie of the same... I have reuiued and brought again to light the same which was almost altogether forgotten, and either few or none of the perfect copies threof remaining, except in their hands, who wel knowing the excellency of the worke, & the rarenesse of the Booke, smothered the same from the world, thereby to enrich themselves in private with the knowledge of these delights." Provenance: With the small gilt blue morocco book label of John L. Clawson to front pastedown with small paper book-collecting label pasted beneath and related bookseller's pencil note of sale purchase to front free endpaper verso. Schwerdt II, 12; STC 3314; Harting, 3; Poynter, 30.I; Swift II, 363.OI; Souhart, 49.

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Book number: 40272

Keywords: SPORTING BOOKS EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS EARLY ENGLISH PRINTING HUNTING HAWKING HERALDRY

[Guernsey, Countess of, pseud.]

Genuine Edition of the Death-Bed Confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Ann H****** : developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added, the Q----'s last letter to the K----, written a few days before her M----'s death.

London: Published by Jones and Co., 1823. iv, 50pp., disbound. The Countess of Guernsey is intended to represent Frances, Countess of Jersey, but this is apparently a spurious publication.

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Book number: 33874

Keywords: ROYALTY PAMPHLET Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland

[BENNETT (F. W.)]

Geology of Leicestershire. Leicester School Board.

[Leicester?: s.n. c. 1900]. 8vo, 27, [1]pp., interleaved with blank pages, one folding plan with 4 diagrams on verso, orig. printed paper wrappers, all preserved in pain wrappers. JISC locates the University of Leicester Library only.

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Book number: 37779

Keywords: GEOLOGY LEICESTERSHIRE LEICESTER

[PELTIER (Jean Gabriel)]

The Germanic Empire reduced into Departments under the Prefecture of the Elector of Brandenburg. Translated from the French.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1803. First Edition, 4 advertisement leaves at end, 89, [1], [4]pp., disbound. From a French translation by J. G. Peltier from the German. The French translation, entitled "L'Empire Germanique re´duit en departements sous la pre´fecture de l'e´lecteur de ***********,".

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Book number: 33784

Keywords: POLITICS PAMPHLET FREDERICK WILLIAM III., King of Prussia German Germany

[PHILIP (I.G.)]

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings.

Bodleian Library, Oxford. 1951. First Edition, 8pp., 24 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of gold-tooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century.

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Book number: 12807

Keywords: BOOKBINDING

[PHILIP (I.G.)]

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1951. First edition, 8pp., 24 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of gold-tooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century.

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Book number: 40892

Keywords: BOOKBINDING

[MORE (Hannah)]

The Good Mother's Legacy.

Dublin: Sold by William Watson, Printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracks, [c. 1800]. 12mo (171 x 100mm), 23, [1]pp., woodcut vignette on title page, disbound.

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Book number: 40310

Keywords: CHAPBOOK IRELAND IRISH CHILDREN'S BOOKS DUBLIN PRINTING

[FIELDING (Sarah)]

The Governess; or, the Little Female Academy. Calculated for the entertainment and instruction of young ladies in their education.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1768. Fifth edition, small 8vo, x, 146pp., without front-free endpaper, early ownership signature with several ink splashes to title page, first gathering a little loose, early hessian covered boards.

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Book number: 40717

Keywords: JUVENILE WOMEN EDUCATION

[WESLEY (John and Charles)]

Graces. Before Meat.

[London?, s.n., 1770?]. 12pp., drop-head title, lower margin lightly browned, disbound. Baker, 98E; ESTC T128445.

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Book number: 33155

Keywords: METHODISM HYMNS POETRY PAMPHLETS METHODIST CHURCH CHRISTIANITY

[RUDDIMAN (Thomas)]

Grammaticae Latinae Institutiones, facili, et ad puerorum captum accommodata, methodo perscriptae.

Glasguae: in ædibus academicis, excudebat Jacobus Mundell, 1796. 12mo, [2], 296pp., text browned, lacks free endpapers, near contemporary ownership signature of Paul Francis, Benfield 1809, cont. sheep, rubbed, upper cover just holding by cords.

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Book number: 39511

Keywords: LINGUISTICS GRAMMARS LATIN DICTIONARY