[HERON (John)]

[Two works bound in one.] An Account of the Donations to the Parish of Newark upon Trent, in the County of Nottingham. By a Parishioner. London: Printed for the Use of the Parishioners, 1748. First edition, vii, [1], 80pp. [Bound with:] Churchwardens. An Address to the Parishioners of Newark upon Trent.

[London? s.n. 1748.] First edition, drop-head title, 15, [1]pp., dated and signed in letterpress at end: John Heron, 13th. March 1748. 2 Works bound in one, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, with red morocco inlay lettered in gilt "Mr. Bryan Cumberland", rubbed, a rather crude repair to upper joint. The second work appears to be particularly rare with ESTC locating a single copy at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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Book number: 40301

Keywords: Nottinghamshire Newark British Topography Church History

[JUN (J. C.)]

The United States and Canada, as seen by two brothers in 1858 and 1861.

London: Edward Stanford, 1862. First edition, 8vo, [4], 137, [1]pp., folding map to rear (tears to folds), orig. publishers brown cloth, damage to upper spine and lower joint.

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Book number: 39664

Keywords: AMERICANA

[POLLEN (John) Editor]

Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. South Kensington Museum.

Burt Franklin, New York. (Reprint of the 1870-77 Edition) 1968. 3 Vols., large 8vo, 1030; 1158; 655pp. orig. cloth (vol. 2 shows very slight signs of water staining). Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, mosaics, enamels, archaeology, coins, anatomy, and photography; also includes books on history, criticism, and instruction in the practice of art.

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Book number: 16258

Keywords: ART

[SADA¯NANDA YOGI¯NDRA]

The Vedanta-sara translated by Dr. J. R. Ballantyne, Principal Sanskrit College, Benares, with an Introduction, Notes, and an Examination of its contents.

Madras: Printed at the S. P. C. K. Press, Vepery; The Christian Literature Society for India: London and Madras, 1898. First edition, 8vo (207 x 135 mm), iv, 136pp., 7pp. of "Publications for Indian Readers.", included in the collation, original cloth-backed printed boards somewhat stained, text clean throughout, a good copy. "The Vedanta, the highest conclusion of Indian thought, is based on a mistaken and pessimistic view of life; on a formulated dogma unsupported by any evidence and untaught in the hymns of Rig-Veda: the whole an elaborate and subtle process of false reasoning." Rev. T. E. Slater, Studies in the Upanishads, p.47.

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Book number: 35800

Keywords: Hindoostanee LANGUAGES

[YOUNG (Arthur)]

View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire. Drawn up for the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809. Second edition, 8vo, xii, 362, [6, publishers adverts]pp., folding hand-coloured map with a short closed tear, 27 engraved plates (3 folding), orig. half calf, rubbed, spine labels chipped. Provenance: Bookplate of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

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Book number: 40742

Keywords: AGRICULTURE OXFORDSHIRE OXFORD

[ROWE (George) Illustrator]

Views upon the River Dart, Inscrbed by Permission to A. H. Holdsworth, Esq. M.P.

Sidmouth: Published by J. Wallis, [1826.] Oblong 4to (230 x 312 mm), engraved title 9 fine lithographed plates 'drawn from nature and on stone by George Rowe, printed by Emgelmann & Co.', some minor spotting, contemporary half blue roan, spine lettered in gilt direct, marbled endpapers, publishers brown upper wrapper lithographed with title, a nice clean copy. The only other copy located is that at Yale, that being the Abbey copy which calls for 8 plates, ours having a ninth extra plate (Kitley). 1. Entrance to Dartmouth Harbour. 2. Dartmouth Harbour. 3. The Mouth of the River Dart from Mount Boone. 4. Dartmouth Castle. 5. Brook Hill, Kingsware. 6. Dittisham on the Dart. 7. Sharpham on the Dart. 8. Totness. 9. Kitley. Abbey, Scenery, 123.

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Book number: 39717

Keywords: BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY DEVONSHIRE RIVER DART DEVON LITHOGRAPHY DARTMOUTH

[WHUR (Cornelius)]

Village Musings on Moral and Religious Subjects. By a Villager.

Norwich: Jarrold and Sons, 1837. First edition, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), xii, 203, [1]pp., with a list of subscribers, original boards, cloth spine, paper label (worn). Nearly 500 subscribers are listed at the end, almost all East Anglians, inclding Bernard Barton, George Crabbe the younger, Amelia Opie and J..J. Gurney. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate. Not in Jackson; Johnson, Provincial Poetry, 963.

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Book number: 36980

Keywords: POETRY ENGLISH LITERATURE PROVINCIAL POETRY NORWICH NORFOLK

[CHESTERFIELD (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of)]

A vindication of a late pamphlet, intitled, The case of the Hanover troops considered: with some further observations upon those troops; being a sequel to the said pamphlet.

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1743. [4], 56pp., stitched as issued, two small rust stains to half-title, uncut.

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Book number: 33291

Keywords: HISTORY Military PAMPHLETS

[MACDONELL (Alexander R.)]

Vindication of the "Clanronald or Glengary" against the attacks made upon them in the Inverness Journal [by A. R. Macdonell] and some recent printed Performances. With remarks as to the descent of the Family who style themselves "Of Clanronald." [with an appendix].

Edinburgh: Published by W. and C. Tait, [1821.] First Edition, [6], 97, [1], xxxpp., with half-title, engraved title with an engraved vignette drawn and engraved by W. H. Lizars, inscription on title "Jas. Hay 16 April 1821", date shaved from the imprint, large folding pedigree, disbound. "It will be seen, involves the question of the Male Representationship of the ancient Sovereigns and Princes of the isles; for whoever is Heir Male of Ranald of the Isles Founder of Clanranald, is also the Male Representative of his remote Ancestor Donald of the Isles, Grandson and Heir of Somerled first King of the Isles, after whom the Macdonalds are surnamed at the present day. It is well known that the descendants of Somerled (who lived in the 12th century) were Sovereign Princes, and treated as such by Foreign Powers."

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Book number: 38326

Keywords: SCOTTISH HISTORY GENEALOGY SCOTLAND

[MACKWORTH (Sir Humphrey)]

A Vindication of the Rights of the Commons of England. By a Member of the Honourable House of Commons.

London: Printed, and are to be Sold by J. Nutt, 1701. First edition, folio, 12, [40]pp., small hole in K2 just affecting the page number, disbound.

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Book number: 39812

Keywords: POLITICS

[COTTON (Nathaniel)]

Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Minds.

London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753. Fourth edition, small 8vo, [iv], 132 + 8pp., of publisher adverts "Books Printed for R. Dodsley", without the half-title, cont. mottled calf, rubbed, red morocco label on spine. Poetry for children, first printed in 1751, a very popular title, but scarce in early editions such as this. ESTC records only 2 copies ( ABu and NIC) of this edition.

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Book number: 22987

Keywords: CHILDREN'S BOOKS POETRY ANTIQUARIAN

[PHILLIPPS (Sir Thomas)]

The Visitation of Middlesex, began in the Year 1663 by William Ryley, Esq. Lancaster, and Henry Dethick, Rouge Croix, Marshals and Deputies to Sir Edmund Bysshe.

Printed [for Sir Thomas Phillipps] by J.A. Gilmour, Salisbury. 1820 [i.e., 1821]. 4to, [ii],51,[3]pp., recently cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine. Seventeenth-century genealogies/family trees of London and surrounding county families (out as far as Staines) from Awsiter to Wicks and including Bonfoy, Brigginshaw, Comyn, Mayo, Merrick, Otger, Pagitt, Swynerton, Treswallen, Wilding, etc. Munby (III, p.12) corrects the date of publication to 1821. "One of the first publications for Phillipps, before the establishment of his Middle Hill Press" — Kraus 207/208. Holzenberg 208/209; Fenwick 22.

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Book number: 24286

Keywords: MIDDLESEX SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS MIDDLESEX VISITATION GENEALOGY FAMILY TREES FAMILY HISTORIES ANTIQUARIAN

[DONIOL (Henri)]

Les Vitrines de l'Imprimerie Nationale a l'Exposition Universelle de 1889.

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1889. Royal 8vo, 32pp., title vignette, some light browning, orig. paper wrappers.

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Book number: 28082

Keywords: PRINTING ANTIQUARIAN TYPOGRAPHY TYPE SPECIMENS PRINTERS BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS

[CLERKE (Charles)]

A Voyage Round the World, In His Majesty's Ship The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron. In which is Contained, a faithful Account of the several Places, People, Plants, Animals, etc. seen on the Voyage: And among other Particulars, A minute and exact Description of the Streights of Magellan, and of the Gigantic People called Patagonians. Together with an accurate Account of Seven Islands lately discovered in the South Seas. By an Officer on Board the said Ship. Printed for J. Newbery and F. Newbery, 1767. Second edition, [4],186pp., without the final advert leaf, engraved frontispiece and a further 2 engraved plates, frontis., and title-page becoming loose, pencil ownership signature to title "Colonel [George Abbas Kooli] D'Arcy of the Falkland Islands". [Bound with:] [BYRON (John)] The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World) Containing An Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Jago d Chili, and the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. Also a Relation of the Loss of the Wager man of War, One of Admiral Anson's Squadron. Written by Himself, and now First Published.

Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, 1768. First edition, [4],viii,257,[1]pp., with half-title and engraved frontispiece, cont. half calf, marbled paper boards, hinges slightly cracked, head and foot of spine worn with some light worming to raised bands, marbled paper on lower board peeling, but overall internally a clean and bright copy. Of the first work Hill notes "This account of John Byron's circumnavigation is usually ascribed to midshipman Charles Clerke, who later sailed on all three of Captain Cook's voyages...". Of the second work, Byron was midshipeman aboard the Wager when it was wrecked off the Chilean coast, and he provides a vivid account of the privations endured by the survivors. The author's grandson Lord Byron drew upon the Narrative as a source for his epic poem 'Don Juan'. Hill, 311 & 232.

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Book number: 28993

Keywords: VOYAGE & TRAVEL ANTIQUARIAN CAPTAIN JAMES COOK PATAGONIA SHIPWRECK NAVAL MARITIME SEA

[DUPIN (Baron Pierre Charles François)]

Voyages dans la Grande-Bretagne, Entrepris Relativement aux Services Publics de la Guerre, de la Marine, et des Ponts et Chaussées, en 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819.

Paris: Bachelier, 1820-25. 6 Parts in three 4to volumes (255 x 205 mm), plus folio atlas plate volume (335 x 265 mm), xv, [1], 280, viii, [2], 274; xxxii, 290, ix, [1], 288; xvi, 282, vi, 290pp., plus atlas volume with 3 title pages and 36 plates, all lithographed and double-page, marbled endpapers and edges, cont. polished calf, flat spine with morocco lettering pieces, the remainder tooled in a gilt latticed pattern, a couple of minor worm holes to joints but a fine set in remarkable condition. Baron Pierre Charles François Dupin (178-1873) was a French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist and politician, particularly known for work in the field of mathematics. In 1816, after some difficulty, Dupin was allowed to visit Great Britain to study its commerce and industry. This work is the result which placed him in the foremost rank of statisticians. "In the following work, I have endeavoured to exhibit the full extent of the Military and Naval Forces which the government of Great Britain can bring into the field, or launch upon the ocean... My observations on these subjects were derived from a residence of five years in England; during which time I was constantly employed in visiting and viewing every object and institution worthy of notice relative to the British Army and Navy." Volume 1: Force Militaire. First edition. Volume 2: Force Navale. First edition. Volume 3: Force Commerciale. Second edition. Provenance: Colonel Douglas-Mercer, Scots Fusilier Guards, bookplate. Brunet II, 893; Poggendorff I, 62.

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Book number: 38123

Keywords: MILITARY NAVAL ECONOMICS COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY MARITIME