QUARTERLY REVIEW Vol.LXXX and Vol.CXX GENERAL INDEX to volumes sixty-one to Seventy-nine and volumes One hundred and one to one hundred and twenty(both inclusive)}

London, Murray) 1850 approx), 1867 . Two Volumes of Indexes, octavo half calf (spine partly split but boards still attached/approx 1 sq." of leather missing from spine/tips worn/blindstamp of Holy Island Library) 326pp and 298pp Presentation inscription on FEP & Library numbers. No further library markings to any pages. Some dusting but bookblock clean & tight. No titlepage to first volume

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Book number: V66909

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Keywords: scientific literary and historical reviews

RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY or Popular Sketches of British Quadrupeds describing their nature,habitd and dispositions and interspersed with Original Anecdotes embellishd with numerous ENGRAVINGS AND Wood Cuts from portraits of Living Animas painted by the first Masters.

London, William Clarke, Taylor & Hessey, J.M.Richardson & Sherwood,Neely & Jones. 1815 Engravings [24 as called for] after paintings by Clennell and others + Woodcuts [50] of rural animal scenes. . 8vo newer cloth spined boards & new endpapers. Titlepage + [iii] - xvi [Advertisement + Introduction] + 367pp including index + [1p=plate list]. Some foxing, mainly marginal, gift inscription to Edith Hunter dated 1858 with small pictorial ownership R.H. with spread-wing eagle? Above. Shallow marginal tear 1cm by 2cm to top of frontispiece and similar but smaller tear to top of titlepage + two tears without paper loss. Slight creasing to upper part of pages from p 222.

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Keywords: Quadruped natural history

RURAL COSTUME SCENES) (possibly Swiss)

London, N P 1830 approx) Hand colored lithographs (12) on tinted background . Oblong narrow quarto (32x20cm) cloth spined paper boards (tips worn) Twelve leaves. First plate shows some foxing others clean. No titlepage (as issued?) all plates stubbed some closed gutter tears. *Subjects: Father carving a wooden sword for 2 boys while young woman watches; Travelling showman selling vial of medicine while clown with drum waits to perform to crowd of ladies and children with horse and carts in front of curtained "stage"; Travelling salesman offering statues to grandmother (seated) and young woman and man with toddler & sister all in forecourt of farm with ducks, dogs, chickens etc; Hawker with wares on a board on his head is bitten by dog and his wares fall off as the board tips (among wares are dolls, parrot, and a Napoleon figurine); Man in doorway of house laughs, also lady peeling apples with toddler reaching for carrots on table and boy with stick; Dancing girl and man with sword while women hang out clothes sit by laundry cart with dog and wash board by stream in the foreground; Coming out of church 2 ladies kiss in greeting with 2 men talking, boys on fence, youngster led by grandmother & many other people in Sunday best; Group of young people playing a dare you game of jumping over a fire, one girl has fallen down, another has been caught by her partner, dog & 5 others watch a boy jump; Guide has taken 2 ladies up a mountain to look at a waterfall, one crawls right up to the edge while the other is pulling her back, all 3 have early mountaineering poles with girp-hooks; Group of children fruit picking young man on pony with lady mounted behind crossing a stream with dog; Grape harvesters take a break while one dances to the tambourines & procession with garlands. Very lively scenes.

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Book number: V58069

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Keywords: hand colored plates

F.F.F.R.D.G [ Frere Francois Fortin de Grammont]

LES RUSES INNOCENTES dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oïseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux secrets de la pêche dans les rivieres & dans les etangs. Et la maniere de faire tous les rets & filets qu'on peut s'imaginer

Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel 1695 Engraved title by La Fueille + 66 full page plates as called for [some leaves torn without loss but two plates with partial loss] . 8vo new half vellum with gilt spine with red gilt spine label [12pp =engraved pictorial title + printed title in red and black + to reader +advertissement +publisher's book list] +58pp [bk I] + [8p=index I + half title +to reader} + 59-122 {Bk II] +[10pp Index+half title 2 +to reader] +123-186 +[8p as before] +187-212 [213 is a blank page & the verso is a repeat of pp 212 though it is numbered 214] 213-232pp + [8p as before] +233 -292p + [3p=index} +[1p=blank] + plates. With the unnumbered pages between each section there are thus 329pp with the last verso a blank facing the first of the 66 plates. The frontis has a very narrow margin extension to bring it level with the fore-edge of the title and the title has a neatly repaired tear without loss. There is some fingering to the margin and some edge dusting but a desirable early hunting book. The text refers to each of the plates with an explanation of the snares, nets and dummy animals shown on the various figures of the plates with letters explaining the purpose and functioning of the traps. The first book explains how to make and set traps and the other parts deal with none migrating birds, the migrating birds are dealt with in the 3rd part, and four legged animals are trapped in part four with Fish in the final part. Many of the capture methods are claimed to be original to the author and quite unique.

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Book number: V75541

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Keywords: hunting trapping capturing birds, animals and fish

Seneca 4 B.C. approx-65 A.D. (edited by F. de Malherbe 1555-1628)

SENEQUE, DES BIENFAITS, de la version de Mre Françios de Malherbe, Gentil-homme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy [with 2nd Work] SENEQUE DES QUESTIONS NATURELLES de la Version P. Du-Ryer.

Rouen & Paris, Antoine de Sommaville 1660, 1659 . Octavo (150x85mm) 17th century full calf, spine on 5 cords decorated gilt All Edges Rouge, 375+[1]pp followed by 2nd Work, [4]+412pp. Ex Libris C. Humbert on pastedown, card with early MS notes inserted & initials on free endpaper, illegible signatures on both titlepages. Text in very good condition, little staining, no noticble worming. *Translation of a 7-book treatise by Seneca, offering stoic analysis of human values, by Francois de Malherbe, a French poet. A native of Caen, the city`s football team bears his namesake.

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Book number: V48016

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Keywords: French translation Latin Roman Stoicism

[ Rastell,John]

LES TERMES DE LA LEY Or, Certain difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in use, expounded and explained, Now Corrected and Enlarged, With many Great and Useful Additions throughout the whole Book, never Printed in any other Impression.

London, Printed Samuel Roycroft & James Rawlins Assigns of Richard & Edward Atkins 1708 . 8vo [over 7.7 inches] Near contemporary tan leather binding on 5 raised bands with blind ruling + blind decoration along the hinges and gilt dentelles [chipped down to headband or just below at head and foot of spine/lower hinge split to bottom compartment/some wear to edges and tips/ some spotting or marking] titlepage + "to reader" + 556pp +[one blank leaf] Parallel colums of French and English throughout with the English in Black Letter & the french in Roman font. The pages are slightly tanned to the edges and the top margin is sometimes very close to or just touching,the running headline, but only on page three is the headline cut into. Minimal foxing to beginning and end but all pages unmarked,not torn, and crisp and no loose pages. This is a later edition of the first dictionary of legal terms and is thus in alphabetical order. The first edition was the first Law Dictionary as well as being the first English dictionary and had originally a title in Latin. It went through many editions down to 1821 and now modern day facsimiles. Any 16th century editions are scarce and this edition also seems to be surprisingly hard to find for sale.

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Book number: V75600

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Keywords: Law Dictionary Legal terms

TREBLE ALMANACK for the Year 1828 containing I. John Watson Stewarts Almanack II. English Court Registry III. Wilsons Dublin Directory

London, Stewart & Hopes/Corbet 1828 Copperplate frontispiece + engraved Titlepage. . Octavo red roan leather with gilt English Coat of Arms & Rose, Thistle and shamrock to spine cover also titled "Board Room" (tips slightly worn) All Edges Gilt 223pp 215pp 228pp+ Historical Annals of the City of Dublin. Three printed Titlepages with revenue stamps to first and last TP. Lacks the city plan & most of Rear Endpaper. First two items printed on bluish paper. Very clean and tight. Listing all officials from courtiers to prison goalers, Army, Navy officers, doctors and for Dublin the streets and occupiers with their trades etc. Excellent source material.

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Book number: V64156

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Keywords: almanac street directory Ireland Dublin

Abbot,George (Archbishop of Canterbury, died 1633)

CASES OF IMPOTENCY AND DIVORCE As debated in England in that remarkable Tryal 1613 between Robert Earl of Essax and the Lady Frances Howard .. (Volume 1 only of 3)

London, by the Booksellers 1737 Copperplate frontis (of Robert Earl of Somerset and the Lady Frances Howard) . Volume 1 only (of 3) duodecimo contemporary calf (hinges slightly worn/tips rubbed & head of spine chipped but completely sound and firm) (vi)+192pp inscription on FEP and four gutters taped where leaves never sewn in. This trial was brought by the lady after 8 years of marriage but turned out to be a conspiracy between her and her lover the Earl of Somerset with imputations of witchcraft carried out at her behest against the Earl of Essex. Complete in this volume with Abbot's, the King's and other comments. Abbot and the bishop of London were against the divorce and he goes into his reasons why he dissented. Three other bishops voted for the divorce and the king agreed with them. A copy of the divorce is given. An additional section taken from Arthur Wilson's History of King James is added at the end. (Not in British Library catalogue, one copy in Library of Congress, not in ABPC back to 1975 - the 2nd volume only was sold in 1988). Scarce.

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Book number: V61352

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Keywords: law legal divorce impotency trial

Polyaenus 2nd century AD (Pancratius Maasvicius 1658-1719, Justus Vultejus 1523-1575, Casaubon Isaac 1559-1614)

STRATEGEMATUM libri octo Justo Vultejo interprete. Pancratius Maasvicius recensuit, Isaaci Casauboni, nec non suas notas adjecit.

Leiden, Jordani Lugtmans & Joann du Justo Vultejo interprete. Pancratius Maasvicius recensuit, Isaaci Casauboni, nec non suas, notas adjecitivie 1691 copperplate engraved pictorial title woodcut printer's mark & a few decirated small initials . Octavo modern taupe boards with printed spine label [lower corner very sl.bumped] All edges rouge [12p=extra engr.title + title +dedication +To reader etc] + 832pp + [40pp=index] In Ancient Greek & Latin parallel columns throughout. Work divided into 8 books. First four words of title translated from the Ancient Greek. Recent pages added after endpage and before frontispeice 3 on each side. Five page dedication at beginning mentioning the likley transcriber of this edition Pancratius Maasvicius. Maasvicius is also credited on titlepage alongside Vultejus and Casaubon. Vultejus transcribed the 1549 Basel edition of the work, whilst Casaubon the 1589 Lyon version. Overall very clean and tight. *A manual of strategy and war taken from the most ancient histories down to his own time. These are sources many of which have since been lost making this an important original source. Polyaenus drew on the Roman-Parthian Wars of the mid 2nd century AD, dedicating the work to Marcus Aurelius and his co-emperor Lucius Verus who were engaged in the conflict. This is the 2nd edition of the Greco-Latin work, the first published in Lyon in 1589. The first latin editon was published in Basel in 1549. "One of the rarer editions in the "Cum notis variorum" series" Ebert 17681.

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Book number: V75117

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Keywords: War strategy generalship

C. G*** [Chavannes de la Gaudiere] illustrated by Victor Adam (1801-1866)

RECITS ET ANECDOTES DE CHASSE

Tours France, Ad. Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires 1853 Coloured lithographs (8) by Victor Adam. . Octavo pictorial chromolith boards, recent neat reback in green cloth, tips rubbed and bumped, All edges brightly gilt. Neat inscription on flyleaf "William C. Pickersgill son ami & professeur, Elie Charlier, Noel 1856". Half-title, litho frontis, title, 188pp + 7 inserted litho plates. Light browning to page margins, one lower corner torn off without loss of text, lithos clean and colours bright. Shows falconry, fox or wolf hunt, duck shooting, mountain chamois hunt, Florida Indian deer hunt, lion hunt, wildebeest chase and turtle hunt (Gumuchian 2648, Thiebaud, Bibliographie des ouvrages francais sur la chasse 190).

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Book number: V70982

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Keywords: coloured lithograph hunting scenes Victor Adam

Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele (editors)

THE SPECTATOR in eight volumes. Vol. V.

Glasgow, J.Robb & R.Duncan, Booksellers. 1769 Frontispiece illustrating No.379 on discovery of Rosicrucian burial vault + engraved titlepage with vignette & rococco floral decorations. . Duodecimo (165x105mm) original speckled roan on 5 raised bands with red gilt spine label (some leather lacking along front hinge, head of spine very chipped but covers well attached). Frontis + title +282pp +[8]pp index]. Some foxing mainly to beginning and end and faint tidemarks to first and some later leaves. Rear end papers with minor loss to lower gutter, but a neat tight copy, no loose pages, no tears, text all clear. Includes Nos. 322 (Monday, March 10, 1712) to 394 (Monday, June 2, 1712). *Dedicated to Thomas Earl of Wharton, with references throughout to Dryden, Milton, Horace and other classical authors. The Spectator was founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in 1709-12. These papers were collected into 7 volumes of which this is number 5, and frequently re-published in the 18th century.

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Book number: V75276

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Keywords: periodical Spectator free press 18th century

Agricola, Georg Andreas (1672-1738)

NEU UND NIE ERHOERTER .. VERSUCH DER UNIVERSAL VERMEHRUNG ALLER BAUME, STAUDEN, UND BLUMEN Bewa¨chse.

Regenspurg, Johann Theodoro Boetio 1st edition 1716-1717 Engraved folding portrait by Christoph L. Agricola (1665-1724), 31 numbered copperplates +7 full-page plates in text (some folding) + text illustrations throughout. . Two volumes in one folio (33x22x4cm) contemporary vellum with brass clasps, All edges faded blue, early ownership inscriptions on endpapers, 25 leaves +184pp +16 leaves +82pp +8 leaves (Register). Each of 34 leaves of plates has descriptive letterpress on verso. Two sheets with copperplates outside numbering on pp49 & 58 of some copies are not present here, also an explanation of the frontis to Part II. Broken inner joint, portrait of Agricola with large tear over the portrait bust (neatly repaired without loss), text pages variously browned but crisp & clean throughout. *The German doctor and botanist Georg Andreas Agricola discovered the method of root localisation, which was intended to replace the grafting method, which had only been used until then. Agricola "wanted to produce fine fruits from all seeds, only cuttings, root propagation, countersinks and special types of pruning to be used" (Teichert, Veredelungskunst, 93). In Germany he was misunderstood and then forgotten, probably also due to his style, which was judged verbose and boring, but "the book contains many good observations about the treatment and propagation of plants" (Hirsch / Hübotter I, 70). Despite criticism of its style and method, the work was a great success: a second German edition was published in 1717, Dutch & French translations in 1719-24, and Richard Bradley translated the book into English in 1717. "Its 35 plates served as the principal illustrated fruit-tree propagation manual for many decades" (Jeanson 215).

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Book number: V48013

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Keywords: German black letter botany illustrated

Alema´n, Mateo (1547-1614?) [translated by Don Diego Puede-ser, i.e. James Mabbe (1572-1642?)]

THE ROGUE: or THE LIFE OF GUZMAN DE ALFARACHE Written in Spanish by Matheo Aleman, servant to his Catholike Majestie, and borne in Sevill.

London, Printed [by Eliot's Court Press and George Eld] for Edward Blount (1623) & Robert Allott (2nd part 1633). 1623 and 1633 Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. . Folio (29x20cm) bound in near contemporary leather, neatly re-backed with gilt spine title, tips bumped. Two Parts in 1 Volume, [24], 267, [17], 357pp. Second part has separate pagination and title page dated 1633 with "Printed by R.B. for Robert Allott". Cuttings from 3 old catalogue entries with armorial bookplate "Nicholas Dobree of Guernsey" on front pastedown, old parchment with early MS script used in binding showing at front and back of book, endpapers heavily browned, ownership "J Smith" at top of title, pages throughout crisp & clean but foxed at edges, ownership signatures of Henry Hatcher dated 1637 on back of 2nd titlepage. *Identification of Eliot's Court Press from STC (2nd ed.), 288. The translator James Mabbe (1571/2-1642?) spent years in Spain from 1611 as secretary to Sir John Digby, and in 1622 his friend Edward Blount first published this translation of Alemán's work. In 1623, the same year as this 2nd printing, a poem by Mabbe appeared in the Shakespeare first folio, which was also published by Edward Blount in 1623. The typeface, format and paper of this book are remarkably similar to those of the first folio. Referenced by: STC (2nd ed.), 289.

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Book number: V48041

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Keywords: Spain Spanish biography

Alexander, William (but not here named)

PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions.

London, Thomas M'Lean, plates published Jany. 1813 by J. Murray Abermarle Street. 1830 (approx. acc. To BL) Hand-coloured plates (50) of people in various occupations the TRADES eg.Fireman, chimney sweep, milkmaid, herald, Dragoon, rifleman, newsman gipsy. Octavo (240x159mm) half red crushed leather with wide raised bands gilt + gilt title to spine, marbled covers (edges worn/marbled paper rubbed). Titlepage + plate list + 100 leaves printed one side only and each hand-coloured plate facing the leaf describing the trade, military rank or position. Last plate witn 1cm tear to lower margin. Endpapers with foxing and some browning but all other pages with minimal sign of use and bright colouring with some gum heightening, some gilt and some appropriate background in colour also. *A very good copy of the second edition (circa 1830 according to British Library catalogue).

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Book number: V75348

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Keywords: trades hand-coloured plates English

Alias,Charles [edit] illustrations by Herbert Sidney

SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG

London, Alfred Hays 1885 color plates [16 + pictorial color plate half-title] by Herbert Sidney . oblong folio red cloth gilt and black pictorial cover [spine with a few splits but holding well/edges rubbed/corners bit worn/some marks but bright gilt] All Edges gilt. Color illustrated half title + Printed titlepage with Preface by E.L.Blanchard to verso + [life of]William Shakespeare /verso blank + xvi pages of text to face each plate, these printed one side only] + [16 color plates] All leaves are stubbed onto cloth hinges as sewn in and as issued, some scattered pale foxing spots and 1 inch marginal tear without loss to foot of a page else hardly any signs of use. The front endpaper with a gift inscription to David Henry Graeme from his loving Aunts Louisa & Mimie Xmas 1886.

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Book number: V75717

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Keywords: Shakespeare plays Dramatic Tableaux entertainments