Bray,Thomas D.D. (1658-1730)

A SHORT DISCOURSE Upon the Doctrine of our Baptismal Covenant; being an Exposition Upon the Preliminary Questions and Answers of our Church-Catechism .. [bound with] AN APPENDIX TO THE DISCOURSE Upon the Doctrine of our Baptismal Covenant: being a Method of Family-Religion.

London, Printed by E.Holt for Will. Hawes 3rd edition 1699 . Two Works in One Volume small octavo newer binding [14] +200pp and [48]pp including music. Paper browned and small corners turned down or creased. Both works collate as in British Library copy except that the blank before titlepage has been replaced at a later date. End papers are new. *Bray was an influential English cleric & philanthropist, founder of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1699. Sent by the Bishop of London to Maryland he founded parish libraries there, encouraged English clergy to visit or emigrate to America. The Dr.Bray Associates were instrumental in Georgia in the education of plantation slaves. This work was written for young people on the importance and meaning of Baptism into the church (WING B-4299 & B-4288).

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V71151

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: religion baptism America SPCK

Bree (the elder)

CADEAU DES MUSES or Almanach Universel, Etrennes utiles et Agreables Annee commune 1846

Falaise/Paris, Levavasseur / Marcilly 1845) Multifolding maps (2) + frontis. plate + a few text illustrations . 99x62mm blue paper covers with eclipse information to inside of front cover & index to inside of back cover (small loss to one corner some other corner curl else rubbed) (120pp) of tables, court appointments, military officers, list of fairs to be held around France in the year 1845 etc. Also section of poetry by various authors. The first folding plate has 4 astronomical illustrations & a more than 3 fold map of the world with geographical town information on back. 2nd Map is of France and its Neighbors joined to a map of Europe. This latter is torn to one of its folds and the detached piece laid in. This also has geographical information on the back.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V66530

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: almanac France

Brewer, Tho[mas] (flourished circa 1605-1631)

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE MERRY DEVILL OF EDMONTON. With the pleasant pranks of Smug the Smith, Sir John, and Mine host of the George, about the stealing of venison. By T.B. printed in black letter by T.P for Francis Faulkner .. in Southwark, 1631.

London, Reprinted for W.R. [William Robinson] by J. Nichols and Son 1819 Larger than half page woodcut to titlepage + country contentments scene to first page + a head- and tail-piece. . Octavo later neat grey boards with spine title (tips sl.worn) iv +52pp. MS note from Gentleman's Magazine June 1820 p44 and August 1848 p211 attributing the republishing of this original 1631 humourous tale of a Tyll Owlglasse like hero to the London historian William Robinson. Light edge dusting but neat wide-margined copy, no tears, no marking.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V73995

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: humorous sketches

Brighte, John [pseudonym of J. Duncan]

THE BOOK TO KEEP THE SPIRITS UP in dull and gloomy hours; manifestations of fun, mirth, humour, drollery, repartee, wit, with funny anecdotes, laughable incidents, poetry, &c.

Wakefield, William Nicholson and Sons n.d. but 1850 according to British Library Coloured frontispiece with several humorous vignettes. . Octavo, green cloth stamped in gilt with black decorative borders and spine text (tips bumped) vi + 238pp + [2]pp publishers catalogue more of which is printed on front and rear endpapers. *This Wakefield edition is probably the first and is very rare next came the more common 1865 Halifax edition.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V74731

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Victorian humour

Brodrick, Thomas

A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR IN THE NETHERLANDS. Together with an Abstract of the Treaty at Utrecht. By Tho. Brodrick, Gent. The whole Illustrated with 15 Curious Copper Plates .. (Volume I Only of 2)

London, Printed by William Pearson for Thomas Ward (1st edition). 1713 Folding and doublepage maps (15 complete) in 2 volumes, some with coat of arms surrounds, + decoratve head-pieces. . Two Volumes octavo, in un-matched near contemporary bindings, decoratively tooled and panelled calf on 5/6 raised bands (covers of Vol. I detached, tips worn & scuffed, Vol. II with boards gilt but newer leather spine, all edges very worn) Vol.II All edges gilt. Vol.I folding frontis map + Title +[8]pp dedication/preface +23pp of subscribers +[1]p blank +xvi +218pp + [2]pp publisher's book list. Vol.II half title/blank verso + 221-448pp +[12]pp index. Vol.I name-stamp John D. Bareham on pastedown, earlier ownership inscription on back of frontis, 1st 5 leaves with poor tape gutter repairs, book list tipped onto last leaf; Vol.II with name-stamp S Mead on 1st 2 pages, a few ink-spots else clean and crisp throughout. Frontis of Vol. I is a general map of Flanders, other maps in both volumes depict the battles - Hochstet (Blenheim), Ghent, Brussels, Oudenard, Mons, Dunkirk etc. *Complete copy in 2 volumes of this finely illustrated 1713 first edition (in year of Treaty of Utrecht), which gives the earliest published comprehensive account of Marlborough's victorious campaigns in the low countries (ESTC T114756).

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V70983

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: military history Netherlands Marlborough England treaty Utrecht

Brooke, Richard

VISITS TO FIELDS OF BATTLE in England of the fifteenth Century; to which are added, some Miscellaneous tracts and papers upon Archaeological Subjects.

London, John Russell Smith & Liverpool J. Mawdsley and Son 1857 Frontispiece + 3 full page Battle Field Plans + early eighteenth century plan of Shrowesbury (sic) tipped to endpaper. . Octavo blindstamped rose cloth spine gilt titled (head of spine bit damaged 1cm vent to hinge & chipped to foot of spine corners bumped) x +342pp (half title & title counted within pagination, title printed red & black) tissue guards browned. Additions & corrections slip tipped in. Gift inscription to fly leaf. First and last two leaves slightly foxed else clean and crisp. Includes battles of Shrewsbury, Northampton, Tewkesbury, Bosworth, Stoke, Evesham also chapters on Firearms in 15th Century, Family pedigrees, and extracts from Acts of Attainder 1461, 1675 & 1685 and article on keeper of Royal Menagerie. Also wolves' extinction etc.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V74381

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: battles military 15th century history Shrewsbury

BROWN,Richard

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, Containing a History of the Science, and the Principles of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-Houses, Country Mansions and Suburban Villas, with Practical Dissertations on Every Branch of Building .. 63 plates

London, George Virtue 1850 approx) Frontis. + 62 plates shewing a view of the house, often also a cross section in doll house style, a ground plan & details + text illustrations of the style of furniture recommended for each type of house. . Quarto half calf spine gilt and with contrasting title-label (rebacked with most of spine relaid, corners worn) xii+342pp titlepage continues "from the Choice of the Site, to the Completion of the Appendages. Also, Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Characteristic Situation and Scenery; with instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Ornamenting Grounds; Exemplified in Sixty-Three Plates, containing Diagrams and Exemplars of the various Styles of Domestic Architecture, with a Description, and Wood-Cuts of the Appropriate Furniture, Garden, and Landscape Scenery of Each." Styles include Egyptian, Roman, Tudor, Stuart, French chateau, Florentine Villa, Swiss cottage, Oriental pavillions, Tudor Gate Houses, etc.also stables, entrance lodges, dog kennels Ice houses etc. Occasional, mainly marginal foxing except for portrait frontis more heavily foxed. Tissue guards in place and all plates in neat condition.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V68463

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: architecture houses garden design furniture

Browning, Robert

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

London, Quilter first edition 1898 Decorations by Harry Quilter. . Printed on vellum throughout 129x105mm gilt overal stylized design (tips worn & lacking spine) [50]pp each page is stubbed onto cloth hinge. The text is ornamented by Mary Quilter. The detail in the art nouveau designes is incredible and printing on vellum is difficult so probably few copies printed. There are hidden dragons, peacocks, mice, frogs, bats, dancers among the interlaced flowers, grapes etc.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V61331

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: vellum printing poetry

Brunck, Rich. Fr. Phil. Editor

ANALECTA VETERUM POETARUM GRAECORUM Tom. I [II, III] + IV INDICES IN EPIGRAMMATA

Strasburg (Argentorati), Jo. Gothofr. Bauer et Socium + Leipzig Dyck for vol.4 1772, 1773, 1776], 1795 Vignettes to 3 titlepages with different charming scenes of cupids by Weis, 3 folding pages of prettily formatted Greek verse. . Four Volumes octavo half green roan spines gilt ruled marbled paper sides (edges bit rubbed marbled paper darkened where leather underlaid) All edges speckled green. Neat presentation dated 1784 from Cyril Jackson Dean of Christ Church Oxford to Edward Ash. Titlepage engraved including vignette +xxxiv +506pp including imprint of printer Joannis Henrici Heitz dated 1772; vol 2 engr. title and different vignette +529pp + [1]p same imprint of Heitz dated 1773; vol 3 engraved title with another vignette & imprimatur of Bauer & Treuttel +319pp +[1]p Heitz with date 1776; vol 4 INDICES IN EPIGRAMMATA quae in Analetis Veterum Poetarum a Brunckio editis reperiuntur, Auctore Friderico Jacobes Lipsiae in bibliopolio Dyckio 1795 vi +443pp. A neat set with minor pale foxing but paper in strong clean supple condition. All poems in Greek, Epigramata index in Latin. This is the first work Brunck edited. His innovations on the established mode of criticism startled European scholars. As an editor, he made no commentaries, but occupied himself only with the text. Persuaded that all faults in the language of the Greek poets came from the carelessness of copyists, wherever it seemed to him that an obscure or difficult passage might be made intelligible and easy by a change of text, he did not scruple to make the necessary alterations, whether the new reading were supported by manuscript authority or not (Wikipedia).

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V75136

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Greek poetry verse

Brune,Johan de

VAN'T BANKKET-WERK van Goede gedagten Het eerste Deel [ + ] Het tweede Deel [ +] Met een gemeyne Blad-wijser achter het tweede Deel

Middelburg, Jaques Fierens 1660 woodcut to titlepage of "Spe & Metu" [Hope & Fear] plus a Basilike signed I.C.I. in the cut + copperplate portrait of Joh.de Brune cropped to lower margin . TWO PARTS IN ONE VOLUME Octavo contemporary laced through vellum [top left worn and torn, rest a bit soiled and manuscript title faded] Titlepage printed in red & black with licence to print to verso + [13pp=dedication +laudatory poems + [1p=portrait] +496pp Part II [24pp=title to part 2 +to the reader +laudatory poems] +495pp which includes 56 page index. Approx.6 pages with tiny ink sprinkles not affecting legibility and one clean tear without loss to page 239/240. Otherwise a clean tight copy with a modern bookplate & a 19th century bookseller's label to front pastedown. A Banquet of good thoughts with hundreds of short paragraphs, some partly in verse, under different heading with a good index. De Brune was a Dutch golden age poet and writer, most noted for his 1624 "Emblemata of Zinne-werck".

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V75357

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: thoughts

Buckingham, J.S.

THE EASTERN AND WESTERN STATES OF AMERICA ..in three volumes

London & Paris, Fisher & Son & Co, [1842] Fine doublepage scenic views [15 views] all but one by W.H Bartlett . 3 VOLUMES 8vo brown blindstamped cloth with spines titled in gilt [rebacked with most of the three old spines relaid /corners worn and a bit bumped/ edges sl.rubbed] [xvi =Frontis + titlepage +plate list + contents] +573pp Vol. II [viii =Fgrontis. +titlpepage +Contents +plate list] +536pp Vol.III [1opp =Frontispiece +Commendatory letter + titlepage + contents + plate list] + 600pp] Inner hinges strengthened probably at time of reback, Bookplate of H.T.H.Taylor to the pastedown of each volume. A clean tight copy of the complete set with all the fine double page plates on thick paper.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V75839

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: America fine double page plates

Buckler,J(ohn) C(hessell)

School at Eton College + Grammar School at Harrow Middlesex from "SIXTY VIEWS OF ENDOWED GRAMMAR SCHOOLS".

London, Hurst & Co. 1827 Two original engravings by Buckler. . Quarto 2 separate Plates. Price quoted is for each engraving plus postage.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V66349

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: topography England Architecture schools

Bunbury,Henry William also known as Geoffrey Gambado] writing as A Humorist Physician

GEOFFERY GAMBADO; or, a simple remedy for HYPOCHONDRIACISM and melancholy splenetic Humours.

London, For the author by Dean & Son 1865 approx) Tinted paper & hand color pink wash plates (18) by Bunbury . 234x168mm half dark green roan (tips worn/splits to head&foot of spine but tight) 115pp with plates on beige tinted paper and smaller in size 190x155mm *The plates are all of horse riders and drawn in a free pen-line caricature style and tinted with pink hand colored wash. Quite a rare book of humorous plates and far scarcer than his"Academy for Grown Horseman."

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V55956

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated humor horse riding book

Busaeus, Johannes [1547-1611]

VIRIDARIUM CHRISTIANARUM VIRTUTUM

Moguntiae [Mainz Germany], Joannem Albinus 1st edition 1610 Engraved pictorial TP + a few head- & tail-pieces and some decorative capitals. . Small folio (in 6's) Blindstamped Pig on wooden covers with rolls and central embossed image of Isaac preparing to sacrifice Jacob but for the angel's intervention + Lower cover with a angels climbing a ladder to heaven. Canted corners and 1 of two clasps present + 1 part of 2nd clasp present. [some rubbing to covers /edges worn /some marks] All edges red dyed. Engraved Titlepage with seven women dieties including Faith,justice etc. + (10pp=Dedication, laudatory poems + contens) + 709pp + (1p= errata) + (4pp = index) Some worming thrtuout & Endpapers have 2 purple Monestary stamps + one in lower margin of Dedication page and same on first text page.There is an old ownership inscription on the pastedown and three names on the titlepage. One is dated 1636 the second with single lines crossing out the name and third is so faded it is hardly readable. The paper is in very good, supple and clean ,supple and without tears as it is of a strong thick quality. There are 57 virtues such as humility, contemplation, fortitude ,wisdom etc given in alphabetical order. Each is asessed, and its properties listed, and the means of obtaining it, are discussed. There are side notes throughout and the text is in two founts,italic and ordinary. Bound in a highly decorative binding with the hinges good condition this is a handsome item.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V75864

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Virtues VD17 12:105493K + de Backer/Sommervogel II, 438 f.

Byron, Lord George Gordon (1788-1824)

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON Illuminated by W & G AUDSLEY Architects.

London, Day & Son 1865 Chromolith illustrations to each page by W. R. Tymms from illuminations by W. & G. Audsley. . Folio purple gilt cloth with green onlays bevelled boards (tips sl.worn) 20 leaves. One page with clean 3.5" tear with old neat repair to verso and hardly visible to the printed surface. Lacks free endpaper All Edges Gilt. 2 pages with edges cut short thus approx.1cm loss to blank margins. A few other pages have a narrow dusty area but NOT touching any border illumination nor printed area. Book is tight and handsome copy of this sought after work. Printed one side only each leaf having a double or triple illuminated border with much gold which surrounds the text. Some decorative initials and headpieces. Every page differs. The binding is nice and bright.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: V66447

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illuminated gilt poem poetry