Béraud, Paul-Emilien. [GEORGE FINCH'S COPY - OF EVEREST FAME & FIRST HUMAN TO CLIMB ABOVE 8,000 METRES]

Relation du Sieìge de Lyon, contenant le deìtail de ce qui s'y est passeì, d'apreÌs les ordres et sous les yeux des repreìsentans du peuple franc?ais.

n.p. [Paris}: n.p. 1794. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 120pp. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, repaired. From the library of George Finch, of Everest fame, with his armorial bookplate. Attributed by Barbier to Paul-Emilien Beraud. Bound with five other works: (I) Vie de Louis-Philippe-Joseph, Duc D'Oreleans; (II) Montgaillard, Etat de la France; (III) Mallet du Pan, Correspondance Politique; (IV) Rapsodies du Jour; (V) Chateaubriand, De Buonaparte et des Bourbons. Good.

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Buchzahl: 2276

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Besdel, P.F. [pseudonym for Gayot de Pitaval, François].

Abrégé des causes célébres & intéressantes, avec les jugemens qui les ont décidées.

Bath: de l'imprimerie de R. Cruttwell, aux dépens de l'auteur, 1793. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo Three volumes. I: [xii], 298, [ii]pp.; II: 283, [iii]pp.; III: [iv], 241, [iii]pp. I: A6, B12-N12, O6; II: A12-M12 [M12 blank]; III: []2, B12-L12, M2. With the half-titles present. Contemporary half vellum over paper boards. Decorative ornaments. A very attractive set. Good.

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Buchzahl: 2318

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books

Bianchini, Francesco.

Camera ed inscrizioni sepulcrali de' liberti, servi, ed ufficiali della casa di Augusto scoperte nella via Appia, ...

In Roma: appresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni, nell'archiginnasio della Sapienza, 1727. 0. Hardcover. Folio. VII, 87pp. a6, A4-K4, L2. First edition. Engraved title in black-and-red. Contemporary vellum. With an engraved title, engraved vignettes, and 7 engraved plates (5 of them double-page). The engravings show cross sections, elevations, architectural details and inscriptions. The plates were drawn by Girolamo Rossi and engraved by Antonio Buonamici. Cicognara 3617; Brunet I, 847; Graesse 361; Olschki 16462. From the Cholmondeley Library, with its bookplate. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1933

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Classics

Blake, Sir Francis. [SIGNED BY BLAKE].

Political tracts: containing I. A proposal for the liquidation of the national debt: ... II. The efficacy of a sinking fund of one million per annum: ... III. The abolition of tithes and the reform of the church revenue: etc.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1795. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. [8], 354pp. []4, A8-X8, Y10 (- Y10 blank). New edition. With a half-title. Signed by the author. Contemporary wrappers. Long tear on half-title repaired with tape; although the tape has been removed and the page has been repaired properly, the stain remains. Goldsmiths'-Kress 16311. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1346

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio.

London: Thomas Edlin, 1725. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [22]pp. 284ff. [13], 49, [1]pp. A2, B4, C2-D2, a4-z4, aa4-zz4, aaa4-zzz4, aaaa4-kkkk4. Contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired. With engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait of Boccaccio. ESTC T143906. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1934

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Bodley, Sir Thomas.

Reliquiae Bodleianae: or, Some genuine remains of Sir Thomas Bodley: ...

London: Printed for John Hartley, 1703. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [16], 383, [1]pp. A8-Z8; Aa8-Bb8. Twentieth-century brown morocco. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1935

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Books about Books

Boethius, Anic. Manl. Torq. Sever.

Boethii De Consolatione Philosophiæ Libri Quinque. Recensuit, Emendavit, Edidit, Johan. Eremita.

Paris: Sumptibus Lamy Bibliopolæ, 1783, 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. liv, 280 pp. 3 parts in one volume. Parts 2 and 3 have half-titles only, and are paged continuously, exclusive of half-titles. Modern light blue half goatskin over marbled boards. Lacks frontispiece. Fair.

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Buchzahl: 2527

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books

Boileau, Jacques [Lolme, Jean Louis de, translator].

The History of the Flagellants: otherwise, of Religious Flagellations among different Nations, and especially among Christians. Being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbe Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ...

London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1783. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], 426pp. []1, B8, *A1, C8-Z8, Aa8-Cc8, Dd4, ee8. Irregular pagination: 426 numbered 226. Second edition. Title vignette. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. With 2 engraved vignettes and 2 full-page engraved plates. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1246

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Boismont, Nicolas Thyrel, M. l'Abbé de.

Oraison funèbre de Louis XV. Roi de France et de Navarre, surnommé le Bien-Aimé. Prononcée dans la Chapelle du Louvre le 30 Juillet 1774, en présence de Messieurs de l'Académie Françoise.

A Paris: Chez Demonville, Imprimeur-Libraire de l'Académie Françoise, rue St. Sévérin, aux Armes de Dombes, 1774. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 61, [i]pp. Contemporary vellum. Bound with six other works: (1) Papon, Orasion Funebre, Turin, 1773; (2) Beauvais, Oraison Funebre, Paris, 1774; (3) Mero, Oraison Funebre, Nice, 1774; (4) Thomas, Eloge de Louis, n.p. n.d.; (5) Denina, Panegirico Primo, Torino, 1773; (6) Gagliardi, De cvltv memoriae, Carali, n.d. Good.

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Buchzahl: 2319

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books

Bolton, Robert.

A Letter to an Officer of the Army, on travelling on Sundays.

London: printed for J. Rivington; and J. Leake, at Bath, 1757. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. [ii], 50pp. First edition. Disbound. In a cloth box. ESTC T27272. Good.

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Buchzahl: 716

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books

Bonaventure, Saint.

Uficio de'Sette Dolori della Beattissima Vergine Maria, composto da S. Bonaventura colla Coronella, ed altre Divote Orazioni.

In Napoli: Per Vincenzo Manfredi, 1768. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 116pp. []2, A12-D12, E10. Bound in quarter morocco over patterned green boards. With 48 religious plates by A. Baldi. One plate missing part of margin, affecting image. Paper browned. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1316

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Religion

Borlase, George, editor.

Cantabrigienses graduati sive catalogus: exhibens nomina eorum, quos, ab anno 1659, usque ad annum 1800, gradu quocunque ornavit, Academia Cantabrigiensis, e libris subscriptionum desumptus, atque ordine alphabetico compositus.

Cantabrigiae: typis academicis exudebat J. Burges, veneunt apud J. Deighton, Cantabrigiae; T. Payne, T. Cadell, J. White, et W. H. Lunn, Londini, 1800. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [4],480 pages. With the half-title present. In a contemporary half calf binding over marbled boards, rebacked. From the library of David Elisha Davy, with his bookplate. With manuscript annotations of David Elisha Davy (1769-1851), collector and Suffolk Antiquary. B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1790. An excellent association copy. ESTC T105143. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1408

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Association Copies, Manuscript

Sonstige Stichworte: Association Copy

Boyle, Robert.

The Works of the Honorable Robert Boyle. In five volumes. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author.

London: printed for A. Millar, opposite Catharine-Street, in the Strand, 1744. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Five volumes. I: 5ff. 152, 584pp.; II: 2ff. 566pp.; III: 2ff. 652pp.; IV: 2ff. 556pp.; V: 2ff. 736pp. 43ff. Titles printed in red-and-black with an engraved vignette. Contemporary calf. With an engraved frontispiece portrait by B. Baron after Kerseboom and fifteen plates. Fulton 240; Sotheran I, 519; DSB, II, 377-82; Roberts & Trent, p.52; ESTC T4460. First collected edition, and the only one in folio, edited by Boyle's biographer, Thomas Birch. Good.

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Buchzahl: 777

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Science

Boze, Claude Gros de.

Dissértations sur le Janus des Anciens, et sur quelques Médailles qui y ont rapport.

Paris: Chez Pierre Cot, 1705. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], 46, [iipp. []1, A8-C8 (C8 blank). In library boards. With engravings of coins related to the myth of Janus. NUC 71, p. 215. Deaccessioned from the Library of Chicago with release stamp on verso of tile-page and number stamped at top of page 3. Good.

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Buchzahl: 1939

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Brean, Franciscus Xavier.

Lob und Sanct=Predig...

Neustadt: gedruckt bey Samuel Muller, 1717. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 19pp. A4-B4, C2. Disbound. A sermon preached to celebrate the empress' birthday in the cathedral in Belgrade. Paper browned. Good.

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Buchzahl: 386

Katalog: Eighteenth Century Books

Sonstige Stichworte: RELIGION, PREACHING, HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS