Corpus Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis: sive pandectis constitutionum academicarum, e libris publicis et regestis Universitatis consarcinatus.

Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1768. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [xxxiv], 205, [1]; 89, [1]; 91-479, [1825-1854], 8 [1837], 12 [1839], 3 [1847], 1 [1844], [iv], 33, [1] corrigenda; 91, [1] corrigenda, [16], index, [20] elenchus. First edition of the revised statutes of Oxford University, with numerous additions and corrections. Nineteenth-century cloth. Much more complete than any I have seen over the years. Very Good.

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Book number: 2709

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Nineteenth Century Books, Law

Curiöse Beschreibung der auserlesnesten Merckwürdigkeiten, so in denen dreyen Welt-Theilen Asia, Africa und America zu Finden, ...

Augsburg: Zu finden bey Andreas Brinhausser, 1765. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [4], 362, [18]pp. A12-Q12. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards. Three leaves of plates. With engraved frontispiece by J. Bäck and 2 folding engraved plates [1721 first edition]. Sabin 17986 (1784 edition); not in Cordier. Good.

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Book number: 1951

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Travel, Illustrated Books

Daniel in the Den of Lions. [Cheap Repository. Sunday Reading.]

[London]: sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, & no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, & R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository) at Bath, 1795, 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 24pp. A12. Disbound. With a woodcut on the title-page. Spinney, G.H. 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3, 28a; ESTC N505454. In this edition, the second line of the imprint ends "and Religious", and price (in upper and lower case) begins "Price 1d. each." This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney). Price from imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Below imprint in square brackets, in black-letter: Entered at Stationers Hall. Entered in the Stationers' Register 29 June 1795. ESTC records only two copies; one at the BL and the other at the Bodleian. Good.

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Book number: 2693

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Religion

Description du mausolée et de la pompe Funèbre ... Pour ... princesse Marie-Magdelaine de Portugal, roi et reine d'Espagne.

[Paris]: De l'imprimerie de Christophe-Jean-François Ballard, seul imprimeur du roi pour la musique & noteur de la chapelle de Sa Majesté, rue S. Jean-de-Beauvais, à Ste Cécile. M. D. CC. LX. Par exprès commandement de Sa Majesté, 1760. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. 12pp. A6. Disbound. With a large engraved vignette at the beginning of the text by C.N. Cochin. With two holes to the title-page, not affecting anything. Good.

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Book number: 1954

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books

Description du Catafalque ... Pour ... Princesse Marie-Amalie de Saxe, reine d'Espagne et des Indes.

Paris: De Christophe-Jean-François Ballard, 1761. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. 20pp. A10. Black reliure de deuil royal, with royal arms on the upper cover. With an engraving on the title-page by Charles Nicholas Cochin, engraved by Benoît Louis Prévost. Cohen-de Ricci, 289; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 140. With a royal bookplate. Good.

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Book number: 1955

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings

Description du Mausolée de très-haute, très-puissante & très-excellente Princesse, Marie-Charloote-Sophie-Felicité Leszczynska, Reine de France.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de P.R.C. Ballard, 1768. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. 19pp. A4-D4, C2. With the half-title present. Original wrappers. With an engraving on the title-page by Charles Nicholas Cochin engraved by Miger, and 4 plates by M. C. Challes. Plates showing elevations and floor plan engraved after Challe by Martinet. Mourning headpiece vignette, C.N. Cochin del. 1768, S.C. Miger sculp. Good.

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Book number: 1956

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Diplomata et Statuta Regalis Societatis Londini Pro scientia naturali promovenda. Jussu praesidis et concilii edita.

Londini: Typis Sam. Richardsoni, 1752. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. iv, 115, [i]pp. Quarter red polished calf over marbled boards by Henderson & Bisset, Edinburgh bookbinders. Royal Society's coat-of-arms as frontispiece. ESTC T83944. Very Good.

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Book number: 728

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books

Le dodici gemme dell'antico Efod sacerdotale e le virtu in esse simboleggiate e riscontrate ...

Bergama: Per Francesco Locatelli, 1776. 0. Soft cover. Folio. [vi], 58, [iv]pp. Pi2, A4, B6-D6, E8. Title-border of floral designs. Giovanelli's coat-of-arms at bottom. Title-page ruled. Pink silk binding with green silk doublures. Open spine. Ties lacking. With a frontispiece portrait of Giovanelli and a full-page engraving at the end. Numerous engraved vignettes. Good.

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Book number: 1958

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Geraldina: a novel founded on a recent event: in two volumes.

London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson . 1798. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: [ii], 275, [i]pp.; II: [ii], 300pp. I: [A]1, B12-M12, N6; II: [A]1, B12-N12, O6. Contemporary calf, repaired. Black, F.G. Epistolary novel 134; ESTC N7149; Garside, P. English novel, 1770-1829, 1798:3; Block, A. English novel, p. 83. There are three known copies of Geraldina, located at the New York Society Library, the University of Pennsylvania, and Forstliche Bibliothek zu Corvey, with none known in British libraries. The set was recently repaired; and one leaf (Volume II, page 115/116) was restored. Good.

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Book number: 1496

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books

An important crisis, in the Callico and Muslin Manufactory in Great Britain, explained.

n.p. [London]: n.p. n.d. [1788]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 28pp. Drop-head title. Dated 9th April, 1788. Disbound. Goldsmiths' 13559; ESTC T148250. Six copies in the UK, one in Ireland, one in the US, and one in Canada. Good.

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Book number: 2444

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books

Imprisonment for debt considered. With respect to the bad policy, inhumanity, and evil tendency of that practice. Translated from the Italian.

London: printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1772. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xvi], 40pp. With the half-title, in excellent facsimile. Drab boards. Roscoe, A246; ESTC T37075. Ex-library copy; deaccessioned with all the appropriate marks. ESTC records three copies: one at the British Library, one at Queen's University at Belfast, and one at Yale. It is conceivable that this was originally written by Beccaria; but there is no evidence to support this assumption. Good.

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Book number: 2339

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books

The lover's cabinet: a collection of poems: containing, I. The fair Circassian. A dramatic performance. By a gentleman of Oxford. II. The midsummer wish. By the same. ...

Dublin: printed for L. Flin, at the Bible in Castle-street, near Silver-Court, 1756. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 76, 220pp. Contemporary calf, repaired. ESTC T504924. ESTC records four copies: two in the UK - Oxford and Cambridge; and two in the US - Harvard and Yale. Good.

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Book number: 2725

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Poetry

The loves of Mirtil Son of Adonis a pastoral.

London: n.p. 1770. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], iv, [iv], 139, [i]pp. Title-page engraved. Contemporary calf, repaired. With six plates by Gravelot. ESTC T118871. Good.

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Book number: 2726

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Poetry

A new and general biographical dictionary; containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation; particularly the British and Irish; from the earliest accounts of time to the present period.

London: printed for T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, B. Law, T. Field, T. Durham, J. Robson, R. Goadby, and E. Baker, 1761-1767. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Twelve volumes. I: viii, 515pp.; II: [i], 454pp.; III: [i], 588pp.; IV: [i], 452pp.; V: [i], 516pp.; VI: [i], 582pp.; VII: [i], 543pp.; VIII: 650pp.; IX: [i], 418pp.; X: [i], 534pp.; XI: 524, [xiv]pp.; XII: [i], 519, [iv]pp. I: []4, B8-Z8, Aa8-Kk8, Ll2; II: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8, Gg4 (Gg4 blank); III: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Oo8, Pp4, Qq2; IV: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8, gg2; V: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Kk8, Ll2; VI: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Oo8, Pp4 (Pp4 blank); VII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Mm8; VIII: A8-Z8, Aa8-Rr8, Ss6 (Ss6 blank); IX: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Dd8, Ee2 (Ee2 blank); X: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm4 (Mm4 blank); XI: A8-Z8, Aa8-Mm8, Ll2 (last seven leaves without signatures); XII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Kk8, Ll6. The twelfth volume, the 'Supplement,' was published in 1767. Contemporary calf, worn. A few covers loose. Good.

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Book number: 1999

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Dictionaries/Language

New version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. By N. Brady, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq. Poet-laureat, to His Majesty.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon printer to the University; and sold by John, Francis & Charles Rivington, Benjamin White, Charles Dilly, and John Fielding, in London; and J. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, 1782. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. No pagination. [192]pp. Final leaf = H12. In this edition the price beneath the imprint is 6d. unbound. Contemporary red polished calf, worn. ESTC T200726. ESTC records three copies, all at Cambridge University Libraries - Sir Geoffrey Keynes Collection, British & Foreign Bible Society, & Peterborough Cathedral. Bound with: The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Printed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. Cambridge: printed by John Archdeacon Printer to the University; and sold by John, Francis, & Charles Rivington, Benjamin White, Edward Dilly, and Thomas Beecroft, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, 1777. Good.

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Book number: 2695

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Religion