Boyle, Charles (1676-1731) [later Earl of Orrery]

DR BENTLEY'S DISSERTATIONS ON THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS AND THE FABLES OF AESOP EXAMIN'D By The Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq.

London, Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon 1698 . Octavo contemporary tan roan spine and lower cover (lacks front cover, leather worn). Titlepage +[6]pp preface +290pp with errata below the "Finis". Side notes in Latin & Greek often long enough to require incursion into the text, also some footnotes. Small blind stamped coat of arms on flyleaf with initials RB K.C. Cambridge and faint name F. Creswell. Titlepage & preface bit dusty & fingered, text on better, whiter paper is clean & crisp throughout (WING O469). *A manuscript of the Letters supposedly by Phalaris (of Sicily 570-554 B.C.) was in the care of Dr. Bentley as King's librarian. Boyle complained in his 1695 Oxford edition that Bentley was unhelpful in not giving enough time for the collation he needed. Two years later Bentley replied to this criticism in an essay which said that the Letters were a clumsy forgery by a Greek rhetorician. This book is the patrician Boyle's elaborate reply, produced with the aid of several Oxford scholars. Bentley then won the argument in a splendid scholarly work, but the controversy was justly famous and celebrated in Swift's "Battle of the Books" published in 1704 (see DNB articles on Bentley and Boyle).

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Book number: V73748

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Keywords: fables epistles Greek controversy

Boyle, The Honourable Charles

Dr. BENTLEY'S DISSERTATIONS ON THE EPISTLES OF PHILARIS AND THE FABLES OF AESOP EXAMIN'D

London, hos. Bennet 1699 titlepage in red and black and all edges sprinkled red with top edge darkened. . 8vo Newer brown leather with 5 raised bands to spine and gilt title, date and rules to spine. Covers with blindstamped floral panells and with darker prinkled middle compartment to both covers.[Edges quite worn & chipped especially to corners/ inner hinges reinforced] Titlepage in double ruled border + [6p =Preface] + 266pp + 4p index. Page 265/6 and first leaf of index have some soiling and some paper loss to the outer margin not anywhere near the text. There are three fonts used in the book. Greek letter, italic and Roman and they are also used in the side notes of the outer margin. At the foot of the pages in the front about a dozen pages have a tide mark not impinging on the print and in gathering O & P there is another feint tidemark which just touches the bottom two lines of text. Page 279/280 are cut a bit short but there is still plenty of margin. The last section of the text deals with the Fables of Aesop and how Bentley has traduced them. This copy is the 3rd edition of Boyle's book and has some additional new material added.

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Book number: V76045

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Keywords: Academic dispute

Boyle,Kay

GENTLEMEN I ADDRESS YOU PRIVATELY

London, Faber and Faber 1st first edition 1934 . Octavo green cloth gilt spine title (unevenly sunned and faded/tips slightly rubbed) 311pp very clean and crisp except that endpaper pastedowns have a show through from the cloth turn-ins - ie around the edge of the pastedowns and the endpapers show very slight pale foxing. Text entirely white with no writing inside and looks unread. An early work about an unfrocked priest in France which she re-wrote in 1990. This is the first edition as originally written by the budding novelist.

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Book number: F69610

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: novel first edition

Boyle,Robert (1627-1691) with notes etc. By Peter Shaw M.D (1694-1763)

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medecine / the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time by Peter Shaw.

London, W.& J.Innys & J.Osborn & T.Longman 1st edition thus. 1725 folding plates/pullouts[1 +19 +1] . 3 VOLUMES quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands [not quite matching/lacking 2 title labels of vol II and III, Volume I has been rebacked with a new spine label & corners underlaid.] Vol. I title page +[2p=dedication and inscritpion] +xxxi [=Preface & preliminaries] +[1p=blank] +xxxiii -xliii [=content] + 730pp vol.II xx[=title +dedication +content] +726pp Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes index] There are several misnumbering but catchword and signatures are correct however there are 5 leaves in Facimile. The endpapers of vol.I have pencil notes and computation,and ink name, Thomas (possibly contemporary), the pastedown of Vol. II & III have a coat of arm bookplate of Revd. John Rocke. Dedication in Vol 1 from Shaw to Lord Burlington (1694-1753), who helped construct numerous grand houses across the UK including Northwick Park. Volume II dedication to the Earl of Orrery (1674-1731) a patron of the sciences. The margin of one leaf has a burn mark to the corner affecting only one letter of the catchword. There are a few marginal worm tracks to the margins of the text in vol.1 but in all the volumes are clean, crisp and unmarked. Text is unmarked across all volumes. *Boyle regarded today as the founder of modern chemistry, alonside Newton as a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. As member of the Royal Society he was elected president but declined the honor,and is remembered for the law named after him of volume vs.pressure of gases. Investigation and experiments were to be his way of studying science and he was not one to build hypotheses until proof was obtained. This collection of the many papers and experiments he wrote up are here brought up to date with later findings to produce the best and most complete compilation of his work. Dr Peter Shaw was a London based physician who was appointed physician extraordinary to King George II in 1753. All Vol`s printed in London.

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Book number: V75195

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Keywords: Science

Boyle,Robert (1627-1694) with notes etc. By Peter Shaw M.D (1694-1763).

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS [Volume II + III Only] physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medecine / the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time by Peter Shaw.

London, W.& J.Innys & J.Osborn & T.Longman 1725 folding plates [19 in Vol.II & in Vol. III] . Quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands with gilt spine label [rebacked with old spine relaid and original cover laid on front board] Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes index]. Title on spine loose and rubbed. The half title to "Medicine" is in facsimile.TOPICS covered in these volumes are pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, air, Minerology & Gems, and medecine with the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since Boyle`s death in 1694 by Dr Peter Shaw. Early and last pages have a damp mark mainly marginal and neither paper or text compromised. The endpapers have a modern Thomas Bewick bookplate. Possible contemporary signature on titlepage, ink. The volumes are clean, crisp and largley unmarked. Vol II contains a dedication to the Earl of Orrery, a patron of the sciences. *Boyle is largely regarded today as the founder of modern chemistry, and a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. A member of the Royal Society he was elected president but declined the honor,and is remembered for the law named after him of volume vs pressure of gases. Investigation and experiments were to be the way of science and he was not fond of hypothesis until proof was found. This collection of the many papers and experiments he wrote up are here brought up to date with later findings to produce the best compilation of his work and this is the first edition thus. Dr Peter Shaw was a London based physician who was appointed physician extraordinary to King George II in 1753. All Vol`s printed in London.

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Book number: V75196

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Keywords: Science

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

TENTAMINA QUAEDAM PHYSIOLOGICA diversis temporibus & occasionibus conscripta a Roberto Boyle, cum ejusdem Historia fluiditatis et firmitatis, ex Anglico in Latinum sermonem translata.

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir 1667 Elzevir Printer's mark to Titlepage. . Duodecimo (132x67mm) 18th century roan spined marbled boards (upper hinge repaired/head of spine chipped/tips worn) All edges rouged. Titlepage +[6] +424pp. Coat of arms bookplate & location on front end-paper otherwise completely unmarked crisp copy. *The only Elzevir edition. These essays are the first edition of Boyle's work in Latin to be printed on the continent. Physiologica in this sense included discourses on physics, chemistry, meteorology, medicine & related subjects as well as observations that we would still classify as physiology (eg. dog's digestive system). There are accounts of purely chemical research. According to Fulton "the importance of this work lies in the fact that in a very real sense it was a prologue to the Sceptical Chymist since it continued the attack on the alchemists began in New experiments, and actually it was as much of a landmark in the history of chemistry" [as those other works]. It gives the first clear outline of his corpuscular theory of the nature of matter (References: Fulton 29, Wellcome I 221, Garrison & Morton).

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Book number: V69672

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: chemistry science experiements

Barrie's PETER PAN retold by Pamela Zanin Bradbury

PETER PAN TO THE RESCUE

London, Ottenheimer(1991)/Books&Toys /Binky bks 1992 Fan fold pop-up (3) illustrations by C. Geer engineered by Bruce Foster . Octavo pictorial boards (6pp) V.G.

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Book number: J53534

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Keywords: pop up classic illustrated

Bradley,Susannah

MAKE A MODEL CASTLE

London, Purnell Past Times Make a Model series reprint 1988 Color illustrations to cut out & build a model with . Small folio pictorial card covers (31pp) 4 figures cut out but laid in else uncut unused *includes Castle history, life in a castle, directions for assembly +8pp playlet

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Book number: J49734

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: cut out model childrens illustrated

Braine,John

JEALOUS GOD, The

London, Eyre&Spottiswoode 1st edition 1964 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly bumped & rubbed) 286pgs slight EP foxing else V.G in slightly edge rubbed dust jacket with 2 small closed tears (less than 1cm).

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Book number: F54027

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Braine, John

THE JEALOUS GOD

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1st edition 1964 . Octavo green boards (rubbed/with rubbing to head & foot of spine) 286pp +[1]p last few lines of text. Stamp of "Officer's Mess R.A.F. Innsworth" & "Cancelled" stamp. Contents clean and tight. *Braine's fourth book.

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Book number: F73694

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first

Braithwaite,William C.

VERSES

London, Swarthmore Press 1922 . Octavo beige buckram spined boards with spine and cover paper labels (tips sl.rubbed fore-edge sl.sunned) 128pp Edges uncut only lightest of edge foxing to uncut edges else V.G. *Quaker author and poet, country poems mainly Gloucestershire a few relate to War.

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Book number: F68114

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry country verse Quaker Gloucestershire WW 1

Bramhall, Mae St. John

JAPANESE JINGLES

Tokyo, Hasegawa 2nd edition, Kelly & Walsh sole agents. 1893 Colour woodblock printed illustrations in the Japanese style. . CREPE PAPER 173x138mm colour pictorial covers (covers foxed and faded, rubbed and with creases) spine with silk ties - 66 leaves (counting the covers) joined at the fore-edge and printed on one side only. Contents with a few pale foxings but clean and bright throughout. The first & last two leaves with slight edge curl. Every page with colour illustrations.

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Book number: J74737

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Keywords: Japan illustrated crepe paper Hasegawa

Bramston, James (1694?-1743)] [but not here named]

THE ART OF POLITICKS, IN IMITATION OF HORACE'S ART OF POETRY

London, Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head, 1st edition. 1729 Frontis of chimera: fish-bodied, winged, bosomed horse with man's head. . Small quarto in recent grey card covers, frontis + title + 45pp. Upper margin of titlepage repaired where part of name cut away, frontis and last leaf mounted, 3 leaves cut short at fore-edge without loss of text. *The first of two political satires published anonymously by Bramston, a Sussex clergyman, which "hold an honourable place in 18th-century verse, [and] abound with contemporary references, and frequently happy lines" (DNB article James Bramston - see too D.F. Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, B386).

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Book number: V66492

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Keywords: poetry satire classical political

Bramston,M. [Mary Bramston]

FOR FAITH AND FATHERLAND

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1898 by prize inscription Plates (3) + some pictorial initials and decorations. . Octavo orange pictorial cloth of the Apple Blossom series (tips rubbed) 255pp +16pp booklist. Prize inscription from Odiham Parish Sunday School to Miriam Shearing. An historical novel of religious strife.

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Book number: J72993

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Victorian moral historical story

Brander,Michael edits

INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHOOTING

London, Pelham Books 1st edition 1972 Color plates, text illustrations & diagrams. . Quarto navy cloth (tips slightly worn, small tape removal mark where dust jacket anchored) 352pp ex library with usual marks and lacking flyleaf but clean and tight copy of useful encyclopaedia.

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Book number: A49541

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: shooting hunting sport big game