[PARIS DE MEYZIEU].

Bibliotheca Parisiana. A Catalogue of a Collection of Books, Formed by a Gentleman in France, not less Conspicuous for his Taste in Distinguishing, than for his Zeal in Acquiring, whatever, of this kind, was most Perfect, Curious, or Scarce. It includes... Books Magnificently Printed on Vellum, with Illuminated Paintings; Manuscripts on Vellum, Embellished with Rich Miniatures... They will be Sold by Auction, in London, on Monday the 26th of March, 1791, and the Five Days Following.

London: [J. Edwards]. 1791. 8vo (195 x 125 mm), viii, 164pp., with half-title, original pink boards, rubbed, spine rather chipped, but still a nice uncut copy. First issue of the title page with the 26th instead of the 28th of March as the first day of the sale. An interesting sale of mysterious ownership put together by James Edwards who had already brought the Pinelli books from Venice for sale in London. The additions came from the library of Cardinal de Brienne and from Italy. The sale also contained Aldines which never existed. Renouard in his Annales de Alde suggested that Edwards had purchased these books in Italy and had used the Italian booksellers notes to catalogue them without having seen them personally. The deception created five fictitious Aldines (lot 18, 171, 206, 223 and 526). De Ricci, p. 89; Munby and Coral, p. 90, Arthur Rau, Bibliotheca Parisiana in 'The Book Collector', Autumn, 1969.

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Book number: 37312

Keywords: BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUES BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS

[LOWTH (Rev. Robert)]

Billesdon Coplow Hunt. Monday, February 24th. 1800.

[S.n.] [c. 1810]. Drop-head title, 8pp., small closed tear to lower margins, disbound. The Rev. Robert Lowth was a keen huntsman, it was while visiting Melton Mowbray and out with the Quorn Hunt, when he was an eyewitness to the celebrated run from Billesdon Coplow which he describes in this poem.

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Book number: 26626

Keywords: POETRY FOX HUNTING MELTON MOWBRAY LEICESTERSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN

[SHARP (Sir Cuthbert)]

The Bishoprick Garland, or a Collection of Legends Songs Ballads Etc Belonging to the County of Durham.

Sunderland: Hills and Company, 1906. First edition, 8vo, limited to 150 copies, 88pp., illustrs., orig. cloth-backed boards.

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Book number: 39057

Keywords: FACSIMILES BIBLIOGRAPHY

[YATES (William)]

The Book of Genesis and part of Exodus in Bengali. Translated from the Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries.

Calcutta: Printed for the Bible Translation Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1842. Second edition, [182]pp., title in English and Bengali, text in Bengali throughout, slight browning of first few leaves, original cloth, printed paper label, a nice copy. Not in Darlow and Moule.

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Book number: 37772

Keywords: BIBLE BENGALI CALCUTTA PRINTING

[NIXON (Howard M.)]

Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier. A Loan Exhibition.

British Museum. 1965. First Edition, 76pp., signed and dated by Broomhead with his bookplate, coloured frontis., 138 illustrs., orig. gilt-pictorial simulated morocco. Howard Nixon arranged this exhibition and wrote most of the catalogue. From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead.

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Book number: 27848

Keywords: BOOKBINDING

[NIXON (Howard M.)]

Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier. A Loan Exhibition.

British Museum. 1965. First edition, xx, 76pp., coloured frontis., 138 illustrs., orig. gilt-pictorial simulated morocco. Howard Nixon arranged this exhibition and wrote most of the catalogue.

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Book number: 36007

Keywords: BOOKBINDING JEAN GROLIER

[BLOUNT (Thomas)]

Boscobel: or, The History of His Sacred Majesties Most Miraculous Preservation after the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651... London, 1660.

Reprinted for Houlston and Son. 1832. xix,[1],91,[1]pp., frontis., 2 plates (1 large folding), orig. embossed cloth, spine gilt, uncut.

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Book number: 19137

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN

[DARWIN (Erasmus)]

The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. 4to (260 x 205 mm), 2 parts in one, first part the first edition, the second part is a third edition, [4], vii-xii, 214, 126, [2]; [2], ix, [1], 197, [1]pp., engraved frontispieces and 18 plates (5 folding), of which 5 plates by William Blake, occasional offsetting, signatures L & M misbound (part 2), scattered faint spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary full red morocco, single gilt fillet border to boards, smooth spine, seven gilt tooled bands producing 6 compartments, upper compartment with the Arnold crest - a demi tiger regardant bezanty holding a pheon, next compartment gilt lettered direct, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very nice copy. Epic poetic tribute to the lives, loves, and reproductive capacity of plants by the grandfather of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Botanic Garden is important for the five plates in part I which are engraved by William Blake: 'The Fertilization of Egypt,' engraved after the painting by Henry Fuseli, and four engravings of the Portland Vase. "The chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime, The Botanic Garden contains a great deal of important and frequently advanced scientific information in the nearly 300 footnotes and the 115 pages of appendices to its verses..."— The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Henry Arnold (1791-1844) to font paste-down; later bookplate of Ralph Hermon Major.

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Book number: 39447

Keywords: BINDINGS BOTANY ENGLISH LITERATURE WILLIAM BLAKE POETRY

[CLIFFORD (J.)]

The Botanical Pocket-Book; with Observations on some of the Rarer Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells.

Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Published by J. Clifford, 1840. First edition, small 8vo, v, [1], 179, [3]pp., folding hand-coloured frontis., early ownership signature of Anne Maria Cotlow to head of title page, orig. green cloth, rubbed, printed paper label on upper cover. Simpson, p. 171.

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Book number: 37947

Keywords: BOTANY BOTANICAL BOOKS ANTIQUARIAN TUNBRIDGE WELLS KENT

[DEAKIN (Richard)]

The Botanist's Manual: Comprising a Complete List of the British Flowering Plants and Ferns, divided into the Linnaean classes and orders, according to the arrangement of Sir W. J. Hooker; designed principally for the out-door convenience of botanical students and amateurs, as a book of entry for the discovery of plants or habitats, and also as a convenient pocet companion for persons engaged in collecting materials for local floras.

Sheffield: R. Ridge, [1836.] First edition, 12mo, iv, 107, [1]pp., the text provides spaces to enter where each specimen was gathered (with several contemporary entries in ink), orig. green cloth, spine label, rubbed.

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Book number: 39586

Keywords: BOTANY NATURAL HISTORY FERNS PTERIDOLOGY

[EMANUEL (Edward)]

Bradshaw's Complete Anglo-German Phrase-Book for Travellers and Students; with a Vocabulary of the most useful words in English and German; the Modes of addressing the Dignitaries of England and Germany; Letters, Notes of Invitation, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures, &c. Vollständiges Handbuch von Englisch-Deutschen, Redensarten;......

London, W. J. Adams & Sons; Manchester, Henry Blacklock & Co., N.D., [1867]. First Edition, 16mo, advertisement leaves at beginning and end, text in English and German, 99, [1] pp., original red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, all edges gilt, a good copy.

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Book number: 33754

Keywords: Phrase book German LANGUAGES

[HARGRAVE (Francis)]

Brief Deductions relative to the aid and supply of the Executive Power, according to the Law of England, in Cases of Infancy, Delirium, or other Incapacity of the King.

London: Printed in the Year, 1788. Second Edition, 4to, the final leaf C2 is blank, iv, 6, [2] pp., disbound.

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Book number: 32782

Keywords: Law PAMPHLETS

[MAGNAN (Dominique)]

Calcografia della Colonna Antonina Divisa in 150 Tavole... Parte I [-III].

Rome: Appresso Gaetano Quojani, 1779. First edition, 3 parts in one, oblong 4to (195 x 260 mm), 4; 4; 4pp., 146 engraved plates (complete), cont. half calf, rubbed.

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Book number: 33997

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE FINE ARTS ITALIAN HISTORY ITALY

[FOX (Henry, 1st Baron Holland)]

Candid Reflections on the Report (as Published by Authority) of the General-Officers, appointed by his Majesty's Warrant of the First of November last, to enquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition to the coasts of France. In a letter to a friend in the country.

London: Printed for S. Hooper and A. Morley, 1758. Third edition, 8vo, 44pp., without half-title, disbound. General Officers appointed to inquire into causes of failure of the Rochefort Expedition of 1757.

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Book number: 38393

Keywords: MILITARY FRANCE ROCHEFORT EXPEDITION SEVEN YEAR WAR

[COWLEY (John J.)]

The Candidates Guide or the Electors Rights decided shewing the Determination of the Rights of Elections, by the Honble. the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament, in all Contraverted Elections for the Counties and Boroughs in South Britain, from the Year 1624 to 1730.... To which is added, the like Determinations in Contraverted Elections for North Britain, since the Union. With several Resolutions and Standing Orders relating to Elections,....... Together with the Heads of the Statutes now in Force concerning the same;... The whole digested into Alphabetical Order, with proper References and genuine Quotations. By J. C. Gent.

London: London: Printed by J. Brindley, and Sold by Mrs. Dodd, 1735. Second Edition, corrected and improved, library stamp of the Birmingham Law Society on title and some places in the text, 64pp., pamphlet with a marbled paper spine. Goldsmith, 7322.

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Book number: 30851

Keywords: LAW ELECTIONS ANTIQUARIAN ECONOMICS POLITICS