Stumpff, Johannes (otherwise Stumpf, 1500-1577)

KEYSER HEINRYCHS DES VIERDTEN, Hertzogen zuo Francken und am Rhyn &c, fuenfftzigjaerige HISTORIA (50-year History) ... durch Johann Stumpffen auss den alten waarhafften latinischen Gschichtschreybern fleyssig zuosamen in teutsche Spraach gezogen, mit schoenen Figuren beziert ...

Zurich, Christoffel Froschouer 1st edition 1556 Woodcuts (104), many first used in the Schweizer-Chronik of 1548 with scenes of battles, sieges of cities, convocations, portraits &c. . Small folio (29.4 x 19.5mm) in sixes, 19th century half-calf with marbled boards, spine labels with gilt title in French and date 1556 (edges worn, labels chipped). Titlepage with woodcut printer's mark, 2 leaves (A2-A3) dedication & argument + CXXXVII leaves of German text, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Lacks 7 preliminary leaves (Sources A4, Register B-B6) and one final blank leaf, otherwise collated complete. Title and the 2 preliminary leaves have small edge-tears and are re-hinged on newer paper stubs, text pages mostly clean and crisp with occasional small marks and light browning. Bookplates: "ex Libris Ludovic Blondin" and armorial "Friedemann Graf und Herr von Werthern". *Rare early Protestant treatise intended to show the harmful effects of Papacy, partly based on sources collected by Joachim Vadian. Written as a History of the life of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV (1050-1106), it also mentions some events from British history, citing the Venerable Bede, John Scotus, Archbishop Lanfranc and William the Conquerer. Black Letter text in German with printed side-notes. The 104 text woodcuts are of superb quality, well printed, some some after designs by Holbein (reference BM STC German, 1455-1600 p.839).

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Sonstige Stichworte: history anti-catholic illustrated woodcuts

Suter, J[acob] (1805-1874)

COSTUMES SUISSES Dessine´s d'après Nature

Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Goupil & Comp 1840 approx. Hand coloured lithographed plates (25) heightened with gum printed one side of leaf only. . Large octavo blindstamped pebbled navy cloth gilt titled to cover, lower cover with coat of arms gilt (rubbed/tips slightly bumped). Title page lithographed in red and blue with gilt text & decoration and silver Swiss cross + 25 pages of plates printed on light card stock on beige ground. A few plates with minor foxing & minor dusting to margins, the front free endpaper is loose and both endpapers are oxidized to the outer edges. Inscription to free endpaper, Mary Jane Bruce Goode, A Present from Mr. Butcher April 2nd 1869. *Costumed figures and paler background beautifully hand coloured (Colas 2839).

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By the author of "Doctor Syntax" [William Combe 1742-1823]

THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, from the designs of Thomas ROWLANDSON, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Doctor Syntax." Vol.I + Vol.II.

London, R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts (printed J. Diggens). 1815, 1816 Hand-coloured plates (71 of 72 - lacks "the Waltz" in Vol.II) + hand-coloured frontis & engraved titlepage by Thomas Rowlandson. . Two Volumes gilt half black roan on 4 faux raised bands with red gilt-titled spine labels and marbled boards (tips and edges worn/rubbed). Hand-coloured engraved title with large vignette of 8 skeletons dancing in a graveyard + printed title +[4]pp Index to Vol.I + iii-viii Advertisement by the Author + 295pp; Vol.II hand- coloured frontis of Death atop a globe + printed title + [4]pp Index to Vol.II + 299pp. Almost all plates show off-setting to opposite leaf and "shadow" on page facing back of illustration. Some spotting or staining to margins of text pages and plates. One plate poorly re-inserted with brown glue, about 12 others with nicks or trimming of captions. All have 2 pin pricks to fore-edge margins, so this set was probably bound up from original parts issues, which usually had 3 plates per part and preceded the book editions. *PROVENANCE - the original owner of these books was the author's second wife Charlotte Combe, whose signature appears on the flyleaf of both volumes. Combe lived for many years imprisoned for debt within the limits of the King's Bench Prison - he married Charlotte in January 1814, shortly before the parts publication of the English Dance of Death, and died in the King's Bench 19th June 1823. His widow Charlotte afterwards went to live in Ireland with her friend Mrs Eugenia Curtis, widow of Joseph Curtis of Booterstown, whose son James Gray William Curtis later owned the books - his armorial bookplate is on the pastedown of both volumes. He died in 1870. The next owner was Henry A. Grimston whose signature March 13th 1873 is on the fly-leaves. Parts of this history are given in a laid-in typescript (signed R.R.J. 7/5/1905) addressed to the last recorded owner, R.G. Brown Esq.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Dance death Syntax Combe parody hand-coloured illustrations

Talbot,B.

COMPLEAT ART OF LAND-MEASURING; or, A guide to practical surveying: teaching an exact method of measuring and mapping of lands, woods, waters, etc. by the catoptric sextant, and of casting up the same by the pen ... To which is added an appendix, containing a new theory of the catoptric sectant and its use ... also, instructions for measuring of standing timber with several plain and useful tables.

London, T. & W. Lowndes 2nd edition 1784 Copperplates (12+supplement plate)+ folding table . Octavo late 19th/early 20th century green buckram spine gilt lettered (tips rubbed/sl.marked) xxiii + [1]p + 412pp. Half title & Titlepage damaged & soiled and mounted on a support paper. Preface pages also repaired with translucent paper tape mainly to gutter. These pages are soft and a bit fragile but entirely readable. The contents pages and the entirety of the text and all the plates are in clean and good condition. All the plates & tables are also on strong,firm good quality paper. *Detailed use of the various surveying instruements of the time and the working of examples via set problems is the method of teaching adopted by this teacher of mathematics.

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Taylor, John (Cruikshank illustrated)

MONSIEUR TONSON

London, Marsh & Miller 1830 Frontis + 6 plates by Robert Cruikshank. . Duodecimo half brown calf (rebacked/corners worn) 19pp+ catal on verso of last leaf, lacks last blank. Inscriptions on FEP else neat. Bound with a Thomas Hood poem which is complete but lacks the illustrations.

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Sonstige Stichworte: poetry humor illustrated Cruikshank

Thackeray,W.M.) Pendennis (Richard Doyle illustrator)

NEWCOMES, The Memoires of a most respectable Family edited by Arthur Pendennis

London, Bradbury & Evans 1st edition 1854, 1855 Engravings (46) by Richard Doyle. . Two Volumes octavo worn half calf (spine deficient & split/tips worn/lacks 2 labels and the other two chipped) viii+380 viii+375pgs each volume with engraved TP and plates with usual foxing mainly to the margins of the plates. Some light paper tanning to the text but text quite clean and tight. Decorative initial letters with amusing Doyle caricatures. Worth rebinding.

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Thatcher's

ALBUM OF BRISTOL & CLIFTON

Printed in Germany, Thatcher N D Leperello Panorama with 22 folding illustrations . Octavo black cloth-spined red gilt boards (tips worn/gilt darkened) slight edge dusting & paper browning on verso with one fold part-torn

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Theo [pseudonym]

VISIT OF A LONDON EXQUISITE TO HIS MAIDEN AUNTS IN THE COUNTRY Illustrated by Theo

London, W. Kent & Co. (late David Bogue) 1859 Pictorial engraved titlepage + 21 further plates by Theo. . Oblong quarto blue blindstamped embossed cloth gilt lettered to cover (tips worn but bright neat covers) All Edges Gilt. Each page entirely engraved including the text and printed one side of page only. Some pale foxing mainly to margins. *Looking at the lack of amusments available in the country and the many embarassments suffered there is still a happy ending. Dedicated to W. M. Thackeray this is a high quality printing.

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Theognis and other Greek poets, compiled by Friedrich Sylberg

THEOGNIDIS, PHOCYLIDIS, PYTHAGORAE, SOLONIS & aliorum POEMATA GNOMICA. Graecis ex adverso Latina interpretatio apposita .. Opera Frederici Sylbergeii [preceded by Title in Greek].

Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Ex officina Johannis à Waesberge 1659 Woodcut vignette on titlepage + a few foliated initials. . 12mo 130x80mm contemporary vellum (sl. damaged) All Edges Rouge. Ownership on FEP in 19th century blue ink (Kiel), Titlepage followed by 4 sections of poems by each Greek author and a 5th by others followed by Sylberg's Notes, [8]+170pp collated complete. A few isolated brown marks, else clean & crisp throughout. Contains poems by Pythagorus et al. *First published in similar form by Waesberg, Utrecht 1651, this is 2nd of 2 1659 Utrecht editions, the 1st by Hermann Ribb in 12mo of [8], 97, [3]pp. This very rare early edition is not listed by BSB Munich.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Greek Latin poetry Pythagoras

Thomas a Becket, Saint (1118?-1170)

EPISTOLAE ET VITA DIVI THOMAE MARTYRIS et Archi-Episcopi Cantuariensis. Nec non epistolae Alexandri III Pontificis, Galliae Regis Ludovici Septimi, Angliae Regis Henrici II, aliarumque .. Concernentes Sacerdotii et Imperii Concordiam. In lucem productae ex MS. Vaticano: Opera & studio F. Christiani Lupi, Iprensis ..

Brussels, Typis Eug: Hen[rici Fri]cx. 1682 Large woodcuts (8 some repeats) at the end of each section. . Two Volumes in one, quarto (205x161mm) contemporary dark calf (worn corners, rebacked in matching leather with defective original spine laid on). Titlepage in red & black +[2]pp +[8]pp dedication +176pp +[30]pp index +905pp +[1]p blank +[75]pp index +[1]p approbation etc. On title page there is an ink stamp "College Library Carlow" and a faded ownership "Hugonis Armacani 1724" [Hugh Boulter was appointed Archbishop of Armagh in that year]. TP is dusty, repaired tear at foot with small loss to imprint, dedication pages edge-dusty, damp stained throughout but paper mostly strong and quite readable. Small worm track to lower margin of 13 leaves and one opening with ink marks affecting a few letters, end-papers may be newer. *First part consists of the Life of Thomas a Becket, his wounding and death and happenings after his martyrdom. The 5 books contain his letters to his fellow churchmen in England, on the continent and to the Vatican.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history Saint martyrdom Bishop Canterbury Becket Henry VIII

Thomas,Robert B.

OLD FARMER'S ALMANACK calculated on a new and improved plan,for the year of our Lord 1873 (No.81)

Boston USA, Brewer & Tileston/ but on cover Thompson,Bigelow & Brown 1873 Illustrations to each month + Titlepage & nice illustrated organ advert. & front cover by Nichols. . Octavo orange paper pictorial wrapper/adverts to rear (sl.edge tears but neat) 48pp incl. farming advice, astrological symbols, schools info., puzzles, poetry and anecdotes etc.

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Thomson, James (1700-1748)

THE SEASONS

Edinburgh, Kincaid, Bell & Robertson 1768 Plates (2) [of 5] Spring & Summer, by Thos. Donaldson. . 12mo speckled leather on 5 raised bands with red gilt title label to spine [one hinge split at top 2 compartments but held by 1st & 2nd cords rest of hinges good, tips worn, lower cover marked). Title leaf +xxxviii (Contents, Life, Odes) +208pp with last 5 pages "The Hymn". *A neat copy in original binding but lacking portrait & 2 other plates (referenced by ESTC T101639).

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Sonstige Stichworte: poetry English literature illustrated

Thornton,Col Thomas (1751-1823).

SPORTING TOUR THROUGH FRANCE ..2 volumes

Pr.Cundee Albion-Press. London, LongmanmHurst ,Rees and Orme +C.Chapple 1806 aquatint plates & engraved plates (56 includes portrait + 2 engraved pictorial exta titlepages] + 29 vignettes by Bryant et al. . 2 volumes. Quarto half calf blind-tooled on 4 faux bands gilt + 2 contrasting labels to each volume (some splits to head and foot of spine but covers well attached /edges bit worn) lxvi +108pp + [6p=index] ; xii +260pp +[8pp =index& plate list] + 4pp of sporting books published. 2 plates and the titlepage vignette neatly handcoulored. Last plate in vol.1 is slightly soiled and wrinkled and was sewn in at an angle thus margins are not all equal. There is a brown stain to the gutter side at the front of volume one diminishing within the preliminaries but still affects the gutter margin of the first 24 pages but never encroaching on any of the actual plates except for the portrait and the engraved titlepage. There is rather less foxing/dusting than usual with the paper in crisp neat condition and there are MANY FINE FOLDING AQUATINT VIEWS & interesting hunting & shooting observations. Also nice vignettes [the final one in vol 2 printed upside down} actually several more than are listed in the vignette list. Some scattered plates in vol.2 have some pale foxing but most plates are free of any foxing. A well illustrated set.* Thomas Thornton was a famous sportsman of the Napoleonic Era, on his visits to France he presented Napoleon with a pair of Durs Egg pistols.

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Thorpe, Rosa Hartwick (1850-1939)

CURFEW MUST NOT RING TO-NIGHT

London, Castell Brothers printed in Bavaria 1890 approx. Chromoliths (full page) + pictorial half title & pictorial title +text illustration to last verse signed AB and full page engraving to end leaf. . 16mo (160x1130mm) red gilt crushed roan gilt reverses (tips sl.rubbed) All Edges Gilt [19] pages verses & line illustrations in brown. Blank pages at front & back bit foxed else all other leaves clean & bright. Fine vibrant chromolith plates on heavy stiff paper.

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Sonstige Stichworte: poem illustrated chromolithography

Tiliano, G. Morellio

TABULA COMPENDIOSA DE ORIGINE, SUCCESSIONE, AETATE, ET DECTRINA VETERUM PHILOSOPHORUM …

Basileae, Ex Officina Hervagiana 1580 MDLXXX . Octavo vellum titled to spine "Tiliani Origo. Doct Vet:Philos." Vellum with fore-edge yapped with ties lacking & an Old damp mark to upper 1.5 inches + faint 3-digit number to top of spine. Titlepage + 7 Preface leaves + 496pp + Index. Inner cover inscribed. Titlepage with excised paper below the date at the foot of the page which was then neatly filled in from the back of the page.The following leaf has some ink lettering to the lower margin. The paper is uniformly a bit tanned but it is a neat tight copy throughout.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Greek Latin literature history