Tilt [publisher]

TILT'S POCKET ALMANACK. The third after leap year. 1843

London, Tilt and Bogue 1843 [1842] . 100 x 50mm pale blue ribed cloth with large gilt floral cartouch surrounding title [covers bright and clean] All Edges Gilt 80pp including calendar printed in red and black and blank leavs for notes with blue frames. Six of these blanks have ink inscriptions with 18 others unused. The pages after p61 include Moonlight Calendar, Property and income tax, Colonial governors, prelates, London university professors etc, ambassadors ,East India Co., Fire engine stations, Army / Navy Agents, Duties on male servants, exhibitions/amusements, Wages etc. An crisp clean tight copy. The handwritten notes deal with Sophy who became ill on 25th Feb. other notes tell of doctors in attendence, progress of the illness others in the household who also fall ill and those who look after the patients.

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Tindal, N[icholas] (1687-1774) (Joseph Spence 1699-1768)

A GUIDE TO CLASSICAL LEARNING; or Polymetis abridged.

London, R.Horsfield & J.Dofdley 2nd edition corrected and inlarged 1765 copperplates [12 including one folding of star constellations by P.Fourdrinier] with from one to six images] these probably used previously in Spence's Polymetis as page numbering is . 12mo marbled tan leather on 5 raised bands with extra gilt floral decoration and red title label to spine.Gilt dentelles. Spine slightly worn, coverpage slightly loose[tiny bit bleached to one corner]. Plate 1 as frontis +Title-page in red and black +[6p-Introduction] +279pp +[6p=index] +1 leaf over publisher's booklist. 1 Pullout illustration on p173. Except for endpapers's browning/foxing to edges a lovely clean copy in a charming binding in overall very nice condition. *Deals with the Ancient Greek and Roman deities, heroes, poets, and other classical figures and the statuary and artwork produced. This book is an abridgment by Tindal of Joseph Spence's 'Polymetis', Printed on Ludgate Srt.

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Continental Tourist

BELGIUM AND NASSAU; or The Continental Tourist. Commencing at Antwerp, and proceeding .. to Frankfort on the Main. Illustrated with Numerous Steel Engravings and Maps of Cities.

London, Black and Armstrong 1838 according to British Library) Plates (58) + 2 folding City maps of Brussels & Frankfurt. . Octavo green diapered cloth with red leather gilt label (tips bit worn/spine sunned). Titlepage in facsimile +136pp (last leaf in facsimile with only a few lines of text to one side). The plates and maps are bound all together at the back of the book. Some light foxing but most plates clean with lovely detailed views of people, boats, horses, city scenes of Frankfurt etc.

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Continental Tourist

BELGIUM AND NASSAU; or The Continental Tourist. Commencing at Antwerp, and proceeding .. to Frankfort on the Main. Illustrated with Numerous Steel Engravings and Maps of Cities.

London, Black and Armstrong 1838 according to British Library) Plates (58) + 2 folding City maps of Brussels & Frankfurt + engraved Titlepage (with vignette). . Quarto LARGE PAPER copy green half morocco on 5 raised bands marbled paper sides (spine leather browned) All edges marbled. Titlepage +137pp +[1]p index of illustrations. Coat of Arms bookplate of J. Talbot Clifton of Kildalton on pastedown & neat inscription on blank page. Usual edge foxing, 4 plates with marginal damp tide-mark and one with a corner missing. *Lovely detailed views of people, boats, horses, city scenes of Frankfurt etc.

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S.P.C.K. Tracts by Thomas Broughton (1712-1777 former Secretary to the Society), Richard Lucas, Josiah Woodward and others

RELIGIOUS TRACTS, Dispersed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In Twelve Volumes [1800-1804] Vol. X. [only of 12].

London, F. & C. Rivington, Booksellers to the Society 1803-[1804] . VOLUME X (13 tracts in one volume): Broughton,Thomas SERIOUS ADVICE AND WARNING TO SERVANTS (1800) and THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER (1803); [Anon] THE DUTY OF PAYING CUSTOM (1792) and AN EXHORTATION TO CHASTITY (1803); THE HUSBANDMAN'S MANUAL (1804); Lucas,Richard SERMON PREACHED AT ST. CLEMENT DANE (1800); [Anon] MOTIVES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS TO BEAR AFFLICTIONS PATIENTLY (1799); A PRESENT FOR SERVANTS (1801 12th ed.); THE PUBLIC-HOUSEKEEPER'S MONTITOR .. A Serious Admonition to the Masters and Mistresses of .. Public Houses (1793 new ed.); Woodward,Josiah THE SEAMAN'S MONITOR (1803 16th ed.) and THE SOLDIER'S MONITOR (1803 9th ed.) and THE YOUNG MAN'S MONITOR (1802 13th ed.); [Anon] THE YOUNG WOMAN'S MONITOR (1804 8th ed.). Three tracts printed on pale blue paper, bookplate of J.H. Hodgetts Foley [1797-1861] and modern ownership label, duodecimo contemporary tree calf, rubbed. Collates: [4]pp vol.X title & contents +iv +48pp; xii +pp.13-48; 24pp; 24pp; x +pp.11-60; 24pp; 24pp; xii +pp.13-84; ix +pp.10-60; iv +pp.5-71 +[1]p publisher's catalogue; vi + pp.7-72; 36pp. *Collection of early religious tracts on interesting subjects also separately published by SPCK.

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by a french Traveller [=Simond, Louis ]

JOURNAL OF A TOUR AND RESIDENCE IN GREAT BRITAIN during the years 1810 and 1811… with Remarks ON The Country, Its Arts, Literature, And Politics, And On The Manners And Customs Of Its Inhabitants. Volume First +[ Volume Second]

Edinburgh, Constable and Company & Longman,Hurst.Rees,Orme,and Brown, London 1815, 1815 aquatint plates [21 with pink background] + 2 folding tables + text illustrations [12]. . TWO Volumes Octavo Gilt tan Diced leather with gilt spine titles and floral & key-pattern decoration, gilt panel rules to covers & gilt reverses & dentelles (tips worn more so to 2nd volume/ hinges heavily rubbed & some damage to head/foot of spine). All edges marbled [xvi] includes title + "notice" + Preface + half title] +382pp half Title + titlepage +360pp +directions to binder with "Works of Jonathan Swift" to verso. Endpapers rather browned, rest of paper only sl.tanned and book block neat and tight. 1st volume covers loose. *The author originally French spent more than 20 years in America and this book was intended for the AMERICAN market as well as the French. Having an English wife and travelling without the necessity of an occupation he was fortunate to be about to travel at will. He had introductions to many people he might not otherwise have met, because of his wife's aquaintances and was interested in not only scenery but the finances, politics and literature etc. He found courtesy and interst everywhere and found the country one of the happiest. There is an Appendix on Ireland in the second volume.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 20 years in America this Frenchman wrote Journal Travels in England for American Friends

Trollope,Anthony (1815-1882)

THE WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH MAIN.

London, Chapman & Hall (no edition but dated on titlepage year of first edition) 1859 Hand colored map of West Indies and northern part of South America. . Octavo red roan spined boards (leather mostly lacking but covers well attached) iv +395pp. Paper browned and 3 small tears without loss. *Based on Trollope's tour of the West Indies undertaken as a British Post Office official in 1858-9. The DNB entry on Trollope says that "Sir Rowland Hill .. Trollope's decided adversary in most things, has left it on record that Trollope's mission to the West Indies was fruitful in valuable results, and that his suggestions for the improvement of the packet services had the assent of nautical men. The expedition resulted in .. a highly entertaining book of travel, considered by the writer as the best of his work of this kind." It begins "I am beginning to write this book on board the brig ---, trading between Kingston, in Jamaica, and Cien Fuegos, on the southern coast of Cuba. At the present moment there is not a puff of wind .. It is now the 25th of January, 1859, and if I do not reach Cien Fuegos by the 28th, all this misery will have been in vain .." A rather worn copy in poor binding but probably the first edition, and complete.

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Merrick.J + Tryphiodorus

THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY Being the Sequel of the Iliad. Translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus. With Notes. By J. Merrick Scholar of Trinity Coll.[college] Oxford.

Oxford England, Sheldonian Theatre [1739 1741 copperplate printer's mark repeated on each titlepage . 8vo later cloth spined marbled boards [Corners worn/rubbed newer end papers] Half-title + Titlepage +[2opp=Preface & subscriber's list] +LXXXVIII [=88pp of Disseration] + 151pp + Half title +GREEK LATIN titlepage +[4p=preface & blank] +112pp which includes the Index. Ex-library with the usual stamps to lower corner of some pages. There are two title pages the first being in two parts: The Dissertation wherein the author's life and times, the Second part with the English verse translation. The Second titlepage u=is for the Greek parallel with the Latin. All parts have extensive footnotes. Pale foxing and minor edge browning with the paper remaining crips and the print in very clear readable fonts with multible styles and sizes.

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Tulpius, Nicolai (1593-1674) [ Nicolas Tulp]

OBSERVATIONES MEDICAE

Amsterdam, Henr.Wetstenium [reimpt=ression of Daniel Elsevir] 1685 full pages engravings in the text [18 numbered plates + one other full page unnumbered at page 178 + one text illustration [Siamese twins] . Octavo leather spined boards with plum colored buckram sides. Vi [of viii] the missing title & plate +382pp This is a reimpression of the new edition of Daniel Elsevir published after his death by Henry Wetsten it is a line for line copy of the 1672 printing except that the "monita medica" has been moved from the end [pages 383-92 become *5-*6] to prelims at the front. There are 2 old neat library stamps of the Birmingham General Hospital to the margins of *2 & *3 otherwise clean copy. Gathering 8 is printed with pages printed on one side only and glued together to give a double sided text. There are well executed engravings including an early depiction of an oranutang, also two examples of Siamese twins etc, this work also includes early descriptions of migraines and the impact of smoking tobacco on the lungs. This book has been known as the "book of monsters" due Tulp`s disection of animals brought back to the Netherlands by the Dutch East India Company. *Tulp`s anatomy lessons are the subject of a famous painting by Rembrandt.

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Tusser,Thomas (1524?-1580)

FIVE HUNDRED POINTS OF HUSBANDRY: directing What Corn, Grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what Trees to be planted; how Land is to be improved: With whatever is fit to be done for the Benefit of the FARMER in every Month of the YEAR. By Thomas Tusser, Esq; To which are added, Notes and Observations explaining many obsolete Terms used & what is agreeable to the present Practice in several Counties of this Kingdom. A Work very necessary & useful for Gentlemen, as well as Occupiers of Land, whether Wood-Ground or Tillage and Pasture.

London, M. Cooper sold by John Duncan 1744 Text illustrations (2) + 8 differing head- and tailpieces. . Octavo (in 4's) leather spined boards (tips rubbed). Titlepage +150pp containing one section for each month of the year. Endpapers with ownership of John Wade 1803 Ipswich Suffolk also Aaron Slyth 1779 and a William plus some sums. Some finger marks and one page with marginal marks and two with faded marginal comments but for a farming book really unusually neat. An enlarged edition of 'A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie', first published in 1557.

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Sonstige Stichworte: farm farming gardening orchards husbandry

Tytler, Sarah (illustrated by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

CHILDHOOD a hundred years ago .. With six Chromos after paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

London & Belfast, Marcus Ward 1st first edition 1877 Chromoliths (6) mounted on ruled mounts with lettered guard sheets (except frontis which faces pictorially gilt decorative extra titlepage) after Sir Joshua Reynolds. . Small quarto pictorial gilt & embossed cloth on bevelled boards (spine faded/tips worn/cloth bit marked) All Edges Gilt 150pp +catalogue Leaf. Inscription on FEP else V.G. *With finely printed plates after child subjects by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Accompanying text deals with the upbringing of children in the 19th century divided as to Children in towns or in the country, ranked as to wealthy, middle class and the poor etc.

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Tytler,William) but no author given

HISTORICAL & CRITICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE .. EARLS OF MURRAY & MORTON AGAINST MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS..

Edinburgh, Gordon/Owen, Longman etc 1st edition 1760 . Octavo 19th century half morocco (tips worn) viii+262pp+Appendix 31pp Previous owner has written in the author & his profession (Attorney to the Signet Edinburgh) one page has three word correction inked in & last page of appendix has scuff with consequent loss of three letters. A well reasoned study of famous "Casket" letters by whose aid Mary Queen of Scots was implicated in the murder of her husband.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history Scotland Queen Mary Elizabeth

Urban, Sylvanus [pseudonym]

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For July, 1800.

London, Printed by Nichols and Bentley for Harris 1800 Plates (2 as listed) of Berriew Church, Montgomery and Palace of Rastadt + Powderham Castle. . Octavo without covers (some spine leather remaining) pp603-703 +Stock prices (unnumbered p704). First page a bit dusty, others clean except for small stain at foot of one plate, lower corners of 3 leaves torn off without loss of text. *Various literary and historical articles, reviews of new publications, account of capture of French ship in Mediterranean, Magnificent Royal Review in Hatfield Park.

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Urban,Sylvanus [pseudonym of publisher David Henry]

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLIV. For the YEAR M.DCCLXXIV [1774]. Part I January-June 1774 and Part II July-December 1774.

London, Printed at St. John's Gate, for D. Henry, and sold by F. Newbery 1774 Copperplates (5 of 10 called for in Vol 1, 10 of 11 in Vol 2. Plates present include Head of a New Zealand Chief curiously Tataowed, newly discovered frescoes at Herculaneum, po. Two Volumes each containing 6 monthly issues, plus Supplement for the Year 1774 in Vol 2. Contemporary leather-spined marbled boards (spine leather worn bits missing, date & title neatly inked in). Text complete: iv (general titlepage for year & preface) +628pp +[16]pp index. Each monthly issue has a "titlepage" with a view of St. John's Gate. Very clean nice copies internally with paper strong & supple. *Includes detailed description of Lieut Cooke's Voyage round the World, arrival at Terra Australis incognita, favourable account of landing & circum-navigation of New Zealand (Originality of the Arts in that Country which no other People had ever visited - but "the North-American Indian tortures his prisoner; the New Zealander eats him"), American Advices concerning the Reception of the Tea-Ships [Boston Tea-Party], the present critical Stuation of Affairs in North America, Observations on the Antiquity of Stonehenge, Memoirs of the late King of France, Splendid Appearance of Saturn's Ring, Causes of the present Commotions in America, Deliberations of Amer. Congress, the Quebec Bill etc.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history New Zealand Maori American Revolution Boston Quebec

Urban, Sylvanus [pseudonym of publisher David Henry]

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXII. For the YEAR M.DCC.LII [1752]

London, Edward Cave, at St John's Gate 1752 Plates (17 inc. frontis as 16 called for + plate of Westminster Bridge) inc. view of State House in Philadelphia, but View of St. Mark's Palace Venice is torn with half lost. Additional woodcuts inc. at least 3 . Octavo half tan blind tooled leather on 5 raised bands and red gilt spine label with marbled boards (sl.faded or rubbed). Frontis + Titlepage +Preface +612pp +[20]pp index. Minor signs of use and pale foxing and name J.S. Graham to corner of Title, small repair to frontis but no loss, normal foxing/tanning but still clean and tight. Includes Benjamin Franklin’s account of making a kite to draw electric fire from the clouds: "This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door, or widow, or under some cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet .." also his Hypothesis for explaining the Phenomena of Thunder, Lightning, and Rain, plus comments on all this from other correspondents, and a report of electrical experiments by the physician to the French King. Other articles include action of the heart valves by Boerhaave, Nursing in cases of small pox, History of the Incas, of the Man in the Iron Mask, corruption of Shakespeare texts revealed, and much on history, inventions, and register of books published. The coat of arms plates were not ready for this volume and according to a footnote under the plates list are being resevered for a later one.

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