Coleridge,S(amuel) T(aylor)

FRIEND: a series of essays in three volumes, to aid in the formation fo fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, And Religion with Literary Amusements interspersed

London, Fenner New Edition 1818 . VOLUME 1 Only but complete within itself being the first 16 essays + 4 essays being The Landing-place: or essays interposed for amusement. Octavo half green roan (tips worn/rubbed) Top Edge Gilt ix+dedic. Errata + 356pp all but the gilt edge uncut. Name at head of TP else slight edge dusting but white and crisp with good margins and charming early 19th century bookplate on FEP.

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Book number: V63907

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Keywords: essays

Collenuccio de Pesaro,Pandolfo (1444-1504), Tomaso Costo and M. Roseo da Fabriano

COMPENDIO DELL'ISTORIA DEL REGNO DI NAPOLI [Compendium of the History of the Kingdom of Naples] .. Di M. Pandolfo Collenuccio da Pesaro, e di Mambrin Roseo da Fabriano. Con la Giunta per tutto l'anno MDLXXXVI. di Tomaso Costo .. Ed alcune Utili Annotazioni del medesimo in fine di ciascun libro ..

Venice, Barezzo Barezzi 1591 Fine Royal Neapolitan coat of arms on each titlepage, head- and tail-pieces, fine foliated initials to the Signori di Capuana. . Three Parts in Two Volumes complete, octavo speckled 18th century calf, decorated gilt spines (one spine label missing, tips & edges rubbed hinges split but held by cords) fine marbled end-papers All edges rouged. First titlepage +[31] leaves +244 leaves +2nd title +[15] leaves +258 leaves +[2] leaves +3rd title +[11] leaves +96 leaves. Early paper repair to lower corner of page 1 otherwise crisp & clean throughout, neat pencil notes in Italian to rear end-papers with "the following passage by Costo copied from the edition of 1563 .. at Florence 24 Mar. 1832 W.M Tarlt". Bookplates with presentation to Cheltenham Public Library by Miss Carrington [1886]. *Revised & enlarged edition of this important historical work by Collenuccio, an early Italian humanist, first published in 1539 after his death.

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Book number: V70338

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Keywords: Italian history Naples Napoli Istoria

Colman,George the Younger

BROAD GRINS; comprising, with new additional TALES IN VERSE, those formerly published under the title of My Night-Gown and Slippers

London, Cadell & Davies 7th edition 1819 Illustrated by Branston . Octavo original boards with sugar paper sides & most of spine label (tips worn/spine ends lacking some paper) vii+128pp with additional engraved title. Emblem stamp of Heineken family on EP and margin of TP. Slight pale foxing but and uncut copy, neat, tight and clean.

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Book number: V59862

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Keywords: humorous verse poetry

Comte, Achille text by Buffon illustrated by Victor Adam

KEEPSAKE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. DESCRIPTION DES OISEAUX suivie d'un exposé de l'art de les préparer et de les conserver.

Paris, Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London 1838 Hand coloured plates heightened with gum (38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate) by Victor Adam +uncoloured frontis portrait of Buffon +pretty hand coloured engraved titlepage by Pauquet /Rouget sc.. Small quarto plum roan spine extra gilt compartments & faux bands with cloth sides (tips a bit worn/rebacked with old spine relaid/cloth rubbed). Portrait Frontis +hand coloured titlepage +printed titlepage +Portrait +xxiii [1]p blank +312pp. Text pages with some foxing, more so to first & last pages. Plates mostly clean & white but a few have pale edge foxing. Two tissue guards torn, one at p17 lost. The plates are all beautifully hand coloured and heightened with gum.

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Book number: V74235

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Keywords: Victor Adam bird illustrations birds hand color

Le Comte

[NOUVEAUX MEMOIRES SUR L'ETAT PRESENT DE LA CHINE vol. I only ]

London, copperplates [14 + folding plate] these include scientific instruments, ranks of chinament, boating etc] . 12mo worn tan leather spine, gilt in compartments on 4 raised band [leather lacking to lower compartm4ent of spine /lower board with ink? Stains/rear cover buckled & leather holes However covers well attached and hinges firm so useable but not beautiful] We lack frontispiece and titlepage and one other plate . Starts *2 with dedication to the king [28p incl.dedication + avertissement +contents] +369pp Fin du Tome I [The End of Volume One] We lack Vol.2 which has only two, or depending on edition, three plates] Paper tanned and with some tide marks but paper is supple and all pages tightly bound and very legible.There is an early name to margin of first dedication page, else no marginalia or underlinging. An interesting early account of Jesuits writing letters from China to Europe about the conditions in China in the 17th century with the first volume having many more plates than the other volume. Sets are always priced well over £1000.

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Book number: V75533

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Keywords: China travel 17 th century

House of Representatives 35th Congress

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS for the Year 1858 ARTS & MANUFACTURES vol.3 PLATES

Washington DC, Steedman 1859 674 Plates of Patent drawings inc. textile manufacturing machinery, Steam and Gas Engines, math.instruments, engineering, navigation . Octavo lacks covers but bookblock tight 732pp marginal brown stain towards the end just touching print. Last 3 leaves of index have some edge chips but no text is obscured. This volume includes the index for all 3 volumes, as this is THE PLATE VOLUME for the 2 descriptive volumes. It includes FIREARMS with plates of revolvers, MEDICAL equipment and artifical limbs, Clothes incl.bustles, hoops, umbrellas, marvelously impractical "Apparatus for walking on water", household Gadgets eg. sewing machines, even a "rotary blast producing chair", Navigational improvements, shoemaking, various RR seats that turn into couchettes, everything is here.

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Book number: V59787

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Keywords: patent illustrations

Congreve, William (1670-1729) and Charles Wilson [pseudonym]

MR. CONGREVE'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT with Characters of his Writings. By Mr.Dryden, Sir Richard Blackmore, Mr.Addison, Major Pack and Mr.Pope. To which are added, Two Pieces, viz. I. Of rightly Improving the present Time .. II. The Game of Quadrille. An Allegorical Court Satire. The Second Edition. [With] MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE .. OF WILLIAM CONGREVE Esq [titlepage lacking].

London, E. Curll Second Edition [of the Will] 1730 Engraved vignette by Vander Gucht & large pictorial initial woodengraved head & tailpieces. . Octavo contemporary half calf marbled boards, spine gilt with coronet letter B[ateman] (front board reattached, tips bumped, spine label missing). LAST WILL complete 24pp; MEMOIRS xvi (Dedication & Preface lacking A1=Title) +112pp (Part I) +152[of 156]pp (Part II). Modern Ex Libris "The Play's the Thing" of the dramatist Ifan Kyrle Fletcher; near-contemporary ownership "Lord Bateman" (as initial with coronet on spine) and name Bateman (cropped) on Title of Will, which with following leaf A2 has some edge loss (repaired) not affecting text. The Memoirs lack the portrait by Vander Gucht as well as the title and last 2 leaves, but text is otherwise clean crisp and complete. *The full title of the main work is "Memoirs of the life, writings, and amours of William Congreve Esq. interspersed with miscellaneous essays, letters and characters written by him, also some very curious memoirs of Mr Dryden and his family ... by Mr. Congreve. Compiled from their respective originals, by Charles Wilson". Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, suggests Oldmixon as author. Like the Trinity College Dublin copy, this contains Congreve's life in two parts preceded by the second edition of his will with separate title-page. Scarce.

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Book number: V73950

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Keywords: dramatist plays Congreve scandal

Conti,Louise-Marguerite Princesse de Lorraine] but no author given

HISTOIRE DES AMOURS DE HENRY IV. avec diverses Lettres escrites a ses Maistresses, et autres Pieces Curieuses.

Leiden (but actually Brussels), Jean Sambyx (Francois Foppens) 1663 . 24mo contemporary roan blind ruled (neat old reback/tips worn) 142pp +[2p] +46pp includes two un-numbered half titles in the foliation + a final blank. A-H12. The printer's mark is the amillary sphere (of Foppens?) *To page 93 are the love affairs & from thence to 142 are the letters written to the Duchess de Beaufort & the Marchioness de Vernueil extracted from the originals found after the death of Mademoiselle d'Estoges. The final 46 pages are a selection of good deeds and memorable sayings of the King. A very neat crisp copy and the date is 1663 (as MDCLXIII) although it is thought that 1664 is the first dated edition.

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Book number: V69490

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Keywords: French history love affairs letters Henry IV

Conti, Natale (1520-1582) translated by Jean Montlyard

MYTHOLOGIE c'est a dire, Explication des Fables ... Extraite du Latin de Noel Le Comte, & augmentee de plusieurs choses qui facilitent l'intelligence du sujet. Par I.D.M. [I. de Montlyard]

Rouen, Jean Osmont, Manassez de Preaulx & Iacques Besongne 1611 Fine copperplate engraved title by M. Asinus. . Quarto handsome contemporary stamped and ruled binding (paper label with catalogue number 2581 at foot of spine, again on pastedown). Engraved titlepage +[6]pp dedications by translator Montlyard dated 1599 & 1604 +890pp +[26]pp index. Wormholes at top corner of last few leaves, else remarkably clean & crisp throughout. *Originally published in Latin, as Mythologiae, sive explicationum fabularum libri decem, Venice 1567.

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Book number: V70792

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Keywords: mythology ancient gods

Courtin, Antoine de] (1622-1685)

THE RULES OF CIVILITY; or, Certain Ways of Deportment observed amongst all Persons of Quality upon several Occasions. Newly revised and much Enlarged.

London, R. Chiswell, T. Sawbridge, G. Wells & R. Bently. 1685 . Duodecimo speckled roan red title label spine decorated with lyre designs between decorated rules & gilt panel to covers (tips rubbed) [10] + 300pp. Early initials G.A. at top of title, ownership John Haynes 1692 crossed out in margin of Contents, a few marginal worm holes, mainly to sign.C but none touching the print. *Original edition was Nouveau traite´ de la civilite´ (Paris 1671) by Antoine de Courtin. Neat handsome copy of an early well arranged translation from the French to include everything from eating to letter writing, from dancing to conversation, about neatness and all behaviour towards speriors and inferiors (referenced ESTC R14935).

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Book number: V73269

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Keywords: courtesy etiquette deportment rules behaviour

Crener,W.H.

EASTER EGGS: a sketch of a good old custom.

Ipswich, Cowell's steam Printing works 1870) Frontis. of a figure made up of decorated eggs (repeated on last page) + text illustrations on each page repeated 4 times throughout the book . 16mo brown gilt pictorial cloth using the frontis in gilt as the pictorial element (tips rubbed) 16pp *RARE British Library has this book only as a microfilm from Bodleian Library copy.

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Book number: V66245

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Keywords: Easter customs provincial printing

Creutzberg,Amadei

GOTTSEELIGE BETRACHTUNGEN AUF ALLE TAGE DES GANZEN JAHRES

Nurnberg Germany, Peter Conrad Monath 1721 full page copperplates [13 including frontispiece] of cherubs + oval pictorial titlepage vignette + engraved head- & tail-piece of cherubs among books + celebrating the harvest + 2 identical woodcut headpieces an. 8vo full brown leather [all edges very worn/spine & lower board has leather flaking but all 5 cords to both covers are in good condition and covers are securely attached to the spine] All edges gilt [gilt now tarnished] Frontis + titlepage in red and black with vignette + [8pp =to reader by George Pritius] + [4pp of Preface + half title leaf to Part I +1184pp + [56pp of 3 indeces.] Quite some signs of use to the preliminary leaves and the first pages however all pages are well bound in, with only 1 leaf with marginal tear not touching text, and no annotations or underlinings and no bookworming. The endpapers have 2 or 3 ownership inscriptions. The first four leaves have slight chipping to fore edge and are quite dusty and soiled to the edges and gatherings A-E have a narrow marginal tide-mark not affecting text. The margins of 4 of the plates have corners or other small tearouts repaired.

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Book number: V75859

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Keywords: Monthly emblems

CROKE, Sir George, Knight .. Justice of the KING's BENCH

REPORTS OF SIR GEORGE CROKE .. of such SELECT CASES as were ADJUDGED [Pt.1] from the 24th to the 44/45th of QUEEN ELIZABETH; [Pt.2] during the Reign of KING JAMES; [Pt.3] during the first Sixteen Years of the Reign of KING CHARLES; Collected .. Revised and Published in English by Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the Rolls. Third Impression .. With Additions .. never before Printed

London, W. Rawlins, Roycroft & Sawbridge 1683 Engraved frontispieces (2, one creased) by R. White. . Three Volumes folio (foliated in 4s & 6s) 32x19cm. Full calf, raised bands with red contrasting leather labels (5 boards detached) leather covers and spines very worn with some loss; stitching of Vol.2 partly broken with some gatherings loose (without any loss or damage). Engraved heraldic Frontispiece - Portrait of Judge Croke in first two vols. (24)920(40); (24)700recte704(22) pgs.617-620 appear twice; (28)610(66)pages. Handsome & clear black-letter typography with printed side-notes throughout. English translation by Sir Harbottle Grimston, Croke's son-in-law, with some Latin and law-Fench text. Waterstaining throughout the volumes, varying from fairly heavy to very light; two marginal tears w/o loss, some old legal marginalia in pencil & in ink (the former could easily be erased but some is quite interesting). Tables of Cases and Indices to Legal Principles. *Sir George Croke (1560-1642) resisted Royal interference with the Courts, in the "Ship Money" tax case he spoke out boldly for Parliament's exclusive right to raise tax. Croke's "Reports" cover the period 1580-1640; Vol.3, which was published first, bears a fine Dedication to King Charles II (following the Restoration). *Though waterstained and showing signs of use by prior generations of lawyers, this copy is on strong crisp paper and worthy of professional binding repair.

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Book number: V59872

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Keywords: law reports jurisprudence common law England

M'Cullagh, Thomas (life & letters of Thomas Owen Keysell)

THE EARNEST LIFE: MEMORIALS OF THE REV. THOMAS OWEN KEYSELL, with Extracts from his Correspondence. Second Edition.

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 2nd edition 1865 Frontis portrait of Keysell. . Octavo newer cloth-spined boards with original title laid on (tips sl.rubbed) xi +348pp +4pp critical notices. Some light foxing/staining and about 6 corners turned down and creased. The portrait has some dust speckles which offset to the title. *Biography of Victorian Methodism especially in Leeds and the North. The book gives a good insight into the Wesleyan movement up to the 1860's. Scarce in the original printings as here.

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Book number: V73684

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Keywords: religion biography Methodist ministry

Danty,M. (Avocat en Parlement)

TRAITE DE LA PREUVE PAR TEMOINS contenant le Commentaire de Me Jean BOICEAU, Sieur de la Borderie .. sur l'article 54 de l'Ordonnance de Moulins .. Auxquels sont ajoutées plusieurs Questions tirées des plus célèbres jurisconsultes & decidées par les Arrests des Cours Souveraines

Paris, Cavelier 1st edition (stated in privilege leaf) 1697 . Quarto calf on 5 raised bands compartment gilt (worn/hinges cracked but held firmly by the raised bands/lacks spine label/head & foot of spine badly chipped) (xxvi)+358pp +176pp+(24p index) TP with name heavily crossed out on blank area but ink shows through to next leaf. Some pale foxing, index with a few ink spatters. *Treatise on French law, legal text in Latin and French parallel columns, commentary in French.

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Book number: V65598

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Keywords: law French 17th seventeenth century