Anon (Briquet et Fils publisher)

SOUVENIRS DE LA SUISSE

Geneva - Geneve Switzerland, Briquet et Fils printed by Lemercier, Paris. 1850 approx. Tinted lithographs of Swiss views (20) most around Lake Geneva & Mont Blanc but also Berne, Thun, Chute du Rhein etc., some with Lithographer named Th. Muller. . Oblong quarto (288 x 215mm) brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt title & Swiss emblem (tips worn/gilt dulled), 20 plates mounted at spine, only a few blank guards present. Image size 180x118mm with publisher Briquet et Fils and printer's name, Lemercier, and in one or two cases Th. Muller lith(ographer) credited, below is title of view and all surrounded by ruled line about 1cm. from the image. Some edges dusty and a bit tatty but only edges affected. *Fine coloured lithographic plates each with beautifully printed sharp detail. This collection appears to be complete - if all images had guard-sheets, width of spine could fit more. Lithography well printed by Lemercier, an established Parisian printer, Briquet who sold these view-books was based in Geneva but later had ties with publishers in other Swiss cities (British Museum has almost identical copy with 6 more views ref. 1958-0712-3024-1-26).

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Book number: V74676

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Swiss views coloured lithography

Anonymous [by Sanderson, Sir William ] [1585 - 1676]

AULICUS COQUINARIAE or a vindication in Answer to a pamphlet entituled [sic] The Court and Character of King James. Pretended to be penned by Sir A.W. and published since his death,1650.

London, Henry Seile 1650 . Octavo (142x87mm) leather (rebacked/worn to edges/scuffed). Titlepage framed with printer's ornaments, verso with errata within printer's ornaments + [4p= Preface] + [2p= Contents] +205pp. With a few ornamental headers and decorative initial capitals. Pp117 slightly torn on bottom right but without significant loss of text, otherwise all 205 pages present. * The author wrote this in response to the perceived slander of Anthony Weldon's "The Court and Character of King James," as Weldon fell out with the King. In contrast to the Weldon work this espouses the cause of the King. Sanderson was a historical writer and thus starts with Queen Elizabeth, of which he writes "Some say she had many favorites, but in truth she had none". Before moving onto her courtiers from the Cecils to the Earl of Essex recounting the laters execution in 1601. Sanderson moved on to to King James and Sir Walter Raleigh and his expeditions to Ireland,his travels to Guiana and the New World but finally his downfall and execution. Later characters assesed include the Archbishop George Abbot, and the Duke of Buckingham. Sanderson beings his work by bemoning those who would "delight in sinne" and "take great pains to slander the dead", refering to Weldon. An amusing if digressive history of the times, like Seldon he devotes significant time to court intrigue during the reign of James, rebuking Weldon`s assertion that James "hated" Robert Cecil, he also claims the Duke of Overbury was poisoned whilst imprisoned in the tower of London in 1613. He finishes the book with a defence of the character of James, who he says "his best peace was his inside, which wise men admired" he credits James`s Rex Pacificus policy and writes "what did he not do without the pike, if not with his pen". Sanderson concludes that a pahmlet is far to "petit" to convey the great character of this monarch. Sanderson does not engage Weldon in his assaults on the Stuart house as a whole, but rather offers retorts to Weldon`s assaults on James`s reign specifically. Sanderson was a Cavalier, and following the restoration was made a member of the Privy Chamber by Charles II. He died in 1676 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Book number: V75854

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Keywords: History James I civil war

Anonymous Editor

CONCORDANTIAE BIBLIORUM id est, Dictiones Omnes quae in Vulgata Editione Latina Librorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti leguntur, ordine digestae, et ita distinctae, ut Maximae et absolutissimae (quas offert haec Editio) Concordantiae dici possint. Opus Sacrarum literarum studiosis, non minus utile quam necessarium. Nunc tandem post omnes, quae hactenus prodierunt editiones, a multis mendis repurgatum, necessariis distinctionibus illustratum, vocum multarum numero locupletatum, aliisque subsidiis ornatum, quae subiecta ad Theologiae studiosos admonitio demonstrat.

Frankfurt am Main], Heirs of Andreas Wechel: Claude Marne & Joannes Aubri 1600 Woodcut printer's mark and a few woodcut head- and tail-pieces. . Folio fine English blindstamped Calf Binding attrib. to John Westall of Oxford c1606-1617 with 24 medallion heads between stylized foliage signed I.W. Restored by Trevor Hickman, bookbinding lecturer at Leicestershire College of Art, with his bookplate & binding details in pencil on new endpapers. All Edges Rouged Titlepage with Wechel printer's device but no place of imprint +[6]pp Prefaces + 986pp with page numbers 869-70 left out but 871-2 used twice in succession. Pages 1-95 un-numbered p96 has last two and a bit columns of AZE- to AZY and then start of BAA but all un-numbered previous pages are present signatures starting from A1. Printed in 4 columns per page. Faint marginal damp mark to upper margin soon fading out, some worming to margins usually just a few pin prick sized holes but in the V's some tracks again all marginal, no text affected. *Early Concordance (Adams B1962) in splendid Oxford binding. In the Preface, the anonymous editor credits the Frankfurt printers Marnius and Aubrius for this project: "viri pij, de literis & literatis iam-pridem optime meriti, quum de Latinis Concordantiis excudendis suscepissent consilium, & nostram opellam ea in re petissent, hunc ordinem sequi visum est". He dates the Preface Nonis Februariis, anno primo seculi Millesimi sexcentesimi [1600] and cites six previous Concordances 1555-1584 on which this work is based. The printers Johann Aubry (d.1601) & Claude de Marne (d.1610) were sons-in-law of Andreas Wechel and his heirs in the business. Another copy of this book was owned by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) who recorded the price he paid, 13s 4d (Book Auction Records 1909).

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Book number: V74274

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Keywords: Bible concordance religion signed early Oxford binding

Anonymous, illustrator probably Emily Eden (1797-1869)

FLOWERS FROM AN INDIAN GARDEN

Dusseldorf, Arnz & Co. 1846 Coloured lithograph plates (12) + titlepage within sepia printed floral wreath on buff background, from watercolous probably by Emily Eden (1797-1869). . Large folio (37.5 x 28cm) narrow red spine, buff paper-covered boards, front board with green/gilt title and floral ornamentation (some marks & remnants of varnish, gilt dulled, edges & corners bit worn, spine leather repaired with matching red cloth). All edges gilt, all pages printed one side only. Titlepage has at foot Prussian copyright treaty stamp (enclosing eagle and "vertrag von 13 mai 1846"), next leaf with coloured plants on right & left of text (printed in gold with caption "Help Us!" + 5 verses) + 11 fullpage colour printed & hand-finished plates of flowers, each with title at foot, giving Latin botanical & some Indian or English names (e.g. "Abutilon Striatum, Mahabuleshwur Forget-me-Not"). Final leaf printed in gilt has poem on Passion Flower (pictured on page opposite) and the Christ Child, with citations from Language of Flowers and Florists Magazine Vol.5. Lacks original front free endpaper (replaced), blank back of some pages and backgound of 2 final plates lightly browned, else remarkably clean and crisp throughout. *Beautiful and very rare illustrated botanical book with only 1 copy of this 1846 1st Series in UK libraries (Wellcome) + 2 abroad (Frankfurt & McMaster University Ontario). Attributed by Halkett & Laing to Anne Fulton Hope (1809-1887), but this is unlikely. The illustrator is almost certainly Emily Eden - an amateur painter, novellist & traveller, who accompanied her brother George, Lord Auckland, to India 1836-1842 when he was Governor-General (see citations with supporting evidence in Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Vol. 15 No. 1, Spring 2003. Reference courtesy of Florilegius JP, who offer the Dusseldorf 2nd Series (c.1860) of this fine botanical book.

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Book number: V75087

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: botany India flowers natural history Eden

Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805) but no author here given

THE NEW BATH GUIDE: or Memoirs of the B.N.R.D. Family in a Series of Poetical Epistles. Nullus in orbe locus Baiis praelucet.

Bath, Printed and Published by John Browne [2nd edition]. 1807 Stipple engraved plates (8 + Engraved TP) by F. Eginton (Birmingham 1807) . 156x87mm roan with black spine label gilt (front cover re-attached/tips very worn) vi+106pp, including "Epilogue to the Second Edition" at p87. Ownership inscription "Septimus Wray Chirurgus Fleet Street, London" on front end-paper, light paper browning and minor off-setting from plates to text. *Beautifully engraved plates with satirical poems about Bath society. Anstey was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. The New Bath Guide brought him to fame and began an easy satirical fashion that was influential throughout the 2nd half of the 18th century (Wikipedia).

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Book number: V66853

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Keywords: poetry satire Bath society 18th century

Anthology

CABINET OF GEMS: Gathered from celebrated authors with numerous illustations by eminent Artists.

London, Nimmo 1879 Chromolith of floral & gilt + 26 plates + text engravings . Small quarto green gilt cloth with casket of gems to cover (tips worn/spine bit rubbed) All Edges Gilt 160pp Very Good with price label on FEP & the charming preliminary chromolith plate that is often missing for Nimmo's Elegant Gift Books.

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Book number: V60114

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: anthology illustrated

Aquinas, Saint Thomas or Thome Aquinatis

OPUSCULA (contents lists 72 titles + Life of St.Thomas)

Venice, Hermann Lichtenstein Coloniensis 1490 7th Sept. Guide Letters in red and blue + red and blue markers (several hundred) . Quarto (244x175mm) blindstamped pig spined wooden boards with 2 working clasps old,but not original, ink title to spine on 5 raised double cords (repair to foot of spine/ old copper strengthening to lower board insertions of catches/minor worming but not weakening wood or leather) inside of covers are part of a Spanish-Latin word list. 1st leaf has old ownership and neat caligraphic title Plura Opuscula St. Thome. Verso=Tabula listing the titles or all the works (some damage bottom 7 titles) + Leaf 2-12 =Life of which first 5 leaves have repairs to foot of page but with loss to only the recto of the first leaf other paper repairs are marginal only and do not affect any print these leaves signed aa in 12's. The 72 Opuscula take up a-x A-Z AA-HH all in 8's except x & HH in 12's (as listed on Register on last leaf). Some repairs to later pages of index with the last being mounted but only affecting 2 words of the Register leaf. Some worm holes, mostly marginal and some marginal damp marks but the paper is strong and supple. Clean very thick book (436 leaves (872pp) Printed in double columns, 56 lines to a full column in Gothic letters. Collated complete. Reefernmces: Hain-Cop. 1541, BMC V, 358, Proctor 4793, Goff T 258.

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Book number: V68428

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Keywords: St.Thomas Aquinas works incunabula

Sulpicii Severi Archiepiscopi

QUAE EXSTANT OPERA A Victore Giselino Medico …Notis illustrata BOUND WITH: B.Sulpicii Severi ..SACRAE HISTORIAE LIBRI II In Eosdem Caroli Sigonii Commentarius.

Antwerp & Hanoviae, Christophori Plantini + G.Antonii & Pauli Egenolphi 1574 + 1602 Plantin caliper publishers's Mark to first titlepage +a few decorated initial capitals Woodcut printer's mark + 3 headpieces . 2 VOLUMES IN ONE small 8vo laced through vellum with ink lettering to spine with renewed{?} fore-edge ties [some pin-holes to covers/edges bumped & corners bit worn] All Edges blue-dyed 415pp + 661 + [29pp =Index] Two ink inscription to titlepage Pro conventu Viennensis ad S.Hieronymum Bibliotheca + shelf location numbers. End-papers renewed.Lower corner of titlepage silked on verso with tiny loss in blank area only.Paper uniformly a bit tanned put paper crisp and no loose pages. The first work has side notes second work has no side notes but uses two fonts.

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Book number: V75835

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Ariosto,Ludovico transl. by Sir John Harington

ARIOSTO's Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse ..now thirdly revised and amended with the Addition of the Authors Epigrams…

London, Miller for Parker 1634 copperplates (46 full-page) said to be engraved under direction of Harrington & exalting legendary Roger d'Este . Sm.4to, 278x185mm, contemporary ruled calf with contrasting gilt lettered label and 5 raised bands compartment nicely gilt. Blindstamp initials H.H.to covers (tips worn/ some splitting to foot of spine/some scuffed and scored and some leather surface laminating). All edges speckled red. (9)423pgs+(9) *Titlepage (for Epigrams) dated 1633 (43pp) * SIGNATURES of Robert Kirk 1705 to margin of Titlepage & another very fancy but faint to foot of Titlepage in the margin. *** Third edition of Harington's 1591 translation. The engraved title with architectural border includes portraits of Ariosto and Harrington, as well as a portrait of Harington's dog, Bungy, in the lower left corner. Strange EPS made of sheets from a bible with bookplate of James Marquis of Carnarvon and another coat of arms bookplate to rear EP. A fine wide margined copy with well printed well inked plates and unusually thick strong paper. Crisp and clean. Referenced by: STC (2nd ed.) 748 and ESTC S106834.

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Book number: V64647

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Keywords: Mythology & Fabled deeds from italian literature tudor translation

Aristaenetus

EPISTOLAE GRAECAE cum Latina interpretatione & notis. Quarta editio emendatior & auctior

Paris, Simeon Piget 1639 Nice fountain with water spouts as printer's mark to title + a few printer's ornaments & initials and one tailpiece. . Octavo slightly later tan leather blind ruled rebacked on 5 raised bands ith gilt title & date to foot of spine (corners worn/edges rubbed) half title + Titlepage with printer's mark +203pp of Ggreek text facing Latin + blank +205-295 Latin notes interspersed with Greek text. One paper fault affecting about 2 letters of text each side else clean, tight, well printed copy. Ownership Ed. Bellamy to fly leaf. *Love stories told in letters by this 5-6th century author which have been translated into several languages in later centuries and transcribed into English verse in the 18th century.

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Book number: V74314

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Keywords: Greek Latin erotica love letters

Thomas Aquinas (or de Aquin / Aquinatis) on Aristotle

IN OCTO PHYSICORUM ARISTOTELIS LIBROS COMMENTARIA Ex Vetussissimo Ac Fidissimo Manu Scripto Exemplari, Nuper Diligentissime Castigata, & Locis Quamplurimis Integritati Restituta .. Ad Haec accessit Roberti Linconiensis in eosdem summa

Venice, Haeredem Hieronymi Scotus 1595 Large woodcut portrait (Aristotle) + over 50 diagrams in the text historiated woodcut intial capitals . Folio modern cream linen with red leather label with gilt title (tips rubbed) (16pp)+ 316pp Tideline from waterstaining at the front but becoming marginal & faint by text page 13. Some gatherings with more or less paper tanning but paper always supple and strong. Part of an 18 volume collected edition of Thomas Aquinas. It is printed in double columns with side-notes and deals with Aristotelian physics (not in Adams or STC).

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Book number: V67175

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Keywords: Thomas Aquinas Commentary on Aristotle Science physics.

Ashton,John

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LOTTERIES now for the first time written

London, Field&Tuer/Leadenhall Press 1893 Facsimile of lottery tickets (28) inserted on toned paper . Octavo buckram with pink cover labels (tips bumped and worn/soiled with spine much darkened and spine label chipped & rubbed) xi+359pp+catal. of 16pp paper toned as usual and uncut edges dusty but a particularly neat copy with none of the rather fragile lottery tickets wrinkled or torn. Original bookmark still present.

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Book number: V60133

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: social history illustrated gambling

Atkyns, Sir Robert (1647-1711)

THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF GLOCESTERSHIRE [Gloucestershire] .. Second Edition. Illustrated with seventy-three copper-plates, Containing a Map of the County, a Plan and Prospect of the City, a View of the Cathedral, Sixty One Seats, and Three Hundred and Twenty Coats of Arms, of the Nobility and Gentry residing in the County at the Time of the first Publication.

London, T. Spilsbury for W. Herbert 2nd edition. 1768 Double-page copper-plate bird's eye views (61 complete) of estates in Gloucestershire by J. Kip + double-page map of the county, plan & view of Gloucester City, and cathedral view + 8 single page plate. Folio half brown calf and cloth sides with spine gilt titled (tips leather worn, spine rubbed & bottom edge shelf wear). Titlepage with decorative woodcut + [6]pp Preface & Advertisement +[16]pp coats of arms printed one side only + [2]pp author's epitaph and plate list + double-page Map of Glostershire +452pp + [6]pp Index. Ex-library with bookplate of Cheltenham Library Reference Department to pastedown + partially legible stamp of "Glos. Withd** for sale" to free endpaper. Light stain to top margin of title and 3/4-inch circular library stamp at foot, neat manuscript shelf mark & date on blank verso. The same small round purple stamp neatly placed on top corner margin & blank verso of each plate, first preface page & last index page also stamped in margin. Printer's smudge of print-ink to the title-panel of Hales Abbey plate, and an old marginal repair without loss to the plate of Knole. One of 2 Henbury plates which should be at p248 has been placed at p218. All plates on good thick quality paper with broad margins, beautifully printed and stubbed out from gutter so the plates lie flat when opened. Stubbing paper rather browned and in some cases with narrow brown offset to text in gutter area, but front of plates only rarely affected. All plates present and text complete, no foxing, paper crisp and pages well attached, in sound if unexciting early 20th century half-leather binding. *Complete copy of one of the best illustrated county histories of England with good wide margins.

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Book number: V74567

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: history topography Gloucestershire illustrated fine Kip plates

Aubry, Mr.

ORACLES DE COS .. suivie d'une introduction à la thérapeutique de Cos ... traitement des maladies Aigues

Montpellier France, Tournel New edition 1810 . Octavo calf-spined boards gilt lines and title, spine corners underlaid with vellum (original) (tips worn head of spine chipped/some rubbing but sound and neat) viii+686pp One corner torn away with loss of a few letters. Library stamps on blank area of TP & margin of Foreword. EPs browned & two faint pencil ownership names, small withdrawn from stock mark on corner of FEP. *Up to page 174 the author deals with comparisons between ancient and modern medicine. The rest deals with case histories of those that died and those that recovered & the regime, concotions etc. used & described in ancient literature. Aubry's notes are interspersed with the histories giving his opinion of the cases described. An interesting historical reconstruction.

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Book number: V65427

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Keywords: medicine ancient

Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d' (1650/51-1705) [but not here named]

HISTOIRE DE JEAN DE BOURBON, Prince de Carency. Par l'Auteur des Memoires et Voyage d'Espagne.

The Hague, Adrian Moetjens 1692 Woodcut emblematic printer's mark of stork in palmtree with open book held by Athena & winged goddess. . Duodecimo (134x70mm) contemporary leather (rebacked with part of old spine relaid, tips very worn). All edges sprinkled red, ownerships (Chas. Johns Painter Bedford May 24th 1838 & R.H.B. Bolton Trin. Coll. Camb. 1880) on free endpaper, 498pp (inc. almost identical titlepages for 1st and 2nd parts) +[6]pp publisher's book list. French text. First titlepage somewhat browned as are endpapers, a few signs of use and small corner creases, else clean and tight. *Madame d'Aulnoy, famous for her collections of fairy tales, also wrote several pseudo-biographies like this one relating 15th century heroic deeds.

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Book number: V74807

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: adventure French historical fiction