Brighte, John [pseudonym of J. Duncan]

THE BOOK TO KEEP THE SPIRITS UP in dull and gloomy hours; manifestations of fun, mirth, humour, drollery, repartee, wit, with funny anecdotes, laughable incidents, poetry, &c.

Wakefield, William Nicholson and Sons n.d. but 1850 according to British Library Coloured frontispiece with several humorous vignettes. . Octavo, green cloth stamped in gilt with black decorative borders and spine text (tips bumped) vi + 238pp + [2]pp publishers catalogue more of which is printed on front and rear endpapers. *This Wakefield edition is probably the first and is very rare next came the more common 1865 Halifax edition.

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Book number: V74731

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Keywords: Victorian humour

Brodrick, Thomas

A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR IN THE NETHERLANDS. Together with an Abstract of the Treaty at Utrecht. By Tho. Brodrick, Gent. The whole Illustrated with 15 Curious Copper Plates .. (Volume I Only of 2)

London, Printed by William Pearson for Thomas Ward (1st edition). 1713 Folding and doublepage maps (15 complete) in 2 volumes, some with coat of arms surrounds, + decoratve head-pieces. . Two Volumes octavo, in un-matched near contemporary bindings, decoratively tooled and panelled calf on 5/6 raised bands (covers of Vol. I detached, tips worn & scuffed, Vol. II with boards gilt but newer leather spine, all edges very worn) Vol.II All edges gilt. Vol.I folding frontis map + Title +[8]pp dedication/preface +23pp of subscribers +[1]p blank +xvi +218pp + [2]pp publisher's book list. Vol.II half title/blank verso + 221-448pp +[12]pp index. Vol.I name-stamp John D. Bareham on pastedown, earlier ownership inscription on back of frontis, 1st 5 leaves with poor tape gutter repairs, book list tipped onto last leaf; Vol.II with name-stamp S Mead on 1st 2 pages, a few ink-spots else clean and crisp throughout. Frontis of Vol. I is a general map of Flanders, other maps in both volumes depict the battles - Hochstet (Blenheim), Ghent, Brussels, Oudenard, Mons, Dunkirk etc. *Complete copy in 2 volumes of this finely illustrated 1713 first edition (in year of Treaty of Utrecht), which gives the earliest published comprehensive account of Marlborough's victorious campaigns in the low countries (ESTC T114756).

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Book number: V70983

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Keywords: military history Netherlands Marlborough England treaty Utrecht

Brooke, Richard

VISITS TO FIELDS OF BATTLE in England of the fifteenth Century; to which are added, some Miscellaneous tracts and papers upon Archaeological Subjects.

London, John Russell Smith & Liverpool J. Mawdsley and Son 1857 Frontispiece + 3 full page Battle Field Plans + early eighteenth century plan of Shrowesbury (sic) tipped to endpaper. . Octavo blindstamped rose cloth spine gilt titled (head of spine bit damaged 1cm vent to hinge & chipped to foot of spine corners bumped) x +342pp (half title & title counted within pagination, title printed red & black) tissue guards browned. Additions & corrections slip tipped in. Gift inscription to fly leaf. First and last two leaves slightly foxed else clean and crisp. Includes battles of Shrewsbury, Northampton, Tewkesbury, Bosworth, Stoke, Evesham also chapters on Firearms in 15th Century, Family pedigrees, and extracts from Acts of Attainder 1461, 1675 & 1685 and article on keeper of Royal Menagerie. Also wolves' extinction etc.

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Book number: V74381

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Keywords: battles military 15th century history Shrewsbury

Brough, Robert B. (1828-1860), illustrated by Charles H. Bennett (1829-1867)

SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE by Charles H. Bennett and Robert B. Brough.

London, W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), 86, Fleet Street, and Paternoster Row. 1860 Hand-coloured litho plates (30) by Charles H. Bennett (1829-1867). . Octavo (14x21cm) green blind-stamped cloth spine gilt (slightly rubbed/tips worn) All Edges Gilt, [4] +232pp., all plates with their tissue guards here present, clean & infoxed throughout. *A satire with caricatures of Victorian society. Excellent quality colour illustrations, showing a shadow of each character intended to portray its true nature. An amusing Introduction explains how the illustrator and author of the text worked together, giving "some account of our Magic Lantern and of the eidolographic process."

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Book number: V75305

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Keywords: humour satire caricature Victorian

BROWN,Richard

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, Containing a History of the Science, and the Principles of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-Houses, Country Mansions and Suburban Villas, with Practical Dissertations on Every Branch of Building .. 63 plates

London, George Virtue 1850 approx) Frontis. + 62 plates shewing a view of the house, often also a cross section in doll house style, a ground plan & details + text illustrations of the style of furniture recommended for each type of house. . Quarto half calf spine gilt and with contrasting title-label (rebacked with most of spine relaid, corners worn) xii+342pp titlepage continues "from the Choice of the Site, to the Completion of the Appendages. Also, Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Characteristic Situation and Scenery; with instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Ornamenting Grounds; Exemplified in Sixty-Three Plates, containing Diagrams and Exemplars of the various Styles of Domestic Architecture, with a Description, and Wood-Cuts of the Appropriate Furniture, Garden, and Landscape Scenery of Each." Styles include Egyptian, Roman, Tudor, Stuart, French chateau, Florentine Villa, Swiss cottage, Oriental pavillions, Tudor Gate Houses, etc.also stables, entrance lodges, dog kennels Ice houses etc. Occasional, mainly marginal foxing except for portrait frontis more heavily foxed. Tissue guards in place and all plates in neat condition.

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Book number: V68463

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Keywords: architecture houses garden design furniture

Browning, Robert

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

London, Quilter first edition 1898 Decorations by Harry Quilter. . Printed on vellum throughout 129x105mm gilt overal stylized design (tips worn & lacking spine) [50]pp each page is stubbed onto cloth hinge. The text is ornamented by Mary Quilter. The detail in the art nouveau designes is incredible and printing on vellum is difficult so probably few copies printed. There are hidden dragons, peacocks, mice, frogs, bats, dancers among the interlaced flowers, grapes etc.

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Book number: V61331

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Keywords: vellum printing poetry

Brunck, Rich. Fr. Phil. Editor

ANALECTA VETERUM POETARUM GRAECORUM Tom. I [II, III] + IV INDICES IN EPIGRAMMATA

Strasburg (Argentorati), Jo. Gothofr. Bauer et Socium + Leipzig Dyck for vol.4 1772, 1773, 1776], 1795 Vignettes to 3 titlepages with different charming scenes of cupids by Weis, 3 folding pages of prettily formatted Greek verse. . Four Volumes octavo half green roan spines gilt ruled marbled paper sides (edges bit rubbed marbled paper darkened where leather underlaid) All edges speckled green. Neat presentation dated 1784 from Cyril Jackson Dean of Christ Church Oxford to Edward Ash. Titlepage engraved including vignette +xxxiv +506pp including imprint of printer Joannis Henrici Heitz dated 1772; vol 2 engr. title and different vignette +529pp + [1]p same imprint of Heitz dated 1773; vol 3 engraved title with another vignette & imprimatur of Bauer & Treuttel +319pp +[1]p Heitz with date 1776; vol 4 INDICES IN EPIGRAMMATA quae in Analetis Veterum Poetarum a Brunckio editis reperiuntur, Auctore Friderico Jacobes Lipsiae in bibliopolio Dyckio 1795 vi +443pp. A neat set with minor pale foxing but paper in strong clean supple condition. All poems in Greek, Epigramata index in Latin. This is the first work Brunck edited. His innovations on the established mode of criticism startled European scholars. As an editor, he made no commentaries, but occupied himself only with the text. Persuaded that all faults in the language of the Greek poets came from the carelessness of copyists, wherever it seemed to him that an obscure or difficult passage might be made intelligible and easy by a change of text, he did not scruple to make the necessary alterations, whether the new reading were supported by manuscript authority or not (Wikipedia).

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Book number: V75136

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Keywords: Greek poetry verse

Brune,Johan de

VAN'T BANKKET-WERK van Goede gedagten Het eerste Deel [ + ] Het tweede Deel [ +] Met een gemeyne Blad-wijser achter het tweede Deel

Middelburg, Jaques Fierens 1660 woodcut to titlepage of "Spe & Metu" [Hope & Fear] plus a Basilike signed I.C.I. in the cut + copperplate portrait of Joh.de Brune cropped to lower margin . TWO PARTS IN ONE VOLUME Octavo contemporary laced through vellum [top left worn and torn, rest a bit soiled and manuscript title faded] Titlepage printed in red & black with licence to print to verso + [13pp=dedication +laudatory poems + [1p=portrait] +496pp Part II [24pp=title to part 2 +to the reader +laudatory poems] +495pp which includes 56 page index. Approx.6 pages with tiny ink sprinkles not affecting legibility and one clean tear without loss to page 239/240. Otherwise a clean tight copy with a modern bookplate & a 19th century bookseller's label to front pastedown. A Banquet of good thoughts with hundreds of short paragraphs, some partly in verse, under different heading with a good index. De Brune was a Dutch golden age poet and writer, most noted for his 1624 "Emblemata of Zinne-werck".

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Book number: V75357

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Keywords: thoughts

Bry, Johann Theodor de (1561-1623?) and Johan Israel de Bry (1565-1611)

DER ORIENTALISCHEN INDIEN: 5th Theil-10th Theil (6 of 13 parts, each with a separate engraved illustrated Title in German, giving its publication date and summary of contents, as set out in the detailed Description of each Part below).

Frankfort am Mayn, de Bry, printed by Matthes/Matthias Becker 1601-1613 Engraved titlepages (6) + copperplates (80 ex 86, inc. double-page & folding maps) by de Bry family. . Quarto (305x195mm) original blindstamped leather covered boards, spine on 5 raised bands (upper hinge cracked/covers slightly wormed, small remains of front 2 tapes which held clasps no longer present), slight damage to some plates, uniform light paper browning throughout, original small leather tags (5 of 6) to start of each part. Over 80 illustrations & 1 fold out map. Parts 5-10 in this collection (each briefly described below) cover the Dutch arrival in Mozambique & native customs in Africa & Indonesia, during the early colonisation of the Dutch East Indies. Each of the 6 Parts here bound together are briefly described in German on each Titlepage, as follows: Part 5. Fünfter Theil... eygentlicher Bericht vnd warhafftige Beschreibung der gantzen volkommen Reyse oder Schiffart, so die Holländer mit acht Schiffen in die orientalische Indien, sonderlich aber in die Iavanische vnd Molukische Inseln, als Bantam, Banda, vnd Ternate (1st German edition, titlepage dated 1601). Engraved/printed titles & 20 plates (complete); 6. Sechster Theil ... warhafftige historische Beschreibung dess gewaltigen goltreichen Königreichs Guinea, sonst das Goltgestatt von Mina genandt ...(dated 1603) Engraved/printed titles & 26 plates (complete); 7. Siebender Theil darinnen zwo vntershiedliche Schiffarten begrieffen: erstlich eine dreyjährige Reyse Georgij von Speilbergen Admirals vber drey Schiffe, welche An. 1601. auss Seeland nach den orientalischen Indien abgefahren, vnd nach viel widerwertigkeiten An.1604 wider in Seelandt ankom[m]en ... 2 Parts (dated 1605). Engraved/printed titles, 22 plates (complete); 8. Achter Theil... begreiffend erstlich ein historische Beschreibung der Schiffart, so der Admiral Iacob von Neck .. in die Orientalische Indien von Ann. 1600 biss An. 1603 gethan. Darnach ein Historia, so von Iohan Herman von Bree ... (dated 1606) with Appendix. Engraved/printed titles, 18 plates (3 double-page or fold-out, complete); 9. Neundter Theil, darinnen begriffen ein kurtze Beschreibung einer Reyse, so von den Holländern vnd Seeländern in die Orientalischen Indien ... vnter der Admiralschafft Peter Wilhelm Verhuffen, in Iahren 1607, 1608 vnd 1609 verricht worden ... 4 Parts (dated 1612-1613). Engraved/printed titles (1st in architect frame but with heading ARCHITECTVRA struck through), 20 plates inc. 2 maps, title dated 1613 with small world map & 5 plates (all complete); 10. Zehender Theil ... begreiffendt eine kurtze Beschreibung der neuwen Schiffart gegen Nordt Osten, vber die Amerische Inseln in Chinam vnd Iapponiam, von … Heinrich Hudson newlich erfunden, beneben kurtzer Andeutung der Inseln vnd Oerter, so auff derselben Reyse von den Holländern hiebevor entdeckt worden, auss Iohann Hegen von Lintschotten Reise gezogen ... 1st Part (only) dated 1613, with engraved pictorial title, but LACKS all 3 double-page maps & 3 plates. *The first 2 parts of this present first and only German edition were published (1601-1606) by Johann Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry. Johann Theodor alone issued parts 9-10. A detailed Yale catalogue of all ten Parts of this German de Bry edition is accessible online at: //search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9995972683408651.

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Book number: V48236

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Keywords: Dutch exploration colonialism fine engravings

Buckingham, J.S.

THE EASTERN AND WESTERN STATES OF AMERICA ..in three volumes

London & Paris, Fisher & Son & Co, [1842] Fine doublepage scenic views [15 views] all but one by W.H Bartlett . 3 VOLUMES 8vo brown blindstamped cloth with spines titled in gilt [rebacked with most of the three old spines relaid /corners worn and a bit bumped/ edges sl.rubbed] [xvi =Frontis + titlepage +plate list + contents] +573pp Vol. II [viii =Fgrontis. +titlpepage +Contents +plate list] +536pp Vol.III [1opp =Frontispiece +Commendatory letter + titlepage + contents + plate list] + 600pp] Inner hinges strengthened probably at time of reback, Bookplate of H.T.H.Taylor to the pastedown of each volume. A clean tight copy of the complete set with all the fine double page plates on thick paper.

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Book number: V75839

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Keywords: America fine double page plates

Buckler,J(ohn) C(hessell)

School at Eton College + Grammar School at Harrow Middlesex from "SIXTY VIEWS OF ENDOWED GRAMMAR SCHOOLS".

London, Hurst & Co. 1827 Two original engravings by Buckler. . Quarto 2 separate Plates. Price quoted is for each engraving plus postage.

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Book number: V66349

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Keywords: topography England Architecture schools

Bunbury,Henry William also known as Geoffrey Gambado] writing as A Humorist Physician

GEOFFERY GAMBADO; or, a simple remedy for HYPOCHONDRIACISM and melancholy splenetic Humours.

London, For the author by Dean & Son 1865 approx) Tinted paper & hand color pink wash plates (18) by Bunbury . 234x168mm half dark green roan (tips worn/splits to head&foot of spine but tight) 115pp with plates on beige tinted paper and smaller in size 190x155mm *The plates are all of horse riders and drawn in a free pen-line caricature style and tinted with pink hand colored wash. Quite a rare book of humorous plates and far scarcer than his"Academy for Grown Horseman."

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Book number: V55956

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Keywords: illustrated humor horse riding book

Busaeus, Peter (Peter Buys 1540-1587) and Petrus Canisius (1521-1597)

AUTHORITATUM SACRAE SCRIPTURAE - PARS QUARTA

Cologne, Geruninum Calenium & heritors of Johannis Quentel 1st edition 1570 . Quarto rolled pigskin with 2 working enggraved clasps, 829 pp and all pages present. Dedication to Pope Pius V on titlepage. STC 684 VD 16 C694 this annymous work probably wrongly ascribed to Peter Canisius. They were actually compiled by the Dutch Jesuit Peter Busaeus. Canisius was a Dutch jesuit preist of the 16th century, and a notable figure in the counter-reformation. Sold primarily for well preserved stamped embossed designs on cover. This works contains multiple biblical references, and was part of a wider clarificiation of Catholic doctrine in response to the protestant reformation. This work is part four of four, Part 1: De fide, spe et charitate - Part 2: De sacramentis ecclesiae - Part 3: De priori iustitiae christianae parte, quae in fugiendis vitiis sita est, sive de peccatis. And the fourth part - de altera parte iustitiae christianae, quae in bonis consectandis est posita, sive de bonis operabus, virtutibus, donis etc. The other three parts are usually sold as one, part four appears to be comparably rare.

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Book number: V70793

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Busaeus, Johannes [1547-1611]

VIRIDARIUM CHRISTIANARUM VIRTUTUM

Moguntiae [Mainz Germany], Joannem Albinus 1st edition 1610 Engraved pictorial TP + a few head- & tail-pieces and some decorative capitals. . Small folio (in 6's) Blindstamped Pig on wooden covers with rolls and central embossed image of Isaac preparing to sacrifice Jacob but for the angel's intervention + Lower cover with a angels climbing a ladder to heaven. Canted corners and 1 of two clasps present + 1 part of 2nd clasp present. [some rubbing to covers /edges worn /some marks] All edges red dyed. Engraved Titlepage with seven women dieties including Faith,justice etc. + (10pp=Dedication, laudatory poems + contens) + 709pp + (1p= errata) + (4pp = index) Some worming thrtuout & Endpapers have 2 purple Monestary stamps + one in lower margin of Dedication page and same on first text page.There is an old ownership inscription on the pastedown and three names on the titlepage. One is dated 1636 the second with single lines crossing out the name and third is so faded it is hardly readable. The paper is in very good, supple and clean ,supple and without tears as it is of a strong thick quality. There are 57 virtues such as humility, contemplation, fortitude ,wisdom etc given in alphabetical order. Each is asessed, and its properties listed, and the means of obtaining it, are discussed. There are side notes throughout and the text is in two founts,italic and ordinary. Bound in a highly decorative binding with the hinges good condition this is a handsome item.

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Book number: V75864

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Virtues VD17 12:105493K + de Backer/Sommervogel II, 438 f.

Byron, Lord George Gordon (1788-1824)

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON Illuminated by W & G AUDSLEY Architects.

London, Day & Son 1865 Chromolith illustrations to each page by W. R. Tymms from illuminations by W. & G. Audsley. . Folio purple gilt cloth with green onlays bevelled boards (tips sl.worn) 20 leaves. One page with clean 3.5" tear with old neat repair to verso and hardly visible to the printed surface. Lacks free endpaper All Edges Gilt. 2 pages with edges cut short thus approx.1cm loss to blank margins. A few other pages have a narrow dusty area but NOT touching any border illumination nor printed area. Book is tight and handsome copy of this sought after work. Printed one side only each leaf having a double or triple illuminated border with much gold which surrounds the text. Some decorative initials and headpieces. Every page differs. The binding is nice and bright.

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Book number: V66447

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Keywords: illuminated gilt poem poetry