Johnson,Samuel, Christopher Smart & Oliver Goldsmith] (compilers)

THE WORLD DISPLAYED: or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations. Vol.IX (Volume Nine)

Dublin, Williams 1779 Copperplates (9) by J. Lodge. . Duodecimo (142x85mm) marbled calf with part of vol.number label left (hinges partly cracked but still secure/tips worn and 1cm damage to head & .5cm to foot of spine/spine darkened) Titlepage +[6]pp +211pp. Bookplate of Library of American board of commissioners for foreign Missions and bookplate of Jeremiah Evarts. Some foxing mainly to first pages but neat, tight & clean. Sir Henry Middleton & Mr. Grose explore the East Indies and Commodore Roggewein's voyage for discovery of Southern Lands. This section also includes an interesting account of the Japanese behaviour towards visiting European ships. From a series of early childrens books on exploration with all the charming required plates.

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N° du livre: V70289

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: exploration travel voyage Japan Middleton Grose Roggewein Pacific islands

Johnson,Samuel, Christopher Smart & Oliver Goldsmith] (compilers)

THE WORLD DISPLAYED: or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations. Vol.X (Volume Ten)

Dublin, Williams 1779 Copperplates (9) by J. Lodge. . Duodecimo (142x85mm) marbled calf with part of vol.number label & title label (hinges cracked but still secure/tips worn and 5mm chipped to head & foot of spine/corners worn & chipped) Titlepage +[5]pp +[1]p blank) +258pp. Bookplate of Library of American board of commissioners for foreign Missions and bookplate of Jeremiah Evarts. Neat, tight & clean copy. Description of the Maldives by Francis Pirard de Laval, Voyages searching for North West Passage by Capt. Thomas James & Henry Ellis & the Eskimaux (sic). From a series of early childrens book on exploration with all the charming required plates.

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N° du livre: V70290

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: exploration travel voyage North West Passage Eskimo

Johnson,Samuel, Christopher Smart & Oliver Goldsmith] (compilers)

THE WORLD DISPLAYED: or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations. Vol.XVII (Volume Seventeen)

Dublin, Williams 1779 Copperplates (7) including two folding by J. Lodge. . Duodecimo (142x85mm) marbled calf with both labels missing (worn spine & edges with leather darkened, hinges cracked but still holding/tips worn and 1.5cm damage to head & chpped to foot of spine) Titlepage +[4]pp +205pp Contents leaves bound in the wrong order but complete. Bookplate of Library of American board of commissioners for foreign Missions and bookplate of Jeremiah Evarts. Some foxing mainly to first pages but neat, tight & clean. Description of Guinea and its slavery, Moore's travels into interior of Africa and Mr Windus, a gentleman in Charles Stewart's embassy to Morocco describes the country and religion of the Mohametans. The last chapter is the opening part of Shaw's travels through Barbary. Part of a series of voyages and discovery volumes for children collected for the charming plates which are correct for this volume.

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N° du livre: V70294

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Mots-clés: exploration travel voyages Morocco Gold Coast Africa

Johnson, Samuel, Christopher Smart & Oliver Goldsmith] (compilers)

THE WORLD DISPLAYED: or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations. Vol.III (Volume Three)

Dublin, Williams 1779 Folding Map hand colored in outline (2 tears to folds but neat) + 9 copperplates by J.Lodges. . Duodecimo (142x85mm) marbled calf lacking spine labels (worn and one corner with leather singed, one hinge cracked but held by cords/tips worn and 1cm damage to head of spine/2mm chipped to foot of spine) TP +[6]pp +216pp. Bookplate of Library of American board of commissioners for foreign Missions, bookplate of Jeremiah Evarts. Some foxing and browning but neat, tight and clean. Deals with Balbo's discoveries in Panama & Pizarro's conquest in Peru and the Settlement of Brazil by the Portuguese and its revolutions. This is one of the most interesting volumes on America in this series of early childrens book on exploration with all the charming required plates and a fine map.

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N° du livre: V70281

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: exploration travel Balboa Pizarro Portuguese Panama Peru Brazil

Johnson, Samuel, Christopher Smart & Oliver Goldsmith] (compilers)

THE WORLD DISPLAYED: or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations. Vol.VIII (Volume Eight).

Dublin, Williams 1779 Copperplates (9) by J. Lodge. . Duodecimo (142x85mm) marbled calf (worn spine & edges with leather darkened, hinges cracked but still secure, tips worn and 1cm damage to head & sl.chipped to foot of spine, lacks spine labels). Titlepage +[6]pp +220pp. Bookplate of Library of American board of commissioners for foreign Missions and bookplate of Jeremiah Evarts. Some foxing mainly to first pages but neat, tight & clean. Vasco da Gama's voyage to India, Pedro Alvares de Cabral, Capt.Lancaster and Commodore Beaulieu's East Indies. This is an interesting volume on the East Indies in the series of 20 volumes on explorations for children having all the charming required plates.

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N° du livre: V70288

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: exploration travel voyages East Indies

Johnston,Robert ( 1567?-163

HISTORIA RERUM BRITANNICARUM: ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum & Germanicarum, tam politicarum quam ecclesiasticarum, ab anno 1572 ad annum 1628

Amsterdam, Joannis Ravesteyni 1st Complete edition, a few chapters had appeared earlier 1655 Printed by Guilielmi van der Hoeve 1655 at Gouda (to colophon) TP woodcut of Elijah fed by the Ravens + foliated headpiece & a few foliated initials . Folio (in 4's) near Contemporary English sprinked calf with blind ruled & one decor roll on 5 raised bands with burgandy gilt label (tips sl.worn/head of spine bit worn but very neat original state) Red sprinkled edges TP (2p)+737pp + (1p)=blank) +(22p)=index. About a dozen corners torn away but never near to the text, else unmarked and clean. An interesting Scottish perspective on English history by a Edinburgh scholar who came to London after the Scottish King James VI became James I of England. Deals also with Irish affairs and affairs on the continent. With an Evelyn book label to pastedown this is a lovely crisp copy.

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N° du livre: V68713

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Mots-clés: Britain history Queen Elizabeth Stuarts

Joly, Philippe-Louis (d. 1782) [named only in Approbation]

REMARQUES CRITIQUES SUR LE DICTIONNAIRE DE BAYLE. Premiere Partie, A-F (Seconde Partie, G-Z.

Paris & Dijon, Ganeau & Desventes (Part I), Guerin & Hermil-Andrea (Part II). 1752, 1748 . Large folio (42cm x 27cm) contemporary fine binding in full leather, spine on 6 cords with gilt title label and gilt-decorated compartments (tips bumped, headbands bare). All Edges Rouge, fine marbled end-papers, LIVpp (1752 Title in red & black + Preface) + xii errata +[2]pp +819pp (pagination continuous except after p364 2nd Title 1748 printed like 1st in red & black) +[1]p Approbation (naming author Sieur Joly, Chanoine de la Chapelle-au-Riche de Dijon). Folio pages beautifully crisp, clean and un-foxed throughout. *Extensive commentary by French Catholic Joly, on the Historical and Critical Dictionary of Huguenot Protestant Pierre Bayle (1647-1706). Bayle's first French encyclopedia was tolerant in religion and a major influence on 18th century Enlightenment. Here the Preface explains that Joly had two main objects - to correct Bayle's perceived errors, and supplement his omissions. So this work made an influential contribution in its own right to religious debate and knowledge, 50 years after Bayle's first publication. NB extra shipping cost for large folio weighing 4.5Kg.

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N° du livre: V74835

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: French encyclopedia Bayle Christian Catholic religion

Jones,H.M.

MODERN GEOGRAPHY, Comprising a Concise, Clear, and Entertaining Account of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States,&c. in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; with the New Discoveries to the Present Period. Embellished with Accurate Views of the Principal Cities, Costumes of the Nations,and Maps.

London, Thomas Kelly 1844 Folding Maps (4 as called for) + 112 plates incl.city views London New York, Copenhagen, Stockholm,Bern etc. Costumes, Historical scenes such as death of Capt.Cook, Sir Walter Raleigh. . 2 Volumes in One, duodecimo half calf spine decoratively tooled & gilt titled (tips sl.worn/ marbled paper worn) Frontis. +Engraved pictorial TP +Printed TP +iv +711pp +(verso=publisher's list) +(2pp)=plate list. Some marginal browning and damp marking. Two of the maps have partial tears along the folds and one has old tape to repair a tear but no loss. Some signs of use but no writing or loss. Quite scarce (not in COPAC).

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N° du livre: V68588

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Mots-clés: geography

David Jones (d. 1720)

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE STUARTS Bound after A CONTINUATION OF THE SECRET HISTORY OF WHITE-HALL from the abdication of the late K.James in the year 1688 to the year 1696 ..published from original papers

London, N.P. R.Baldwin 1697, 1697 . Octavo contemporary sprinkled leather on 4 raised bands [tips a littl worn and hinges cracked but still well attached / 1cm of leather missing to top compartment]. A history of the Stuart family from its rise to power in the 11th century to the death of Mary Stuart in 1694. Attached is a "secret history of Whitehall" which chronichals the events following the Glorius Revolution in 1688, through a serious of letters between eminent political figures of the time, including the former James II.

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N° du livre: V75547

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Mots-clés: history

Josephus, Flavius (37AD-100AD)

DE BELLO JUDAICO In Libros Septem +DE ANTIQUITATE JUDEORUM (On the Jewish War in Seven Books + Antiquities of the Jews)

Venice, Raynaldus de Noviomago 1481 Coloured fine pen-line 3 colour initials with gutter decoration and lower margin ditto. . Folio later half vellum with gilt coloured leather labels marbled sides, armorial bookplate on pastedown "Wm. Read" RED & BLUE INITIALS throughout with a few decorations and tails, minor contempory annotations throughout. Contemporary marginalia a2-10 b8-o8+p5 collates as Bodleian copy. This is the 5th edition of Rufinus Aquileiensis' translation, but the 1st Venetian edition. It was the first time all of Josephus`s translated works appeared in one volume, and all subsequent volumes offered only slight revisions of this text. *Book one (originally writen in AD 75) is Josephus`s account of the first Roman-Jewish war (AD 66-73), in which he fought against Rome until capture by the future emperor Vespasian. Book two (writen originally during Domitian`s reign in AD94)is a twenty volume work recounting the history of the Jews from the Hebrew Bible up to the aformentioned Roman-Jewish war. Both books are listed as among the most famous of Jewish historiography.

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N° du livre: V50593

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Incunabula Jewish history

Josephus, Flavius - translated and edited by Sigmund Gelen (1497-1554)

FLAVII JOSEPHI ANTIQUITATUM JUDAICARUM Libri XX. Adiecta in Fine Appendicis loco Vita Josephi per ipsum conscripta, a Sigismundo Gelenio conversi. DE BELLO JUDAICO libri VII .. CONTRA APIONEM libri II .. DE IMPERIO RATIONIS, sive DE MACABAEIS liber unus, a Des. Erasmo Rotterodamo recognitus. Cum Indice accuratissimo.

Basel Switzerland, Froben (in officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium) 1559 Fine Froben printer's marks on titlepage and colophon, large figurative initials at head of each section as used in Froben editions from 1515 [cut by F. Folio rolled pigskin on wooden boards, floral borders surrounding rolls of Biblical scenes with texts & the Virtues, spine with early manuscript title and 4 double raised cords, title also faintly written at foot of central front cover compartment (pigskin lacking along lower half of front hinge repaired with vellum underlaid, all cords firmly attached, some light stains & damage to pigskin more on upper than lower cover, lacks all brass clasps/corner ornaments) [12] +886 +[34]pp index. Fine early coloured armorial bookplate, with neat library shelf marks on pastedown and at top of title, lower gutter of first 24 leaves damaged by former damp nowhere affecting text, light damp mark at lower corner of final 5 leaves, pages else remarkably crisp and clean throughout. *Fine Froben typography and layout with large decorative initials after Holbein.

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N° du livre: V64564

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Jewish history Jews Christianity

Josephus, Fl. Gilb. Genebrard [editor]

HISTOIRE DE FL. JOSEPHUS Sacrificateur Hebreu reveue sur le Grec illustree de Chronologie Annotations & tables tant des chapitres que des Principales Matieres. [Tome Premier =DES ANTIQUITEZ JUDAIQUES + Tome Seconde =DE LA GUERRE DES JUIFS ]

Paris, Arnould Cotinet 1646 copperplate illustrations by Jacque Picart + woodcut head-pieces & figural and floral initial letters . folio 2 VOLUMES IN ONE full vellum [split to head & foot of lower cover repaired/corners bit worn] Large [near half page] illustration on titlepage of Josephus writing in his library +[2p=dedication] +[8p=Preface & chronology] + [6p=chapters] + [4p= Josephus' Preface + Authors consulted] +720pp + [40p= index] Titlepage to Vol. 2 with large printer's mark of tree in landscape with double snakes coiled around the trunk +[6p=chapters] + 468pp + [16=index] A clean wide-margined copy with side notes. Three leaves with lower corner torn off and neat old repair with manuscript text supplied. Some worming, mainly marginal but 4 leaves just touching text and archivally repaired. A few marginal marks. A few pages with minor staining or foxing and the fore-edge and a few, less than a dozen, marginal markings. At the end of the second volume there is a pale damp tide mark but this has not caused the pages to be damaged, they are crisp and supple. Gilbert Genebrard was one of the foremost Hebrewists of the french renaissance. A really nice clean folio copy of the two Josephus works.

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N° du livre: V75522

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Jewish History, religion Jews

Justinus,

DE HISTORIIS PHILIPPICIS,et totius mundi originibus.Interpretatione et Notis illustravit P.J. Cantel (...). In usum serenissimi delphini. Editio Altera ab innumeris Erroribus Emendata.Huic Editioni accessere JACOBI BONGARSII excerptiones Chronologicae ad Justini Historias accommodatae.

London Typis Gul. Strahan, D.Midwinter,W.Innys,A.Ward +9 others MDCCXLII 1742 Pretty woodcut head- and tail-pieces [10] . 8vo tan gilt ruled covers and spine, lacking greater part of title label. Dentelles with gilt decoration. [one hinge with leather cracked but both covers well attached/ leather marked/edges scuffed and top corners abraded] All edges rouged with a few ink spots. Titlepage printed in red and black + [14pp=dedicaction + Preface +excerptiones Chronologicae] +329pp + [62 leaves of Index Verborum. Bookplate of Earl Nelson [son of Lord Nelson of Trafalgar] to pastedown + later bookplate of winged horse on first free endpaper with "Cost 6 Shil." to upper corner + fine decorated caligraphic inscription "Edmund Foyle his book January 22 1767. " further neat name to top margin of titlepage Thomas Hayter. Each chapter with side notes [mainly refrences & names] + at the end of each chapter "Interpretatio" and below this "Notae" both of these in double columns. A clean tight copy with minimal signs of use and a very useful Index of key words in the last section following the text.

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N° du livre: V75898

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: History

Justinus

OPERUM QUAE EXTANT omnium per Ioannem Langum ... e graeco in latinum sermonem uersorum, & sententijs priscorum sanctorum patrum illustratorum, tomi III

Basel [Switzerland], Ambrosium et Aurelium, Frobenios fratres Martio 1565 [see colophon in vol.3] Froben printer's woodcut to titlepage + full page Froben cadusus with bird on top of staff & hands holding staff below . folio full leather blindtooled on 5 raised bands {some splits to hinges but held by cords with top two compartments underlaid with old relaid and bottom compartment treated the same way/ some scuffs & some missing leather to edges] All Edges sprinkled in red. 348pp +279pp +[1p=blank] +190pp + [2pp=verses & errata] +68pp + 1 leaf with full page Froben printer's mark] Scarce with this large Froben leaf still present at the end. The title and semi titles to the subsequent 2 parts are counted in the Collation though not numbered themselves.The first titlepage has three old ink ownerships to top margin one crossed out and 3 monastary stamps to blank areas, one repeated to A2 another to the pastedown. The pastedown also has 2 neat shelf-marks. There is some dusting and spotting of the titlepage and some pale damp marks to gutter & margin but not affecting the strength or crispness of the paper and about 10 leaves with marginal small wormholes never touching printed area. There is no foxing, no underlinging or annotations and the paper is clean crisp and birght. This is the Latin edition and first translation by Langum and has some greek as well as italic typography with side notes. There are also some handsome figural and decorative initial letters, in all a good tight copy. Justinus one of the earliest Christian philosophers studied the Stoics, Pythagoreans, Aristotle and Plato. He preceded the other early christians such as Eusebius and Boethius who also were interested in combining Christianity with Attic philosophy and this lead to his martyrdom as a Christian 165 A.D.

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N° du livre: V75524

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Early christian philosopher martyr

Kampen,Albert Von

FIFTEEN MAPS ILLUSTRATING CAESAR's GALLIC WAR by Albert Von Kampen. Edited by James S.Stallybrass

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Allen/Cambridge Macmillan & Co. Dublin Hodges,Foster & Figgis 2nd edition 1880 Hand colored maps 13 of 15 (mostly in outline & with opposing forces' camps marked) . Oblong quarto original boards but without their cloth covering. Titlepage +(15 leaves incl.Preface & contents + leaves of text + 13 maps 1 leaf of adverts. A leaf of text accompanies each map, those for Octodurus + Pons in Rheno which lack the maps have also had the text removed. Three maps have been cut down to the plate mark and mounted professionally, a few others have slightly rough edges. *The text is condensed from the results of latest researches and examined in the light of the French Military Staff maps of the regions.

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N° du livre: V67349

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Caesar's wars France maps