Leech,John

PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER from the collection of Mr.Punch

London, Bradbury and Evans 1854 ilustrations on 94pp with from 4 to 6 illustrations to each page by John Leech also includes a full page plate entitled "Memorials of the Great Exhibition" . oblong folio half plum roan with pictorial front board & plain rear board [edges & corners worn/head & foot of spine with some splits/boards bit marked] 94pp + [2p index] Two leaves bit tanned/foxed and 1 marginal tear without loss & not touching illustrations. This is the First series but only the later volumes show series numbers -see our other series for sale.

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N° du livre: V75718

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: cartoons charicatures humour illustrations

Leech,John

PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER from the collection of Mr.Punch fourth series

London, Bradbury and Evans 1863 ilustrations on 96pp with from 4 to 6 illustrtions to each page by John Leech . oblong folio half brown pebbled cloth with pictorial front board & plain rear board [edges worn & bumped/boards scratched to edges/boards soiled/marked] 964pp Marginal tears without loss & not touching illustrations. Leech studied with Cruikshank and worked for Punch Magazine for a greater part of his working life, but also illustrated books such as Ingoldsby Legends,Dicken's Christmas Carol, Mr.sponge's Sporting tour etc. This is the fourth volume of the five series.

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N° du livre: V75719

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Mots-clés: cartoons caricatures humour illustrations

Leech,John

PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER from the collection of Mr.Punch Fifth Series

London, Bradbury and Evans 1855 approx. ilustrations on 94pp with from 4 to 6 illustrtions to each page by John Leech . oblong folio tan roan with pictorial front board & plain rear board [Spine has been rebacked with tan cloth/edges & corners worn/boards bit marked] 94pp + [1p adverte] edges of pages chipped and several tears but without loss of paper.Leech studied with Cruikshank and worked for Punch Magazine for a greater part of his working life, but also illustrated books such as Ingoldsby Legends,Dicken's Christmas Carol, Mr.sponge's Sporting tour etc. This is the fifth and last volume of the series.

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N° du livre: V75720

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: cartoons charicatures humour illustrations

Lesguillon, Hermance (and others)

COURONNE POETIQUE DE NAPOLEON Hommage de la Poesie a la Gloire.

Paris, Amyot 1840 Engraved frontis of Napoleon by Breviere. . Octavo calf gilt decorated spine gilt ownership stamp to front cover "N.-V.-P. POIRIN 5 Mai 1842" with double ruled gilt lines to both covers (corners worn to tips/spine sunned/lower cover bit marked but a handsome and sound binding) All Edges Gilt. Frontis + viii + 316pp including index. Pale mark of former damp to gutter, green silk bookmark still attached to headband, pastedowns with tan and orange marks but lacking free endpapers. *Twenty-four poems by poets in reply to an appeal to raise a literary monument to Napoleon.

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N° du livre: V64346

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Mots-clés: poetry French France Napoleon

Leti, Gregorio (1630-1701)

HISTORIA OVERO VITA DI ELISABETTA REGINA D'INGHILTERRA detta per sopranome la comediante politica. scritta da Gregorio Leti. Parte Prima [ + Parte seconda] Arricchita di molte figure

Amsterdam, Abramo Wolfgang 1st edition first printing. 1693 Frontispieces & full page copperplates in total 60 includes town plans of Havre & Calais + Henry VIII and eacb of his wives+ Queen Elizabeth's suitor, statesmen, etc. . 1st edt 2 VOLUMES Deodecimo contemporary panelled and blindstamped leather with red gilt title labels to spine & remains of black vol.number labels [leather chipped to head/foot of spine/ hinges cracked but held by cords/ corners worn] frontis of Elizabeth on her throne with a cleric and a herald to each side + printed title with publisher's emblem + Coat of Arms + Portrait of Don Marco Antonio Grillo +Dedication + to reader +Portrait of Leti [total of 24pp]552pp + [23pp=index] +[1p=blank] Vol. II Frontis & title 586pp +[11p=index] +[3p=blank] coat of arms bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Elerick to the pastedown of both volumes. The plates are mostly not counted in the pagination but 7 in each volume are printed on the recto or verso of a text page and within the page numbering. The first dozen leaves including the free endpaper have some worming to one centimeter in the lower gutter margin but this never encroaches on the printed area and otherwise this set is clean and crisp, a little bit of off setting from the plates and no foxing. This set has more illustrations than found elsewhwere, the usual number seems to be 40 illustrations with Some of the engravings printed on pages within the signatures and others on plates as with our set. Written while Leti was in England it was later translated into German and French but seemingly never into English, Leti was often critised for "inexactitude".

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N° du livre: V75515

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: History biography Queen Elizabeth first edition

Lever, Charles (1806-1872) writing as Harry Lorrequer (Phiz illustrations)

CHARLES O'MALLEY, the Irish Dragoon edited by Harry Lorrequer

Dublin Ireland, William Curry Jun. & Co. 1842 Plates(42 + 2 Engraved TP correct as listed) by Phiz. . Two Volumes octavo half calf gilt spine overall gilt with 4 gilt labels one red one darker (1cm split to foot of one hinge/damage to one volume's labels/lower board of vol.2 distorted) ix+(5)+348pp vii+336pp. Sold as a reading copy only in a binding that looks great on the shelf because many plates have a damp stain and some foxing but the text except for fewer than a dozen pages is entirely free from foxing/staining. A neat set.

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N° du livre: V67934

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Mots-clés: humour Irish fiction 1st

Lever, Charles (1806-1872) (illustrated by Phiz)

DAVENPORT DUNN: A Man of Our Day. With illustration by Phiz.

London, Chapman & Hall 1st first edition in book form 1859 Frontispiece + engraved TP + 42 plates (total 44) by Phiz. . Octavo plum gilt roan (one hinge cracked/ head&foot of spine chipped & worn/spine faded/tips worn) vii+[i] +595pp. Inscription on FEP and 1" tear to one plate, with old repair, and faint corner damp marking to a few others never near to printed area. *Unlike Dickens' novels, also Phiz illustated and published by this publisher, this work seems to have been printed on less acid paper as it is not so prone to foxing. Here minor signs of use but minimal foxing/browning.

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N° du livre: V68053

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Irish novel humour

Lever, Charles (1806-1872) (Phiz illustrations)

OUR MESS Vol.I JACK HINTON, The GUARDSMAN

Dublin, William Curry Jun. & Co. 1st edition 1843 Steel Plates (27 including portrait of Lever) by Phiz. . Volume I complete in itself but further adventures of Our Mess are recounted in TOM BURKE (qv). Octavo half calf, gilt spine in compartments with 4 foliated corners and central design to each (tips bit worn/slight scuffing/rubbing/Lower board bowed) x+[4]+396pp. *Sold as a Binding - looks very handsome on the shelf but the plates are heavily foxed (as frequently) and a few pages and plate at the end are stained but legible. The rest of the text is almost entirely white. Reading copy in a handsome binding.

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N° du livre: V67936

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: humoour Irish fiction 1st

Lever, Charles (1806-1872) (Harry Lorrequer)

TOM BURKE of "Ours" with numerous illustrations on steel, by H.K. Browne. In Two Volumes. Vol.I [Vol.II]

Dublin, William Curry, Jun. 1st edition 1844 Steel engraved plates (42 +2 frontispieces) by H.K. Browne. . 2 volumes leather-cloth spines repaired with marbled boards (edges rubbed) xii +372pp, x +294pp. Ownership E.F. Oldham in pencil to endpapers. One leaf torn with old repair using tissue & still quite readable, last leaf of vol.I with marginal repairs without loss, 3 corners torn off but only one affecting printed area with loss of end letters of 3 words. Extensive foxing/browning of plates, as usual.

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N° du livre: V73949

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: fiction Napoleon

[verses composed by] lieutenant F. M. Bostwick, U.S. Navy, and sung to the air of "Rosalie," [ Music composed by Launce Knight].

OYUCHA SAN

Tokyo, T.Hasegawa 2nd edition [1893] Cover Crepe paper double folded at fore-edges [16 colour illustrations] stab-sewn silk-thread to hinges of cover illustrations . 17 x 19cm crepe paper covers illustrated with Oyucha San on cover & sprig of flowers on lower cover. [quite some cover creases & signs of use] Soft Cover & inside cover both illustrated + 3 pages of music with words from "Rosalie" + 14 further pages + Two Lists of books published by Hasegawa on facing pages + illustrated lower cover. The covers are both a bit darkened and the inner pages are a bit tanned. The first 3 & last page edges are wavey & a few corners are creased but not interferring with the illustrations. Distributed by Kelly & Walsh Yokohama Meiji 26 [1893] Signs of use but still a neat item much sought after.

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N° du livre: V76220

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Japanese crepe book

Lightfoot, Joannis [John Lightfoot 1602-1675]

OPERA OMNIA Duobus Voluminibus comprehensa, quorum Syllabus pagina post Vitam Authoris ultima exhibetur.

Rotterdam, Regner Leers 1686, 1686 Engraved emblematic titlepage + folding portrait + large folding Maps of Holy Land, City of Jerusalem, plan of Temple area + 2 half page maps. . Two Volumes folio, vellum on 6 raised bands with blind ruled spine tails and double panels with 4 foliated corner tools & large baroque centerpiece with interlaces (repair to Vol II at head & foot of spine, part of one corner ornament lost, tips bumped and some marks). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut Leers printer's mark +[29]pp prelims + [58]pp life of Lightfoot etc. +804pp + [52]pp index & blank; Vol. II Printed title with same woodcut printer's mark +[8]pp half title & preface +940pp +[60]pp index. Printed shoulder notes and a few foliated initials and many Hebrew words in the text. A few faulty paginations but all signatures and catch words follow correctly so complete. Book plate of Writer's Library to both front free endpapers but no stamps or other library marks. A few edges dusty, but all margins wide and paper crisp and good throughout. *John Lightfoot, English scholar of Talmudic and Rabbinical literature, was chosen vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1664. He often preached in the House of Commons and was one of the chief Hebrew experts working on the great Polyglot Bible. This is his entire collection of published works in a nice crisp state. Vol. I edited by Johannes Texel (see preface to original ed. By George Bright; Vol. 2 by John Strype, who also wrote the Life of Lightfoot. See DNB v.11, p.1110. NOTE 2 large heavy vols so extra postage cost.

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N° du livre: V74499

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: English scholar theology Hebrew Talmudic Cambridge

Littleton, Adam (1627-1694)

SIXTY ONE SERMONS PREACHED MOSTLY ON PUBLICK OCCASIONS; Whereof Five formerly Printed. By Adam Littleton, D.D. Rector of Chelsey in Middlesex, and One of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary. With a Table.

London, S. Roycroft for Richard Marriott. 1680 . Folio contemporary calf with newer label (spine repaired with old spine relaid/recornered but some surface pitting).TP +(14p=Preface & table of texts) +352pp TP +328pp TP +102pp (!0p= Scripture texts) +(52p=Index +(1p=errata verso blank) First titlepage in red and black + 4 further titlepages dated 1679 one of which is within thru pagination) Free endpapers with fine calligraphic ownership dated 1770 surrounded by Biblical inscriptions but endpaper restored to all margins and hinge. Both front and back pastedowns marked, lacks rear free endpaper but final leaf of text (errata) is blank on rear except for ownerships which have ink show-through to the errata on the recto of **Mmm(4). Book block with some marginal browning and a few marks but wide margins, and tightly bound sound condition.

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N° du livre: V73264

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: sermons religion

Lomeier,Johann

DE VETERUM GENTILIUM LUSTRATIONIBUS SYNTAGMA.

Ultajecti (ie Utrecht), Franciscus Halma 1681 Fine fullpage illustration of ceremonies by Joh. van den Avele. . Quarto contemporary calf on 5 raised bands spine gilt and with spine label (top cover nearly detached/lacks top and part of bottom spine compartment/tips worn) Engraved titlepage + Printed titlepage with large woodcut printer's mark +[4]pp dedication +[8]pp to the reader + 371pp +[1]p errata +[11]pp index + blank. One small worm hole to 3 leaves but only in the margin not affecting any print, otherwise clean crisp copy. *Lustration, atonement and purification rites such as ceremonial washing, sacrifices & other customs of worship of ancient peoples. Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek and Hebrew.

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N° du livre: V70301

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: rites religion ceremonies ritual sacrifices Greek Jews Rome

Longueville, Peter

THE HERMIT OR THE UNPARELLELED SUFFERINGS and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South Sea where he has lived above fifty years.

London, H.Fenwick No. 143, Cheapside fifth edition 1775 but not here dated Engraved frontis "Philip Quarll & Beaufidell" + "Map of the Island Drawn by Philip Quarle" [sic] + woodcut head- & tail-pieces. . 18mo [145x85mm] tan leather with black embossed coat of arms to cover. Spine gilt ruled on 5 raised bands + a red gilt spine-label, hinges split but covers well attached, edges worn, spine edges chipped, viii + 262pp. Four marginal tears without loss + 1 with three letters missing but pencilled in. About 8 openings with some off-setting from one side to the other but stil quite readable. The only copy matching ours is listed in the English Short Title Catalogue [not in WorldCat] The pubisher was only at Cheapside during 2 years [1774-1775] and the only citation on EST is N17619. We have noted that the J.Wren edition calls for an island plate. Purporting to be by Edward Dorrington the book is in fact by Peter Longueville though sometimes also attributed to Alexander Bicknell the story is most likely to have been based on Robinson Crusoe. Our frontispiece shows Quarll and Beaufidell who is a monkey-like creature that seems to be his servant. Three houses and 6 animals in background plus a fenced area and a castle-like ruin on moutains above. Quarll's story begins from his birth in St.Giles tells how he was apprenticed to a locksmith which was quite convenient as he next joined up with a house-breaker who was later hanged. Philip then went to sea later became a singing master and married three wives. Condemned but then pardoned by King Charles II he became a merchant and was shipwrecked off the coast of Mexico. He lived for more than 50 years alone and when found by Dorrington refused to leave the island.

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N° du livre: V76053

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Robinsoniade shipwreck

Louth, William (1660-1732)

A VINDICATION OF THE DIVINE AUTHORITY and Inspiration of the Old and New Testament .. In Answer to a Treatise lately Translated out of French, Entitled, Five Letters concerning the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, By William Lowth, B.D. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Winchester. The Second Edition, with Amendments. By William Lowth, B.D. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Winchester. The Second Edition, with Amendments, and a New Preface ..

London, William Horton for John Wilmot (in Oxford) 2nd edition 1699 . Small octavo contemporary calf with double gilt rule to covers on 5 raised bands with damaged spine label (top cover very tenuously held/tips worn/leather scratched) [48]pp prelims +258pp (recte 256 as numbers 65&66 are missed out but text & catchword follow on). Newer endpapers, prelims and towards the end with mainly marginal dampmarks. *Written "in Answer to a Treatise lately Translated out of French, Entitled, Five Letters concerning the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures". Text in English with quotations and examples in Latin, Greek & Hebrew with printed marginal notes. This second edition, "with amendments, and a new preface, wherein the antiquity of the Pentateuch is asserted, and vindicated from some late objections" (WING L3331).

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N° du livre: V73577

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Bible Testament Pentateuch religion