Virgil (Vergil) with notes by various authors

P. Virgilii Maronis poetae Mantuani Vniuersum poema: cum absoluta Servii Honorati Mauri, grammatici, & Iodoci Badij Ascensij interpretatione: Probi, & Ioannis Viuis in eclogas allegorijs: Iodocique Vuillichij eruditis super Georgica commentarijs. Quibus accesserunt Ludouici Coelii Rhodigini, Ioan. Scoppae Parthenopei, Iacobi Constantij Fanensis, Francisci Campani Colensis, Iacobi Cruci Bononiensis, necnon alterius docti hominis, lucubrationes & annotationes in loca difficiliora: [.] Quae non, ut antea, plurimis foedata mendis [.] emisimus.

Venice, Giovanni Maria Bonelli 1566 Large publisher's device on titlepage, large text illustrations and foliated initials. . Large folio later 3/4 vellum, gilt spine with decorated gilt leather labels, marbled paper boards All Edges rouge, [8] +414pp collated complete (4 a-z8 A-Z8 AA-EE8 FF6). *Rare fine book Venice edition later fine bindiding.

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Book number: V48026

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Latin Vergil poetry annotated

Lord roch---r [ie Lord Rochester=actually John Freke (1651-1717) + Mr.Ayloff

THE HISTORY OF INSIPIDS A Lampoon by the Lord Roch---r with his FAREWELL 1680 together with MARVIL'S GHOST by Mr.Ayloff.

London, H.Hills 1709 6 floral ornaments rather than 14 cf.Foxon 249 . sm. Octavo disbound. 16pp The top THE in the title is half cropped off and the page numbers of the last leaf are also partly affected the [15] or so than the [16]. Usual foxing/paper tanning and JV or possibly W in margin of first text leaf + two old ink corrections else neat. The Insipids are a satire of Charles II written some 30 years earlier in 1680 but only circulated in manuscript until it was printed, with other items, in a Miscellany. There are two editions of this 1709 printing one with 6 flower ornaments on the titlepage the other with 14.

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Book number: V75294

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: poetry poems political satire

Bacon, Francis [ 1561-1626.]

EXEMPLUM TRACTATUS DE JUSTITIA UNIVERSALI

paris, Vincent [via St.Severini] 1752 . 12mo marbled leather gilt ruled & spine ornamentally gilt with darker brown gilt spine title label {two pin-holes to covers/sm.splits to hinge but covers quite firm/tips worn] edges sprinkled red dyes.] xxiv + 161pp includes index, + [7pp=Permission +Approbation] Free marbled front entpaper with short narrow strip torn from top edge, traces of bookseller price codes in pencil to verso & blank leaf. The original silk bookmark is still in place and the pages are all clean and crisp, no tears, no loose pages,no annotations in the text. A rare Bacon item with only 5 copies in WorldCat of this 1st edition. No copies seem to be for sale. Scarce

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Book number: V75838

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Law legal philosophy jurisprudence

Baker, Sir R., Knight (Sir Richard Baker 1568-1645)

A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND From the Time of the Romans Government [sic] unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles.

London, Daniel Frere to be sold at his shop at the Red Bull in Little Brittaine 1st edition first printing. 1643 Frontispiece of Charles Prince of Wales by Cor(nelius) van Dalen + fine engraved titlepage by W. Marshall with views of London, York, Lincoln . Folio contemporary brown marbled calf on five raised bands with gilt directly lettered to spine (tips worn/hinges split to top & bottom compartent of front hinge but hinges still well attached & sound). Frontis portrait + engraved title + dedication leaf to Charles Prince of Wales + To reader +[5]pp of Authors used as sources + 181pp +163pp +108pp +163pp collated complete. The To Reader & Author list are Misbound at the end (signed from A2 where they should follow the dedication). The last leaves of text are correctly signed XXXX (pp161-3) last is a quarter page of text ending in FINIS. The frontis has a longitudinal crease and a corner torn away not touching either the printed area nor even the plate mark, page 88 of the Elizabeth section has an ink mark affecting a few words but with no loss of sense otherwise no tears, no MS notes or underlining the only marks a few pages with edge dusting. A really nice wide margined copy clean tight and crisp. *Very scarce in this first edition.

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Book number: V74614

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: history England

Leech (designed by) and engraved by Baker

YOUNG TROUBLESOME or Master Jacky's Holidays - From the Blessed Moment of His Leaving School To The Identical Moment of His Going Back Again; Showing How There Never Was Such A Boy As That Boy.

Philadelphian USA, Davis, Porter & Co. 1850 as entered according to Act of Congress Hand-colored illustrations on 18 pages. . 250x195mm newer cloth spined boards (rubbed to tips) 24pp. Paper uniformly tanned with minor foxing and a few gutters strengthened, first 2 leaves have 2" tears without loss. Now a neat amusing item. *Young Jacky comes home for the Christmas Holidays and brings mayhem to the household. This is an American printing with plates from the 1850 London edition re-engraved and hand-colored.

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Book number: V71106

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Keywords: humorous illustrations schoolboy

Ball, John [editor]

PEAKS, PASSES AND GLACIERS a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club.

London, Longman Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts 1859 1st edition Chromolith plates (8) each tipped onto beige art paper, woodcuts in the text. Chromolithographs by Day & Son lithographers to the Queen. Day & Son lithographers to the Queen. . Octavo tan half calf with green cloth sides; spine with gilt library name and number (leather edges rubbed/hinges cracked but covers well attached/spine lacking most of spine title label but blind iumpression of title remains) xvi (incl.frontis & titlepage with large vignettwe +Preface +contents) +516pp with errata slip tipped in after p466 as called for. Bookplate of S.R.[ie Stan Robinson] to pastedown & sm.stamp "Robinson Collection" to both pastedowns and the blank versos of most of the chromos and two of the maps also only on the blank back. The Robinson collection is part of the Knowsley Library and the latter's heraldic device is gilt to foot of spine. The interesting text is well printed and is crisp and clean.

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Book number: V75244

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: mountaineering Switzerland

Ballingall,William [engraver]

SCENES OF SCOTTISH STORY drawn by Waller H.Paton Sam.Brough, W.F.Vallance and other artists

Edinburgh, E.S.Livingstone 1873 Plates [15 including frontis.] + every text page with pictorial decoration + 28 illustrations in the text. . sm.folio [in 6's] redish-brown gilt cloth cover & spine and blindstamped lower cover. On bevelled boards. [Sl.marked/corners rubbed/ a few bubbles to cloth of lower cover] All Edges Gilt. 88pp including halftitle + Frontisplate + pictorial titlepage. + Preface + contents list.Lacks the first free endpaper and the following page is browned as is the last page facing its rear free endpaper. The endpapers seems to have been rather acidic for this to happen. The text includes historical descriptions and many poems taken from John Brown, Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Ruskin etc. A clean tight copy with no marginalia, names etc.

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Book number: V75874

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Scottish Scenery

Barber, Thomas (1771-1843) (Bartlett & Barber illustrators)

BARBER'S PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, Comprising Views of every object of interest on the Island. Engraved from Original Drawings Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions.

London, Simpkin & Marshall 1834] (but no date given) Engraved plates (40 incl. illustrated titlepage) + doublpage map, by W.H. Bartlett, T. Barber et al. . 235x152mm (in 4's) green cloth spined boards (newer rebind and new endpapers) 110pp some foxing and edge browning but all plates with tissue guards present. Generally clean and tight.

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Book number: V62471

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Keywords: topography England illustrated

Barlaeus, Caspare, Cornelius Boyus, Jacobus Lydius & Jacob Cats.

FACES AUGUSTAE SIVE POEMATIA quibus Illustriores Nuptiae a nobili & Illustri viro D.Jacob Catsio…

Dordrecht {Germany], Matthias Havius 1643 charming text engravings [14 copperplates + 1 mounted as frontispiece to Part I] 3 signed S.V. Q. [Crispin Van Queborn] + handsome woodcut large figural, floral and foliated initals + smaller decorated initials an. Octavo 4 Parts in One Volume. laced through vellum binding with yapp fore-edge & with rubbed black stamped tree growing from a crown with initials CJH ? and motto on a plaque. This stamp to the cover is Very rubbed but there is a bookplate to endpapers with the same stamp in a bit better condition. Spine with ink title & date. [Vellum somewhat marked and dusty/Lacks all but a stub of ribbon ties] Titlepage with printer's mark pf woman holding a plume and with a lap full of books as the Dortrecht printer's mark + [60pp of Dedications, laudatory poems and privilege etc.] + 272pp + 149pp + [3p=blanks] + 32pp +198pp

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Book number: V75513

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated + poetry

Barnard,Geo.

THEORY & PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATERCOLOURS

London, George Routledge & sons new edition 1871 chromoliths (26 as listed) by the Leighton Bros. + 69 woodcuts in the text. . lg 8vo blue decoratively gilt pebbled cloth (tips worn/spine rubbed & lower cover marked) All Edges Gilt 286pgs +[2p publisher's adverts.] Spine underlaid and new endpapers provided with cloth inner hinges.First edition was 1854 and this second edition is the first to be dedicated to Michael Faraday, D.C.L. & F.R.S. * landscape plates are mainly of Swiss and English views and also show the successive building up pictures and pigments.A strong clean copy.

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Book number: V75681

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: art

Barrie,J.M. (Hugh Thomson illustrated)

QUALITY STREET a Comedy in Four Acts

London, Hodder & Stoughton N D Color plates tipped onto tinted card with lettered & illustrated guards by Hugh Thomson . Quarto lovely pale blue overall pictorial gilt cloth upper cover & spine (spine sunned/lower sl.marked/head and foot of spine sl.fraying) (viii)+197pp+(1pp) first few and last few leaves with slight palest foxing else a lovely clean copy with pale move doublepage endpaper drawings (no inscriptions) and a very handsome production of the nicest of Hugh Thomson's work.

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Book number: V63964

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Keywords: illustrated comedy

Barrow,Isaac (1630-1677)

OF INDUSTRY in Five Discourses : Viz. in General, in Our General Calling As Christians, in Our Particular Calling As Gentlemen, in Our Particular Calling As Scholars

London, Brab.Alymer (Published by Archbishop of Canterbury) 1693 frontisportrait by Van der Gucht Michael Van der Gucht (1660-1725) . 160x92mm marbled roan blindruled to covers, professionally rebacked with gilt spine rules and red gilt lettered spine label [tips sl.worn] Portrait + titlepage + bookseller's advert after frontispeice. Small near contemporary inscription on frontespeice. +188p Richard Squibb owner's name to verso of Isaac Barrow portrait & charming bookplate to rear pastedown. Newer end-papers. *Isaac Barrow was a leading Cambridge Mathmetician and Royalist, who was a leading pioneer of calculating tangents. Antiquarian John Aubrey attriubtes Barrow`s death to an opium addiction. This books was published by John Tillotson (1630-1694) the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691-1694.

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Book number: V75119

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: 17th century anglican christian work ethic/morality

Basil the Great, Saint, Archbishop of Caesarea

OMNIA D. BASILII MAGNI Archiepiscopi Caesareae Cappadociae, quae ad nos extant, Opera, iuxta argumentorum congruentiam in Tomos distincta quatuor, ab Iano Cornario medico physico Zuiccaviensi interpretata, iterumq[ue] recognita & castigata, ac duobus libris contra Eunomij apologeticum aucta: quorum ordinem & catalogum versa pagina docet.

Basel, H. Froben (1501-1563) 1552 Large Froben printer's device on titlepage, historiated woodcut initials throughout. . Four Volumes in One, large folio bound in blind-stamped pigskin (dated 1564 with initials I.D.F.H.) on bevelled wooden boards with metal clasps (lacking one clasp) each board has 16 small marginal panels of biblical scenes and four larger central stamps of Justice, Fortitude etc with legends under each, spine on four raised double bands with MS title and shelf mark "Basilius 39", some small worm holes, tips worn. Title page + catalogue +[6] +787pp with colophon "Basiliae apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium anno M.D.LI" (1551) +[21]pp index +[3]pp blank with large Froben device on last page. Bookplate with coronet initials dated 1913, inscription "Ex bibliotheca Johannis Mathon Lugd. Bat." with MS devices on free endpaper & another inscription on titlepage. Collated complete (&4, a-z, A-M6, N8, O-Z, Aa-Ss6, Tt8, Vv-Xx6) with pagination continuous, each of 4 vols has divisional titlepage (see Adams B340). Crisp and clean throughout but with quite extensive worming of pages near front and back of book. *NB large heavy book, so extra shipping/postage costs.

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Book number: V48030

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: religion theology dated binding

Baxter,Andrew 1686-1750) (but no author given on titlepage)

MATHO: or, the Cosmotheoria Puerilis, a Dialogue. In which The first Principles of Philosophy and Astronomy are accommodated to the Capacity of Young Persons .. Translated and enlarged by the author In Two Volumes.

London, A. Miller first edition in English 1740 . Two Volumes octavo calf with 5 raised bands with spine labels in contrasting colour to both volumes gilt double rules to covers (tips worn/hinges cracked but covers attached/some scuffing) [16]pp Title & prelims 432pp +[8]pp Titlepage to second volume +contents +395p +[1]p booklist. Second volume with marginal brown stain up to p24 else both volumes crisp and clean and V.G. *A critic of Locke and Berkeley, Baxter was a private tutor, and this book was written for the benefit of his pupils - an interesting glimpse into the teaching methods and curriculum of the 18th century gentleman. It was first printed in Latin in 1738 in a much abreviated form here it has been much enlarged by Baxter.Based on Newton it achieved great popularity.

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Book number: V71123

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: mathematics science astronomy teaching philosophy

William Beattie (1793-1875)

CALEDONIA ILLUSTRATED in a series of views taken expressly for the work, by W. H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and Others. The descriptive text by William Beattie, M.D.

London and New York, George Virtue (1794-1868) 1840 [approx but ND] Titlepage vignettes + 96 engravings (inc map of Scotland) by William Bartlett (1809-1854), Thomas Allom (1804-1872) and others. . Two Volumes complete, quarto 275x215mm 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spines on 4 raised bands with gilt decoration & labels, all edges gilt (marbled paper scuffed, corners bumped, Vol 1 front board re-attached with matching leather repairs to spine), signatures on FEPs (F. Carruthers, Lancaster & D. Collier). Added illustrated title pages ("SCOTLAND, by William Beattie, M.D."), Vol 1 viii +[2] +200 +[2]pp, Vol 2 [6] +172pp. Light edge-browning to most plates with darker water-staining to edges of some (notably towards end Vol 2), but no damage to printed area of plates or to text. Overall condition of both vols Good. *Beautiful engravings of Scottish scenery throughout by well-known artists.

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Book number: V75057

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Scotland history geography illustrated travel