SHAKESPEARE, William

Julius Caesar: With Five Historical Embellishments and a Vignette.

London, Printed at the Chiswick Press,Whittingham and Arliss,, 1813. Original publisher's printed wrappers, 32 mo. (8 x 13 cm), 76 pp. Engravings as called for. 'No 33' in contemporary ink to wrapper. A lovely copy, probably never used. Crisp and clean. Unusual in its original state. With advertising for Whittingham's Edition of Shakespeare Plays, in a uniform series, to upper cover. Johnson critique to final page.

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N° du livre: 37926

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Literature|Antiquarian|Featured|English

SHAKESPEARE, William

King Richard III: With Five Historical Embellishments and a Vignette.

London, Printed at the Chiswick Press,Whittingham and Arliss,, 1816. Original publisher's printed wrappers, 32 mo. (8 x 13 cm), 103 pp. Engravings as called for. 'No 10' in contemporary ink to wrapper. A lovely copy, probably never used. Crisp and clean. Unusual in its original state. With advertising for [Thomas] "Dibdin's London Theatre" (Garrick's Isabella) in a uniform series to upper cover. Johnson critique to final page.

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N° du livre: 37923

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Literature|Antiquarian|Featured|English

SHAKESPEARE, William

Love's Labour's Lost: With Five Historical Embellishments and a Vignette.

London, Printed at the Chiswick Press,Whittingham and Arliss,, 1816. Original publisher's printed wrappers, 32 mo. (8 x 13 cm), 80 pp. Engravings as called for. 'No 18' in contemporary ink to wrapper. A lovely copy, probably never used. Crisp and clean. Unusual in its original state. With advertising for [Thomas] "Dibdin's London Theatre" (A New Way to Pay Old Debts) in a uniform series to upper cover. Johnson critique to final page.

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N° du livre: 37924

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Literature|Antiquarian|Featured|English

SHAKESPEARE, William

Merry Wives of Windsor: With Five Historical Embellishments and a Vignette.

London, Printed at the Chiswick Press,Whittingham and Arliss,, 1813. Original publisher's printed wrappers, 32 mo. (8 x 13 cm), 83 pp. Engravings as called for. 'No 3' in contemporary ink to wrapper. A lovely copy, probably never used. Crisp and clean. Unusual in its original state. With advertising for [Thomas] "Dibdin's London Theatre" (Garrick's Isabella) in a uniform series to upper cover. Johnson critique to final page.

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N° du livre: 37922

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Literature|Antiquarian|Featured|English

SMEATON, J[ohn]. (1724 - 1792).

An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to Turn Mills, and Other Machines, Depending on a Circular Motion. By J. Smeaton, F.R. S. . Ex Spitalfields Mathematical Society.

London, Printer J. Mynde. 1760. Disbound, quarto (176x228 mm.). Within marbled papers. 77 pp. 3 folding plates at back. Head and tail pieces, other tables in text. 'Spitalfields Mathematical Society' small stamp A2 headpiece. Complete. Disbound, with contemporary marbled endpapers attached front and back showing early neat repairs. Internally: unobtrusive darkening to title, A2 small stamp, some darkening of fore-edges, marginal browning to plates. Generally very good, crisp and clean. Full text of important paper given at the Royal Society in 1759 the data of which became known as the Smeaton coefficient. Also published in 'Philosophical Transactions' volume 51 1759-1760, as pp 100-174. Smeaton is now regarded as the "father of civil engineering". ESTC T106299.

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N° du livre: 38101

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Natural History|Science|Featured|Antiquarian|Britain

STAËL-HOLSTEIN, [Auguste Louis] Baron von

Ueber Die Verfassung, Verwaltung Und Den Politischen Gemeingeist Englands. Aus Dem Französischen übersetzt Von Dr Karl Hermann Scheidler.

Jena, in der Bran'schen Buchhandlung. 1825. Small 8vo. bound in marbled paper-covered boards, spine ruled gilt with morocco label. xiv[ii]+374[ii]pp. Nicolaische Buchhandlung in Berlin label to paste-down. Text in German. A lovely copy. Appears unused. Pages crisp and clean. Very tight. By Auguste Louis Staël-Holstein (1790-1827), eldest son of the famous woman of letters Mme (Germaine) de Staël. A collection of essays examining the political and cultural climate of England in the early nineteenth century.

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N° du livre: 38516

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Travel|Britain|German|Featured|Antiquarian

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

Sunny Memories: Or Foreign Lands. [Decorated Yellowback].

London and Edinburgh, T. Nelson and Sons,, 1854. Small 8vo. (10.5x16 cm.), original decorated glazed paper-covered boards, Nelson advertisements recto and verso to both endpapers, iv+288 pp. Lacking backstrip, chipped a little at corners, colours age-darkened, a little shaken but generally in unusually good condition. An unusual edition here published by Nelson. Printed in Edinburgh. Nelson lists advertised as "Interesting new works". ii pp preface by author.

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N° du livre: 38085

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Literature|English|Featured|Britain

TOYNBEE, Arnold J. (Lord Bryce)

Armenian Atrocities. The Murder of a Nation. With a Speech Delivered by Lord Bryce in the House of Lords.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. Original printed wrappers,12x18cm. 119pp. double-page map. Complete. Covers rather marked and edges worn. Wartime inferior quality paper. In good condition, complete but covers rather marked and edges worn. Wartime inferior quality paper. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 37134

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Armenia|Caucasus|History|Featured|Russian Empire

[VERRI, Pietro & Alessandro] (Association copy William Howley bookplate)

IL Caffè Caffe O Sia Brevi E Vari Discorsi Gia Distribuiti in Fogli Periodici. Seconda Edizione. Tomo Primo. Tomo Secondo.

In Venezia, Appress Pietro Pizzolato, 1766. 8vo. two volumes. Contemporary vellum with gilt lettered morocco labels to spine. viii+517 pp. viii+523 pp. William Howley's ("the last of the Prince-Archbishops", Archbishop of Canterbury 1828-48) engraved ex libris to paste-downs. An excellent set. Lower leading corner to volume one just slightly damaged. Otherwise an excellent set. Crisp, clean and tight. No ownership marks. The influential Milanese periodical Il Caffe (The Coffeehouse) published during the Italian Illuminismo (Enlightenment), was the inspiration of celebrated economist and philosopher Pietro Verri, with his brother Alessandro. Its 74 issues published between 1764 and 1766, were first collected together in this format in 1766. It is said to have been modelled on the London publication "The Spectator". Contains the important "Tentativo Analitico su i Contrabbandi" in volume one.

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N° du livre: 37779

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Coffee|Featured|Journal|Venice|Enlightenment|Antiquarian|Religion

VOSS, Johann Heinrich Voß

Des Publius Virgilius Maro Ländliche Gedichte Samt Anhang übersetzt Von Johann Heinrich Voß. Vollständig in Drei Bänden. Complete in Three Volumes.

Wien und Prag, bey Franz Haas, 1800. 3 volumes, complete. 8vo. Later Victorian half calf, marbled boards, endpapers and fore-edges, spine gilt stamped and ruled. Engraved frontispieces and title page vignettes. A good set. One weak joint. Internally very crisp and clean. Ex university library with gilt shelf numbers to spine, neat 19th C. bookplates to paste-downs and f.e.p. versos,discreet stamps to titles, corners and spine ends a little bruised. Band I: Idyllen. Landbau. Jugendgedichte. Band II: Aeneis I-VI. Gesang. Band III: Aeneis VII.-XII. Gesang.

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N° du livre: 37733

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: German|Literature|Featured|Germanic|Antiquarian