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STICKNEY (William)
Observations respecting the Grub: A Paper read to the Holderness Agricultural Society, by William Stickney, of Bridgemont, in Holderness; and published by the Society.
Second edition, 8vo, 22pp., disbound. First published in 1800, no copies of this second edition located.
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BASTIAN (Jayavira Bandara)
Translation of Hansa Sandesa Stanzas (1-62). With Text, Introduction, Grammar, Notes and Allusions by C. D. R. Bastian Jayaweera Bandara.
First edition, 8vo, [6], iii, [1], iii, [3], 70pp., Stamp of "W. E. Bastian & Co., Colombo" on title, portrait, text in Sinhalese and English, original contemporary limp leatherette.
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WATTS (Isaac)
Divine and Moral Songs, for the Instruction of Children.
12mo, 69, [1] pp., woodcut frontispiece, vignette and "Price Sixpence" on title, 26 woodcut illustrations in the text, 9 woodcut tail-pieces, p.[45] is a cancel, glued onto the recto of the leaf, original cloth-backed printed yellow boards, a nice copy. Date from imprint on upper board. The cancel page glued onto the recto of p.[45] although the text of the original p.45 is visible underneath. The Bodleian and V&A copies only on JISC.
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PSARAS (P.)
Greek English Phrasebook, or a selection of various Phrases for Exercises. For the use of Young People.
First edition, 8vo, 80, [2]pp., title in Greek letter, text in English and Greek in parallel columns, contemporary half calf, "Greek-English Dialogues." lettered in gilt on spine.
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STEELE (William Edward)
A Handbook of Field Botany, comprising the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles arranged according to the Natural System: the Orders, Genera, and Species carefully analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination; with a Synoptical Table of the Genera according to the Linn?an Classification; and a glossary of terms.
First edition, 8vo, [2], xxix, 249, [1]pp., frontispiece showing 73 plates and ferns, orig. green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, a nice copy. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Thomas Martin.
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[LA MARCHE (Olivier de)]
Le parement et triumphes des dames. Est appelle ce plaisant nouveau livre. Prenez le en gre ainsi que je le livre pour recepvoir salut de corps et dames. Bibliothique Gothique.
8vo, [142]pp., maroon calf, uncut, t.e.g. "A la fin" : Cy finist le Parement et triumphe des dames d'honneur, nouvellement imprim? ? Paris par la veufve feu Jehan Trepperel et Jehan Jehannot... et rimprim? ? Lille en Flandre par Six Horemans,... pour Baillieu, libraire... ? Paris, le X. jour d'avril mil huit cent LXX.
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YATES (W.)
A Dictionary Hindustani and English. [with an addenda].
Thick 8vo, iv, [2], 589, 19, [1]pp., printed in double columns, text in English and Hindustani, cont. half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, spine chipped.
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HALTON (L. G.)
Observations on a Report of Proceedings under a Writ of Enquiry, executed at Woolhampton, On the 30th of April, 1827.
First edition, 8vo, 16pp., folding genealogical table, disbound. JISC locates copies at Oxford and Durham University only.
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McMURTRIE (Douglas C.)
The Book. The Story of Printing and Bookmaking.
Numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. Will answer any but the most specialised and technical questions in regard to books and their makers.
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[LANGLAND (William)]
Pierce the Ploughman's Crede.
4to (280 x 205 mm), [44]pp., title-page and text printed in red and black, wood engraved headpieces and vignette tailpiece, cont. full red morocco, gilt, a little rubbed. An anonymous alliterative verse satire of 850 lines written between 1393 and 1401, attributed to Langland by Tyrwhitt, Skeat and Jusserand. The poem exists complete in two sixteenth-century paper manuscripts, Trinity College Cambridge MS R. 3. 15 and British Library MS Bibl. Reg. 18. B. XVII; in a fragment, British Library MS Harley 78 (fol. 3r); and in a black-letter edition (London, Reyner Wolfe, 1553) from which this reprint is taken. Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Edward Johnson with his crest stamped in gilt on both upper and lower covers.
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NOVEL. [BURNEY (Fanny)]
Evelina; or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In Two Volumes.
Fifth edition, 2 vols., 8vo (170 x 105 mm), [4], 282; 288pp., cont. calf, early neat reback, contrasting spine labels, a nice set. Provenance: Neat contemporary ink ownership signature of 'D. W. Maxwell, 1821' to titles; armorial bookplate of Laurence A. Waldron to vol. II; bookplate of 'Marino, Killiney' to rear of vol. I.
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DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall)
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
First edition, 3 vols., bound in 4, 4to (279 x 185 mm), ONE OF 100 COPIES PRINTED ON THICK AND LARGE PAPER WITH EXTRA PLATES, [4], xxv, [7], 462,lxxix, [1]; [2], 555, [1]; [2], 298; [2], 299-622, lxiipp., with the author's wood-engraved device on each title-page, a wood engraving of the elaborately-quartered coat of arms of the Roxburghe Club on the dedication page, 85 engraved plates ((including the private plate of 'Diana de Poictiers' in vol. 2, which was apparently destroyed after only 50 copies had been printed, and a proof of the 'Prater' plate in vol. 3), 62 illustrations printed on fine and thin "India" paper and mounted on the text leaves, 55 other illustrations in the text, with the additional sixty engraved plates on 52 leaves from Lewis' Series of Groups bound in at the appropriate places as designated by Lewis in his 'Directions to the binder', contemporary notes in pencil to several endpapers and a few within the text, text and plates have staining of varying degrees, pale stain to many lower margins, a little damage to endpapers where bookplates have been removed, full red hard grain red morocco,,covers waterstained, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Unfortunately this handsome large paper copy has suffered from water damage sometime in the past, additional photographs are available upon request. This set with the additional set of etchings on india paper by George Lewis, of a classic work of the utmost importance for its wealth of eye-witness information and anecdotes about printed books, manuscripts, buildings, other artefacts and people, both from past centuries and from the author's own day, for the extraordinary collection of illustrations, mostly drawn during the tour itself, and finally as a sumptuous piece of book production. As soon as the book appeared, leading scholars derided Dibdin for his lack of scholarship, especially concerning early manuscripts and printed books. But one must distinguish between the extensive and extremely useful information about things and people Dibdin saw during his 1818 tour, and his own interpretations and conclusions, which now serve only as a window to the attitudes of the time. Dibdin's enthusiasm, readable style and entertaining anecdotes, moreover, caught the mood of his age, making the book extremely popular and influential. Lewis' A Series of Groups... was intended to accompany Dibdin's Tour but was rejected by Dibdin as unworthy of his book. Lewis, most perturbed, issued them at his own expense and presented his case in the eight-page Advertisement which was separately printed. Jackson 48; 56; 56n: Windle & Pippin A38a; A44; D13.
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HATCHELL (John)
A Report of the Arguments and Judgment upon the Demurrer, in the case of Henry Edmund Taffe, against the Right Hon. Wm. Downes, Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench, in Ireland, in Trinity, Michaelmas, and Hilary Terms, 1812 & 1813, in the Court of Common Pleas, Ireland.
First Edition, 8vo, [2], 218pp., pp.199-200 omitted in pagination, i.e. p.198 followed by p.201, with the stamp of Dublin Law Society on title, disbound, uncut and partly unopened. Henry Edmund Taffe had accused the Right Hon.William Downes of trespass with force of arms, in that he made an assault on him in Castle Street, in Dublin, and kept and detained him in prison, without any reasonable or probable course, for a long time, to wit, for the space of four hours. The damages were laid at ?5,000. Rare, JISC locating the BL copy only.
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HORNBY (Thomas)
Dissertation on Lime, and its use and abuse in Agriculture, embracing a view of its chemical effects, illustrated by collateral remarks and observations on the nature of manures in general.
Third edition, 8vo, 36 + 4pp., of advertisements for Harding's books on Agriculture and Rural Affairs at end, disbound. The York surgeon who was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. "I have been unable to find a copy of the first edition... the second edition of which was printed by J. Harding, 8vo, London 1814, a third edition being issued by the same printer in 1821... dismissed as "not likely to have added much to the knowledge of the subject". Perhaps that was not the object. It may only have been to advise a limited public of what he thought. Hornby was a friend of Dr. Hunter, and he had a very real appreciation of the value of the developing science of chemistry to the farmer."?Fussell. No first edition recorded on Copac; OCLC locates the National Agricultural Library (America) & Institute of Social Studies (The Netherlands) copies only. Fussell, p.105-6; Perkins, 821 & 822 (second and third editions only); Goldsmiths'-Kress, 20909 (second edition).
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DOHENY (Estelle)
The Estelle Doheny Collection from The Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California.
7 Vols., 4to, numerous coloured plates throughout, illustrs., orig. cloth, 2,370 lots. Part I. Fifteenth-Century Books including The Gutenberg Bible. Part II. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Part III. Printed Books and Manuscripts including Western Americana. Part IV. Printed Books and Manuscripts including Early Printing, Literature and Fine Bindings. Part V. Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, Literature and Fine Bindings. Part VI. Printed Books and Manuscripts concerning William Morris and his Circle. Part VII. Index and Price Lists.
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GIMINGHAN, NORFOLK.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Cottages at Giminghan, in Norfolk. which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Barcham, at the King's Arms Inn, North Walsham, on Thursday, the 17th day of September, 1874.
Folio (414 x 270 mm), 4pp., folded as issued.
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DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognal)
The Bibliographical Decameron: or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography.
First edition, 3 vols., 4to (270 x 185 mm), [6], vi, [2], ccxxv, [1], 410, [2]; [4], 535, [3]; [4], 544, [4]pp., with half-titles, ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 37 engraved plates (without the 'Presentation in the Temple' plate which was not ready at publication and occurs in only a very few copies and the 'Portrait of Los Rios' which Windle & Pippin suggest is an extra-illustration), also without the engraved portrait of Dibdin by Henry Mayer, numerous woodcuts engraved vignettes, several printed in red or blue, some mounted, some light spotting and offsetting as usual, marbled endpapers, contemporary full blue-green morocco, decorated in gilt with interlacing geometrical design on the covers, richly tooled gilt morocco doublures, flat spines lettered in gilt direct, all edges gilt, spine slightly faded, corner of lower board of vol. II bumped, some slight edge-wear to bindings otherwise a handsome set. A fine copy of the rare large paper issue of the author's most lavish publication and the high water of Dibdinian Bibliomania. Jackson 40; Windle & Pippin A28.
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WAKEFIELD PRINTING.
The Christian Economy: Translated from the Original Greek of an Old Manuscript found in the Island of Patmos, where St. John wrote his Book of Revelation.
12mo (105 x 77 mm), x, [11]-80pp., lightly stained, orig. printed wrappers, stitched.
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BOTTOMLEY (Samuel)
The Redeemer in The Midst Of Those who are Assembled in His Name the substance of a Sermon preached at the opening of a New Chapel in Pickering, in the County of York, on Wednesday April 29th. 1789.
First edition, 8vo, 30, [2]pp., title rather soiled, with a final leaf of errata, disbound. ESTC locates 3 copies in the UK (The British Library, Cambridge University and the congregational Library).
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MILNER (Joseph)
Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of William Howard, who died at North Ferriby, in the County of York, March 2, 1784.
Second edition, 8vo, 55, [1]pp., disbound. The author was Master of the Grammar School of Kingston upon Hull.
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ANDERSON (R. J.)
The Morphology of the Omohyoid Muscle. [Offprint from the 'Dublin Journal of Medical Science', August, 1881.]
Large 8vo, 16pp., one coloured lithographic plate, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a couple of their neat library stamps.
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KING (Kelburne)
On the Present Tendency of Scientific Thought. The introductory address to the session of the Literary and Philosophical Society, 1869-70, delivered in the Hull Royal Institution November 2nd 1869.
8vo, 28pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a couple of their neat library stamps.
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BROWNELL (William)
Original Poems on Various Subjects.
First and only edition, small 8vo, [2], 114pp., with half-title, ex-library with ownership stamp to recto of title page and library numbers on verso, library buckram, uncut. Rare provincially printed poetry. Rare provincially printed poetry.
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BRITISH LIBRARY. PAISEY (David)
Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-Speaking Countries and of German Books Printed in other Countries from 1601 to 1700 now in the British Library.
5 vols., 4to, from the library of Professor Birrell, with a letter from the author tipped-in, orig. cloth, a fine set. The British Library's rich holdings of German books of the 17th century comprise over 26,000 items in all subjects and most genres. This is a catalogue of the Library's collection of the products of the German presses of the period, and is intended for scholars of all historical disciplines. It is arranged in author sequence followed by a full range of indexes, most importantly of subjects, but also of printers and publishers, collaborators and literary genres.
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BOERNER (C. G.)
Original-Drucke Luthers und seiner Zeitgenossen. Liste XVIII.
Small 4to, 22pp., orig. printed wrappers, 150 items described.
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BULLEN (G.)
British Museum. Luther Exhibition, 1883, in the Grenville Library, arranged by G. Bullen. Printed Books, Manuscripts, Portraits, and Medals Illustrating the Life of Martin Luther, with Biographical Sketch.
8vo, 42pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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HOPTON (Arthur)
A Concordancy of Yeares. Containing a new, easie, and most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Also the vse of the English and Roman kalender, with briefe notes, rules, and tables, as well mathematicall and legal, as vulgar, for each priuate mans occasion. Newly composed, digested, and augmented by Arthur Hopton, Gentleman. The contents follow after the epistles.
Second edition, 8vo, [16], 254, [2]pp., the first leaf and the last leaf are blank, title within elaborate ornamental woodcut border, woodcut initials and head-pieces, illustrations including full-page chart with signs of the zodiac, blank margins of title a little frayed, foremargins of first 12 leaves cut close and just touching text, C5 with part of foremargin torn away, old paper repair missing text added in manuscript, C6 with blank foremargin torn away with partial repair, foremargin of F4 with old paper repair and lacking a couple of letters, pages 99-114 with worm track which affects a few words but without loss on sense, small rust hole to gutter margin of K1-K3, some contemporary ink marginalia in the hand of Thomas Gibbon, contemporary calf, blind tooled, spine split. "This book is the second (first in 1612), enlarged, edition of his popular handbook on astronomical and astrological data. It contains instructions and tables for astrological calculations, finding the time by either the position of the sun or the moon, determining dates of movable Christian feasts, etc. The calendar section is followed by shorter sections on financial advice, tables of historical information and legal matters."?Tomash & Williams. STC, 13779; Tomash & Williams, H163.
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WOODFIELD (Denis B.)
Surreptitious Printing in England 1550-1640.
First Edition, 4to, x,203pp., numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth. History of those books that were printed in England with false information on the title page etc.
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TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY, STEELE, AND CO.
A Specimen of Printing Types, By Fry, Steele, and Co. Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type-Street. [Bound with:] Specimens of Metal Cast Ornaments, Curiously Adjusted to Paper, by Edmund Fry and Isaac Steele...
2 Vols., in one, small 4to (260 x 160 mm), 103 leaves including title and two advertisement leaves; 22 leaves including title and advert leaf (ornaments numbered 1-103), all printed on rectos only, printed on thick paper stock, 'Lepard' watermark, orig. boards with marbled covers, printed paper title label to spine (rubbed), inner hinges expertly repaired, a very good uncut copy with wide margins. The Fry's were a Bristol family, and Joseph Fry (1728-87) established the foundry at Bristol in 1764, in partnership with William Pine and Isaac Moore as manager and type-designer. By 1766 the foundry had moved to London, with Moore retiring in 1776 and Pine shortly after. In 1782 Fry took his sons Edmund (especially interested in exotic founts) and Henry into partnership, and made considerable purchases of Greeks and Orientals at the sale of James' foundry. Joseph retired in 1787 and in 1794 Isaac Steele joined as partner until 1808, when Edmund Fry was left in sole control until he admitted his son to partnership. In 1829 the foundry was acquired by William Thorowgood. A very good copy of this extremely rare and substantial specimen book. Berry & Johnson, p. 45; Mosley, 118 & 119.
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HART (Horace)
Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1900 with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Harry Carter.
Large 4to, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. Research done since the book was issued, particularly by the late Stanley Morison into the origins of the Fell types, is digested in revisions by Hart have been added. This edition is, therefore, an up-to-date survey of one of the world's richest collections of historical printing types.
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TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY, STEELE, AND CO.
A Specimen of Printing Types, By Fry, Steele, and Co. Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type-Street.
Small 4to (250 x 155 mm), title with vignette, 2 ff. adverts, 126 ff. (i.e., 100ff. type specimens, 26 ff. ornaments, numbered 1-130) all printed on rectos only, printed on thick paper stock, 'Lepard' watermark, occasional spotting and turned corners, cont. calf, rubbed, joints cracked, black morocco spine label. The Fry's were a Bristol family, and Joseph Fry (1728-87) established the foundry at Bristol in 1764, in partnership with William Pine and Isaac Moore as manager and type-designer. By 1766 the foundry had moved to London, with Moore retiring in 1776 and Pine shortly after. In 1782 Fry took his sons Edmund (especially interested in exotic founts) and Henry into partnership, and made considerable purchases of Greeks and Orientals at the sale of James' foundry. Joseph retired in 1787 and in 1794 Isaac Steele joined as partner until 1808, when Edmund Fry was left in sloe control until he admitted his son to partnership. In 1829 the foundry was acquired by William Thorowgood. A very good copy of this extremely rare and substantial specimen book. Following an introduction, the specimens proceed from Ten line Pica to Diamond: 'the smallest Letter in the World. It gets in considerably more than the famous Dutch Diamond.' There are type in Hebrew and Greek, ornamental, Blacks, Exotics, Ships, Bands, frames, & decorative pieces composed of flowers continuing to a priced section of cast ornaments. This edition not listed by ESTC, Berry & Johnson and Mosley both cite the St. Bride copy only. Berry & Johnson, p. 46; Mosley, 122.
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LUMSDEN (Matthew)
A Grammar of the Persian Language; Comprising a Portion of the Elements of Arabic Inflexion; together with some Observations on the Structure of either Language, Considered with Reference to the Principals of General Grammer.
2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.
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LUMSDEN (Matthew)
A Grammar of the Arabic Language, According to the Principles Taught and Maintained in the Schools of Arabia; Exhibiting a Complete Body of Elementary Information, Selected from the Works of the most Eminent Grammarians; together with Definitions of the Parts of Speech, and Observations on the Structure of the Language. In Two Volumes. Volume First: Comprising the System of Inflexion [All Published].
First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'?Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
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ALDINE PRESS. RENOUARD (Antoine-Augustin)
Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde ou Histoire des Trois Manuce et de Leurs Editions.
Second edition, 3 vols., royal 8vo (235 x 155 mm), large paper copy, [4], 425, [1]; [4], 434, [2]; xl, 420, [4]pp., with half-titles and engraved frontispiece portrait to first and second volumes as called for, 10 facsimile plates, 6 of which are double-page or folding, some occasional light spotting to text (mainly prelims), marbled endpapers, cont. red morocco, spines gilt extra, marbled boards, spines just slightly faded, uncut, t.e.g. an attractive set. This famous bibliography of the output of the Manutius family and their Aldine Press, 1494-1598, has remained the standard work on the subject and has been praised as a classic of its kind. Over 1,500 entries given. Provenance: From the library of Charles Butler (1821-1910), Warren Wood in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The majority of the library was sold at Sotheby's, London, on 5 April 1911.
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CALCUTTA.
The Calcutta Annual Register and Directory, for the Year of our Lord 1818; or, Civil, Military, Medical, and Marine Lists of the Presidency of Bengal; with an Almanack, and an Appendix: Containing Regulations of the Custom House, Treasury, Post Office, Bank, Pension and Life Insurance Funds, Union, Laudable and Provident Societies, Calcutta Tontine?Lists of the Law Department, College, Asiatic Society, and Public Charities?Complete Calcutta Lists?List of former Governors, &c.?List of Shipping, &c.?Chronological Table?Rates of Commission and Godown-rent?Tables of Coins, Weights and Measures?Ditto of Exchange, Siccas into Sonats, and Vice Versa?Ditto of Expence, Income, or Wages?A Polymetrical Table?Lists of Administrations, Arrivals and Departures of Passengers, Marrigaes, Births and Deaths?Rates of Boat Hire, &c. Together with a General List of the European Inhabitants of Bengal.
Large 8vo (230 x 140 mm), [2], vi, [18], 174, 204, 10, xv, [1], iii, [1]pp., one folding table, some light worming to blank upper margin of title page, a couple of closed tears to title, some light browning to text, cont. red half calf, rubbed, lower board with minor working which runs through to the lower blank margin of final 4 leaves. Provenance: Ownership signature in ink of "Geo. Richardson, Calcutta, May 10, 1818."
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CRUMPE (Samuel)
An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People. To which was Adjudged the Prize Proposed by the Royal Irish Academy for the best Dissertation on that Subject.
First edition, 8vo (207 x 125 mm), xxxii, 365, [3]pp., without the half-title but with the final errata leaf, cont. calf, neatly rebacked, leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Samuel Crumpe (1766?1796) came to prominence in 1793 with a carefully argued essay on unemployment, entitled An essay on the best means of providing employment for the people. In this he emphasised the importance of agriculture, and attacked low wages as 'a premium to idleness'; he also maintained that people would be lazy when working unless well paid. The essay also echoed popular concerns of the time when Crumpe argued that a prosperous Britain would lead to a prosperous Ireland, and it hinted at the dangers of separation."?(DIB). Provenance: With the printed bequest label of the Right Reverend Doctor F. Moylan, to the Diocese of Cork. McCulloch, p.284; Goldsmiths'-Kress, no. 15519.
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HERODIAN.
Herodian of Syria and Zosimus. [Greek Title:] Herodiani Histor. Lib. VIII. Cum Angeli Politiani Interpretatione, & Huius Partim Supplemento, Partim Examine Henrici Stephani: Utroque Margini Adscriptio. Eiusdem Henrici Stephani Emendationes Quorundam Gr?ci Contextus Locorum, & Quorundum Expositiones. Historiarum Herodianicas Subsequentium Libri Duo, Nunc Primum Gr?ci Editi.
Small folio (230 x 150 mm), [8], 182, [2], 79, [1]pp., woodcut device on title, ornamental head-pieces and initials, text in Greek and Latin in 2 columns, title slightly dusty, rebound in full calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. The History of Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the commencement of the reign of Gordian III, 180-238 A.D., by the 3rd-century Greek historian, Herodian. Adams, H388.
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[YOUNG (Arthur)]
The Farmer's Letters to the People of England: containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms The present state of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great-Britain, &c. To which are added, Sylv?: or, occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics.
Third edition, first Irish, small 8vo (157 x 95 mm), [6], 482pp., cont. calf, lower joints split but holding firm, morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute.
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TROTTER (Marcus)
A Treatise on the First Principles of Astronomy and the use of the Globes.
First edition, 8vo (190 x 110 mm), viii, [2], 174pp., errata slip tipped in after page 154, engraved frontis., and folding engraved plate to rear (spotted), page 115/116 with closed tear which has been repaired with archival paper, some light browning, rebound in modern calf calf decorated with astronomical symbols to spine, new endpapers, uncut. Provenance: Presentation inscription to inner gutter margin of title, presented to the Linen Library, Belfast by R. R. Bradshaw, 1889. JISC locates a single copy at Newcastle University Libraries.
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CLAIR (Colin)
A History of European Printing.
First edition, x, 526pp., 90 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. A comprehensive reference work detailing the story printing from the 15th century to the present day.
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ARBER (Edward) Editor. ROBINSON (Clement)
Clement Robinson and Divers Others: A Handful of Pleasant Delights Containing Sundry New Sonnets and Delectable Histories in Divers Kinds of Metre Etc. 1584. The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works No. 3.
8vo, xvi, 64pp., orig. blue cloth lettered in blind and gold, a nice copy.
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HAZEN (A. T.)
A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press. With a Record of the Prices at which Copies have been Sold Including a New Supplement. Together with a Bibliography and Census of the Detached Pieces by A. T. Hazen and J. P. Kirby.
4to, 300pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.
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HILLYARD (C.)
Practical Farming and Grazing; with observations on the breeding and feeding of sheep and cattle; and tables to compute by measurement the weight of cattle: on the beneficial effects likely to arise to agriculture from railroads; on the working of the new Poor Laws, on rents, tithes, and corn laws; on the cultivation of waste land; on the rural population of this country, and on improvements commenced in the cultivation of land in Ireland.
Third edition, 8vo, viii, 168 + 24pp., of adverts, engraved frontis., orig. green cloth, a little faded and worn.
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MAUDE (T.)
Wensleydale; or, Rural Contemplations: A Poem.
Fourth edition, 12mo, 122, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece, large folding pedigree creased with a couple of closed tears, cont. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt tooled, a nice copy. Provenance: Contemporary ownership signature of John Hammond of Weston Runton.
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PRIVATE PRESS. WOODWARD (Rev. G. R.)
A collection of nine publications from the Private Press of the Rev. G. R. Woodward, Highgate Village and a publication of his poems.
All fine copies in the original printed wrappers. 1. Acta Sanctorum. Being XII Poems. 1924. 2. Theokritos. 1925. 3. The Sory of Kleobis and Biton. 1926. 4. Miscellaneous Verse. 1928. 5. Gleanings from Ancient Olive-yards. 1928. 6. Translations of Italian, French & German Poems. 1928. 7. Some Remnants of Greek Comedy. 1929. 8. Greek Epigrams on and by Famous Poets and Musicians. 1929. 9. The Story of Arion and the Dolphin. 1929. 10. Greek Eigrams on Timon, Diogenes & others. 1931.
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MARSHALL (George W.) Editor.
The Registers of Carburton in the County of Nottingham.
4to, iv, 42pp., parchment-backed boards slightly spotted, leather label to spine, uncut and unopened, a very nice copy.
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MARSHALL (George W.) Editor.
The Registers of Carburton in the County of Nottingham.
4to, iv, 42pp., several small neat stamps, parchment-backed boards, soiled and browned, leather label to spine, uncut and unopened.
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MARSHALL (George W.) Editor.
The Registers of Perlethorpe in the County of Nottingham.
4to, [4], 66, [1] pp., with the bookplate of John Clay, parchment-backed boards soiled, leather spine label worn.
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CAXTON (William)
Jacobus de Cessolis. The Game of Chess. Translated and Printed by William Caxton c.1483. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Copy at Trinity College, Cambridge, with an Introduction by N.F. Blake.
4to (290 x 200 mm), 8 page introduction followed by the facsimile which includes 23 large woodcut illustrations, one of 500 numbered copies, orig. hessian, leather label on spine. The 'Game of Chess' is an English version (first issued in 1474) of text written originally in Latin by Jacobus de Cessolis under the title of 'Liber de Ludo Scaccorum'. This second edition is one of the earliest books to be issued with woodcuts (the first edition has none).
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WRIGHT (George)
Through Normandy, a Holiday Ramble. a paper read before the Rotherham Literary & Scientific Society, 8th December, 1873.
First edition, 8vo, 44pp., disbound. JISC locating a single copy at the University of Leeds.
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