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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: B. Bragg in Pater Noster Row, 1707. first edition. hardcover. Good +. Title continues with some examples of paradoxes, and then: "And so on, to the Defence of 2000 Paradoxes (or Pleasant Theses) which seem Strange, and Contrary to the Common Opinion. With Improvements from the Honourable Mr. Boyle, Lock, Norris, Collier, Cowley, Dryden, Garth, Addison, and other Illustrious Wits." Octavo, [4] v - xxxii, 544 pages. Modern niger morocco, scuffed at joints, cover edges and raised spines. Top edge gilt. a couple of former owner names on half-title, and one on a preliminary blank page; also, a few curly brackets, inked in the margins. There are 139 paradoxes listed in the book.

London: Printed for B. Bragg, 1707. xxxii, 544pp. With a half-title. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, marked. Recent bookplate of American bibliophile and lawyer Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015) to FEP. The first edition of bookseller John Dunton's (1659-1732) compilation of poetic whimsies, paradoxes, and anecdotes. Subjects vary from the whimsical to the scatological, but focus chiefly on human foibles and ignorance, and the relationship of the sexes. Eight of John Donne's 'Paradoxes and Problems' have been reprinted here without acknowledgement. ESTC T93435.. First edition. 8vo.

London: B. Bragg, 1707. First edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 544 pages. 20 x 13 cm. The author, an English bookseller founded The Athenian Society in 1691. He also wrote the first periodical designed specially for women, "The Ladies' Mercury." Some of his tidbits here include: "The loving shrew, or the kindest women are the most cruel." "The virgin-paradox, or a young lady may love and hate the same person at the same time."...and..."a paradox proving there's no pleasure in copulation." Half title, lacking ads, renewed endpapers, interior contents generally clean. Raised bands, spine panels drecorated in gilt motifs, black leather spine label lettered gilt.

London, Printed for B. Bragg..., 1707. FIRST EDITION. 8Vvo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. xxxii, 544, including half-title, later panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments; spine very dried and cracked, joints cracked, a so-so copy, with the armorial bookplate of Wolfe de Forenaughts on the front paste-down end-paper and the autograph of Philip De:Wolfe on the title-page, and another autograph scored through. The book comes from the Wolfe family who appear prominently in the life of George Berkeley, author Alciphon. has a variant of the Wolfe bookplate (one with the family name, "Wolfe de Forenaughts", engraved, in this case, just beneath the frame enclosing the trebled wolf-heads), and the ownership inscription, on the right-hand side at the top of the title-page, is, in this case, longer: "Phillpott: Wolfe." The "P" is unusual, being lollipop-shaped in its upper half and with a jack-boot upturn to the left in its lower half. The bookseller and general literary gadfly John… Read More