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London. Published by W.Faden for the Charity. 1763. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 21.2cm, Second Edition, [iv], 251,[1]p., hand-colour frontis, List of Governors & Contributors, contemporary full calf boards, rebacked, gilt decorated borders on the boards, original marbled endpapers, red leather label, very good to fine sound copy, very rare. (cgc) The book forms a singular contribution to the history of Prostitution in London." The last page is a statement of the accounts of the charity to March, 1763. ABPC - only 1 listing, for the 1st edition, 1761. A&E, no records. WorldCat, only 1 listing for this issue. On the 10th of August in 1758 in London's Goodman's Fields the Magdalen Charity, avowedly dedicated to the reform and rehabilation of penitent prostitutes, began its formal operation. Up to this time an organized secular charity for such a purpose was unprecedented in England. The chief motive for this novel venture was declared to be compassion for fallen women. Robert Dingley, was the prime… Read More

Philadelphia. Carey, Lea, & Carey. 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, first edition, second issue, xii,(13)249,(1),(3)pp., ads., with 3 engraved plates, in contemporary half calf, raised bands, black leather label, marbled boards, heraldic bookplate, in book box, brown cloth, maroon leather label, lined in marble paper, some slight edge wear, otherwise fine condition. (cgc) Howes K108. "The first American sporting book" (Howes). All former early sporting books were British imports. With illustrations by American artist Francis Kearney (1758-1837). The second issue with corrected spelling of "ribbon" on page 235. The author describes game birds and waterfowl in the Delaware Valley that surrounds Philadelphia.

London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. [1809]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. 16.2cm, 2nd edition, xxviii,372p., complete with half title, in19th century half dark brown calf, double gilt ruled raised bands, crushblack morocco label, gilt titles, marbled boards, boards bit worn orfaded, some slight edge wear else very good to fine copy. An Englishtranslation of the original French first edition "Antiquite De La Nationet De La Langue Des Celtes". (1703), first translation to English in1709. The best known work of Paul-Yves Pezron, a 17th Century priest fromBrittany. A study of the connection between the Celtic origins of theBretons and the Welsh with tables of Greek, Latin and German words "takenfrom the "Celtick or Gaul-ish Language." Antiquities of Nations was avery popular book in the 18th century and even into the early 19th asevidenced by this edition published in the early 1800's but now bothfirst and second editions are very rare.

Paris. Chez Didot. 1788. Hardcover. thick 12mo, 19.5cm, xl,700p., engraved frontis plate & 16 engraved plates, (inc 7 folding), numerous text figures, index, complete with half title, in contemporary full mottled calf, real raised bands, gilt panel borders and decorations, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, worn at th edges, a very good still sound copy (n13). - A classic manual of architecture by French architect Pierre Bullet (1639-1716), whose principal works were the Hotel Crozat (1702) and Evereux (1707) on the Place Vendome. "Architecture Pratique" was first published in 1691. This edition has a hand-written note by a former owner "cette Edition de 1788, commentee par Seguin, est plus estimee que les precideuter.

Edinburgh. Printed by Oliver & Co. 1802, 1802. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 22cm, the First Edition, xxvii,228,[3]p., folding table, errata, list of subcribers, text vignette illustrations, in the original boards, marbled boards, colour printed paper label, hinges broken, spine chipped and worn, label is fine, uncut and unopened, rare (sgc) Of much more interest than the title would imply as pp101-228 comprise "Catalogue of flowers and flower-roots that gentlemen can be supplied with, by sending their orders to the author

Paris. Chez Pierre Huet, (vol.1.), & La Compagnie des Librairies. (Vol.2.). 1724. Soft cover. 16mo, (in 8's), 16.6cm, in 2 volumes, 470 & [8],479pp., with 26 folding plates (complete), in full contemporary calf, real raised bands, full gilt spine panel decorations, both title labels wanting, volume labels present, spines chipped at the top and bottom edges, worn at the edges, both volumes have some slight damp staining along the top text edge, five of the plates are a bit tatty on the leading edge with text loss due to being over folded, a very good attractive antique set ~ This edition is uncommon. Volume I also includes "Abrege' de la Musique." Volume II is sub titled "Plus la Dioptrique, les Meteores, la Mechanique, & la Musique; qui sont des essais de cette Methode. Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigee & augmentee des Remarques du P. Poisson, P.D.L." An interesting pre French Revolution edition of the great French philosophers most popular writings: "Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy

London. Robert Baldwin. [1831]. Hardcover. 22cm, vii, 64,32,96,99,(1),16pp., text figures, printed in double columns, index, in the original grey cloth, expertly restored, partial remaining ori ginal paper label replace and most of the original spine replaced, a fine copy thus. (sgc) A series of treatises delivered in 1827, 1828 and 1831 by one of t he founders of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Peter Mar k Roget (1779-1869). Notably early material on the subjects considering Far aday discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831. Roget is best remembered for his "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" known commonly as "Roget' s Thesaurus

Edinburgh. Printed for John Carfrae, Medical Booksellers. 1823, 1823. Hardcover. 8vo, 20.5cm, xxxiv,445,[xvii]p., tables & errata page, folding table, notes, in contemporary half calf, red morocco label, gilt titles, marbled boards, endpapers foxed and some other occasional light foxing, , worn at the edges, some wear on the boards, a very good copy (sgc). ~ An English edition of the "Precis elementaire de physiologie" first published in Paris in 1816. Francois Magendie (1783-1855), French physiologist, was noted as one of the founders of modern experimental physiology. Notorious for his experiments on animals, he did however revolutionize the physiological knowledge particularly that of the heart, digestion and nervous system.

Florence. Philippo di Giunta. 1517& 1521. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 15cm, 1st issue of the 5th edition, foliated pagination(110/94pp.), head & tail decoration in volume two, in lather full brown calf, real raised bands, faded gilt spine decorations in the panels,hinges expertly restored, without title page as issued with imprints on the final leaf, a fine copy. (cgc) Adams B-2125. Gamba 100. Each volume is complete including the two original uncorrected leaves in "Ameto". The first issue has Boccacio for Boccaccio on title of volume two and the variant reading on f.2, line 21. The gilt decorations date the bindings to 18th or 19th centuries.

London. James Blackwood. [1858]. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 17.5x 12.5cm, 192 & (-146)-176pp., title-page vignette, 8 engraved sepia plates, numerous full page & text engraved illustrations, in the original elaborately gilt decorated brown cloth (including five travel vignette illus.), repeated in blind on the bottom board, similarly gilt decorated spine, gilt block titles on the spine and upper cover, all edges gilt, early owner's inscription (1860) on front free endpaper, expertly restored, a fine bright clean copy, rare. (cgc) A sequel to Pardon's "The Little Traveller." Intended for children, the author relates travels in the Baltic & up the Rhine, climbing Mont Blanc, and trips to Egypt, China & Persia. Very attractively bound with floral decoration and travel vignettes. The sepia plates are by W. Dickes. Bound in at the end with Louisa May Alcott's "Little Annie's Dream" from her "Floral Fables". Osborne 2:810.

Dublin. Printed by I. Jackson. 1751, 1751. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. trimmed, 20x 15cm, the first edition, 484,[viiii]p., index, rebound in quarter brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, crushed crimson morocco label, marbled boards, fine (cgc) Bradshaw 1623. - An important source on the Quakers which includes, as well, much on the Irish society, local history and genealogy.

London. W.G. for Richard Chiswel. 1669. 12mo. 17cm, thefirst edition, xx,374pp., blank leaf at end, 2 engraved plates, smallholes in title, and minor stains on a few leaves, trimmed, but a verygood to fine copy, in contemporary full calf, lacking front endpapers,bookplate of Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale. (cgc) Wing s3833. Duveen.Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica, 552. Has a great deal of interest tothe chemist as it discusses hermetic medicine minerals and metals andtheir properties, etc. Simpson was an admirer of "Paracelsus". He wasthe first to recognize the presence of sulphur', or hydrogen sulphide,in Harrogate water. Simpson mixed sulphur and nitre and was convincedthat mineral waters, hot springs, volcanoes, earthquakes, meteor and eventhe occasional luminosity of the sea were all due to a mixture of thesesbodies with water or vapour. - Cf. Osler 4265 for the reply to this bookby Robert Wittie "Pyrologia Mimica., 1669.

[Manchester]. Printed for Private Circulation. 1862. Hardcover. 8vo, 22cm, [ii],418p.,in the original elaborated blind decorated brown cloth, neatly rebacked on-laid brown buchram spine andfront board edges, new endpapers, with new paper label, a fine copy thus, rare. (cgc) Howes N-141."Observations on an extensive tour, including Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Louisiana, etc.". Amicus 1 copy.NOT in/on ABE; TPL; Catndx; ABPC; A&E; Sabin; Waterston; Streeter; Eberstadt; Siebert; Decker;Brinley; Smith; Lande; Peel. No references or located. cf. Lande 677 another book by: J.F. Nicholls - TheRemarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastina Cabot, of Bristol, London. Sampson , Low.1869. 190p., in Sabin 55185. Letters from America include pp113-418. Places are, New York, 1857 -Toronto, Canada West, 1857 - Niagara, Buffalo , Madison City, Wisconsin, Oct1857 - On board the steamer"Milwakee" - St. Paul's - Bell's Tavern, October 14th - Cincinnati , Steubenville - Boston, Nov. 8th -Philadelphia - Baltimore… Read More

Quebec. Imprime par Hean Neilson. 1794. 8vo. 20cm, in contemporary full sheep, bands, no titles, with the following defects: wanting pp16-40 - pages 41-44 paper defected with text loss, wanting pp139-146 from the appendix, (bound with: De L'Influence de la Forme des Governemens sur Les Nations. Brussels. 1817. 114p.,), very good condition, very rare (cgc) - Tremaine 919. (Tremaine copy 16.3x 10cm) locates 4 copies, Lande S2330. Gagnon II-2286. Valch 1110. Dionne I-36. No auction or other recent records located. Not in Sabin; Not in Amtmann STC, Written by a well known English agriculturist and author of Travels during the years 1787-89, etc, in France. It is a work for landed gentry and husbandmen on the hazards implicit in an economy tolerant of republican principals. It includes a plan for the organization of national militia and is said to have been heartily approved by the English Whig administration, also by Edmund Burke'. It was published in at least four editions, and an abridgement, in… Read More

A Paris. Printed by E. Groulleau pour Iean Longis & Nober6t le Mangnyer. 1559. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, in8's, 16.5cm, [xxiv],279,[1]p., printer's vignette on the title page and author's portrait vignette on final colophon leaf, decorated initial letters, in 18th century full mottled calf, floral gilt decorated spine panels, crushed dark crimson label, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, name crossed out in ink on the bottom title margin, a fine clean sound copy of the first French edition and the first foreign translation of any language, only one copy (this one) located in the auctions records, very rare. (cgc). No copies of this edition listed on WorldCat. Title translation: The Speeches of the State of Peace and War, Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Italian:[nikko'l? mmakja'v?lli]; 3 May 1469 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period.[1][2] He has often been called the father of modern political science.[3]… Read More

La Haye & A Londres. chez Pierre Gosse & chez Jean Nourse. 1760. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 17cm, The First Edition, xvi,327p., complete with half-title, in contemporary quarter calf and patterned boards, gilt floral decorations and borders in the panels, leather label, gilt titles, original marbled endpapers, small faint stain on the bottom of the title page, in fine condition. (cgc) ~ T.P.L. 274. Lande 710. Sabin 62610. Dionne II-639. Not in Gagnon. Story p636. Pichon came to Canada from France in 1751 as secretary (until 1753) to the governor of Cape Breton. The book is composed in the form of letters written from Louisbourg from 1752, to its fall to the English in 1758. It is considered a reliable source concerning the French in Acadia during the 18th century, including clear descriptions of Ile Royal, Ile Saint Jean, Micmac and Malecite Indians, the French government at Louisbourg, military events and the causes of the war.

Worcester. Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. May - 1802, 1802. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 17.5cm, first edition thus, viii,[13]-154,[2]p., publisher's ads., original boards rebacked in quarter brown crushed morocco, blind ruled raised bands, crimson morocco label, gilt titles, contemporary book plate, a fine copy, rare. (cgc).

London. Printed for Samuel Smith at the Sign of the Princes Arms,. 1690. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 16.5cm,the first edition, [xix,errata],217,[vii]p., [inc. 6p. table], plus[2],12 (of14)p. ("Catalogue of the Phisophical Books. Robert Boyle. 1690"., (includes printed title page for the catalogue of books), engraved frontis (weights and measure equipment with key),rebound full dark brown calf, blind ruled raised bands, blind stamped double borders in the panels, double crushed crimson morocco labels, fine copy thus. (cgc) The first tract in English on the determination of specific gravity, written by Boyle the year before his death. The principle of weighing bodies in the air and in water was known to Archimedes or probably earlier, but it was Robert Boyle who first directed the attention of hydrologists and chemists to the importance of specific gravity. This copy lacks the half-title, "Experiment and Observations relating to the Materia Medica, Tome I". Leaf at A2, which should follow the… Read More

London. Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. 1824. Hardcover. 8vo, 21cm, second edition, in 3 volumes, iv,315 & 356,(2) & viii,lxxxix,302.[2] pp., ads., in contempoary half tan calf, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt centre and border decorations in the panels, double gilt leather labels, double rule borders on the boards, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, some wear on the edges, small chip on the top corner spine edge of volume two, hinges worn but holding, engraved bookplate, a very good sound set, very scarce. (cgc) Captured while carrying out a survey of Russian America and Kamchatka, Captain Golownin (1776-1831) writes of a his two years captivity by the Japanese on the Island of Hokkaido. An astute observer, he writes all aspects of Japanese culture and traditions. Published in Russia in 1816, the book was noted as shaping Russian views on Japan for a whole generation. This also has added "An Account of the Voyages of Messrs. Chwostoff and Dawidoff" involving the survey of Russian America. The… Read More

London. John Murray. 1819. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 21cm, the First Edition,xix,[1,errata],653,[1]pp. with additional errata slip tipped in, foxed,some toning, title page expertly restored, rebound in contemporary style quarter calf, gilt ruled and decorated raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels, two plain panels with center gilt decorations,dark crimson leather label gilt, matched marbled boards, a fine copy thus attractively bound, rare. (cgc) Hippisley served as a colonel in the First Venezuelan Hussars, as part of the British brigade sent to South America to assist in the war for independence in Venezuela. The account includes a description of the voyage to South America, with stops at St.Bartholomew, Grenada, St. Lucia, and other points in the Caribbean. The appendix prints a list of the officers of the First Venezuelan Hussars,as well as other documents, orders, etc., issued by Venezuelan leaders,including Bolivar. A fascinating account of South American independence… Read More