Search Results: Authors starting with A from John Price Antiquarian Books

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1976. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 24 [25 - 26 blank, 27 limitation notice, 28 blank], including half-title, original blue printed wrappers. A fine copy. Handset and printed by hand by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. Edition limited to 125 copes "of which 100 are for sale". "This is one of 25 copies printed for the editor." Ashburner (1864 - 1936), an American educated in England, met Housman at Oxford; they shared an interest in books and dining.

A Londres; De l'Imprimerie de J. M. Dulonchamp..., 1796. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 210 x 123 mms., pp. [ii], iv, 321 [322 blank]; 320, vi [vii - xv list of subscribers, xvi blank] contemporary tree calf, gilt spines, red morocco lables; tops and bases of spines slight chipped, joints very slightly cracked. The work was also published in an English translation by H. North the next year, published by Cadell and Davies and also dedicated to Lady Barbara Pleydell-Bouverie. The list of subscribers in volume 2 is almost exclusively British, including, Lady Barbara herself, Edmund Burke and William Wilberforce, and an unusually large number of female subscribers. Tressan's concern is that of distinguishing mythology from history and ensuring that the former does not become identified with the latter. ESTC T142676 locates copies in the BL, Bodleian, Oxford Taylor; and California State Sutro.

Nottingham: Printed for the Author, by Samuel Cresswell, 1765. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 207 x 119 mms., pp. [xix], iii - v, 5 - 32, [4], iii- v [vi blank], [3] - 143 [144 blank], including list of subscribers, title-page in red and black, contemporary speckled calf, red leather label, paper label on cover, with the ownership inscription (in red ink) dated 22 April 1905 of Major C. E. Cresswell on the recto of the front free end-paper and the title-page, the oval armorial library stamp of Lt. Col. William Allen Potter, High Sheriff of Nottingham (1944) on the front paste-down end-paper. A very good to fine copy. This is only publication by Abbott (1730 - 1776), a Church of England Clergyman, that I have been able to trace. The subscribers include Isaac Hawkins Browne, Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin, and Charles Jennens (patron of the arts and librettist), to whom the volume is dedicated. The preface, on the aesthetics of poetry, is given over to a responsible discussion of accents and metre, while the… Read More

Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes..., 1831. 8vo, 208 x 132 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 464, attractively bound in full contemporary panelled calf, with ornately gilt borders, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco labels, curious ownership stamp on rector of front free end-paper, but a very good to fine copy of an admittedly common book. The Edinburgh physician John Abercrombie (1780 - 1844) published this work in 1830, and in this this second edition he has "made various verbal corrections, and has added a considerable number of new facts and observations, which, he trust, may increase the interest of the work." The Quarterly Review took notice of the first edition and in a long review remarked, "Dr. Abercrombie brings to his subject a mind thoroughly versed in its details, and habituated to this species of abstract inquiry. His descriptions of the mental phenomena are clear and precise, and his reasonings perpsicuous and sound."

London: J. S. Hodson & Son..., 1863. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 214 x 133 mms., pp. [viii], 87 [88 colophon, iv adverts for books by author], including half-title, address in Cheam crimped in blind on rear free end-paper, original embossed cloth, with title in gilt with gilt ornament on front cover. A fine copy. Abrahall (1829 - 1891) published several books, which attracted appreciative reviews, some of which are quoted in the last four pages of this volume. The story is quite different from that of Handel's Rinaldo (1711). Slightly uncommon in libraries, with copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, NLS; and Southern Methodist University.

Paris de l'imprimerie de Pierre Des-Hayes, ruë de la Harpe, à la Roze Rouge 1643. 8vo, 171 x 106 mms., pp. [viii], 68, engraved title-page preceding printed title-page, which is followed by engraved dedication page, 28 engraved leaves of geometrical designs, engraved on recto and verso except for the last leaf, recently rebound in full modern speckled calf, gitl borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; some few leaves and plates stained mainly at margins, some light spotting and staining, inner margin of last leaf repaired, but a very attractive copy Girard Desargues (21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour. Martin Kemp in The Science of Art (Yale, 1990), states that Desargues' "greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his… Read More

Edinburgi: Apud Balfour et Smellie..., 1783. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo (in 4s), pp. [7] 8 - 61 [62 blank], contemporary tree calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spine; front joint cracked, lacks label, but a good copy with the autograph "Tho. Wilkinson/1786" on the front paste-down end-paper. The list of examiners for this doctoral dissertation on electrotherapy names Joseph Priestley, Hollis Edwards, and Josiah Thompson. This copy is likely an association copy twice over, as no doubt the Thomas Wilkinson who inscribed this copy is related to the Abraham Wilkinson who wrote the work, and likely both are related to the Wilkinson family that Joseph Priestley married into when, in June 1762, he married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of Isaac Wilkinson, the "prosperous ironmaster near Wrexham", on whom see David L. Wykes and Isabel Rivers, eds., Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) p. 33. Considering the large role that the… Read More

Leipzig, In der Dyckischen Buchhandlung, 1772. FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION. 8vo, 174 x 100 mms.,[xii], 420, later half calf, marbled boards, black leather label; joins worn and slightly tender, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, with Ex Libris of Dr Gero Wildt on the verso of the title-page. David Hume described Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) as a "Man of Sense, knowledge, Taste, Elegance, & Morals," and when Ferguson settled himself in Edinburgh when he about 40, he was surrounded by like-minded intellectuals. After publishing his most imporant and influential An Essay on the History of Civil Society in 1767, and followed this up in 1769 with his classroom text book, The Institutes of Moral Philosophy for the Use of Students in the College of Edinburgh. This German translation is by Chrisopher Garve (1742 - 1798), who also traslated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.

No place, No publisher, [c. 1893]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 147 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 26 [28 - 32 blank], stitched within cream cardboard covers, with gilt lettering, "H. S. A. / 1813-1892." on front cover. The author is given as simply "Father" at the foot of p. 25, then as "A. C. A." at the foot of the last page of text, p. 26. A clue to the topic of the book is found, however, on p. 24, where the subject of the memoir is said to have been buried "on the southern slope of Wethersfield cemetery". From the context, it is clear that Wethersfield in Connecticut is meant. A consultation of the records of this cemetery, which are available online, show only one possible match at http//wethersfieldhistory.org/services/burying_ground/map: that being Harriet Sargent Adams (1813-1892, who married to a man who bore the initials A. C. A. This is the Congregational minister and writer Aaron Chester Adams (1815-1905). They are buried in the same plot.… Read More

London: Effingham Wilson..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 155 x 84 mms., pp. 201 [202 Errata], contemporary half green pebbled morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards; name erased from top margin of title-page, leaving small hole, binding rubbed, but a good copy. William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) "was an English author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus (Junius reborn); a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century" (Wikipedia). In the dedication to an anonymous lady, Adams writes that "This collection of Rhymes, intentionally written for the gratification, and it… Read More

London: Printed for J. Tonson..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xxvi [xxvii - xxviii Contents], 330, contemporary sheepskin, morocco label; joints cracked (but firm), spine slightly creased, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn.

London [n. p.], 1783. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 92, recently recased in quarter calf, buckram boards, new endpapers; lacks pp. i - ii (half-title), lower inner margin of last two leaves of text repaired with slight loss of text, some soiling of text, particularly the last two leaves. With the eighteenth-century armorial (lion rampant on shield) bookplate of "Geo. Morgan Esq" (probably Franks 21063, whose owner is not identified by Howe); and, on the recto of the front paste-down endpaper, the twentieth-century ownership inscription of Cecil Price, Emeritus Professor and sometime head of the Department of English at the University of Swansea, the editor of the correspondence of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. � Thomas Tyers (1725-1787) was a "[m]iscellaneous writer", the "co-founder of Vauxhall Gardens", and a "longtime friend of Johnson, who depicted him as Tom Restless in The Idler, No. 48. Boswell described Tyers as having 'a handsome fortune, vivacity… Read More

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis..., 1770. 12mo (in 6s), 123 x 69 mms., pp. [iv], 199 [200 blank], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; upper and lower joints very slightly cracked, some rubbing of spine, but a very good copy. Gaskell 499,

Dublin: Printed by James Williams, 1778. 2 volumes. 12mo, 166 x 93 mms., pp. [iv]334; [iv], 336, contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines, red morocco titling labels, green numbering labels, all edges gilt; some very slight wear to binding, but generally a very good to fine set, with the bookplate "Castleknock," and the autograph, written vertically on the blank end-paper before the title-page of each volume, "Wm. Filgate, May 29th, 1794". This work was first published in 1753, and there were a total of ten printings in the 18th century. A Dublin edition was first published in 1757, and this is the last edition to appear with a Dublin imprint in the 18th century. All the Dublin imprints of this title are rare: ESTC T163762 locates 5 copies: L, D, Di, Dp; ZWTU (lacking volume 2). No copies of this edition in North American libraries, and only 2 copies of any Dublin printing: 1757 (PPL) and 1767 (MiEM)

London: Printed for the Author, 1797. 13 volumes of 16. 8vo (in 4s), 2150 x 120 mms., uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards (worn), red morocco titling labels, small circular black numbering labels (but several missing), a bit of general wear, but in reasonably good condition, with all covers firmly attached, and the armorial bookplate of Viscount Hood on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Hood is almost certainly the famous naval commander Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood (1724 - 1816), whose peerage was created in 1776. Over the decades I have had quite a few odd volumes of this irritating (no one has yet discovered who "Mr. Addison" was, or even if the name covered a multitude of authors) pass through my hands, but this is the closest I've yet come to a complete set of 16 volumes. It's a very useful resource for literary scholars; for example, Arthur Pike Conant, in his The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century (2013)… Read More

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1954. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 491 [492 printer's imprint], frontispiece and 3 other illustrations, original cloth, dust-wrapper; ex-library.

Amsterdam, By den Auteur, in de Kalverstraat. 1688. 12mo, 157 x 97 mms., pp. [vi], 144 [145 - 148 index], engraved and printed title-page (with vignette), 72 engraved plates of monks' habits/garments. BOUND WITH: Nette Afbeeldingen Der Eygene Dragten Van alle Geestelike Orders; Nevens Een kort Aantekening van haar begin, voortgang en bevestigiing. Te zamen gesteeld en in 't Koper gebracht door Adriaan Schoonebeek. Amsterdam, By den Auteur, in de Kalverstraat, 1691. 12mo,pp. [viii], 182 [183 - 190 index], engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed title-page (with vignette), 90 engraved plates of nuns' habits, bound in contemporary vellum, panelled in blind, with the decorative bookplate of Allan Heywood Bright dated 1912. A very good copy. The master engraver and print-maker Adriaan Schoonebeek (1661 - 1705) was born in Amsterdam and was a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe. Most of his prints were devotional, but he also produced engravings of combat and war, mythology, and human figures.

[?Birmingham], 1808. A small advertising leaflet, measuring 220 x 128 mms., printed on one side only; small piece torn from upper right-hand corner and lower left-hand corner (no loss of text), hole in paper affecting "C" of Containing, 4 other holes in left-hand margin not affecting text, slightly browned. The scheme offered 5075 prizes from £15 to £20,000. The note at the bottom of the leaflet adds, "J. B. has sold in the Town of Birmingham, Shares of a £10,000, Two £1,000, and in the last lottery, No. 24,206, and No. 24,209, Both Prizes of £500."

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1761. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, lxiii [lxxiv blank], 130, [3], 133 - 175, 177 - 204, [28] pp. index, engraved frontispiece, 15 full-page engraved plates usually with 12 small engravings on each leaf, but with two leaves having fewer, 3 engraved vignettes, 3 engraved tail-pieces, 19th century marbled boards, leather label; upper corner of fore-margin of frontispiece (very slightly browned) repaired, P5 creased with fore-margin very slightly frayed. A modest copy. This edition of Aesop was edited and partially written by Robert Dodsley; published on 23 February 1761, it was an instant success. James E. Tierney, in his edition of Dodsley's correspondences notes that the Monthly Review called it "ingenious...elegant...and very useful...a classical performance." The Critical Review praised Dodsley as the "best prose-writer of apologues of this or any country." There are fables by Aesop, as well as more recent writers, not to… Read More

In Venetia Aperesso Gabriel Gigleo de AFerrrari, 1572. Small 4to, 195 x 142 mms., pp. [xvi], 231 [232 register], with separate title-page for La Creatione del Mondo, pp. [56], with printer's device on title-page, other woodcut illustrations, historiated initials, Dutch paste-down end-papers, contemporary vellum with ink title on spine; binding a trifle soiled, but a very good copy. OCLC notes that this work is a "Classical statement of the history of the world, arranged by its ages. This sort of work was of great importance in the developing philosophy of history and systems of the calculation of time in the last half of the century. The Creatione del mondo is one of a large number of treatises that comprise Philo's compendious commentary on the Book of Genesis. The Ferentelli translation first appeared in a Giolito edition of 1570, and was followed by numerous other editions of 1572, 1573, 1574, and 1575, which, according to Hoffmann, differ primarily in the addition of shoulder… Read More