Search Results: Authors starting with F from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: J. Phillips, 1788. First edition. 8vo. iv, [5]-55, [1, ads] pp. Stab-stitched, untrimmed, removed, with evidence of prior binding along spine; first and last pages toned and dust-soiled, loss of a few letters on title from poor imposition, occasional staining and chipping, old paper adhesion at gutter, in custom cloth folding box. Rare first edition of one of the foundational texts of the British abolition movement — “the first piece of published abolitionist propaganda” (Christopher Fyfe, ODNB) — an early firsthand account of the specifics of the slave trade by Alexander Falconbridge, who served as surgeon on four slave trading voyages from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean from 1780-1787.Falconbridge (c. 1760-1792) met the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson in Bristol in 1787 during the latter’s fact-finding mission to gather evidence against the slave trade. Falconbridge was enlisted in the cause, traveling with Clarkson to Liverpool and London to provide expert testimony and to… Read More

London: James Ridgway, 1823. A New Edition. 8vo. [6], 171, [1] pp. Contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt, bluemorocco spine label, by J. Helston E. Edwards, Camborne (ticket on front pastedown); front joint cracked, lower blank portion of dedication leaf excised The Abbey copy of the poems of the Cornwall poet and politician William Peter in an attractive provincial binding by the Camborne binder J. Helston E. Edwards.REFERENCE: Ramsden, p. 68PROVENANCE: J.R. Abbey (bookplate)

London: J. watts, 1734. First edition. 8vo. Printed music in text to 15 songs. [16], 64 pp. Later drab wrappers; sporadic foxing First edition of Fielding's ballad opera, begun in 1728 while he was studying literature in Leiden and dedicated to the Earl of Chesterfield. A second edition was published in 1754; this first edition is uncommon on the market.REFERENCE: Cross, III, p. 298

London: J. Watts, 1734. First edition. 8vo. Printed music in text to 12 songs. [12], 40 pp. Later drab wrappers; title-page foxed Uncommon first edition of Fielding's ballad-opera adaptation of Jean François Regnard's Le retour imprévu.REFERENCE: Cross, III, pp. 297-8; Rothschild 839

London: Butterworth & Co, 1950. Second edition. 8vo. Numerous illustrations to text. xiii, [1], 491, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth; offsetting to pp. 180-1, book-plate

Paris: Chez la veuve Gervais Clouzier, 1681. First edition. 12mo. Engraved head-piece and intial. [8], 343, [5] pp. Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled boards, spine richly gilt; fine First edition of this account of Jewish religion and customs by the French Jesuit historian and teacher Claude Fleury (1640-1723) "one of the most impressive of the anciens" (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French). His Moeurs des chrétiens followed in 1682.PROVENANCE: J.A.M. Gritton du Plessis (arms in gilt at foot of spine, cf. d'Olivier plate 510); P. de la Morandière (book-plate)

London: Printed for the Author, by W. and W. Strahan, 1768. First edition thus. 4to. 48 engraved vignette head- and tail-pieces by Grignion after Wale. xxxv, [1], 462 pp. Contemporary acid-stained calf; worn, joints cracked, front cover holding by cords, tear to ffep, stain to pp. 158-9, a few leaves foxed  REFERENCE: ESTC T144205

8vo. 563 pp. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards by Belz-Niedrée. Book-plate Bibliotheque de Mouchy and arms in gilt on spine

New York: Spiral Press, (1964). No. 359 of 500 signed copies. 12mo. Nine woodblock prints by Fransconi, printed from the original blocks on Goyu paper, text printed in red and black. Publisher's marbled paper boards, printed label, and glassine jacket (chipped) The text of the nine fables are from the Newcastle edition of 1820 with illustrations by Bewick

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1922. First American edition and first edition in English. 8vo. Illustrated. 502 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spien titled in gilt; spine darkened, ex-library with markings and tape residue to spine, stamps to pastedown and contents leaf, book-plate "Funk coined the term vitamin and discovered thiamine, the first vitamin to be isolated. In addition to his pioneering work in vitaminology, he investigated male and female hormones, gonadotropic hormones, antagonistic substances in the diet, deficiency diseases in cattle, and the importance of oncotine and oncostimuline in the treatment and prevention of cancer. Funk first published the present work in 1914 and deferred publication of this second edition because of World War I. By the time this greatly revised edition was published, much of the basic work on the role of vitamin B, in beriberi, vitamin C in scurvy, and vitamin D in rickets had been completed" (Heirs of Hippocrates).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 1051;… Read More