Search Results: Authors starting with P from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

8vo, pp. 29, [1] blank; with four folding tables at end; printed on pale blue paper; occasional light spotting and very slight marginal dampstaining to last few leaves, not affecting text, but otherwise clean and fresh; in later patterned wrappers, spine almost entirely lacking, otherwise lightly worn.
First and seemingly only edition of this report on the relative merits of the axe and the saw in the cutting of firewood, presented by the inspector of waters and forests for the Colmar arrondissement.
Promptedby the scarcity and excessive cost of fuel, the inspector, a M. Picquet, seeks to demonstrate that the same amount of wood when cut with a saw would produce seven cords, against six when chopped with an axe, and requests permission to demonstrate this with the help of two or three members of the commission. In granting his approval, the prefect of the Haut-Rhin department notes that such a saving would be too considerable to be ignored, and proposes three local officials see with their own eyes… Read More

8vo, pp. 66; engraved vignette on page 3; printed on very light blue paper; some spotting and browning in places, first three gatherings detached; in contemporary mottled calf, board bordered in gilt; red edges; somewhat bumped and worn, wormhole near head of spine, and spine chipped at head; despite faults, quite an attractive copy.
Uncommon collection, printed on light blue paper, of poems on astronomical themes printed to celebrate the wedding of Count Bernardino Antonelli to Baroness Caterina Ancajani, edited by Count Girolamo Fagnani Tesini (born 1746).
In his preface, Tesini notes that the Greek poets 'applicarono i successi umani alle Stelle, e gl' Italiani Poeti applican' oggi le stelle ai successi umani'. And so we open with a sonnet addressed to Uranus, before a canzone on the pole star by the poet (and translator of Addison) Gaetano Golt, an ode on Ursa Major by Ignazio Ondedei, another on the Boreal Triangle by the Roman antiquarian and politician Enni Quirino Visconi, and many more; aside… Read More

I. Large 8vo, pp. [4]; printed within decorative border, with woodcut head- and tailpieces; clean and crisp, in contemporary Italian decorative wrappers; II. Large 8vo, pp. [7], [1] blank; decorative border to p. [2], woodcut head and tailpieces; ink blot to foot of second leaf, but otherwise clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary Italian decorative wrappers.
Lovely copies, both in Italian block-printed paper wrappers, of these two poems printed for the marriage of Heinrich XLII (1672-1818) and Caroline Henriette of Hohenloe-Kirchberg (1761-1849), which took place at Kirchberg in Thuringia on June 10th, 1779.

Both take the form of brief cantatas, with the first consisting of a short air followed by a longer recitative and a duet, and concluding with a further recitative and a chorus ("Fromme Wünsche bringen wir für die Neuvermählten"); this was, according to the title-page, to be performed at the Musik-Collegium in Kirchberg, although neither the librettist nor the composer is named. The… Read More

12mo, pp. 384; woodcut head- and tailpieces; some spotting and dampstaining in places throughout; full-page manuscript note on front free endpaper (see below); in contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt with gilt lettering-piece; some rubbing and wear.
Uncommon Nîmes printing of this collection of translations from Pope by the French churchman and writer Jean-François du Bellay du Resnel (1692-1761). Comprising the Essay on Man, the Essay on Criticism, the Rape of the Lock, the Dunciad, and a few smaller works, the present volume was a school prize, with a note on the front free endpaper from the mayor of Issoire in Puy-de-Dôme announcing the sharing of a prize between two pupils, signed by the teachers who had adjudicated the prize, presented on the 17th of fructidor year II.
Resnel's translations had first appeared separately in the 1730s, with the Essay on Criticism appearing in 1730, followed by the others in 1737.
Outside Continental Europe, OCLC records copies at Texas A&M, McMaster, and Leeds.