Search Results: Authors starting with P from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 16 volume set. With 133 black and white plates including frontispieces, portraits, maps, diagrams etc. Titles are printed in red and black. Top edges are gilt and fore-edges are deckled. Occasional leaves are uncut. Small chip is visible on the bottom edge of volume v, p. 15; a carefully sealed tear is located in volume viii, p. 231. Interior pages are otherwise generally clean. The first thirteen volumes consist of Parkman's monumental work France and England in North America (Parts I-VII): Pioneers of France in the New World (vols. I-II); The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century (vols. III-IV); La Salle and the discovery of the Great West (vol. V); The Old Regime in Canada (vols. VI-VII); Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (vol. VIII); A half-century of conflict (vols. IX-X); Montcalm and Wolfe (vols. XI-XIII). The last three volumes contain: The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war… Read More

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Limited edition #287 of 500. Signed by the author. pp. [2], 201, [1]. Bound in black cloth. Both binding and dust jacket are fresh and clean. "A storm is coming to Cliffside, California, and with it comes a killer. His name is Clay Saunders, and he walks in two worlds. Born with a caul, Saunders sees ghosts. But to him, the world of the dead is very much like the world of the living… His latest target is Diabolos Whistler, leader of a satanic cult…" [from the dust jacket].

Venice: Jo. Baptistam Recurti, 1740. Hardcover. See Description. Third Edition. 8vo. pp. XXXX, 246, 14. Including engraved frontispiece and numerous numismatic portraits of Roman emperors with the text. Title printed in red and black. Bound in contemporary full vellum. A couple of very faint library stamps in the bottom and outer title margins. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild spots of soiling. Small area of staining on the frontispiece. Name and date (or shelf number) printed in an old hand on front paste-down. Patarol's History of Roman, Byzantine and Holy Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Carolus VI. Text in Latin. [Lipsius II, p. 307; Cicognara 2961 - lists the first edition of 1702].

Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1872. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. ("Bibliothèque orientale: Chefs d’oeuvre littéraires de l’Indie, de la Perse, de l’Égypte et de la Chine" Vol. II.) 4to. pp. [4], 423, [3]. Double columned text. Bound in quarter vellum with blue cloth boards. A library bookplate is located on the inside front cover. Interior pages show scattered light marginal foxing, staining and soiling. Several leaves are mildly creased in the upper corner. Both the title page and p. 29 display a small library impress stamp; a 2 cm tear (neatly sealed) is present on the upper edge of the title. Pages 3-5 contain three small marginal tears (also neatly sealed). An accession number is stamped on the lower part of the first sectional half title. Between 1872 and 1903 Maisoneuve et Cie published 7 volumes in their "Bibliothèque Orientale" series. The first three volumes also contained the general title of "Chefs… Read More

Paris: Chez Abel L’Angellier, 1599. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Blaise de Vigenère edition. Small 4to. ff. [4], 299. With an engraved vignette profile of Apollonius of Tyana on the title page. Text is decorated with woodcut initials. Bound in original full period calf with a gilt oval medallion center piece stamped on both front and rear covers. Re-backed preserving large portions of the original spine. The binding is well rubbed and shows lumpiness, discoloration and general wear. The leather contains areas of modern restoration and patching; the corner tips of the boards are carefully repaired. The gilt border lines (running along the edges of the front and rear covers) are also partially restored. Interior pages are generally clean but show occasional light spotting and toning; some periodic minor worming in the lower and inner margins is also present. The inside front cover displays the book plate of bibliographer Roger de Quiriele (1848-1924). This is the… Read More

Paris: Ex typographia Matthaei Davidis, 1556. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 4to. pp. [12], 250, 14. Title page with woodcut printer’s device. Text printed italic font with sectional decorative initials. Interior pages are generally clean. A miniscule marginal tear is neatly sealed on the title page. A small pair of initials are lightly written in an old hand on the verso of the title. Bound in modern full calf with panels in blind after an early period style. Jean Picard’s "De Prisca Celtopaedia" discusses the development of language, arts and science in ancient Gaul. The author uses place names, ancient sources and epigraphic evidence to argue that the Greek language had originated in Gaul and that the Gallic Druids and Bards were developing philosophy, science and poetry long before other cultures. Picard claims that the Greek language was first brought to Greece by the Gauls as they travelled through those lands on the way to found new settlements… Read More

[s.l., Amsterdam?]: [s.n.], 1664. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [48], 672. Re-backed, preserving period calf boards (rubbed with areas of darkening). Endpapers are tastefully renewed with laid paper. The inside front cover displays a remounted 19th century bookplate, ("The Hope Trust 31 Moray Place, Edinburgh"). A modern bookbinder’s ticket is pasted on the inner rear cover. Interior pages show occasional minor wear and ageing but are generally clean. A single word on page 43 is lightly underlined in an early hand; the bottom marginal corner tips on pages 99 and 395 are clipped. Page 533/34 contains a 25 mm. tear - professionally sealed. Bartolomeo Platina (1421-1481) was an Italian scholar. During the pontificate of Pope Paul II (1417-1471) Platina and other humanists were dismissed from their positions in the Roman College. Platina led a protest which ended with his imprisonment and torture. He was eventually exonerated. Later, Pope Sixtus IV appointed Platina to be the… Read More

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. "Published. October, 1903, R" stated on verso of title. pp. [6], 338, [8pp. adverts]. Blue cloth with decorative gilt spine. Top edge gilt. Book plate on inside front cover. Inner hinge neatly strengthened. Tiny tear to outer edge of front free fly-leaf neatly sealed. Outer margins of a couple pages damaged / chipped due to rough opening. Minor rubbing to extremities. Roger Pocock was an influential 19th century equestrian traveler and one time Canadian Mountie. "Following the Frontier" is his most famous work.

Paris: Mathurini Du Puis, 1634. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. [14], 853, [19], 126. Title in red and black with small crown vignette. Text is in Greek with Latin translation on opposite page. Bound in full red morocco (perhaps later 17th century) with spine gilt in 6 compartments - rubbed, chipped. Hinges and spine caps restored; careful repair to corner tips of front cover. All edges gilt. Pages contain minor scattered foxing and age toning. Inscription written in an old hand on verso of front blank. First printed edition of the "Excerpta Peiresciana" manuscript or "De Virtutuibus et Vitiis," part of a large Byzantine anthology of excerpts which were gathered from earlier Greek historical works and compiled under the direction of the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (905-959 c.e.). The collection was arranged in 53 sections, 4 of which are extant - 1.) "De Legationibus" 2.) "De Virtutibus et Vitiis" 3.) "De Sententiis" 4.)… Read More

Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1874. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 404p. [Page numbering jumps from p.384 to p.389, however, no parts are missing]. Bound in pebbled brown publisher’s cloth. Some fraying and wear to the head and tail caps; 19th century book plate on inside front cover. Pages are clean. The United Brethren of Christ, a product of the 18th century inter-denominational renewal movement, were the first denomination to begin in the United States. The sect originated in Pennsylvania (1767) under the guidance of P.W. Otterbein, a German Reformed pastor, and Martin Boehm, a Mennonite preacher. The movement, at first, was a loose confederation of Lutherans, Reformed Lutherans, Mennonites and Methodists. In 1800 the Brethren officially organized. They elected Otterbein and Boehm as bishops. Later a doctrine was agreed upon similar to ones held by the Moravians and the Methodists.

Mansfield Centre, CT.: Martino Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the New York, 1888 edition. 8vo. pp. [2], 94, vii, [1]. Bound in publisher’s light gray buckram. The binding and the interior are fresh and clean. …An essay on the bibliography of 15th century Bibles including chapters discussing manuscripts, block books, the Gutenberg Bible, the Metz Psalter, the Bamberg Bible, the Mentelin Bible etc.