Search Results: Authors starting with S from COBNAR BOOKS

Amstelodami, Apud Ioannem Jacobi Fil : Schipper,, 1659.. 1659 12mo. [24],[832], [4] p. Engraved titlepage and 103 engraved emblemata. Later vellum binding lettered in ink on the spine. Internally clean and tight, with good margins. The Author was a Spanish diplomat and man of letters, best known for this anti-Machiavellian emblem book, which urged a return to traditional virtues as the remedy for national decadence. It was largely written for the use of the son of Philip IV. It first appeared in print in Munich in1640, with a second, revised edition in Milan in 1642. It's importance was widely ecognised across Europe, resulting in many 17th century reprints with translations into latin, French and Italian.

Londini Typis E: Tyler, , [1661]. 1661 12mo. Collates pi1, A-Tt12, V6. Engraved title page. The latin text is printed in two columns and includes Apocrypha. BOUND WITH STERNHOLD, Thomas and Hopkins, John The whole book of Psalms: collected into English meeter. London, Printed for the Company of Stationers. 1664. Contemporary calf, gilt, with an old reback and corner repairs. The boards with a 2 line roll and corner tools and the initials WC in gilt on both boards, the replacement spine with raised bands and gold lines. Evidence of clasps. All edges gilt. Internally clean, crisp and tight. The front pastedown has an ownership inscription dated 1820. Evan Tyler (fl.1639-1682) was for a time the King's Printer in Scotland in partnership with Robert Young. D&M 6231. ESTC R 36658. PBFA

Newcastle - under - Lyme, Printed for the Author, by W. H. Hyde,, 1832.. 1832 viii, 268 p. Engraved frontispiece. First edition. A second edition appeared in 1836. Publisher's green cloth with a chipped paper label. Spine a little faded and cloth marked but a vey good copy.

Norwich, Printed by C. Berry, jun. Dove-Lane., [1811.]. 1811 viii, 158 p. An untrimmed copy in the original boards. The spine in a contrasting colour paper with athe original (chipped) orange paper label. Joints are cracked with internal paper strengthening. A clean copy of this scarce item.

Jesse Salisbury,, 1893.. 1893 xii, 92 p. First edition. Untrimmed copy in the original wrappers. Protected by a limp buckram wrapper with a calligraphic label. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy. Published a year prior to Salisbury's contribution to the English Dialect Society's glossaries.

London, HMSO,, 1977.. 1977 xxxiv, 316 p. Map, pedigrees. A very good copy in publisher's binding. Dustwrapper creased at foot and now sleeved fro protection. Signature on front endpaper.

Dawsons,, 1973.. 1973 xiii, 169 p. Plans, illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt. No dustwrapper. A very good copy. Volume 3 covers Romano-British Sussex and the City of Chichester. Facsimile reprint of the 1935 edition.

Mainz: Prague Unknown. A sammelband of four 24mo devotional works published 1674 or later. 1) Gestricher Schild, ... Gedrucht zu Mainz 2) Undachtige Weis ... 3) Ein schoner und wol appsrotirter h. gegen ... Gedrucht zu Prag 4) Selftliche Schild=Macht, ... Gedrucht im Jahre Christi 1705. [48]; [48]; [48]; [71,1] p. The last work illustrated with woodcuts of the saints. 9.9x5 cms. Contemporary marbled paper over wooden boards. The paper worn with loss but the binding sound. The contents clean and as fresh as one is likely to find in such ephemeral productions.

Coloniae Agrippinae, sumptibus Petri Henningi,, 1628.. 1628 [14],348,[22],142 p. Lacks the title page. Contemporary blind panelled calf with a short split at the top of the front joint. Boards firmly attached. Contemporary signature of Eduardus Pennant? On the front board. A sound, useable copy of the standard Catholic account of the Reformation in England.

Rochester, N.Y. Reprinted for George Perkins Humphrey, , 1893.. 1893 [3]-196 (i.e. 193) p. Plate. May lack the first leaf (half title or frontis.). No. 109 of an edition of 200 copies. Disbound with signs of pale wrappers. Stapled as issued and with the edges untrimmed. Preserved in a purpose made box.

London, Bernard Quaritch, , 1883.. 1883 Folio. 43x33 cms. 48 p. 25 litho plates. List of Subscribers. Publisher's dark blue cloth binding, gilt. Old damp damage to the binding which doesn't affect the text. Some spotting of the plates. The binding itself is tight and strong with the joints uncracked.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard,, 1847.. 1847 vi, [13] - 196; xii, [13] - 154, [2] p. Wood engravings in the text. Indexes to both parts. Final advertisement page for Parkinson's Confectionary [sic] No 180 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Contemporary black cloth, neatly rebacked with a replacement paper label. Inserted loose between the two books is a handbill 119x192 mm with recipes for NORMANDY PIPPINS and DRIED PEARS, presumably available for winter use from Parkinson's shop. Signature of E. Thorne Valparaiso 15/4/[18]48 on front pastedown and again at the head of the first title. Internally clean and tight with light toning of the margins of the text block. The two titles first appeared in Philadelphia in 1843 and 1844 respectively. The Complete Cook was reprinted in 1846 and in 1847 and 1851 the two titles were published together. See BITTING p. 355 and 466 for partial citations. The second item may be the first book on confectionery by an American author.

London: Printed [by Thomas Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, , 1637.. 1637 Folio. [4], 309 p, Collates A2, B-2D6. The final blank leaf is present. Engraved title page signed Delaram sculp. Double page map. Folding plate of the Sultan's seraglio. Full page plate of The historical columne in Aurat Basar, another of the sculpture of Nilus and numerous engravings throughout the text. Bound in early 20th century black half calf with marbled boards. The spine is gilt between the raised bands, with a contrasting label. There is a little rubbing to the edges and corners and light shelfwear to the marbled boards. The binder has trimmed the margins, just shaving the printed border at the foot of the map but not affecting any side notes. The blank corner of A2 is torn away without affecting any text. The title page is signed twice by an early owner Ric. Mansfeild his booke and there are a few marginalia in his hand. A sound and complete copy.

Padova, Padova, Dalla Tipografia del Seminario, 1830.. 1830 4to. vii, [1], 303, [1]; 367, [1], [4] p. 5 folding engraved plates and 2 folding sheets of errata printed on thick paper bound at the end. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary Italian binding of half sheepskin with marbled sides. Spine with contrasting lettering piece. Neatly rebacked preserving the original label and endpapers. Old library accession number on verso of title to Vol. I and a cropped presentation inscription.

London, Printed for J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, by W. Mason, Chichester., 1819.. 1819 vii, 537, [1] p. Errata on final page. Presumed first edition as there is no edition statement (there appear to have been 3 editions in 1819). Contemporary diced calf binding, worn on the edges and corners but sound. Recent reback with the original label preserved. Henry Martyn 1781-1812 worked as a missionary in the Ottoman empire and in India, including translating the whole of the New Testament into Urdu, Persian and Judaeo-Persic. He also translated the Psalms into Persian and the Book of Common Prayer into Urdu.

Rainham, Meresborough Books,, 1982.. 1982 [16],140 p. Maps, Illustrations. Second printing. Laminated boards with slight rubbing on edges. A very good copy, signed by the Author.

Gillingham, Meresborough Books,, 1990.. 1990 130 p. Illustrations. Publisher's pictorial boards. New copy in fine condition.

Stroud, Alan Sutton Publishing,, 1992.. 1992 ISBN 0750901721 159, [1] p. Illustrated throughout with excellent captions. A very good paperback copy

In Livorno, Nella stampa di Gio. Vinc. Falorni,. [4], 281, [3] p. Two engraved portraits. Contemporary mottled sheepskin. A little loss of surface on the back board and a bit of wear at the headcap. Spine gilt with a contrasting label. Internally clean and crisp. A very good copy.

Londini : Excudebant G. Bishop, R. Nuberie, & R. Barker typographi regij deputati, anno ab incarnatione, M IC [sic] XCVI. [1596], 1596.. 1596 Folio in 6s. [2], 520, [30] fols. First edition. Engraved title to each part. General title trimmed round and mounted. Old paper repairs to lower corner of Ai - vi and Bi, just affecting printed area on some pages. Old blind ruled calf, recently rebacked and corners restored. Old spine label preserved, as also the old endpapers with two bookplates, one a fine 18th century armorial plate of Edward Whittaker Junior of the Inner Temple. STC 21783. ESTC S121919. An important collection of medieval chronicles, including the spurious Ingulph. Savile occupied the chair of Mathematics at Oxford, but is perhaps best remembered for his work on the King James translation of the Bible.