Search Results: Titles starting with C from John Price Antiquarian Books

Glasguae:In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis..., 1751. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], 349 [350 blank, 351 - 352 adverts], contemporary calf, spine once gilt in compartments, but most of gilt gone now; lacks label, joints slightly cracked, last blank leaf frayed at fore-margin. Contemporary autograph of F. G. Straube, St. John's College, Oxford on recto of front free end-paper, with later calligraphic autograph of James Gray on verso. Gaskell 213.

Parisiis. Ex officina Rob. Stephani typographia Regis. 1544. 8vo, 164 100 mms., pp. 208 [209 - 239 Index, 240 blank], printer's ornament on title-page, contemporary calf ruled in blind on covers, with central gilt ornament and gilt fleurs de lys at corners of blind rectangle; leaf before title-page defective, several leaves sprung, corners and top of spine a bit worn, but a good copy. "A vigorous account of the notorious conspiracy of Catiline in 63 B.C. to overthrow the civil power in Rome, Sallust's Catiline is one of the best histories in Latin literature. The narrative is vivid and consistent, and the sketches of character are admirable in their power and conciseness. Although the author obviously hated the democratic party with which Catiline was connected, and had no great admiration for Cato or Cicero, his work is wonderfully impartial. Sallust's conception of history, indeed, as is exemplified also in his Jugurthine War, was very modern. He attempts to bring before his… Read More

Glasguae:In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas FOulis..., 1751. FIRST FOULIS EDITION. Small 8vo, 153 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], 349 [350 blank, 351 - 352 adverts], contemporary calf; front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, lacks label. Gaskell 213.

Aere: EXandebant J. & P. Wilson, 1808. 12mo (in 6s), 140 x 84 mms., pp,.[3] 4 - 124, attractive bound in contemporary lightly mottled calf, gilt border and gilt coat of arms on each cover, gilt spine; base of spine and gilt ornament on rear cover wormed. This is a very rare Scottish book printed by the firm responsible for the printing of the famous Kilmarnock edition of Burns of 1796. The printers are the brothers John and Peter Wilson of Ayr, pioneering figures of the book trade in Ayrshire, on whom see Carreen S. Gardner, Printed in Ayr and Kilmarnock: Newspapers, Periodicals, Books and Pamphlets Printed from about 1780 until 1920 (1976), p. 11. Gardner notes, about John Wilson, that "[u]ndoubtedly the most famous work printed by Wilson in Kilmarnock was the first edition of the poems of Robert Burns in July 1786" (ibid.). For this 1808 Ayr edition of Sallust, see Gardner, p. 77. The coat of arms in gilt on this copy are those of Edinburgh. The motto in the scroll,… Read More

London: Printed for Richard Smith..., 1705. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 120, pp. [xxxviii], 363 [364 - 370 Index, 371 - 374 adverts], engraved frontispiece, three folding engraved maps, 10 engraved pltaes (8 folding), later 18th century panelled calf, rebacked, new end-papers, title in gilt on spine; lower outer corner of title-page slight defective, corners worn, but a good copy. Colonel Martin Bladen (1680–1746) was born in 1680 attended Westminster School where he was a Queen's Scholar at St Peter's College and then attended St John's College in Cambridge.[3] He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1698[4] but did not pursue a legal career. He joined the military in December 1697 as Ensign to Captain Jos. Fletcher. He still found time to produce this well-illustrated and more than competent translation of Caesar, and another ten editions followed quickly.

Venetiis, Aldus Manutius Paulli, 1567. Small 8vo, 146 x 93 mms., foliated, [8], 189, [19] leaves, with Aldine device on title-page and verso of last leaf, with colophon on recto, with two small ink annotations on title-page, 18th century speckled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; very slight worming to margin of last few leaves, one leaf torn at corner with loss of paper but not text, free end-papers removed, worming to top and bottom compartments (out of six), resulting in a fretwork effect, also very slight worming to boards. These works on Cataline's or the conspiracy of Cataline and the Jugurthine War are among the earliest histories from the Roman historians to survive. Many pithy comments on humanity emerged from his histories, e. g. "Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere," translated by Wikipedia as "Yet many human beings, resigned to sensuality and indolence, un-instructed and… Read More

London, Printed for C. Taylor, No. 10, near Castle Street, Holborn 1787. 4to, 198 x 158, a nonce collection in two volumes of poems with an engraving for each, bound in contemporary straight grain green morocco, gilt rule on borders, red leather labels, with general title-page tipped to a stub in volume 1; front hinge volume 2 repaired with tape. With a contents leaf at end of volume for volume 2, and an preface for the two volumes in volume 2. 39 engraved plates in volume 1, and 57 in volume 2. As ESTC notes, "On the verso of the contents list: "Gentlemen may bind any numbers together to make a volume, and in any order they please", which indicates the variety and strangeness possible in any copy. Match to these records by date of titlepage and add copy notes as appropriate.

Mayn: B. Schotte, Söhne..., 1824. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 215 x 135 mms, pp. 112, 35 [36 blank], engraved portrait of Georg Vogler before text, folding engraved leaf of music between pages 58 and 59, original printed wrappers (frayed and a bit soiled). This is the first issue of a music periodical that was to be published three or four times a year and which ceased publication in 1848.

Glasguae, In Aedibu Academici, Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis..., 1751. Small 4to, 193 x 152 mms., pp. [iv], 348 [349 - 350 Nomenclator, 351 - 355 Index, 356 - 358 blank], with an additional title-page following the main title-page, "Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Espitolarum Libri Decemb. Ex Recensione Cortii et Longolii," contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments (slightly dried and rubbed), red morocco label; front joint amateurishly repaired. Gaskell 207.

London: Printed for D. Midwinter, W. Innys...[et al], 1739. 12mo, pp. xxiv, 250 [251 - 252 adverts], contemporary sheepskin; all prelims removed and bookplate crudely removed from front paste-down end-paper with damage and scoring. Rowe's translation was first published in 1709.

London: Printed for J. Nourse..., 1770. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 205 x 130 mms., pp. [ii], v [sic, for iv], 7 - 168, 3 folding engraved plates, disbound. Emerson (1701 - 1782), a thoroughly practical man writes in the preface that mathematics is in daily use, but, "to oblige the lower sort of readers (for everyone is not destined to study the sublime parts of the Mathematicks) I have composed the following Treatise." One would guess that the "lower sort of readers" consisted of about 90 per cent of people in the 18th century who bought books. Part II is on "Geometrical Problems, and the Measuring of Lines" and describes a "Sliding rule" and its use.

Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw..., 1769. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION 12mo, 164 x 92 mms., pp. [iii] iv - vi [vii section title - viii blank], 206, disbound. Thomas Mulso, the brother of his more famous sister, Hester Mulso, later Mrs. Chapone (1727 - 1801), was named after his father, also Thomas Mulso (1695 - 1763) and has largely escaped biographers. This is his only major work, first published in London in 1768, with a second edition the same year. The work garnered a very long and positive review in The Monthly Review in 1768, with an opening paragraph that many authors would kill for: "If books are to be estimated by the importance of their contents and excellence of their execution, this may justly be accounted one of the most valuable publications that have of late supported the credit of the press. The subject, the moral, the discourse, are most interesting; the language is perfectly genteel and excellent; the conduct of the dialogue is just and beautiful; the circumstances such as might… Read More

London: Printed for the Author; by T. Gillet...and sold by T. Chapman...[et al], 1799. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iv], 164, disbound. Edwards' work was first published in 1795, and his opposition to infant baptism was answered by Joseph Jenkins and Joseph Kinghorn; it was translated into Welsh in 1800.

London: Printed for C. Bathurst..., 1758. 8vo, pp. [iv], 31 [32 blank], 325 [326 - 339 Index, 340 adverts], contemporary calf; front free end-paper detached, top and base of spine chipped, spine rubbed, corners worn. Edwards published two shorts pamphlets in 1748, the first entitled A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespeare; then the work appeared in 1750 under the above title. The Trial was separately published in 1753, and the above printing is the first to combine the various works.

Ulyssipponae: apud Haered. Antonii Pedrozo Galram. M. DCC. LIII. 1753. 4to, 195 x 138 mms., pp. [iv], 155 [156 blank], printed throughout with music, three pages of ms. notes before title-page and 4 pages at end of book, contemporary sheepskin, spine faintly gilt in compartments; top of spine chipped, base of spine slightly defective, corners worn, front cover scratched, front paste-down end-paper lifting, but with a clear text, and a contemporary inscriptiong "A. Neavey" on top margin of the title-page, and an inscription in pencil on the verso of the leaf facing the title-page, "W. J. A. Flynn/ Oxford/ Septr 1975." The Portuguese priest Francisco Alvares Vitorio is said to have been born in 1702, but his death date is not known. The Lisbon office of the Portuguese printer Antonio Pedroso Galrão (Latinized as Galram) was "founded c. 1695", according to The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010), which also says he died "c 1742", but the imprint of the… Read More

Oxonii: E Typogapheo Clarendoniano 1781. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 120 mms., pp. [viii], 218 [ 219 Errata, 220 blank], fine contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt to a cornucopia motif, Greek key border on covers, marbled end-papers; slight wear to joints and top and base of spine, but a very good copy. The poet and garden designer William Mason(1725 - 1797) published his historical tragedy Caractacus in 1759. This translation into Greek by George Henry Glasse was well received when it was published, with The Monthly Review singing its praises: "There are few works, which the Authors of the Monthly Review have perused with more pleasure and surprise than Mr. Glasse's translation of Mason's Caractacus. They consider it a performance that reflects honour on the Author, and the seminary in which he was educated. Since the revival of letters, there has never, perhaps, appeared in this kingdom, so wondrful a composition in the Greek language.... [W]e cannot help observing that… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown..., 1822. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp.l [iv], 122 [123 - 124 adverts], original boards, uncut; binding slightly soiled, paper label on spine, top and base of spine chipped, ex-library with City of Nottingham Public Library bookplate on front paste-down end-paper and their stamp on verso of title-page. The newspaper editor and author of several books, Thomas Bailey (1784 - 1856) began his working life with his father, a silk hosier, then became a wine merchant, and turned his hand to politics and poetry. The present work was reviewed in The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral and philosophical Knowledge, commenting that Bailey had commenced his task "under many disadvantages. The imagination of his readers anticipates the brilliancy of his thoughts and descriptions, and expectation grows too sanguine for the efforts of genius to gratify. On occasions like these, every man becomes a poet; and from the beams that… Read More

London: Printed by H. Haines, at R. Francklin's..., 1735. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 138 [139 - 140 adverts], errata slip pasted to bottom of page 183, library cloth; ex-library with perforations on title-page and bookplate on front paste-down end-paper. Hanson 4814. Kress 4206. Sabin 66641.

London: Printed for J. Wiston, and B. White..., 1756. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 193 x 118 mms., pp. xix [xx Errata],146, rebound in 20th century quarter calf, gilt spine, marbled boards, red morocco label. A very good copy. John Fry, writing here about a man's marriage to the sister of a wife who has died, argues that a prohibition against such marriages was untenable and that it was "fit and proper" for a widower to do so. John Wesley had a copy of the work in his colletion with an inscription, almost certain in his hand, "an excellent treatise." Ellen Pollack, "Guarding the Succesion of the (E)State: Guardian-Ward Incest and the Dangers of Representation" in Delarivierer Manley's The New Atlantis (The Eighteenth Century), 1998,

London: Printed for A. Moore..., 1730. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 51 [52 blank], disbound. Another edition of 32 pages was published in the same year, but it is not clear which has precedence. Bolingbroke suspected that the French were rebuilding the harbour of Dunkirk and re-fortifying it, in contravention of the Treaty of Utrecht: "The case of Dunkirk certainly rattled many independent backbenchers. To weaken their attachment to the opposition Walpole made great play of Bolingbroke's clandestine and suspicious role in bringing on the whole debate. He succeeded in turning the debate into a discussion on Bolingbroke's past conduct and he managed to discredit the opposition's legitimate criticism of ministerial negligence. Bolingbroke tried in vain to recover lost ground by writing The Case of Dunkirk Faithfully Stated and Impartially Considered (1730), and followed this up with a justification of his own conduct" (Oxford DNB). Goldsmiths' 6825.