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

Te Leyden, By Pieter Vandera Aa...., 1707. FIRST EDITION. Slender 8vo, pp. 37 [38 - 42 Index], folding engraved map, 2 folding engraved plates, engraved vignette on title-page, recently rebound in half calf, spine blocked in gilt, marbled boards. A very good copy. The English civil servant William Method (1590 - 1653) was born in Norfolk; he acquired fluency in several foreign languages, including Latin, Dutch, French, and Persian. He began service for the East India Company in 1616, and this account of his experiences there was one of several reports he made to his employers. ODNB notes, "Apart from forthright letters and reports to the company, partly published, he composed a 'Relation of Golconda', a brilliant description of that part of India, which appeared in the 1626 edition of Samuel Purchas's Purchas his Pilgrimage. It included brief descriptions of the kingdoms of Arakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim, based on trade information, not personal observation." This would… Read More

London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis..., 1828. 8vo, 184 x 110, pp. [vii] viii - xii, 445 [446 Directions for placing the Plates], folding engraved map opposite title-page, 5 full-page engraved plates in text, engraved plate of Hebrew opposite page 427, folding engraved plate of The Yafta opposite page 429, folding engraved map of author's route at end of text, with tear in one corner near gutter, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine. A very good copy. The author and sometime curate Robert Walsh (1772 - 1852) published a History of the City of Dublin in 1815 and went on to write several other books, including Notices of Brazil (1830). This is one of three books in which Contstantinople figures, and this one, like the others, was favourably reviewed. The Eclectic Review pronounced it "unpretending and delightful," with" distinct and extensive information," and concludes that "the most interesting people whom the author met with in his journey, are… Read More

London: Payne and Foss..., 1830. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. iv, 412; [ii], 180, ccxvii [ccxviii blank], engraved portrait as frontispiece in volume 1, modern library cloth; ex-library with library stamps, inner margin of frontispiece repaired.

Sandbach: Printed by R. Lindop, MDCCCXXXVII 1838. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 160 x 92 mms., pp. [7] 8 - 105 [106 blank], including half-title, contemporary boards, with paper label on front cover; respined, boards worn, piece torn from upper corner rear free end-paper. Who was Richard Smetham? The most likely candidate is a Methodist minister, described in the online Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland as a "young preacher [in the]south-west corner of Dorset [preaching in] the last part of the county to be reached by Methodist preaching from what had begun as the extensive Salisbury Circuit. The first known preaching in Bridport was in 1807 in the open air, by Richard Smetham, a young minister from South Petherton." This suggests that he was born in the late 18th century; he is the uncle of the better-known Methodist minister James Smetham (1821 - 1851). Or he might be James Smetham (1821 - 1889) the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter and engraver; he… Read More

London: W. Wetton, No. 21, Fleet Street; And sold by all booksellers. [c.1825]. 12mo, pp. 180, woodcut frontispiece of lion, other full-page woodcuts of tiger (rather Blakean), elephant, hippopotamus, camelopard [sic], reindeer, and camel, woodcut head-and-tail pieces of elephant and bear, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in oval blind on front cover; lacks label, slight wear to joints but a good copy. This is one of a series of educational books for children issued by Wetton in the 1820s. A longer edition (pp. [4], 222)appeared with the following imprint: Printed for the Executrix of the late W. Wetton, Sold by C.F. Cock, 21, Fleet Street, and all booksellers, Whiting, Printer, Beaufort House, Strand (UCLA only in OCLC). A copy of the above printing is in the BL.

Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and sold by Gideon Crawford in the Parliament-Close, and other Booksellers. MDCCXLVIII. 1748. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [vi], 36, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, red leather label; corners a bit worn but a very good copy. In his survey of matters infernal, the historian of ideas Damian Frank Pearson notes in his study that George Craighead and another thinker, Tobias Swinden, contended that hell must be in the Sun: "Tobias Swinden (1726) and George Craighead (1748) both argued that Hell could not be in the earth as there would be no room for all the dead and not enough air and fuel to keep the fires burning for eternity, and Hell had been created to confine the fallen angels after the revolt in heaven. The location of Hell could not be in the earth. Their place for Hell was within the confines of the Sun, with the sun-spots being the gateways to the eternal fires. Craighead also challenged what he saw as the heretical and atheist… Read More

London: Printed by W. Wilkins, and Sold by J. Roberts..., 1715. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 37 [38 - 39 "Tracts Written by the Same Author," 40 blank], including half-title (soiled and dusty), disbound; verso of last leaf soiled and almost detached.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans..., 1843. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, 189 x 103 mms., pp. [iv], 325 [326 blank]; [ii], 343 [344 blank], contemporary half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt spines, red morocco labels; no half-titles, but a very good and attractive set. The Swedish writer and feminist reformer Frederika Bremer (1801 - 1865) enjoyed great popularity in the UK and the USA, thanks to this English translation of Granname, first published in 1837 as The Neighbours. "By the time Bremer revealed her name to the public, her works were an acknowledged part of the cultural life in Sweden.[8] Translations made her still more popular abroad, where she was regarded as the "Swedish Miss [Jane]Austen".[26] Upon her arrival in New York, the New York Herald claimed she "probably... has more readers than any other female writer on the globe" and proclaimed her the author "of a new style of literature".[27][28] A literary celebrity, Bremer was never without… Read More

Amsterdam, By den Auteur, in de Kalverstraat. 1688. 12mo, 157 x 97 mms., pp. [vi], 144 [145 - 148 index], engraved and printed title-page (with vignette), 72 engraved plates of monks' habits/garments. BOUND WITH: Nette Afbeeldingen Der Eygene Dragten Van alle Geestelike Orders; Nevens Een kort Aantekening van haar begin, voortgang en bevestigiing. Te zamen gesteeld en in 't Koper gebracht door Adriaan Schoonebeek. Amsterdam, By den Auteur, in de Kalverstraat, 1691. 12mo,pp. [viii], 182 [183 - 190 index], engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed title-page (with vignette), 90 engraved plates of nuns' habits, bound in contemporary vellum, panelled in blind, with the decorative bookplate of Allan Heywood Bright dated 1912. A very good copy. The master engraver and print-maker Adriaan Schoonebeek (1661 - 1705) was born in Amsterdam and was a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe. Most of his prints were devotional, but he also produced engravings of combat and war, mythology, and human figures.

Aberdeen: Prepared and Published by Lewis Smith & Peter Gray..., [1836]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 88 mms., pp. [ii], 144, 24, original printed green boards (rubbed and slightly soiled), red roan (rubbed and a little worn), but a good copy with the contemporary autograph "Wm Burnet Craigie/ Linton/ 1838" on the recto of the front free end-paper. The twenty-four pages at the end contain the publishers' announcement and adverts. This would appear to be their first venture at an Aberdeen almanac; "The Publishers of the New Aberdeen Almanac are not unaware of the fact that there is yet ample room in it for still farther improvement. But they beg their fellow-citizens to receive with indulgence this, the first attempt at improvement, where they conceived improvement was loudly called for." Uncommon: OCLC locates a copy in Aberdeen University Library.

Boston [Massachusetts]: Printed by J. T. Buckingham, For Thomas & Andrews, 1804. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [6] - 352, contemporary sheepskin; text fingered, soiled, and browned, binding rubbed and wormed on rear cover.

Dover: Printed and Published by W. Batcheller..., 1836. 12mo, 180 x 101 mms., pp. 154, including adverts, 20 steel-engraved vignettes, original cloth, tkitle in gilt on frotn cover; spine and joints a bit worn, but a good copy The Batcheller family figured prominently in the history of Dover. The author here, William Batcheller worked as an apprentice is the family printing and publishing business.

London: Printed by Clementi & Co..., [no date] [?1805]. 4to, 235 x 160 mms., pp. 130, engraved throughout with music and text, with index pages at page 1, 41, and [109], contemporary calf, gilt spine (slightly rubbed); joints very slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, but a good to very good copy with the bookplate of Harry Colin Miller on the front paste-down end-paper and the autograph "E A Lowe" on the top margin of the title-page. The latter is possibly Elias Avery Lowe (1879 - 1969), the distinguished paleographer. The English firm of music publishers and instrument makers probably started up in the 1790s, went bankrupt in 1789, and re-emerged in conjunction with other publishers and printers. The Magdalen Hospital was founded in 1758, and this is one of many publications of hymns and sacred music associated with it. The first hymn is "Awake my Soul" by Philip Doddrige (1702 - 1751), sometimes sung to music from Handel's opera Ciroë. A… Read More

London: Printed and Published under the immediate Inspection of the Author, Sold Wholesale and Retail by Alex Hogg.... And sold by H. D. Symonds..., J. Parsons, and W. Button; W. Ash; J. Murgatroyd; M. Gurney; J.S. Jordan; J. Mathews; J. Sudbury; J. Delahoy, at Deptford-Bridge; and M. Murray: and may be had of all the Booksellers and Newsmen, in London, Westminster, and at Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Canterbury, Cambridge, [and 25 other towns in England]; and likewise in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany, America, &c. no date], [?1793 - 1794]. Folio, 397 x 230 mms., pp. vi, [7], 8 - 1080, weighing 5.7 kg. (12 pounds, 9 ounces), engraved frontispiece and 89 full-age engraved plates and maps, contemporary calf, rebacked, with old spine ornately gilt in compartments and red morocco label laid down, top and base of spine finely restored; covers scratched, but an interesting copy, with a small rectangular red morocco label, 110 x 42 mms., on the front paste-down end-paper,… Read More

London: Printed for Tho. Astley..., 1736. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [viii], 231 [232 - 236 adverts, D3 signed D6, contemporary calf (worn); no free end-papers, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, later autograph "Alex Mitchell" on top margin of title-page. A poor copy. Lockman (1698 - 1771) published this also in a French and English version, viz. A New History of England, in English and French by Question and Answer. Extracted from the most Celebrated English Historians (1729; this seems to be the first edition). Also this present copy of the English only version is styled "The Third Edition" and was published in 1736, there is also a "Fourth Edition" published in 1732. Both versions of the work were popular throughout the 18th century. ESTC T155111 locates copies in BL and Bodleian; Library Company of Philadelphia and Chicago. A "Third Edition" of the French and English version was published by P. Vaillant in the same year.

London: Printed for Tho. Astley..., 1736. 12mo (in 6s), 162 x 96 mms., pp. viii, 231 [232 - 236 adverts], contemporary calf (worn); all leaves before title-page missing, front paste-down end-paper defective, no free rear end-paper, front cover holding by one cord, rear joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped; with the later autograph "Alex Mitchell" on the top margin of the title-page, John Lockman (1698–1771) was a prolific author and translator. He published a number of works in this popular "question and answer" form, and this work was still being reprinted as late as 1811. The Gentleman's Magazine said of Lockman that he translated "with general accuracy, more books for half a century together than any man of his time." He was also an accomplished musician and composer, with oratorios and musical dramas to his credit. This is a reprinting, reimposed, of the English text of a bilingual edition printed by William Bowyer for Vaillant and Astley… Read More

London: Printed for W. Mears, and Sold by J. Knapton, G. Strahan, R. Gosling, J.Osborn and T. Longman, J. Hooke, T. Batley, G. Rivington, and D. Browne. M. DCC. XXVI. 1726. 8vo, 190 x 105 mms., pp. [xvi], [3] 4 - 296, 305 - 608 [609 - 631 Index, 632 adverts], title-page in red and black, one full paged engraved plate at page 11, one folding engrave plate at page [61], and a fragment of folding plate at page [488], with various ownership inscriptions, notably that of John Woodward 1665/1668 - 1728) on the top margin of the title-page (see below), bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, hinges strengthened with cloth, no leaves before title-page, which it itself soiled and slightly frayed,some worming affecting text from page 160 to 200, last ten leaves water-stained at upper corner corners and edges worn. The author of the book, Richard Bradley (1688?-1732), and John Woodward (1665/1668-1728), the scientist and physician, both made enormous contributions to the University of Cambridge in the… Read More

Kingston: Printed by Stevenson and Aikman, [1802]. 12mo (in 6s), 149 x 92 mms. pp. [iv], 189 [190 - 191 continuation of Index, 192 note and errata, 193- 204 tables, followed by lower corner of one leaf, followed by 11 leaves of notes mostly in pencil, and mostly of names, with occasional sums and calculations, bound in contemporary wallet style sheepskin, with gilt borders on covers, and the name in purple ink of "William Bowyer/ Woollard/ 1887/ June 8," with more purple ink on the title-page and on the verso of the preceding leaf. One of the publishers, William Aikman fled from America during the 1776 Revolution and set up business with another refugee, David Douglass. Thomas Stevenson joined the firm in 1796. One of the most striking features of their almanacs was the use of Hebrew type, page 15 being a "Kalendar Of Months, Sabbaths, and Holidays, which the Hebrews or Jews observed and keep, for the years 5562 and 5563 of the Creation." Aikman and Douglass began… Read More

London: Printed for J. Share; and sold by Badcock and Co..., [1820]. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iii] - x, [13] - 212 [213 - 218 Index, 219 - 220 glossary; complete despite erratic pagination], engraved frontispiece; pp 119-120 neatly repaired. Bound with: The English Minstrel; A Selection of Favourite Songs, with Music, Adapted to the Voice, Violin, or German Flute. Edinburgh: Printed by and for Oliver and Boyd...[c. 1815]. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, 216, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, some woodcuts in text, and music printed from movable type; "Vol. II." printed at the foot of p. [1]. 2 volumes in 1, early 9th century half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), spine blocked in gilt; frontispiece and title-page of first item severely foxed, other mild foxing in text. The second item is a sequel to The English Minstrel: A Valuable Selection of Popular Songs, published by Oliver and Boyd c. 1814. The Preface to the first volume also alludes to an earlier edition, and this… Read More

London: Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, T. Longman, and T. Woodward. 1726. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 193 x 120 mms., pp. [400], numerous illustrations in text, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked in matching calf, gilt rules on spine, red morocco label, a very good to fine copy. With various ownership inscription and annotations: inn a 19th century hand on the front pasted-down end-paper, "Mr Kincaid/ Compliments of/ Emeline M. North"; in an 18th century hand, "Mills" on title-page and "John Mills" twice on recto of following leaf; and marginal notes in ink on leaves about the telescope. Emmeline M. North Whitcomb (d. 1925) American educator, teacher, and President of the Association of Pioneer Women of California. The self-taught mathematician Edmund Stone (1700 - 1768) also learned Latin and Greek in order to read various mathematical works. He published his New Mathematical Dictionary in 1726; this second edition was published two years before… Read More