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

London, Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 61 [62 blank], disbound; a little dust-soiled.

A Londres, 1777. 4 volumes. 8vo, 206 x 120 mms., pp. [iv], 484; [ii], xx, 513 [ 514 - 515 Approbation and Privilege, 516 blank]; xxviii, 586; xiv, 416, including half-title in each volume, attractively bound in full contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled borders on covers, spines richly gilt in compartments with oval sunburst motif, red and green morocco labels, marbled end-papers. A fine and attractive set, A bookplate loosely inserted in volume 4 claims "From Croom Court/ Roger Payne binder/ 1738 - 97 used a tool/ used in this binding." Helvetius (1715 - 1771) is probably best-known for his De l'Esprit (1758) and its successor De l'Homme (1772). Although the imprint claims London for the place of publication, it is clearly a French, and probably, Parisian printing. De l'Esprit had been condemned by the French parliament soon after it was published and was burnt, so Helvetius was clearly still considered dangerous to the structure of the state in 1777. The imprint is… Read More

Valencenia, per Antonio Bordazar de Artazu, Impresso Academico, 1744. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 298 x 208 mms., pp. [xiv], xcvi, 279 [280 blank], including half-title, contemporary vellum; half-title partially detached at inner margin, binding a little soiled, but a good to very good copy, with "1288l. Mondyar" on the upper margin of the front paste-down end-paper, "Evelyn S Procter" on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, and "Thomas Stainton/ April 21/ 1868" on the top margin of the title-page. This is a nice provenance: Evelyn Emma Stefanos Procter (1897–1980) was a distinguished scholar on Spanish medieval history. She was tutor in and later head of St. Hugh's Oxford. She collaborated with Betty Kemp on a history of St. Hugh's, but it was her earlier book, Alfonso X of Castile, Patron of Literature and Learning (1951), that defined her as a scholar. ODNB notes "She was an austere scholar and when Rachel Trickett, the English… Read More

London: Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 29 [30 blank], 23 [24 blank], occasional annotation in pencil, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. The Treaty of Seville, signed on 9 November 1929, had the effect, among others, of making it extremely difficult for Jacobites to expect assistance for their cause from Britain's nearest continental neighbours.

London: Printed for J. Wilcox..., 1743. 12mo, 156 x 88 mms., pp. xviii [xix contents, xx adverts], 184, 6 folding engraved plates of music, blue silk end-papers, 19th century hard grain red morocco. with gilt cypher initials holding within a gilt coronet on each cover, spine blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. A very good copy, with the Ex Libris of Peter Stewart Young Tillingham on the front paste-down end-paper. Tosi (1653 - 1732) was one of the best castrati of his day and first sang in London in 1692. The above work was first published in 1723 as Opinioni de' Cantori Antichi e Moderni. As New Grove notes, the work remains "a valuable source of information about Baroque performing practice, particularly regarding the interpretation of appoggiaturas, trills and other vocal ornaments and the use of tempo rubato." John Ernest Galliard (c.1687 - 1749), a German composer who worked in London, had a reasonable success as a composer of operas and incidental music for the stage. His… Read More

Dublin: Bonham, printer, 1795. 8vo, 187 x 115 mms., pp. [6], 7 - 229 [230 blank], including half-title, handsomely bound in contemporary (or slightly later) straight-grain maroon morocco, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt. A fine copy. Lawrence Parsons, Second Earl of Rosse (1758–1841) entered the Irish House of Commons in 1782 and became a friend of Henry Flood, the radical patriot. After the death of Flood in 1791, amid much other political activity, he opposed the Union with Britain. "By his will, [Flood] left the bulk of his property, valued at £5000, to Trinity College, Dublin, after his wife's death, for the establishment of a professorship of Irish, for the maintenance of a prize fund for composition, and for the purchase of Irish books and manuscripts. However, the will was challenged by his cousin John Flood of Floodhall, with whom he had argued during his lifetime, and declared invalid on the grounds that John Flood was the legitimate heir, and the… Read More

Philadelphia Printed. London: Reprinted, by Direction of the Editor, at the the Philanthropic Reefer...and sold by Debrett and Wright...[inter alia]; and by all other Booksellers, Except John Stockdale..., 1798. 8vo (in 4s), pp. viii, 109 [110 Postscript], disbound. Harper's pamphlet was first published in American in 1797 and reprinted on both sides of the Atlantic at least thirty times in the next three years. The anonymous editor of this London printed explains who Harper is (representative to Congress from South Carolina) and provides a context for Harper's defiance of France's threats to seize goods on any ship bound for a British port. A note on the verso of the title-page explains that the editor had first offered the pamphlet to Stockdale to print, but Stockdale demurred, and it was published elsewhere. After its success, Stockdale promptly proceeded to publish pirated editions. The printing history of the work is probably still unsettled; the Preface here is dated 24… Read More

London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1773. 8vo, 211 x 127 mms., pp. [iv], xxii, 312, including half-title, contemporary calf; binding dried, piece of leather missing from lower front corner, joints very slightly cracked. John Millar (1735 - 1801), Professor of Civil Law at the University of Glasgow, is a good example of an author whose reputation flourished during his lifetime, and who thereafter virtually disappeared from the map of intellectual history. Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society was first published in an attractive quarto by John Murray in London in 1771; a Dublin edition was published in the same year by Thomas Ewing with Murray's consent and collaboration. A second edition, "greatly enlarged," followed in 1773, and for the third edition, "corrected and enlarged" of 1779, Millar revised the title to The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: Or, An Enquiry into the Circumstances which Give Rise of Influence and Authority in the Different… Read More

Londini: Impensis Joannis Hinton..., 1752. FIRST EDITION of volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, 205 x 123 mms., pp. [iv], xxx, 161 [162 blank], 38 [39 - 42 Index]; xix [xx Errata], 208, one engraved plate in first volume, contemporary calf, rebacked, red leather labels; tear in fore-margin of F4 slightly affecting text, edges browned, corners worn. John Huxham (1692 - 1768) gained his M. D. at Rheims in 1717; he returned to Devon, where he had been born, but later moved to Plymouth. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1739 but achieved medical fame in 1750 with his Essay on Fevers and their Various Kinds. Although there was some dubious scandal attached to Huxham in his early years in Plymouth, the Leipzig scholar and physician, G. D. Reidel, said of him in 1764, "who has so much as hailed our art from the threshold, who has yet never heard the great name of HUXHAM?" The Victorian biographer of English physicians, William Munk, in a modified version of earlier assessment of Huxham,… Read More

London: Printed for Dan. BBrowne...; J. Whiston and B. White...; and Lockyer Davis..., 1763. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 168 x 100 mms., pp. [viii], 266 '[267 - 268 Index], 24, contemporary calf, gilt rules on covers, dark red morocco label on spine; joints slightly cracked, corners very slightly worn, top and base of spine chipped. With a book in cipher on the front paste-down end-paper, motto "Nil in Vinj Minerva." John Hill, self-styled "Sir John Hill" (bap. 1714, d. 1775) published more books than almost anybody else in the 18th century; or at least his name is affixed to a number of books published anonymously. He was not one to suffer fools gladly and was often regarded as one of the fools himself. Garrick managed to sum him up in this epithet: "For Physick and Farces, his Equal there scarce is, His Farces are Physick, and his Physick a Farce is"; while Samuel Johnson remarked, "Dr Hill was … a very curious observer; and if he had been contented to… Read More

London: Printed by H. Woodfall. Sold by J. Brotherton.., 1738. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 168 x 103 mms., pp. [iv[ v - xii [xiii - xiv errata], 167 [168 blank], including half-title, attractively bound in later 18th century sprinkled calf, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but a bit rubbed), red leather label. A very good copy. Pemberton (1694–1771) is remembered mostly for his work in mathematics and physics and his book on Newton, A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy (1728). This work was reviewed in two continental journals, in the May and June issues of The History of the Works of the Learned for 1738; and in the July-August-September, 1740, issue (pp. 215 - 222) of the Bibliothèque Raisonnée. The former work devotes 13 pages to Observations on Poetry, most of it consisting of long quotations from the text, but about the closest endorsement of its value is a throwaway remark: "[I] could produce many other Specimens of Dr.… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1845. 4to, 286 x 219mms., pp. liii [liv blank], 165 [166 blank], engraved plate before text, contemporary quarter cloth, boards, paper labels on spine; ex-library with various library stamps. Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. He had an observatory built at his home in Scotland in 1808 and he made a number of contributions to navigation in the succeeding years. Brisbane was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 and was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833. He was made a baronet in 1836 and attained the rank of general in 1841. He was the governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825, and what is now the city of Brisbane is named after him, though it was a penal colony at the time. The present volume is an extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,… Read More

London Printed by S. G. and B. G. [i. e., Sarah and Bennet Griffin] for Jonathan Edwin, at the Sign of the three Roses in Ludgate-Street [no date]. [?1672]. Small 8vo, 146 x 83 mms., pp. [viii], 128 (but with numerous errors in pagination), early 18th century calf, gilt borders on covers, rebacked, with old spine gilt in compartments with red leather label laid down; top 30 mms. of adverts leaf preceding title torn away, spine a bit rubbed and faded, but a very good copy. Rapin (1621 - 1687) proved to be a popular literary theorist, particularly in discussing epics, with British readers, both in English translation and in French. His choice, at the end of the volume of Homer in preference to Virgil was very much in tune with the prevailing models of literary theory at the time. Observations sur les poèmes d'Homère et de Virgile was published in Paris in 1669. It's unlikely that many scholars read George Saintsbury's History of Criticism (1900 - 1904), but his prose… Read More

London: Printed by J. Hughs...For C. Hitch and L. Hawes..., 1757. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 282 x 222 mms., pp. xvi, 450 [451 - 542 Contents, 543 Errata, 544 blank], engraved portrait of author as frontispiece (off-setting onto title-page), contemporary calf, rebacked in darker calf, gilt spine, black leather label; a very good copy with an armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper. Edward Lisle (?1666 - 1722) collected information about farming, but it fell to his son, Thomas Lisle, to see that the work was published. A second edition in two volumes was published in the same year, and it was this copy that George Washington had in his library. Kevin Hayes, in his George Washington: A Life in Books (2017), observes that, "Edward Lisle's Observations in Husbandry, while making no pretense of being a complete guide to its subject, gave readers a huge amount of agricultural information. Despite its haphazard quality, the book contains a vast amount of practical detail and a number… Read More

London, Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1769. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 176 x 104 mms., pp. [iv], v - vii [viii blank], 155 [156 blank, 157 - 160 adverts], including half-title, recently rebound in half calf, morocco label, marbled boards; two very small holes in title-page, but a very good copy. In a long review of the November, 1769, issue of The Monthly Review, the reviewer commented that "Upon the whole, this little work contains many particulars equally curious, useful, and new...." Webb's emphasis in the other two works is more on description than on theory, and in the Observations, he argues that certain clusters of sounds can be observed to produce certain affections and moods. His association of certain sounds with specific physiological states is reminiscent of the work of David Hartley, as well as that of Levesque de Pouilly. Music and poetry can give rise to the same passions and therefore the aesthetic impulses which call them forth are more-or-less identical, or at least the… Read More

London: Printed for J. Debrett..., 1787. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. viii [ix Errata, x blank], 184, 29 [30 blank], contemporary calf; front cover detached, rear joint cracked and tender, corners worn, ex-library with library stamps in blind on blank prelims and title-page, library pocket on rear paste-down end-paper. Goldsmiths 13474. Kress B. 1332.

London: Printed in the Year 1761. 4to, pp. [viii[, 36, stitched as issued, uncut, lower margin of title-page dust-stained, some other small stains, but a good copy. ESTC on-line locates five copies in UK libraries and two copies in North American libraries.

London: Printed for C. Dilly..., 1786, 1788, 1791. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 5 volumes 1 - 4 first editions; second edition of volume 5. 8vo, 189 x 114 mms., pp. [viii], 295 [296 blank]; [vi], 282; [viii], 330; [viii], 314; [viii], 309 [310 adverts[, contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt, red and green morocco labels; joints volume 1 very slightly cracked, some wear to extremities, but an attractive and a very good set, with the contemporary autograph of Thomas Harvey on the top margin of the title-page in each volume The playwright and novelist Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) seems almost to have drifted into a career as an author in his thirties, and he published works in all the popular literary genres of the 18th century. "The Observer...appeared in five volumes between 1786 and 1790 and contains 152 essays. The essays range from the usual fare of literary criticism (on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Milton, Rowe, and others), to general subjects ('Love of praise'),… Read More

London, Printed for T. Durham, in Cockspur-street, near Charing-Cross. MDCCLXIX. 1769. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 175 x 106 mms., pp. [v] vi - xvi, 168, including half-title, contemporary ms. correction in ink on page 90, contemporary mottled calf, glt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, fragment of label in one compartment, ex libris sticker of the Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij (1944 - 2012) on lower corner of front paste-down marbled end-paper; corners a little worn, but a very good copy. John Hope (1739–1785), was the grandson of Charles, first Earl of Hopetwoun. Hope's book was reviewed in the Novembe, 1769, issue of The Critical Review. The reviewer opens with a short commentary on the meaning of "sentimental," with the reviewer commenting, that it "seems to mean something different from description and narrative." He or she finds some of the poems "grossly indelicate" and "Some are not verse and some not grammar." With… Read More

London: Printed for, and Sold by H. Hills..., 1709. 8vo, pp. 23 [24 adverts], stitched in recent wrappers. The work was also published in 1709 by John Clark, without the "True State of Morality." Foxon H 365.