Search Results: Titles starting with T from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

[ Paris ]: Vaenundantur ipsi Ascensio, 1530. Hardcover. See Description. Folio. 35 cm. ff. [22], 16, 323. Lacking final blank leaf. This copy does not contain the additional section printed a year later in 1531 (listed separately in Adams as L-1327), which included both the 5 missing books from the tenth decade, recently discovered by Simon Grynaus, and a chronology by Glareanus. Text is in Roman type with decorative woodcut initials. The title page contains a woodcut architectural border which surrounds Ascensius’s printer’s device depicting workers at a printing press. Some scholarly Latin marginalia is present, written in a careful early hand; signatures a-c, and signature p hold the heaviest annotations – including side glosses, micro notations between lines of text, and careful underlining of words and passages. Most pages throughout the book are free of notations. Tiny spots of worming are located on the first few leaves. Signatures a-f show a small area of worming - mostly… Read More

London: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911. First Edition. . Limp Leather. See Description. Willy Pogany. First regular edition. 4to. 223 unnumbered pages printed on stiff gray paper with numerous illustrations in black and red. Includes 16 tipped in color plates. The colophon states: "The letterpress and fine illustrations lithographed by Vincent Brooks, Day and Sons Ltd. London, the four-colour plates printed by Henry Stone and Son Ltd. Banbury. A.D. MCMXI." Pages are clean Bound in limp gray suede binding with gilt illustration on front cover - in a superb state of preservation. Illustrations by Willy Pogany.

Freiburg im Breisgau: Adolph Emmerling. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 4 individual volumes (1839, 1840, 1841, and 1844) of this annual periodical handbook of southern German history and folklore which was published between (1839 and 1846). The 1839 volume is re-backed preserving the original publisher's blue paper boards with a decorative title printed on the front cover. The volumes for 1840 and 1844 are bound in early blue paper boards; the 1840 volume is re-backed and the 1844 volume is carefully strengthened along the hinges. The volume for 1841 is bound in brown cloth. Both the 1841 and 1844 volumes contain the remnants of original paper spine labels and also paper institutional shelf tickets. The boards and extremities to all volumes show some rubbing, wear and spotting. Personal bookplates present on inside front covers; institutional blind stamp on title pages and two other leaves in each book; a shelf number is handwritten on the bottom margin of the second leaf (in… Read More

London: William Innys and Richard Manby, 1733. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [4], 544. Original calf boards, neatly re-backed with old spine label preserved. Board corners are restored. Library name stamped on bottom edge of text block; seminary library book plate on inside front cover; ownership stamp and hand printed name (dated 1938) on front end papers and on outer margin of title page; very faint library blind stamp on lower corner of title. Interior pages are generally clean. Peter Brown (1666-1735) Irish divine who became Bishop of Cork and Ross. His "Things divine and supernatural" [published anonymously] is an in-depth reply to criticisms leveled at him by George Berkeley (see Berkeley’s dialogue "Alciphron"). Browne defends his belief that the thoughts of the Divinity can only be known to us through analogy and not as they are in themselves. [ESTC T118954; Halkett & Laing VI, p. 27].

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1901. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. 102pp. With 18 plates including 10 in color and in gilt. 5 illustrations of identification marks or seals are printed on tissue and inserted into the text. Partially uncut pages. Re-backed preserving the original spine. Paper spine label rubbed. Boards re-papered after original fashion.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1961. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 175, [1]. 1 page map and 7 pages of illustrations including the frontispiece. Maroon cloth with dust jacket. Deaccession stamp on inside front cover. No other marks present. Book is Vg+. Dust jacket is about Fine. An account of Thomas Brown's relationship with the Shakers and other millenarian sects in America.

Paris: Éditions Dangles [c. 1936 ], 1936. Wraps. See Description. 8vo. pp. [6], v, [2], 10-375, [3]. Includes numerous black and white illustrations with the text. Pages are clean with some light age toning. Bound in original publisher’s wraps. Edges are untrimmed. A solid copy with some spots of wear and rubbing to the extremities. A collection of occult writings by the influential French occultist Geard Encausse (Papus) [1865-1916]. With chapters on "la constitution de l’homme", "le plan astral chez l’homme", "la terre et la nature", "les races et la terre", "les grandes traditons", "le Christ et sa mission", "les sociétés secrètes", "les facultés occultes de l’homme", "l’astrologie", "les planètes", "les douze signes", les adaptions de l’astrologie", etc.

Paris: J.-B. Bailliere and Lyon Charles Savy Jeune, 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [8], 516. Pages generally clean with some mild scattered foxing. Bound in contemporary or somewhat later quarter black morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Jean Louis Brachet (1789-1858) French professor of pathology and a member of L'Académie imperiale de médecine. His book Traite de l' Hysterie was an important early modern study on the subject. The author classifies and describes different forms of hysteria in males and females. [Hirsch I, p. 554-555].

Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, W. M’Kenzie, and J. Rice., 1793. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 2 vols. Vol. I. pp. Vol. II. pp. With 3 maps one of which is colored. First printed in 1792. According to Cox this Dublin 1793 printing was probably a pirate edition. The official second edition appeared a year later. Re-bound in modern half calf with gilt spine labels and marbled boards. An ink shelf number is handwritten on the verso of both titles (with miniscule bleed through on the title of volume II). A shelf number is also written on the bottom margin of p. 101 in both volumes, and on the final blanks in volume II. The map in volume II is re-hinged and contains a tear (professionally sealed) along the inner margin and crossing one printed corner tip. The interior shows some marginal foxing, mild staining and age-toning. Pages 431-432 (folio 3I4) in volume II contain a manufacturing tear through a large part of the… Read More

London: William Maxwell & Son, 1876. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [xliv], 962, with a Second part at the end covering the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 pp. [4], 59, [3]. Maroon cloth, sturdily re-backed preserving original spine. Paper spine label worn. Cloth discolored on the lower front cover near the hinge. Small area of discoloration at the bottom of the spine caused by former shelf sticker. Library impress stamp on the title page. "Withdrawn" ticket on inside front cover. Pages are generally clean with a few miniscule marginal tears and a couple of light pencil notations.

London: Printed by J.B. and sold by Randal Taylor, 1688. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small 4to. pp. [6], 34. With imprimatur leaf facing the title. Bound in 19th century marbled boards (rubbed). Re-backed in black morocco with older gilt lettered spine laid on. Bookplate depicting a baron's crown on inside front cover. Sticker removed from front end paper. Booklet is trimmed on the bottom obscuring the lower printed border line on the title page, (but not affecting any text). Plenty of space remains in the margins of the text pages. 40 sheets of 19th century blank paper are bound in the rear. Top edge gilt. The author is actually Henry Keepe writing under the pseudonym of Charles Taylour. His booklet, addressed to King James II, describes how he (Keepe) salvaged the crucifix and gold chain of Edward the Confessor from a damaged tomb at Westminster and how he later presented this treasure to the newly crowned king. The author claims that his discovery of the artifact on June 11,… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1911. Hardcover. See Description. E. Boyd Smith. [ c. 1911 ] 8vo. Early printing of this edition, copyright, 1911. Title page undated. Title printed in red and black. pp. xiii, [1], 553, [1]. With 8 color plate illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. Small vignette illustrations also accompany the text. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with a pictorial paste-down of a sailing ship on the front cover. No dust jacket. Binding shows some mild areas of wear to the extremities. Interior is generally clean but with very mild toning; an occasional spot of marginal foxing is present on some pages. A couple of lightly pencilled gift inscriptions are located on the prelims. Massachusetts author Richard Henry Dana's influential work "Two years before the mast" is an account of his own experiences serving on a sailing ship. The work was first published in 1840.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First American edition. . Hardcover. See Description. (U.S. edition Aug. 1995). pp. [8], 488. Bound in quarter dark gray cloth with gray boards. Binding and dust jacket are clean and tight. "In a remote ski resort town high in the Canadian Rockies, something is going terribly wrong. A young police officer is found murdered and strangely mutilated. A truck driver is found frozen solid in his truck, doors and windows closed, with snowdrifts inside the cab. A hotshot skier is found dead and bloody in deep snow, with no human footprints anywhere near the body. Fear begins to spread that a bizarre and ingenious serial killer is on the loose." [From the dust jacket]. First published in London, 1994.