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

Roma Per Luigi Perego Salvioni Stampator Vaticano nellaSapienza, 1783. 3 volumes. 12mo, 160 x 850 mms., pp. xxiv, 92, lxxii; 88, lxxii; 92, lxxii, title-pages in red and black, engraved vignette on title-page and engraved frontispiece in each volume, handsomely bound in contemporary red morocco, with ornately gilt borders to a an urn and floral motive on each, with locket and chain design on upper margin of covers, with the initials "R. S. P." in gilt within the locket, spines ornately and richly gilt to a floral motive, all edges gilt, a a very good to fine set, with the bookplate or Robert J. Hayhurst on the front paste-down end-paper of volume 1. The explanations and declarations are by the Abbot Alessandro Mazzinelli. OCLC locates copies in BL; Morgan Library, Wesleyan, St. Catherine University, Dayton, NYPL, Boston, Redwood Library and Athanaeum, Boston Public, Washington University; Lille,

In Roma Per Gioacchino Salvioni Stampatore Vaticano, Nell' Archiginnasio della Sapienza, 1768. 12mo, 158 x 86 mms., pp. xviii, 775 [776 blank], title-page in red and black with engraved vignette of Christ, text also printed partially in red and black, 14 full-page engraved plates by Alessio Giardoni (fl. 1760 - 1795), at pages 1, 37, 49, 73, 87, 93, 113, 129, 161, 309, 333, 409, 455 and 619, stylishly bound in full contemporary red morocco, gilt border to a floral design on both covers, with a central gilt panel enclosing a cross in black, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; slightly shaken in casing, very minor wear to binding, but a fine copy with the armorial bookplate of Prince Constantin Radziwill at the Chateau d' Ermenonville on the front paste-down end-paper, and the Ex Libris label of Albert Natural on the front paste-down end-paper. Prince Constantin Radziwill (1850 - 1920) married Louise Antoinette Blanc in 1876, despite his well-established and almost promiscuous homosexuality;… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall..., 1874. FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION. 8vo, 170 x 108 mms., pp. [iv], 329 [330 blank], contemporary half hard-grain red morocco, marbled boards, spine ornately gilt, marbled edges and end-papers. Inscribed "W. G. Marshall/ Melton 1880" on recto of front free end-paper A very good copy. The entry in ODNB follows the style above, while library holdings list him as Whyte-Melville (George John). The novel was first published in three volumes, followed in a common practice for 19th century publishers, by a separate one-volume edition. In The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (2nd ed., 2009), John Sutherland writes, "A breezily attractive novel in Whyte­Melville's sub-Trollopian style. The narrative opens with a January country-house party at Plumpton Priors. The host, (Uncle) John Dennison, is a hunting man. Among his guests are a cricketing parson, Algernon Lexley, Uncle John's niece, Annie, a young Etonian, Perigord, a bored man of the world,… Read More

New York, lithographed and printed by Charles Magnus, No. 12 Frankfor Street, New York. Branch Office No. 520 7th St. Washington, D. C. [no date]. [c. 1864]. Verse broadside, 210 x 125 mms., colour lithograph, with image of men in uniform around table and punchbowl, raising cups in celebration, printed on one side only; words only, no music; two marginal tears repaired with archival tape, but a very good copy. The verse begins "The Union of States forever will stand,/ The watchword of Freedom and Fame...." The war between the northern states and the seceding southern states in the United States, 1860 - 1864, is known by various designations, at least in the states of the Deep or Old South, e. g., "The War between the States," "The War of Northern Aggression," and "The Recent Unpleasantness."

Edinburgh: Printed [by D. Chalmers..., Aberdeen] for Adam Hoggs..., John Robertson, Macredie & Co..., and George Cowied & Co. Poultry, London. 1815. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 179 x 103 mms., pp. viii, 244, recently recased in boards, paper label on spine. From the Preface: "There will be found many old Scotch Songs, which have ben rescued from total oblivion; especially many of those composed about the years 1715 and 1745, which are not to be found in any collection whatsoever." The only copies listed in OCLC were two in the National Library of Scotland.

Derby: Printed by and for Henry Mozley..., 1820. Large 12mo, pp. 156, including woodcut frontispiece, 6 woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary sheepskin (worn); some fingering of text, but in reasonable condition for a book that was clearly used, to judge from contemporary as well as 20th century inscriptions on the front paste-down end-paper and title-page, viz., on the front paste-down end-paper: "C. H. F. Rivington's Book/ Jany 13th 1820." The industrious Daniel Fenning ( (1714/15–1767) began writing school textbooks in his 30s and continued to do so for the rest of his life. He began working on this book, his most popular and successful, as early as 1739, but it was not published until 1756, but well over a hundred editions were later published.

London: Printed by R. Noble, for J. Scatcherd..., 1797. 8vo, 203 x 122 mms., pp. [xxviii], 451 [452 adverts], including half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the two authors, 13 other engraved plates (12 before text and another at page 320), complete as called for, contemporary sheepskin, with modern reback, gilt spine, black morocco label; some foxing of plates, but a good copy with the inscription on the half-title, "Fanny Dyer? Sept. 15th/ 1832" and another that looks like "H. A. Messiter" on the top margin of the title-page F. Collingwood and J. Woollams had the unique distinction of having their first edition of 'The Universal Cook' of 1792, being translated into French and sold in France. Published in Paris in 1810 it was re-named ' Le Cuisinier Anglais Universal ou le Nec Plus Ultra de la Gourmandise'. This was the time of the war with Napoleon, but the reputation of London food and its Cooks stood high with foreigners. The first smart restaurant… Read More

London: Printed for T. Worrall..., [no date] [1734]. 8vo, 187 x 117 mms., pp. 8, 40 [41 - 48 adverts], engraved frontispiece (detaching at upper margin); disbound; corners creased. Baker (1698 - 1774) will be remembered by collectors and scholars as the author of two books on the microscope, The Microscope Made Easy (1742) and Employment for the Microscope (1753). Later editions of this work put the word "Philosophical" before "Poem." The work was reprinted several times in the 18th century and in 1808, with notes by A. Crocker, with the reviewer in The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1809 commenting that "The versification of Mr. Baker is of the good old school, that of Dryden and Prior. Though somewhat negligent, it has in parts a force and freedom which followers of Pope have vainly endeavoured to unite with their more regular harmony." ODNB in its article on Baker refers an edition of 1727 as the first publication of the poem. ESTC does not list… Read More

London, Printed by W. G. For John Sims..., 1671. 8vo, pp. [xlvi], 432, 431 - 510 (pp. 430 - 431 repeated in pagination), engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Monmouth, 18th century calf, recently rebacked, red morocco label, gilt arms of Signet library on each cover. Senault's De l'Usage des Passions was first published in 1641 and frequently reprinted in French. This translation was first published in 1649, and this would appear to be the same sheets with the mis-pagination uncorrected, but without the adverts found at the end of the 1641 impression. In 1772, John Almon published a work, The Philosophy of the Passions without mentioning Senault and in a translation not unlike the above. There are a number of corollaries in the work between Senault's theory of the passions and those found in Alexander Pope's poetry, particularly An Essay on Man. Wing S 2505.

London: Printed for J. Noon..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 356, contemporary calf, cover borders ruled in bland, raised bands between gilt rules; lower front joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine very slightly chipped, corners slightly worn, but a very good copy. Foster's "answer" to Tindal's book was one of the best and most famous of the many attacks and replies that Christianity as Old as the Creation attracted; but in many ways Foster's argument is very close to Tindal's and accepts many deistic principles.

Romae: Ex Typographia Palladis Apud Nicolaum et Marcum Palearinos Superiorum Facultate. MDCCXLVIII [1748]. . 4t0, 228 x 178, pp. xx, 288, contemporary vellum, remains of cords at fore-edge, most of front free end-paper removed, front hinge cracked with interior of spine visible; with a late 20th century inscription on front paste-down end-paper: "1 Jan 77/A Rare book/ for rare friends/ Douglas Todd" Born in Clauzetto in Italy, Daniel or Daniello Concina (1687-1756) was an early and influential Dominican preacher, author, and theologian. This work, Usura Contractus Trini, was written on the history of usury and in it Concina vigorously disputed the work by Nicolaus Broedersen of Delft. Broedersen is believed to have been born around 1690, and to have died in either 1762 or 1772. The book Concina took as the target of his criticism was Broedersen's De Usuris Licitis et Illicitis from 1743, whose publication some regarded as outright scandalous. The first edition of… Read More