Published by T.Cadell, G. & W. B. Whittaker, A. Constable, Manners and Miller, W. Blackwood, & J. Fairbairn, London & Edinburgh, 1822
Seller: Wheeler's Bookshop, Midhurst, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Contemporaneous half leather with raied bands. Brown boards that appear to have marbled themselves with age, or possible that was the original patterning. Non-pareil (comb-marbled) endpapers. Pictorial title pages and frontispiece plates (both from engravings). viii. 544 pp. Works herein are The Man of Feeling, Miscellaneous Pieces (The Story of La Roche, The Story of Nancy Collins, The Story of Louisa Venoni, The Story of Albert Bane, The Story of Sophia M-, The Story of Father Nicholas), The Man of the World, & Julia de Roubigne: A Tale in a Series of Letters. Main pages clean and sound. No inscriptions. VG.
Published by T Cadell; Scatcherd and Whitaker; G and T Wilkie; W Miller; and J Murray, London, 1793
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Full-Leather. Condition: Fair. New Edition. A fair copy in contemporary full leather binding with title label to spine. New edition, published less than 20 years after the author's death. Oliver Goldsmith's writings are not particularly in fashion now, but he was extremely popular in his time - known for his poems - for example The Deserted Village; his books eg The Vicar of Wakefield and his plays eg She Stoops to Conquer. This book incorporates a sample of his poetry - some with dedications, and writings about Goldsmith. The binding is very worn, with leather loss to the top and bottom of the spine and wear to spine joints, edges and corners. The remnants of gilt compartments are just visible on the spine and there is some gilt decoration to board edges. There is an armorial bookplate to the front pastedown with the name erased. Contents are complete bar the fep and initial blank and include: half title, title with ink initials to top corner, contents listing; writings on Goldsmith pp xlii; half title to poems and poetry with longer poems given half title and dedication pp 5-151. Titles include The Deserted Village and The Traveller. Text with occasional browning and marking, particularly towards the end of the volume.
Published by F C and J Rivington; W Otridge and Son; A Strahan; T Payne; G Robinson; W Lowndes; Wilkie and Robinson; Scatcherd and Letterman; J Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R Lea; J Nunn; Lackington and Co.; Clarke and Son; C Law; Loongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; E Jeffery; J K Newman, Crosby and Co; J Carpenter; S Bagster; T Booth; J Murray; J and J Richardson; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J Harding; R Phillips; J Mawman; J Booker; J Asperne; R Baldwin; Mathews and Leigh; J Faulder; Johnson and Co.; Sherwood and Co.; J Miller; W Creech, Edinburgh; and Wilson and Son, York, 1810
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by For T. Cadell; Scatcherd and Whitaker; G. and T. Wilkie; W. Miller; and J. Murray, London, 1793
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
leather. Condition: Very Good. xlii, 151 pages. Contemporary tree calf. Relatively recent bookplate of Franz Pollack Parnau to front pastedown. Binding sound; no inscriptions. At some time spine and corners deftly repaired. 6 x 4 inches.
Published by F C and J Rivington; W Otridge and Son; A Strahan; T Payne; G Robinson; W Lowndes; Wilkie and Robinson; Scatcherd and Letterman; J Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R Lea; J Nunn; Lackington and Co.; Clarke and Son; C Law; Loongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; E Jeffery; J K Newman, Crosby and Co; J Carpenter; S Bagster; T Booth; J Murray; J and J Richardson; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J Harding; R Phillips; J Mawman; J Booker; J Asperne; R Baldwin; Mathews and Leigh; J Faulder; Johnson and Co.; Sherwood and Co.; J Miller; W Creech, Edinburgh; and Wilson and Son, York, 1810
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by F C and J Rivington; W Otridge and Son; A Strahan; T Payne; G Robinson; W Lowndes; Wilkie and Robinson; Scatcherd and Letterman; J Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R Lea; J Nunn; Lackington and Co.; Clarke and Son; C Law; Loongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; E Jeffery; J K Newman, Crosby and Co; J Carpenter; S Bagster; T Booth; J Murray; J and J Richardson; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J Harding; R Phillips; J Mawman; J Booker; J Asperne; R Baldwin; Mathews and Leigh; J Faulder; Johnson and Co.; Sherwood and Co.; J Miller; W Creech, Edinburgh; and Wilson and Son, York, 1810
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 352 pages(complete). An estimable copy. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spine wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spine are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very, very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming and dignified. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Sumptibus editoris excudebant Gul. Bulmer et Soc. J. White, G. Miller, 1802
Seller: Knights Rare Books (Est. 1994), Glastonbury, SOMER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lavinia Banks Forster (illustrator). 1st Edition. Contemporary or near contemporary patterned paper covered boards, leather spine, original yellow end papers, half-title page, title page, 130 printed pages complete with all 20 of the wonderful engravings by Lavinia Forster. Greek text. Condition: Rubbed to the edges of the boards, small chip to the paper covering the board towards the front spine, the leather is rubbed and is splitting towards the bottom front edge, signs of book-plate removal to the front pastedown, large pencil inscription concerning the publication of the book to the rear of the front free end paper, scattered foxing.
Published by Edinburgh and Glasgow : printed for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, W. Sands, J. Traill, W. Miller, and J. Brown, Edinburgh; A. Stalker, Glasgow; and T. Glas, Dundee,, 1748
Seller: Humber Books Ltd, Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo in ten volumes [6.50 tall x 4.25 wide]. ESTC ref; 006028030. Collates [xxviii], 372p; [iv], 408p; [iv] 416p; [viii], 427p; [vi], 447p; [vi], 458p; [iv] 412p; [iv] 439p; [iv] 418p; [iv], 312, [106]p. A very good, crisp and clean set of copies. Minimal very light reading wear, light marks or blemishes else a very nice set of books presented in attractive contemporary bindings. Uniformly bound in contemporary leather bindings with gilt border to the front and rear boards. Ornate gilt décor to the spines with matching red leather labels, lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing or light wear else a very handsome set of period bindings. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. PLEASE CONTACT ME TO REQUEST.
Published by London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by G. Straban in Cornhill; T. Woodward in Fleet-Street; A. Miller over-against St Clement's-Church in the Strand; J. Stagg in Westminster-Hall; and J. Brindley in New-Bond-Street., 1733
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First illustrated edition bound with the supplement of 1740 although the pagination is continuous. Small folio, later morocco spine with five raised bands, gilt title and lines over marbled boards; pp. x, 274, [4]. 7 leaves of engraved plates illustrating various pieces of agricultural equipment. Pages 250 and 252 are misnumbered 650 and 652. Pages i-viii is the Preface, ix is the Contents list and x is an errata leaf. Index to plates to rear. The supplement has a separate title page. Previous owners bookplates to front pastedown - Nidd Hall and Ex Libris Mountgarret. Covers worn, edges and corners rubbed but pages clean and binding tight. A good sound copy of the influential text which helped to revolutionise agricultural methods in Britain in the eighteenth-century.
Published by G. Strahan, T. Woodward, A. Miller, J. Stagg and J. Brindley, 1733
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein is shewn A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, In order to Increase their Product, and diminish the common Expense; By the Use of Instruments described in Cuts. By I. T., London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by G. Strahan, T. Woodward, A. Miller, J. Stagg, and J. Brindley, 1733, First enlarged/illustrated edition, All plates present (a complete work), 269 p, 12 x 7.5", 4to. In fair condition. Leather boards scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Tail of spine lacking - binding exposed. Head of spine moderately chipped & worn. Title label lacking on spine. Gilt deco on spine soiled and dulled. All edges of text-block speckled red. Front and rear gutters beginning to split at tail. Water dampness stain to bottom edge of text-block, which has seeped onto every page (text still legible). Title exhibit exhibits a tear and a chip at bottom edge. Toning throughout text-block, with some instances of finger-soiling or foxing. Fold-out plates clean & intact. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Jethro Tull (1674-1741) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull made early advances in planting crops with this invention of the seed drill - a mechanical seeder that sowed efficiently at the correct depth and spacing and then covered the seed so that it could grow. Before the introduction of the seed drill, the common practice was to plant seeds by broadcasting (evenly throwing) then across the ground by hand on the prepared soil then lightly harrowing the soil to bury the seeds to the correct depth. Tull also invented a drill-plough to sow wheat and turnip seeds in drills, three rows at a time. There were two boxes for the seed, and these, with the coulters, were placed one set behind the other, so that two sorts seeded might be sown at the same time. In this work, Tull describes how the motivation for developing the seed-drill across from conflict with his laborers. He had struggled to enforce his new methods on them, in part because they resisted the threat to their position as workers and their skill with the plough. Tull, assumedly was the first to promote the advantages of hoeing and cultivated soils. He explained to the farmers that even in the driest weather, good hoeing may help to procure moisture to the roots of plants. This work ALSO includes a supplementary essay (published 1736) found in rear of text. Extremely valuable and scarce work by Jethro Tull on tilling a farm & growing vegetation. Gift quality.
Published by London Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
Folio, 273 x 164 mms., pp. [xviii], 423 [424 -432 index], [45 Epigrams, 46 blank], engraved title-page with vignette portraits of Ariosto and Harington, a partially clothed female figure to the left of the title (with a rather rude putto), centurion on right, 46 full-page engraved plates, tail-pieces, printed in double columns, with continuous text and registration going from the end of the twelfth book to the beginning of the fourteen (superstition rules), with very fine, well-inked impressions of the plates, bound in 18th calf, gilt border on covers, joints very skilfully restored and richly gilt spine with black morocco label laid down. With the autograph and date "John Barnard/ 1740" on the lower margin of the title-page; Barnard ( c. 1685 - 1764), born into a Quaker family, was a politician, and, according to ODNB "a devoutly evangelical churchman, of a latitudinarian bent, who preferred clergymen to be 'Tories in the Church and Whigs in the state." He was exceptionally well-read, and I regret the absence of any annotations attributable to him. Peter France, in The Oxford Guide to English Literature in Translation (2000), comments that "Harington adopts the metre of the original, ottava rima. His translation, however, is anything but literal, feeling itself at liberty to abbreviate 'matters impertinent to us' [.], as well as freely reworking the phrasing of the original [.]. The result is a work quite distinct from the original, more robust and more directive of its readers, broader in its humour, less refined and allusive in its language, less airy and speculative in its treatment of the 'marvellous.' Harington's Orlando has been frequently derided (Ben Jonson flatly designated it 'under all translations the worst'). In recent criticism, however, it has tended to find a more sympathetic reception. [.] [C]ertain of Harington's deviations from Ariosto now tend to be seen as determined by cultural differences rather than insensitivity, and he is given credit for the fluency and élan which make his version one of the most enduringly enjoyable translations of the Furioso, as well as one of its most historically interesting readings. At its best, moreover, Harington's translation is not merely dashing but precise, shadowing the inflections of the original with an attentiveness and intelligence few later translators have matched." Stanzas 1 - 50 of Book XXXII were translated by Sir John's younger brother, Francis. The plates were first used in the 1591 edition and derive from Girolamo Porro's illustrations of the 1584 Venetian edition. Thomas Jefferson had a copy in his library. Lowndes p.64; Mary A. Scott, Elizabethan Translations from the Italian (1969); Sowerby, Library of Thomas Jefferson 4312.
Published by Sold by J. Johnson, W. Richardson; Edinburgh: P. Hill, Manners and Miller; Hamburg: B. G. Hoffmann, 1797., London:, 1797
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland
First Edition
8vo. lxxx, 454, [ads 2] pp. Original quarter paper-backed blue drab boards; spine chipped, corners showing. Ex library bookplate. Very good. SCARCE. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of James Sigismund Beck's three-volume Erlauternder Auszug aus den critischen Schriften des Herrn Prof. Kant (Riga: Hartknock, 1793-1796), an important early introduction to Kant's thought. Beck's work stands far above the plane of the similar efforts of Kiesewetter, Snell, and others. Beck was extraordinary professor at the University of Halle. RARE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS.
Published by London: Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634., 1634
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. THIRD EDITION AND THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. 1 vol., folio, 10-1/2" x 7-3/4", (ix)423pp.(xxvii), engraved title-page with vignette portraits of Ariosto and Harington, and 46 full-page engraved illustrations, complete, a few leaves at beginning (including 2 plates not affecting the image) with fore-edge repair, slight loss to side-notes of 3 leaves, a couple of short tears, minor worming to several pages, Ownership inscription on front blank endpaper "Elizabeth Tyringham, Her Booke (Aprill ye 5, 1668).", bound in contemporary full calf over cords, head and foot of spine renewed at some early date, worming to rear cover, hinges fine, internally generally clean and bright, no water staining, overall a VERY GOOD copy, [STC 748], The plates were first used in the 1591 edition and derive from Girolamo Porro's illustrations of the 1584 Venetian edition.