Bohns Library, First Edition (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarterly Journal of the Private Libraries Association. Fifth series Vol:7 (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter 2004). Red card covers with black lettering on face and spine. This set of four issues contains a long articles about Rare Architectural Books by Paul W. Nash and a short essay by David Chambers about the final volumes published at The Golden Cockerel Press. Gilt Cockerel on front cover of Volume 7:4. All in fine condition. Appear unread.

[first edition] 560pp+ads. VG (green embossed cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.browned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,prelims.and edges sl.foxed,contents sl.soiled,spine cracked and sl.cocked).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. Red Cloth, Blind-Stamped, Frontis (With Interleaf), Xvi + 508 Pages, Illustrated. The Book Is Complete Soundly Bound In Its Contemporary Covers Which Are Rather Worn With Small Loss At Top Of Spine. Previous Owner's Name On Endpaper Otherwise Iinternally Unmarked. Not Ex Library. Overall "Fair".

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Blue blind embossed bds with bright Gilt title (spine age darkened adn cnrs canted, cloth not worn) pp 522. Pages are uncut and unopened for two thirds of book, damage caused by partial name erasure to half title, text block bright with some tobacco toning mainly to pages near ends. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First English edition hard back binding in publisher's original characteristic (Bogue | Bohn) embossed dark green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Michel Angelo by R. Duppa and Raffaello by Quatreme de Quincy. Contains engraved frontispiece (vi), 474 pp. Light rubbing to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Italian].

1st edition hardbacks in original cloth Very Good small octavo xxxii + 463 ,487, 574, 674pp., index, Good set in slightly worn blind-stamped boards. Tender hinges in each volume o/w internally very good indeed & a very good reading set.

Small 8vo, pp. [7, advertisements], viii, 351, [1 blank], 32 (advertisements), [7, advertisements]; pastedowns, endpapers and flyleaves printed in blue with ads; publisher's ads unopened; a very good copy in original red embossed cloth, corners and edges bumped, with one small tear; spine gilt and embossed, head and foot of spine chipped; bookplate to front pastedown.First edition. Lewes brings Comte's philosophy to a new audience in England, where Comte's reputation is on the rise, and updates the scientific context to include all the 'very latest facts and ideas'. Lewes had no formal scientific training but from around 1853 onwards he took an active interest in the natural sciences, psychology and, eventually, Darwin's theory of evolution (the word appears frequently here in Lewes's treatment of Comte). Positivism no doubt appealed to Lewes as a prospective amateur of science. He describes it is the abstraction of real, i.e. physical knowledge, into metaphysical 'phenomena'. The mysteries of hard science could now be approached through moral philosophy, and vice versa: '[Science] gives Philosophy materials and a Method; that is all'. The mingling of science with morality, philosophy and even literature was a significant feature of the period; around this time Lewes had a falling out with Dickens because he criticized the bad science of the author's Bleak House, in which Mr Krook famously, spontaneously combusts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two editions of Ulrici's classic work. In excellent condition, with minor scuffing. Email for more detailed report.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A uniform set of twenty volumes from Henry Bohn's celebrated 'Library' series. From the 'Bohn's Library' series inaugurated by Henry George Bohn in 1846. These targeted mass markets and comprise editions of standard works and translations concerned with history, science, classics, theology, and archaeology. First editions in the series.The complete series consists of 766 volumes.A popular and successful work due to the volumes selling at low prices and their lack of literary pretensions.The series was published by Bohn's Libraries until 1865, when it was sold to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwardsG. Bell & Sons.The present comprised with the following:From Bohn's Classica Library:1851 'The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieutico of Ovid' translated and edited by Henry T Riley. No half title. Publisher's advertisements to endpapers.1851 'Lucretius on the Nature of Things' translated by John Selby Watson. No half title, advertising leaves to front and rear.1853 'The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus' translated and edited by J Banks and J M Chapman. No half title. With advertising leaves to front and rear. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece.1865 'The Iliad of Homer,' translated by Alexander Pope, edited by J S Watson. The first edition in the series. Illustrated with the entire series of Flaxman's Designs. Collated with all thirty-nine plates. Bound without half title. Numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear.1876 'The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis' translated and edited by J Banks. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear.1876 'The Treatises of MT Cicero' translated and edited by C D Yonge. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear.1876 'The Politics and Economics of Aristotle,' translated and edited by Edward Walford. Complete with half title and numerous leaves of publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear.1880 'The Anabasis, or Expedition of Cyrus and the Memorabilia of Socrates' translated from the Greek of Xenophon by JS Warson. No half title. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear.1889 'The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius' translated into English prose from the text of R Merkel, by Edward P Coleridge. Complete with half title. Photograph pasted to rear pastedown.From Bohn's Antiquarian Library:1848 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances' by George Ellis. A new edition revised by J O Halliwell. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With half title as well as publisher's catalogue and advertisements to front and rear.1849-54 'Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain' by John Brand. A new edition. Vols I and II of three only. With frontispieces. No half titles. Advertisements to front and rear vol II.1850 'The Fairy Mythology' by Thomas Keightley. A new edition, revised and enlarged. No half title. With publisher's catalogue and advertising leaves to front and rear. With engraved frontispiece.1853 'The Annals of Roger de Hoveden,' translated by Henry T Riley. In two volumes. No half title. With advertising leaves to front and rear.1853 'The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon' translated and edited by Thomas Forester. Complete with half title, publisher's advertisements to front and rear, and engraved frontispiece.1854 'Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland,' translted by Henry T Riley. Complete with half title as well as publisher's catalogue and advertising leaves to front and rear.From Bohn's Illustrated History:1854 'The Natural History of Selborne' by Gilbert White, edited by Sir William Jardine and Edward Jesse. No half title. With publisher's advertisements to front and rear. Collated with all forty engravings.Bohn's Extra Volume:1846 'Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second' by Count Grammont. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Collated, bound without any further illustrations. Publisher's catalogue to rear.From Bogue's European Library:1865 'Life of Lorenzo de Medici' by William Roscoe. With half title. Engraved frontispiece. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally a trifle rubbed with bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Boards and back strip lightly marked. Chipping and light loss to back strip of 'Ingulph's 'Chronicle,' and 'White's Selborne.' Previous owner's ink inscription to recto front blank leaf 'The Argonautica' undated. Pencil owner's gift inscription to 'Lucretius' title page, undated. Front free endpaper 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances excised by previous owner. With small sticker to front pastedown 'Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances'. With previous ownership bookplates and stamps to endpapers 'Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain'. Ink inscription from previous owner to title page 'Annals of Roger de Hoveden' dated 1943 both vols I and II. Previous ownership stamp to title page 'The Natural History of Selborne'. Internally, binding generally firm to most volumes. Binding tender to 'The Anabasis,' with strained hinges, text block head to front by two cords only, rear board detached. Binding tender 'Bohn's extra volume' with title page and further leaves loose but present. Light spotting scattered to leaves, affecting leaves of plates in particular. Good. book.