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A Dictionary of the English Language compiled from Dr Johnson With the Addition of Words since Familiarized to us. Also a Dictionary of Heathen Mythology to which is added a complete list of all the Cities, Boroughs, Towns and Remarkable Villages in England and Wales. And a Comprehensive view of English Grammar.
London: Peacocks and Bampton, 1811. An attractive pocket edition of Johnson's Dictionary. Recent leather spine with label. Original boards with gilt edging. Frontis of the statue of Dr Johnson in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Mostly unpaginated.
Condition: Spine and boards are in excellent condition. Internally, the book is in very good condition, but with some foxing, particularly to the initial pages. 3 contemporary signatures to the end paper, and an inked 'D' to the title page.
Book ID: 2217More details Price: £150.00 -
Amadis de Gaule Le premier - tiers livre de Amadis de Gaule. Transl. from Spanish by "le Seigneur des Essarts", Nicolas de Herberay
Book ID: 3227More details Price: £2,050.00 -
Cassandra: The Fam'd Romance. The Whole Work in Five Parts Written originally in French, and Now Elegantly rendred into English by Sir Charles Cotterell, Master of Ceremonies to His Late Majesty of Blessed Memory, and to our present Soveraign Charles II....
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1958More details Price: £380.00 -
Contes et nouvelles en vers. Two Volumes
Book ID: 2736More details Price: £550.00 -
De Historie van Docter Johannes Faustus. Die een uitnemenden grooten Tovenaar in zwarte Konsten was. Van zyn Duivelsche verschryvingen, van zyn Onchristelyk Leven, wonderlyke Avonturen, van zyn schrikkelyk en gruwelyk Einde, en Afscheid. Meestendeel uit zyn eigene Schriften byeen vergaderd. Alle Hovaardigen, Opgeblazene, Stouten en Goddelozen Menschen, als een Schrikkelyk Voorbeeld en Waarschuwing.
1750. Rare printing of Doctor Faust's chapbook in Dutch. Woodcut on title, 58 (repeated) woodcut illustrations. A total of 60 vignettes. Complete. More recent paper covers. These are somewhat rubbed with significant rubbing and loss to the spine. Written number to the front cover. The date c.1750 is printed on the remnant of a catalogue label stuck to the front cover. The impressions of the engravings are somewhat are somewhat blurred. P. 41, repeated on p. 76, the illustrations are not woodcuts but metalcuts. The shape of the heads of the nails with which the plates were mounted on wood are printed on many of them. A nice example. 86 (2) pp. 205 x 165 mm (8 x 6½ inches). Bibliography: Engel 280, Kippenberg 2089
Book ID: 3318More details Price: £480.00 -
De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Cum Supplementis Freinshemii. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Michael le Tellier e Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum Serenissimi Delphini
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1375More details Price: £220.00 -
DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATIONE. LIB. XX. NOTIS ET EMENDATIONIBUS ILLUSTRAVIT ANDREAS DEACERIUS IN USUM SERENISSIMI DELPHINI Accedunt in hac Nova Editione Notae integrae Josephi Scaglieri, Fulvii Ursini, & Antonii Augustini, cum Fragmentis & Schedis, atque Indice novo.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1374More details Price: £150.00 -
Index verborum ac phrasium Luciani sive Lexicon lucianeum ad editiones omnes maxime novissimam Westenianam concinnatum a Car. Conr. Reitzio
Book ID: 2799More details Price: £150.00 -
L'Hermite de Londres ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Anglais au Commencement du IXIe Siecle, Fasiant Suite a la Collection des Moeurs Francaises De M. De Jouy, membre de L'Acadamie Francais
Book ID: 1537More details Price: £40.00 -
Les Comedies de Shakespeare Les comédies traduites par Suzanne Bing et Jacques Copeau, illustré de nombreux dessins dans et hors texte par Charles Berthold Mahn
Book ID: 2955More details Price: £150.00 -
Lucian and the Tragic Performances in his Time.
Edition: First Edition
Athens: A. Sideris and Co: 1961. Soft cream covers. Stapled. Handwritten note to the top of the cover "For review in the Classical Review". Printed from ΠΛATΩN Vol XII. 1960 Fasc. A. author [ MINΩΣ KOKOΛAKHΣ ] was a Greek author and academic who specialised in the work of Lucian. 45pp.
Condition: A very nice clean copy. Soft cream wrappers. The staples are a little rusted. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Book ID: 1283More details Price: £10.00 -
M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum libros XV: interpretatione et notis illustravit Vincentius Collesso J.C. jussu christianissimi regis, ad usum serenissimi Delphini
.Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1372More details Price: £220.00 -
Madame De Maintenon, Peinte Par Elle-Même
Book ID: 2959More details Price: £60.00 -
Métamorphoses d'Ovide, traduites en françois, avec des remarques et des explications historiques par M. l'abbé Banier, de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de la Vie d'Ovide
Paris: chez Hochereau: 1768. A lovely three volume set of this work. First edition thus. Complete in three volumes. Gilt decoration to spines and edges of boards. Marbled end papers. Attractive title cartouche. There is a little rubbing to the edges of the boards and slight bumping but an attractive set. Internally clean and tidy throughout. (2), LXXXIV, (24), 287. (2), 422. (2), 363, (8). pp Un bel ensemble en trois volumes de cet ouvrage. Première édition donc. Complet en trois volumes. Décor doré aux dos et tranches des plats. Feuilles de garde marbrées. Cartouche de titre attrayant. Il y a un peu de frottement sur les bords des planches et de légers chocs mais un ensemble attrayant. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé. (2), LXXXIV, (24), 287. (2), 422. (2), 363, (8). pp
Book ID: 1798More details Price: £290.00 -
Montaigne's Essays.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Two volumes. These copy # 160 of an edition limited to 900 copies. In the original morocco bindings with Que Scay-Je? (What do I know?) gilt stamped to green leather on both of the front boards. Green endpapers. Gilt top page edges. Other edges rough-cut. Boards a little darkened / stained. Inside tight and virtually spotless. Volume I: xxxviii, 724 pp. Volume II: vi, 708 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm.
Originally in French, this work cover diverse subjects; from 'Drunkennesse' to 'Smels and odors', 'Friendship', and 'Cruelty', plus 'education of Children'.
Book ID: 2925More details Price: £200.00 -
Our American Adventure
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover in original gilt-blocked cloth. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Condition: In clear protective laminate (permanent) covering. Corners are a little bumped, and slight fraying to head and tail of spine. Sporadic foxing throughout. Embossed ex-libris to top left of title page.
Book ID: 2492More details Price: £50.00 -
Poems on Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a tragedy.
Edition: First Thus
Condition: Overall a very nice copy of this early edition. The leather binding is clean, but with a touch of nicking to the head and tail of the spine (minor loss) slight cracking to the hinge edges, but holding well. Internally clean, but with mild darkening and foxing throughout. There is a stain to the rear end papers (not affecting any text). The gilt to the spine is a little rubbed, but still attractive.
Book ID: 1665More details Price: £475.00 -
Pseudosophista Sev Soloecista Cum Notis & Animadversionibus Johannis Georgii Graevil
Book ID: 1001More details Price: £130.00 -
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Birminghamiae: Joannis Baskverville / Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1762. A first edition thus of this work of Horace - 1st Baskerville edition. Contemporary full white leather binding with gilt decoration to the edge of the front board and spine. label with titles to the spine. Marbled end papers. Frontis illus. of Virgil with pupils. Vignette of Britannia to the title page. John Baskerville (1706-1775) was a Birmingham printer and type designer - variants of his work are still used on computers today. In 1758 he became a printer for Cambridge University. He died in 1775. pp viii,300, [i - Errata leaf]
Condition: The binding has a little darkening to the boards and spine, but is tight and sound. Internally clean and tidy, with a little darkening / foxing only.
Book ID: 1680More details Price: £300.00 -
Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications
London: J. Debrett, 1798. Two volumes. Sympathetically rebound in half calf, with new leather spines, but retaining carefully restored original marbled boards. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches). Vol I: viii, 526 pp. Vol II: viii, 528 pp. William Tooke (1744–1820) was a British clergyman and an historian of Russia. This work gives a fascinating historical perspective, not only on his favoured Russia, but also on everything from the way ladies dressed in Peru, to the use of spices in 'the torrid zone'.
Condition: Original boards a little rubbed, but recent leather all very good. Some spots of foxing internally.
Book ID: 2490More details Price: £260.00