Edinburgh: 1744. Hardcover. Frontispiece, 40p; 88pContemporary calf over marbled paper covered boards. BOUND WITH; The Genuine Journal which is incomplete lacking the 1st signature, title page and later signatures after p88. The pamphlet provides a brief history of the Jacobite uprisings in Scotland of 1744, in which Alexander Mc'Donald of.....
London: George Pawlet, 1688. [4], 95p, [18]. 19th century quarter tan calf over marbled boards. Some rubbing to the board extremities. Lacking the leather along two corner tips. Institutional bookplate on the inside front board. Foxing to the title page and the first two leaves and some fraying to the.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1888. vi, 215p. 19th century quarter morocco over green cloth board with marbled end papers. Edited by Richard Bolt Hutton. Second edition. Walter Bagehot (1826 ? 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race. The editor.....
Cambridge: John Hayes, 1688. Engraved frontispiece, (xviii), 911p. Contemporary calf with a gilt spine and gilt ruled boards. Professionally rebacked preserving the original spine. Includes three of the five full page engravings. Joshua Barnes (1654-1712) became Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1695. See Sandys p57. Lowndes p116 "An elaborate.....
Manchester: E. Radford, 1800. No Binding. 30p. disbound. The second edition with additions. The work address discoveries regarding the abuses relating to the provisions for the poor in Manchester. Paper browned throughout. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. viii, 382p: 501p, [2]. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Volume 1 professionally rebacked preserving the original spine. Modern bookplate on the inside front board. Two small chips on the spine on volume 2, otherwise internally a clean set.
Birmingham: M. Swinney, 1790. Hardcover. xxxvi, 683p, [1] Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with an armorial stamp at the foot. Berington's History surveys the rise oft he House of Plantagenet in England, beginning with the accession of Henry II in 1154 and continuing through the reigns of his sons.....
London: G. Smeeton, St. Martin's Lane and J. Caulfield Wells street, Oxford, 1814. Hardcover. 127p. Contemporary green morocco with a richly gilt spine and boards. Gilt fore-edge. Nicely illustrated with twenty engraved plates. Some light foxing in areas throughout. Light rubbing to the front hinge and headband. Corners a little.....
London: Harding and Lepard, 1827. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xxix, [1], 542p. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Some light rubbing to the boards and extremities otherwise a fresh clean copy of a nicely illustrated edition. Armorial bookplate on the inside front board and a modern bookplate on the front blank. 8vo.....
London: D. Midwinter, 1741. [14], 443p, 280p, 67p. Contemporary calf with gilt ruled boards. Bound together with A General List, or Catalogue, of all the Offices and Officers Employ'd. 34 edition. Lacking the plate called for. Hinges cracked and weak. Some rubbing of the extremities and headband worn. Otherwise internally.....
Edinburgh: John Bell, 1783. [x], 410p: [1], 412-758p, [30]. Contemporary calf. Raised bands and burgundy spine label. First edition. John Erskine (1695-1768) was a Scottish jurist and professor of Scottish law at the University of Edinburgh. He wrote the Principles of the Law of Scotland and An Institute of the.....
London: R. D. for John Williams, 1652. Hardcover. [8], 189p, 200-394p, 435-510p. 20th century quarter calf over marbled boards. Third edition. First printed in 1642. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) was an English clergyman and historian. Lowndes p847. Complete despite pagination errors in the text. Includes the added engraved title page from.....
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1796. Frontispiece, xlv, 703p: 726p, [2]: Frontispiece, x, 691p. Volume I & II contemporary calf, with gilt ruled spines and old rebacking preserving the original spines. Volume III in contemporary calf with gilt ruled spines and marbled end papers. Both boards detached. Contents: Giibbon's.....
London: Henry Cripps of Oxford, 1658. [8], 277p, [23]. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt ruled spine. First printed in 1614, though this later edition seems to follow the 1622 edition. Thomas Godwyn (1587-1642) was an English headmaster and a scholar. "He was a person of grave and.....
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1840. [6], 488p, xxix. 20th century polished quarter calf over speckled boards. Untrimmed edges. Light scattered marginal foxing. Bound by Swedish bookbinder Walter Kimstrom with his stamp in gold on the inside rear cover. A nicely illustrated attractive copy.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Frontispiece, vi, 310p. Publishers green cloth. Very light rubbing to the headband otherwise a fresh clean copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: A. Millar, 1737. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xlvi, 632p. Contemporary polished calf with gilt ruled boards. Professionally rebacked. Complete with the frontispiece, the portrait and one additional plate. James Harrington (1611-1677) was an English political theorist of classical republicanism. Lowndes II p1001 'The first edition of this celebrated writer's Oceana appeared.....
Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xi, 623p, 4p. Contemporary brown cloth.The second revised edition. Small smudge mark on the spine otherwise internally clean. Old signature on the front blank,
London: M.[ichael] S.[parke], 1651. [ii], 72p. Disbound. page 72 ends with the catch word "THE", but our copy conforms with the British Museum and the Kress copy. Apparently all published. Wing A148. Kress 818. Some light marginal browning otherwise internally clean. Uncommon.
J. J. Cox & Sons, 1836. Hardcover. 113p. Contemporary cloth over boards with title label on the front board. A few small chips at head and foot otherwise internally clean. First edition. reprinted again in 1847. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: Ralf. Newbery, and H. Binneman, by Assig. of Ricard Tottell, and Chr. Barker, 1582. [20], 509, [10]. 20th century full dark brown mottled calf. Incomplete. Lacks M4-5 (pp 167-170) and O4-5 (pp 199-202). Pollard & Redgrave 15164a.5 with Newbery 1583 printed on leaf A8 before the first text leaf.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. Hardcover. xix, 328p. Contemporary blue cloth with a gilt decorated spine. With 135 illustrations by the author. A fresh clean copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: T. Longman, 1793. 2 volumes [32], folding chart, 510p; [12], 459p, [26]. Contemporary polished calf with richly gilt spines. The 19th edition "retracted from the author's works". While Lowndes lists some of the reprints, this one is not included. A fresh clean copy in a very well preserved condition.....
Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1912. 1, [iv], 26p, 1. Original wrappers with a stapled spine. A facsimile edition. Small marginal stain at the lower corner of the margins not affecting the text. Some rubbing to the back strip. A good reading copy.
London: House of Commons, 1803. Complete with 14 loose gatherings with 15 folio sheets each including the title page and half title. Also includes the 56 engravings loose. The untrimmed sheets are approximately 450mm tall by 250mm wide. The plates vary in size with some 475mm tall. Content includes among.....