Northern France: [c.1500]. A leaf from a Book of Hours illuminated in Northern France and dating c. 1500. This miniature shows Joachim and Anne meeting outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, against a background of soft blues and greens, and the whole is within an arch in liquid gold and..... More
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London: Printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul’s Church-Yard, 1687. Second Edition. Large folio (37 x c.25 cm), x, 724 pp. (720 4), double-Plate Frontispiece, at left the Royal Arms, at right engraving with central oval portrait of Charles I mounted and held by cherubs..... More
London: John Murray, 1813. Half leather. Octavo, (8) Comprising 2 blank, half title, 1 blank, title page, 1 blank, Dedication, 1 blank, Contents, lv, (1) Blank, 525pp, (1) Errata, (4) Blank. Rebound in half leather with cloth boards, original bookplates and ownership inscription re-mounted. The blanks and half title are..... More
London: Adam Islip, 1629. Full calf. Sixmo (298 x 200 mm.), [6] 648 [18] pp., engraved title page by T. Cecill, index, full calf, 5 false raised bands with gold rules either side. Good, rebacked (since split externally) with corner repairs, binding chipped, scratched and scraped, paper browned at edges..... More
London: Printed by J. F. Dove, St. John’s Square; for William Baynes , Paternoster-Row; and R. Priestley, Holborn, 1819. Third Edition. Complete in two volumes, both 4mo (21.7 x 13.5cm), Vol 1: pp. (xxii), 555 [1, blank] + fold out biographical chart; Vol 2: pp. 577, [1] ; brown calf..... More
London: 1791. Three quarter calf. Quarto. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, pp 87. The boards are in good condition, a little bumped at the the corners, and the front board is completely detached. The name "Charlotte Georgina Bastard, November 15th, 1877", is inscribed on the front ep paste-down. Minor..... More
London: Harding, Triphook, And Lepard, 1825. ‘New’ Edition. Complete in two volumes; hardcover octavo (19 x 12cm), pp. Vol. 1: [4, blank], frontispiece, [2], ii [contents pages], xvii-cxiv [despite irregular pagination, no text appears to be missing according to the title page], 228, [2, blank]; Vol. 2: [6], xiii, [3]..... More
Londini: Excudit J.F. Dove, 1828. Full calf. Oratores Attici et quos sic vocant Sophistæ Opera Et Studio Gulielmi Stephani Dobson A.M. Regie Societis Literarum Socii. Tomus Primus Antiphon et Andocides. Complete in 15 Volumes. Quarto, 21.5cm x 14cm, all edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Vol 1: lxiv 388 (1) Appendix..... More
London & Paris: Fisher, Son & Co, 1836. Full leather. Numerous engravings by W.H. Bartlett and Thomas Allom, etc. Large Quarto, approx. 27cm x 21 cm. Published in 3 volumes, each with its own Vignette Title page, maps & plates. Rebacked. Full black leather with gilt border to upper and lower..... More
London: Printed by J.M. for John Williams at the Crown in Cross-Keys-Court in Little-Britain, 1676. Fourth Edition. Quarter calf. Foolscap folio, vi 398 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Pearson, frontispiece and title page with doubled-ruled borders in red, not ink smudged, title page vignette of Crown of Charles II. original..... More
London: Printed for John Stockdale, Picadilly; R.Faulder, Bond Street; Longman and Co. Pater-Noster Row; Lackington and Co. Finsbury Square; and J. Harding, St. James’s Square. 1806. Fourth Edition. Complete in two volumes; both hardcover 4mo (21.5 x 13.5cm), pp. Vol. 1: xxvii, [1, blank], 479, [1, blank] including fold-out frontispiece..... More
Amstelædami: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, MDCVIIIC (1692). Full leather. Octavo, 20 x 12cm, extra engraved t.p., t.p. is red and black, [24], 672, [4], 561-588, [108], 46, [2] pages, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, portraits. Signatures: * - **6, A - 2M8, *2N-*2T8, *2V2, 2N-2Z8, 3A3. Later (18th century?)..... More
London: J. walker, etc. 1812. Three quarter calf. Twelvemo, [1] Frontis, xxxv, 489pp. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled eps, frontispiece and tp vignette engraved by C. Heath after designs by T. Unwin. Sports a 2cm tear at the head of the spine, joints and boards rubbed, corners rounded..... More
Various: Various, 1471 - 1681. Custom. Twenty leaves in very good to fine condition as described below. Each leaf mounted with a grey card border and inserted in a portfolio. Some striking woodcuts and hand supplied capitals. The individual leaves are from the following books: 1. de Lyra, Nicholas. Postilla Super..... More
London: Printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-row, 1712. Reissue of 1709 Edition. Octavo (198 x 125mm). [12], 1-174, 179-235, 238-482pp (text is continuous even though pagination is not), six plates including frontispiece (lacking one plate). Bound in brown calf, banded with contrasting..... More
London: Printed for S. Richardson, 1754. Full calf. Octavo (207 x 130 mm.), 6 v., [2] vii, 417; [2] 416; [2] 386; [2] 401; [2] 394; [2] 433pp., Volumes 1 & 6 Second Edition; Volumes 2-5 First Edition, 2 portraits of Richardson tipped onto feps (one engraved and with a...... More
London: Rodwell and Martin, New Bond Street, 1824. New Edition (large paper issue of the 1817 first edition with new Title pages), 2 vols., printed by Thomas Davison at Whitefriars, Vol. I: xxxi including Frontispiece engraved by Henry Moses and Preface, 138 pages; Vol. II: ix, paginated 139-275 pages, 77..... More
London: Printed by James Jarvis; for James Ridgway, York Street, St. James' Square, 1791. Ninth edition. Ocatvo (dimensions 21.3 x 13cm), pp. viii, 111, port. front. etched by William Austin, one folding plate "Pedigree of the Ewles Family". Later casing, lacks spine, more recent cream endpapers, text is moderately foxed..... More