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London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCLII. 1752. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], 339 340 blank, 341 - 349 index, 350 blank], K4 and K7 leaves are cancels (as usual), engraved portrait of Swift as frontispiece, contemporary lightly speckled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, dark red morocco label; a very good copy. This volume is an extremely rare relic from the library of Dr Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766), whom John Adams, the Founding Father, revered as "a transcendental genius". This Mayhew-owned copy of the Earl of Orrery's book on Swift is hitherto unknown, and is of compelling interest -- since John Adams himself compared Mayhew's writing to Swift's writing, with Adams indeed finding Mayhew to be superior to Swift in quality if similar in kind. Jonathan Mayhew was also a close friend of Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the important early benefactor of Harvard. Hollis was also of course a notable benefactor of…
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BOYLE, Earl of Orrery (John): Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, London: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in a Series of Letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle
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LOUKIANOU SAMOSATEÔS HAPANTA. Luciani Samosatensis Opera. Cum nova versione Tiber. Hemsterhusii, & Io. Matthiae Gesneri, graecis scholiis, ac notis omnium proximae editionis commentatorum, additis Io.Brodaei, Io. Iensii, Lud. Kusteri, Lamb. Bosii, Hor. Vitringae, Ioan. de la Faye, Ed. Leedes aliisque ineditis, ac praecipue Mosis Solani & I.M. Gesneri. Cujus priorem partem summo studio curavit & illustravit Tiberius Hemsterhusius. Ceteras inde partes ordinavit, notasque suas adjecit Ioannes Fredericus Reitzius. (And:) Tib. Hemsterhusii Animadversionum in Lucianum Appendix. Ex schedis MSS. in Bibl. Lugd. Bat. servatis collegit, disposuit et edidit Jacobus Geel.
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Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Sumptibus Jacobi Wetstenii, 1743. (And:) Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud S. et J. Luchtmans, Academiae Typographos, 1824. 4to. 3 volumes, plus 1 additional volume: (1:) (XII including title and frontispiece),LXXII,882 p., 1 plate. (2:) (IV),953,(1blank) p. (3:) (IV),860 p. (4:) (IV),500,(3 errata),(1 blank) p. Vellum. 26.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 175754950; Hoffmann 2,537/8; Dibdin 2,193/4; Moss 2, 263: 'A very elegant and excellent edition, carefully compiled by 3 scholars whose abilities are well known'; Brunet 3,1207: 'Édition la plus estimée de cet auteur'; Graesse 4,278; Ebert 12385) (Details: 4 uniform volumes. Backs with 5 raised bands. Boards with blindstamped ornament within double fillet borders. Title pages printed in red and black. The frontispiece is produced by P. Tanjé, and shows scenes from the work of Lucianus. An engraved printer's mark on the title, depicting 2 sphinxes and 2 putti around a burin being sharpened on a…
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Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. By Sir John Ross, C.B., K.S.A., K.C.S., &C. &C. Captain in the Royal Navy. Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., &C. And the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. [With] Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search...
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London: A. W. Webster, 1835. xxxiii,(1)740;xii,120,cxliv,cii,(1) pp. Quarto.(26 X 33.5 cm.) Large paper copy. Bound in the original moire patterned blue cloth. Gilt title on spine. Top edge dust soiled. Corners renewed. Top of spine a bit bumped. Original patterned endpapers with bookplate removed from front pastedown. Narrative volume: 25 plates (9 handcoloured) and five charts (2 folding including large folding coloured map at end) Appendix volume: steel engraved portrait of Ross (frontispiece) and 19 plates (12 handcoloured). Bound in blue moire boards. Gilt title on spine to match first volume. A bit bumped and rubbed. Overall a nice clean untrimmed copy in original binding, with only occasional minor foxing and with the original plate tissues. AB 14866. Narrative and scientific results of a private expedition sponsored by Felix Booth under Sir John Ross to discover a northwest passage by way of Baffin Bay, Lancaster Sound and Prince Regent Inlet. He made his way to Boothia…
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