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Adam Smith: The Biographical Approach. Being the thirtieth Lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow delivered on 3rd March 1969

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University of Glasgow, 1969. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 26, original stiff paper boards.
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The Amours of Henri de Navarre and of Marguerite de Valois. With Photogravure Frontispiece and Numerous Illustrations

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New York: Brentano's, 1910. Large 8vo, pp. 438, including half-title, frontispiece, 16 illustrations in text, 4 illustrations preceding title-page, including an 18th century engraving of Marguerite de Valois tipped-in on the recto of the frontispiece, original cloth, blocked in gilt on spine and front cover, top edge gilt (slightly soiled), other edges uncut. A very good copy.
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Angeli Politiani et Aliorum virorum illust Epistolae cum praefatione in Suet. expositionem

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Amstelodami, pud Joan. Janssonium, 1644. 12mo, 123 x 68 mms., pp. [xxiv, including engraved title-page], 610, later calf, rebacked, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; old end-papers from an incubabulum, armorial bookplate of Joseph Pickford, Junr. on front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph of William [?Dance] on lower margin of title-page, inscription "Joh. Pickford Junr/ January 1785" on the top margin of the recto of the first printed leaf. "Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano, anglicized as Politian; Latin: Politianus), was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance" (Wikipedia). His birth city, Montepulciano, will be well known to wine drinkers. The preface or introduction is a short biography of the life and writings of Poliziano by Gerardus Vossius (1577 - 1649), the Dutch scholar and theologian. Poliziano began preparing his correspondence for publication… Read More
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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. Written by Himself. The Second Edition

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London: Printed by John Watts for the Author..., 1740. 8vo, pp. [xvi], 488, title-page in red and black, with last gathering containing Contents leaves misfolded, contemporary calf, new crude morocco label; lacks portrait, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the armorial bookplate of F. P. Young D. D. ("Robson fecit" beneath name) on the front paste-down end-paper, contemporary autograph "Henry Coventry" on title-page, and a note in a later hand (probably early 19th century) about Anne Bracegirdle, the actress. One of Cibber's "regular drinking and gambling companions at White's gentlemen's club was Robert Walpole" (Oxford DNB). It was no coincidence that Cibber was made Poet Laureate while Walpole was Prime Minister. For years Cibber exercised his "untiring support of the Whigs, the party of Prime Minister Robert Walpole" (Oxford DNB). Robert Walpole's son Horace Walpole was so impressed with… Read More
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Beginnings of European Biography. The Early Ages. From the Decline of the Roman Empire to the Reign of Charlemagne. Illustrated with twenty-four engravings.

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London: John Harris..., [n. d.] [1827]. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xvii [xviii Errata], 150, 24 engraved illustrations on 12 leaves, original printed boards with illustration on front cover, red roan spine (worn); binding a little soiled and worn.
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Brief Memoirs of Nicholas Ferrar, M. A. And Founder of Clare-Hall, Cambridge, Founder of a Protestant Religious Establishment at Little Giddings, Huntingdonshire; Collected from a Narrative by the Right Reverend Dr. Turner, Formerly Bishop of Ely; Now edited with Additions and Biographical Notices of some of Mr. Ferrar's Contemporaries. By a Clergyman of the Established Church

by FERRAR (Nicholas). TURNER (Francis). [MACDONOG (Terene Michael), editor]:

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Bristol: Printed and Published by J. Chilcott..., 1829. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 181 x 109 mms., pp. [iv], vii [viii blank] [3] 4 - 248, original boards, uncut; binding fragile, with spine cracked and other wear, but with contemporary purchase notes, a transcription of Byron's "Maid of Athens" on the front end-papers, other textual history on verso of front free end-paper, some emendations to text in a contemporary hand. Nicholas Ferrar (1593–1637) established his household of about 40 souls in 1625 at Little Gidding. "The life of the household, subsequently caricatured as 'the Arminian nunnery' in the 1641 pamphlet of that name, was dedicated to the daily reading and discussion of scripture, rigorous education (including household accounting and basic medical skills for Ferrar's nieces) and to the craft of bookbinding" (ODNB). The religious establishment " drew heavily on the early church model recorded in the second chapter of the Acts of the… Read More
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In Vinegia. Appresso Vincenzo Vaugris al segno d'Erasmo 1543. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 8vo, 156 x 102 mms., foliated, 90, [6], with contemporary name on title-page , printer's ornament on title-page and repeated on verso of last leaf but two, contemporary or slightly later calf, with panels in blind on each cover, with initials "W S" within panels, green morocco label with spine and label neatly restored and laid down; no front paste-down end-paper,some slight soiling of title-page and next leaf, but a very good to fine copy. Michele Riccio (1445 - 1515) was a historian, jurist, and an ambassador, a disciple of Pietro Pietro Summonte. The text of his lives of various European kings and rulers is preceded by a preface written by the translator, Marco Antonio Giustiniano. It is possible that the volume belonged to William Seymour (1588 - 1660). The same initial appear on a copy of Musica Transalpina (1588) at the Folger Shakespeare Library, but on a more elaborate… Read More
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Exposé Succinct de la Contestation qui s'est élevée entre M. Hume et M. Rousseau, avec les pieces justificatives.

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A Londres, 1766. . 8vo, pp. xiv, 127 [128 blank], recent full calf; signature inked out from top margin of title-page, but a good copy. Hume's account of the controversy between himself and Rousseau was first published in Paris on 20 October 1766, translated from English by J. B. A. Suard and edited by d'Alembert. This is the counterfeit edition, printed in London, with press figures, probably published in early November, 1766. See W. B. Todd's note in Book Collector, vii (1958), 191. Chuo 78.
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Gibbon.

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London: Peter Davis, 1932. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 182, frontispiece, original cloth; tear in blank rear end-paper, cloth a little faded and very slightly worn.
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Gibbon.

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London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 282, portrait frontispiece, original cloth (front cover slightly marked).
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Gibbon. (English Men of Letters).

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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Small 8vo, pp. vi, 192, original cloth.
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Gibbon's Journal to January 28th, 1763. My Journal, I, II & III and Ephemerides. With Introductory Essays by D. M. Low.

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. cxvii [cxviii blank], 261 [262 blank], original publisher's cloth (slightly faded and soiled), newspaper cuttings loosely inserted.
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Haydn: Chronicle and Works.

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London: Thames and Hudson, 1976 - 1980. FIRST EDITION in five volumes, comprising: Haydn: The Early Years, 1732 – 1765. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. 254 x 150 mms., pp. 655 [656 blank], 60 illustrations, 5 in color, original cloth, dust-wrapper. Owner's name and date on recto of front free end-paper. A fine copy. Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766 – 1790, London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. . 254 x 150 mms., pp. 799 [ 800 blank], 52 illustrations, 5 in colour, original cloth, dust-wrapper. Owner's name and date on recto of front free end-paper. A fine copy, with the author's inscription at the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper: "With fond regards from the author to Catherine and John Price, Thanksgiving, Edinburgh, 1978." Haydn in England, 1791 – 1795. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. 254 x 150 mms., pp. 640, 52 illustrations, 5 in colour, original cloth, dust-wrapper. Owner's name and date on recto of front free end-paper. A fine copy,… Read More
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An Historical Essay on Mr. Addison.

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London [n. p.], 1783. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 92, recently recased in quarter calf, buckram boards, new endpapers; lacks pp. i - ii (half-title), lower inner margin of last two leaves of text repaired with slight loss of text, some soiling of text, particularly the last two leaves. With the eighteenth-century armorial (lion rampant on shield) bookplate of "Geo. Morgan Esq" (probably Franks 21063, whose owner is not identified by Howe); and, on the recto of the front paste-down endpaper, the twentieth-century ownership inscription of Cecil Price, Emeritus Professor and sometime head of the Department of English at the University of Swansea, the editor of the correspondence of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. � Thomas Tyers (1725-1787) was a "[m]iscellaneous writer", the "co-founder of Vauxhall Gardens", and a "longtime friend of Johnson, who depicted him as Tom Restless in The Idler, No. 48. Boswell described Tyers as having 'a handsome fortune, vivacity… Read More
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Horace Walpole. A Memoir With an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. With Illustrations by Percy and Leon Moran

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London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1890. LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo, 250 x 170 mms., pp. 370, frontispiece, illustrations, headpieces, uncut (some leaves unopened), original cloth (cream spine, blue boards); spine faded and sunned. No. 399 of 425 copies: "This edition, consisting of 4 copies on vellum, 5 copies on Van Gelder paper, 50 copies on Japan paper, 425 copies on Dickinson paper, was printed from type in the month of October, 1890. Theo. S. DeVinne & Co."
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Joseph Haydn. Scenes de la Vie d'un Grand Artiste. Traduit de Franz Seebourg par J. de Rochay. Deuxieme Edition

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Tours, Alfred Mame et Files..., 1884. Tall 8vo, pp. 237 [238 blank, 239 contents, 240 blank], including half-title, steel-engraved frontispiece, prize copy from the Ecole Primaire Publique in Orleans, bound in contemporary green embossed cloth, front cover blocked in gilt to a rectangle within a semi-lozenge design, with the arms of Orleans in the centre, all edges gilt; binding a little worn and soiled, front hinge slightly cracked. Seeburg's book was first published in Regensburg in 1882, and the French translation was first published in 1883, and into English in 1884.
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

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Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, M. Saunders...[inter alia], 1775. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 162 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], 192; [3] 26 - 120, 289 -384, contemporary calf, rebacked, with old label laid, but with hinges rather crudely taped, with an autograph "S West head" on the front paste-down end-paper and another in pencil on the top margin of the title-page. Fleemanj 75.1J/4. "The printer made an attempt to produce a page-for-page reprint of the 1st London 8vo edition...in a 2 vol. 12mo format, but the effort failed after 2 sheets..., and in vol. 2 where the pagination commenced at 25 the attempt was less successful, though a new star was again made at F1 (p. 289). This section may have been the work of another printer if the work was shared out to hasten the reprint, thought the type is the same." The reprint was, of course, a piracy.
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La Vie de Socrate Traduitte [sic] de l'Anglois

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A Amsterdam, par la Compagnie, 1751. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 12mo (in 8s and 4s), pp. 16, [2], xiii [xiv blank], 17 - 247 [248 blank], engraved portrait of Socrates as frontispiece, engraved title-page; first two gatherings misbound, with half-title and preface inserted after p. 16, contemporary continental calf, gilt spine; binding very worn, with joints cracked, loss of leather to corners, rear joint with early, crude reinforcement, ex-library with armorial library bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, and library stamps on the verso of the front free end-paper and the recto of the following leaf as well as the stamp "Hilopostus/ Doctor impenetrabilis". Cooper's life of Socrates was first published by Dodsley in 1749, with a second edition in 1750. The translation is by M. de Combles.
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Le vite dei dodeci Visconti che signoreggiarono Milano Descritte da Monsignor Paolo Giovio...
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In Milano In Casa di Gio. Battista Bidelli..., 1645. 4to, 265 x 210 mms., pp. [xx], 132, with engraved title-page, engraved portrait of dedicatee, and 12 full-page engraved portraits of Milanese viscounts, engraved by Paolo Bianchi, contemporary limp vellum (a little soiled); inner margins of front and rear end-papers at little wormed with some very slight water-staining, none of which affects the text or the engravings, a very good copy, with the 19th century book ticket of Conte Gropello di Alessandria on the front paste-down end-paper. Although Giovio (1483 - 1552) took a degree in medicine, he was primarily interested in a literary career, in which he was notably successful, so much so that Leo X gave him the rank of Cavaliere, with a pension. Paolo Giovio, Bishop of Nocera, had one of the most celebrated collections of Italian portraits. In a letter dated 1521, he expressed his intention to put together some real portraits of men of letters, whose eyes would stimulate men to virtue. Giovio… Read More
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A Paris, Chez Jean Camvsat..., 1636. Folio, 297 x 215 mms., pp. [xxiv], 395 [396 Avertissement dl'Auteur, 397 - 423 Index, 424 colophon], title-page printed in red and black, additional engraved title-page, 57 engraved plates, each taking up most of the recto of a leaf, 5 without image of king, contemporary lightly mottled calf, gilt spine (faded), black morocco, expertly rebacked with old spine laid down; some occasional damp-staining but a very good to fine copy, with the an armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, and deaccesioned from the Ashmolean Museum. The engraver Jacques de Bie (1581 - 1640) published a number of dictionaries, checklists, or anthologies of various of medals, coins, portraits etc. In an online paper entitled "Collection, conviction, and contemplation; or, Picturing coins in early modern books, ca. 1550-1700," Professor Brian W. Ogilvie comments, "De Bie wanted to do for the French monarchy what sixteenth century antiquarians had done… Read More
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