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Meriden, Connecticut: Bayberry Hill Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Big, tall, Folio-sized hardcover format, with a fetching Foreword by Ruth and Foster Johnson, noting that it was "written by a favorite uncle of ours in 1925." Frontispiece facsimile of "Professor and Mrs. Johnson" and nine black-and-white illustrations. Initials in red. Bound handsomely in the publisher's original 1/4 orange cloth over marbled boards, paper spine label quite fine still. #27 of 40 copies reserved for members of The Columbiad Club, "of a total of about 80." 57 pp. Hand set in Janson, printed page by page on Barchum green paper on "an ancient press which once belonged to Fred and Bertha Goudy." Includes impressions of W.B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy and othersMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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An Account of a Summer's Pilgrimage: Being the Journal of William Savage Johnson On a Trip to England, Wales and Ireland
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The Adventures of Count Fathom
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London: C. Cooke. Cooke's Editions. Hardcover. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Complete in two volumes, another contribution to the influential Cooke's Editions of English literature and poetry, geography and history. Undated, but certainly the 1790s, and with the same "superb engravings" as per usual, including vignettes at title pages, and tails. Short hardcover formats, full leather bindings, gilt ruling to spines, gilt lettering over burgundy leather spine title labels. Moderately rubbed and scuffed tips, edges, extremities, but clean and unmarked of interiors. Volume I: viii, 19-240 pp.; Volume II: [3], 4-256 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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The Amber Witch: the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known
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London: George Slater, 1849. Hardcover. Fair. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Publisher's original brown cloth, gilt illustration and letter to front cover, spine, moderate rubbing to extremities, blind-stamped decorations to front and rear covers, bumping to spine head and foot, and sunning of cloth at spine to light brown. Translated from the original German of Abraham Schweidler as edited by W. Meinhold, allegedly from a "defective manuscript." This copy is an early reprint of the first English edition, which came out via John Murray in 1844. The foremost authority of supernatural fiction, E.F. Bleiler writes (in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983) "A minor masterpiece, and still the best novel about witchcraft." The work was originally published in Germany as Maria Schweidler, "die Bernsteinhexe," in 1838; it alleged to be based on an actual 17th-century chronicle that had been…
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An Appeal to Matter of Fact and Common Sense, or a rational demonstration of man's corrupt and lost estate
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London: Printed by R. Hawes for multiple booksellers including J. Eddowes, S. Aris, W. Piercy, T. Mills, J. Buckland et al.Printed by R. Hawes for a number of London-based booksellers. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Author is Anonymous, but is attributed to John Fletcher (1729-1785), an English philosopher and polemicist. Undated, but a contemporary inscription from a former owner is 1780, and the author preface is dated to Madeley, from 1772. Previous owner is maybe "Cleeve Hooper?" Stated Third Edition. Bound in brown leather over boards, cracking to front joint but not rear, strings showing, else still sturdy, tight and square. Gilt-stamped dentelles around inside of front and rear boards, gilt ruling to front and rear panels, ruling to spine, rubbed gilt lettering over burgundy cloth label at spine. Scuffing to tips, spine head and foot, but still stands sturdily upright on the shelf. Nicely attractive marbled endpapers front and rear, silk linen ribbon bookmark…
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C.C. Sallustii Catilinaria et Jugurthina Bella
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Parisiis: P. Didot et F. Didot, 1801. Editio Stereotypa. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Trilingual in Italian, Latin and French. 12mo hardcover format, all edges gilt, leather covers, dentelles-ruled along edges, cracking to half of rear joint, an inch to the front joint, else still quite sturdy, moderate rubbing to extremities, clean interior, with blue marbled endpapers. Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually Anglicised as Sallust (86 â c.â35 BC), was a Roman historian and politician from a plebeian family, according to his Wikipedia entry. "Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline (on the eponymous conspiracy), The Jugurthine War (on the eponymous war), and the…
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Choju Giga: Scrolls of Animal Caricatures
by Shigetaka Kaneko, adapter of the original text by Hideo Okudaira
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Honolulu, Hawaii: East-West Center Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy of a fine item, in gift-quality condition, inside and out, with no discernible wear to either the 24 pp. booklet or the light tan-cloth-over-boards hardcover format text, boards featuring skinny beveled edges, sharp and distinct printed paper labels to front cover, inset. Both housed in a red cloth-covered slipcase, red and black lettering paper to front cover thereof, also in Fine condition but with a purposeful hole underneath. All housed in the original packing box. Adapted by Shigetaka Kaneko from the Japanese text by Hideo Okudaira and depicting the original, accordion-style format of animal caricature renderings on glossy paper of the booklet, and then with the full folding accordion of the hardcover, quite fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
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London, England: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1750. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo 7" - 7. An early reprint of a justifiable classic in English religion and moral philosophy in the form of verse. The title page continues: "To which is added, A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of JOB." The author, Edward Young (1633-1765), was a famous, influential literary light, an English poet, critic and philosopher. This work, published first in 1742, was both financially lucrative for the author and a critical success; it was translated into many different languages including "French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Welsh, Polish and Magyar" (Hungarian; Wikipedia). The entry for "Young, Edward," in Allibone's Critical Dictionary (1965 Gale reprint) is exceedingly lengthy regarding both his biography and circle of friends and colleagues including James Boswell; the entry notes, for example, that Edmund Burke had committed…
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The Craftsman, Volume XI
by D'Anvers, Caleb [Nicholas Amhurst]
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London: R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, April 28, 1733. 285 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, quite fine, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry…
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The Craftsman, Volume XIV
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London: R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 466, Saturday, June 7, 1735. 359 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Remains of a former paper repair inside front flap, rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at…
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The Craftsman, Volume III
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London: R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 86, Saturday, February 24, 1727-8. 322 pp. including Appendix, and then with additional advertisements by publisher and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, but still sturdy. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having…
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The Craftsman, Volume VII
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London: R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 218, Saturday, September 5, 1730. 407 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry…
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The Craftsman, Volume V
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London: R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, May 24th, 1729. 331 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, quite fine, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry…
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The Craftsman, Volume IX
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London: R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 466, Saturday, January 29, 1731-32. 281 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on…
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The Craftsman, Volume VI
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London: R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, January 3rd, 1729-30. 331 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages…
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The Craftsman, Volume VIII
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London: R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. 297 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors'…
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A Critical and Analytical Dissertation on the Names of Persons
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London: Published by J. Nichols and Son, 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, rebound handsomely in white vellum, gilt lettering over vellum label, newer endpapers. Clean, unmarked interior, light foxing to endpapers else quite bright of interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. xii [1], 2-56 [3] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI.
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Oxonii, England / Londini, England: Printed by J. Cooke and J. Parker for a number of booksellers: F. et C. Rivington, J. Payne et J. Mackinlay, R.H. Evans, et W.H. Lunn, of London, 1808. Secundum Editionem Gottingensem. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The title page continues: Ad Optimoreum Exemplarium Fidem Recensitae, Perpetuo Commentario Illustratae, Atque Prooemio et Argumentis Instructae, a Georgio Alex. Ruperti. Published in Second Edition Thus state in 1808 in both Oxford and London England for a host of booksellers. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, handsomely rebound in blue cloth, five raised bands to spine, brown leather label at spine, title stamped thereinto, clean, unmarked interior, lightly toned, half-toning to final page. Blue marbled page edges all around. 372 pp. + extensive, unpaginated Index Verborum.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes,…
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Decii Junii Juvenalis A. Persii Flacci Satyre
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Londini: J. Brindley, 1744. Hardcover. Good. 64mo 3" - 4. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Short skinny tome, Latin language throughout, bound in contemporary calf leather, four raised bands to spine, rubbed gilt lettering there. Moderately toned interior, clean, unmarked. Rear pastedown cracked, board still holding firm. 116 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Del Decamerone, Volume I, Volume II
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Amsterdamo: Di Messer, 1761. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Solidly Good condition examplars of an often "false imprint" title (see below) during this era of publication, being a mid-18th century collection of stories of Eros and Cupid. Two handsome volumes in 12mo hardcover format, bound in calf leather, with five fine gilt fleurs-de-lis and five raised bands to spines, and gilt ruling to front and rear. Moderate rubbing to tips and edges, raised bands, with a ding to and some scratches of rear panel of Volume I. Small insect hole to the rear board of Volume I. Some slight rubbing to, mottling of leather of both front boards. Small period ink inscription to the first free endpapers. Light staining to upper corner of pages to volume II, with tide-lining here and there to Volume I. One endpaper present but detached, not containing text. Pulled endpaper, still attached, to Volume II. Blank edges and some margins a bit toned. Occasional period annotations to margins. Else, interiors…
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The Deserted Village
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London, England: Noel Douglas, 1927. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the The Noel Douglas Replicas series, reprising here Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, originally published in 1770, the year that saw publication of five separate quarto format editions released. This reproduction is from the original First Edition as held by the British Museum (Colophon). Tan paper over boards, orange lettering to spine, clean and unmarked of interior but for dealer-stamp at bottom near spine of first free endpaper. Moderately foxed but yet quite readable. Fine black-and-white engraving in facsimile at title page, "The San Historian of the Pensive Plain." vii pp. Dedication, then 22 pp. epic poem.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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