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first edition 4to. [8],212pp., frontispiece portrait plate, 50 full-page drawings by Beardsley each with an accompanying title leaf, publisher's scarlet cloth with the front cover very boldly pictorially blocked and lettered with a Beardsley design, small Beardsley vignette gilt blocked at centre of rear cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, endpapers, half-title, first illustration (on different paper from others) foxed, spine faded, top 1 cm.of boards a little faded, two small splash marks at top edge of boards slightly bleeding onto the top edge of the first illustration, else a nice bright copy.

ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH BARTOLOZZI FRONTISPIECE
small 4to. [12], 360pp., handsome allegorical frontispiece plate (Bartolozzi engraved after C. B.Cipriani), & 2 engraved plates at rear (a plan and elevation of kennels), contemporary tree calf, sides with a decorative gilt rolled border, sometime neatly rebacked with a new matching tan calf spine, spine with raised bands and a maroon morocco label, no half-title, title page lightly foxed, minor scuffing to corners and joints, very good and attractive copy.
ESTC t143980 Beckford, the first English writer to describe fox and hare hunting in detail, first published this classic work in Sarum [Salisbury, Wiltshire] in 1781 and this is the last edition printed there. The attractive frontispiece depicts Diana preparing for the chase.

RARE EARLY WORK BY A LEADING ILLUMINATOR
IN ITS ORIGINAL EMBOSSED VELVET BINDING
first (sole) edition thus small 8vo. (17 x 111 cms.) 10 leaves of stiff card with rich colour and gilt printed miniatures and illuminations, 9 leaves printed double-sided and the first leaf (title page) printed on recto only, publisher's elaboratley embossed red velvet binding, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, short split at foot of rear joint, some minor marginal grubby marks and light fo.xing, else very good with the binding in an excellent state of preservation for something so vulnerable to wear. Rare.
Library Hub (formerly COPAC) and OCLC together locate only in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Toronto. Some of the illuminations are signed with Francis Bedford's monogram.Bedford (1815–1894), lithographer and photographer, the son of a respected London architect, regularly submitted "architectural studies to the annual exhibitions of the Royal Academy between 1833 and 1849. During this same period Bedford illustrated… Read More

'BOTH IN STYLE AND IN MATTER ONE OF THE MOSTMASTERLY OF [HIS] ECONOMICAL WRITINGS'POWERFULLY INFLUENTIAL ARGUMENT FOR REFORM first Irish edition 12mo. [8 (half-title, title, contents)], 232pp., contemporary tan calf, smooth spine panelled by blind rolls, red morocco title label, small patch of silverfish damage (leather eaten away) on front board near head of front joint, else a very nice fresh copy.Contemporary signature "J. Rochfort" at head of title page and with the contemporary armorial bookplate of John Rochfort on front endpaper.ESTC t101730 Goldsmith's-Kress 13615This work, first published in London in 1787, Bentham's "first important economical work, is a series of lively letters (written from Russia in 1787), in which he appeals to Adam Smith to apply his principles consistently, and withdraw his sanction from 'legal restraints on pecuniary bargains'. He contents that no man should be forbidden to make his own terms in a bargain relating to money, any more than any other bargains.… Read More

WITH A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER THEORY PROOF - AND USE OF MULTIPLE MIDDLE-EASTERN CHARACTERS
first edition small 4to. [8], 259, [4], [1 (blank)]pp., contemporary calf with nesting contrastingly-dyed panels on sides defined by double blind fillets and rolls and with blind tools at the corners, spine panelled by raised bands with the panels richly gilt tooled, rich maroon morocco title label, a few trivial worm traces, tiny chip at top corner of title label, else a very fine fresh copy. An exceptional copy.
Contemporary inscription on the title page "E lib. Arth. St. George" and with an elaborate contemporary engraved St. George bookplate.
ESTC r231039 WING B2095 Tomash & Williams B147 There is a also variant issue with a different form of the imprint (Wing B2095A)Beveridge (1637–1708), English writer and clergyman, on entering Cambridge in 1653 devoted himself to the learned languages, including the oriental and published a Latin treatise on the Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially… Read More

IMPORTANT DESCRIPTIVE & PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT
first edition tall 8vo. [14], errata slip, 410, [2], iv (index)pp., 20 maps and plans (of which 4 folding, including 1 in pocket ar rear), 68 photographic plates, original dark green cloth over bevelled boards, front cover pictorially gilt blocked and lettered, spine gilt lettered, decorative patterned endpapers, edges untrimmed, slight foxing to first few leaves, a few trivial marks on covers but a fine bright and fresh copy.
Contemporary signature on front endpaper E. MacBown.
Bird, an official with the British colonial Educational Department, in this important account of the county provided a preliminary survey in pages 1-144 of Burmese geography, peoples, languages, history, towns, etc. before describing 24 different journeys stretching into most parts of the country with detailed descriptions of the places and peoples along each. The book is enhanced by photographs by Felice Beato who had a studio in Mandalay (described on pages 291-2).Felice Beato… Read More

FOLK BELIEFS ON THE POWER OF MATERNAL IMAGINATION ON THE FOETUS CONFRONTED first edition small 8vo. [2], xi, [3], 143, [1 (errata)]pp., type ornaments and decorative initial letters, mid-nineteenth century buff cloth, spine gilt lettered, title page slightly dusty, else very good. ESTC t117265 Blondel (Paris, 1665/6–1734), physician, after a medical education at Leiden in 1700 established a practice in London and was made a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1711. "In 1727 he published an anonymous work entitled The strength of imagination in pregnant women examined; and the opinion that marks and deformities in children arise from thence, demonstrated to be a vulgar error. He later claimed to have written this work in response to Mary Toft's delusion that her unfulfilled cravings for rabbit actually caused her to give birth to a litter of rabbits. However, another member of the college, Daniel Turner, deemed Blondel's work to be an attack on a chapter, 'Spots and marks… Read More

WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING
very tall 8vo. 584pp, numerous full-page wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary half red calf, spine panelled by richly gilt decorated & highlighted raised bands, dark green morocco title label gilt, red morocco label lettered "Belmont College/ Prize 1876" onlaid on front cover, marbled sides and matching endpapers, edges gilt, fore-edge painting of Notre Dame Cathedral under the gilt on the fore edge, nice copy.
Printed prize label filled in in mss "French Prize/ Ist Class" from Belmont College, Bath, awarded to "F. Grosvenor" July 1876 pasted to front end paper.

PROBING THE NATURE OF RESPIRATION first edition, first issue 8vo. [6], 142; [2], 17, [1 (blank)]; [12], 176; [2], 19, [1 (blank)]; [2], 16; [2], 39, [1 (advt.)]pp., contemporary calf sometime rebacked and refurbished at corners, smooth spine panelled by double gilt fillets and with a brown morocco label, lacks the preliminary blank leaf A1 and the blank leaves x7-8 (as usual), fore-edges of boards bit worn, some light toning as usual, very good copy. Bookplate of the John Crerar Library of Chicago (with their neat withdrawal stamp) and with their name in small gilt letters at lower corner of front board. Fulton Bibliography .. Robert Boyle, 101 WING B4060 ESTC r10383Collation: [pi]3, B-I8, K1, (*)-(*)8, (**)-(**)8, k-u8, x6, K2-K8, L-O8, P2 - with no initial blank [pi]1 and x7-x8 blank"Important observations on respiration are scattered through nearly all of Boyle's works. He was impressed with the idea that life was a slow-burning flame, and he often pointed out the analogy between… Read More

FIRST SCIENTIFIC WORK ON HYPNOTISM first edition 8vo. xxii, 265pp., original blind stamped blue-grey cloth, 1.5 cm. split at head of front joint and spine shade faded. Nice copy of this classic. GARRISON & MORTON 4993 OSLER 1384"Braid inaugurated modern hypnotism, the word itself being introduced by him" [Garrison & Morton].Braid, a Manchester doctor, was stimulated by his attendance at a local seance to investigate carefully the phenomena he had observed. His careful, sceptical, and physiologically oriented experiments led him to the "apparently new laws of nervous sleep ... soon [to be] accepted throughout the world as Hypnotism and Hypnosis, the names he proposed in this book" [Hunter & Macalpine Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry].

first edition tall 8vo. xiv, [2], 500pp., 19 plates (of which 8 are coloured), large folding map, wood-engraved illustrations in text, publisher's green cloth, decorative blind border on sides, spine gilt lettered, neatly recased, new endpapers of old paper, very good. William Henry Brett (Dover, 1818 - 1886) exhibited religious inclinations from his youth and in 1840 was sent by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel as a missionary to Guiana. He spent almost forty years there as a missionary and travelled widely throughout the region. Besides this book he published several others on the native peoples of the region and on their myths and legends as well as translating the New Testament and the Book of Common Prayer into several of their languages.Chapters range over the coast and its population, the interior and its inhabitants, on early explorers, on the Essequibo and its tributaries, on the various different native peoples - the Pomeroons, Arawaks, Caribs, Acawoios, Waraus, Waramuri,… Read More

RARE VIENNA-PRINTED BREVIARY IN ORANGE VELLUMATTRACTIVELY PRINTED IN RED & BLACK 12mo. 322pp. ("312" in error), attractively printed in red and black throughout, 2 large woodcut designs, numerous large initial letters in red, contemporary orange vellum with narrow yapp fore-edges, lacks ties at fore edges, else a very nice fresh copy. Rare.Contemporary inscription "Monasterij Admonte" on title page.Not located by OCLC. KVK locates only in Österreichischen Landesbibliotheken. Both OCLC and KVK locate a single copy of another edition by the same Vienna printer in 1659."From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local. The copies were not spread far, and were soon worn out by the daily use made of them. Doubtless many editions have perished without leaving a trace of their existence, while others are known by unique copies" [Wikipedia article on the Roman Breviary].Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery… Read More

SAILOR'S TALES OF THE EAST FOR YOUNG PERSONSIN THE MANNER OF GOLDSMITH
ESTC t112304 Garside, Raven, and Schowerling The English Novel 1770-1829, 1796:18 Block, p.216.This anonymous collection was intended for a juvenile audience. It was reprinted in Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1797 (Welch American Children's Books .. to 1821, 126). Welch attributes the book to Brewer. "These stories were not translated from the Siamese, but the scene was laid in Siam to make the story more interesting to young people" [Welch].Brewer (bap. 1766), writer, "in his youth he served as a midshipman ... and visited America, India, China, and Scandinavia. In 1791 he was made a lieutenant in the Swedish navy. Afterwards abandoning the sea, he read for law in London, and established himself as an attorney" [O.D.N.B.]. He published novels in 1791 and 1795, the first while still in the navy, and had a couple of plays performed. "In 1800 Brewer published a pamphlet entitled The Rights of the Poor, dedicated to 'Men who have great power,… Read More

RARE EARLY PUBLICATIONCONTAINING 'SOME OF HIS FINEST LYRICS'first edition tall 8vo. (22.7 x 14.5 cms.) 51, [1 (blank)]pp., wood engraving of three cherubs on title page, other type ornaments throughout, original pale blue wrappers, title page repeated in the front wrapper, edges untrimmed, upper 3 cms. of wrappers lightly toned or sunned, very tiny chip from fore-edge of front wrapper and at its top gutter corner, some minor chipping of wrapper 'spine', else very good. A very well preserved copy in its original state. Rare.McKay Bibliography Bridges, 5Most copies of Bridges' first book Poems by Robert Bridges (1873) were destroyed. With his second book of verse The Growth of Love (1876), published by Bumpus in a small edition of perhaps as few as 100 copies and in a similar format to this book, Bridges after a few copies had been distributed burned the remaining copies. This Poems (1879), his third book of verse, would also have been printed in small numbers and that in turn was followed… Read More

A CULTURAL MILESTONE - FIRST PRINTED COLLECTION OF IRISH GAELIC LITERATURE first edition 4to. xxvi, [2], 369, [1 (blank)]pp. plus an errata slip, contemporary tree calf, sympathetically rebacked, smooth spine panelled by bands of gilt rolls, large flower tool at panel centres, maroon morocco title label gilt, edges dyed green, light trace of old glue along gutter margin of title page, some light scattered foxing. A handsome copy. ESTC t144089 BRADSHAW 2243 GILBERT, p.91. List of subscribers on p.xi- xxiii, including many figures distinguished in Irish cultural history and some in Britain and in Italy.This and her friend and collaborator Joseph Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786) together mark a new and significant movement in Irish culture. Inspired indirectly by the fabrications of Macpherson's Ossian and more directly by such as Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry they represent the first literary fruit in Ireland of the romantic movement. "Each, and… Read More

NICE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF first edition small folio [2 (general title)]; [16], 316, [12 (index)]; [12], 102; [8], 52; [6], 103, [1 (blank)], [4 (3 index plus a blank)], general title page printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece plate engraved by R. White, each part with a separate dated title page and pagination, a few engraved illustrations, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with raised bands, closed tear (no loss) in last divisional title unobtrusively repaired on its blank verso with archival tissue, the joints, ends of spine, and corners very skillfully refurbished. Nice copy. WING B5150 ESTC r19807 KEYNES Browne Bibliography 201The first collected edition printed under the supervision of Archbishop Tenison, and the last collected edition in English until Pickering's in 1835.

PRINCIPAL AUTHORITY FOR KANT & THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS -'IMMENSELY LEARNED AND DETAILED' first edition of the first English version 2 vols. large 4to. xxviii, 503, [1 (blank)], [60 (index)]; [4], 628pp., large folding engraved plate (a biographical time chart) in vol. I, contemporary diced russia, gilt fillet and roll pattern on front cover, spines with gilt highlighted raised bands and gilt tools at panel centres, direct lettered gilt, some scattered gatherings lightly browned as usual, spines little rubbed and some cracking of joints, but generally a very good and attractive copy. Partially erased engraved armorial bookplates of the Broadhurst family on the front endpapers. The great German scholar Brucker (1669-1770) first published his magnum opus Historia Critica Philosophiae at Leipzig in 5 quarto volumes between 1742 and 1744, and it was reprinted with an additional 6th volume in 1767. This monumental work is the foundation of the modern historiography of philosophy. Enfield… Read More

"MOST AUTHORITATIVE STUDY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS" first edition, first printing 3 vols. tall 8vo. xxxii, 592; xii, 683; xii, 699pp., folding map, original royal blue cloth, gilt lettered, bookplates and a few stamps of First Belfast Presbyterian Church Library, trace of old removed paper labels on endpapers, very slight marks on spines, else an unusually nice fine bright copy. HOWES U.S.iana (1650-1950), B906 This first edition includes the chapter in vol. III on the Tweed Ring which was later suppressedAn important work by this Irish traveller, writer, politician, government minister, ambassador and key figure in the forming of the League of Nations. During intervals in his holding of government office Bryce made three wide ranging tours of the United States. Their product was this book whose aim was "to portray 'the whole political system of the country in its practice as well as its theory', to explain 'not only the National Government, but the State… Read More

ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS6 vols. 8vo. [4], 624; [4], 640; xvi, 630; [4], 634; [4], 636; clxxiv, [2], 506pp., 60 folding plates of animals, contemporary French mottled calf, spines nicely gilt in compartments and with with contrasting lettering and numbering labels, French curl marbled endpapers, heads of spines a little scuffed or rubbed, a nice copy. Uncommon.

THE FIRST IRISH-PRINTED COLLECTED WORKSfirst Dublin edition 3 vols. 8vo. [4 (general title & contents)], 61, [1 (blank)], [6 (sectional title & contents)], 65-580; [4 (title & contents)], 655, [1 (blank)]; [4 (title & contents)], 602pp., contemporary bold Irish tree calf, gilt rolled border on sides, smooth spines richly gilt decorated in panels (two different large gilt tools at panel centres surrounded by smaller gilt tools), russet title and very dark blue numbering labels gilt, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, vol. 1 with front joint cracked and crack at head of rear joint, slight cracking to joints of vol. 2, some loss to gilt on spines, else a very good and handsome copy.ESTC t52809 TODD Burke Bibliography, 79h Vol. II has (as usual) the imprint 'Printed by William Porter, for R. Cross' [et alia] and is dated 1793. (vide Todd). The other volumes are dated 1792.The first three volumes of the collected Works were first published in quarto volumes in London in May 1792. These… Read More