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London: Richard Bentley, 1841. Three volumes complete - Volume One - [3]-vi, [3], 2-400pp; Volume Two - [5], 2-406pp; and Volume Three - [5], 2-404pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spines in five panels, title label to second panel, volume label to fourth. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise externally very good. Internally some light foxing to portraits, endpapers, and occasionally to text, especially to the first volume, but generally fairly clean. With portrait frontispieces to each volume, and another two portraits to third volume, bound without half-titles. Book plate of Horatio Noble Pym to front pastedowns. Now housed in a leather entry slipcase. The first edition of Mackay's extraordinarily popular work on human delusions, which included economic bubbles (South Sea bubble, Mississippi Company bubble, and tulip mania), alchemy, prophecies, thievery, beards, duelling, and price riots. Kress C5560. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 8vo.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by Mackay, Charles
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Illustrations of the Truth of the Christian Religion
by Maltby, Edward
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1803. xvi, 395pp, [1]. Slightly later full russian calf, smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt bands, author and title to second panel, remaining panels with central lozenge shaped gilt device, covers with single fillet gilt border. Spine slightly faded, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally quite bright and clean. From the library of Earl Eldon, with his name and bookplate to front pastedown. Second Edition. Full Calf. Good+. 8vo.
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Epigrammatum
by Martialis, M. Valerii (Martial, Marcus Valerius); Collesso, Vincentius (Ed)
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Parisiis (Paris): Antonium Cellier, 1680. [28], 793, [3], 59, [1], 168pp. Full vellum, raised bands, spine in seven panels, title in ink to second panel, covers with central arabesque inside a two line panel with fleuron corner pieces inside a double fillet border. Small amount of loss to first panel, some creasing and browning to spine, covers slightly splayed. Internally slightly browned and very lightly dust-stained to edges. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown and another name to title page. Additional engraved title. Usual attractive Delphin edition. Brunet III:1492, Schweiger 599. First Edition. Full Vellum. Good. 4to.
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[Opera] Cum Selectis Variorum
by Maximi, Valerii; (Maximus, Valerius); Thysii, A. (Ed)
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Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Hackiana, 1670. [16], 844pp, [32]. Full vellum with overlapping fore-edges, smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt double rules, first panel with author's name in gilt, remaining panels with central tudor rose in gilt, covers with gilt double fillet border and central coat of arms. Slightly rubbed, vellum very slightly grubby, internally lightly browned, but generally clean. Engraved title page. Dibdin calls this the best variorum edition, "elegantly printed by Hackius, and was superintended by Thysius ... It is now a scarce book" (Dibdin). Dibdin II:522, Schweiger II:1111. First Thus. Full Vellum. Good+. 8vo.
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
by Melville, Herman
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. [5], vi-xxiii, [2], 2-634pp, [8]. Original blue-green cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine with publisher's circular blind stamp to centre of covers, orange endpapers. Rebacked, with original back strip laid down, gilt to spine has largely been retouched (ie. bands to head, title, and author). Back strip lightly stained. Internally lightly browned and lightly foxed throughout, but nothing too obtrusive. Housed in a very good morocco backed drop back box, made by Asprey & Garrard. BAL 13664 (noting a variety of cloth and endpaper colours). First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.
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The Romance of Nature; Or The Flower-Seasons Illustrated
by Meredith, Louisa Anne Twamley
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London: Charles Tilt, 1836. xviii, [2], 253pp, [3]. Publishers decorated morocco, smooth back, title in gilt to spine, covers with central gilt floral spray inside an oval flower and leaf blindtooled with floral cornerpieces in blind, a.e.g. Spine faded, rubbed to outer joints and edges, small scrape to bottom corner of lower cover. Internally some sporadic and very light spotting, generally bright and clean. Previous owners armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Additional engraved and coloured title, with a further twenty-six hand-coloured plates (as called for). First Edition. Full Morocco. Good+. Illus. by Twamley, Louisa Anne. 8vo.
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History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
by Mignet, A.F.
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London: Hunt and Clarke, 1826. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [2], vi, 440pp and Volume Two - vii, [1], 436pp. Contemporary full morocco, double bands, spines in five panels, title in gilt to second panel, volume to fourth, remaining with triple fillet frame and volute corner and side pieces, covers with elaborate volute frame in gilt around a volute centre piece in blind, a.e.g., primrose endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, especially spine ends and corners, some light fading to head of upper cover of volume two. Hint of foxing to edges of text block, internally quite bright and clean. Previous owner's (James H. Prinsep) bookplate to front pastedowns, gift inscription to ffep, small Eton book label to front pastedowns. First Edition. Full Morocco. Good+. 8vo.
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Fun and Fantasy - Drawings from Punch
by Milne, A.A. (Introduction); Shepard, Ernest H.
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London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1927. 87pp, [1], original decorative boards. Spine slightly browned, covers foxed and rubbed. Lightly foxed to page edges and endpapers, otherwise quite bright and clean. With an introduction by A.A. Milne, and many black and white line drawings and seven colour illustrations by Shepard. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Shepard, Ernest H.. Folio.
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Our Village
by Mitford, Mary Russell; Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (Introduction)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [7]-lx, [3], 4-256pp. Contemporary full morocco by Riviere, raised bands, spine in six panels, title and author lettered directly to second panel, remaining panels with central lozenge volute tool and volute corner pieces, covers with central arabesque surrounded by elaborate roll, a double fillet frame, a circle and star roll, another double fillet frame and a dotted roll border, edges with double fillet roll, inner edges with a volute roll border, a double fillet frame with dotted roll between the lines and a rope roll to inner edge, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, small patch of discolouring to upper and lower covers, internally quite bright and clean. One of four hundred and seventy large paper copies, with twelve full page illustrations. Bound by Riviere and Son in 1894, for L.S. Montague (or Montagu), 2nd Baron Swaythling (1869-1927), financier and co-founder of the anti-Zionist League of British Jews. A unique copy of this large paper…
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The Works of Samuel Johnson
by Murphy, Arthur (Essay by)
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London: G. Walker, J. Akerman et al, 1820. Twelve volumes complete - Volume One - v, [1], 344pp; Volume Two - iv, 438pp; Volume Three - [4], 442pp; Volume Four - vi, 446pp; Volume Five - v, [1], 443pp, [1]; Volume Six - v, [1], 397pp, [1]; Volume Seven - v, [1], 408pp; Volume Eight - iv, 412pp; Volume Nine - vi, 459pp, [1]; Volume Ten - [6], 410pp; Volume Eleven - [6], 389pp, [1] and Volume Twelve - [2], iv, 455pp, [1]. Uniform contemporary straight grain morocco, raised bands, spines in six panels, author/title in gilt to second panel, volume to fourth, remaining panels with gilt central flower from which emanates leafy stem and flower tools, bands with gilt linked circles, covers with double panel design, the inner gilt frame made up of intertwined flower roll enclosed within a double fillet and bordered by a blind roll, a further blind roll is then bordered by a gilt roll, gilt roll to inner dentelles, a.e.g. Externally very minor rubbing to extremities, internally some light browning and off…
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