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'MILESTONE IN THE EARLY LITERATURE OF GAS ANALYSIS' first edition tall 8vo. [2 title)], ii (editor's 'advertisement'), v-viii, 47,[1]pp, frontispiece plate, advertisement leaf a cancel ... [bound after]PRIESTLEY, Joseph A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. The Third Edition.London: Printed for J. Johnson tall 8vo. [4 (half-title & title)], 5-85, [3 (advt.)]pp., 5 plates (4 folding), The two items bound together in contemporary calf, spine paneled by gilt highlighted raised bands, russet morocco title label, the first plate in the Priestley cropped by the binder at the fold and thus missing the right-hand half, else a nice copy. Very neat contemporary signature on title "Edw. Roche". Magalhaes: ESTC t74551 Dictionary Scientific Biography, Vol. 9, p.5-6The leaf following the title page, pages [i]-ii, is a cancel: 'Advertisement of the editor, relating to the use of the simple glass machines for making mineral waters'. The pagination picks up a p.v and the book is… Read More

HANDSOME COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BOLDLY SPECKLED CALF2 vols. tall 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 580; (iii)-(viii), 484, [58 (index)]pp., contemporary boldly speckled calf, smooth spines richly decorated in gilt in panels using two different designs, black lettering and russet numbering labels gilt, board edges gilt rolled, spines a trifle chaffed at headbands, some cracking at ends of some joints, but overall a very nice copy.Near contemporary pencilled shelf number "D198" of Lord Dunraven of Adare Manor, Co. Limerick, on endpaper.KRESS B5219This is edition incorporates the substantial revisions and additions which Malthus had made for his third edition of 1806. They are listed and described in full in his preliminary 'Advertisement' to that edition, also printed here. The most substantial of the changes made was that "The chapters which were the fourth and sixth of the second book are nearly rewritten, on account of an error into which the author had fallen in an attempt to estimate the fruitfulness of marriages and… Read More

HANDSOMELY BOUND 2 vols. tall 8vo. [4 (title & contents leaf)],345; [2 (title)],353pp., 2 folding maps, contemporary half tan calf, spines panelled by gilt highlighted raised bands, panels richly blocked in blind, dark tan morocco labels gilt, marbled sides, some foxing, else a fine and handsome copy. Armorial bookplate of Lord Farnham, Co. Cavan. An uncommon edition of an influential work by this well-known novelist. Apart from his diary of his travels in the New York state, Washington, Kentucky and Canada Marryat included in the first part separate sections on language usage, credit, penitentiaries, army, the American marine, slavery, religion in America, societies and association, law, lynch law, climate, education. The second part dealt with travelling, emigration and migration, the newspaper press, American writers, the Mississippi and its society, women, public opinion, patriotism, relations with Britain, moral climate (low in part consequential from the lack of an aristocracy),… Read More

FIRST PRINTING OF FOUR MILTON SONNETS & OF A LIFE BY HIS NEPHEWfirst edition thus 12mo. [6], xlviii (Life), [6 (catalogue of works)], 336pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, spine panelled by raised bands, panels gilt tooled, edges sprinkled red, binding skilfully refurbished at ends of spine and joints and with a new sympathetic maroon morocco label. An attractive copy in its first binding.Signed "A. Perkin/ 1729" on endpaper and with a note in his hand to the effect that Phillips was "elder nephew of Milton". A very few neat Mss notes in the same hand. Inscribed "Edward Berwick/ 1791" on facing endpaper.ESTC r4807 Wing M2126 Pforzheimer, 713 Shawcross, J. Milton, 367, 368 Coleridge Milton Collection in Turnbull Library, 34 A translation, by Edward Phillips, of Literæ pseudo-senatûs Anglicani, Cromwellii, reliquorumque perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptæ, a publication of dispatches written by Milton in his capacity of Latin secretary to the Council of State, between the years 1649 and 1659 and… Read More

FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST SIX BOOKLET ISSUE
first edition 8vo. xxx, [2 (colophon & a blank)]pp., original stiff brown wrappers ... [with]
The Rout of the Amazones first edition 8vo. xxxiii, [1 (colophon)]pp., original stiff brown wrappers ... [with]
The Gazelles and Other Poems first edition 8vo. xxxi, [1 (colophon)]pp., original stiff brown wrappers ... [with]
Pan's Prophecy first edition 8vo. xxx, [2 (colophon & a blank)]pp., original stiff brown wrappers ... [with]
To Leda and Other Odes first edition 8vo. xxxix, [1 (colophon)]pp., errata slip, original stiff brown wrappers ... [with]
Theseus Medea and Lyrics first edition 8vo. xxxv, [1 (colophon)]pp., original stiff brown wrappers. All with the title and a design of a mythical beast printed in black on front panel, first two dated 1903 and the last four 1904, half title of last number foxed and a few other scattered trivial fox spots, a few trivial marks and wear on wrappers, but fine fresh copies, virtually as new.
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REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED COPY first edition folio xviii, 278, [1 (colophon)], [1 (blank)]pp., 12 photographic plates (most double sided) with 23 images, original dark blue cloth, front cover and spine gilt blocked, fore and lower edges untrimmed, a few trivial fox spots on the deckled fore edge of a few leaves, else as new in the grey paper dust jacket (also as new) overprinted in red and black. A remarkable survival in this condition. Fell (1625 - 1686), English churchman and influential academic, served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford. He was key figure in the reorganization of Oxford University after the Restoration. "He has a permanent place in history as the founder of the first corporately -owned university press. The press which he set up and maintained largely at his own expense he bequeathed to the University on his death in 1686 and with it an equipment for printing in Latin or vernacular, Greek and exotic scripts bought or… Read More