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The Welsh Harper,
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The Welsh Harper,: being an Extensive Collection of Welsh Music, [and] The Welsh Harper .. Second Volume.

by PARRY, John

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AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF WELSH FOLK MUSIC - FINE COPY FROM A SUBSCRIBER'S COLLECTION [Full title] The Welsh Harper, being an Extensive Collection of Welsh Music, including most of the contents of the three volumes published by the late Edward Jones called Relics of the Bards with numerous annotations on Historical Subjects, also several Airs from the Publications of the late Mr. Parry of Ruabon, (Harper to the Wynnstay family), with Many Others never before Published, to which is prefixed Observations on the Character and Antiquity of the Welsh Music, also an Account of the Rise and Progress of The Harp from the Earliest Period to the Present Time [Volume First] ... [with] The Welsh Harper, containing Two Hundred Welsh Airs, chiefly selected from manuscript Collections; interspersed with numerous interesting Historical Notes and Observations on the Music of Wales, arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte ... Volume Second.first edition 2 vols. folio [2 (letterpress title)], (3)-8, 144… Read More
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The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture
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The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture: illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome

by PENNETHORNE, John

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IMPORTANT RESEARCHES ON ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE IN A LAVISHLY PRODUCED & PRIVATELY PUBLISHED VOLUME first edition large folio (57.5 x 38.5 cms.) [4 (half-title & title)], xvi, 249, [1 (blank)]pp.on thick paper, 55 lithographed plates (some coloured), original publisher's half maroon straight-grained leather with very dark green cloth on sides, spine gilt lettered, front board gilt lettered, neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid and the original yellow glazed endpapers reused, corners neatly refurbished, a few very minor patches of surface scuffing on spine, else an excellent copy. Uncommon, and rare in this condition. Important researches on ancient architecture, in particular on the use of subtle curvature in Greek architecture to counteract perspective effects.Pennethorne (1808–1888), English architect, followed his elder brother James into the influential architectural practice of the architect John Nash. "In 1830 he began a five-year tour of professional study in Europe and… Read More
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The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the end of the Year 1720.
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The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the end of the Year 1720.: Abridged .. [through to 'the year 1732, to the year 1744' (details below]

by PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, ABRIDGED]

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The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the end of the Year 1720. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the end of the Year 1720. Abridged ... In Five Volumes. By John Lawthorp .. and Henry Jones. ... Fourth Edition.London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton, D. Midwinter [etc.]: 1731-1732 5 vols. 4to. [here Vols. 1, 2 & 5 only, lacking vols. 3 & 4] Vol.1: [12], iv, [64], 620pp. & 7 plates; Vol.2: [4], 915pp. & 14 plates; Vol. 5: [8], 435, [1 (blank)], 268, [12 (index)] & 14 plates ... [with]The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year 1720, to the Year 1732) abridged and disposed under General Heads. By Mr. Reid and John Gray ... Vol. VI. containing Part I. The Mathematical Papers. Part II. The Physiological Papers. Part III. The Anatomical and Medical Papers. Part IV. The Philological and Miscellaneous Papers London: Printed for William Innys and Richard Manby, Printers to the Royal Society: 1733 first edition 4to. [here Vol.6, Part I only] Part 1: [30],… Read More
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Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part.
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Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part.: Containing a Collection of Original Poems, with Several New Translations. By the Most Eminent Hands. [Edited by N. Rowe].

by POPE, Alexander]

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POPE'S EARLIEST PUBLICATION first edition 8vo. [12], 172, 177-224, 221-298, 301-632, (721)-751pp. complete, fine engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine panels richly gilt decorated, neatly rebacked with the original (rather heavily rubbed and chipped) spine panels relaid, corner tips neatly refurbished, new endpapers, frontispiece just shaved at lower edge. A very good copy. GRIFFITH Alexander Pope, A Bibliography, 1 Not in Rothschild ESTC t142876 Collation: pi1(frontis.); A4; B-T8; U7; X-Rr8; Ss6; Aaa-Bbb8This book exists in two states. This copy combines the changes of both and has cancel leaf Y3 with turnover, cancels Hh8 and Mm3 in position and Ss with 6 leaves only.Pope, then only twenty years old, contributed Pastorals (which has its own divisional title page) and some other poems to this final volume of Tonson's or Dryden's Miscellanies (1684-1709) as they are called. They are his earliest publication. The Pope contributions are not affected by the two issues."The… Read More
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A Treatise on Ruptures
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A Treatise on Ruptures: … The Second Edition: Altered, Corrected, and Improved.

by POTT, Percivall

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LEADING ENGLISH SURGEON'S CLASSIC FIRST BOOK 8vo. xvii, [1 (advt.)], 198, [2 (errata & blank)]pp., contemporary calf, sometime rebacked with a new spine with black morocco title label, no front free endpaper (as rebacked), boards worn at corners and edges, else very good. Early signature erased from front pastedown endpaper and some contemporary manuscript comments on the text written in the margins by presumably that owner. Early engraved armorial bookplate of MacDonnell Earl of Antrim. ESTC t55009. L6 a cancel as usual. First published in 1756 and again reprinted in 1769 and 1775. Garrison Morton 3576 (first edition). Pott (1714-1788), English surgeon, became assistant surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1745 and in 1753 he and William Hunter were elected the first lecturers in anatomy to the new Surgeons Company (later Royal College of Surgeons). "At St Bartholomew's Hospital Pott saw many patients and acquired the profound clinical experience so evident in his later… Read More
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Personae & Exultations
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Personae & Exultations

by POUND, Ezra

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ONE OF A MAXIMUM OF 140 COPIES THUS - LOVELY COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL BOARDS
first editions, joint reissue small 8vo. [2 (half title)], viii, 9-59, [1 (printer's device &c.)]; [4 (blank)], (iii)-viii, 51, [1 (printer's device &c.)], [2 (reviews)], [6 (Elkin Mathews advts.)], [2 (blank)]pp., original brown boards, front cover and spine gilt lettered, edges untrimmed, most of front free-endpaper excised (possibly as sold), couple of pinhole worm holes at lower margin of first few leaves, spine just a shade faded and with a few light and trivial marks, else a fine fresh copy and virtually as new. Rare in this condition.
Gallup Bibliography Pound, 3b-4b. Both first editions, second issue. One of a maximum of 140 copies.Personae and Exultations had first been issued by Elkin Mathews in April and October 1909 respectively. This joint reissue of "not more than 500 copies ... consists of the first-edition sheets of the two books with their original title-leaves excised ... and new half-title leaf for the volume… Read More
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Canzoni & Ripostes
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Canzoni & Ripostes: ... whereto are appended the complete poetical works of T. E. Hulme

by POUND, Ezra

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ONE OF A MAXIMUM OF 140 COPIES THUS - LOVELY COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL BOARDS
first editions, joint reissue 8vo. [2 (half-title)], viii, 51, [52]; [3]-63, [64], [4 (advts.)]pp., original brown boards, front cover and spine gilt lettered, edges untrimmed, spine and upper edges of sides just a trifle faded, couple of trivial marks on spine, fine bright copy. Rare in this condition, virtually as new.
Gallup Bibliography Pound, 7b-8b Only about 140 copies issued in this form.Canzone and Ripostes had been first issued by Elkin Matthews in July 1911 and Stephen Swift in October 1912 respectively. This joint reissue of "not more than 500 copies ... consists of the first edition sheets of the two books .. with new half-title and title-leaf for the volume .. inserted at the front ... The two leaves of advertisements, which formed pages [53-56] in the first issue have been excised and inserted at the end of the volume. The Ripostes sheets have the original half-title and title-leaf excised and a new half-title leaf… Read More
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Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti
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Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti: with translations of them and an introduction by Ezra Pound

by POUND, Ezra [translator]

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first English edition 8vo. [8], 135, [1 (printer's slug)], 32 (Swift's advts.)pp., original streaky grey cloth, front board and spine gilt lettered, edges untrimmed, free endpapers lightly toned, small pale mark (splash?) on front board, spine very slightly darkened, else a nice copy.
Gallup Pound Bibliography, B4Published in both American and English editions in April and May 1912 respectively. The number of copies printed of the English edition is unknown but Swift went bankrupt later in 1912 and Pound himself "states in the bibliography of his work which he supplied for T. S. Eliot's anonymous Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry (1917) that the bulk of this edition was destroyed by fire, presumably at the binders, where the sheets were being held as late as November 1914" [Gallup]. "Contents identical with the American edition, except for slight revisions in the Introduction and in some of the translations" [Gallup]. The medieval Italian poet Cavalcanti became "a strong influence on a number of… Read More
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History of the Conquest of Mexico,
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History of the Conquest of Mexico,: with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes.

by PRESCOTT, William H.

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NICE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTHfirst edition 3 vols. tall 8vo. xxxii, 442; xvi ,440; xvi, 456pp., portrait in each vol., folding maps, 1 plate, original cloth blocked in blind and gilt, vol.3 partially unopened, spines little faded, heads of spines little scuffed. A very good in original condition.Contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell of Marchmont.The true first edition. This English edition preceded the first U.S. printing by three months.The classic account by one of the greatest scholars of Spanish history, and especially of its development in the Americas.
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The Book of Common Prayer,
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The Book of Common Prayer,: and the Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites ... use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David ..

by PRINTING, ILLUSTRATION & TYPOGRAPHY] BYFIELD Mary (woodcutter)]

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'A TRIUMPH OF PRINTINGAS WELL AS OF ILLUSTRATION AND TYPOGRAPHY'IN AN APPROPRIATE SCOTTISH BINDINGfirst edition thus 12mo. (in sixes) collates a-d6, B-Z6, AA-KK6, a-z6, AA6 (that is 720 pages) printed in Caslon type, title page printed in red and black within a deep and striking woodcut border representing the Tree of Jesse, full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title page, text inside varied and complex decorative and pictorial woodcut borders throughout by Mary Byfield, decorative initial letters, contemporary dark purple morocco over bevelled boards (signed on verso of front free endpaper "Orrock Binder Edinb."), sides blocked with 8 nesting borders of blind fillets and rolls some crossing at the corners to make small corner compartments with a leaf tool in blind in each, spine with raised bands and blind tooling, direct lettered gilt, all edges gilt, purple ribbon marker, some very minor and scattered light foxing, some light rubbing else a nice copy. Handsome copy of a most… Read More
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