Search Results: Titles starting with D from P & B Rowan

NORTH-EASTERN ITALY SURVEYED 1801-05 - LEADING AUSTRIAN SOLDIER SURVEYS VENETIAN LANDS large engraved map printed on four sheets, each sheet 46.5 x 63 cm., large engraved title panels in both German (top left) and Italian (botttom left), scale circa 1:234000, densely engraved to show topographical features and places, mountain formation shown by hill shading, three large engraved scale panels at lower right corner below the Italian title, hand coloured in wash around regional administrative boundaries with subdivisions inside each region shown by coloured lines of the same colour as that regio's boundary, attractive engraved boundary to the map incorporating scale elements, outer sides edged with green cotton, each sheet diced into 8 parts and mounted on linen for folding to circa 23 x 16 cms., the four sheets contained as issued in a card slipcase covered by grained green paper, slipcase lid with a lozenge shaped salmon coloured title label gilt bordered and gilt titled 'Il/ Ducato di Venezia/ del… Read More

HIS GREATEST WORK - FAMOUS IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY - HIS KINSMAN AND BIOGRAPHER'S COPY?
ESTC t146384King (Antrim 1650 - 1729), philosopher, churchman, and historian, the son of poor Presbyterian immigrants, was educated at T.C.D. where he joined the Anglican Church. He was ordained in 1674 and became Bishop of Derry and, from 1703, Archbishop of Dublin. He was an early member of the Dublin Philosophical Society founded by William Molyneux. He wrote the highly influential State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government in 1691 to justify the change in allegiance to King William, but he opposed most of the penal laws and condemned the incomplete ratification of the Treaty of Limerick. He opposed the growth of English influence in Irish affairs in such as Church patronage and the economy (he supported Swift against Wood's halfpence). He supported the teaching of Irish in T.C.D. but, despite being himself from a Presbyterian family, consistently opposed the toleration… 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

'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

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 EDITION WITH PRONUNCIATION - HANDSOME COPY IN A VELLUM BINDING first edition thus, with pronunciation 2 vols. 4to. (27.6 x 22 cms.) [68 (title, subscribers, preface, etc)], [1029], [3 (blank)]; [2 (title)], [1080]pp., fine engraved portrait plate of Johnson (engraved by S. Clayton from the Joshua Reynolds painting), dictionary text printed triple column, contemporary quarter vellum, smooth spines with powder blue morocco title labels gilt, pale grey paper on sides, rear endpapers of both vols. damp spotted, last few leaves of vol. 1 with very minor old marginal water stains, upper part of the leaves in the latter half of vol. 2 with an unobtrusive light old water stain (diminishing in extent from the rear) mainly scarcely visible (only really visible in the last few gatherings, and even there not disfiguring), else a very nice fresh copy. A particularly handsome copy in an unusual binding for an Irish-printed book of this period. Alston v.190 Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. ESTC… 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.

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED AND ILLUSTRATED SERIES FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PRESSfirst editions, most printed by hand tall 8vo. 12 booklets numbered I to XII, booklets illustrated and in original wrappers as below, most booklets with the pictorial device of a chapbook seller by Eric Patton on their last page, the booklets loosely inset in two batches into two original printed paper folders, the first of these folders on yellow paper with title and device printed in red and black on front panel, the second folder (2 copies here) on salmon paper printed on its front panel in red and black and printed in black on their rear panel with an advertisement for the 'Dolmen Press Ballad Sheets', all enclosed in a folding case with attractively patterned boards and a 'spine' of greenish-grey cloth, brown morocco title on 'spine' of case, fine fresh copies of both booklets and the fragile coloured folders. Nominally limited to 250 copies issued to subscribers (but actually fewer than 200 subscribers). Rare complete… Read More

HIS SECOND MAJOR COLLECTION INSCRIBED
first edition, first impression tall 8vo. 56pp., black cloth, spine gilt lettered, light fox spot at fore edge of half-title & title leaves, else a nice copy in a nice dust jacket (with just a hint of foxing).
Inscribed "Seamus Heaney/ 23rd December 1969" on title page and with a further non-authorial presentation inscription dated "Christmas 1969" on a preliminary blank (not the endpaper but the blank leaf following that).
Brandes & Durkan A5 His second major collection