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First edition of this parallel-text translation of Ramsay's Scots verse drama, a subscriber's copy from the library of Mary, Lady Vincent, née Chiswell, wife of Sir Francis Vincent (1747–1793), resident consul at Venice.Curiously there had been two earlier 'translations' of Ramsay's drama, in 1777 by Cornelius Vanderstop, and in 1785 by W. Ward. Turner later published a novel Infatuation; or Sketches from Nature (1810).Jackson 13871.

First and only edition, extremely rare, of this account of the Austro-Turkish War of 1788-1791, and of the concurrent Russo-Turkish war of 1787-92. It includes the full texts of the Treaty of Sistova of 4 August 1791 and of a separate convention attached to it, in both French and German. While the gains for Austria were meagre, the end of the Russo-Turkish war, sanctioned by the Treaty of Jassy of 9 January 1792, effectively left Russia in control of the Black Sea. Library Hub shows a single copy, at the British Library. Atabey 490 (this copy); not in Blackmer.8vo, pp. viii, 280; sporadic light foxing due to paper quality, but a very good copy, bound in contemporary half sheep, spine gilt-ruled in compartments, gilt lettering piece, shelfmark labels at head and foot of spine; front pastedown with book label ('Franz, Graf von Schönborn') of Franz, first Count of Schönborn-Buchheim (1768–1841), Schönborn-Buchheim armorial library label with shelfmark, and book label of Şefik E. Atabey.

Folio, pp. [xx], 632 (erroneously paginated 630), [32]; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns throughout, historiated woodcut initials and shoulder-notes; very light traces of dampstaining in the title, the outer margin of the initial leaves and the final leaf, else very clean and crisp, a very good copy in contemporary full vellum over wooden boards, panelled spine with gilt morocco lettering-piece and the remains of a paper library label at foot; contemporary ownership inscriptions on the title, one cropped in the upper margin, with the surviving motto 'Rien trop', and another in Latin, still sixteenth-century, 'Ad Anselmum Demazechiis pertinet' (?Anselmo Mazechi), further inscription (Girardet, canon) dated 1771 on the front paste-down.
Second, 'in every respect preferable' (Dibdin) edition of Gesner's Stobaeus, acclaimed as 'the first critical impression of the text of the Florilegium' (idem), philologically and critically much superior to the first, published in 1543. Gesner's parallel… Read More

4 vols, 8vo, with large folding partly-coloured map of India facing title to vol. I; a little spotting at beginning and end of each vol.; a very good, unopened copy in original dark purple cloth, gilt-lettered spines, yellow endpapers; spines faded, a few marks, a little wear to extremities.A handsome set of the first edition of this extraordinarily detailed overview of India in the mid-19th century. Thornton (1799-1875) worked at East India House between 1814 and 1857, serving as head of the maritime department from 1847. His six-volume History of the British Empire in India appeared between 1841 and 1845, and he contributed several entries on Indian subjects to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.Thornton's Gazetteer contains a wealth of information and statistics on Indian geography, history, politics, art and architecture, religion, culture, natural history, commerce, languages, climate, transport, population, military matters, and so on.

First edition, very rare. The Address is a revised version of the valedictory lecture given on 31 December 1818 to mark the centenary of the death of William Penn. It gives an explanation of the origins of the Society and then is entirely directed to the career and particularly the principles of William Penn, based on 'traditional information' and 'publicly and privately attested facts'. The private information was doubtless supplied by John Penn (1760-1834), founder of the Society, who, as a surviving grandson of William Penn, succeeded his father to the moiety of the last proprietorship of Pennsylvania.
The Outinian Society was originally founded in 1817 as the Matrimonial Society in response to an anonymous poem called 'Marriage' in the Monthly Magazine. It had the object of promoting marriage and improving the domestic life of married couples. Extending its aims to other schemes of human happiness – to 'the more perfect knowledge of certain less obvious truths and principles of human… Read More