Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

8vo, ff. [viii], 395, [17], with engraved title and 7 engraved illustrations; woodcut initials; slight worming from quire Nn onwards (touching some letters and illustrations), some light damp staining and toning, small tear to f. 290; overall very good in contemporary vellum, paper label with title to spine (slightly chipped); slightly marked and cockled; armorial bookplate to front pastedown.
Second edition, enlarged and revised (the first edition published earlier in 1614), a handsome copy. 'Un ouvrage aussi important que rare' (Leclerc). The first written account of the Capuchin mission to Maranhao, an island on the coast of Brazil, of which, Sabin notes, this is the earliest mention. In 1612 the mission, composed of the French Capuchins, Yves d'Evreux, Arsène de Paris, Ambroise d'Amiens, and Claude d'Abbeville, accompanied Daniel de la Rivardière's expedition to settle Maranhao. Relations between the French and the local Tupi indians were good and the… Read More

4to, pp. [16], '20' [i.e.
209], [7], with the initial and medial blanks *1 and A4 (often wanting); early inscription to title-page sometime obscured, title-page slightly toned; withal, a fine crisp copy in contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, original ties (lower tie partly lacking); contemporary annotation to a rear endpaper concerning 'the divers and disagring (sic) opinions of histographers'.
First edition. Fulbecke's Historicall Collection
'was a narrative history of the last years of the Roman republic and it is significant as one of the very few attempts by a Renaissance Englishman to write such a work … An interesting attempt to weave together such often-contradictory sources as Sallust, Dio Cassius, and Lucius Florus, the work features an extended consideration of the rebellion of the turbulent nobleman Catiline' (ODNB).
This section was undoubtedly included as a reference to the Earl of Essex, for whom contemporary comparisons to Catiline are practically a… Read More

First edition in English, rare, of the first significant European study of China, 'one of the outstanding "best-sellers" of the sixteenth century' (Boxer). A publication of enormous influence on Elizabethan conceptions of China, it also contained much information on the Spanish Americas. The translation, by Robert Parke, was undertaken at the request and encouragement of Richard Hakluyt, appearing before the latter's Principal Navigations and was dedicated to the explorer Thomas Cavendish. The publisher John Wolfe had issued an edition in Italian under a false 'Venice' imprint in 1587, but this was the first time the work was accessible to a wider English audience. Mendoza had departed on a mission to China in 1580, but because of political instability in the Philippines he made it no further then Mexico, returning to Spain and then Rome in 1583, where he was commissioned to write this history, drawing upon information provided by missionaries in Mexico. La Historia de las Cosas más Notables,… Read More

First edition, very scarce, of a history of the conquistadores for young readers, loosely derived from Antonio Solís de Ribadeneyra's Historia de la Conquista de México. Contrary to the suggestion of the British Library catalogue, it is not a reprint of the text that had appeared in Smollet's A Compendium of authentic and entertaining Voyages (1756), though the description of the voyage of Vasco de Gama (II, 101-130) is the same. Little is known of Dilworth, despite his authorship of numerous digests of history for younger readers in the 1750s, including one of Pizarro's conquest of Peru, as well as biographies of Pope and Swift and a Complete Letter-Writer that saw numerous editions in America.ESTC shows five copies, of which only Kent State and John Carter Brown have volume II. There are also complete copies at Yale and Newberry. Sabin 20184.Two vols. in one, 12mo., pp. [4], 127, [1]; 130, no title-page to second volume (as issued), with a half-title to volume I; a very good copy in the… Read More

3 works in 2 vols, 8vo, pp. I: xxxvii, [1], 408, Supplement (pt i): iv, 48, II: [4], 472,
Supplement (pt ii): 72 xxiv, 142, [2 (publisher's prospectus)]; with a great many woodcut illustrations; slight spots in places and a few instances of offsetting, otherwise an attractive set; contemporary half calf with later 19th-century marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments and tooled in blind with gilt red and green morocco lettering-pieces; rubbed, a few scuffs, corners lightly bumped, minor split to upper joint of vol. I; armorial bookplates of Adam Sim, Coulter, to upper pastedowns, with a [2] pp. autograph letter to Sim signed by William Euing bound in, dated 'Glasgow, 8th Nov. 1853'.
First collected editions, with an autograph letter on the Hebridal smelt from the species' discoverer. Published serially from 1835 to 1836, Yarrell's History of British Fishes was reprinted within a year, and followed… Read More

First edition, a fine association copy. Agnes Bedford (1892-1969) was a lifelong friend of Pound (they first met in 1919 and corresponded until 1963 when he unexpectedly severed contact) and through him of Wyndham Lewis, with whom she had an affair in the 1920s. A vocal coach and accompanist, she provided the music for Pound's Five Troubadour Songs (1920). After he left for Paris in January 1920, Bedford sublet his flat; she then visited him in Paris the following year, where she was the principal amanuensis for his opera based on Villon's Le Testament. She was later the rehearsal coach for its first performance in 1931 and her contacts were vital to the casting of singers (Bridson was later involved in the first broadcast of the opera in 1962, for which Bedford was frequently consulted). Laid in here is a copy of a letter of 4 May 1969 from Bedford to Bridson on his retirement – 'I have been so happy to read all the appreciative things about you on all sides' – recalling 'happy times at Studio A'… Read More

First edition, inscribed 'To Geoffrey Bridson – you who did so much to make the completion of this book possible, and who was chiefly responsible for its translation into Radio drama – I salute you. / Wyndham Lewis'. After the broadcast of Bridson's production of The Childermass (1928) on 18 June 1951, the BBC commissioned Lewis to complete the trilogy 'on the condition that when they were finished similar broadcast dramatizations would precede book publication. As a result of this sponsorship – largely the work of B.B.C. producer D. G. Bridson – Lewis was able to write Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta' (Morrow & Lafourcade). When the two novels had been completed, 'a set of the galley proofs was then made over to me, and I sketched out what had to be done. Briefly, this was a matter of writing additional scenes which would be necessary to bridge the gaps left by cutting such a lengthy work. The extra scenes were written by me along the lines that I had indicated, and the whole was trimmed… Read More