Rare books from John Atkins

8vo., [8], xiv, 618, 64, plus indexes, [4] pages.Full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt title. Inner gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Leather to joints, leading edges of boards, and corners rubbed with marginal loss on corners. Corners bumped. Minor scratching and indents to boards without loss. Light foxing for first +/-30 pages and sporadically to a few subsequent pages. Heavy foxing to rear end-paper and final page of indexes. Otherwise text very clean. Very good condition except for defects reported.
Three plates present of the four for regular copies listed by Windle & Pippin "seldom all present in regular or large-paper copies" (Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847 A Bibliography, New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 1999, p.42) – missing the frontispiece portrait of Dibdin. The cuts at pp. 250, 254, and 484 are on india paper which Windle & Pippin note are "sometimes found" in copies (ibid. p,43).
One of 500 copies printed.
Windle & Pippin A11d.
As a heavy and high… Read More

STC 12635 (with variations) / 12635.5. [Solely the facsimile title-page used for the volume. See photo.]
Small folio, (320 x 205mm).
Modern cloth binding with five raised bands, corners slightly rubbed, red morocco title-label with gilt lettering. Internally very clean and unmarked except in a very few cases with minor stains and ink smudges and with very small page tears to 10 pages (repaired), 10 words missing from 4 pages due to tears all have been added in pencil. At the end of the volume there is a 28 page "Alphabetticall Table of the Whole Worke". The final page has a tear with paper loss to the bottom which slightly impacts upon the text. A facsimile of this page has been added to compensate for this loss of text. Ex-libris on inner top board: Eric Gerald Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor, University of Oxford.
Joseph Hall (1574-1656) satirist, moralist and polemicist, particularly in defending episcopacy, and author of devotional works, including contemplations carrying a political… Read More

(i) Prospero Stellartio [Prosper Stellart], Fundamina et regulae.... Duaci [Douai], Baltazaris Belleri [Balthazar Bellere / Laurence Kellam], 1626 bound together with (ii) Prospero Stellartio [Prosper Stellart], Annales monastici sive Chronologia libris septemdecim totidemque seculis distincta.... Duaci [Douai], Gerardum Pinchon [Gerard Pichon], 1627 [2nd edition, 1st 1626].
An article by Alexander Soetaert and Heleen Wyffels in the September 2021 edition of The Library (page 374) has identified the printing house of Laurence Kellam (also of Douai) as the likely printer, in whole or part, of 'Fundamina et regulae omnium ordinum monasticorum et militarium….'. See photos for the so-called hidden trade mark of Laurence Kellam, a typographical ornament containing his initials ('L. K.')
4to., (i) [in fours] a4 e4 A-Z 2A-2Z 3A-3Z 4A-4R [4R4 blank]; [16], 660, [26] pages with 3 folding tables at 2I4 p256, 2T4 p336, and 3E2 p404; (ii) a1 F2 F3 a2?, [in fours] A – S ; [6], 24, 18, 20, 26, 26, 30, [4] pages… Read More

Text, complete in itself, is extracted from CHURCHILL, AWNSHAM, and JOHN: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol 2,). Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London, 1704.
Title-page, preface, pages numbered 559-688.
Boards with marks, spine rubbed with split to top 70mm of front joint but holding firm. Text clean and clear. Age toning and traces of humidity to page margins not touching text.

Hernando (Ferdinand) Colon was Christopher Columbus's youngest son. His life of his father was written at a time when his father's legacy was under serious challenge from many quarters, including the court of the Spanish Crown. These attempts to diminish Columbus's role as the primary discoverer of the New World also presented a threat to the fortunes and future legacy of the wider Columbus family.
Hernando is the major source of information concerning his father's life and voyages, especially his fourth voyage to the New World. He accompanied his father on his fourth… Read More

Vatican Publication Supporting the Canonization of one of the few Female Founder Saints of the Catholic Church
[2], XII, 86, [2] pages. Patterned end-papers with slight remains of a small ex-libris label. Title in red and black. Vignette engraving to title-page, two engraved initial letters, and an engraved head and tail piece. With a dedication to Pope Benedict XIII.
Binding somewhat rubbed, mainly to corners and extremities and with a few small marks to the boards. Gilt tooling to extremities with signs of wear. Browning to pages 1-8 and 81-86. A very good copy.
Domenico Maria Antinori (1664-1734), Jesuit from Naples and the author of a number of religious works.
The first 37 pages cover the life and death of Giuliana Falconieri (1270-1341) providing a general narrative and context, reflecting the situation whereby her early life had largely been recorded in an oral tradition. The remaining text systematically sets out a number of miraculous events attributed to her sacred relics and the veneration… Read More

xxxviii, [2], 319 pages (including black and white photographs of documents held in the Biblioteca Colombina). Slight rubbing to top corners of the boards. Very neat paper repairs to the bottom corners of pages ix – xxiv, not touching text. Very small blemish (remains of paper label?) to front end-paper. Spanish text clean and unmarked.Includes "the most authoritative edition of the will" of Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus (Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, London, 2019, page 343). This volume was produced to coincide with the quadricentennial anniversary of the death of Hernando Colon (the volume contains 105 documents reproduced in text format and 4 in photographic facsimiles covering 66 pages.
A note to the reader explains that previous publications have contained textual errors arising from mistakes in copies obtained from the original documents held by the Biblioteca Colombina. The intention in producing this publication was to "remedy these… Read More

"I have nothing to do with [it]. I knew nothing about it." David Livingstone, February 1857
A Narrative of Dr. Livingston's Discoveries in South-Central Africa, From 1849 to 1856. Reprinted by Arrangement from the "British Banner" newspaper. London: Routledge and Co., Printed by Reed and Pardon, n.d. but with a preface dated January 1857. [There is an advertisement for this booklet in the January 10, 1857 edition of The Illustrated London News.]
64 pages with a folding map of central and southern Africa tipped in before the title-page. Original pictorial cover of thick red card with a portrait to the front and advertisement for Routledge's Shakespeare on the reverse.
Card cover with modest signs of wear and a few splits to the spine, particularly the front hinge. Small loss to the spine top and bottom. Small 15mm tear to the inner margin of the map neatly repaired with archival tape. Light foxing to the end-papers and map. Title-page a little soiled. Lower corner of cover and pages very slightly… Read More

Attempted 'fake-news' to influence British opinion during the War of Polish Succession?viii, pages numbered [9]-62
Title-page and rear free end-paper a little darkened. Title-page with a small bookseller's notation in pencil. Slight fraying to rear lower edge of original cover. Very good condition.
ESTC: T041409. The Gentleman's Magazine: or Monthly Intelligencer, vol. 5 for the year 1735, gives the date of publication as January 1735.
Dedicated to Lord Harrington, then Secretary of State for the Northern Department (later the Foreign Office) under Prime Minister Robert Walpole, this is purportedly a partial translation of a Spanish work entitled, "Meditaciones Morales sobre las Reynas, Ministros, y Confessores del Rey nuestro Sennor, desde su veneda hasta estos Tiempos ; puestas en luz para la mayor Instruction y Edificacion de todos Hombres de Intendimento en nuestra querida aunque pobre y affligida Ispagna." No date or author for this work is given and an extensive search of online databases has… Read More

The frontispiece is an original lithograph by Pearl Binder. Number 20 of an edition of 33 copies only, signed by the author and artist.[10], 381 pages. Printed on Simili Japon paper.
Cloth soiled with a light circular stain on the lower board. Buckram lightly rubbed at spine extremities. Cocked, corners lightly bumped. Paste-downs a little soiled. Minor foxing to pages 49-53, and 173-177. Small red mark to upper margin page 265. Pages rough cut, occasionally to different sizes. Page 181 cut close to the text block. Small pencil notation to the front paste-down recording book details and purchase price of 35 shillings(?). Text clean and unmarked.

With the ex-libris, to front paste-down, of Alberto Lopez Herce – possibly ex-Cónsul General de España in New York.
Louis Golding (1895-1958) British writer, scriptwriter, journalist, and essayist. Born in Manchester, England, he used the city and his Jewish upbringing as background and recurrent themes in his novels. Identifying himself as staunchly to… Read More

The NORTH BRITON continued by several hands, Vol. I. Part I. [Numbers I - XLVI]
Printed for W. Bingley, London, 1769
Number 1, June 5, 1762 to number 46, November 12, 1763, [plus] Index, [and] An Appendix to the First Forty-Six numbers of the North Briton ("A Full and Distinct Account of the Persecution carried on against John Wilkes Esq. With a Faithful Collection of the Gentleman's Tracts from the Year 1762 to the Year 1769."). The Appendix is prefaced by a 2-page statement from W. Bingley dated August 29, 1769, "Kings' Bench Prison", in which he sets out his reasons for reprinting (in folio format) the original 46 numbers of the North Briton and the Appendix. There are a few hand-written corrections in ink of a date in the appendix – probably contemporaneous to printing.
[2, facsimile title-page], pages numbered 1-163 [page numbers 21-24 not used], [4, index], vi, cxii
ESTC T177671

Bound with

The NORTH BRITON continued by several hands, Vol. I. Part II. [Numbers XLVII - C]
Printed for W.… Read More

Lando, Ortensio. Ragionament Familiari di Diversi Autori, non meno dotti, che faceti, et dedicati alla rara cortesia del molto Reverendo & illust. Signore il Sig. Andrea Mattheo d'Acqua Viua. In Vinegia [Venecia] al segno del Pozzo, 1550
8vo, A-Q⁴; 64 leaves. Large printer's device on title-page and historiated initials.
OCLC 504326403
bound together with :
Lando, Ortensio. Oracoli de moderni ingegni si d'huomini come di donne, ne quali, unita si vede tutta la philosophia morale, che fra molti Scrittori sparsa si leggeva. In Vinetia [Venecia] appresso Gabriel Giolito di Ferrarii e Fratelli, 1550
8vo, A-L⁸ M4 [last leaf blank]; 91, [1] leaves. Large printer's device on title-page and historiated initials. A second (variant) printer's device also appears on the colophon at M3.
OCLC 29673198
Full calf, very rubbed and scuffed with loss to corners and spine. Splits to top board hinge. Small library label affixed to spine. Worm tracks to end-papers. Ink mark to title-page of 'Ragionament Familiari..'… Read More

The History of the Life and Actions of Adm[iral] Christopher Columbus and of his Discovery of the West Indies Call'd the New World, Now in the Possession of his Catholic Majesty. Written by his Son D. Ferdinand Columbus.
Text, complete in itself, is extracted from Churchill, Awnsham, and John: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol 2), printed, by assignment from Messrs Churchill, for John Walthoe, over-against the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill and others, London, 1732.
Folio (395 x 255 mm), title-page, preface, pages 499-628. Later, quarter bound, brown calf with marbled paper covering boards, spine with five raised bands, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. Watermark to end-papers, "Abbey Mills Greenfield" (i.e. Abbey Mills papermill, Flintshire, Wales).
Boards lightly rubbed to extremities, corners slightly bumped. English text, with wide margins, clean and crisp. A very good attractive copy.
Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus was Christopher Columbus's youngest son. His life of his father was… Read More

Lebedev, Vladimir Vasilyevich. Russian Placards, Le Placard Russe, 1917-1922. 1st. part, Petersburg office of the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA. Petersburg branch of the News of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee ("Isvestia VCIK"), Petersburg, 1923. Executed by "STRELETZ" (The Archer).
Small 4to (218 x 186mm.), 4 leaves and 23 coloured lithographs of posters produced by Lebedev, with accompanying tissue guard sheets carrying captions in English and French. Title-pages in English and French. Limited to 1700 copies.
Bound in maroon buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to front, with green end-papers. Front of original orange wrapper with lithograph illustration bound in – lacking the blank rear of the original wrapper. Housed in a custom-made maroon cloth covered clamshell box, with gilt title to the front and spine.
Buckram faded to spine and top board – a 3.5cm strip alongside the front hinge (see photo below). Small piece of tissue paper attached near to the upper hinge of the… Read More

Ribadeneyra, Padre Pedro de; Historia Ecclesiastica del Scisma del Reyno de Inglaterra. Recogida de diversos y graves Autores, por el Padre Pedro de Ribadeneyra, de la Compania de Jesus. Lo que se trata en esta Historia, se vera en la hoja siguiente. En Emberes [Antwerp], en casa de Christoual Plantino, Imprimidor del Rey. 1588.
8vo., ⴕ8, A-Z8 , a8, b7, a8-b7; 8 un-numbered leaves, pages numbered 1-386, 6 un-numbered leaves, Tabla de los capitulos desta historia, Aprobacion de el Doctor Pedro Lopez de Montoya, Approbation Siluester Pardo (Censor), Sumario del privilegio I. de Witte.
(OCLC nos. 780155501 / 270805429 ; only 5 copies worldwide).
Full calf sprinkled binding with 5 raised bands with gilt tooling to spine and boards. Unidentified coat of arms embossed on both boards. Binding rubbed and marked. Corners rounded with slight loss of leather. Fore-edges to front and rear end-papers strengthened with archival tape. Neat repair to lower fore-edge of title page, not effecting the printed matter,… Read More

Regulae Societatis Iesu
Romae, in Collegio Rom. eiusde Societat, Anno Dni M D C VII [1607]
[48], 296, [2] p
Title-page vignette with the Jesuit device along with a portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Head- and tailpieces
OCLC no. 23019026
Bound with
Canones Congregationum generalium Societatis Iesv. Cvm Aliis Nonnvllis ad praxim pertientibus.
Romae, in Collegio Rom. eiusde Societat. Anno Dni, M D C VI [1606]
[14], 151, [1] p
Title-page vignette with the Jesuit device along with a portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
OCLC no. 314061488
8vo.
Rebound in modern leather, with small loss (see photo), and with new end-papers. Some staining to pages. Overall, a good copy.
The rules for the organisation and government of the Jesuit order intended as practical summaries of the ideals and goals set out by Loyola in the Constitutiones.
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