[Sebaldus Mayer, Dilingae], 1570. Quarto. Title in red; fleuron, rule, and date in black, text printed in red and black throughout, with musical staves printed in red; Finely printed on heavy paper. )( )( 4, A-I4 K-U4 X-Z4 a-i4 k-o4 [o4 is a blank] (*3). Quite scarce liturgical text with..... More
London: Printed and Sold By the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1691. Small Octavo. 10 pages, John Ashton was an official in the royal household and Jacobite conspirator who in 1688 lent James II's government 12,500 pounds but he distributed money for the Jacobian plot and he was captured at..... More
London: Printed for G.G.J. And J. Robinson, 1788. Octavo. [2], ii [4], xxiv, 184, 159, [1], 299, [1] pages. The rare early printing of the U.S. Constitution in Great Britain in its original paper wraps. It is now known that William Godlin wrote not only the History of Henry VIII..... More
London: Stationers' Company, 1780. First Edition. 12mo. 15pp. An almanac, composed on a variety of subjects, both ancient and modern, for the reader's enjoyment, with prose, poetry, contemplation and comedy. In light brown wraps (small closed tear and 1/4" chip). An example of this scarce little pamphlet is found only..... More
London 1784-[1786]: Printed for Alex. Hogg. First Edition. Folio. First collected edition of Cook's three voyages along with other voyages in one volume. Frontispiece of Captain Cook in the first state dated 1784, one large folding map, concluding remarks by the editor and a list of contents. (1)pp. directions to..... More
Basileae: [Robert Winter], 1539. Small Octavo. The first portion of the text is in Greek and the following text is in Latin. 13[2]; a-z8, A-R8; [13] blank; 1-397pp. The text is by Arrian of Nicomedia (c. 86/80--c. after 146-160 A.D.). The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian is considered the best..... More
London: Joseph Downing, 1709. First Edition in English. Octavo. 2nd printing(?) 33p. Boehm was the chaplain to the royal highness Prince George died at Kensington in 1708. A popular sermon that concerned the spiritual condition of the late Prince. His passive personality left the matter of governing to his wife..... More
Amsterdam: J. Jamssonium, 1651. First Edition. 12mo. 432p. 17 engravings of emblems with chart. Professor Boxhorn of Leiden was both a classical history professor and an expert in philology. His emblems here are set in terms of 17th Century attire and buildings.. Mario Praz, Studies in seventeenth century imagery, p...... More
Gotheborg, Norway: Samuel Norberg, 1782. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 76p. The Swedish translation of Einer Tambeskilver (1772). The original Norwegian edition is very rare and OCLC locates one copy in Munich. Early translations into Swedish and Danish are uncommon. This play was a major factor in bringing..... More
Lugd[uni] Batav[orum] et Roterod[ami]: Ex Officiana Hackiana, 1669. Octavo. [22], 624, [13] While ostensibly an adventure travel novel. it was written with covert political content and intended as a continuation of the then highly prized "Agregntis" by John Barclay. A very good copy with title page repair along gutter. Deaccessioned..... More
London: T. Payne and Son, 1782. First Editions. 12mo. In five volumes. (1)pp. advertisement after title page. The author's second book. Evelina, her first book was written anonymously but became surprisingly popular. Burney laid the ground work for female novelists to come. She improved the respectability of the female writer..... More
Toulouse: Aux Depens Du Caranove, Pres Les Augustins, 1756. Small Quarto. Nouvelle ed. French Language. Two volume set. Vol. 1: 596 pages. Vol. 2: 606 pages. The earlier editions of these arrests included not only serious capital crimes but the executions of heretics by burning at the stake. In 1733..... More
Paris: Michaelem Sonnium, 1621. Small folio (in 6s). Ultima Editio. From the library of Ernst Kantorowicz, an authority on canonical and monarchial law. Rene Choppin was an eminent French jurist. After his early studies he became a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris. In his earliest writings he systematized the..... More
In Vinegia: Appresso Gabriele Giolito De Ferrari, 1547. 12mo. 8, 8, 176 leaves. The contents, register and colophone have been inserted into the front as is the case of many copies. Italian language translated from Latin of Cicero's De Oratore. Lodovico Dolce was a Ventian humanist whose translations allowed the..... More
London: For G.G.J. And J. Robinson, 1796. First Edition. Octavo. First edition in English. 268pp. In 1793, Pichegru was given command of 150,000 troops of the army of the North. By 1794 he launched an invasion of the Austrian Netherlands, capturing Amsterdam January, 1795. Pichegru was hailed as a savior..... More
Lutetiae Prisorum: Sumptibus Frobrt Fouet, Via Iacobaea Sub Insigni Temporis & Occasionis, 1624. Folio. Charles Dumoulin (or Dumolin, Latinized Molinaeus) was noted for his works on jurisprudence and all aspects of Roman law as well as canon and customary law claiming that he was the chief expert on law over..... More
Amsterdam: Jacob Wetstein, 1754. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 524, [4]. Latin text. Engraved title page. His Coloquia Familaria was a collection of his satirical and sometimes biting criticism of the religious and cultural mores of the time. There is a four page biography of Erasmus. This was..... More
London: A. Millar, 1755. Octavo. Each play has special title page and separate pagination. Advertisements throughout each volume. Some plays include unaccompanied melodies. The editions included vary from set to set. While Millar's 1762 issue of Fielding's Works became the most available, the very scarce 1755 octavo set was only..... More
London: Printed for C. Cooke, 1799. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title page. 188 pages, index. ads. Each plate has imprint dated 1799. Beginning in the mid-1790's Cooke began publishing these small volumes so gentlement could carry them about and read them at lunch on in their..... More
Edinburgh: Martin McDowall and Company, 1789. First Edition. xiii, [3], 615pp. and 11 large folding maps. There are a few pagination errors as follows: page 67 mis-numbered 97; pages 172-173 repeated; page numbers 175-176 omitted and page 480 mis-numbered 840. William Gordon published important books on accounting and math but..... More
London: John Haviland for Robert Allot, 1629. Quarto. Two parts in one, each with title pages, 339pp., [with] A Brief Inference Upon Guicciardines Digression, in the fourth part of the first Quarterne of his Historie. Forbidden the Impression, and effaced out of the Originall by the Inquisition, in answer to..... More
Small Octavo. Latin manuscript is written in poetic style by C.P.F. Kurrer who was a distinguished member of the famed Latin Society of Jena. 89p. OCLC notes that a 16-page edition was published in Tubingen by Fues in 1786. This much larger version of several thousand lines is entirely handwritten..... More
Herbornae Nassoviorum: Corvinius, 1663. 12mo. 483p. The German political philosopher who earlier had traced the work of Augustus here further develops his ideas from his earliest work at Herborn before this professorship at Marburg where his attacks upon Descartes and Grotius became polemical and influenced most Protestant scholars for succeeding..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Eliot and Thomas Cadell, 1778. 3rd edition. xvi, ii, 367 pages, 55 page index. The History was first published, by subscription, at Edinburgh in 1728 by Robert Freebairn, a well-known printer, bookseller, and ardent Jacobite; later editions appeared at Glasgow in 1749, and again at Edinburgh..... More
London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. First Edition. 12mo. In two volumes, half-titles present, 340 and 251pp. both volumes with errata's on last page. The Man of Feeling was issued in 1771 and followed in February 1773 by The Man of the World, in which Sindall, a seducer..... More