085. TARBAT (Alan C.) England, Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1942
Second impression. With a one-page a.l.s, (probably to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch), “It was written with a real missionary purpose …” 8vo pamphlet, pp. 10, ...
Category: Catalogues
080. STEPHEN (J.K.) Quo Musa Tendis? Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes, 1891
Limited Edition poetry book, numbered 26 of 150 copies on hand-made paper, signed by the publishers with initials. Stephen (d. 1892), educated at Eton and Cambr...
075. RUSSELL (Miss H.J.R.) pamphlets [as under] London / Alnwick, 1890’s
Bound in one volume, 8vo, with original wrappers in green cloth, with Presentation inscription to Lord Napier. The English Claims to the Overlordship of Scotlan...
049. MELIA (Raphael) The Woman Blessed by All Generations, or, Mary, The Object of Veneration , Confidence, and Imitation to all Christians, London, Longman, Green, & Co., 1868
First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title. 8vo, pp. vi, 1 f., pp. vii-xxiv, 454, original cloth, covers stamped in blind, spin...
012. [BRATHWAITE (Richard)] Drunken Barnaby’s Four Journeys to the North of England, In Latin and English Metre, … Together with Bessy Bell, … The Third Edition, wih several New Copper Cuts, London, Printed for S. Illidge, 1723
Overall a pleasing, complete copy; one of the subsequent owners was one ‘R. Coates, BEF 1918 Sep.17.’ A diverting read for a World War I soldier, and perhaps ex...
088. [SPAIN & NORTH AFRICA] JACKSON (Mary Catherine) Word-Sketches of the Sweet South, London, Richard Bentley, 1873
First Edition. Jackson’s travels take in Gibraltar, Granada and the Alhambra, Seville, Malaga, Tangiers, etc. COPAC locates copies at the BL, NL of Scotland, Ox...
087. [SLAVERY] BESSET (Jane) The Black Princess. A True Story for Young Persons, London, George Routledge, [1870]
First published in 1854, this is the second (and final) issue. COPAC lists only the BL / V&A for the first edition, and the BL only for this. A clean and t...
086. SEMPLE (Robert) Observations made on a Tour from Hamburg, through Berlin, Gorlitz, and Breslau, to Silberburg; and thence to Gottenburg, London, Printed for Robert Baldwin . . . and J. Murray, 1814
First Edition. COPAC: O, Glasgow, NL of Scot, Cambridge, BL, TC Dublin. Robert Semple (1766-1816), American born son of British parents, travelled widely on bus...
085. SEDLEY (Sir Charles) The Mulberry-Garden, A Comedy. As it is Acted by His Majesty’s Servants at the Theatre-Royal. Written by the Honourable Sir Charles Sidley [sic], London, Printed for H. Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1675
Wing S2403; W & M, 1014. A decent copy of this Restoration tragi-comical play which was first published and performed in 1668; Samuel Pepys, who had long l...
047. LINDSAY (W.M.) The Latin Language. An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems, and Flexions, Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1894
First Edition of a seminal work of immense scholarship. 8vo, pp. xxviii, 659 (1), 8 (adverts), claret cloth gilt-lettered. £60
029. DREXEL (Jeremias) Caelum Beatorum Civitas Aeternitatis Pars III …, Antverpiae, Ex typographia Iohannis Cnobbari, 1635
First Edition of the separately issued sequel, (i.e. part III) of ‘De Aeternitate Considerationes’ by the Jesuit, Jeremy Drexel (1581-1638). Provenance: early o...
021. [CONSPIRACIES] WRIGHT (R.S.) Law of Criminal Conspiracies and Agreements, London, Butterworths, 1873
First Edition of a rare but significant text. 8vo, pp. 107 (1), 32 (catalogue), rebound in cloth (preserving advert end-papers, and label on upr. cvr.). £120
020. [COMPUTERS] NEGROPONTE (Nicholas) The Architecture Machine. Toward a More Human Environment, [and] Soft Architecture Machines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, MIT Press, 1970, 1975
First Editions, separated from each other by five years. Quite fascinating high-concept consideration of computers and software, including pattern recognition, ...
006. BADHAM (C.D.) Prose Halieutics, or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle, London, John W. Parker and Son, 1844
First Edition of this exploration of fishing lore, fish as food, and all things fishy. 8vo, pp. xii, 552 (incl. index), original cloth (excellent condition). £8...
002. [ANON] The Life of Sir Richard Whittington, Knight, and Four Times Lord Mayor of London, … By the Author of “Memoirs of George Barnwell,” Harlow, Printed by B. Flower, 1811
COPAC locates a copy at the British Library, and another at the Society of Antiquaries; an unusual provincial imprint. A second edition was published in London ...