Recent Arrivals from Abbey Antiquarian Books

London: John Dunton, 1695. Hardcover. Good. Diagram and illustrated diagrams [3] + Map showing in which country each religion is practised. . Octavo brown leather on 4 raised bands (covers detached, edges worn) [16]pp includes Titlepage in red and black +dedication + to reader + index] +240pp +237-307pp + blank page +[2 leaves inserted before 2nd part] 309-684pp.… Read more about this item

London: Henry Seile, 1650. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo (142x87mm) leather (rebacked/worn to edges/scuffed). Titlepage framed with printer's ornaments, verso with errata within printer's ornaments + [4p= Preface] + [2p= Contents] +205pp. With a few ornamental headers and decorative initial capitals. Pp117 slightly torn on bottom right but without significant loss of text, otherwise all 205 pages present. * The… Read more about this item

Esslingen: J.F.S.i.E. (J.F. Schreiber) Nr. 65, undated. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Animals on a fullpage blue background with titlepage + 20 leaves each cut across the figures to make amusing impossible animals. . 19.5 by 13.0cm cover depicts a top-hatted monkey within an orange background holding an open book on a table with an ink stand and pens. Each… Read more about this item

Pr. Edmund Evans: Longmans, Green & c 1st edition, 1864. Colour-printed text illus. (81) by Jas. E Doyle. 4to overall gt.cl.signed Timbury (rebacked, recornered/rubbed & gt.lines renewed at tips) AEG; viii+462pgs; Inscr.for Xmas 1863 *Illus.from up to 10 blocks printed by hand (last book Evans printed on handpress DNB Vict.Binding in McLean p.114 Evans called this his most carefully… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Henr.Wetstenium [reimpt=ression of Daniel Elsevir], 1685. Hardcover. Good. full pages engravings in the text [18 numbered plates + one other full page unnumbered at page 178 + one text illustration [Siamese twins]. Octavo leather spined boards with plum colored buckram sides. Vi [of viii] the missing title & plate +382pp This is a reimpression of the new… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Kincaid, Bell & Robertson, 1768. Hardcover. Good. Plates (2) [of 5] Spring & Summer, by Thos. Donaldson.. 12mo speckled leather on 5 raised bands with red gilt title label to spine [one hinge split at top 2 compartments but held by 1st & 2nd cords rest of hinges good, tips worn, lower cover marked). Title leaf +xxxviii… Read more about this item

NewYork: Day co. 3rd impression circa, 1955. Very Good. col.plates(18)+text ils by Yee. Octavo lime green cl. 281pp inscr.FEP else V.G+ Incription Before cover page. A unique book on New York in the 1950s. Illustrated by the author with 18 coloured plates. Yee Chiang was an exile of Maoist China who became Emeritus Professor of Chinese… Read more about this item

Pr.Edmund Evans: Longmans,Green &c 1st edition, 1864. Colour-printed text illustrations (81) by James.E. Doyle.. 4to full red gilt morocco with royal crest and tudor rose emblems rasied faux bands (tips sl.worn) All Edges Gilt; viii+462pgs; glue marks to gutter of Title. A few marks to early pages. Front inner hinge repaired and free EP re-inserted on a stub else… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Christophori Plantini (Idibus Martii), 1576, 1575. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo (175x115mm) blindstamped pigskin on wooden boards with 4 raised bands to spine and rolled tools of named bust portraits surrounding both covers + central crucifixion scene with 3 male onlookers to cover, Ressurection of Christ to rear cover + one of two decorated clasps and part… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Kelly, 1839. Hardcover. Good. hand colored plates [10] with multiple flowers + portrait frontis of the author + text illustrations.. Large Octavo marbled calf [rebacked by overlaying spine with a piece of newer leather/corners worn/covers scratched] All Edges Marbled. Portrait +iv [=titlepage + Preface] +972pp including Index. Frontis with some staining, the recto having newspaper garden… Read more about this item

Geneva [Switzerland]: Stoer, 1625. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut printer's mark to titlepage. . TWO volumes in ONE small Quarto [in 8's] half vellum with some wrinkling (vellum browned and edges sl. worn) 54pp (inc. titlepage) + 533pp + [216]pp =Index, Title to part II +[20]pp + 624pp + [140]pp =Index. The titlepage mounted on old paper and the following… Read more about this item

Nurnberg [Germany}: Peter Conrad Monath, 1721, 1721. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontisplate + titlepage vignette + full page pictorial dedicatio + 1 fullpage plate + 10 text illustrations + 48 text illustrations +7 multi folding plates + 6 full-page plates Engravings by J.A. Delsenbach & Andreas Nunzer.. 2 VOLUMES IN ONE Octavo half tan leather on 5 raised bands… Read more about this item

Venice: Hermann Lichtenstein Coloniensis, 1490 7th Sept.. Hardcover. Very Good-. Guide Letters in red and blue + red and blue markers (several hundred) . Quarto (244x175mm) blindstamped pig spined wooden boards with 2 working clasps old,but not original, ink title to spine on 5 raised double cords (repair to foot of spine/ old copper strengthening to lower board… Read more about this item

London: R. Ackermann, 1827 acc. to British Library. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured plates (18) inc. several Zurich, 3 Friburg, & Berne frontis with 5 ladies. . 1st edition, 12mo half leather blind-tooled and on 4 gilt raised bands with red spine label, marbled paper sides {tips rubbed] vi +[2p=contents & plate list] + 287pp. Some isolated foxing and… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Constable and Company & Longman,Hurst.Rees,Orme,and Brown, London, 1815, 1815. Hardcover. Good. aquatint plates [21 with pink background] + 2 folding tables + text illustrations [12].. TWO Volumes Octavo Gilt tan Diced leather with gilt spine titles and floral & key-pattern decoration, gilt panel rules to covers & gilt reverses & dentelles (tips worn more so to 2nd… Read more about this item

London: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press and George Eld] for Edward Blount (1623) & Robert Allott (2nd part 1633)., 1623 and 1633. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. . Folio (29x20cm) bound in near contemporary leather, neatly re-backed with gilt spine title, tips bumped. Two Parts in 1 Volume, [24], 267,… Read more about this item

Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotus., 1572. Hardcover. Good. Vignettes . 2 vol, 30cm-15cm aprox, Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, vignette on dedication leaf, Bassano, 1767--HAROLD FRANCIS. Engraved frontispiece in volume one, spines defective on both vols, occasional light dampstaining. Pantasaph Monastery small circular stamp on titles, contemporary vellum, soiled and worn, folio. *Theoligcal essays… Read more about this item

Paris: Gillet Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn., 1509 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Hand-coloured illuminations to EACH PAGE with 18 full page illustrations hand coloured and many smaller cuts in addition to the floral borders. . Octavo (205x132mm) in 18th century brown calf with gilt title HEURES ANTIQUE and decorated edges (corners & spine tips very worn), printed on parchment (gothic… Read more about this item

Leyden: Christopher Plantyn, 1586. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut illustrations in frames, some printed from woodblocks previously used by Plantin in other emblem books. . Small Quarto (20x15cm) half-calf (rebacked, sunned) LACKING all before A-3 (pg.5) half-title for Part II used as Titlepage; also LACKING all after c-3 (pg.222). The first English Emblem Book, although printed at Leyden: Very Rare.… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. Hardcover. Fair. Brilliant colour-printed Frontispiece + 15 plates by Richard Doyle engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.. Folio (28x38cm) green gilt pictorial cloth (repaired and most of front cover and spine relaid, front cover damp-marked) Edges Gilt, [4]+31 leaves. Most neatly cut and pasted on larger gilt-edged leaves, except for 9 full-page… Read more about this item