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London: John Harding, 1812. [9], 10-105pp, [1], plates. Half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back, divided into six panels with gilt rules, title lettered direct to second panel, remaining panels with small lozenge shaped tool to centre. Recently rebacked, rubbed to extremities, corners bumped. Some light browning to text and the uncoloured plates, some browning to joints of folding plates, occasional light spotting, a few neat marginal repairs, but generally fairly bright and clean. Plate twenty-two (a plan) has a small amount of loss to corner not affecting image, the final plate has been bound in upside down. With half-title and thirty-eight erratically numbered plates and plans (with ten hand-coloured, four of which are folding). Though the title page calls for forty plates, the work is complete with thirty-eight (as explained on page twelve). Some mispagination, with pages 7/8 and 17/18 being skipped, with pages 59/60 doubled. J.[ohn] C.[laudius] Loudon, (1783 - 1843) was a Scottish…
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Observations on Laying Out Farms, in the Scotch Style, Adapted to England. Comprising an Account of the Introduction of the Berwickshire Husbandry Into Middlesex and Oxfordshire
by Loudon, J.C.
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Observations on the New System of Navigation
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Hull: William Ross 3pp, [1], disbound, n.d. c1825. Lightly browned, couple of spots of foxing, piece excised from gutter edge where once bound, creased from folds, name of 'Edward Chapman' to final blank. Drop-head title, scarce, not found on COPAC. First Edition. Disbound. Good. Folio. Pamphlet.
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Odipus Der Tyrann
by Sophocles; Sophokles; Holderlin, Friedrich (Trans.)
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Tolz: The Bremer Presse, 1919. [7], 8-94pp, [2]. Contemporary full vellum by Frieda Thiersch at the Bremen Binderei, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered direct in gilt to second panel, date to foot, single line gilt border to covers, overlapping fore edges, t.e.g. Boards slightly splayed, otherwise quite bright and clean. Bookplate of Elly Bach to front pastedown. Number forty-eight of two hundred and seventy copies. German text. Printed in 16 point Antiqua on Van Gelder paper. Frieda Thiersch (1889-1947), was a student of Charles McLeish, and bound books for the Bremer Presse "some in richly gold tooling, but many in the restrained style of the Doves Bindery" (Oxford Companion to the Book, page 1201), and later bound books for prominent Nazis. The Bremer Presse was founded in 1911 by Willy Wiegand and Ludwig Wolde in Bremen. It moved to Tolz in Upper Bavaria in 1918, and again to Munich in 1919, producing "excellent contemporary German works as well as classical texts ...…
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The Oeconomy of Human Life Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written By an Ancient Bramin
by [Dodsley, Robert]
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London: W. Gardiner, 1806. x, 116pp. Contemporary full straight-grain morocco by Hering, raised double bands, spine in five panels, title lettered direct to second panel, place and date to fourth, remaining panels with gilt flower and volute decoration, covers with gilt frame encompassing a blind knot work border, central panel with volute corners joined by single fillet with small volute corner pieces in blind, gilt roll to corner edges, gilt triple fillet to inner edges, all edges gilt. Spine slightly faded, corners lightly bumped, slightly rubbed to extremities, some light discolouring of leather to covers, lower cover with scratch. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, some light off-setting from plates, but generally clean. Engraved illustrations by Gardiner after Harding, Hering's label to reverse of front endpaper. Seemingly a large paper copy with proof plates (as per note to ffep). Lowndes 657. First Thus. Full Morocco. Good+. 8vo.
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On Moral Command
by Rolt, John
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London: William Clowes and Sons, 1836. [8], 110pp, [2]. Full straight-grain morocco, smooth back divided into three unequal panels, gilt title to middle panel, remaining panels with gilt volute tooling, covers with triple fillet bordering a repeating flower and tree roll enclosed with a single fillet, inner panel of interlaced gilt corner pieces joined with a flower head and leaf roll in blind, upper cover with central gilt coat of arms of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and later the King of Hanover, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, King of Hanovers ink stamp to reverse of title, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. COPAC shows at the BL only, with no first editions listed. Sandler calls this an "extraordinary little book [which] is a mixture of anecdotes, practical advice and eccentric opinions", Sandler Collection 2900. Second Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. 8vo.
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One Hundred and Eleven Poems
by Herrick, Robert
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[Chiswick]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. 127pp, [1], original quarter vellum and cloth, title in gilt to spine, with a cockerel gilt device to upper cover, t.e.g. Spine very slightly browned, very slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally bright and clean. In the original cloth slipcase, which is rubbed, especially to extremities. Limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 285. Cock-A-Hoop 199. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). Illus. by Flint, W. Russell. 4to. Limited Edition.
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[Opera]
by Orellius, Jo. Gaspar (Ed); Horace; Q. Horatius Flaccus
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Turici (Zurich): Orellii, Fuesslini et Sociorum, 1850. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xxviii, 746pp, [2] and Volume Two - iv, 935pp, [1]. Slightly later full calf, wide flat bands, spines in five panels, morocco author label to second panel, matching volume label to third, remaining with repeated roll in blind, bands highlighted in gilt with gilt roll to head and foot of spine, covers with single fillet border, gilt roll to edges. Slightly rubbed to extremities, lightly browned internally, occasional light foxing. Rear endpapers of volume two have a handwritten ?poem in Latin. Reprint. Full Calf. Good+. 8vo.
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[Opera] Cum Notis Integris, Variorum
by Florus, L.A.; Salmasii, C.L. (Ed)
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Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1660. [16], 588, [100], 1-46pp. Full vellum, author in ink to spine, covers with central arabesque in blind, overlapping fore-edges. Very slightly rubbed, small stain to head of lower cover. Front inner joint cracked but holding well, lacks ffep, very minor browning, occasional very light staining, previous owners names to front pastedown, with a few notes in ink, but generally quite bright and clean. Engraved title page. Harwood, pg 206; Willems 1258. Reprint. Full Vellum. Good. Illus. by Dalen, C.V.. 8vo.
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[Opera] Cum Selectis Variorum
by Maximi, Valerii; (Maximus, Valerius); Thysii, A. (Ed)
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Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Hackiana, 1670. [16], 844pp, [32]. Full vellum with overlapping fore-edges, smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt double rules, first panel with author's name in gilt, remaining panels with central tudor rose in gilt, covers with gilt double fillet border and central coat of arms. Slightly rubbed, vellum very slightly grubby, internally lightly browned, but generally clean. Engraved title page. Dibdin calls this the best variorum edition, "elegantly printed by Hackius, and was superintended by Thysius ... It is now a scarce book" (Dibdin). Dibdin II:522, Schweiger II:1111. First Thus. Full Vellum. Good+. 8vo.
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[Opera] Works
by Statius, Publius Papinius
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Amsterodami (Amsterdam): Guiljelmum Janss, 1624. 356pp, [4], contemporary full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, author in gilt to second panel, remaining panels with gilt decoration, covers with a panel design, inner panel made up of a triple fillet and fleuron corner pieces with a triple fillet border, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., marbled pastedowns. Chipped to head of spine with loss to the top 20mm or so, corners bumped and worn, extremities rubbed. Lacks the marbled flyleaves to front and rear. Signatures Y and Z are browned, generally lightly browned, otherwise internally fairly clean. Previous owners bookplate to ffep. Engraved title page. Reprint. Full Morocco. Good. 32mo.
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Oriental Customs: Or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures By an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to...
by Burder, Rev. Samuel
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xv, [1], 400pp, [16] and Volume Two - [4], 394pp, [22]. Contemporary full russian calf, smooth backs divided into six panels by gilt double rules, title in gilt to second panel, volume to fourth, remaining panels with gilt volute device, covers with gilt single fillet border. Spines lightly faded, minor edge wear, outer joints rubbed, volume one with abrasion to surface of lower cover, with slight loss to leather, volume two has a chip to head of front joint. Lightly browned internally, but clean. From the library of Earl Eldon, with his name and bookplate to front pastedowns. Fourth Edition. Full Calf. Good. 8vo.
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Our Village
by Mitford, Mary Russell; Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (Introduction)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [7]-lx, [3], 4-256pp. Contemporary full morocco by Riviere, raised bands, spine in six panels, title and author lettered directly to second panel, remaining panels with central lozenge volute tool and volute corner pieces, covers with central arabesque surrounded by elaborate roll, a double fillet frame, a circle and star roll, another double fillet frame and a dotted roll border, edges with double fillet roll, inner edges with a volute roll border, a double fillet frame with dotted roll between the lines and a rope roll to inner edge, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, small patch of discolouring to upper and lower covers, internally quite bright and clean. One of four hundred and seventy large paper copies, with twelve full page illustrations. Bound by Riviere and Son in 1894, for L.S. Montague (or Montagu), 2nd Baron Swaythling (1869-1927), financier and co-founder of the anti-Zionist League of British Jews. A unique copy of this large paper…
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Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata WITH Pietas Oxoniensis
by Skelton, Joseph
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Oxford: J. Skelton, 1823. Two volumes (complete) Oxonia Restaurata with Pietas Oxoniensis in a single uniform volume. Contemporary half morocco and curl marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spines in seven panels, title in gilt to second panel, author / volume to fourth, remaining panels with central floral spray in gilt, place and date to foot of spine in gilt, t.e.g., curl marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, spines very slightly faded. Internally some light spotting, usually to margins but occasionally to the plate images. The Oxonia Antiqua has a folding engraved plan of Oxford and one hundred and thirty-four plates by Skelton, beginning with plate twenty-six and continuing up to plate one hundred and fifty seven (plates two - twenty-five were never issued), with two plates unnumbered and all but two plates on India paper, a large paper copy. The Pietas has an engraved title and twenty-four plates / portraits all on india paper and is also a large paper copy. Lowndes 2409;…
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