... Aeneis tabulis incidit Johannes Pine. [Text in Latin]. In two volumes. Volume I: Pp. [xxxii]+176+[2]+[177]-266](last blank); Volume II: Pp. [xxiv]+48+[2]+[49]-94+[2]+[95]-172+[2]+[173]-192(last blank)+[14](list of illustrations, last blank); both volumes lavishly illustrated with engravings throughout, including frontispieces and title page vignettes, full page illustrations, numerous pictorial head & tailpieces (including a couple..... More
since the publication of Phillip's Voyage. Compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that ship's company to England in 1792. Illustrated with seventeen maps..... More
Containing, amidst a variety of information, a description of Saldanha Bay; with remarks on the genious and disposition of the natives of Arabia Felix, the manners and customs of the people of Hindoston; of the island of Madagascar, and other parts beyond the Cape of Good Hope. Interspersed with some..... More
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In two volumes. [This copy bound in one volume]. Pp. viii+160(last blank)+viii+166; f'cap. 8vo; early calf, neatly rebacked, with the original gilt decorated spine laid on, plus a later gilt lettered and decorated red morocco title label, edges of boards slightly darkened and rubbed, the fore-corners lightly worn; upper free..... More
In which the elements of harmony and air are practically considered, and illustrated by an hundred and fifty examples in notes, many of them taken from the best authors. The whole being intended as a Course of Lectures, preparatory to the practice of Thorough-Bass and Musical Composition. .... Pp. [iv]+vi+xii+62(last..... More
the celebrated warlike, learned and authentic Jewish historian. Containing: I. The antiquities of the Jews....; II. The wars of the Jews with the Romans....; III. The Book of Josephus against Apion....; IV. The martyrdoms of the Maccabees; V. The embassy of Philo from the Jews of Alexandria to the Emperor..... More
To which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H. S. Woodfall. With a preliminary essay, notes, fac-similes, &c. In three volumes. Pp. [iii]-viii+588(including the four additional pages in the preliminary essay numbered *173-*176)+[iii]-xii+518+[iii]-xvi+510, 6 plates (5 being folding facsimile letters), index;..... More
Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his Officers, who, in August, 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a packet belonging to the Hon. East India Company. Pp. xxviii+378+[2](errata, verso blank), engraved frontispiece portrait and 15 plates (1 folding), plus a folding chart;..... More
A new translation by the Author of Roderick Random . . . In four volumes. Pp. x+260(last blank)+iv+220+viii+244 +viii+232, 33 engraved plates (including frontispiece Volume I), head and tailpiece decorations and a few decorative initials; f'cap. 12mo, in sixes; early mottled calf, spines decorated in gilt between raised bands, with..... More
Monograph by Frances J. Brewer. With a leaf from the Memorial Edition of the Fables Choisies, illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and printed in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert 1755-59. Pp. [viii]+10(last colophon), the title page printed in red & black; post folio; stiff grey paper wrappers with printed paper title label..... More
bey genauer Zusammenhaltung mit den ersten und achten lateinischen Editionen.... [Text in German]. Pp. [1558], printed double column (each column numbered), the title page printed in red & black, 2 decorative headpieces; thick f'cap. 4to; early calf, the spine ruled in gilt around raised bands, with gilt lettered black leather..... More
Omnia per ordinem Alphabeticum redacta. Pp. [24]+1322+[12], printer's device on title page, a couple of small decorative initials, indices; thick f'cap. 8vo; early calf, the spine blocked in white and titled by hand, boards lightly marked, edges and spine extremities worn, the joints starting; upper hinge cracking, ink stamp on..... More
On discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, by which the Non-Existence of an undiscovered Continent, between the Equator and the 50th Degree of Southern Latitude, is demonstratively proved. Also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage, In the years 1772, 1773, and 1774. With an Account of the Separation of the two..... More
Edition of 1619 with an essay by Norman J. W. Thrower. Pp. [viii]+24+[2](colophon, blank), pictorial title page printed in red & black, 5 decorative initials printed in red, black & white pictorial or decorative tailpieces, pictorial endpapers, notes, bibliography; med. folio; qr. vein-patterned vellum, spine lettered in gilt, grey papered..... More
mit anmerkungen fur ungelehrte.... Die Psalmen. [Text in German]. Pp. [viii]+238+258, title page decoration plus a couple of head & tailpiece decorations; f'cap. 4to; contemporary half calf, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, grey/green paste papered boards, with several surface grazes and a couple of small..... More
compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Captain Marshall; with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty-five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the plans &..... More
compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Captain Marshall; with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty-five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the plans &..... More
A distant relation to the poet of Thebes. To which are prefixed, Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Author. Pp. xvi+542; demy 8vo; early calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with a gilt lettered red leather title label, boards rubbed (heaviest at edges), joints starting, the spine worn and grazed..... More
with Explanatory Notes and Additions never before printed. In six volumes, totalling approximately 1,400 pages, the title pages printed in red & black, with small ornament to title page Volumes I to III, appendix and index (to the Dunciad) in Volume IV; f'cap. 8vo; mixed bindings, all in full calf..... More
Or, a summarie discourse, prooving: The wearing, and nourishing of a Locke, or Love-Locke, to be altogether unseemely, and unlawfull unto Christians. In which there are likewise some passages collected out of Fathers, Councells, and sundry Authors, and Historians, against Face-painting, the wearing of Suppositious, Poudred, Frizled, or extraordinary long..... More
In four volumes. Pp. [ii]+428+[iv]+478+[iv]+464(last blank)+[iv]+428; post 12mo; qr. calf, rebacked with modern calf spines ruled in gilt and red morocco title labels lettered and decorated in gilt, early marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed, edges worn; Volume I lacking the half-title page (present in all other volumes), hinges neatly strengthened..... More
In seven volumes. Pp. viii+315+[ii]+358+[ii]+376(last blank)+[ii]+ 302+[2]+[ii]+294+[ii]+372+[ii]+442, title page ornament in Volumes I-VI, decorative headpieces and initials; cr. 12mo; early calf boards with double gilt rule borders, modern calf spines lettered and ruled in gilt, with gilt lettered red morocco title labels, the boards rubbed and grazed, edges lightly worn..... More
wherein the geographical part is truly modern; and the present state of the several kingdoms of the world is so interspersed, as to render the study of geography both entertaining and instructive.... Together with an account of the air, soil, produce, traffic, curiosities, arms, religion, language, universities, bishoprics, manners, customs..... More
ad graecam veritatem emendata, et notae ac animadversiones in idem: quibus partim mutatae alicubi versionis redditur ratio, partim alia necessaria monentur. Accedit sacer contextus graecus, cum versione veteri: nec non index rerum & verborum locupletissimus. Itemque auctoris orationes de sibyllis, multum hactenus desideratae. [Text in latin, greek, and very occasional..... More
An account of two herbals, the 'Gart de Gesundheit' and the 'Hortus Sanitatis'. By Ellen Shaffer. Pp. [viii]+42(last blank), frontispiece, numerous text illustrations (some full page), title page vignette printed in khaki, the title and headings printed in red, list of works consulted, checklist of editions printed before 1550; f'cap..... More
