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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added, two brief dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year M.DCC.LI.
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.], 1817. [Theology and Philosophy] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.lxiv; 408. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label on spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit.
London: William Pickering, 1840. FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo, pp.[16] x, 95. In publisher's navy leather-grain effect cloth with black titles to white paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean and wear to title label. Very light internal spotting. Good overall. A collection of MS letters discovered at the poet..... More
Don Quixote; Pamela; Peruvian Tales etc; Arabian Nights [Four bound volumes of The Novelist's Magazine].
London: Harrison and Co., Paternoster Row, 1782-6. [Literature] Four volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 19). Vignette engraved illustrations to title pages. Engravings to Pamela (XIV plates) and Peruvian Tales (XV plates). Bound in simple red half English calf over marbled sides, five raised bands, simple gilt rule and titles..... More
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. II part I, containing Cambridgeshire.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. [Topography] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM WADE PORTEOUS. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.[2]; 296; xxii; [2]. With twenty six copper engraved plates, including a hand-coloured county map and one further hand-coloured plate. Blue ink ownership inscriptions of Mr. Wade Porteous, a notable book..... More
The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway [and] The Official Illustrated Guide to the Bristol and Exeter, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales Railways, Including the Amalgamated West Midland Line, and the Chester and Holyhead Line, also, the Isle of Man. With descriptions of the most Important Manufactories in the several Towns on the Lines.
London: Griffin, Bohn, and Co., no date [1861]. [Railway Guide] SECOND EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[8]; 800; pp.[6]; 280; [2]. Filled with wood engravings by the author, as well as a steel-engraved frontispiece of Chepstow Castle by Bartlett and Cousen. In a mid-twentieth..... More
The Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. Including a Narrative of his Voyage to Tangier, Deciphered from the Short-Hand MSS. in the Bodlian Library, by the Rev. John Smith, A.M., Decipherer of "Pepys's Memoirs." Now First Published from the Originals.
London: Richard Bentley, 1841. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 37-456; pp.[4]; 367; [1]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author to volume I. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spines and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed, later endpapers. Some spotting but generally..... More
The Amber Witch. [Bound With: Journal of a Residence in Norway].
London: John Murray. [Residence in Norway published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans]. 1844. First edition of The Amber Witch (first English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, a virtually simultaneous but less popularly approved translation by E.A. Friedlander was published in the same year). Octavo. Two volumes bound in one..... More
The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer.
London: John Murray, 1860. [Biography] Tenth thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 356; 32 of advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, embossed panelling to boards, gilt titles and gilt steam engine to spine. Includes portrait of Stephenson and illustrative woodcuts. With Edmonds and Remnants, London binder's ticket at rear. Binding is somewhat..... More
The American Claimant.
Charles L. Webster and Co., New York, 1892. 8vo., half-title, frontispiece, illustrations in text, pp. 278 + 8 of adverts. Publisher's pictorial grey cloth. Head and tail of spine very slightly rubbed. Fine. FIRST EDITION. BMC No261, p90-93. More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers..... More
A Tramp Abroad.
Chatto and Windus, London, 1880, FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION- with scarce catalogue dated JUNE 1880. The first single volume edition, following the rare two volume edition by four months. First issue calls for sewn catalogue dated the month of publication which was August 1880. Other copies noted with later Sept..... More
Extract from Adam's Diary.
New York, NY and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906. [Comedic fiction] Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 89; [1] blank. Frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations by F.Strothmann. Bound in red morocco with green labels over original pictorial cloth sides. Contents clean, minor marks to covers. A fine copy in a handsome..... More
The Innocents Abroad. The Innocents abroad: a book of travel in pursuit of pleasure.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. [Travel literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 256; [xxviii]. Publisher's green cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, with some loss, blind stamped design to boards, brown coated endpapers. Advertisements at front pp.i-ii and rear pp.i-xxviii; 'Very Important New Books..... More
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. And Other Stories and Sketches. With a Frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1900. [Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 414; [32] advertisements (dated June 1900 as called for in Johnson). Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in gilt to spine and black to upper board, blocked in black and yellow to upper board, patterned endpapers, gilt top..... More
Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the Continent. The complete work previously issued under the title of "The Innocents Abroad" and the "New Pilgrim's Progress".
London: John Camden Hotten, 1871. [Literature] 2 VOLUMES IN 1. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp. 256; 259; [1] imprint; [20] advertisements. Contemporary red half morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine, marbled boards. Brown endpapers, pictorial frontispiece and title page vignette. Ownership to titlpage, textblock spotted and a shaken..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
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