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First Linnaean Taxonomy in English
First Edition on Duelling
Famous Feral Child
Exceedingly Rare Pleurisy Work
Bawdy Scottish Humor
16th Century Treatise of Medical Instruction
Trallianus, Alexander (i.e., Alexander of Tralles). Libri Duodecim [Twelve Books of Medicine]. Joanne Guinterio Andernaco Interprete & Emendatore. Nunc Demum Joannis Molinaei… Annotationibus Illustrati… Lyons: (J. Quadratius, for) A. de Harsy, 1576. 120 by 80mm (4¾ by 3¼ inches). Sm. 8vo. Cont. vellum; 804, [24] pp. With the final 2 leaves blank. Index. In Latin. Vellum soiled, otherwise very good. Interior quite crisp. One leaf with a marginal repair.
Thicknesse, Philip. A YEAR’S JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE, AND PART OF SPAIN. Dublin: J. Williams. 1777. 12mo. 2 volumes. 295,(1);240pp. Orig. calf, morocco spine labels. Small chip at the top of the spine of Volume 2. Two bookplates in each volume. First printed in Bath, the same year, followed by this Irish edition.
Hole, Richard. REMARKS ON THE ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS; in Which the Origin of Sinbad’s Voyages, and Other Oriental Fictions, Is Particularly Considered. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies.. 1797. Sm. 8vo. iv,258,(2)pp. Includes the errata leaf. First edition. 19th c. 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over marbled boards, minor rubbing of front hinge. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Aristotle. …DE POETICA. Accedunt Versio Latina Theodori Goulstoni et Insigniores Lectiones Variantes.Glasgow: Robertus Foulis 1745. 12mo. 2 parts in 1. 130,(4)pp. Title page in Greek & Latin. Text (pp. 1-83) in Greek, followed by notes in Latin. Cont. vellum, a bit soiled. In this copy the list of the chapters in Greek & Latin (2 leaves) are bound at the end. Gaskell records them after the title page. Gaskell, FOULIS PRESS, #58.
Anacreon and Sappho. …ANACREONTIS TEII CARMINA: Accurate Edita; cum Notis Perpetuis; et Versione Latina, Numeris Elegiacis… & Poetriae Sapphus, Quae Supersant. London: Impensis Lawtoni Gilliver 1733. 12mo. xxiv,210pp. Title & text on facing pages in Greek & Latin. Copper engraved frontispiece. Title printed in red & black. Cont. tooled paneled calf, head of spine a bit chipped, hinges rubbed, small stain on front cover. 18th century armorial bookplate of William Hanbury on front pastedown.
Byrom, John. THE UNIVERSAL ENGLISH SHORT-HAND; or, the Way of Writing English, in the Most Easy, Concise, Regular, and Beautiful Manner, Applicable to Any Other Language, But Particularly Adjusted to Our Own. Invented by John Byrom. Manchester: Printed by Joseph Harrop 1767. First edition. 8vo. (4),x,(3)-92pp. Illus. with an engraved table and 12 engraved plates. Modern 1/2 burgundy calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco label, over marbled boards. Title page with two vertical tape stains (light discoloration) from something that was once attached to the verso. Still a very decent copy.
Hey, Richard. A DISSERTATION ON THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF GAMING… The Second Edition. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University; for J. & J. Merrill et al 1784. (4),100pp. Finely rebound in antique style; full gilt tooled calf with red morocco spine label. The second edition, first is 1783. A prize winning essay at the University of Cambridge (June 1783).
Gilpin, William. THE LIFE OF HUGH LATIMER, BISHOP OF WORCESTER.London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John and James Rivington 1755. (2),198,(6)pp. Index. Including 1 page of publisher’s ads. Modern marbled boards, paper label on front cover. Gilpin’s (1724-1804) biography of Hugh Latimer (1485?-1555).
[Dodsley, Robert (ed.)]. A COLLECTION OF POEMS in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. London: Printed for J. Dodsley 1770. 6 vols. Each vol. with a copper engraved headpiece and an allegorical copper engraved title-page vignette. Vol. IV with an engraved sheet of music at back. Cont. calf, worn, uniformly rebacked in 20th cent. gilt tooled tan calf with dark brown spine labels. Inner hinges reinforced with binder’s tape.
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