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A collection of the several statutes, and parts of statutes, now in force, relating to high treason, and misprision of high treason.
London: Printed by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, decens’d; Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1710. Second printing (first was in 1709). 113,[15],44,[4]p "A form and method of trial of commoners, in cases of high treason" has a separate titlepage; the register is continuous - With an initial imprimatur leaf. ESTC T136808 Old calf, spine with raised bands, titling piece, gilt decoration, edges decorated in gilt. Mild spine rubbing, inner hinges cracked but quite firm; else fine. Parliament ordered the statutes published in order to harmonize the laws of England and Scotland, following the union of 1707 and the Treason Act of 1708. ; 12mo
Book ID: 49681More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
A JOY PROPOSED: poems. With an Introduction and Afterword by Kurth Spragge
Edition: First printing
London: Bertram Rota, 1980. Maroon cloth. Fine in fine jacket. # 65 of an edition of 500 copies. ; Tall octavo
Book ID: 49618More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A LONDON LIFE. The Patagonia. The Liar. Mrs. Temperly
Edition: First US Edition
London: Macmillan, 1889. The US issue of the second UK (one volume) edition (i.e., first American "edition"). Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges trimmed, black endpapers, 2 pp ads with prices in dollars. Minor rubbing to spine ends, page edges yellowed, else fine and bright. E&L A33b. Supino 33.4.0. BAL 10587.; Octavo
Book ID: 49794More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
A TALE OF A TUB. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, on account of a battle between the antient and modern books in St. James’s Library
London: Printed for Charles Bathurst, and sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R Dodsley, and W. Bowyer, 1751. The 10th edition. pp [2],xvi,[6],220 + frontispiece and 7 other plates. Bound in 19th century half calf and brown cloth; spine with red label, raised bands, decorations in blind; all edges red. Lighr rubbing to spine, scuffing to outer corners, ink name at top of title page, small tan spot to frontispiece, minor soiling and foxing in text; a VG copy, text clean, tight and unworn. Published anonymously. Volume 12 of the second edition of SWIFT'S MISCELLANIES. ESTC T49838.Teerink-Scouten, 69. ; 12mo
Book ID: 49744More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
A TOURIST IN AFRICA
Edition: First printing
London: Chapman & Hall, 1960. Blue boards. Front cover seasonally bowed, small corner bruise to rear cover, else fine. Dust jacket lightly yellowed on spine and less so to rear panel, else fine, flap price intact. Port Said, Aden, Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Bechuanaland and South Africa in 1959. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51179More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Absalom and Architopel: a poem
Edition: First Dublin edition
London: Printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-Fryars, near the Water-Side. For the benefit of the poor, 1708. Disbound. 19.3 cm. 24pp. Recent marbled paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper label. Text has untrimmed edges, somewhat ragged: title leaf creased, with a chip out of lower margin. Two instances of small early marginalia. VG. ESTC N30278; Foxon D450. Untrimmed copy of this anti-whig, biblically themed piece directed primarily against the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth. This edition of one of Dryden's greatest satires, first published in 1681, provides at the end of the preface a convenient key to the cast of characters. Absalom and Achitophel is "generally acknowledged as finest political satire in the English language" (Michael Stapleton, in The Cambridge Guide to English Literature). Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 49686More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
AMERICA AT LAST: the American journal of T.H. White. With an introduction by David Garnett
Edition: First printing
New York: Putnam, 1965. Blue cloth. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has minor use, VG. His last book written before his death in Jan., 1964. . No UK edition. ; Octavo
Book ID: 49646More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
AN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA: the journal of a tour to that island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.The second edition
Book ID: 49746More details Price: USD $595.00 USD $535.50 -
AN ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS AND GENIUS OF SHAKESPEAR, with the Greek and French dramatic poets, with some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 49764More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
AN INQUIRY INTO THE SHARE, WHICH KING CHARLES I HAD IN THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE EARL OF GLAMORGAN, afterwards the Marquis of Worcester for bringing over a band of Irish rebels to assist the King in the years 1645 and 1646...
Book ID: 49755More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE
Book ID: 49815More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
Edition: First US printing
New York: Appleton, 1896. Green decorated cloth stamped in red, black, and gilt. pp [2], (6), 335, [1], (10, ads), [2]. Yellowing to page edges; 1902 ink owner name in upper inner corner of front free endpaper; light light spot to front cover; else a fine, bright copy. Appleton's Town and Country Library no. 198. Conrad's second book, published in London in March, 1896, and in August in the US, with altered text. "Because AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS was scheduled for inclusion in a family library series, it was decided, in the interest of propriety, to purge it of all love making between Willems and Aissa. Where necessary, the editors wrote their own linking passages." - Cagle A2b.; 12mo
Book ID: 49708More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
ATTIC TRAGEDIES: Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus (3 volume set)
Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1927. Three volumes, brown boards and vellum spines, top edges gilt, others rough trimmed, in brown card slipcases with spine labels. Frontispieces and title pages ngraved by Bicknell. 167; 192; 183 pp. Loose tissue guards at frontispieces and title leaves are creased in volume I, light spotting to spines, qute minor use to slipcases, else a fine set. Edition of 400 copies. Contains Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Medea, Hippolyta, Prometheus Bound, and Electra. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required. ; Octavo
Book ID: 49671More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS and other verses
Edition: First printing
London: Methuen, 1892. Red smooth buckram, spine gilt lettered, top edges gilt, others rough trimmed. Spine lightly sunned; page edges yellowed; gilt top edge rubbed; tanning to free endpapers; front cover cloth loose in places from bubbling; VG copy otherwise, no owner names. Stewart 108. Contains some of his best-known verses - "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Gunga Din", "Mandalay", and "The Ballad of East and West". ; 12mo
Book ID: 49714More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
BRITISH PAMPHLETEERS: Volume I, From the 16th century to the 18th century
Edition: First printing
London: Allan Wingate, 1948. Brown cloth. Yellowing to the page edges, text paper very lightly toned, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has remains of a sticker from the Canadian distributor; nicks and tiny chips at head of spine; small tear to front panel, VG+ otherwise. Page 6-17 contains an Introduction by George Orwell. ; Octavo
Book ID: 49668More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
CHANCE: a tale in two parts
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 49704More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury. The fourth edition (3 volume set)
Book ID: 49690More details Price: USD $850.00 USD $765.00
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CLIEVELANDI VINDICIAE, or Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies...
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 49672More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
COMPLETE STORIES (5 volume set)
New York: Library of America, 1996-99. Five volume set, complete. Light brown cloth with bound-in ribbon marker. All fine in fine, price-clipped jackets. All are first printings except Vol. 4, which is a second printing. The volumes are grouped chronologically: 1864-74, 1874-84, 1884-91, 1892-98, and 1898-1910. Note: 3.6 kg parcel, extra postage will be required. 24x24x17; Octavo
Book ID: 49639More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
COMUS, a masque. presented at Ludlow Castle 1634....with notes and critical and explanatory by various commentators, and with preliminary illustrations...by Henry John Todd...
Canturbury: W. Bristow, for Rivingtons, W. Clarke, Fletcher & Co., and J. Deighton, 1798. pp xxi,[3],62,[2];199. With the half-title leaf. Contemporary calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, sprinkled page edges. Cracked front joint neatly repaired, now sound; Browing from binding to margins of endpapers and binder's fly leaf front and rear; VG otherwise, text clean, tight, fine. Armorial bookplate at front of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. with ink name at top of Lady Amelia Hume. Both Sir Abraham and Amelia Egerton Hume were keen cultivators of roses. Their friend Joshua Reyolds painted her portrait. The first major variorum edition, containing the first bibliography of the work (pp 193-99). A scarce book.
Book ID: 49741More details Price: USD $275.00 USD $247.50