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Venetiis, Apud Hieronymum Scotum. M D LXXVII. 1568. 8vo, 156 x 92 mms., pp. 447 [ 448 printer's device], epographiae sex, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials, final folio with woodcut device verso, ownership stamp to title: occasional spotting and light staining, recased in contemporary limp vellum, spine repaired, lacking ties, little stained, but a very good and uncommon copy of this edition. thumbnail Property Value dbo:abs The works of the Italian poet and humanist Giovanni Francesco Conti (1484 - 1587) are catalogued and referred to under his humanistic name. He published works in several genres - poetry, expository prose, philosophy - in Italian as well as Latin and was nicknamed "Stoa" or "Rortico delle Muse." The present work was first published in 1519 and was frequently reprinted thereafter. The printer Girolamo Scotto (Hieronymus Scotus; also Gerolamo) (c.1505 – 3 September 1572) was an… Read More

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1754. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 194 x 117 mms., pp. [ii], viii, 149 [150 Errata]. BOUND WITH: RUHNKENIUS (David): Epistola Criticai. In Homeridarum Hymnos et Hesiodum, ad Virum Clarissimyum Ludov. Casp. Valcknarium. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Conrelium de Pekker, 1749. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 194 xx 117 mms., pp. 78 [79 Addenda, 80 colophon], title-page in red and black. BOUND WITH: RUHNKENIUS (David): Epistola Critica II. In Callimachum et Apollonium Rhodium, ad Virum Clarissimum, Joan. Augustum Ernesti. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Cornelium de Pecker, 1751. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 194 x 117 mms., pp. 89 [90 colophon], title-page in red and black. 3 volumes in one, attractively bound in full contemporary lightly speckled calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, red morocco label; lower front joint very slightly cracked, but a very good copy. Gally (1696 - 1769) made a name for himself as a reformer with his publication of Some Considerations upon Clandestine… Read More

London: Printed by Scott for J. Robson..., 1774. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 213 x 125 mms., pp. [iv], 288, later full calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, red morocco label; front free end-paper creased slight general wear to binding and front cover detached, with the autograph "Charles Banham Livius" on the top margin of the front paste-down end-paper. William Mitford (1744 - 1827) wrote one of the first and useful histories of Greece, even though he never went to Greece. Neil Murray in his M. A. thesis, The Prosodic Theory of Patmore, Hopkins, and Bridges ( 1963), notes that Mitford attention to prosody was "first real attempt to grapple with the fundamental problems was made by William Mitford in his comprehensive survey of the field of prosody, Inguiry into the Principles of the Harmony of Language (1774; second enlarged edition 1804). He clearly made the distinction between accent and quantity which most earlier writers had left in obscurity. To demonstrate the point he… Read More

London: Printed for Lockyer Davis...., 1785. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 216 x 137 mms., pp. [ii], 125 [126 adverts], contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; front cover detached, 19th century bookplate of Jonathan Simonds on front paste-down end-paper, autograph of [? "Edi Carneuse"] on top margin of title-page and sprawling autograph "George M Lumly/ Lexington/ Mass" written between title words. Ludlam (1717 - 1788) was a theologian and mathematician; this book was published in the same year as his Rudiments of Mathematics, which served as a textbook at Cambridge for around 30 years. Some of his views on Biblical language did not sit well with his evangelical brethren, e. g. "We read that God said Let there be light, and there was light. that he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. This is plainly a metaphorical representation; but it is such a one as conveys the most sublime idea of the divine omnipotence." ESTC T55226 locates 15 copies… Read More

Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Published by The Whitehorse Star Ltd [no date] [1974]. Small 12mo, 140 x 108 mms., pp. [12], printed on stiff orange paper, stapled at folds, with illustration on front cover and on recto of first leaf after title-page. A fine copy. According to the Alaskan State Library catalogue, this is a dictionary of the language "Kuchin Athapaskan." The language is also known as the "Gwich'in language", and has gone under other names as well, including of course "Kutchin" (the name used on the title page of this book), a variant of the spelling "Kuchin." Wikipedia says, "Few Gwich'in speak their indigenous Gwich'in language, which is in the Athabaskan language family. There are two main dialects of Gwich'in, eastern and western, which are delineated roughly at the United States-Canadian border. Each village has unique dialect differences, idioms, and expressions. The Old Crow people in the northern Yukon have… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour, Edinburgh [inter alia]; and T Cadell..., London, 1774 - 1792. FIRST EDITION of volumes 2, 4, 5, and 6. 6 volumes. 8vo, 217 x 136 mms., pp. x, xi [xii blank], 678; xi [xii blank], 588; xv [xvi blank], 466; xli [xlii Errata], 463 [464 blank]; xxxi [xxxii blank], 471 [472 blank, 473 Errata and notice to binder]; lii [liii Errata, liv blank], 473 [474 blank], with volumes 4, 5, and 6 printed in half-sheets, contemporary polished calf (probably Scottish), spines richly gilt, red and green morocco labels, bindings almost uniform except for the first three volumes lettered in Roman and the last three in Arabic numerals and minor variations in tools; spines slightly rubbed, heavier to volume 1 with lettering indistinct and a few chips, but a handsome set, with the early 19th century autograph of "Joseph [?W L] Shirreff" on the front paste-down end-paper and the small armorial bookplate, in the shape of a balloon with motto "Justitia" at the top,… Read More

Bristol: Printed by J. Rudhall, for T. Cadell, Junr. and W. Davies..., 1798. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 194 x 117 mms., pp. 339 [340 blank], contemporary half calf, gilt spine, morocco label, marbled boards; top of spine chipped, front joint very slightly cracked, but a good copy. The antiquary and Church of England clergyman Samuel Seyer (1757–1831) was born in Bristol and spent his entire life there. This work was part of a projected, but never completed, complete Latin syntax. ESTC T113982 locates 11 copies in British libraries; and Library Company of Philadelphia, Chicago, and Yale in North America.

London, Printed for the Author: And sold by L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1767. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 262 x 200 mms., pp. xxxii, 491 [420 blank], 2 folding engraved plates, one folding chart or table, with a contemporary note in French by the imprint ("de la biblioth. de mon pere/ V. Lanjuinais"), with notes in the same hand on four of the margins in the preface, bound in contemporary French cat's paw calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco label, with the bookseller's ticket of Theophile Barrois, fils (1752 - 1836), and the circular armorial bookplate of "Bibliotheque de Mr. Lanjuimais," both on the front paste-down end-paper; lower front joint wormed, top and base of spine chipped, but a good copy, with a rather fine provenance. The physician and antiquary James Parsons (1705 - 1770) got his M. D. degree at the University of Rheims in France in 1736. This was his last published work, "and he used it to attempt to show that the source of many of the… Read More

London, Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pallmall; Daniel Brown jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and James Woodman, at Cambden's-Head in Bowstreet, Covent-Garden. 1723. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 225 x 172 mms., pp. [ii] [ii] iii - xix [xx blank], [viii], then foliated, [1] - 159 [160 - 163 indexes], followed by "An Epistle of Richard Carew Esq: concerning the Excellencies of the Engllsh Tongue," with separate title-page, pp. [2] 3 - 13 [14 blank], title-page in red and black, contemporary calf, rebacked in lighter calf, red morocco label; last six leaves (the "Epistle" stained a lower margin, but a good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Henry Waymouth on the front paste-down endp-paper, the autograph "J Harry Cook/1895" on the upper margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, an ownship inscription dated 1727 scored out on top margin of recto of adverts leaf, with adverts on verso. "Carew became a member of the Elizabethan… Read More