Search Results: Authors starting with J from Antiquates Ltd

London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1871-72 In six volumes. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some chipping to spines at head and foot, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to FFEP of Vol. I, later ownership inscriptions to first page text of all volumes, scattered spotting. A revised and extended edition of Wesleyan Methodist minister Thomas Jackson's (1783-1873) standard account of the history of the early years of Methodism, first published in 1865. . Fourth edition. 8vo.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861. xvi, 664pp. With an engraved frontispiece and nearly 450 fine wood engravings in the text. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped. Naively deleted inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional spotting. The revised edition of John Jackson's (1801-1848) monumental history of the art of wood-engraving. First printed in 1839, the work is a valuable source of information on contemporary engravers and their technique, and is generous in its praise of Thomas Bewick, under whom Jackson had apprenticed. This second edition includes an additional 145 illustrations and a new chapter on the 'artists of the present day' by Henry G. Bohn. . Second edition. Large 8vo.

[London] In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling...for Bernard Lintot...and W. Mears, 1720. [4], 138pp, [10]. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Rubbed and marked, some scoring to boards, lower joint split. Pastedowns sprung, without fly-leaves, minute worm-track to foot of text-block, early inked ownership inscriptions of William Kinsey and Thomas Kinsey to FEP and head of title respectively. An early revised and extended edition of a vade mecum designed to assist parish administrators in their interpretation and enforcement of increasingly complex laws surrounding social reform, including the Poor Law Act of 1601 and its numerous amendments, the duties of constables and highway surveyors, and the statutes relating to hackney coaches. First published in 1718, the work is commonly attributed to legal writer Giles Jacob (bap. 1686, d. 1744), author of The Compleat Court-Keeper (1713) ESTC N4920.. Second edition. 12mo.

[London]: Printed by W. Annan, 1846. vii, [1], 47pp, [1]. Interleaved throughout. With an engraved plate. Original publisher's maroon cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, marked, and heavily sunned. Occasional spotting, plate damp-stained at head. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Colonel J. P. (?)Leslie / with the writer's kindest regards / Croydon 2d. August 1847.' A rare survival of the sole edition of a series of observations on the correct method for manufacturing gunpowder that originally formed an appendix to a report on the past operations and present and prospective capabilities of the Gunpowder Manufactory at Bombay, prepared for the Military Board in 1839. OCLC and COPAC together locate copies at just three locations (BL, Hagley Museum, and Smithsonian). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for W. Webb, 1749. 15pp, [1]. Uncut in later gilt-ruled straight-grain red morocco. Rubbed, spine sunned. Margins dust-soiled, scattered foxing. Armorial bookplate to FEP of the Earls of Orford, a title (created on three separate occasions) held by such luminaries as Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) and Horatio Walpole (1723-1809), Whig politician and godfather of Horatio Nelson. The first edition in English of an anonymous eyewitness account of the seizure by French forces of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), 'the Young Pretender', Jacobite claimant to the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones. In July 1748 Charles objected to the proposed terms of the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle that would inevitably conclude with his expulsion from France, where he had sought refuge following the failure of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. The French authorities had negotiated that be sent to Switzerland, but Charles indignantly refused. As a result, on 10th December Charles was taken… Read More

Firenze [i.e. Florence]: Presso Guglielmo Piatti, 1808. 106pp. Contemporary straight-grain gilt-tooled black morocco. A trifle rubbed. Leaves lightly toned. A handsomely bound copy of an Italian translation of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's (1737-1814) celebrated novel, first published as La Chaumière indienne at Paris in 1790. The work, in which a traveler finds wisdom in the cottage of an Indian outcast, is an early example of cultural primitivism in literature, a theme that was to become central to the Romantic movement. . 12mo.

Hamburg: Perthes-Besser & Mauke, 1839. 40pp. With four engraved folding plates. Later marbled paper boards, contemporary printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Leaves browned and spotted, chipping/short tears to plates at margins. The first edition of German archaeologist Otto Jahn (1813-1869) monograph on Ancient Greek painted vases. . Quarto.

London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1861. 52pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 21 hand-coloured plates (three folding). [Bound with:] Table for the reduction of the meteorological observations taken at the stations of the royal engineers. London, Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1861. 34pp. With two folding tables, one of which hand-coloured. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to spine, marking to boards, corners bumped. Upper hinge exposed, ink-stamp of Foyles Booksellers to FEP, near contemporary ink ownership inscription to FFEP, horizontal tear to one table - without loss, occasional spotting. The first edition of a comprehensive manual for the taking and recording of meteorological observations on land and at sea through the use of various instruments by Colonel Sir Henry James (1806-1877), Royal Engineer and latterly director-general of the Ordnance Survey. . First edition.

London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1861. 52pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 21 hand-coloured plates (three folding). [Bound with:] Table for the reduction of the meteorological observations taken at the stations of the royal engineers. London, Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1861. 34pp. With two folding tables, one of which hand-coloured. Original publisher's green cloth recently rebacked, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to boards, corners bumped. Foxed throughout, ink library stamps and withdrawal stamp of the Meteorological Society to title. A comprehensive manual for the taking and recording of meteorological observations on land and at sea through the use of various instruments by Colonel Sir Henry James (1806-1877), Royal Engineer and latterly director-general of the Ordnance Survey. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed for Longman, Rees Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. In three volumes. vii, [1], 318; [2], 336; [2], 333pp, [1]. Bound by T. Kilkenny of Enniskillen in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Binders tickets to FEPs ov Vol. I and III, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, free-endpapers of Vol. I removed. The first edition of a triple-decker novel by George Payne Rainsford James (1801-1860), presenting a fictionalised account of the turbulent history of the burghers of Flanders. We could find no record of T. Kilkenny's bindery. . First edition. 8vo.

Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1838. [2], 370pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled endpapers, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to upper board. Upper hinge exposed, early armorial bookplate and recent book-label of Iain J. A. S. Woolley to FEP, slight loss to head of dedication leaf. The first Continental edition (printed in the same year as the first English edition) of George Payne Rainsford James's (1799-1860) fourteenth published novel; an historical drama concerned with romance within the circles of English aristocracy. . 8vo.

London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, [1993]. xiv, 279pp, [1]. With seven plates of black and white photographs/illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally immaculate. A fine copy. With a loosely inserted bookplate inscribed: 'To Mike Reskin / with best wishes / Lawrence Jones / 29.vi.93'. The first edition of an authoritative biography of British Army officer Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861-1936), notable for his leadership of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force against the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Charles Knight & Co., 1845. Two volumes bound as one. 232; 272pp. With numerous engraved portraits in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, Near contemporary bookplate to FEP. The first edition of art historian Anna Jameson's (1794-1860) biographical sketches of Italian painters, particularly those of the Renaissance, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. . First edition. 12mo.

London: John Murray, 1842. In two volumes. lii, 281, [1]; [3], 283-628pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-roan, marbled boards, marbled edges. Extremities worn, loss to spines. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, scattered foxing. The first edition of a early Victorian guide to the major public art galleries of England's capital, with 'catalogues of the pictures, accompanied by critical, historical, and bibliographical notices, and copious indexes to facilitate reference'. . First edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech.., 1798. [4], xiv, 202pp. With an engraved folding map (of the Shetland Islands) and three engraved plates on two leaves (one of which a map of Arran). Early twentieth-century half-calf (with a manuscript note 'Re-bound april 1904' inscribed to RFEP), contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A generously margined copy, with fore-edges and bottom edges uncut. Very slightly marked, slightest of wear to extremities. Spotting to endpapers, and very occasional marginal marking. The first edition of a detailed mineralogical study of both the Shetland Islands and the Isle of Arran. The first published work of Scottish naturalist and mineralogist Robert Jameson's (1774-1854), and paying particular attention to deposits of coal, peat and kelp, it was based on the assiduous young Edinburgh University student's three month naturalist's tours of his parents' native Shetland Islands (three months in 1794) and Arran (1797) in the forth of Clyde.… Read More

London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Co. et al., [1823]. xxii, 147pp, [3]. With two engraved plates. Errata slip pasted to FEP. Original publisher's drab boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and a trifle marked, chipping to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title: 'J. Rymer Esq. / with the respects / of the Author'. The sole edition, printed in Manchester and presented here in original state, of physician Thomas Jarrold's (1770-1853) dissertation on the causes and treatment of scoliosis, informed with reference to numerous examples of cases encountered by the author. COPAC locates only six copies (BL, Cambridge, Chetham’s, RCP Edinburgh, UCL and Wellcome). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., 1853. [6], viii, 245pp, [3]. With two preliminary publishers advertisement leaves, another terminal leaf of same, a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed with some loss and tearing to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Reginald Arthur Tatton to FEP. First printed by Harper & Bros. in New York in 1852, Parisian Sights, a copiously illustrated travelogue on the French capital and the mannerisms of her people, is most commonly attributed to James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), a newspaper editor considered to be the first American art collector to purchase Old Masters and Italian primitives. COPAC records only five copies of this first London edition; Aberdeen, Birmingham, BL, Durham, and NLS. . First London edition. 8vo.

Paris: J. Hetzel et Cle, Editeurs, [s.d., c.1880s] [4], 323pp, [1]. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, corners, else a fine copy. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper. Novelist and poet George Meredith's (1828-1909) copy of the selected letters of saloniste Caroline Jaubert (1803-1882), correspondent of Berryer and Heinrich Heine, and the mistress of Alfred Musset. . Troisieme edition. 12mo.

Cambridge. : Printed for Fletcher and Hodson, [1773]. [2], pp33-43, [3]. With the final advertisement leaf. Uncut, in original stitched marbled paper wraps. Some soiling to edges and staining to wrappers. An unsophisticated copy of this continuation relating to Cambridge University, published in the same year. ESTC locates 14 copies, only 4 of which in North America. ESTC T115687.. First Edition. 8vo..

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. xii, 387pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, blocked in black, gilt, and blind. Extremities rubbed. Upper hinge exposed, bookplate to FEP, inked ownership inscription to recto of half-title, very occasional light spotting/chipping to margins. The first edition of Richard Jefferies' (1848-1887) second published (and perhaps best-known) work, a series of topographical sketches redolent of the Wiltshire countryside. . First edition. 8vo.