Search Results: Authors starting with M from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1760. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 210 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 208, including half-title, engraved portrait of Handel at the age of 56 by T. Chambers as frontispiece, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, with title blocked in gilt on spine. A very good copy with the book label of Richard Luckett on the front paste-down end-paper and on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, "Alfred C. Every/ 35 Royal Street Kensington/ 23rd Oct. 1857." Mainwaring (1724 - 1807) studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1748. He had several collaborators for this work; some of the factual information is from John Christopher Smith, some of it was written by Robert Price, and the list of compositions is by James Harris. It was reviewed and quoted extensively in various contemporary periodicals and is a useful source of information about Handel's life and activities. There is a footnote in the "Observations" to James… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1845. 4to, 286 x 219mms., pp. liii [liv blank], 165 [166 blank], engraved plate before text, contemporary quarter cloth, boards, paper labels on spine; ex-library with various library stamps. Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. He had an observatory built at his home in Scotland in 1808 and he made a number of contributions to navigation in the succeeding years. Brisbane was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828 and was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833. He was made a baronet in 1836 and attained the rank of general in 1841. He was the governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825, and what is now the city of Brisbane is named after him, though it was a penal colony at the time. The present volume is an extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,… Read More

London: Trübner and Co...., 1879. . FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 267 [268 blank], original cloth. A very good copy.

London: Printed for John Morphew..., 1710. 8vo, 190 x 110 mms., pp. [xvi], 319, 332 - 380, contemporary panelled calf, skilfully rebacked,. with red morocco labels; corners a bit worn, but a very good copy. It is not clear when Riviere Manley (c. 1670 - 1724) became Mary De La Riverere Manley, though it might have been when she was travelling with John Manley. Her first book was Letters by Mrs Manley, published in 1696, but which were withdrawn from publication and not republished until after her death. She is perhaps best-known for work, Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes, from the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean in 1709. The Memoirs of Europe was the first of two volumes, in which Manley, as a Tory, tries to expose whig corruption with racy descriptions of naughty sexual behaviour. Her ODNB biographer, Ros Ballaster concludes a very good account of her life and publications with this comment: "Manley's plays and prose works were… Read More

Coloniaae Agrippinae, Apud Ionnem Gtmnicum, sub Monocerote, M, D. XCII. 1592. 8vo, 165 X 90 mms, 3 parts in one volume, pp. [viii]], 272; [viii], 189 [190 - 192 Epistolae, with contemporary ink comment at bottom of page]. BOUND WITH: Caroli Sigonii Oratoris Disertissimi Orationes septem, quarum priores quatuor sunt pro Eloquentia. v. De Latinae linguae vsu Retinendo. vi. De Laudibus Historiae. vii. De Laudibus Studiorom humanitatis. Coloniaae Agrippinae Apud Ionnem Gtmnicum, sub Monocerote, M, D. XCII. 8vo, 165 X 90 mms The two separate items are bound in contemporary calf with an oval ornament on each cover, fragments of a paper label on the spine, with a ms. sheets of ms. music from an earlier period as the front and rear free-end papers (lacks paste-down end-paper);front hinge cracked and binding a bit age-soiled. Marc-Antoine Muret (1526–1585) was a major figure in humanist classical scholarship. A superb Latinist, he influenced, among others, the Dutch humanist Justus Lipsius. John… Read More

Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1722. 8vo, 217 x 131 mms., pp. [xxviii], 145 [146 blank], IX [X blank], including 16 pages of subscribers, engraved portrat frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, engraved head- and tail-pieces, engraved initial letters, later 18th century calf, double gilt rule borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; fronjoint slightly cracked, rear joint rubbed, but a very good copy. The Italian humanist and poet Marco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida (1485? – 1566) wrote Latin poetry, and his De Arte Poetica, influenced by Horace, proved to be a useful text for 18th century aestheticians. De Arte Poetica was translated by John Hampson and published in Sunerland in 1793; Hampson had nothing but praise for the author, his works, and his life style, taking his due from the above book: "It happened, in the winter of 1790, that Tristram's Vida fell into my hands. On reading the Poetics I was so struck by the… Read More

London Printed for J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater noster-Row 1723. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH. 8vo, 183 x 116 mms., [xii], 43 [44 blankl], bound in later vellum-backed boards, leather label, a very good copy. This 1723 edition of the poem Silk-Worms by Marco Girolomo Vida is not only the first edition of this translation into English; it is also the first edition of the first translation of this seminal Italian poem into the English language. The author of the translation is not given on the title-page, nor is it given in the ESTC entry on this printing, but he is John Rooke. That the translator is indeed John Rooke can be pieced together from a later book: Select Translations by "Mr. Rooke", whose main title-page is dated to 1726 (ESTC N21772), but the translation of Vida's Silk-Worms contained therein has a separate title-page dated 1725. The title of the 1723 volume on offer begins "Silk-Worms: A Poem. A Poem. In Two Books…"… Read More

Lvgd. Batavorum Ex officina Elzeviriana, Anno 1640. Small 12mo, 120 x 64 mms., pp. [xii], 294, 39 [40 - 93 Index, 94 blank], fine engraved title-page, contemporary red morocco, gilt panels on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, art nouveau bookplate on front paste-down end-paper; front cover detached, but an attractive copy. This is the first Elzevir edition to have Vossius' dedication to Thure Bielke.

Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzvirium, 1652. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. Thick 4to, 215 x 158 mms., pp. [lii], 132, [4], 68, [4], 60, [4] 5 - 8, 80, [4], 40, [4], 36; [viii], 363 [364 blank], both title-pages in red and black, printed in double columns, text in Greek and Latin, and with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding letterpress tables, of which 4 are printed in red and black, woodcut musical annotation, diagrams and decorative initials, contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked, with raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco label; some occasional staining but a very good copy of this remarkabled work. Marcus Meibomius (c. 1630, Tönningen – 1710/1711, Utrecht) was a Danish scholar, probably He is best known as a historian of music, as an antiquarian, and as the first librarian at the Denmark's Royal Library. He was also a philologist and mathematician. The present book, on antique Greeek music, and "It printed works, in Greek originals with Latin… Read More

Boston 35 Newbury Street 1904. A typed letter - "Dictated" - on a bifolium, dated and located, 35 Newbury St., Boston, February 3, 1904, the leaf measuring 240 x 194 mms. unfolded, the text on the recto of the first folded leaf, reading, "My dear Mr. Johnson: - If it is permissible, I should like to know how Dr. Lavendar is behaving in England? Any information, favora-ble or otherwise, will gratefully & 'umbly received by the undersigned." The author signs the letter with an ink drawing of herself peering at what seems to be a body of water, possibly notionally looking across the Atlantic to Mr. Johnson. The book of Deland's to which she refers in this letter is almost certainly Dr. Lavendar's People, which was published in both New York and London by Harper & Brothers. The book's copyright page states it was published in October 1903, which would mean this letter was written about four months after the initial publication of the bookWikipedia:… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Do., 1813. 12mo, 192 x 103 mms., pp. [ii], 200, original boards, uncut; title-page slightly foxed, top of spine defective, but a good copy. The Critical Review was rather sniffy about the novella when it was first published in 1805: "The desereved éclat which miss Edgewroth acquired by 'Castle Rackarent' was the only motive which induced us to venture on the perusal of the present performance; but we cannot say that it afforded us much entertainment." Edgeworth's Griselda is not modelled on Chaucer's version and is a rather didactic satire on a discontented wife.

London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1841. 8vo, 170 x 103 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 211 [212 colophon], engraved frontispiece of the Portland Vase, additional engraved title-page, full-page engraved plates ap pages 9, 77, 91, 167, 185, original cloth (soiled); edges dusty, slightly shaken in casing, but a fair to good copy, with the inscription "William Wallace Rooke/ January 17th/ 1843." on the recto of the engraved frontispiece. Maria Hack (née Barton, 1777 - 1844) was a prolific author of books for children. She published the above work, a history of glass and an introduction to optics, in 1834, as Lectures at Home. Discovery and Manufacture of Glass; Lenses and Mirrors; the Structure of the Eye. Copies of the 1834 edition located in BL, Bodleian, Wellcome, NLS, and St. Andrews; and there are several copies on the market. The only copy of the 1841 second edition, which appears not to have been reset from the first edition, is in the Bodleian. These figures are… Read More

En Valencia En la Ofiina de los Hermanos de Orga, 1795. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, 190 x 137 mms., pp. xxiv, 239 [240 Index], contemporary vellum (soiled). A good copy with the autograph "Dr. Locke" on the front paste-down end-paper. Mariano Madramany and Calatayud (1746 - 1822) studied at the University of Valencia and received his doctorate in law in 1768. He sought various academic posts, but none of his attempts were very successful, and he practiced law for much of his life. This treatise on the rhetoric of elocution was reprinted in 1829. Wikipedia notes (time to brush up on your Spanish, "En español, una de las primeras referencias prácticas a la elocución se debe al dominico español Luis de Granada (1504-1588), en su obra 'Los seis libros de la Rhetorica Eclesiastica,' con el objeto de instruir a los predicadores sobre la mejor manera de expresarse en sus sermones. En la misma línea práctica se puede citar a otro… Read More

London, Printed for A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, S. Austen, J. Osborn, J. Robinson, J. Davidson, J. Beecroft, B. Dodd, and J. and J. Rivington..., 1747. 8vo, 195 x 123 mms., pp. [xvi], 375 [376 - 382 Glossary, 383 - 399 Index, 400 advert], 9 engraved plates, with the ownership on the recto of the front free end-paper, "William Jackson's Book...," and a note in his hand on the recto of the following leaf - "To make Hair grown that has once fallen off" - contemporary calf; front free end-paper soiled and with short tear in lower margin, corners worn, upper front joint slightly cracked, but a good copy. Martin Clare (1690 - 1751) was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Freemason; he was also one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and the Master of the Academy in Soho Square and continued to be a member of the Middlesex bench until just before his death. Clare was also the author of a useful and important pedagogical book, Youth's… Read More

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1781. Three volumes. 8vo, 212 x 132, pp. [iv], xxxii, 494; [iv], 382 [383 - 400 indexes]; xii, 402 [403 - 412 index], contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, morocco labels; corners and other extremities worn, but a good set. Martin Madan (1725–1790) was a man with a mission, or, rather several missions. He was called to the bar in 1748 but the experience of hearing John Wesley led him to give up a career in law. As Arthur Pollard notes in his ONDB entry, "Madan became chaplain of the Lock Hospital at Hyde Park Corner, an institution for penitent prostitutes. His preaching there, where members of the public were free to attend, became so popular that a new chapel was built in 1762." So his endorsement of polygamy in these volumes led to many severe criticism of his writing and his person. Reviewing the third volume in 1781, the Monthly Review, having earlier scathingly reviewed the first two volumes, added salt to the wounds:… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 225 x 143 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 214, original boards, uncut, paper label on spine, which is worn with joints slightly tender The great friend of Horace Walpole, Mary Berry (1763 - 1852) and her sister, Agnes (1764–1852), were well-educated and well-travelled: Walpole described them as "the best informed and the most perfect creatures I ever saw at their age." The present book is a sequel to an earlier one, A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the French Revolution, published in 1828. The Oxford DNB conludes its entry with this assessment: "Scholars have now drawn attention to her letters and journals, for the light they throw on women's history, but her own published books remain neglected. An introspective and often melancholy temperament shows through in all her writings, but it is her correspondence with… Read More

Roma Per Luigi Perego Salvioni Stampator Vaticano nellaSapienza, 1783. 3 volumes. 12mo, 160 x 850 mms., pp. xxiv, 92, lxxii; 88, lxxii; 92, lxxii, title-pages in red and black, engraved vignette on title-page and engraved frontispiece in each volume, handsomely bound in contemporary red morocco, with ornately gilt borders to a an urn and floral motive on each, with locket and chain design on upper margin of covers, with the initials "R. S. P." in gilt within the locket, spines ornately and richly gilt to a floral motive, all edges gilt, a a very good to fine set, with the bookplate or Robert J. Hayhurst on the front paste-down end-paper of volume 1. The explanations and declarations are by the Abbot Alessandro Mazzinelli. OCLC locates copies in BL; Morgan Library, Wesleyan, St. Catherine University, Dayton, NYPL, Boston, Redwood Library and Athanaeum, Boston Public, Washington University; Lille,

London: John and Robert Maxwell..., no date 1879. FIRST BOOK EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo, 181 x 120 mms., pp. [iv], 397 [398 blank]; [iv], 302; [iv], 288, contemporary half maroon calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments with title in gilt; some wear to extremities but very good set, with the armorial bookplate of the author Richard Combe Miller (1841 -1916) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; and Miller's autograph in ink on the recto of the front free end-paper of each and below his autograph that of M. Meakin. The novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon (married name Maxwell) (1835-1915) worked as an actor from the age of 22, but began writing short stories and poems in 1859, publishing her first book, Garibaldi and Other Poems, in 1861. She became the companion, as it were, of the publisher John Maxwell who also published the sensationalist novel Lady Audley's Secret as a serial in 1861. The Cloven Foot does not disappoint by way of sensationalist content, involving… Read More

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley..., 1832. 12mo, 163 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], [3] 4 - 476, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, black leather label, marbled boards; lacking engraved title-page, binding a bit worn, but a good copy. The Orkney-born novelist Mary Brunton [née Balfour] (1778–1818) published her first novel, Self Control, in 1811; Discipline was published in 1814, and within two years had achieved three editions. In a rather gushing tribute to Brunton shortly after her death, The Scots Magazine devoted several pages to both Self-Conrol and Discipline. While it concluded that the latter was inferior to the former, the author, E. E., asserts, "Neither of them shews much originality either of plot or incident; but the interweaving of engaging narrative, with a display of the effects of religious principle, will make them long regarded as among the best books of amusement which can safely be put into the hands of the young."

Edinburgh: Printed for Edinburgh, Manners and Miller [and Archibald Constable/ John Murray, London], etc; 1819. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 196 x 12o mms., pp. [v] vi - cxxi [cxxii blank], 195 [ 196 blank], without half-title or portrait (found in some copies), bound in in contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with black label, bound for Collings's Library, Bath, with their early green label on the upper outer margin of the verso of the front free end-paper; corners a little rubbed, but a very good copy. THe work was noticed in The Edinburgh Review for March, 1819, where the reviewer commented largely on the author's life and deeds, finding Emmeline satisfactory as a "broken fragment. Had the author prolonged the study of this adulteress, all hearts must either have inevitably been repelled by the detailed account of her agonies; or they must have been made to feel a fatal sympathy with them. We firmly believe that Mrs Brunton could not have finished such a tale." Commenting on the… Read More