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

London: Printed for the Booksellers [no date] [1886]. 8vo, 210 x 140, pp. [16], pamphlet as issued. Mr. Eyeglass has addressed his work to his grandchilden.

New York: Brentano's, 1910. Large 8vo, pp. 438, including half-title, frontispiece, 16 illustrations in text, 4 illustrations preceding title-page, including an 18th century engraving of Marguerite de Valois tipped-in on the recto of the frontispiece, original cloth, blocked in gilt on spine and front cover, top edge gilt (slightly soiled), other edges uncut. A very good copy.

Londres: Publicdo por R. Ackerman... y en Megio, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Chile, Peru Y Guatemala, 1832. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 143 x 91 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 93 [94 blank, 95 - 100 adverts for Ackerman imprints], circular bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, contemporary green morocco, title in gilt on front cover. A very good copy. Pablo Lozano y Casela (1749 - 1822) was one of the earliest Spaniards to become an Arabic scholar and a translator. This work is said to have been translated from the Arabic in 1793, but the earliest edition that I have found was printed in 1826. There are 500 maxims and 50 miscellaneous quotes. OCLC locates only the BL for this 1832 imprint and the Hamburg Staats und Universitatsbibliothek for the 1826 printing.

In Venetia. Con privilegio del sommo Pontifice Paulo...& d Cesarea maestra, & de lo Illustrissimo senato Veneto per anni dieci 1548. Small 8vo, 143 x 100 mms., foliated [iv], 296, woodcut on title-page with female "Sibylla" within oval border, later 18th cneutyr quarter sheepskin, lightly marbled boards, green morocco label on spine; ex- library, with library stamp obscuring part of imprint on title-page, hand-written bookplate on front paste-down end-paper "has library mark of German [illegible] at Bologna." A good copy. The scholar and historian Pandolfo Collenuccio (1444 - 1504) graduated from Padua University in 1465 with a degree in law and and held various political offices; he is credited with obtaining the Lordship of Pesaro Giovanni Sforza , illegitimate son of Costanzo I. Exiled from his home town of Padua thanks to a dispute involving Sforza, he achieved some fame as one of the early Etruscan scholars. Many of his works were published after his death, as… Read More

In Milano In Casa di Gio. Battista Bidelli..., 1645. 4to, 265 x 210 mms., pp. [xx], 132, with engraved title-page, engraved portrait of dedicatee, and 12 full-page engraved portraits of Milanese viscounts, engraved by Paolo Bianchi, contemporary limp vellum (a little soiled); inner margins of front and rear end-papers at little wormed with some very slight water-staining, none of which affects the text or the engravings, a very good copy, with the 19th century book ticket of Conte Gropello di Alessandria on the front paste-down end-paper. Although Giovio (1483 - 1552) took a degree in medicine, he was primarily interested in a literary career, in which he was notably successful, so much so that Leo X gave him the rank of Cavaliere, with a pension. Paolo Giovio, Bishop of Nocera, had one of the most celebrated collections of Italian portraits. In a letter dated 1521, he expressed his intention to put together some real portraits of men of letters, whose eyes would stimulate men to virtue. Giovio… Read More

London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies..., 1795. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 91 [92 blank], including half-title, disbound. With the contemporary autograph "J Hall/ Barlow" on the top margin of the half-title. The Story of the Moor of Venice is translated from the Hecatommithi of Giambattista Giraldi. Parr's two essays are on Coriolanus and, of course, Othello. This was Parr's first publication, and he published two further translations in the 1820s.

Dublin: Bonham, printer, 1795. 8vo, 187 x 115 mms., pp. [6], 7 - 229 [230 blank], including half-title, handsomely bound in contemporary (or slightly later) straight-grain maroon morocco, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt. A fine copy. Lawrence Parsons, Second Earl of Rosse (1758–1841) entered the Irish House of Commons in 1782 and became a friend of Henry Flood, the radical patriot. After the death of Flood in 1791, amid much other political activity, he opposed the Union with Britain. "By his will, [Flood] left the bulk of his property, valued at £5000, to Trinity College, Dublin, after his wife's death, for the establishment of a professorship of Irish, for the maintenance of a prize fund for composition, and for the purchase of Irish books and manuscripts. However, the will was challenged by his cousin John Flood of Floodhall, with whom he had argued during his lifetime, and declared invalid on the grounds that John Flood was the legitimate heir, and the… Read More

London: Printed by H. Fry...for C. Dilly..., 1797. 8vo, pp. xxix [xxx blank, xxxi - xxxvi Contents], 440, xxviii, including half-title, folding table at p. 230, recently rebound in quarter calf, gilt rules across raised banks, morocco label, marbled boards; half-title and title-page very slightly soiled and foxed, edges dusty and slightly soiled. A native of Dumbarton, Colquhoun (1745 - 1820) was Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1782 and 1783, and he founded Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. In 1789, he moved to London and was appointed justice, and his early publications were concerned with the welfare of the poor. He made his reputation in 1795, when he published the above book, and it led to the founding of a more efficient and orderly police authority.

Paisley: Printed by John Neilson, 1788. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 76, disbound; text browned. Patrick Hutchison (c.1740 - 1802) spent his entire ecclesiastical career in Scotland, chiefly at the church in Canal Street, Paisley. He was a minister of the Relief church. He was an important figure in broadening the area of Scottish Presbyterian dissent and making it more tolerant and liberal with the strict covenanting conventions of the Anti-Burghers. There are three discourses in the pamphlet, all on Matthew xvi, 16. ESTC T130599 locates copies in the BL, NLS, Oxford University Mansfield College; and Boston Athenaeum.

[?Paris] 1744. FIRST AND ONLY EDISTION. 12mo, 165 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt to a flower motif in compartments, dark red leather label; corners of text block a little worn, bind rubbed and worn, corners worn, a so-so copy.

London: Williams and Norgate; Paris: Germer Balliere, 1867. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xii, 202 [203 - 204 adverts], original cloth. A very good copy.

London: Printed for G. Pearch..., 1768, 1770. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes. 8vo, 178 x 113 mms., pp. [iv], 323 [324 adverts];[iv], 320; [iv], 324 [325 - 328 index]; [iv], 323 [324 blank, 325 - 328 index], including half-title in each volume, engraved vignette on each title-page, and engraved head-piece for first poem in each volume, attractively bound in full contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments to a lyre and urn motif, red and olive morocco labels, armorial bookplate of Edward Parker, Browsholme, Yorkshire on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Edward Parker (1730-1794) was Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland married Barbara Fleming in 1750, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fleming of Rydal Hall, Westrnorland. Pearch's Collection is almost a piracy, at least in format and bookstyle, of Dodsley's very successful A Collection of Poems. By Several Hands, first published in 1748. The Monthly Review commented that the volumes were a "continuation of Mr.… Read More

Leeds [?Mr. Jackson] [1830]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Oblong quarto, 260 x 202 mms., consisting of marbled wrappers, with printed label on front cover, enclosing ten manuscript leaves of penmanship, with the first example in colour, the last dated in pencil December 31, 1830. I have been unable to find any information about Mr. Jackson's Academy, located on Fountain-Street, near the top of Park-Row, Leeds, according to the label on the front cover. It doesn't appear in the professions and trades listed in White's Directory of 1837.

Oslo: Akademisk Forlag; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 176, original cloth, fine copy in slightly faded dust-jacket.

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1751. Small 8vo, 155 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], xxiv, 154 [155 - 156 adverts], contemporary calf; joints cracked (but firm), lacks label. The translation here is by the physician and translator Thomas Brewster (1705 - ?) began publishing his translations of Persius in 1733 and published translations of all six satires in 1751. ODNB notes that "Edward Owen praised Brewster's translation, noting the poet's 'uncommon delicacy of ear' and 'perfect knowledge of his author'." Henry Fielding also complimented him on his translation, quoting from it in his Miscellanies; Brewster was also one of the subscriber to the Miscellanies. Fielding also brought real-life into fiction by making Brewster the physician who attends the philosopher Square at the end of Tom Jones.

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1751. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], xxiv, 154 [155 - 156 adverts], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but faded); joints cracked, lacks label. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Salwey, L L D, Richards Castle, Salop, on the front paste-down end-paper, and the 20th century library ticket of Payson G. Gates on the verso of the front free end-paper. The translations of Persius' satires by Thomas Brewster were published separately in the early 1740s, and this "second edition" is the first to collect them all in one volume.

Amstelaedami Apud Henricium Wetstenium, 1684. 2 items in one volume. Large 8vo, 194 x 113 mms., pp. [xlvi,], 525 [526 - 689 Index]; 112 [113 -128 Index], title-page n red and black, fine engraved frontispiece, attractively bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt emblem of Minerva on both covers, with the Coat of Arms of The Hague and "Hague Comitis" in gilt beneath the image, gilt acorns and spines to corners, armorial bookplate "Ex -Libris/ Verbaniae Comitis" on front paste-down end-paper, later autograph "John. Emm. Gyika" on recto of front free end-paper; leaf before engraved title (?presentation leaf) removed, covers a little sprung and slightly soiled, but a very good to fine copy. The notes in this volume are by Cornelius Schrevel (1608 - 1664), who also edited the text, and Nicholas Rigault (1577 - 1654).

London: Printed by W. Buler and Co. for J. Wright..., 1797. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, 157 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], xxxii, [7], 8 - 111 [112 blank], vignette on title-page, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt to a bird motif, black leather label; some slight foxing of text, top and base of spine chipped, very slight wear to joints, but generally a good copy. Sir William Drummond, of Logiealmond (1770?–1828) was educated at St. Andrews and Christ Church, Oxford; he had been a Member of Parliament when he published this volume. He published a number of other scholarly works on classical literature. However, it was his Academical Questions (1805), in which his scepticism, derived from David Hume, about various claims in the Jewish and Christian religions outraged many readers, not to mention those who hadn't read the book but had heard that it was "heretical." In a private letter to Lord Aberdeen, he wrote, "I have attempted to veil its real meaning; but I am… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson..., 1779. 12mo, pp. iv, 92, folding engraved frontispiece, original marbled paper wrappers; fragile, with front cover and first four leaves detached, corners a bit crushed. The noted inventor James Ferguson (1710 - 1776) published The Art of Drawing in Perspective in 1775, but this is a different book. First published in 1755, it was republished several times, with some editions being much shorter. ESTC T153184 locates two copies only: BL and Harvard; all editions are uncommon.

Gotha, bei Justus Perthes, 1826. 12mo, 109 x 70 mms., pp. [ii], 198, 167 [168 - 170 adverts], engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved portraits, 8 leaves flags printed in colour, original printed decorative boards, with all edges gilt. A very good copy. So far as I can tell, the first court calendar printed at Gotha was in 1763; Justus Perthes took over the printing in 1765 and continued until 1816. It began to be recognized as a genealogical reference works in the 1820s.