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Londres [i.e. London]: [s.n.], 1774. In two volumes. vii, [1], 232; [4], 280pp. With half-titles. The imprint is false; printed on the continent. Uncut in later blue paper wrappers, paper labels with title in manuscript to spines. Rubbed, creased, and a trifle marked. Short tear to foot of Vol. II title page. A primary work of political theory by French Enlightenment polymath Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), in which he argues for principles of government based solely on social utility. Holbach promotes the abolition of hereditary class privileges, progressive taxation, separation of church and state, religious toleration, the establishment of a system of secular public education, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. The failure of a government to provide general welfare, he argues, citizens come to be ruled not by reason but by passion, and revolution results. ESTC T199913.. Second edition. 8vo.

Cantabrigiae, [i.e. Cambridge]: Ex Officina Johannis Hayes, celeberrimae Academia Typographi, 1683. [136]pp. Without A1, as issued. Recent blue half-morocco, buckram boards, titled in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Spine a trifle browned, else a fine copy. With an early manuscript verse in 12 lines, entitled 'Variatio martialis' to blank fly leaf at end. An official collection of Cambridge University Restoration verse published on the occasion of the royal marriage of Princess, later Queen Anne (1665-1714) and Prince George of Denmark. Including verse in Latin, English and Greek, it features early contributions from George Stepney (1663-15 September 1707) and his friend Charles Montagu, afterwards 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715). Case, Poetical miscellanies 169, ESTC . First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1819. [6], 205pp, [3]. Title in red and black. With three final publisher's advertisement leaves. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn and marked, joints split, lower board and spine cracked, loss to head and foot, lettering-piece chipped. Foxed. An enlarged edition of an anthology of the first six poems to be awarded the prestigious annual University of Cambridge prize for poetry, the Chancellor's Gold Medal. The award was first presented in 1813 to George Waddington (1793-1869) of Trinity College, later to become a Church of England clergyman and ecclesiastical historian. Other notable recipients represented in this volume include William Whewell (1794-1866), noted mathematician and some time Master of Trinity College; and Chauncey Hare Townshend (1798-1868), respected poet and a friend of Charles Dickens (he was the dedicatee of Great Expectations). . Second edition. 12mo.

[Liverpool]: [C. Tinling & Co.], [1938]. 19pp, [1]. With seven photographic plates and a full- page illustrated in the text. Original publisher's navy morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt to upper board, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers spotted. A handsomely bound volume commemorating the opening of the Harold Cohen Library, University of Liverpool, on 21st May, 1938, in the presence of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Devoted to medicine and the sciences; the library initially contained 200,000 volumes, the holdings have now increased to over 500,000. . First edition. Quarto.

Oxford: Printed and sold by N. Bliss, 1814. [4], 53pp. Original publisher's drab wrappers. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional spotting. A contemporary record of the reception of the Prince Regent (later George III) to the city and university of Oxford in 1814 as a part of the Allied sovereigns' visit to England celebrating the peace following the defeat of France and abdication of Napoleon. The dignitaries in attendance included the Tsar of Russia and Frederick William III of Prussia. The poems recited on the occasion included an ode by John Taylor Coleridge. . First edition. 8vo.

Oxford: Printed for J. Parker, 1816. 200pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. An anthology collecting 14 poems previously honoured with the Newdigate prize, the prestigious annual Oxford University poetry award founded in 1806, most notably including Brasenose College student and later Bishop of Calcutta Reginald Heber's (1783–1826) Palestine, which took the prize in 1803. The poem is noteworthy for Heber's insertion of a line on the miraculous construction of a temple without tools at the insistence of a young Walter Scott. . Fifth edition. 8vo.

London: [Barnes & Scarsbrook], [1890]. 33pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Harry Percy Boord to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. The second known copy of an extract, printed for private circulation, from Scottish physician Andrew Ure's (1778-1857) Dictionary of Chemistry (1821) concerning his experiments surrounding the chemical production of electricity. OCLC records a single copy (Cambridge); OCLC adds no further. . 8vo.

Westminster: Printed by A. Campbell, 1727. ix, [1], 48pp. Errata on p.[x]. ESTC T141492. [Bound after:] [BURGER, Gottfried Augustus]. Lenore, a tale. London. Printed for the Author, and sold by Sampson Low, 1796. First edition in English. [6], 17pp, [1]. With a half-title. ESTC T88492. [And:] [MALLET, David]. Amyntor and theodora: or, The hermit. A poem. In three cantos. London. Printed for Paul Vaillant, 1747. First edition. [4], viii, 92pp. With a half-title. ESTC T21858. [Bound before:] [COOPER, John Gilbert]. Epistles to the great, from aristippus in Retirement. London. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. First edition. 48pp. With a half-title. ESTC T32883. Quarto. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, buff paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Early. inked ownership inscription of Mary Heber to FEP, initial two gatherings of first mentioned work damp-stained, hole to half-title of last mentioned work, else internally clean and crisp. A sammelband of four… Read More