Search Results: Titles starting with H from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

First Deluxe Edition, First Impression. 8vo, Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated panel by Cliff Wright, Author's facsimile signature blocked in gilt, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, green endpapers. Published by Bloomsbury (London), 1999.
A new book which was sealed in the Publisher's original shrink-wrap; carefully removed to check the Book's first printing status, and then replaced.
The elusive title in collecting the Deluxe Editions of the Harry Potter series. Only 1,000 copies of this first deluxe edition were issued by Bloomsbury in 1999. Rare to find in fine condition and so carefully cared for. (Errington, Philip W., J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography.)
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First Edition [2], 400 pp, 8vo. (20 * 12cm), title, half-title, engraved frontispiece by Romanet; allegorical engraving of Mercury and Cupid titled: Mercure conduit par l amour, ou invention du langage et de l'ecriture, two folding plates, one printed in four colours, errata, text in French. Bound in early mottled calf with gilt borders, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges. Published by Chez l'Auteur, Boudet, Valleyre, la Veuve Duchesne, Saugrain, Ruault (Paris), 1776. Light wear to boards; short closed tear at top margin of p. 384. A very good example. This copy has notable provenance containing the engraved bookplate of the distinguished French neurologist Dr François Moutier (1881-1961). Dr Moutier was also a very well respected book collector with an impressive private library of several thousand books. The first separate edition of this treatise on the universal origin of speech and language. A scarce and sought-after work, its importance is due to the presence of… Read More

First Edition. Two large paper folio volumes (39 * 24 cm), engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1, Vol. 1: 710pp, Vol. 2: 612pp. Bound in contemporary calf, re-backed, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R .Gosling (London) for F. Gyles, T. Woodward, and C. Davis, 1736.

A near fine example.

Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676), an English Lord Chief Justice, is regarded as one of the greatest legal authorities from the 17th century. His judicial doctrines have continued to influence the opinions of his legal successors and remain widely read. These volumes were the first effort to provide a history of English criminal law and remain Hale's most famous work. The first volume examines excuses for crime such as infancy and madness, before examining more important crimes and statutory felonies. The second volume principally examines criminal procedure in capital cases. No case records pertaining to mental illness were maintained at this time. Hale defined the… Read More

With Biographical Anecdotes Of Royal And Distinguished Persons, Deduced From Records, State-Papers, And Manuscripts, And From Other Original And Authentic Sources. In Two Parts.
First Edition. Two Volumes. Large 4to (31 * 25cm). Published for T. Cadell, in The Strand (London), 1821-1825, at £6 16s 6d. and paginated continuously. Vol. 1, pp. xiv, (ii), 272, xxxiv, (ii.), Vol. II, pp. vi, (ii), 273 - 672, xxxv - cxxviii, (xviii). Some errors of pagination and with inserted Publisher's slip regarding publication of the second volume and also indicating "only a limited number of copies have been printed". With two frontispieces and 25 plates as listed. Handsomely bound in later 19th century half morocco, gilt, with marbled boards and endpapers, lightly rubbed and a little marked.
Some occasional light foxing and marginal browning, but otherwise a clean and superior copy. Very good.
The volumes contain the 1883 Armorial bookplate of Charles Arthur Wynne Finch (1841-1903) of Voelas, Denbighshire.
The first… Read More