Search Results: Titles starting with H from Antiquates Ltd

[Paris]: [Hachette et Cie.], [1896]. 16pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. A trifle creased and marked. An apparently unrecorded pamphlet advertising the recent publications of Parisian bookseller Hachette et Compagnie, including the one of the most extravagant Napoleonic iconographies ever issued, Napoleon: Raconte Par L'Image D'Apres Les Sculpteurs, les Graveurs et Les Peintres (1895). . 8vo.

London: Chatto & Windus, [1927]. xiii, [1], 288pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, a further 11 photographic plates, and a sketch map. Original publisher's light blue cloth, ruled and lettered in black to spine. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Foxed. The first edition of a vivid account of the tribes of the Albu Mohammad and the Bani Lam, hailing from the region north of Basra, compiled by the civil servant Stuart Edwin Hedgecock and his wife Monica Grace Hedgecock, and issued anonymously due to administrators being permitted from writing books whilst engaged in official activities. 'During the last year I had read what I could about the Madan. It was little enough. The only book seemed to be Haji Rikkan: Marsh Arab by Fulananain..., a sympathetic description of a Marshman's life at the end of the First World War...Certainly the Madan had a bad name with Arabs and Englishmen alike' (Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs, p.49). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1875. xii, 260pp. Numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary Elstree School prize binding, bound by John Bumpus of London in richly gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper board, marbled edges. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, occasional light spotting. A handsome copy of curator and popularizer of science, John Ellor Taylor's (1837-1895) study of coastal aquatic fauna, including corallines, shellfish, anemones, and crustacea, first published in 1872. . Second edition. 8vo.

Halifax: Printed by P. Darby, for John Bentley, [1761]. [4], 95pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. With a divisional title-page dated 1761: 'Revenge upon Revenge: or, an Historical Narrative of the Tragical Practices of Sir John Eland, of Eland...' Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, the slightest of rubbing to extremities. Pastedowns sprung, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to verso of upper board, very slight paper flaw to text of verso of leaf N1 (p.70) - without loss, foxed. A crisp copy, preserved in the original sheep, of the third edition of William Bentley's history of the Yorkshire town of Halifax (first printed 1708), paying particular attention in the second chapter to their specific Gibbet-Law. An early form of guillotine, the Halifax Gibbet, which was used to execute local thieves, and terrify les autres, is defended vigorously and depicted on the frontispiece. ESTC T33073.. Third edition. 12mo.

London.: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. viii, [2]. 550pp. With a duplicate 'preface' leaf bound in at front. Frontispiece and 16 hand-coloured plates by John Leech. A crisp bright copy, with slight wear to head and foot of spine. Some cracking to hinges. Bookplates of R.N.H. Moore Stevens and Robin Stephen Benson to front endpapers. Preserved in a cloth folding-box. The first illustrated edition of Surtees' second, and best known sporting novel, with attractive hand-coloured plates by the popular Victorian illustrator John Leech. Rarely encountered in the original cloth. . First illustrated edition.

London: Hutchinson & Co., [1929]. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number five. Flat signed to dedication page. With a portrait frontispiece. 255pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition of journalist Hannen Swaffer's (1879-1962) collection of entertaining anecdotes of notable contemporary public figures, including Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Charlie Chaplin, Rudyard Kipling, and Edgar Wallace (who provides the foreword). . First edition. 8vo.

A Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau, 1687. [48], 299pp, [1]. Nineteenth-century vellum, ruled in manuscript, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece., all edges red. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate to FEP, later manuscript note in a French hand to verso of front blank fly-leaf. The second edition, printed in the year after the first, of Huguenot physician and iatrochemist Jacques Massard's (fl. 1686-1693) serial work of apocalyptic interpretation. The book combines various sources of knowledge to demonstrate the eschatological significance of the contemporary international political situation, especially as it related to the plight of the Huguenots. Massard held that the correct interpretation of disasters, dreams, and prodigies would reveal God’s plan; for him, all prophetic knowledge pointed to a providential certainty - the eventual defeat of the Papal anti-Christ and triumphant resurrection of Christ. In composing the work, Massard relied on the works of Michel… Read More

London: Printed for Harrison and Co., 1787. 27pp, [1]. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, lightly damp-staining, scattered spotting. The first edition of actor, composer, and writer Charles Dibdin’s (b. 1745, d. 1813) two-act comic opera, first performed at the Haymarket in 1787. ESTC T36030.. First edition. 8vo.

London: J. G. and F. Rivington, 1839. xii, 364pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, joints starting. Bookplate of the Swansea Training College to FEP. Foot of title page shaved, very occasional light spotting. The sole edition of a series of lectures by Christian Socialist and theologian Frederick Denison Maurice's (1805-1872) on the contemporary conditions of British education in which he notably argues that the school system ought to remain under the control of the Church rather than power being transferred to the state. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Longman, Brown, and Green and Longmans, 1847. [8], 329pp, [3], 32pp adverts. Eight engraved plates by Phiz. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt. Preserved in a cloth folding-box. A near fine copy with light wear to joints, corners. Slightly marked. Internally clean and crisp, with bookplate of Robin Stephen Benson to FEP. R.S. Surtees' fourth sporting novel. . First Edition. 8vo.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. [7], x-xix, [1], 468pp. With a half-title, an engraved folding plate, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal 32pp publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Later bookplate of John Waern Hill to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title-page, very occasional light spotting. The first edition of a significant collection of lectures on the properties and applications of temperature, particularly in regard to the locomotive capabilities of heat, delivered before the Royal Institution by physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), whose research into radiant heat and its relation to gases and vapours earned him the Rutherford medal in 1869. . First edition. 8vo.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1841. [4], 196pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further 15 engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Ticket of E. & F. N. Spon of London to FEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, spotting to plates. The sole edition of an anonymous monograph on the sources and uses of heat, published by the Religious Tract Society, and thus appropriately reverential towards the God-given gift of thermodynamics. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Partridge and Oakey, 1849. xxiii, [1], 141pp, [3]. Frontispiece and three further engraved plates, two vignette engravings to text. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Some fading to spine. Lord Dinorben's copy, with his bookplate to FEP and presentation inscription to him by the author to presentation leaf. William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben (1767-1852), Welsh businessman and philanthropist. Hughes inherited the Llysdulas estate, which included the largest copper mine in Europe. . First Edition. 12mo.

Brisbane: [s.n.], 1975. 112pp. Bifold staple-bound journal in the original publisher's illustrated orange card wraps. Smoke staining to card with some associated odour, pages toned though clear of further markings. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed; the smoke damage is the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down the back of her sofa, which caused a serious fire. Hecate is an Australian feminist academic journal founded in 1975. This edition (Vol. 1, no. 2) includes a bibliography of Sylvia Plath compiled by Stuart Cunningham, with thanks given to Olwyn Hughes and Carole Ferrier. Olwyn Hughes (1928-2016) was a translator, agent and literary executor who had worked in Paris for NATO, Martonplay, and King Peter II of Yugoslavia, among others. After the death of her sister-in-law Sylvia Plath, she returned to England to assist her brother, Ted Hughes, raise his young children, though also took over the management of both his career and Plath's literary estate. While… Read More

London: Printed for T. Arrowsmith, 1794. 10, [2], 60pp. With an engraved plate. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Title page and verso of final leaf browned and marked, scattered spotting, early inked ownership inscription of J. Kent Esq. to head of title, manuscript annotations in his hand to ‘dramatis personae’. The first edition of actor and playwright Francis Godolphin Waldron’s (bap. 1743, d. 1818) most performed play (also known as The Imitation, or, The Female Fortune Hunters and, originally, as The Belle's Stratagem), a lively romantic comedy inspired by George Farquhar's (1676/7-1707) The Beaux' Stratagem (1707). ESTC T8576.. First edition. 8vo.

Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1877. [2], 183pp, [1]. Engraved title page laid-down, original publisher's pictorial upper wrapper (laid-down) bound-in. Attractively bound by Riviere & Son in later gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, foxed. A handsomely bound copy the first British edition of John Habberton's (1842-1921) immensely popular adventure novel for children, first published at Boston in 1876. . First British edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. Mawman, 1824. In two volumes. [5], x-xxiv, 371, [1]; [4], 396pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled olive green calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed and a trifle marked, loss and chipping to lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, later armorial bookplates of Henry Birkbeck to both FEPs, occasional spotting. The first edition in English of this novel charting the journey of a follower of Judaism to the Holy Land by Prussian court preacher and theologian Frederick Strauss (1786-1863). First published in four volumes in Elberfeld in 1820, this edition, translated by John Kenrick (1788-1877), includes copious notes on the Jewish rituals and customs referenced in the work. . First edition in English. 8vo.

London: Hatchards, 1925. 51pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's decorated navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. A rare survival of the sole edition, printed for private circulation, of an anonymous memoir of British Army officer Henry Richard Compton (1899- 1923), Lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards, who died aged 25 due to complications arising from kidney disease. COPAC records copies at three locations (BL, NT, and Oxford); OCLC adds no further. . First edition. 8vo.

London: George Routledge, 1883. 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered back, with the publisher's device blindstamped to the lower board. A little shaken, a trifle cocked, with 'Frank Marshall' pencilled on the title page below 'An Irvingite'. Early ownership inscription to the top of the title. The first edition of a biography of actor and theatre manager Henry Irving (1838-1905). . First edition. 8vo.

[London]: [s.n.], [1704]. [2], 25pp, [1]. Recent cloth-backed marbled papers boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers, remnants of contemporary marbled papers to front and rear blank fly-leaves, contemporary manuscript annotations/underlining to p.13, else internally clean and crisp. A rare survival of a printing of Queen Anne's commission for the continued construction of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, specifically the completion and furnishing of King Charles Court designed and overseen by Sir Christopher Wren. The primary text establishing the parameters of the responsibilities of the board of commissioners is appended by extracts from the numerous Parliamentary decrees relating to the founding and function of the hospital, including the 1694 An Act for the Increase and Encouragement of Seamen in which the establishment of the institution was initially proposed and the benefits to naval veterans made… Read More