Search Results: Titles starting with I from Antiquates Ltd

Jenae [i.e. Jena]: Litteris Ritterianis, [c.1721]. [6], 30pp. Unbound. Text block secured by marbled paper strip. Light foxing to title, marginal loss to bottom corner of C2. A medical dissertation on scurvy composed by George Edward Hamberger (1697-1755), during his studies at Lena University where he later held a professorship of natural history and chemistry. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Duckworth & Co., [1919]. [8], 117pp, [1]. Handsomely bound by Bickers & Son in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-calf, red cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Inscribed to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'With many kindest remembrances from Seymour Hicks 1919.' The sole edition of actor, theatre manager, and author Seymour Hicks's (1871-1949) comic aphorisms regarding polite conduct in contemporary Britian. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J[ohn] S[tarkey] and are to be sold by Dorman Newman, 1670. [8], 330pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary sprinkled calf, ruled in gilt and blind, contrasting dark green morocco.lettering-piece. Rubbed, later naive repair to top corner of upper board. Armorial bookplate of Gaddesden Library to FEP, title page mounted at gutter to leaf A2, occasional spotting. The first edition in English of Italian Protestant historian Gregorio Leti's (1630-1701) vitriolic attack on Roman Catholic hierarchy and associated nepotism, first published in 1668. ESTC R2263, Wing L1330.. First edition in English. Folio.

Londra [i.e London]: Si vende da Gio. Wilcox, 1733. [648], 24pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Extremities worn, loss to head- and tail-caps, upper board held by cords only. Slight loss to gutter of leaf B1, title browned, intermittent light dampstaining. A London-printed Italian translation of the Anglican liturgy, a revised and corrected edition, edited by antiquary and sometime bookseller Alexander Gordon (c. 1692-1754?), of Church of Ireland clergyman William Bedell's (bap. 1572, d. 1642) translation - the first of its kind - posthumously published in 1685. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at locations (BL, California, Cambridge, General Theological Seminary, Oxford, St. Andrews, Strathclyde, UoL, Wellcome). ESTC T195182, Griffiths 66:3, p.513.. 12mo.

Londra: [s.n.], 1799. [8], 184pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later gilt-tooled navy half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP The first edition of Italian dramatist and poet Vittorio Alfieri's (1749-1803) popular prose and verse Gallophobic satire inspired by the events of the French Revolution between the insurrection of Paris in July 1789 and the French occupation of Rome in February 1798. The imprint is likely spurious, the work most probably having been printed in Italy; indeed, it has been suggested that the book was actually printed in 1814 (possibly at Florence) following the fall of Napoleon. Four variant editions, only differing in pagination, appeared in 1799. All are scarce, with the present setting being no exception; ESTC records two copies in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and three further worldwide (Berlin, Columbia, and Harvard). ESTC T87871.. First edition. 8vo.

Londra [i.e. London]: Presso Riccardo Bancker, 1793. In two volumes. xxx, [2], 304; 307pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, marbled edges. Light rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels to FEPs, marginal loss to leaf B6, Vol. II, lightly foxed. A collection of 50 Florentine novellas attributed to fourteenth-century author Giovanni Fiorentino; written between 1378 and 1385, and first printed in Milan in 1558. The work appears to have served as a source for Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice - with one tale featuring an Italian merchant and a Jewish moneylender. Though the imprint states this edition to have been printed in London, Livorno is the more probable publishing location. This edition includes notes by Italian classicist Anton Maria Salvini (1653-1729) and a life of Fiorentino by G. Poggioli. ESTC T99009.. 8vo.

London: Ward and Lock, 1856. [3], 136pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and two leaves of Palmer's diary in facsimile. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Extremities rubbed and creased, ink staining to lower wrapper. Scattered spotting. A contemporary account of the life, crimes, and trial of the infamous 'Prince of Poisoners' William Palmer (1824-1856). A doctor by trade, Palmer would be convicted of the murder by strychnine of John Cook with suspicions as to numerous other victims being raised during proceedings. The case gained a great deal of notoriety amongst Victorian society, becoming a nineteenth-century cause celebre, and permeating into popular culture. Arthur Conan Doyle would make reference to Palmer in the Sherlock Holmes tale 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'; and Charles Dickens reputedly based the Bleak House character of Inspector Bucket on an investigating officer involved - indeed Dickens… Read More

London: Henry Lea, 1861. 64pp. With four lithographic plates (one folding). Disbound. A trifle dusty, recent typed lettering-piece to verso of folding plate. A rare survival of the sole edition of an illustrated account of the 1861 Tooley Street fire at Cotton's Wharf near London Bridge station. The blaze began of 22nd June and ranged for two weeks, causing £2 million pounds worth of damage. The only victim of the conflagration was firefighter James Braidwood (1800-1861), founder of one of the world's first municipal fire services in Edinburgh in 1824, and the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment (which was eventually to become the London Fire Brigade). COPAC records copies at three locations (BL, Bishopsgate, and NLS); OCLC adds no further. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Ward and Lock, 1856. 184pp. Engraved folding frontispiece depicting the trial in progress within court, an engraved title vignette, numerous engraved illustrations both full- and double-page and within text throughout. Original publishers yellow printed paper wraps. Spine rubbed with slight loss to head and foot, soiling to wrap edges. Occasional spots of foxing to text. The unexpurgated transcript of the trial of the infamous 'Prince of Poisoners' William Palmer (1824-1856). A doctor by trade, Palmer would be convicted of the murder by Strychnine of John Cook with suspicions as to numerous other victims being raised during proceedings. The case gained a deal of notoriety amongst Victorian society, becoming a nineteenth-century cause celebre, and permeating into popular culture. Arthur Conan Doyle would make reference to Palmer in the Sherlock Holmes tale "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". Charles Dickens reputedly based the Bleak House character of Inspector Bucket on an… Read More

London: Ward and Lock, 1856. 184pp. Engraved folding frontispiece depicting the trial in progress within court, an engraved title vignette, numerous engraved illustrations both full- and double-page and within text throughout. [Bound after:] Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer, of Rugeley... London. Ward and Lock, 1856. First edition. 136pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and two facsimile leaves of Palmer's diary. 8vo. Contemporary black half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Extremities heavily rubbed. Later inked ownership inscription to FEP, short tear to head of folding frontispiece, occasional spotting. The unexpurgated transcript of the trial of the infamous 'Prince of Poisoners' William Palmer (1824-1856), together with an account of his life and career. A doctor by trade, Palmer would be convicted of the murder by Strychnine of John Cook with suspicions as to numerous other victims being raised during proceedings. The… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1905. [6], 334pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black, with the black and grey design stamped to the front board. Splattered staining to top edge (extending to boards and margins of text block), the bumped spine slightly toned. Endpapers lightly toned with a few marks. The first edition of a classic tale of occult amulets and archeologists in Egypt from E. F. Benson. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C., 1879. [2], 5-16pp, [236], including four blank leaves. Without the initial advertisement leaf (likely not included in this limited vellum issue). Contemporary gilt-tooled and panelled brown morocco, A.E.G., by Ramage. Rubbed to extremities, cracking to joints with short chip at head of upper joint. From the recently dispersed family library of the descendants of John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), inscribed 'C. Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, 1879' to FFEP. A choice facsimile - printed entirely on vellum - of the autograph manuscript of De Imitatione Christi by Thomas a Kempis, (1379/80-1471), late-medieval German Catholic monk. Undoubtedly his greatest and most widely-known work, De imitatione Christi is an ascetic manual of devotion rooted within the German-Dutch mystical school, and widely cited as an influence to Christian conversions, including by Methodist founder John Wesley and abolitionist John Newton, author of 'Amazing Grace'. The… Read More

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1754. 20pp, [4]. With a half-title and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Disbound Inked numeral to head of dust-soiled half-title, else clean and crisp. The first edition of the first published work of Church of England clergyman Thomas Denton (bap. 1723, d. 1777), a devotional meditation on mutability and immortality written partly in Spenserian stanza. Thomas Parnell's popular Night-Piece on Death was likely an influence. Denton's poem went into a second edition the following year, and after its inclusion in publisher Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems became one of the more frequently reprinted imitations of Spenser. ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Hull, Manchester, and Oxford), and a further 14 worldwide. ESTC T3701.. First edition. Quarto.

Cape Town & Johannesburg: Wood & Ortlepp, 1900. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's buff printed cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, faded ownership inscriptions to covers. The fourth known copy of a map, compiled for Field Intelligence Department, Cape Town, detailing the region of Rouxville, South Africa, showing farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, telegraph lines and railways. OCLC records copies at only three locations (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and Wellington). . First edition. Dimensions, unfolded: 620 x 490 mm, folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm.

London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, [1993]. xiv, 279pp, [1]. With seven plates of black and white photographs/illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally immaculate. A fine copy. With a loosely inserted bookplate inscribed: 'To Mike Reskin / with best wishes / Lawrence Jones / 29.vi.93'. The first edition of an authoritative biography of British Army officer Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861-1936), notable for his leadership of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force against the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. . First edition. 8vo.

Newcastle: C. Hickson, [1879]. [4], 100pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further three engraved plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt ruled in black and blind, all edges red. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription of Edith Charlotte Lawton to verso of FFEP. A revised edition of a memoir of George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878), Bishop of New Zealand and Bishop of Lichfield, first printed in the year of his death in a run of 3,000 copies. . Second edition. 8vo.

[Firenze]: [Tipografia Domenicana], [1915]. [36pp]. Original publisher's printed limp drab linen, lettered in red. Extremities lightly rubbed, text-block detached from binding, contemporary bookplate of Arthur Lloyd Taylor to FEP, neat ink annotation to foot of penultimate page, else clean and crisp. An apparently unrecorded jocular poem printed in Florence, seemingly the only printed work of Joseph A. Rooney, of whom little is known. . First edition. 12mo.

Aveiro: [s.n.], 1962. 294pp. Original publisher's white card wraps lettered black. Fore and bottom edge untrimmed, many gathers uncut. Light wear and creasing to spine and wraps, internally bright and clean. Inscribed 'To Jean and Cyril from S. Irina 963 [1963]'. João Carlos Celestino Gomes (1899-1960) was a Portuguese doctor, teacher, painter, and writer, who belonged to the second generation Portuguese Modernist movement. While his art was presented under the name João Carlos, he wrote widely on subjects from art history of contemporary fiction, under the name Celestino Gomes. The recipient of this copy was Cyril Ernst Kenney (1898-1973), bibliophile, chartered surveyor, and author of The Quadrant and the Quill; A book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, "a tryed and trusty Sea-man," and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669. . 1st Edition. 4to.

London: Edward Moxon, 1866. vii, [1], 211pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'Edwd. M. Forster from c.q.s.' Tennyson's elegiac, narrative poem, first published in 1850, composed in memory of his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833), who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two. . Eighteenth edition. 8vo.

Manchester: Printed for Private Circulation, 1889. 72pp. With a half-title and a photogravure frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-tooled black morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Extremities slightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. An anonymous biography, printed for private circulation, in memory of the life of Manchester-based textile merchant and philanthropist John Rylands (1801-1888). Having made his fortune as a cotton manufacturer, Rylands devoted himself to numerous charitable causes and the promotion of tolerance towards people of all Christian denominations. Upon his death he left a personal estate of in excess of £2.5 million. His third wife established a library in his memory, today a part of the University of Manchester. . First edition. Quarto.