Search Results: Titles starting with O from Antiquates Ltd

London: Faber and Faber, [1953]. 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper browned, chipping to spine and corners. Endpapers browned, bookplate of Dennis Silk to FEP. Presentation copy, inscribed to Jo Vere, with the author's characteristic 'W.J.' initials. The first edition of British author Walter de la Mare's (1873-1956) final poetry collection. . First edition. 8vo.

Lisboa [i.e. Lisbon]: Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1802. In twelve parts. 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32pp. With a woodcut vignette to title, and a further 11 identical woodcut vignettes in the text. Contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, some surface loss. Marbled endpapers, small neat paper repair to verso of title (slight loss to imprint), very occasional chipping to margins. The complete run of Portuguese poet Jose Daniel Rodrigues da Costa's (1757-1832) monthly periodical of prose and poetry commenting upon contemporary manners and morals. Within each issue the setting for the diverting anecdotes varies from public spaces, private residences, places of worship, and in one instance a gaol. A prolific writer, da Costa's narrative poem O balao dos habitantes da lua (1819) is considered the first Portuguese work of science fiction. . First edition. Quarto.

Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1845. xiiii, 410pp, [2]. With half-title and 26 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, slight shipping to lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, offsetting from foxed plates, slight marginal loss and short tear to one plate. First published in monthly parts, priced at a shilling, this is the first appearance in book form of the Dublin printed novel from Irish writer Charles Lever (1806-1872). . First edition. 8vo.

Glasgow: Maclure and Macdonald, [1871]. 46pp. 26 leaves of advertisements. With a lithographed frontispiece, a further five lithographed plates, and an engraved folding map. Original publisher's pictorial green wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Booksellers ticket of James Miller of Oban to verso of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. A Victorian travel guide, preserved in crisp original state, charting a route from Oban to Glencoe via Fort William, the third issue of Glasgow-based lithographers and publishers Maclure & Macdonald's 'Illustrated Guides to the Highlands' series, compiled by Scottish journalist and newspaper editor William Keddie (1809-1877). . 8vo.

Norwich: Agas H. Goose, [1904]. [6], ii, 115pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed pale blue wrappers. Title inked in manuscript to sunned spine, rubbed and spotted. Leaves browned. The first appearance in book form of a series of articles by a Norwich author recounting his travels in Russia, North Africa, Italy, and Switzerland, originally published in the Granta and Eastern Daily Press. COPAC records copies at four locations (BL, Cambridge, NLS, and Oxford); OCLC adds no further. . First edition in book form. 8vo.

London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts, 1729. 61pp. p.[24-25] and [24-27] set out as four tables cataloguing 'Ships taken from his Majesty's Subjects by the Spaniards in the West-Indies, since the Hanov. Treaty, Sep. 3. 1725'. Disbound. A clean and crisp copy. Often attributed to satirist and political writer Nicholas Amhurst (1697-1742), Observations forms a defence of Sir Robert Walpole against charges of neglecting England's commercial interests in the West Indies, thus strengthening the position of rivals Spain. Reference is made to British expeditions undertaken in the region, by the likes of Admiral Hosier, against the Spaniards; with an account of the degradations committed by the Spanish fleet upon British merchants, and a list of the vessels captured by them. ESTC T41776.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by J. Davis, for P. Elmsly, 1786. 39pp, [25]. Disbound. Very occasional slight shipping to margins. The sole edition of politician Charles Stanhope, Earl Stanhope's (1753-1816) critique of the bill put forward by William Pitt's (1759-1806) government proposing the establishment of a sinking fund totalling £1 million per annum for the relief of national public debt. ESTC T41753.. First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1821. 30pp, [2]. Without half-title. Recent morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. A crisp copy. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. An anonymous attack of Chancellor Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux's (1778-1868) bill of 1820 calling for education to be state-supported. The bill was ultimately unsuccessful, failing due to sectarian religious divisions. . 8vo.

Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1829. [2], xxii, [2], 327pp, [1]. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisement and a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, joints starting, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. The sole edition of an authoritative agricultural manual 'adapted to the circumstances, resources, soil and climate' of Ireland. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1771. [4], 45pp, [1]. Recent grey paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. A clean and crisp copy. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. The second, and final edition of American physician William Logan's (1747-1772) treatise on the efficacy of seawater bathing in the treatment of scurvy and scrofula. Both editions are scarce; ESTC records copies of this second edition at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Wellcome); and two further in North America (NLM and Philadelphia). ESTC N10729.. Second edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1821. 30pp, [2]. With half-title. Stitched, as issued. Lightly creased, spotted, and dust-soiled. An anonymous attack of Chancellor Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux's (1778-1868) bill of 1820 calling for education to be state-supported. The bill was ultimately unsuccessful, failing due to sectarian religious divisions. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1747. [4], 110pp. With a half-title. Disbound, all edges red. Very occasional light spotting, stab-stitch holes to gutter. The first of George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton's (1709-1773) works to be published following the public pronouncement of his devotion to the Christian faith. An evangelising exploration of the remarkable conversion of St. Paul, produced under the influence of Lyttelton's cousin the poet and cleric Gilbert West, a work to which Dr. Johnson conceded, 'infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer'. ESTC T70159.. 8vo.

[s.l.]: [s.n.], 1848. 11pp, [1]. With two engraved plates illustrating various specimens of Medusae. Stitched, as issued, in tan paper wraps. Some soiling to extremities, tearing to wrap edges. All leaves and plates creased down centre. An account by Scottish physiologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians John Reid (1809-1849) on observations made upon three colonies of the larvae of a Medusae (a form of cnidaria similar to a jellyfish), regarding their development and anatomy. Reid also describes a new species of Actinia (a genus of sea anemones), discovered by himself. . First offprint edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1773. xxxix, [1], 431pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Boards heavily worn. Later inked ownership inscription to head of title page, occasional spotting. A greatly enlarged edition of demographer and political radical Richard Price's (1723-1791) authoritative observations on the granting of annuities and the calculation of life insurance. First published in 1771, the work is the result of Price's tenure assisting the Society for Equitable Assurances on actuarial matters. The society, founded in 1762, sold annuities which were attractive to those who wished to provide for their declining years and for their dependants. Price's book was significant in revealing that many of the schemes which assurance societies operated were ill-conceived and potentially harmful to claimants. A fourth edition of the work, expanded to two volumes, was published in 1783; Price was working on the fifth edition prior to his… Read More

London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1782. v, [3], 232pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to boards. Scattered spotting. The sole edition of politician and agricultural historian Sir John Sinclair's (1754-1835) study of Scottish verbal usages and the derivations of 'words peculiar to the Scots'. . First edition. 8vo.

A Paris: Chez Merlin, 1797. viii, 388pp. With half-title. Contemporary sheep, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbed, spine discoloured. Half-title browned, leaves lightly toned/spotted. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. The first edition of French physician and medical historian Antoine Portal's (1742-1832) study of the diagnosis and treatment of rickets and spine deformities. . First edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Printed by John Stark, [1840]. In two volumes. 19; 17pp. With a hand-coloured plate to each volume. Stitched as issued, within contrasting tan and blue paper wraps. Some chipping and dog-earring to extremities, else a crisp set. A rare pair of offprint articles on the Corpora Lutea phenomena of early pregnancy by Robert Paterson, Physician to the Leith Dispensary; the first concerns human pregnancies whilst the second also references 'the appearance of this body in the more common of our domestic animals' such as ewes, sows, cats and rabits. COPAC locates only two copies in British institutions (BL, Wellcome); OCLC adds no further. . Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal No. 142. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. Murray, 1773. [4], xxii, 312pp. With a half-title. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities worn, joints split. Occasional marginal ink-spotting. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplate to FEP. The expanded edition of Scottish jurist John Millar's (1735-1801) pioneering attempt at a historical sociology of social authority, covering, familial relations, class distinction, the history and condition of women, and political and martial leadership. The final chapter 'Of the condition of servants in different parts of the world' demonstrates both Millar's support of the American cause and his opposition towards slavery. First published in 1771, the work influenced the developing field of anthropological studies and historical jurisprudence. ESTC… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805. vii, [1], 223, [1], lvi pp. With a half-title and a tipped-in errata slip. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, chipping to lettering-piece. Shelf-label of Newbattle Abbey Library to FEP, scattered foxing. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Earl of Ancram / with the author's compliments'. The first edition of Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk's (1771-1820) principal work, a major contribution to political economy and the debate over the emigration crisis in Scotland, in which, as a staunch proponent of the colonization of North America, he emphasises the illogical self- interest of the various objections against highland emigration to the continent, arguing that highlanders were entitled to move to preserve their language, culture, and manners. The work is in part a defence of his continued efforts to recruit Scottish settlers for his colony on… Read More

London: Printed for J. Ridgway & Sons, 1820. [4], 52pp. [Bound with:] TENNYSON, Charles. Speech of Charles Tennyson, Esq. in the House of Commons, May 19, 1828, on Mr. Nicholson Calvert's motion to substitute the hundred of Bassetlaw for the town of Birmingham, in the bill for disfranchising the borough of East Retford. London. Published at the Office of the Mirror of Parliament, 1829. Fourth edition. 41pp, [1]. 8vo. Recent green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slightest of rubbing, spine a trifle sunned. Armorial bookplate of 'Baron Hambro' to FEP, lightly foxed. Two speeches by whig politician Charles Tennyson (1784-1861). The first, addressed to the members of his constituency of Great Grimsby, demonstrates Tennyson's royalist sympathies and vehement support of Queen Caroline, consort of George IV. The latter speech is born of the politician's support for piecemeal parliamentary reform via the redistribution of seats. His motion to disfranchise East Retford, transferring the… Read More