Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Hordern House Rare Books

Amsterdam: apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1713. Binding a little worn and joints weak but in good overall state.. Quarto, with fine engraved frontispiece and vignette on title (title printed in black and red), contemporary panelled calf. The improved second edition of Bentley's celebrated Horace, preferred to the Cambridge first edition of 1711. Although controversial and the cause of much scholarly debate at the time, this important edition by the young Richard Bentley, eventually acclaimed by Dibdin as "Princeps criticorum", was hailed for its hugely extensive notes but questioned for its "conjectures". "A few days after its initial publication Thomas Hearne observed, on 29 January 1712, 'Dr Bentley's Horace is much condemn'd for the great Liberty he hath taken in altering the text' (Remarks, 3.273), and pamphlet attacks soon followed. With more than 700 changes from the vulgate, this was indeed 'unlike any edition of a Latin author ever before given to the world' (Monk, 1.316). Few of Bentley's… Read More

Paris: Libraire Hachette & Cie., 1874. Two parts in one volume, two folding engraved maps; original yellow wrappers preserved in a neat French binding of half dark green morocco. Good account of Hawaiian royal affairs by a French consular official who arrived on the islands in 1855. The author stayed for 14 years and travelled widely during this time, often with King Kamehameha V, including the relief mission following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 1868. The book was translated in 1981, and is now considered an excellent source for Hawaiian history of the period. .

Moulins: Imprimerie Bourbonnaise, 1898. Large octavo, frontispiece portrait, some light offsetting to title, original printed wrappers bound in; a very good copy in a lavish presentation binding of mauve calf with red morocco inlay, moiré silk endpapers, both boards with gilt figures, the front board with deeply embossed gilt coat of arms and gilt presentation note, spine with double crimson morocco labels. Beautifully bound presentation copy of this study of Vasco da Gama. Published in honour of the 400th anniversary of da Gama's first voyage, this work includes observations on two significant accounts of the voyage, the first by Camoens, the second that of a "matelot portugais". The work was prepared after a meeting of the so-called "Comité Vasco de Gama", whose members had met at l'Hotel de Ville du Moulins, and who were keen to promote better research and better understanding between France and Portugal. The work, commissioned by Henri Olivier, vice-president of the Vasco da Gama society, is… Read More

London: Colnaghi, 1831. Fine condition.. Engraved oval portrait, 29 x 24 mm. Sir William Beechey, well known English portrait painter, was elected A.R.A. in 1793. In the same year he painted a portrait of Queen Charlotte which procured him the appointment of portrait painter to her majesty. In 1798, he was knighted and elected a full member of the Royal Academy. He died eight years after this portrait was painted, in 1839, at the age of 86. Queen Adelaide was on the British throne at the proclamation of the colony of South Australia in 1836, and the new city was named for her. She was the daughter of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Attenburg. .

London: Aeneis Tabulis incidit Iohannes Pine, 1737. A very handsome set, in fine condition.. Two volumes, large octavo; period English crimson morocco, flat spines ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, blue endpapers. First edition, first issue of Pine's Horace: a particularly fine example of this masterpiece of book-design and 'remarkable enterprise in engraving' (DNB). With every page fully engraved -- including not only the plates, portraits, vignettes, initials and other decorations, but all text too -- it is a tour-de-force of the art, and one of its most famous exemplars. This first issue is identified by having the uncorrected reading 'Post est' in the caption to the Caesar medallion on p.108 of the second volume (corrected in later issues to 'Potest'). The extensive lists of subscribers in each volume (variously 18 and 17 pp.) show the extent to which Pine must have publicised and pre-sold this extraordinary undertaking. There are separate listings for subscribers from Paris,… Read More

London: Melchisedec Bradwood for John Norton, 1607. Small octavo, dark brown calf, very cracked and worn but solid in its binding; front endpaper replaced at some time; original printed paper label chipped. Markedly scarce publication of Henri Estienne's edition of Horace's poetical works, with the addition of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius, printed by Melchisedec Bradwood for John Norton. The same printer and publisher had combined to produce an edition of the same combination of texts in 1602, which seems to have purported to be a Paris publication of 1549 (see STC 13787a.5 & 13788), the false imprint somewhat absurd since Henri Estienne's edition did not appear in print until 1575 when his brother Robert published it. The original owner of the book, Samuel (or Samuell) Watts was evidently a student given the amount of scribbling on the rear endpapers and the ink parsing notes and scansions in the first 70 pages of the Odes. Only two copies are recorded in STC, at University Library Cambridge… Read More