Search Results: Titles starting with S from Antiquates Ltd

[s.l., Dublin?]: [s.n.], Printed in the year 1793 118pp, [6]. Contemporary sheep. Rubbed, joints split, slight loss to head and foot of spine. Without FFEP, title page browned, else internally clean and crisp. The second edition in English of Pasquale de Mattei's (1705-1779) first published work, a devotional manual encouraging good Christian conduct based upon the life and teachings of Italian Jesuit Saint Luigi Gonzaga (1568-1591). Born into an aristocratic dynasty, then rulers of the Duchy of Mantua, Gonzaga renounced his inheritance to join the Society of Jesus. In 1591 he devoted himself to the care those Roman citizens struck down by plague. The disease would be his downfall. He was beatified in 1605 and canonized in 1726. ESTC records copies of this edition at four locations in the British Isles (BL, Downside Abbey, NLS, and Oxford), and a further two in North America (College of the Holy Cross and Texas). ESTC T113358.. 12mo.

Londini [i.e. London]: Typis M. J. Impensis Jacobi Knapton, 1708. [24], 162 [i.e.164]pp, [4]. With two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary panelled calf. Extremities worn, surface loss to spine, upper board detached, lower joint starting. Later inked ownership inscription of 'P King E. D. B. A.' to FEP, recent ink-stamp of Ben Damph Forest Library to recto of FFEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Benjamin Andrews of Magdalen, Oxford (one dated 1712) to recto of front blank fly-leaf and title page, short tear to head of title page, very occasional inked underlining. An early eighteenth-century edition of German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian Baron Samuel von Pufendorf's (1632-1694) De officio hominis et civis (1682), a compendium of political theory which 'seems to have functioned as an academic primer for the study of natural law at Cambridge University' (Baldwin, G.P., 'The Translation of political… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Ogle, Allardice, & Thomson, 1817. xiii, [1], 161pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt supralibros with initials 'JAR' to upper board, marbled edges. Rubbed, chipping to head and foot of dulled spine, upper board held by cord only. Marbled endpapers, remnants of armorial bookplate to verso of FFEP, manuscript extracts, in two separate unidentified hands, from John Wilson's elegy on the author to rear blank endpapers. Inked inscription to head of title: 'To John Robertson from his sincere friend, James Grahame. 27th October 1818' (presumably the author's son). A Regency edition of the primary and most commercially successful work of Glaswegian poet James Grahame (1765-1811); a sacred and descriptive poem in blank verse, first published in 1805. . Eighth ediiton. 8vo.

London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 1829. [2], xii, 393pp, [1]. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. An anthology of devotional verse from authors including Cowper, Milton, Wordsworth, and Southey; edited by schoolmistress Emily Taylor (1795-1872), first printed in 1826. COPAC records copies of the second edition at only one location (BL), with copies of the first also only being held at a single location (Oxford). . Second edition. 12mo.

Londini, [i.e. London]: Typis J.L. Impensis autem Gualteri Kettilby, 1699. [16], 141, [7], 183pp, [3]. Without terminal blank leaf. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rebacked in later calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Rubbed, with loss to extremities. Some loss and perforation to FFEP, small paper flaws to E3 and G4 with slight loss of text. Ink inscriptions of Hugo Pigot to FEP (dated 1710) and title, with latin motto inscribed to FFEP. An uncommon work of late seventeenth-century private devotion by John Graile (1674-1732), clergyman from the Norfolk diocese. Uncommon outside of the UK, with ESTC locating only four copies in North America (Folger, General Theological Seminary, Huntington and Yale). Wing G1478.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1829. vii, [3], 178pp. Contemporary navy calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional spotting. A later edition of Hannah More's (1745-1833) remarkably popular poetic, pedagogical, adaptation of Old Testament tales for a juvenile readership, including 'Moses in the Bulrushes', 'David and Goliath', and 'Daniel'. First published in 1782, the work contributed to Samuel Johnson dubbing the author the most 'powerful versificatrix in the English language'. . Twenty-fourth edition. 8vo.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1770. [4], 112pp. With a half-title. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Inked ownership inscription of C. Preston (dated 1812), later armorial bookplate of John Norcliffe Preston, and recent bookplate of Kenneth Monkman of Shandy Hall to FEP. The first edition of the first published work of poet Kenrick Prescot, of whom little is known. The Monthly Review said of the work: 'In this treatise the behaviour of Saint Paul of Athens is examined, and his zeal, his eloquence, and his knowledge are mush insisted upon. The critical parts of it are not destitute of merit, but we must observe, that Dr. Prescot does not write in the most agreeable or engaging manner, and that there is nothing, perhaps, very important in his reasonings or conclusions. St. Paul, we should think, has not been very fortunate in his panegyrist'. Prescot produced four further works in successive years between 1771 and 1774; two volumes of… Read More

Stirling: Printed by W. Macnie, 1826. 8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Two sheets, printed on both sides, folded and unstitched as issued. A trifle creased, small hole to margin if second leaf. A Stirling printed chapbook, in original state, comprised of five songs in Scots dialect, including 'The Highland Plaid', a Romantic ballad in which a Highlander attempts to woo a girl from the Lowlands. . 8vo.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. A generously margined copy of the first edition of a compilation of verse edited, and chiefly written by satirical poet George Huddesford (bap. 1749, d.1809), with individual pieces including, 'Christmas', 'A Morsel for a Mussulman', 'Lines on the late American War', and 'Monody on the Death of Dick, an Academical Cat'. ESTC T47038.. First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf.Recent brown paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Lightly foxed, very occasional contemporary inked manuscript corrections to text. A generously margined copy of the first edition of a compilation of verse edited, and chiefly written by satirical poet George Huddesford (bap. 1749, d.1809), with individual pieces including, 'Christmas', 'A Morsel for a Mussulman', 'Lines on the late American War', and 'Monody on the Death of Dick, an Academical Cat'. ESTC T47038.. First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed by T. Bensley...For T. Payne et al., 1791. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Early twentieth-century half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Additional engraved title-page foxed, very occasional light spotting. A generously margined copy of the first edition of this compilation of verse edited, and chiefly written by satirical poet George Huddesford (bap. 1749, d.1809). ESTC T47038.. First edition. Quarto.

1724. 11 vols bound in one. Contemporary vellum. RAMBACH, Johann Jacob. Auserlesene Trost-Briefe Des Mannes Bottes Martini Lutheri, Eir Er Un versolgte angefochtene under traurige Personen mit einter recht Evangelischen Feder geschrieben... Jena, 1724. Joh. Friedr. Rittern. [16], 142pp, [2]. RAMBACH, Johann Jacob. Des Mannes Gottes Martini Lutheri Lauteres und Apostolisches Zeugniss Bon Christo fur uns Rach Unleitung der Morte Pauli... Jena, 1725. Johann Friederich Rittern. [16], 108pp, [4]. RAMBACH, Johann Jacob. Martini Lutheri Rothiger Unterricht Bom Glauben und Sufen Wercten Seinter Furstresslichfeit wegen Aus Seinen Schriften Zur gemeinen Erhauung... Jena, 1725. Johann Friederich Rittern. [24], 70pp, [2]. RAMBACH, Johann Jacob. Des theuren Mannes Gottes Martini Lutheri Erhauliche Abhandlung von der Leibe und ihrer Borfresslichteif... Jena, 1725. Johann Friederich Rittern. [12], 97pp, [3]. RAMBACH, Johann Jacob. Martini Lutheri Erflarung Der Sieben Buss Psalmen Wie folche Des Selige Mann im Jahr… Read More

Denver: Smith-Brooks Company, [s.d., c. 1906] iv, 112pp. Original publisher’s pictorial limp black cloth boards. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. A rather macabre pictorial history of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, comprised of 160 photographs by J. D. Givens (1863-1939), depicting the extensive and catastrophic damage done to the city, as well as the relief camps established following the disaster. . First edition. Oblong octavo.

Milwaukee: C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. A rather macabre pictorial history of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, depicting the extensive and catastrophic damage done to the city. . Oblong 8vo.

London: Printed by D.N. Shury...and sold by J. Ginger, 1801. xvi, 46pp. Disbound, largely untrimmed, with original stab holes to gutter margins. Light soiling to title and final leaf, ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, PA to title and occasionally to text. The sole edition of a rare satirical verse epistle, prefaced by a detailed essay on eras in general and the turn of the eighteenth-century in particular, addressed in response to Carmen Seculare for the Year 1800, by Henry James Pye (1745-1813), Poet Laureate. Unrecorded on COPAC and OCLC, though bizarrely Worldcat records two copies, at Illinois and Trinity College, CT. Jackson p.257.. First Edition. 8vo.

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. In three volumes. [4], 378; [2], 326; [2], 333pp, [1]. Contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Private ink-stamps to title pages, foxed, without terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. III. Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841), English man of letters and newspaper editor, best known for his practical jokes, including the Berners St. Hoax. Between 1824 and 1828 Hook produced nine novellas under the collective title of Sayings and Doings, for which he received £3000. This third and final series contains the titles 'Cousin William' and 'Gervase Skinner'; the first a tale of dark passion, the latter of a miser who loses his fortune. . 12mo.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., [1923]. lxi, [3], 332pp. With a colour portrait frontispiece, and one further colour plate. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a compilation of the recorded letters, speeches, and conversations of Queen Elizabeth both prior to and throughout her reign. . First edition. 8vo.

Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Ex Officina Cornelii Driehuysen, 1668. 366pp. Later gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, joints starting, without lettering-piece. Scattered spotting. Armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell. A selection of excerpts from the writings of French Calvinist religious leader and scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609). Algernon Capell, Second Earl of Essex (1670-1710), Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King William III (1691-1702) and Colonel of the 4th Dragoons (1693-1710). . Editio secunda [i.e. second edition]. 12mo.

London: William Heinemann, 1902. 316pp, [32]. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black, with the red, blue and black flower pot design stamped to front board. Boards a little marked, spine toned, bumping to spine ends and corners; else a crisp copy. Top and fore edge untrimmed, internally bright and clean. 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: Printed by J[ames] C[ottrell] for Henry Brome, 1670. [2], 150pp. The imitation of the fourth book has separate dated title page on p. 63. Recent blind-ruled calf, morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Minor shelf-wear. Margins shaved, slight loss to lower corner of leaf D4, scattered spotting. A late seventeenth century edition of Charles Cotton's (1630-1687) perennially popular scatological burlesque of Virgil, of which book one first appeared in 1664 and book four the following year. Samuel Pepys, collecting a copy of book one on the very day it was licensed, found it 'extraordinary good'. ESTC R33501, Wing C6394.. 8vo.