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Plans, Elevations, and Sections; with Observations and Explanations, of Forcing-Houses, in...
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Plans, Elevations, and Sections; with Observations and Explanations, of Forcing-Houses, in Gardening. By James Shaw, Gardener to the Right Hon. Lord Mulgrave

by SHAW (James)

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Whitby: Printed by T. Webster, Sold by the Author; and W. Tesseyman, Bookseller, York. 1794. First edition, large folio (520 x 355 mm), [32]pp., with a list of subscribers, and an initial leaf stating "Entered at stationers' Hall", 11 engraved plates (some lightly offset), each with explanatory leaf, with an original watercolour sketch for a heating device loosely inserted, occasional lightly foxing, orig. quarter calf, marbled boards, a very nice copy in original condition. Little is known of James Shaw, other than he was head gardener at Mulgrave Caslte, North Yorkshire, and this appears to be his only published work. He dedicates the book to his Patron and employee the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Mulgrave and states in his advertisement "Gardening at this period, is an object of general pursuit, from its useful and admirable effects. The most elegant and superior branch of it, is that of forcing fruit, which are natives of warmer climates; and the perfection of them, in some… Read More
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A Voyage of Discovery, made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships...
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A Voyage of Discovery, made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage

by ROSS (John)

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London: John Murray, 1819. First edition, 4to (280 x 210 mm), [6], xl, 252, cxlivpp., with errata slip, folding engraved chart frontispiece (lightly offset onto title), 2 folding engraved maps, 29 aquatint plates of which 15 are hand-coloured (some folding), 3 large folding engraved meteorological registers, with an appendix of scientific observations and reports, some offsetting, cont. half calf, marbled boards, five raised bands, five compartments with triple gilt filet borders, the sixth with leather label lettered in gilt, marbled edges, a very handsome copy. "A famous, even notorious, voyage, led by Captain John Ross. As his lieutenants, Ross had aboard William Parry, James Clark Ross, and Edward Sabine, all of future fame as explorers. Ross attempted to proceed westward through Lancaster Sound, but being deceived, presumably by a mirage, he described the passage as barred by a range of mountains, which he named the Croker Mountains, despite the disbelief of his colleagues. On returning… Read More
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Specimen of Modern Printing Types, by Edm. Fry & Son, Letter Founders to the King, Type...
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Specimen of Modern Printing Types, by Edm. Fry & Son, Letter Founders to the King, Type Street, London

by TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY (Edmund, & Son)

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London: Barnard and Farley, 1820. Royal 8vo (245 x 155 mm), title printed within a heavy border of flowers, followed by 115 leaves of specimens printed on one side only, of which two a folding, some occasional offsetting, cont. cloth-backed boards with wine auction sale particulars pasted over boards, manuscript paper spine label, uncut and partial unopened, an attractive copy. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 243 mentioning only 1816, 1824 & 1827 editions; B&J citing the Oxford copy; Mosley locating four copies with between 91 and 118 leaves (Oxford, Cambridge, V&A, and Columbia University Library); OCLC adds the Huntington and Detroit copies; none added by JISC; not in the British Library or St Brides Catalogue. Berry & Johnson p. 49; Mosley, 135.
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Fifteen Plates of Composition Ornaments, Made at Langwith Manufactory, Grantham, Lincolnshire
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Fifteen Plates of Composition Ornaments, Made at Langwith Manufactory, Grantham, Lincolnshire

by LANGWITH MANUFACTORY, GRANTHAM, LINCS

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Stamford: Printed by W. Harrod, 1790. Oblong folio (335 x 500 mm), printed on thick laid paper, letterpress title with wood-engraved decorations, approximately 250 illustrations of architectural ornaments, including stock numbers (not in order), engraved on fifteen well executed copper plates, some printed in blue, 2 with aquatint, some light soiling, occasional spotting, a few stains, mainly to last two plates, nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, foot of spine chipped, but overall a very good copy. This is not only an exceptionally rare and unrecorded provincially printed pattern book, but it is also highly unusual as being a named pattern book produced for a firm of provincial architects and builders. John Langwith Sr. (c.1723-1795) was an architect and builder who worked at Grantham in Lincolnshire. Syston Park was designed by Langwith for John Thorold, 9th baronet, and constructed between 1766-73. Syston was a fine house, built of limestone ashlar with pedimented or corniced… Read More
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A Grammar of the Arabic Language, According to the Principles Taught and Maintained in the...
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Calcutta: Printed by F. Dissemt, under the inspection of T. Watley and the Honorable Company's Press, 1813. First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'—Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
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The Builder. An Illustrated Weekly Magazine for the Drawing Room, the Studio, the Office, the...

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London: 1843-1899. 77 Vols., folio, numerous illustrations throughout, first 6 volumes bound in orig. publishers cloth, re-backed, the rest bound in half hard grain morocco, spines lettered in gilt, some light rubbing but a very nice usable set. A complete run cover the nineteenth-century of this highly important and influential architectural periodical. Originally published as a weekly magazine from 31 December 1842 onward, complete runs such as this are extremely rare. Each volume is illustrated large woodcut illustrations showing newly designed buildings by the major architects of the time. "The most informative and influential works in the field of architecture... incomparable in the scope and range of their coverage, and they form an extraordinary record of aesthetic and cultural progress not only in the United Kingdom but around the world... yet the wealth of architectural information in The Builder... still lies buried in the weekly descriptive reports on literally thousands of… Read More
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The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart [sic Desert].
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The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart [sic Desert].

by WOOD (Robert)

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London: [Published for the Author], 1753. First edition, large folio (570 x 380 mm), [6], 50pp., printed in thick paper, the text is followed by 59 etched and engraved plates, the first plate consists of three coppers, forming together a panoramic view of the ruins (sometimes found pasted together and folded), 3 full-page etched and engraved reproductions of inscriptions with letterpress on the verso, some occasional spotting and age-toning but in general a good clean copy, professionally rebound to the highest standard in a period binding of full calf, Greek-key gilt roll border to both boards, gilt hatching to edges, spine divided into ten compartments, the second with a red leather lettering-piece, other superbly tooled in gilt, all edges uncut, a very handsome tall paper copy. Robert Wood (1717?-1771), traveller, author and politician, born at Riverstown Castle near Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland. In the year 1751 he made the tour of Greece, Egypt, and Palestine, in company with James Dawkins and… Read More
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Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty. 6 Volumes in 7. 1963. [Sold with:] Underglaze Red Ware...

Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty. 6 Volumes in 7. 1963. [Sold with:] Underglaze Red Ware of the Ming Dynasty. 1963. [Sold with:] Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty. 3 Volumes. 1966. [Sold with:] Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty. 2 Volumes. 1968

by [CHINESE CERAMICS] NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM

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Kowloon, Hong Kong: Cafa Company Ltd., 1963-68. 13 vols., folio, all volumes profusely illustrated with coloured plates, orig. cloth, all with dust wrappers and slip-cases, a couple of dust wrappers with minor tears or fading. An excellent set of this important reference work on Chinese ceramics.
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Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our...
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London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young [colophon], 1629. First edition, first issue, folio (325 x 200 mm), [12], 612, [16]pp., an elaborate woodcut title page by Christopher Switzer which shows the Garden of Eden plated with a variety of exotic species recently introduced to Europe, woodcut portrait of the author, title closely trimmed, 109 full-page woodcuts and 3 woodcuts in the text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, closed tear to head of A4, professional paper repair to lower blank margin of final two leaves (just touching a couple of letters), slight worming mainly at head of some leaves affecting a few heading letters, otherwise a very nice clean copy, marbled endpapers, later nineteenth-century full brown morocco by Worsfold, minor white specks to boards, spine with five raised bands with fleur-de-lis tooling to compartments, second lettered in gilt direct, all edges gilt. This being the first edition, first issue of the work with the old usage of the letters u and v throughout.… Read More
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A Discovery of Infinite Treasure, Hidden since the Worlds Beginning. Whereunto all men, of what...
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A Discovery of Infinite Treasure, Hidden since the Worlds Beginning. Whereunto all men, of what degree soever, are friendly invited to be sharers with the Discoverer, G. P

by [PLATTES (Gabriel)]

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London: Printed by I[ohn] L[egat] and are to be sold by George Hutton, 1639. First edition, with the first issue title page, 4to (181 x 129 mm), [18], 92pp., initial leaf blank, without the final errata leaf which is "lacking in most copies with the original title page"—ESTC, woodcut initials and head-pieces, expert marginal repairs to title page which is a little dusty, a4 with paper flaw to blank upper margin, some occasional light browning, smooth later calf, boards with a single gilt fillet border, joints slightly rubbed, spine lettered direct. First edition of Gabriel Plattes influential work on the application of inventions to agriculture, with references to emigration in the newly founded plantations in America, keeping of bees, the care of sheep, etc., etc. He was was one of the earliest advocates in England for an improved system of husbandry, and devoted much time and money to practical experiments. Although his work was largely ignored during his lifetime, later writers… Read More
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Essays on Chess, Adapted to the European Mode of Play; Consisting Principally of Positions or...
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Essays on Chess, Adapted to the European Mode of Play; Consisting Principally of Positions or Critical Situations Calculated to Improve the Learner and Exercise the Memory

by SHASTREE (Trevangadacharya)

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Bombay: Printed for the Author, by M. D. Cruz, No. 10 Military Square. 1814. First English edition, small 4to (185 x 134 mm), [2], [8, list of subscribers], iii-xiii, 178, [1]pp., text very clean and bright, nineteenth-century smooth red calf, spine and boards faded, spine lettered direct in gilt, edges marbled, a very nice copy. An extremely rare English translation of one of two chess books printed in India in the early nineteenth-century. The other was published 15 years later in Madras Analysis of the Muzio Gambit, and match of two games at chess played between Madras and Hyderabad, 1829. "In the year 1814 there was published, in Bombay, an original work on chess, by a native of India, well known throughout the British dominions in Hindostan as a player and teacher of the game. The book was originally written in the Sanscrit tongue, but was printed in English, under the direction of the author, by the title Essays on Chess, and is prefaced by a goodly list of subscribers, both British… Read More
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Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian...
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Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture

by REPTON (Humphry)

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London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. Taylor, 1805. Second edition, 4to (344 x 277 mm), 16, 222, [2]pp., stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Holl after S. Shelley, dedication leaf, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates (9 with overslips), 15 plain or tinted aquatint or engraved plates (3 with overslips), 32 illustrations (2 with overslips, one hand-coloured), some occasional light scattered spotting and browning, closed tears near folds of 'General View of Bayham' plate (old paper repairs to verso), contemporary diced russia, gilt dentelles, spine with raised bands in six compartments, this being Repton second major work on landscape gardening and so denoted in the lettering to the fifth compartment, edges marbled, with just minor rubbing otherwise a fine copy. Humphry Repton (1752-1818) is perhaps Britain's most famous landscape gardener. In this, one of his most celebrated works, he incorporates his method of inserting flaps in the plates which when folded show his proposed… Read More
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The Ancient Buildings of Rome: Accurately Measured and Delineated by Anthony Desgodetz,...
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The Ancient Buildings of Rome: Accurately Measured and Delineated by Anthony Desgodetz, Architect. Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-seven Plates; and Explanations in French and English. The Plates Engraved and the Text Translated by the late Mr. G. Marshall, Architect

by DESGODETZ (Anthony) & MARSHALL (George) Engraver and Translator

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London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1771-1795. First English edition, second impression with reset title page, 2 vols., bound in one, elephant folio (547 x 360 mm), [3], xvi, [4], 72, [1]pp., 61 engraved plates; [5], 64, [1]pp., 76 engraved plates, with the first issue title-page to volume one, parallel titles and explanatory texts in English and French, the first part's French title page has a closed tear repaired, otherwise the text is nice and clean, plates throughout are generally nice clean crisp impressions, endpapers renewed, rebound in brown polished calf over marbled boards, upper cover slightly bowed with a scuffed portion, the lower-cover another smaller scuff, spine and upper cover discoloured due to water splashes, overall a very good clean copy. First published as Les Edifices Antiques De Rome, Paris, 1682. Desgodetz (1653-1728) was sent by the French Academy to produce a survey of the monuments and buildings of ancient Rome. It was one of the… Read More
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The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain; or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of those remains of...
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The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain; or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of those remains of Testaceous Animals or Shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth

by SOWERBY (James) SOWERBY (James de Carle) & SOWERBY (George Brettingham)

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London: Printed by Benjamin Meredith [and others], 1812-29. First edition, 6 vols., large 8vo (233 x 144 mm), engraved portrait frontispiece, complete with 611 hand-coloured engraved plates, each with a letterpress description (numbered 1-609: including 33 and 184 bis; 22 folding; plate 231 misnumbered 131), index at rear of each volume, volume 6 with 'Systematic, Stratigraphical, and Alphabetical Indexes to the First Six Volumes... To which is added a Short Account of the Life of the Author' (with separate title-page dated 1834) at rear, the stratigraphical indexes apparently each headed 'Supplementary Index' and bound separately into the relevant volumes, volume 2 with addenda leaf ('Additional Localities to Shells Described in Vols. I. and II', volumes 4-6 each with corrigenda leaf, volumes 5-6 without the 'Supplementary Index' or the 'Life of the Author' (these not found in other copies examined), neat repair to pp. 45/6 of volume one, some occasional light… Read More
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The Gentlemans Academie. Or, The Booke of S. Albans: containing three most exact and excellent...
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London: Printed [by [Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard, 1595. Small 4to (181 x 126 mm), [4], 95, [1] leaves, 3 parts in one, additional section titles to parts 2 and 3 but with continuous pagination and signatures, lacking the 4 blanks (A1 [bearing signature 'A'], L3-4 and Dd4) but skilfully replaced with near-matching slightly later paper, the first blank with inverted inscription of 'Peter Martin, his book, 1754' at foot of recto, 116 woodcut coats-of-arms, occasional minor spotting and some very trivial pin-prick wormholes to blank marginal extremities, a few scattered blue pencil crosses to margins and a few words similarly underscored on leaves N1-3, small marginal repair not affecting text on Cc1, nineteenth-century diced calf with five raised bands, corners rubbed through to boards, slightly cracked at foot of joints, al edges gilt. A very good copy of Markham's revised version of Juliana Berners' Boke of St.… Read More
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