Category: 18th century

Image for A Description of England and Wales Containing a Particular Account of Each County. Volume VII [7 Norfolk; Northamptonshire; Northumberland; Nottinghamshire; Oxfordshire; Pembrokeshire]

A Description of England and Wales Containing a Particular Account of Each County. Volume VII [7 Norfolk; Northamptonshire; Northumberland; Nottinghamshire; Oxfordshire; Pembrokeshire]

Price: $241.17

Publisher: London, Newbery and Carnan : 1769

Seller ID: Books010835

Condition: Very Good

287 pages, 32 plates. Binding sound, boards rubbed; endpapers grimed. Signature of one Andrew Turpie [?] to front free endpaper and faintly on armorial bookplate on pastedown. Motto on bookplate is that of Home [Hume]: True To The End.
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Image for A New History of England, by Question and Answer. Extracted from the most celebrated English historians, particularly M. Rapin de Thoyras, for the entertainment of our youth of both sexes

A New History of England, by Question and Answer. Extracted from the most celebrated English historians, particularly M. Rapin de Thoyras, for the entertainment of our youth of both sexes

Price: $310.08

Publisher: London, T. Astley : 1752

Seller ID: Books013288

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

[2], 269, [2] pages, with frontispiece and 30 plates (lacking plate 30). Rebacked. 1754 gift inscription. Offsetting to endpapers, else clean, in sound binding.
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Image for A Selection of Fables from the best English writers, containing the largest collection ever published; selected from Dryden, Swift, Wilkie, Whitehead, Cotton, Merrick, Shenitone, Garrick, Smart, Somerville, Peter Pindar, &c. &c. &c. Including all the fables of Gay and Moore

A Selection of Fables from the best English writers, containing the largest collection ever published; selected from Dryden, Swift, Wilkie, Whitehead, Cotton, Merrick, Shenitone, Garrick, Smart, Somerville, Peter Pindar, &c. &c. &c. Including all the fables of Gay and Moore

Price: $1,300.00

Publisher: New York, for the Editor : 1798

Seller ID: Books015069

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

vii,184,131 [i.e. 133] pages: [page number (not text) 95-96 repeated]. Lacks the engraved title. Upper hinge loose, binding otherwise sound; soiling and foxing to endpapers. 6.6 x 4.1 inches.
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Arabian Nights Entertainments : Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories.... The fourteenth edition

Price: $3,250.00

Publisher: London, T. Longman : 1778

Seller ID: Books015171

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

ix, [1], 320; 314, [2]; 301, [2]; 312 pages. Volume 3 lacks title page and with corner loss to Advertisment leaf with loss of a few words verso. Complete in four volumes, with the bookplate of Edward Watts, Hanslop[e] Park to front pastedown of each. Professionally restored: spines mended; boards reattached with Japanese paper; endpapers and hinges repaired. 7.25 x 4.4 inches.
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Calendario e Notiziario Della Citta per l'anno 1787 [Napoli] with map

Price: $337.64

Publisher: Napoli, Nella Stamperia Reale : 1786

Seller ID: Books009468

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

12.5 x 7.5 cm [4.85 x 3 inches]. 168 pages and folding map at rear. Contemporary stamped paper over paper binding is sound, with chipping to spine panel. Endpapers tanned; light foxing to title page; worm hole near gutter. Map folds out to 14.5 x 12.2 cm.
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Image for English Presbyterian Eloquence: or, Dissenters Sayings Ancient and Modern. Collected from the Books and Sermons of the Presbyterians, &c. ... Wherein it appears, that the Presbyterians have constantly attempted to subvert the fundamental articles of the Christian faith...

English Presbyterian Eloquence: or, Dissenters Sayings Ancient and Modern. Collected from the Books and Sermons of the Presbyterians, &c. ... Wherein it appears, that the Presbyterians have constantly attempted to subvert the fundamental articles of the Christian faith...

Price: $390.00

Publisher: London, Printed for T. Bickerton : 1720

Seller ID: Books015099

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fair

[6], 143 pages. Preface signed T. L---, i.e. Thomas Lewis. Disbound from a larger tome, with (chipped/worn) leather spine retained, but with title page and final leaf detached, and binding split at page 18. Text generally clean. 7.4 x 4.75 inches.
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Image for Neu-vermehrt- und vollstandiges Gesang-Buch, : worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids, nach D. Ambrosii Lobwassers, Ubersetzung hin und wieder verbessert, als auch 750. auserlesener alter und neuer geistreichen Liedern begriffen sind, welche anjetzo samtlich

Neu-vermehrt- und vollstandiges Gesang-Buch, : worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids, nach D. Ambrosii Lobwassers, Ubersetzung hin und wieder verbessert, als auch 750. auserlesener alter und neuer geistreichen Liedern begriffen sind, welche anjetzo samtlich

Price: $1,033.60

Publisher: Philadelphia, Ernst Ludwig Baisch : 1774

Seller ID: Books011823

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

190, [2], 480, [11], 24, 72 pages [p. 260 misnumbered 233]. Lacks frontispiece; top third of first title page lacking. All edges gilt [dulled]. Lacks front board and spine panel. Decorative rear board; 1785 inscription to rear free endpaper. Full title: Neu-vermehrt- und vollstandiges Gesang-Buch, : worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids, nach D. Ambrosii Lobwassers, Ubersetzung hin und wieder verbessert, als auch 750. auserlesener alter und neuer geistreichen Liedern begriffen sind, welche anjetzo samtlich in denen Reformirten Kirchen der Hessisch- Hanauisch- Pfalltzisch- Pensylvanischen und mehr...
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Image for Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets. Together with Some Few of Later Date

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets. Together with Some Few of Later Date

Price: $585.70

Publisher: London, J. Dodsley : 1775

Seller ID: Books012921

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

lxxviii, [4], 376, [2]; iv, 404, [1]; xxxvi, 359, [1] pages. Half titles present. Complete in three volumes. Skillfully rebacked long ago. Foxing to signature C in Vol. I [eight leaves], and to the three final leaves of I, final few leaves of II, and first few leaves of III. Bindings are sound.
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Image for The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign on an enlarged plan. Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters. Vol. XIII : from May to August, inclusive, 1792

The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign on an enlarged plan. Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters. Vol. XIII : from May to August, inclusive, 1792

Price: $195.00

Publisher: London, Printed for J. Johnson : 1792

Seller ID: Books015104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

543, and 19 double-columned page index at rear. Upper board detached; lacking lower board. Textblock sound. 8.4 x 5.4 inches.
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The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign on an enlarged plan. Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters. Vol. XX : from September to December, inclusive, 1794

Price: $260.00

Publisher: London, Printed for J. Johnson : 1794

Seller ID: Books015105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

505, and 19 double-columned page index at rear. Upper board detached. Textblock sound. 8.4 x 5.4 inches.
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The Book of Common Prayer... Together with the Psalter or Psalms [bound with] The Holy Bible; containing the Old Testament and the New...

Price: $482.35

Publisher: Oxford; London, University Printer; John Baskett : 1730

Seller ID: Books014223

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Unpaged. Contemporary leather rubbed; worn but hinges firm; the vertical crease centre spine not yet compromising the sound binding. Lacking marbled free endpaper front and rear. Common Prayer imprint is University Printer: Oxford, 1730. Old Testament (without Apocrypha) is John Baskett: London 1728. Though the NT is included on the Holy Bible title page; the New Testament imprint is Baskett: London, 1729. Chip to fore-margin of one leaf (Collects) with some loss of text; leaves toned and lightly foxed throughout. 6.5 x 3.8 inches.
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The Charmer: a Collection of Songs, Chiefly such as are Eminent for Poetical Merit. [Volume II of II]

Price: $206.72

Publisher: Edinburgh, J. Sibbald : 1782

Seller ID: Books014348

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[6], 372, [12] pages, with pp. 13-24 bound between 48 and 49. "An Entire New Collection". 19th century cloth; first few leaves a bit grubby, thereafter the occasional spot. Many names of the respective authors inked in. Binding is sound. 6.75 x 4.2 inches.
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Image for The Confession of Faith, The Larger and Shorter Catechisms. with The Scripture-Proofs at Large. Together with... [Bound With]: A Short Sum of the First Book of Discipline

The Confession of Faith, The Larger and Shorter Catechisms. with The Scripture-Proofs at Large. Together with... [Bound With]: A Short Sum of the First Book of Discipline

Price: $520.00

Publisher: Glasgow, J. Bryce and D. Paterson : 1755

Seller ID: Books015096

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

658, 40 pages. Each part with its own title page (all Bryce and Paterson, 1755). A Short Sum of the First Book of Discipline includes A Second Book of Discipline. Leather worn; endpapers grubby; light toning and foxing throughout; binding is sound. 7 x 4.1 inches.
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments ...

Price: $1,033.60

Publisher: Edinburgh, James Watson : 1716

Seller ID: Books014363

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Unpaged; New Testament with separate title page, also Watson 1716. Two leaves of Tables between OT and NT: weights and measures; money; time, kindred and affinity, offices and conditions of men. Loss of leather at heel of spine. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Cropped quite closely to text. John Hailstone 1724; S. Hailstone 1781; John Hailstone 1852. Binding is sound. 5 x 2.6 inches.
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The Perpetual Acts of the General Assemblies of His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia. As Revised in the Year 1783

Price: $3,250.00

Publisher: Halifax, NS, Anthony Henry : 1784

Seller ID: Books015170

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

[32], 229 pages. Occasional foxing and staining. Professionally restored: first section and endpapers repaired and resewn; spine replaced with calf and original spine attached; corners consolidated. Loss to corner of rear free endpaper. 1792 ownership inscription of Lewis M. [Morris] Wilkins [see DCB] upside down rear endpaper, and Martin J. Wilkins at front. 12.25 x 8 inches.
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Image for The Pilgrim's Progress, from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream.... [To which is added The Life and Death of Mr. John Bunyan]

The Pilgrim's Progress, from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream.... [To which is added The Life and Death of Mr. John Bunyan]

Price: $447.89

Publisher: London, : 1762

Seller ID: Books013291

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[1], 194, 174, 100, 23, [1] pages. No printer identified. The three parts, and the Life, in one volume. Upper board detached: first leaf is the title page. First few leaves somewhat grubby; thereafter light occasional staining.
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Image for The Reports of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, on the Papers belonging to the Society for Constitutional Information, and the London Corresponding Society, seized by order of Government, and presented to the House by Mr. Secretary Dundas.

The Reports of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, on the Papers belonging to the Society for Constitutional Information, and the London Corresponding Society, seized by order of Government, and presented to the House by Mr. Secretary Dundas.

Price: $654.61

Publisher: Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute, and W. Creech : 1794

Seller ID: Books014204

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

40, 92, 23, 174 pages: [First, and Second reports, Supplement to the Second report (with appendix), and Appendix to the Second report]. Corners rubbed, and long ago reinforced. Binding sound; no inscriptions. 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
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Verbessertes Gesang-Buch, zum Gebrauch bei dem öffentlichen Gottes-Dienste sowohl als zur Privat-Erbaung

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Cassel / Kassel, Johann Nicolaus Geiber : 1778

Seller ID: Books006692

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Very Good

The volume measures 18.5 x 11.5 cm. 770, [50], [26], [1]-96 pages.Clean type and comprehensive Registers. With music notation. Blank endpapers present at front and rear with offsetting from original paste. Binding is sound, with no loose or missing pages and boards firmly attached. A very nice example from Kassel.
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Image for [Chess] La Plus Nouvelle Academie Universelle des Jeux, ou divertissements innocens, contenant les regles des jeux de cartes permis : du billard, du mail, de la courte-paume, de la longue-paume, du trictrac, du revertier,... et des echecs [complet]

[Chess] La Plus Nouvelle Academie Universelle des Jeux, ou divertissements innocens, contenant les regles des jeux de cartes permis : du billard, du mail, de la courte-paume, de la longue-paume, du trictrac, du revertier,... et des echecs [complet]

Price: $723.51

Publisher: Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus : 1752

Seller ID: Books013247

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[iv], 392; 392; xiv, 273, [3], [40] pages. Frontispiece to vols I and II, half title to III. Six plates in I (five folding), and two folding plates in II. Early 19th century binding with considerable chipping to spines, presumably stabilized at some point; else generally a tidy set. 6.25 x 4.1 inches.
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Dignorum Laude Virorum, Quos Musa vetat mori, Immortalitas, Seu Vitae Theologorum... [vol. 1 of 2]

By: Adam, Melchior

Price: $292.50

Publisher: Frankfurt, Johann Maximilian von Sand : 1706

Seller ID: Books014849

Binding: vellum

Condition: Good

[20], 418, [24], 127 pages. Editio Tertia. The first two (of five) parts: Vitae Germanorum theologorum qui superiori seculo Ecclesiam Christi ....; AND: Decades duae continentes vitas theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi superiori seculo .... Front pastedown torn and separating from board; textblock secure. Leaves toned. 14 x 8.25 inches.
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Category: 18th century