Category: Early works

The Manual of Rank and Nobility; or Key to the Peerage.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Saunders & Otley : 1832

Seller ID: 000159

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Hand coloured frontispiece depicting crowns and coronets (offset onto title page), pp xx,598, uncut, rather weak internally, hinges weak, frontispiece detached, original polished cloth, rubbed, spine poor, joints breaking.
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The True State of England, Containing the Particular Duty, Business and Salary of Every Officer, Civil and Military, in All the Publick Offices of Great Britain.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, : 1729

Seller ID: 000122

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Poor

Small 8vo, pp (2),204, some staining, front endpaper nearly detached, hinge at title page cracked, full contemporary calf, very worn, calf on upper cover peeling from board. (Title page continues: "Complete Lists of the Lords and Gentlemen of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council; of their Majesties Households; of the Households of the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family;and of the Great Officers of the State etc. Together with an Account of the Government of the Cities of London and Westminster, with the names of the principal officers etc.") VERY SCARCE.
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The Angler's Guide; containing easy instructions for the youthful beginner, with several observations on fishing, pointing out the proper times and seasons for the different kinds of fish, as also the best mode of angling for them.

By: A Lover of the Art (George Smith)

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Joseph Smith, 193 High Holborn : 1828

Seller ID: 005771

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Small 12mo, pp viii, 136, some foxing throughout, bound in a later half calf and marbled boards, rubbed. [LACKING the frontispiece, which appears never to have been bound in]. Extremely scarce.
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Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage To and From That Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations .......

By: Abel, Clarke

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown : 1819

Seller ID: 013161

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Second edition, quarto, pp xvi, 420, with 10 plain litho plates, 7 hand coloured aquatint plates, 4 maps (of which 3 are folding), errata leaf present, some marking foxing and thumbing throughout, margins frayed of one plate, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, a later calf spine, endpapers marked. Three small Penzance Library stamps on the title page, partially removed, but no other markings. {Possibly lacking one plate ? This frequently occurs in this work.} [One of the main accounts of the period, during which a large number of plants were both discussed and collected. Clarke Abel, 1...
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Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

By: Addison, Joseph

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, J. & R. Tonson, & S. Draper : 1745

Seller ID: 017152

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Fair

12mo, pp 303, (9), several engravings of coins within the text, various small head and tail pieces, a little used and age-toned internally, a little foxing, marbled endpapers, a contemporary signature on the title page, (Geo. Parsons), a later inscription dated 1840 on the front blank, contemporary full leather, very rubbed, corners worn, upper joint cracking but still very firm, lacking the top and bottom 3mm of the spine.
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The Spectator - a New Edition in Eight Volumes, with Illustrative Notes. To Which are Prefixed the Lives of the Authors By Robert Bissett.

By: Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, (and others). {Edoted By Robert Bissett]

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, PRINTED FOR GEORGE ROBERTSON, NUMBER 221 PICCADILLY : 1793

Seller ID: 002629

Eight volumes, engraved title page to each volume, [some also have a printed title page], rather browned internally, a little staining on the inner margins to three of the volumes, one signature loose in Volume 4, contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, morocco labels, rather dry, rubbed and scuffed, spines darkened.
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An Historical Account of Mandrakes, Both Male and Female, with a particular account of those which Rachel long'd for

By: Anonymous

Price: £185.00

Publisher: London, H. Slater, F. Noble (et al) : 1741

Seller ID: 017322

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Good

Small slim octavo, pp 58, lacking a lower corner of the title page with slight loss of the printers' names, an early repair and paper restoration, the title page very marked and age-toned, some foxing and soiling throughout but still tight and firm, bound fairly recently in cloth-backed boards, very slightly worn and marked. RARE.
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Image for The accomplished letter-writer; or, Universal correspondent. : Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples and improvement of style, from the best modern authors,

The accomplished letter-writer; or, Universal correspondent. : Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples and improvement of style, from the best modern authors,

By: Anonymous

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London & Kendal, W.J. & J. Richardson; M. Branthwaite : 1802

Seller ID: 016589

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

[The title continues - "together with many originals, on business, duty, amusement, affection, courtship, marriage, friendship, and other subjects. To which is prefixed a compendious grammar of the English tongue. Also a table of the clerk-like contraction of words, for the dispatch of business; and the proper mode of addressing people of all ranks, either in writing or discourse; and some necessary orthographical directions. With a selection of some beautiful poetical epistles, and various forms of polite messages".]. 12mo, cancellans title page, pp xii, 252, a little age-toned and slighly u...
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Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes, par l'Auteur du Traité des renoncules, imprimé à Paris chez Lottin

By: Ardene (Jean Paul de Rome d')

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Avignon, Louis Chambeau : 1759

Seller ID: 017306

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Small 12mo, (measures 153mm x 92mm), pp 156, a little browned and age-toned but very sound internally, two folding engraved plates, a little frayed and creased at the margins and again age-toned, full contemporary calf, worn at corners, the spine dull, joints a bit worn but still very sound. [ A delightful provenance - with the bookplate of C. Harman Payne, author of The Florist's Bibliography. This is the only book I have seen from what must have been a notable library. Also with the bookplate of the naturalist Edward Heron-Allen. The plates are great fun, showing florists' tools as well as ...
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Flora Bathoniensis; or, A Catalogue of the Plants Indigenous to the Vicinity of Bath

By: Babington, Charles C.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Bath, Bristol & London, E. Collins; G. Tremlett; Longman & Co. : 1834

Seller ID: 017337

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

12mo, pp vi, 62, (6), very clean internally, with the contemporary signature of Wm Clarke, and the later booklabel of R.P. Scase, Lower Northend Farm, Batheaston, original cloth, slightly rubbed and bubbled, a little worn at the head and tail of the spine. SCARCE.
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The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger, in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Era. Abridged from the original work of the Abbe Barthelemy

By: Barthelemy, Abbe

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Vernor, Hood & Sharpe (et al) : 1810

Seller ID: 019459

Binding: Boards

Condition: Poor

Fourth edition, octavo, a folding engraced map rather browned and creased, with a tear but no loss, pp viii, 468, (8), + publisher's catalogue 4 pages, wide-margined and untrimmed, rather age-toned and some foxing, lacking the spine, original boards but covered with brown paper, front cover nearly detached, lacking the rear endpaper.
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Commentaries on the Laws of England - Eleventh edition, with the last corrections of the author, additions by Richard Burn, and continued to the present time by John Williams.

By: Blackstone, William

Price: £950.00

Publisher: London, A. Strahan & W. Woodfall : 1791

Seller ID: 000862

Eleventh edition, with the last corrections of the author, additions by Richard Burn, and continued to the present time by John Williams. 4 VOLUMES, one portrait frontispiece, one folding chart, a little age-browned internally, a few neat contemporary marginal notes, top edge of pages of volume 1 and bottom edge of volume 2 a little stained (affecting the contents slightly), later tan full polished calf, raised bands, red morocco labels, spines a little darkened. A good sound set.
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Image for Cynegetica; or, Essays on Sporting: Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting.To which is added, The Chace: A Poem. By William Somervile, Esq

Cynegetica; or, Essays on Sporting: Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting.To which is added, The Chace: A Poem. By William Somervile, Esq

By: Blane, William,

Price: £95.00

Publisher: John Stockdale : 1788

Seller ID: 018066

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

New edition. Octavo, pp (6), 292 + booksellers' catalogue 4 pages, a large contemporary inscription on the first blank, pages untrimmed, a very clean wide-margined copy, recently bound in quarter cloth and boards with paper label on the spine. [Lacking the frontispiece plate and the vignette which are mentioned on the title page; the title has no date or publisher, it is followed by an errata page.]
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Image for The English Improver Improved : or, The survey of husbandry surveyed : discovering the improveableness of all lands, all clearly demonstrated from principles of reason, ingenuity, and real experiences ; and held forth under six peeces of improvement

The English Improver Improved : or, The survey of husbandry surveyed : discovering the improveableness of all lands, all clearly demonstrated from principles of reason, ingenuity, and real experiences ; and held forth under six peeces of improvement

By: Bligh, Walter

Price: £400.00

Publisher: The Kings-head in the Old Bayley, John Wright : 1653

Seller ID: 017327

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Fair

Third edition, small square octavo, pp (18), 274, (12), lacking the engraved frontispiece and with only one (of two] engraved folding plates, two full page woodcut illustrations and a small woodcut within the text, the remaining title page a little stained, the hinge at the title page cracked and open but still very sound, the hinge at the rear similar but weaker, the free endpaper ar the rear loose and frayed, a little age-toning throughout, but otherwise quite clean and sound, old half calf and boards, rubbed and worn, the joints beginning to split. The title page runs over two pages - the ...
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Image for A Survey of the Ancient Husbandry and Gardening, collected from Cato, Varro, Columella, Virgil, and others the most eminent writers among the Greeks and Romans: Wherein many of the most difficult Passages in those Authors are explain'd

A Survey of the Ancient Husbandry and Gardening, collected from Cato, Varro, Columella, Virgil, and others the most eminent writers among the Greeks and Romans: Wherein many of the most difficult Passages in those Authors are explain'd

By: Bradley, Richard

Price: £395.00

Publisher: At the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet Street, B. Motte : 1725

Seller ID: 015584

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

First and only edition. Octavo, pp (14), 373, (11), with two engraved folding plates, a little age-toning and slight marking, rear endpaper a little marked and with a contemporary signature - R. Taylor, 1771. The front endpaper has an ink diagram (see our illustration), and the hinge at the title page is cracked but sound. An early signature has been carefully cut from the top of the title page - the engraved surface is not affected. Contemporary panelled calf, a little marked and worn, the spine more worn, the upper joint cracking at the top and bottom. [Blanche Henrey 709.]. { Little is ...
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Image for New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical, in Three Parts. To which is added that scarce and valuable tract intitled Herefordshire Orchards. The sixth edition, with an appendix treating of several matters omitted

New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical, in Three Parts. To which is added that scarce and valuable tract intitled Herefordshire Orchards. The sixth edition, with an appendix treating of several matters omitted

By: Bradley, Richard

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Paternoster Row & St Paul's Churchyard, London, J & J Knapton; A Bettesworth & C. Hitch; J. Pemberton & D. Browne : 1731

Seller ID: 018259

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Fair

Sixth edition. [The title pages to parts II and III are dated 1730, as is Hereforshire Orchards;the title page to the appendix is 1731]. Thick octavo, pp xiv, 608, (25), with an engraved frontispiece and thirteen engraved plates (of which eight are folding), several plates are folded awkwardly, and several have frayed margins but only one has very slight loss of the engraved surface and it is this one which protrudes slightly from the fore-edge, some age-toning, occasional small splash marks, a little wear throughout, light early manuscript notes on the front endpapers, contemporary full calf,...
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Image for The Science of Good Husbandry: or, the Oeconomics of Xenophon. Shewing the Method of Ruling and Ordering a Family, and of Managing a Farm to the Best Advantage

The Science of Good Husbandry: or, the Oeconomics of Xenophon. Shewing the Method of Ruling and Ordering a Family, and of Managing a Farm to the Best Advantage

By: Bradley, Richard

Price: £750.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Corbet, at Addison's Head without Temple-Bar : 1727

Seller ID: 015648

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First and only edition. Small octavo, pp (8), 131, pages slightly waved as this is an unpressed copy, occasional slight creases or marks, a slim marginal worm-hoile affects the lower margin of a few leaves, but overall a very clean copy internally, endpapers a little stained, a small contemporary signature label on the front endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, a simple single marginal gilt line, rather worn at the edges, the lower cover scuffed, rebacked at a later stage with a simple calf spine, raised bands and a black title label. The covers slightly bowed. RARE. { Little is known about B...
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Image for Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practicioners

Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practicioners

By: Buchan, William

Price: £75.00

Publisher: The Strand, London & Edinburgh, A.Strahan; T.Cadell; J. Balfour & W. Creech : 1791

Seller ID: 018290

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Twelfth edition.Thick octavo, pp xxxvi, 712, [36], a little age-toned with slight foxing, lacking the front endpaper, contemporary half calf rather worn rubbed and scuffed, the upper joint cracked but firm, the spine head rather worn.
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Plantae Utiliores; or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine [Volumes 1, 2 and part of volume 3 ?]

By: Burnett, M.A.

Price: £700.00

Publisher: Ave Maria Lane, London, Whittaker & Co. : 1842

Seller ID: 018513

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

[1842 - {1846}]. Large thick quarto, 172 fine hand coloured plates each with at least one page of descriptive text (often more), two or three early pages with fox blotches, slightly affecting a few plates, plate 4 has been folded at the name to avoid losing any text when trimmed by the binder (see illustration), with plate 24 the red pigment has oxidised slightly and offset to the text, the later few plates and text are slightly age-toned at the margins; with the title page to the first volume but any others have been discarded by the binder, five contents pages are present, and then an owner ...
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Hudibras. New edition, with notes by the Rev. Treadway Russel Nash

By: Butler, Samuel

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1835

Seller ID: 000068

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

New edition, with notes by the Rev. Treadway Russel Nash. 2 VOLS, pp xl, 346; 403, engraved frontispiece (foxed), 2 engraved title page vignettes, contemporary dark green watered silk cloth, a small red spot on one spine, paper labels a little dull & worn, (with contemporary inscription on front endpaper - "the Rev. Dr Burney from William Nicol". With the bookplate of the garden designer and plantsman Jim Russell (designed by Felix Kelly).
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