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This site contains a selection from my extensive stock of rare and antiquarian books. Specialisms include English literature, Bibles, and religious books.

 

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Charles Lamb, Prose Works, 1836, including the Essays of Elia

The Works of Lamb, 1836 in 3 volumes

Lamb, Charles

The Prose Works of Charles Lamb. In Three Volumes

London, Edward Moxon, 1836

The heraldic bookplate of Charles Lilburn in each volume; a number of volumes from his library are now in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Volume 2 contains the Lamb’s famous Essays of Elia. Read more about Charles Lamb, Prose Works, 1836, including the Essays of Elia

Price: £75.00
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Observations On Poetry, Occasioned by the Late Poem Upon Leonidas by Henry Pemberton bound with Leonidas by Richard Glover

Observations On Poetry, by Henry Pemberton, 1738

Pemberton, Henry

Observations On Poetry , Especially the Epic: Occasioned by the Late Poem Upon Leonidas

London, H. Woodfall for J. Brotherton etc., 1738

Small 8vo. (16 x 9.5 cm), xii + errata leaf + 167 pages. Bound with the half title page present. Generally a very clean copy, although a water stain runs down the page from page 142 onwards, on the text but never obscuring it, faint apart from the last four pages, where it is more noticeable.

Published anonymously.

Bound with and proceeded by;- Read more about Observations On Poetry, Occasioned by the Late Poem Upon Leonidas by Henry Pemberton bound with Leonidas by Richard Glover

Price: £85.00
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Bacon's Essays published by William Pickering

Bacon, Francis

The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral and Wisdom of the Ancients

London, William Pickering, 1845

8vo. (17 x 10.5 cm), iv unnumbered pages, xxx + 356 pages + 4 page Pickering catalogue. Generally very clean and crisp internally, with a few light marks and spots and perhaps the slightest creasing to the crisp, white paper. The top edge just a little uneven and dusty. The endpapers a little spotted, with the small blind-stamp of a bookseller on the front endpaper. Read more about Bacon's Essays published by William Pickering

Price: £48.00
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Early Eighteenth Century Science

Science Book, 1719, for sale

Nieuwentyt, Dr. B.

The Religious Philosopher: Or the Right USE of Contemplating the Works of the Creator…Vol. II

London, J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1719

Translated by John Chamberlayne, 

This volume is concerned mainly with earth sciences and natural history, containing sections on Air, Meteors, Water, The Earth, Fire, Animals and Plants.The title page continues;- Read more about Early Eighteenth Century Science

Price: £135.00
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The British Muse, scarce and important anthology of English Poetry

The British Muse, 1738, for sale

Hayward, Thomas (editor)

The British Muse, Or, A Collection of Thoughts Moral, Natural and Sublime, of our English Poets…

London, F. Cogan etc., 1738

3 volumes, 12mo. (16 x 9.5 cm). Volume 1: xxiv + 20 unnumbered + 288 pages. Volume 2: title page + 312 pages. Volume 3: title page + 312 pages. Read more about The British Muse, scarce and important anthology of English Poetry

Price: £150.00
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La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny, Cologne 1686

La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny, Cologne 1686, for sale

Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien

La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1686. Read more about La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny, Cologne 1686

Price: £185.00
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Nouvelles Reflexions par Etienne Vernage, rare edition of 1680

Nouvelles Reflexions Etienne Francois de Vernage, 1680, for sale

Vernage, Etienne Francois de

, Nouvelles Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales et Politiques

Lyon, Thomas Amauley, 1680

12mo. ( 14.5 x 8 cm), 24 unnumbered pages + 192 pages + 18 unnumbered pages. Collates: a8,e4, A8, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M4, N8, O4, P8, Q4, R8. S1. Read more about Nouvelles Reflexions par Etienne Vernage, rare edition of 1680

Price: £165.00
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Essai Sur le Beau Par le Père André J…

Essai Sur le Beau 1767, for sale

André, Yves Marie

Essai Sur le Beau Par le Père André J… Avec Un Discours Preliminaire, Ex des Refléctions sur le Gôut. Par M. Formey.

Amsterdam, C.H. Schneider, 1767

8vo. (18 x 11.5 cm), 4 unnumbered pages + lxxx + 106 pages. Readable throughout, but the pages heavily browned, with some spotting. Bound in brown leather, a black leather label on the spine. The binding rubbed and worn, with loss of leather on the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. The boards firmly attached, nut the leather cracked along part of the hinges.

  Read more about Essai Sur le Beau Par le Père André J…

Price: £45.00
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Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq. British Civil War

Ludlow Memoirs, 1751, for sale

Ludlow, Edmund

Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of Horse…

London, A. Millar etc., 1751

Folio (31x20cm), portrait frontispiece + xii +502 + 18 + pages + index.

Generally a clean, crisp copy internally, with a little browning and light marking to some pages. A brown mark on the back of the portrait and a narrow brown mark at the edge of the title page (approximately 3 millimetres wide and 8cm long). Read more about Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq. British Civil War

Price: £180.00
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Folio Engraved Portraits, Published in 1821

Portrait of Sir Francis Bacon

Lodge, Edmund

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Volume II

London, Lackington, Hughes etc, 1821

Folio (42x27cm), 41 full page engravings, each with accompanying text (varying from four to ten pages for each subject).

The subjects of the engravings include: Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Releigh and Sir Thomas Bodley. Read more about Folio Engraved Portraits, Published in 1821

Price: £175.00
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