Search Results: Titles starting with P from Madoc Books

London: on Ludgate-Hill, over-against the Old-Bailey; AND Stamford:: R. Manby; AND Francis Howgrave, 1743. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. STUKELEY William. Dedication copy with the dedicates armorial bookplate. 2 parts bound as 1, first editions, 1743 & 1746, in attractive gilt tooled maroon refurbished boards. Later re-spine, old laid down, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt title to green morocco label. Internally, frontis, No1, 1743, [4], 52, 3 pls (with 2 large folding). Frontis, No 2, 1746, [5], [1], (ii-v) preface, [1], (ii-iv) index, 135 pp, [1] errata, 6 pls (2 folding). Contemporary red marbled endpapers, a.e.g., book label to FPD (David W Phillipson) plus the armorial bookplate of Lord Hardwicke (the dedicatee), a few minor nicks to a couple of leaf edges. An attractive example. (250*194 mm). (ESTC T144385. T144383 ). Title continues: Number I. Origines Roystonianæ, or, an account of the oratory of Lady Roisia… Read More

London: on Ludgate-Hill, over-against the Old-Bailey: R. Manby, 1743. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. STUKELEY William. 8 titles bound in 1, 18 pls. A wonderful collection of uncommon items. In contemporary calf, gilt edge tooling some marks. Crudely re-backed, no title. Internally, Palaeographia Britannica: or, Discourses on Antiquities in Britain, Number 1: By William Stukeley, London: R. Manby, 1743, frontis, [4], 52 pp, 3 pls (2 folding). Number 2: by William Stukeley, Stamford, Francis Howgrave, 1746, [6], [2], (iii-v), [1], [1], (ii-iv) index, 135 pp, [1] errata. Number 3, by William Stukeley, London: for C. Corbet, 1752, coin woodcut to tp, [2], (ii-iv), (ii), [1], 2-55 pp, 1 pl (1747), 1 woodcut. Palaeographia Sacra: or Discourses on Monuments of Antiquity that relate to Sacred History, Number 1 (no more published), by William Stukeley, London: for William Innys and Richard Manby, 1736, woodcut to tp, [3], (iv-vi), [2], 3-77 pp, [1] index, 3… Read More

London: 11, Strand: E. Williams, 1822. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Welsh Poetry, VG+, 1st ed, 1822. Uncommon. In contemporary tree calf boards. Modern re-spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [7], (viii) only, [3], 4-75 pp, [1] adverts, yellow endpapers, text block edges yellowed, small embossed stamp of J Prichard to upper board & tp, new fep to match, old paper repair to end blank edge, hinges strengthened. (92*161 mm). Welsh title: Cyvieithion o Saesoneg: sev, Palestina, can arobryn Heber; Y bardd: awdl arddunawl Gray; ac amrywion gàn Idrison. Uncommon - COPAC shows 3 copies whilst Worldcat shows 2.

London: Panyer-Alley and St. Martin's-Le-Grand; Manchester; Chester.: R Groombridge, and H. Hughes; Bancks and Co. and J Seacome., 1835. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. ROGERS. VG, Uncommon 1st ed, c1834, 4 pls, lacks map. In contemporary full black worn morocco, corners & edges rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling. Internally, map, frontis, [3], (iv-viii), [1], 2-314 pp, [1], (ii-vi), 4 pls, 1 map (folding - w/repaired crease), tipped to fpd, ink ownership details to tp (Charlotte Barrington? Bodlondeb 1836), (145*92 mm). (Hotten p19. Anderson p339). Hemingway also wrote, History of Chester, and was the late Editor of the Chester Chronicle.

26 Haymarket: T. McLean, 1829. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. PRY Paul [ie HEATH William]. Ten Hand Coloured PARISH CHARACTERS Satirical Prints Oblong folio, ten hand-coloured etched plates, plates numbered 1-4, [4, unnumbered], 6,7,8 10, and 11, plates dated June 12, 1829 (Plate 8 miss-dated June 12, 1826). Bound by J. Larkins in late nineteenth century half dark green morocco, ruled in gilt, over green marbled boards, russet morocco gilt lettering label on front cover, top edge gilt, green marbled endpapers, head and tail of spine expertly repaired, minimal rubbing to extremities of boards. (269*412 mm). The Characters include: 1. Mr George King - the Parish Overseer 2. Mr Primate - the Church Warden 3. Dusty Bob - the Parish Dustman 4. Master Fang the Parish Beadle. Attorney in General to the Parish 6. Master Dogberry the Parish Watchman 7. One of the Select Vestry 8. Leo Sacks - One Of The Charity Crab's 10. One of the Poor employed to mend the… Read More

[London]: The House of Commons, 1832. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. In modern quarter green cloth over blue boards, printed paper label. VG+, 1st ed, 1832, 35 plans. Internally, [2], [1], (ii-xii), 150 pp, 1 table (folding), 35 plans (large & folding), hand coloured in outline, new endpapers, repaired marginal hole to TP. Uncommon. Reports signed by TR Mould. TC Yates. R Hitchcock. GFW Bordes. G Gipps. & TC Duffy. (Folio, 216*336 mm). Title continues: Copy of instructions given by the Chief Secretary of Ireland with reference to the Cities and Boroughs in Ireland sending Representatives to Parliament; likewise, Copy of any Letter or Report received by the Chief Secretary, in answer to such Instructions. List includes: Armagh Athlone Bandon Belfast Carlow Carrickfergus Cashel Coleraine Dublin Sligo Youghal etc etc.

London: The House of Commons, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. DAWSON Robt. K. Lt RE.. 1832, 95 plans, 3 Vols, Vol II-Part II. Vol IV-Part II. Part VII. Relating to Wales. All in new quarter green cloth, over V2 new blue boards, V4 contemporary blue boards & V7 contemporary printed blue boards, all edges uncut. Vol II-Part II, [4], 131-236pp, 36 plans (all large folding, except 2) all hand coloured in outline, new end papers, light stain to margins TP. 9 Counties from Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Rutland etc.. (Folio209*336 mm). Vol IV-Part II, [4], 87-210 pp, 34 plans (all but 1 large & folding), all hand coloured in outline, new fep.. 5 counties, Glamorganshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire & Radnorshire. (Folio, 216*348 mm). Part VII, [4], 1-86 pp, 25 plans (21 large & folding), all hand coloured in outline, lacking 2*1 inch sq margin pieces at base P14/26, light stail to top corner 1st few… Read More

HMSO. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. DAWSON Robert K. . A VG+ copy, c1832, in contemporary speckled calf over marbled cloth, corners bumped, blind tooling. Spine, worn, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to black morocco label, edges rubbed. Internally, [4], 210 pp, 59 plans (hand coloured in outline, & 54 of which are large folding), later endpapers, engraved by J Gardner, Regent Street. Upper board gilt stamped & title page red ink stamped of Hartfield House. Counties indexed: Anglesey, Brecknockshire, Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, Caernarvonshire, Denbigh, Flint in all 7 counties and 22 boroughs. + Part VIII, 5 counties & 21 boroughs.

London, 20 Thread Needle Street.: F.G. Moon, 1847. No Binding. Very Good. HAGHE Louis 1806-1885 after ROBERTS David. Litho Titled: Part of the Hall of Columns at Karnak - Thebes David Roberts. R.A. L Haghe lith. Original tinted half-page lithograph, published in 1847. Sheet 598*416 mm, Image 354*256 mm, some marginal spotting, tiny pinhole to 2 corners. Abbey Travel 272.56. The drawings and water colours from this sketching tour by David Roberts of the Holy Land and Egypt were collated together into folios and released over a seven year period between 1842 and 1849 by the publisher F.G. Moon from 20 Threadneedle Street London. Louis Haghe (the Belgian lithographer and friend of Roberts) oversaw and produced all of the lithographs for this series.

London, 20, Threadneedle St.: F.G.Moon, 1846. No Binding. Very Good. ROBERTS David. HAGHE David 1806-1885. Titled: David Roberts RA L Haghe Litho. Portico of the Temple Edfou Upper Egypt Nov 23rd 1838Gaza, March 21st 1839. Un-coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts from Robert's Egypt and Nubia, published by FG Moon, in 1846, sheet 617*439 mm, Image 510*329 mm, No 4 to bottom left corner, light margin edge browning, tiny pin hole to each corner. (Abbey Travel 272.10). Roberts made 247 large coloured lithographs executed by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia (1842-9). No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Roberts was to paint more oils of the East than of any other region he visited, exhibiting thirty-one at the Royal Academy alone. These received critical acclaim and sold for high prices. The works remain keenly sought after to this day. Copies of… Read More

London: Waterloo-Place; Cockspur-Street; Shrewsbury; Oswestry.: Messrs. Rivington; J. Cawthorn; Eddowes; and Price, 1831. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. PARKER J. HAGE L.. 1 Volume, all printed? Uncommon, 2 pls. In half black calf over blue cloth, a few spots. Spine, raised bands, gilt titles, lower joints worn & just cracked. Internally, half title, frontis, [2], [5], (vi-vii), [1] errata, [1], 2-144, 149-231 pp (odd pagination but appears complete), 2 pls, marbled endpapers, half title inscribed 'From the Author', with a couple of ink short margin notes, t.e.g., printed by B M'Milan. final page states End of the First Volume, & the usual sources show 1 vol only. (229*139 pp). "... a dialogue between three gentlemen, on a tour in North Wales, which has in part appeared in a periodical publication [Cambrian quarterly magazine] ... a poem, called the Celtic annals, ... in illustration of an argument incidental to the… Read More

London: Waterloo-Place; Cockspur-Street; Shrewsbury; Oswestry.: Messrs. Rivington; J. Cawthorn; Eddowes; and Price, 1831. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. PARKER J. HAGE L.. ... a dialogue between three gentlemen on a tour in North Wales First edition, volume 1, all published, in contemporary dark green cloth, some cloth bubbles, corners bumped. Spine, printed paper label, with loss, edges bumped. Internally, half title, frontis, [2], [5], (vi-vii), [1] errata, [1], 2-144, 149-231 pp, odd pagination but correct, some leaves uncut, evidence of bookplate removal to fpd, printed by B. M'Millan, Bow-street, Covent garden. (230*145 mm). In half black calf over blue cloth, a few spots. Spine, raised bands, gilt titles, lower joints worn & just cracked. Internally, half title, frontis, [2], [5], (vi-vii), [1] errata, [1], 2-144, 149-231 pp (odd pagination but appears complete), 2 pls, marbled endpapers, half title inscribed 'From the… Read More

London: Bond Street, Corner of Brook-Street.: Edward Orme, 1810. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. BOBBIN Timothy. The Passions of Manchester in 25 hand coloured illustrations First edition, 1810, Quarto, [34] pp, engraved portrait frontispiece, hand coloured engraved dedication leaf, & twenty five hand coloured engraved plates, watermarked 1805 and 1806, modern quarter burgundy calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt and decoratively tooled in blind in compartments with two black morocco gilt lettering labels, occasional minor soiling and offsetting, a few small stains, a few minor marginal paper repairs to text leaves. (signatures: A-E1). (262*199 mm). (Poletti, p.194). "The engraved designs of this once famous Lancashire artist have been many years out of print, and now almost unknown to the world at large, the publisher, from a love of the early productions of art in his native county, has undertaken this new work, relying on the patronage of the admirers of… Read More

London: Bond Street, Corner of Brook-Street.: Edward Orme, 1810. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. BOBBIN Timothy. The Passions of Manchester in 25 hand coloured illustrations First edition, 1810, Quarto, [34] pp, engraved portrait frontispiece, hand coloured engraved dedication leaf, & twenty five hand coloured engraved plates, watermarked 1805 and 1806, modern quarter burgundy calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt and decoratively tooled in blind in compartments with two black morocco gilt lettering labels, occasional minor soiling and offsetting, a few small stains, a few minor marginal paper repairs to text leaves. (signatures: A-E1). (262*199 mm). (Poletti, p.194). The engraved designs of this once famous Lancashire artist have been many years out of print, and now almost unknown to the world at large, the publisher, from a love of the early productions of art in his native county, has undertaken this new work, relying on the patronage… Read More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1859. First . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection. In the original pictorial gilt cloth, corners bumped, gilt titles to spine, expertly re-backed preserving the original cloth. Internally, half title, frontis, title with vignette, [5], (vi-xvi), [1], 2-516 pp, 8 colour chromolithographs, 9 maps (some folding), 23 woodcuts, new endpapers, small signature on title (McDaniel), light edge wear, one map with short tear, lightly foxed. (208*136 mm). (Neate 18). There was also a second series with plain plates as well as a number of later printings. Ball was the first President of the Alpine Club and his travelers guide to the Alps was the standard work for many years.

London. 13, Great Marlborough Street.: Henry Colburn. First Edition . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CLINTE A. 1st ed, Fair, 20 pls 7 folding sheets, eng tp. In faded blue embossed cloth, gilt image to front center, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Relaid spine, gilt tooling and title. Internally, new endpapers, frontis, engraved titlepage, [3], (vi-viii), [1], 2-291 pp, [1], 20 pls, + 7 folding music sheets, lacks title page, printed by Schulze and Co, 13 Poland St, London, not dated but c1838. light edge browning, some foxing to plates, small stain to base of eng titlepage and frontispiece. Bennett, George John, actor. See ODNB for a full Bio.

London: Henry Colburn, 1838. First Edition . Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Clinte. In the contemporary green cloth covers, with a water? stain top right and bottom left of front cover, corners and edges bumped. Spine has faded and the water stain is to the bottom, title in gilt. Internally the front & rear endpapers and the front title page show the water stain, with the pull out guide showing the angling stations!, has all the B&W illustrations by A Clint & 7 Welsh pull out melodies, (viii), 391 pp, [1], 20 pl, 7 charts, printed by Schulze and Co, 13 Poland St, London. A solid copy. Bennett, actor in addition he was an author, and he also took up photography professionally in Chepstow. See ODNB for a full Bio.

London: 13, Great Marlborough Street.: Henry Colburn, 1838. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CLINT A. VG, 1st ed, 1838, 7 illustrations. In the publishers green embossed cloth, faded at edges, corners rubbed. Spine, faded, gilt titles, edges bumped, cracked upper joint. Internally, additional engraved title with vignette, some browning, [5], (vi-viii), [1], 2-391 pp, [1], 27 illustrations, including 6 melodies (folding), yellow endpapers, book label to fpd (The Surveyors Institution). (226*141 mm). (Anderson 339). Bennett, in addition to being an actor, was an author, he also took up photography professionally in Chepstow. ODNB

England: 27, High Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire: Printed for the Author by W.K. Morton and Sons, Ltd, 1914. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. The MUST have in Welsh Genealogy! First edition, 1914, in re-spined quarter cloth over the rubbed, original printed boards, spine with gilt tile to red morocco calf. Internally, rubricated title, [5], [1], (ii), [1], 410 pp (mainly genealogical charts), occasional spot, hinges strengthened, some leaf edges a little chipped. (511*377 mm).

England: John Edwards Griffith, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1914. In black cloth, a few marks. Re-spined in brown calf, gilt titles & tooling. Internally, [5], [1], 410 pp, title page in red and black inks, hinges strengthened. (514*378 mm. 5.7 kg). GRIFFITH, naturalist and antiquary; took an early interest in archaeology and natural history which in time accounted for his volumes on the Flora of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, published in 1894, and his Portfolio of Photographs of Cromlechs in the same two counties, published in 1900; See NLW WBO for a full Bio.