from Abbey Antiquarian Books

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Etched frontispiece. Volume I only (of 2), octavo roan spined marbled boards (spine damaged but covers still attached/tips worn/rubbed) viii +457pp +10pp of adverts. Society label with list of members requesting the book be sent to them in rotation dated between 1853-1854. Blindstamp coat of arms of F. Bartelot… Read more

Portsea: Printed & published by S. Horseey Sen, 1844 acc to Bodleian Library. Hardcover. Very Good. Folding frontis of the sinkinking ship, 2 other plates + text illustrations

London: Office of National Illustrated Library, 1850's. Hardcover. Good. Plates (16 + Frontispiece) + engravings including full page & many text engravings including tradespeople, street & waterside scenes. Octavo green overall design in blindstamped cloth. Spine fully gilt with floral decoration (tips worn and some bumped but enirely sound) 306pp. Uniform paper tanning else neat. *Much on… Read more

London: Groombridge and Sons 1st edition, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Colour printed plates (6) by A.F. Lydon + woodengravings in text. 180x122mm green gilt cloth (tips worn) All Edges Gilt vi +[2] +161ppp + publisher's catalogue. *Cf. R.McLean 201.

Leiden: Joannis Maire 1st edition thus, 1628. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut printer's mark of man tilling the field + diagram on page 25. Octavo contemporary laced-through vellum with inked title to spine and yapp fore-edges (a few ink marks but vellum sound & clean). Colated complete [32]pp (title & prelims) + 768pp + [48]pp (index & errata).… Read more

London: Printed by M[ary] C[larke] for Jos. Hindmarsh, Bookseller to his Royal Highness, 1684. Hardcover. Very Good-. Octavo (11x17cm) speckled brown leather on 4 raised bands with orange gilt spine title label (neat small repair to head of spine, tips rubbed) All edges marbled but darkened, [14]pp (titlepage, dedication & contents) + 272pp + errata leaf… Read more

Paris & Dijon: Ganeau & Desventes (Part I), Guerin & Hermil-Andrea (Part II), 1752, 1748. Hardcover. Very Good. Large folio (42cm x 27cm) contemporary fine binding in full leather, spine on 6 cords with gilt title label and gilt-decorated compartments (tips bumped, headbands bare). All Edges Rouge, fine marbled end-papers, LIVpp (1752 Title in red &… Read more

London: J.S. Jordan, No.180 Fleet Street, 1802 from London Star publisher's advert. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate frontis & titlepage with large oval vignette of Proto-Martyrs + 22 finely engraved plates (as listed) by Burney, Richter et al. engraved by Grignion, W.J. Turner et al. Quarto early 19th century marbled calf, gilt ruled and decorated spine compartments with green… Read more

London: Printed by Henry Lintot for Browne, Shuckburgh & others, 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo contemporary blind-tooled calf with later calf re-back on 5 raised bands, red gilt and black gilt labels, viii +518pp +[26]pp copious Index. Signature Chas. Bate at head of titlepage, first few pages a little foxed, else clean and crisp throughout in… Read more

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Balthasarem Moretum et Viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, first edition, 1623. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine engraved title with globe, cherubs & gods, second engraved showing angry men with torches & axes and a hydra monsteer by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) after Rubens + 44 full-page copperplates by Collart and others + 55 nice… Read more

Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes for the Author, 1688. Hardcover. Very Good. Portrait frontis of King Edward III holding orb & sceptre + 2 full-page plates (the King and Edawrd the Black Prince both in full armour with troops and French cities in background). Folio in 4's (37x24cm) contemporary blind-stamped and ruled leather, spine on 6 raised… Read more

London: J. Walthoe, 1693. Hardcover. Very Good-. Duodecimo (18x11.5cm) sprinkled brown calf on 4 raised bands with red gilt-titled spine label (splitting at hinges but held firmly by all cords, tips worn and leather marked) All edges sprinkled red. Imprimatur leaf + titlepage + dedication leaf +[10]pp +480pp collated complete. *Traces ruling families of Europe (Austria,… Read more

London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers. First edition, 1670 from signed Preface. Hardcover. Fair. Full-page emblematic copperplate frontis of AFRICA with black figures, camel, crocodile & lion + full-page plate of Egyptian Mummies + 46 copper engravings in text, but LACKS all 53 engraved plates… Read more

London: No publisher given, 1747. Hardcover. Very Good. BINDING Duodecimo tan calf (20.5 x 13cm) with unusual gilt tooling to covers: grasshoppers, beetles, butterflies, bees, snails, spiders etc. with floral corner pieces and gilt dentelles (tips worn, leather slightly marked) [4pp] + 72pp including unpaginated dedication to Prince Henry signed Richard Connak July 1609. The first… Read more

London: John Major, Robert Jennings & Robert Triphook first edition, 1822 - 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates (52) on India paper including pictorial engraved titlepage and engraved portrait to dedication, by Sir Thomas. Lawrence, Vandyke and many other famous artists, engraved on silver by Cosmo Armstrong, Francis Engleheart and others. Subscriber's copy of Volume I only, PROOFS… Read more

Paris: Joseph Barbou 1st thus, 1754. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate frontis + engraved added title + 6 plates by Frans van Mieris engraved in reduced size here by Cl. Duflos. Duodecimo (16x9.5cm) contemporary 3-colour marbled leather gilt (spine leather very worn, defective at hinges, some flaking as often with marbled leathers when acidic colours used), All Edges Gilt. Fine… Read more

London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1st edition, 1839. Hardcover. Good. Etched plates (30) by John Thomas Smith + portrait of author by J. Jackson R.A. engraved by W. Skelton. Royal quarto, green cloth-spined marbled paper-covered boards, with defective gilt-titled spine label, xv (inc. half title, title, advertisement, contents and biography of author) + 99p +[1]p advert for… Read more

London: Printed by James Flesher for Cornelius Bee, 1652. Hardcover. Good. Two Volumes folio contemporary speckled leather (worn, both lacking most of original spine leather but all cords intact and covers well attached) All edges sprinkled red. Doncaster Free Library 1869 bookplates on pastedown of each volume. Vol.I half-title + titlepage in red & black… Read more

London: J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall, 1740. Softcover. Good. Small quarto recent grey card covers, 80pp. Lacks Titlepage, [2]pp (Dedication) and xi (Preface), but has 2nd Title and text of 3 Cantos complete in 80 pages, thus matching only the J. Stagg third edition of 1740. Text clean and crisp throughout. *The poet William Somerville "came of… Read more

Lyon: Antonius Pillehotte, 1619. Hardcover. Good. First title pages with large enraved printers mark + 2nd title with three woodcut figures + fine large engraving of the Arbor Vitae Christi [200 x 140mm] but miss numbered 243 instead of 423 TWO volumes in one. Folio reversed calf on 5 raised bands with a red gilt spine label (spine… Read more