Recent Arrivals from Abbey Antiquarian Books

Basel: Sebastian Henric Petri, 1577. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo blindstamped pig on 4 raised bands with one of two functioning classpsclasps. First Volume Pars I also published Henric Petri 1577 entitled Aulae Turcicicae [Â…] by Antoine Geuffroy - see Blackmer 679 for both parts. * A history of the wars between Ottoman Sultan`s Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) and… Read more

London: W.& J.Innys & J.Osborn & T.Longman, 1725. Hardcover. Very Good-. folding plates [19 in Vol.II & in Vol. III] . Quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands with gilt spine label [rebacked with old spine relaid and original cover laid on front board] Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes… Read more

London: David Bogue 1st edition, 1853. Softcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured etched plates (6 plates with 8 scenes) by George Cruikshank.. 176x135mm grey-green card covers with pictorial upper cover; lower cover with first & third titles only of the four. The fourth title was never published by Bogue but only by Routlege etc. (covers with pale stain to corner/partial… Read more

Basel: H. Froben (1501-1563), 1552. Hardcover. Very Good. Large Froben printer's device on titlepage, historiated woodcut initials throughout. . Four Volumes in One, large folio bound in blind-stamped pigskin (dated 1564 with initials I.D.F.H.) on bevelled wooden boards with metal clasps (lacking one clasp) each board has 16 small marginal panels of biblical scenes and four larger central… Read more

Tokyo: Kobunsha, 2 Minami Saegicho, first edition, later printing, 1887 Meiji 20. Softcover. Good. Colour illustrations (17 of which 2 are full page) Japanese art.. 181x123mm in larger plain paper (not crepe) format with original silk ties to spine (covers bit dusty) [26]pp incl. covers some corner creases within margin. Pages printed one side only and folded at… Read more

London: Macmillan & Co., 1885. Hardcover. Good. Colour plates (7) + titlepage with shaggy dog and bowl, by Walter Crane (1845-1915).. Octavo (190x130mm) modern red cloth library covers with slightly worn spine and gilt title, top corners of cover slightly worn, inscription on FEP dated 1916, faint purple library stamps on half title & p240, [vi] +240pp +32pp… Read more

Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion (1705-1765), 1730. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece + portrait + 8 full-page emblems + 2 folding plates by Goeree + Vignette to title +8 headpieces + 4 hieroglyphic plates. Octavo laced through blindstamped vellum [sl soiled] All eges rouge, Engraved title of Nepture playing the harp while riding a dolphin through stormy seas +titlepage printed… Read more

London: David Bogue 1st edition first issue, 1853. Softcover. Very Good. Etched plates (6 plates with 9 scenes) by George Cruikshank. 176x135mm grey-green card covers with pictorial upper cover; lower cover with second title "preparing for publication" (tips rubbed/cover dusty) 30pp some foxing.

Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892. Very Good. Plates (4) + text illustrations by Katherine R. Wireman.. Octavo quarter cloth pictorial boards (damp damaged & bit deformed) 66pp damp tide mark. Titlepage loose, binding loose across book. Some foxing but no impact on text a litte staining to the centre of all pages, but at its worst… Read more

London and New York: George Virtue (1794-1868), 1840 [approx but ND]. Hardcover. Good. Titlepage vignettes + 96 engravings (inc map of Scotland) by William Bartlett (1809-1854), Thomas Allom (1804-1872) and others.. Two Volumes complete, quarto 275x215mm 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spines on 4 raised bands with gilt decoration & labels, all edges gilt (marbled paper scuffed, corners… Read more

Regenspurg: Johann Theodoro Boetio 1st edition, 1716-1717. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved folding portrait by Christoph L. Agricola (1665-1724), 31 numbered copperplates +7 full-page plates in text (some folding) + text illustrations throughout. . Two volumes in one folio (33x22x4cm) contemporary vellum with brass clasps, All edges faded blue, early ownership inscriptions on endpapers, 25 leaves +184pp +16 leaves… Read more

London: David Bogue, 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. Amusing text illustrations (about 100) by H.G. Hine.. 16mo plum pebbled cloth (head of spine chipped for 1cm) xii +112pp +full page tail plate. Satirical poems on events in the Emperor's life and on his “Idees Napoleoniennes”. No author suggested by the British Library catalogue. Last 2 leaves dusty and although… Read more

Rouen & Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1660, 1659. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo (150x85mm) 17th century full calf, spine on 5 cords decorated gilt All Edges Rouge, 375+[1]pp followed by 2nd Work, [4]+412pp. Ex Libris C. Humbert on pastedown, card with early MS notes inserted & initials on free endpaper, illegible signatures on both titlepages. Text in very good… Read more

Utrecht (Ultrajecti): Ex officina Johannis à Waesberge, 1659. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut vignette on titlepage + a few foliated initials. . 12mo 130x80mm contemporary vellum (sl. damaged) All Edges Rouge. Ownership on FEP in 19th century blue ink (Kiel), Titlepage followed by 4 sections of poems by each Greek author and a 5th by others followed by Sylberg's… Read more

London: Rivington, White & others printed Darton & Harvey, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate engravings (67 ovals on 34 plates & Engraved TP & frontis by G. Neagle (bound after Life of Gay).. Octavo (207x124mm) 2 Parts in 1 volume gilt calf (rebacked with old spine laid on - pine lacks labels & has some flaking & darkening, tips… Read more

Moguntiae (Mainz): publ. Bernard Walther, printed by Joannes Volmari., 1614. Hardcover. Good. Printers mark on title page, graphs & formulae in text. . Duodecimo (155x95mm), contemporary laced vellum covers (lacks fastening straps), spine & front cover with faded MS title & author's name, ownership note on pastedown from library of Augustinian Canons of Herzogenburg (Austria), dated December 1,… Read more

Venice: nel Negotio Remondini, 1648 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Engraved titlepage + [42] leaves of plates. . Folio (390x280mm) paper-covered limp pasteboard, gilt-titled leather spine & tips (worn at edges). Engraved titlepage + [42] leaves of full-page engraved plates (signed A-E8 + 3 of Bernini Vatican monuments). Fowler 363: „The title page Â… and the plates of this issue… Read more

Rome: Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith., 1644. Hardcover. Very Good. Titlepage vignettes, full-page portraits of Gerson holding cross and of Constantino Caietano (1560-1650), who was custodian of the Vatican Library. . Octavo 155x110mm near contemporary vellum gilt ruled (ties lacking), All Edges Rouge. Some marks on vellum & small pipe ash damage to 1st few pages,… Read more

London & Venice: Johannis Martyn, Regiae Societatis Typographi, 1st ed; 2nd work A. Poleti, 3rd edition., 1675, 1698. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved title vignettes to both Works, 61 + 19 copperplates of plants (1st Work frontispiece lacking), + portrait of Malpighi in 2nd Work with final plate of sleeping leopards in landscape by Italian nun Suor Isabella Piccini… Read more

Lugduni (Lyon): Jacobus de Strada & Thomas Guerinus 1st edition, 1553. Hardcover. Very Good. Title vignette + woodcuts (over 480) of coins with portraits of Roman emperors on black ground). . Quarto modern half vellum, spine gilt ruled with red gilt leather title (a few marks), armorial bookplate of Dr. Faragó Pál on pastedown. Titlepage with woodcut vignette… Read more