Search Results: Authors starting with N from Liber Antiquus

London: Printed by R[ichard]. H[odgkinson]. for Laurence Blaikelocke, 1640. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. half morocco and marbled boards (rubbed, minor defects at head of spine and corners, boards a bit soiled. A very good copy, the lower margin cut short, affecting some catchwords but never the text, title a little dusty, a few light spots. Provenance: Hove Public Library (withdrawn) stamp. Two very pretty woodcut floral headpieces. The first edition of Thomas Nabbes' romantic adventure about a runaway bride who survives duplicitous relatives, abduction, and attempted rape to be rescued by her true love. "[Nabbes] employs an exciting plot of comic intrigue and romantic adventure, including runaway lovers and unknown relationships, intentions misunderstood and tragedies avoided, set in the realistic world of the London merchant and Bankside brothelkeeper, but with pervasive reference to an allegorical superstructure that suggests that every man's action in this world is a… Read More

London: Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene, 1637. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. calf, with the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins on the boards, edges of boards gilt (binding rebacked preserving spine with some chipping, discoloration at the board edges.) The text is in fine condition, with just a mended tear to leaf H3 without loss and another small tear mended in the blank margin of the title; title a little dusty, verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Woodcut printer's device on title page; attractive woodcut ornament at head of text on B1. First edition of Nabbes' historical drama examining hubris and virtue against the backdrop of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. Contemporary productions of this play likely utilized perspective scenery. This edition is important for the inclusion of a printed cast list, making it one of the few plays in English Renaissance drama for which cast information exists. The Roman general Scipio Africanus (236/235-c. 183 BC)… Read More

Bath: Isaac Pitman, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, Bath, England, 1859. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very good copy in contemporary sheepskin (worn, small defects to spine and corners, a few abrasions to the boards, corners bumped.) Internally very fine, edges of t.p. very faintly soiled. Printed in phonetic characters throughout. FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK OF PSALMS TRANSLATED INTO MI'KMAQ, printed in syllabics using a phonotypic alphabet. The translator, Nova Scotia born Silas Tertius Rand, was a Canadian Baptist clergyman, missionary, ethnologist, and linguist. Although he mastered the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Mohawk languages, his missionary and linguistic work centered on the Mi'kmaq people. In order to render the Mi'kmaq phonemes in his translations, Rand adapted the phonotypic alphabet created in 1845 by Isaac Pitman (1813-1897) and Alexander John Ellis (1814-1890). Today, the Mi'kmaq language is written in three different orthographies: "The Francis-Smith Orthography… Read More

Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.
Price: $8,500.00
Folio: DIM Collation: [a]2, b4, A-Z4, Aa-Yy4, Zz2, Aaa-Bbb2 (Bbb2 blank and present.) With 16 added engraved plates and an engraved folding map of Oxfordshire.
FIRST EDITION.
An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.
The text is illustrated with a large folding map of Oxfordshire and sixteen full-paged engravings of fossils, minerals, plants, the fascinating Enston waterworks, and other marvels and curiosities, by Michael Burghers. Trivial blemishes as follows: Light finger-soiling to lower corner of t.p., light stain in the gutter of first two leaves, clear dampstain to outer margin of leaf B4,… Read More

NAPLES: IGNAZIO RUSSO, 1753. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates. Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758.By the time this book was published, the design of the European sector had become standardized. Compare this design, for example, with that in the fourth edition of the works of Ozanam seventeen years earlier (L'usage du compas de proportion, 1736). The physical design of Pagnini's instrument is better (with pegs and decorative tenons to hold the two legs in alignment), but the scales are essentially identical. The work is well illustrated with engravings showing exactly how a pair of dividers should be used to take the various lateral and transverse measurements.Pagnini provides eight tables that detail the exact markings for each scale. He also provides other material for reference use, e.g., he includes… Read More

Venice: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION (The first ed., in Spanish, appeared in 1534). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th leaf; gathering 'e' possibly supplied. Title with large woodcut of the imperial arms of Charles V; woodcut cartouches with the arms of Andrew Gritti (leaf 3r) and of the translator, Domingo de Gaztelu (leaf 2v). First Italian edition of Francisco de Xerez' eyewitness account of Francisco Pizarro's expedition to conquer the Inca Empire, one of the most important accounts of the conquest of Peru. "Xerez's work had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent histories of Peru, and the 'Verdadera relacion' is widely regarded as the foundation of all texts dealing with the region and… Read More