Search Results: Authors starting with P from Antiquates Ltd

London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1860. vi, 264pp, [2]. With a tipped-in errata slip and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. The sole edition of an anonymous collection of middling picturesque poetry, published, with the understanding that, 'should any profit accrue from this edition, it will be given to the mission to Central Africa.' The author, 'B.P.', may well be the 'Beta Pi' referenced by the publisher's advertisements. Two further works of theirs are advertised, Christmas Day: A Poem and Miscellaneous Poems; no copies of the former appear extant, the latter is remarkably scarce. OCLC and COPAC together locate copies at five locations (BL, California, Cambridge, NLS, and Trinity College Dublin). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. ix, [3], 152pp, [16]. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled.Paper repair to FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of Trinity College, Dublin undergraduate James Augustus Page's (1821-1880) second published collection of poetry. . First edition. 8vo.

London: C. and J. Adlard, 1850. 6pp. With an engraved illustration of a foot in the text. Original publisher's tan paper wraps. Some discolouration and soiling to cover. Slight creasing to leaves with the odd spot of foxing. . First edition, thus. 8vo.

Paris: Les Editions Marcel Pagnol, 1938. 148pp,. With seven leaves of photographs. Original publisher's brown card wrappers, lettered in red and black. Wrappers stained and marked, the lower detached, spine and edges chipped. Presentation inscription to FFEP: 'au plus grand acteur vivant, a Sir Lawrence Olivier [sic], avec mon admiration et mon amitie, MarcelPagnol, Juin 1960'. The first edition, to accompany the 1938 French drama film directed by Pagnol starring Raimu and Ginette Leclerc. . First photoplay edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for F. Wingrave, 1801. [5], 124 [i.e. 248pp]. Parallel French and English texts with duplicate pagination. Contemporary tooled calf. Rubbed with three small holes to spine, somewhat soiled. Contemporary ink inscription to FEP, later pencil inscription to recto of FFEP. A once popular, but now uncommon, French primer aimed at British children. Comprising entries on, amongst others; weather systems, astronomy, geography, and anatomy. COPAC locates one copy in the BL. OCLC adds no further copies. . Eleventh edition. 12mo.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1777. [4], 8pp. Disbound. Lightly creased and spotted. A rare survival of theologian William Paley's (1743-1803) second published work, a sermon on 2 Peter iii, vv. 15 16 preached at the invitation of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle. Paley's connection with Law family greatly advanced his clerical career. Paley's long and faithful friendship with Law was acknowledged in the dedication to Horae Paulinae (1790). ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Dr. Williams's, Liverpool, and Oxford), and a further three in North America (California, Kansas, and Yale). ESTC T4525.. First edition. Quarto.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. ix, [1], 374pp. Bound by Bickers and Son in contemporary brown morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf. A handsomely bound copy of a popular anthology of English lyrical poems and hymns, including compositions by Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Robert Burns, Christina G. Rossetti, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, arranged by late Oxford Professor of Poetry Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897) and first published in 1889. . Sixteenth thousand. 8vo.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [1942]. xv, [1], 574pp, [2]. With a half-title and a photographic portrait frontispiece depicting Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Contemporary red leatherette, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. A revised and expanded edition of this popular anthology of verse and lyrical poems arranged by late Oxford Professor of Poetry Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897). First printed in 1861, the work is dedicated to then Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. . 8vo.

Haarlem: Vincent Loosjes, 1823. viii, 29pp, [1]. Modern marbled paper boards. Leaves browned and spotted. The first edition of Dutch antiquary Johannes Henricus van der Palm's (1763- 1840) speech delivered in celebration of the fourth centenary of the printing press; the invention of which here is attributed to Laurens Janszoon Coster of Haarlem. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by W. Sayes, and sold by R. Clavel et al., 1706. [14], 92, [12], 48pp. Without half-title. Each part has separate title page, pagination and register. The second, entitled 'A disswasive from imprecations and cursing...', does not bear an edition statement; its imprint reads 'printed by W. Sayes, and sold by R. Clavel, and W. Haws'. Contemporary blind-ruled calf. Rubbed, marked, and scored, spine worn and wormed. Without pastedowns/free-endpapers, worm-tracks to head of text-block throughout (touching running-title in places), scattered spotting. A revised edition of two discourses by Church of England clergyman Charles Palmer (1685-1735); the first concerning parochial communion; the second concerning imprecations in common discourse and in prayer. The essays were first published in quarto format in 1702. ESTC records copies at only three locations in the British Isles (Canterbury Cathedral, Norwich, and Oxford), and none elsewhere. ESTC T222604.. Second edition,… Read More

London: Ward and Lock, 1856. [3], 136pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and two leaves of Palmer's diary in facsimile. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Extremities rubbed and creased, ink staining to lower wrapper. Scattered spotting. A contemporary account of the life, crimes, and trial of the infamous 'Prince of Poisoners' William Palmer (1824-1856). A doctor by trade, Palmer would be convicted of the murder by strychnine of John Cook with suspicions as to numerous other victims being raised during proceedings. The case gained a great deal of notoriety amongst Victorian society, becoming a nineteenth-century cause celebre, and permeating into popular culture. Arthur Conan Doyle would make reference to Palmer in the Sherlock Holmes tale 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'; and Charles Dickens reputedly based the Bleak House character of Inspector Bucket on an investigating officer involved - indeed Dickens… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. 1447pp, [13]. With an engraved frontispiece, nine further engraved plates, and six terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Inked inscription to verso of FFEP: 'Major Gaisford / with the translators / kind regards.' The first edition in English, translated from the Danish by Liberal politician Humphry William Freeland (1814-1892), of poet Frederik Paludan-Müller's (1809-1876) juvenile historical adventure novel dramatizing the search for the Fountain of Youth by Spanish Conquistadors in the New World. . First edition in English. 8vo.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1970]. xxix, [1], 186pp, [1]. Numerous illustrations in the text by Frank Wilson. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'For / Field-Marshal Lord Slim / with respect and good wishes / from the Editor and Illustrator / of these memoirs, who fought / under his command in Burma / James Lunt / Major General / London / 11 September / 1970'. The memoirs of of a native officer of the East India Company's Army, covering a span of more than forty years of active service, first published in an English edition in 1873, after translation from the original Hindi. Field Marshal William 'Bill' Slim, first Viscount Slim (1891-1970), British Army officer. Slim joined the army at the outbreak of the First World War and fought in the Dardanelles, France, and Iraq. In 1920 he received a regular commission and joined the Indian… Read More

Padova [i.e. Padua]: Nella stamperia del Seminario, 1799. xxviii pp. With an engraved plate. Later marbled wrappers. Leaves damp-stained. The first edition of Austrian Carmelite missionary and Orientalist Paolino di San Bartolomeo's (1748-1806) monograph on the Eastern antiquities in the collection of the brothers Bernardo and Jacopo Nani in Venice, mostly concerning the iconographically complex Chinese Amita Buddha figure carved in soapstone. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed by J. Matthews, for R. Knaplock, 1702. [10], 134pp, [8]. Contemporary blind-ruled speckled calf. Lightly rubbed, slight surface loss to lower board. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, very occasional light spotting. The revised and expanded edition of a popular primer on geometry by French Catholic Priest and Mathematician Ignace Gaston Pardies (1636-1673). First printed as Elemens de geometrie in 1671, the first edition in English, translated for the use of his students by lecturer on science John Harris (c.1666-1719), appeared in 1701. ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles, and one other worldwide (Oklahoma). ESTC T110041.. Second edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by Samuel Buckley, 1739. 28pp. Modern grey paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece to spine. Leaves a trifle dusty. A pamphlet recording the articles of the Convention of El Pardo, a treaty between Great Britain and Spain designed to resolve issues regarding the freedom of the seas and ensuing smuggling operations. Delegates agreed that Britain would receive damages totalling £95,000 for harm done to vessels and crews during Spanish boardings, and that Spain be compensated in return for the nonpayment of proceeds from the Asiento - the permission given by the government to trade slaves in Spanish colonies. The convention proved exceedingly unpopular with the South Sea Company and British and Spanish merchant captains alike, and by the year's end both nations would violate the treaty, thus instigating the War of Jenkins' Ear. ESTC T4473.. First edition. Quarto.

Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1830. xxxiv, 341pp, [1]. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's two-tone paper board, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplate to FEP. The second edition, in original state, of Principal Extractor in the Court of Session John Parker's authoritative survey concerning arbitration agreements in Scotland from the early seventeenth-century up to 1828. The first edition is apparently unrecorded. Bell and Bradfute issued a 'second', enlarged edition in 1845. . Second edition. 8vo.

[London?]: [s.n.], [1812]. 19pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. [Bound with:] [Drop-head title:] Further paper relating to the slave trade. Viz. Observation by William Dawes, Esquire, one of the Commissioners ;- in addition to the Report made by the Commission of African Enquiry. - 1811. [London?] [s.n.], [1812]. [21]-22pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Folio. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutters. Later resewn. Early manuscript page numbers to upper margins. A rare survival of a report on the condition of British territories on the Gold Coast of Africa, in particular efforts to tarry the Spanish and Portuguese slave trade. Of interest are the expense tables showing the cost of maintaining British forts in the region; Cape Coast Castle, for example, has an average annual charge of £3,277, with 'Black Men's Pay' making up £179 and 'Castle Slaves' costing £990. The report is here paired with the second located… Read More

[London?]: [s.n.], [1821]. 14pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Three old horizontal folds. A rare survival of copies of correspondence relating to act to divest the African Company of Merchants of the charge and management of forts and settlements on the Gold Coast of Africa, and transfer their control to the Crown. The act that abolished the company was passed in May 1821, and the transfer ownership of eight forts, including the notorious Cape Coast Castle, was affected on 3rd July, the day after these letters were ordered by Commons to be printed. They contain listings of the Company's employees and respective salaries and abstract of annual stipends paid to local Kings and Cabboceers. From the recently dispersed library (without any indication of such) of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair (1937-2021), and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave… Read More

[London?]: [s.n.], [1850]. 26pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. From the recently dispersed library of William St Clair, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription to head of title. A series of dispatches relating to the violent torture of Cape Coast native Robert Erskine. In 1847, whilst a domestic in the service of Captain Augustus William Murray of the 1st West-India Regiment, and stationed at the infamous Cape Coast Castle, Erskine was accused of having stolen sundry articles of jewellery from the officer. Despite his protestations of innocence, and a lack of any evidence connecting him with the crime, Erskine was brutally tortured for eight days. In consequence of his torment he lost the use of his hands. It was later ascertained that the actual culprit was a soldier of the 1st West India Regiment, and likely one of the individuals who engaged in Erskine's maltreatment. A year after the… Read More