Search Results: Authors starting with R from Antiquates Ltd

London: Printed for T. Evans, 1784. In four volumes. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Recent brown cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of William Johnston to head of all titles, later inked ownership inscription of P. Carson to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I. François Rabelais (c.1494-1553), French renaissance author and physician, whose work focused upon the fantastical, the bawdy, the humorous, the satirical and the frankly outrageous. ESTC T13267.. 12mo.

Coloniae [i.e. Cologne]: Apud Petrum Henningium, 1614. [16], 347pp, [4]. Later vellum-backed pink paper covered wooden boards, titled in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to upper board, corners exposed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, manuscript bibliographical notes on the subject of Pope Joan to verso of FFEP, very occasional underlining, loss to margins of N2 and T3, small paper flaw to gutter margin of S7 at head - touching text but without loss of sense. A rare early Latin edition of French historical and Bordelais politician Florimond de Raemond's (1540-1601) significant early deconstruction of the sources behind the legend of the legendary medieval female Pope Joan, Erreur Populaire de la Papesse Jeanne (Bordeaux, 1587). The accusation that Catholicism was once led by a female was a commonplace amongst Protestant controversialists, but de Raemond, a strong proponent of the Counter-Reformation, applied all the zeal of a sometime Protestant convert to this work. A… Read More

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [1831]. 128pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, recently rebacked, red morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities rubbed. Inked ownership inscription of Sir John Tobin to recto of FFEP, very occasional spotting. An apparently unrecorded Act of Parliament empowering the Company of Proprietors of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Navigation to construct a railway line from Manchester to Bolton and Bury. The line opened to passenger and freight services in 1838; but due to technical constraints the connection the Bury was abandoned. This copy bears the ownership inscription of prominent Liverpool slave trader Sir John Tobin (1763-1851), then chairman of the company. . First edition. Folio.

Hanley: Allbut, Son, & Hobson, [1849]. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Several old horizontal and vertical folds. A trifle creased and spotted. An apparently unrecorded – and decidedly early - provincially published time and fare table for the North Staffordshire Railway, with a map of the line to verso. The North Staffordshire Railway Company formed in 1845, at the height of Railway Mania, to promote the construction of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding area in order to improve connections with Birmingham and London. The first passenger services began on 17th April, 1848. . Dimensions 380 x 390 mm.

Aberdeen: A. Brown & Co., 1898. 27pp, [5]. With two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Sunned, a trifle marked, chipping to spine, Contemporary inked ownership inscription to upper panel. Very occasional ink highlighting, else internally clean and crisp. The critical response of Scottish historian Robert Sangster Rait (1874-1936) to John Thomas Tushac Brown's (fl.1896-1906) The authorship of the Kingis Quair (Glasgow, 1896) exploring the validity of attributing the fifteenth-century poem to James I of Scotland. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. Buckland et al., 1780. vi, [1], 8-132pp. Later calf, morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Very occasional pen-trials to margins, spotted The revised and enlarged edition of the first published work of John Ralling, of whom little is known. First printed in 1775, the book, as the editor George Wright makes clear, demonstrates the 'evangelical Truths and Doctrines of the everlasting Gospel, which are able to make us wise unto Salvation, in a plain, but faithful, practical, and instructive Manner'. We are told that the 'pious Author' is 'only a Lady’s coachman...desirous of telling others what God has done for his soul'. ESTC records a single copy of this second edition in the British Isles (BL), and one further in North America (Emory). A single copy of the first edition is known (BL). ESTC T82654. Second edition. 12mo.

Paisley: Printed and published by G. Caldwell, [s.d., c. 1840] 24pp. Woodcut on title page. Title within ornamental border. Six bifolia, unopened at head, as issued. A paisley printed chapbook collection, arranged alphabetically, of Scots dialect proverbs originally compiled by poet and playwright Allan Ramsay (1686-1758). . 12mo.

Edinburgh: Stirling and Kenney, 1837. 168pp. With an engraved frontispiece of Dundonald Castle, (somewhat naively) engraved in Kilmarnock. Original publisher's pebbled cloth, remains of paper lettering-piece. Slightly rubbed and a little marked. A collection of largely Scottish, mostly Romantic verse by Kilmarnock carpet-weaver John Ramsay, issued in 1836 and 1837. Somewhat more specific verses include 'Written during the Commercial Distress of 1826', 'The Ghost and the Phrenologists' and 'On visiting the Burns Monument'. COPAC locates copies of this 1837 issue at the BL, Glasgow and NLS only. cf Johnson 741.. Second edition. 12mo in 6s.

[Bath]: Printed for F. and C. Rivington...and R. Cruttwell, 1800. [3], vi-viii, [1], 238pp. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription of M. G. Meredyth to head of title, scattered foxing. The sole edition of the collected Advent sermons of Church of England clergyman Francis Randolph (1752-1831). In 1788 Randolph published a letter to William Pitt on the slave trade, in which he advocated partial and progressive emancipation. He gained fame as a theologian by contributing to the Socinian controversy. His tract Scriptural Revision of Socinian Arguments, in a Letter to Dr Priestley (1792) prompted a response from Benjamin Hobhouse; Randolph rejoined with a vindication in 1793. ESTC records copies at seven locations in the British Isles (BL, Longleat, Nottingham, Oxford, Senate House, Somerset Archaeological Society, and York Minster), and one further copy in the Untied States (GTS).… Read More

A La Haye: Chez Charles le Vier, 1717. [8], 162pp. Title in red and black. Contemporary calf, gilt. Without lettering-piece, rubbed, joints starting, slight loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, light damp-staining and occasional spots of foxing throughout, loss to bottom margin of B2, not affecting text. From the library of Hugh Selbourne, with small ink-stamps to verso of title and occasionally to margins. The work of French Protestant historian Paul de Rapin, Sieur de Thoyras (1661-1725), who, having been exiled to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes wrote, under English patronage, his monumental L'Histoire d'Angleterre (1724-1727) from which this essay on the two primary political parties of the age has been extracted. . 8vo.

Copenhagen: Printed by J. H. Shultz, 1830. xii, 184pp. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue paper boards. Extremities worn, loss to spine, boards held by cords only. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, very occasional short tears to margins, foxed. An unsophisticated copy of the first edition of Danish linguist and philologist Rasmus Kristian Rask's (1787-1832) introduction to the grammar of his native language for benefit of English speakers. A second edition appeared in 1846. . First edition. 8vo.

Stokholm: Trykt paa Mag. Wiborgs Forlag i det Hedmanske Bogtrykkeri, 1817. [8], 44, 168pp. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt supralibros of Francis Egerton to boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and scored, spine chipped and dulled. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. The first edition of Danish linguist and philologist Rasmus Kristian Rask's (1787-1832) grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language. The work was translated into English in 1830. Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, sometime Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. . First edition. 8vo.

Kobenhavn [i.e. Copenhagen]: Hofboghandler Beekens Forlag, 1825. [4], 34, 138pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, heavily foxed. The first edition of Danish linguist and philologist Rasmus Kristian Rask's (1787-1832) grammar of the Frisian language. Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, sometime Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Classic Book Club, [1954]. 189pp, [1]. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. A trifle marked, spine sunned. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, ink-stamp of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition's London office to FFEP. From the library of New Zealand-born mountaineer George Lowe (1924-2013), a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29th May. The day prior, Lowe had led an advance guard, wielding an ice axe with legendary skill, to cut a path into the Lhotse Face to the final camp (1,000 feet below the peak), preparing the route for Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Following this achievement Lowe became a New Zealand representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition which, between 1955 and 1958, not only traversed Antarctica, becoming the first to reach the South… Read More

London: Samuel French, 1960. [4], 103pp, [1]. With three black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's blue wrappers, lettered in red. A trifle rubbed, chipping to foot of spine panel, inked inscription 'DRAMA CLUB / JLR RAC' to upper panel. French's acting edition of Rattigan's celebrated play on the life of T. E. Lawrence, first performed 12th May 1960 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. O'Brien E223.. 8vo.

London: Faber and Faber, [1959]. 135pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper price-clipped. Book-label of Angela Alabaster to recto of FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of the first printed collection of engravings by Gwen Raverat (1855-1957), including many little-known designs printed at the University Press, Cambridge. . First edition. Quarto.

Glasgow: [s.n.], 1758. [24], 316pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, joints starting, chipping to head of spine. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, later inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. John Ray (1627-1705), English theologian and naturalist. A cornerstone of the emerging natural theology, The Wisdom of God outlines Ray's overriding theory of creationism supported by his interpretation of the evidence of botany, anatomy, astronomy and geology, and thus critical of the anthropocentricism of Aristotelian and Cartestian teleologies. ESTC T93658.. 12mo.

London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 1813. [2], xxiv, 336pp. Contemporary dark green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Adhesive residue to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. A revised edition of naturalist and theologian John Ray's (1627-1705) catalogue of traditional English maxims and aphorisms; a radical departure from usual publications on botany or natural history that nevertheless has come to be considered one of his most important works. Notably, American polymath Benjamin Franklin appropriated many of these proverbs, without acknowledgement (though he did not go so far as to claim authorship), in Poor Richard's Almanac. . Fifth edition. 8vo.

London: Trubner & Co., 1872. viii, 544pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, joints starting, chipping to head and foot of spine, a trifle cocked. Endpapers browned, early bookseller's description pasted to FEP, scattered foxing. The first edition of novelist and controversialist William Winwood Reade's (1838-1875) elaborate and learned impeachment of Christianity from a historical and ethnological standpoint. This book, which has been described as a 'bible for secularists', defies easy categorization. According to Reade, his original intention was to restore Africa to a central place in world history through a consideration of such themes as the role of Islam, the history of the slave trade, and the evolution of mankind. The book which actually emerged is a somewhat romantic study in universal history, treating the evolution of civilizations in the Mediterranean and the Near East in terms of the impact of war, religion, liberty, and the… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and by his Appointment sold by R. Griffiths, [1748?]. [2], 107pp, [1]. Without half-title. Recent brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Slightest of wear to extremities. Recent marbled endpapers, marginal repairs to title-page and final two leaves, occasional spotting. An account of Charles Edward Stuart's journeys following defeat at the battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion. The work, authored by a 'Gentleman who was personally acquainted not only with the scenes of action but with many of the actors themselves', has been variously attributed both Andrew Henderson (fl. 1734-1775) and Henry Goring, an advocate of the Young Pretender. ESTC T52876.. First edition. 8vo.