Search Results: Authors starting with S from Antiquates Ltd

London: Michael Joseph, 1939. 219pp, [1]. With numerous black and white photographs in the text by Bryan and Norman Westwood. Original publisher's buff cloth, lettered in brown to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled, a trifle cocked. Royal Institute of British Architects, Ashpitel Prize plate, awarded to architect and Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett (1913-2004), and inked gift inscription 'Tony darling / from / Lionel / 7:3:40' to FEP, bookplate of Christian Brett to recto of FFP. The first edition of Vita Sackville-West's (1892-1962) observations on life in the English countryside throughout the year. . First edition. Quarto.

London: William Heinemann, 1923. 306pp. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered and decorated in black, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper marked and worn, loss to head and foot of spine and lower panel, several naive tape repairs to verso. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition, in the rarely seen dustwrapper, of Vita Sackville-West's (1892-1962) pastoral romantic novel, a tale of forbidden love that transcends the boundaries of nineteenth century class restrictions. . First edition. 8vo.

[London]: [s.n.], [1852]. Single leaf broadside. Contemporary vertical and horizontal folds, manuscript docket title to verso. An apparently unrecorded advertising handbill, issued by James C. White and Robert Gibson and Co., saddlers to the royal family, announcing the recent development of a patent carriage tug. As the broadside notes, James C. White was awarded a prize medal at the Great Exhibition 'for his valuable improvements for harness'. . Dimensions 250 x 420 mm.

[London?]: [s.n.], [1739?] Single bifolium, separated into two constituent leaves. [4]pp. pp.[2-3] blank. Docket title to p.[4]. Later coloured pencil shelf-mark to head of p.[1]. Three old horizontal folds, chipping to margins. A remarkably rare example of polemical commercial lobbying literature, issued in an attempt to influence opinion in the run up to debates and divisions in the House of Commons, regarding potential harm to curriers and leather dealers if they are prohibited from selling hides and skins in pieces, at a cheaper price, to manufacturers of saddles, and that 'in Case of such Restraint, the Army could not, upon any emergency, be supplied either so Cheap, or with such Expedition as they now can be.' ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles (Senate House and NA), and none elsewhere. ESTC N41257..

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000. [xxxiv] 196pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards, lettered in gilt, with the original dustwrapper. Lightly bumped with some further markings and minor smoke damage to the dustwrapper, and top edge of text block – with associated odour. Inscribed on the FFEP: 'To Olwyn with love and gratitude from Keith Feb 2000'. Rear pastedown has five-page references in Olwyn's hand corresponding to marked passages within the text, and the further note 'Brothers - image of modern world dests. of the nat, world Wounded by accusation'. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed; the smoke damage is the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down the back of her sofa, which caused a serious fire. Keith Sagar (1934-2013) was a literary critic, academic, and frequent correspondent with Ted Hughes for nearly thirty years. Using much of this correspondence, and with contributions from Olwyn Hughes among others,… Read More

Norwich: Printed by C. Berry, Jun., [1811]. viii, 158pp. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and marked, some chipping to lettering-piece. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to FEP, internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of a biography of East Anglian scholar, freethinker, and eccentric John Fransham (bap. 1730, d. 1810). Except for one brief period, Fransham lived continuously in or near Norwich, and spent much of his life in a state of extreme penury. He began acting as a preliminary tutor for the universities about 1750. Though he possessed little formal education he had an enquiring mind and devoted much of his time to intellectual pursuits. In philosophy he idolized David Hume, but developed strong Platonic leanings. He was critical of religion, instead taking a psychological interest in the earliest myths and legends which led to champion a polytheistic world- view. He published little, his Essay on the… Read More

London: William Heinemann, [1939]. [8], 285pp, [1]. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Rubbed, a trifle cocked, dustwrapper chipped, several short tears, loss to lower panel. Decorated endpapers, scattered spotting. The first London edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's (1900-1944) highly-regarded memoir. Today predominantly remembered for his novella Le Petit Prince (1943), Saint-Exupéry made his name as an experienced and accomplished pioneer of aviation. The present work is primarily centred on an accident in 1935, in which the Frenchman narrowly escaped death after losing control of his aircraft and crashing in the Sahara Desert between Benghazi and Cairo. Saint-Exupéry and his navigator were left almost completely without sustenance and nearly died of thirst before their salvation came in the form of a wandering Bedouin. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for the author, 1787. xvi, 334pp, [4]. With. a half-tile, 18 engraved folding plates, a leaf of errata, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, marbled paper boards, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Plate margins a trifle browned and dusty. Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters', with the bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Lord Cottesloe (1862-1965) to FEP. The first edition in English of Prussian army officer Friedrich Christoph von Saldern's (1719-1785) Taktik der infanterie (Dresden, 1784), translated by military educationist Isaac Landmann (1741-1826). Having served with distinction during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), and secured through rapid battlefield promotion the rank of major-general, von Saldern, thanks to his tactical sagacity, was appointed Inspector-General for the… Read More

Parisiis [i.e. Paris]: Apud Fredericum Leonard Typographum Regis, Serenissimi Delphini, & Cleri Gallicani, 1674. [30], 234pp, [126]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked, slight splitting to lower joint. Very occasional pen-trials/short tears to margins, overall internally clean and crisp. The Delphin edition of Daniel Crespin's (1640-1716) revision of the works of Roman historian Sallust (86-34 BCE) - the pre-eminent source for the Catiline Conspiracies and Jugurthine War. . Quarto.

A Lyon: Chez Guillaume Chaunod, 1674. [14], 542pp. Recent tooled calf with gilt title and devices. Rubbed to spine and board edges, library shelf mark to bottom compartment. Marbled endpapers, library card holder affixed to FEP and slightly obscuring armorial library bookplate of 'St. Augustine's Monastery, Ramsgate', contemporary inked annotations to title, marginal loss to lower corner of leaf G4. A treatise on proper living in order that one might emulate the ways of Christ, by theologian and Capuchin friar Alexis de Salo (1558-1628). A rare edition, with OCLC locating only three copies, all in continental Europe (Lausanne, Lyon and Radboud). . 8vo.

[Cambridge]: Imprinted by Thomas Thomas, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1586. [36], 111, 202-593pp [i.e. 609], [41], [4]. Early, likely seventeenth-century vellum, yapp edges, faded manuscript titling to spine. Slightly rubbed, marked, upper joint split (and blank-fly leaves loosening) revealing three early manuscript vellum fragments beneath, lower joint starting. Small marginal rectangle removed from base of title, marginal loss to M4; two neat but now unintelligble manuscript notes to title, one likely an early name now obscured. Occasional marking, a little shaving to side-notes, else a crisp copy. The first English edition of Harmonia confessionum fidei orthodoxarum & reformatarum ecclesiarum (Geneva, 1581), the first significant attempt to collect and translate the European Reformed and Lutheran confessions, i.e. those of Augsburg, Basle, Belgium, Bohemia, Saxony, Wurtemberg, France, England, and the two Helvetic Confessions). Originally conceived by Jean-François… Read More

Paris: Librarie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successeur, 1908. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 205. 87pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and several engraved vignettes by Charles Chessa. Attractively bound by P. Affolter in contemporary gilt-tooled tan crushed morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G., original publisher's powder blue paper wrappers bound-in. Very slight shelf-wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. A sumptuously bound limited edition of this volume of collected verse by French Symbolist poet Albert Samain (1858-1900), first published in 1900. . Quarto.

Paris: Librarie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successeur, 1907. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 230. 146pp. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and several engraved vignettes by Charles Chessa. Attractively bound by P. Affolter in contemporary gilt-tooled tan crushed morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G. Very slight shelf-wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. A sumptuously bound limited edition of this volume of collected verse by French Symbolist poet Albert Samain (1858-1900), first published in 1900. . Quarto.

London: The Jewish Historical Society of England., [1936]. 29pp, [3]. Single photographic plate of the platform from which the original speech was delivered. Publisher's wraps within publisher's red cloth, gilt. A near fine copy with only the slighest of wear to extremities. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to the FEP 'With Gustave Tuck's Kind Remembrances, to Frank G. Salisbury Esq. 27 - 1 - 36'. The lecture itself includes extensive references to the Middle-East situation of the interwar years, and votes of thanks include references to the chairman Sir Ronald Storrs, and even T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which had been published in the same year as the lecture was delivered. . First Edition. Quarto.

London: Sold by Longman, Hurst, & Co. et al., [1812]. 104pp. With half-title. [Bound after:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. Life a vapour! St. James IV. Being the substance of a sermon...on the death of Mr. John Marker. Bristol. Printed and Sold by W. Bulgin, 1802. Second edition. 33pp, [1]. [And:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. Hezekiah's charge to the congregation of Judah. 2 Chron. xxix. 31. A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All Saints'-Church, Bristol, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1800, being the anniversary of the nativity of the late Edward Colston, Esq. Bristol. Printed and Sold by W. Bulgin, [1800]. First edition. 32pp, [4]. With half-title. [And:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. A message from the tomb; being the substance of a sermon...On the death of George Gieves. Bristol. Printed and Sold by W. Bulgin, 1802. First edition. [4], 36pp. With half-title. 8vo. Later cloth-backed drab paper boards. Extremities rubbed and marked. Upper hinge exposed with board working loose,… Read More

Venetia [i.e. Venice]: Appresso Gio: Giacomo Hertz, 1662. [22], 356pp. With an additional engraved title page. Contemporary sheep-backed sprinkled paper boards. Lightly rubbed. Worm-trails to margins throughout, touching text at times with some loss of sense, lightly damp-stained. Italian humanist polymath Francesco Tatti da Sansovino’s (1521-1586), celebrated guide to Venice, the first detailed topographical description of the city to appear in print, initially published in 1581. . 12mo.

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Owen, 1796. [2], 66pp. Disbound. A trifle dust-soiled. The sole edition of an anonymous pamphlet, signed simply 'Sarpedon', fervently denouncing the remarks of William Miles (1753/4-1817) in his A Letter to Henry Duncombe...on the subject of a very extraordinary pamphlet, lately addressed by Mr. Burke, to a noble lord. (London, 1796); a response to Burke's published defence of his own character in light of criticism levelled by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale. ESTC records copies in two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and a further eight in North America (Boston, Duke, Harvard, Huntington, Missouri, North Carolina, Saskatchewan, and Yale). ESTC T102148.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Faber & Faber, [1930]. 334pp, [2]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped and a trifle marked. The first edition of the second title in Sassoon's Sherston trilogy. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Re-printed and sold by M. Cooper, 1746. [2], 49pp, [1]. Recent dark green calf-backed green cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. A mid-eighteenth-century reprint of a pamphlet by judge and law reporter Edmund Saunders (d. 1683), first published in 1680, on the duties of the office of Lord High Steward. ESTC T105685.. Second edition. 8vo.

Blois: Chez tous les Libraries, 1865. vii, [1], 112pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further seven engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary green morocco-backed marbled paper board, tooled and lettered in gilt.Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Louis Masurier to FEP, very occasional light spotting. A revised edition of numismatist and historian Louis de la Saussaye's (1801-1878) immensely popular monograph on the Chateau de Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France; originally constructed at the behest of Francis I in the French Renaissance style. . Dixieme edition [i.e. tenth edition]. 8vo.