Search Results: Titles starting with D from Antiquates Ltd

Hamburgi [i.e. Hamburg]: Apud C. Liebezeit et T.C. Felginer, 1719. [8], 248pp. Contemporary vellum, contrasting gilt-tooled morocco lettering-piece. Foot of spine with large (and rather unsightly) split, some marking, text significantly browned and spotted, with some old damp-staining to preliminaries, soiling to signatures K-L. Various later shelf-marks in manuscript (variously pencil and ink) to endpapers. The first separate edition of the first significant critical and inclusive numismatic bibliography. The Bibliotheca nummaria was composed by Dalmatian Benedictine monk and numismatist Anselmo Banduri (1671-1743), and edited by Johann Albert Fabricius. Arranged chronologically, it begins with what was then considered the first work on the subject: Huttichius of Mainz's study of Roman coinage (Strasbourg, 1525), and extends to near contemporary works published in the early eighteenth century. . First edition. Quarto.

Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]: Excudebant Andreas et Joannes M. Duncan, Academiae typographi, 1825. In two volumes. clx, 419pp, [1]; 733, [1], 2pp. With half-titles to both Vols., an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page to Vol. I, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements to Vol. II. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Extremities lightly rubbed, Marbled endpapers, offsetting to title page of Vol. I, very occasional light spotting. A handsomely bound set of a Glasgow University Press edition of the satires of Roman poets Juvenal and Persius, with a commentary by German Lutheran theologian Georg Alexander Ruperti (1758-1839). . 8vo.

London: Printed by G[eorge] M[iller] for John Bellamie, 1646. [8], 44pp. With an initial imprimatur leaf. ESTC R200519, Wing W1711. [Together with:] NEWCOMEN, Matthew. The all-seeing unseen Eye of God. Discovered, in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons... London. Printed by A[braham] M[iller] for Christopher Meredith, 1647. [4], 48pp. ESTC R201280, Wing N904. [And:] NEWCOMEN, Matthew. The craft and cruelty of the churches adversaries, Discovered In a Sermon Preached at St. Margarets in Westminster... London. Printed by G[eorge] M[iller] for Christopher Meredith, 1643. [8], 48pp. With an initial order-to-print leaf. ESTC R12087, Wing N908. [And:] NEWCOMEN, Matthew. The craft and cruelty of the churches adversaries, Discovered In a Sermon Preached at St. Margarets in Westminster... London. Printed by G[eorge] M[iller] and are to be sold by Peter Cole, 1643. [8], 70pp, [2]. ESTC R25169, Wing N908A. [And:] NEWCOMEN, Matt[hew]. Jerusalems watch-men, the lords remembrancers: a… Read More

Lugundi [i.e. Leiden] [Printed at Lyon]: Sumptib. Petri Rauaud, 1645. [24], 932pp. With a folding table. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities discoloured. Pastedowns sprung, light damp-staining throughout. A rare survival of an early edition of German Physician Daniel Sennert's (1572- 1637) extensive and authoritative medical manual, Epitome institutionum medicinae (first published at Wittenberg, 1631). OCLC records a single copy of this edition (St. Andrews). . 12mo.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. [4], 522pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Slight loss to lower margin of initial leaf of text, scattered spotting. The first edition of Frederick Tennyson's (1807-1898) third published collection of poetry. The brother of the acclaimed Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Frederick's poetry went largely unnoticed in his lifetime, leading him to pursue his love of music and mysticism. . First edition. 8vo.

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. 238pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped black calf, A.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Orange silk moiré endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Signed by the author to recto of front blank fly-leaf. A fine limited edition of Hungarian British author and journalist Arthur Koestler's (1905-1983) novel set during Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. . Limited ediiton. 8vo.

Frankfurt am Main: Gedruckt Und Verlegt Bei H.L. Broenner, 1833. iv, 140, [4]. Original publisher's wrappers, with printed label to spine. Rubbed, with slight loss to extremities, creasing to spine. The rare first German edition of Robert Cox's biography of John William Fletcher (1729-1785), contemporary of John Wesley and one of Methodism's first apostles. Interestingly, another biography of Cox written by fellow Methodist Joseph Benson was also translated into German and published in 1833, at Berlin. OCLC locates a single copy, at Drew, outside of Continental Europe. . First German Edition. 12mo.

[Brussels]: [Editions Lebeer Hossman], [1995]. 32pp. Sixteen folded sheets loosely inserted into original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Extremities a trifle marked. Overall a clean and crisp copy. A pictorial history of the Hotel Solvay, an Art Nouveau town house in central Brussels designed by influential Belgian architect Victor Horta (1861-1947). . Second edition. Folio.

Bath: Printed by Wood and Co., and the City Printing-Office; and sold by Williams..., 1813. [2], ii, [2], [7]-97, [7], [107]-160, [6], [165]-224pp. WIth engraved frontispiece. Finely bound in contemporary navy morocco, spine and borders richly gilt, further border decoration in blind. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Slight rubbing to extremities, a little marking/loss to blank-fly leaves, else a handsome copy. Two nineteenth-century ink inscriptions, including one (slightly torn away) '...Henry and Mary Sadler, From the Author, 30th Nov. 1813'. Samuel Whitchurch (fl.1785-1816), Bath preacher and seaman in the eighteenth-century navy. A rare provincially printed poem in four parts, David Dreadnought charts the progress of the eponymous sea-man and zealous Christian, and several other companions. In his introduction Whitechurch notes that the title character 'owes its existence to a pulpit anecdote which I heard related soon after I had quitted the naval service, and not long after the termination… Read More

London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1870. xvi, 144pp. With half-title, and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, slight splitting to lower joint. Later armorial bookplate of 'Henry Birkbeck' to FEP, occasional marginal chipping, foxed. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of this celebratory life of one Barbara Sophia Gordon; a steadfast woman, praised for her religious devotion, Christian ethics, and charitable endeavours. . Second edition. 8vo.

London: The Religious Tract Society, [s.d., c. 1875] [32]pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind, illustrated colour onlay to upper board. A trifle rubbed. Hinges cracked, inked gift inscription to FFEP, occasional manuscript entires (birth, deaths etc.) An attractive Victorian diary, partially used, for recording memorial events, issued by the Religious Tract Society. . Oblong 8vo.

London: John W. Parker and Son , 1854. viii, 346pp, [6]. With 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's brown cloth boards tooled in gilt and blind. Boards and spine slightly marked, slight bumping to corners. Small green paper label on FEP displaying 'Gilbert Brothers, Booksellers'. The first edition of Frederick Tennyson's (1807-1898) only collection of poetry to be published before his final years. The brother of the acclaimed Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Frederick's poetry went largely unnoticed in his lifetime, leading him to pursue his love of music and mysticism. This collection of verse documents the progression of the year, interspersed with depictions of folk tales and individuals. . First edition. 8vo.

Londini [i.e. London]: Typis S. A. Impensis J.Hooke, 1727. 32, 216pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split. Internally clean and crisp. The second, posthumously published, edition of natural philosopher and headmaster Thomas Burnet's (c. 1635-1715) rejection of Calvinist notions of original sin that simultaneously attacks the Catholic theology of the sacraments. ESTC T59842.. Second edition. 8vo.

Londini [i.e. London]: Apud R. Robinson, 1712. v, [1], 7-39pp, [1]. Disbound. Foxed, damp-staining to title page, leaves shaved at foot with occasional loss of catch-word. The first edition of an essay on grammar and oratory commonly attributed to antiquary John Ward (1678/9-1758). This, along with several other minor publications, led to Ward's appointment in September 1720 as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College. ESTC records copies at seven locations in the British Isles (Cambridge, Dr. Williams's, Durham, Edinburgh, Manchester, NLS, and St. Andrews), and a further two in North America (Columbia and Kansas). ESTC N29075.. First edition. 8vo.

Paris: Chez le Normant, 1821. [2], xxiv, 138pp. Contemporary straight-grain red morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked. Pastedowns sprung, scattered foxing. Contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title page. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of French theologian Antoine Eugene de Genoude's (1792-1849) biography of Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), Vendean insurrectionist leader during the Revolution and generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army. . Second edition. 8vo.

Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]: Typis Joannis a Waesberge, 1645. [16], 380pp. With an additional engraved title. Contemporary vellum with title in gilt to spine. Some minor spots of soiling but overall well preserved. Armorial bookplate of Los Angeles Law Library to FEP, tear to bottom edge of FFEP, loss to head of *4, ink annotation to margin of p.39, lightly foxed throughout. A second edition of this collection of 17 disputations on civil judicial proceedings, by Antonius Matthaeus II (1601-1654) of the University of Utrecht. . Editio Secunda [i.e. second edition]. 12mo.

Paris: Chez Hector Bossange, 1851. viii, 234pp. Recent tan plain paper wrappers. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally immaculate, a fine copy. A treatise on the methods and principles behind the restoration and preservation of Old Master paintings by French artist and art conservation expert, Simon Horsin-Deon (1812-1882). . First edition. 8vo.

Berlin: Imprimé Chez George Decker, 1802. viii, 304pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Booksellers ticket of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris to FEP, occasional marginal damp-staining to head of text-block. The first edition of French jurist, philanthropist, and philosopher Joseph Marie Degérando (1772-1842) prize-winning essay on the generation of human knowledge, in which he tests, from an empirical standpoint, Kant's epistemology that certain ideas and principles are a priori, and finds the theory wanting. . First edition. 8vo.

[Geneva]: [s.n.], 1856. [1], 290-330pp. Unopened in original publisher's plain paper wraps. Title in manuscript to upper wrap, light foxing, loss to spine, upper wrap nearly detached. Creasing to leaves, short tear to head of drop-title. An offprint, from a Swiss journal of natural history, providing a record of atmospheric temperatures at Geneva over a period of 20 years from 1836 to 1855. . First offprint edition. Quarto.

A Londres [i.e. The Hague]: Chez la Société Typographique, 1773. In two volumes. [2], lxiv, 639, [1]; [2], 760pp. With a final leaf of errata to Vol. II. In this edition, there is no comma after 'intellectuelles, line six of title reads 'et de son' and the title page ornament does not have typographical elements. Contemporary calf, recently expertly rebacked, lettered in gilt. Boards rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplates of the Swansea Training College to both FEPs, scattered foxing. Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), French philosopher. An expansion and clarification of the primary principles set out in his magnum opus, De l'Esprit (1758), De l'homme (published posthumously due to persecution) was an immediate sensation. Helvétius rages against the autocratic practices of the ancien régime, condemning the economic inequalities inherent in the feudal structure of French society, emphasising his belief that all men… Read More