Search Results: Titles starting with M from Antiquates Ltd

Oxoniae [i.e. Oxford]: e Theatro Sheldoniano...Prostant venales apud Sam. Wilmot Bibliopol. Oxon, 1729. [8], 326pp, [32]. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. Rubbed and heavily marked. Pastedowns sprung, later inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional later inked annotations and highlights to text, else internally clean and crisp. An early eighteenth-century, Oxford-printed edition of Marcus Tullius Cicero's epistolary ethical treatise, edited, with extensive notes, by minor poet Thomas Tooly (1688-1758). ESTC T111289.. Editio secunda [i.e. second edition]. 8vo.

Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1681. 330pp. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, blind-stamped initials 'W. M.' to both boards. Extremities marked and heavily worn. Hinges exposed, early inked calculations and later book-label of David Crawford to FEP, without FFEP, title page browned, with early inked ownership inscriptions of 'Lucan', 'Gulielme Murray', and 'J. Robertson' to verso. An adaptation by schoolteacher and grammarian Thomas Farnaby (1574/5-1647), with notes by Dutch humanist, Hugo Grotius (1583- 1646), of Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus' (39-65 AD) Pharsalia. Also known as De Bello Civili, the verse epic recounts in ten books the civil war between Caesar and the traditionalist elements of the Roman Senate, with forces led by Pompey. Lucan's inspiration for the title is taken from the decisive Battle of Pharsalus, which secured victory for Caesar's forces in 48 BC - an account of which occupies the entire seventh book.… Read More

Londini: Excudebat Richardus Field, 1618. [12], 291pp, [1]. With an engraved folding map depicting Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Later blind-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Joints rubbed. Upper hinge exposed, occasional inked/pencilled underlining, gathering I-K protruding slightly from text-block, very light damp-staining to lower corner. An adaptation by schoolteacher and grammarian Thomas Farnaby (1574/5-1647) of Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus' (39-65 AD) Pharsalia. Also known as De Bello Civili, the verse epic recounts in ten books the civil war between Caesar and the traditionalist elements of the Roman Senate, with forces led by Pompey. Lucan's inspiration for the title is taken from the decisive Battle of Pharsalus, which secured victory for Caesar's forces in 48 BC - an account of which occupies the entire seventh book. Beginning in 1612 with the satires of Juvenal and Persius, Farnaby annotated the works of many classical authors (Ovid,… Read More

Parisiis [i.e. Paris]: Apud Johannem Hulpeau, in monte D. Hilarii, 1573. [2], 184pp, [1]. [Bound with:] MURET, Marc-Antoine. M. antonii mureti variarum lectionum libri VIII... Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Johannem Hulpeau, in monte D. Hilarii, 1574. [2], 175pp, [17]. 16mo. Contemporary calf, gilt supralibros to both boards, A.E.G. Extremities heavily worn and marked, without spine panel, surface loss to boards, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscriptions of P. J. Gilbert to FFEP and title page of first mentioned work, later ink-stamp of Bibliotheca Heberiana to recto of FFEP, loss to lower corner of leaf I of first mentioned work, minute worm-trail to foot of gutter throughout the majority of text-block. Two rare editions of works by French humanist and classical scholar Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585). Widely celebrated for the elegance of his Latin prose style, Muret first rose to prominence lecturing at the University of Rome, having fled to Italy in 1554 after being condemned for sodomy and… Read More

Heidelbergae [i.e. Heidelberg]: Apud Ieronymum Comelinum, 1594. [32], 458pp, [22]. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Hinges exposed, without pastedowns/free-endpapers, early ownership inscriptions of George and John Risley to title page. A late sixteenth century edition, with two early English ownership inscriptions, of the Declamations, nineteen model speeches on fictitious court cases, commonly ascribed to the Roman rhetorician Quintilian, though likely composed by an unknown author or authors, perhaps in the second or third centuries A.D. These are the only extant full Latin controversiae, the practice speeches whose composition and delivery formed the mainstay of Roman higher education. Declamation therefore had a profound effect on the literature of the Empire, and also on subsequent European literature, rhetoric, and education. The present edition additionally contains excerpts from the Declamationes of Roman senator and consul of the second century Calpurnius… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown et al., 1815. In three volumes. xv, [1], 327, [1]; [8], 350; [8], 350pp. With half-titles. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces. Rubbed, lightly marked, chipping to lettering-pieces, splitting to upper joint of Vol. III. Near contemporary ink gift inscriptions to all title-pages, small hole to lower margin of leaf I4, Vol. I, light damp-staining to latter half of text-blocks of Vols. II and III, tear to leaf A7, Vol. III - just touching text, occasional dust-soiling, foxed. A translation by John Muckersy of select essays on the conduct of life by French writer Monsieur Gener. The diverse range of topics discussed include; letter-writing, satire, female education, and duelling. The first English edition appeared in 1808. . Fourth edition. 8vo.

Napoli [i.e. Naples]: Nella Calcografia di Guis. Girard, [s.d., c.1820] With five engraved title pages. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, marbled boards. Rubbed and bumped, some surface loss. Scattered foxing, very occasional light damp-staining, small paper repair to blank verso of pone leaf. A sammelband of five early nineteenth-century music scores, four of which published in Naples (the one remaining printed at Vienna), including the ballet Macbeth, devised by French dancer and choreographer Auguste-Armand Vestris (d.1825) to music by Austrian composer Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg (1783- 1839) - issued by famed Neapolitan publisher of classical music and opera, Giuseppe Girard. . Oblong quarto.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. viii, 83pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Bookplate and shelf-label to FEP, scattered spotting. An island weather monograph, composed by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), Scottish Astronomer Royal best known for his studies of the Egyptian Pyramids, from journals of the author's wife, and recorded using a spectroscope at Funchal in the early 1880s. . First edition. Quarto.

Londres [i.e. London]: Chez Deboffe, 1802. [2], 275pp, [1]. Contemporary marbled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Foxed. An early London printing (appearing in the same year as the first Parisian edition) of Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis' (1746-1830) fictionalised account of the final days of Marie-Anne de Bourbon-Conde mademoiselle de Clermont (1697-1741), Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine to Marie Leszczyńska, wife of Louis XV; together with three of her other less well-known short stories. In the same year, publisher Deboffe re-issued the present book as the first of six volumes of stories by Genlis under the general title Nouveaux romans. . 8vo.

Kingston, Ontario: The Quarry Press, 1971. 72pp. Original publisher's turquoise cloth lettered in gilt, with the original photographic dustwrapper. Wrapper with significant losses to the front panel, with staining and some smoke damage. Boards a little stained and faded, associated smoke odour. Lightly toned with minor water damage, some pages adhered. Inscribed 'to Olwyn & Keith with all good wishes Tom' on the FFEP, a little water smudged. 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. 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 settee, which caused a serious fire. Tom Marshall (1938-1993) was a Canadian poet, critic, and novelist. This is his third published collection. Olwyn Hughes (1928-2016) was a translator, agent and literary executor who had… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. xii, 390pp. With a portrait frontispiece, 25 plates, and 21 illustrations in the text by R. R. Holmes. Bound by Riviere in contemporary brown morocco, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Light shelf-wear, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to front blank fly-leaf, occasional light spotting. A handsomely bound copy of the first edition of Scottish novelist and biographer Margaret Oliphant's (1828-1897) second volume in a sporadic series of authoritative cultural histories presented through biographical sketches on significant cities of the world; beginning with The Makers of Florence in 1876, and followed by books on Edinburgh (1890), Jerusalem (1891), and Rome (1896). Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel (1856-1929), Conservative politician who held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. xvii, [3], 515pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, cocked. Internally clean and crisp. The Malay Archipelago recounts the expedition of British naturalist, colleague of Charles Darwin, and fellow proponent of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) in the southern territories of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Chronicling Wallace's eight-year scientific exploration of the East Indies, from 1854 to 1862, the work provides detailed accounts of the geography, floral and fauna of the region - indeed the preface relates that 14,000 miles were traversed and 125,660 specimens of natural history collected. It is from these travels that the explorer identified what would be known as the Wallace Line, a division separating the fauna of the archipelago into two distinct parts; the western half where the animals were of Asian origin,… Read More

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. xii, 295pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a sketch map to rear endpapers. Original publisher's blind-ruled green cloth, lettered in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst to FEP, occasional light spotting. A crisp copy of the first edition of an account of the Polish explorer Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski's (1876-1945) ten years' travels in south-western Siberia and Outer Manchuria to study mineral deposits. Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942) British Army officer (killed in action in Burma during the Second World War) and brother of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (1887-1975), Antarctica explorer and member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Ian Hodgkins & Co., 1979. Limited edition of 100 copies, each signed by both authors, of which this is number eight. [4], xiv, [2], 566pp. With a black and white portrait frontispiece and a further 33 black and white plates from photographs. Contemporary dark-green half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt, housed in custom green cloth slipcase. A trifle rubbed and bumped. Internally immaculate. An authoritative biography, first published in 1965, of Church of England clergyman and author Patrick Bronte (1777-1861), father of famed novelists Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Jane Brontë. . Second edition. 8vo.

Shanghai: China Inland Mission, 1921. xxxviii, [2], 462pp, [2]. Contemporary half-sheep, black cloth boards, contrasting red and black cloth lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed. Decorated endpapers, ticket of Thornton & Son booksellers of Oxford to FEP, ink stain to title page, scattered spotting. A revised and enlarged edition of British Protestant Christian missionary to China and sinologist Frederick William Baller's (1852-1922) immensely popular Mandarin language primer, prepared for members of the China Inland Mission. . Twelfth edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1817. In three volumes. xii, 306; [4], 316; [4], 367pp, [1]. With half-titles. Recent cloth-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to FEP of Vol. I, early inked ownership inscription to head of title, loss to leaf A2 of Vol. II - touching text, without loss of sense, foxed. William Godwin (1756-1836), English philosopher and novelist, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Mandeville was the author's fourth, and arguably most Gothic novel; it provoked an anonymously published spurious fourth volume, and was also one of several influences of Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Set in seventeenth-century England, it follows the trials and social tribulations of Charles Mandeville, an orphan with Anglo-Irish connections, who loses his honour, his sister and finally his facial figurement through involvement with his most popular Winchester School colleague,… Read More

London: Printed for J. Millan, 1766. [2], 32pp. Original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, loss to back-strip. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Robert Melvill to head of title. A rare survival, in original state, of an eighteenth-century infantry drill manual for the use of the British Army. The former owner of this copy was perhaps Robert Melvill (1723-1809), British Army officer, veteran of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and the Seven Years' War, sometime governor of, and plantation owner at, Grenada, prominent antiquary, and inventor of artillery. ESTC records copies at only three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Honourable Artillery Company), and one further copy in North America (LoC). ESTC T172633.. 8vo.

Napoli [i.e. Naples]: Da' Torchi del Tramater, 1830. xxv, 242pp. With two engraved folding plates. Contemporary black calf backed marbled boards, gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Leaves foxed throughout. An unrecorded Naples edition of Charles-Francois Bailly de Merlieux's (1800-1862) treatise on elements of the physical sciences. Having achieved popularity within the original French, running through several editions following its initial 1825 publication, this Italian translation appeared, printed in the same year as a Turin edition, near double in length. . 8vo.

Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]: In Aedibus Roberti Urie, 1751. [4], 308pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight splitting to upper joint. Later bookplate and shelf-labels of W. E. Hope Vere, Craigie Hall, and book-label of J. L. Weir to FEP (obscuring contemporary armorial bookplate and inked ownership inscription). A finely printed Glaswegian edition, handsomely bound, of the only surviving work of Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65 AD), the epic poem Pharsalia. Also known as De Bello Civili, the work recounts in 10 books the civil war between Caesar and the traditionalist elements of the Roman Senate, with forces led by Pompey. Lucan's inspiration for the title is taken from the decisive Battle of Pharsalus, which secured victory for Caesar's forces in 48 BC and an account of which occupies Lucanus' entire seventh book. William Edward Hope-Vere (1824-1872), Scottish landowner, son of Whig politician… Read More

Cantabrigiae [i.e. Cambridge]: Impensis Gul. Thurlbourn, [1749]. In two volumes. [10], 582, [2]; [4], 570pp, [12]. Later vellum, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting brown and green calf lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. A generously margined copy of the Thurlbourn edition of Cicero's correspondence, edited and annotated by Bishop of Exeter and historian John Ross [Rosse] (1719-1792). ESTC T111297.. 8vo.