Search Results: Titles starting with P from Antiquates Ltd

London: Printed for J. Rivington et al., 1763. [16], 429pp, [3]. With three final pages of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed, early paper label to head compartment of spine. Manuscript private library shelf-marks to verso of FFEP, very occasional light dust-soiling. The theatrical comedies of North African playwright of the Roman Republic Publius Terentius Afer (c.195/185-c.159 BCE); adapted for the use of schools by Church of England clergyman John Stirling, first printed in 1739. Although claiming to be the second, two editions precede this printing. All are scarce, with this edition being no exception; ESTC records copies in the British Isles at (Hull and NLW), and two further in North America (Philadelphia and Quebec). ESTC N37815.. Second edition. 8vo.

Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1829. In two volumes. [4], 234; [4], 216pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt. A trifle rubbed. Scattered foxing, FFEP of Vol. I detached. The first edition in French of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright John Banim's (1798-1842) Peter of the Castle, originally published together in 1826 with The Boyne Water and The Nowlans, as the second series of his Tales from the O'Hara Family. Although far less popular today than his successfully contemporaries, the works of Banim, and his brother Matthew, achieved significant commercial success during the late Regency period. Indeed, a contemporary reviewer in the Revue encyclopédique (1829) notes that the French public 'attend aujourd'hui un roman de Banim avec une impatience presque egale a cella qu'il manifesta a chaque annonce d'une traduction de Scott ou de Cooper'. Uncommon; OCLC locates copies at only four libraries worldwide (BL,… Read More

[London]: Published by Order of the Committee, 1953. xi, [1], 72pp, [4]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher’s printed light blue wrappers. Minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. The first edition of a paper by British archaeologist, and sometime director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (1936-1956), Gerald Lankester Harding (1901-1979) on the artefacts present within four Jordanian tombs. . First edition. Folio.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. [3], 6-48pp. Without half-title. [Bound with:] M'CAUL, Alexander. The bill worse than the bull. A letter to the very rev. gilbert elliot, d.d., dean of bristol. London. Wertheim and Macintosh, 1851. First edition. 8pp. [And:] The queen, or the pope? The question considered in its political, legal and religious aspects... Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood & Sons, 1850. Second edition. x, [1], 12-112pp. [And:] WISEMAN, [Nicholas Patrick]. An appeal to the reason and good feeling of the english people on the subject of the catholic hierarchy. London. Thomas Richardson and Son, 1850. First edition. 32pp. [And:] CUMMING, John. Notes on the cardinal's manifesto, in a letter to the right hon. lord john russell, Her Majesty's Prime Minister. London. Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1850. First edition. 32pp. [And:] GOODE, William. Address delivered at a public meeting of the inhabitants of allhallows the great and less, london:… Read More

[London?]: [s.n.], [1797?] 80pp. Without half-title. Stitched, as issued. Title page and final leaf browned and dusty, loss to head and foot of both, partial early inked ownership inscription to head of title, several wormtracks running through text block - touching text at times, without loss of sense. A rare survival, in original unsophisticated state, of the sole edition of a pamphlet issued at the request of George III, reproducing dispatches relating to the fruitless negotiations held at Lisle in 1797 in an effort to bring peace between Britain and the French Directory. The British cause was represented by James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury (1746-1820); the Republic by plenipotentiaries Hugues-Bernard Maret, Georges Rene Le Peley de Pleville and Etienne Louis Francois Honore Letourner. Malmesbury arrived on 30th May, but, after proceedings were purposely protracted by the Directory, he returned home on the 20th September without having made any progress towards a cessation of hostilities.… Read More

London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun, and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1795. [4], iv, [4], 280pp. With large folding map of the Mediterranean and Middle East as frontispiece. Uncut in recent half calf over marbled boards, contrasting title label, gilt. Very slight rubbing to spine, else a fine copy. A little marginal worming to preliminaries. With attractive contemporary bookplate of S. Harward's Circulating Library, Colonnade Buildings, Cheltenham to FEP, inscribed 'Presented to me by the Editor, C.D.' Charles Dunster (1750-1816), Anglican clergyman. His literary works, which include a translation of Aristophanes and an edition of John Philip's poem Cyder, were generally adorned with detailed notes - and this scholarly edition of Milton's Paradise Regained proves no exception. Harward's circulating library (which had two branches, at the Collonade and in the High St.) appears to have been the most significant of three in Cheltenham at the turn of the… Read More

A Amsterdam: [s.n.], 1775. xii, 13-123, [9], 269-276pp. Uncut in original publisher's plain paper wrappers. Substantial loss to spine, text-block holding firm by cords. Internally clean and crisp, a very good copy. The first edition of the first part of this apologetic work by French philosopher Jean Baptiste Claude Delisle de Sales (1741-1816). In 1775, following the condemnation of his De la Philosophie de la Nature (1766) which had propounded tenants of atheism and nihilism, Delisle de Sales was exiled. The Paradoxes are a defence of that work and formed a part of his appeal for return; in which he would be supported by fellow philosophers, including Voltaire. Two further parts, on the freedom of the press and luxury, were subsequently published. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode...for the Religious Tract Society, 1856. viii, [4], 223pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Ticket of the Religious Tract Society of Birmingham to FEP, scattered spotting. This edition of the English Bible is 'a correct reprint of the Authorized Version in general use; but it differs from other editions in two particulars, namely:- First, it is divided into paragraphs, according to changes or divisions in the subjects treated of, and the pauses in the narrative. Secondly, the Metrical parts, such as the Psalms and Prophetical Books, are printed in Parallelisms; according to the natural order of the original' (preface). . 8vo.

[Manchester]: S. Johnson, [s.d., c. 1840] 30pp, [2]. First and last leaves pasted to wrappers, included in pagination. Original publisher's yellow printed wrappers. A trifle dusty. Spotted. An apparently unrecorded, Manchester-printed popular one penny chapbook catechism, which in addition to the usual questions on scripture, contains directions for children on how to properly behave in church and notes on respecting their parents and tutors, and features on the lower wrapper an incongruous, and somewhat disturbing, wood-engraving of a male lion mauling a man. . 32mo.

London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., 1853. [6], viii, 245pp, [3]. With two preliminary publishers advertisement leaves, another terminal leaf of same, a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed with some loss and tearing to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Reginald Arthur Tatton to FEP. First printed by Harper & Bros. in New York in 1852, Parisian Sights, a copiously illustrated travelogue on the French capital and the mannerisms of her people, is most commonly attributed to James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), a newspaper editor considered to be the first American art collector to purchase Old Masters and Italian primitives. COPAC records only five copies of this first London edition; Aberdeen, Birmingham, BL, Durham, and NLS. . First London edition. 8vo.

Wellington, Salop: Printed by and for F. Houston and Son, [1824]. 148pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher’s printed buff paper boards. Extremities worn and marked, later naive clear adhesive repairs to joints and spine. Hinges exposed, frontispiece and title page browned, publication dates scratched away from both, occasional chipping to margins, scattered spotting. A rare survival of the sole edition of a juvenile geography primer composed entirely in verse. Unsurprisingly, given the constraints of the metrical form, very little in the way of useful geographic information is provided; with each entry (vaguely covering the continents of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas) rapidly descending into a list of primary waterways and notable mountain ranges in a select few countries. A series of lengthy prose notes are provided, though these are in the main seemingly anecdotal and rarely connected with the intended subject of the book. The main body of the text… Read More

London: Published for the proprietor, by T. Hurst, 1835. 28pp, [4]. With a half-title and 11 plates and plans, three of which folding, and a printed notice advertising 'sacrifices and alterations from the terms, amusements & regulations' tipped to the inside of the upper wrapper. Original publisher's buff paper wrappers. Some loss to spine, slight marking, but generally a well preserved example. Early ownership inscription of 'Mary Wright Bought this Book at Chelsea on the 21st of July 1838' to inside of upper wrapper. An apparently unrecorded issue, in original unsophisticated state, of the scarce introductory brochure and guide to the Stadium, a pioneering metropolitan sports club set up at Chelsea Farm in 1831 by convicted stock-market fraudster Charles Random, Baron de Berenger. The contents and fine engravings by the brothers Cruikshank details the decidedly martial athletic opportunities available at the National Sporting Club, which included rifle shooting, archery and… Read More

[London]: [s.n.], [1791]. 3pp, [1]. Single folded leaf, with docket title to verso. Very lightly browned and dust-soiled, slight creasing. The particulars and conditions of sale issued by Christie's auction house for their sale by auction, in 1791, of the Ingo estate, Northumberland, including the adjacent agricultural land comprising 200 acres, and nearby deposits of coal and lime available for mining. ESTC T491948.. First edition. Quarto.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. x, 399pp, [1]. With a portrait frontispiece and two folding genealogical charts. Original publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth. Rubbed, adhesive residue to upper board, corners bumped. Upper hinge exposed, armorial bookplate of Henry Birkbeck to FEP, scattered foxing. The sole edition of a selection of extracts from the journals of Caroline Powys [nee Girle] (1738-1817) that provide a fascinating record of the manners and customs of the upper-class during the latter half of the eighteenth-century. . First edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1838. In three volumes. [5], viii-xii, 338; [4], 354; [4], 509pp, [1]. Without half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, brown morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaves of all volumes. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page of Vol. I: 'The Honble. Mr. Justice Coleridge / with the author's compliments / 9th Dec. 1837'. The first published work of English barrister and novelist Samuel Warren's (1807-1877), Passages from the diary of a late physician, initially serialised in Blackwood's Magazine from 1831 to 1827, made his literary reputation. The immediate success of the book rested on the sensational and melodramatic atmosphere of the stories which parade the horrors of debauchery, disease, madness, and death with an almost erotic fascination.… Read More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1921. vii, [1] 11-290pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered red. Inscribed by Buchan on the FFEP 'Isabel Portman from John Buchan. This specimen of his later and worse manner', dated 1921. Boards a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly sunned. Internally bright and clean save light foxing to pastedowns. Loosely inserted in an invoice for both this and several other Buchan titles from Charles Rare Books, Buntingford, dated 1959. The first American edition of Buchan's mid-career offering of interlinked short stories, following a band of gold from the Vikings to Abraham Lincoln. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician, best remembered for his subterfuge thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), and serving as Governor General of Canada from 1935 to his death after a fall in 1940. . First American edition. 8vo.

London: Published by James Goodwin, 1813. [8], 148pp. With half-title and engraved portrait frontispiece of Countess Craven. Uncut, in later plain paper boards. A fine copy but for slight marking to final two leaves. A reissue, with an alternative title, of the anonymously published Poetical Tales (1808) by Martha Savory (1781-1851), who was to marry fellow Quaker missionary John Yeardley in 1826. According to Jackson unsold copies of the original editions were destroyed at the behest of the author, although he mentions that 'some survived with the altered title'. This edition is also very rare, with OCLC locating only three copies worldwide, at BL, Colorado and Indiana. Not in Jackson. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women p.288. . Second edition. 8vo.

London: Peter Owen, [1962]. 95pp, [1]. Original publisher's dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper a trifle sunned. Endpapers browned. From the library, though not identified as such, of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995). The first U.K. edition of modernist poet Ezra Pound's (1885-1972) 'Patria Mia', an essay on cultural stagnation, and 'The Treatise on Harmony', a concise survey of music theory. . First U.K. edition. 8vo.

London: William Heinemnn, 1906. 321pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards, lettered black, with a striking black, green and white design to the front board. Bottom edge untrimmed. Bumping to spine ends and corners, else a crisp copy with a little foxing to all edges, and throughout the page block. With the bookplate of Ronald Southey to the front pastedown. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. . First edition. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918. [10], 262pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in black. Light shelf-wear. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. From the library, though not identified as such, of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995). The first edition of a collection of modernist poet Ezra Pound's (1885-1972) miscellaneous historical and literary essays, many of which had appeared previously in periodicals such as Poetry, The Fortnightly Review, and The Egoist. . First edition. 8vo.