Rare books from John Atkins

8vo., [8], xiv, 618, 64, plus indexes, [4] pages.Full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt title. Inner gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Leather to joints, leading edges of boards, and corners rubbed with marginal loss on corners. Corners bumped. Minor scratching and indents to boards without loss. Light foxing for first +/-30 pages and sporadically to a few subsequent pages. Heavy foxing to rear end-paper and final page of indexes. Otherwise text very clean. Very good condition except for defects reported.
Three plates present of the four for regular copies listed by Windle & Pippin "seldom all present in regular or large-paper copies" (Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847 A Bibliography, New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 1999, p.42) – missing the frontispiece portrait of Dibdin. The cuts at pp. 250, 254, and 484 are on india paper which Windle & Pippin note are "sometimes found" in copies (ibid. p,43).
One of 500 copies printed.
Windle & Pippin A11d.
As a heavy and high… Read More

STC 12635 (with variations) / 12635.5. [Solely the facsimile title-page used for the volume. See photo.]
Small folio, (320 x 205mm).
Modern cloth binding with five raised bands, corners slightly rubbed, red morocco title-label with gilt lettering. Internally very clean and unmarked except in a very few cases with minor stains and ink smudges and with very small page tears to 10 pages (repaired), 10 words missing from 4 pages due to tears all have been added in pencil. At the end of the volume there is a 28 page "Alphabetticall Table of the Whole Worke". The final page has a tear with paper loss to the bottom which slightly impacts upon the text. A facsimile of this page has been added to compensate for this loss of text. Ex-libris on inner top board: Eric Gerald Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor, University of Oxford.
Joseph Hall (1574-1656) satirist, moralist and polemicist, particularly in defending episcopacy, and author of devotional works, including contemplations carrying a political… Read More

[8], 18, 913, [1 – book advert], [8] pages.
Pages 592-598 (Alphabetical Table to the Psalms) being unnumbered.

Boards rubbed with some light scratches and indentations. Corners bumped with slight loss to top upper board corner. Binding very slightly bowed. Front end-paper a little soiled. Rear end-paper has been replaced at a later date with the image of another printed work, dated 1814, being legible when held up to the light. Internally pages and text very clean with a few small marks only. Initial dedication leaf has been strengthened at the margins with paper, resulting in loss of the marginal printed notes on the verso.
Lacks the initial title-page but has been collated as otherwise complete against a third edition copy available at Hathitrust.org.Francis Roberts (1609–1675)
was educated at Trinity College Oxford and by 1635 was established as the resident minister at St. Martin in the Bull Ring, being the parish church of Birmingham, a town noted for its Parliamentarian and puritan support.… Read More

23 pages.
Text clean and unmarked.
Taking their cue from the socialist-feminist book 'Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism' (1979), on 30 August 1980, 3,000 mainly women activists gathered at Leeds University for the Beyond the Fragments conference - amongst them revolutionary socialists, feminists, anarchists, Labour members, community activists, trade unionists and students. Only a year earlier Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister, had defeated a Labour government and immediately launched a series of attacks on the unions, driving up unemployment, deepening the economic recession, and enacting a wave of anti-union laws.
A 'Fragments' network continued until the mid-1980s when it merged with the Socialist Society and members participated in the Chesterfield and Sheffield Socialist Conferences. The ideas behind Beyond the Fragments encouraged the development of new approaches to socialism and left organising.
This bulletin provides details and extracts from a… Read More

Paper age-toned, with tears and chipping to the top edges. Light spots of foxing. Central vertical crease.
An address issued by the Church Association, dated June 1902 (2nd thousand), promoting its political organisation which had already a presence in 225 out of 443 English constituencies. It seeks more electors to add their names to the "Protestant Roll", being a pledge to "put his Protestantism before mere Party questions at the Polling Booth."
The Church Association was an English evangelical Anglican organisation founded in 1865. It was particularly active in opposition to Anglo-Catholicism, ritualism, and the Oxford Movement. Founded in 1865 by Richard P. Blakeney, the association stated in its first annual report that the objectives of the association were, "To uphold the principles and order of the United Church of England and Ireland, and to counteract the efforts now being made to assimilate her services to those of the Church of Rome."
A strident tract warning that inaction will result in… Read More

[Full title] The English Baronets. Being a Genealogical and Historical Account of Their Families. Containing I. A Particular Account of the Institution of this Order by King James the First; Manner of Creation, Privileges Precedence, &C. II. Their Descents, Creations, Successions, Marriages, and Issue; As also the Publick Employments, and Remarkable Actions, both of them, and their Ancestors: With the Blazonry of Their Arms and Crests; Their Mottoes, and Seats, or Places of Residence. III. Correct Lists; I. Of the Present Baronets in the Order of Precedence. II. Of Those, who are now Peers of Great-Britain, or Ireland. III. Of those Foreigners, who have had this Dignity Conferr'd on them. IV. Of those whose Titles are now Extinct. IV. Exact Tables of Precedence; Particularly with Respect to the Wives, Sons, and Daughters of Baronets, and Knights. V. A Short Account of the Institution of the Order of Baronets of Nova Scotia, and those of Ireland. With an Explanatory Index of the Terms in Heraldry,… Read More

(i) Prospero Stellartio [Prosper Stellart], Fundamina et regulae.... Duaci [Douai], Baltazaris Belleri [Balthazar Bellere / Laurence Kellam], 1626 bound together with (ii) Prospero Stellartio [Prosper Stellart], Annales monastici sive Chronologia libris septemdecim totidemque seculis distincta.... Duaci [Douai], Gerardum Pinchon [Gerard Pichon], 1627 [2nd edition, 1st 1626].
An article by Alexander Soetaert and Heleen Wyffels in the September 2021 edition of The Library (page 374) has identified the printing house of Laurence Kellam (also of Douai) as the likely printer, in whole or part, of 'Fundamina et regulae omnium ordinum monasticorum et militarium….'. See photos for the so-called hidden trade mark of Laurence Kellam, a typographical ornament containing his initials ('L. K.')
4to., (i) [in fours] a4 e4 A-Z 2A-2Z 3A-3Z 4A-4R [4R4 blank]; [16], 660, [26] pages with 3 folding tables at 2I4 p256, 2T4 p336, and 3E2 p404; (ii) a1 F2 F3 a2?, [in fours] A – S ; [6], 24, 18, 20, 26, 26, 30, [4] pages… Read More

Text, complete in itself, is extracted from CHURCHILL, AWNSHAM, and JOHN: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol IV,). Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London, 1704. With title-page and pages numbered 681-807.

Cover slightly soiled (spots) mostly to the rear cover. Light water stain to the top of page margins, and very occasionally to lower margin, not touching text. Text clean and clear.Nicolas del Techo (born Nicolas du Toict) was a Jesuit humanist. His name was "Hispanicised" by his fellow Jesuits to Nicolas del Techo shortly after he was ordained in the Society of Jesus at the age of 19. He arrived in the Province of Paraguay (a region that then included parts of present-day Paraguay and Uruguay) in 1649 where he sought to convert the indigenous people (the Guarani Indians) to Christianity. He wrote (in Latin) a History of the Province of Paraguay (1673, Liege). Criticised for sometimes implausible narratives, possibly due to copying previous Jesuit… Read More

Text, complete in itself, is extracted from CHURCHILL, AWNSHAM, and JOHN: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol 2,). Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London, 1704.
Title-page, preface, pages numbered 559-688.
Boards with marks, spine rubbed with split to top 70mm of front joint but holding firm. Text clean and clear. Age toning and traces of humidity to page margins not touching text.

Hernando (Ferdinand) Colon was Christopher Columbus's youngest son. His life of his father was written at a time when his father's legacy was under serious challenge from many quarters, including the court of the Spanish Crown. These attempts to diminish Columbus's role as the primary discoverer of the New World also presented a threat to the fortunes and future legacy of the wider Columbus family.
Hernando is the major source of information concerning his father's life and voyages, especially his fourth voyage to the New World. He accompanied his father on his fourth… Read More

Vatican Publication Supporting the Canonization of one of the few Female Founder Saints of the Catholic Church
[2], XII, 86, [2] pages. Patterned end-papers with slight remains of a small ex-libris label. Title in red and black. Vignette engraving to title-page, two engraved initial letters, and an engraved head and tail piece. With a dedication to Pope Benedict XIII.
Binding somewhat rubbed, mainly to corners and extremities and with a few small marks to the boards. Gilt tooling to extremities with signs of wear. Browning to pages 1-8 and 81-86. A very good copy.
Domenico Maria Antinori (1664-1734), Jesuit from Naples and the author of a number of religious works.
The first 37 pages cover the life and death of Giuliana Falconieri (1270-1341) providing a general narrative and context, reflecting the situation whereby her early life had largely been recorded in an oral tradition. The remaining text systematically sets out a number of miraculous events attributed to her sacred relics and the veneration… Read More

104 pages (non-uniform sizes) plus blank end-papers.
Engraved frontispiece.
Binding tight with marbled end-papers. Internally very good with clean pages and clear text. One page with a small tear to paper, touching but not affecting text. Front board and spine very faded and rubbed and with slight marks. Rear board faded at edges and slightly marked.
Edouard Gourdon (1820-1869) was a journalist and author of news books, essays and novels. At the time of writing reference to the "treizième arrondissement" (i.e. the 13th district of Paris) was a coloquialism referring to those living together unmarried, " Ils se mariés à la mairie du 13e " (i.e. they were married at the - non-existent - 13th district town hall) - a state of relations much moralised against. This being the case, especially in 'good society', the enlargement of Paris to include a treizième arrondissement was delayed until 1860. As was written in Le Figaro of 12 October 1859, " Helas ! ce treizieme arrondissement, il est partout, et on… Read More

Contains 2 lengthy articles by Eustaquio Fernández de Navarrete on the Columbus family:a. "Noticias Para la Vida de D. Hernando Colon" (pages 289-483)b."Noticias de D. Bartolomé Colon, hermano del Almirante" (pages 485-574)574, index, [2] pages.Boards rubbed with minor scratches and loss to corners and all three edges. Marbled end-papers with small ex-libris to inner front board. Spanish text clean and unmarked.
A reference source for the life of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Colon/Columbus, with a focus on the challenges he faced in defending his family's legacy. This volume gives some of the earliest published details of the life of Hernando supported by the inclusion of 8 transcribed documents, including Hernando's defence of his brother's (Diego's) rights to titles and income following his father's death; details relative to the conception Hernando had for his library (the "Biblioteca Hernandia"); and the text of Hernando's will.
Navarrete's second chapter to this volume concerns the life… Read More

xxxviii, [2], 319 pages (including black and white photographs of documents held in the Biblioteca Colombina). Slight rubbing to top corners of the boards. Very neat paper repairs to the bottom corners of pages ix – xxiv, not touching text. Very small blemish (remains of paper label?) to front end-paper. Spanish text clean and unmarked.Includes "the most authoritative edition of the will" of Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus (Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, London, 2019, page 343). This volume was produced to coincide with the quadricentennial anniversary of the death of Hernando Colon (the volume contains 105 documents reproduced in text format and 4 in photographic facsimiles covering 66 pages.
A note to the reader explains that previous publications have contained textual errors arising from mistakes in copies obtained from the original documents held by the Biblioteca Colombina. The intention in producing this publication was to "remedy these… Read More

"I have nothing to do with [it]. I knew nothing about it." David Livingstone, February 1857
A Narrative of Dr. Livingston's Discoveries in South-Central Africa, From 1849 to 1856. Reprinted by Arrangement from the "British Banner" newspaper. London: Routledge and Co., Printed by Reed and Pardon, n.d. but with a preface dated January 1857. [There is an advertisement for this booklet in the January 10, 1857 edition of The Illustrated London News.]
64 pages with a folding map of central and southern Africa tipped in before the title-page. Original pictorial cover of thick red card with a portrait to the front and advertisement for Routledge's Shakespeare on the reverse.
Card cover with modest signs of wear and a few splits to the spine, particularly the front hinge. Small loss to the spine top and bottom. Small 15mm tear to the inner margin of the map neatly repaired with archival tape. Light foxing to the end-papers and map. Title-page a little soiled. Lower corner of cover and pages very slightly… Read More

Attempted 'fake-news' to influence British opinion during the War of Polish Succession?viii, pages numbered [9]-62
Title-page and rear free end-paper a little darkened. Title-page with a small bookseller's notation in pencil. Slight fraying to rear lower edge of original cover. Very good condition.
ESTC: T041409. The Gentleman's Magazine: or Monthly Intelligencer, vol. 5 for the year 1735, gives the date of publication as January 1735.
Dedicated to Lord Harrington, then Secretary of State for the Northern Department (later the Foreign Office) under Prime Minister Robert Walpole, this is purportedly a partial translation of a Spanish work entitled, "Meditaciones Morales sobre las Reynas, Ministros, y Confessores del Rey nuestro Sennor, desde su veneda hasta estos Tiempos ; puestas en luz para la mayor Instruction y Edificacion de todos Hombres de Intendimento en nuestra querida aunque pobre y affligida Ispagna." No date or author for this work is given and an extensive search of online databases has… Read More