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Fugitive Pieces, On Various Subjects. By several Authors

Fugitive Pieces, On Various Subjects. By several Authors

by Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, compiler

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London, Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall: MDCCLXV [1765]. Hard Cover. Two octavo volumes: 2 p. l., 352 pages, (2 leaves, B-Z8); 2 p. l., 357 pages, 1 leaf (2 leaves, B-Z8, Aa4). Second edition; first published 1761. Vol. I contains Crito: Or, A Dialogue on Beauty. By Sir Harry Beaumont; A Particular Account Of The Emperor of China's Gardens, near Pekin: In A Letter from F. Attiret, a French Missionary... to his Friend at Paris (dateline 'Pekin, Nov. 1, 1743'); Deformity: An Essay. By William Hay, Esq.; Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter Humbly addressed to the Royal Society; In Which Is proved, by most Incontestable Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may conceive, and be brought to Bed, without any Commerce with Man; A Modest Defence Of Gaming; The Pretty Gentleman; Or, Softness of Manners Vindicated From the false Ridicule exhibited under the Character of William Fribble, Esq.; The Polite Philosopher: Or, An Essay on that Art which makes a Man happy in himself, and agreeable to… Read More
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Workes

by Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

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London, Printed by Richard Bishop. M. DC. XL [1640]. Hard Cover. Folio: 226, [63]-668 pages, headpieces, initials, marginal notes. (A-S6, T5, G2-G6, H-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Kkk6, Lll4); 29.5 cm. Each part has separate title-page and the above imprint except for "Poetaster", London, Printed by Robert Young. M. DC. XL. Contents: Epigrammes. I. Booke. The Author B. J.; Part Of The Kings Entertainment, In Passing To His Coronation. The Author B. J.; A Panegyre, On The Happy Entrance Of Iames, our Soveraigne, to His first high Session of Parliament in this his Kingdome, the 19 of March, 1603. The Author B. J.; A Particular Entertainment Of The Queene And Prince their Highnesse at Althrope, At The Right Honourable the Lord Spencers, on Saturday being the 25. of Iune 1603. as they came first into the Kingdom; The Author B. J.; Masques At Court. The Author B. J., incomplete: ends with catchword 'Till'; Every Man Out Of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. First Acted in the yeere 1599. By the then Lord Chamberlaine his… Read More
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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloane...

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloane...

by Sloane, William Milligan, 1850-1928.

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NY, Century Co., 1896. Originally published serially in The Century Magazine 49: 1, Nov. 1894 through 52: 6, Oct. 1896. Lushly illustrated biography by a Princeton professor. Hard Cover. Four folio volumes: xvi, 283; xi, 283; x, 270; xii, 313 pages, color frontispieces, 293 illustrations, maps, plates (part color), portraits; 31 cm. Bibliography: vol. 4, pages 251-261. Bound in green cloth stamped in gold. Spine edges rubbed; volumes 1 & 2 shaken (in each a signature has come loose although it lies evenly with the rest); rear cover of vol. 3 has scratches; volumes 3 & 4 are whole & sturdy; top edges gilt; internally clean; withal Good. Shipping in the U.S. $20. Stock#OB940 oversize/h.
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The Shepheardes Calender. Latin and English. Calendarium Pastorale, Sive Aegolgae Duodecim,...

The Shepheardes Calender. Latin and English. Calendarium Pastorale, Sive Aegolgae Duodecim, Totidem Anni Mesibus accommo...

by Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599

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London: Printed by Will Bowyer, MDCCXXXI [1731]. Hard Cover. 8vo; xiv, [4], 240, 245-254 pages, 12 engraved plates, portrait front. (A-Q8, R5). Translated by Theodore Bathurst (d. 1651); published by John Ball. Added title-page in English: The Shepherd's Calendar. English and Latin texts on facing pages. ESTC T135116; Alston III.67; NUC 561: 495. Spenser's English work was first published in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Phillip Sidney; this Latin translation was first published in 1663. Bound in contemporary full calf; spine worn, hinges tender; interior VG. Stock#OB122.
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The Orlando Innamorato. Translated into Prose from the Italian of Francesco Berni

The Orlando Innamorato. Translated into Prose from the Italian of Francesco Berni

by Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 41-1494 / Berni, Francesco, 1497 or 8-1535 / Rose, William Stewart, 1775-1843, translator

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Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1823. Hard Cover. 2 p. l., [vii]-lviii, 279, [1] p.; 19 cm. Title continues: "and interspersed with extracts in the same stanza as the original, by William Stewart Rose." Berni recast Boiardo's poem. "Berni undertook the revision of the whole poem, avowedly altering no sentiment, removing or adding no incident, but simply giving to each line and stanza due gracefulness and polish. His task he completed with marvellous success; scarcely a line remains as it was, and the general opinion has pronounced decisively in favour of the revision over the original. " Rose was an intimate of Byron and part of a circle of English italianists. Armorial bookplate of John Croft Deverell. Vg, bound in full leather. Stock#OB958.
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The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni now first translated into English by W. G. Waters. Illustrated by E....

The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni now first translated into English by W. G. Waters. Illustrated by E. R. Hughes, R.W.S.

by Giovanni Fiorentino, Ser, active 14th century / Waters, W. G. (William George), 1844-1928, translator

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London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Hard Cover. 312 pages. 'Ser Giovanni's collection, begun in 1378 and finished after 1385, derives its title, Il pecorone, 'the numbskull'-- a title probably not due to the author-- from the fact that so many pecoroni appear in the book. The frame story tells of a chaplain and a nun who on 25 successive days meet in a convent parlor, each telling the other a story each day. About half the stories are fictional; the other half are drawn from the Chronaca of Giovanni Villani. Many of the tales are stupid, but a few are definitely good. The best, that of Giannetto and the Lady of Belmonte, embodies the 'pound of flesh' motif in an excellent plot, from which Shakespeare derived, directly or indirectly, the 'pound of flesh' portion of the plot of The Merchant of Venice' (Wilkins). 110 copies printed of which this is number 95. Printed on 'Japanese vellum.' Good copy, vellum spine soiled, nicked at bottom. Stock#OB312.
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National History and Views of London and its Environs; Embracing their Antiquities, Modern...
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National History and Views of London and its Environs; Embracing their Antiquities, Modern Improvements, &c., &c....

by Partington, C. F. (Charles Frederick), d. 1857?

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London, Black & Armstrong [1836?]. Hard Cover. Volume One (of two): viii, 208 pages, frontispiece, plates; 23.5 cm. Title continues: from Original Drawings by Eminent Artists. Edited by C. F. Partington... Added engraved title-page. "Containing 300 Steel Engravings" (5 per plate). The plates are clean, unfoxed. "Printed by P. P. Thomas, Warwick Square, London." First published in 1832. Bound in publisher's green cloth; gold-stamped spine worn;upper inch repaired, there may have been a foding map, removed from first leaves. Good+. Stock#OB688.
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Braunschweigisches Magazin 32ster Band... fur das Jahr 1819

Braunschweigisches Magazin 32ster Band... fur das Jahr 1819

by Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, 1743-1820, editor

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Braunschweig / Brunswick, Germany [1820]. Hard Cover. [12] pages, 836 columns; 21 cm.; 52 weekly issues. Contains a note on the Inns of North America (col. 721); a description of St. Helena (Napoleon's exile); a review of John Jones's book on the Peninsular Campaign and articles on Botany Bay, Oliver Cromwell, music, and making Porter Beer. Bound in comtemporary paper-covered boards; good+. Stock#OB541.
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Pages d'Histoire de la Revolution de Fevrier 1848. Par Louis Blanc

Pages d'Histoire de la Revolution de Fevrier 1848. Par Louis Blanc

by Blanc, Louis, 1811-1882

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Bruxelles. Meline, Cans, 1850. Hard Cover. uv, 320 pages, An early history of the 1848 Revolution in France by one of the "Utopian Socialists" (Marx's term) who inspired it. Blanc was a pioneer in urging unemployment relief. As an anti-monarchist he had to publish this defense of his revolution in the exile of Brussels. An important document in French history and in 19th century socialism. Stock#OB389. VG; half leather.
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Georgii Buchanani, Scoti, Poëtarum sui Seculi Facile Principus... Opera Omnia, Historica,...

Georgii Buchanani, Scoti, Poëtarum sui Seculi Facile Principus... Opera Omnia, Historica, Chronologica, Juridica...

by Buchanan, George, 1506-1582

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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Apud Johannem Arnoldum Langerak, MDCCXXV [1725]. Hard Cover. Two quarto volumes: [136], 732, [96], [4], 116; [10], 770, [4] pages, portrait frontispiece; 26 cm. Title continues: Politica, Satyrica & Poetica. Non modo in unum jam collecta, & ad optimorum codicum sidem summo studio recognita, & ab innumeris penemendis, quibus repurgata, sed & variis insuper notis aliisque utilissimis accessionibus illustrata & aucta, curante Thoma Ruddimanno, A.M. cum indicibus rerum memorabilium, et praefatione Petri Burmanni, in duos tomos distributa. Brunet 1:1368; the best early edition of the complete works of the Scottish historian and poet. Woodcut title-page vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials. Contents: 1, Chiefly "Rerum Scoticarum historia" and "De jure regni apud Scotus"; 2, Poetry, incl. Buchanan's paraphrase of the Psalms, tragedies, prose, and Buchanan's edition of "Rudimenta grammatices Thomae Linacri". The editor was Thomas Ruddiman, 1674-1757, and… Read More
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Préjugés Légitimes, sur la Constitution Civile du Clergé, Et sur le serment exigé des...

Préjugés Légitimes, sur la Constitution Civile du Clergé, Et sur le serment exigé des fonctionnaires publics

by Barruel, abbé, 1741-1820

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A Paris: Chez Crapart... [1791?]. Soft Cover. 16 p.; 20 cm. (8vo) "Extrait du Journal ecclésiast. du no. de janvier 1791." One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-12. In marbled paper wrapper.
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Opere Burlesche di M. Francesco Berni con Annotazioni, e con un Saggio delle sue Lettere Piacevoli

Opere Burlesche di M. Francesco Berni con Annotazioni, e con un Saggio delle sue Lettere Piacevoli

by Berni, Francesco, 1497 or 8-1535

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Milano: Societá Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1806. Hard Cover. viii, 230, [1] pages; 21 cm. "The long series of Italian humorous poets reaches its apex in the Florentine Francesco Berni. The active years of his life were spent chiefly in Rome, in busy secretarial service... in an environment of corruption that is reflected, in more ways than one, in his own work" --Wilkins, p. 201. The notes, largely by Anton Maria Salvini, 1653-1729, are taken from the collection entitled Opere Burlesche di M. Francesco Berni, di M. Gio. della Casa, del Varchi [etc.]..., Londra, G. Pickard, 1721-24, 2 vols. Bound in full contemporary leather; very good. Stock#OB528.
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Quatre Ans dans les Bagnes Hitleriens. Buchenwald, Laura, Ellrich, Harzungen, Dora.

Quatre Ans dans les Bagnes Hitleriens. Buchenwald, Laura, Ellrich, Harzungen, Dora.

by Tauzin, Jean-Henry, Déporté politique n. 41234 K.L.B.

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Imprimerie de Crété Corbeil [August 1945]. Soft Cover. 125, [2] pages, illustrations; 19 cm. "Dessins de Charles Couturiot, ex-Déporté politique n. 66132." The experiences of two French survivors of Nazi concentration camps. An early and unusual imprint; WorldCat records a copy at the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Good+, an uncut copy in original printed wrappers. Stock#OB521.
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Conversation sur le nouveau Serment prescrit aux Ecclésiastiques, Entre Claude Fauchet, évèque...

Conversation sur le nouveau Serment prescrit aux Ecclésiastiques, Entre Claude Fauchet, évèque du Calvados...

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A Paris: Chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1791. Hard Cover. 27 p.; 22 cm. Title continues: Député, Le Révérend Père Chabot, ex-Capucin, & Député, et un Prêtre réfractaire. Reference: Martin & Walter, Révolution française, IV: 2, 4658. Very Good in marbled paper over boards. One of a collection of forty Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-5.
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Proverbs in Jests or the Tales of Cornazano, XVth Century.

Proverbs in Jests or the Tales of Cornazano, XVth Century.: Literally Translated into English. With the Italian Text

by Cornazzano, Antonio, ca. 1429-ca. 1489

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[Paris] Isidore Liseux, 1888. Hard Cover. xxiii, [1], 216 pages; 16.5 cm. Title in red & black; text in Italian & English on facing pages; fine paper. The DBI article (29: 123-132) by P. Farenga dates the original Latin text of these proverbs to April 1454, while the author was in Milan. The Italian version, first published Venice, 1518, enjoyed great success for three centuries. The present work is a translation of the 1884 French edition, which was translated from the Italian by Alcide Bonneau. These ribald stories are still entertaining more than 500 years after their composition. Original stiff printed wrappers. A handsome gift book, unopened and uncut, in an oriental-cloth box by James DiMarcantonio, Hope Bindery & Box Co. Stock#OB377.
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