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The world as it goes: exemplified in the characters of nations, states, princes, peers, judges, counsellors, senators, gamblers, poets, players, pimps, and parasites.

By: N/A

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London: Printed for J. Fielding, 1781.:

Seller ID: 535

Quarto. 48pp. Later cloth with a leather label. With a frontispiece. ESTC T52812. Title-page and last leaf damaged and silked.
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Bibliothèque Germanique, Ou Histoire Littéraire De L'Allemagne, De La Suisse, et des Pays Du Nord. Année MDCCXXXIX, Tome XLV.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Hubert, 1739.:

Seller ID: 574

Octavo. [iv], 236 pages. Contemporary calf. Fine.
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The beggarly boy. A religious parable. [Cheap Repository. Sunday Reading.].

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Publisher: [London]: Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, & no. 4, Aldermay Church-Yard, & R. White, Piccadilly. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath, ..., [1795].:

Seller ID: 700

Duodecimo. 22, [ii]pp. A12. Disbound. With the woodcut on the title-page hand-colored by a contemporary hand. With a final leaf of advertisements; those on the last page list publications issued from 1 July to 1 November 1795. On bluish paper. ESTC T48879. Last leaf waterstained.
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Sunday reading, part 1. On the religious advantages of the present inhabitants of Great Britain.

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: [Bath]: Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts,) at Bath; by J. Marshall, Printer to the Cheap Repository, No. 17, Queen-Street, CheapSide, & No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; & R. White, Piccadilly, [1795].:

Seller ID: 707

Duodecimo. 12pp. Dusbound. With a woodcut on the title-page. ESTC T48871. Some staining throughout, mostly marginal. A tear on the title-page, not affecting text.
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Book of Martyrs, an Account of Holy Men who died for the Christian Religion.

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: [Bath]: sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts,) at Bath; by J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheap-Side, & No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard; & R. White, Piccadilly, [1795].:

Seller ID: 710

Duodecimo. 24pp. A12. Issued between March and May, 1795 (Spinney). Disbound. With a woodcut on the title-page. "The martyr’s hymn": p. 22. Advertisements on pp. 23-24. ESTC T9343. Staining throughout
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Cheap Repository. Husbandry moralized; or, Pleasant Sunday reading for a farmer’s kitchen. Part I.

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: [London]: sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside. & No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, & R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath, [1795].:

Seller ID: 711

Duodecimo. 12pp. Disbound. With the woodcut on the title-page hand-colored by a contemporary hand. ESTC T36874. Minor staining to the title-page
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Diplomata et Statuta Regalis Societatis Londini Pro scientia naturali promovenda. Jussu praesidis et concilii edita.

By: N/A

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: Londini: Typis Sam. Richardsoni, 1752.:

Seller ID: 728

Octavo. iv, 115, [i]pp. Quarter red polished calf over marbled boards by Henderson & Bisset, Edinburgh bookbinders. Royal Society's coat-of-arms as frontispiece. ESTC T83944.
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A vindication of the memory of Mr. Chubb, from the scurrilous and groundless calumnies suggested by a late infamous libel. In two genuine letters to the scandalous libeller.

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London: printed for J. Noon, at the White-Hart, near Mercer’s Chappel, Cheapside; and C. Corbet, at Addison’s Head, facing St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-Street; and sold by the booksellers in Sarum, 1747.:

Seller ID: 771

Octavo. 43, [i]pp. Disbound. ESTC T50871.
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The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Compleat Cabinet of Nature.

By: N/A

Price: $8,500.00

Publisher: London: printed for Harrison, Cluse, and Co. no 78, Fleet Street, 1798-1800.:

Seller ID: 787

Duodecimo. Eight volumes. Lacks volume VIII. Volumes have contents list with names of plates for the entire volume. Individual issues lack chronological designation. Volume title-pages lack chronological designation. First twenty numbers lack collected issue title-page. Mixed set. Contemporary calf, repaired. One volume in a different binding. Colored plates. NCBEL, II:1312; Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 110; ESTC P6705. Lacks a few plates, but with a number of duplicate plates.
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Le Coran, traduit de l'Arabe, accompagné de notes, et précédé de la Vie de Mahomet, tiré des Ecrivains Orientaux les plus estimés. Par M. Savary.

By: N/A

Price: $525.00

Publisher: A Amsterdam, Leide, Rotterdam & Utrecht: Chez les Libraires Associés, 1786.:

Seller ID: 1229

Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: xviii, 236, 287, [I]pp.; II: 496, [vii]pp. I: A12-K12, A12-M12; II: A12-X12. Second edition of Savary's translation. In nineteenth-century half red morocco bindings over marbled boards. Leather on spine darkened and slightly abraded. Illustrated with several head- and tailpieces. Fine.
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The sportsman's dictionary: or, The country gentleman's companion, in all rural recreations : with full and particular instructions for hawking, ... Extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient and modern: with large Improvements

By: N/A

Price: $800.00

Publisher: London: Printed For C. Hitch, At The Red Lion, And C. Davis, Both In Pater-Noster-Row; And S. Austen, At The Angel And Bible In St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1735.:

Seller ID: 1313

Octavo. Two volumes. I: []4, B8-Z8, Aa8-Bb8; II: []2, Cc8-Zz8, Aaa8. First edition. No pagination. Contemporary calf, worn. With music and 25 plates, some folding.
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Acts of Assembly, passed in the Charibbee Leeward Islands. From 1690, to 1730.

By: N/A

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: London: Printed by order of the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations by John Baskett, 1740.:

Seller ID: 1331

Folio. 5, [1], 24, [4] pages. A2-G2, H1, []2. With woodcut royal coat-of-arms on title-page. Woodcut tailpieces. Disbound. In a slipcase. A portrait of George II at head of text (B2), designed and engraved by Gerard van der Gucht, and printer's flowers throughout.
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Observations sur le spectacle de Rouen.

By: N/A

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: n.p.: n.p., n.p.:

Seller ID: 1336

Octavo. 42 pages. A4-E4, F2. Nineteenth-century cloth over marbled boards. An extremely uncommon book, bound together with another very uncommon book. Bound with: Lettre sur l'état actuel du spectacle à R*** . Some old staining.
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Nouveau dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise Dedié av roy ...

By: N/A

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: A Paris: Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1718.:

Seller ID: 1358

Folio. Two volumes. I: [xvi], 922pp.; II: [iv], -820pp. I: []2, ([]2 blank), ?3, ?4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Zzzz4, AAaaa4-ZZzzz4, AAAaaa2. II: []2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, AAaa4-ZZzz4, AAaaa4-KKkkk4, LLlll2. Second edition, revised mainly by F.S. Regnier Desmarais. Dedicatory epistle by G. Massieu. With the half-titles present. Title vignette, head-pieces and initials. Volume I has added engraved title-page: Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise. Contemporary calf, repaired. All edges marbled red. From the libraries of Lord Northwick and Lord Berwick. Very good cop...
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Geraldina: a novel founded on a recent event: in two volumes.

By: N/A

Price: $4,100.00

Publisher: London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson ..., 1798.:

Seller ID: 1496

Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: [ii], 275, [i]pp.; II: [ii], 300pp. I: [A]1, B12-M12, N6; II: [A]1, B12-N12, O6. Contemporary calf, repaired. Black, F.G., Epistolary novel 134; ESTC N7149; Garside, P., English novel, 1770-1829, 1798:3; Block, A., English novel, p. 83. There are three known copies of Geraldina, located at the New York Society Library, the University of Pennsylvania, and Forstliche Bibliothek zu Corvey, with none known in British libraries. The set was recently repaired; and one leaf (Volume II, page 115/116) was restored.
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Almanach des Muses, ou Choix des Poésies fugitives de 1776.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris: 1776.:

Seller ID: 1580

Duodecimo. 262, [i] pages. Boards, quite worn, over reversed calf. Title-page missing. Fair copy. With a bibliography of all the poetic and dramatic works that appeared in France during 1775.
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The Beauties of the Press: with an appendix, containing the Speech of Arthur O'Connor, on the Catholic Question, … May 4, 1795: also, his Letter to Lord Castlereagh.

By: N/A

Price: $775.00

Publisher: London: printed [by John Stockdale], 1800.:

Seller ID: 1672

Octavo. vi, 602, 48pp. a4 (-a1 blank), B8-Z8, Aa8-Pp8, Qq6 (- Qq6 blank), A4-F4. Modern half calf over marbled boards. 'Arthur O'Connor's letter' has separate titlepage, register and pagination. Manuscript notes notes in a British Library copy show this was privately printed by John Stockdale. Minor staining to some leaves. Quite small marginal wormhole in last few leaves not affecting any text.
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The playhouse pocket-companion, or Theatrical vade-mecum: ...

By: N/A

Price: $1,900.00

Publisher: London: Printed and sold by Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange; J. Wenman, no. 144, Fleet Street; and J. Southern, in St. James's Street, 1779.:

Seller ID: 1905

Octavo. [ 5],14-179,[1]pp. [A]2, B6-P6. Bookseller's advertisement on leaf [A]2v. The text appears to be continuous. Contemporary calf, repaired. ESTC t058085.
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Atlas Elementar. metodo nuevo, breve, facil y demostrativo para aprender la Geografia por si mismo, ó enseñarla aun á los Niños. Con XXII. Mapas illuminados. Un Tratado adjunto de la Esfera, y las l áminas correspondientes, ...

By: N/A

Price: $1,900.00

Publisher: En Madrid: en la Oficina de Pantaleon Aznar, 1786.:

Seller ID: 1928

Octavo. Two parts in one volume. I: [x], 222pp.; II: [ii], 44, [ii]pp. A4-Z4, Aa4-Ff4, A4-F4. "Nuevo tratado de la esfera," has separate title-page and separate pagination. Contemporary sheep, rubbed. With 22 maps and 2 plates of spheres, all hand-colored. With an ink stain in the middle of page one of part one.
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The Chinese Traveller containing a Geographical, Commerical and Political History of China.

By: N/A

Price: $2,900.00

Publisher: London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1775.:

Seller ID: 1946

Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: vii, 267pp.; II: iii, [300]pp. I: a4, A12-L12, M2; II: []2 A12-M12, N6. Second edition. Modern light blue half goatskin. Spine slightly darkened. With 6 plates & map. Map mounted, due to slight damage to gutter & foreedge. Frontispiece of Confucius & folding plate of Vegetation & Chinese language list in vol I. Folding map of China, Silk Manufacture scenes & Catching Water Fowl plates in vol II.
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Category: Eighteenth Century Books