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Almahide, or the Captive Queen. An Excellent New Romance, Never before in English. The whole Work…

A MOORISH ROMANCE FOR THE RESTORATION. Folio [31 x 19.5 cm]. 4 parts in 1. (4), 225pp, (1); 267 pp, (1); 107 pp, (1), 76 pp. Bound in full 18th century calf with gilt-and-red title label on spine; ...

Published by: John Macock for Thomas Dring, London, 1677
US$ 2,500.00
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Ensaio sobre a Critica de Alexandre Pope

THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT COMES TO RIO DE JANEIRO: THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK PRINTED IN BRAZIL, WITH AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF BRAZILIAN ENGRAVING. NO COPY IN AUCTION RECORDS OF THE LAST 50 YEARS. Large ...

Published by: Impressão Regia, Rio de Janeiro, 1810
US$ 3,500.00
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Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Ma[jes]tye is not there

, London, ca. 1706
US$ 850.00
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Portfolio Chinensis: or a Collection of Authentic Chinese State Papers Illustrative of the History of the Present Position of Affairs in China. With a ...

4to (21 x 14 cm). XVI pp. (including half-title), 183 pp, (1), 184-191 pp. Bound in handsome modern half brown morocco with gilt titles on spine. Half-title and title-page strengthened, otherwise ...

, Macau, F. F. de Cruz, 1840
US$ 15,000.00
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Songs of the Sea, and Other Poems.

8vo. vii pp, (1) ff, (9)-126 pp, (1) ff. Publisher’s grey cloth with gilt title on cover. Blindstamps of the Worcester Public Library on numerous leaves, as well as ink stamps of the Victoria ...

, Hastings, F. J. Parsons, Claremont, 1880
US$ 350.00
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The History of Thamas Kouli Kan, Sophi of Persia. Translated from the French.

“Price One Shilling and Six-pence”. 8vo. (1) ff, ii pp, 163 pp, (1). Contemporary gilt-ruled calf (gilt faded) with title (also faded) lettered on spine. Extremities worn, corners bumped and ...

, London, J. Brindley… and C. Corbett, 1740
US$ 850.00
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The Last Days of Pompeii. By the Author of “Pelham,”... In Two Volumes.

12mo. 2 vols in 1. x pp, 11-246 pp, [1 integral blank]; 202 pp. With two (different) woodcut vignettes on titles.Contemporary black calf, rebacked; contents clean and fresh.

, Exeter, New Hampshire, J. & B. Williams, 1839
US$ 350.00
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Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures: Extracted from the Works of the Hon. Robert Boyle. With a Sketch of the Author’s Life.

8vo. xxxi pp, 182 pp, (1). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with black and gilt title label on spine, all edges marbled. Extremities rubbed, joints and head of spine chipped, but binding ...

, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1821
US$ 450.00
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Index to the Passages of Sacred Scripture contained in the Arcana Coelestia… [Bound with:] Index to the Arcana Coelestia; or Heavenly Mysteries contained ...

8vo. [1] ff, 120 pp; [3] ff including 1 leaf of errata, [230] ff. contemporary tree calf with gilt trim, rebacked with modern gilt and red title label, original marbled endpapers preserved. Pages ...

, London, Philanthropic Society and sold for the Editor by the Society for Printing and Publishing the Writings of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg, 1810-1811
US$ 850.00
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[HOLY WAR] Tohfut-ul-Mujahideen, an Historical Work in the Arabic Language.

8vo. (2), (VII)-XVI, 181, (1) pp.; 7, (1) pp. (adverts). Contemporary green cloth with printed publisher's label pasted on spine.

, London, John Murray and Parbury, Allen & Co. for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1833
US$ 4,500.00
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Travels from Aleppo to the city of Jerusalem, and through the most remarkable parts of the Holy Land in 1776.

8vo. 36 pp. Leaves mainly disbound, stored in custom-made black cloth portfolio.

, London & Edinburgh, no printer, 1781
US$ 1,500.00
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Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire, including part of Buckingham, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Bedford and Hertford - shires

ADAM WOLLEY OF ALLEN HILL’S COPY, WITH ANNOTATIONS: THE SECOND COPY IN AMERICA. 8vo. iv pp, 251 pp, (1). Bound in contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, with vellum corners; gilt-and-red ...

Published by: B. White, London, 1778
US$ 1,450.00
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The New Pocket Dictionary of the Dutch and English Languages. In Two Parts… Containing all Words of general Use, and authorized by the best Modern ...

Large 12mo, bound in sixes. [14 x 13 cm]. (266) signed A-Y6, (*)1; (232) including terminal blank, signed B4, C-U6, X4. This copy bound with the English title-page and preface rather than the ...

Published by: T. Vernor and Hood [etc.], London, 1794
US$ 850.00
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Caps Well Fit: or, Select Epigrams, Serious and Comic. By Titus, in Sandgate, and Titus, Everywhere

PRESENTED BY CHARLTON HESTON WHILE FILMING 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS'. 12mo. (5), 6-190 [i.e. 180] pp, (2), with pp. 164-173 omitted in pagination as issued. Bound in mid-19th century half diced calf ...

Published by: T. Angus for T. Fishburn, Newcastle, 1785
US$ 850.00
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Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs, Translated into English Verse: With Notes, Explanatory and Historical; and ...

IRISH-LANGUAGE POETRY, FROM THE LIBRARY OF DANIEL O'CONNELL WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. Large 4to. [26.6 x 21.6 cm]. iii-xxvi pp, 369 pp, (1). Lacking title-page, but extant as such while in the ...

Published by: George Bonham, Dublin, 1789
US$ 650.00
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Spiritual Guide: containing the Chief Means which lead to Perfection. Extracted from the best Authors, by A. C.

ENGLISH CATHOLIC MYSTICISM IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY. 12mo. [15 x 8.8 cm]. xii pp, (4), 244 pp, (4) pp publisher’s catalogue. Bound in 19th century midnight blue calf, gilt; all edges marbled. An ...

Published by: J. Marmaduke, London, 1778
US$ 750.00
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The Doctrine and Practice of Auricular Confession, Elucidated and Enforced

A CATALOGUE OF GEORGIAN ‘BAD BEHAVIOR’. 12mo. [15 x 9 cm]. xii pp including half-title, 203 pp, (1) p publisher’s advertisements of other Catholic publications. Bound in (rather economical) ...

Published by: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Marmaduke, London, 1783
US$ 950.00
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County of Hereford. The List of Magistrates in the Commission of the Peace. Dated December 13, 1858

Unrecorded in COPAC and OCLC. 11 pp. With numerous manuscript corrections.

Published by: Printed at the Journal Office, Hereford, 1860
US$ 95.00
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The Political Testament of Cardinal Julius Alberoni. Exhibiting a General View of the Politics and Interests of the several Courts of Europe. Extracted from ...

FAKE NEWS AND QUESTIONABLE SOURCES IN MID-18TH CENTURY EUROPE. “The public, by being frequently deceived, are grown extremely distrustful… they keep themselves on their guard against those ...

Published by: j. Nourse, London, 1753
US$ 550.00
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[Cover title:] Minstrel Songs. The Best Nigger Book Ever Issued.

Large 8vo (212 x 142 mm). (1), 2-128 pp. Stapled in illustrated wrappers (rear wrapper lacking) featuring 'The Coster Coon, or the White-Eyed Kaftir'; full-page steel cut of the same on p. 1 as ...

, London, R. March & Co., [ca. 1900?]
US$ 800.00
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Whittington and his Cat.

A LARGE-FORMAT LINEN-BACKED CHILDREN's BOOK. ‘Super-royal 8vo’ [25 x 17.5 cm]. 8 pp on (8) ff including illustrated covers; all leaves backed with linen. With 8 half-page wood-engravings in ...

Published by: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, London, ca. 1860
US$ 450.00
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The Vision, or a Prospect of Death, Heav'n and Hell…

“THE PALACE’S SLIMEY WALLS WERE PLAISTER’D O’ER / WITH FAETID EARTH, TEMPER’D WITH HUMANE GORE…”. Large 8vo [19.5 x 12.5 cm]. (20), 28 pp; (4), 29-58 pp; (4), 59-96 pp; (4), 97-130 ...

Published by: Andrew Bell, London, 1702
US$ 1,450.00
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Bourignianism Detected: or the Delusions and Errors of Antonia Bourignon, and her Growing Sect. Which may also Serve for a Discovery of all other ...

TWO EARLY SCOTTISH ATTACKS ON THE 'GROWING SECT' OF ANTONIA BOURIGNON. 2 vols in 1, 4tos. [203 x 150 mm]. (4), 76 pp; (2), 61 pp, (1) p publisher’s advertisements. Bound in 19th century (?) ...

Published by: C. Brome…; W. Keblewhite…; and H. Hindmarsh…, London, 1698
US$ 1,250.00
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Remarkable Collection of 35 Fraternal Organization Pamphlets, 1830-1877, Most Unrecorded in OCLC

PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A FULL DESCRIPTION. In 1897 W. S. Hardwood observed that more than one in four adult men belonged to at least one of the nation’s 70,000 fraternal lodges, whose total ...

Published by: Various printers, Abington (MA), Albany, Allentown (PA), Bath (ME), Bordentown (PA), Boston, Fredonia (NY), Haverhill (MA), Indiana (PA), Ithaca, Lancaster (PA), Lancaster (OH), Marlton (NJ), Montpelier (VT), New York City, Norristown (PA), Philadelphia, Portland (OR), 1830-1877
US$ 4,500.00
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