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Some interesting titles which have just come in to stock, in a wide variety of subjects...
BIBLE:
THE HOLY BIBLE,
containing the Old and New Testaments: newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.
3 volumes tall 12mo. Contemporary full black calf gilt, the boards decorated with elegant corner-pieces and a large central block all in gilt. All edges gilt, ruled in red throughout. The Old Testament in the first two volumes, New Testament in the third. Contemporary signature of Kath.Bradford dated 1725 in each volume. A scarce little edition in a fine early binding.
[Not in Herbert].
Oxford: John Baskett,
Published:1725.
Stock No:61765
£750 | Add to basket
GOULD, Robert Freke.
THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY,
Its antiquities, symbols, constitutions, customs etc. Embracing an investigation of the records of the organisations of the fraternity in England, Scotland, Ireland, British Colonies, France, Germany and the United States. Derived from official sources.
3 volumes 4to. The publishers handsome full maroon morocco gilt over heavy bevelled boards, each board decorated in gilt with broad rolls and masonic emblems, corners a trifle rubbed and scraped in places, hinges just cracking at some ends but sound. Pp. 504; 502; 502, all edges gilt, with 41 tissue-guarded photo-etched portraits and 6 other engraved plates (including 2 chromolithographs of arms). A most attractive clean and sound set.
Edinburgh: T.C.& E.C.Jack,
Published:no date [18880s].
Stock No:61704
£450 | Add to basket
DUGDALE, William (Sir).
THE HISTORY OF St.PAUL’S CATHEDRAL IN LONDON.
From its foundation untill these times: extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts. Beautified with sundry prospects of the church, figures of tombes, and monuments.
Folio. Full early 20th C. tan calf, the boards panelled with broad overlapping rolls in blind and gilt rules, the spine with 5 double raised bands (a little rubbed) and lettering piece, gilt dentelles. Pp. 299, (i, blank), (v, index), (i, blank), all edges gilt, complete with a fine portrait of Dugdale etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, title in red and black, 2 further titles, and 44 engraved plates (all but 1 - the Dance of Death - full-page, 11 folding including a plan) all by Hollar. 1 plate (Adams’s plate 34) bound out of order, a tear to plate 7 neatly repaired, a very small amount of ink transfer from the plates to opposing leaves, otherwise a fine copy of the best and rarest edition - “no doubt some of the sheets ... perished in the Great Fire of 1666, perhaps in the very bowels of the building it eulogised.” - Adams.
[Upcott, Vol.2: 694-8; Adams, London Illustrated: pp. 13-17]. The cathedral described by Dugdale was destroyed in the great fire of London only eight years after this book was issued, so the fine engraved illustrations by Wencelaus Hollar of this now lost medieval building are especially valuable, recording also the then recently-added Inigo Jones façade of 1633-1642. This is the first illustrated book devoted to a single historic building in Britain. Hollar's engravings of the shrines and tombs of Saint Erkenwald, John of Gaunt and other soldiers, prelates and statesmen record monuments that had already vanished by 1658, destroyed during the Civil War. The appendix includes John Lydgate's version of the Dance of Death, with an accompanying illustration. A second edition with extended text was issued in 1716, but omits two of Hollar's external views of the cathedral, and four other plates were replaced by copies made by John Harris.
[First edition] printed by Tho.Warren,
Published:1658.
Stock No:61702
£5500 | Add to basket
BELCHER, Edward (Captain Sir).
THE LAST OF THE ARCTIC VOYAGES;
being a narrative of the expedition of H.M.S. Assistance under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54. With notes on the natural history, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas Bell, J. W. Salter, and Lovell Reeve.
2 volumes, tall 8vo. 20th C. three quarters navy blue calf gilt with raised bands and double spine label. Pp. xx, 383; vii, 419, all edges gilt. Complete with 36 engraved plates (including 11 chromolithographs) and 4 charts (3 folding). An excellent clean set.
[Sabin: 4389; Arctic Bibliography: 1241]. Fine account of the last expedition sent out by the British government in search of Sir John Franklin, with a full description of the natural history of the area.
[First edition] Lovell Reeve,
Published:1855.
Stock No:61698
£1800 | Add to basket
HEAPE, Richard.
INSCRIBED AND DATED STONES AND SUNDIALS IN AND ADJOINING THE ANCIENT PARISH OF ROCHDALE.
Commenced 1906, concluded 1925.
Large square 8vo. Original cloth gilt. Pp. x, (ii), 358, untrimmed., with photographic frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed on the flyleaf “presented to H.Joseph Cleworth by the author June 1926”.
A remarkably rare work. The author, of Healey Hall, Rochdale (originally the seat of the Chadwick family), read a number of papers to Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society on similar subjects which were circulated as offprints, but this is his magnum opus. Only 100 copies were printed.
Cambridge: privately printed at The University Press,
Published:1926.
Stock No:61767
£350 | Add to basket