Moore’s arithmetick in two books.
Moore, Sir Jonas Second edition 1660. 8vo. This edition scarcer on the market than the first. Full title : Moor's arithmetick in two books. The first treating of the vulgar arithmetick. The second of arithmetick in species or algebra. To which are added two treatises: 1. A new contemplation geometrical upon the. ellipsis. 2. The two first books of Mydorgius his conical sections, analized by. W. Oughtred, Englished and completed with cuts (A canon of the squares and cubes of all numbers under 1000.). London: J.G. for Nath. Brook, 1660This copy lacking the general title, portrait frontis and 2 folding plates. The text is otherwise complete and 5 folding engraved plates are present with one of them loose. The precise collation is :Three blanks to front and to rear, the first and last excised, the others all with extensive contemporary mathematical annotations in ink.Title ("Algebra Arithmetick")Title ("Contemplationes Geometrica")[iv] (Dedications)224pp; 95pp; 33pp; 39pp; 48ppOF the 5 folding plates two have fold tears without loss and all have minor ink annotations.Contemporary ink calculations to free endpapers (one at rear defective) and some to text, a little browned, some stains, a few marginal defects, contemporary calf, slightly worn and rubbed, but generally very good and all original.[Wing M2564]- $476
- $476
American Scenery; Or Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
Bartlett W Henry & N. P. Willis Two volumes in five 4to Divisions (i.e complete), uniformly bound in original pictorial blindstamped cloth, gilt. Complete as called for with 117 steel engraved views, single-page map (correct as list), general titles, contents and adverts bound at end of div. 5, all edges in gilt. Intermittent light spotting mainly to guards but to some plates too. Volume 1 upper hinge broken, other bindings all good.- $507
- $507
Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis libri XXXVII 2 parts in 3 vols
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII, 3 volumes complete. Woodcut title vignette, 12 engraved plates (1 folding), initials and ornaments, very slight toning, contemporary full vellum gilt. A very attractive set.- $1,008
- $1,008
Traite d’Horlogerie contenant tout ce qui est necessaire pour bien connoitre et pour regler les pendules et les montres.
Lepaute, Jean Andre Second Edition 1767 Paris. Later half chestnut morocco over buckram, additional end blanks (retaining originals), title and 6 or so plates with light marginal spotting (see photos), textblock clean. Bound without half title else complete copy with 17 folding plates xxvii 308pp xxxvi 12 (ads dated 1827), and 17 folding plates bound at rear. Lepaute was one of the most important innovators in clockmaking in 18th century France, and was responsible for the pin-wheel escapement and one-wheel clock.- $888
- $888
A Selection Of Games At Chess, Actually Played In London, By The Late Alexander Mcdonnell, The Best English Player With His Principal Contemporaries
Walker, William Greenwood Olive, blind-stamped cloth, blue & white patterned end-papers. Upper hinge broken, splitting to ends of spine. Internally excellent, clean and bright.- $178
- $178
The Chess Congress of 1862. A Collection of the Games Played, and a Selection of the Problems sent in for Competition
Lowenthal, Johann Jacob (editor) Third edition, a close to Fine copy in publisher's red cloth with gilt chessboard to cover. Yellow endpapers with some staining to wers (photo) short split to upper inner joint, else Fine.- $380
- $380
Les Stratagemes des Echecs Part I
Montigny (Alfred de) First edition in French. Part 1 only without the 120 engraved prints in Part II. Upper cover broken and held by stitching. Contemporary full leather, decorated spine with leather label. Complete 92pp with hand coloured diagram in gold, red and black.- $634
- $634
Gioachino Greco on the Game of Chess?Ä
Greco (Gioachino).- Lewis (William, translator ) First Edition 1819 Contemporary red cloth, patches of loss and wear to spine and corners but the bindings reamin strong and square. Bookplate of Robert Stuart. Complete copy ix [2] 148pp with original blanks fron tand rear. Decnet clean and bright copy of a scarce work.- $380
- $380
The Costume of The Original Inhabitants of the British Islands From the Earliest Periods to the Sixth Century
First edition 1815. Large Paper copy with wide margins with text leaves 38.5 x 27.5 cms and plates all 2.5cms narrower. Lacks the frontispiece, moderate to heavy spotting limited to the end leaves only, text and plates clean and bright. Plates generally in Fine condition with clean fresh hand colouring. Contemporary half calf, lightly worn to corners. The noble game of chess. Containing rules and instructions, for the use of those who have already a little knowledge of this game.
First and only edition 1735. Later half leather, endpapers renewed, blind tooled with raised bands and leather spine label, marbled endpapers. viii 78pp 12mo. Title with tipped in manuscript note verso (see provenance below), with leeching to top half of title, else a Fine clear and bright copy. RareProvenance : Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 ?Äì 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages. Holographic quotation, signed to verso of title.This rare work by Bertin (1690s ?Äì c. 1736) was one of the first about the game of chess in English. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess call this book "the first worthwhile chess book in the English language". B. Goulding Brown, writing in the December 1932 British Chess Magazine, called it the first original English chess book. Four French medical texts bound in one : Bienville Nymphomanie ou Traite de la Fureur Uterine AND Lordat Reflexions sur la N? cessit? de la Physiologie dans l’?âtude et l’Exercice de la M? decine AND Bally De la Gangr? ne AND Minvielle Dissertation sur la Respiration ALL FIRST EDITIONS
Four first edition French medical texts bound as one :A. Lordat (Jacques) Reflexions sur la Necessite de la Physiologie dans l'Etude et l'Exercice de la Medecine, Montpellier, F.Seran, Gras & Coucourdan, An V [1796] B. Bally (Victor) De la Gangr? ne., ink inscription to title, Montpellier, Fontenay-Picot, [?1797]C. Minvielle (Bernard) Dissertation sur la Respiration., ink signature to title, Montpellier, G.Izar & A.Ricard, [1797]D. Bienville (J.D.T.) Nymphomanie ou Trait? de la Fureur Ut? rine, half-title with small marginal water-staining to upper outer corner, ink spatters to final leaf, Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1771 General condition is excellent. The first with cropped pagination of a few leaves. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt in compartments with floral motifs, rubbed, with light wear to covers 12mo. Moscow Chess Congress, Feb 14 to Mar 14 1935
Numbered limited edition of Tournament Books, Number 7, Volume I and II. Both volumes limited to 240 these numbered 90 and 154. Original blue cloth titled to spines, previous oinwer's name to free endpaper, toning to blanks else Fine straight and clean copies. Scarce. 4to Printed recto only. [5 ff] 49ff and [5ff] 49-99 ff Eight Plays As Performed at The Theatres Royal Bound in One Volume c. 1815
First edition - eight plays by famous playwrights, bound together into one volume. Attractive modern half calf, gilt title and patterned boards. Each play with individual title page and engraved frontispiece. Internally clean and bright. 32moPlays include:The Critic by R. B. SheridanThe Devil to Pay by C. CoffeyThe Deuce is in Him by George ColmanThe Apprentice by Arthur MurphyThe Guardian by David GarrickMiss in Her Teens by David GarrickFortune's Frolic by John Till AllinghamAll The World's a Stage by Isaac Jackman Fred Reinfeld Limited Editions, Volume VIII: Kemeri International Tournament 1937
Numbered limited edition of Fred Reinfeld Limited Editions, Volume VIII: Kemeri International Tournament 1937 numbered 123. Original red cloth paper title to upper cover. Re-cased with silver reinforcing tape to inner hinges, else Fine, straight and clean copiy. 4to 124 ff The elements of algebra in a new and easy method, 1st ed
First Edition 1742 woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-piece, spine a little rubbed collates complete 8vo (201 x 119mm.), xxiv, 328pp. note 1p adverts to verso of end paper before title.Provenance Earls of Macclesfield Library {bookplate and several blindstamps}. Il Gioco de gli Scacchi.
First edition of one of the scarcest early Italian chess manuals, and the first book printed in Militello, at the private press of Prince Francesco Branciforte. Woodcuts of chessboard on title and page 531; large woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Francesco Branciforte, Prince of Pietrapersia and Marquis of Militello, on title verso. 556 pp, [87] pages. 4to, 196 x 144 mm, small marginal tear with loss to kk7 (1cm). Bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments with raised bands (joints cracked), all edges marbled. Additional to the provenance noted below there are a few other ink or pencil names or references on the preliminaries. Generally in excellent condition. A rare and important early work on chess. Just 5 sold at auction since WW2 (including the Christie's sale of this copy.Provenance : Robert Blass (stamp on blank), Tetschner Bibliothek (stamp on title); Joannes Joseph S.R.J. Comes de Thun (bookplate and shelf- mark). More photographs or internet viewing available on request The Nursery Alice
First published Edition Second Issue priced at One Shilling . This edition is printed on white, rather than toned, paper; the price of 'Four Shillings' above the imprint is changed to 'One Shilling and the illustration on page 34 of Alice and the Cheshire Cat shows Alice with her back towards the reader and not in profile. Coloured frontispiece and 19 colour illustrations after John Tenniel, 3pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. Occasional light finger soiling, closed 2-inch tear to p.45, several leaves to rear with tiny corner clip, Original pictorial cloth-backed boards by E. Gertrude Thomson extremities slightly rubbed, minor soiling to rear. Provenance: Eileen G. Hallibone - gift inscription on the front free endpaper.Note this issue sometimes referred to as the second issue of the second edition, although Carroll rejected the entire run of 10000 of the true first edition prior to publication. Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus. Speciatim prout usurpatur apud Arabes, Persas, Indos, & Chinenses, cum harum Gentium Schematibus variis & curiosis, & Militum lusilium Figuris
First edition 1694. Three parts in one. 8vo 16.5 x 10 cms. A complete copy collates : lxxii 184pp iv 71pp xvi 278pp with all three folding plates and illustrations in text. Later vellum with morocco spine label. Gilt embossed emblem of Edinburgh Chess Club to upper cover. Tipped in presentation inscription to blank " Presented to the Edinburgh Chess Club by Rev A Horsburgh 4th June 1901" A few ink stamps of the Club to margins. Generally in close to Fine condition. Rare. The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Translation of G. Rawlinson. Revised & Annotated by A. W. Lawrence. To which is added a Life of Herodotus and the Behistun Inscription.
First Edition thus. The History., translated by G.Rawlinson, edited by A.W.Lawrence, number 548 of 675 copies, half-title with wood-engraved vignette, title in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by V. Le Campion, 9 maps at end, most double-page, original blue-stained vellum-backed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, vellum spine a little faded but giltwork bright. Bookplate of Anthony and Felicty Rumbold. Small folio, Nonesuch Press, 1935. The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions.
2nd Edition 1653. Full title 'The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With divers Chymical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof.Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent Discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins : with the vertues and use thereof. London, printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653. Title in woodcut typographic border and with woodcut of an ear of summer barley to verso, woodcut illustrations, head-pieces and decorative initials, [8], 232pp, title page, first text leaf and final 3 text leaves toned with some marginal fraying not affecting text or printed areas, final taxt leaf more frayed than others mentioned and repaired and laid down to tissue paper; title page with neat reinforcement to inner margin, couple of small old inkstains to p.24, toning towards outer edgeof margins of leaves throughout, small 4to,Bound in attractive modern quarter navy blue morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards. First published in 1594 this compendium of useful household information including instructions on storing fruit and flowers, 'how to carry gold in a most secret manner', brewing, 'how to speak by signs onely', stealing bees, preventing drunkenness, 'keeping oysters good ten or twelve days', distilling, alchemy, a portable pump, oilskin clothing, sign language, bridge building, fishing, reviving colours of old pictures and much more. Scarce Two rare works on false teeth : Rapport sur les Dents Artificielles Terro-M? talliques . AND [Stitched with the same author’s:] R? ponse . a la Brochure de M. Dubois-Foucou .
Two rare works on false teeth (see note below). Full titles "Rapport sur les Dents Artificielles Terro-M? talliques . Extrait du Journal des Arts, des Sciences, de Litt? rature et de Politique." [Paris: 1808]. 14-pages. [Stitched with the same author's:] "R? ponse . a la Brochure de M. Dubois-Foucou . Intitul? e: Expos? de nouveau Proc? d? s pour la confection des Dents." [Paris: 1809]. 12-pages. 8vo (210 x 140mm). Stitched. Contained in a modern green buckram wallet. The first with undated title with date of publication written in later ink at foot of first page, though date printed 14 March 1808 to last text leaf. Title of the first work toned margins and with small irregular paper repair(?), else a Very Good and well preserved pair of unbound pamphlets.Notes : the first work is a Report of a commission appointed by the Paris Athenaeum to assess Fonzi's work. Guerini describes it as "an historical document of capital importance concerning the invention of mineral teeth" Garrison-Morton 3679.2; Guerini (Fonzi), pages 85-96 (translating the report in full); Worldcat locates 5 copies worldwideThe second work is the first response of Fonzi to Dubois-Foucou (Napoleon's dentist) attacking him as part of their ongoing rivalry. Worldcat locates only the Boston Athanaeum and Utrecht copies. The date is estimated as 1808 but could be year later.Both are very rare in commerce