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Folio. (6), 136 leaves. Original blind-stamped leather boards. Woodcut device on the title page. With the printed slip pasted on the title verso granting a four year privilege, and dated February 9, 1566, Brussels. Woodcut initials and borders at the beginning of works. Contents: Epitaphium Thomae Mori, Utopiae libri duo, Epigrammata, Ex Luciano conversa, Declamatio Thomae Mori Lucianicae respondens, Historia Richardi...tertii, Responsio ad convita Martini Lutheri, Expositio Passionis Domini, Quod pro fide mors fugienda non est, & Precatio ex Psalmis. Second edition of the works in Latin, preceded by an edition in 1563, and an English edition of 1557. Inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1573, and bookplate of former owner. The corners and edges of the boards are well worn and the original tooling has somewhat perished. There is an early (18th cent?) repair of the spine consisting of a piece of thinly pared leather surrounding the spine, tooled in gilt, and with a lettering label, gilt, affixed. Light dampstain affecting the top margin of the first 30 leaves. Holes in the foredge where cloth ties once were. The foredge bears the title and a floral decoration in a contemporary hand. A very good copy in a poor, but original, binding.
(Works) Thomae Mori Angli...Omnia, quae hucusque ad manus nostras peruenerunt, Latina Opera:...
More, Thomas
Louvanii: Joannem Bogardum, 1565.
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Two large 8vo volumes. (4),lxiii,(3),xxxix,(1)383,(1);(4)495,(1)pp. Printed from Caxton's edition of 1485. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate of England. First edition with Southey's notes. Each volume with a large woodcut on the title page showing a knight and a dragon. Engraved gothic and figural initials. Bound to style in half navy blue morocco. Spines in six compartments with raised bands; deep blue leather lettering pieces, gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Text blocks lightly foxed else this is a very good set in a fine binding. This is the ninth printing of Malory, after Caxton (1485), De Worde (1498 & 1529), Copland (1557), East (ca. 1575), Stansby (1634) and two 12mo. editions in 1816. This was the first modern text of Malory which attempted to recapture the text as it was first published by Caxton. All contemporary advertisements indicate that this edition consisted only of 250 copies with 50 copies on large paper, though there is some suggestion from notes in the publisher's books that as many as 1000 copies may have been printed. Either way, this is a scarce but important printing.
The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur; of His Noble Knights of the Rounde Table, Theyr Merveyllous Enquests & Adventures ...
Malory, Sir Thomas
London: Longman, Hurst, 1817.
Price: $5,000.00
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Folio. (vi),251,(xxi),52,(xxxvi)pp. Title page in red and black. Beautifully printed on laid paper with ample margins. Engraved head and tail pieces; index. Contemporary full calf; spine in 7 compartments with raised bands. Old theological college stamp on the front blank. Edges and spine tips worn; hinges neartly repaired; lettering label perished; else a very good copy and near fine internally. The first and only edition of John Lewis's History, written in the early part of the 17th century but not published until 1729. Contains a considerable anount of material on King Arthur. The main history is followed by Lhuyd's Breviary of Britayne in the translation of Thomas Twine. Rare and important. ESTC T113293.
The History of Great-Britain, from the first Inhabitants thereof, 'till the Death of Cadwalader...: and of the Kings of Scotland to Eugene V. and also a short Account of the Kings, Dukes, and Earls of Bretagne...in which are several Pieces of Taliessin, an antient British Poet, and a Defence of the Antiquity of the Scottish Nation ... to this is added The Breviary of Britayne, written in latin by Humphrey Lhuyd ... and Englished by Thomas Twyne....
Lewis, John; Humphrey Lhuyd; and Thomas Twine
London: F. Gyles, et al, 1729.
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The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britain:: With His Life and Death, and all His Glorious Battles, Likewise, the Noble Acts and Heroic Deeds of His Valiant Knights of the Round Table
Malory, Thomas
London: Walker and Edwards, 1816.
Price: $3,500.00
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The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britain:: With His Life and Death, and all His Glorious Battles, Likewise, the Noble Acts and Heroic Deeds of His Valiant Knights of the Round Table.
Malory, Thomas
London: Walker and Edwards, 1816.
Price: $2,500.00
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First edition. Volume I. 4to. vii,[1],298,[2];pp., plus 23 (of 24) colored lithographic plates, and uncolored engraved portrait of Charles Willson Peale . Engraved title page. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked to style. in matching leather, and with the original spine laid-in. Lacking plate 18, the Rail. Text is brown and spotted, the plates less so with very good coloring. Several pages have been expertly remargined at the fore edge (no loss) else this is a very good copy. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1832. Very rare and among the first American books to be illustrated with lithographic plates. The Cabinet of Natural History was started by brothers Thomas and John Doughty in Philadelphia. It was issued in monthly parts and ran from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834 However, despite its relatively short life, it left behind an important legacy: Bennett calls it the "first major sport print color plate book produced in America," the text includes firsthand accounts of hunting expeditions of all kinds and are among the earliest of their kind. The plates include the "first colored sporting prints made in America" (Henderson), and most importantly the work includes a significant number of original lithographs by one of the great names in 19th-century American art. The first volume (made up of twelve parts ) was certainly the work of both Doughty brothers, with virtually all the plates being the work of Thomas. "Artistically, Vol. 1 is much the most important, for it contains the original plates by Thos. Doughty, famous painter and founding father of the Hudson River School" - Bennett. Indeed the plates in the later volumes are from a multitude of hands and sources. "The coloured plates are important - being the first coloured sporting prints made in America. There is only one earlier American book with coloured plates that I know of, and that is a treatise on Medical Botany - published in Philadelphia in 1817. Many of these coloured plates of animals and birds are charming, the colouring is soft, correct as to details, and all are well drawn" - Gee.
The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports: Volume I.
Doughty, John and Thomas
Philadelphia: T. & T. Doughty, 1830.
Price: $2,500.00
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Poems of The Past and Present
Hardy, Thomas
London: Harper & Brothers, (1902).
Price: $2,000.00
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8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary marbled paper boards nicely rebacked in quarter leather, red leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064.
The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:: Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles.
Heywood, Thomas
Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812.
Price: $2,000.00
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8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary half lfeathyer, marbled paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt; black leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064. With the armorial bookplate of Sir William Grace.
The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:: Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles.
Heywood, Thomas
Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812.
Price: $2,000.00
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2 volumes. 4to. Only edition. (vi),491,(i); (iv),516pp. plus 20pp of Index and 1 page of additions and corrections. Contemporary full calf; spines in 6 compartments with raised bands. Lettering piece has perished on Volume 1 and is chipped on Volume 2. Hinges neatly repaired; corners and edges worn; some contemporary notes, else a very good set. 'Dr. Birch has formed his narrative of the most striking facts in the numerous letters of the Bacon family....' --Lowndes, p. 197. ESTC T144344.
Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... In Which the Secret Intrigues of her Court ... Are Particularly Illustrated ....
Birch, Thomas
London: A. Millar, 1754.
Price: $1,500.00
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8vo. 62pp. Usually attributed to Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761), a Church of England bishop. Bound to style in quarter leather, marbled paper boards, leather lettering label, gilt. The title page has a repaired closed tear (no loss); lacking the half title and the single page appendix sometimes present. A very good copy. Very scarce. ESTC T78656. Sabin 95318. Roscoe A584 (1).
The Theory and History of Earthquakes. Containing, I. A rational account of their causes and effects; ... II. A particular and authentic history of those which have happened in these kingdoms, ... III. Some seasonable reflections on the two late earthquakes, ...
Sherlock, Thomas, attrib.
London: Printed for and sold by J. Newbery; R. Baldwin; J. Brindley; G. Woodfall; and M. Sheepey,, ca. 1750.
Price: $1,500.00
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First critical edition. 4to. Three volumes of varying thickness, uniformly bound. xviii, 861,(3); 230, 2); 338(2)pp. Recent quarter dark brown crushed morocco, red morocco lettering pieces, gilt, top edges gilt. Cloth boards. Volume One contains the facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, glossary and bibliography of the Morte d'Arthur; and Volume Three contains Andrew Lang's introductory essay as well as Sommer's notes on the Arthurian sources. FAcsimile of Caxton's page 75 in Volume One. Three folding charts present in Volume Three. A fine set.
Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The Original Edition of William Caxton
Malory, Sir Thomas. (H. Oskar Sommer, Editor; Andrew Lang, contributor)
London: David Nutt, 1889-91.
Price: $1,250.00
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A New Treatise of Fluxions
Simpson, Thomas
London: Thos. Gardner, et al., 1737.
Price: $1,250.00
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A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D., London
(Campbell, Thomas)
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777.
Price: $1,200.00
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The History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II: With a Preliminary Discourse on the Antient State of That Kingdom'
Leland, Thomas
London: J. Nourse, et al., 1773.
Price: $1,000.00
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8vo. viii,324pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Merlin beneath a tree. Contemporary straight grained morocco spine and corners, gilt spine title and tooling, paste-paper boards, marbled endpapers. Title page printed in black and red. Index. The Preface, 'To the Reader' is signed by Thomas Heywood. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. First printed in 1641 and later reprinted in 1812; this printing is nonetheless scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064, mentions only the 1641 and 1812 printings.
The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:: Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles.
[Heywood, Thomas]
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1813.
Price: $600.00
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An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard
(Gray, Thomas)
London: J. Dodsley, 1771.
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Le Morte Darthur
Malory, Sir Thomas
Boston: The Medici Society, n.d., ca. 1920.
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8vo. (xl),252,(ii),2,257-397,(iii),397-529;(xix)pp. Frontispiece portrait by Maria Beale. Contemporary full sprinkled calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; the compartments with simple gilt tools; red leather lettering piece, gilt. In Latin. Old neat repairs to hinges and the tip of the spine, light overall wear, else a very good copy. Index. Important collection of the works of the Father of English Medicine, though Meynell notes that this collection does not include 'Processus Integri'. Meynell, 9.2 ESTC T136718.
Thomae Sydenham, M. D. Opera Universa ....
Sydenham, Thomas
London: J. Heptinstall, 1705.
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8vo. (4),(120),(2)pp. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full crush brown morocco; spine in six compartments, gilt; gilt concentric rectangular borders on the upper and lower boards, with similar gilt inner dentelles. all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. A trace of rubbing to the binding else a fine copy. Northrup No. 52. ESTC t136298.
Poems by Mr. Gray
(Gray, Thomas)
London: J. Dodsley, 1768.
Price: $500.00
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