By several hands (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition, recently rebound in the style of the late 17th century in brown calf with discrete tooling, spine plain with five raised bands and new end papers. Containing 234 plates and three maps as called for, The plates and maps are in good+ order, but some of the gatherings in the Old Testament are bound out of order: 60/61 is followed by 66/67, 64/65, 62/63 and 68 then 69 is followed by 74/75, 72/73 70/71 and 76 but both the plates and their accompanying text are adjacent to each other. Damage and considerable loss to pp 123/124 otherwise text clean and bright. On the reverse of the frontis piece in a seventeenth/eighteenth century hand a statistical account of the Bible - numbers of chapters, verses, words and letters (total 3,566,480) etc. etc. - a note at the end says "Three years was taken to complete this account" (probably the work of Thomas Addenbrooke) the frontis piece is by G. Freman engraved by J. Kip, the printed title page has the first or early ownership of Thomas Addenbrooke (the following page gives a list of the sculptures and discourses with the names of the patrons of same, the dedication by Richard Blome is to the Worshipful Jeffrey Jeffreys, followed by the Preface to the Reader, in all 10 pages of unpaginated front matter followed by 424 pages paginated (illustrations not included in pagination). [QP].…

Hard. Zustand: Fair. `A new edition, corrected, with notes. Fair. A set made up from several different editions, in slightly differing calf bindings. One board detached and another becoming so. Foxed and toned. Title page to volume 1 missing small chunk from edge. Free front endpaper of 6th volume is detached. Pretty engraved vignette repeated to title page of each volume, plus the odd chapter head vignette in occasional volumes. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. First Edition. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1764. First edition, 1764. Very worn copy of this two-volume work important mainly for having the engraved bookplate of American patriot Jeremiah Wadworth at the front of each volume. Wadsworth was a merchant and sea captain who represented Connecticut in the Continental Congess, and later, the US House of Representatives. The bookplate appears in Allen's American Bookplates as the first full page illustration. Full sheep, 310 + 307, [5] pages. Covers somewhat scorched and heavily chipped, spine coverings absent, frontis illustration lacking, text blocks shaky, dampstaining to top edges near the end of the first volume, worming to the bottom edges near the end of both volumes, pages age-toned. Bookplates, which are mounted on the pastedowns, are somewhat age-toned but unchipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A lovely early eighteenth century copy of Ovid's Heroides, illustrated with twelve engraved plates. A very smart edition of Roman poet Ovid's 'Heroides', a collection of fifteen epistolary poems, arranged in the format of aggrieved heroines of Roman and Greek mythology addressing their heroic lovers.Translated into English by 'several hands', including Pope, Dryden, Tate, Behn and Otway.Illustrated with twelve engraved plates. Collated, complete.ESTC Citation No. T99266 With seven pages of advertisements to the rear. Lacking the final advertisement leaf.With the bookplate of antiquarians William and Marianne Salloch to the front pastedown. William and Marianne Salloch were founding members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), with William serving as ABAA President from 1970 to 1972. Salloch"s private collection of books about books was exhibited at the Grolier Club in 1976, and again at the J. Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, in 1984. Rebound in quarter calf, with marbled paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with tide mark to tail of leaf A3, I9 and K1, and to tail of final three advertisement leaves. Light worming to head of first eighteen leaves, not affecting text. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4 volumes, just back from the book-bindery. Newly cased in full green cloth with large volume numbers 1-4 on the spines, and the word 'Quixote' stamped boldly in gold on the front covers. New headbands and endpapers. This professional binding has resurrected the very good text blocks (covers were all absent when we acquired it) in an attractive (and interesting) set for the shelf and for use. Also, we are advised by the binder, it is a very small matter to remove these case bindings and return to your own binder for whatever style of binding you prefer. 4 volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 dated 1700. Volumes 3 and 4 dated 1703. This is the first of the London: Sam Buckley editions. Volume 1 has unpaginated prefaces and dedications, then 327 pages + single advertisement on verso of last page. Volume 2 continues pagination to page 660. Volume 3 has 342 pages. Volume 4 continues to pagination to page 722, then jumps to pages numbered 221-232. This is a typographical error in the printing, as the text and story continue correctly through this mistake in the pagination. (A close comparison between this edition and others reveals compounding mistakes in the chapter numbering of this edition, as well - they are numbered 70. 69. 71.73. 74. (but the text remains correct). 15 folding plates -- Volume 1 has plates at pages 26, 134, 146 (which is misnumbered 126), 176, 235. Volume 2 has plates at 563 and 596 (upper corner chipped off, not affecting image). Volume 3 has plates at 101, 162, 259, 291, 339. Volume 4 has plates at 400, 628, and 651. The text blocks are tight and clean, with some (even) fading from age. Margins are trimmed close, especially at the top where some of the headers themselves are trimmed. The volumes measure just under 4 inches by just over 6 inches. Don Quixote was originally published in 1605 and 1615, in Spanish. The first English translation was in 1620. This version with Peter (Pierre) Motteux's name on the title page beneath Cervantes, was first published in 1700 and 1703 (which is what we have here) and then reprinted several times in the next decades. The Motteux translation was vastly superior to the 17th century ones, and remained in favor and in print for nearly 300 years. The title page take pains to credit the translation to 'several hands' and to name Motteux as the publisher, but Motteux himself was almost certainly the main translator. Later editions of this set can be found with 16 plates -- this set has only 15 (unless I've somehow missed something despite careful and repeated collation.) Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. (located in the vault, top right).…

Full Calf. Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. [viii], 324, [4] pp. Full brown calf with raised bands, red leather title labels and gilt lettering to the spine. Each volume is wrapped in protective brown paper with printed labels taped to the spines. Endpapers marbled. With illustration to the first page of text in each volume. Rubbing and chipping to the leather at the spines and boards and splitting to the hinges of each volume. Some off-setting to the text throughout, darkening to the edges of the front and endmatter of each volume & pencil markings to the first free endpaper of volume 1. Edited by George Pearch, this collection of poetry by various authors is a supplement to the collection edited by Robert Dodsley under the same title, first published in 1748. 8vo.…