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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 101 pages. 5.50x0.23x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Issue #1. Original publisher's stapled sheets, Very Good with toning, light wear and a check mark to the top upper corner of the first sheet. A fanzine intended for the February, 1948 FAPA mailing.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. General title and frontis, iv - 778pp + (18pp) index, .at end of July 2nd title" Extraordinary" Poems Bound with engraved monthly title pages and the general title some erratic pagination collates complete on catch words. Some very occasional ink notes to margins. Contents clean and tight. Bound in contemporary full tan calf tight. chipping to the head and tail of the spine some scuffing to the boards in places, a very good copy. …

Folio. Full dark brown diced calf with decorative diamond shaped design within octagonal double-rules, both with small decorative circles gilt at points, raised bands on spine in gilt-ruled compartments, dark brown title label gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto blank, verso frontispiece portrait of Mace by W. Faithorne after Hen. Cooke), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] ("The Epistle Dedicatory"), [iii] ("An Epistle to all Divine Readers"), [v] ("The Preface"), [ii] ("A Short Epistle of Thankfulness, To all my Noble Subscribers"), [iv] ("The Subscribers Names"), [i] (blank), [i] ("A Short Epistle to the Reader, concerning the Authors several Reasons for Writing This Book"), [i] ("An Advertisement, Concerning the Value and Price of the Book"), 272 pp. Musical examples throughout. With decorative woodcut initials and headpieces. With a list of distinguished subscribers including [Sir] Isaac Newton ("Mr's of Arts, and Fellows"), James Lawes and Thomas Lawes ("Masters in Musick"). With three full-page engraved plates, as follows: - A 50-stringed lute that Mace called a dyphone, or double-lute (a combination lute/theorbo) designed to compensate for the author's increasing deafness (p. 32) - A "Description of a Musick-Room" demonstrating Mace's interest in acoustic challenges (p. 239) - A table organ, together with a considerable quantity of lute music in tablature, some composed by Mace (p. 243) With early signature "B. Barker" to head of preliminary leaf and dense manuscript notes in an early hand (in all likelihood Barker's) to verso of free front endpaper and blank recto of following leaf regarding "the Fingerboard of the Lute," complete with illustration depicting the "Open Strings" to the "9th Fret." Together with an oblong octavo leaf in early manuscript identified as being "The Notation from The Tablature, p. 121 His Mistress." Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; skillfully rebacked; endpapers slightly worn and stained. Minor wear' light uniform browning; p. 154 mis-numbered 159 and p. 159 mis-numbered 154. A very good, wide-margined, and crisp copy overall, with strong impression. First Edition. Cortot p. 117. Gregory-Bartlett p. 160. Hirsch I, 334. Wolffheim I, 793. RISM Ecrits pp. 523-524. With portrait in first state (distinguished by the use of "Clericus" instead of "Clerici" at foot). Mace was a noted English lutenist, composer, singer, and writer. This important source of information on music in England during the second and third quarters of the 17th century is written in a highly readable, idiosyncratic style, presented in three parts. The first discusses psalm singing and the music of the parochial and cathedral churches; the second, and major, part of the work is entitled The Lute made Easie, and discusses the choosing of an instrument, tuning, repairing, performing on, and composing for the lute, with extensive musical examples and works for performance in lute tablature; the third part concerns the viol and includes a discussion of performance practice of consort music.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A fascinating account of the cotton trade and related activities in Manchester in the early nineteenth century. Details of the inventions, technical improvements and the inventors. To which is included the antiquities of the town, a description of Manchester and Salford and an account of the late improvements. v, 302pp, xii being the list of subscribers.Frontis plate and vignettes within the text.…

First Edition. Binding copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; unnumbered pages. Subjects; Stenography. 18th century writings. Short Hand. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Binding copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; unnumbered pages. Subjects; Stenography. 18th century writings. Short Hand. 1 Kg.

Zustand: Fair. - 16mo. 5-3/4 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide. Printed gray boards titled and decorated in black on the front cover with an advertisement for the author's book "Thuanus" on the rear cover. The rubbed and stained covers are detached and the spine is lacking. 106 & [2] pages. There is some very minor occasional foxing and a chip to the top edge of one leaf. RARE. WorldCat locates only 1 copy, that in the Styberg Library in Evanston, Illinois."This work, though diminutive in size, is one, before which many ponderous quartos, and overgrown folios, might justly hide their unwieldy heads. In the margins of many of his pages, the author has quoted his authorities, unless he refers to facts, the truth of which is universally acknowledged. That he espouses the Protestant cause, he openly avows, and glories in having an opportunity of lifting his voice in favor of the doctrines which reformation inculcates." - [Quoted from a review in "The Imperial magazine, or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical knowledge", volume 4, 1822].A disciple of John Wesley, the author Josiah Henry Walker (1777-1843) was the Wesleyan preacher in Walsingham, England.…

4to, pp. [iv], 20; a little browned, and last leaf dusty; in modern wrappers. First edition of what is effectively a posthumous oratorio by Handel: this work was put together a few years after his death (he had died in 1759), using his music and versifying appropriate biblical texts, in the manner of works completed by Handel during his lifetime. It has been suggested that the author of this was Edward Toms, about whom little is known, except that he did assist in the compilation of a similar oratorio, adapted by Samuel Arnold from music by Handel, and titled Omnipotence, in 1773. The leaf of preface in this copy has been partly obscured: the last of three paragraphs, which appeals for subscribers to an unnamed charity, has been blanked out by a piece of paper, pasted over intentionally, at the time of publication. It is not obvious what the charity can be: presumably it is not the Foundling Hospital, for which Handel worked so much in his lifetime, as the text refers to the 'Claims of Widows and Orphans'. Nor, of course, is it clear why the appeal has been deliberately obscured. In some copies of this book, page 15 is misnumbered 14, but the pagination is correct in this copy.…

VOLUME 1 ONLY OF 2, SECOND ISSUE 1770, first published in 1769. Volume 1 covers the "Spanish Explorers", the missing Volume 2 the "Dutch Explorers". 4to, approximately 245 x 200 mm, 9½ x 8 inches, 3 folding maps, the frontispiece map being the Map of the World, on a new projection, titled "The Great Pacific Ocean", plus 1 plate of Teepye Lobsters, pages: [4 of 6], LACKS half-title, ii, [vii]-xxx, [2]; [1]-21, [3], [1]-24; [1]-204, [4] - errata, last page blank, (title page and Dedication pages dated 1770, Preface and Introduction dated 1769, Monthly Review for May dated 1769 and a chapter in the book called Advertisement dated Sept.5.1769), rebacked in modern calf, old gilt lettered morocco label from previous binding, marbled boards and endpapers, engraved heraldic bookplate of Charles Pierrepont on first pastedown. The printed "Volume One" on title page has been removed at sometime, and an ink one on old paper pasted in, small neat repair to the inner margin of title page, hardly noticeable, pale foxing affecting the first map and title page and following 2 leaves, pale foxing affecting the last 14 leaves, occasional small black spot to text and occasional light foxing to a few margins, small repair to inner margin on the blank side of 1 map, otherwise a very good clean copy. Chapters on: Data On Which The Chart Of The South Sea Was Formed; Of The Salomon Islands; Account Of Some Natural Curiosities At Sooloo; Magalhanes Voyage; Ferdinand Grijalva and Alvarados Voyage; The Spanish Discoveries Before 1595; Juan Fernadez Voyage; Adelentado Alvaro Mendana de Neyras Voyage; Edro Fernandez de Quiros Voyage; Memorial Presented To Philip II Of Spain; Advertisment; Additions and Elicidations From Figueroa. See: Sotheby's Catalogue of the Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, part 2, D-J, Lots 354 and 355; The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, Volume 1, page 73; The Parsons Collection of Rare Pacific Voyage Books, Part 1, No. 49 and 50; Bibliotheca Polynesiana by Bjarne Kroepelien, page 89, No. 245; Joseph Sabin, Dictionary of the Books of America, No.18338; ESTC T74963. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Two works in one volume. Both are first editions. Quarto: [*Poems*]: [16], 230pp., and 2 folded engraved plates; [*Psalms*]: [16], 183, [1]pp. Each work has a subscribers list at the front, the title page of the *Psalms of David* is printed in red and black. Smart's *Translation of the Psalms of David* includes the 35 Hymns but lacks the Spiritual Songs at the rear, else complete. Half calf and marbled paper-covered boards, later endpapers. Both joints have been professionally repaired, wear to the board edges, else a handsome, very good copy. Signed by American poet Edward Dahlberg in pencil with his New York address. Engraved bookplate of Thomas B. Mosher laid in. Both lists of subscribers include many famous persons of the day: David Garrick, Thomas Gray, Samuel Richardson, Voltaire, and many others. With two fine engraved plates (The Mowers, and Hop Garden) engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder. Both works are scarce and rarely found bound together, with a nice association. *ESTC* T42626 and T12464.…

4to, pp. 26; disbound. First revised edition. This is a poem by an amateur poet who, in other editions (probably preceding this one), identified himself as 'William Carter, late Lieutenant of the 40th Regiment of Foot'. His only other publication is a pamphlet on the movements of the British and American armies during 1775-6, which must indicate that he had seen service there during the war of independence. Four printings of this poem, which give his name (and which have been tentatively dated to around 1780), are in octavo and are slightly different in text: they were printed for the author, and offered at 5 shillings, surely a very ambitious price. Perhaps they did not sell very well at any rate, they are now extremely uncommon. But Carter clearly revised the poem for this quarto edition, which he must have hoped would reach a greater and perhaps more influential public, and it certainly may have had some success, as it was republished by Flexney in 1785, with further alterations to the text. ESTC locates three copies in Britain, and eight in the USA.…