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

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

Matching pair in publisher's original laminated card covers. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' xiv, 301; xii, 429 [pages.] ISBN's 0312422091 and 0312005512. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrappers as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. VIETNAM (History & Culture).

337 S. Moderner/neuzeitlicher englischsprachiger Roman. Englischer Text, perfekt für jedermann/-frau, der/die sein/ihr Englisch verbessern möchte, ohne allzu schwere Kost zu lesen. Hierzulande eher schwierig zu bekommen. Ein kurzweiliges Lesevergnügen für Freunde englischer Romane! Gelesen, Text sauber. Rücken etwas gewölbt und Leseknicke. Intakt. Ideales Leseexemplar, perfekter Schmöker!

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 10" x 6½" 688 pp continuous pagination. Light foxing to end papers and closed page edges, spines faded and in Very Good clean and tight condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. "Presents the northeast British Columbia local history of the area bounded on the south by the Peace River, on the east and north by the Beatton River, and on the west by the 'north-south' road west of the Haerdi homesite." - page 2. 176 pages. Loaded with family histories of the hardy souls who pioneered this area. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. Maps of historic and current landowners. Undated by printed circa 1981. Tight and unmarked with average wear. A sound and rare example of this informative local history and genealogical reference. Hale & Barman 1020. ; 4to.

8vo, pp. [xxxii], 536, [2] table of contents; with separate title pages for individual pieces, but continuous signatures; a fine copy in contemporary speckled panelled calf, spine gilt, later brown morocco label (a little rubbed, very slight wear to upper joint and the tips of the spine). First edition: a copy on large and fine paper, with no watermark, and about an inch taller than copies on ordinary paper, with a star watermark. This is the first substantial collection of the author's writings, no doubt prompted by the success of his Art of Cookery, published the year before. After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, William King (1663-1712) began a legal career, but soon turned professional writer, with a predilection for satire and parody. His high-church Tory pamphlets earned him the approval of Swift, who tried to help him find employment, but somehow King never prospered. John Gay once said that King had 'a world of wit, yet as it lies in one particular way of raillery, the town soon grew weary of his writings'. Much of this volume is devoted to three long prose works: (a) Animadversions on the Pretended Account of Danmark (1694), attacking the well-known Whig account by Robert Molesworth; (b) A Journey to London, in the Year, 1698 (1698), a parody of Martin Lister's Journey to Paris; and (c) Dialogues of the Dead (1699), a satire on Richard Bentley and the Phalaris controversy. There are also a number of previously published poems, such as 'Molly of Mountown', first printed in 1704 as 'by the author of the Tale of the Tub'. At the end is a collection of twenty miscellaneous poems, including 'The Old Cheese', 'The Skillet', 'Little Mouths', 'The Beggar Woman', and 'The Incurious'. The book is dedicated to the members of the 'immortal' Beef-Steak Club, which is odd: the original club was founded in about 1705 as an offshoot of the whiggish Kit Cat Club and King would surely have been out of sympathy with them. Several other Beef Steak Clubs have followed, most of them similarly whiggish and liberal rather than tory. Foxon p. 399.

8vo, pp. [xxxii], 536, [2] table of contents; with separate title pages for individual pieces, but continuous signatures; some early leaves dust-soiled and creased, with small tears (particularly A1); but otherwise a sound copy, in contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. First edition: much of this volume is devoted to three long prose works: (a) Animadversions on the Pretended Account of Danmark (1694), attacking the well-known Whig account by Robert Molesworth (to whom it is ironically dedicated, as 'Mr M---' ) (b) A Journey to London, in the Year, 1698 (1698), a parody of Martin Lister's Journey to Paris; and (c) Dialogues of the Dead (1699), a satire on Richard Bentley and the Phalaris controversy. There are also a number of previously published poems, such as 'Molly of Mountown', first printed in 1704 as 'by the author of the Tale of the Tub'. At the end is a collection of twenty miscellaneous poems, including 'The Old Cheese', 'The Skillet', 'Little Mouths', 'The Beggar Woman', and 'The Incurious'. The book is dedicated to the members of the 'immortal' Beef-Steak Club, which is odd: the original club was founded in about 1705 as an offshoot of the whiggish Kit Cat Club and King would surely have been out of sympathy with them. Several other Beef Steak Clubs have followed, most of them similarly whiggish and liberal rather than tory. Foxon p. 399.

[32], 536pp. 8vo. Final leaf of index not bound in, list of contents written on recto by an early owner. Full contemporary panelled calf; rear joint cracked. A fine paper copy, distinguished by lack of a watermark, and with wide margins. Armorial bookplate of James, Earl of Bute, with 'Dup. Bute' written in pencil at head of titlepage. From the Library of Douglas Grant. ESTC N10990. Willaim King, 1663-1712, poet. The first edition of what constitutes in effect a collected edition of King's earlier writings, some of which had not hitherto been published. His poems The Art of Cookery, and the The Art of Love had extended his reputation, and no doubt encouraged him to make his other writings available. The volume includes Animadaversions on a pretended Account of Danmark; A Journey to London in the Year 1698; The Furmetary; Dialogues of the Dead; Reflections Upon Mr. Varillas his History of Heresie, as well as Miscellaneous Poems and other works.

Two volumes, 12mo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [ii], iv, xxi, [iii] advertisements, 336; 99, [1], 252; contemporary panelled calf, second volume rather more worn than the first, with both joints quite significantly cracked. First edition thus: there had been an earlier collection published by Samuel Briscoe (1705) but this is a newly-edited version. The first volume, and the first part of the second, contain the letters, and the second volume is largely made up of the romance Alcidalis and Zelida. New to this edition is the inclusion of Pope's poem 'To a Young Lady, with the Works of Voiture', which had been printed in 1712 in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (Griffith 6), and which was later retitled 'Epistle to Miss Blount with the works of Voiture' although, as the Twickenham edition comments, it may have been originally drafted before Pope came to know either of the Blount sisters. The poem itself, clearly not included with Pope's permission, is not really a 'character' of Voiture's writings, as the title page states, but this is a Curll publication, so one must expect some economy with the truth. Baines & Rogers point out that at this period Curll seems to have collaborated with a number of other booksellers: in this instance they even published a joint catalogue of their publications as part of the prelims. See Baines & Rogers, Edmund Curll, bookseller, pp. 65, 73 and 204; not listed by Straus, Unspeakable Curll; not in Griffith, Bibliography of Pope. Provenance. Contemporary signature in both volumes of Ann Dorrien, and small early armorial bookplate, also in each volume, which incorporates the Dorrien arms the books probably descended in the Smith-Dorrien family, a prominent and wealthy family who lived at Berkhamsted.

No binding. Zustand: Good. 420 x 530 mm., minute area of loss at double fold as expected, otherwise in good condition. A superb attractive separately published English map first issued during the Interregnum in the same year that Oliver Cromwell died. This second state is identical apart from the removal of the date 1658 from the title. The fact that the portrait of Cromwell is removed from that of Europe in this set of continental maps would indicate that they were issued following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. There are very few early English maps of the America's and apart from those of John Speed, the majority are very rare.Cromwellian London had only a handful of map publishers, amongst whom were Thomas Jenner (fl.1621-72), Joseph Moxon (1627-91), and Peter Stent (1613?-65). Following the restoration of Charles II the trade expanded considerably. Robert Walton (1618-88) was born at Welford, Northamptonshire and apprenticed through the Merchant Taylors to the copperplate printed John Costard in 1632. He was made free in 1641. His earliest cartographic work was a map of much of the British Isles by engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar and Thomas Porter's plan of London, both in 1654."In 1656 he produced a world map and having clearly perceived a market for a set of the continents, completed them in 1658. The American map is derived from the sixth state of Pieter van den Keere's map issued by Nicolaas Visscher, 1652. 'Statenlant' off Tierra del Fuego is depicted as an island. The title states that it is corrected according to Blaeu, referring to two areas in particular. The St. Lawrence River extends half way across the continent to a large lake open to the west, where Walton places a legend stating 'This Lake is said to be 300 miles long'. The lake is derived from Blaeu's wall map of the world, 1648. On the west coast above the insular California, he introduces the peninsula of Agubelad Cata. This is found on Blaeu's revised wall map of the world ascribed to 1645-46 and would be followed by many cartographers. The fascinating depiction of California attempts to balance the many theories at the time. The old north-westerly running west coast found on pre-California as an island maps is amalgamated with the recent theory of a Terre de Jesso landmass.A further improvement is the inclusion of Hudson Bay, which was found on the van den Keere but only ever in the inset not in the main body of the map. The east coast of North America is improved in an elementary manner, including 'Boston', but not Jamestown. Interestingly we find a reference to 'Carolina' in the south-east, reflecting earlier French claims. 'NEW NETHERLAND' is mentioned without indicating New Amsterdam, and the French presence in the north is barely recorded. The van den Keere decorations are faithfully followed with the exception of replacing the Chinese junk with a European vessel. The bordering panels are similarly emulated with the exception of the title of the second one down to the right, altering it from 'CHILI' to 'A MAGELLANIC'. This paired it more accurately with the left hand border. This rare map is not known to have been intended for any book although it has been found inserted into examples of Peter Heylin's 'Cosmographie' and Bernhard Varenius' 'Cosmography and Geography'." (Burden). Provenance: Richard B. Arkway 2003; Juan and Peggy Rada Collection. Burden (1996) 330; Jolly (1981); Jolly (1985); Leighly (1972) no. 51; McLaughlin & Mayo (1995) no. 41; 'The Map Collector' (1981) no. 15 pp. 48-50 (illustrating a full set of the second state continents); Tooley (1964) p. 119, no. 25; Tooley (1973) p. 304 (entered as being 1648); Tyacke (1978) pp. 145-6; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).