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The first, best and most complete edition View picture(s) 21 HOBBES, Thomas, Elemens philosophiques de citoyen. raicté politique, où les fondemens de la societé civile sont descouverts ... traduicts en François par un de ses amis. Amsterdam, Joan Bleau, 1649. 8vo. Contemporary mottles calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt binding edges, red speckled edges. With the printer's orrery device on title, an engraved allegorical title ("Les fondemens de la politique"), and the full-page portrait of Hobbes opposite his dedication to the count of Devonshire, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. (64), 246, (2, blank), 144, (16) pp. Collation: *-3*8, 4*-5*4, A-P8, Q4, 2A-2K8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  English  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Immensely popular book on conjuring View picture(s) 22 HOOPER, William. Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated, by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments, among which are all those commonly preformed with the cards. London, Printed for L. Davis, J. Robson, B. Law and G. Robinson, 1782-83. 4 vols. 8vo. Half calf with red labels lettered in gold. With a total of 65 folding plates by J. Lodge, all coloured by a contemporary hand and many woodcut illustrations in text. (4), XVI, 267; (4), XI, 280; (4), XII, 296; (4), XI, 367 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: English  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The last work written by Christiaan Huygens in English translation View picture(s) 23 HUYGENS, Christiaan. The celestial worlds discover'd: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London, James Knapton, 1722. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. With spherical illustrations on 5 folding engraved plates. VI, 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Dutch  English  Engravings  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Limited first edtion View picture(s) 24 JOLAS, Eugene. The language of night.- (Transition series 1). The Hague, 1932. Orig. wrappers. 60, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  England  English  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition, printed on Old Antique Dutch View picture(s) 25 JOYCE, James. The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies. A Fragment from Work in Progress. The Hague, The Servire Press, 1934. Large 8vo. Orig. wrappers, with large vignette in blues, silver and greys on front cover, design Lucia Joyce. With beautiful coloured first initial and tailpiece by Lucia Joyce. (8), 77, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of Lancaster's new method of primary teaching View picture(s) 26 LANCASTER, Joseph. Een eenig Schoolmeester onder Duizend Kinderen in eene  School. Eene bijdrage tot verbetering der leerwijze  en school-orde in de lagere volks-scholen. Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1811. Contemp. boards. (10), 204 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Education  English  Teaching  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Taking away English prejudice against Dutch literature View picture(s) 27 LENNEP, Jacob van. The Rose of Dekama; or, The Frisian Heiress. A Tale. Translated from the Dutch, by Frank Woodley. London, Bruce and Wylds, 1847. Sm.8vo. Contemp. half red morocco, spine richly gilt, marbled edges. 370 pp. in 2 columns. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Psalms in Hebrew. Also an important Americanum View picture(s) 28 LEUSDEN, Johannes (editor). The book of Psalmes. With the new English translation. Utrecht, John van de Water, 1688. 12mo. Contemporary calf, blind-stamped sides. In cloth box. [8], 240, [2] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Americana  Catholicism  English  Hebraica  Psalter  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th century Holland through the eyes of a man of the world View picture(s) 29 LOVETT, Richard. Pictures from Holland. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1887. Large 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, spine gilt, with coloured and richly gilt illustration on front cover. With wood-engraved map, 26 full-page wood-engraved plates by Whymer, Butterwijck, Dillen, etc., and 104 large and smaller views and costumes of the Netherlands in text. At the end 8 pages of publisher's advertisements, also richly illustrated with wood-engravings. 223, (1), 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  History  Netherlands  Picture Books  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Including two original phonographs View picture(s) 30 MAYHEW, Ralph, Burges JOHNSON & Rhoda CHASE. The Robin and Wren bubble book that sings. Singing: Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, who killed Cock Robin? The death of Jenny Wren. (New York), Dodd, Mead and Comp., 1930. Oblong 8vo. Orig. boards with coloured illustration on front cover by Rhoda Chase. With title printed in green and black, 4 illustrations printed in green, orange and black by Rhoda Chase, and 2 small original phonographs of Columbia Phonograph Comp. inserted between the double-bound text-lvs. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Children's Books  English  Fairy Tales  Music  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British birds before they were shot View picture(s) 31 MILLAIS, John Guille. The natural history of British game birds. London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. Folio. Original gilt red cloth. With 18 chromolithographed plates, and 17 photogravures  of game birds, beautifully drawn within their natural environment by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais, and with 2 ills. after photographs by T. Tait. XI, 142 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chromolithography  Colour Platebooks  Colour Printing  England  English  Hunting  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With the signature of the author, one of the greatest explorers of the Arctic View picture(s) 32 PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper. With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations. Second edition. London, William Clowes for John Murray, 1821. Large 4to. Contemporary calf with richly gilt decorated covers, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges; together with the added vol. preserved in a modern slip-case. With 4 large folding charts by J. Walker of (1) The track of the ships Hecla and Griper from the Orkneys to Melville Island, North Georgia (1819/1820), (2)  of the discoveries & route of the ships in search of the North-West passage (after John Buchnan, with an extra folding part pasted to the chart), (3) of a part of the western coast of Baffins Bay (1820), and (4) of the inlet called the River Clyde, West coast of Baffins Bay (1820); 2 full-page maps by J. Walker, 9 full-page lithographed plates by W. Westtall after F.W. Beechey and Hoppner (1) of the positions of the ships in summer and in winter harbour, a bull and eskimo's; and 5 engraved plates of coastlines by I. Clark after F.W. Beechey; many figures and printed tables in the text, of which 1 folding. (8), XXIX, 310, (2), CLXXIX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Discovery & Exploration  English  Northern Passage  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A lengthy voyage to Rio View picture(s) 33 PRIOR, James. Voyage along the eastern coast of Africa, to Mosambique, Johanna, and Quiloa; to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus frigate. London, for Sir Richard Philips and Co., 1819. 8vo. Later wrappers. With 2 folding engraved maps and 1 full-page aquatint plate. VI, 114 [i.e. 112] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Brazil  English  Geography  Geography & Demography  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A German poet travelling through Russia View picture(s) 34 REINBECK, George. Travels from St. Petersburg trough Moscow, Grodno, Warsaw, Breslaw, etc. to Germany; in the year 1805; in a series of Letters. Translated from the German. London, for Richard Phillips, 1807. 8vo. Modern boards, with title-label on spine. With folding engraved view of the Kremlin at Moscow. 160 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  Russia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Horror stories from all over Europe View picture(s) 35 REYNOLDS, Johan. Tonneel der wereldtse rampsaligheden, vertoonende Godts wraake, over de roepende en verfoeyelijke zonde der moedtwillige en voor-bedachte moordery. Welkers wonderlijke  ontdekkingen en gestrenge straffe beschreven worden  in XXX. bezondere jammerlijke Historien: vervattende  veel droevige en gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen: historische,  zedelijke en goddelijke lessen. Amsterdam, Tymon Houthaak for Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1667. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. With engraved frontispiece, engraved printer's device with turtle on title, and 30 full-page engravings, each with 8 separate illustrations, depicting 240 scenes from the many stories. (6), 888 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fencing the modern way! View picture(s) 36 ROLANDO, Le Sieur Guzman. The modern art of fencing agreeable to the practice of the most eminent masters in Europe. By le sieur Guzman Rolando. of the academie des armes.. Carefully revised and augmented with a technical glossary, etc. London, Samuel Leigh, 1822. Small 8vo. Later half leather with gilt lettering on spine, marbled sides. Frontispiece and 22 plates. XXXI, 1 blank, 240, 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  Fencing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An important treatise against witchcraft View picture(s) 37 SCOTT, Reginald (Reynold). Ontdecking van Tovery, beschreven in Engels, verduytst by Th. en G. Basson. (Colophon: Leiden, printed by Willem Christiaens, 1637). 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With engraved title-page by Sillemans, and 2 full-page etched portraits of Jeanne d'Arc. [32], 351 [= 355], [17] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Dutch  English  Magic & Conjuring  Occult  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The world according to Smith View picture(s) 38 SMITH & SON, Charles. Smith's Terrestrial Globe Containing the whole of the Latest Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the most celebrated Circumnavigators. London, C. Smith & Son. 172. Strand, 1860. Terrestrial globe, diameter 31.5 cm, made of 24 engraved half gores, contemporary coloured, in a stand, consisting of a brass meridian, a wooden horizon circle with an engraved almanac pasted on, supported by four turned wooden legs with two cross-bars, on the centre of which a brass support for the meridian is placed. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  English  Globes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to behave in public View picture(s) 39 STEELE, Richard. De Boekzaal der Heeren, dienende tot een vervolg op de Boekzaal der Juffers. Inhoudende Regelen voor het gedrag in all gedeeltens van het Leven. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Tweede druk. Amst., Steven Esveldt, 1764. Sm.8vo. Modern half cloth. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by F. van Bleyswyk and title printed in red and black. (40), 411, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Education  English  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch edition of a popular English periodical on contemporary events View picture(s) 40 STEELE, Richard. De Guardian, of de Britsche Zedenmeester. Uit het Engels vertaalt door P. Le Clercq. Tweede druk. Rotterdam, Jan Daniel Beman, 1734. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. half calf, gilt spine, sprinkled edges. Full- page engraved plate with portrait of author. (10), 642, (14); (2), 514, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  English  History  Literature  Politics  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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