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A pinnacle of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, complete in two tall folio volumes, mainly printed in two numbered columns: [66]pp,cclxviii columns,[2]pp,696 columns; [2],697-1526 columns,[176, appendices, index and errata]pp. Contemporary cambridge-style paneled calf (joints very neatly repaired), spine in seven compartments between raised bands, red... more
Price: $6,500.00
![The Book of Martyrs, or Christian Martyrology: Containing an Authentic and Historical Relation of Many Dreadful Persecutrions against The Church of Christ, From the Death of Abel to the beginning of the Nineteenth Century; Being a Particular Account of all the Martyrs of the Old and New Testaments, and the Ten great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors, with the Persecutions exercised by the Papists in England and other Parts of Europe, including every important relation in Fox's Book of Martyrs, and also all the essential Parts of every Work on the Suject which has appeared since that Publication; the whole carefully revised, corrected, and amended; with some Original Material. [First Nuttall Edition]](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0681.jpg "The Book of Martyrs, or Christian Martyrology: Containing an Authentic and Historical Relation of Many Dreadful Persecutrions against The Church of Christ, From the Death of Abel to the beginning of the Nineteenth Century; Being a Particular Account of all the Martyrs of the Old and New Testaments, and the Ten great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors, with the Persecutions exercised by the Papists in England and other Parts of Europe, including every important relation in Fox's Book of Martyrs, and also all the essential Parts of every Work on the Suject which has appeared since that Publication; the whole carefully revised, corrected, and amended; with some Original Material. [First Nuttall Edition]")
Complete in two volumes. Thick 4to's; [4], x, 11-612; [4], 580pp, with numerous full-page copper-engraved plates. Recently (and somewhat amateurishly) rebound in period-style full polished calf, the spine gilt in six compartments between raised bands with a red leather label gilt, marbled end papers, and red silk page markers. Very... more
Price: $565.00
![[Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin] Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin / écrits par lui-même, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté.](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0915.jpg "[Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin] Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin / écrits par lui-même, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté."){kind=small}
8vo: vi,156,207,[1]pp (154 and 204-207 misnumbered as 254 and 360-363 respectively). A Fine copy, beautifully bound to style by Fitterer in red calf, spine in six compartments, raised bands with double gilt fillets either side, green morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled end papers. In two parts separately paginated, the first... more
Price: $2,650.00
2º in 4s: [40],407,[1],[12, Index and publisher's advert]pp (91-94 mis-numbered 93-96; 121 mis-numbered 123), with engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by P. Vanderbanck after Sylvester Brounower. Recently rebound to period style by Clive Jones in full paneled calf, boards ruled and decorated in blind, spine in seven compartments between raised... more
Price: $2,650.00
![Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. [Large Copy]](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0919.jpg "Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. [Large Copy]")
First Folio Edition (and First Illustrated Edition) of one of the greatest English printed books and Milton's magnum opus. [4],219,[1],219-250,151-196,297-343(Yy2 misbound within list of subscribers),[8]pp, with 12 full-page copper-engraved plates (one opening each book) and frontispiece portrait of Milton, by R. White after William Faithorne. A rare large copy, measuring... more
Price: $8,350.00
Handsome early edition of Smith's landmark treatise, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), complete in three beautifully bound octavo volumes. [2],x,499,[1]; [2],vi,518,[6]; viii,465,[1],[50, index and advertisement]pp. Original full tree calf, flat spines elaborately gilt in six compartments divided by tooled bands, red and green leather lettering... more
Price: $3,250.00
8vo: xxiv, 200pp. Beautifully rebound by Fitterer in period style, with chestnut calf spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, hand-marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed. A Fine binding, text block Near Fine, lightly spotted and moderately browned, first few leaves... more
Price: $965.00