Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville [through 1771], MDCCLXIX [1769]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Issue (Old Testament title page dated 1769) of the First Illustrated Edition (second edition overall) of the Birmingham printer's mighty tour de force. Large Printing Demy folio (410 x 255 mm): unpaginated, with 572 leaves... more
London: Printed by Felix Kyngston [and R. Badger], and are to be sold by Robert Bostocke at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard, 1633. Full Calf. Second Edition, revised, corrected and enlarged (though Church calls it a "paginary reprint of the First," which it... more
Hagæ-Comitis [i.e. London]: Ex officina Samuelis Broun, bibliopolae Anglici, M DC XILX [1649]. Vellum. Rare variant of the king's book, unrecorded in both Wing and ESTC. 12mo: [16, including frontispiece],272pp, illustrated with double-page copper-engraved frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar after an original design by William Marshall. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown lettering..... more
London: Printed for the author, and sold by the booksellers in town and country [through 1740], M DCCXXXIX [1739]. Early Reprint. Complete in two volumes. 4to: xii,13-616,46; [2],619-722,xx,21-390,47-82[pp. 73-76 omitted (as always), but text continuous and complete],[2]pp, with portrait frontispiece (in vol. I) and 89 full-page plates (some with two..... more
London: printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling in Brides Churchyard, neer Fleetstreet, 1651. First Edition. First Issue, with engraved title page signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:" and imprint "Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides Churchyard 1651." Small 4to: [10],440,[20],441-596pp, with additional engraved title page and forty-three engraved portraits in... more
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel, and are to be sold by John Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard [through 1648], 1647. Full Calf. Small Folio: [16], 286, [28, chronological table and index]pp, with additional engraved title page depicting the crusades and folding map of Palestine; [8],189... more
Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. Two quarto volumes in one. liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of the Prussian queen, one of papal medals, and 13 of the Council's participants) and two title-page... more
London: printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, opposite Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1752. First Edition. Full Calf. First edition. 8vo: xvi,276,[12]pp, with a folding engraved plate Original full calf, rebacked with original spine, richly gilt in six compartments, recent black morocco lettering piece gilt, plain period end papers. A.... more
Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1642. First Edition. Half-Calf. 4to: [16],214,[2]pp, with a copper-engraved title page showing numerical manifestations of ‘666’ and their supposed connections with the Catholic Church, signed: W. Marshall sculp, full-page metal cut, woodcut diagrams in the text, numerous woodcut initials and a head- and tailpiece. Leaf... more
London: Printed for Charles Daly, 1838. Cloth. 8vo; xiv, [2], 133, 471, [1]pp, with all five plates present and in superb condition: frontispiece of a folding view and plan of the Temple of Mecca; three genealogical tables (2 folding), and a folding map of Arabia and the surrounding countries. Original... more
Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands]: Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar. MDCXCVI [1696]. Second Edition. Vellum. Small 4to, complete in two continuously paginated volumes. [30],608,[6],609-1138, [38, indices, addenda, emendanda]pp, with the identical additional engraved title page, showing Jews before a temple and signed "J..... more
London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1791. First Edition thus. Vellum. 12mo: viii,[4],177,[3,advertisements]pp, with six full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece) designed and engraved by William Blake. A superb copy, newly rebound by Fitterer in full vellum with salmon pink morocco lettering piece gilt. Light offsetting from..... more
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