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London: Printed for J. Debrett et al., [1794]. iv, 60, 285pp. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities worn and marked, loss to head and foot of cracked spine. Numerous leaves protruding from text-block, text heavily faded at times. Containing lists of; officers of the British Army and Royal Navy; House of Commons members; peerage members; and governors of the British colonies and provinces; amidst a plethora of other informative registers showing the state of the nation. Captain William Bligh, of the infamous mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, and Captain Horatio Nelson, the future hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, are recorded in the list of naval officers; as is the Victory (commanded by Admiral Hood) in the register of fleet ships. . 12mo.
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The Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1794
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The royal kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1770..
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London: Printed for J. Almon et al., [1770]. vi, 282pp. ESTC T45290. [Bound with:] RIDER, Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1770... London. Printed for W. Woodfall, 1769. [60]pp. ESTC T45009. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt. Extremities rubbed, some surface loss and scoring to boards, chipping and worming to spine, later naive glue repair to foot. Hinges exposed, some loss to foot of leaf A1 of first mentioned work (just touching text, with slight loss of sense), early manuscript calculations to REF. Containing lists of; officers of the Army and Royal Navy; house of commons members; peerage members; and governors of the British colonies and provinces, including Africa, Canada, and New South Wales; amidst a plethora of other informative registers showing the state of the nation. .
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The Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1799
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London: Printed for J. Debrett et al., [1799]. iv, 60, 321pp. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities worn and marked, loss to head and foot of cracked spine, joints split. Several leaves protruding from text-block. Containing lists of; officers of the British Army and Royal Navy; House of Commons members; peerage members; and governors of the British colonies and provinces; amidst a plethora of other informative registers showing the state of the nation. Lord Horatio Nelson, then Rear-Admiral of the Blue, is recorded in the list of naval officers; as is the Victory in the register of fleet ships. . 12mo.
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The royal kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1769..
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London: Printed for J. Almon et al., [1769]. xii, 277pp, [11]. With 48 engraved plates depicting 381 armorial bearings. ESTC N60818. [Bound with:] RIDER, Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of our Lord God 1769... London. Printed by H. Woodfall, 1768. [60]pp. ESTC T155265. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt. Extremities worn, some surface loss, chipping and worming to spine, later naive glue repairs to foot. Hinges exposed. Containing lists of; officers of the Army and Royal Navy; house of commons members; peerage members; and governors of the British colonies and provinces, including Africa, Canada, and New South Wales; amidst a plethora of other informative registers showing the state of the nation. ESTC records a single copy of the first mentioned work in the British Isles (National Archives), and none elsewhere. .
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Loose hints upon education, chiefly concerning the culture of the heart
by [KAMES, Henry Home, Lord]
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Edinburgh: Printed for John Bellâ¦and John Murray, 1781. xi, [1], 381pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisherâs advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red Morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked, joints starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Crombie of Glasgow to FFEP and head of title, scattered foxing. The first edition of Scottish advocate and philosopher, Henry Home, Lord Kames's (1696- 1782) last major work, a controversial treatise which argues that the heart, rather than the head, should be the focus of education. The work drew criticism from certain quarters for its emphasis on training to develop sensibility, with some suggesting that it showed a lack of respect to Christianity. ESTC T58640.. First edition. 8vo.
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A Description of a Vertical Floating Collimator; and an account of its application to astronomical observations with a circle and with a zenith telescope
by KATER, Henry
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London: Printed by Richard Taylor, 1828. [3], 258-289pp, [1]. With two engraved plates illustrating the device. Recent black buckram, lettered in gilt. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title-page; 'Presented by the author, at / Bedford, in Nov. 1828'. An offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of a treatise by English physicist Henry Kater (1777-1835) regarding his invention of the vertical floating collimator, a device intended to supersede the plumb-line in making astronomical observations. . First offprint edition. Quarto.
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Ueber den geist der Polnischen sprache. Eine einleitung in die Polnische literar-geschichte sur Deutsche
by KAULFUSS, J[ohann] S[amuel]
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Halle: Bey Schimmelpfennig und Comp., 1804. 227pp, [1]. With two folding plates of musical notation. Original publisher's tan paper wrappers, paper lettering-piece with title in manuscript. Slight wear to extremities with some loss to head and foot of spine. Ink shelf-marks to FEP of Sir Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill Library, lightly foxed throughout. A introduction to the Polish literary tradition by German classical scholar, Johann Samuel Kaulfuss (1780-1832). Written whilst Kaulfuss held a teaching position at St. Mary Magdalen School in Poznan, the work turns against the reductive German attitude towards Poland, and praises the richness, lexical and grammatical plasticity, harmony and musical elements of the Polish language. . First edition. 8vo.
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Thomas Keard, A. M.
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Whitby: R. Kirby, [s.d., c.1839] 15pp., [1]. With frontispiece showing engraved portrait of Thomas Keard. Original wrappers, stitched as issued within. A trifle spotted at margins, slight browning. A brief Whitby-printed commemoration of local personality, the 'literatus' Thomas Kearne (1756-1828). It provides an anecdotal account of his life, from his studies at Eton to his career as a teacher of classics at Mr Routh's academy in Whitby. Versed in Latin, Greek and Music, he was fondly remembered by his pupils and friends alike. OCLC locates a single copy worldwide, at York Minster. . 8vo.
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The poetical works of john keats
by KEATS, John
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London: Henry Frowde. Oxford University Press, 1908. lxxvii, [4], 491pp, [1]. With a portrait frontispiece. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled calf, morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, later inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. The Oxford edition of the complete poetical works of Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821), edited, with an introduction and textual notes, by bibliographer and literary forger Henry Buxton Forman (1842-1917). . 8vo.
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Oban to Fort William & Banavie by Ballahulish and Glencoe
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Glasgow: Maclure and Macdonald, [1871]. 46pp. 26 leaves of advertisements. With a lithographed frontispiece, a further five lithographed plates, and an engraved folding map. Original publisher's pictorial green wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Booksellers ticket of James Miller of Oban to verso of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. A Victorian travel guide, preserved in crisp original state, charting a route from Oban to Glencoe via Fort William, the third issue of Glasgow-based lithographers and publishers Maclure & Macdonald's 'Illustrated Guides to the Highlands' series, compiled by Scottish journalist and newspaper editor William Keddie (1809-1877). . 8vo.
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Introductio Ad Veram Astronomiam seu Lectiones Astronomicae Habitae in Schola Astronomica Acadamiae Oxoniensis
by KEILL, Joanne. M.D.
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Oxoniae [i.e. Oxford] e Theatro Sheldoniano: Impensis Hen. Clements, 1718. [8], xv, [1], 495pp, [1] Two engraved folding plates of lunar landscape, mathematical diagrams within text throughout. Contemporary tooled full calf boards, re-backed with 20th century calf. Ink inscription 'J. D'arcy' and early private library shelf mark to FFEP. Rubbing to boards with slight loss in places and faint scoring to upper board. Internally clean and crisp. John Keill (1671-1721), Scottish mathematician and astronomer. A student of David Gregory at Edinburgh and leading proponent of Newtonian mechanics, Keill doggedly argued that Leibniz plagiarized Newton's discovery of calculus. This present collection of lectures was given at Oxford during his years as the Savilian Chair of Astronomy. ESTC T143354.. 8vo.
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Keith's patent mineral oil gas apparatus, for lighting mansions, country houses, and all kinds of public works..
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[Arbroath?]: [s.n.], [s.d., c.1874] Single leaf broadside. Numerous early vertical and horizontal folds. A trifle creased, manuscript title to verso. James Keith (1849-1921). He was the inventor of numerous hydraulic heating, ventilating, and other appliances, and amongst the earliest of these inventions was the apparatus for the manufacture of mineral oil gas. He was also the originator of the modern type of sectional boiler for hot-water heating. He was one of the pioneers of the system of high-pressure gas-lighting, and in addition to his foundry in Arbroath the firm had works at Holloway, London, with offices at Farringdon Avenue. . Dimensions 270 x 430 mm.
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A short history of costume & armour: chiefly in England Vol. I. 1066-1485 [Vol. II. 1485-1800]
by KELLY, Francis M. SCHWABE, Randolph
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London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1931. In two volumes. xii, 82, [2], 30pp; x, 86, [2], 30pp. With terminal publisher's advertisement catalogues to both volumes. Profusely iIllustrated with colour and black and white photographs and sketches. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, pictorial dustwrappers. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrappers rubbed, sunned, and price-clipped. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to FFEPs, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a concise history of the evolution of civilian and military dress from in England from 1066 to 1800. . First edition. Large 8vo.
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Trials; a tale
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London: Printed [by Cox and Baylis] for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. In three volumes. [4], 328; [4], 315, [1]; [4], 314pp. With half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, heraldic crests of Anglo-Irish army officer Charles William Vane, third Marquess of Londonderry to head of spines. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional light spotting, loss to lower margin of leaf F3, Vol. II The sole British edition of Mary Ann Kelty's (1789-1873) third published triple decker sentimental novel. In 1821 Kelty published anonymously The Favourite of Nature, her first and most successful literary effort. It was favourably reviewed, praised as 'a tale which no mother need be afraid to place in the hands of her daughter' (Monthly Magazine, pp. 269-70). Harriet Martineau called it 'the first successful religious novel'. Further forays into the genre appeared with some frequency (Osmond (1823), The Story of Isabel (1826)), though they failed to excite the…
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Smiles and Tears; or, the widow's stratagem: a comedy, in five acts..
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London: Printed for John Miller, 1815. 88pp, [2]. Disbound. Light spotting to foot of title. The first edition of actress Maria Theresa Kemble's [née De Camp] (1774-1838) five-act comedy, based in part on Amelia Opie's (1769-1853) moral tale of the seduction and abandonment of a naïve young woman by an aristocratic rake, The father and daughter (1801), and partly upon French playwright Alexandrine-Sophie de Bawr's (1773-1860) comic piece in one act, La suite d'un bal masque (1813). The play debuted at Covent Garden on 12th December, 1815 with both Maria and her husband Charles Kemble (1775-1854) in starring roles. . First edition. 8vo.
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Burford Cottage, and it's robin-red-breast
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London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son et al., 1835. [4], 476pp. With an engraved frontispiece and title vignette by George Cruikshank. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Allston A. Kisby to FEP, inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. The first edition of Edward Augustus Kendall's (1775/6-1842) children's novel narrated by a robin, who discourses on natural history and other improving topics. . First edition. 8vo.
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Poems
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London: Francis and John Rivington, 1846. xv, [1], 216pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, ink inscription to half-title: 'Hon: Mr. Justice Coleridge / with the authors / best regards / June. 1846.' The first edition of Church of England clergyman Charles Edward Kennaway's (1800-1875) only published collection of verse, predominantly devotional in nature, though containing a sequence of sonnets on a martial theme; 'Waterloo', 'Waterloo - War', Waterloo - To the Duke of Wellington', and Waterloo - The Battle Field'. This copy inscribed to John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), judge, sometime editor of the Quarterly Review, nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. . First edition. 8vo.
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Fitful fancies
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Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd...and Geo. B. Whittaker, 1827. vii, [1], 191pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue paper boards, later rebacked in blue cloth. Boards rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Later bookplate of S. T. Whiteford and recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, scattered spotting. The first edition of Scottish diplomat and writer William Kennedy's (1799-1871) first published collection of verse, dedicated to Conservative statesman Robert Peel (1788-1850). . First edition. 12mo.
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Jessy Allan, the lame girl: a story founded on facts
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Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Son, 1842. 107pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, lightly marked. Ticket of McWatters, bookseller and stationer of Armagh to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, foxed. The third published work of novelist Grace Kennedy (1782-1825), a sorrowful, evangelical tale of an impoverished young girl who's health rapidly deteriorates after sustaining an injury to her leg. Kennedy's novels (at least eight) were all published anonymously and rapidly in the early 1820s, and met with considerable success, being reissued late into the nineteenth century. . Tenth edition. 12mo.
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Father clement; a roman catholic story
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Edinburgh: Published by William Oliphant, 1824. [3], 6-370pp. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain green morocco, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, ink gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, occasional light spotting. Scottish writer Grace Kennedy's (1782-1825) most renowned novel; a controversial tale of a suffering Jesuit minister written from a Protestant viewpoint. First printed in 1823, the work reached a twelfth edition by 1858, and was translated into several European languages. . Second edition. 12mo in 6s.
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