Edinburgh: Thomas Brown, 1792. New Edition. Hardcover. Nineteenth Century 3/4 black morocco and cloth (3-1/2" x 5-3/8"); 216 pages with an engraved title page and frontispiece.
London: J. Darby, 1725. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-1/4" x 5-1/2") in a lovely, unsigned binding of full dark green morocco leather with gilt floral decorative devices with small white morocco onlays, the spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations, gilt dentelles, scarlet silk endpapers and doublures, all edges gilt;.....
Paris: Laporte, 1783. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes in contemporary marbled boards; [ii], xii, 288; [iv], 256 [last page numbered 238]. Augmented with two new parts, which are the conclusion of the History. Illustrated with 10 fine engravings after Eisen by Guttenberg and Macret. An.....
London: James and John Knapton et. al. 1730. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (10-1/2" x 17") bound in contemporary calf with the spine leather lacking and the front board detached; [ii], vi, [iv], 774, [24] pages. Complete with table of contents, list of subscribers, index, 13 maps, and 8 plates, 6.....
London: Benj. Dodd, August 1743. George Bickham. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (7-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in contemporary marbled boards rebacked with a modern calf spine and a maroon gilt-lettered leather spine label. Engraved frontispiece of Britannia (strengthened), title, "Conditions," subscribers' list (2 leaves), engraved double-page map, engraved table (torn at.....
Newbury-port and Boston: John Mvcall for William Green, 1782. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5" x 7-3/4") in contemporary sheep with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 352, [14], [2 - ads] pages. First published in 1762, and in America in 1775, Burgh's work helped shape the theories of speech delivery.....
Lund: Prof. Joh. Lundblad, 1795-96. First Edition. Hardcover. Three parts in one small octavo (4-1/4" x 7-1/8") volume in calf-backed boards with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; [14], 207, [2]; [2], 387, [1]; [2], 139, [13] + 8 folding plates engraved by J. M. Weller. Swedish translation of the treatise.....
London: George Strahan, 1725. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blindstamped paneled calf leather; xx [24] 232 pages. Chapters on proper diet, exercise, sleeping, etc. Aimed at the lay reader, much of Cheyne's advice was based upon his own hypochondria and continual struggle with obesity--at one time he weighed over 440 pounds. In.....
Boston: Draper & Folsom, 1782. First American Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5" x 8") in contemporary sheep; v, [2], vii-viii, 6-296 [i.e. 6-298], [2] pages. First published posthumously in Edinburgh in 1774, this first publication in America is very scarce. Here Edwards attempts to establish a theology in the form.....
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[London]: [J. Darby, A. Betteswort &c], [1726]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Tall Folio (8-3/4" x 14-1/2") bound in full calf leather neatly rebacked. Two parts in one volume, lacking the printed title page, as seems often to be the case. Text in French and English. Translated by Thomas Manington Gibbs. Illustrated.....
London: T. Cadell, Jun and W. Davies, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in 20th century tan buckram; xxiv, 446, [2] pages. Complete including errata and final ad leaf. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map serving as the frontispiece, a folding plan and view of the eruption.....
Wilmington, DE: Peter Brynberg, 1797. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6-3/4") bound with the half-title page in original sheep leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco label; 226 [6] pages. Evans 32249. Hervey, a popular and bombastic Divine, had an influence on William Blake who painted "Epitome of James Hervey's.....
Leipzig: Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover. Two octavo volumes in original cloth with remnants of paper spine labels. Engraved portrait of David Hume on title page of the first volume. The first two volumes (of three). The missing last volume was the shortest. Heydenreich was a German philosopher and.....
London: Alexander Hogg, [1785]. New Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9" x 13-3/4") bound in contemporary tree calf leather; (iv), [3] 6 - 704, xii [4] pages. Illustrated with 60 copper engravings. Hurd covers, among others, the modern Jews, the Japanese, and the Native Americans of Canada, California, and Florida: "The inhabitants.....
[London]: [T & I Egerton], [1790]. First Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9") in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with a heavily gilt-decorated spine; xvi, 213, [1] pages. The complete first volume, with half-title page, that covers the Netherlands. Illustrated with an engraved title page and 28 sepia aquatint plates.....
London: for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (8-1/2" x 13-3/4) volumes in contemporary calf leather, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English, second issue (with the additional appendix in volume 2), translated from the German by.....
London: Alexander Hogg, [1785]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (9" x 13-3/4") volumes bound in contemporary marbled calf leather with gilt rules and decorated spines and matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 20 maps including 8 large folding maps, and 80 full-page copper engravings.....
Amsterdam: Laporte, 1789. Hardcover. Four folio (10" x 16") volumes bound in calf-backed marbled boards of one of the most spectacular illustrated works of the 18th-century. Illustrated with 263 engravings, all but 1 full page and some with more than one image, and including 41 large folding plates. First published.....
Boston: Kneeland & Green, 1736. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (4" x 6-3/4") in contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked; (x), xii, 20, 104, (2), 254 pages including the list of subscribers; title page printed in red and black. Volume I in two parts (all published); the second volume would not.....
London: J. Maynard and F. Zinke, 1811. Early Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes (5-1/4" x 8-8/8") in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in attractive green blindstamped morocco leather with matching corners, all edges marbled (lxxi, 360; vi, 514; v, 448, 50 pages). First published in 1776, this is a reprint of the.....
London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (8" x 10") volumes bound in later half calf leather and boards with morocco spine labels: xxviii, 368; viii, 356 pages. Translated from the Swedish. Illustrated with a large folding map and 10 plates depicting South African.....
London: Mary Hinde, 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in contemporary calf leather with blind rules and stamping on the covers; [vi], 137, [3] pages. Contains the following, with separate title pages for each section: Considerations on Pure Wisdom, and Human Policy. * Considerations on the True.....
