Browse by Date—Up to 1799
Advice to the Officers of the British Army (1783, seventh edition)
A rare copy of Francis Grose's satirical guide to British Army life for all ranks. This copy belonging to Captain James Romney, brother of the artist George Romney
Francis Grose, or John Williamson (Please see below)
G Kearsley, London, 1783
Sold
Military & War | Hard Cover | Association Copy
A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
1699, the fourth edition of Jeremy Collier's scathing attack on the theatre
Jeremy Collier
S Keble, and R Sare, London, 1699
£60.00
Film, Theatre & Radio | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Ars Chirurgica, A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Chirurgery
1699, the second edition of William Salmon's book of surgery containing the first three sections and 12 plates
William Salmon
J Dawks, London, 1699
Sold
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Parish Law (1750, seventh edition)
Joseph Shaw's "Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks, and All Others Concerned with Parish Business"
Joseph Shaw
H Lintot et al, London, 1750
£95.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
A Compendium of the Travels of Dr Richard Pococke, Alex. Drummond, and Alexander Russell
1757, first edition. Extracts from their travels around the Levant and North Africa
Dr Richard Pococke, with Alexander Drummond, and Alexander Russell
J Smith, Dublin, 1757
£80.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
An Essay on the Government of Children (1756, second edition)
James Nelson's seminal study of the health, manners and education of children
James Nelson
R & J Dodsley, London, 1756
£80.00
Education, Social Sciences & Anthropology | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
La Vie de Jésus-Christ (Volumes 1 & 3)
1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels
Bernardin de Montereul, revised by Jean Brignon
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Histoire des Révolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la République Romaine
1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome
L’Abbé de Vertot
Chez Barois, Paris, 1727
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Epitome Rerum Germanicarum ab Anno MDCXVII ad XLIII Gestarum
1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War
Leonhard Pappus
Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644
£200.00
History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume LXIV, January to June 1794
with 18 plates, all present
Sylvanus Urban, pseud. Edward Cave
John Nichols, London, 1794
£80.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism (1752)
Bolingbroke's political essays, including "on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First"
Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingb
A Millar, London, 1752
£60.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Perspective View of the Town of Leicester, in Leicestershire
1779, from The Modern Universal British Traveller, framed and glazed
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck
J Cooke, London, 1779
£40.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed
