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A MUSEUM FOR Young Gentlemen and Ladies; or, a Private Tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a Variety of useful Subjects; and, in particular, I. Directions for Reading with Elegance and Propriety. II. The ancient and present State of Great Britain; with a compendious History of England. III. An Account of the Solar System. IV. Historical and Geographical Descriptions of the several Countries in the World, with the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the People. V. Tables of Weights and Measures. VI. The Seven Wonders of the World. VII. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountains. VIII. Dying Words and Behaviour of great Men, when just quitting the Stage of Life, with many other useful Particulars, all in a plain familiar Way, for Youth of both Sexes. With Letters, Tales, and Fable, for Amusement and Instruction. Illustrate with cuts. The sixteenth edition, with considerable additions and alterations.
London: Darton and Harvey… Crosby and Letterman,,, J. Hariis… and B. C. Collins, No date [1803]. vi, 192 pages. 26 woodcuts (one full-page) and 2 diagrams within the text. Original quarter green vellum over marbled paper-covered boards. 142 x 90 mm. Contents clean and fresh, but the binding is very worn and rubbed, and the paper title label has been lost from the spine. This is the second Darton edition. G692(2). First published by Newbery in the mid 1750s.
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, BEASTS, & FISHES. Embellished with Beautiful Engravings.
London: Ja.s Imray, No date [circa 1800]. 20 Featherstone St, City Road. Price Sixpence. 52 pages. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, engraved title with vignette of a parrot, and 14 wood-engravings in the text. Original marbled wrappers. 118 x 82 mm. Generally rather worn – particularly so the wrapper, the lower have some loss of marbled paper; lacks rear endpaper; ownership names to endpapers; also the book plate of Marjorie Moon; else a good copy of a rare title. Very little is known of Jas. Imray and all his books are scarce.
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. Thirty-Two engravings on wood.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. A very good copy. One of seven separately issued titles forming a ‘natural history.’
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS, FOREIGN QUADRUPEDS, BRITISH BIRDS, WATER BIRDS, FOREIGN BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, SERPENTS & INSECTS. Embellished with 247 Engravings on Wood, by Thomas Bewick of Newcastle.
Alnwick: Printed and sold wholesale and retail by and W. Davidson, No date [circa1809]. Seven individual chapbooks bound together, but without the general title, which is sometimes present, and without their original wrappers. 136 x 90 mm. The binding is of late mid to late nineteenth century half calf over cloth, with a red gilt label to the spine. Some rubbing and wear to the binding; front hinge cracked; but a very good, clean set.
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS, FOREIGN QUADRUPEDS, BRITISH BIRDS, WATER BIRDS, FOREIGN BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES, SERPENTS & INSECTS. Embellished with 247 Engravings on Wood, by Thomas Bewick of Newcastle.
Alnwick: Printed at the Apollo Press, by and for W. Davidson, 1809. Seven individual chapbooks bound together as one with a general title-page preceding them. All are in their original wrappers, with cuts by Bewick on the upper covers, and cuts by others on the lower. They have not been cut to a uniform size, but differ from volume to volume. The binding is of late mid to late nineteenth century half calf over cloth, with twin black labels to the spine. General title spotted; some wear to binding; bookplate; front hinge cracked; but a very good, clean set. Sets with the general title-page are very scarce.
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS.. Thirty-Two engravings on wood.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. Small rub on upper cover; else a very good copy. One of seven separately issued titles forming a ‘natural history.’
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES. Forty engravings on wood.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. Small collection label to upper wrapper; little worn at head of spine; else a very good copy. One of seven separately issued titles forming a ‘natural history.’
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF REPTILES, SERPENTS AND INSECTS.. Thirty-Four engravings on wood.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. A very good copy. One of seven separately issued titles forming a ‘natural history.’
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF WATER BIRDS. Thirty-four engravings on wood.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. Small collection label to upper wrapper; else a very good copy. One of seven titles issued by Davison, forming a ‘natural history.’
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A New and Easy Guide to THE USE OF THE GLOBES; and the Rudiments of Geography. Wherein the Knowledge of the Heavens and Earth is made easy to the meanest Capacity: First, by giving a concise Account of the four Quarters of the World, with the Distance and Situation of the principal Islands and inland Places; and Secondly, by the Solution of upwards of Seventy useful Problems, in Geography, Astronomy, Navigation, and Dialling. In which are inserted Three useful Tables….. To which are subjoined, I. An Appendix; containing a short Account of the Solar System, and of the Comets and Fixed Stars: II. A Supplement; exhibiting a brief View of the Figure and Magnitude of the Earth, of the Nature of the Atmosphere, of the Theory of the Tides, and a concise System of Chronology…. The Fifth edition. With Large corrections and Improvements. Recommended by the Rev. J. Warneford, M.A. and several eminent Mathematicians. In this edition are now first inserted a View of the Copernican or True System of the Universe, and the Coelestial Globe, neatly engraved.
London: S. Crowder, 1785. Ix, [3], 213 [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated with a folding engraved frontispiece of the World, and nine other folding plates, of which 6 are maps. Original plain sheep, untitled sheep, simple gilt banding to the spine. 12mo. Binding rubbed and worn; cracking at joints; some plates and leaves with corner creases; lacks front endpaper; else a very good copy. Scarce.
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A NEW AND EASY INTRODUCTION TO ARITHMETIC. For the Juvenile; or, Child’s Library.
London: John Marshall, No date [1800]. 68 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original green paper-covered boards with mounted shaped labels to both panels. 98 x 80 mm. First edition. Boards a little rubbed; spine expertly repaired; else a fine copy. The Juvenile; or Child’s Library was a boxed library issued by John Marshall in 1800. It was comprised of 19 volumes plus a memorandum book, and was housed in wooden box designed to look like a bookcase. However, each of the titles could be purchased individually.
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A NEW CHILD’S-PLAY. Sixteen Drawings by E. V. B.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877. [20] leaves, printed on one side only, of text, and 16 fine full-page plates. Original green cloth gilt. 278 x 220 mm. All edges gilt. First edition. Corners of binding a little worn; occasional spot of foxing; else a very good copy.
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A NEW COLLECTION OF FAIRY TALES. None of which were Ever Before printed. Containing Many Useful Lessons, Moral Sentiments, Surprising Incidents, and Amusing Adventures. In Two Volumes.
Printed for C. Davis… C. Hitch… R. Dodsley… W. Bowyer… and G. Woodfall, 1750. Volume I only. [ii], 214, [I index] pages. Original plain untitled calf. 12mo. Ownership name: ‘Miss Trumbulls Book 1750’ to front pastedown. Joints cracking, but firm; lacking the second volume, but an extremely rare work originally published in Dublin under the title, A New System of Fairery. Attributed to Henry Brooke. ESTC records four copies only.
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A NEW GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH TONGUE. In five Parts. Containing I. Words, both common and proper, from one to six syllables. – The several sorts of Monosyllables in the common Words being distinguished by Tables into Words of two, three, and four Letters, &c. with six short Lessons at the End of each Table, not exceeding the order of Syllables in the foregoing Tables. –The several sorts of Pollysyllables also being ranged in proper Tables, have their Syllables divided, and Directions placed at the Head of each Table for the Accent, to prevent false Pronunciation; together with the like Number of Lessons on the foregoing Tables, placed at the End of each Table, as far as the Words of four Syllables, for the easier and more speedy Way of teaching Children to read. II. A Large and useful Table of Words, that are the same in Sound, but different in signification; very necessary to prevent the writing one Word for another of the same sound. III. A short, but comprehensive Grammar of the English Tongue delivered in the most familiar and instructive Method of Question and Answer; necessary for all such Persons as have the Advantage only of an English Education. IV. An useful Collection of Sentences in Prose and Verse, Divine, Moral, and Historical; together with s select Number of Fables, adorn’d with proper Sculptures for the better improvement of the Young Beginners. – And, V. Forms of Prayers for Children, on several Occasions. The Whole being recommended by several Clergymen and eminent Schoolmasters, as the most useful Performance for the Instruction of Youth, is designed for the Use of Schools in Great-Britain, Ireland, and the several English Collonies and Plantations abroad. A New Edition. By Thomas Dilworth….
London: William Lane, 1796. [4], viii, 154 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text. Original full plain sheep. 12mo. Inscription dated 1803 on front endpaper; spine expertly repaired; paper lightly age-toned throughout; one leaf with a corner tear but no loss; another with a small area of loss to the text; else a very good copy of a title often found in very poor condition.
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A NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE. Being a careful selection of the most important and interesting passages in the Old and New Testament: regularly arranged from Genesis to Revelations and the Life of our Blessed Saviour. And the Holy Evangelists. Illustrated with nearly four hundred engravings.
London: Milner and Company, Limited, No date [circa 1859]. 128 pages. Original printed blue wrappers. 18.8 x 9 cm. Little worn at lower outer corner of front wrapper, and a tiny corner torn away from the front endpaper; later ownership inscription and date; else a very good copy. The first English language edition of a Curious Hieroglyphic Bible was printed in London in 1783. They were extremely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This example from 1859 is comparatively late.
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A NEW HISTORY OF BLUE BEARD, Written by Gaffer Black Beard, For the Amusement of Little Black Beard and His Pretty Sisters. Adorned with cuts.
Philadelphia: Printed by John Adams, 1804. 32 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 small woodcuts. Original plain blue wrappers. 10.3 x 6.6 cm. First Adams edition. Splitting at spine, but firm, and a little worn at corners; else a very good copy. Some of the woodblocks would appear to recycled, as that representing Blue Beard's castle is a biblical cut of the Tower of Babel.
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A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND; from the Earliest Period, to the Present Time. On a plan recommended by The Earl of Chesterfield. The eleventh edition with additions.
London: Printed for E.Newberry, 1801. xii, 220pp. Engraved frontispiece. Original paper-backed marbled paper covered boards. 6mo. Vertical creases to boards which have softened through use. Small piece of title-label to spine with name of author. Corners bumped with damage. Cracking at inner hinges between pages iv and v and 24 and 25 with these pages coming loose. Name written in ink along fore-edge. Some pencil numbers in text and an annotation in ink on (V). Names in ink on front endpapers. Front free endpaper has small holes as if stabbed by a pencil making indentations on the following three leaves including the frontispiece; else a very good copy.Roscoe: J84 (9).
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A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND; from the Invasion of JULIUS CÆSAR to the End of George the II. Adorned with CUTS of all the Kings and Queens who have reigned since the Norman Conquest.
London: T. Carnan, in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1785. (Price Sixpence.) [iv], 188 pages. Illustrated with 32 woodcut illustrations. Original pictorial boards, printed in red. 16mo. Re-backed and re-cased with new endpapers; some rubbing and marking to boards, but internally very clean. It is rare to find Newbery publication in the original pictorial boards. MWA pencilled acquisition note and blind-stamp to title page and American Antiquarian Society release stamp to rear pastedown. See Roscoe, Newbery, J258(10).
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A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND; from the Invasion of JULIUS CÆSAR to the End of George the IId. Adorned with CUTS of all the Kings and Queens who have reigned since the Norman Conquest.
London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery, junior, at No. 65, in St. Paul’s Church Yard, (but not for F. Newbery, at the Corner of Ludgate Street, who has no Share in the late Mr. John Newbery’s Books for Children.). Price Sixpence. 1777. [iv], 188 pages. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Bound in nineteenth century half calf gilt over marbled boards. 96 x 69 mm. A very small hole is present in one leaf; title a little dust-soiled; boards rubbed; else a very good copy. Roscoe J258(8). The verso of the title contains the famous diatribe against Francis Newbery, John Newbery’s nephew.
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A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the present time. In two parts.
London: W. Darton, Jun, 1812. 64; 64, [1 Darton trade plate] pages. Illustrated with copper engravings throughout. Bound in quarter red roan over marbled boards. 16.2 x 10.6cm. Spine expertly repaired; ownership details cross through on front pastedown; else a very good copy of an unusual issue that, despite the date on the title-pages, was probably issued circa 1820. This work is usually issued in two separate parts in wrappers. See Darton H1146, who notes a copy like ours in the collection at UCLA.
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