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FABULOUS HISTORIES. Designed for the Instruction of Children, respecting their Treatment of Animals. By Mrs. Trimmer.
London: T. Longman, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson… and J. Johnson…, 1786. xi, [1 blank], 227, [1 ad’] pages. Full contemporary untitled sheep. 12mo. First edition. Boards worn and spine cracked; else a very good copy of this popular title. Scarce in first edition form. Osborne p. 314. ]
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FABULOUS HISTORIES. Designed for the Instruction of Children, respecting their Treatment of Animals. By Mrs. Trimmer.
London: T. Longman, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson... and J. Johnson, 1786. Xi, [1 blank], 227, [1 ad’] pages. Full contemporary sheep, expertly rebacked with gilded hubs and a red title label. 12mo. First edition. Lower, outer blank corner torn from pages 25/26, and again from 73/74; some light spotting; boards a little worn, particularly at corners; else a very good copy. Osborne p. 314.
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FARTHER ENGLISH EXAMPLES containing I. Cautions for Children in rendering English into Latin, with the peculiar Signification and Use of certain English Particles. II. Useful Observations for the Young Beginner. III. Figura: or, the Figures of Construction. Each part is explained by proper Examples. With a Vocabulary, English into Latin.
Eton: Printed by Joseph Pote; Sold also by Thomas Pote, in Fleet-Street London, 1761. [2], 118pp. Probably the original hessian binding. 12mo. First edition. Ownership inscriptions to front endpaper. A very good copy. ESTC records three copies only.
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GEOGRAPHY made familiar and easy to Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Being the sixth volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. The Fourth edition.
London: T. Carnan, 1776. [xix], 319, [13 ad’s] pages. Original green vellum-backed marbled boards. 100 x 70 mm. Binding worn and rubbed; lacks paper label to the spine; front inner joint cracked; else a good plus copy. Roscoe J83(4).
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GEOGRAPHY made familiar and easy to Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Being the sixth volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. The Fourth edition.
Dublin: Printed for H. Saunders, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts, W. Sleater, and J. Williams, 1770. xiv, 315, [5 contents] pages. Bound in full marbled calf with a gilt ‘6’ to the spine. 32mo in 8s. Spine cracked and worn at head & heel with some loss; neat ownership name on title; slight cropping to fore-edge of ‘Contents’ pages; else a clean copy. Rare Dublin piracy of a work first published by John Newbery in 1748.
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JEMIMA PLACID; OR, THE ADVANTAGE OF GOOD-NATURE, Exemplified in a variety of Familiar Incidents. Third edition. (Price 6d in Gilt Paper - 9d Bound in Red.)
London: John Marshall & Co.. N. 4, Aldermary Church Yard... And No 17 Queen Street, No date [Circa 1790 -5]. 91 pages of text. Ad's as rear pastedown. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and numerous wood-engravings in the text. Original Dutch flower paper-covered boards. Boards rubbed & worn; paper missing from spine; hinges holding on strings only; else a very good copy. Mary Ann Kilner [nee Maze] was the sister-in-law of Dorothy Kilner, author of many 18th century children's Books.
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KLEINE KATECHISMUS DER NATUR voor Kinderen, door J. F. Martinet.
Amsterdam: by Johannes Allart, 1779. [vi], 138 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary paper-covered boards sometime re-backed and re-cornered in calf. 232 x 140 mm. First edition. A very nice copy. A second, expanded edition was issued in 1785.
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L'AMI DES JEUNES GENS, par M. G*****
Lille: J.-B. Henry, 1764. Two parts bounds as one. vii, [1], 237, [1]. [iv], 239, [1], [4] pages. Slightly later binding of half roan over marbled boards. 167 x 100 mm. First edition. Book plates; ownership name on front fly; Binding a little worn and with a short tear at the head of spine; two ownership stamps on title dated 1786; else a very good copy. The first edition would appear to be rare.
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LA VIE E LES AVANTURES SURPRENANTES DE ROBINSON CRUSOE, contenant entres autres évenements, le séjour qu'il a fait pendant vingt & huit ans dans une Isle déserte, située sur la Côtee l' Amerique, près de l'embouchure de la grande Rivière Oroonoque. Le text écrit par lui-même. Traduit de l'Anglois.
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LE CABINET DES FÉES. Contenant tous leurs Ouvrages, en huit Volumes.
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LE NOUVEAU ROBINSON pour servir à l'amusement et à l'instruction des enfans : Allemand et François à l'usage des deux nations.
A Fribourg en Suisse: A. W. Eggendorffer, 1788. 2 volumes. Vol’ I: [28],317 pages. Vol’ II: [2], 397 pages. Contemporary paper-covered boards with gilt labels to the spines. 12mo. First and only edition thus. Title of Volume I a little creased; front flyleaf of volume II partly stuck to the pastedown; binding a worn and a little cocked; else a very good set of this duel language edition, being set out in alternate pages of German and French text.
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LES AVANTURES DE TELEMAQUE, fils d’Ulysse. Precepteur des Enfans de France, & depuis Archeveque-Duc de Cambray, Prince du Saint Empire, &c. Nouvelle edition. Revue sur les meilleures Editions precedentes.
A Londres: Chez J. F. & C. Rivington, S Crowder, T. Longman, T. Caslon, G. Keith, B. Law, T. Lowndes, J. Johnson, F. Newbery, W. Goldsmith, & T. Beechcroft, 1778. xxxi, [1], [1], 2- 409 pages. Portrait frontispiece and 11 other engraved plates, plus a folding engraved map. Original plain sheep. 12mo. Lacks front free endpaper; spine cracked, and a little worn at head; else a very good copy of a rare printing. ESTC records two copies only. The earliest French edition published by a member of the Newbery family [Elizabeth] is recorded by Roscoe as being that of 1797 (J113 (1)).
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LETTERS On the most common, as well as important, OCCASIONS IN LIFE. By Cicero, Pliny, Voiture, Balzac, St. Evremond, Locke, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Oxford, Lord Peterborough, Lord Bolingbroke, Sir William Temple, Sir W. Trumbull, Dryden, Atterbury, Garth, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gay, Swift, Berkley, Rowe, Sevigne, and Other Writers of distinguished Merit, with many Original Letters and Cards, By the Editor. Who has also prefix’d, a Dissertation on the Epistolary Style. With proper Directions for addressing Persons of Rank and Eminence. The Fifth Edition.
London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1760. 352 pages. Later binding of full calf with red gilt label to the spine. Title and last leaf a little browned; three small rubs on title with the loss of some letters; two instances of ink underlining; else a very good copy in a handsome binding. The Dedication is signed John Newbery. First published in 1756. See Roscoe J266(5).
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LETTERS On the most common, as well as important, OCCASIONS IN LIFE. By Cicero, Pliny, Voiture, Balzac, St. Evremond, Locke, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Oxford, Lord Peterborough, Sir William Temple, Sir W. Trumbull, Dryden, Atterbury, Garth, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gay, Swift, Berkley, Rowe, and Other Writers of distinguished Merit, with many Original Letters and Cases, By the Editor. Who has also prefixed, a Dissertation on the Epistolary Style. With proper Directions for addressing Persons of Rank and Eminence. For the Use of Young Gentlemen and Ladies. The Second edition.
London: Printed for J. Newbery, No date [circa 1757]. xii, 204 pages. Original untiled sheep gilt. 12mo. Spine repaired; ownership name on endpaper date 1761; else a very good copy of a rare early Newbery juvenile. The Dedication is signed John Newbery. First published in the preceding year, 1756. Roscoe J266(2). Rare.
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MENTORIA: or, The Young Ladies Instructor, in Familiar Conversations on Moral and Entertaining Subjects: Calculated to improve Young Minds, In the Essential, as well as Ornamental Parts of Female Education.
London: J. Fry and Co, 1778. xii, [viii], 207pp. Illustrated with two engraved plates. Recently finely rebound in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards with vellum tips. 12mo. First edition. Ownership name on title; title and least leaf foxed, and occasionally here & there throughout; stain in contents section from a dried flower; creasing to pages 83 – 88 from the printing process; else a very good copy of this very popular and influential work.
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MIDSUMMER HOLYDAYS; or, A Long Story. Written for the Improvement and Entertainment of Young Folk. Second edition.
London: John Marshall, No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard... and No. 17, Queen Street, 1790. 83, [1 ad'] pages. Recent full sheep, gilt red title label to spine. 12 mo. Some juvenile scribbling and doodling to the half-title, title, blank recto, and the first page of text; else a very good copy of a work thought to be by Lady Eleanor Fenn.
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NOUVELLE HISTOIRE D’ANGLETERRE. Depuis Les Premiers Periodes, Jusqu’au Temps Present. Sur un Plan Recommandé par Le Comte De Chesterfiled. Enrichi de Figures en Taille douce, soigneusement gravées d’aprés le desseins de Mr. Wale. Traduit de l’Anglois du Rev. Mr. Cooper, par Le S. L. B. St. Amand.
Londres: E. Newbery, au Coin du Cimetiere de St. Paul, 1788. xii, [13], 14-208 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other full-page engraved plates. Recently rebound in half red sheep over marbled boards, retaining original endpapers. First French edition (published in London). Frontispiece has some light colouring; last page a little soiled; short tear in front endpaper; the odd mark here & there; else a very good copy. Rare. Roscoe J85, notes two copies only (possibly one and the same) and calls for only five plates ( the above copy has six).
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ORBIS SENSUALIM PICTUS: hoc est Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum. & in Vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Comenius's VISIBLE WORLD: or, A Nomenclature, and Pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and men's employment therein: In above 150 cuts. Written by the Author in Latin and High Dutch, being one of his last Essays; and the most suitable to Children's Capacities of any he hath hitherto made. Translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A. For the Use of Young Latin Scholars. The Twelfth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. And the English made to answer Word for Word to the Latin.
London: S. Leacroft, 1777. [16], 197, [1 blank], [ 6 index] pages. Engraved illustrations throughout. Bound in recent full sheep with simple gold lines to the spine and a red title label. 12mo. An unusually very good, clean copy.
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ORBIS SENSUALIM PICTUS: hoc est Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum. & in Vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Comenius's Visible World: or, A Nomenclature, and Pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and men's employment therein: In above 150 cuts. Written by the Author in Latin and High Dutch, being one of his last Essays; and the most suitable to Children's Capacities of any he hath hitherto made. Translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A. For the Use of Young Latin Scholars. The Twelfth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. And the English made to answer Word for Word to the Latin.
London: S. Leacroft, 1778. [16], 197, [1 blank], [ 6 index] pp. Engraved illustrations throughout. Original plain full sheep; no title, but gilt bands to the spine. 12mo. Binding worn and, the boards bumped with some loss to the corners; cracking at spine joints; slight rust mark from a paper clip to the upper outer margin of several pages; name in ink to rear free endpaper; endpapers a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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PIECES CHOISIES de L’Ami des Enfans de M. Berquin. A l’usage des ecoles. Avec frontispiece.
A Londres. Imprime par A. Paris, Rolls-Building; Pour A. Dulau & Co. Libraires, 107, Wardour-street, Soho; se trouve aussi Chez J. De Bosse, Gerard-street, Soho; T. Boosey, Broad-street, Royal Exchange; Booker, Old Bond-street; Polodori, Hay-market; Gourdau, Bridges-street, Covent Garden, et chez tous Autres Libraires, 1796. 4, [2 table], [2ad’s], 5-324 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in modern two-tone paper-covered boards with a printed paper label to the spine. 165 x 103mm. First edition. Paper fault in the blank margin of one leaf; two pages mis-numbered. A very good copy of a rare selection of stories from Arnaud Berquin's, L'Ami des Enfans (London, 1782-3), intended for school use. No copy recorded on ESTC. Which lists only three copies of the second edition of 1798.
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