London: Printed by J. Dillon and Co, for, and Sold by, W. and S. Jones, Opticians, 1799. The Fifth edition, with corrections and additions by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker. George Adams, an English optician and writer of the late eighteenth century, published a wide variety of scientific works, including..... Read More about An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and describing the...

Venice: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1770. No Copy in OCLC. A truly magnificent and well-preserved example of this genre of liturgical printing in both red and black, which, in design and format, carried on with the manuscript tradition, but which, by the late 18th century, had already become impractical. For obvious..... Read More about Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et sanctis ad normam Breviarii ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii...

Munich: published by the Academy, nd [ca 1773]. First German Edition. The First English Edition of this work was published in 1772. It contains a great deal on agricultural machinery and makes mention of machinery and practices in America as well as in England and the Continent. Read More about The Advancment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: or Descriptions of the Useful Machines and...

À Paris: Chez l’auteur. Et se vend À Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1699. Sixth edition (first published 1683). The Art of Firing a Mortar. Blondel (1618-1686), brilliant mathematician, architect engineer, and topographer, was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1669. He became director of the Royal Academy of..... Read More about L’art de jetter les bombes

London: Printed for Robert Raworth, 1636. First edition of this very rare poetical miscellany, including contributions by Drayton, Jonson, Randolph, Feltham, Heywood, and many others. Celebrating The Cotswold Games. Case and ESTC locate variants, the former recording a literal reprint with an added poem on K2 (not present here, and..... Read More about Annalia Dvbrensia. Vpon the Yeerly Celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games Vpon...

London: [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1712. Another issue of “A farther search into the conduct of the allies …”, with same pagination, and the name John Morphew in the imprint; it is sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift. Read More about A Farther Search into the Conduct of the Allies, and the Late Ministry, as to Peace and War....

London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1713. First edition. Read More about Reasons Concerning the Immediate Demolishing of Dunkirk: being a Serious Enquiry into the State...

Paris: H. L Guérin et L. F. Delatour, 1760. First edition. From the Great French Advocate of the Tree. Important work on the cultivation of trees by this prolific 18th-century polymath and savant (1700-1782), member of the Royal Academy, who published over 100 separate during his prolific lifetime, on a...... Read More about Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever...

np: 1648. Sole edition. "And would you know what here is meant / By Monster, 'Tis our Parliament." ESTC lists seven other copies of this scathing anti-Cromwellian work, though no other parts are traced. Read More about The Second Part of the Westminster Monster, whereunto is added Pembroke's Passe from Oxford to...

London: J. Roberts, 1730. First edition. Fielding's First Popular Success. First edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera in the mold of Gay's Beggar's Opera; it ran for 41 nights in its first season and was subsequently revived. "In March 1730 at the Little Haymarket Theatre he had..... Read More about The Author's Farce; and the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market....

London: I. and J. Taylor, 1789. Second edition. Second edition, published a year after the first, with slight revisions and one additional plate (9 bis). With Chippendale and Sheraton, one of the three great pattern books of the 18th century: "No compendium of furniture designs had appeared since 1762, when..... Read More about The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; Or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of...

Florence: Niccolo Pagni and Guideppe Bardi, 1791-96. Rare 18th Century Color Engraving of Artist by Carlo Lasinio. Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838), was one of the earliest Italian color-printers; his series of famous self-portraits of artists is a notable achievement, and images are very rare; only one copy of his book has..... Read More about Taddeo Zuccheri Pitt. (Taddeo Zuccari, Italian) nato in S. Angelo in Vado (Teritorio di Urbino)...

London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First complete translation. "An English translation of Alain René Le Sage’s ’Histoire d’Estanville Gonzalez, surnommé le garçon de bonne humeur’, itself a French translation of ’Vida y hechos de Estebanillo Gonzalez’, by Esteban González, but which is also sometimes attributed to Luis..... Read More about The History of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the merry Batchelor