Boston: S. Rowland Hart, Printer, 1835. Abbott, a resident of South Reading, Massachusetts, designed a water- powered engine which is described in detail herein. The handsome engravings illustrate how the author's engine worked. Contains a glossary of mechanical terms at the rear. A quite elaborate work of American technology for..... Read More about Exposition of the Principles of Abbott's Hydraulic Engine
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London: Printed for Longmans, Green, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Subscriber's list (p. ix-xliv) includes The King, Duke of York. Alexander Boyd who took 10 copies (as marked in pen), Sir Walter Scott (10 copies), James Watt, et al This book was published to get..... Read More about A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
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London: printed for Longmans, Hurst, Rees and Orme, ater-Noster Row, 1804. First Edition. Read More about Miscellaneous Plays
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Sarum: Printed by E. Easton : Sold by P. Elmsley in the Strand; J. Ridley, St. James's Street; London and W. Sollers, Blandford, 1781. First edition, with half-title. The definitive statement on foxhunting and hound management, written after many years of practical experience by an eloquent squire and former M.P.;..... Read More about Thoughts on Hunting. In a series of familiar letters to a Friend
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Derby: John Drewry, 1789. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS ON ATOMOSPHERIC ELECTRICTY. Bennet was a clergyman who was also a physicist. He invented the gold-leaf electroscope and an improved magnetometer. Alesandra Volta regarded the theory of electricity that Bennet put forth in this book as a key influence in leading to the..... Read More about New Experiments on Electricity, wherein the causes of Thunder and Lightning as well as the...
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London: T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake, with whom he shared an interest in radical politics, and on the..... Read More about A Father's Memoirs of His Child
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London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. The Second edition, with half title. Variant that has Appendix listed in Contents at p. 141 instead of correctly at p. 241. Read More about An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli
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New York: Published by J. & J Harper, 1830. First American edition same year as publication in London in 3 volumes. Read More about Paul Clifford
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London: Printed by J. M’Creery for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, Strand, 1808. First Edition. UNCUT. Read More about Reliques of Robert Burns; Consisting chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical...
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London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. Second edition, first published in English by Colburn in 1827 as The Natchez. Novel of Louisiana and the American west by Chateaubriand, written 1793-6 and based on his travels in America in 1791. It was not published in French until 1826, and an..... Read More about Celuta; or, The Natchez: an Indian Tale
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London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition in English. In Boards. Read More about The Natchez; an Indian Tale …
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London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1817. Read More about Letters Written by the Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Arthur...
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London: John Murray. Aldemarle Street, 1835. First Edition. Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge. Read More about Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs, For J. Cottle … and Messrs. Robinson, London, 1797. Second edition, expanded. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. After the favorable reception of the first edition of 1796, the publisher Cottle requested a second, to which Coleridge contributed several new pieces, including “The Ode to the Departing Year,”..... Read More about Poems … to Which are Now Added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd
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London: W. Wright, 1820. Williams, Charles. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for..... Read More about Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque
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London: printed for W. Wright, 1820. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for..... Read More about Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque
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London: W. Wright, 1820. Williams, Charles. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for..... Read More about Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque
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London: R. Ackerman, 1822. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. The Last Syntax, in Contemporary Cloth. Read More about The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: a Poem, by the...
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London: Published for R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts. 101, Strand, 1820. Rowlandson, Thomas. Second Edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Read More about The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation; A Poem
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New York: Charles Wiley, 1824. Second edition. IN BOARDS. Read More about The Pilot; A Tale of the Sea
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836. New edition (first published in 1828). Read More about Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor
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London: Printed for Mathew and Leigh, 18 Strand, 1810. Third edition. UNCUT. Read More about Original Poems, on Various occasions. By a Lady. Revised by William Cowper, Esq. of the Inner Temple
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Dublin: John Barlow, 1804. Second edition with considerable additions. Irish Theatre. "These celebrated Epistles... raised a tremendous storm in Dublin theatrical society, and were the cause of many pamphlets" (Lowe). Read More about Familiar Epistles of Frederick J---S, Esq. on the present state of the Irish stage
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London: t. Cadell & W. SDavies, 1795. First Edition. Read More about An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character
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Paris: 1825-1827. First edition. In Boards, with American Medical Provenance. This zoological manual of mollusks and conches (though de Blainville's definition was vague) contains impresive engraved plates by Prêtre and Turpin, the best French natural history artists of the period. The author, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), studied art..... Read More about Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyliologie
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