331. De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo / [Giovan Gherardo de Rossi].

Commedie.

[Seconda Edizione]. 4 Volumes in 2 (complete set). Prato, Fratelli Giachetti, 1826. Octavo. Tomo Primo: XIX, 291, [1] pages / Tomo Secondo: 314, [2] pages / Tomo Terzo: 328, [2] pages / Tomo Quattro: 251, [1] pages. Original, wonderful and decorative vellum bindings. With new spinelabels. Very Rare, original edition of the second edition of de Rossi’s comedies.

332. Hawker, Lt. Col. Peter.

Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.

Fifth Edition, corrected and improved with explanatory plates and woodcuts. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. XXI, 456 pages with X plates and several woodcuts within the text. Original Hardcover (half leather on four raised bands with marbled paper-covered boards) with gilt lettering on spine. Very Good condition with some external signs of wear. Minor abrasion to one corner only. All plates and illustrations included as called for. One plate cleanly detached. Binding very firm and strong. Some spotting and occasional staining inside.

333. Rubempré, Morel de.

Véritable Médecine sans Médecin.

Paris, Librairie Francaise et Étrangère-Ponthieu/Audin, 1826. 8°. Frontispiece, XX, 1078 pages. Original brochure bound in recent, modern cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Publishers interimsbinding and paper uncut. Some foxing. RARE !

334. [Conder, Josiah].

Arabia, Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

Three Volumes. London, Printed for James Duncan, 1827. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Arabia-Volume: IV, 362 pages / Egypt/Abyssinia-Volume I: IV, 366 pages / Egypt/Abyssinia-Volume II: IV, 364 pages. Includes three folded maps and nine black and white illustrations showing: 1. Map of Arabia / 2. Map of Egypt / 3. Map of Nubia and Abyssinia / 4. View of Mount Sinai / 5. Mosques at Mekka and Medinah / 6. View of Moosa / 7. Temple of Apollinopolis / 8. Cataracts of the Nile / 9. View on the River Tacazze / 10. Obelisk and King’s Seat at Axum / 11. View of Cairo / 12. The Pyramids from Old Cairo. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Minor foxing only. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 4-6].

335. [Conder, Josiah].

Persia and China / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe.]

Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Printed for James Duncan, 1827. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Volume I: IV, 372 pages. / Volume II: IV, 340 pages. Including two folded maps and 6 black and white illustrations: 1. Folded map of Persia / 2. Folded map of China / 3. Isfahan / 4. Teheran / 5. View of the Golden Island / 6. Chinese Military Post / 7. Western Gate of Peking / 8. Persian Lady. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel and cover of Volume I detached. Minor signs of foxing. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 12-13].

336. [Conder, Josiah].

Turkey / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

London, Printed for James Duncan, 1827. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. IV, 356 pages. With 4 black and white engravings showing: 1. View of Constantinople / 2. Plan of Ditto / 3. Monastery of Meteora / 4. Ioannina. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament and raised bands on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Minor foxing. [Volume 14 of the Series “The Modern Traveller”].

337. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

338. Heffter, August Wilhelm.

Gaii Iurisconsulti Institutionum commentarius quartus sive de Actionibus. Recensuit, restituere conatus est, adnotationem perpetuam librumque observationum adiecit August Wilhelm Heffter.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1827. 4°. LXXIV, 118, 3 nn. Seiten. Softcover. Originale Interimsbroschur. Unaufgeschnittenes Verlagsexemplar. Etwas stockfleckig. / Original edition in plain editors – brochure. Uncut/Unopened. Slightly foxed. RARE.

339. [Platon] / [Victor Cousin].

Lysis, ou de L’Amitié – Argument Philosophique.

[Paris], [Bossanges Freres], no year [c.1827]. 8°. 33 pp. Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. [Extracted from Victor Cousin’s: “Oeuvres de Platon, Volume 4”.

340. [Conder, Josiah].

India / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

Volume III and IV (of a Set of IV). London, Printed for James Duncan, 1828. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Volume III: IV, 390 pages / Volume IV: IV, 376 pages. With 12 black and white illustrations showing: 1. Government House at Calcutta / 2. Bishop’s College / 3. Old Tress at Gya, Bahar / 4. Patna / 5. Palace at Lucknow / 6. Jumma Mesjeed at Delhi / 7. Palace at Jeypoor / 8. Bombay / 9. Cave at Ellora / 10. Sculptured Rocks at Mavalipuram / 11. Pagoda of the Great Bull, Tanjore / 12. Palace of the King of Ceylon. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel and front board loose on Volume II. Minor foxing. Volume II contains previous owner name in ink to half-title page. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 9-10].