Search Results: Authors starting with T from Books That Expand The Mind

London: Troy Books, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Royal octavo (8vo 6+1?4 × 10 159 × 254). Signed by Author(s). Please email for Photographs or further information. Fine - Part One: Standard Hardback Edition: a Oatmeal case binding with gold foil blocking to cover & spine, 90gsm cream paper stock, brown endpapers, with black and tail bands. 318 pages. Part Two: Special Edition: a limited edition of 125 hand-numbered & signed examples, bound in a brown cloth binding, with gold foil blocking to the front and spine, 90gsm white cream stock, black endpapers, with black head and tail bands. 393 pages Part Three: Special Edition: a limited edition of 125 hand-numbered & signed examples, bound in a brown cloth binding, with gold foil blocking to the front and spine, 90gsm cream stock, black endpapers, with black head and tail bands. 224 pages. Please see photos as part of condition report 2019 1st Edition , THE GNOME MANUSCRIPT THREE VOLS Part One: The Gnome Manuscript - Origins,… Read More

London: Awnsham and John Churchil, 1695. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Some creases to pages edges, guteering a bit stretched but holding firm. A lovely copy. Please see photos as part of condition report 1695 , Tan Morocco Boards A VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY From the creation, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Adrian, in the year of the world 4084, and of Christ 135, By Francis Tallents Francis Tallents was of partly Huguenot ancestry. He was the eldest son of Philip Tallents, whose own father, a Frenchman, accompanied Francis Leke (MP), a Derbyshire Protestant politician and soldier, to England after saving his life. Tallents studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1635, and then moved to Magdalene College, Cambridge, to become sub-tutor to the sons of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. He graduated B.A in 1641. In 1642 he travelled abroad with his pupils, and stayed for a time at… Read More

Francis Walterson, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1928 1st Edition , THE MYSTERIOUSNESS OF MARRIAGE By Jeremy Taylor Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Francis Walterson, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages ISBN: Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and Heaven itself. Celibate, like the fly in the… Read More

London: Printed by R.N. for Francis Ash and are to be sold at the three pigeons in S. Pauls Church-yard Biography of Jesus Christ., 1649. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Red & black ink; title page replaced by an manuscript copy title and first and second pages. No frontispiece as issued (these were added in later editions) Please see photos as part of condition report 1649 1st Edition , Leather THE GREAT EXEMPLAR OF SANCTITY AND HOLY LIFE By Jeremy Taylor Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language:… Read More

London: Richard Royston, 1655. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1?4 × 11+1?2 210 × 292). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Contemporary rebind, new end papers. Please see photos as part of condition report 1655 2nd Edition , A COURSE OF SERMONS FOR ALL THE SUNDAYS OF THE YEAR By Jeremy Taylor Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Richard Royston, London Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1?4 × 11+1?2 210 × 292),Pages 773 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0001980 Approximate… Read More

Italy: Typographia Longhi, Typographia Jacobi Justi e Typographia Marescandoli; Bologna e Lucca, 1775. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). 1st Printing Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Very rare first and only edition of this work, very difficult to find complete with all the tomes and adorned with many beautiful engravings. Francesco da Pieve di Teco, Lectionum theologico-moralium..., Bologna and Lucca, Typographia Longhi, Typographia Jacobi Justi and Typographia Marescandoli, 1775-1779. 8 bound volumes in 6 volumes, COMPLETE WORK. Volume I: pp. XVI, 523, (I). COMPLETE, with an Antiporta and 5 plates outside the text. Volume II: pp. (IV), 464. COMPLETE, with an Anteporta and 4 plates outside the text. Volume III: pp. (IV), 486, (II). COMPLETE, with an Anteporta and 4 plates outside the text. Volume IV: pp. (II), 495, (V). COMPLETE, with 5 plates outside of text. Volume V: pp. (II), 357, (II). COMPLETE of the text, but… Read More

London: Rider, 1972. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Like New - Please see photos as part of condition report 1972 , LIVING BY ZEN By Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki D.T. Suzuki ADaisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (?? ?? ??? Suzuki Daisetsu Teitar?; he rendered his name "Daisetz" in 1894;[1] 11 November 1870 – 12 July 1966[2]) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities, and devoted many years to a professorship at ?tani University, a Japanese Buddhist school. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963. Suzuki lived and studied several years with the scholar Paul Carus. Carus himself had written a… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1938. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1938 1st Edition (Thus) , VANITY FAIR By Thackerey Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Oxford University Press, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 885 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0000682 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Boston: Samuel e. Cassino, 1887. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). Thackerey. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Dedicated to B.W.Procter who used the pseudonym Barry Cornwall, an English poet who also enjoyed a long career in the legal profession. A very scare edition of this popular books in 2 volumes. This edition does not appear on WorldCat. Over 150 tipped-in illustrations by the author. Please see photos as part of condition report 1887 1st Edition (Thus) , VANITY FAIR (TWO VOLUMES) By Thackerey Illustrated By: Thackerey Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Samuel e. Cassino, Boston octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 940 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0000645 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Sutra Translation, 1998. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1998 , THE SEEKERS GLOSSARY OF BUDDHISM By Minh Thanh Illustrated By: N/A Format: Softcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Sutra Translation, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 803 ISBN: 9789679920444 SKU: BTETM0000416 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

London: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H.L. Gardner, W. Lowndes, F. and C. Rivington, W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, and J. Whitaker, G. and T. Wilkie, E. Newberry, and J. Walker, 1796. 5th Edition or Later Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. sextodecimo or sixteenmo (16mo 4 × 6+3?4 102 × 171). Thomas Bewick. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Bookplates from 3 Previous Owners on marble FEP. Please see photos as part of condition report 1796 5th Edition or Later Reprint , Leather FABLES By The Late Mr Gay John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names. Illustrated By: Thomas Bewick Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition:… Read More

London: C. and J. Rivington : J, Nunn : J. Scatcherd : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and brown : T. Cadell : E. Jeffery and Son : Harvey and Darton : E. Williams : T. Boosey and Sons : R. Scholey : W. Stewart : W. Ginger : Baldwin, Cradock and Joy : J. Harris and Son : Sherwood, Jones and Co. : G. and W.B. Whittaker : Simpkin and Marshall : E. Edwards : B. Reynolds : T. Hill,, 1823. 5th Edition or Later Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octodecimo or eighteenmo (18mo 4 × 6+1?2 102 × 165). Thomas Bewick. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Previous owner inscription on FEP. Some bumps and rubbing to boards. Front board attached but weak hinge. Please see photos as part of condition report 1823 5th Edition or Later Reprint , Leather FABLES By The Late Mr Gay John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including… Read More

Heron, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1970 1st Edition , JAPANESE PAINTING By Theo Lesoualc'h Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Heron, quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 208 ISBN: "When Japanese prints were on show in Paris from 1867 onwards, Impressionism and its derivatives principally took from them certain formulas: formulas and precedents which formed the basis for the innovations considered desirable by painters at the time. Whistler, whose Old Battersea Bridge caused a sensation, was adapting Hiroshige. Degas, with his diagonal compositions, his balancing obliques, his broad planes, had taken his inspiration from Hokusai. And Monet would not have cut off so many boats in the middle, nor so far… Read More

Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1977 , DJ THE CONCEPTION OF BUDDHIST NIRVANA By Theodore Stcherbatsky Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: Yes, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Published By: Motilal Banarsidass, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 300 ISBN: 0842608885 The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana provides an English Translation of Nagarjuna`s chapters on Causality and Nirvana and Chandrakiriti`s comprehensive commentary on the Sanskrit Text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic. The book is edited by Jaideva Singh with an exhaustive introduction, containing the historical background of the Madhyamaka philosophy, a lucid exposition of its merciless logic, an admirable presentation of its uncanny metaphysics and a systematic account of its… Read More

The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 1992. Softcover. Like New/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Like New - Please see photos as part of condition report 1992 , BUDDHISM OF WISDOM AND FAITH By Thich Thien Tam Illustrated By: N/A Format: Softcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 367 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0000222 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1846. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Scarce. Bumps and scuffing to boards on both volumes. Previous owner bookplate. Some mild foxing on prelims. Please see photos as part of condition report 1846 1st Edition , AN ANTIQUARIAN RAMBLE IN THE STREETS OF LONDON TWO VOLUMES With Anecdotes of their more celebrated celebrities By John Thomas Smith John Thomas Smith, also known as Antiquity Smith (1766–1833), was an English painter, engraver and antiquarian. He wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, that was noted for its "malicious candour", and was a keeper of prints for the British Museum. John Thomas Smith was born in the back of a Hackney carriage on 23 June 1766. In the years following Smith's demise, his executors issued three posthumous works: Cries of London in 1839, edited by John Bowyer Nichols, Book for a Rainy Day and… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2012. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Frontispiece in each volume. 42 pages of colour plates. Please see photos as part of condition report 2012 1st Edition (Thus) , Slipcase RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC By Keith Thomas Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Folio Society, London Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279),Pages 992 ISBN: One of the most intriguing history books of the past 50 years, Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic describes the relationship between the occult and Christianity in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the period between the collapse of the medieval Church's absolute power and the ascendency of scientific rationalism at the turn of the 18th century, across all levels of British society, the… Read More

London: Studio Editions, 1990. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket. folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483). Aubrey Beardsley. Please email for Photographs or further information. Like New - As New. Sealed. Please see photos as part of condition report 1990 1st Edition (Thus) , Sealed LA MORTE DARTHUR 19 full-page plate illustrations, wonderful and profuse decorations including in-text vignettes and chapter head and tail-pieces, all by the incomparable Aubrey Beardsley, leading figure in the aesthetic and Art Nouveau movements. By Sir Thomas Mallory Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. Much of Malory's life history is obscure, but he identified himself as a "knight prisoner", apparently reflecting that he was either a criminal or a prisoner-of-war. Malory's identity has never been confirmed. However, since modern scholars began… Read More

Hutchinson, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1959 1st Edition , FREDERICK DELIUS By Sir Thomas Beecham Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: Yes, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Published By: Hutchinson, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 228 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0000694 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

London: Edward Lumley, 1852. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Bookplate of Sydney Williams. Boards rubbed and worn, some mild foxing. Please see photos as part of condition report 1852 , NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY (3 VOLS) Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and The Netherlands By Benjamin Thorpe Benjamin Thorpe (1782 – 19 July 1870) was an English scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature. Illustrated By: Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Edward Lumley, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 951 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0002359 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 30, L: 30, W: 30 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg