Search Results: Titles starting with H from J. A. Lascelles & Sons

London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second Edition. Full calf. Good +. Christophe Plantin. 2°, 34cm.; ¶8 (Missing A1, blank), ¶¶-¶¶¶6, A-B8, C-6V6, 6X4, 6Y6-7B6 (missing final blank), 859 leaves, pp. [38] 2-1630 [50] [leaves 35-36 misnumbered]. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped and worn through. Pages generally clean, title page ever so slightly chipped around edges with light soiling. 2 bookplates on fr. pastedown. This 2nd edition was commissioned by London herbalist Thomas Johnson and enlarged by him, extending and revising Gerard's near translation of Rembert Dodoens 'Pemptades' (1583) with the addition of hundreds of new species and illustrations. Johnson also jettisoned the woodcuts from the 1st edition for ones supplied by Christopher Plantin's press. Includes the famous title page engraved by John Payne featuring Ceres, Pomona, Theophrastus and Dioscorides with John Gerard at bottom.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1816. 1st Edition. Original Publisher's Board. Good. 12º, 19cm; 188pp.; Wove paper; Booksellers ticket on fr. pastedown (Povey of Wotton, Surrey). Provenance: Edward Jenner's book (signed by the physician and developer of the smallpox vaccine on ffp.).

London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101 Strand, By J. Diggens, 14, St. Ann's Lane, 1823. 1st Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. 4to, 28cm.; 110 pp.; 29 aquatint plates (two uncolored). Woodcut diagrams in the text. Complete with 1/2 title and fronticepiece fountain plate. Untrimmed deckled edges with wide margins. Very light foxing and toning to only a few pages. Sensitively rebacked, retaining gilt lettering. New fly leaves and pastedowns. Corners rubbed with one chip on rear board. Very nice copy overall. A necessary companion volume to [Papworth's] 'Rural Residences' and of greater rarity. (Abbey).

London: Printed For J. Dodsley, In Pall-Mall, 1793. Third Edition. Full calf. Very good. 8º, 21 cm.; 286 pp.; armorial bookplate of Hereford Solicitor, W. J. Humfrys on pastedown; rebacked;.

London: Printed for the Author, 1733. Second Edition. Internally Very Good. 2º, 29 cm.; 274 pp. 7 plates (6 folding); lacking George II imprimatur page; bound with the 2nd edition supplement (1740); bookplate of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield; W. Heffer and Sons, Cambridge, booksellers ticket to fr. pastedown; late 19th century re-back, retaining the Earl's stag with crown crest; corners bumped and rubbed through, boards scratched and showing wear, binding sound, interior very good with minor spotting. This second edition expanded on the first with the addition of 32 pages and the inclusion of plates illustrating Tull's revolutionary seed drill, hoe and harrow inventions.