Search Results: Titles starting with P from McNaughtan's Bookshop

London: Viking, 1990. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [viii], 272, [2]. Original blue boards, spine lettered in silver, colour-printed dustjacket. Edges of dustjacket just a little bumped, head of spine panel a touch rubbed, spine panel lightly sunned. Philip Kerr’s second novel, and the second book in the ‘Berlin Noir’ trilogy. The same sheets were issued in different dustjackets for the US and UK markets, this one being the UK version in the variant with no printed price on the flap.

London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [et al], 1790. 12mo, pp. [iii]-xxxv, [i], 345, [1] + frontispiece. Contemporary calf, spine divided by gilt rolls and rules, red morocco label. A touch of spotting, particularly to frontispiece. Somewhat rubbed, joints split but cords holding, spine creased, extremities worn. Over-written ownership inscription to flyleaf. ESTC records this printing of Milton’s epic in 6 locations, with just the BL and The Bodleian in the UK. ESTC T133894.

Dublin: Printed for the Company of Booksellers, 1796. 12mo, pp. 336. Contemporary mottled calf, boards bordered with a gilt rule, spine divided by gilt rolls, red morocco label, other compartments tooled in gilt. Lightly toned. Rubbed, some wear to extremities, particularly spine ends, label loosening. A scarce Irish printing of Milton, which Worldcat records in just 5 locations: 4 in North America (Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alberta), and a single European copy in the library of Provincia d'Italia della Compagnia di Gesù, in Rome; Library Hub does list any copies in the UK or Ireland. ESTC N37994.

Edinburgi [Edinburgh]: Venundantue apud M. Rob. Freebairn, 1716. 12mo, pp. [ii], x, 280. Contemporary sheep, boards bordered with a gilt rule, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules. A touch of spotting and toning, faint waterstain to bottom of early leaves. Rubbed, a little wear to extremities. Ownership inscription of J. Norcross to flyleaf. A small-format Edinburgh printing of Buchanan’s translation of the psalms into Latin verse, following Freebairn’s 2-volume folio edition of Buchanan’s ‘Opera Omnia’ the previous year. ESTC N7203.

Glasguae [Glasgow]: Apud J. Gillies, 1790. 12mo, pp. 231, [1]. Contemporary unlettered sheep. Paper lightly toned. Binding a bit worn at extremities, some cracking to joints but sound, an old spot of insect damage to front board. A rare Glasgow printing of Buchanan’s translation of the Psalms into Latin verse: ESTC locates only 6 copies (none of them in the USA), at the BL, Oxford, NLS, Mitchell, Aberdeen, and Dalhousie. ESTC N8944.

Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1673. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [viii], 83, [1]. Final two blank leaves discarded. Early 20th-century half calf, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Lightly toned and spotted. Extremities a little rubbed, front joint cracked at head. Stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (dispersed between 2011 and 2015) to verso of title-page. The official rebuttal of Reinier (or Regnier, or Regnerus) de Graaf (1641-1673) to accusations by Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) that de Graaf had taken credit in his 1672 work ‘De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus’ for discoveries the other scientist had made earlier concerning the importance of the ovaries in reproduction. Though de Graaf’s legacy was not tarnished - his name remains attached to the mature stage of the ovarian follicle - he was badly affected by this controversy and it likely contributed to his early death.

Randrusiæ [Randers]: Typis S. Elmenhoff, 1817. 8vo, pp. XLVII, [I]. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers, now stitching into modern yellow card wrappers lettered in ink. Spine of old wrappers repaired. Bibliotheca Lindesiana stamp to title-page, a few manuscript corrections to one page. A rare pamphlet by Andreas Johannes Boysen (b. 1783), then adjunct teacher at the Randers State School (known as Randers lærde skole) and later teacher at Schleswig High School. To celebrate the Reformation Festival commemorating 300 years since Luther’s 95 Theses, Boysen produced this brief study of ancient Roman games - perhaps to accompany the playing of some of the games themselves by the students - with citations from Tacitus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, etc.

Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co., 1816. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [iv], 468. Modern quarter green morocco, green cloth boards, black morocco label, marbled edges. Gatherings O and Y-2G a little toned as usual, marginal wormtrails to last 100 pages. The press figures in this copy identify it as Todd and Bowden’s second state, occasioned by the decision to increase the print run from 3000 to 6000 copies. They also note that gatherings O and Y-2G ‘are generally browned’; the pages here are lighter than that although noticeably different in hue. Todd & Bowden 89Aa.

Aberdeen: Printed by D. Chalmers and Co. for A. Brown [et al], 1813. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 286 + frontispiece. Untrimmed in original plain boards, printed paper label to spine. Some light spotting, title-page and frontispiece offset to each other. Boards a little marked, spine creased and worn at ends. A few marginal calculations in pencil. Walter Thom (1770-1824) was born in Kincardineshire and moved to Aberdeen where he wrote a history of the city and this celebration of the fad of long-distance walking, with particular attention to Captain Robert Barclay Allardice. The volume is ‘an extraordinary survey of records of matches and athletes, and the application of enlightenment thinking to the documentation of sport. Thom’s intention was to celebrate the achievements of Captain Barclay, but in order to give Barclay’s achievements greater meaning he discussed the athlete’s predecessors with a diligence that provides a model for today’s sports… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for the Author: sold by George Stewart, 1716. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. vii, [i], iv, iii, [i], 46, *46-**46, 47-48, 51-54, 53-182, 181-286, 283-286, 291-462, *462-**462, 463-502 (as called for). Twentieth-century mid-brown calf, spine gilt in compartments, tan morocco label, edges sprinkled red. Somewhat soiled and stained throughout, dampmark to title-page and following leaf. Binding slightly scratched, front joint cracking at foot, a touch of wear to head of spine. George Crawfurd (d. 1748) compiled this substantial study at the urging of his father-in-law, the historian James Anderson, at the time struggling to find patronage following the Act of Union. ‘As the first publication upon the Peerage of Scotland, this work is deserving of great praise’ (Moule). ESTC T144899; Moule 429.

Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, 1764. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. xi, [iii], 718 + 10 plates. Recent half leather, yellow boards, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, black leather label, other compartments tooled centrally in black. A touch toned, a little light spotting. Boards just a little marked, spine tooling discoloured, rear pastedown lifted. A few marginal pencil notes. The first edition of Douglas’s magnum opus, several years in the planning, the ‘most influential eighteenth-century account of the Scottish peerage’ (ODNB). It was reissued in 1767 and was the foundation stone for everything that came after it, including Sir James Balfour Paul’s vastly expanded nine-volume set ‘Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland’ in the early twentieth century.

London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., 1950. 4to, pp. [64] + colour frontispiece and title page and 5 additional colour plates. Black and white illustrations and music within pagination. Original red boards backed in white cloth, spine lettered in red, front board lettered in white and blocked in red with pictorial onlay, yellow illustrated endpapers. Binding slightly faded, a few marks and light scratches.

[Ipswich]: Printed for W.S. Cowell Ltd, 1962. 8vo, pp. [16] including original colour-printed card wrappers. Edges of oversized wrappers somewhat bumped. A full-colour promotional booklet designed for Guinness by advertising agency S. H. Benson to extoll the virtues of their stout; this one (they were issued yearly) consisting of humorous doggerel by novelist and MP, A. P. Herbert and illustrated by Michael ffolkes.

London: Printed [by Vizetelly Brothers] for Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1846. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. xii, 267, [1]. Original textured purple cloth, boards blocked with a blind frame, spine lettered in gilt. A few minor spots. Extremities lightly bumped, spine a little faded, head of spine worn. The first appearance in English of this wide-ranging work exemplifying the author’s ‘curious ethic-politico-theological creed—a mixture of sentimentalism, communism, and anti-sacerdotalism, supported by the most eccentric arguments, but urged with a great deal of eloquence’ (Ency. Brit. 11th edn).

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 59, [1]. Original second-state dark grey boards, spine and front board lettered in gilt. A few minor spots. Slightly rubbed at joints and spine ends. Pound’s first proper book, printed in an edition of 1,000 copies with half of those, following slow sales, repurposed for a compilation volume several years later. This is the second-state binding, with the shorter lettering on the spine.

Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1785. 8vo, pp. [iv], 256. Contemporary tree sheep, boards bordered with a gilt roll, spine divided by gilt rules with urn, bird, and sunburst tools, black morocco label, marbled endpapers. A little light dustsoiling. A bit rubbed, small chip to label. Printed prize bookplate of Glasgow Grammar School dated October 1790 to front pastedown, filled in by hand with recipient Andrew Whyte and signed by D. Macarthur. Gaskell 676 (demy 8vo variant), ESTC T113360.

London: Printed for J. Murray, 1775. 8vo, pp. [iv], 203, [1]. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards, spine divided by double blind rules, brown morocco label. Just a touch of spotting. A few scattered marginal notes in pencil. A study of 4 major Shakespearian characters: Macbeth, Hamlet, Jacques (from ‘As You Like It’) and Imogen (from ‘Cymbelene’), by polymath scholar William Richardson (1743-1814). Richardson was made Professor of Humanity in Glasgow in 1773 and published the first edition of this work the following year. This second edition is rare this side of the Atlantic, with ESTC recording 13 copies but only Royal Holloway in the UK, the rest save Bibliothèque Mazarine and Pretoria State Library being in US institutions. The psychological approach won him many plaudits, including from Edmund Burke, who singled out the chapter on Macbeth for praise in a letter to Richardson, writing ‘your tracing that progress of corruption [...] is… Read More

Aberdeen: G.W. Wilson & Co., 1870. Oblong album containing 12 mounted photographs. Original green pebbled cloth, boards bordered in blind, front board blocked in gilt and red including title and imprint. Leaves foxed, some photographs a little spotted. A little rubbed and soiled, extremities worn. Remains of typed label to spine now reading ‘ottish Scenery’. A collection of early photographs of Edinburgh, assembled for the tourist trade by the firm of George Washington Wilson. Wilson (1823-93) established a business in Aberdeen just as the building of Balmoral got underway, and was asked by Victoria to photograph the process, the first of several royal commissions. ‘Wilson's skill as a photographer and entrepreneur lay in his understanding of the potential of the medium for providing ever-increasing numbers of tourists with photographic souvenirs of their travels’ (ODNB). This volume is evidence of that, containing photographs of Holyrood, the… Read More

London: Chappell & Co., 1872. 12mo, pp. v, [i], 60, 16. Original textured purple cloth, printed paper labels to front board, edges sprinkled red. Just a touch of spotting. Spine a little sunned, labels slightly discoloured. Organist and composer John Freckleton Burrowes (1787-1852) first published his piano primer in 1818, and it remained in print through to the 20th century. This copy retains its printed paper advertising its reduced price of two shillings, an offer also printed on the title-page beneath the publisher’s imprint.

London: Printed for the author, and sold ey [sic] Edwards, in Pall-Mall; also by Edwards’s, in Halifax, 1788. FIRST EDITION, 8vo issue, pp. iv, 30, [25 leaves], 12, [25 leaves]. The unnumbered leaves each containing an etching printed in sepia above letterpress text. Contemporary tree calf, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco label. A few minor spots. Spine a little creased, the merest touch of rubbing to extremities, residue from a removed label to front pastedown. Also published as a quarto and in several versions with variation of setting and etching - the latter usually printed in black rather than the sepia here, and sometimes on India paper instead of directly onto the sheet. This is the scarce issue without ‘Part I’ on the title-page, and the variant thereof with the error ‘EY’ for ‘BY’ in the imprint. ESTC locates half a dozen copies of this issue (BL, NLS x2, plus Library Company of… Read More