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Bound in the original brown cloth boards, gilt-decorated to the front board and spine, with light rubbing and wear consistent with age. Internally clean, with scattered foxing, and retaining the original portrait frontispiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1786\" data-end=\"2377\"\u003eThe volume bears a contemporary manuscript prize inscription, recording its presentation as a school award, adding a layer of social history. Felicia Hemans was among the most widely read poets of the Romantic and early Victorian periods, celebrated for her lyrical verse and themes of home, patriotism, and moral reflection. Issued as part of Warne’s “Lansdowne” Poets series, this edition reflects the late-Victorian revival and canonisation of Hemans’ work and remains attractive today as both a literary artefact and a decorative shelf piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47465797517364,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/B341CAA4-0061-48B3-9038-74B57387BCE8_1_105_c.jpg?v=1769910112"},{"product_id":"lever-charles-the-confessions-of-harry-lorrequer-with-illustrations-by-phiz","title":"LEVER, Charles, The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Illustrated by Phiz (1839)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1839. First edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo, contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, calf corners; spine in six compartments with gilt-ruled bands and foliate tools, red morocco title label lettered in gilt HARRY LORREQUER; additional pictorial engraved title-page with vignette, letterpress title printed in black; pp. xv, 344; illustrated with engraved frontispiece (\"Arrival of the Chargé d'Affaires\") and numerous full-page plates by \"Phiz\" (Hablot Knight Browne).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first edition, in book form, of Charles Lever's first novel, his most celebrated work, and an early Curry Dublin printings to survive in a contemporary binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLever's picaresque tale of a dashing young British Army officer first appeared serially in the \u003cem\u003eDublin University Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e from 1837, and was gathered into book form by William Curry in 1839, illustrated throughout by \"Phiz,\" who was concurrently at work illustrating Dickens (hence the similar plate styles). Lever and Dickens were mutual admirers, and Dickens kept several of Lever's works in his own library. Anthony Trollope famously remarked that Lever's novels read exactly like his conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the armorial bookplate of Charles Kent, Vicar of Ludford, to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoards rubbed with wear to the corners and head\/tail of spine, the marbled paper a little chipped at the extremities; spine gilt bright and label legible. Foxing and spotting concentrated at the frontispiece and title-leaf, as often found; the text block notably clean throughout with only light, scattered spotting to margins. Binding sound and firmly held; internally fresh. 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Keill, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, was among the first to lecture on Newtonian natural philosophy there, and this work — first published in 1721 as an English rendering of his 1718 Latin lectures — became a standard astronomy textbook through the eighteenth century, running to numerous editions. Dedicated to James, Duke of Chandos; illustrated throughout with engraved diagrams, including the geometric\/spherical-astronomy figures at Plate XVIII shown here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in contemporary full calf, with a gilt-ruled spine in compartments and a red morocco label lettered \"Astronomical Lectures.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: spine worn at the extremities with cracking to the leather at the joints, boards rubbed. Title page and preliminary leaves show old dampstaining, with further foxing and toning through the text; plates present and complete as called for. Binding holding but tender at the front joint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48033269481524,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/E486EA66-CA55-4C3B-BF72-B211EA6BCC6E_1_105_c.jpg?v=1784024840"},{"product_id":"charles-huttons-a-mathematical-and-philosophical-dictionary-1795-1796","title":"HUTTON, Charles, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (1795 and 1796)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Charles Hutton's A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, London, printed for J. Johnson and G.G. \u0026amp;amp; J. Robinson (Volume I: 1796; Volume II: 1795). Hutton, professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, compiled this landmark two volume reference covering mathematics, astronomy, and both natural and experimental philosophy, together with biographical memoirs of the leading mathematicians and natural philosophers of the age. It was the first comprehensive scientific dictionary in English since John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 to 1710, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes it as revealing \"a deep and extensive knowledge of British and continental works\" that is \"still used by historians as a valuable source,\" with its engineering entries considered particularly strong. The work is also listed in Roberts and Trent's Bibliotheca Mechanica, the standard bibliography of mechanical and technological literature, and contains the first publication of Thomas Pellett's 1727 catalogue of Newton's papers, a document still consulted by Newton scholars today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with all 37 engraved plates present, ranging from mathematical instruments and mechanics to a compiled plate of early hot air balloon ascents, including the Montgolfier, Charles and Robert, Versailles, and Blanchard flights, gathered onto a single sheet within a decade of the first manned flights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels lettered \"Hutton's Mat and Phi Dictionary\" and green volume labels. Both volumes carry the engraved armorial bookplate of Daniel Dering Mathew of Caius College, Cambridge, to the front pastedown, together with the ownership inscription \"Robert Fitzgerald 1823, the gift of his Father\" to the front free endpaper, a traceable line of early nineteenth century ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: spines and extremities rubbed, with a stain to the spine of volume II; joints and corners worn but binding sound. 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Aldine Edition of the British Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary full calf, boards bordered in gilt double fillets with a floral fleuron tool to each corner, marbled edges to the text block and matching marbled endpapers, spines gilt in compartments with fleur-de-lis and floral tools, red morocco lettering-pieces with gilt-lettered \"COLERIDGE'S POETICAL WORKS\" and volume number; each volume with an engraved half-title and printed title page bearing the Aldine anchor-and-dolphin device.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA complete, matching three-volume set of Pickering's well-regarded \"Aldine Edition\" printing of Coleridge's collected poetry and drama, gathering \u003cem\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChristabel\u003c\/em\u003e, and the bulk of his lyric and dramatic verse in the elegant small-format collected edition for which the Pickering Aldine Poets series was noted. 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With illustrations drawn by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOctavo, bound in vellum, gilt borders to front and rear boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Fourteen plates present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRuskin's influential study of Gothic architecture, first published in 1849 and setting out the seven guiding principles, or \"lamps,\" he held architecture should be built on: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience. 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Early calf, sympathetically rebacked with later spines ruled in gilt around raised bands, gilt lettered maroon and green title and volume labels to spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe first English translation of Tielke's account of the Seven Years' War, drawn from his own service in the Prussian army, including the shelling of Küstrin in 1758, where he was present, and the Battle of Torgau in 1760, where he was wounded. Beyond the narrative of campaigns between the Prussian, Austrian, and Russian forces, the work includes a treatise on several branches of contemporary military art, illustrated throughout with the original folding maps and plans. Tielke's writings on fortification and tactics were influential enough to warrant this English translation within a few years of the German original, undertaken by two serving British officers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoards with edges slightly rubbed and fore-corners lightly worn. 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Contemporary green half calf over marbled paper boards, spines ruled and decorated in gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces, volume numbers gilt, plain edges. Armorial bookplate of James Behan Murtagh to the front pastedown of each volume, bearing an Irish-language motto. Both volumes subsequently from a Capuchin Franciscan library, with circular O.F.M. Cap. stamps to the pastedowns, title pages and terminal leaves, and an additional stamp to the upper board of volume II. Bindings rubbed and scuffed, with wear at the spine ends and corners; hinges weakened but boards holding. Foxing is most noticeable to the preliminary and terminal leaves, extending approximately 20–30 leaves into each end, with the central text generally substantially cleaner. Complete in two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinciples of Government; or, Meditations in Exile is William Smith O’Brien’s principal work of political thought. 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Kessmann; Leipzig: Bernhard Hermann, 1846. Four volumes from the six-volume series. Mr. Crépin, fifth edition; Mr. Pencil, fifth edition; Le Docteur Festus, fifth edition; Mr. Albert, second edition. French and German text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn uncommon group of four consecutive volumes from Töpffer's pioneering series of illustrated narratives, published during his lifetime and representing an important stage in the development of the modern comic strip and graphic narrative.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour oblong octavo volumes, comprising volumes II–V of the six-volume Collection des Histoires en Estampes: Mr. Crépin, Mr. Pencil, Le Docteur Festus and Mr. Albert. Extensively illustrated throughout with Töpffer's sequential line drawings, accompanied by captions in French and German. Bound in dark green boards with cloth spines and corners, titles lettered in gilt to the upper boards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRodolphe Töpffer developed what he called littérature en estampes — stories in which sequences of images and accompanying text work together to carry the narrative. His albums, produced from the 1830s onward, are now widely recognised as foundational works in the history of comics. The Kessmann collection brought six of these narratives together in a bilingual French-German series in 1845–46. The four present volumes form the substantial central run of that collection, lacking only Mr. Jabot and Mr. Vieux Bois. Le Beau Livre Bibliographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBindings worn but attractive and substantially intact, with rubbing and scuffing to the boards, wear to corners and extremities, and some fraying to the cloth at the spine ends and joints. Hinges show age and wear, with some internal cracking and exposed sewing on two of four volumes, but the volumes remain together. Contents age-toned with scattered foxing and spotting, heavier in places; a few faint pencil marks to endpapers. Illustrations remain clear and well defined. Please refer to the photographs for the condition of each volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA particularly appealing group of four contemporary Kessmann editions, retaining a pleasing uniform appearance and offering a substantial portion of one of the most significant early nineteenth-century series in the history of sequential art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor bibliographic accuracy, the Kessmann series consists of six volumes; specialist records identify Crépin as volume 2, Pencil 3, Festus 4 and Albert 5. 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Douglas set out the case for scientific, systematic training in naval gunnery, covering its theoretical, practical and tactical sides: ranges, charges, sighting and the estimation of distance at sea. The book was read widely in Britain and abroad in translation. Its influence led to the founding of the Royal Navy's gunnery school, HMS Excellent, in 1830. Douglas revised and expanded it through several later editions, and it remained the authority on the subject for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNeatly rebound, square and firm, the cloth and boards clean. Foxing to the title page and dedication, with offsetting from the title onto the facing leaf. Lighter scattered and very occasional foxing to the text block. All tables and plates present with some light offsetting. The rear hinge has cracked from the new binding, with no loss of text. 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