Biografia

The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

REYNOLDS (Sir Joshua). HILLES (Frederick Whiley): · 1967 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Archon Press, 1967. 8vo, pp. xx, 318, original cloth, worn dust-wrapper. A reprint of the 1936 first edition.

The Life of Mrs. Godolphin. Now first published and Edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford....

EVELYN (John): · 1847 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London: William Pickering, 1847. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xviii, 265 [266 imprint], portrait of Mrs. Godolphin as frontispiece, original cloth; joints crudely repaired.

Adam Smith: The Biographical Approach. Being the thirtieth Lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow delivered on 3rd March 1969.

SMITH (Adam). MOSSNER (Ernest Campbell): · 1969 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

University of Glasgow, 1969. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 26, original stiff paper boards.

Les Amours de Catherine de Bourbon...et du Comte de Soissons.

HURTREL (Alice): · 1882 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Paris, Georges Hurtrel..., 1882. Small 8vo, pp. 218, title-page in red and black, frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations, numerous head- and tail-pieces in text, original printed wrappers (soiled), uncut.

The Amours of Henri de Navarre and of Marguerite de Valois. With Photogravure Frontispiece and Numerous Illustrations.

HAGGARD (Lieutenant-Colonel) Andrew C. P. · 1910 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

New York: Brentano's, 1910. Large 8vo, pp. 438, including half-title, frontispiece, 16 illustrations in text, 4 illustrations preceding title-page, including an 18th century engraving of Marguerite de Valois tipped-in on the recto of the frontispiece, original cloth, blocked ...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. Edited by his Son, Robert James Mackintosh. Second Edition.

MACKINTOSH (Sir James): · 1836 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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London: Edward Moxon, 1836. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [ii], ix [x blank], 499 [500 printer's imprint]; vii [viii blank], 524, including half-title in each volume, engraved frontispiece in each volume, original boards, paper labels on spine; spines creased, with spine of volume 1 ...

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. Containing The History of the Life and Reign of that Monarch, And his own Administration under Him. Translated [by Charlotte Lennox] from the French. To which is added, The Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great.

SULLY (Maximilien de Béthune), Duc de: · 1756 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1756. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 4to, pp. [vi], xxxii, 540; [iv], viii, 555 [556 blank]; vii [viii blank], 407 [408 blank, 409 - 530 Index], including half-titles in volumes 1 and 2, contemporary calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; no cancel...

Literary Relics of the late Joseph Richardson... consisting of The Comedy of The Fugitive, and a Few Short Poems; With A Sketch of the life of the Author by an Intimate Friend; in which those numbers of the Rolliads and Probationary Odes written by Mr. Richardson are particularized. The whole Collected and Prepared for the Press by Mrs. Richardson, His Widow.

RICHARDSON (Joseph): · 1807 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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London: Printed for J. Ridgway..., 1807. FIRST EDITION. Large 4to, pp. xiv [xv - xvi \"List of Additional Subscribers,\" xvii \"Advertisement,\" xviii blank, xix drop-title, xx blank], 176, fine engraved portrait (by Newton after Shee) of Richardson as frontispiece, contempo...

The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteous, D. D. Late Bishop of London.

PORTEUS (Beilby). HODGSON (Robert): · 1811 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London: Printed by Luke Hansard & sons..., 1811. 8vo, 215 x 128 mms., pp. [iv], 319 [320 adverts], engraved portrait frontispiece (off-setting on title-page), contemporary tree calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, green morocco label; slight wear to front joint but a ...

The Life of St. Francis of Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva, founder of the order of the Vitiation. Translated from the original French...By the Rev. William Henry Coombes.

MARSOLLIER (Jacques): · 1812 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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Shepton-Mallet: Printed by W. J. Quartley..., 1812. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xi [xii blank, xiii drop-titled, xiv blank], 477 [478 blank]; 592, contemporary half blue sheepskin, gilt spines, marbled boards (slightly rubbed); first few leaves of...

Vie Privée de Louis XV; ou Principaux Évémens, Particularités et Anecdotes de son Regne.

LOUIS XV. MOUFFLE d'ANGERVILLE: · 1781 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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A Londres, Chez John Peter Lyton, 1781. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. viii, 398; [iv], 403 [404 blank]; [iv], 399 [400]; [iv], 391 [392 blank], including half-titles, engraved portrait and two other engraved portraits and engraved vignette on title-page in volume 1, 3 engraved portra...

The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la Vie de Petrarch. The Second Edition.

DOBSON (Susanna): · 1776 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Dodsley..., 1776. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 544; [ii], 560, engraved frontispiece in volume 1, additional errata slip pasted to bottom of errata on p. xxxii in volume 1, contemporary calf, olive green morocco l...

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri; Written by Himself. Translated from the Italian.

ALFIERI (Victor): · 1810 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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London: Printed for Henry Colburn..., 1810. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [vi], 286 [287 - 288 adverts]; [vi], 328, contemporary polished calf, borders in gilt and blind, spines gilt to a lattice pattern; slight wear to spine volume 1, but a very good and attractive set. The identity...

An Historical Essay on Mr. Addison.

ADDISON (Joseph). [TYERS (Thomas)]: · 1783 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)

London [n. p.], 1783. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 92, recently recased in quarter calf, buckram boards, new endpapers; lacks pp. i - ii (half-title), lower inner margin of last two leaves of text repaired with slight loss of text, some soiling of text, particularly the last...

Shakespeare's True life. Illustrated by Gerald E. Moira.

SHAKESPEARE. WALTER (James): · 1890 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London: For Strictly Private Circulation, James Walter..., 1890. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 385 x 275 mms., pp., [viii], iv, 395 [396 printer's imprint], illustrated title-page, numerous illustrations in text, uncut, some leaves unopened, original decorated buckram covers; front ...

The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook.

BARHAM (R. H. Dalton): · 1849 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London: Richard Bentley..., 1849. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. x, 354; vi, 360, engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume, contemporary half roan, gilt spine, boards; front cover volume 1 detached, binding a little worn.

The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, under King Charles II. and King James II. The Hon. Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs...and The Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II. A New Edition, With Notes and Illustrations, Historical and Biographical.

NORTH (Roger): · 1826 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London: Henry Colburn..., 1826. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxiii [xxiv blank], [iv], 475 [476 printer's imprint]; [iv], 428, including half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, engraved portrait as frontispiece in each volume, contemporary calf (rubbed and scored), sturdily rebacked with red...

A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons and Remarkable Characters in every age and nation. The Second Edition, Enlarged: With considerable Additions.

JONES (Stephen): · 1876 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, J. Walker, J. Scatchard, and E. Newbery 1876 12mo (in 6s), 135 x 95 mms., PP. 12 [13 - 424], including half-title,contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; front joint cracked. Jones (1763 - 1827) is probably best-known for ...

Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea [Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle]: Consort of George I. Chiefly from the Secret Archives of Hanover. Brimswick, Berlin and Vienna: Including A Diary of the Conversations of Illustrious Persons of those Courts, Illustrative of her History. with Letters and Other Documents. Now first pulished from the Originals.

[WILLIAMS (Robert Folkestone): · 1845 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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London: Henry Colburn..., 1845. first edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 214 x 133 mms., pp. xxiii [xxiv Illustrations]; vii [viii blank], 452, engraved portrait frontispiece of Sophia Dorothea in volume 1, engrave portrait frontispiece of Philip Christopher in volume 2, handsomely bo...

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland To the Time of Dean Swift. Compiled from ample Materials featured in a Variety of Nooks, and especially from the MS Notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter and others, collected for this Design. In Four [Five] Volumes.

CIBBER (Theophilus): · 1753 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London; Printed for R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church Yard. 1753. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes in 5 (as issued). 12mo, 163 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], ii, 354; [iv], 353 [354 blank]; [iv], 351 [352 adverts]; [iv], 356; [iv], 354, contemporary calf, red morocco labels,...