A hand written note on the rear of the half title reads: "This is the original manuscript, and it has never been published. 24 Dec. 1885. Wm. C. Edlon Searjeant." As an alternative to Ashmand's translation, this text may provide a greater insight int. Ptolemy's system. The volume is quarter.....
London: Printed for John Hook at the Flower-de-luce, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and Thomas Edlin, at the Prince's Arms, against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand MDCCXXII. FIRST EDITION. Rebound in red cloth with leather titles; internals tight and free of marking; A VERY GOOD COPY. [xii], 348 pages. Octavo.....
London: First Impressions (Mandrake Press & Holmes), 1993-95. Special publisher's edition limited to FOUR COPIES only, this is set number 4, and was assigned to co-publisher, JD Holmes. A FINE SET. Bound in leather and boards with marbled ends, all edges and titles silvered (the only volumes having this feature.....
Pullman: Washington State University, 1982-93. A FINE SET with Vol. One, numbers 1 & 2, and Vol. 5, No. 1 being photocopies, otherwise, the first ten volumes, being the New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 to Vol. 10, No. 2.
Paris: Le Editions de Cres et Cie, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Quarter bound in linen and marbled boards; text excellent without any defects; A FINE COPY. 347 pages with an excellent bibliography. Presentation copy from Kuni Matsuo to Albert Maybon whose copy this was. Well illustrated with rare photographs including the.....
London: A. Lewis [Baskerville], 1925-26. FIRST EDITION, second issue. Small folio volumes printed black and red on Japanese paper bound in crimson silk cloth; A FINE CLOTH SET in fine slipcase. Numerous plates and illustrations throughout in this work on the Chinese secret societies, their rituals and symbols, with Masonic.....
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1958 (Showa 33). FIRST EDITION. In cloth folding slip case with ivory pins; all edges gilt; bound in full linen with a gilt pictorial on front panel; front end paper slightly creased; else, A FINE COPY. With 153 beautiful tipped in color plates. Text in Japanese. 358 pages.....
Cambridge: Heffer & Sons (later Black Bear Press), [May] 1937- [November] 1998. Volumes 1 to 45. Original First Issues. A FINE SET of the original issues without marking or defect. Generally, there were three issues a year, but with some gaps. Publication was suspended due to the war in December.....
London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1833. FIRST EDITION. Rebound in premium cloth and marbled boards; VERY GOOD+ VOLUME. Taylor had previously written a work on the history of Enthusiasm in 1830, and those researches resulted in this further, deeper study. 515 pages, plus book list. Octavo.
Boston: John Gilbert, 1832. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original binding in paper over boards; leather title label on spine; internals have occasional foxing; but overall, a VERY GOOD+ or better copy of a scarce issue. 439 pages.
London: Printed for Benjamin and John White, 1793. FIRST EDITION. Bound in full leather with dentelles and panels with title label bearing "Taylor's Plato." Front hinge is tender, but holding; text is fine and clean & without flaw; A VERY GOOD+ COPY. Old auction description laid on front pastedown stating.....
London: Sold by Robert Triphook and Thomas Rudd, 1822. FIRST EDITION. With "Passages Suppressed" section in rear. Must have ten pages. Ex-Reference Library (Bath City Free plate) and was presented by Isaac Pitman for the reference library; tall paper copy, rebound in Victorian cloth; top of rear panel pushed; paper.....
Melbourne: Henry Tolman Dwight, 1860. FIRST EDITION. Victorian cloth binding, blind stamped, with wear at the top and bottom of spine; rubbed, but firm; internals clean; Good copy of a scarce title with primary emphasis on the Druids, but with additional material on the Bardic tradition, and its symbols (includes.....
Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 1807. FIRST EDITION. Joints are tender, but holding; quarter bound in calf with marbled boards and corners; stamped spine with leather title label; internals exceptionally clean and tight; GOOD+ or better.
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1922. Limited First Edition of 50 copies of which this is number 46. Special Leather Edition. Bound in full royal blue goatskin with gilt device on front panel; two original errata slips, one is tipped, the other laid in; bookplate of Jacob Hugo Tatsch, the Masonic author.....
London: George Redway, 1887. FIRST EDITION. Bookplate; A VERY GOOD+ cloth volume with deckled edges. 446 pages. Gilbert A5. This is binding variant C. Gilbert says that one of the motives of the book is to answer the findings and ideas of Hargrave Jennings. Redway catalogue (40 pages) appended. Small.....
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1937. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Bound in white cloth, with vellum finish, a variant not listed by Gilbert. A FINE COPY. Frontispiece portrait of Waite; twenty three half tone plates, further illustration en texte, and 123 engraved vignettes as head and tail pieces. 658 pages.....
London : Printed for private circulation, 1854. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 500 copies only, this one hand-corrected by the author. Original Victorian blind stamped binding with lengthy titles in gilt; new end papers; A FINE COPY. A presentation copy by Walton to an institution with his long hand written inscription.....
Cambridge: Printed at the University Press Corn. Crownfield, Printed to the University: and are to be Sold by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, W. and J. Innys Booksellers in London, 1724. FIRST EDITION. Nineteenth century cloth binding; bookplate; internals crisp, clean and fine; margins were left untrimmed to their original width;.....
Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co., 1865. FIRST EDITION. Modern laid cover with title in neat pen; presentation copy by Westropp to the Earl of B (?) on end paper; three full-page plates; A FINE COPY. Dedicated to James Fergusson.
London: By author & Westley and Davis, 1836. FIRST EDITION. Cloth bound with missing backstrip; otherwise, a GOOD copy with three fold-out plates, and list of subscribers. Scarce and solitary edition, and apparently the only work by this author. Octavo.
London: Printed and published by William Hughes, Islington Green; and sold by other Booksellers, 1820. FIRST EDITION. This was the third translation of the Ptolemy work, the first by Walley in 1701 and the second much maligned Sibley and Brown in 178. Frederic Willis' copy (dated 1860) which he bequeathed.....
London: Trubner & Co., 1884. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ (most of the text remains unopened) in original Victorian cloth binding; bright titles and decorations to the back strip while both panels show decorative blind stamping; excellent plates and illustrations of Pictavian pagan symbols throughout. Two lithograph engravings. [xxvi], 259 pages.....
Liverpool: Printed for Robinson & Sons, 1816. FIRST EDITION. Leather bound (calf) with corners, marbled boards; bookplate; lightly foxed in early pages; VERY GOOD+ COPY. 428 pages. Octavo. Contains Inquisition source material, the Waldenses persecution, the Inquisition in the Far East, etc.
Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1897. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 44. In wraps as issued; some edge chipping to cover; internals clean and tight; VERY GOOD+ rarity. Fryar did the first part of Gabalis in 1886. He also published Kingsford and Westcott in small.....
