Black Swan Books

John Drinkwater | The Spectator; W. Henry Wills [Notes]

[MILITARY] A HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR 1779-1783 | SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY

London: John Murray | Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844; 1851. Half Leather. 8vo; two books bound together in half-calf over marbled boards; 174 pages, with black and white folding map; [9], 10-144; regarding the Siege of Gibraltar, John Drinkwater.....

Price: $75.00

John Evelyn | Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes

[SPECIAL PRESS] MEMOIRS FOR MY GRANDSON

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. First Edition. 24mo; Printed on Auvergne hand-made paper, which took so well to the ~Fell types it became the standard stock Nonesuch books set in those types; bound in limp natural parchment, ruled in blind.....

Price: $100.00

Item #288550 TURNER AND RUSKIN; AN EXPOSITION OF THE WORK OF TURNER FROM THE WRITINGS OF RUSKIN...

[John Ruskin] | Edited with Biographical Notes by Frederick Wedmore

TURNER AND RUSKIN; AN EXPOSITION OF THE WORK OF TURNER FROM THE WRITINGS OF RUSKIN (2 Volumes)

London: George Allen, 1900. Quarto. Hard Cover. First Edition. Two hefty quarto volumes, in the publisher’s blue cloth, with titling in gilt. There is scattered foxing throughout, though the plates are mostly clean; they are protected with tissue guards. Each.....

Price: $300.00

Item #295776 12 Volumes] THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. DEAN OF ST. PATRICK’S, DUBLIN,...

Jonathan Swift; with notes by John Hawkesworth; Deane Swift

12 Volumes] THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. DEAN OF ST. PATRICK’S, DUBLIN, ACCURATELY REVISED IN SIX VOLUMES. ADORNED WITH COPPER PLATES; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S LIFE, AND NOTES HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY BY JOHN HAWKESWORTH [8 Volumes, with] LETTERS, WRITTEN BY THE LATE JONATHAN SWIFT... FROM THE YEAR 1703 TO 1740 [4 Volumes]

London: Published and printed variously by C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, W. Bowyer, L. Davis C. Reymers, W. Johnston, T. Davies, R. Davis, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, W......

Price: $1,800.00

Philip Massinger | W. Gifford [Notes]

THE PLAYS OF PHILIP MASSINGER, IN FOUR VOLUMES, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY

London: G. and W. Nicol, et al. 1813. Royal Octavo. Three Quarters Leather. Second Edition. The advertisement for the Third Edition of Massinger’s Plays has these encouraging words for the prospective purchaser: “In Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual, it is stated, speaking.....

Price: $350.00

Samuel March Phillips | John A. Dunlap (Editor) | A Gentleman (Notes)

A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF EVIDENCE.

New York: Gould and Banks, 1820. Full Leather. Second American Edition. The Second American Edition of Samuel March Phillips’ Treatise on the Law of Evidence, with notes by the editors on relevant American cases and their rulings. The work became.....

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Item #300001 [FINE BINDING] THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS [with] PEPYSIANA, OR ADDITIONAL NOTES ON...

Samuel Pepys; with Lord Braybrooke’s notes; edited, with additions by Henry B. Wheatley

[FINE BINDING] THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS [with] PEPYSIANA, OR ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE PARTICULARS OF PEPYS’S LIFE AND ON SOME PASSAGES IN THE DIARY (10 Volumes, Complete)

London: George Bell and Sons, 1893-1899. Octavo. Hard Cover. Octavo; in half burgundy morocco over cloth covered boards; with 5 raised bands; tiling and decorations in gilt on the spine; with black and white illustrations throughout; with folding plates and.....

Price: $900.00

Item #300537 [RELIGION] THE LIFE OF ST. TERESA OF JESUS, OF THE ORDER OF OUR LADE OF CARMEL. ...

St. Teresa of Jesus | David Lewis [Translator] Rev. Benedict Zimmerman [Notes]

[RELIGION] THE LIFE OF ST. TERESA OF JESUS, OF THE ORDER OF OUR LADE OF CARMEL. WRITTEN BY HERSELF.

London | New York: Thomas Baker | Benziger Brothers, 1904. Hard Cover. First Edition. Large 8vo.; in brown cloth with titling in gilt; xlvii; [1], 2]-489 pages including the Index; the pages are mostly unopened; top edge gilt; there are.....

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Thomas Walker, Gamekeeper]; with Additions and Notes by The Right Honble. H. J. Tennant, M. P. for the County of Berwick

[HUNTING] LETTERS FROM A LOWLAND KEEPER

Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1918. Hard Cover. Small 8vo; white cloth over paper covered boards; 111 pages; complete with four black and white photographic images; a bit of soiling to the spine; some scattered foxing; fragments of the original.....

Price: $150.00