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1771DEMO015630ILondon: Jacob and Richard Tonson 1771 circa. Hardcover. Good . engraved frontispiece. 16mo full polished calf raised bands <br/><br/>Nos. 1-82 of 175 in all. "The Guardian" was preceded by "The Tatler" and "The Spectator Papers" Jacob and Richard Tonson hardcover
1756230208London: Jacob and Richard Tonson 1756. Hardcover. Fair. engraved frontispiece. 16mo contemporary calf raised bands top cover with separating joint rear cover detached contemporary inked names on endpapers. <br/><br/>Nos. 83 - 175 allpublished. "The Guardian" was preceded by "The Tatler" and "The Spectator Papers" Jacob and Richard Tonson hardcover
175817Paris: B. Brunet 1758. Abridged ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 374 i pages contemporary full sprinkled calf extra-gilt spine; ex libris Eardley. <br/><br/>De Fontenelle was an honored member of the French Academy. This volume contains 38 of his 69 "eloges" including one on Isaac Newton and also Boerhaave Fay Bianchini B. Brunet hardcover
1788047757Lond: J. Johnson 1788. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 410 Pages " Second Edition With Additions And Alterations " . Rebound In New Gold Embossed Black Cloth O/W Sound. J. Johnson Hardcover
177521457London: T. Cadell 1775. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo 411 pp with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in early full calf with gilt spine in six compartments red spine label. Front joint rubbed and partially cracked; binding otherwise sound text very clean. Armorial bookplate of Johnathan Pytts Esq. on front pastedown. "Wraxall's travelogue is elegantly written and its Scandinavian and Russian itinerary was novel and therefore of great interest to the reading public.The narrative is self-consciously chivalric and testifies to Wraxall's lifelong interest in tales of intrigue and distress although Queen Caroline Matilda's predicament does not figure in the text presumably in the interests of diplomacy" ODNB. T. Cadell hardcover
179223543London: R. Blamire 1792. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo pp ix 152 with 17 acquatint plates bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Some rubbing and scuffing to leather two plates trimmed very close to fore edge margin binding sound text clean. Conetmporary ownership signature dated 1794 on title page. Gilpin an educator and writer on art "travelled widely in Britain with his notebook and sketching materials in order to identify locations which offered that particular kind of beauty in landscape 'which is agreeable in a picture'. Picturesque tourism constituted 'a new object of pursuit' as he wrote in the first of these books Observations on the River Wye 1782: the practice recommended was 'that of not merely describing; but of adapting the description of natural scenery to the principles of artificial landscape'. Further picturesque books with aquatint reproductions of Gilpin's pen-and-wash drawings included Observations on Cumberland and Westmorland 1786 the Scottish highlands 1789 south-west England and the Isle of Wight 1798 and the eastern counties of England and north Wales 1809" ODNB. R. Blamire hardcover
178024077London 1780. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 9.75" x 7.75" 173 pp itinerary list of plates index table of contents with engraved title page and 21 plates in contemporary full-leather finding. Some chipping to spine ends front joint cracked and reinforced with cloth tape at the hinge. Contents sound and very clean. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography "Cordiner's significance centres on two publications: Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant 1780 and Remarkable ruins and romantic prospects of north Britain with ancient monuments and singular subjects of natural history 2 vols. 1788–95. Both works relying on visual and verbal description were early contributions to the construction of a romantic image of the Scottish highlands; and both were conceived as supplements to Thomas Pennant's very successful Scottish tours of 1769 and 1772. hardcover
178622439Paris: Chez le Jay 1786. Second edition two parts in one. 12mo pp xx 244 4 264 pp with with four engraved plates after designs by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Fine copy in a later full-calf binding with red spine label. Jean Bernard Bossu was a French naturalist who traveled widely in the then-vast territory of Louisiana during several trips made between 1751 and 1772. According to Howgego B138 "Bossu went out to Louisiana in 1850 as a captain of the marines and from 1751 was stationed in the Illinois country where he was adopted by the Quapaw Indians. He returned to France for health reasons in 1757 and in 1758 sailed for Mobile where he was befriended by the Alibamu Indians. The second journey was made in 1758-62 and the last in 1771-72. His journeys included a number of trips into the interior during which he made a study of several tribes of Indians. Bossu's Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales appeared in three editions each enlarged to take account of this latest travels. His second narrative published in 1768 comprises a series of twenty-one letters.describing his life in the travels in Louisiana country from 1751-1762." Streeter 1518: "Bossu wrote well and his letters not only give an interesting picture of life and travels in the Mississippi Valley and the Mobile country to the east at the beginning of the second half of the eighteenth century but incorporated also are many sketches of events of the preceding years. Bossu came to New Orleans only thirty-three years or so after its founding and only eighty years after La Salle's journey down the Mississippi and first and second hand recollections were still fresh." Sabin 6465; Howes B-626; Field pp 38-39; Graff 361; Hubach p. 13. Chez le Jay unknown