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17398858London; Edmund Comyns 1739. 1739. Original Wrappers. First and only edition. Octavo pp. vi 1 6-38. Decorative title vignette initials head and tailpieces. Rebound in modern fawn thin card wraps. Some slight soiling to title-page and final page of text otherwise a crisp clean copy. First and only edition of this scarce report into corruption and price fixing within the 1730s Newcastle coal industry. A precursor to the later limitation coal vend a cartel of North East coal owners who artificially inflated the price of coal. ESTC lists only a handful of copies held at UK institutions and rare in commerce. Kress 4432; ESTC: T145367 London; Edmund Comyns, [1739]. unknown
1800072651Gainsborough: Henry Mozley . 70pp disbound pamphlet some soiling top of title page clipped to remove signature illustrated with tail-pieces undated ca 1800 24mo Robert Nixon was active ca. 1620 . Fair. No Binding. 1800. Henry Mozley unknown
17631658<p>Read before the Royal Society of London on April 9 1761 <strong>Additional Observations upon some Plates of white Glass found at Herculaneum: In a Letter to Charles Morton M.D. R.S.S. By J. Nixon A.M. and F.R.S.</strong> deals with new information gleaned from the relics obtained from the ruins of Herculaneum.</p><p>Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 A.D. It is located in the Italian region of Campania in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. It is most famous for having been lost along with Pompeii Stabiae Boscoreal and Oplontis in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 which buried it in superheated pyroclastic material. It is also famous as one of the few ancient cities that can now be seen in almost its original splendor because unlike Pompeii its burial was so deep as to ensure the building's upper stories remained intact and the hotter ash preserved wooden household objects beds doors etc. and even food. Moreover Herculaneum was a wealthier town than Pompeii with an extraordinary density of fine houses with far more lavish use of colored marble cladding. The discovery in recent years of some 300 skeletons along the sea shore came as a surprise since it was known that the town itself had been largely evacuated. Wikipedia</p><p>The item is a First Edition extracted and disbound from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol. 52 For the Years 1761 & 1762 pages 123-135. This volume was published in 1763. The pages which measure approximately 6 ¼ x 8 ½ inches are tanned but the text is clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is good/very good.</p><p>The illustrations accompanying this description show the first page of the paper and one typical further page.</p><p><strong>John Nixon </strong> - May 1777 was elected to Fellow of the Royal Society in 1744. Wikipedia</p><p><strong>Charles Morton </strong>MD 1716–1799 was an English medical doctor and librarian who became the principal librarian of the British Museum. Morton first attended Leiden University from September 18 1736. Some time before 1745 he moved to Kendal Westmoreland where he practiced as a physician. He then practiced in London for several years and on April 19 1750 he was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital. He was admitted licentiate of the College of Physicians on April 1 1751. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on January 16 1752 and was secretary of the Royal Society from 1760 to 1774. He was also a member of the Academy of St Petersburg. Wikipedia</p> Royal Society of London
1744779P17London: R. Manby & H. S. Cox 1744. Paperback. Good. 9" by 7". Not Stated. A very scarce Latin study on the Roman antiquities of Northamptonshire by John Nixon illustrated with a frontispiece. A very scarce work.In the original Latin.ESTC citation number T87584.A fascinating historical dissertation looking at the beautiful and important Roman antiquities of Northamptonshire.Illustrated with a frontispiece.By John Nixon.Bookplate of Christiani de Backer to the front paste down. In the original paper wraps. Externally generally smart. Light edge wear to the wraps with small cracks to the backstrip. A little discolouration to the wraps. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with just a few light spots. Puncture marks to the gutter. Prior owner's ink to the head of the title page. Good R. Manby & H. S. Cox paperback
18005220087London: John Nicholson 1800. Softcover. Fair in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Publication date of 1800 is an estimate. Stitched binding is sound. Wrappers are missing. Minimal exlibrary marks. Pages tanned with dampstaining on a few in the bottom corner not extending into text. Full title: The Strange and Wonderful Predictions of Mr. Christopher Love Minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London; Who was beheaded on Tower-hill in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall or the destruction of Popery; and in that glorious event a general Reformation over all the World. With a Most Extraordinary Prophecy of the Late Revolution in France And the Downfall of the Antichristian Kingdom in that Country by Mr. Peter Jurieu Also Extracts from the Writings of Dr. Gill and Robert Flemming Which bear evident Relation to the French Revolution and other astonishing Accidents that have or may be about to happen. To which is added Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy at Large Published from Lady Cowper's correct Copy to the reign of Queen Anne; also his life. At the end of the book is a brief chapter: An Extraordinary Predicdtion relating tto the Downfall of the House of Bourbon and the House of Austria by John Wesley. Ex-Library; 6.5" tall; 69 pages. John Nicholson unknown
17849303London: J. Barker 1784. Wraps. Very good -. 12mo. 30pp. Frontispiece. Note: the text ends on p. 30 the bottom half being ads. The final 3 leaves pp. 31-36 of ads are missing in this copy. Later marbled wrappers. This edition published by J. Barker is not in the ESTC. J. Barker paperback books
1789AQ28533Edinburgi i.e. Edinburgh: Apud Balfour et Smellie 1789. 6 30pp. With a half-title. Uncut. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. A doctoral thesis on the diagnosis and treatment of hydrops anasarca the abnormal accumulation of interstitial fluid; submitted to William Robertson 1721-1793 sometime principal at the University of Edinburgh. ESTC records copies at four locations in the British Isles Edinburgh Manchester Oxford and Wellcome and one further copy in Europe Göttingen State. ESTC T151432. First edition. 8vo. Apud Balfour et Smellie unknown
1786721151786. NIXON William. Prosody Made Easy. Philadelphia: William Spotswood 1786. 336pp. Marbled boards rebacked. Quite worn text tanned. Good. Short text for teaching children orthography prosody and scansion of Latin meter. Also with a proposal by the author for a lengthier work on Latin grammar. The text is preceded by an effusive dedication to Benjamin Franklin which reads "To His Excellency Benjamin Franklin President of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania L.L.D. &c. &c. The following Pages are Inscribed as to a Scholar Philosopher and Patriot: In Remembrance of his Liberality In a Foreign Land With all the Respect and Deference Due to a Character of such pre-eminent Worth: By his ever grateful Humble Servant The Author." Nixon seems to have owed his esteem for Franklin to an encounter with him while imprisoned in France. Nixon was able to send Franklin a copy of the text for the present book and received a a letter response from which he extracted and printed a section as a recommendation of his work to the potential buyer: "I thank you for the Honor you did me in sending me the valuable little Book of which you are the Author. I have no authority for sending Gentlemen of your profession to America at present but think that one of your Abilities and Learning would make a useful Member of Society in our new World either as a Clergyman of the Church of England or a Professor in one of our Colleges." EVANS 19867. FORD FRANKLIN 928. unknown
17195297London: James Roberts; Sowler and Russell; The Booksellers 1719. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp32 An early printing the sixth edition of Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy from 1719. The pamphlet is printed in black letter with the apparatus in roman including a printer's preface explaining the great success of the prophecy and concludes with a Life of Nixon the Cheshire Prophet. The publisher James Roberts succeeded to the printing business of his mother in law Abigail Baldwin who had first printed the prophecy six years earlier in 1713 and this and all early editions of the prophecy are scarce: ESTC locates 7 copies only not in BL CUL Bodleian Yale Folger'. Nixon's prophecy was transformed from a local to a national myth as it was judged to have appeared to foretell the events of 1688 and the Glorious Revolution. Very Good 1719 James Roberts; Sowler and Russell; The Booksellers unknown
17193425London: J Roberts 1719. No Binding. Very Good. 4 pp 5-32 An early printing of Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy from 1719 disbound from a collection of pamphlets. The prophecy itself is printed in black letter with the apparatus in roman including a printer's preface which explains the great success of the prophecy and concludes with a 1715 letter from Nantwich. Browning and discolouration to the first couple of leaves and the last leaf. Nixon's prophecy was transformed from a local to a national myth as it was judged to have appeared to foretell the events of 1688 and the Glorious Revolution. The publisher James Roberts succeeded to the printing business of his mother in law Abigail Baldwin who had first printed the prophecy six years earlier in 1713 and this and all early editions of the prophecy are scarce: ESTC locates 7 copies only not in BL CUL Bodleian Yale Folger. Very Good 1719 J Roberts unknown
1774018297<p>Chester: P. Broster 1774 Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Very Good rebound in half-leather over marbled boards; po bookplate on fep; notation in pencil on ffep stating "Plomer records Broster p.36 as 1774-5" first published in 1714 hence listed publication date though none given on tp. Rebinding has included 24 blank pages in rear. text block 31pp shows some age tanning and a little foxing but all in all a nice copy; corners lightly rubbed 1" split starting at bottom front spine.</p> P. Broster hardcover
