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1780C1536a<p>2 volumes in one: 320 pages with diagrams and index; 320 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Volumes 7 and 8. Betts: 7-15 First edition.</p><p><em>The Huddersfield College Magazine</em> chess section was superseded by the <em>British Chess Magazine</em> after 1880 with no more published. In 1872 John Watkinson started a chess column in the Huddersfield College Magazine. Eventually the single page column became a small magazine exclusively devoted to chess - <em>The Huddersfield College Chess Magazine</em>. Finally this magazine evolved into the<em> British Chess Magazine</em> which is still going strong today. The columns provide an interesting glimpse of the local Huddersfield & Yorkshire chess scene at the time before eventually becoming more nationally and internationally oriented in later years. In English Descriptive notation One of the early chess magazine published.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Provenance from the Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia with their stamp on end papers and pasted down. Heavily rubbed at edges corners bumped and rubbed through some occasional internal soiling and pencil marginalia previous owner's neat pen signature on title front endpaper detached. Over all a good copy of a scarce chess item.</p> J E Wheatley & Company hardcover
17531203200078Berolini Sumtibus A. Haude et I.C. Spener 1753. Hardcover. Very Good. 496 p. 17 cm. 12mo. Bound in contemporary leather with gilt spine. Minimal wear to extremities. Splitting starting on boards. Contemporary name on FFEP of C. T. Walcott. Clean unmarked pages with toning. Berolini, Sumtibus A. Haude et I.C. Spener hardcover
1800354975Various places.: Various publishers. 1800. Contemporary quarter brown leather over marbled boards red spine label. Good spine worn and hinges split but still attached. 8vo. 21x12.4 cm. Also contains a funeral oration upon the death of Alexander Hamilton by John M. Mason. The Mason Ogden and Alsop items lack the title pages and preliminaries. The first two leaves of the Mason oration are damaged with some loss. weight: 1.0 lb. Various publishers. hardcover
176224630Berlin, A. Haude u. J. C. Spener (gedruckt ?ex Officina Wagneri? in Ulm), 1762. 8°. Mit kl. Holzschn.-Titelvignette. 16 Bll., 399 S., Ppbd. d. Zt.
1800021885New York: T. & J. Swords Printers to the Faculty at Columbia College 1800. Second edition 1800. Bound volume of four quarterly issues of this influential medical publication providing news of medical breakthroughs studies of diseases and living conditions ongoing research etc. Full calf with tan spine label gilt lettering and spine ruling 455 pages. Covers rubbed especially at the extremities spine ends chipped text block sound fairly uniform foxing personal library label of of C. N. Gallup M.D. on the front pastedown. A worn but sound copy. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. & J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty at Columbia College Hardcover
1782LTH28-C-12London; Edinburgh: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme; Bell; P. Byrne 1782-1803. Leather. Good Only. 6.5" by 4". Unamed. A collection of four Georgian plays performed at theatres across the UK. A lovely example of the popular theatre of Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. This volume contains: The Jew; A Comedy in Five Acts by Richard Cumberland Esq. As Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald Speed the Plough; A Comedy in Five Acts; As Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden by Thomas Morton Esq. Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald Mahomet the Imposter. A Tragedy by the Rev. Mr Miller. As Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Regulated from the Prompt-Book by Permission of the Managers by Mr Hopkins Prompter John Bull: Or An Englishman's Fireside. A Comedy in Five Acts As Performed at the Theatre Royal in Dublin by George Colman Esq. With engraved frontispieces to two of the plays. In a half-calf binding with marbled boards. Externally rather worn with rubbing and wear to the extremities. Joints are cracked and there is some slight loss to the backstrip. Internally firmly bound. Pages have some foxing and handling marks throughout. Good Only Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Bell; P. Byrne hardcover
1747s500.medalsGB: J. & P. Knapton 1747. DISBOUND TEXT No covers. 430 x270 mm. Ten engraved plates and 22 pages of text illustrating and describing 120 medals of the period. At the base of each plate is printed "Impensis J. & P. Knapton for Mr Tindals continuation of Mr Rapins History of England J.S. Muller sculp" some with date 1745 1 & 2 some with date 1746 7 8 & 10 and others not dated. Exceptionally clean and bright with a very occasional brown spot or other tiny blemish. Parts of original binding adhering to spine. Most suitable to rebind. nrFine. J. & P. Knapton unknown
176914844Paris L. Prault & Bailly 1769 Grand in-8 veau porphyre de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, de fers dorés, triple filet doré avec fleuron aux angles encadrant les plats, filet doré sur les coupes, dentelle dorée intérieure, tranches dorées sur marbrure. (3 ff)-330 pp-(3 ff). Un coin un peu frotté.
176954186Paris Laurent Prault et Bailly 1769 1 vol. Relié in-8, veau fauve marbré, dos lisse orné d'une pièce de titre de basane ocre ainsi que de fleurons, triple filets et dentelle dorés, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, coupes filetées, coiffes guillochées, roulette dorée intérieure, tranches dorées, VI + 330-(6) pp. Edition originale ornée d'un titre gravé par Moreau, d'un frontispice par Boucher et de 3 belles figures hors-texte gravées par Moreau le Jeune (sur les 5 décrites par Cohen 834). Restaurations au dos, sinon bon exemplaire bien relié à l'époque, avec une note ancienne qui précise qu'il provient de la bibliothèque de Mirabeau (le catalogue de la vente de 1792 comporte en effet un exemplaire identique sous la référence 607).
176954186Paris Laurent Prault et Bailly 1769 1 vol. Relié in-8, veau fauve marbré, dos lisse orné d'une pièce de titre de basane ocre ainsi que de fleurons, triple filets et dentelle dorés, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, coupes filetées, coiffes guillochées, roulette dorée intérieure, tranches dorées, VI + 330-(6) pp. Edition originale ornée d'un titre gravé par Moreau, d'un frontispice par Boucher et de 3 belles figures hors-texte gravées par Moreau le Jeune (sur les 5 décrites par Cohen 834). Restaurations au dos, sinon bon exemplaire bien relié à l'époque, avec une note ancienne qui précise qu'il provient de la bibliothèque de Mirabeau (le catalogue de la vente de 1792 comporte en effet un exemplaire identique sous la référence 607).
1738240066London: R. Dodsley at Tully's Head 1738. Good. Octavo 20; 7 24 20 pages sewn together but thin contemporary quarer leather boards are separated; ex libris Baron William Mure 1718-1776 a friend to David Hume and a baron of the Scots exchequer and a Lord Rector of Glasgow University. <br/><br/>Bound with James Miller's THE YEAR FORTY-ONE Carmen Seculare. It was dedicated to the Dowager Duches of Marlborough. Bound with Paul Whitehead's MANNERS: A SATIRE. R. Dodsley at Tully's-head. 1739. Lacks half-title inked notes explaining some of th ellipses. "Perish my verse when'er one venal line / Bedaubs a Duke or makes a King divine." Griffith 482 . R. Dodsley at Tully's Head hardcover
175548418Berlin berolini: Haude and Spener. Good with no dust jacket. 1755. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards spine label. Wear to spine ends and edges. Pp. 14 386 388 258. Three volumes in one. Text in Latin. Mild scattered foxing. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Haude and Spener hardcover
17871466Hartford 1787. Letter. Very good. In the fall of 1785 after Revolutionary War service Greene and family settled to Mulberry Grove in Chatham County Georgia near Savannah where land had been gifted from the State of Georgia and the Carolinas yet Nathanael's time there would be short -within one year Greene was dead. The children's tutor Phineas Miller took up the role of plantation manager. It is within this time period that this letter was written I have sent you the best assortment of garden seeds I am now able to procure - They are from a retailer who received them fput up mark'd and warranted from Col. Wadsworth's gardener. Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth was a friend of General Greenes. I intended to have had a larger assortment selected by himself but he went out to West Division early this morning with the intention of putting them up this evening and Capt. Sweet sails today so that I had no alternativebut to get them of the retailer - I have put on board a salmon for your family and Mrs. Ward with very particular directions to Capt. Sweet to take care of it and hope it may arrive good and prove agreeable - Please to present my most respectful compliments to the Governor and family and permit tme to to be Madam your Most Obedient and Very Humble Servant. -- Phins. Miller. In 1792 after passionate and active work on the part of the widow the crushing debt that General Greene amassed during the Revolutionary War was erased. In this same year Eli Whitney came aboard the plantation to assist. Within the year the cotton gin was fully developed. On March 14 1794 Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin - it was debuted on the plantation grounds. By some reports she was in partnership with Miller in the financial and logistical support of the process of patent and production of the gin. In an 1883 article in The North American Review titled "Woman as Inventor" the early feminist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage claimed that Mrs. Greene suggested to Whitney the use of a brush-like component which was instrumental in separating the seeds from the cotton. In 1796 Phineas and Catherine were married but Mulberry Grove would not outlast the duo. By 1798 it was sold and the Millers moved to Cumberland Island to land given to Gen. Greene. <br/><br/>Sheet folded with creaselines and wax seal. Foxing with no loss text clear to read. unknown books
1760287862London: Printed for the Author and Sold by John Rivington C. Hitch and L. Hawes R. Baldwin and others 1760. Twelfth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The twelfth edition with frontispiece and five folding plates and a Short Introduction to the Knowledge of the Science of Botany pp. 371-417 freely adapted from Linnaeus's early works on binomial nomenclature and descriptive systemic botany. The preface states that "to this edition of the Gardeners Kalendar the author was advised to subjoin a short Introduction to the Science of Botany; in which the definitions of terms of art which are used in the present favourite system of Doctor Linnaeus should be explained for the benefit of practical gardeners . the whole was prepared for the press before the translation of Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica published by Mr. Lee made its appearance." This is presumably one of the first English explanations of Linnaeus's taxonomic work which was still being fleshed out by Linnaeus though it is certainly the first of Philip Miller's popular works to be based on the Linnaean system and also the first with more than simply a frontispiece; the five additional folding plates depict examples of plant Families from the Short Introduction. Index and publisher's advertisements at the rear. Full calf with wear to the joints and beginning of separation to the front joint. ESTC T59406. British Museum A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus 463-4. Very Good binding. Printed for the Author, and Sold by John Rivington, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Baldwin, and others unknown books
17607686<p>Two volume set. Original full speckled calf professionally rebacked in calf; pastedowns renewed; fly sheets and title mounted. Complete with 300 full-page hand-colored copper plates 2 folding. Miller was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden where many of the engravings were made under his supervision. Drawings were taken from living plants at their greatest expression of flowering. A high point in botany. ; 200; iv pages. 10.75 x 16.25 inches; 27 x 41.4 cm.</p> Printed for the Author hardcover
177151526London: Printed for the author 1771. Fine. Printed for the author London 1771 21 x 27.50 cm relié Sixth edition revised and expanded illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by Wale and 12 folding plates greenhouses for melons another on greenhouses a third of a plant polygala another of a barn another of rubia plant. Some plates are bound out of order. Printed in double columns. Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label. Double fillet frame on boards. 2 wormholes at foot. 2 corners opened. One lack to upper board. Surface wear to boards. Lower joint split at head. Lacks to upper joint at head and lower joint at foot. The work was considered at the time by horticulturists and gardeners as the best and most comprehensive on the subject. It is a dictionary of plants according to Linnaeus's classification. Each article contains the history of the plant its region of origin its cultivation. Printed for the author hardcover
1731000750London: Printed for the Author and sold by C. Rivington 1731. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Large 4to xvi 4 pages subscribers names unpaginated pp860 with 5 b/w engravings including frontis and other charts and illustrations throughout. Hardcover no dust jacket. Rebound in brown cloth with 5 raised bands to spine and original blind stamped leather binding re-laid to boards in good condition with some shelf wear and rubbing to tips and edges of boards. Inside in very good clean condition with no foxing or aging to pages with 10 pages that have old tape repairs to edges. In 1730 Philip Miller was asked by Nathan Bailey the English lexicographer to write the botanical entries for the Dictionarium Britannicum. With this prior experience Miller decided to produce his own Gardeners Dictionary 1731 a work that rivaled Bailey's in size and covered all aspects of gardening in kitchen- and flower-garden orchard greenhouse and tree plantations together with descriptions of plants and essays on horticultural science'. Miller's Gardeners Dictionary 1731 was the first comprehensive garden dictionary in English and was written just before he became Curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden. It was the most influential gardening book of the 18th century with readership aimed at the gentry and their head gardeners clergy academics and fellow members of the Royal Society. Eight up-dated editions were published before Miller's death in 1771. An exceptional copy of this scarce 1st Edition. <br/> <br/> Printed for the Author and sold by C. Rivington hardcover
1733876P10London: C. Rivington 1733. Leather. Very Good. 14.5" by 9". Not Stated. The second edition of Philip Miller's important dictionary on gardening an illustrated exploration of gardening in many different facets. The second edition.ESTC citation number N18273.Illustrated with a frontispiece one folding plate and three plates.Register runs as: 3 b-d2 B-10C2.Adverts to the verso of leaf 10C2.Collated complete. Collated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries. An important eighteenth century work on gardening first published in 1731.This work is an essential dictionary on gardening with noted on the cultivating and improving on the kitchen fruit and flower garden.The author Philip Miller was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until his death in 1771. In a full rebacked calf binding. Externally generally smart with rubbing to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss of leather to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Worming to the head of the rear board. Light discolouration to the boards and spine with a few minor marks including white marks to the head of the front board. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few scattered spots only. Very Good C. Rivington hardcover
1762B7351London: printed for the author. 1762. . Upper board bumped outwardly at lower edge. Some worming to last leaves repaired. . Edition: 13th Edition. Binding: Half calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands black calf label in second compartment. Notes: Philip Miller FRS 1691 – 1771 was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722 and wrote the highly popular The Gardeners Dictionary. Miller corresponded with other botanists and obtained plants from all over the world many of which he cultivated for the first time in England and is credited as their introducer. His knowledge of living plants for which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society was unsurpassed in breadth in his lifetime. He trained William Aiton who later became head gardener at Kew and William Forsyth after whom Forsythia was named. The Duke of Bedford contracted him to supervise the pruning of fruit trees at Woburn Abbey and the care of his prized collection of American trees especially evergreens which were grown from seeds that on Miller's suggestion had been sent in barrels from Pennsylvania where they had been collected by John Bartram. Through a consortium of sixty subscribers 1733–66 the contents of Bartram's boxes introduced such American trees as Abies balsamea and Pinus rigida into English gardens. Miller was reluctant to use the new binomial nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus preferring the classifications of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and John Ray at first. Linnaeus nevertheless applauded Miller's Gardeners Dictionary The conservative Scot actually retained a number of pre-Linnaean binomial signifiers discarded by Linnaeus but which have been retained by modern botanists. He only fully changed to the Linnaean system in the edition of The Gardeners Dictionary of 1768 though he had already described some genera such as Larix and Vanilla validly under the Linnaean system earlier in the fourth edition 1754. Size: 8vo. 210 x 130 mm Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 folding plates. Early ownerships inked to endpapers one quite large and elaborate on flyleaf affecting frontispiece. Another inscription on the verso of the dedication page describes the date and circumstances of owner’s marriage. <br><br> Category: Book Natural History; printed for the author. hardcover
175416599London: Charles Rivington 1754. 10th Ed. hardcover. Poor. 8vo brown leather binding book is split in half straight through the text block and leather spine cover cover is scuffed and worn front board detached interior pages browning engraved frontispiece 336 pages index and ad Charles Rivington hardcover
1733GMM12823London: Printed for the Author 1733. .of the Present Age. Interspers'd with The History of the Plants the Characters of each Genus and the names of all the particular Species in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers Thermometers and Hygrometers proper for Gardeners; And of the origin Causes and Nature of meteors and the particular Influences of Air Earth Fire and Water upon Vegetation according to the best Natural Philosophers.; The Second Edition Corrected.; Full brown leather rebacked ages ago with the origional boards skilfully laid back gilt title on faded red Morocco spine label raised bands blind panels & decoration to covers frontis engraving 2 additional full page at the back; A very nice good binding with handsome botanical bookplate inside front cover over an essentially very good bright textblock woth ink owner name/date atop title page; Unpaginated. Size: 9"x14". Hardcover. Printed for the Author Hardcover
175315331Berlin, (Wagner in Ulm für) A. Haude u. J. C. Spener, 1753. Kl.-8°. Mit gest. Titelvignette. 14 Bll., 192 S., Ppbd. d. Zt.
1756189581Berolini: A. Haude et I.C. Speneri 1756. Leather bound. VG pages are lightly age toned as expected with age of book binding is secure and pages are otherwise clear. Bound in green leather with gilt border gilt design on spine; color illustrted end papers; XVIII 180 138 pp all edge gilt. Text is in Italian and Latin. The life of excellent emperors is added to the French translation by the care of Ioanne Petro Millero. A. Haude et I.C. Speneri hardcover
171921001556Poughkeepsie NY : Red Cross National Defense League and Vassar College 1917-1918. 16 Jun 1938 Berrysburg Dauphin Pennsylvania USA". An archive consisting primarily of materials belonging to Nelda Miller mostly while attending Vassar College. The first items include two variations of overviews of Vassar College and Vassar College in War-Time. It describes how the student body voted to stop extracurricular activities such as the Junior "Prom" festivals etc. and devote the funds thus saved to the employment of expert teachers of certain practical courses to help the war effort. Classes included stenography typewritinglibrary work auto repair home economics Red Cross first aid to the injured and farming and gardening. The reverse of the page is a diagram of the Grounds and Building. The second of these brochures also includes information on the Vassar Unite for Service Abroad and The Summer Training Camp for Nurses. Presumably Ms. Miller took the path of the Summer Training Camp for Nurses. Booklets related to the program include: <br /> <br /> The Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College Under the auspices of the National Council of Defense and The American Red Cross Second Edition. 1918. 42 pp. Announcement and catalogue. <br /> Nursing -- a National Service by Isabel M. Stewart R.N. M.A. Committee on Nursing General Medical Board. Council of National Defense. Washington DC. 15 pp. subtitled Nursing as a Field of National Service. Explaining what a nurse can do for her country and the importance of proper training. OCLC -3 Feb. 2021 <br /> The Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College. 4 pp. overview and daily schedule <br /> The Training Camp for Nurses Vassar College Department of Practical Nursing - General Rules of Cleaning. Privately Printed. Not published. 10 pp. How to accomplish all methods of cleaning from dusting to terminal cleaning. <br /> Mathematics for Nurses. David Eugene Smith. Teachers College Columbia University. NYC. 1918. 31 pp. Apothecaries' Measures Metric System Reductions Ratios Algebra and Proportion Solutions Fractional Doses and more. <br /> The Training Camp for Nurses Vassar college. Department of Bacteriology. Second Term. Pathogenic Microorganisms. First Week August 5th 1918 Dr. Williams. 10 pp. Relation of Microorganisms to Disease. <br /> Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College 1918 - Program of Reunion November 26th-28th 1920 4 pp. A program of events and lectures for the week. <br /> <br />Additionally a prelude to her time at Vassar includes a small notebook with 20 pages of writing by Ms. Miller. Pencil. Manuscript. Probably written while attending Goucher College in 1914 and 1915. Many references to Goucher Plan. Many writing in rhyming verse with titles such as Tea Mobilizing Appetiteetc. Measures 6" x 3 3/4". Also two notices for course completion at Goucher. 1914-1915 <br /> Finally three items adding to her character but unrelated include <br /> A printed excerpt from "The Present Hour" by Percy MacKay titled "Hymn for Equal Suffrage". It begins "They have strewn the burning hearths of Man with darkness and with mire They have heaped the burning hearts of Man with ashes of desire Yet from out those hearts and hearths still leaps the quick external fire <br /> Whose flame is liberty". Two unrelated letters from Jerusalem to the Kirness Sisters "The Souvenir Shop" Jaffa Road Jerusalem requesting a dress be made. Interesting but unrelated correspondence. Nine 9 war and nursing related items four 4 others. "GOUCHER The summer work committee of the War Council with the help of Mr. Merritt of the National Department of Agriculture are drawing up tentative plans for the summer farm. Goucher also had her garden last summer but this year the farm work is to be better organized and carried on a much larger scale. WELLESLEY About four hundred girls have signed up for spring work on the farm and over two thousand have put in their applications for work this summer. The student body has also pledged nearly a thousand dollars to finance the farm. This information concerning war activities of American Colleges was gathered together by the Vale News. <br /> <br />30 Jun 1898 Williamstown Dauphin Pennsylvania USA <br />Death: Red Cross, National Defense League and Vassar College unknown books
