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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 chess section was superseded by the 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
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
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
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
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
17611711290002London : Printed for T. Osborne . R. Baldwin . J. Ward . W. Johnston . and S. Crowder and Co 1761. Good. Folio. No date on title circa 1760/61. xviii 1080 pp Engraved frontispiece; 12 engraved plates on ll sheets. illustrations ; 43 cm. Modern 3/4 leather over original marbled boards marbled page ends marbled endpapers. Foxing and minor toning. <br> In 1721 Bailey published the first first monolingual English dictionaries to focus on defining words in common usage rather than just difficult words. Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum 1730 and 1736 was the primary resource mined by Samuel Johnson for his Dictionary of the English Language 1755. The "Scott-Bailey" or "Bailey-Scott" dictionary contains relatively slight revisions by Scott but mostly plagiarizes Johnson's own dictionary. "The attempt of the Bailey proprietors to enter a folio to rival Johnson's great Dictionary remained alive through 1772 three years after Scott's death." See Starnes & Noyes chapt. XXII for a full treatment; Alston V 175. London : Printed for T. Osborne ... R. Baldwin ... J. Ward ... W. Johnston ... and S. Crowder and Co hardcover
18001359539New-York: Collins & Co.; T. & J. Swords; John Forbes; 1800; 1802; 1803; 1806; 1808; 1809; 1811; 1812. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavos 10 volumes 1800-1812 non-inclusive some with plates. Good- to Good; all but one volume fully bound in contemporary leather Vol V 1802 bound in marbled paper with leather to spine all have spine labels with gilt titling but of varying styles; all have tears and surface marks to covers most front hinges somewhat compromised but bindings all else tight; text blocks show age toning and several have liquid damage that extends to pages; foxing and age toning to pages throughout; plates present and intact though some with deep age toning and foxing; title page and first several pages of Second Hexade Vol. VI show insect damage; previous owner bookplate to front pastedown of Vol. V 1802 "Ex Libris Henry Barton Jacobs;" previous owner name stamped on title pages of several volumes "Isaiah Matlack;" MF consignment. Volume III 1800<br> <br /> Volume V 1802<br> <br /> Volume VI 1803<br> <br /> Second Hexade Volume III 1806<br> <br /> Second Hexade Volume V 1808<br> <br /> Volume IV 1809 Second Hexade Volume VI<br> <br /> Volume 2 1811 Third Hexade Volume II<br> <br /> Volume 3 1811 May June July<br> <br /> No. 1 Volume I 1812<br> <br /> Third Hexade Volume III 1812<br> <br /> <br /> The Second Hexade Volume III 1806 contains one of the earliest printed accounts of the Lewis and Clark expeditions in particular making reference to a manuscript copy of "A Map of those parts of North-America situated between the 35th and 51st degrees of latitude and the 89th and 124th degrees of longitude" that was been sent to the Secretary at War with other copies made under the direction of Gen. Dearborn for the inspection of Congress. 1359539. Special Collections. Collins & Co.; T. & J. Swords; John Forbes; hardcover
1800537T. and J. Swords Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College New York 1800. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book . Bound volume with complete year's issues of early American medical journal. Quarter bound leather over marbled boards worn at corners. Front hinge worn with 1 1/4" crack at top and 1/2" chip at top of spine. Title in gold on red leather panel on spine; listed as "First Hexade2" in gold on black leather panel. Articles include research reports from Joseph Priestley. News in each issue includes obituaries of doctors. Text block tight with light foxing; light water stain at top of pp. 1-7. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: MEDICAL; History; Antiquarian & Rare. . Main Picture: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Title page. Picture 2: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Front cover and spine. Picture 3: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Detail of title on spine. Picture 4: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Page with article from a letter by Joseph Priestley about one of his experiments. Picture 5: Mitchill The Medical Repository Vol. II 1800 - Page with a letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania Thomas Mifflin about preventing the return of the Yellow Fever. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 537. . T. and J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College hardcover
17590002961759. N/A. N/A. 7th. edn. in 2 folio volumes with frontisp. and 19 copper pls. In exellant original condition bound in full contemporary calf rubbed joints weak but holding matching labels rather worn. <br/> <br/> unknown
179940212New York: George Forman 1799. 36pp as issued. Disbound light toning bit of loosening. Good. <br /> <br /> A table at page 36 totals 2082 deaths listed by religions. These include eleven Jews and 43 "Negroes." 667 victims were buried in the "Potter's Field" and 207 at the Bellevue almshouse with the remainder at various white Protestant churches. <br /> Miller was a minister of the United Presbyterian Church in New York. He contends that God is responsible for "arresting the progress of the destructive malady" after humans had failed to apply "prudent precaution." <br /> Evans 35821. ESTC W3077. Not in Austin. George Forman unknown
178589651Paris: Chez Guillot 1785. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing bumping and fraying to outer corners of boards. Moderate rubbing scuffing and soiling to boards and spine. 7 cm crack to spine and front cover at hinge. Very mild wrinkling and soiling throughout. Mild worming to margins. Small pencil and ink inscriptions to verso side of front free end paper. Overall very good. Hardcover folio in leather boards. Gilt title on spine. Edges of text-block are marbled. Marbled end-papers. Volume 2 of 8. 760 pages 27 cm. Volume 2 of 8. In French. "Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois . par M. de Chazelles . Avec des notes relatives à la physique et à la matiere médicale par M. Holandre"--Added title page./ "Explication des noms d'auteurs et des ouvrages cités en abbréviation dans ce dictionnaire"-T. 1 p. xxvii-xxxv. Gardening -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800. Botany. Chez Guillot hardcover
1755ST13850London: Printed for the Author; And Sold by John Rivington et al. 1755-60. FIRST EDITION. 425 x 270 mm. 16 3/4 x 10 5/8". vi 200 4 pp. Two volumes in one. <br/> Contemporary calf cover with thin gilt border and small cornerpieces raised bands compartments with much gilt tooling red label with gilt lettering skillfully rebacked preserving most of original backstrip. WITH 300 LOVELY HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF FLOWERS two of which are folding. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Pollexfen Bastard. Sitwell "Great Flower Books" p. 121; Hunt 566; Henrey 1097; Pritzel 6242; Nissen 1378; Hazel le Rougetel "The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller 1691-1771" pp. 110 114. Covers somewhat scratched corners a bit worn but the restored binding solid and appealing. Occasional mild thumbing or light browning perhaps a dozen plates with minor to moderate offsetting but A VERY PLEASING COPY INTERNALLY quite clean and fresh and with attractive coloring.<br/> <br/> By a man characterized by DNB as "the most distinguished and influential British gardener" of the time this lavishly illustrated work is called by celebrated botanist W. T. Stearn the most important horticultural work of the 18th century. And Richard Pulteny the British naturalist and historian of science said that "England had not before produced any work except the 'Hortus Elthamensis' or Catesby's 'Carolina' so superb and extensive." Published in 50 monthly parts containing six plates each these two impressive folio volumes comprise in Hunt's words a "complement and fulfillment" of Miller's popular but sparsely illustrated "Gardener's Dictionary" with 300 splendid depictions of plants drawn from live specimens in the renowned Chelsea Physic Garden where Miller served as head gardener. Miller 1691-1771 published "Figures" as a means to showcase in a grand fashion a selection of species deemed to be either noteworthy useful in trade or medicine or somehow overlooked by botanists. According to DNB the lovely plates here executed by eminent artists that include Georg Ehret were "commended at the time for being drawn from nature in the best state of flowering and for including illustrations of fruit and seed as they ripened." Miller boasts in the preface that "no Expense has been spared to render it as perfect as possible: The Drawings were taken from the living Plants; the Engravings were most of them done under the Author's Inspection; and the Plates have been carefully coloured from the original Drawings and compared with the Plants in their Perfection." This book appears with some regularity in the market but it is quite difficult to find in the kind of condition seen here. Printed for the Author; And Sold by John Rivington [et al.] unknown
175572968London: 1755-71. This beautiful engraving from 'Figures of the Most Beautiful Useful and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardener's Dictionary' was published by Philip Miller in London in 1755. It was engraved by T. Jeffreys. Philip Miller 1691-1771 was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physick Garden in London and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his extensive knowledge of plants. Copper engraving. Plate size: 335 x 215 mm Very good condition. unknown
175572959London: 1755-71. This beautiful engraving from 'Figures of the Most Beautiful Useful and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardener's Dictionary' was published by Philip Miller in London in 1755. It was engraved by T. Jeffreys. Philip Miller 1691-1771 was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physick Garden in London and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his extensive knowledge of plants. Copper engraving. Plate size: 335 x 215 mm Very good condition. unknown
