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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
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
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
1789mon0004110286Published as the Act directs 1789. Hardcover. Very Good. . Half-leather cover with marbled paper boards shows minor wear tear rubbing edgewear joints starting. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed with 85 hand-colored botanical plates plate 20 was never printed. Volume 2 only. Published as the Act directs hardcover
17229567London: Printed for E. Bell 1722. 1st ed. 1722. 8vo. 8 pp. Dedication and Preface 466 pp. 20 pp. Index and Table of English Names. Original boards with rather crude black cloth binding. Spinal extremities chipped and boards are soiled. Contemporary notes front and rear endpapers name title page. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. London: Printed for E. Bell, 1722. 1st ed. hardcover
178625988Ephrata: The Cloister 1786. First edition 4to pp. 6 250 2; printed in black letter throughout; engraved vignette pasted on title page; prelims and terminals waterstained small tear in the lower margin of title not touching letterpress old ownership signature at the top of the title page of Christian Stauffer 1736-1808 and a 30-line poem also presumably by him on the final blank leaf as well as a few marginal annotations; contemporary full calf front cover detached but present; the whole in a new cloth clamshell box. An abstract of the diary of the Brotherhood which had been kept by Brother Lamech and continued and edited by Brother Jaebez Agrippa i.e. Johan Peter Miller. Brother Lamech has been identified as Jacob Gass by Seidensticker First Century of German Printing in America p. 117. Evans 19558: "This biography of Johann Conrad Beissel the founder of the Ephrata Community is the principal source of information regarding that remarkable institution. Brother Agrippa is Johann Peter Miller; and Brother Lamech's secular name is said to be Jacob Gass. An English translation was printed in Lancaster Pennsylvania in 1890." Howes G76 identifying this as the second issue of three with the title page seal pasted on. [The Cloister] unknown
1772mon0000094068HarperCollins Distribution Servi 1772-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Clean copy sound binding. HarperCollins Distribution Servi hardcover
173671988English dictionary containing etymology definitions a collection of English proverbs and the iconography mythology theogony and theology of ancient Egyptian Greek and Roman culture also contains nearly 500 wood cut illustrations Printed for T. Cox hardcover
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
179712101Dublinii Dublin: R. E. Mercier 1797. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 257pp. plus index. A very good copy in contemporary straight-grain red morocco with eaborate oval Trinity College device stamped in gilt on the front board. Bookplates of John Deakin Heaton and Sir John Nicholson Barran on the front endpapers. Some nicks to extremities the spine panel faded otherwise a nice clean example. An essay on Longinus presented in Greek and Latin by George Miller. Miller was an influential Anglican priest and historian at Trinity College Dublin. We note fewer than a dozen holdings in worldwide libraries and none in the auction record. Scarce. ESTC T201775. R. E. Mercier hardcover
171677867BB1716 . Basel: Lüdin 1716. 8°. 42 S. 2 Schmuckvignetten Neuer Pappband in gemusterter Pergamentoptik minimal gebräunt; Spuren von abgelöstem Einband der vorherigen Broschur; gutes Exemplar unknown
17991301030014Dublin: R. E. Mercier and Co. Booksellers and Painters to Trinity College 1799-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in contemporary leather. Front joint cracked. 4 230 p. 6 folding plates. Contemporary signature of Henry Greene on title page. Miller's work deals with gravity attraction and repulsion mechanical powers electricity and magnetism. Miller references Benjamin Franklin's contemporary work on electricity. Much of the book presents various concepts from Newtonian physics. The work of Kepler and Euclid also are prominent. ESTC T127500. R. E. Mercier and Co. Booksellers and Painters to Trinity College hardcover
17961205AG1796. High Holborn F. Linley 1796. Kupfer in Punktiermanier von Thomas Hardy Brustbild. Bildgrösse: 205 x 168 cm. Blattgrösse: 265 x 202 cm. Hardy Thomas 1842-1897: Englischer Maler. unknown
1701mon0000131641J.B. Lippincott company 1917-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1102 in x 9.1299 in x 6.5709 in. J.B. Lippincott company 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
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
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
1731BB2387London: printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's church in Fleetstreet 1731. Marbled Wrappers. Near Fine. Scarce First Edition written in 56 stanzas of rhyming verse of this satirical poem. Foxson's second state no known priority: correct catchword on p. 57 and p. 58 correctly numbered. Crown 8vo 189 x 122mm: 10591pp with folding engraved frontispiece and woodcut initials and ornaments. Later marbled wrappers paper label printed in red and black to front cover title page printed in red and black with bust vignette of Horace. A beautifully preserved copy tightly bound and clean throughout. Foxon M251. Miller was a playwright whose own works were performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and who adapted plays by Molière and other French dramatists for the London stage. He only revealed his authorship of this work in the fourth edition of 1735. Harlequin-Horace is a "witty inversion of the Ars poetica attacking pantomime and opera and exuberantly depicting a topsy-turvy theatrical world. Alexander Pope approved as did his disciples on the Grub-Street Journal . . . . The poem lampooned the Italian operas of Handel but Miller admired the sacred oratorios in English and himself furnished the libretto for Joseph and his Brethren." ODNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's church, in Fleetstreet unknown
176317256Helmstedt 1763. Dritter Teil 2.verb. Aufl. Weygand Philosophie unknown
176313395Helmstedt 1763. Bd. 2 Einband stark ber.Seite 369-70 fehlt 3.Aufl Weygand 8°. Pbd. Pädagogik unknown
176712647Halle 1767-70. Bd. 3 in der 2. Aufl 1763. Beigeb. in 4. Bd.: Millers Anweisung zur Wohlberedenheit nach den auserlesensten Mustern Franz. Redner Band 3 und 4 von vier Bänden 4 verb. m. Kupfer vers. Aufl. 8°. Hpgt. Deutsche Literatur 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
1794Flo467<p>Very good copy of the first collated edition of Miller's botanical classic</p><p>Complete with 108 handcoloured engraved plates engraved allegorical frontispiece engraved title list of subscribers explanation of classes and 108 leaves of descriptive letterpress in Latin and English</p><p>Plants include sunflowers tea pomegranate fig amaryllis peony canna mistletoe apple lemon horse chestnut rice belladonna fern mushrooms thistle mallow primrose etc.</p><p>"An immense work. illustrated in a style of unprecedented elegance." Lettsom</p><p>Miller's illustrated book on the sexual system of Linnaeus was published in twenty parts from 1770 to 1777 with the plates in two states: with letters on the uncoloured plates for science and without letters on the colored plates for aesthetics. The plants were sourced from Dr. John Fothergill's garden in Essex.</p><p>According to the list of subscribers 106 copies were ordered by 83 individuals or institutions. Queen Charlotte wife of the mad king George III subscribed for two sets along with botanists Joseph Banks Sir John Eden and Dr Daniel Solander Linnaeus' disciple actor David Garrick gardener Dr. Fothergill four sets physician Dr. William Pitcairn and booksellers P. Elmsley 10 sets and B. White 10 sets. Bristol Library Manchester Library the British Museum Jesus College Oxford and the Royal Library at the University of Gottingen all ordered a set.</p><p>Once the subscriptions had been filled there were evidently leftover sets of text and colored plates that were published with a new title page by R. Faulder in 1794. The new title-page accompanies a suite of the hand-coloured plates made up from "the surplus of the plates of the 1777 edition." Henrey Most of the plates in this copy have letters although two are without tea Camellia sinensis and arum Arum maculatum. The plates are "painted engraved and published by J. Miller in Dorset Court" and dated from 1770 to 1776.</p><p>John Miller born Johann Sebastian Mueller 1715-1792 was a botanical artist and engraver from Nuremberg who studied with engravers Johann Christoph Weigel and M. Tyroff before moving to England in 1744. Miller came to the attention of the Swedish biologist Linnæus the father of modern taxonomy through the British naturalist John Ellis. Miller sent samples of his work to Linnaeus for approval and received great praise: "More beautiful and more accurate than any since the world began." Miller also illustrated Philip Miller's <em>Most Beautiful Plants</em> 1755 a new edition of John Evelyn's <em>Sylva </em>1776 and John Stuart's <em>Botanical Tables</em> 1785.</p><p>Half-leather binding with spine with five raised bands gilt title label leather repaired and dyed with a dark stain green cloth boards rubbed and stained marble endpapers book block solid. Interior mostly clean and bright with some dust to page edges but all plates with superb handcolour. Oval blindstamps of Leyton Public Library on all plates outside the plate mark but no other markings. Title-page slightly spotted frontis repaired. Huge heavy imperial folio book.</p> R. Faulder hardcover
177740827London: Published and Sold by the Author at his House in Dorset Court near Parliament Street 1777. 3 volumes. Folio. 20 1/2 x 14 inches. First edition. 104 engraved plates in both hand-colored and uncolored states plus 4 hand-colored engraved plates of botanical details. Engraved allegorical frontispiece engraved title preface subscription list explanation of classes. Each uncolored plate with an accompanying descriptive letterpress leaf. Unpaginated. Contemporary full calf with roll-tooled gilt foliate gilt-patterned board edges seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt-patterned spine gilt-lettered red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment and brown morocco in third all edges gilt and sprinkled red<br/> <br/> Excellent example of Miller's prodigious Linnæan herbal with plates in two states. "An immense work . . . illustrated in a style of unprecedented elegance." Lettsom<br/> <br/> Miller's esteemed illustrated botanical book on the sexual system of Linnæus was published in twenty parts from 1770 to 1777 with plates issued as completed from 1770 onward. Volume I holds a suite of 104 engraved plates in proof states before letters all colored in a fine contemporary hand with penciled names at the bottom of each leaf printed recto with blank versos. Volumes II and III have the same suite of 104 plates with 53 in Volume II and 51 in Volume III each with an engraved title and imprint and each paired with a leaf of descriptive letterpress text. These plates are uncolored with botanical text in Latin and English. An additional four hand-colored engraved plates are at the rear of Volume III. 178 varieties of plant leaves are shown across a total of 212 plates. Miller issued the plates in two states: with letters on the uncolored plates for science and without letters on the colored plates for aesthetics. The plants themselves were sourced from Dr. John Fothergill's 1712-1780 renowned garden in Essex. Fothergill was an enthusiastic supporter of Miller and served as the superintendent of his book but refused Miller's attempt to dedicate the work to him stating that dedications were a "species of literary pageantry." Lettsom The text's botanical information was initially overseen by Gowan Knight 1713-1772 the first Principal Librarian of the British Museum and a friend of Fothergill's. According to the list of subscribers 106 copies were ordered by 83 individuals or institutions. Queen Charlotte subscribed for two copies while the booksellers P. Elmsley and B. White each took ten. Once the subscriptions had been filled there were evidently leftover sets of text and colored plates. Henrey records a copy of the work in the Natural History Museum Library with a new 1794 title-page with R. Faulder as the publisher. This re-set title accompanies a suite of the colored plates made up from what appears to be "the surplus of the plates of the 1777 edition." Henrey Miller born Müeller was a botanical artist and engraver from Nuremberg who studied with Johann Christoph Weigel and M. Tyroff before moving to England in 1744. He would reside there for the rest of his life. Miller came to the attention of the Swedish biologist Linnæus the father of modern taxonomy through the British naturalist John Ellis 1710-1776. Linnæus himself was sent samples of Miller's work for approval and had nothing but praise for the artist. Miller would go on to publish Botanical Tables in 1785 with John Stuart 3rd Earl of Bute 1713-1792 who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763. More than a thousand of Miller's original drawings now reside at the Natural History Museum in London. DNB<br/> <br/> Blunt p.150. DNB. Dunthorne 207. ESTC T91594. Henrey III 1153. Lettsom The Memoirs of John Fothergill p.106. Nissen BBI 1372. Plesch p.336. Sitwell Great Flower Books p.120. Soulsby 667. Sprague "John Sebastian Miller's 'Icones Novae'" in Journal of Botany Vol. 74 pp. 208-209. Stafleu TL2 6482. Published and Sold by the Author at his House in Dorset Court near Parliament Street unknown
17703518London: published and sold by the author at his house . 1770. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled mottled calf sewn at 7 stations richly gold-tooled spine with red and green title labels each board with a border made with a flower roll gold-tooled board edges curl-marbled endpapers. Imperial folio 54 x 38 cm. Richly engraved frontispiece with medallion portraits of Miller and Linnaeus at the head 3 engraved title-pages identical except for the manuscript volume numbers 2 series of engraved botanical plates each series numbered in manuscript 1-104 each series printed from the same 104 plates but that in volume 1 in proof-states with no headings imprints or other text in the plates and beautifully hand-coloured that in volumes 2 & 3 in black and white with titles and imprints and 4 further plates numbered I-IV showing 178 varieties of leaves finely hand-coloured. With a full-page allegorical dedicatory pen and watercolour drawing for Queen Charlotte of England on the end-leaf before the frontispiece of the first volume and a professionally lettered index covering all 3 volumes specially made for this dedication copy at the end of volume 3. 3 volumes. Dedication copy with a stunning original pen and watercolour drawing in honour of Queen Charlotte of England of the first edition of a highly esteemed illustrated book on the sexual system of Linnaeus published in 20 parts from 1775 to 1777 with some plates issued as completed from 1770 onward. Our copy is bound in three volumes with the volume numbers professionally lettered on the title-pages in ink. Volumes 2 and 3 contain the suite of plates in black and white plus the four hand-coloured plates showing 178 varieties of plant leaves each plate with an engraved title and imprint. Volume 1 contains a suite of the same 104 plates in proof states with no lettering all in a fine contemporary hand-colouring. The present copy of this rare and impressive flower book is especially valuable for its beautiful dedicatory watercolour drawing for Queen Charlotte 1744-1818 wife of King George III of England. Probably drawn by Miller himself it shows Father Time and Britannia seated at the foot of an obelisk looking at the inscription "Charlotta Regina" that an angel just incised on it. A smoking incense burner sits on top of the obelisk which two putti adorn with garlands while a herald angel blows its trumpet emitting the word "extendo". The whole is veiled in thick clouds and below it appears the winged decorated royal device bearing the legend "honi soit qui mal y pense".Water stain in upper outside corner of one plate and one text leaf in volume 3 and 2 of the plates of leaf varieties foxed but generally in fine condition. The ink of the uncoloured plates has sometimes caused a shadow on the facing text page. The spine joints and board edges have been expertly restored with the loss of much of the gold-tooling on the spine of volume 1.l Blunt p. 150; Dunthorne 206; Henrey 1153; GFB p. 68; Nissen BBI 1372; Plesch p. 336; Pritzel 6523; Soulsby 667. published and sold by the author at his house ..., unknown
