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187921021701879. London Palestine Exploration Fund April 1879. 8vo. Original yellow illustrated wrappers; pp. 59-72; well-preserved.Rare sole edition of the report of the exploration of a part of the Sinai peninsula. 'Having paid four previous visits to the Peninsula of Sinai I was already well known to the Towarah Arabs who inhabit that region and found little difficulty in coming to a satisfactory agreement with Sheikh Nassar to accompany me with two other Arabs and three camels' p. 59. unknown
1895835P6London: Edward Arnold 1895. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An association copy of Reverend Samuel Reynolds Hole's travel work on America a presentation copy from Holy to his longtime friend William Shepherd. First edition.Author's presentation copy. Loosely inserted is a signed photograph of S. Reynolds Hole signed to the caption of the photograph and inscribed to the reverse 'William Shepherd from his old friend S. Reynolds Hole Deanery Rochester May 31 1896'.Two letters from the author to William Shepherd loosely inserted in an envelope dated July 28 1893 and July 23 1896. The first letter discusses an old murder the second is a letter of thanks.Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-six illustrations both full paged and in text.Thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated complete. An extensive travel work by Samuel Hole touring America and Canada from New York to Toronto Chicago to the Rocky Mountains.Samuel Reynolds Hole was a notable horticulturist and Anglican priest. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Very light bumping and rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is lightly faded. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Edward Arnold hardcover
0971979006.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2003AF048<p>Professor nos seminário de Braga. 3ª Edição. Edição do Autor. Braga. 1948.</p>_x000d_<p>22x14 cm. Com 648 i págs. Encadernação do editor.</p> I-22-G-9 unknown
187231740AB1872. Suffolk c.1872. 69 11 pages. Hardcover / Half Morocco with gilt lettering to spine. Very good condition. This unpublished Manuscript of an unfinished Work on the History of Finger - Rings by Reverend James Beck includes for example the following chapters: - History of Finger Rings Eqyptians as true inventors of the Finger Ring "according to Pliny the Greeks could not have known of them at the time of the Trojan Wars as no mention of them is made by Homer" - Beck dissects the meaning of Rings on certain fingers and explains why the "Ring Finger" was chosen as such: "By some this finger is called the digitus medicus or medicinalis but its more correct name is annularis Digitus anularis today known as Ring Finger" ".it was selected as annular finger because it was less employed than any of the others & it was protected by the middle & little finger hence as Atteus Capito says it was better suited for preserving a Ring. Aulus Gellius mentions that the anatomists had discovered a vein which extended from the Heart to the fourth finger of the left hand & that on this account it was selected as the ring finger." The Manuscript makes further cases for Rings worn on the other fingers on the hand. Includes sections on: - Signet Rings / Signet Rings with Crystals and Enamels / Rebus / Letters and Coronets / Signet Heraldic - Rings with angraved Cameos - Sergeant at Law - Rings The manuscript includes a larger section on Rings for Serjeants at Law - Rings of Investiture / Rings for Poet Laureates - Xtian Rings Christian Rings / Iconographic Rings - Rings for Prelates - Doctors of Divinity - Canons & Priests - Rings for Consegrated Virgins / Rings used as Reliquaries "The custom of putting Relics with Rings" - Rings as Gifts at Marriage of Servants / Ring Money - Ad Memoriam Ring etc. etc. - Finger Rings as Charms against Diseases "annali virtuosi" Beck lists here a story of a Charm - Ring against Epilepsy which was found at Kemp Weston in Somerset - Finger Rings as Talisman "Crapaudine - Talismanie" - Rings with merchant Marks Attractive quarto bound in half deep red morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Blue endpapers and paper stock throughout; circular stamp of Assay Office Library Birmingham on flyleaf. A sequence of pasted letters about 10 pages in all precede the manuscript starting with a letter to Beck from Thomas Clifford Allbutt inventor of the Clinical Thermometer and co-founder with Sir William Osler of the History of Medicine Society from the Royal Archaeological Institute about works held in their library on finger rings; a book order form from W H Smith; and a brief note from the former Bishop of Glasgow Walter Trower. Becks manuscript has a typed title page and is dated circa 1872. His history of rings runs to 69 pages with an additional 11 pages of notes laid down on the blue paper stock. Beck proceeds from the ancient Egyptians through the classical world occasionally adding illustrations dealing with signet rings and rings of office such as the Serjeant of Law as well as the ring of the poets laureate. The final notes become increasingly fragmentary at the end. James Beck 1819/20-1886 was educated at Corpus Christi College Cambridge serving as Rector of Parham Sussex and subsequently of Bildeston Suffolk; in 1867 he married Caroline Jeannette Bignell Walter. This volumes has the feeling of a family memento probably bound up after Becks death to preserve his hard work on this fascinating subject. Source of Description: Dr.Christian White. hardcover
1898007763Wellington: Government Printer 1898 SPECIMEN copy being only 111pp of the 'A' section of the Maori lexicon and 21 disconnected samples of the English lexicon cover titled in gilt 'Maori-English Lexicon of the New Zealand Tongue by the Rev. W. Colenso F.R.S. & F.L.S. Specimen' blind panelled cloth lightly handling bumped original black endpapers rear one has minor edge tear three small pen 'ticks' to half-title printed slip tipped onto title 'With Author's Compliments' xii 1-111 iv -21pp The complete lexicon was never issued pp 17-21 at rear are Colenso's letters to the General Assembly of the New Zealand Government concerning his work on the lexicon Bagnall C1195 scarce. association copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Government Printer hardcover
183014271American Tract Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 496 page volume in oroginal embossed cloth covered boards with spinal gilt heavily worn. Foxing prevalent throughout. Pencil ownership name in script on second free endpaper. While bound tightly threads do show at hinges. Cloth boards show fading discoloration and modest but fairly light shelf and edge/corner wear. . American Tract Society hardcover
191118899Toronto: William Briggs 1911. Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering on upper board and on spine. A little wear to ends of spine and tips of boards a single name on front free endpaper. Subtitled "Vice-Admiral of the White and Commander-In-Chief of the North American and West Indian Station and Reminiscences of My Life and Family." Author was grandson of Sir Charles Paget. 160 pages plus 31 B&W illustrations all present but the final plate is loosely inserted. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. William Briggs Hardcover
0557029430.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
17754402888London: F. Newberry 1775. Twelve duodecimo volumes with 117 engraved plates of 118 lacking plate XXVII 'Black tiger male panther and lynx'; preliminaries thumbed title of one volume perforated and another significantly browned one leaf of text ink-stained general foxing and offsetting; original sheep leather binding scuffed with split hinges; worn as is often the case with juvenile literature of this period but a charming set. <p><p>A comprehensive natural history encyclopaedia for young people based on Pennant's system of classification. Animals are arranged according to quadrupeds fish birds and insects and each of these classifications is separately indexed. Besides the more usual natural history descriptions of animals vegetables and minerals this work is the first to describe for children Australia's most famous marsupial -- the kangaroo. The entry under the Jerboa vol. III p. 172 reads "Mr. Banks brought home the skin of an animal which he calls the kanguroo sic which from its general outline and the most striking peculiarity of its figure greatly remembers the jerboa yet it entirely differs in size and in many of those minute distinctions which point out the general ranks of nature. The kanguroo is often known to weigh above fifty pounds."</p> <p>The kangaroo was first seen by both Banks and Cook on 24 June 1770 and the first description of it appeared in Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages published in 1773: "I should have taken it for a wild dog if instead of running it had not leapt like a hare or a deer. Mr. Banks also had an imperfect view of this animal and was of opinion that its species was hitherto unknown." During the remainder of the exploration of the east coast of Australia Cook records that both he and Banks shot and ate kangaroo on several occasions. He records two in particular that weighed eighty pounds and fifty-four pounds the skins of which Joseph Banks took back to England with him.</p> <p>Illustrations of over four hundred animals finely engraved in copper complete this charming eighteenth-century work intended solely to be used by children.</p> </p> . F. Newberry unknown
2018__1728879787Independently published 2018. Paperback. New. 371 pages. Portuguese language. 9.00x6.00x0.84 inches. Independently published paperback
1791AQ21213London: Printed for E. Newbery 1791. xii 1 14-180pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further five engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf marbled boards. Heavily rubbed and marked without lettering-piece. Later ink ownership stamp of I. Tritton to FFEP occasional slight chipping to margins offsetting. An enlarged edition of an immensely popular introduction to English history via the most influential of her monarchs. First printed in 1772 the work reached 11 editions by 1801. The work is commonly attributed to hack-writer and compiler of numerous Newbery publications Richard Johnson 1733/34-1793 whose name is frequently connected with the alias of the Reverend Mr. Cooper however his contribution has been called in the question by recent scholarship with Roscoe with reference to Weedon’s Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery going so far as to doubt his involvement entirely. ESTC T135564 Roscoe J84 6. Eighth edition. 12mo. Printed for E. Newbery hardcover
27738Hardback. Very Good. Printed for J. Harris &etc. London. 1805. Thirteenth edition carefully revised and corrected. Black and White frontis. 24mo approx 14cm tall. Leather spine and corners; marbled boards. Very Good. hardcover
1788J72896London: E. Newbery new edition 1788. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates 6 including frontis by Wale. 16mo green vellum spined boards marbled boards very worn & rubbed corners rounded. Frontispiece 177pp 3pp books of E. Newbery. Name to head of titlepage & same initials to fly leaf another name to fly leaf. Corner of one leaf torn off not touching print a few signs of use but unusually clean and tight especially for a children's book. Charming early history for the young and as an early edition scarce. E. Newbery new edition hardcover
40093LONDON MESSIEURS DODSLEY 1759. SECOND EDITION. A GOOD COPY IN FULL LEATHER WITH CRACKING TO THE HINGES FEP LOOSE. 104 PAGES. ALSO INCLUDES LETTERS OF JUNIUS TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD MANSFIELD 59 PAGES AND A REVIEW OF A NORTH-COUNTRY ELECTION IN FOUR CANTOS1786 vii 31 PAGES. SCARCE. LONDON, MESSIEURS DODSLEY, 1759 hardcover
2008DADAX0829427201Loyola Press 2008-08-01. First Edition. hardcover. New. 6.25x1.63x9.30. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Loyola Press hardcover
184900003518London: Seeleys 1849 534 pages A reverend from the Church of England visits and criticizes the Roman Catholic Church and all it's manifestations. Corner of the boards are worn rounded top of titling on backstrip is missing starting front in rear although the binding is sound Some very minor stains on the pages but in general; the interior is very clean with a fair amount of illustratrations. The name plate of Cyrus Hall McCormick is on the front end page. Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately. His time-saving invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size and spurred innovations in farm machinery. Born in Rockbridge County Virginia Cyrus McCormick derived his interest in invention from his father a Virginia landowner who patented several improved farming implements and worked without success for many years to perfect a mechanical reaper. In July 1831 McCormick succeeded where his father had failed producing a model reaper with all the essential components of later commercial machines. Patenting his invention in 1834 after Obed Hussey had announced 1833 the construction of a reaper of his own McCormick started to manufacture the machine on the family estate in 1837. Six years later he began to license its manufacture in other parts of the country. In 1847 he set up a factory in Chicago founding what eventually became one of the greatest industrial establishments in the United States. An astute businessman McCormick increased his sales with door-to-door canvassing and written guarantees for his ready-to-assemble machinery. McCormick amassed a large fortune and invested widely in later years in railroad and mining enterprises. This info gleaned on the net. Seeleys hardcover
1929111832London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1929. Octavo 91 3 one blank and two publisher's advertisements pages plus 12 plates. Pictorial cloth a little sunned on the spine and top edge; head of the spine very slightly worn; bottom corners and edge very slightly bumped; half-title and last blank offset; a very good copy. With the ownership signature of the Rev. J.C. Jennison first and short-lived Minister of the Elcho Island Methodist Mission and later of Dublin and Maitland SA. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge hardcover
2009Q-0745952879Lion Books 2009-02-20. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lion Books paperback
2011PG042<p>Restituida á sua Ordem: Com a Interpretação Parafrastica em Portuguez e Huma Carta do Editor a Certo Amigo Sobre este mesmo Assumpto. LISBOA Na Regia Officina Typografica. Anno M. DCC. XCIII. 1793. Com licença da Real Meza da Comissão Geral sobre o Exame e Censura dos Livros. </p>_x000d_<p>In 4º de 225x157 cm. Com xxvii 167 i págs. Encadernação da época inteira de pele mosqueada com nervos rótulo vermelho e ferros a ouro. Cortes das folhas carminados.</p>_x000d_<p>Bela impressão com caracteres redondos de vários tamanhos e caracteres itálicos nos testos em latim e castelhano sobre papel de linho muito encorpado com as armas reais de Portugal na folha de rosto.</p>_x000d_<p>Exemplar com cinco assinaturas de posse na folha de rosto em letra coeva de Manuel Joaquim da Costa Andrada da Ilha da Madeira tendo junto de uma delas o preço de custo do livro que também está escrito na folha de guarda anterior; na pagina iii das preliminares apresenta a tradução manuscrita em francês do título da peça preliminar. Na página 120 tem assinatura de posse completa e nas páginas 12 e 159 tem assinatura de posse do mesmo só com dois nomes. Na folha final em branco tem ensaios de caligrafia mais duas assinaturas de posse do mesmo mais uma só com o nome próprio e outras só com as iniciais que é repetida duas vezes na folha de guarda posterior. Com pequenos furos de traça no interior da pasta posterior da encadernação que atingem as três últimas folhas no pé junto ao festo. </p>_x000d_<p>Livro contituído pela tradução bilingue da Arte Poética de Horácio com o texto poético original em latim a tradução em prosa e mais de oitenta e seis notas. Contém mais as seguintes quatro peças relacionadas com a tradução: Carta a um amigo nas páginas preliminares; Notas do Abade Pedro Metastasio de página 69 a 102; tradução portuguesa de passagens da Arte Poética conforme a explicação de Metastasio de página 103 a 119 e com a tradução do Dialogo sobre a poesias épica de Francisco Cascales de página 122 a 167. </p>_x000d_<p>Obra muito rara segundo Inocêncio como todas as deste autor e publicada anónima. É importante para o estudo da divulgação e ensino da cultura clássica em Portugal e para o estudo das técnicas e de tradução. </p>_x000d_<p>P. Thomas José de Aquino. - entre 1718 e 1720 - Encarnação Lisboa 1804 Presbítero poeta crítico literário retórico e tradutor. Exerceu o cargo de Sub-bibliotecario da Real Mesa Censória depois da Mesa da Comissão Geral sobre o Exame e Censura dos Livros até 1794 e por último passou a servir na Secretaria do Desembargo do Paço. </p>_x000d_<p>Ficou conhecido sobre tudo pelas duas edições das Obras de Luis de Camões que preparou e dirigiu em 1779 e 1782 e a respeito das quais se levantou na imprensa uma acirrada polémica. </p>_x000d_<p>Escreveu as seguintes obras: Delicioso jardim da Rhetorica tripartido em elegantes estancias. Lisboa na Offic. de Manuel Coelho Amado 1750; Carta que se escrevia a certo amigo com a declaração da palavra «Estaos.» Lisboa na Offic. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira 1788 e é autor de poesias dispersas em publicações da época. </p>_x000d_<p>Como tradutor além da presente obra publicou: Oração de Luis Antonio Verney cavalleiro Torquato arcediago de Evora na morte de D. João V rei fidelissimo de Portugal aos cardeaes. Lisboa na Regia Offic. Silviana 1752; Traducção portugueza da Ode IV do livro IV de Quinto Horacio Flacco principe dos poetas latinos Lisboa na Offic. de Manuel Coelho Amado 1761; Traducção portugueza da Ode XI do livro I e da V do livro III de Quinto Horacio FlaccoLisboa na Offic. de Manuel Coelho Amado 1761; O velho Catão ou dialoqo de Marco Tullio Cicero sobre a velhice: traduzido no idioma portuguez Lisboa na Offic. de Manuel Coelho Amado 1765; A Epistola 1.ª do livro segundo de Quinto Horacio Flacco a Augusto com a interpretação em verso portuguez. Accresce a Poetica do mesmo Horacio restituida à sua ordem e traduzida em verso vulgar. Lisboa na Regia Offic. Typ. 1796. </p>_x000d_<p>Inocêncio V 346 a 350. </p>_x000d_<p> </p>_x000d_<p> </p>_x000d_<p> </p> M-16-D-18 hardcover
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0548019118.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover