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17762307070032London: Printed for Benjamin White; John Monk; Henry Hughes; 1776 - 1782 1776. Hardcover. Very Good. An Illustrated Tour of 18th century Britain 6 volume set. Quartos 24 x 18 cm. Handsomely bound in uniform contemporary polished calf. 6 gilt spine compartments. Minor cracks to joints. Includes fold out map and illustrations. Detailed list of Contents: v.1. A Tour in Scotland. 1769 B. White 1776. Folding engraved map at front engraved title with vignette 42 engraved plates. 4th ed; v.2. A Tour in Scotland. 1772 B. White 1776. Folding engraved map at front engraved title with vignette 47 engraved plates; v.3. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides. John Monk 1774. Engraved title with vignette 44 engraved plates; v.4. A Tour in Wales. 1773 H. Hughes 1778. Engraved title with vignette 26 engraved plates; v.5. Touring to Snowdon. H. Hughes 1781. Engraved title with vignette 36 engraved plates 2 engraved vignettes in text; v.6. Touring from Chester to London. B. White 1782. Engraved title with vignette 22 engraved plates. <br> Thomas Pennant 1726-1798 was a Welsh naturalist traveler zoologist and antiquarian. Pennant is most known for his works on British Zoology and the History of Quadrupeds. For his contributions to natural science he was admitted to the Royal Society. His travel books predated Samuel Johnson's and influenced his writing. Significantly Pennant's travels helped popularize Scotland to British travelers and provide a valuable insight into the land during this period. <br> "Pennant's travels and natural history are distinguished by his personal energy a keen observational sense and by methodological organization and attention to facts. In such ways and in his friendship and widespread correspondence with others of like interests throughout Britain and Europe he may be said to exemplify those gentleman scholars of nature in the later eighteenth century whose interests in natural knowledge aimed at national improvement through intellectual enquiry." - DNB. In 1771 Pennant published his 'Tour in Scotland' describing the journey made by him in 1769. He says he had 'the hardihood to venture on a journey to the remotest part of North Britain' of which he brought home an account so favourable that 'it has ever since been inondee with southern visitors'. Starting from Chester on 26 June 1769 Pennant visited the Fern Islands off the Northumbrian coast and noted many species of sea-fowl that resorted thither. He made nearly the circuit of the mainland of Scotland observing manners and customs and natural history. On this occasion as on all subsequent tours he journeyed on horseback and kept an elaborate journal. The success of the 'Tour in Scotland' led to his undertaking a second Scottish journey beginning on 18 May 1772. He visited the English lakes proceeded to the Hebrides and was presented with the freedom of Edinburgh. Moses Griffith q. v. the Welsh artist attended him on this journey as also on his later tours making sketches and drawings afterwards reproduced in Pennant's published 'Tours.' Pennant made tours in various parts of England including Northamptonshire 1774 Warwickshire 1776 Kent 1777 Cornwall 1787. As the outcome of several journeys in Wales he published his 'Tour in Wales' the first volume appearing in 1778." - Warwick William Wroth DNB v.44 p. 320-322. London: Printed for Benjamin White; John Monk; Henry Hughes; 1776 - 1782 hardcover
1759326881London England: Henry Kent 1759. Hardcover. Acceptable. H. Burgh. London: Henry Kent 1759. The second Moses Browne edition. Part I. title page as pictured 12mo. Part II as pictured "The Third Edition" 1759. 340 pages plus an 8 page index. DISBOUND COLLATED COMPLETE with original boards and remnants of leather. No spine. No former owner marks. Illustrated. Text is good with only occasional foxing and closed edge tears and corner wear. Engraved frontispieces and text illustrations of fish by H. Burgh. The second Moses Browne edition has an additional 28 pages. Notes are expanded the preface has been rewritten four new plates have been added and the other six have been re-engraved. "With the Laws that concern Angling And an Appendix which shews at one View.all that is Valuable Instructing or Curious that has appeared on the Subject." TEXT is COMPLETE in signatures with endpapers will need to be resewn and rebound. Henry Kent hardcover
1759wal759London: Henry Kent. G : in good condition. Rebacked. Some foxing. 1759. Seventh Edition. Green hardback cloth cover with grey slipcase. 160mm x 90mm 6" x 4". xxiv 340pp viii plates. 10 b/w plates numerous b/w vignettes. Inscribed by Moses Browne on frontis verso numerous hand-written notes on fishing within. . Henry Kent hardcover
175933781London: Henry Kent 1759. Rare First Moses Browne Edition. Illustrated with ten copper-engraved plates by H. Burgh 15 woodcuts in the text one page of music and engraved head- and tailpieces. 12mo bound in full contemporary polished calf the covers double gilt fillet ruled at the borders the spine raised bands separating the compartments two compartments lettered in gilt. xiv 340 viii Index pp. A well preserved copy sometime respined the text-block and illustrations clean and in good order some offsetting to the title-page from the facing plate the binding strong and the hinges tight. THE SECOND MOSES BROWNE EDITION PRINTED IN 1754 AND CONTAINING TWENTY EIGHT PAGES MORE THAN THE FIRST NOW RARE IN COMMERCE. THIS COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. A beloved classic of the English language and what many call the finest "How-To" book ever written; Walton's ANGLER has been described as "full of wisdom kindly humour and charity; it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language." "More than most authors he lives in his writings which are the pure expression of a kind humorous and pious soul in love with nature while the expression itself is unique for apparent simplicity which is really elaborately studied art" DNB. <br> After the 1676 edition of The Compleat Angler the last Walton published before his death in 1683 no new editions of The Compleat Angler were published for almost one hundred years. Moses Browne editor of the 1750 edition and John Hawkins editor of the 1760 edition were likely both influenced to publish new editions of the Angler by Dr. Samuel Johnson the famous literary master. Browne produced a second edition of his version in 1759 leading to a dispute with Hawkins whose 1760 version was already being printed at the time. Each editor boasted that their version was the only correct one and Browne accused Hawkins of copying images and biographical information from his earlier version. Despite this controversy the 18th century editions introduced new context for the work in a new century as well as contemporary illustrations indicating the beginning of a revival for The Compleat Angler. University of Pittsburgh Henry Kent hardcover
1772041966London: Richard And Henry Causton 1772. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Ten Plates Music Pages Illustrations In Text. . Xxiv 364 Viii. Modern Quarter Leather Morocco Spine Label Beige Cloth An Unusually Thick And Strong Binding. Stated Eighth Edition Eighth Printing Of This Edition. Binding Fine No Wear Or Damage. Contents Complete Paper Browned. Inscription Between Two Sisters Dated '19 Very Faint Inscription Underneath Ownership Signature Of Samuel Steele Uttoxeter Staffordshire 1817 On Final Blank. <br/> <br/> Richard And Henry Causton hardcover
1786336Berlin: Bi-defus Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim; Jüdischen Freyschule 1786. First edition. After leaf 10 numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. Binding rubbed and bumped light foxing throughout. Ink stain on title page. Overall a good copy. First edition. After leaf 10 numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. 4°; 2 1041 leaves and one folded engraved page of geometric diagrams. Waltsch’s work on geometry trigonometry and astronomy woth his commentary to Maimonides’ Sanctification of the Month. Bi-defus Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim; Jüdischen Freyschule unknown
179443739Norwich CT: Thomas Hubbard 1794. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy faint soiling inked notation on title bottom edge trimmed from last leaf not affecting text. 64 pp. 8vo. In reply to Zephaniah Swift's anonymously published "The correspondent" concerning the case of the Rev. Oliver Dodge of Pomfret Conn. Welch is clearly on the side opposite Dodge noting there are "affidavits swore that Dodge had stated he would marry "the ugliest creature that omnipotence could form provided she was possessed of an interest of ten thousand pounds or an independent fortune." Sabin 102523. Evans 28058. Trumbull 1606. Thomas Hubbard unknown
1796753581796. WELCH Moses C. The Addressor Addressed; or a Letter to the Correspondent; Containing Some Free Remarks on His "Address to the Rev. Moses C. Welch." Humbly Dedicated to the Honorable Zephaniah Swift Esq. Norwich CT: Printed by Thomas Hubbard 1796. 1st ed. 36pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing else very good. One of a series of pamphlets between Welch and Swift. Welch accuses him of drifting towards infidelity but both remained firm Federalists. Evans 31607. unknown
17613500063London: Luke Hinde 1761. Book. Good/Very Good. Pamphlet. Third Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. pp 39 Previously bound with other material remnant of leather binding present. No wrapper or endpapers. Luke Hinde hardcover
177757413Metz France. Good. 1777. Hardcover. Contemporary boards recent cloth spine cloth tape reinforced hinges. . Ex-library. Board edges worn corners bumped pages foxed. Text in Hebrew. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
