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Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854).Biblio.com

ELEMENTS OF MYTHOLOGY; Intended to Enable the Reader to Understand the Ancient Writers of Greece and Rome. From the Fourth Edition Revised and Improved.

Werner, Abraham GottlobBiblio.com

A Treatise on the External Characters of Minerals.; an improved translation from the German with explanatory notes

1849023028The Wernerian Club 1849. Published in three parts with title page printed in red and black and dated 1849-50. Octavo 143 pages slight occasional age-toning on the text pages two small marginal stamps of Worthing Public Librarybut otherwise extrmely clean internally. Recently bound in an attractive dark green loire cloth very slightly marked. RARE. The most complete edition in any language. Originally published in German in 1774 - "Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien" - it was later translated by Thomas Weaver Dublin 1805 which had the benefit of incorporating manuscript corrections by the author himself additions which he had circulated amongst his pupils notes taken during his lectures in 1791-92 and hints from the mineralogies of his disciples Wiedenmann and Emmerling. This final edition published by the Wernerian Society incorporates these additions into the same text making them as near as might be to the same text. RARE. The Wernerian Natural History Society 1808 - 1858 commonly abbreviated as the Wernerian Society was a learned society interested in the broad field of natural history and saw papers presented on various topics such as mineralogy plants insects and scholarly expeditions. The Society was an offshoot of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and from its beginnings it was a rather elite organization. This publication was probably the last they produced as there were no meetings from 1850-1856 which coincided with the decline of the president Robert Jameson. It was eventually decided to close the Society down and dispose of its assets. Werner 1749 - 1817 was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism. While most tenets of Neptunism were eventually set aside Werner is remembered for his demonstration of chronological succession in rocks; for the zeal with which he infused his pupils; and for the impulse he thereby gave to the study of geology. He has been called the "father of German geology". Cloth. Very Good. The Wernerian Club Hardcover

Mike Park Ltd · Royaume-Uni150,00 £GB≈ 171,27 €

WERNER, Abraham GottlobLivre Rare Book

Nouvelle théorie de la formation des filons. Application de cette théorie à l'exploitation des mines particulièrement celles de Freiberg

1802102952À Freiberg, chez Craz, libraire, 1802, in-8, portrait-frontispice, XXXII-311-[] pp, Basane de l'époque, dos lisse fileté et fleuronné, tranches rouges, Première édition française de cet ouvrage très rare, mémorable dans l'histoire des théories géologiques : la traduction a été donnée par Aubuisson des Voisins, élève de Werner à la Bergakademie de Freiberg. L'exemplaire est bien complet du portrait de l'auteur, gravé d'après Vogel et reproduit ici pour la première fois. La même année a été publiée une édition parisienne (Villier) qui ne comporte pas le portrait. La Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gänge a été publiée à l'origine à Freiberg en 1791. Werner, père de la géognosie, y formule, définitivement et catégoriquement, ses opinions sur la formation de la terre. Celles-ci se résument en dix arguments que l'auteur utilise comme réponse aux objections qui lui sont faites (chapitre VII, 68, pp. 133 et suiv.), le premier d'entre eux étant la base de la thèse dont il est le fondateur, le neptunisme : "les montagnes primitives et secondaires ont été formées par une suite de précipités et de dépôts successifs... [qui] proviennent d'une mer qui couvroit le globe, mer toujours existante, plus ou moins générale, et renfermant les diverses substance qui s'en sont précipitées". Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 ou 1750-1817) est sans conteste le géologue la plus influent de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il imposa ses convictions au monde entier, passant pour certains comme un professeur enthousiaste et zélé, pour d'autres comme un doctrinaire refusant les opinions contraires et fourvoyant ses nombreux disciples. En défendant ses thèses, il fait montre d'un dogmatisme farouche, particulièrement frappant dans cette Nouvelle théorie de la formation des filons : "It would be difficult to cite from any other modern scientific treatise a series of consecutive sentences containing a larger number of dogmatic assertions" (Geikie p. 216). Cachets et cote de l'Institut Catholique de Paris. Rousseurs claires en début et en fin de volume; autrement, bon état intérieur. Frottements et épidermures, dos passé, galeries superficielles sur le plat supérieur. Schuh II, 5006. Ward & Carozzi, 2306. Geikie, The Founders of Geology, p. 201 et suiv. DSB XIV p. 262. Norman 2206 pour l'édition originale allemande. Couverture rigide

Librairie Alain Brieux · Paris, France1 000,00 €

Whitman Walt; Lincoln AbrahamABAA

Invitation to private reception following Whitman's lecture "The Death of Abraham Lincoln

18871002385New York City 1887. Invitation to Walt Whitman's private reception after his celebrated lecture "The Death of Abraham Lincoln" at Madison Square Theatre on April 14 1887. Whitman had given public readings of his Lincoln lecture variously edited since 1879; one version was published in Specimen Days in 1882-1883. Scheduled on the twenty-second anniversary of Lincoln's assassination the 1887 event was staged as a benefit for the ailing Whitman who remained seated throughout his sold-out tribute to the Union's "Martyr Chief": "there is a cement to the whole people subtler more underlying than any thing in written constitution or courts or armies - namely the cement of a death identified thoroughly with that people at its head and for its sake." As William Pannapacker notes Whitman's passionate public identification with Lincoln was central to his emergence as "The Good Gray Poet" a national treasure: "Whitman's experiments in self-creation finally succeeded with a major segment of the public when he enclosed his persona within the halo encircling the martyred President" Revised Lives 22. The New York audience for Whitman's performance included Mark Twain John Hay Augustus St. Gaudens James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton; Andrew Carnegie could not make it but purchased a box for $350. At the end of his performance Whitman was surprised by a gift of lilacs from poet E.C. Stedman's young granddaughter a reference to his great elegy for Lincoln "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." In New York City for a single night Whitman hosted a reception in his rooms at the Westminster Hotel after the lecture; this invitation was printed for the occasion. The evening was an important one for New York literary society a celebration "at least as spectacular as the event itself" according to the New York Sun. Looking "like a painting of Jove" Whitman entertained a constant stream of admirers relieved only by the performance of the Afro-Cuban violinist Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido "El Paganini Negro" who serenaded Whitman on a seventeenth-century Ruggeri violin: "Walt was mightily pleased with the music." A surprising survival a near-fine artifact of the nineteenth-century American literary scene. Ivory card measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches printed recto only: "Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel Irving Place and 16th St. New York." Penciled bookseller note to verso: "April 14 1887 for his most famous lecture Lincoln / WW in NY for only one 1 night." Card lightly toned; half-inch closed tear to head expertly repaired. Housed in envelope fragment with penciled inventory number bookseller note and collector's note: "Whitman card / gift from Capt. Cohn -- / House of Books / Aug 7 1950.". unknown books

Honey & Wax Booksellers · États-Unis1 800,00 $US≈ 1 522,98 €

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