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COWLEY, Abraham; HURD, Robert (ed)Biblio.com

Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley; in Two Volumes: With a Preface and Notes by the Editor

1772145610London: T. Cadell 1772. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. xiii 240; vii 279 p. 18 cm. Engraved title page vignettes of Cowley. Speckled leather. Gilt designs on spine with red and green spine labels. Corners bumped. Front endpaper of vol. 1 detached. Leather split on spine edges of volume 2. Spine heads slightly chipped. The works of Cowley were collected in 1668 when Thomas Sprat afterwards bishop of Rochester brought out a splendid edition in folio to which he prefixed a graceful and elegant life of the poet. There were many reprints of this collection which formed the standard edition until 1881. T. Cadell hardcover

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Cowley, Abraham; Edited by R HurdBiblio.com

Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley; in Two Volumes : With a Preface and Notes by the Editor; Second Edition

1772007772London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell in the Strand 1772. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes Very Good Plus in contemporary full calf back with gilt devices and rules leather label with gilt lettering covers with gilt rule later end papers which are stamped S & S light toning light rubbing to edges of covers overall a quite pleasing set. With preface and notes by the editor Bishop Hurd and a life of the author by T. Sprat. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell, in the Strand Hardcover

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COWLEY, AbrahamBiblio.com

Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley; In Two Volumes: With a Preface and Notes By the Editor

177223016London: Printed By W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: For T. Cadell 1772. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition. 12mo. Two volumes. Vol 1 - pp. xiii 240.; Vol 2 - pp. vii 279 1 - publ. advert. engraved portrait to both title-pages half-titles present in both. Original full speckled calf 5 raised bands gilt compartments red leather spine labels sprinkled red edges. Edited with a preface by R. Hurd who was Bishop of Worcester 1781-1808. Margins of front pages and rear pages tanned due to the leather turn-ins contemporary ink signature of Margaret Hippisley dated 1774 and in the same hand Henry Hippisley and a modern ink signature unnamed armorial crest mounted to pastedowns. Covers worn and rubbed hinges cracked though still tight primarily to vol. 1 which has dark brown staining along the top margins of the cover and dark staining from what looks like from moisture at the bottom corner and lower margin of rear cover interior not affected spines browned with gilt dull tiny worm hole starting at extreme lower edge of rear pastedown in vol.2 and diminishing within to a pin-prick at p. 39 in the whitespace only not affecting text. Overall quite good. Printed By W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: For T. Cadell Hardcover

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Cowley, AbrahamBiblio.com

The Poetical Works of Abraham Cowley. In Four Volumes. From the Text of Dr. Sprat Etc. With the Life of the Author

1784005449Edinburg sic: John Bell 1784. This is a Very Good copy of the Second Edition stated of Bell's "Poets of Great Britain" Volume III only of original four. Polished calf binding with ruled gilt compartments and decorations on the spine; Titled in gilt; ends of the covers are decorated with gilt. Clean text; xxii continues with page 23 to page 271; with five pages of addenda and Contents at the rear. Engraved half-title page. There is a bookseller label and the remains of a partially-removed armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. Rubbed at the margins; the front gutter is cracked but is holding. An attractive little book. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. John Bell Hardcover

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Cowley, AbrahamBiblio.com

The Third and Last Volume of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Being the Second and Third Parts Thereof Adorn'd With Proper and Elegant Cuts. Part II. . and Publish'd by Himself of 3; Volume 3

1800mon0000136159Gale ECCO Print Editions 25/04/2018 00:00:01. hardcover. Acceptable. 2.8680 cent in x 23.3756 cent in x 15.5838 cent in. 1708 edition rare leather bound folio but quite damaged with a loose binding missing spine cover and worn leather outer boards but otherwise intact antiquity section Gale ECCO, Print Editions hardcover

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Cowley, AbrahamBiblio.com

The Third and Last Volume of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Being the Second and Third Parts Thereof Adorn'd with Prober and Elegant Cuts.

171152173London: Charles Harper. Very Good. 1711. Hardcover. Volume three only of three. Contemporary half leather gilt 5 spine bands marbled boards endpapers and edges. Old PO name to title page. Engraved frontis plus four engraved plates additional title pages. Pages toned. Front and rear blanks. Ample margins. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Charles Harper hardcover

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Cowley, AbrahamBiblio.com

The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley . Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street.

1707biblio7The Works of Abraham Cowley Printed and Published by Jacob Tonson 1707-08 3 Volumes with 33 beautifully engraved plates including one folding linen-backed plate. Volume 2 has 2 pages of advertising at the rear. The text is trimmed by the book binder not affecting text with occaisonal light browning and spotting. Volume 3 M2 has a marginal repair and boards are loose on Volume 1 and Volume 3 has upper joint split. Cloth Slip-case a little rubbed at the extremities but the binding is superb and certainly worthy of repair. Gold leaf edges with gold leaf filigree and wonderful Red Moroccan leather. Binder is unknown but certainly is of the quality of a Riviere binding placing the rebinding of the book in the 1800's. The bookplate is the initials 'D D' entwined with one another and the words. Quis Separatbit and the date 1783 making this owner a standing member of the Order of Saint Patrick founded by George III in 1783 specifically for the Irish aristocracy who in many cases supported the Catholic Irish rights some of course did not. This work is very nice with many wonderful poems plays and writings as well as many notables living during Cowley's time. A rare and beautiful set.Title: The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley . Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street. Authors: Cowley Abraham 1618-1667. Sprat Thomas; 1635-1713. Publication: London J. Tonson Edition: The 10th ed. Adorn'd with cuts. Year: 1707-1708 Description: 3 v. fronts. plates part fold. ports. 21 cm. Standard No: LCCN: 12-18676 Notes: Vols. 1 and 2 paged continuously./ "The mistress Pindarique odes Davideis" v. 1 and "Cutter of Coleman-street" v. 2 have special title-pages./ Vols. 1-2: 10th ed.; v.3 has title: The 3d and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the 2d and 3d parts thereof: Adorn'd with proper and elegant cuts. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The 8th ed. Part III. His six books of plants . London Printed for C. Harper 1708./ The 3d pt. with special t-p. is 3d ed./ "The tragical history of Piramus and Thisbe" the 8th ed. with special t.-p. has imprint: London Printed for C. Harper 1708. "Loves riddle" with special t.-p. has imprint: London Printed by B. Motte for C. Harper 1707; "Naufragium joculare" with special t.-p. has imprint: Londini typis B. Motte; veneunt apud C. Harper 1707. Class Descriptors: LC: PR3370; Dewey: 821.4 More Records: Show record information Entry: 19760419 Update: 20110503 Accession No: OCLC: 2124771 Tonson, Jacob hardcover

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COWLEY, Abraham (1618-1667).Biblio.com

The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley.

17071840London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1707. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 8vo 193 x 116mm. 2LXXVIII88942p. Engraved portraits of Abraham Cowley Martin Clifford Thomas Sprat William DíAvenant Pindar Thomas Hobbes and Dr. Scarborough vol. I and Dr. Harvey King Charles II Mrs. Catherine Philips John Evelyn Esq. and George Villiers vol. II Engraved folding plate of mythical creatures Orpheus playing lyre and full-page engraving of David playing harp pastoral scenes and heraldic vignettes opening books of David plus two others vol. II. Text including ëThe mistress: or several copies of love-versesí ëPindarique odes written in imitation of the stile and manner of the Odes of Pindarí ëDavideis a sacred poemí and ëCutter of Coleman-Streetí with separate title-pages pagination and register are continuous; with the final advertisement leaf. Late 19th-century full calf by Jeremiah Larkins marbled endpapers edges stained yellow; edges trimmed close affecting some printed marginalia lightly toned some dustsoiling; spines crudely repaired calf chipped at edges corners rounded. Booklabel the Chaucerhead Bookshop to rear pastedown. Tenth Edition. Abraham Cowley was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721. The Works were collected in 1668 when Thomas Sprat afterwards bishop of Rochester brought out a splendid edition in folio to which he prefixed a graceful and elegant life of the poet. There were many reprints of this collection which formed the standard edition until 1881 when it was superseded by AB Grosartís privately printed edition in two volumes for the Chertsey Worthies library. Internally a nice copy complete with plates. Printed for Jacob Tonson hardcover

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COWLEY, AbrahamBiblio.com

The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley

1707000712LONDON: Jacob Tonson 1707. Bound in 19th century calf. Two Volumes The Tenth Edition Adorned with cuts. Handsome two volume set of the works by this 17th Century British writer. Best known for his work "The Mistress" and early romances written in his teens! Later works included Essays Discourses etc. Five raised bands on spine. Tenth Edition. Hard Cover. VG. Jacob Tonson Hardcover

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Cowley, AbrahamBiblio.com

Works Of Mr. Abraham Cowley

17210010068London: J. Tonson 1721. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mos; 829 470 pages contemporary full calf gilt rules. Constisting of those Which were formerly Printed; And those which He Design'd for the PRess; Published out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street. This third volumes includes His Six Books of Plants . with necessary Tables and diverse Poems of eminent Persons in praise of the Author; and other consderable Additions and Improvements. J. Tonson hardcover

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DE VRYER AbrahamLivre Rare Book

Histori van Joan Churchil, hertog van Marlborough en prins van Mindelheim [4 volumes]

1738G95014Amsterdam, by Jakobus Loveringh en Jan Roman den Jongen 1738-1740 Complete in 4 volumes: [40],503 + 557,[3] + [8],466,108 + 506,[68] pp., with engraved frontispiece in vol.I (portrait of Joan Churchill) and complete with its 30 folding plans and maps out of text + 2 folding genealogical tables (few tears in plates repaired), title in red and black, engraved vignette on title pages, 16cm., contemporary uniform full leather bindings with some traces of use and some loss of leather at corners and at the ends of joints, gilt title and decorations on spines, most text is clean and bright except for some pages with marginal foxing and some vague spots of humidity (text always well readable), overall good copy of this rare Dutch biography and history of John Churchill (1650-1722), G95014

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De Moivre AbrahamABAA

The Doctrine of Chances: or a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play

17183173London: W. Pearson 1718. First edition. Very Good. Small folio 240 x 200 mm. Collates 4 xiv 175 1 blank: complete with an engraved vignette on title-page numerous engraved head and tail pieces and initials and an engraved vignette headpiece on page 1. With a dedication to Sir Isaac Newton. Contemporary speckled calf rebacked to style. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine with a red morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt. All edges speckled brown. Some minor soiling to final two pages. Some light toning from glue on endpaper edges. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. Abraham De Moivre was a mathematician and a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton to whom he dedicated the first edition of this work. "His work on the theory of probability surpasses anything done by any other mathematician except Laplace" Cajori. "De Moivre's representation of the solutions of the then current problems of games of chance tended to be more general than those of Montmort. In addition he developed a series of algebraic and analytic tools for the theory of probability like a 'new algebra' for the solution of the problem of coincidences which foreshadowed Boolean algebra the method of generating functions or the theory of recurrent series for the solution of differential equations. In the Doctrine de Moivre offered an introduction which contains the main concepts such as probability condition probability expectation dependent and independent events the multiplication rule and the binomial distribution" DNB. Very Good. W. Pearson unknown books

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DE MOIVRE Abraham 1667a1754.ABAA

The Doctrine of Chances: Or a Method of Calculating Probabilities of Events in Play. The third edition Fuller Clearer and more Correct than the Former.

1756S13188London:: A. Millar 1756. 1756. Quarto. 4 xi 1 errata 348 pp. Portrait medallion vignette on title; mild foxing but barely noticeable. Original full calf red gilt-stamped leather spine label; hinges repaired with calf inner joints strengthened corners worn all preserving original spine. Bookseller's ticket: "Sold by Carpenter & Co. 14 Old Bond Street" London. Early ownership ink signature of Th. Spencer; penciled initials of F.N.D. see below. Very good. A KEY WORK BY THE FATHER OF PROBABILITY THEORY. Third edition. This is a key work by the father of probability theory in which major steps in the measurement of uncertainty were achieved. De Moivre is "best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit Theorem. De Moivre was one of the great pioneers of classical probability theory." Bellhouse-Genest p.1. It is the first systematic treatment of probability in English. Abraham De Moivre became with Edmund Halley a founder of English actuarial science. The author's dedicatory letter is address to Lord George Carpenter 1702-1749 the first edition had been dedicated to Newton where the author states emphatically "that this Doctrine is so far from encouraging Play that it is rather a Guard against it. . ." DNB vol. 38 p.116. / "The first edition of this work contains 175 pages the second edition 258 pages and the third 348 pages. The following list will indicate the parts which are new in the third edition: the Remark pages 30/33 and pages 48 & 49 the greater part of the second Corollary pages 64/66 the Examples page 88; the Scholium page 95 the Remark page 149 and pages 151/159 the fourth Corollary page 162 the second Corollary pages 176/179 the note at the foot of page 187 the Remark pages 251/254. The part on life annuities is very much changed. The Introduction is very much fuller than the corresponding part of the first edition. In his third edition De Moivre draws attention to the convenience of approximating to a fraction with a large numerator and denominator by continued fractions which he calls "the Method proposed by Dr. Wallis Huygens and others". He gives the rule for the formation of the successive convergents. This third edition contains 74 problems exclusive of those relating to life annuities in the first edition there were 53 problems. The pages 220/229 contains one of De Moivre's most valuable contributions to mathematics namely that of Recurring series. Pages 261/328 are devoted to Annuities on lives ; an Appendix finishes the book occupying pages 329/348 : this also relates principally to annuities but it contains a few notes on the subject of probability." :: Todhunter. A very full account of the above third edition will be found in Todhunter's History of the theory of probability. / "De Moivre's first book on probability was based upon a short memoir entitled De mensura sortis published in the 1711 volume of the Philosophical Transactions. The 1718 first edition is essentially a gambler's manual giving a systematic presentation of the arithmetic principles upon which are based the solution of problems concerning the advantage of players and size of wager which may be lain in a wide variety of games of chance. Walker. It does not contain De Moivre's work on the normal approximation of the binomial probability distribution which ranks as the most memorable of his discoveries; this discovery was first printed in its entirety in 1733 in a Latin pamphlet which was later translated into English and incorporated in successively expanded versions in the second 1738 and posthumous third 1756 edition of The doctrine of chances." Norman. / In terms of mathematics applied to the human actuarial lifespan "De Moivre French Huguenot mathematician and demographer formulated the hypothesis that among a body of persons over a certain age the successive annual decreases by death are nearly equal." Garrison & Morton. / "De Moivre's work on the theory of probability surpasses anything done by any other mathematician except Laplace. His principal contributions are his investigations respecting the duration of play his theory of recurring series and his extension of the value of Bernouilli's theorem by the aid of Sterling's theorem". Cajori. / De Moivre born at Vitry received a varied education and settled in London as a Huguenot refugee in 1688. In England he continued his study of mathematics while working as a tutor. He is said to have acquired and read a copy of Newton's Principia and even to have carried loose sheets around with him to study at every available moment. This method of study worked so well that not only did he become one of England's foremost mathematicians but Newton in old age was in the habit of referring questions about the Principia to De Moivre. De Moivre's Doctrines of Chance is in fact a revised and expanded translation of his essay De Mensura Sortis which had been published in Latin in the Philosophical Transactions in 1711. In its Latin form it thus preceded Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi 1713 by a full two years. / De Moivre was a French mathematician famous for De Moivre's formula which links complex numbers and trigonometry and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697 and was a friend of Isaac Newton Edmund Halley and James Stirling. Among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England he was a colleague of the editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux. / Shafer points out that De Moivre one of Jacob Bernoulli's successors was among those who were applying Huygens' theories to both games and economies p. 11. He points out that the 1718 first edition was influenced by Bermoulli in that he used the word "probability" which was a word he did not use in his De mensura sortis. He continues: "We should not exaggerate De Moivre's importance in the eighteenth century. In retrospect he represents the pat that mathematical probability followed but he was hardly a philosopher of Jacob's caliber and Jacob retained a strong influence throughout the century among those who wanted to understand probability philosophically. Jacob's and Hooper's rules survived the whole course of that century in the works of philosophically sophisticated writers such as Lambert and Diderot. They disappeared only after Bayesian alternatives were developed by Laplace." pp. 13-14. Steve Stigler and Lorraine Daston expand on the use of the word "probability" in the eighteenth century. / Theodore Porter UCLA writes that De Moivre introduced the astronomer's law error to probability theory p. 93. "Like most early probability mathematics it first arose in the context of games of chance; it appeared as the limit of the binomial distribution. Because of its usefulness in combination and permutation problems the binomial had become the heart of the doctrine of chances. . . De Moivre then showed in a paper of 1733 reprinted in 1738 in the second edition of his Doctrine of Chances that the exponential error function gave a very good approximation to the distribution of possible outcomes for problems like the result of 1000 coin tosses Now for the first time it was practicable to apply probability theory to indefinitely large numbers of independent events." / PROVENANCE: I Thomas Spencer undetermined. II F.N.D. :: Florence Nightingale David 1909-1993 also known as F. N. David was an English statistician born in Ivington Herefordshire England. She was named after Florence Nightingale who was a friend of her parents. David did not like her forenames and thus always referred to herself as "F. N. David". She attended the Bedford College for Women in London earning her degree in mathematics in 1931. She then joined University College London to work with Karl Pearson who obtained a scholarship for her working as his research assistant resulting in a doctorate received in 1938 Pearson died in 1934. In 1938 her first book was published Tables of the Correlation Coefficient. During that period she was working with Jerzy Neyman. "During World War II she served as Experimental Officer in the Ordnance Board for the Ministry of Supply Senior Statistician for the Research and Experiments Department for the Ministry of Home Security Member of the Land Mines Committee of the Scientific Advisory Council and as Scientific Advisor on Mines to the Military Experimental Establishment. Her work during this time ranged from the study of bombing patterns and damage to the problem of discovering the placement of enemy land mines and a methodology for randomly placing land mines so as to avoid the semblance of any pattern in their placement." Garber et.al. After WWII she came back to University College London and was appointed professor in 1962. Five or six years later she took a position at the University of California Riverside becoming head of the Department of Statistics in 1970. Retiring in 1977 she came to Berkeley and continued her research. this book bears her initials on the Francis Galton Laboratory bookplate; she gave her books to Margaret Stein of Stanford University. See: M. J. Garber D. V. Gokhale J. M. Utts R. J. Beaver Chair "Florence Nightingale David Statistics: Riverside." Obituary; "A conversation with F.N. David" Statistical Science Vol. 4 No. 3235-246 by Nan Laird; J. Utts "Florence Nightingale David 1909-1993: Obituary" Biometrics 1993 49 1289-1291; Norman L. Johnson & Samuel Kotz eds. Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Wiley 1997 pp. 91-92. / REFERENCES: Babson 181 1st ed.; Ball A short account of the history of mathematics pp. 383-4; BM Readex Vol. 17 p. 751; Cajori History of Mathematics pp. 229-30; DNB vol. 38 p.116; Kress S.2793; Institute of Actuaries 1935 p. 39; Mansutti 504; Norman 1529 1st ed.; Pearson The History of Statistics in the 17th & 18th Centuries. . . pp. 155-60 165-66; Smith Source book in mathematics pp. 440-54; Stigler The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 1986 p. 70; Todhunter History of the theory of probability; Walker pp. 12-13; Wellcome IV p. 149; Westergaard pp. 104-5. Not in Goldsmiths or Hanson. / See: Raymond Clare Archibald "Abraham de Moivre"; David F.N. Games Gods and Gambling; The origins and history of probability and statistical ideas . . . 1962 pp. 161-178. A. Millar, 1756. hardcover books

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DECKER, Paul the Elder, Paul Decker the Younger, Abraham Drentwett the Elder et alBiblio.com

Repraesentatio Belli ab successionem in Regno Hispanico . / Der Spanische Successions-Krieg . &c.

171548763Augsburg.: Jeremias Wolff. c.1715. Full contemporary blond calf boards with elaborate neo-classical decorative borders composed of rules foliate floral and rope-work tools vase tools at head and foot and mask corner tools all to surround a central lozenge with a decorative composition of floral foliate and mask tools later banded spine with elaborate decorative tooling in gilt in seven compartments turn-ins tooled in gilt red speckled edges. Folio. 554 x 423 mm. Engraved allegorical title with Latin and German text leaf with letterpress text in German in double columns and 56 engraved allegorical plates all after the Deckers by various engravers see below. Sheet size: 435 x 560 mm. An exceptional copy of Decker’s very rare suite of engravings – here in-plano and with exceptional additional colouring and highlighting in gilt by hand – illustrating the battles of the War of the Spanish Succession.Decker’s suite depicts the battles of the complex series of engagements that became known as the War of the Spanish Succession 1701–1714. Prompted by the death of the last of the Spanish Habsburg Kings the childless Charles II and with a shifting group of alliances and a field of warfare that included not only Continental Europe and the Mediterranean but also the Caribbean and North America the War of the Spanish Succession has a case to be a true world war. In part an attempt to check French hegemony the war featured a number of outstanding victories for the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy including Blenheim although the war was ultimately at best indecisive.Each of Decker’s magnificent plates features a single engagement depicted in the central portion of the plate the whole image surrounded with a decorative border composed of architectural allegorical and armorial symbols and motifs in the Baroque manner and a descriptive text concerning the battle. Many of the plates feature an additional small vignette of the battlefield keyed to the descriptive text and illustrating the placement of the armies and the most significant figures involved.The colouring and highlighting by hand of the present copy is remarkable. The painstaking detailing and the additional ornamentation in liquid gold is lavish and in combination with the binding suggests this copy was important and worthy of presentation. The printed text 'Kurze Beschreibung des Spanisch Successions-Krieg . &c.' here and unusually in German gives a detailed outline of the origins and history of the conflict and concludes with the list of plates and the engagements they depict. The text appears in other copies in other languages suggesting a commercial flexibility of distribution.It is a measure of the importance attached to Decker’s suite that the painter Ignaz Preissler used Decker’s plates as the basis for the decoration of an important tea service and garniture now at least partly in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York see ‘Repraesentatio Belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico . A Tea Service and Garniture by the Schwarzlot Decorator Ignaz Preissler’ by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger.‘Such commemorative series were considered works of art as well as encapsulations of recent events and were highly valued by collectors of the period who acquired them for their libraries or print cabinets.’ Maureen Cassidy-Geiger.Decker’s suite is very rare outside Germany: COPAC lists copies at the British Library and V & A only while KVK lists copies at the Polish National Library the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Université de Charles de Gaulle Lille in France and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; the only traceable copy in North America is at Brown University. We can locate no other copies with contemporary colouring or highlighting by handBerlin 103 incomplete; Bobins III 1165; Brunet V 626 for the French edition. Jeremias Wolff. hardcover

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Doddridge, Philip; Priestley, T; Huntington, Joseph; Powers, Peter; Tappan, David; Dana, Daniel; Moor, Abraham; Williams, SimonBiblio.com

Sammelband of Nine Newburyport Sermons: A Plain and Serious Address to the Master of a Family on the Important Subject of Family Religion.; Family Exercises; or The Godly Parents' Assistant; Being an Attempt to Render Family Religion Entertaining as Well as Profitable and Instructive by a Series of Subjects Peculiarly Adapted to the Use of Families.; Thoughts on the Atonement of Christ with an Address to Young Ministers and Students in Divinity: Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Imputed Sin from Adam and Righteousness from Christ. and an Examination of the New Divinity on Those Points; A Humble Enquiry into the Nature of Covenanting with God.; A Sermon Delivered at The Third Parish in Newbury July 24 1794; Occasioned by the Sudden Death of Eight Persons Belonging to the Society Who Were Drowned in the River Merrimack on the Nineteenth of the Same Month.; A Discourse Delivered Nov. 23 1794. The First Sabbath After His Ordination.; A Sermon Delivered to the Third Parish in Newbury

17912340939Newburyport Massachusetts: Blunt & March; John Mycall; Blunt and Robinson; William Barrett 1791. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed pencil name and date 'Phebe Newman Newburyport Sept. ' on front endpaper endpaper edges discolored lightly foxed throughout. 1791 Full-Leather. 38; 37; 120; 44; 25; 39; 34; 54; 32 pp. 4to. Nine sermons by various American ministers printed 1791-1796 in Newburyport Massachusetts mainly dealing with the establishment of faith as it relates to the raising of a family but also including several parables/lessons based on Bible stories. Includes: A Plain and Serious Address to the Master of a Family on the Important Subject of Family Religion.; Family Exercises; or The Godly Parents' Assistant; Being an Attempt to Render Family Religion Entertaining as Well as Profitable and Instructive by a Series of Subjects Peculiarly Adapted to the Use of Families.; Thoughts on the Atonement of Christ with an Address to Young Ministers and Students in Divinity: Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Imputed Sin from Adam and Righteousness from Christ. and an Examination of the New Divinity on Those Points; A Humble Enquiry into the Nature of Covenanting with God.; A Sermon Delivered at The Third Parish in Newbury July 24 1794; Occasioned by the Sudden Death of Eight Persons Belonging to the Society Who Were Drowned in the River Merrimack on the Nineteenth of the Same Month.; A Discourse Delivered Nov. 23 1794. The First Sabbath After His Ordination.; A Sermon Delivered to the Third Parish in Newbury August 18 1793. On the Parable of the Prodigal.; Two Sermons Delivered at the First Parish in Methuen August 21 1791. Occasioned by His Dismission from That People.; Samson a Type of Christ. Being a Sermon Preached in London July 28 1691 at a Morning-Lecture Upon Judges xiv. 5. On These Words When Went Samson Down and His Father and Mother to Timnath and Came to the Vineyard of Timnath: And Behold a Young Lion Roared Against Him. Blunt & March; John Mycall; Blunt and Robinson; William Barrett hardcover

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E Chambers; Abraham ReesBiblio.com

Cyclopaedia or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

1783787L14London: J F and C Rivington et al 1783-86. Leather. Good. 17" by 10.5". Not Stated. Four volumes of the famous Chambers Cyclopaedia which first began in 1728. This work is Abraham Rees' improved edition of Chambers' Cyclopaedia. He re-edited the original work in 1778 and created the supplements which contained much new matter. His edition was originally published in 1781-6 before a reprint in 1788-91. Therefore this set is a very early edition of Rees' publication. For this edition Rees is said to have added more than 4400 new articles. With an illustrated frontispiece to the first volume.Comprising volumes I and II of the original work and the two supplement volumes. This set is four volumes total. Without the plate volume which is often bound separately. This set is without the plate volume which was issued separately.Volume I is dated 1786 Volume II is dated 1779 Volume III is dated 1781 and Volume IV is dated 1783. Bookplates to the front pastedown 'FW Brydges Esq Tiberton Herefordshire' and 'Robert Henry Lee Warner'. Both of these individuals were from Tyberton Court which was built in 1729 for William Brydges. Robert Henry Lee-Warner was a descendent of the Brydges family and the house passed to the Warner family due to the lack of male heirs during the early nineteenth century. It was inherited by Anne Brydges who married Rev. Henry Lee Warner. A comprehensive encyclopaedia with some tables throughout including one showing the Sun's declination. An important edition of this noted encyclopaedia. In a contemporary half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally worn to the spines. Loss to the head of the spine to all volumes heavier to volume I. Splits to the joints of all volumes though hinges remain firm. Patches of rubbing to the paper covered boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spotting to pages. Good J F and C Rivington et al hardcover

Rooke Books · Royaume-Uni1 900,00 £GB≈ 2 169,42 €

E Chambers, FRS; Abraham Rees, DD F R S D DBiblio.com

Cyclopedia Or An Universal Dictionary of Arts And Sciences Containing An Explanation of the Terms and an Account of the Several Subjects In the Liberal and Mechanical Arts And the Sciences Human and Divine Intended as a Course of Ancient and Modern Learning With The Supplement And Modern Improvements Incorporated In One Alphabet Fourth Edition VOLUMES 2 3 4 ONLY

1789080082London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington and others 1789. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Volumes 2 3 and 4 Only. Volumes bound in brown leather gilt title and volume number on faded spines. Volume 2 and 3 covers detached and present; Volume 4 missing both front and rear boards. Significant wear through to leather rubbing and soiling. Head and tail of spine have areas of leather missing. Text blocks remain secure. Leaves are toned and unmarked. Fair only. Due to size and weight additional shipping will be requested after purchase. Full refund if not satisfied. Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington and others hardcover

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Eleazar, R Abraham (pseudonym)Biblio.com

Uraltes Chymisches Werck

1735EBS100373Erfurt: Augustinus Crusius 1735. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. BREATHTAKING ALCHEMICAL WOODCUTS IN SOUGHT AFTER TREATISE. Claus Priesner Ambix Vol. 63 No. 1 February 2016 pp 1-27 attributes this work to the probably pseudonymous Julius Gervasius who connects the work to Nicolas Flamel. Supposedly the Werckh manuscript was written by a Rabbi Abraham Eleazar while the Donum Dei manuscript is attributed to a Rabbi Samuel Baruch who is supposed to have received his alchemical knowledge from Tubal-Cain said to be the grandson of Adam. BOOK DETAILS AND CONDITION: First Edition 16.5 X 9.5 cm. ½ leather over boards very considerable wear including losses to leather on spine: frontispiece 30 122 14 pp; 2 87 25 1; In the first part Werckh there are 6 of 7 allegorical plates and numerous in-text woodcuts one full-page on p 49 that are both allegorical and depict apparatus; In the second part Donum Dei there 8 allegorical plates the first 7 each divided into 2 figures 1-14 and the final plate is figure15. The frontispiece and the title pages are dusty but the remainder of the book internally is VG-. Missing plate in the Werckh is number 7 and is likely to have been omitted rather than removed. In this copy Figure 7 provided loose in facsimile on antiquarian paper. Gerhard Gruber Catalogue 130 Jan. 2007 has this edition lacking 2 plates. PROVENANCE: From the Arthur C. Greenberg History of Chemistry Library. Bookplate of Women s College of Frederick Maryland inside from board light library stamp on first page of text and small library pocket envelope inside rear board. REFERENCES AND RARITY: The first edition in Duveen collection absent in Neville Cole Ferguson which includes the 1760 edition. Duveen 1f; Ferchl 1; Ferguson I 3 Anm.; Caillet 31 Anm. Bolton p 980: This work is of great rarity. OCLC lists 10 copies in the world's libraries - none in the United States. Nine copies of this work sold at auction in the last century RBH. FULL TITLE: Uraltes Chymisches Werck. Welches ehedessen von dem Autore Theils in Lateinischer und Arabischer theils auch in Chaldaeischer und Syrischer Sprache geschrieben Nachmals von einem Anonymo In unsere Deutsche Mutter-Sprache übersetzt. Erfurt: Augustinus Crusius hardcover

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Ephraim Chambers; Abraham ReesBiblio.com

Cyclopaedia: or An universal dictionary of arts and sciences 5 volumes

17862106150015London : J.F. & C. Rivington A. Hamilton et al 1786. Hardcover. Good. One of the First Great British Encyclopedias Five volume set. Includes the plate volume. Folio 16 3/4 x 10 inches. Bound in 19th century 3/4 morocco. Marbled endsheets. Approximately 5010 pages. Text printed in two columns. Frontispiece illustrations. Many illustrations in v.5 some folding. Generally clean and sound. Some toning occasional spotting. Small stamp of the Edwin Forrest Home on front pastedown. Volume 5 has 144 engraved plates 3 folding. Wing G1445A. An important British scientific technical and general reference of the late 18th century. Rees edited and greatly expanded Chambers' earlier work. "Rees says that he has added more than 4400 new articles." - Enc.Brit.v.9 374 p. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. London : J.F. & C. Rivington, A. Hamilton, et al hardcover

SequiturBooks · États-Unis1 862,00 $US≈ 1 575,44 €

Ephraim Chambers & Abraham ReesBiblio.com

CYCLOPAEDIA; or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. PLATE VOLUME ONLY

179085995J.F. & C. Rivington London 1790. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. London: J.F. & C. Rivington ca 1790 80 page Index 7p Arrangement & Analysis of Plates 145 plates extra unlisted Algebra/Analysis; 4 folding 2 folding broadside Type Specimens Alex. Wilson & Sons; Joseph Fry & Sons 8p William Caslon Type Specimen. 16.75 x 10.5" leather. Shipping only within United States. Binding worn hinges cracked boards loose upper blank detached plates clean VG. J.F. & C. Rivington, London hardcover

Peter L. Masi - books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR]Livre Rare Book

The Annual Register : or, A View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, for the Year 1763, Vol. VI

176432623London Printed for J. Dodsley 1764 In-8 illustré de 4 cartes repliées dont "The New Map of the British Dominions in North America", 3f. (faux-titre, titre, Preface), 216p., 307p. et 2f. (Contents).

Librairie Transatlantique · Montréal, Canada1 500,00 $CA≈ 1 018,80 €

Fuller Abraham and T. HolmsABAA

A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS BOTH IN PERSON AND SUBSTANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND FROM THE YEAR 1655 TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE FIRST. IN THREE PARTS .

1731WRCLIT61268Dublin: Printed by and For Samuel Fuller 1731. 1351pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library title neatly detached at gutter with old paper mends at lower blank tips and some early ink spots early ink ownership inscription on verso of title and in blank portion of A2; somewhat tanned with occasional corner creases and small marginal chips; a fair but complete copy quite amenable to conservation and binding. First edition. Not in Bradshaw. ESTC T103086. POLLARD pp. 230-1. Printed by and For Samuel Fuller unknown books

William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

GIBBONS, Thomas and Abraham BoothBiblio.com

The Remembrance of Our Creator in the Days of Our Youth Opened and Enforced: in a Sermon on the Death of Mr. Thomas Wilton who departed this life August 5 1776 in the thirty-first year of his age

177649282London: J. Buckland 1776. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; removed; 467pp.; title page serving as upper cover printed within single heavy funereal rule. Very Good and sound overall. Funeral oration by the nonconformist hymn writer including a detailed account of the agonizing death of the young Calvinist Thomas Wilton who appears to have suffered from an infected abscess. ESTC T94248. J. Buckland unknown

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Gorlaeus, AbrahamBiblio.com

Cabinet De Pierres Antiques Gravees Ou Collection Choisie De 216 Bagues Et De 672 Pierres Egyptiennes Etrusques Grecques Romaines Parthiques Gauloises &c. Tirees du Cabinet de Gorlee & autres celbres Cabinets de l'Europe

177819980Paris: P-M. Lamy 1778. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled calf covers rehinged. Two Vols. in one. Very good. 8 & 10 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Engraved frontispieces 283 plates. An antiquary of Flemish descent his early interest in gem collecting as part of his cabinet of curiosities eventually spawned interest in Greco-Roman intaglio gems; his collection purchased in 1609 on behalf of Henry Prince of Wales -- with more than a representative sampling of specimens here. His first work "Dactiliotheca" published 1609. BRUNET Vol. II p.1671. Index of plates in each volume generally clean wide margined plate pages book label and small ownership inscription dated 1857 of same individual corner wear raised bands leather spine label spine compartments decorated in blind. P-M. Lamy unknown

Royoung bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis1 700,00 $US≈ 1 438,37 €

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