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COWLEY ABRAHAMABAA

The mistress with other select poems of. 1618-1667

Rees Abraham 1743 1825 "Editor of the Last Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary"ABAA

The NEW CYCLOPAEDIA i.e. CYCLOPEDIA; Or UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY Of ARTS And SCIENCES: Formed Upon a More Enlarged Plan of Arrangement than the Dictionary of Mr. Chambers; Comprehending the Various Articles of that Work with Additions and Improvements; Together with the New Subjects of Biography Geography and History; and Adapted to the Present State of Literature and Science. With the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen. Illustrated with New Plates including Maps Engraved for the Work by Some of the Most Distinguished Artists. Vols I - XXXIX Complete

182041461London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees No. 39 Paternoster-Row 1820. 1st edition thus. 80 volumes in original publishers quarter-bound cloth beige spines over light blue paper-covered boards black lettering printed to front board and paper title labels on spine. 7 volumes period half-bound in black leather spine and edges with gilt & brown lettering and labels to spines over green cloth boards. Boards heavily worn and rubbed edges bumped and spines chipping. Some boards detached. Some volumes with previous owner signature penned to front board B. Fulford. Binding and paper age-toned as one would expect with the ages of the titles with the occasional stain & foxing. Withal a Good original set sold w.a.f. 87 volumes total. 80 of the Cyclopaedia 7 volumes of Plates. 7 volumes of plates b/w engravings. Cyclopaedias: ~ 11-1/4" x 9". Plate Volumes: 11" x 8-3/4" "I. The Work will be printed in Quarto at the Office of A. Strahan Esq. with New Types cast for the Purpose and on a superfine yellow woven Paper. II. The Work will be comprised in about Twenty Volumes. III. Three sheets stitched in blue paper will be regularly published every Week till the whole be completed price One Shilling. IV. Numerous Plates engraved in a superior stile sic of elegance will be given in the course of the Publication. V. A Part of Half a Volume containing Seventeen Numbers together with the Plates will be regularly published in advance price Eighteen Shillings in boards. VI. A few copies will be printed on a superfine royal woven Paper with proof impressions of the Plates to be sold in Parts of Half Volumes only price One Pound Sixteen Shillings in boards. VII. Number I and Part I was published on Saturday January 2 1802." "The encyclopaedia was largely Rees' own work and was especially strong in new and well-written biographical articles. The articles on music were written by Dr. Charles Burney and those on botany were mostly written by Sir James Edward Smith the founder of the Linnean Society.Rees's Cyclopaedia is said to have outclassed the Encyclopaedia Britannica of that time and 'remains a monument to the memory of another native of Wales namely dr. Abraham Rees the Encyclopaedist who was a native of Llanbrynmair Montgomeryshire." Cyclopaedia - dot - org. Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia is known all over the world and is often hailed as one of the greatest collections of material in the field of Encyclopedias. Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, No. 39 Paternoster-Row hardcover books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 345,75 €

THORNTON Robert John circa 1768 1837. Peter REINAGLE & Abraham PETHERABAA

The Night Blowing Cereus

180037722London 1800. Hand-coloured and colour-printed mezzotint engraving by Dunkerton. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England. "The plant shown in this picture Selenicereus grandiflorus L. Britton & Rose. is also known as the Moon Cactus from the moon-like appearance of the fully open flower. Thornton also says that. it was sometimes called the `Torch Thistle' as it `exhibits to the observer a figure equally grotesque as terrific with flowers possessing actually the blazing appearance of a torch.' The plant is a native of Jamaica and Cuba. This picture is one of the most arresting in the collection. The plant itself is of interest not only for its large and beautiful flowers but as a representative of those which growing in a hot and dry environment open their flowers at night for pollination by night-flying insects pollinators being scarce in such climates during the heat of the day. This has a curious effect where public botanic gardens are concerned since these are shut at night to visitors who thus never see the plant in full bloom." Ronald King. The Temple of Flora by Robert Thornton. 1981 p.74. Thornton's Temple of Flora is the greatest English colour-plate flower book. ".Thornton inherited a competent fortune and trained as a doctor. He appears to have had considerable success in practice and was appointed both physician to the Marylebone Dispensary and lecturer in medical botany at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals. But quite early in his career he embarked on his. great work. What RedoutÃ© produced under the patronage of L'HÃ©ritier Marie Antoinette the Empress Josephine Charles X and the Duchesse de Berry Thornton set out to do alone. Numerous important artists were engaged. twenty-eight paintings of flowers commissioned from Abraham Pether known as `Moonlight Pether' Philip Reinagle . Sydenham Edwards and Peter Henderson. The result. involved Thornton in desperate financial straits. In an attempt to extricate himself he organized the Royal Botanic Lottery under the patronage of the Prince Regent. it is easy to raise one's eyebrows at Thornton's unworldly and injudicious approach to publishing. But he produced. one of the loveliest books in the world" Alan Thomas Great Books and Book Collecting pp.142-144 First state of plate A. unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis8 000,00 $US≈ 6 768,80 €

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