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179937904London: Peter Elmsly Printer To the Royal Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1799. Hardcover. Late 19th century morocco backed library cloth with library stamps and bookplate. Vi 348 8pp. 21 engraved plates some folding. Front board detached included. Includes a paper by Everard Home: An account of the Dissection of an Hemraphrodite Dog. To Which are Prefixed some observations on Hermaphrodites in General pp. 157-178. Other papers included. Contents are VG. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 348 pages . Peter Elmsly, Printer To the Royal Society hardcover
188854141Montpelier VT: S.W. Corse Landscape Photographer and Crayon Artist; A.N. Blanchard Photo. ca. 1888. Twelve boudoir albumen photos sized from 4.5 x 7.5 in. up to 5 x 8 in. mounted on beige-coloured studio boards sized 5 x 8 in. up to 5.25 x 8.5 in. a few w/ inventory number w/in negative at lower margin of image 7 w/ studio imprint on verso or lower blank margin of board minor dustsoiling some edgewear slight foxing to a couple of the images still VG collection with strong contrast. This collection of albumen boudoir photographs provide an excellent visual depiction of Montpelier Vermont at the end of the 19th century. An opening series of photographs offer birds-eye views of the town setting along the Winooski River and its tributaries showing factories homes the historic Vermont State House in the background homes and roads under construction and dam in the downtown area. Two of the images show nicely graded streets lined with Victorian homes street lighting installed and mature trees. In addition there are views of an unidentified family camping excursion with canvas tent erected next to hammocks well-to-do couple in horse and buggy in front of large Victorian home including an image of the interior as well. Corse fl. 1889-1903 was a popular landscape and portrait photographer in Barre VT before moving his studio to Montpelier in 1890 where he carried the latest photographic apparatus and was well-known for his children’s portrait photography as well as photos for state publications. Blanchard 1843-1923 served with the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters Company F in the Civil War and first established his studio in Barre VT in 1865 and later located to Montpelier from 1880 to 1887 according to city directories. See: Vermont: Its Resources and Industries Embracing Historical and Descriptive Sketches 1889 p. 69; Blanchard Feathered Lady of Montpelier Vermont The Cabinet Card Gallery 2016. S.W. Corse, Landscape Photographer, and Crayon Artist; A.N. Blanchard, Photo., hardcover
2009SONG0545159474Scholastic 2009-09-01. paperback. Used: Good. 8.00x0.25x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Scholastic paperback
1861CORSICAA004669Longman Green Longman and Roberts London. 1861. Second edition enlarged with a new Preface. Royal octavo. pp xxxiv 450. Eight colour lithographs black-and-white drawings coloured map. Period binding by Bickers of full calf raised bands gilt decorated spine gilt rules and outer dentelles. Marbled endpapers and edges.1867 gift inscription on first blank. Covers scuffed and rubbed at one corner. Blanks spotted. Very good. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London. hardcover
65339London The Royal Society 1799. Two papers in one. Large 4to 29.4 x 22.6 cm. 55 33; 22 pp.; 17 8; 9 large folded engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. = The most detailed study of Asiatic elephants to that date. It includes a detailed account of the Bengalese "taxonomy" and nomenclature of elephants which differ widely from the scientific ones. The plates mainly show parts of the skull and the teeth. John Corse later: John Corse-Scott of Sinton or Synton ca. 1762-1842 was an army surgeon and naturalist who resided in India for a long time. He wrote more on elephants but this is his most important anatomical-osteological contribution. Subsequent to Corse's paper and announced there as a continuation is a work by Everard Home Some observations on the structure of the teeth of graminivorous quadrupeds; particularly of the elephant and Sus aethiopicus which includes illustrations of the African elephant's teeth as well. Both publications were communicated by Sir Joseph Banks and sometimes he is - wrongly - listed as the author. Published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions 1799 Part II with a few unrelated papers. Uncut with ample margins. Covers somewhat soiled some light marginal spots otherwise a very good clean and unmarked copy. Neither in Nissen nor in Wood. unknown
199621016Cambridge England: Cambridge Univ Pr. New. 1996. Hardcover. 0521473357 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 73 pages -- Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From the back cover: "Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah her authorship of a treatise criticising the philosophy of Descartes Hobbes and Spinoza and her scandalous conversion to the despised sect of Quakers indicate a strength of character and independence of mind wholly unexpected and unwanted in a woman at the time. Translated for the first time into modern English her 'Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy' is the most interesting and original philosophical work written by a woman in the seventeenth century. Her radical and unorthodox ideas are important not only because they anticipated the more tolerant ecumenical and optimistic philosophy of the Enlightenment but also because of their influence on Leibniz. This fully annotated edition includes an introduction which places Conway in her historical and philosophical contexts together with a chronology of her life and a bibliography." -- with a bonus offer--; . Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
199631318West Nyack New York U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr. New. 1996. Hardcover. 0521473357 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED - 73 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1799767L6London: From the Philosophical Transactions 1799. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". None. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce study on Asiatic elephants. The first and only edition of this work. In contemporary paper wraps. A scarce work regarded to be one of the most detailed studies of Asiatic elephants of the time. In this study Corse details Bengalese nomenclature of elephants which differs to Western scientific definitions. Corse was an army surgeon and naturalist who lived in India. He wrote several works on elephants and Everard Home wrote a continuation to this work several years later. Inscription from the author to the title page head. Without a publisher or date dated from the ESTC records. ESTC reference no: T97617. Illustrated with eight folding engraved plates which mostly demonstrate parts of the elephants' skulls and teeth. A fascinating study on the taxonomy of elephants. In contemporary paper wraps. Externally generally smart. Minor chips to the extremities and some folding. Loss to the rear wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Author's signature to the title page. Occasional light spots to pages. Very Good From the Philosophical Transactions paperback
