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1780120612Edinburgh: William Creech 1780. Hardcover. Fair. 9 vols.: xxi 514; 517; iv 524; vii 352; vii 440; iv 443; vii 452; v iii 352; viii 422 p. 22 cm. 312 engraved plates including 1 frontispiece 3 fold-outs. Several are out of order. Full tree leather. Text block edges yellow. Front boards detached on vols. I & 2 some boards loosening on other volumes. Corners worn. Spines quite scuffed with upper title labels missing and lower number labels missing from vols. 4 & 8. Number labels loosening from vols. 2 & 5. Bookplates for John Waldie on front pastedowns along with library Natural History labels. Rear pastedowns have bookplates for Andrew A. Miller. Endpapers often detached and darkened. Foxing. Occasional dogears where pages miscut. <br/><br/> William Creech hardcover
1812004503London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . 8vo 419 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 4 of 20 : covering the Domesticated Animals especially dogs. 49 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004505London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 439 pages contemporary full calf rear cover detached inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 6 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Tigers Rodents Bats etc. 65 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004512London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 514 pages contemporary full calf inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 19 of 20 : being vol. 9 of The History of Birds with coverage of avocets curlews Ibis grebes plovers merganser frigate pelican sea gulls etc . 40 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004510London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 467 pages contemporary full calf joints repaired inked name on half-title page no spine labels heel of spine chipped. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 15 of 20 : being vol. 5 of The History of Birds with coverage of manikins anters flycatchers larks nightingales wheatear fauvettes. 22 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004511London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 493 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 16 of 20 : being vol. 6 of The History of Birds with coverage of bergeronettes figeaters wrens titmice nuthatches parrotscockatoos lories. 15 plates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004504London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 378 pages contemporary full calf joints cracked inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 5 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Wild Animals especially wolves. 64 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812308099London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New edition. Hardcover. All 20 volumes Good in board. Light shelfwear and rubbing on spine of all 20 volumes. Light foxing throught text blocks of all 20 volumes. Small open tears on panel corners of all 20 volumes. Light edgewear on panel side edges of all 20 volumes. Light rubbing on front and rear panels of all 20 volumes. Front hinge starting on volume 2 4. Open tears on top and bottom front and rear gutters of volume 3 6 7 8 13 16 17 and 18. Small open tears on rear panel of volume 4. Chipping on spine crown of volumes 5 8 910 11 17 19 and 20. Rear hinge on volume 20 cracked. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812995Y33London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . A copiously illustrated new edition of this encyclopaedic natural history complete here in twenty volumes. A new edition carefully corrected and considerably enlarged by many additional articles notes and plates. With an account of Buffon's life by William Wood. Complete in twenty volumes. Rebound in modern maroon cloth. Renewed endpapers. Bound with the original blanks and half titles. A complete set of Comte de Buffon's Natural History General and Particular.Named the "father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century" by Ernst Mayr Buffon worked on this series for some fifty years. Thirty-six volumes came out between 1749 and 1789 followed by 8 more after his death thanks to Bernard Germain de Lacépède.It includes all the knowledge available in his time on the "natural sciences" a broad term that includes disciplines which today would be called material science physics chemistry and technology. Buffon notes the morphological similarities between men and apes although he considered apes completely devoid of the ability to think differentiating them sharply from human beings. Buffon's attention to internal anatomy made him an early comparative anatomist.Vols I-II cover Theory of the Earth; Vol. III covers History of Man; Vols. IV-X cover History of Quadrupeds; Vol. XI covers History of Birds; Illustrated with upwards of six hundred copper plates bound as such: Vol. I - Portrait frontispiece and two folding maps.Vol. II - Thirteen plates six of which are folding. Vol. III - One plate.Vol. IV - Folding genealogical table and forty-eight plates. Vol. V - Sixty-four plates.Vol. VI - Sixty-six plates. Two plates numbered 152 both titled 'Marmot of the Cape' though illustrating two different animals and two plates numbered 158 with different animals the second being Crab-eater Raccoon thus following plate no. 158 to face page 155 instead of p. 163. As issued. Vol. VII - Fifty plates two of which are folding. 'Female Opossum' bound facing page 117 instead of p. 115. Lacking Plate No. 211 'Crab-Eater' as found to be the case with other copies. Page numbers for plates CCXV-CCXXIII in binder's directions from 134-172 are misprinted as 234 236 etc. Rights itself when it gets to 304. Plate No. 242 'Hippopotamus' bound facing page 472 instead of 435.Vol. VIII - Forty-nine plates. Plate no. 261 'Tzeiran' bound following no. 262 instead of facing page 170. Vol. IX - Fifty-six plates. Several plates in this volume have binding discrepancies but are all confirmed present. Vol. X - Sixty-nine plates.Vol. XI - Twenty-nine plates.Vol. XII - Twenty-seven plates. Several plates in this volume have binding discrepancies but are all confirmed present. Vol. XIII - Twenty-seven plates.Vol. XIV - Twenty-two plates. Vol. XV - Twenty-two plates.Vol. XVI - Fifteen plates. Vol. XVII - Nineteen plates.Vol. XVIII - Thirty-one plates.Vol. XIX - Forty plates.Vol. XX - Thirty-four plates.Collated complete. Rebound in modern maroon cloth. Externally lovely with only the odd minor mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional scattered spotting often more populated to the plates and surrounding pages. Occasional offsetting caused by plates. Reference clipping tipped-in to the verso of the half title of Vol I. Small open tear affecting the last four plates of Vol. IV. Very Good Indeed T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1785SET48-H-1London: W Strahan and T Cadell 1785. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Various. Nine volumes of this popular of natural history. Scarce in this particular translation especially in this complete state. A very good early translation of this classic work in a lovely original binding. Some hinges needing attention but still great to see in this binding. Clean and bright internally. Natural History General and Particular discusses several differing species in the animal kingdom from Apes to the Hippopotamus. Volume IX is a corrections and additions volume providing lots of further information. There are 307 illustrated plates across all volumes conveying numerous animals such as dogs cats and elephants. Collated complete with all plates. Comte de Buffon was a French author and his natural history was originally published from 1749-1804. It spanned to an encyclopedic collection of 36 quartos. This English translation was published prior to the to completion of this work. The work ended up being limited to the animal and mineral kingdoms. This translation has numerous notes and observations by William Smellie a Scottish encyclopedist and naturalist. The Second Edition of this translation. In full tree calf bindings. Externally generally smart with patches of rubbing to the spines joints and extremities. Split to the front joint of volume I. Front hinge to volume I is tender with cords showing. Small loss to the head of spine to volume I. Rear joint to volume I is starting but firm with the hinge tender. Hinges to volume II are starting but firm. Front joint and hinge to volume III have failed and board is detached. Front endpaper has also detached. Rear joint and hinge to vol III is weak and may detach with further handling. Loss to the head and tail of spine to vol IV. Front joint and hinge to volume V are tender with cords showing. Rear joint to vol V is starting but firm with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Front joint and hinge to volume VI are strained. Loss to the head and tail of spine to volume VI also. Both joints and hinges to volume VII are tender with cords showing. Loss to the head of spine and joints to volume VIII. Front joint and hinge to volume VIII are strained but firm. Front hinge and joint to volume IX are weak and held by one cord only. May detach with further handling. Small crack to head of rear joint to vol IX resulting in the hinge being strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown with the monogram C R. Internally all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with som instances of light scattered spots. Good W Strahan and T Cadell hardcover
1812032746London : T Cadell and W Davies; R C and J Rivington; et al 1812 A very good set of this 20 volume edition with black and white frontispiece 2 folding maps and 681 hand coloured plates. With an account of Buffon's life by William Wood. It is rare to find this set with hand colouring. In contemporary full speckled calf bindings that have been rebacked to provide new spines with gilt-lined raised bands and title and volume labels. The original boards have scuffing and pitting and there is light wear at edges and corners but the bindings are in very good clean condition. Endpapers are marbled and some of the front pastedowns have a scuffed area indicating the removal of bookplates. 2 of the volumes have the armorial bookplate of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel Bart who was Prime Minister 1834-5. and 1841-6 and is viewed as the founder of the modern British police force. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light spotting generally at the top margin and offsetting from the plates. The occasional plate and text page is toned. All the volumes have 2 initial and final blanks a half title and title contents listings and directions to the binder. All have the original page marker torn in one volume. In this set Vol VI has 2 plates numbered 152 and 2 numbered 158 with different animals; Vol VII lacks one plate 211 and Vol VIII lacks plate 252 but has 2 numbered 254 different animals. Detailed contents: Vol I: preface by translator and life of Buffon pp lv; text 496pp; 2 folding hand coloured maps. Vol II: text 592pp; 13 plates of which 6 are folding. There is a small hole in text p 443. Vol III: text 567 pp; 1 plate. Vol IV: text 419 pp including folding chart of dogs; 48 plates. Vol V: text 378 pp; 63 plates. Vol VI: text 439pp; 67 plates. Vol VII: 477 pp; 49 plates of which 2 are folding. Vol VIII: 400 pp; 49 plates. Vol IX: 406pp; 56 plates. Vol X: text 288 pp; appendix with half title to p396; index 44 pp; 69 plates. Vol XI: first volume of Birdspreface by translator pp xvi; text 435 pp; notes by translator to p 444; 29 plates 29 is misprinted 39 on directions to binder. Vol XII: text 518 pp; 27 plates - plate numbering not in sequence. p 305 has lost the bottom corner tip. Vol XIII: 496pp; 27 plates. Vol XIV: 464 pp; 22 plates. Vol XV: 468 pp; 22 plates. Vol XVI: 494 pp; 15 plates. Vol XVII: 574 pp; 19 plates. Vol VXIII: 567 pp; 31 plates. Vol XIX: 514 pp; 40 plates. Vol XX: text 1-390; appendix by translator to p 515; index 88 pp; 34 plates. T Cadell and W Davies; R C and J Rivington; et al hardcover
41577Illustrated with above 300 Copper-plates and occasional notes and observations. Translated into English by William Smellie. Volume VI only. A litle wear to corners. MDCCLXXXV. Second Edition. Leather. Good. Hardcover
179884382London: H. D. Symonds Paternoster-Row 1798. Volume 5 only. Text bright with some light foxing and tanning small bookplate on front pastedown binding firm chipping to edges of boards with gilt decs faded from spine but overall quite neat for its age. Hard. Very Good Minus. 8vo. H. D. Symonds Paternoster-Row Hardcover
1780035338Edinburgh: William Creech printed for 1780 The classic text from the father of all thought regarding natural history in the second half of the 18th century. Includes the first 2 volumes of the 36-volume set regarding the history and theory of the earth and a general history of animals respectively. Both fold-out plates in volumes 1 are present in terrific condition. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles renowned anthropologist scholar and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 514 numbered pp vol 1 and 517 numbered pp vol 2; HB. Pages: clean ivory tight red speckled edgestain portrait frontis vol 1; back boar disbound but present front board wiggly but hanging in there edges tanned textblock solid and clean. Cover: textured tan cloth w/ sheepskin backstrip and tips gilt titles to black spineblock 5 raised bands; substantial shelfwear extrems well worn leather worn through joints cracked. Rebind copy w/ all parts present. William Creech (printed for) hardcover
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