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1869018184Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons 1869. Illustrated with four plates and several engravings in the text large thick octavo pp xiv 505 publisher's quarter leather and cloth rebacked many years ago the original gilt decorated spine laid down lacking a few pieces endpapers retained and inner hinges strengthened the boards slightly marked and worn; with the armorial Rolfsay bookplate of F. Burroughs Rousay Orkney and his signature 1871 neat underlining throughout and interesting manuscript notes with five Victorian newspaper articles pasted on rear endpapers. . First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. William Blackwood & Sons Hardcover
1879015680London: Sampston Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1879. Illustrated octavo pp xxx 371 publisher's catalogue 10pp all edges gilt a neat contemporary inscription facing the half-title otherwise very clean and bright internally decorated cloth gilt very slightly rubbed the spine slightly pulled at the head and foot but overall a very attractive copy. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good. Sampston Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Hardcover
1831018036Edinburgh London & Dublin: Stirling and Kenney; Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green; John Cumming 1831. Third edition greatly enlarged and improved. Illustrated with 16 engraved plates with some age-toning and foxing octavo pp xii 500 againg with some ageing and occasional foxing otherwise very sound and tight bound in an early Victorian simple green moire cloth very slightly worn rubbed and marked. Monteath is described as 'Forester to His Majesty' but he seems an elusive figure and i can find nothing about him; he is not even included in Desmond's Dictionary. With the armorial bookplate of Edward Machen; born as Edward Tomkins Davies in 1783. He was the first of what might be termed the modern Deputy Surveyors of the Forest of Dean. He became the longest serving Deputy Surveyor 1808 to 1854 and had a significant impact upon the landscape structure of the Forest that we know today. He changed his name to Edward Machen in 1816 after inheriting Eastbach Court from his Uncle and at that point he assumed his Uncles surname. He had oversight of the Forest from the time of the Dean Forest Timber Act of 1808 and with the support of Lord Glenbervie Surveyor General of Woods he set about the landscape scale enclosure and planting of the Forest with oak. He established Whitemead Park as the principle offices of the Office of Woods in 1814 and where he lived after moving from Eastbach Court. He was in charge at the time of the Warren James Riots of 1831 and was an important member of the Parliamentary Commission that sat in the years after the riots. That Commission was responsible for key aspects of the Deans cultural landscape the regularisation of squatter cottages and the regularisation of mining. After retiring Edward was elected as a Verderer in 1860. He was a recognised and influential figure in the community. Third edition. Cloth. Good. Stirling and Kenney; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green; John Cumming Hardcover
190074812Washington D.C.: United State Geological Survey 1900. First edition. Text volume: Large quarto 8 x 11 1/2 inches. 711 1 III-XI 1 pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt logo of USGS on front. Minor spine extremity wear and bookplate else a very good copy. Atlas: 33 of the 39 folding chromolithographed maps listed but does include the folding map listed as Plate 1 of the text volume; it also includes 15 more color folding maps for the Twenty-first Annual Report but these are from Parts I II II IV & VII. The 7 maps from Part VII are of Texas and they are all that is called for in the list of maps for Part VII. The map from Part II is a very large monochrome map of Alaska.Part V of this annual report is concerned with the forest reserves in the three states along the west coast and the state of Wyoming. The Big Tress and Yosemite maps are present. Perhaps a meaningful assemblage as the bookplate is of a Dr. Alice G. Duden. United State Geological Survey hardcover
181801507759 Holborn London: J. Taylor 1818. Illustrated with three engraved plates large quarto pp xx 420 edges untrimmed some foxing and marking throughout including the plates original boards slightly worn a later paper spine with the rather worn original paper label laid down both paste-down endpapers wrinkled and lifting. Apart from the foxing this is a stunning copy close to it's original state wide-margined and unpressed. With the errata slip and directions to the binder at the rear. The subscriber's list accounts for 207 copies. There is an early London bookbinder's ticket on the front endpaper - H. Richards Great Castle Street Cavendish Square - and a manuscript note next to it "No 852" : might this suggest that there were a thousand copies printed Little is known of the author an architect and surveyor of Furnivals Inn. His wife inherited half of her father's estate and the development of North Street in London was pursued by the Scottish-born McWilliam. No buildings have hitherto been ascribed to him apart from the handsome classically detailed terrace that is now Nos 2753 Northdown Street which was built in 1839 by McWilliam who had plans in place for developing the entire estate by the time of his death in December 1842. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and his only public ation seems to be this one dedicated to the 4th Duke of Gordon and subscribed for widely among members of the architectural profession. He became a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex towards the end of his life. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. J. Taylor Hardcover
187058998London: T. Nelson and Sons Pternoster Row 1870. 12mo. viii 9-160 pp. Woodcut-engraved vignette on title woodcut engraved frontisp. woodcut engraved illustrations throughout some as borders plates text illustrations. Publisher’s decorated red cloth over beveled boards gilt & black ornamental borders & lettering blue-tinted plate mounted front cover brown clay-sized endpapers a.e.g. very minor edgewear to lower corners slight bumping to rear corner still VG bright copy w/ former ownership markings on 2nd flyleaf. First edition of this second title in the “Walter†series by the author of the “Walter at the Sea-side†a popular work on marine zoology for young people. This volume explores the arboreal residents of Southern England’s New Forest first proclaimed a Royal Forest in 1079 at the time 150 acres of protected hunting lands. Inter-weaved are poetry and anecdotes of oaks chestnuts elms birches conifers cypress â€Graveyard Trees†and even describes the California Sequoia and its attributes. Mary Greg 1809-1895 worked with her husband in establishing “The Mount†where she assisted her husband Samuel Greg II 1804-1876 British industrialist and Unitarian philanthropist and lecturer on scientfic subjects to the workers of Macclesfield. She was a close friend of the poet and author Elizabeth Gaskell who often stayed with the family and was a frequent correspondent while Mary Greg wrote on natural history and religious topics. See: Marie Moss Travelling the Literary Trail The Gaskell Society Newsletter Aug. 2000 pp. 8-10. T. Nelson and Sons, Pternoster Row, hardcover
