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1850189213Londion: John Russell Smith 1850. Hardcover. G Both covers have general wear. edge/corner damage. Leather peeling at cover hinge and edges. Bookblock/interior pages have age toning. Interior covers of both columes have previous owners bookplate. Tan leather boards. Black and red title blocks on spine with gilt lettering and heavy gilt decoration. 960 total pgs. John Russell Smith hardcover
1838046259London: George Wightman 1838. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good. Small 8vo 7�" - 8. Baptist Bibliography #O465. Much on early heresies which are traced by the author as part of Baptist history. Ex library with book plate & label with cataloging numbers on inside front cover. Covers detached. Little foxing and some soiling throughout but tight and stitching sound. Starr. Size: Small 8vo 7�" - 8". 383 pages. Full refund if not satisfied. George Wightman hardcover
1841A42106Historical Society of Science 1841. xix 124 2 9 . . HB. 8vo orig. cloth blind-stamped acanthus scroll frame to boards with central gilt symbol to front board corners lightly bumped. Bookplate of Yatton Court Herefordshire. From the library of K.G.V. Smith 1929-2017 British dipterist at the Natural History Museum London and book collector. Enclosed is a post card from Paul Latcham scholar and collector of bookplates and former editor of the Bookplate Journal. He suggests that the bookplate is probably that of J.G. Rodney Ward resident at Yatton Court from the late 1860s to 1880s. An attached pencil note to Ken Smith in a different hand states that Latcham was pleased to see a previously unknown County bookplate Herefordshire. First edition. Includes 83 letters by among others Thomas Digges Tycho Brache John Dee Thomas Lydyat Charles Cavendish John Pell. 'The contents of the present volume are so very miscellaneous that it would be a difficult task to give a satisfactory analysis of them within the limits of a few pages. Perhaps it may be sufficient to state that the Editor has endevoured to form such a collection of early letters on scientific subjects as would be likely to assist any future author of a critical history of English science.' - Preface. The central design to the front board of this book is the 'Monas Hieroglyphica' an esoteric symbol invented and designed by John Dee the Court Astrologer to Elizabeth I; it is also the title of the 1564 book in which Dee expounds the meaning of his symbol. One of the letters included in this published collection is from John Dee. James Orchard Halliwell 1820-1889 was an antiquarian literary scholar and collector of English nursery rhymes. He published many books including 'Nursery Rhymes of England' 1842 and the 'Life of Shakespeare' 1848. He was accused of stealing manuscripts from Trinity College Cambridge and eloped with and married the daughter of the the famous bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps. Historical Society of Science hardcover
1841361590London: Printed for the Society by R. and J.E. Taylor 1841. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Dark blue publisher's cloth decorative pattern in blind with gilt centerpiece. Small ownership signature wear to the front joint else very good or better. Subscriber's copy Signed and dated by William Henry Black on the front free endpaper. Includes letters by Tycho Brache Thomas Lydyat Charles Cavendish John Pell and others. Also includes the by-laws of the Historical Society of Science founded by James Halliwell an antiquary and unrepentant son-in-law of the bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps. With the formation of the Society and publication of this work Halliwell advanced the history of science as an independent scholarly pursuit. William Henry Black was a prolific contributor to many journals and a member of the British Archaeological Association. A handsome copy scarce in the original boards. Printed for the Society, by R. and J.E. Taylor hardcover
