Beckingham charles (13 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xvi, 617. Original publishers blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spines. 2nd series, CXIV. Very good indeed in slightly tanned and used, very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Previous owner's name on first inside page. Contents mostly clean and bright. Overall, sound and serviceable. Size: 24.1 x 16.2 x 1.9 cm. xiii, 252 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0197136044. ISBN/EAN: 9.7802E+12. Add. Inventory No: 251007REB0063078. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps (part folded, 1 in pocket of v.2) ; 23 cm. Notes: Bibliography: v. 2, p. 587-593. Subjects: Prester John. ALVARES, Francisco.John, Prester. Prester John (Legendary character)Prester John (Legendary character). Prester John (Legendary character)Prester John (Legendary character). Travel. Ethiopia Description and travel.Ethiopia Description and travel ; Early works to 1800.Ethiopia Description and travel. Ethiopia Description and travel. Ethiopia Description and travel Early works to 1800. Ethiopia History 1490-1889. Portugal Foreign relations Ethiopia. E?thiopie Descriptions et voyages ; Ouvrages avant 1800.Ethiopia. Abyssinia: Topography and Travel: Ethiopia. Prester John (Legendary character)Ethiopia Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

Size: Four volumes in one. Small 8vo. Mottled calf (hinges cracked), gilt. The Beggar's Opera was first performed on 29 January 1728 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. RISM A/I/6 and A/I/13 P 1194 and B/II p.112. BUC p.96. ESTC N35423 (this issue of the second edition with two advertisements on the verso of the title-leaf).…

, A collection of volumes published together for the first time. Contained in this book are: A general title-page and an emblematic frontispiece engraved by Michael Vander Gucht (the same plate was used in 1727).The Art of Kissing from Bonefonius. 3-32 pp. A miscellany of 16 poems, by William Bond, Charles Beckingham, Mr. Goode, Mr. Baker, John Philips, Thomas Foxton, and various unidentified hands. Popeana by Alexander Pope, 1727, no title page, 40 pages. The Rape of the Smock, an Heroi-comical poem in two books by Mr Jacob, second edition, printed for H. Curll, London, 1727, black and white engraving, title page [4] 32 pages. The Hoop-Petticoat an Heroi-comical poem in two books by Mr Gay, printed for E. Curll and others, London, third edition, 1720. viii, 40 pages. The Patch, an heroi-comical poem (with advice to Chloe, how to make use of that Beautiful Ornament of the Face) in three cantos by a Gentleman of Oxford, to which is added The Welch Wedding, a poem, Printed for E Curll, in London, 1724, viii, 40 pages. A Receipt for a Soup addres'd to Dean Swift, by Mr Pope,1727, no title page, [4.] Bury-Fair, a poem imposed as an Exercise at St. Peter's Colllege, John Davies, 1721, no title page, 22 pages. Poems on Several Occasions, by William Bowman, printed for the author, London, 1727. [8], 106 pages [2]. Oratio. Nova philosophia veteri præferenda est, Joseph Addison, no title page, 16 pages. An Apology for the Writings of Walter Moyle, esq, by Edmund Curll, printed in London, 1727, title page, 22 pages including extracts from a book entitled, Johannis Confratris & Monachi Glastoniensis chronica sive historia de rebus Glastoniensibus e codice MS. membrano antiquo descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, duobus voluminibus. Oxon, 1726.8vo. Small contemporary inscription at head of front free endpaper, and another [Suckling Spendlove] dated 1794 below it, 2 engraved full page plates and several illustrated headpieces Third edition , wear to top and tail of spine and corners and front and rear boards consistent with age. Stains to front end paper, front paste down and frontispiece. Pages generally good with one missing a corner. Generally good condition. , full calf, old reback, gilt borders to front and rear baords, five raised bands on spine. , small quarto, 19.5 x 13 cm Hardback ISBN. …

Zustand: Good. 24cm.

Front.; sl. shaved at fore-edge. Disbound. Ownership inscr. on title of C.J. Bridges, May 1782. ESTC N48011. FIRST EDITION, also issued on large paper.

Folio, pp. 8; title and last leaf a little stained at lower edge; disbound. Second edition: first printed earlier the same year. This is one of a number of poems published at about this time on the scandalous love life of Lady Abergavenny. The second half of the poem is devoted to demonstrating that such affairs were common among the upper classes: 'But are these all the guilty Truths are known? Is it enough I instance These alone?' Calista's own career was brought to an end by her death a few months after these lines were published; as Foxon notes, the poem was reprinted the following year in an account of the trial of her last lover, Richard Lyddel (or Liddell), who was convicted of 'crim. con.' The authorship of this poem is revealed in Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg (1747), which contains, besides the play, a substantial and quite useful useful 'list of all the dramatic authors, with some account of their lives'. Charles Beckingham (1699-1731) began his literary career at the age of 19 with a full-dress tragedy called Scipio Africanus; when it was acted at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, with James Quin in the title role, his schoolfellows at the Merchant Taylors' School were given the day off to attend the first performance and give it a boisterous reception. Beckingham did not go on to university, but drifted into Grub Street, where he was employed by Edmund Curll. There is a brief but amusingly dismissive account of his later career in the original DNB, though the writer of that entry did not know of this poem, nor one on another scandal called Sarah the Quaker, published the same year. The more recent entry in the Oxford DNB ends on a similar note: 'He did not merit a place in Pope's Dunciad, though James Thomson mentions him in a list of obvious dunces.' Foxon B136. Beckingham's poems are all very uncommon: of this one the ESTC lists nine copies of the first edition, and only three of this reprint (Rylands in the UK, and Case Western and Duke Universities in the US), with Foxon adding another in Canberra.…

An offprint of an article discussing the earliest Western travel narratives concerning the Middle East. We have traced only three institutional copies (Edinburgh, Exeter, and Georgia Universities). Charles Beckingham (1914-1988) analyses the historical records of figures such as John Cabot, Pêro da Covilhã, Ludovico di Varthema, and Arnold von Harff to ascertain the veracity of their accounts of Arabia. For example, Beckingham argues that Cabot's story contains a number of inconsistencies concerning his visit to Mecca, specifically that he mistakenly claimed that Arab spices originated in Japan. On the other hand, Beckingham judges that da Covilhã's was corroborated by a sufficient number of witness testimonies to be trusted. Overall this is an important resource corroborating and disproving some of the earliest stories of interactions between the Christian and Muslim worlds. Octavo, pp. 21. Publisher's advertisements to rear wrapper. Original light brown paper wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lettered in black. Wrappers lightly toned and spotted at edges, brown staining around staples: a very good copy.…