Bolton james d (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Unmarked pages. Secure pages, solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. ix, 166 p.; 22 cm. The title is taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. Contents: Preface -- 1 The heroic self -- 2 The birth of the anti-hero -- 3 The god within -- 4 Justice and judgment -- 5 The new man -- 6 Ways of salvation -- 7 Lightning from heaven -- Epilogue -- References. -- `But the advent of the Spirit cannot be commanded; no formula, magical or scientific, can bind it; it is as free as the wind's breath. `The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.' As the Holy Ghost does not command, so it does not answer commands; but it will answer requests.' (p. 156) -- `So, by the process which I have called psychopoeia, `soulmaking', Psyche has reached a stage where she has earned her name and is fully-fledged; where, by her emergence into full self-consciousness, or the consciousness of what theologians have called `the ground of being', she is confronted with the choice of imitating Christ or aping God. She now breathes an unfamiliar ether, superimposed upon, but not displacing, that social atmosphere in which she was nurtured; an ether in which her new freedom of individuality and choice will carry with it the gravest personal consequences, for she will have it in her, if she chooses, to be the deity, creator and inhabitant of her own universe.' (p. 161) VG orig. green cloth in illus. light green dj. …

Broché. Zustand: Bon état. 398 pp. Illustrations en couleurs. Nom et dedication( mais pas des auteurs) au page de titre.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 457; slight crease to top edge of jacket, else fine. Interpretation and selection from the mass of critical writings on Johnson. Published in the Critical Heritage series.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 3 Volumes. 4to. pp. xvi, 44, [2]index, [1 leaf]with errata slip mounted; 1 p.l., [ix]-xxv, [1]blank, [45]-73, [1]blank, [2], xxv-xxxii, [1], 74-92, [1]blank, [1 leaf]index & errata; 1 p.l., [xxvii]-xxxii, [93]-134, [2], [135]-138, [4]index. additional etched title in Vol. I & 1 etched headpiece. 138 etched plates, printed in sepia & coloured by hand. 19th century half morocco, t.e.g., rebacked with spines mounted, recornered (some offsetting & light to moderate foxing, becoming heavier in the text of Vol. III, scattered pencil notes). A wide-margined copy. First Edition of "the earliest British work devoted exclusively to fungi" (Henrey II p. 136). A supplementary volume, not present here, was published in 1791. "About 220 of 231 [species] are easily identified, and have been accepted and quoted under various names in their works by subsequent European authors, as Persoon, Fries, Rabhenhorst, and others on the Continent, and by Berkeley, Cooke, Stephenson, and Massee in [Britain]. Many were species new to science, and others previously undescribed in Britain.Bolton describes his specimens with great acuteness, in clear, concise terms, and this.when they were little understood.'. (Crossland) About the author very little is known except that he was a self-taught naturalist and skilful artist, who was a friend and correspondent of the eminent naturalists of the day, including Peter Collinson, William Hudson, and Philip Miller. All of the drawings and etchings for the work were executed by Bolton himself. The publication is dedicated to the Earl of Gainsborough, under whose patronage it was published. Nissen 195. Henrey III 465. Pritzel 962. Stafleu TL2 623.…