captain thomas cook (4 Ergebnisse)

First Penguin edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers, (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Printer's code number 1 to the copyright page. Contains [xxxvii], 468 pp with monochrome illustrations. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. COOK, Captain James.

Roughly nine and a half inches by fifteen wide. Mounted on a piece of card, with some fraying to extremities. Somewhat aged, but a good impression of a strong, striking idealised illustration, showing a bearded warrior with a club, emerging from the undergrowth beside a tree and fast-flowing water, beside which four women (one of them baring a breast) recline with their children. Images online.

Half Leather. Zustand: Good. [Lacking all the folding maps and charts]. Six volumes, octavo, pp 2242, (4), generally age-toned throughout, lacking most of page 1445/6, a cracked hinge with weakness in volume two, a few pages lacking small marginal pieces, but otherwise surprisingly sound throughout, with 126 (of 129 ?) engraved plates, three plates repaired (one with slight loss), bound in a very simple and unsophiticated half calf and marbled boards, rather dull, the spines un-lettered apart from numerals, chipped and with slight loss. The binding is a little tight, and whereas the text is easily read, the titles of some plates are hidden, though there is a binding list with titles at the rear of the last volume. Despite some condition faults this a curiously satisfying and unassuming set.

Also signed on the reverse by [A.C. Cuddon?] AND the Earl of Rochford [William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford (1717 O.S. -1781) courtier, diplomat and statesman.]. TWO PAGES, sm. fol., fold marks, edges stained, discreet repairs, text clear and complete, commencing "To the Kings most Excellent Majesty | The Humble Petition of Thomas Short [] That your Petitioner hath invented a method of making Reflecting Telescopes with more than two Speculums to be used by the same person at the same time [] or enabling two Persons to view the same object at the same time []". SEE IMAGE for full (signed) text. One the verso, [A.C. Cuddon?] gives a statement about Short Swearing on 14 March 1774. Followed by a signed statement by the Earl of Rochford commencing "His Majesty is graciously pleased to refer this Petition to Mr. Attorney or Mr. Solicitor General to consider thereof, and report his Opinion what may be properly done therein, whereupon His Majesty will declare His further Pleasure. [signed] Rochford". Note: Bennet Woodcroft, "Titles of Patents of Invention: Chronologically Arranged []", (1854), p.194: "[27 April 1774; 1069] A grant unto THOMAS SHORT, of the parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the county of Middlesex , optician , of his new invented method of making reflecting telescopes with more than two speculums , to be used by the same person [.]".