charles hotham (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New.

Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Sir Charles Hotham, Governor-in-Chief (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st ed., pp.21, printed on blue paper, half leather, gilt title to front bd., contents clean, v.g. good condition, Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into the State of the Police. Melbourne, 5th December 1855 before the Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria, Sir Charles Hotham, and the Commission: Henry S. Chapman (chairman), Charles MacMahon, John Price and Richard Youl.

First Edition. Octavo, pp. [2], vi, 384. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Don Pedro II, 2 maps (of 3) of which one fold-out, and numerous illustrations from the South American Sketches of Sir W. Gore Ouseley and from the drawings of Sir Charles Hotham. Brown quarter-morocco; spine on four raised bands, gilt titles to spine; marbled paper-covered boards; green marbled end-papers. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed; slight shelf-wear to edges of boards. Front hinge cracked but firmly holding. Scattered light foxing; ink stain to top edge of frontispiece spreading along top edge to p.48 affecting upper margin only, and another to pp. 377-384, with associated loss to tip of upper corner; minor damp-stain to edge of frontispiece. A good copy. First edition of the author's first work, describing his first two years in South America. William Hadfield (1806-1887) was the first Secretary of Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and founder of the South American Journal. Hadfield was born in Liverpool but became a long-time resident of Brazil, opening up the first steamship agency in Buenos Aires in 1852. ODNB.

First Edition. First edition thus, 12mo, [bound with, as issued:] The Petition and Argument of Mr. Hotham and A True State of the Case of Mr. Hotham; pp. 59, [1] , 142, [4], 93, [1], plus 2-page errata; containing the first printing of the 60-page introduction and errata leaf at the end, and second printings of The Petition and A True State, both of the latter having been printed earlier the same year; contemporary sheep rebacked, red morocco label lettered in gilt on spine, some wear to extremities along with a few dings and nicks to the covers, occasional stains, and a few page numbers shaved, but still a very good copy. Hotham (1615-1672?], university preacher, proctor, and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1650 preached against the "Engagement" and was forbidden to raise the subject again. He petitioned the committee for the reformation of the university against Dr. Lazarus Seaman, master of Peterhouse. Dissatisfied with the results, he published his Petition, along with some caustic remarks concerning the committee. He was soon after deprived of his fellowship. In an effort to vindicate himself, he then published a pamphlet in which he stated his case, and included a testimonial to his character, signed by 30 leading men at the university. He reprinted both works, along with a lengthy introduction addressed to Parliament, and issued them together. Wing H2895.