childrey (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. British Counties historically explained. First edition, second issue, in nineteenth century speckled calf by W. Brown of Bath, some blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling. gilt titles to red calf labels. Internally, [12], [18], 184 pp, 1 small woodcut plan (p72), lacks the first blank leaf, inner margin of title & a section of leaf A3 repaired, first leaves a little damp-stained, some light browning & spotting, small worming at the foot, head of the upper joint & headcap cracked, crack along upper top inch joint. But a Very Good example. (164*101 mm). (Wing C.3871. ESTC R25345. Lowndes 406). Title continues: historically related, according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon, methodically digested, and the causes of many of them philosophically attempted. With Observations upon them, and Deductions from them, whereby divers Secrets in Nature are discovered, and somethings hitherto reckoned Prodigies, are fain to confess the cause whence they proceed. Useful for all the ingenious men of what Profession or Quality soever. Childrey, (Joshua, antiquary and astrologer. Indago astrologica, or, A Brief and Modest Enquiry into some Principal Points of Astrology (1652) was his contribution to the contemporary attempt to reform astrology along Baconian lines, which also included efforts by John Goad and John Gadbury. His prescription was to correlate terrestrial events with the mutual aspects of the planets calculated heliocentrically (rather than geocentrically, as was more common), along with their apogee and perigee, upper and lower culmination, and rising and setting.! For a full biography see ODNB).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. British Counties historically explained. In modern brown morocco, gilt edge tooling, gilt tooling to spine with gilt titles to a red calf label. Internally, [12], [18], 184 pp, 1 small woodcut plan (p72), lacks the first blank leaf, old paper repair along edge of title page, some light browning & spotting, small worming at the foot, marbled endpapers, evidence of label removal to fep. A Very Good example. The first edition had been issued in 1660. (164*101 mm). (Wing C.3871. ESTC R25345. Lowndes 406). Title continues: historically related, according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon, methodically digested, and the causes of many of them philosophically attempted. With Observations upon them, and Deductions from them, whereby divers Secrets in Nature are discovered, and somethings hitherto reckoned Prodigies, are fain to confess the cause whence they proceed. Useful for all the ingenious men of what Profession or Quality soever. Childrey, (Joshua, antiquary and astrologer. Indago astrologica, or, A Brief and Modest Enquiry into some Principal Points of Astrology (1652) was his contribution to the contemporary attempt to reform astrology along Baconian lines, which also included efforts by John Goad and John Gadbury. His prescription was to correlate terrestrial events with the mutual aspects of the planets calculated heliocentrically (rather than geocentrically, as was more common), along with their apogee and perigee, upper and lower culmination, and rising and setting.! For a full biography see ODNB).

Third edition, 8vo (159 x 95 mm), [30], 184pp., without the initial blank leaf, text browned and spotted, marbled endpapers, nineteenth-century calf, rebacked with the orig. gilt spine laid-down, morocco letter piece, gilt ducal crest of Clumber Park on upper cover. Third edition of this survey of the natural phenomena of Britain according to Baconian principles. Gibson notes that this edition is identical to the two previous, except for the date in imprint on title pages. From the Clumber Park Library. Gibson, 338C; Wing, C3872.