Dr john arbuthnot (1 Ergebnisse)

Leather. Zustand: Good. The second edition of this scarce posthumous anthology of the works of London polymath, John Arbuthnot. The second edition, with additions. Complete in two volumes, with reverse calf boards. 'A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works' bound to the rear of Volume II, with its own title page and register. Advertisement pages preceding both title pages. John Arbuthnot was a London-based Scottish physician, satirist and polymath, perhaps best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club and for inventing the figure of John Bull. This scarce posthumous two-volume collection contains his poems, letters, sermons, essays, satires and critical remarks. In a reverse calf binding, with rubbed calf to the spines. Externally, spine calf is chipped and lifting. With loss to the heads and tails of the spines. A few light marks to the boards. Hinges are starting, but firm. Bookplate of one Georg Dennis, Newington Butts. to the front paste down of Vol II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional spots. Offsetting to the endpapers. Good. None (illustrator). book.…