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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Bon. KIPPIS Dr Andrew. Vie du Capitaine Cook, traduite de l Anglois par M. Castera. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1789. 2 volumes in-8 (20 x 12 cm),relié pleine basane racinée époque, dos lisses ornés pièce de titre et de tomaison, bel état, tranche marbrée , liseré sur les tranches ,faux-titre , titre 397pp ,419pp ,bel exemplaire. Édition in-8 parue la même année que l'originale in-4. Première biographie de Cook. French edition of the first biography of James Cook, it provids a valuable account of the three voyages. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. ' To which is prefixed A Life of the Author. with a preface giving some account of his character and writings'. Volume 1. Containing, The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature. lxxvi + 372 pp. Volume 2. Containing, Two Dissertations on Personal Identity, Charge to the Clergy of Durham, Sermons, Preached at the Rolls and Correspondence with Dr Clarke. v + 488 pp. POS on title page. Scattered foxing. Very good hardbacks in contemporary half calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration to compartments. Marbled boards and eps. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp xix, 434; viii, 407. Bound in full dark brown contemporary leather, decorated and lettered gilt at the spines with five raised bands. Portrait frontispiece of the Earl of Shaftesbury in volume one. Bookplate of Edward Roundell Palmer on the front pastedown with some minor restoration at spine ends overall sound, very good+ with clean text.…

Containing, I. The life of S. Johnson, LL.D. - abridged, principally, from Boswell's celebrated memoirs - II. The life of Mr. Elwes, - (abridged) - by Captain Topham - III. The life of Captain Cook, - (abridged) - by Dr. Kippis - The whole revised and abridged by Sir Andrew Anecdote - Etched plates - Ex-libris armorié gravé de Edward LANTON, Bordeaux - Reliure plein cuir, dos lisse orné de filets - Fentes en charnière et dos, coiffes et coins frottés, la reliure reste solide - Rousseurs (4), 183, 52, 72 pages, in-12, relié, 17 cm. Etat moyen.…

FIRST EDITION. 220 x 135 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/8"). Without half titles. Two volumes. Edited by G. Wingrove Cooke, Esq. Contemporary purple pebble-grain morocco, covers with thick and thin blind-stamped frames surrounding scrolling gilt centerpiece featuring tulips and floral tendrils, raised bands with gilt diamond roll, gilt in compartments with triple fillet border and curling horn cornerpieces, all edges gilt. Frontispiece engraving of Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury. âCorners slightly bumped, minor scratches on covers and spines (masked by refurbishing), a bit of foxing on frontispiece and title page, but internally quite clean and fresh, in pleasing bindings. This is an attractively bound biography of the well-born and well-connected Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-83), first Earl of Shaftesbury, whose turbulent political career spanned the English Civil War and Restoration. Viewed by John Locke as "a strenuous Defender [and] vigilant Preserver [of] Liberty in both Civil, and Ecclesiastical affairs" but dismissed by many as an opportunist, Cooper was, according to DNB, "a wily operator who was not above saying or doing things for calculated political effect or abandoning former friends and allies as he mapped out a new direction for himself. Yet he clearly was a man of principles, who throughout much of his long political career was prepared to make personal sacrifices in pursuit of what he believed to be the public interest." The present sympathetic biography relied on original documents in the possession of Shaftesbury's descendants.…

Zustand: Good. 1841, Edinburgh, printed for the Booksellers, 12mo, ppviii + 437, portrait frontispiece, vignette title-page and four plates, contemporary blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt decoration and lettering on spine.