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

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Quarter cloth, paper boards. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR &, laTER, PRESENTED TO THE BRADFORD HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY BY HIS BROTHER. 12mo, pp. 27, [1], [24 leaves of plates]. Original quarter grey cloth, grey printed paper boards lettered in black. Bruising and wear to extremities, paper lifting at edges, chip to heel of bottom board, tape residue to both boards. Inscribed in brown ink to upper board: "With the authors compliments", 'X31' in blue pencil and black pen above. With a lengthy inscription to the front pastedown in blue ink by Eldred Oliver, "Solicitor, Bradford, Brother of the Author and President of the Society 1931-32". Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society book label to ffep, signed and dated: "Eldred Oliver Esq., January 1938," Society library borrowing label to verso with blind library stamp, repeated on p.1. Else, clean and bright. Very good. JiscLHD locates four copies only (BL, UoBradford, UoLeeds & Welcome Library). A rather splendid inscribed copy of this scarce history of spectacles by George H. Oliver (Assistant Surgeon, Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, Bradford), "With the authors compliments," and later presented to the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society by his brother (and Society President, 1931-2) Eldred Oliver in 1938, who noted: "At the time this book was compiled it was the only work extant on the English language on the subject of the history of spectacles". George Henry Oliver, M.R.C.S. (1861-1924) was educated at the Leeds Medical School and Vienna, later spending "practically the whole of his professional life" in Bradford, where he eventually became consulting surgeon to the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, Bradford. He held various appointments, including chair of his local Division of the BMA, and was due to be appointed vice-president of the Section of Ophthalmology of the BMA before his death; he was also a keen naturalist and an expert on spiders (BJO, 1924). Anon (1924) 'Obituary Notice: GEORGE HENRY OLIVER, M.R.C.S', British Journal of Ophthalmology, 8: p.351.

Blackler's papers are in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. 4pp, foolscap 8vo. Eighty lines of text, with last page written crosswise. On wove paper with stationer's embossed mark. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper with light staining at edges. Text clear and entire. Begins: 'Contract for building a Schooner made this day March 20th 1866 by and between Wm G. Blackler of New Bedford county of Bristol state of Massachusetts of the first part and Ebenezer Brayden, [sic] George Eldridge John Brown - Robert Robeson - Benjamin Westage - Charles Coombs [blank] ship carpenters of Fairhaven county and state aforesaid of the second part as follows'. The six carpenters undertake 'to make, build and finish complete, all the carpenters labor required, in a good and substantial manner, the same schooner agreeable to the model and moulds of the Schooner "Ida L" built in 1865 by the same parties, under the control and superintendance of Moses H. Delano of Fairhaven, county and state aforesaid'. Specifications and financial arrangements are fully described. Signed by 'Wm G Blackler' at the foot of the third page, and by 'E Bryden', 'George F. Eldred', 'John Brown', 'Robert Robinson', 'Benjamin Westgate' and 'Charles H Coombs'. 'M H Delano' signs twice, for both parties.