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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2017; facsimile reprint of 1750 Griffith Hughes publication; Ten Books bound together; illustrated paper covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; like illustrated jacket with edge wear; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 420 pages; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

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pp. xi, 127. 8vo. Paperback. Slightly scuffed.

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Zustand: Very Good. Hard back publisher's original quarter scarlet, blue paper covered boards. cloth covers, black stamping. 8vo 7½" x 5" 110 pp. Former name to front end paper. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WALES & WELSH LITERATURE.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's small address label on inside of rear cover.; xii, 252 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 122 x 146mm. 15 essays by various contributors. Contents: Preface by Denis McEldowney; Maori oral tradition meets the book, by Jane McRae; Aversion to Print? Maori resistance to the written word, by Danny Keenan; Tampering with the sacred text: The second edition of the Maori Bible, by Peter Lineham; Sir George Grey and his book collecting activities in New Zealand, by Donald Kerr; Leaves and flowers of gold: The art and craft of Eleanor Joachim, 1903-1914, by Margery Blackman; Conserving 'The East India Pilot,' by Jocelyn Cuming; Attila of the Antipodes; or, The Mad Hatter's Tea-Party: The publishing history of Edith Lyttelton (G. B. Lancaster) in the 1930s, by Terry Sturm; 'Not easily put on paper': Robin Hyde's 'The godwits fly,' by Patrick Sandbrook; Typography & the great New Zealand pop-up poetry canon, by Alan Loney; 'Mulgan, Marrisc, Schroder': Repudiating the literary establishment, by Lawrence Jones; Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-53, by Peter Hughes; The Byron of Burnside and the Nag's Head Press, by Noel Waite; Reading art, looking at books, watching screens: Learning to read in a 15th-century prayer book, learning to read today, by Elizabeth Eastmond; Up the garden path: 'Janet and John' revisited, by Anne Else; Printing in colonial New Zealand: An insular history? by Roderick Cave; Contributors; Index.

Original wrappers. xviii,1086 pp.; 23.5x17 cm. Text in English. Very good, see picture 1520g.

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127 S. OKart. Sprache: englisch.

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Hardcover, no dust jacket. VG. Reprint of the 1750 edition. Page 309 is missing pages from another book [page headings are English Bulldogs and Birmingham] that appears to be an Arno printing error. Reprinted from Microfilm, Publishers note: This volume was reprinted from the best available copy. 314 pp.

First edition, 4to (378 x 245 mm), [4, title, dedication leaf], [10, list of subscribers], [2, contents leaf], vii [preface], [1, errata], 250, *251-*254, 251-314, [8, explanatory notes], [4, addenda], [8, index]pp., large engraved fold-out map of the island, 30 copper engraved plates (plate 4 hand-coloured, plate 27 with expert marginal repair), 5 illustrs., within the text, woodcut chapter headings, initials, and tailpieces, some minor occasional foxing, orig. marbled boards with vellum tips, recent calf reback with new spine label, uncut. First edition of this important work, compiled by the rector of St. Lucy's Parish, Barbados. Half of the ten sections and the bulk of the plates are devoted to the flora of Barbados, with additional sections on climate, minerals, animals, and marine life. A few pages discuss evidence of the early Indian inhabitants. Hughes, who spent most of his career in Barbados, was made a fellow of the Royal Society the year this work was published. He was patronised by English gentlemen in return for supplying them with seeds. Each plate bear the arms of one of Hughes' patrons. "This book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History."Hunt. "Handsomely printed, and the plates are finely executed from drawings by Ehret."Sabin. Provenance: Armorial engraved bookplate: 'Alexander Thomson of Banchory Esquire' (1798-1868), Scottish advocate, agriculturalist, antiquary, author, philanthropist and traveller, with his ink signature at head of title. Hunt, 536; Nissen BBI, 950; Sitwell, Great Flower Books, p. 60; Wood, p. 393; Sabin, 33582; Cox II, p. 219; Pritzel, 4319.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. First edition, large-paper issue. London: for the author, 1750. Folio (13 11/16" x 9 1/8", 349mm x 232mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved folding map of Barbados and 30 engraved plates. Bound in later speckled calf. On the spine, six raised bands. Panels richly gilt. Author and title gilt to red morocco in the second panel. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text block speckled red. Tanned throughout with some offsetting at the plates. Perforated ownership stamp of the Purdue University Library to the title-page. Griffith Hughes (1707?-after 1750) was a Welsh naturalist and clergyman. Hughes was sent to Pennsylvania to lead several Welsh congregations in the colony. In 1736, he was assigned to St. Lucy's parish in Barbados, where he studied plants and wildlife. Over twelve years residing on the island, Hughes developed a thorough understanding of its trees and plants. The Natural History of Barbados was the first book to describe the grapefruit, calling it the "Forbidden-Fruit-Tree" and to coin the phrase "yellow fever." The volume contains a list of subscribers, including the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Orleans. Each plate is dedicated to a patron or subscriber, including a coat of arms. As a religious man, Hughes introduced some sacred texts in his descriptions of the flora and fauna. His cartographer was Thomas Jeffreys (1719-1771), geographer to the Prince of Wales, with engravings after art by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1710-1770). Hunt asserts that "the book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History (1731[-47])." After returning from the Americas, Hughes received his BA from St. John's College, Oxford in 1748, and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. Although he was praised by Linnaeus and multiple sources, some have questioned his accuracy as a botanist. Sitwell, Great Flower Books p. 60; Hunt 536 (collated identical with copy 2); Nissen 950; Sabin 33582; Wood p. 393.

Folio 13.75 x 8.75 inches; 349 x 223 mm. [2, title (verso blank)], [2, dedication to Thomas [Hering], Archbishop of Canterbury (verso blank)], vii, [1, Errata], [10, "A List of the Subscribers"], [1, "The Contents"], [1, "Authors Quoted" and "Texts of Scripture Cited or Illustrated"], 250, 251*-254*, 251-314, [7, Explanatory Notes], [1, blank], [4, Addenda], [7, Index], [1, blank] pp. Pages 116 and 117 misnumbered 115 and 116. Large folding engraved map, "A Map of the Island of Barbados," by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer, and 30 engraved plates (22 of which are botanical) by R. Austen, George Bickham, George Dionys Ehret, and J. Mynde, after Ehret and Bickham. Each of the plates is dedicated to one or more of the subscribers (mainly royalty and peerage). Engraved head-piece vignette, "A Prospect of Bridge-Town in the Island of Barbadoes," on pages 1, 31, 61, 188, and 251, and engraved head-piece showing a swag of fruit and flowers (at pages 43, 97, 121, and 141). Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; a2 with clean tear, folding map with short tear into the image (repaired on the verso), and with lower right edge creased, short tear to upper margin of pages 107/108 and 109/110, same location on pl. IV (facing p.111), some offsetting of the plates, with occasional offsetting and bleed-through from text and woodcut tail-pieces. Contemporary calf, spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with six gilt-decorated raised bands and red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt; neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down, binding rubbed and worn. Armorial bookplate of James Dickson Esqr. of Ednam in the County of Roxburgh; early ink ownership inscription at head of title: Kelso Library. A very good copy. First edition. "Not a great deal is known concerning Griffith Hughes. He was born perhaps in Merionethshire about 1707 or 1708 and graduated B.A. and M.A. from St John's College, Oxford, in 1748. Yet just two years later, while rector of St Lucy's parish in the north of Barbados, he brought out his Natural History of the island. At that time he was a member of the Royal Society and obviously a competent botanist. . . The book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History (1731[-47]), which also gave some account of West Indian plants, in some instances the same ones, with similar local names. Hughes had an advantage over Catesby in that a majority of the Barbados plates were drawn by Ehret, whereas just three of Catesby's are from that gifted artist's hand. Probably several of the unsigned Barbados plates are also by Ehret, for he may have signed only those that he felt were good. . . The book has many charming features. Not often does a work on natural history contain an index to 'Texts of Scripture Cited or Illustrated'. It is the model work by the colonial parson who knows his poets and would know all he can of the flora and fauna among which he has come to dwell. Both in style and in philosophy he is a man of his century" â" Hunt. Women and their use of time are commented on by Hughes, in a passage where he also discusses the function of nature painting using shells: "In the section of his Natural History of Barbados (1750) devoted to shells [pp.267-286], Griffith Hughes defended the inclusion of women in his audience by stating: 'I have heard several of the Fair Sex, who are fond of Shell-work, frequently ridiculed, as wasting their Time in a trifling and useless Manner.' On the contrary, he argued, configuring shells into designs not only answered Joseph Addison's idea of 'The Beautiful,' but it particularly suited the 'Genius of Women,' who have a facility for putting 'Shape and Colour artificially . . . together.' Moreover, it was so much better than 'murdering their Time in Gaming!' . . . In these remarks [and others], Hughes included women in his audience and in the heterosocial scene of natural history, yet he delineated for them a distinct relationship to nature and to knowledge, associating men with natural philosophy and its central attribute of disinterested curiosity and associated women with imagination, artifice, and the need for improvement. . . " Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the . . . â" 2012, p.174. PROVENANCE: James Dickson (1712-1771) "was born in Stichell, the son of a tenant farmer. Aged about fourteen, young James was apprenticed to a saddler in Kelso. However, he seems to have been a high spirited and mischievous young man for he vandalised the Town Well in the Square, (according to one version by polluting it with a dead cat), then fled the town to escape from punishment. The details of his subsequent career are somewhat obscure but by 1739 he was living in London where he carved out a very successful career as a merchant. It is likely that among his activities he was a prize agent dealing with the sale of ships captured during the wars with France and Spain. (At that time enemy ships and their contents were sold and the spoils shared by the men who had captured them.) He probably also did very well from the capture of Havana in Cuba in 1762, as he would later name his house after this event. In the 1760's James Dickson returned to his native town, now an extremely wealthy man. He immediately began to acquire land in the district including an area beside the River Tweed, between Oven Wynd and the Old Bridge. Here he built himself a handsome town house - Havannah House - employing as his architect one James Nisbet, also a native of Kelso but with a practice in London. He also bought a number of properties in the Square where he had the Cross Keys Hotel erected. Further afield he bought the barony of Broughton near Peebles, and he became Member of Parliament. for a Scottish Burghs seat. In 1765 James Dickson bought the barony of Ednam from the last of the Edmonstone lairds. Thereafter he styled himself Dickson of Ednam and his house in Kelso was renamed Ednam House. As laird he was an enthusiastic.

folio. 39cm, large paper copy, subscriber's issue, [xiv],vii,[i,],314,[xx],p., [subscriber's list,errata with printed addition laid down, addenda, index], plus large folding map of Barbados by Thomas Jefferys, 30 copper engraved plates,5 text illustrations, many initial letter and header & tail devices,(including many beautiful elaborate floral devices and a few with vignette views), rebound in quarter tan calf, raised blind ruled bands, gilt titles, marbled boards, some slight transfer but a fine attractive tall copy of the large paper issue. (cgc). The book is handsomely printed, the majority of the plates are finely executed from drawings by the great plant artist, Georg Dionysius Egret. Each plate bear the arms of one of Hughes' patrons. This is a important book on the natural history of one of the main British colonies in the Caribbean. Hughes spent most of his career in Barbados. He was patronized by English gentlemen in return for supplying them with seeds. Most of the book is devoted to plants, although there is a section at the end regarding fish. Hughes is believed to have been born in England in 1707 and was a student at St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A. and then M.A. in 1748. He was Rector of St Lucy's, Barbados, and made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1750, the year this work was published. Hughes also contributed a paper 'Of a Zoophyton resembling the Flower of the Marigold' to the 'Philosophical Transactions' - "A standard work on the early natural history of the Island". Woods. Casey Woods, p393. Cox II-p219. Nissen 950; Sabin 33582; Hunt 536. Great Flower Books p60. European America 750/168.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Printed for the Author, 1750. First edition, large paper issue. Folio (15 3/4" x 10 1/2", 404mm x 260mm). With 31 engraved plates; a double-page engraved map of Barbados, and 30 engraved plates of fruits, flowers, and marine life. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Decorative gilt border with red morocco and gilt armorial inlays at the corners. Rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. On the spine, gilt lettering and six raised bands. Dentelles inside and red speckled edges to the text block. Extremities and hinges worn, tears to the spine. Foxing and offsetting throughout. Griffith Hughes (1707?-after 1750) was a Welsh naturalist and clergyman. Hughes was sent to Pennsylvania to lead several Welsh congregations in the colony. In 1736, he was assigned to St. Lucy's parish in Barbados, where he studied plants and wildlife. Over twelve years residing on the island, Hughes developed a thorough understanding of its trees and plants. The Natural History of Barbados was the first book to describe the grapefruit, calling it the "Forbidden-Fruit-Tree" and to coin the phrase "yellow fever." The work was printed in both large and small paper copies. The volume contains a list of subscribers, including the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Orleans. The position of the list of subscribers varies between copies with this one placed after the dedication leaf. Each plate is dedicated to a patron or subscriber, including a coat of arms. There is a head-engraving of Bridge-Town and woodcuts throughout. As a religious man, Hughes introduced some sacred texts in his descriptions of the flora and fauna. His cartographer was Thomas Jeffreys (1719-1771), geographer to the Prince of Wales, with engravings after art by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1710-1770). Hunt asserts that "the book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History (1731[-47])." After returning from the Americas, Hughes received his BA from St. John's College, Oxford in 1748, and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. Although he was praised by Linnaeus and multiple sources, some have questioned his accuracy as a botanist. Hunt: 536. Nissen: 950. Pritzel: 4319. Sabin: 33582.