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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Memoirs of the Lives, Characters and Writings of Those Two Eminently Pious | And useful ministers of Jesus Christ, Dr. Isaac Watts and Dr. Philip Doddridge | Andrew Kippis (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 308 S. | Englisch | 2018 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337671297 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Full-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1893 (1788) reprint. 404pp. Very Good/None. Dark blue tooled leather boards with Richmond County School badges in gold to front and attractive tooling to spine, minor rubbing to edges/spine, minor scuffing. Contents clean and tight but for minor spotting. Prize label inside front cover. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Includes 12 B&W plates reproduced in exact facsimile from drawings made during the voyages. Account of Captain James Cooke's 3 groundbreaking exploratory voyages round the world and his death in Hawaii. …

Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. A scarce set of Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, down to the Present times: Collected from the Best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript and Dige The second edition, with corrections, enlargements, and the addition of new lives by Andrew Kippis with the assistance the of Rev. Joseph Towers and other Gentlemen. In five volumes complete. Volume one: Aaron to Bathurst; volume two: Bathurst to Bull; volume three: Bulleyn to Coke; volume four: Baxter to Davies; volume five: Davis to Fastolff. Biographia Britannica was a multi-volume biographical compendium, "the most ambitious attempt in the latter half of the eighteenth century to document the lives of notable British men and women". The first edition, edited by William Oldys, appeared in 6 volumes (the sixth in two parts, the second sometimes catalogued as volume 7) between 1747 and 1766. Five volumes of an incomplete second edition, edited by Andrew Kippis with the assistance of Joseph Towers, appeared between 1778 and 1793, and cover names commencing Aa through to Fa; a sixth volume was prepared for publication, and may have been published, but now seems to be lost. Contributors included Thomas Broughton and John Campbell, compiler of Lives of the Admirals (1742). Andrew Kippis (1725 - 1795) was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer. Joseph Towers (1737 - 1799) was an English Dissenter and biographer. In half calf bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, generally sound but with wear to extremities and rubbing and marks to boards, one volume rebacked. Seven boards detached, two joints failed with boards held by hinges only, one joint cracked. Internally, text blocks firmly bound. Bright and generally clean but with occasional slight foxing and marks to pages and small institutional ink stamps to reverse of titles and an ink stamp 'Rebound 11 Jul 1957' to rear of volume three. With the odd slight closed tear. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…