Lawrence sir john (15 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 275 p : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Lawrence, Henry Montgomery Sir (1806-1857). India History British occupation, (1765-1947). Genres; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Fluid stain on the top of the back cover. Francisco Goya (illustrator).

First Edition. A fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Description: 245 p. , 8 leaves of plates : front. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Soviet Union --Social life and customs. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n No Jacket. y 1st Edition. Bristol: Knowledge Publications / Purnell & Sons Limited, 1966. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. First 10 volumes in a gallery of work by great artists, collected in a brown faux leather slipcase with gilt lettering to spine and brown ribbon. 1 Goya, 2 Vermeer, 3 Canaletto, 4 Botticelli, 5 Hals, 6 Blake, 7 Poussin, 8 Toulouse-Lautrec, 9 El Greco, 10 Tiepolo. Light foxing to covers and title pages of 1, 2 & 7 and minor edge and surface wear to all, otherwise very good copies. Each has 5 pages of text and list of plates followed by 16 full page colour plates plus colour reproduction to cover.The slipcase has some marking to edges and cover, fading to spine and small tear to top corner, otherwise good. VERY HEAVY ITEM, extra postage will be required. Book.…

Lecture. "Christianity in countries under Communist Rule.Eastern Europe in general and the Soviet Union in particular, but I shall have something to say about China, Ethiopia and Latin America. I do not like to isolate Christianity from other faiths, and I shall say something about Islam." Pp.23. Pale pink card wraps. VG. …

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame.This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an antique portrait of this eminent personage. Engraved By Pound (illustrator).

1st ed. "Can Communism and Christianity exist together?". Pp. 126. P/b. Illust. cover (Jeff Cummins). VG.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. First. A fine original colour lithograph from Vanity Fair, a magazine which was published from 1869-1914, featuring a large caricature portrait each week. These were drawn by various artists, the most famous of whom was Leslie Ward who used the 'nom de crayon' of "Spy". This portrait will come mounted/matted and ready to frame using archivist quality materials, mount size 18 x 12 inches, 47 x 31 cms. It will be presented in a cellophane wrapper with our label guaranteeing authenticity. We pack very well, between sheets of hardboard. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of Sir James Lawrence, Bart, President of the Royal Horticultural Society, with the caption "Horticulture". With accompanying biographical details. Drawn By Spy (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Sixth Edition. Later pale blue stiff card wrappers; clean and tidy, no marks, no splits, no creases. Contents crisp, fresh and tight, not showing any pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 225mm x 150mm; collation: pp. [iv], 165, [1, an explanation of the fold-out plate], [2, book adverts], complete with 8 hand-coloured plates (7 full page and 1 fold-out showing 9 figures). A particularly clean, bright copy, very presentable.…

Zustand: Good. Line engraving on wove paper. 41 x 30.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, black tape at sheet corners.

Hardback. 69pp, map, small 4to 1935 *On cover: For Information, not for Publication. VG.

hardcover. Zustand: very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED11 x 8.5, hardcover dust jacket in good condition (bumping, chipping, and creasing at top edge of front and back covers, head of spine bumped and creased, miniscule stain on fore edge, clean pages, 1165 pp., prompt shipping with tracking.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. An uncommon edition of this discerning and richly illustrated anthology of poetry edited by Robert Bell. Uncommon.In full morocco binding with abundant gilt decoration and gilt fore edges. Marbled pastedown and marbled free endpaper at the front and rear of the work. Illustrated throughout with 66 monochrome vignettes replicating the work of several celebrated artists, including J. M. W. Turner, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Thomas Stothard, George Barrett Sr., and David Roberts. Collated complete. Printed by R. Clay, Son and Taylor. Richard Clay I's son and partner in the printers Charles John Clay played an important part in the history of Cambridge University's printing and press. This is a discerning anthology of poetry which brings together the work of more than 150 poets, with its golden leaves featuring excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Marriage of Patient Grissel', Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Song of the Pixies', John Donne's 'A Lecture upon Shadows', John Milton's 'L'Allegro', Lady Mary Wortley Montague's 'The Lover', three of William Shakespeare's sonnets, Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Cloud', and Alfred Tennyson's 'Break, O Sea'. Edited by Robert Bell. In decorated full morocco binding. Externally very smart with good colour to the binding on the boards barring a touch of browning to the spine; gilt decoration and edges bright. The odd wormhole to the front and rear boards. Slight rubbing to the front board and to the bottom edge. Slight bumping to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Slight loss of marbling on the front and rear free endpapers at the hinge. Hinges strained. Internally, firmly with generally bright and clean pages. Some toning and spotting throughout, First front free endpaper blind stamped with 'James Davies Bookseller Bath'. Richard Clay printer's mark on front blank. One minor closed tear to the first free rear endpaper, not impacting text. Very Good Indeed. Multiple, inc. Jean-Antoine Watteau, George Barrett Sr., Sir Thomas Lawrence, J. M. W. Turner, David Roberts, Sir William Boxall. (illustrator). book.…

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Fair, on aged paper, with thin strip from stub adhering to reverse of second leaf. Lawrence informs Allnutt that he has been to the British Institution, 'yet tho' at an early undisturb'd hour', he was 'unable to fix on any one Picture amongst many of nearly the same merit'. His advice is: 'You must yourself choose.' He finds 'some small Works by Mr. Childe' good, but 'can't determine to add to my own Collection (if I may use so fine a word) or I agree with you that I ought to purchase Mr. Hartstones, which is an admirable head!' He is enclosing a paper (not present) with unimportant matter, and he asks Allnutt and his wife to 'keep it as a record of my opinions on two or three subjects in art, and as conveying my own genuine thoughts & Feelings, on Characters that preceded me in the Chair! / The Picture that gain'd the Prize was by Mr: Hartstone, who has now still more justified the Academys decision'. He invites Allnutt to call on him in Russell Square, and asks him to bring, 'if Mrs Allnutt can oblige me with the loan of it, a light (the lightest) blonde Ruff for the Neck. I want it for the Portrait of a Lady of her Acquaintance. [her daughter Jane?]'.…

Folio, (128)pp, title and introduction (4pp) and 31 numbered sheets watermarked 1823, each of 4pp, the first headed: 'Thought Not a Function of the Brain &c.'. At one time simply sewn, sewing no longer present. This is a remarkable, unpublished, critique of William Lawrence's controversial Lectures published in 1816 which, together with his Natural History of Man, 1819 created 'the first scientific issue that widely seized the public imagination in Britain, a premonition of the debate over Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection exactly forty years later'. William Lawrence, 1783-1867, had a long and distinguished career as a surgeon specialising in opthalmology after his initial five years as apprentice to John Abernethy, 1764-1831, and was knighted by Queen Victoria just before his death. Percy and Mary Shelley consulted him from 1814 - and it has been suggested that Lawrence's argument in favour of materialism against Abernethy's support for 'vitalism' may have inspired Frankenstein. For Lawrence, mental processes were a function of the brain, while Abernethy argued that thoughts were the product of 'vital acts of an immaterial kind'. His radicalism, which allied him in the public mind with Paine, Byron, Carlile and Hone, led to the Lord Chancellor ruling that Lawrence's Lectures contradicted the Bible and were therefore blasphemous; to avoid prosecution they were withdrawn by the author, and 'never again did he venture to express his views on the process of evolution'. He did later warn Thomas Huxley ('Darwin's Bulldog') not to publicly support the theory. Darwin, in his 1838 notebook, does refers to Lawrence's Lectures, but his role in the 'evolution of the theory of evolution' is little known, even though his ideas on heredity 'were many years ahead of their time' and he is credited with the first use of the word 'biology'. The manuscript offered here is a contemporary criticism of Lawrence; it is dated in the later hand of Albert Bonus as 1827, but it may be slightly earlier as it is written on paper watermarked 1823. Bonus adds his own notes at the end of the manuscript: 'This treatise was written by my maternal grandfather John Frederick Courtenay. he was born in 1792 or 1793, and died July 27, 1858. He had a wonderful memory, was acquainted with nine languages. He was an excellent musician. a silk merchant by occupation and often travelled in Italy on his business.' This 'important and valuable treatise. was given to me by my aunt, Mrs. H. Sowerby (maiden name Lizzie Courtenay) daughter of the above. He was one of the family of the Earls of Devon, his father having been Rector of Lee, Kent & of St. George's, Hanover Square, London'. Courtenay was married to Ann Pullen and worked in the Customs Office; he died at Ramsgate in 1858. His library was sold by Leigh, Sotheby & John in the same year.…