mapletoft john (10 Ergebnisse)

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

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

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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the proverbs of different cultures and languages. Compiled by John Mapletoft, it features proverbs from Italian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish, and British traditions, along with English translations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Two Items bound together, 4to. (325x205mm), first item 32pp. second item 21,[1]pp. and uniform with above item. Title page to both items cut down and mounted in ruled mount to each leaf, title page in each case discoloured, otherwise very good, with an armorial bookplate, and discreet institutional withdrawn stamp to front endpaper, and small discreet stamp to title page of each item. Bound in brown buckram, titled in gilt and gilt number to tail of spine with label removed from centre of front cover. Concerns the denial of a Freeman fellowship to Robert Mapletoft by the Master (John Wilcox) and fellows of the College.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 21,45,38,30,21 pp. Bound in full red morocco with gilt ruling, blindstamped coat of arms to front and another blinstamped mark to back. Book plates of Kier House, Victor de Guinzbourg, and William Stirling, along with a handwritten noted signed "WS" on the first blank explaining that this seems to be a reprint of the English edition of "Select Proverbs" London 1707, in Stirling's copy of which is an inscription noting that the "author is Johawnis Mapletoft" Binding is clean and solid with minimal wear, just a bit of rubbing, interior has interesting bookplates, otherwise clean and unmarked. Seems to correspond to OCLC 800678850, which is shown as an octavo. This copy is in 8s but it is a 12mo size. Very scarce indeed, only 4 copies in WorldCat, one auction record from 1907, otherwise virtually unknown. A nice little book with a lovely provenance. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

8vo, pp. [xiv], 126, [2] advertisements; contemporary sheep, spine crumbling but not repaired, and sewing intact. First and only edition: the same sheets were reissued in 1710 with a new titlepage as A select collection of proverbs, but that 'edition' is otherwise exactly the same. John Mapletoft (1631-1721) was brought up at in the community at Little Gidding and then attended Westminster School, where he was a contemporary and friend of John Locke. He followed the twin professions of medicine and the cloth, becoming a vicar of two London parishes, and being involved with the London hospitals. He corresponded with Locke regularly in later life, as they had common medical interests. Mapletoft also played a prominent part in the SPCK and of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. His preface to this collection shows something of the early 18th century reaction to the licentiousness of the Restoration (or perhaps just the crustiness of an old-fashioned cleric in his mid-seventies), in his criticism of the London stage: 'I mention this out of a just Indignation, and to the eternal Shame of our wretched Poetasters, the modern Scriblers to the English Stage; who, either to get Bread by so vile and mean a Trade, or to gain the Applause of the empty and gay Things, and loose Debauchees of a degenerate Age, and withall to Patronize their own lewd and scandalous Lives, have taken as much pains to varnish and set off Profaneness, and all kinds of brutish Sensuality and Wickedness, and to ridicule true Wisdom and Virtue, and even common Honesty, as those much wiser and better Men, the Heathen Poets, did to discredit Vice and Folly.'. Mapletoft's intention here is clearly to teach better morality, hoping that the book will instruct 'younger, and more unexperienced persons, for whose Instruction and Improvement things of this nature are chiefly design'd'.