skene john (9 Ergebnisse)

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ISBN-13: 9781584778134; ISBN-10: 158477813X. Ancient Scottish Legal Terms Skene, John [1543?-1617]. De Verborum Significatione: The Exposition of the Termes and Difficill Wordes, Conteined in the Foure Buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and Uthers, In the Acts of Parliament, Infestments; And Used in Practique of this Realme; With Divers Rules, and Common Places, Or Principalles of the Lawes. 1681. Originally published: [Edinburgh: Alexander Smellie, Printer, 1815]. [iii], 4-146 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778134; ISBN-10: 158477813X. Hardcover. New. $34.95 * Reprint of the 1815 edition. With side-notes. Also published as an appendix to Bell's Dictionary of the Law of Scotland, this edition of Skene's dictionary reprints the text of the 1681 edition issued in Edinburgh by David Lindsay. Originally printed as an appendix to Skene's great Lawes and Actes of Parliament Maid be King James the First and His Successors, Kings of Scotland (1597), it is a valuable dictionary of ancient Scottish legal terms. Skene was an important Scottish jurist and legal historian.

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Zustand: Good. 3 vols in 1, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, leather lettering labels, joints cracked, books plates to front paste-down and front endpaper, folio.22 x 33cm.Wormholes in lower right cortner of first 50 pages, mostly small., Santi Bartoli, Pietro and Giovanni Pietro Bellori.Le Pitture Antiche del Sepolcro de Nasonii Nella via Flaminia?.,1 double page and 34 engraved plates, damp-staining to initial leave of text, affecting the engraved plate at corner, Giovanni Battista Bussotti, Rome, 1680; .Menestrier (Claude François) Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua. 24 engravings, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1688; Writ (Giovanni Michele) Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa. dall'illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo Signor Conte di Castelmaine., engraved frontispiece, one large folding and 14 engraved plates,.*** The third work contains an account of the Earl of Castlemaine's embassy to Rome in 1687, on behalf of James II, who wished to return England to the Catholic Church.Text and plates describe wall-paintings and vaults of the ancient tomb of the Nasonii on the Via Flaminia, which had been unearthed in 1674. The work was reprinted throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and served as a pattern book among such Neoclassical designers as Adam, Wyatt, Soane, Percier and Fontaine, Hope and Nash.The plates show: 1. excavation and the façade of the tomb; 2. the plan of the tomb; 3, 4. overall views of two walls of paintings; 5-20. details of the paintings; 21. overall view of a painted ceiling; 22-35. details of the ceiling paintings. The paintings show Greek mythological subjects, hunts and the seasons. The book also carries decorated initials.Bartoli's drawings of the murals are preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. They were used by G. Turnbull for some plates in A curious collection of ancient paintings (1741).OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:702324701;OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1085650529; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 800892296.Provenance: Thomas Longueville, Skene Library, Ampleforth Abbey Library.

Leather. Zustand: Fair. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first English language edition of this early seventeenth century work on the constitution and law of Scotland. The very scarce first English language edition of this work, which was also published in Latin in the same year.First edition in Scottish of this compendium of Scottish laws, also published in Latin in the same year. The second part of the work includes reference to the law enacted by James II forbidding golf; 'na man sould play at the golfe'.The 'Regiam Majestatem' is the earliest surviving work giving a comprehensive digest of the Law of Scotland. It dates from the fourteenth century, and is based upon a tract from 1188.Sir John Skene has here compiled and edited the document at his own expense, with this being the first publication in English of the work. Skene's version is not entirely consistent with the original document, but is viewed as the standard version. Later legal references to the document are references to this 1609 publication.A6, [2]A6, B-2D6, [3]A-2G6. 2H4. [6], 158, [1], 181, [1] leavesESTC S117424; STC 22626A3-5, A4, B-2D6, A-2G6, 2H4. Collated, lacking leaves A1, A2, and A3 of part I, which includes the title page, and lacking leaf I2 of part II, which is a double sided leaf of text.Retaining two original blanks to the rear, and one to the front. Retaining medial blank 2D6, and final blank 2H4.A very scarce insight into Scotland's legal history. In a full calf binding. Losses of leather to back strip head and tail. Lacking the majority of the spine label. Rear board detached. Front board very tenderly held by gutter of leaf A2 only. Front endpapers renewed, retaining the original rear endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Lacking the title page, and a further preliminary leaf, alongside leaf I2 of part II. Significant closed tears to gutter of leaves A1 and A2. Tape repairs to head of leaves A3-4. Small losses to head of first ten leaves, with tide mark to head of each leaf up to F2. Pages significantly age toned, with handling marks throughout. Fair. book.

Magazine. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. various (illustrator). Six lovely consecutive issues of the exciting 'Thriller Library' magazine, containing the complete story 'The Great Knock-Over' by Dashiell Hammett, all in the original wraps. Six consecutive issues of 'The Thriller Library' magazine.Each issue is present in the original colourful wraps, with in-text illustrations throughout.This run includes the entirety of 'The Great Knock-Over' by Dashiell Hammett. It is very rare to find a complete Hammett story in the original parts.The Continental Op featured in 'The Great Knock-Over' (also published as 'The Big Knockover') became the prototype for the tough-guy detectives of the generations to come.'The Thriller Library' was a weekly newspaper in circulation from February 1929 to May 1940, containing a variety of exciting stories of detectives solving simple murder cases and even gang warfare.No. 457, November 6th 1937. 'The Adventure of the Night Watchman' by Walter Macleod.No. 458, November 13th 1937. 'The Dictator' by Berkeley Gray.No. 459, November 20th 1937. 'The Rogue of Harley Street' by Anthony Skene.No. 460, November 27th 1937. 'Island of Fear' by George Rochester.No. 461, December 4th 1937. 'Odds on Murder!' by John Hudlestone.No. 462, December 11th 1937. 'The Man From Manhattan' by Leonard Gribble. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, smart, with some light age-toning and spots to the wraps. Staples are a little rusted. Minor edge wear to the wraps and pages. Ring mark to the first wrap of No. 462. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and clean with some odd spots. Small mark to the last leaf of No. 458, and some heavier spots to the last leaf of No. 461. Very Good Indeed. book.

Aberdeen: Printed by John Forbes, 1685 (illustrator). Aberdeen: Printed by John Forbes, 1685. Handbook for Inexperienced Officials in Scotland [Skene, Alexander (c. 1621-1694)]. Memorialls for the Government of the Royall-Burghs in Scotland. With Some Overtures Laid Before the Nobility and Gentry of the Several Shyres in this Kingdom. As also, A Survey of the City of Aberdeen, With the Epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun Doctor of Medicin, Upon Some of Our Chief Burghs Translated into English by I.B. By Philopoliteious (Or,) A Lover of the Publick Well-Fare. Aberdeen: Printed by John Forbes, 1685. 288 pp. A Succinct Survey of the Famous City of Aberdeen has separate dated title page (p. 199). Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"; 14 x 8.9 cm). Later period-style polished calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and gilt title and date to spine, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt. A few minor nicks to boards, some fading to spine, recent owner bookplate (of James Stevens Cox) to front pastedown. Moderate toning, somewhat heavier in places, faint dampstaining to lower corners of some leaves, edges trimmed with minor loss to page numbers of a few leaves, light soiling to title page, early owner manuscript annotations to rear endleaf. A handsome copy. $500. * Only edition. Written by a seasoned politician and state official, this work provides a systematic description of the political, legislative and bureaucratic organizations of the Scottish burghs was intended for inexperienced government officials. A prescriptive work as well, it offers opinions on such matters as trade, the establishment of public libraries and ways to instill civic values in young people. It also includes a collection of celebratory poems in Latin and English about Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Inverness, Perth and other cities and towns in Scotland. This copy was once in the library of the distinguished bibliophile, publisher, and antiquarian scholar James Stevens Cox (1910-1997). English Short-Title Catalogue R38926.

4to, title (slightly foxed) and following leaf "to the Reader" a little frayed on outer corners but not touching the text, [4], 96, 87-102, 101-172 pp., contemporary calf, covers detached. John Skene's dictionary, published in 1597, was the first Scottish attempt to define the language of the law. In his opening statement to the reader he modestly admitted his errors and ignorance, and complained that his subject was "one mater nought pleasand in itselfe, nor treated be others of before."*****The dictionary is dense and verbosely worded, and with its arcane spellings and inconsistently formed sentences, it makes some definitions nearly unreadable. He defined many words that are now completely obsolete, of Latin or French origin, giving brief etymological information.****Despite these kinds of archaic forms, many definitions still very clearly describe the meanings of important words and concepts. The dictionary did in fact prompt other Scottish writers to improve upon it, as Skene wished. Skene's dictionary was an invaluable contribution to the literature of Scotland and Scottish law. Wing, C7681: Sweet and Maxwell, 11, (49).

"one of the most beautiful geological maps ever produced in Australia" (La Trobe) Revised. Six sheet colour printed lithograph map, joined and mounted on canvas. The third geological map of Australia after J. Beete Jukes (a modified Arrowsmith map dated 1850) and Robert Smyth (1873). It is based on Skene and Slight's earlier map 'Continental Australia' (first published October 1879), with a second edition in 1880, followed by various editions, in whole or in part, including being used as the basis for the maps of each colony in the 'Sands Atlas' (1887). Brown reports that "at an 1880-81 exhibition in Melbourne, 'A Geological Sketch Map' of the continent, being the Skene map, hand coloured by Arthur Everett, Chief Draftsman of the Victorian Mining Department, was exhibited. The Department then went ahead with a printed version, as here, issued in November 188, on 6 sheets, printed in 11 colours at a price of £3/10/-. The 'Argus' (26 Nov 1887) commented that "as a specimen of lithographic printing, the map is a creditable work of art, the registry or joining of the various colours being free from overlaps and uncoloured areas". The 'La Trobe Journal' article of 2001 says that four editions of the maps were published in 1887-88, and refers to it as "one of the most beautiful geological maps ever produced in Australia". It comments that most of the known copies are varnished roll maps in poor condition, and that no copy seems to have been kept in the separate sheets as issued". Literature: Clancy, 'Maps that Shaped Australia', pages 17-23.