Varlo c (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover. Original brown leather boards with spine label stamped on gold "Varlo's Husbandry." Front cover attached by only one cord. Rear cover better attached, but leather at the hinge is showing wear. Front endpaper has faded ownership name "William Gearhart his Book bought 1818 in Snyder's Town." This page is chipped at the edges and attached to the front cover, not the rest of the text block. Second blank page has another name, "William Gearhart His Book 1830 Husbandry No [can't read it]" This page is a little loose too. Folding table opposite the title page is missing its bottom half. Title page itself has been clipped just beneath the authors name, so publication information is not there. Lists of subscribers in New York and Philadelphia and surrounding areas, including George Washington, George Spotwood, and many others of note. 364 pages. Bottom 3 inches of the final page is missing, neatly clipped off. Text block is tight, but pages have a bit of waviness. Printed in unusually large font. Boards are a bit bowed. Some fading and toning to the pages. Please email to request photos. A nice early US imprint.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good Plus. "This Picture, it is presumed, will be found an admirable guide to strangers: and even the annual freqquenters of Margate will derive from it much gratification, it being embellished with Twenty of the most prominent Views." vi, 124pp, a map and 24 views engraved by J.J.Shury from drawings by Captain G.Varlo R.M. Spine sometime reinforced otherwise very good. G.Varlo, J.J.Shury (illustrator).…

Full Leather. Zustand: Good. First Edition. pp. vol. I: [4], [ix]-xvi, 17-318, [2- index,] [2- blank]; voll. II: 108, *109 - *134, 109-290, [325]-332, 291-296. Folding table frontispiece to volume I. The pagination is somewhat erratic, but all seems to be present, there is stub to the preliminaries of vol. I but this is from the folding table. Collation as follows vol. I Title, Advertisment leaf, Preface, Introduction, main text, Index; vol. II; Title page, Preface, Appendix, List of subscribers. Full, conteporary bindings of tree sheep, gilt decoration to the spines. Bindings worn to the spine with much of the covering leather chipped off, the boards remain firmly attached, but ideally need to be rebacked. All edges dyed yellow. Contents clean and tight, paper clean and crisp. A good/;very good set. All of Varlo's self- published works are scarce, but this title is particularly scarce - the list of subscribers listing only around 225 names. It is a later issue with some new material but, essentially as preceding editions: - "The Essence of Agriculture" in 1786 and "Nature Displayed" in 1793. Varlo went to America in 1784, expecting, apparently, to be acknowledged as governor of the province of New Jersey, through a grant from Charles I to Sir Edmund Plowden. This claim was dismissed in the courts. Varlo's twelve months' tour through the states of New England, Maryland, and Virginia is described in chapters three and four with fascinating accounts of George Washington and General Eathen Allen. Varlo's text while predominantly about British agriculture includes various references to American Agriculture including sections on Indian corn and tobacco. Varlo was free thinking and his text is enriched with his own observations and social commentary including his views on social injustices; some of his beliefs and thoughts were ahead of his time: - Chapter XXVI - ".my thoughts upon the most barbarous law which prevails in England, of hanging fellons." and concludes ".neither do I think that the law, as it now stands, for hanging felons, has the desired effect in lessening the growth of evils." The following chapter is entitled "A scheme to dispose of Felons, without Death or transportation, and make them useful Members of Society." Of tobacco users he says ".we are confident many in those countries that go without shoes and stockings, destroy more money in tobacco than would keep them in these articles; in short, it is a foolish, dirty, unmeaning custom, which ought to be abolished by every person of sense, having no good quality attending it." . [bibliographic references: HOWES V53. SABIN 98633.]. Book.…