Author great britain (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. minor wear, some edge tears. The book is in good condition, with a hardcover binding that remains intact. The dust jacket shows minor wear, including some edge tears, typical for a publication of this age. The interior pages are clean and free of inscriptions or library markings.…

Card Covers. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card covers. Excellent photographic reference on the Hetzer, Jagdpanzer IV, Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger and Ferdinand. 1st Edition 1998. 43pp., numerous photographs mainly from Museum examples. Vgc card covers. Ships from UK.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 129 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. blue cloth, gilt letttering, dust jacket, 427 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

Paper covers. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback 16 x 24cm 223pp plus tet with colour reproductions A Highly Collectable Copy Now Getting very Scarse / Rare.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Almost As New. Clean tight copy, no marks, very light foxing, inscription top of title page 'Chief Engineer'. Covers in good condition, part of nameplate on front board.

Publishers Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited to 350 copies this copy signed. Book measures 25x19.cm. xx,138pp. Bound in original publishers black cloth. Very slight wear on base of spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket light rubbed, small secition of loss on top edge, dusty. Jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A good solid copy. Size: Large 8 Vo. …

orig. wrappers. Zustand: Cover title. VG. 56 pp., 22x14cm, A Sierre Leone dissident / exile's expose of the corrupt diamond trade involving Sierre Leone government,Lebanese traders and Apartheid-era South Africa, blind-eyed by the O.A.U. textual illustrations (illustrator).

Folio 13.75 x 8.75 inches; 349 x 223 mm. [2, title (verso blank)], [2, dedication to Thomas [Hering], Archbishop of Canterbury (verso blank)], vii, [1, Errata], [10, "A List of the Subscribers"], [1, "The Contents"], [1, "Authors Quoted" and "Texts of Scripture Cited or Illustrated"], 250, 251*-254*, 251-314, [7, Explanatory Notes], [1, blank], [4, Addenda], [7, Index], [1, blank] pp. Pages 116 and 117 misnumbered 115 and 116. Large folding engraved map, "A Map of the Island of Barbados," by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer, and 30 engraved plates (22 of which are botanical) by R. Austen, George Bickham, George Dionys Ehret, and J. Mynde, after Ehret and Bickham. Each of the plates is dedicated to one or more of the subscribers (mainly royalty and peerage). Engraved head-piece vignette, "A Prospect of Bridge-Town in the Island of Barbadoes," on pages 1, 31, 61, 188, and 251, and engraved head-piece showing a swag of fruit and flowers (at pages 43, 97, 121, and 141). Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; a2 with clean tear, folding map with short tear into the image (repaired on the verso), and with lower right edge creased, short tear to upper margin of pages 107/108 and 109/110, same location on pl. IV (facing p.111), some offsetting of the plates, with occasional offsetting and bleed-through from text and woodcut tail-pieces. Contemporary calf, spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with six gilt-decorated raised bands and red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt; neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down, binding rubbed and worn. Armorial bookplate of James Dickson Esqr. of Ednam in the County of Roxburgh; early ink ownership inscription at head of title: Kelso Library. A very good copy. First edition. "Not a great deal is known concerning Griffith Hughes. He was born perhaps in Merionethshire about 1707 or 1708 and graduated B.A. and M.A. from St John's College, Oxford, in 1748. Yet just two years later, while rector of St Lucy's parish in the north of Barbados, he brought out his Natural History of the island. At that time he was a member of the Royal Society and obviously a competent botanist. . . The book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History (1731[-47]), which also gave some account of West Indian plants, in some instances the same ones, with similar local names. Hughes had an advantage over Catesby in that a majority of the Barbados plates were drawn by Ehret, whereas just three of Catesby's are from that gifted artist's hand. Probably several of the unsigned Barbados plates are also by Ehret, for he may have signed only those that he felt were good. . . The book has many charming features. Not often does a work on natural history contain an index to 'Texts of Scripture Cited or Illustrated'. It is the model work by the colonial parson who knows his poets and would know all he can of the flora and fauna among which he has come to dwell. Both in style and in philosophy he is a man of his century" â" Hunt. Women and their use of time are commented on by Hughes, in a passage where he also discusses the function of nature painting using shells: "In the section of his Natural History of Barbados (1750) devoted to shells [pp.267-286], Griffith Hughes defended the inclusion of women in his audience by stating: 'I have heard several of the Fair Sex, who are fond of Shell-work, frequently ridiculed, as wasting their Time in a trifling and useless Manner.' On the contrary, he argued, configuring shells into designs not only answered Joseph Addison's idea of 'The Beautiful,' but it particularly suited the 'Genius of Women,' who have a facility for putting 'Shape and Colour artificially . . . together.' Moreover, it was so much better than 'murdering their Time in Gaming!' . . . In these remarks [and others], Hughes included women in his audience and in the heterosocial scene of natural history, yet he delineated for them a distinct relationship to nature and to knowledge, associating men with natural philosophy and its central attribute of disinterested curiosity and associated women with imagination, artifice, and the need for improvement. . . " Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the . . . â" 2012, p.174. PROVENANCE: James Dickson (1712-1771) "was born in Stichell, the son of a tenant farmer. Aged about fourteen, young James was apprenticed to a saddler in Kelso. However, he seems to have been a high spirited and mischievous young man for he vandalised the Town Well in the Square, (according to one version by polluting it with a dead cat), then fled the town to escape from punishment. The details of his subsequent career are somewhat obscure but by 1739 he was living in London where he carved out a very successful career as a merchant. It is likely that among his activities he was a prize agent dealing with the sale of ships captured during the wars with France and Spain. (At that time enemy ships and their contents were sold and the spoils shared by the men who had captured them.) He probably also did very well from the capture of Havana in Cuba in 1762, as he would later name his house after this event. In the 1760's James Dickson returned to his native town, now an extremely wealthy man. He immediately began to acquire land in the district including an area beside the River Tweed, between Oven Wynd and the Old Bridge. Here he built himself a handsome town house - Havannah House - employing as his architect one James Nisbet, also a native of Kelso but with a practice in London. He also bought a number of properties in the Square where he had the Cross Keys Hotel erected. Further afield he bought the barony of Broughton near Peebles, and he became Member of Parliament. for a Scottish Burghs seat. In 1765 James Dickson bought the barony of Ednam from the last of the Edmonstone lairds. Thereafter he styled himself Dickson of Ednam and his house in Kelso was renamed Ednam House. As laird he was an enthusiastic. …

Softcover. Zustand: Near Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 21x14.cm. 112pp, with the errata slip. Bound in period or early marble paper sofback. Marble paper covers rubbed, some abrasion wear, with minor loss of pattern, spine rubbed, lack secition on tail. Generally a nice binding. Internally, light small stain to free endpaper, 1 small hole on margin, 2 small hole on page number lettering. Pages in good clean condition. Generally a very nice copy. Size: 8vo. …

viii, xx, 21-391, [1]p; xxxix, [1] errata in the list of subscribers, 346, [2], 351-400, [2]pp errata. 4to. A very good clean copy. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, red morocco labels. Sl. wear to one headcap, small wormhole at foot of one spine. ESTC N6445. James Foster, 1697 1753, Baptist minister, who achieved a reputation for rejecting human authority in matters of religious controversy, belief, and practical piety. Despite criticism from many orthodox Calvinists, Foster was a celebrated preacher and academic, winning increasing recognition from many moderates within Protestant and Roman Catholic dissent, as well as from within the radical Deist wing of the Church of England. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Marischal College in Aberdeen in December 1748 and was on several occasions offered livings in the conformist Church of Ireland. Alexander Pope wrote in one of his Satires: 'Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well'.…

Second edition, following the first of the same year, of perhaps the most famous and influential of all English books on accountancy. The work went through at least sixteen editions in England alone, also being translated into German, French, Italian and Russian. The 19th century "opened with the continuing reverberations of the publication in 1796 of Edward Thomas Jones's English System of book-keeping. This book was translated into several European languages, and gave rise to much controversy and provoked the publication of various 'national' systems of book-keeping. The passions inspired by Jones's book are without equal in the history of book-keeping and accountancy" (Yamey, introduction to ICAEW catalogue). These passions were the result of Jones's attack upon the Italian method. Jones "heralded the coming of a new method of book-keeping by single entry, which would be much simpler to understand and operate, enable all errors to be detected without much delay or trouble, provide valuable information not yielded readily by the double-entry system, and, finally, would banish the possibility of fraudulent book-keeping entries. The panegyrics lavished by the author on his new system were coupled with an intemperate attack on the so-called Italian system of double entry, which, in the course of a lengthy castigation, was said to be delusive, conducive to error, and capable 'of being converted into a cloak, for the vilest statements that designing ingenuity can fabricate'" (Yamey, Studies, p.313). Though Jones's attempt to replace the double entry by a modified form of single entry failed, he nevertheless made several fruitful suggestions for improving the design and organization of accounting records and the checks on the accuracy of the records. Herwood 299; ICAEW p. 85; this edition not in ESTC. Basil Yamey, Studies in the History of Accounting, 1956. Quarto (269 x 206 mm). Collation conforming to that given in ICAEW, with preliminary gathering of 3 leaves. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine with blue label and compartments decorated with urn motifs in gilt, decorated in gilt with blue lettering-piece, gilt roll border to sides, marbled endpapers, blue sprinkled edges. Joints and extremities neatly restored. Light foxing to contents with slight tide mark at foot. A very good, attractive copy.…