Verlag: John Salisbury, 2020
ISBN 10: 0646818821 ISBN 13: 9780646818825
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 208 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: John Salisbury, 2020
ISBN 10: 0646818821 ISBN 13: 9780646818825
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 208 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: John Salisbury, 1695
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
3rd edition. Small 8vo, bound in contemporary calf, with blindstamped motifs on boards. Generaly rubbed, and gilt on spine is faded. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. There is a small hole in margin of title page and first preface page, not affecting text. A coat of arms has been pasted onto verso of title page. There is a book catalogue of the printer at end. In good overall condition.
Verlag: Oxford: John Sprules; Salisbury: Brown & Co.; Devizes: H.P. Bull [1884]., 1884
Anbieter: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
Sole edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine with matching vignette of Stonehenge to the upper board, what appears to be a later inscription bearing the name "Sprules" to the front free endpaper so possibly a family copy. Frontispiece plus two full page illustrations in the text. Some light rubbing to the covers, very good. An uncommon little guide to the monument and surrounding region, with just a handful of institutional copies found on OCLC.
Verlag: John Senex at the Flobe in Salisbury Court, near Fleet Street, and W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster Row,, London,, 1718
Anbieter: Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens Octavo (157 by 88mm), [I-X], 1-144, [1-6], title page with printer's device, numerical tables throughout, free end paper lacking, in original calf, spine in five sections separated by raised bands, loss to calf. John Senex (16781740) was one of the most important English mapmakers and publishers of the first half of the eighteenth century. Such was his contribution to the development of the British map trade in his lifetime, that he was honoured and recognised in 1728 by his election to the Royal Society, sponsored by some of the greatest scientists of the period. He acted as semi-official engraver to the Royal Society, to its printer William Taylor, with whom Senex was to work closely, and to leading figures within the Society, including Sir Edmund Halley and William Whiston. For this reason, Senex was responsible for publishing a number of important scientific maps, notably Halley and Whiston's eclipse maps for the 1715 and 1724 eclipses. Although he published his first pair of globes in 1706, before joining the Society, this connection later granted him access to the most up-to-date scientific data, which he then used for his extensive range of terrestrial and celestial globes. It seems that, rather than producing a manual appended to a specific pair of his own globes, Senex published the present work as a general accompaniment to all globes. On the first page of the text, he states that "by the globes we here mean two artificial spherical bodies, whose convex part is supposed to give a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens, as visible by observation: and therefore are call'd the Terrestrial and Caelestial Globes". The first section of the work is taken up with an explanation of each part of the globe, and each position it can be set in for different purposes. He then moves on to a series of 42 problems, which equip the reader with all the methods needed to use a pair of globes to tell the time of day, the latitude of a location and the movements of the constellations. Following his treatise on globes, Senex includes "A Geographical Description of the World", including a description of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, along with some information about the size, peoples and cultures of certain countries within them. The present work is extremely rare, with only 13 institutional examples worldwide, and no others on the market.