john w taylor (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Thomas Y. Crowell; (1884). 16 B/W Illustrations by Shell, Taylor, St. John Harper and others. NearFine Hardcover (Embossed Leather with 5 raised bands on the spine, gilt lettering, all gilt edges, marbled endpapers), no dj. Signature on the blank flyleaf. Minimal rubbing to the spine. Clean unmarked text. 9.25"x6.8"x1.3". be41707.

Contemporary black russia gilt. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Slight foxing to plates. Aeg. 350mm x 280mm (14" x 11"). 150pp+ plates. 60 b/w plates. Inscribed by author on half title page 'To Lady Helen Hall this book is presented in token of the author's affection and gratitude. Dunglass Seprt 6. 1813'. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas.

Hardcover. First Edition. Later polished calf-backed boards with matching calf corners; [2], 467-507, [1]; 152; [2], 152 pages. A fascinating compilation of these three works. The first, an extract from a periodical, is a review of three works: THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE by Buxton; CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE SLAVE TRADE presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1838-39; and ESCLAVAGE ET TRAITE by Agenor de Gasparin, 1838. The second, titled THE REMEDY without a proper title page and date but printed by W. Clowe & Sons, begins with the published introduction to the finished book but with variations in the text from the published version, starting in the very first paragraph. The third item has a proper title page and is also printed by W. Clowes & Sons with a statement at the bottom of the title page: "This Edition is not to be Published." It too differs from the published version and has slight differences from the other version included here. The purpose of the third item is revealed by Buxton in the preface to the published edition of THE REMEDY: "As the remedy I contemplate is now, for the first time, published, it is necessary to explain the reason why it has hitherto been withheld. In the spring of 1838, I stated to several members of the cabinet my views as to the suppression of the Slave Trade. I could not reasonably expect, that, in the extreme pressure of business during the sitting of Parliament, they would be able to find time to give it the consideration it required, I therefore prepared for the press and printed a few copies of my work--describing the horrors of the Slave Trade, and proposing a remedy, for the private use of the members of the administration, and placed these in their hands on the day that the session closed." This is certainly one of those copies and as such is quite scarce. What version the second item in this volume is remains a mystery, but clearly this is an early and scarce variant. Buxton believed that the only way to suppress the African slave trade was to promote "legitimate commerce" and that this new trade would launch Africa on the road to moral and material progress, a belief that eventually became conventional wisdom in mid-19th-century Britain. Paper split at front gutter but covers firm. Near Fine.

Second edition thus. Folio. (viii), xxii, (ii), xii, 42, 45-131, (1) pp. Later period style full calf with blindstamped decoration to both boards, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, marbled endpapers, late 20th century ownership inscription to the original front flyleaf. Engraved title and dedication and 6 plates plus numerous head and tail piece vignettes, historiated initials and other diagrams in the text by John Sturt. Spine a little sunned, very good overall. First published in France in 1683, the first English edition appeared in 1708. Pages 43/44 are not called for.

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.