1811 1852 (19 risultati)

Circa 1870-1880 reprint (1852 copyright but Porter & Coates operated between 1867-1895). 423, [5] pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 13.25cm. Mustard cloth with attractive black and gilt stamping to spine and front board; slight scuffing/bumping at spine ends and board corners. Toning and a few stains to text block edges. Sewn-in green cloth ribbon page marker. A few light stains to interior leaves which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. Still a handsome copy.

Hardcover. 5th thousand. [3], xvii, [5]-580 pages. [First printed in 1849] Memorial notice added to this printing. Good black cloth, spine chipped. Gatherings starting, lt. foxing.

VG sl. faded orig. brown cloth, stamping bright. Sigs. on feps. viii, 190 p.; 19.5 cm. Attacks in CPM (ed. by John Campbell and sponsored by the Congregational Union) were read by parishioners. Binding is Hardcover.

Hardcover. Octavo, viii, 310 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket in mylar; edgewear with short tears at spine ends and flap corners, toning and small puncture to spine, peripheral toning. Boards in green cloth; light wear to spine caps, mottled fading to edges of rear panel. Text block has light spotting to edges and endpapers, name in ink on front pastedown, spine crack at page 150. Illustrated: sepia frontispiece portrait NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1397707. FP New Rockville Stock.

Full Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Lovely full stamped black and gilt brown cloth, light wear, slightly age toned, titled on the cover "household edition". [1856]. Pages slightly age toned. Previous owner's name on the title page. Overall in EXCELLENT condition. Frances Miriam "Berry" Whitcher (1811 - 1852) was an American humorist, born in Whitestown, New York. Whitcher may have been the first significant woman prose humorist in the United States. Frances was born in upstate New York. She lived a fairly sheltered life, and was very close to her family. She was often ill, but managed to find the ridiculous in everyday life. At the age of 35, she married Rev. Benjamin W. Whitcher of Elmira, New York in 1847. She had to put herself more into the public eye as a minister's wife. Whitcher's keen observations of those around her were an unending source of materials for her sketches. Those she wrote about soon saw themselves in her prose, and this caused friction with her husband's parishoners. This may have caused him to lose his position in the church. She contributed poems to the Saturday Gazette and Godey's Lady's Book during the 1840s. Her humorous creation, The Widow Bedott, made her a celebrity. The characters she developed helped her satirize gentility, including issues such as fashion, social status, courtship, and hypocrisy. In 1855, The Widow Bedott Papers, was gathered from her writings and published in book form, featuring her chief character, the comic fool The Widow Bedott. Afterwards, David R. Locke fashioned a coarsely amusing play from it. Consult the memoir by M. L. W. Whitcher in Frances M. Whitcher's Widow Spriggins (New York, 1867). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. 222 p.; 19.5 cm. List of books quoted or referred to, p. [219]-222. VG contemporary plain brown cloth, rippled across front cover.

Condizione: Good. The first edition of the classic work hard back binding in publisher's original embossed blue cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains red and black printed title, list of subscribers, (viii), 256 pp illustrated with nearly 1000 monochrome woodcuts throughout. From the private library of Robert Forrest with his armorial bookplate to the front paste down, fraying of the cloth across the spine ends, corners soft and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CERAMICS & POTTERY.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Recommending for employment in the Post Office 'Mr. Paul Scollard, who is a young man of most respectable connexions, but whose circumstances are such as to render a very humble situation an object to him - If a vacancy should soon occur in the Letter Carrying Department, I would respectfully solicit the appointment from Your Lordship for him'.

The Law Magazine, in its issue of August-November 1852, praised the report as 'most valuable' and 'meritorious', noting among the obstacles to its completion 'the resolute and dogged refusal of information on the part of many, intimately connected with the University', including Harington's college Brasenose. The Spectator discussed the report on 29 May 1852, and reproduced all 47 recommendations on 5 June 1852. One of the leading lights of the Commission was the future Archbishop of Canterbury Archibald Campbell Tait, and his entry in the Oxford DNB contains a useful account of his involvement: 'in 1850, when Lord John Russell contemplated appointing a commission to tackle the reform of Oxford, he sounded out Tait as a potential commissioner. Tait not only agreed but encouraged Russell to stick to his guns when the ecclesiastical interests of Oxford cried out in alarm at the prospect of reform. Once appointed, Tait threw himself into the work of the commission. He took a special interest in the admission of 'unattached' students, who might enjoy the benefits of education at Oxford without the costs associated with membership in its constituent colleges. His German experience fortified the commission's determination to make professors central to the lecturing at the university. Tait also encouraged the commission's efforts to reduce the restriction of teaching positions in the colleges and university to the clergy, believing that this reform would put the clergy in touch with the thinking of the laity and, so far as religious education was concerned, would only intensify commitment to it by making it voluntary.' 75pp., 8vo. On rectos of leaves of Whatman paper with watermarked date 1845, mostly arranged in bundles of bifoliums, some of which are stitched. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Mostly fair copies, with a couple of earlier drafts. ONE: Section (9pp.) responding to the Commission's fourth conclusion, which is printed on a slip of paper at the head: '4. That the Vice-Chancellor should be appointed absolutely by the Chancellor from the Heads of Colleges and Halls; and that the passage in the Laudian Statutes, which seems to give Convocation a veto on the appointment, should be removed from the Statute Book.' Towards the end Harington gives his view on whether the 'authority of the Vice Chancellor on the Halls has become merely nominal': 'the Aularian Statutes, which are part and parcel of the academical code do unquestionably place the Head of a Hall in a degree of subordination to the Vice Chancellor in which no Head of a College is placed'. He concludes, regarding 'the whole scheme': 'the enlargement of the present cycle would be undesirable upon this ground The present cycle, comprising (with the omission of Christ Church) eighteen Colleges passes round in 25 or 30 years. At which date the Vice Chancellor is usually appointed between the ages of 50 and 55. If five more Heads are added the cycle the period of revolution would be proportionately increased, and the effect of this would be to raise the average age of the Vice Chancellor by a number of years which might be open to grave objection on the part of the University as well as on his own'. TWO: Four miscellaneous leaves of drafts, carrying 5pp. of text. One leaf, with two pages of text, with emendations suggesting that it is an original composition and not a quotation, beginning: 'Resolved, | That in the opinion of this Committee it is expedient that so much of the Statute Tit. III § I as prohibits the residence of Undergraduate Members of the University in Houses [the words 'or Tenements' deleted here] annexed to Colleges or Halls, unless the sole access to such Houses shall be by the Common Gate, be repealed and amended; and that Undergraduates be permitted to reside in any House in Oxford annexed to their Colleges or Halls respectively'. With a bifolium on which a piece of paper with the printed text of the second resolution of the committee is laid.

Condizione: Good. 8vo. VII, [1 blank], 126, [2 blank] pp. With a steel-engraved map at the end. It includes printed music for a Bedouin melody and an appendix with Arabic terms and phrases. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards (rubbed at extremities, spine worn and with minor losses). On the front flyleaf contemporary ownership entry of John Snellman (1815-1883), Finish senator and relative of renown Johan Vilh. Snellman (1806-1881), statesman and philosopher. A clean copy with occasional toning to pages.First edition, published posthumously in the original Swedish, of the account of Wallin's journey through Arabia, covering the wastelands of the Nafud Desert, where he reached Ha il, then continued southward to Medina and Mecca after returning to Egypt. More precisely, Wallin ?moved eastwards from Wadi al-Araba, first touching upon the upper regions of Wadi Sirhan, then on to the oasis of Djuf (Algawf) and crossed the central regions of Shammar, via Djobbah (Gubbi), the Great Nefud (Nufood), and Hail. Of Shammar and its inhabitants he provided the fullest account, unsurpassed by later travellers in its scholarly precision? (Henze).Wallin, a Finnish orientalist, set out for the Middle-East in 1843 under the name of Abd al-Wali and visited Mecca in 1845, several years before Richard Burton. The account was later translated into English (?Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca') and published in the ?Journal of the Royal Geographical Society? in 1854. The English version, however, does not include the appendix with Arabic terms. The work was probably left incomplete as the indication ?fragment? seems to suggest.K.-E. Henriksson, A Wallin Bibliography, in: ?Studia orientalia?, 17, 1952, p. 13; Howgego (1800-50), W12, p. 627; Henze V, 452. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Tall folio hardcover volume. Binding poor boards present but off and no spine. Text block is tight and solid. All 59 plates are present but not the folding map. One small private owners bookplate else no other markings. Contents are quite clean with no watermarks or stains. Almost no foxing.

Condizione: Good. Folio. 32 x 48.2 cm.; half blue contemporary percaline. The botanical atlas of Lefebvre's journey: The botanical atlas is complete with 103 engraved plates (some foxing).OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:889134500 & 490848534. Nissen, ZBI 2420 & BBI 1663; Graesse IV, 141. Pankhurst 25. Gay 2653. Wood, p. 430.Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, | 2420. .In-folio, demi-percaline bleue; atlas historique et botanique du voyage de Lefebvre : L'atlas de botanique est complet des 103 planches gravées (quelques rousseurs).

Condizione: Good. Folio. 32 x 48.2 cm.; half blue contemporary percaline. The historical, ethnological and archaeological atlas is composed of a large folding map, 13 archaeological plates out of 14 (missing no. 13) and 44 plates out of 45 (missing plate 16) numerous watercolor plates (some foxing, some defects of use in the bindings; atlas partly unbound)OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:742725696; Nissen, ZBI 2420 & BBI 1663; Graesse IV, 141. Pankhurst 25. Gay 2653. Wood, p. 430. Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, | 2420. .In-folio, demi-percaline bleue; L'atlas historique, ethnologique et archéologique est composé d'une grande carte dépliante, de 13 planches d'archéologie sur 14 (manque n°13) et de 44 planches sur 45 (manque pl.16) nombreuses planches aquarellées (quelques rousseurs, quelques défauts d'usage aux reliures, l'atlas historique en partie dérelié).

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

Fourteen plates by Dirk Juriaan Sluyter and his father, Dirk Sluyter. Two engravings are marked as 'eerste- ' and 'tweede gravure', featuring the signature and the date of birth of D.J. Sluyter, thus testifying that these two tronies or character-heads were realized when the artist was only 17 years old; the first is signed on the bottom right: 'D.J.S. f. / 1828 / Geb. 1811. 14 Nov.' and the second, on the bottom left: 'DJSluyter sc. / 1828 Geb 14 Nov.'; Other eight plates appear to be first states, as any inscription is missing; the subjects are genre-like or history-related, as well as a portrait of a man seated at a table; A title page, 'Cinq-mars, of eene zamenzwering onder Lodewijk XIII naar het Fransch.' published in Amsterdam in 1830, featuring a vignette; two chine collé and another print with Christ on the cross, after A.C. Kruseman and one after C. Rochussen. Steel engravings on paper, some chine collée. Various sizes and formats, despite some staining and light foxing in some impression, in good state. Early states, with some exceptions. Date of prints ca 1800-1850.

Brief (1/2 S. gr. folio mit Wasserzeichen im Papier, Oberrand kl. Randmängel, Doppelblatt mit rückseitiger Adresse) mit Ort, Datum, eigenhändiger Unterschrift als Regierungspräsident signiert Düsseldorf, den 15.03.1842 - an den Regierungs-RathHEINRICH FERDINAND PHILIPP VON SYBEL (1781-1870, deutscher Beamter und Politiker in der Rheinprovinz, 1831 als königlich preußischer Regierungsrat in Düsseldorf in den preußischen Adelsstand erhoben, Das Haus der Familie von Sybel befand sich in der Alleestraße, heute Heinrich-Heine-Allee Nr. 7. Der Komponist Louis Spohr wohnte hier 1826 zu seiner Erstaufführung des Oratoriums Die letzten Dinge auf dem Niederrheinischen Musikfest und 1835 zu einem Treffen mit Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Karl Immermann und Christian Dietrich Grabbe.), als Ehrenmitglied des hochlöblichen Regierungs-Collegiums mit der Übertragung neuer Aufgaben, Kapitalsachen, Kirchen- und Schulsachen, im Innenministerium seiner Regierung.

Washington, DC, 1836. 4to. One-page, approximately 175 words, in part: "Mr. M. Smith has applied to me to purchase La Fayette, stating that you referred him to me and were willing to any terms that I might propose. I have written to him that, with your approbation, I should be willing to take $400, reserving the privilege to each of us for sending five cows to him. If you are satisfied with these terms this sale may be made, otherwise not . I shall be glad to receive your frank opinion of the cattle I have lately sent out; particularly of the bull and three imported cows . Six asses (three of each sex) are on their way from Malta to K[entucky]. and I expect will arrive at Ashland in all the month of March. If there is not mistake in their measurement, they are larger than any ever introduced into K[entucky], of Maltese asses." Clay's activities as an importer of cattle and asses and his role in breeding thoroughbreds are discussed at length in the article 'Henry Clay and his Ashland Estate,' by Richard Troutman ("Filson Club Historical Quarterly," Vol. 30, pp. 159-174). Some foxing, but very good and quite legible. Folded for mailing (small hole at one corner fold, affecting two letters). (#6276).