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Aggiungi al carrelloAberdeen: Printed by John Forbes, 1685. Handbook for Inexperienced Officials in Scotland [Skene, Alexander (c. 1621-1694)]. Memorialls for the Government of the Royall-Burghs in Scotland. With Some Overtures Laid Before the Nobility and Gentry of the Several Shyres in this Kingdom. As also, A Survey of the City of Aberdeen, With… the Epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun Doctor of Medicin, Upon Some of Our Chief Burghs Translated into English by I.B. By Philopoliteious (Or,) A Lover of the Publick Well-Fare. Aberdeen: Printed by John Forbes, 1685. 288 pp. A Succinct Survey of the Famous City of Aberdeen has separate dated title page (p. 199). Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"; 14 x 8.9 cm). Later period-style polished calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and gilt title and date to spine, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt. A few minor nicks to boards, some fading to spine, recent owner bookplate (of James Stevens Cox) to front pastedown. Moderate toning, somewhat heavier in places, faint dampstaining to lower corners of some leaves, edges trimmed with minor loss to page numbers of a few leaves, light soiling to title page, early owner manuscript annotations to rear endleaf. A handsome copy. $500. * Only edition. Written by a seasoned politician and state official, this work provides a systematic description of the political, legislative and bureaucratic organizations of the Scottish burghs was intended for inexperienced government officials. A prescriptive work as well, it offers opinions on such matters as trade, the establishment of public libraries and ways to instill civic values in young people. It also includes a collection of celebratory poems in Latin and English about Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Inverness, Perth and other cities and towns in Scotland. This copy was once in the library of the distinguished bibliophile, publisher, and antiquarian scholar James Stevens Cox (1910-1997). English Short-Title Catalogue R38926. Aberdeen: Printed by John Forbes, 1685 (illustratore).
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Aggiungi al carrello"one of the most beautiful geological maps ever produced in Australia" (La Trobe) Revised. Six sheet colour printed lithograph map, joined and mounted on canvas. The third geological map of Australia after J. Beete Jukes (a modified Arrowsmith map dated 1850) and Robert Smyth (1873). It is based on Skene and Slight's earlier map… 'Continental Australia' (first published October 1879), with a second edition in 1880, followed by various editions, in whole or in part, including being used as the basis for the maps of each colony in the 'Sands Atlas' (1887). Brown reports that "at an 1880-81 exhibition in Melbourne, 'A Geological Sketch Map' of the continent, being the Skene map, hand coloured by Arthur Everett, Chief Draftsman of the Victorian Mining Department, was exhibited. The Department then went ahead with a printed version, as here, issued in November 188, on 6 sheets, printed in 11 colours at a price of £3/10/-. The 'Argus' (26 Nov 1887) commented that "as a specimen of lithographic printing, the map is a creditable work of art, the registry or joining of the various colours being free from overlaps and uncoloured areas". The 'La Trobe Journal' article of 2001 says that four editions of the maps were published in 1887-88, and refers to it as "one of the most beautiful geological maps ever produced in Australia". It comments that most of the known copies are varnished roll maps in poor condition, and that no copy seems to have been kept in the separate sheets as issued". Literature: Clancy, 'Maps that Shaped Australia', pages 17-23.
