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Librería: Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books, IOBA., Citrus Heights, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
London. Printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street. 1791. Third Edition with Corrections and Improvements. Octavo 8 1/2 x 6). [vii], viii-xxiii, [xxiv], 1-503 pp. plus indices [22] pp. The double page chart "The Outlines of Linnaeus System of Vegetables" [to face page 108] is bound with the Indices. The book is bound in its original tan and gray paper over boards with the title neatly inked on the spine. There is a bit of damp staining in the lower margins of the last few pages of the indices, two small tears on the corners of the end papers, and the front board is slightly split, but this is a very good book.
Publicado por B White & Son, London, 1787
Librería: Flora Books, Mears Ashby, Reino Unido
Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. 2nd edition, xxv 500 [28]pp, full contemporary calf (scuffed, worn to edges, corners bumped), gilt decorated spine with black morocco label (rubbed with minor loss to the ends), joints starting, coner crease in Ii5-8 causedi n the binding process, modern woodcut bookplate on front pastedown, 8vo (13x22cm), ESTC T137987.
Publicado por J. White at Horace's Head, London, 1802
Librería: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, Reino Unido
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Fine Binding. Condición: Fine. Sixth Edition. LETTERS ON THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY Addressed to a Lady by the Celebrated J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English with Notes and Twenty Four Additional Letters Fully Explaining the System of Linnaus by Thomas Martyn. Printed for J. White at Horace's Head, Fleet Street. 1802 Sixth Edition. 504pp plus 28pp index. This scarce copy is bound in full calf with gilt decoration and cross banding to the spine and the title to red hide panel in the second compartment. There are the expected rubs and bumps, the binding I believe is original to this edition. There is a pencilled signature to the front paste down. The text block is tight, bright and square. Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady. By the celebrated J.J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, by Thomas Martyn. Thomas Martyn (23 September 1735 - 3 June 1825) was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. Ref FF2 Size: 504pp Plus 28pp Index.
Publicado por Printed for John White,Horace's Head, Fleet- Street, London, 1807
Librería: James Howell Rare Books, Dublin, IRELA, Irlanda
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. not specified>. Translated into English, with notes and twenty four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, by Thomas Martyn, Regius Professor of Botany at the university of Cambridge.The seventh edition with corrections and improvements. This copy does not have the coloured plates. Seemingly the plates were published separately by Martyn in 1788 and were inserted into some subsequent editions.Half green calf over marbled boards. Leather gilt title label (recent) and blind stamped designs. Recent end papers. Very light toning to pages A very attractive tight copy.
Publicado por B. and J. White at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, London, England, 1796
Librería: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Leather-bound. Condición: Good Plus. Fifth Edition. Small quarto, Contemporary mottled calf measuring 8 1/2" x 5 3/8". Front and rear boards each double-ruled in gilt with a continuous gilt device (appearing like tiny life preservers strung upon a striped rope), and a contrasting, gilt-on-black title label, perhaps a replacement (?). Inner dentelles surrounding the front and rear pastedown endpapers. Endpapers decorated with one of the loveliest marbling we've ever seen -- a three-color tree design branching over thestone marble design, which itself looks more like an electronic microscopic view of tree cells. Previous owner's name Mary ______, with the date of 1800 below half-title. Fold-out chart ("The Outlines of Linnaeus's System of Vegetables"Rear board separating but still held quite firmly by its three cords. Blemish to front endpaper. Some very modest penciled "x" marks and several handwritten notations to margins.Some unobtrusive toning to some pages in last third of book. 503 pp. plus indices of English names (12 pp.); Latin names (12 pp.); Natural Tribes or Orders of Plants Mentioned or Explained in the foregoing (?) Letters (1 pp.); Index of Terms Casually Explained in the Course of This Work ( 4 pp.).
Publicado por B. and J. White, London, 1794
Librería: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Fourth edition. Boards detached; 8vo; pp. xxiv, 503, [29] (blank, index). Last leaf chipped at top edge (eliminating a portion of the heading), and wrinkled along the edges; otherwise text block is just a bit foxed, but clean and unmarked. An excellent candidate for rebinding. Sold as is.
Publicado por Printed for E. White and Son, London, 1787
Librería: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. 3/8" missing to leather at head of spine. A 1" surface chip to leather at tail of spine. 1" and 1/2" losses of leather along edges of corners of boards. Joints rubbed. A 1/2" tear to the margin of the title leaf. Otherwise very good internally. No splitting to gutters at hinges. ; [vi], (v)-xxv, [1], 500, [28] pages + 1 folding table. Contemporary full calf binding with gilt panels on boards. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 212 x 125mm. Early owner's signature on title page "Hinckes".; 8vo.
Publicado por B White and son, 1791
Librería: de KunstBurg, Gent, Belgica
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. London, B White and son, 1791-88. 2 works bound in 1 volume, in 8° (21,5 x 13,5 cm ), pp xxiii, [1, adverts], 503, [28], half title, 1 folding table; vi, 72 pp. Second work with 38 fine engraved and hand-coloured plates drawn and engraved by F.P. Nodder, folding table laid down and expertly repaired. 1 vol volumes. One or two plates slightly smudged, but a very good handsome copy. Finely bound in contemporary olive calf, sides with ornate gilt fillet borders, spine gilt decorated with flat raised bands and maroon label, lightly rubbed.
Publicado por For B. White, London, 1787 and 1788
Librería: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Octavo. 2nd edition. Translated into English from the French of J.J. Rousseau with notes and twenty-four additional letters fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. Two books in one. First part: Half-title, 500pp., [28]pp index, page 16 is mis-numbered 6. An additional title page dated 1788 titled "Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations. This set of plates was intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany in the University of Cambridge". All hand-colored plates present and one folding table. These plates, by F.P. Nodder, were not included with the first or second editions. They were later published to be added to the those editions and subsequent editions making them the first edition of plates with text. Bound together in a handsome 20th century 1/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards with vellum corners, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. An exceptionally nice copy with glue ghost to front pastedown from bookplate? p. xxv numbered. See [ESTC T69543; T137987].
Librería: Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dinamarca
Miembro de asociación: ILAB
London, B. and J. White, 1794. Bound in 2 very fine cont. full red longgrained morocco. Gilt inside and outside borders. All edges gilt, gilt back. Backs lightly faded. XXIV,503,(28) pp. and 1 folded table + VI,72 pp. and 38 fine engraved and hand-coloured plates (Drawn and engraved by F.P. Nodder). Both volumes in excellent condition, clean and fresh, printed on good paper and plates with tissueguards. Inscription in ink in both volumes reads: "Emma Curtis the gift of MS. Taylor(?) 1795." Rousseaus' popularization of the linnean system ran through many editions, and was first issued as a part of his posthumously published "Works" as "Letters elementaire." in 1782. The "38 Plates" by Martyn was first published 1788 as a sort illustrative companion to the text of Rousseau's letters. Here they come together in the fine printings of 1794. - Pritzel 7824 - Soulsby No 704, but this 4th edition not in the collection.