George bentham ed (5 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. Vol. 22, No. 1, Autumn, 1st printing, 8vo softcover, 139pp, cover by Burnett. Vintage digest paperback, literary magazine, Buk w/ 2 poems. Very Good condition, rubbing, toning, foxing.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Phaeton Press, NY, 1967, (orig.c.1902), 8vo., cloth, 164pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, ow VG $.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Hbk, 597pp, lacks dj, fine gray cloth boards with green-gilt titles to the spine, now in custom acetate jacket, an unread copy, excellent, clean, tight and unmarked as new.

First Appearance in French Bentham, Jeremy [1748-1832]. Bentham, George [1800-1884], Editor and Translator. Essai sur la Nomenclature et la Classification des Principales Branches d'Art-et-Science: Ouvrage Extrait du Chrestomathia de Jeremie Bentham. Paris: Bossange Freres, Libraires, 1823. viii, 239 pp. 3 folding plates on 2 leaves. 1 Folding table. As in many copies, ours lacks the large folding plate, "Vue Synoptique." Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards, gilt title and blind fillets to spine, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and lightly worn. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to several leaves and tables, light wear and soiling to edges of folding table, tear to final leaf with no loss to text. $450. * Only edition. Their first appearance in French, this work presents selections from the second part of Chrestomathia (1816-1817). Bentham's only work devoted exclusively to education, "it was written in order to set out the curriculum and methods to be taught at a new secondary day school for the children of the 'middling and higher ranks in life of society'" (Chou). An important work, it introduced several ideas that were embodied in Bentham's Constitutional Code. Chou University Library, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Works of Jeremy Bentham C1.5. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. London: Bailliere, 1849. First edition (pp. xv, 587, index of genera, plates, adverts). Large octavo (23.5 cm) re-bound in recent dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine in black compartment; illustrations include frontispiece (View of Clarence Harbour at Fernando Po), two views of the Niger River, map of the west coast of Africa, fifty engraved botanical plates (seven fold-outs) bound in at rear. New endpapers and fly leaves, head and tail pieces in a first rate library binding. Two unobtrusive library stamps and in blind on the plates. A number of related works and collections of notes were bound under this title partly owing to the death of the chief botanist of the expedition Theodore Vogel leaving his extensive collections and notes to W. J. Hooker to be edited and published eight years later, and partly to the inclusion of observations by others at several stops along the way including Madeira, Teneriffe, and the Cape Verde Islands. The complete contents under the general editorship of W. J. Hooker, then, include 'Memoir of the life of Dr. J. R. T. Vogel' by L. C. Treviranus (M. J. Berkeley, trans.); 'Journal of the Voyage to the Niger'; 'Botany of the Niger Expedition' by W. J. and J. D. Hooker including Madeira, Teneriffe, and the Cape de Verd Islands; Spicilegia Gorgonea; or a Catalogue of All the Plants as yet Discovered in the Cape de Verd Islands' by P. B. Webb; Flora Nigritiana; or, a Catalogue of the Plants of the River Niger, the Island of Fernando Po, and the Adjacent Parts of Western Tropical Africa. from the Collections of Dr. Th. Vogel' by J. D. Hooker and George Bentham. The Niger expedition set out in 1841 under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter with the avowed intent of loosening the grip of the slave trade in the region "by the encouragement of lawful trade" and the propagation of Christian virtue (It had as its sponsor the African Civilization Society), as well as gathering botanical specimens for study. The expedition, however, met with disaster. Not only was its chief botanist struck down by "fever" but so were a large number of the others, sailors and scientists alike. It is reported 49 of 145 members of the expedition returned to England safely despite what W. J. Hooker describes as precautions against the dangers of exploring tropical Africa. Little scattered foxing is not objectionable, several small tears skilfully repaired; otherwise a clean, bright, sound copy of quite a scarce book.…