Watkins charles editor (11 resultados)

Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. AH 05 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: Whoso Would Learn Wisdom, Let Him Enter Here! (Charles Willson Peales Museum); Unearthing the Mastodon (complete skeleton of a prehistoric mastodon exhumed by C.W. Peale in 180) by Charles Coleman Sellers; A Heritage Preserved: Peter, Paul, and the Museum Business (Museums selling items in their collections) by T. H. Watkins; Frederick Winslow Taylor (Father of Industrial Engineering) by Spencer Klaw; American Characters: Richmond Pearson Hobson by Richard F. Snow; Calm Dwelling (funeral ritual in United States) by David E. Stannard; A Gentlemens Fight (School integration in Prince Edward County Virginia) by John Egerton and illustrations by Ken Boroughs; Buildings for Sale: Unexpected Beauty from a City Archive (portfolio of watercolor paintings of New Orleans architecture) by Mary Cable; Gentleman, This Is Humbug (discovery of surgical anesthesia) by John J. Pullen; A Hessian Visits the Victors: 1783 (excerpt from Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal by Johann Ewald and edited by Joseph P. Tustin); Cartercar (American automobile manufactured from 1905 to 1915) Barnum & Bradys Biggest (Photos of James Murphy and Anna Swan); Good Reading (book reviews of Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control by Madeline Gray; Native American Art in the Denver Art Museum; by Richard Conn; Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria-The Greatest Sea Rescue in History by William Hoffer; Reader's Album: Assault With Battery (Photo from Sioux City, Iowa 1890); Postscripts (cigar memorabilia; Washington Irving suggesting national names for USA; Ulysses Grant; General Paul Sanguinetti at Gettysburg; Standard unit of measurement).…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 72 pages. Octavio Paz / Louis Zukofsky / Josephine Miles / Vernon Watkins / William Burford / Richmond Lattimore / John Wain / E L Mayo / Donald Hall / Charles Edward Eaton / David Ridgley Clark / Leonard Wolf / Ronald perry / Roger Hecht / Francis Sparshott / Hy Sobiloff. (SL#44).…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 216 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. Second Edition By Publisher. 223 pages. >>Minor cover creasing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 384 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 280 pages. 9.75x7.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 360 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.53x6.14x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 373 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

3pp., 8vo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with remains of stub along one edge. Second leaf inserted into a paper windowpane mount. Written in a hurried and difficult hand. Taylor writes that he wishes to have a portrait put into a case 'by the workman you employ for such work'. He gives instructions, concluding 'The portrait I think the most satisfactory that has yet been taken of me.' The National Portrait Gallery possesses an albumen carte-de-visite of Taylor ('1864 or before') by John & Charles Watkins.…

"A Very Valuable Treatise on that Very Intricate and Important Subject" Watkins, Charles [1767-1808]. Vidal, Robert Studley, Editor. An Essay Towards the Further Elucidation of the Law of Descents; With an Appendix on the Distribution of the Personal Effects of Intestates. Corrected and Enlarged from the Author's Papers, And Further Augmented with Notes of All the More Recently Adjudged Cases on the Subject, Down to the Present Period. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, 1819. [xvi], 331, [1], [4] pp. Includes 4-page published catalogue, publisher advertisment to verso of half-title. Two fold-out engraved copperplate tables (of descents and consanguinity). Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, light gatoring to spine, small chip to head of spine, joints starting at ends, corners bumped and lightly worn, early owner bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text, light foxing in places, light soiling to a few leaves, some creasing and edgewear to folding tables. $350. * Third edition. Charles Watkins (1767-1808), was a legal writer and poet. This is a useful supplement to Chapter 14, Volume II, of Blackstone's Commentaries, "Of Title by Descent". "Mr. Watkins' Essay on Descents is a very valuable treatise on that very intricate and important subject" (Marvin). First published in 1793, this treatise went through four editions, the final in 1837. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 721 (Citing Barton, Modern Precedents in Conveyancing). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:478 (35). Rigg, revised by Brown, "Watkins, Charles", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (accessed online).…