Elliot kay (33 resultados)

Condición: New.

Condición: Good. Signed. Very good condition paperback with minimal wear, creasing. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings.

Paperback. Condición: Used; Very Good. ***Simply Brit*** Welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 2nd Edition. Lacking the front flyleaf, a good hardcover second edition copy of volume 2 only, contemporary leather binding, lacking the spine label. 17 sermons, 360 pages. Photos on request.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fair. Troisieme Edtion. 8vo. 1789. 3rd edition. Eng. frontis. 547pp + 5 ad lls. Ex lib with small ink stamp to fep and ink class mark to verso of t.p. Some marginal pencil notes. Generally lightly browned with sporadic foxing otherwise good. Bound in full calf gilt. binding worn with both boards detached. All early editions are scarce (only 4 copies recorded in ESTC of the first two editiions.). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Leather cover. Condición: Fair. Third Edition. Cover worn and detached. Text block firm. Ex.-lib. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with minimal marking. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 315pp, + ads.

Quarter leather and paper. Condición: As Described. No Jacket. First Edition. A Treatise of the Materia Medica, by William Cullen, M.D., Volume I. William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE (15 April 1710 - 5 February 1790) was a British physician, chemist and agriculturalist from Hamilton, Scotland, who also served as a professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was David Hume's physician, and was friends with Joseph Black, Henry Home, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and Adam Smith, among others.He was president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1746-47), president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1773-1775) and first physician to the king in Scotland (1773-1790). He also assisted in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Cullen's final publication, Materia Medica, in two volumes, was highly valued by other medical practitioners throughout Europe. [Source: Wiki] Hardback, first edition. Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot and for C. Elliot & T. Kay, opposite Somerset Place, Strand, London, 1789, xxiii + 432 pp. Quarto/4yo, measures around 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" x 1 5/8". Quarter calf and brown paper, red label with gilt title and bands to spine.Boards and endpapers detached, with some tearing to front free endpaper. Some splitting to top of front board where the two layers of card are starting to separate, but only at the top. Considerable wear, rubbing and scuffing with some tearing and chipping at edges, and top section missing from spine. Marking and staining. Bumped and torn corners. Textblock reasonably firm. Page edges which are browned, scuffed and otherwise marked. A little scattered light foxing, thumbing and occasional other marking but page surfaces reasonably clean, maybe the occasional pencil mark but there does not appear to be any extensive underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. xxiii, 432 pp.…

Hardcover. Condición: Poor. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. A new edition, with additions, 1789. Lacks pages 183/186, and pages 199/202, also the last page which is a list of things in season for October, November and December. Small piece torn from the lower corner of the advertisement page (no loss of text). Text heavily marked with cookery spills throughout. Page corners generally scruffy and turned. The book is generally marked throughout and has been heavily used, Front and rear endpapers missing. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards. Corners heavily rubbed and two corners of the front board missing. Externally a very poor copy although everything is still hanging together well. A scarce and early cookery book but as I have said in very poor condition.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (21 x 13 x 3.5 cm.); pp. viii, 442, [1] advertisement. English text (translated from the French). Bound in stunning contemporary marbled calf gilt; speckled page edges; marbled endpapers; half-title; folding engraved map frontispiece and folding engraved plate of the labyrinth of Knossus. Provenance: John Dalton's armorial bookplate to front pastedown, with his gift inscription to his granddaughter neatly inked to the front endpaper (most likely the 18th/19th century scientist, who pioneered the development of atomic theory and carried out research into meteorology and colour blindness). Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers very well-preserved with some trivial wear to extremities. Interior with some light toning throughout and offsetting at the second plate. Notes: First edition in English, published in French in the same year. This volume contains 42 letters recounting Savary's experience in Greece, with particular attention given to the islands of Rhodes and Crete. It includes an engraving of the famous Minotaur's labyrinth at Knossos. A wonderful copy. [Cox I 236; Blackmer 977 (French edition)]. …

Leather. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Fifteen volumes, complete. Full polished calf, red morocco title lables, gilt titles and tooling, (8.75 x 5.75 inches). Full title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Fifteen Volumes (1787-1789). Containing his fiction, biographies, essays, political writings and literary criticisms. Frontis portrait engraved by John Hall. Armorial bookplate of Charles Smith. Volumes 1 through 11 were printed in 1787 for J. Buckland, etc. and are titled as being "The Works of Samuel Johnson in Eleven Volumes." Volumes 12 and 13, also dated 1787, were printed for John Stockdale and titled as "The Works of Samuel Johnson in Thirteen Volumes." Volume 14, also printed for John Stockdale but dated 1788, is titled, "The Works of Samuel Johnson in Fourteen Volumes." Volume 15 was printed Elliot and Kay in 1789 and titled "The Works of Samuel Johnson in Fifteen Volumes." Volumes showing some general expected overall wear and rubbing, typical scattered foxing and a few tender hinges and missing volume numbers, text blocks remain tight. An important and exceedlingly scarce set to find complete with all 15 volumes. …

Condición: VG. 1st Edition. Very clean tight text but text edges rough cut (as issued) and now a bit dust markee. Original plain grey paper wrappers preset but DETACHED. LACKS THE SPINE. Most suitable to rebind.

8vo, 327pp. A very good copy which has been rebound with the remnants of the original binding, including the brown leather spine and corners. The boards are scuffed and marked with fraying to the edges. New endpapers. Tear repair with tape to page xvii of Introduction. The title page has an unidentifiable stamp.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 8vo. pp [4] 500 + 2pp publishers advertisements. Older light blue boards, possibly original, with modern white spine and spine label. Slight marking to boards and slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good with clean text.

Condición: Very good. 8vo. 217pp. Good clean copy in contemporary marbled boards rebacked in calf. Sabin 84104. The first significant anthropological treatise written in America. Smith argued that all mankind belonged to the same family and so opposed slavery. He attributed diversity within the species to environmental influences.…

Quarter-Leather. Condición: Good. First Edition. Seven plays bound together. The Maid of the Mill, a Comic Opera by John Fletcher and William Rowley. This edition was published by J. Newbery; R Baldwin; T.Caslon; W. Griffin; W. Nicoll; T.Lownds; and T. Becket in 1768. Originally published in 1647 (75pp). The Lyar has no credited author or publication details (68pp). Robin Hood; of, Sherwood Forest: A Comic Opera by Leonard MacNally, esq. A New edition published by J. Almon in 1787. Previously published in 1784 (62pp). Nina or the Madness of Love, A Comedy , in Two Acts, Translated from the French, (As published by Mr. Le Texier.) By the Author of Maria, or The Gentle Rustic published by C. Elliot, T. Kay and Co. in 1787 (38pp). The author of the French edition was Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières. No credited translator for this two act version. There was also a one-act version was called Nina; or, the Love Distracted Maid. The Artifice: A Comic Opera. in Two Acts. by William Augustus Miles published by T. Cadell in 1780 (54pp). The First Floor; A Farce in Two Acts by James Cobb published by C. Dilly in 1787 (54pp). The Prisoner at Large: A Comedy in Two Acts by John O'Keefe published by G.G.J. and J. Robinson in 1778 (. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards. The spine has some chipping at the top and bottom, the title panel is lost and there is a little cracking along the edge next to the front panel but the binding is secure. Rubbing to the corners with some staining to the top corners and some surface and edge wear. Browning with a little spotting to the page edges. Browning to the endpapers with the name of a previous owner in ink to the title page - Lady Wale of Shelford near Cambridge. She has listed the contents on the front free endpaper and a family bookplate is on the front pastedown. Staining to the top corners of the first few pages of the first play and quite heavy spotting to a few pages near the back of this play. The Lyar has some spotting at the front. Robin Hood has several tears to the title page with two repairs using small strips of paper and there are similar repairs to the final page. The Artifice has some staining at the front and back and small sections of text have been crossed out in ink in four places. There are some spots and marks to the pages which have some browning and there are a few edge tears but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. The plays are presumed to be first editions unless noted otherwise.…

Condición: Good. No Jacket. - TBound in tree calf boards w/ gilt decorations and red leather title label to spine - Missing the small green label with "2" on it - Upper board nearly detached - Corners bumped, crushed and little frayed w/ boards exposed - Edges heavily rubbed w/ boards exposed and gilt faded - Spine heavily rubbed w/ ends bumped and chipped w/ spine head missing including headband - Edges of text block toned and foxed - Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper - Endpapers unevenly tanned - Page margins and content toned - Book ow/ solid and clean - 587 pages.…

, [4] 1-500 pages, translated from the French by Samuel Johnson to which are added various other tracts by the same author, not published by Sir John Hawkins or Mr Stockdale First Thus , the cover is worn and has been re-backed with much of the original boards and some of the original spine retained, a graze to the front, corners are bumpedand chipped, gilt has faded, ex. Library with a plate on the front pastedown and stamp to the title page, there are some ink inscriptions, the prelims and end papers are a little shaded and chiped at the edges, the contents are clean and neat, the binding is tight, the book is in fair to good condition , bound in calf, tree calf is evident to the back octavo 22 x 14cm Hardback ISBN.…

lvi, 415, [1]p, half title. 8vo. Small ink splash to pp.145-148. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt banded spine, red morocco label; head of spine worn, some rubbing to joints & corners. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort. George Monck Berkeley, 1763-1793, grandson of the philosopher George Berkeley. His biography of Swift contains an account of Swift's marriage by St George Ashe to Esther Johnson, his 'Stella'. Ashe 'himself related the circumstances to Bishop Berkeley, by whose relict the story was communicated to me'. Dr. Ashe cannot have told Bishop Berkeley by word of mouth, because Ashe died in 1717, the year after the supposed marriage, and Berkeley was then still abroad. But Berkeley was at the time tutor to Ashe's son, and may therefore have been informed by letter, though it is difficult to believe that Ashe would write about such a secret so soon after the event. Whether or not this marriage took place is still a matter of scholarly debate.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd [and best] edition. [4], 500p. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked in later (and lighter colored) leather. Modern bookplate. Binder's tape reinforcement of hinges. Internally sound and clean. No leaf of advertisements at end and no half-title in this copy. Quite a bit of material was added to this edition which was edited by George Gleig. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 2 volumes. Hardcover. Both bound in full brown leather, likely the original 18th century bindings. Front covers are detached (but present) from both volumes. There is wear and scuffing to both bindings. Original black title labels are chipped or missing. Volume 1 has small bookplate with the name "S. Brookes" on inside front cover, overtop the evidence of the removal of an earlier bookplate. 547 pages. The page edges retain a bit of the original gilt. Text block good and tight. Pages with wide margins. A wide ranging view of the natural world, both scientific and philosophical. Concludes with an essay on the place of man in nature, ".it is apparent.there is a graduated scale or chain of existence, not of link of which, however seemingly insignificant, could be broken without affecting the whole." "In the chain of animals, man is unquestionably the chief." Volume 2 was published in 1799 by Bell & Bradfute and others. 515 pages. A study of the various theories of the divisions of animals into classes, both ancient and modern. Also focuses on the races of man, sleep and dreaming, raising Silkworms in Britain, the language of beasts and more. Like volume 1, this one suffers from a detached front cover, but remains tightly bound. A nice collection of late 18th century thinking about the natural world. Smell's work became the standard textbook on Natural History at Harvard (according to our friends at wikipedia) for much of the 19th century. Please email with questions or to request photos.…

Leather-bound. Condición: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Quarto. Full leather, originally acid-treated for effect. Gilt chain-and-dot border, largely rubbed off. Printed on high rag-content laid bond. Bright and uniformly internally excellent. A second volume was published in 1799, four years after Smellie's death from stomach cancer, no doubt exacerbated by his almost nightly attendance at the local Oyster Bar and Ale House situated downstairs from Smallie's printing establishment. Willim Smellie (1740-1795) was a Scottish polymath and master printer who from an early age exhibited a prodigious and sharp intellect and curiosity about topics ranging from Botany to Psychology to Political Justice and Reform. ".As an intellectual, Smellie courted controversy by defying systems and authorities: he contradicted Linnaeus on the sexuality of plants, proposed that human reason was only an extension of the instincts common to all animals, promoted an early psychology of dreams, and made natural history accessible to women. Smellie's reputation as a natural historian was such that Charles Elliot paid £1000 for the copyright to volume one of Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History, which appeared in 1790, shortly after Elliot's death.Still, it was conviviality not politics which derailed Smellie's ambitions and shortened his life. He enjoyed the tavern scene, spending most evenings in oyster bars and ale houses. His frequent haunt was Douglas's tavern in the Anchor Close, where Smellie kept his printing house and his lodgings. There Smellie founded the Crochallan Fencibles, a drinking club immortalized in the verse of his close friend and political ally Robert Burns, whose obscene Merry Muses of Caledonia was written for the club and printed by Alexander Smellie (1800). When Smellie died of stomach cancer in 1795, his printing firm was nearly insolvent, rescued only by £395 from Elliot's estate. Smellie was buried in Greyfriars kirkyard, Edinburgh. He was survived by nine of his thirteen children.".…

Boards. Condición: Very Good. xii, [13]-264 pages. 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Full leather binding with spine label. Bumped corners, some minor cracking to the joints (still sound). Modern (1940) gift inscription on front pastedown. Two early owner names (T C Murdoch & F. M. Murdoch) inked opposite "Mary Cunningham" inked at top of title page. Yet another owner mark, "J.E." (presumed ownership initials) gilt on spine. Thumbed, page corners creased from readers, well used and passed from one owner to another. Boards. First published in 1773, this cookbook has gone through several revisions. In the advertisement for this edition, MacIver notes that friends suggested adding her ideas for menus suitable for various size groups. She also includes a list of what items are "in season" all year around.…

Leather. Condición: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce volume of biographical pieces and edited correspondence by eminent historical figures, the first edition of this work by George Monck Berkeley. The first edition of this very scarce work.The 'Literary Relics' of George Monck Berkeley, an interesting selection of research and correspondence of royal figures, edited and collected here into one volume.Berkeley's work contains his 'Inquiry into the Life of Dean Swift', a biographical work for which he is best known, as well as an edited selection of letters from Kings Charles II and James II, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Jonathan Swift, and more.George Monck Berkeley was a playwright an author, who only published a few works before his death at the age of 29.Half-title is present.Bookplate of Edward Winnington to the front paste down. Winnington was a baronet and politician, an MP Droitwich, Worcestershire, for almost thirty years. In a full marbled calf binding. Externally, generally smart, a little rubbed to the leather. Minor bumping to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Very small crack to the head of the front joint. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few scattered spots. Very Good. None (ilustrador). book.…

Leather. Condición: Good. First edition. The first edition of two works by John Smith, both focusing on Gaelic history, with a selection of ancient poetry, and an exploration of the druids. Two first edition works by John Smith bound together.'Sean Dana; le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &c.', the very scarce to see large paper edition, published in 1787. Printed in double columns in Gaelic with notes in English.This volume includes a selection of ancient poems of Ossian, Orran, and Ullin. John Smith collected these poems in the Western Highlands and Isles, containing a total of fifteen poems.'Galic Antiquities', published in 1780. In this work Smith offers a concise history of the Druids, and a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian. The second part of this volume includes the poems of 'Sean Dana' translated from Gaelic to English.The poems in this volume include 'Dan an Deirg', 'Tiomma Ghuill', 'Diarmad', 'Cath Mhanuis', 'Conn Mac an Deirg', and more.John Smith was a Gaelic scholar and antiquary, accomplished in his field, translating the scriptures into Gaelic. He was also a minister at Campbeltown, Argyll.Prior owner's ink inscriptions, of John A. Macdonald 1951 and Robert Tulloch 1877, to the recto of the front endpaper. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with some rubbing to the leather. Front joint is starting with some loss of leather. A small amount of loss of leather to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with bumping to the extremities. Light marks to the boards and spine. Spine label is rubbed and chipped. Small cracks to the head and tail of the rear joint. Ink inscriptions to the recto of the front endpaper, and ink splatters to the verso of the rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with the occasional spot. The occasional ink or pencil inscription to the margins. Small chip to the head of the advertisement leaf of 'Sean Dana'. Chip to the head of leaf D2 of 'Sean Dana', with no loss of text. Good. None (ilustrador). book.…

pp. xxiii, (i), 432; (iv), 610, 2 Advertisements. Contemporary quarter sheepskin, marbled boards with vellum tips to the corners, uncut, presentation inscription to the BMA Library from ALLAN WENTWORTH ?, plus neat stamps, all to the top margin of the titles, new end-papers, a very nice set. *GARRISON-MORTON #1838 - 'An expansion of Cullen's Lectures on materia medica, 1773.' ; WARING Bibliotheca Therapeutica, #5 : '. to him is due, in Great Britain at any rate, the honour of having been one of the first writers, if not the very first, who rescued therapeutics from the domain of a blind empiricism, and placed it on something like a scientific basis. He may, indeed, be regarded as the father of the modern science of therapeutics.'; HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES #571. …

First edition. vol.1 only. Vol.2 printed for Bell and Bradfute et al. Edinburgh. 1799.xiii,547pp. 4to(29x22.5cm). full calf. rebacked.

8vo, pp. [iv], 500, [2] advertisements; a sound copy in contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered; new morocco label. Second edition: edited, with an introduction, by the Scots churchman George Gleig (1753-1840). He dedicates the book to Arthur Murphy and devotes his introduction to attacking almost every aspect of Sir John Hawkins's biography, and the edition of Johnson's works which he supervised: 'For these, as well as his own mistakes, Sir John Hawkins alone is answerable. Had not he thrust himself into an office which he is so little qualified to fill, and claimed it by an engagement so sacred as to keep others at a distance, there would surely have been found among Johnson's friends some guardian of his fame equal to the task of doing justice to his character' (pp. 5-6). Gleig is also dismissive of the 1735 edition, for the 'blunders of the printer', which are 'uncommonly numerous'. Fleeman 35.2LV/2; Courtney & Nichol Smith pp. 3-4; Chapman & Hazen p. 165. This edition was intended to be a supplementary fifteenth volume to the Hawkins edition, following on from Stockdale's two-volume edition of the Parliamentary Debates (1787); but as with most copies, the half title stating this is no longer present. The book was almost certainly sold as a separate work at the time, and that prefatory leaf cancelled.…

8vo, pp. [iv, 500, [2] advertisements; a good copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with morocco label, joints cracking. Edited, with an introduction, by the churchman George Gleig (1753-1840): he dedicates the book to Arthur Murphy and the introduction to attacking almost every aspect of Sir John Hawkins's biography: 'For these, as well as his own mistakes, Sir John Hawkins alone is answerable. Had not he thrust himself into an office which he is so little qualified to fill, and claimed it by an engagement so sacred as to keep others at a distance, there would surely have been found among Johnson's friends some guardian of his fame equal to the task of doing justice to his character'.…

Condición: A near fine example. Contemporary tree calf, twin red and green labels, Contemporary ownership signature, early stamp, and label of Old Sleningford Hall to each title. , The definitive edition of Hume's Essays, the first to include the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and including his final emendations and correction., Size : Octavo (208 x125 mm). , Volume : 2 volumes.…