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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868 First edition. Original green cloth with covers stamped in blind and spine in gilt. . Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, text illustrations Top corners lightly bumped, a few light spots, tissue guard foxed, extending lightly to title and frontispiece. A remarkably fine copy, bright and tight. Presentation copy, inscribed by Louis Agassiz to Ulysses S. Grant, who became the eighteenth President in 1869. Agassiz (1807-1873), the Swiss-born zoologist who spent much of his career at Harvard, was one of the most respected naturalists of his day. While studying in Paris, he became associated with Cuvier and von Humboldt. Brazil was an early interest of his. In 1826 as a student he was selected by botanist and explorer Carl Friedrich Phillip von Martius to study the history of freshwater fish of Brazil from the specimens that Martius and Johan Baptist von Spix had brought back from an expedition to Brazil in 1819-20. He threw himself into the work with the enthusiasm he was known for throughout his life, and his study was completed and published in 1829. It led to research in the freshwater fish of Europe, as well. His great work in ichthyology, Recherches sur les poissons fossiles was published in five volumes in 1833-4. In 1865. though in failing health, he made a celebrated trip with a group of Harvard students, including William James, to Brazil. This is an account of that trip. He later traveled to the west coast of South America, the West Indies, the Gulf Stream in American waters, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Florida, the Pacific Coast of America, and Australia, publishing papers and books about all his experiences. As the leading American opponent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, history has not been kind to him. He has also come under fire for his racist opinions about the comparative intelligence of various ethnic groups. Nonetheless, his overall contribution to his field was substantial.
Presso la Libreria Filosofica (ma Firenze, E. Carlo Usigli) 1868 - 1873 Anonimo. Di palo in frasca - Veglie filosofiche semiserie di un ex-religioso che ha gabbato S. Pietro. Ginevra, presso la Libreria Filosofica (ma Firenze, E. Carlo Usigli), 1868 - 1873. 4 volumi in-8° divisi in 8 parti rilegati in 5 tomi, m.tela. Complessive 3496 pp. con una tavola satirica in litografia. Ottimo esemplare senza difetti. L' opera è una copiosissima critica della religione cattolica, posta all' Indice dei libri proibiti con decreto del Sant' Uffizio del 27 gennaio 1869, confermato dalla Sacra Consulta, che ordinò la distruzione di tutti gli esemplari sequestrati. Raccolta completa molto rara. L' autore è sconosciuto al Passano( Opere anonime).
Neuwied und Leipzig, Heufer (1868).. Mit 1 gefalt. Holzstich-Tafel. 112 S. Orig.-Pappband. Kl.-8°. Schwenk 11.2335.01 "Nicht nachweisbar"; Knorring, Bibliotheca venatoria 555. - Einband etwas angestaubt, Rücken mit kleinen Läsuren.
Bernard Quaritch. 1868. Folio, xvi,156pp., one of 200 copies, title with a decorative boader printed in three colours, illustrated in a series of 54 superb chromolithographic plates, mostly executed in exact facsimile of the originals in gold and colours, bookplate of front paste-down, small neat stamp on title, later half calf, title lettered in gilt with a decorative board on upper cover, uncut.
Poe, Edgar Allan [1809 - 1849].
Washington. DC, 20 june, 1868. 4to. 2 pp., on folded sheet of engraved letterhead of Fortieth Congress, with vignette of the U.S. Congress. With 2 engraved portraits of President Garfield. Old folds, slightly wrinkled, splitting along fold, in tan morocco-backed clam shell box . "- I am gratified with your approval of the general spirit and purpose of my speech - and can see much reason to hope that the attention to the subject, will, before long, bring the nation to sensible and honest conclusions on finance - The statement in my speech that to double the currency would double prices, is quite likely too broad to be practically true - You will observe that I was developing the general principle which lies at the foundation of currency - and which is likely to be ___ (?) in its application by many incidental causes. I was careful to guard my language thus: &#39;- BUSINESS REMAINING THE SAME [underlined], doubling the currency will result in doubling prices.&#39; As a matter of fact, the supposed increase of currency would increase speculative business - and somewhat increase the demand for currency, so that the increase of prices would not be quite 100 per cent -"
Washington, 1868. First edition. 47pp. Original printed wrappers, chipped, in cloth box. Across the top of front wrapper: "Hon. James W. Nye, U. S. Senator with compliments of C. P. Clever. Reese Cat 257: 51: " Clever was a delegate to Congress from New Mexico. In this interesting pamphlet he devotes much space to a description of the mineral resources of New Mexico, finally outlining the importance of building a western railroad from Memphis, through New Mexico, terminating in San Diego, California. ". Howes C488.
Las ruinas de Palmira o meditacion sobre las revoluciones de los Imperios.Seguido de:La Ley Natural o principios fisicos de la Moral deducidos de la constitucion del hombre y del Universo.La razon natural o las ideas naturales opuestas a las .
José Codina, Barcelona 1868 - plena piel ligeramente rozada, manchas del tiempo, interior bien conservado 2 Tomos en un Volúmen. .sobrenaturales.Biografía del Conde Volney.Poema sobre la Ley Natural.Poema sobre el desastre de Lisboa en ela ño 1755 o examen de este axioma:Todo está bien.Es necesario tomar un partido o el principio del movimiento.Ideas republicanas por un ciuda . 916 págs.
Parisiis (Paris), Apud Ludovicum Viv? Parisiis (Paris), Apud Ludovicum Vivès. 1868 - 1869. 8 volumes. Half leather. Together ca. 6000 pages; 28 cm. Text in Latin. - (monastic library stamps, sl. worn, sl. browned, some foxing) Although still good set, see image.
New York: Orange Judd & Company. PUBLISHING DETAILS: This is the two volume first US edition, with preface by Professor Asa Gray, published by Orange Judd of New York in 1868. 494 & 568 pages. Size: 19 x 13 cms (7.5" x 5"). Weight; 1.43 kg (3 pounds, 3 ounces). CONDITION: I would rate this set as very good. The original green buckram covers, with gilt titling to the spine, are clean and sound, with light edge and corner wear. The binding is tight and secure, with one shaken but firm signature in volume II. The text and illustrations are particularly clean and bright and free from foxing, with just some small edge marks to the prelims only of volume I. The original brown endpapers are clean and free from inscriptions or labels. All in all this is a handsome first edition of a very collectible and key Darwin work. THE BOOK: To answer the criticism that his &#39;Origin of Species&#39; was a theory only, and a wild one at that, he published these two volumes to demonstrate that evolution was obvious to anyone who cared to look at a bull in a pasture or a dog on a hearth. Based on a wide array of sources, from ancient pictographs to Polish roosters, from skins and from skeletons, from scientific journals and breeding manuals, Darwin assembled a mass of proof and a hypothesis about species reversion that risked his reputation anew. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is a two-volume compilation of his thorough and intensive research and the revolutionary conclusions that resulted. The first portion of his work is dedicated to a meticulous analysis of various aspects of plant and animal life, including an inventory of varieties and their physical and behavioral characteristics, investigation of the impact of a species&#39; surrounding environment and the role that both natural and forced changes in this environment have had. Darwin then turns to a richly detailed discussion of the roles of inheritance and crossing in the development of species. A wealth of illustrations further support and enhance his findings. This fascinating undertaking eventually formed the foundation for our current understanding of evolution. . Very Good. Original Cloth. First American Edition. 1868. 19 x 13 Cms (7.5" x 5").
London: Hardwicke, 1868. Falconer, Hugh (1808-65). Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer, A.M., M.D. . . . Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison, M.D., F.R.S. 2 vols. Vol. I: lvi, 590pp. 34 plates, text illustrations. Vol. II: xiii, , 675pp. 38 plates, text illustrations. 215140 mm. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1868. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards. Library stamps on verso of title pages of both volumes, and small stamp on the title of Vol. II. Marginal repairs to frontispiece and first 7 leaves of Vol. I, a few pencil marks in the margins, light toning, but very good. First Edition of the collected paleontological works, both published and previously unpublished, of the Scottish geologist and botanist Hugh Falconer, whose extensive studies of India's fossil mammals earned him and his colleague Proby Cautley the London Geological Society's prestigious Wollaston Medal. Falconer became interested in paleontology while stationed in India as an employee of the British East India Company. In the early 1830s he discovered the Siwalik fossil beds in the southernmost part of the Himalayas, where he and Cautley excavated an enormous variety of now-extinct specimens, including the mastodon, sivatherium, saber-toothed tiger and the giant tortoise Colossochelys Atlas. Falconer's observations of the evolutionary history preserved in the Siwalik strata--long periods of stasis followed by short periods of rapid change--led him to introduce the evolutionary theory known as punctuated equilibrium, a theory further developed in the twentieth century by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. Upon his retirement and return to London in 1855 Falconer devoted all of his time to paleontological and geological pursuits, and became involved in the question of the antiquity of man. Together with Pengelly, Falconer was one of the first two scientists to visit Brixham Cave after its discovery in 1858, and he was instrumental in obtaining the necessary funding and scientific personnel for its excavation. Falconer's letter of 10 May 1858 to the Geological Society informing them of the Brixham Cave site is included in Volume II of the Palaeontological Memoirs, together with his report on the results of the cave excavations delivered on 9 September. We have not been able to find any evidence that this letter and report were published prior to their inclusion in the Palaeontological Memoirs. The excavation of Brixham Cave culminated in what Falconer's biographer Charles Murchison called "the great and sudden revolution in modern opinion, respecting the probable existence at a former period of man and many extinct mammalia" (p. 486).Falconer left a large portion of his paleontological researches unpublished on his death, while many of his earlier papers had appeared only in such hard-to-find periodicals such as the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The present collection brings together all of Falconer's memoirs on paleontology, with the first volume containing his work on the fossil zoology of the Siwalik formations and the second his later paleontological researches, including his investigations on the antiquity of man and his important memoir on the fossil rhinoceros, published here for the first time. This set is rare and very difficult to find. Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Ramsay, Robert and Coles, James Oakley. The mechanical treatment of deformities of the mouth, congenital and accidental. 8vo. 95 pp. Hand-colored lithographed plate. London: John Churchill and Sons, 1868. 209 x 132 mm. Later buckram, library shelfmark tooled at foot of spine. Endpapers a bit foxed, otherwise a very good copy. Embossed stamp of the Incorporated Dental Society on title and a few other leaves. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title: "Annandale Esq. with the Authors' kind regards. October 1868."First Edition. A treatise on the manufacture and use of artificial palates in the treatment of cleft palate, which the authors claimed to be the first to appear since Snell's Observations on the History, Use and Construction of Obduratuers, or Artificial Palates (1828). The first chapter deals with the origin and development of congenital cleft palate, and last two chapters contain case histories of both congenital and accidental palatal deformities. "The novelty in these instances does not consist so much in the general line of treatment adopted, as in the fact that where elastic rubber has been used it has been adapted in metallic moulds, made expressly for each case, to the outline of the deficiency which it was intended to supply; the facility with which this can be done being considerably increased since the first manufacture of elastic rubber in this country, about eighteen months since, so pure and so carefully prepared as to be suitable for dental purposes. Before this date we were dependent on America for our supply" (p. vi).The recipient of this copy may have been the Scottish surgeon Thomas Annandale (1838-1907), who in 1877 succeeded Lister as regius professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh; see the DNB. Weinberger, Dental Bibliography, p. 114.
Afbildninger af Danske Oldsager og Mindesmærker. Bind 1: Steenalderen. Bind 2: Broncealderen Suiter. Bind 3: Broncealderen Samlede Fund.
THE FOUR ANCIENT BOOKS OF WALES Containing Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868 2 Vols, 1st ed, VG, 1 Map, 5 Pls. In modern grey cloth, titles and tooling to spine in gilt. Internally, new endpapers, teg remainder uncut, half titles present, title pages in red and black inks. Vol 1, pencil name to half title, tissue guarded frontis present, , (vi-xiv), , , 2-600 pp,  adverts, 1 map (coloured & folding). 1 pl (coloured), printed by R Clark, Edinburgh. Vol 2, , (vi-xiv), 496 pp, 4 pls (coloured), some light finger soiling, , minimal occasional spotting, paper repair to gutter last leaf. A very good copy of an important title. Allibone 2116. The four books are The Black book of Carmarthen, The Book of Aneurin, The Book of Taliesin, The Red book of Hergest. The Welsh text is contained in v. 2, the English translation in v. 1.Includes index. Title continues: Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century. Skene, historian and Celtic scholar published the manuscripts known as The Four Ancient Books of Wales (the Black Book of Carmarthen, the Book of Aneirin, the Book of Taliesin, and the Red Book of Hergest) in two volumes, with a commentary on fifth- and sixth-century British history with particular reference to the Gw&#x177;r y Gogledd, the &lsquo;men of the north&rsquo;, and to King Arthur, whom Skene took to be a historical character. This ground was not to be traversed again in such scholarly fashion until the publication in 1949 of H. M. Chadwick&#39;s Early Scotland. See ODNB.
"The earthly paradise, a poem."
"F. S. Ellis, 1868, 1870" London: "F. S. Ellis, 1868, 1870". 1871. "First editions throughout; 4 vols. in 3, as issued; 8vo, woodcut device designed by Morris on title-p.; orig. green cloth with paper labels on spines, light to moderate wear at extremities, a few small tears at spine ends, small bubbles in cloth on covers, labels soiled and somewhat worn, generally good and sound, or better. Vols. I and 2 (in 1), 1868, first edition, first issue, with misprint ""my"" for ""thy"" on p. 75; this copy inscribed by Morris on front flyleaf: ""With the authors compliments,"" and with the misprint at p. 75 corrected in his hand; Forman 17. (Also included is another copy of vol. I, first edition, first issue with misprint on p. 75, but with the original title-p. and spine label removed and replaced with a title-p. dated 1870 stating ""Parts I. & II,"" as also the replacement label; Forman p. 66 notes that this title-p. and label were inserted into vol. IV for the use of owners of the 1868 edition, and furthermore, that he has ""never seen a copy of the 1868 volume with new title inserted and the new label affixed."") Vol. III, 1870, first edition, with the 2pp. publisher&#39;s ads inserted at front, as called for by Forman 23; this copy with front hinge cracked. Vol. IV, 1870, first edition, with the title-p. and label for the 1868 version of Vol. I inserted at back; Forman 30, noting that ""I have met with very few copies of Part IV containing the extra title and label."" Also included in another copy of Vol. IV, 1871, second edition, without the extra title and label at the back; Forman 31. One of Morris&#39;s most endearing works, later published by the Kelmscott Press."
Die insel Capri mit bildern und skizzen von K. Lindemann-Frommel.
Dürr 1868 Leipzig, Dürr, 1868. In 4to; pp. 6n.nn., 53, 3n.nn. Otto tavole fuori testo e dieci illustrazioni nel testo. Fioriture al margine interno di qualche pagina. Testo inquadrato. Mezza tela con angoli, titolo in nero al piatto anteriore, dorso rinnovato. Sontuosa pubblicazione d?importanza storica per il testo e soprattutto per le tavole incise con molta arte e finezza, che riproducono luoghi, personaggi, vedute, case e tutto quanto ha importanza artistica a Capri. Doria, pag. 425; Furcheim, pag. 11.
Manuscript Signed Letter by Sir John Kirk Which Mentions Africa Explorers David Livingstone and Du Chaillu.
- 30 January 1868. Manuscript Signed Letter by Sir John Kirk, British administrator in Zanzibar and co-explorer with David Livingstone, in which leading explorers of the Dark Continent are mentioned. 8vo. Double-leaf mourning stationery, measures approximately 18cm x 11cm. Creased, otherwise in very good condition, interesting correspondence on the procurement of significant autographs. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Mrs. Carnegie, Please give to Mrs. Baradaille the enclosed autographs of Livingstone and Du Chaillu. Of Murchison I have not one now but so frequently am in correspondence with him that it cannot be long time before I can add it also. Give her my best regards and believe me I am Yours sincerely. John Kirk"
[London], . Good +. Privately Printed. A scarce piece of Victorian literature, and an important association copy. Inscribed "Mrs Jackson with the affectionate regards of Coventry Patmore, May 1868." The recipient was Maria ("Mia") Jackson, nee Pattle, sister of Julia Margaret Cameron and maternal grandmother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. She was a close friend and neighbor of Patmore and took care of his children when his first wife, Emily was ill and after her death helped with their upbringing. According to Edmund Gosse (Coventry Patmore, 1905, 130-131) in the autumn of 1868 Patmore destroyed 103 of the 250 copies printed of this publication after giving away a quantity to friends and others he thought might be interested. In original buff wrappers (copies are also found in light blue wrappers). The spine has been restored, the covers are worn along the hinges and edges, and the covers are darkened. Pages have light browning to margins. Still a good copy of this rarity. 46 pages. POE/091213.
1868. Good. mBUCHANAN, Robert, ed. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1868. First edition. vii + 366 pp. + 24 pp. publisher&#39;s catalogue. 8vo., green cloth with spine stamped in gilt, covers in blind. Spine slightly split at top front joint, a bit rolled. Corners bumped. Spine darkened, covers bright. Brown coated endpapers; front flyleaf partially sprung. Contemporary printed bookplate on front pastedown. Frontispiece photo clean, tissue guard detached, laid in. Title page with illustration detached, laid in. Rest of block is tight, clean. Good overall.
Cose notabili della citt? di Bologna. Unito : Miscellanea storico-patria bolognese. Unito : Supplemento alle cose notabili di Bologna e alla Miscellanea.
China:. 1868.. A hand colored woodcut print published in the 7th year of Tongzhi, 1868 in the western calendar. 20 x 12 1/2" with margins. Pencil inscription in English below the margin, and old ink inscription in English in the right margin. The scene centers on the water buffalo, Chinese families, the rice harvest, rain, & plowing, with text throughout. Sml. loss along an old fold, very delicate.
Weed Parsons and Company Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company. 1868. First. First edition. Contemporary half morocco and marbled papercovered boards, with wax seal of the State of New York on the spine. xxxii, 602pp. Bookplate front pastedown, light wear to the extremities, a handsome near fine copy. Sabin 53727 (limited to 500 copies). Although widely available in various microforms, OCLC locates a single copy of the book, in the Library of the Supreme Court of Arkansas. .
Philadelphia:: Benerman & Wilson,. 1868.. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 7". 1st, and only, edition (Johnson H802). 38, [2 (blank)] pp. Text pages with red-rule border.. Original publisher&#39;s green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering & device to front board & rear board stamped in blind. Bevelled boards.. Modest wear & soiling to binding. Crinkled ffep. Frontis tissue-. guard excised. Light foxing. A VG - VG+ copy.. An interesting, fairly-early manual on the field of photography, as it stands poised to enter its 4th decade. Himes, in 1868, was professor of natural sciences at Dickinson College; he would continue in this academic role well into the 1890s. He manifested an early interest in photography, an interest that would remain life-long. & & This, Himes&#39; first published book, primarily addresses the silver process of leaf prints [i.e., no camera involved], but also the silverless processes of "Ferricyanide of Potassium (Blue)" and "Bichromate of Potassa (Brown)". At the time, not extensively used as a commercial process, &#39;leaf prints&#39; would be &#39;rediscovered&#39; & used effectively in the early 20th C. by such photographers as Man Ray & Christian Schad. & & A title scarce in the trade, with AmEx showing the last copy to auction being 1994. . Mounted 3-leaf albumen photograph as frontispiece.
London - Bradbury, 1868 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A scarce set of fictional works from prolific victorian writer, Charles Reade. First edition. With volumes two and three featuring the original half titles. Featuring a folding facsimile of a forged note, and the genuine handwriting of John Wardlaw. Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Reade began his literary career as a dramatist, and he chose to have dramatist stand first in the list of his occupations on his tombstone. As an author, he always had an eye to stage effect in scene and situation as well as in dialogue. Co-written with Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, commonly known as Dion Boucicault, was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times heralded him in his obituary as the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century. Complete in three volumes. Condition: Rebound in cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines. Externally, lightly rubbed, with minor bumping, and slight fading to the spines. Light marks to the boards. Three rear hinges are slightly strained. Internally, binding is tender in places, and some leaves are working loose. Bright throughout, with the occasional spot and handling mark. W. H. Smith blind stamp to the front free endpaper of volume one, and ink signature toone title page. Overall: GOOD ONLY..
1868. London: Olympic Theatre, March 23rd, 1868. Approximately 20 inches by 20 inches. Original printed tissue-like paper. This is a production of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT from late in Dickens&#39;s life (two years before his death). "Great Hit of the New Drama Expressly Arranged and Adapted for this Theatre from the Popular Novel, by Charles Dickens Esq... in which Mr. J. Clarke, who has been expressly engaged, will sustain the Character of Sally Gamp." (The comedian John Clarke also occasionally performed a one-person show, in drag, called "Sairy Gamp.") Except for a brief mention of a "petite comedy" titled "The Best Way," plus an upcoming Annual Benefit, the entire playbill is about MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT (characters and players on the left panel, descriptions of the four acts on the right panel). According to Bolton, who in turn quotes Morley, this is a "brand new dramatization" that was promoted as opening on March 2nd -- three weeks before the date of this playbill.~Condition is very good-plus, with just some minor wear at the edges and at the folds -- no restoration of any kind. Bolton MC #27.
New York : Wynkoop & Sherwood, 1868. 1st Edition in this form. "Description: 13 v. ; 12 cm. Contents: v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Comedy of errors --v. 2. Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Midsummer night&#39;s dream --v. 3. Much ado about nothing ; Twelfth night ; Love&#39;s labour&#39;s lost --v. 4. As you like it ; Merchant of Venice ; Winter&#39;s tale --v. 5. Taming of the shrew ; All&#39;s well that ends well ; King John --v. 6. King Richard II ; King Henry IV --v. 7. Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1-2 --v. 8. King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII --v. 9. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Troilus and Cressida --v. 10. Othello ; Coriolanus ; Timon of Athens --v. 11. Hamlet ; Romeo and Juliet ; Pericles --v. 12. King Lear ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus --v. 13. Macbeth ; Poems and sonnets. Glossary. Genre: Collected works -- William Shakespeare -- English literature -- Drama and theatre." "Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Water stain on front panel of volume 13. Small white stain to spine cover of volume 2. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request."
Catalogo dei molluschi fossili pliocenici delle colline bolognesi.
Subject: (Paleontologia). Bologna, 1868 e 1874, 4to m.tela (conserv. all'int. le cop. orig.) pp. 98 + 88 e 2 + 1 tav. lit. (gore alle prime due). Dedica autografa dell'A. Le due (rare entrambe) parti qui riunite in un vol.
circa, 1868.. Two oil paintings on board, each approx. 31 x 41 cms; mounted and framed, in very good original condition. Two fine maritime oil paintings by Oswald Brierly (1817-1894).Brierly was invited by the Duke of Edinburgh to join his expedition round the world on the Galatea in 1867; a ship commissioned specially for a voyage to the Australian colonies. The voyage included stops at Lisbon, Madeira, Tristan de Cunha, the Cape, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney among many ports-of-call.These two paintings were until recent times in the family of the artist Oswald Brierlya leading marine painter who had studied naval architecture. Brierly learned his artistic skills at Henry Sass's Academy, a private drawing school in Bloomsbury "a preparatory school" for the Royal Academy and the British Institution, other students included Rossetti, Millais and Edward Lear.After a spell in Plymouth developing naval skills, Brierly sailed with several expeditions including the Rattlesnake voyage on a survey of the Barrier Reef, and with Benjamin Boyd on the Wanderer. He subsequently wrote, with Rev. John Milner, the narrative published as Cruise of the Galatea (London, 1869). In 1874 Brierly was made marine painter to Queen Victoria.An early inscription on one of the old frames reads "Galatea" In Port Phillip Bay Sir Oswald Brierly. We know that the Galatea was in Melbourne in 1867 so this family identification of location is fortuitous. The second painting, in all aspects a pair to the Port Phillip Bay picture, is "at sea" without a known location.Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's second son, was Australia's first royal visitor and he stayed here for several months. During his visit to Sydney there was an attempted assassination and the Duke received a bullet wound to the back. The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne are both named in his honour.With family provenance these two atmospheric paintings of HMS Galatea are highly attractive works done by one of the most outstanding marine artists to visit Australia.Lubbock 'Owen Stanley R.N. Captain of the Rattlesnake', pp.172, 246.
FONT>With an Account of the Rise and Progress of Manufactures and Commerce, and Civil and Mechanical Engineering in These Districts, 1868 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A topographical study of Lancashire and Cheshire. Including chapters on the industrial and commercial growth of the counties during the Industrial Revolution. The history of Lancashire is thought to have begun with its founding in the 12th century. In the Domesday Book (1086), some of its lands had been treated as part of Yorkshire. The land that lay Inter Ripam et Mersam, between the Ribble and Mersey, formed part of the returns for Cheshire. Once its initial boundaries were established, it bordered Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire and Cheshire. Lancashire emerged during the Industrial Revolution as a major commercial and industrial region. The county encompassed several hundred mill towns and collieries. By the 1830s, approximately 85%25 of all cotton manufactured worldwide was processed in Lancashire. Preston, Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Chorley, Darwen, Nelson, Colne and Burnley were major cotton mill towns during this time. Blackpool was a major centre for tourism for the inhabitants of Lancashire&#39;s mill towns, particularly during wakes week. With numerous illustrations from original drawings by H. Warren and a series of portraits, including twenty-four engraved plates. Complete in four volumes. Condition: In cloth bindings with gilt detailing. Externally, generally smart, though with somebumping and marks. Four hinges strained. Internally, firmly bound. Ink signatures to half-titles. Pages are bright, and mainly clean, though with some spotting to the first and last few pages. Overall: VERY GOOD.
1868. Theobald, William [1829-1908], Compiler. The Legislative Acts of the Governor General of India in Council, From 1834 to the End of 1867; With an Analytical Abstract Prefixed to Each Act; Table of Contents and Index to Each Volume; The Letters Patent of the High Courts, And acts of Parliament Authorizing Them. (To Be Continued Annually). Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1868. 5 volumes [complete as issued]. Octavo (6" x 9"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and gilt titles to spines. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some chipping to spine ends and corners, hinges cracked or starting, internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines, small stamps to title pages. A solid set. * Only edition. With a thorough index. "The title which I have given the present Collection is synonymous with &#39;Acts of the Legislative Council of India.&#39; The Council came into existence in 1834...as a distinct body separate from that of the Executive Government of India; and the legislative powers of the Presidency Governments, through the exercise of which each Presidency had previously been supplied with Regulations (so called and not Acts), at the same time ceased.": Preface. OCLC locates 10 copies. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:734.
JOANNIS DE LUGO / J. B. FOURNIALS.
Disputationes scholasticae et morales. Editio nova. accurante J. B. Fournials.
New York: Published for Henry S. Stebbins by H. H. Lloyd & Co., 1868. Quarter black calf leather with dark grey board with blind stamp gilt lettering on front board. All edges marbled. Decorative endsheets. Engraved title page with flowers and cameo of a barge on the Ohio river. All maps have original hand water-color. The maps of the territories show progression with parts of West listed as "Unexplored". Texas still has unusual northern border with the Indian Territory. 104p. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Quarter Calf Leather. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hardcover.
Comparative Statement of the Duties of Customs Levied on Certain Staple Articles in British Columbia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, and Other Principal British Colonies.
Government Printing Office, New Westminster, B.C. 1868 - New Westminster, B.C.: Government Printing Office, 17th March, 1868. Four Elephant Folio broadsides ca. 43x68,5 cm. Folded twice, with visible fold marks, otherwise near fine documents. Rare early large format BC imprints. A detailed comparative statement listing customs duties for over 200 items, from Ale to Yeast, arriving in British Columbia and seventeen other countries and colonies, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Prince Edward Island, several British colonies in the Caribbean (Bermuda, Jamaica, Bahamas) and Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland etc.), as well as New Zealand, Ceylon, and Natal. The statement was apparently prepared in order to find possible sources of income for the Colony struggling with the overwhelming debt inherited from the initial Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, as well as with the economic depression caused by the end of the gold rush. The other reason could be a necessity to work out the finances involved in the contemplated confederation with Canada. See the note from the meeting of the 5th Session of the Legislative Council of BC, 21 April 1868: "Frederick Seymour. Message No. 6. The Governor lays before the Legislative Council a Return that he has caused to be prepared, showing the Duties of Customs levied on certain staple articles in British Columbia, Great Britain, the United States, Canada, and other principal British Colonies. The Return will be interesting to the Honorable Council. It is not, however, the Governor's intention to introduce any measure for altering the Duties of Customs during the present Session" (Journals of the Colonial Legislatures of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 1851-1871/ Ed. By James E. Hendrickson. Vol. 5. Journals of the Legislative Council of British Columbia, 1867-1871, p. 136). It is interesting to compare custom duties for the import of books and manuscripts in all 17 listed regions: There was no duty on books in eleven of them, including British Columbia. Customs applied for reprints of British authors in Prince Edward Island, and foreign reprints in the Bahamas and Natal. The customs duties in the UK give an early example of regulations based on the age of books, with books printed prior 1801 being free of customs, and books printed later having a levy of - from 15 to 30 s. Per cwt. US customs applied to all books at "25 per cent generally."
London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, in original wrappers, of what is generally recognized as the earliest paper on hydrodynamic stability. Preceded by the printing in German of the same year. "In 1868 Helmholtz published a paper on what happens along the contact surface of two infinitely extended fluids if the one moves relative to the other. In that publication, &#39;Uber dickontinuirliche Flussigkeits-Bewegungen,&#39; [On discontinuous fluid motions], he pointed out that if a water jet issues from a sharp-edged orifice into a tank filled with water, a discontinuity in the velocity distribution is observed at the edge of the orifice. In is view, in a non-viscous fluid a whole surface of discontinuity separating the jet from the surrounding quiescent water can be assumed. Even though Helmholtz had doubts as to the stability of such a surface of discontinuity, he suggested that such a region of irrotational flow bordered by surfaces across which the velocity, but not the pressure, suffers a discontinuous change, should be investigated. The challenge was met by Lord Kelvin... [It] had a pivotal influence... Helmholtz-Kelvin instability, as it came to be known, became an active topic for research among theoretical fluid dynamicists over the following century" (Pasipoularides, Herat&#39;s Vortex: Intracardiac Blood Flow Phenomena). IN: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Fourth Series, No. 244, November 1868, pp. 337-348. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Wrappers with light soiling and mild wear to spine and edges. Rare in original wrappers.
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868.. FIRST EDITION 1868, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, 8vo, approximately 185 x 125 mm, 7¼ x 4¾ inches, pages: viii, 106, bound in original publisher&#39;s brown cloth, gilt ruled border, small gilt vignette and gilt lettering to upper cover, spine gilt lettered with 2 gilt rules, dark green endpapers. Very slight rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, tiny bump to corners of upper cover, gilt bright, small modern bookplate on front endpaper, a couple of fox spots on title page, otherwise contents clean. A very good copy. At the top of the title page Beckwith has written: "R.P. Gill Esq with the author&#39;s comp(limen)ts". Chapters on champagne, French Wines, a few pages each on the wines of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Portugal, the Paris Exhibition of 1867 with notes on the displays from all over the world, not more than a few lines on each, trade-marks and protection, wine merchants and the wine trade, why we drink wine. Beckwith was a wine merchant and juror at the Paris Exhibition and this work is a reprint of his Report on Wines for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 with additions and corrections. A variant edition of the same date states this fact on the title page, precedence unknown. Gabler, Wine into Words, page 26, G124450. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING. POSTAGE AT COST.
album in-folio piccolo verticale (340x230 mm.). Serie completa delle 80 incisioni originali all'acquaforte e acquatinta. Terza edizione completa del famoso capolavoro grafico del Settecento europeo. Le incisioni sono stupendi animati studi di vita famigliare e popolare, assai critici dei costumi e dei comportamenti sociali delle genti del tempo. Le incisioni misurano millimetri 160 x 220 ed hanno ampi margini oltre la battuta del rame. I Caprichos furono impressi ben 12 volte, dal 1779 al 1937, tutti assai richiesti e ricercati. La prima edizione del 1799, di grande valore commerciale, ebbe una tiratura di 200 esemplari. Un numero assai inferiore di copie ebbero la seconda e la terza edizione (la presente), esse pure di grande pregio e valore, molto rare. Esemplare ottimamente conservato, assai puro. Bellissima legatura romantica del tempo in pieno zigrino granata, firmata Durand, con titolo "Caprichos de Goya" impresso sul piatto anteriore e al dorso, con estesa forte decorazione in oro ai piatti, dorso a nervi assai ornato, tagli dorati. Iniziali BR in medaglione al centro del piatto posteriore. Prezioso esemplare, in perfette condizioni, di un celebre capolavoro d'incisione artistica, di universale interesse, del sommo maestro spagnolo (Fuente de Todos 1746-Bordeaux 1828). Cfr. Thomas Harris. Goya engravings, vol.. II, pp.62-118. Bénézot, Doctopnnaire des peintres et graveurs, VI, pp.339-344.
THE PEAKS AND VALLEYS OF THE ALPS.
Edmonston and Douglas 1868. 2 Vols, 1st ed, VG, 1 Map, 5 Pls. In modern grey cloth, titles and tooling to spine in gilt. Internally, new endpapers, teg remainder uncut, half titles present, title pages in red and black inks. Vol 1, pencil name to half title, tissue guarded frontis present, , (vi-xiv), , , 2-600 pp,  adverts, 1 map (coloured & folding). 1 pl (coloured), printed by R Clark, Edinburgh. Vol 2, , (vi-xiv), 496 pp, 4 pls (coloured), some light finger soiling, , minimal occasional spotting, paper repair to gutter last leaf. A very good copy of an important title. Allibone 2116. The four books are The Black book of Carmarthen, The Book of Aneurin, The Book of Taliesin, The Red book of Hergest. The Welsh text is contained in v. 2, the English translation in v. 1. Includes index. Title continues: Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century. Skene, historian and Celtic scholar published the manuscripts known as The Four Ancient Books of Wales (the Black Book of Carmarthen, the Book of Aneirin, the Book of Taliesin, and the Red Book of Hergest) in two volumes, with a commentary on fifth- and sixth-century British history with particular reference to the Gwyr y Gogledd, the 'men of the north', and to King Arthur, whom Skene took to be a historical character. This ground was not to be traversed again in such scholarly fashion until the publication in 1949 of H. M. Chadwick's Early Scotland. See ODNB.

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