E chambers abraham rees (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Fourth Edition. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 Only. Volumes bound in brown leather, gilt title and volume number on faded spines. Volume 2 and 3 covers detached and present; Volume 4 missing both front and rear boards. Significant wear through to leather, rubbing and soiling. Head and tail of spine have areas of leather missing. Text blocks remain secure. Leaves are toned and unmarked. Fair only. Due to size and weight, additional shipping will be requested after purchase. Full refund if not satisfied. …

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Bien. 1788. Printed for J.F. & C. Rivington, A. Hamilton, et al, London. 1 volume. In-fólio, 45cm. Enc. Volume the Fifth Containing the Addenda, Index, Arrangement of the Plates and the Plates. Encadernação da época inteira de pele com restauros. Manchas de água nas folhas de guarda e ocasionalmente em outras folhas. Muito bom estado.…

mehr als 1000 Seiten je Band mit Titelkupfer in Band 1 und mit 145 (von 146) teils gefalteten Kupferstich-Tafeln sowie 78seitigem Index im Tafelband, (more than 1000 pages per volume with title copper in volume 1 and 145 (of 146) partly folded plates (copperplate engravings) and with 78-page index extensive index in the plate volume), Fast vollständiges Exemplar mit allen Vor- und Titelblättern, dem Titelkupfer, Tafeln, Verzeichnis der Tafeln (hier fehlt durch Fehldruck lediglich die letzte Seite) und Index. Es fehlt lediglich die letzte der 15 Botaniktafeln "Lycopodioides, Selaginoides, Porella". Dafür sind extra eingebunden 4 beidseitig bedruckte Tafeln "Specimen pf Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to is Majesty" und eine Falttafel "A Specimen of Printing Types" / Almost complete copy with all front and title pages, frontispiece, plates, list of plates (here only the last page is missing due to misprinting) and index. Only the last of the 15 botany plates "Lycopodioides, Selaginoides, Porella" is missing. For this purpose, 4 boards printed on both sides "Specimen pf Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to is Majesty" and a folding board "A Specimen of Printing Types" are included. The plate volume (V) is divided into the following subjects: Agriculture (2 plates), Analysis (4 plates), Anatomy(1 plate), Architecture (1)plate), Astronomy (7 plates), Birds (5 plates), Botany (14 of 15 plates), Chemistry (5 plates), Conics (1 plate), Corallines (2 plates), Dialling (4 plates), Electricity (5 plates), Fishes (5 plates), Flags (1 plate), Fortification (8 plates), Fossils (3 plates), Geography(1 plate), Geometry (5 plates), Gunnery (2 plates), Heraldry (4 plates), Horology (2 plates), Hydraulics and Hydrostatics (7) plates, Insects (3 plates), Magnetism (1 plate), Mechanics (7 plates), Microscopical objects (3 plates), Miscellany (3 plates), Music (1 plate), Natural History (1 plate), Navigation (2 plates), Optics (6 plates), Perspective (4 plates), Pneumatics (5 plates), Quadrupeds(5plates), Serpents (1 plate), Shells (3 plates), Ships (2 plates), Surgery(3 plates), Surveying (3 plates), Trigonometry (1 plate), Testaceous and Crustaceous Animals (1 plate). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 269000 2° (40 x 24 cm), Originalganzledereinbände der Zeit mit Rückentitel, fachmänisch restauriert, Papier ganz vereinzelt leicht braunfleckig, Innendeckel mit Exlibris, insgesamt sehr gute Exemplare mit sauberen Tafeln, (Original all-leather bindings of the period with spine title, professionally restored, paper with occasional slight brown spots, overall very good copies with clean plates), 5 Bände (4 Textbände A-Z und ein Tafelband), 5 volumes (4 text volumes A-Z and a table volume)..…

Leather. Etat : Good. Four volumes of the famous Chambers Cyclopaedia, which first began in 1728. This work is Abraham Rees' improved edition of Chambers' Cyclopaedia. He re-edited the original work in 1778 and created the supplements which contained much new matter. His edition was originally published in 1781-6 before a reprint in 1788-91. Therefore this set is a very early edition of Rees' publication. For this edition Rees is said to have added more than 4,400 new articles.With an illustrated frontispiece to the first volume.Comprising volumes I and II of the original work and the two supplement volumes. This set is four volumes total. Without the plate volume which is often bound separately.This set is without the plate volume which was issued separately.Volume I is dated 1786, Volume II is dated 1779, Volume III is dated 1781 and Volume IV is dated 1783.Bookplates to the front pastedown , 'FW Brydges Esq Tiberton, Herefordshire' and 'Robert Henry Lee Warner'. Both of these individuals were from Tyberton Court which was built in 1729 for William Brydges. Robert Henry Lee-Warner was a descendent of the Brydges family and the house passed to the Warner family due to the lack of male heirs during the early nineteenth century. It was inherited by Anne Brydges who married Rev. Henry Lee Warner.A comprehensive encyclopaedia, with some tables throughout including one showing the Sun's declination.An important edition of this noted encyclopaedia. In a contemporary half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally, worn to the spines. Loss to the head of the spine to all volumes, heavier to volume I. Splits to the joints of all volumes, though hinges remain firm. Patches of rubbing to the paper covered boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spotting to pages. Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). book.…