Lediard t (2 résultats)

, English dictionary containing etymology, definitions, a collection of English proverbs and the iconography, mythology, theogony and theology of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman culture, also contains nearly 500 wood cut illustrations Second Edition , boards recovered, front board, title page and nearby pages detached, title page torn, corners and edges rubbed, covers marked, textblock mostly clean, poor condition , faux leather repairs over the covers, spine calf with 6 raised bands , folio, 35.5 x 23.5 cm Hardback ISBN.…

three volumes, in original full speckled calf, raised bands down spines, gilt devices to panels, head and tail bands, large format (26cm x 21cm), a little wear to spines, but an attractive work of this French translation. NB: A heavy set. (1) lxxviii + 668pp, privilege leaf, fine engraved frontis, engraved vignette. (2) iv + 707pp, engraved vignette. (3) iv + 748pp, engraved vignette. NMM Cat.Vol.5, Pt.1, entry 2266: A French translation was published in 1751 (as here). Polak, entry 5580: Confirms the above details. Rodger: Arguably the first scholarly British naval history; dry and plain but still of some value for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Pargellis & Medley, entry 1448: Contains 68pp on the period 1714-34. Lediard was the first important naval historian of British birth. Based on Lediard, but embodying some documents he had missed, is John Entick, a New Naval History; or, Compleat View of the British Marine, 1757. Historical Association (1924): Laughton "The first of Naval Historians both in time and merit" AJS: The author was Secretary to His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary in Lower Germany. Note a number of later cuttings inserted in the work, along with some relevant notes in pencil, in French. …