Black taylor (29 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Fair. 15 pages; no marks or writing in text; just light wear to corners and edges of white softcover; several medium light-colored stains on front cover; a couple minor marks to back cover; stapled binding; weighs 1.5 ounces; measures 8.6 by 5.4 by .15 inches; 022209.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. No DJ. Owner bookplate on front paste-down page: Josephine O. Halsell. No other marks in lightly read book. Surface portions of hardcover spine missing. Binding intact. 13 monochrome plates.

Etat : Very good. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title-page. Internally clean and tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of the limited edition. Hardcover. Full faux-leather binding with gilt spine lettering and gilt putter boy decoration on the front cover. Very good condition. Number 551 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Internally clean and tight. Lacking the slipcase.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. New Edition. 428 pages (complete). A suitably scruffy copy. This volume includes Johnson's essays of the lives of: "Cowley", "Denham", "Milton", "Butler", "Rochester", "Roscommon", "Otway", "Waller", "Pomfret", "Dorset", "Stepney", "J. Philips", "Walsh", "Dryden". Half-leather. The spine has been repaired with a leather strip. The leather corners are worn, scuffed but are placid. The marbled boards are scuffed, marked. These too are much worn and marked. They are benign. The contents have, as to be expected, age-related marks. Otherwise, they are tight, clean, clear, very confident, most reassuring and assured. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Etat : Very good. First limited edition. Hardcover. Very good condition in very good slipcase. Number 505 of a limited edition of 1000. Internally clean and tight.

Etat : Very good. First limited edition. Hardcover. Very good condition in very good slipcase. Number 558 of a limited edition of 1000. Internally clean and tight.

Etat : Good. 7th edition. Full calf, G+. [24]+231pp+1pp publishers adverts, small 8vo, ( page viii of the preface is also a page of publishers adverts ), LACKS the portrait, leather rubbed & a little worn along the edges with the lettering piece missing, upper hinge cracked but firm, light occasional dust soiling, but otherwise an attractive, internally near fine copy. A pair of treatise on the benefits of communal prayer & the Commemoration of the Death of Christ by William Beveridge [ 1637 - 1708 ] Bishop of St Asaph. 400 grams.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1823. TWO VOLUMES (VOLUME XXV, & XXVI). 765pp. GOLDEN BROWN TOOLED LEATHER HARDBOUND WITH GILT GOLD STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/FLORAL DESIGN ON SPINE COVER WITH A DIAMOND PATTERN STAMPED ON LEATHER BOARDS FRAMED BY A FINE GILT GOLD BORDER AND AND FLORAL DETAIL ON BOARD EDGES, FRONTIS PAGE WITH ENGRAVED IMAGE OF GEORGE COLEMAN ESQ. OF VOLUME XXV. DIMENSIONS: 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" x 1". CONDITION: VERY GOOD; 1/4" x 1/4" CHIP AT UPPER RIGHT SIDE OF SPINE CROWN AND LIGHTER CHIPPING AT SPINE HEEL OF VOLUME XXV, SOME RUBBED AREAS OF BOARD EDGES, CORNERS GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED, PERSONAL EX-LIBRIS LABEL PASTED INSIDE FRONT BOARD, LIGHT PENCIL PRICING NOTE AND SMALL BOOKSELLER LABEL PASTED INSIDE REAR BOARD PAGE, 1ST COUPLE OF PAGES LIGHTLY BROWN SPOTTED, REMAINING TEXT WHITE AND BRIGHT, STRONG HINGES AND VERY GOOD CONDIITON OVERALL.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. xxiv,382,[2]pp. With a final advertisement leaf. Collated, complete with endpapers. Contemporary calf, front board detached (front board is paneled and is not identical to rear board). Ownership inscription of Massachusetts physician, Dr. Stanton Prentice (1711-1769), on front endpaper, dated April 24, 1755. Earlier ownership inscription above title reads "John Seccombe's 1729", and Stanton Prentice beneath it. Leaves toned and foxed with spots of damp stain. Front endpaper chipped at top forecorner. A number of leaves with marginal notes in ink. Embellished with head and tail pieces and illuminated initials. Good. Dr. Stanton Prentice (1711-1769), son of Reverend John Prentice and Mary Swan of Lancaster, Mass. had a practice in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was a good friend of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman (1703-1782), and features prominently in his diaries (held in the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society). Rev. John Seccombe (1708-1792), Boston born, Harvard graduate, was a Congregationalist minister and author, well known for his satirical poem, Father Abbey's Will. Rev. Seccombe relocated to Nova Scotia, where he founded township of Chester. Printed in London in 1724, this book found its wat to Massachusetts quickly and was in Rev. Seccombe's library 5 years later and by 1755 it was the property of Dr. Stanton Prentice. Rare book. ESTCT60560 [Medicine] [Massachusetts-History].…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Set of three Daniel Defoe Editions of Robinson Crusoe:  Exceptionally rare set comprising all three books in the Robinson Crusoe series. A very good set in very good condition. All volumes are rebacked in calf with Vol 1 and 2 having raised bands on the spine. The contents are in very good condition with a scattering of brownings and light markings. Covers are lightly rubbed and corners/edges a little worn. Bindings are tight. All octavo 20cm x 13cm x 3cm. Volume 1, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner and Volume 2, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Being the Second and last part of his life. Together with the rarest of the three - Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his vision of the Angelick World. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Second Edition. 1719. Bookplate on front free page. Engraved front piece portrait by Clarke and Pine. Variant in p 343 Line 2 reading "Pilot" and Line 21 "Portugesfe" printed for W. Taylor at the ship in Pater-Nofter-Row. Volume 2: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe being the second and last part of his life. First edition 1719. Map is missing. Volume 3: Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe: First edition. 1720. This volume was not as popular as the first two books so was never reprinted, making this the first and only printing. Few exists outside museums. This volume has excellent provenance as it was owned by Walter Wilson who was an evangelist of Daniel Defoe. Walter Wilson (1781¿1847) was an English biographer of nonconformist clergy and their churches. Wilson was an illegitimate son of the founder the Times newspaper. He became a book seller and set up a shop in Mewsgate, Charing Cross where he collected Daniel Defoe editions. Wilson went onto write a three volume "The Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel Defoe" in 1830 which was well received. When his father died, Wilson was left a shareholding in the Times newspaper. Bookplate with Walter Wilson printed on the paste down. Inscription to the front free end paper, dated March 11th 1832, as a gift from Walter Wilson to his friend James Plumptre. Light pencil markings on p112. Frontispiece of the map of the island with some episodes depicted, signed: "Clark & Pine Sc. 1719" is missing. John Leech (illustrateur).…

Etat : Very good. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition in worn dust jacket. Tear to lower, inner corner of front of dust jacket, with loss. Internally clean and tight.

Etat : Very good. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Top, bottom of spine, corners, rubbed. Wear to outer margins of front cover, but cover lettering bright. Internally clean and tight.

1st English Ed. Title page + 380pp. + [iv]. publ. adverts. Decorative head and tail piece. Browning, ex.-libris H.D. Seymour Esq., contemporary panelled calf with blind motifs to corners, minor wear, upper joint gently cracking in part though firm, gilt lettered title label to spine with loss across head. ESTC T107127. US$134.…

Etat : Very good. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition in worn , price-clipped dust jacket. Leather spine label with bright gilt. Internally clean and tight.

Etat : Very good. vi, 186; (ii), 130, 12 plates (9 chromolithographed), text engravings. . HB. 2 vols, 4to. Main volume: full prize calf (recased in original boards and rebacked preserving most of the original spine). Prize copy presented to a student at St. Andrews by the author with inscription on fly leaf dated 1892. Some very light spotting; faint water stain to extreme outer margin of plates; Supplement: Orig. cloth, gilt. Vg. .…

Hardcover. Three-quarter bound leather with navy blue spine and brown covers; unpaginated; richly illustrated in color. THIS IS VOLUMES XVII & XVIII ONLY. Plate 1265 from volume XVIII is missing. This book has absolutely gorgeous botanical illustrations. Good (Spine strip is extremely heavily worn and peeling at the top and bottom; covers are also heavily worn, primarily at the corners, and loosely attached; boards are scuffed, smudged and foxed; inner hinge is cracked; textblock edges are toned, worn and smudged; interior is clean, but there is occasional light foxing or smudging; there is some very light dampstaining at the top of some pages that does not intrude into the plates; textblock appears to be solid.).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION; leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (18.5cm x 11cm x 4.5cm), pp. [8], 552 + 28 plates; English text in double columns. Bound in later full calf, smooth spine with morocco lettering-piece, gilt frames and lettering to boards. Appendix to rear followed by 28 leaves of plates. Condition: GOOD. Rebacked retaining the boards, new endpapers. Lacking frontispiece (?), 28 (of 29?) medical plates present, light toning, some ink staining to plates. Extremely scarce. [ESTC T113419].…

The title page of this work is lacking, although the above titles are correct for this work, according to records. First edition, second issue. [4], 258. Lacking title page, map, and leaf of advertisements to rear. Engraved animal plate is present, and main body of text complete. This work has been completely rebound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards., and measures approx. 21cm x 17.5cm x 2.2cm. The lettering and decoration to spine is a little rubbed, else the contents are good, and firm. Internally, there are modern endpapers to the front and rear. As can be seen from the images, The map and title page are lacking, and the contents are in rather poor condition. The contents are browned, stained and foxed throughout in varying degrees. A couple of leaves have a little wear to the stained areas at inner edge where soft paper strained against stitching. 3 leaves are particularly tatty, with large ragged tears and creases to text, and some chips to the corners/edges. Although creased the tears could be neatly repaired, as there does not appear to be any loss. The engraved plate has been trimmed to inner margin before being rebound thus the image is tight to inner edge. There are a number of scattered corner creases, and edges nicks. Main body of text is complete and readable. "Little is known about Lawson's early life. In 1700, being 'in a mood for travel,' he accidentally met with a gentleman.who assured him that 'Carolina was the best country to visit.' He landed at Charles Town, South Carolina, in August, 1700, and in December of that year started on an overland journey, traveling one thousand miles 'in Indian country.' He went up the coast to the Santee River, thence to the Catawba, crossed the Yadkin, traveled through the interior of North Carolina, and finally arrived on the 'Pamptioough River,' in February, 1701. He was surveyor-general of North Carolina, and while engaged in surveying work was killed by the Indians, near the present town of Snow Hill, North Carolina, in September 1711. Lawson's book is one of the most valuable of the early histories of North Carolina, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. He describes the soil, climate, trees, plants, animals, fish, and almost every other aspect of the colony. (Clark I: 115). Includes Native American vocabulary: Tuskeruro, Pampticough, and Woccon opposite their English translation. A rare and important work on the Indians of North Carolina, and the first history of the Carolinas.…

Large folio. (550 x 384 mm). Printed title, two leaves with 'List of the Plans, &c.' in double columns listing 160 plates and 180 engraved plates numbered 1 - 160, including the unnumbered plates 71 and 148 and 20 'bis' plates with duplicate numbers, 20 double-page and one large folding plate on two sheets; plates mounted on paper tabs (from sheets of the same work?) throughout, the title and text leaves on wove paper with the watermark '1809', the plates on laid paper with the watermark 'LLAR' and a fleur-de-lys countermark and others as per RIBA, the sheets retaining deckle edges throughout. Sheet size: c. 534 x 356 mm; double-page plates: c. 534 x 712 mm; title and text: 518 x 358 mm. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, later protective box. An excellent unsophisticated copy of the notoriously rare Vitruvius Scoticus. What was to become William Adam's (1689 - 1748) magisterially-intentioned yet still mysterious Vitruvius Scoticus was first mentioned in a letter in 1726 and by late 1727 Adam was issuing subscription receipts for a book of 'My Designs for Buildings &c. in 150 Plates'. Initially proposed as a book in the manner of James Gibbs' 'Book of Architecture' ('the first book in England to be devoted entirely to the designs of a living architect'), Adam intended clearly to rival Gibbs, to publicise his own work and to seek promotion and patronage from the new King, George II. By 1733, Adam had found an Edinburgh-based engraver suitable for the task (and one who may have shouldered some of the cost) in Richard Cooper, a student of John 'Friar' Pine and 'an acknowledged teacher and connoisseur of the fine arts'. Indeed, it may have been Cooper who was the first to suggest a generalisation of the work and the assumption of a distinct Scottish character with the new title Vitruvius Scoticus. Cooper worked solely from the limited resource of Adam's own designs and under the stricture that there would be no theoretical work in the publication and was therefore limited and slow in what he was able to achieve. It is clear that Cooper's engravings were finished by the early 1740s but the reasons the work was then abandoned - not for the last time - are rather less so. It has been suggested that William Adam hesitated to publish for a number of reasons: financial pressure and the inherent costs of paper, printing and publication; the curtailment of opportunities for promotion and patronage; a conflict of copyright; the 1745 Jacobite rising; Adam's advancing age; and, finally, the possibility of unflattering comparisons to Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. At William's death in 1748, his son John revised the project, adding additional plates (including several taken from designs by his brothers Robert and James) and it seemed, at least briefly, that the book would finally appear. At the time of the crash of the Fairholme brothers' bank in 1764 all was in readiness but the added financial burden on all of the brothers led John to sell the publishing rights to the London-based Andrew Millar and his partner Thomas Cadell; they issued subscription proposals in 1766. The agreement between John and the Londoners stipulated that of the existing sheets, adequate for 950 copies, they would require material for 750 and would allow the remainder to be retained by John for the existing subscribers. No copies were issued - it has been suggested that the reason was related to copyright although Robert and James Adam's opposition to a family association with 'outmoded taste' has been offered as more compelling - and on Millar's retirement in 1767 the sheets were in storage where they remained for 40 years. In 1804, Thomas Cadell's son wrote to John Adam's son (another William) that he was no longer able to store the sheets but that a scrap-paper merchant had offered £100 for them. Cadell's advice was to accept and it has been assumed subsequently that William did not: a story likely to be apocryphal states that the unused sheets were returned to Edinburgh and stored in a garret at the Royal Infirmary. It seems rather likelier that William did accept the £100 for the paper and his ongoing negotiations to have Vitruvius Scoticus published in 1808 - 1810 involved only those sheets that remained in Scotland. That the eventual publisher, Adam Black, issued only 120 copies - a very small run for a book of more than limited appeal - supports very strongly the idea that the remaining sheets were pulped, an idea that the present copy, with the plates mounted on paper guards composed of sections of those same plates, corroborates. The final word on the mystery, and indeed, on the publication, belongs to Eileen Harris: 'It is ironical that to be commercially viable Vitruvius Scoticus, clearly the grandest of any architectural book published in Scotland, had to be sold in the end as a remainder ? '. 'A resounding silence greeted Adam Black's announcement in the 'Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle' on 29 May 1811 that 'Vitruvius Scoticus' was 'this day . completed in fifteen numbers'. Not only was William Adam's book [Vitruvius Scoticus] a century too late to have the bearing on Scottish architecture that its title promised; but, with no preface, explanatory text, or date of publication, it was silent also about itself, about the intentions of its author and, above all, about its complicatred past.' (Eileen Harris). 'The best and most jinxed of all the great 18th century British architectural books, William Adam's Vitruvius Scoticus was three times abandoned by successive generations of the Adam family before, finally in 1811, a young Edinburgh bookseller named Adam Black . published an edition of 'only 120 complete sets' hastily assembled from sheets printed nearly 50 years before . Ill-planned and muddled as the book was from its inception, it was a sad irony that Vitruvius Scoticus should end up as an obscure bookseller's remainder, totally unremarked upon at the time, and only quite recently recognised as.…

Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Modern Edition. 272 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, slight wear to edges. Glossy card covers with cloth spine. Archival reprint / replica of original edition. Privately published. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Chapter headings include: BARBADOES, DOMINICA, &c ANTIGUA, JAMAICA; BAHAMA ISLANDS. TURKS ISLANDS. The Caicos. Heneagas ; The Hogsties. Ragged Island. Mayaguana. The French Keys ; Castle Island. Crooked Island. The author lands at Portland Harbour. Description of the beach and salt pond. General view of the country. Pitts Town. Journey across Crooked Island. Some account of ; Acklins Description of the country. A cotton plantation. Mr. Eve's new gin. Birds on Acklin's Island. The flamingo ; The author leaves Crooked Island, and passes by Long Island and Exuma; of which a short account is given, as also of Rum Key and Wathing Island. St. Salvador. Landing of Columbus Present state of the Island. The author proceeds by the Keys (on one of which he lands), and over the Great Bahama Bank, to New Providence ; New Providence. Description of the harbour and town of Nassau. Government of the Bahama Islands. Judicial establishment. Agricultural society. Causes of the failure of cotton. General description ; Historical account of New Providence. Black Beard the pirate. Governor Woodes Rogers. Colonel De Veaux's conquest of the island in 1783. The author proceeds from New Providence ; passes the , Berry Isles ; Short description of Andros, Bimini Islands. Eleuthera and Harbeur Islands. Course taken by Columbus through the Bahamas. Abaco. Modern Edition. Some b/w Illustrations (illustrateur). Book.…

Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Modern Edition. 272 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, slight wear to edges. Glossy card covers with cloth spine. Archival reprint / replica of original edition. Privately published. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Chapter headings include: BARBADOES, DOMINICA, &c ANTIGUA, JAMAICA; BAHAMA ISLANDS. TURKS ISLANDS. The Caicos. Heneagas ; The Hogsties. Ragged Island. Mayaguana. The French Keys ; Castle Island. Crooked Island. The author lands at Portland Harbour. Description of the beach and salt pond. General view of the country. Pitts Town. Journey across Crooked Island. Some account of ; Acklins Description of the country. A cotton plantation. Mr. Eve's new gin. Birds on Acklin's Island. The flamingo ; The author leaves Crooked Island, and passes by Long Island and Exuma; of which a short account is given, as also of Rum Key and Wathing Island. St. Salvador. Landing of Columbus Present state of the Island. The author proceeds by the Keys (on one of which he lands), and over the Great Bahama Bank, to New Providence ; New Providence. Description of the harbour and town of Nassau. Government of the Bahama Islands. Judicial establishment. Agricultural society. Causes of the failure of cotton. General description ; Historical account of New Providence. Black Beard the pirate. Governor Woodes Rogers. Colonel De Veaux's conquest of the island in 1783. The author proceeds from New Providence ; passes the , Berry Isles ; Short description of Andros, Bimini Islands. Eleuthera and Harbeur Islands. Course taken by Columbus through the Bahamas. Abaco. Modern Edition. Some b/w Illustrations (illustrateur). Book.…

12mo, engraved frontispiece and pp. [xiv], 215, 240-440, [4] advertisements; complete despite the jump in pagination; small wormtrack at head in first few leaves, otherwise internally a good copy, in contemporary calf, rather rubbed. Second edition of this translation of the original work by Pierre Nicole (1625-95): first published in 1717. John Ozell (d. 1743) artfully combined a flourishing business as an accountant with a considerable facility as a translator, mainly from the French. His rendition of Boileau's Le Lutrin was well received although he made an enemy of Alexander Pope, for his comments on the poetry of Wycherley, and was rewarded with mention in the Dunciad. This copy has a leaf of errata an odd addition to a second printing which is not in the collation given in ESTC. It seems that Ozell was cross at the number of mistakes, as the leaf is headed: 'The Translator not having seen the Sheets of this new Edition 'till they were all wrought off, the Reader is desired to correct the Errors of the Press, especially these that follow'.…

8vo, pp. [iv], 52; disbound. Second edition: first published earlier the same year. This is not a reissue, as it has different pagination from the first edition. Colton (1780?-1832) was a poet and cleric: this little pamphlet includes at least one example of his own poetry. He criticises Byron's dangerous morals, whilst acknowledging his greatness; but the most readable parts, as always, are the quotations from Don Juan. Against the way of life he was supposed to preach, Colton proved an incorrigible gambler, and made and lost a fortune in the casinos of Paris: he finally shot himself when suffering from a painful disease.…

°°° FIRST EDITION, LEATHERBOUND ORIGINAL; *) dated Preface. - 1 blank sheet, 69 (1) pages on fine structured and partly untrimmed paper; the delicate images are in the text and 8 wholepage on plates enriched by few portraits and illustrated initials; holograph gift-inscription ''With best wishes / for a stappy Xmas / from / Tommy'' dated in the year of publication. - Ends of spine slightly-, sharp corner minimally rubbed; few untrimmed paper-topedges are slightly standing out; few sheets with minimal crease at inner top-corner; STILL A BEAUTIFUL COPY. …

8°, Ganzledereinbd., VIII, 360 S. / 380 S. - Einbände berieben, Rücken schadhaft, ein Einbanddeckel lose, Ex Libris, Namenseintrag, etwas nachgedunkelt und braunfleckig, sonst innen gut erhaltene Exemplare der raren Publikation. Buch.

First Edition. First edition, 4to, pp. vi, 186; a few illustrations in the text and 9 plates (6 printed in color); original blue cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, some wear to extremities with spine ends and fore corners beginning to fray, linear scratches to covers, some spotting to the plates, and a few contemporary juvenile annotations in pencil. This copy inscribed and dated on front flyleaf, "To the Countess of Dalhousie, with the respectful esteem of the author. 1 July, 1887." Sponges, mollusks, starfish, and other examples of marine life found along the eastern coast of Scotland.…

Etat : Good. Small 4to. 15.5 x 20 cm. Lacks the title page and the plates. [4], 258pp. Small burn hole pp. 93-94. No printed copies listed in OCLC.Very rare.First (1709) or second (1714) edition of "the first history of Carolina, with a very observant report of the life, customs, and natural history of the colony" (Streeter). The author, John Lawson, was the surveyor-general of the Carolina colony, traveling extensively in the region and promoting European settlement there. His role in the European encroachment onto Native lands led to his death at the hands of the Tuscarora in 1711, one of the opening acts of the Tuscarora War?North Carolina's bloodiest conflict in the Colonial period. Howes L-155 ("b"); Sabin 39451; Streeter sale 1114; Pilling Algonquian, p. 300; Field 896; JCB III:125.John Lawson (27 Dec. 1674-16 Sept. 1711), explorer, surveyor, and author of A New Voyage to Carolina (London, 1709), was apparently the only son of Dr. John Lawson (1632-ca. 1690) and his wife [Isabella] Love (ca. 1643-ca. 1680). The father was a member of St. Bennet's Church, Gracechurch Street, London, and his mother of St. Andrew's Church, Holborn. Dr. Lawson was a grandnephew of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson of Scarborough, Yorkshire. The family owned estates in the vicinity of Kingston-on-Hull, Yorkshire, where it is likely young Lawson first attended Anglican schools, followed by lectures at Gresham College near the family's London residence. At Gresham an endowment supported the teaching of astronomy, geometry, physics, law, divinity, and other subjects, while the natural sciences, mathematics, inventions, travel, and discoveries were subjects of special interest. It was also the usual meeting place of the Royal Society, dedicated to the pursuit and advancement of scientific methods of developing and verifying knowledge in the natural sciences. Membership in the society was elective, based on a demonstration of merit. Lawson apparently yearned to accomplish something so notable that he would be chosen for membership.…

Two volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [ii], iv, [xxvi], 372; [xvi, 340, [27] index; a good, clean copy in contemporary panelled calf, spines a bit worn, head of volume I's spine chipped. Eighth edition, a reprint (despite the statement on the title page) of the seventh, and following the text of the fifth (1706). Yolton 68; Attig 235. Provenance. Early inscription on endpaper of volume I of Robert Cathcart, dated 1738 - possibly Robert Cathcart of Glandusk, co. Ayr, Scotland.…