John martyn (91 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Very good paperback. Creasing to head of spine, possibly as printed. No inscriptions. --- General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall conditon of the book(s). We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by Royal Mail Airmail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books or for tracking (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).…

428 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.75cm. Handsome early 20th century half-leather re-binding - green leather spine and green cloth boards with green leather corners. Spine decorated with five raised bands delineating four gilt tooled compartments plus two gilt lettered maroon title/year labels; light color fading at head of front board's upper left leather overlap; slender scuffing to board corners. Floral watercolor decorated endpapers added when rebound; glue impression on front pastedown likely from removed bookplate. Some foxing, soiling, and stains to interior leaves. Pages 143-144 and adjacent b/w plate detached and now laid-in; binding otherwise firm. …

Full-Leather. Etat : Very Good. 4th edition (corrected with annotations), [xv1] 348pp, contemporary calf with blindstamped ruling and motifs in corners, rebacked in lighter calf with raised bands and gilt lettered spine label, corners bumped, inner hinges cracked, a few light stains and otner marks, small folio (300x190mm), ESTC R1689. …

Full-Leather. Etat : Very Good. 4th edition (corrected with annotations), [xv1] 348pp, contemporary calf with blindstamped ruling and motifs in corners, rebacked in lighter calf with raised bands and gilt lettered spine label, corners bumped, inner hinges cracked, a few light stains and otner marks, small folio (300x190mm), ESTC R1689. …

Full-Leather. Etat : Very Good. 3rd edition (Kalendarium 5th), (lxx) 412; 38 [2]pp, contemporary sprinkled calf, corners restored, rebacked in style with raised bands but in a lighter leather, new red morocco spine label lettered gilt, new enpapers, paper lighlty toned throughout (heavier on a few pages), a few spots, there is a tear in the lower margin of Ii2 and Ggg1, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, folio (32x19.5cm), Henrey 134, ESTC R5987, may cost more to ship than quoted by ABE.…

Leather Bound. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Rare First edition of this important work by John Evelyn. Published by The Royal Society in 1664. In Three parts: 1.Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. (120 pages) 2. Pomona, Or an Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider; The Making and several Ways of Ordering it.(50 pages) 3. Kalendarium Hortense; Or Gardners Almanac; Directing What He is To Do Monthly Throughout he Year. (83 pages) With 'Animadversion' and Paul Neile pages as called for. Quarter Leather and Marbled boards with Gilt Titling to spine. MIld damp stain to bottom edge of pages at front with paper strengthening. Occasional Foxing and marking. Ink Name and details partially rubbed to front pastedown. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Pencil annotations to ffep and very occasional throughout. Title page slightly misaligned when printed, obscuring part of date at bottom.…

Leather Bound. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Rare First edition of this important work by John Evelyn. Published by The Royal Society in 1664. In Three parts: 1.Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. (120 pages) 2. Pomona, Or an Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider; The Making and several Ways of Ordering it.(50 pages) 3. Kalendarium Hortense; Or Gardners Almanac; Directing What He is To Do Monthly Throughout he Year. (83 pages) With 'Animadversion' and Paul Neile pages as called for. Quarter Leather and Marbled boards with Gilt Titling to spine. MIld damp stain to bottom edge of pages at front with paper strengthening. Occasional Foxing and marking. Ink Name and details partially rubbed to front pastedown. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Pencil annotations to ffep and very occasional throughout. Title page slightly misaligned when printed, obscuring part of date at bottom.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. FIRST EDITION 1676. The Evelyn family copy with the bookplate of William John Evelyn on the front pastedown and Christie's JE bookplate on first free endpaper. Small 8vo, approximately 155 x 90 mm, 6 x 3¾ inches, pages: [6], 7-182, initial imprimatur leaf and final blank M4 present, bound in full speckled calf rebacked at sometime in lighter speckled calf, no title to spine. Corners of binding slightly worn with board just visible, slight shelf wear to edges, pale age-browning to endpapers front and rear and imprimatur leaf, small chip to 1 margin, tiny repair to top edge of first free endpaper, small rust spot to margin of pages 142-150, pages 171-172 with 2 small rust spots to text, pages 155-156 with a single small brown spot to text, a tiny dark spot to lower margin of pages 155-160, otherwise text clean. A very good copy. See: Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn, A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings, page 211, No.93, page 108 is numbered 118 in our copy the same as in Keynes; Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, Catalogue of the The Evelyn Library, Part iv, page 96, No.1702; Rachel Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, Volume 1, page 369, No. 346. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 3rd Edition. Brown half morocco over marbled. 4 parts in 1, separate titles to each treatise, general title in red and black, 4 engraved illustrations in the text, errata leaf to rear. (Lacking initial blank, browned, occasional crease and odd stain, marginal insect-damage to last leaves, illegible ownership in ink from 1885 to title.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Provenance: St. Augustine College, Canterbury (bookplate verso title).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. HARDBACK new half-calf with marbled boards gilt lettering on spine label pages: [xii] 499 [v] 115 - Catalogus Stirpium in Exteris Regionibus. A nobis Observatarum Quae vel non omnino vel parce admodum in Anglia Sponte proveniunt two plates former owner's name on front end-paper some light browning to preliminaries otherwise very fine clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. HARDBACK new half-calf with cloth covered boards gilt lettering on spine label pages: [xiv] - to the reader [iii] - advertisement [iii] [ix] - The Garden. To J. Evelyn Esquire [xxiv] - The Table to Sylva [ix] - The Table to Pomona 281 - Sylva or a Discourse of Forest-Trees [i] 287-334 - A Philosophical Discourse of Earth 335-376 - Pomona or an appendix concerning Fruit-Trees 377-412 - Sir Paul Neil's Discourse of Cider 38 - Kalendarium Hortense [i] - errata all edges speckled 1 plate lacking pages 1-6 of To The Reader small repair to tear in title-page of A Philosophical Discourse of Earth which is slightly browned small chip in fore-edge of first two sections (not affecting text) one or two occasional spots otherwise very fine. This is a heavy item and may incur additional postage.…

Etat : Sehr gut. 32 x 20 cm. (2), Title page in Red and Black, (12) [Dedications, To the Reader], cvi [Life of the Author], 889 pages, (47) [An Alphabetical Table .]. New (2024) black half morroco over marbled boards. New end papers. Two spine labels with gilt title etc. Red stained edges. Very good condition. New Binding. Internally mildly age darkened. First and last pages with some edgewear, never affecting the text. Overall a very well preserved copy in a new sturdy binding.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Folio. [72], 412, 38, [2]pp. General title-page and "Kalendarium" title-page in red-and-black. With an initial blank leaf. Includes indexes. "A philosophical discourse of earth . The second edition improv'd, 1678" and "Pomona . The third edition with additions" each have separate title-pages dated 1678; pagination and register are continuous. "Kalendarium Hortense . The fifth edition, with many useful additions" has separate dated title-page and pagination; register is continuous. With final errata leaf. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco over cloth. Illustrated. With several ownership inscriptions, most prominently by Thomas Holford, dated 1681, on the first free endpaper. ESTC R5987; Wing E3518; Keynes, G. John Evelyn, 42. 0.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. London: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn Printer for the Royal Society, 1678. First English Edition. Folio, a good copy in contemporary English calf, with a historic reback to the spine. Contemporary ink and pencil annotation and some correction throughout. Collated and complete. Plate XXVII with an engraving of the Dodo. Some closed tears to the base or top of the plates, one plate repaired. First English edition of the first modern Ornithology, and 'one of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time' (Wood). It was translated and adapted from the Latin text of 1676 by John Ray, who added three additional plates and the three discourses on fowling, song birds, and falconry at the end. This work, begun jointly by Willughby and Ray and completed by Ray after the former's death in 1672, revolutionised ornithological taxonomy by organising species according to their physical characteristics. 'An important feature of the book was to be the engraved figures of birds, the cost being contributed by Willughby's widow. The Ornithologia, dated on the title page 1676 and carrying the arms of the Royal Society, if regarded only as a piece of book production, is magnificent. With its historical importance added it becomes one of the fairest monuments that mark the progress of scientific natural history' (Keynes p 54). As Keynes notes, the Latin edition was largely the work of Ray, as Willughby had died in 1672 and had left only rough field notes towards his ornithology. Ray effectively wrote the entire work, utilising not only Willughby's material but that of his own and other naturalists, and he provided the taxonomic system. The plates [numbered I to LXVIII], numbered XII, XXII and XLV are signed by F. H. van Houe, XXXVIIII, XLIIII signed by W. Faithorne, and XLVIII signed by W. Sherwin; the others are unsigned. Provenance: crest to the front board. Approximately 14 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - good condition - gilt titles to an old and a little tired, red label; spine repaired with the original spine laid on, matched to the original boards. Joints - good condition - sound, repaired. Corners - fair condition - bumped and worn Boards - good condition - marked and scratched, gilt crest to the front board. Page edges - good condition - all edges darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - good condition - sound, repaired. Paste downs - good condition - more recent. End papers - good condition - first end papers more recent, others marked, stained. Title - good condition - tanned, red and black text. Pages - good condition - tanned throughout, plates with some marginal closed tears, one repaired - see photos. Binding - good condition - sound, worn. See photos. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Octavo. [viii]ff., 499pp.; [iv]ff., 115pp. A8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8, Kk2, Aaa8-Ggg8, Hhh6. First edition. Two parts in one volume. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. With three folding plates, a portrait and a woodcut diagram in the text. Wing R399; ESTC R5715. 0.

Full-Leather. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. Sylva or a Discourse of Forest Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesties Dominions, as It was delivered to the Royal Society the XVth of October, 1662, upon occasion of certain queries propounded to that illustrious assembly by the honourable the principal officers, and commisioners of the navy to which is annexed Pomona, or an appendix concerning fruit trees in relation to cider; the making and severall wayes of ordering it; published by expresse order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarum Hortense; or the Gardners' Almanak; directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year. All which several treatises are in this second edition much enlarged and improved. [4]. 247, [4], 67,33, plus errata.Five copper plate engravings plus engraved title page. Bound in period leather with five raised bands, later black spine label with gilt titles and borders. Front hinge with old repair, half title with old repair of a closed tear, intermittent tide line on the last 21 leaves. Quite bright, tight clean copy, free of foxing or marks [two words in brown ink on the margin of one page] in a nice full leather binding. A sharp, pleasing copy.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. John Ingenhousz. (Jan Ingen Housz, Ingen-Housz). "Easy methods of measuring the diminution of bulk taking place upon the mixture of common air and nitrous air" in Phlilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, printed by John Martyn, volume 66, 1776, pp 257-268. This copy has been cleaned up, with the spine nicely mended with Japan tape, and the whole being sewn-in to new wrappers of high-quality paper. VERY GOOD. Nice copy. [++] Ingenhousz's paper describes simple techniques for quantifying the volume change that occurs when common air and nitrous air (also known as nitric oxide) are combined, accurately measure the decrease in volume that results from the chemical interaction between the two types of air. (It also includes experiments on platinum ("Platina").) [++] Ingenhousz is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. [++] It seems that this is Ingenhousz's second published paper.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 15pp (541-556). Disbound from larger volume but pages remain bound together. Waviness and evidence of damp staining but text all remains legible and otherwise unmarked. Contains articles on anatomical observations of a human body. Lone folding plate almost entirely missing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

1672. Etat : Good. Contains a Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes, Divers Sermons, with a Short Treatise Befitting these Present Times, and other works by Thomas Jackson. This work may be a precursor to the 1673 printing of The Works of Thomas Jackson, being that the works in this volume state they were printed in 1672. Leather cover. Burgundy edges. 1096 pp overall. Front cover is detached. Some foxing in the work, but no annotation. Full refund if not satisfied.…

No Binding. Etat : Poor. 1st Edition. [viii]+78+[2 blank] pages with three folding 3ngraved plates. Quarto (9 1/4" x 7") stab sewn and untrimmed throughout, with deckle edges, mostly unopened housed in custom clamshell box. (Wing H-2611; ESTC R38964) First edition. Hooke counted devices [described in the present volume] among his greatest mechanical achievements. [.] What distinguished Hooke's instruments, indeed, was the fact that they were 'convenient and manageable,' together with the real advances they made. [.] The most spectacular of Hooke's complex scientific instruments, his equatorial quadrant, is described in detail -- with a glorious illustration -- in his Animadversions (the book in which he publicly attacked Hevelius's rejection of instrumental aids for astronomy.) [.] An equatorial quadrant allows the observer to follow the motion of a heavenly body by pushing his instrument around the axis: 'but Hooke goes further and has a machine do the pushing.'" (Quoted from Lisa Jardine's The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, London: Harper Collins, 2003, page 44ff.) Robert Hooke was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke (as a surveyor and architect) attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Often vilified by writers in the centuries after his death, his reputation was restored at the end of the twentieth century and he has been called "England's Leonardo [da Vinci]". (Wikipedia) Condition: Final 2 leaves with large sections of loss due to damage (photo facsimile pages provided of these leaves), Edge wear some chipping and loss else a poor but rare item.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 164 pages; 1670 John Martyn, London. 1st edition. Rebound in heavy brown cloth with titles and year in gilt to spine. Title page printed with double ruled borders. Front and rear endsheets lacking. 3 small instances of worming in the front margin of the final 14 or so leaves. Contents clean and fresh. VG thus.…

No Binding. Etat : Good. Folded plate. p433-448. Includes articles on sea voyages. A little stained throughout and a few spots to the plate.

An early edition. 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches)254-pages. old full calf, boards detached, spine chipped. Name on title. Worm trail on lower margin of first few leaves. Some foxing/browning.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition Thus. 8vo. pp [2] 412 & 285. FULL TITLE: Hudibras. The first and second parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected & amended, with several additions and annotations. / Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. Written by the Author of the First and Second Parts. The Third part is a first edition, the first two parts had first appeared in 1663. The three parts bound in one volume. Light brown calf lettered gilt at the spine, 4 raised bands, gilt decorations on spine and front and rear corners. A near very good sound copy with faint wear at top of title page some old ownership names probably about contemporary with the book, some staining to about 40 pages in the third part 3 pages with some restoration but no loss of text. not affecting legibility.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Rebound in contemporary library style binding of full brown cloth with gilt titles, with new endpapers. The binding seems very recent and is in fine condition. Although there are no ex library signs, this copy was owned and likely rebound by the New York Botanical Gardens, as there are about 5 stamps within the text. The contents are at least good, reasonably clean although there is some undelining to the text of perhaps a dozen pages. With 499 pages plus a catalogue of 115 pages. There are 3 engraved plates, two of which are folding, with some tears to the folds, one of them has some losses to the folded edge. Lacking another engraved plate ( I think ).…

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Hardback, original calf, later repair to spine. 18.5cm x 12cm. [14], 499pp, 115pp 'Catalogus Stirpium in Exteris Regionibus A nobis Observatarum, Quae vel non omnino vel parce admodum in Anglia Sponte proveniunt.' With 3 plates, 2 of which are folding. Lacking portrait plate. Decorative headpieces and initials. Slight wear to binding. Scarce. (an24).…

Second edition. Scarce. Collation: A-L12 [lacks one blank at end]. Pagination: [2], 256p. Contemporary calf, gilt rules at edges, rebacked, gilt title label on spine, hinges cracked but previously repaired. Small stain at inner margin of title, few leaves trimmed close at top, no affect, few minor foxing spots, else a near fine copy. Sprat, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1713), bishop of Rochester. "The council's [Royal Society]interventions were a response to Samuel Sorbière's Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre (May 1664). While generally complimentary to the Royal Society (of which he was a fellow), Sorbière criticized certain English institutions and implicitly challenged England's leadership in natural philosophy. Charles II forbade the Royal Society to answer the Relation. None the less, conscious that a failure to reply might jeopardize the society's prestige and support, Sprat set aside the History to write the very critical and unfair Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier's ?Voyage into England? (1665), addressed as a letter to Christopher Wren. Sprat twisted Sorbière's comments to permit a more vehement defence. He challenged Sorbière's sketch of Hobbes and Bacon, emphasizing the differences between dogmatism and experimentalism, while privileging the society's Baconian methods. Sprat may have intended to distance the society from Hobbes, whose views were close to those of a number of fellows and had the potential to damage the society's reputation. He also denied that the society relied on books or on any modern authority, such as Pierre Gassendi or René Descartes. Sprat also challenged Sorbière's criticisms of England's mercantile policies. In both the Observations and the History Sprat was conspicuously silent concerning the scientific Montfort Academy in Paris, officially established in 1657, and thus a challenge to the Royal Society's chronological primacy and England's leadership. Sorbière's Relation may also have pushed Sprat to write the contentious third part of the History, apparently wholly drafted after this episode, and possibly not overseen by Wilkins or the council. The Observations, extensive comments on English religion and politics, thus help to place the History in context." [-ODNB]. Citations: ESTC: R16773. Wing S5046.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Duodecimo. 206p, + 14p Annotations to the First Part plus 223-412p. An early edition published in Butler's life time. Period name on both title pages Joseph Leech, Recent rebind in cloth and leather spine, gilt titled.