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Published by University of Alberta, 1998
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.
Published by Great Plains Publications, 2020
ISBN 10: 1773370375ISBN 13: 9781773370378
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers.
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Published by Terra, 2004
ISBN 10: 5982540226ISBN 13: 9785982540225
Seller: Eryops Books, Stephenville, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. IN RUSSIAN; hardcover; in very good condition. Book.
Published by HardPress Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 0371537576ISBN 13: 9780371537572
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, Edmonton, 1998
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket. 8vo pp. 70, b/w illustrations, materials discussed indicated by chapter headings: Comprehending Nature: Early Encyclopdias, Unlocking Nature: Natural Philosophy, Improving on Nature: Agriculture & Horticulture, Responding to Nature: Georgic Poetry, Making Use of Nature: Practical Applications of Knowledge, Related texts from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. book.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1892 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 22 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 0371092124ISBN 13: 9780371092125
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021
ISBN 10: 0500296383ISBN 13: 9780500296387
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from , edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 411.
Blue leather with gilt embossed design. Marbled endpapers, silk ribbon, top edge gilt. 157 pp., illustrated in bw. Essays include: Many Occasions -- Beauty in art and nature -- Poetry : The sacred fire: an essay on the nature and phases of English poetry -- The arts in the modern world -- The artist and his subjects -- The artist and his materials -- The artist and society -- The artist as visionary -- Visual arts -- Art and science -- The painter's purpose and the public taste -- Sculpture and modelling -- A porcelain group -- Tradition and change in t he art of the potter -- The art of the glass-maker: a survey -- The Theatre -- A Note on Nijinsky and the paradox of acting and dancing -- The Garden -- End of the year. Includes illustrations by T A Stephenson, Thomas Martyn, Pablo Picasso, Giovanni Bellini, Eric Ravilious, Hans Bellmer, Franz Anton Bustelli, Henry Moore, Eric Maclagan, Arnold Machin, Bernard Leach, Viktor Lindstrand, Tom Hill, Keith Murray, R A Malby, Mori Ippo, Baron de Meyer. VG-, slight wear to outer front hinge and uneven spotting to front and rear covers Limited to 250 numbered copies of this edition.
Seller: liu xing, Nanjing JiangSu, JS, China
paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pub Date: 1993 Publisher: Hainan Publishing House book products in Figure package surface collections.
Published by Thames & Hudson, 2016
ISBN 10: 0500518483ISBN 13: 9780500518489
Seller: Basi6 International, Irving, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: Brand New. New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1358600279ISBN 13: 9781358600272
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Published by New York : Book Collectors Society, n.d. [c.1949], 1949
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 157 pp. ; Limited edition ; "Of this edition 250 copies have been prepared for members of the Book Collectors Society and numbered from 1 to 250, of which this is number 15" ; "published by arrangement with Faber and Faber, Limited. Printed in Great Britain" ; " [a collection of].articles and broadcast talks, written at various times during the past ten years." ; Contents: Introduction : Many Occasions -- Beauty in art and nature -- Poetry : The sacred fire: an essay on the nature and phases of English poetry -- The arts in the modern world -- The artist and his subjects -- The artist and his materials -- The artist and society -- The artist as visionary -- Visual arts -- Art and science -- The painter's purpose and the public taste -- Sculpture and modelling -- A porcelain group -- Tradition and change in t he art of the potter -- The art of the glass-maker: a survey -- The Theatre -- A Note on Nijinsky and the paradox of acting and dancing -- The Garden -- End of the year. ; full leather binding with bands and gold lettering and designs ; marbled endpapers ; top edge gilt ; silk ribbon ; FINE. Book.
Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2021
ISBN 10: 9004423761ISBN 13: 9789004423763
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 318 pages. Italian language. 9.25x6.10x0.80 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.
Published by A. Millar over-against Catharine-Street in the Strand, 1750
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. ESTC T97621. Lacks spine label, boards rubbed, front joint split but holding firmly, rear joint beginning to split along crown, Stoneleigh Abbey bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, front free endpaper loose but included. 1750 Full-Leather. x, 280 pp. 8vo. Original full sheep, double gilt rules. Includes two fold-out plates, one of which illustrates celestial orbits. A companion to the 1745 two-volume work The Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul by Scottish metaphysician Andrew Baxter. That work was criticized by Benjamin Franklin for its misunderstanding of mechanics, but praised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Baxter criticizes John Toland, John Locke, and George Berkeley's views. "In October 1733 Baxter published the first edition of the work which established his reputation as one of Britain's leading exponents of Newtonian metaphysics, An Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul; he issued a second enlarged edition in 1737, and a third in 1745. Echoing the writings of Samuel Clarke, Baxter's basic thesis in the Enquiry was that matter is essentially inert and that all natural phenomena imply the constant action of an immaterial principle as well as the universal superintendence of a divine power. Like Clarke, Baxter was anxious to refute the views of atheists, deists, and materialists such as Lucretius, Thomas Hobbes, and Spinoza, who had all implied that matter is intrinsically active. Baxter also criticized John Locke's analysis of the soul, and warned against the sceptical consequences of George Berkeley's immaterialism. His critique of Berkeley was one of the first to appear in Britain, and it left its mark on Scottish metaphysicians like Thomas Reid. Along with his refutation of Berkeley, Baxter included a lengthy essay arguing that dreams were caused by the action of spiritual beings and, according to Warburton, Baxter's speculations on the subject undermined the credibility of the book as a whole. His last completed book, An Appendix to the First Part of the Enquiry (1750), appeared shortly after his death. Dedicated to Wilkes, the Appendix attacked the presentation of Newton's speculations regarding the existence of an ethereal medium in Colin Maclaurin's An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries (1748) and replied to Maclaurin's criticism of a passage in Baxter's Matho." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Published by printed by Tho. Cotes, London, 1640
Seller: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. SOLE EDITION. Illustrated with an additional, pictorial title page engraved by William Marshall (fl. 1617-1650) and 2716 woodcuts of plants. Bound in fine late seventeenth-century black morocco, paneled gilt, with a central lozenge featuring acorns and large scrolling tools at the corners, spine gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco labels, endcaps neatly restored, the leather along the hinges worn. Complete with the terminal errata leaf; bifolium 4C3-4 apparently supplied to rectify a binding error in which lvs. 4C2 and 4C5 were bound in twice (manuscript note to that effect); eighteenth- or early 19th century ownership inscription to each volume of "R. James", with scattered annotations in his hand throughout (adding Latin names and some cross-references). Clean marginal tears (no loss) to lvs. F4, Ttt5, and 5G6; clean tear in text (no loss) to leaf Vvv5. A handful of leaves lightly toned; occ. rust spots (with one tiny hole on leaf Nn4 and another on leaf Nnnn6; slightly larger rust holes on 6R4-6, one on each leaf). Nnnn5, Vvvv5-6 marginal dampstain. Second volume with some light toning and some shine-through from the woodcuts. The gardener and apothecary John Parkinson (1567-1650) received the title of Royal Apothecary from King James I. Later, Charles I appointed him as his chief botanist. "Throughout his long working life, John Parkinson earned his living and reputation as an apothecary, preparing and dispensing plant-based and other medicines from his shop on Ludgate Hill, as well as growing and cultivating the plants that were the essential tools of his trade on a substantial plot in Long Acre near Covent Garden, further outside the London city walls to the west."(Jill Francis, John Parkinson: Gardener and Apothecary of London, p. 229) "Parkinson's 'Theatrum' was the largest herbal in English to date; it was also the last great medicinally-based plant study, by an author who thought of himself as first and foremost an apothecary. Altogether 2,716 woodblocks were individually cut for this massive herbal, which describes more than 4,000 plants, most of them with medicinal properties. Parkinson had given notice of his intention to compile an herbal in his 'Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris' of 1629, but was delayed by the publication of the second Johnson edition of 'Gerard's Herball' in 1636. This delay meant that Parkinson's work had time to grow much larger than originally planned, and on publication it included about 1,000 more plants than Gerard's, and describes many species not previously recorded."(Tomasi, Oak Spring Flora, p. 160) "[The herbal] was a monumental work drawing on Parkinson's 50 years of experience of growing and working with plants. Although working within a traditional genre, Parkinson's great herbal was firmly rooted in the new empirical methods of scientific observation and experiment. "According to Parkinson, [earlier writers of herbals, such as William Turner] presumed a knowledge of the new plants arriving from overseas - often as little more than seeds, roots or dried specimens -but they cannot possibly have understood or seen for themselves the nature of the plant. As he writes elsewhere, 'some of these errors are ancient, and continued by long tradition, and others are of later invention, and therefore more to be condemned'. Parkinson, on the other hand, actually took the seeds, bulbs and roots and planted them in his own garden in Long Acre to observe how they grew and what they looked like. Some he received via fellow gardeners: for instance, his friend John Tradescant sent him a root of Indian Moly to plant in his garden. On another occasion, in 1608, Parkinson commissioned the plant hunter William Boel to seek out for him new species of plants while travelling in Spain and he returned with over 200 different kinds of seeds. Parkinson wrote that 'by sowing them [I] saw the faces of a great many excellent plants'. It was in this way, by careful scientific method, that he built up his extensive knowledge of plants and flowers which he then applied to both his work as an apothecary and to his gardening. "[By the late 16th c.], curious and extraordinary plants were arriving on English shores from all over the world. In 1597, John Gerard described many plants in his Herball that he had obtained from 'forren places: including ginger 'digged up' from 'Domingo in the Indies'; tulips, that 'strange and forrein fl.oure: from the Middle East; crocuses from Spain and Italy; potatoes and tobacco from the Americas. "But just three decades later, John Parkinson writes of Gerard that 'since his dates we have had many more varieties than he ever heard of . as may be perceived by the store I have here produced'. Already, the choice of plants available to the apothecary and to the gardener was far greater than it had been at the end of the previous century, and Parkinson saw it as an obligation to pass on his new-found knowledge through his books: 'For I have always held it a thing unfit, to conceal or bury that knowledge God hath given, and not to impart it'."(Jill Francis, "John Parkinson: Gardener and Apothecary of London", in "Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine", Ch. 12, p. 229-243).