For improving the natural knowledge; containing the history of the institution, design and progress of the Royal Society of London for the advancement of experimental philosophy; experiments of the recoiling of guns; method for making a history of the weather; a proposal for making wine; an apparatus to the history of the common practices of dying ...
Description: Fair to Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 210 pp. Undated but likely late 1700's/ early 1800's. cover is worn but with original pattern still discernible on the front & rear leather; former owner name inside front cover; interior is clean though slightly sunned; endpapers are cracked along spine. No publisher apparent; 3 1/2 page dedication "to the King" by Jo Denham at front. Spelled "Pratt" on the title page and "Prat" elsewhere. read more
Description: Good. 12mo-19.5 x 11 cm.; (6)-230-(4)-pp with pages 228, 229 and 230 being a list of books (14 in all) printed by Charles Brome in the year 1697. Full calf with a 6 panel spine and a blind stamped and centered double line border with leaf clusters at the four corners on both front and back boards. From the title page: "Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the west end of St. Pauls. " The text of 5 sermons are presented as follows: Sermon I-Preached before the King at Whitehall, December 24, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: for John Martyn and James Allestry,
Date Published: 1668.
Description: 12mo. A-K12, L9. [-L10 blank] [2], 256p. Second edition. Full calf, blind tooled ruling, worn and repaired. Hinges started, corners worn. Remains of gilt stamp decoration on spine, red morocco label with gilt lettering. Red speckled edges. Browning, foxing, occasional dampstain. Free endpapers reenforced along inner margins. Note of previous owner on front free endpaper. Notches in bottom margins of C6 and D5 without effect on text. Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), bishop of Rochester, wrote this work ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jean Herman Widerhold,
Date Published: 1669.
Description: Small 8vo. ¶8, A-Z, Aa-Kk8, Ll6. (gathering E misbound). D7 &8 unopened. [15], 542pp. First French Edition. 1/2 vellum over paper boards, title in old hand, some slight worm damage to binding, a few leaves with minor marginal worming. Frontis. arms of society, 2 folding plates, 1 folding table, 2 other tables. Sprat (1635-1713) bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster, writer, theologian, and political figure. "In 1663 Sprat was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. His 'History of the ... read more
Edition: Edition?
Binding: Decorative Leather
Publisher: Thomas Newcomb / Sam. Lowndes,
Date Published: 1685.
Description: Good. Two parts bound as one. Folio 12" Tall. 2 + 167 pages + 1 + 140 pages. There are many signatures scattered through this copy on pages relating to the principles involved--Sunderland, Nathan Towle, John Romzey, Thomas Brown Watson, L. Jenkins, J. Ernle, R. Sawyer, H. Finch. as well as a hand written geneology of the Towle family beginning about 1745 with notes going to about 1834. The signatures are of the period, but cannot be authenticated. This is a later rebinding with gilt titles, ... read more
Description: Good. 1904 Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: by Thomas Sprat. 1 p. l., 256 p. 16 cm. Some light marginal soiling, else a good copy. Antiquarian. A biting response to Samuel de Sorbiere who, in 1664, had published his "Voyage en Angleterre" in whic". Keywords: "Subjects-Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable-By Publication Date-1901-1950-1901-1910" Old-calf, sympathetically re-backed. Some light marginal soiling, else a good copy. A biting response to Samuel de Sorbiere who, in 1664, had ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tonson & Draper, London 1750.
Description: 420pp small 8vo containing all the reamaining works by George Stepney; William Walsh; Thomas Tickell; Bishop Sprat. Original calf gilt. Slight wear & cracking to joints. Internally fine. read more
Publisher: London, R Bonwicke
Date Published: 1722
Description: 8vo, pp [4], 440, [4, adverts], contemporary panelled calf, sometime rebacked with black label and raised bands, a little rubbed, text lightly browned and stained, but still a very sound good copy, THIRD COLLECTED EDITION. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Full Calf Leather
Date Published: 1710
Description: 8vo In the Savoy: printed by and for John Nutt, and for Charles Brome at the Gun at the west-end of St. Paul's, 1710. Each of the (10) sermons has a separate dated titlepage, but pagination and register are continuous. With two final leaves of advertisements. -The Sermons are as follows: 1) A Sermon preached before the King, at Whitehall, Decemb. 24. 1676. On St. Mark 10: 15. -2) A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January 30. 1677/8 on St. ... read more
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