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Published by printed for C. Cooke . and sold by the booksellers of Bath [and 29 other towns] and by all other booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, n.d., London, 1788
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, with all the title pages reading The New Royal Encyclopedia (see Alston); 3 volumes in 4, folio, 8-p. subscribers' list at the back of volume III (listing over 1500 names), contemporary full reversed paneled calf, red and black morocco labels on spine; engraved frontispiece in volume I and 153 engraved plates (including 7 folding maps) placed in a separate fourth volume (plate list calls for 150); some slight cracking of the joints on the plate volume, spine ends slightly chipped and/or rubbed, but otherwise very good and sound. Apparently issued in 150 parts. Not in Walsh, Anglo-American General Encyclopaedias; not in Circle of Knowledge; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13772; Alston III, 568 recording the third edition (1797?) only with the title The New Encyclopaedia: "The extraordinary variety of editions for each volume found in various copies makes this seem like a bookseller's hoax. The title page to the second volume in the Signet copy reads The New Royal Encyclopaedia . No acknowledgement is made to previous works . The usually found combination is as follows: vol. I - third edition; vol. II - second edition; vol. III - second edition. One of the editor's copies is clearly the first issue with all the title pages reading The New Royal Encyclopaedia and without and edition number.".
Published by Adam and Charles Black:, Edinburgh., 1858
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Slim Quarto, [2] 79pp. Original burgandy morocco soft leather, gilt titles. Table of Contents.:MONEY. Metallic Money. Circumstances which led to the use of Money. Principal properties which all Commodities used as such ought to possess. Metallic Money not a Sign or a Measure of Value, but a real Equivalent. Circumstances which Regulate the Exchangeable Value of Money. : A Moderate Seignorage on Coined Money advantageous. Principles which should regulate its amount. Expense of a Currency consisting of the Precious Metals. How Paper is substituted for Coins, and its value maintained. Whether Gold or Silver should be adopted as the Standard of the Currency, or whether it should consist of both. Standard of Money. Duodecimal and Decimal systems of dividing Coins. Degradation of Coins in Rome, France, Great Britain, and other countries. Effects of this degradation. TABLES RELATIVE TO THE MONEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OTHER COUNTRIES: PAPER-MONEY. General Principles in regard to Paper-Money. Banks of Deposit and Banks of Issue. Principles on which they are established. Bank of England, Account of. Private and Joint-Stock Banks. Act of 1844. Objections to and Defence of that Act. Suspensions of in 1847 and 1857. Management of the Bank of England. TABLES exhibiting a View of the Issues, Securities, Bullion, &c., of the Bank of England, and of the Joint-Stock and Private Banks in England and Wales. Banks (Scotch).: Banking in Ireland. Banks of Venice, Amsterdam, &c.The Bank of France, : Banking in the United States. [ John Ramsey McCulloch was a Scottish economist, author and editor, widely regarded as the leader of the Ricardian school of economists after the death of David Ricardo in 1823. He was appointed the first professor of political economy at University College London in 1828. He wrote extensively on economic policy, and was a pioneer in the collection, statistical analysis and publication of economic data.] Excellent Copy. RARE FIRST EDITION.
Published by Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannic,, 1979
Seller: GoldBookShelf, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete three volumes. Deluxe facsimile edition. Full pleather bound. Raised bands and Gold lettering. 160 reproductions of copper engravings ((including facsimiles, maps, tables; some folded). Collectible set. The initial price for this three volumes is 275$ 50 years ago. 3 vols. VIII,697,[1], 1009,[2], 953,[3] pp. Large heavy set. May require extra shipping charge.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1885
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spine titles "History of Israel" and "Wellhausen". First English edition. Spine rubbed and scuffs at both ends, with outer surface missing for top 4mm. Corners bumped and edges have rubbing and signs of handling. Small black mark on title and opposite (as illus). Top of text block dusty. Contents clean, firm and vg condition, some age discolouration towards the front. The book consists of an author's Introduction and three major sections. Its argument is that the ancient Israelites did not practice a religion recognisable as Judaism: the earliest religion of the Israelites, as depicted in the Yahwist and Elohist sources, was polytheistic and family-based. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms.
Publication Date: 1841
Seller: Antiquariat Im Baldreit, Baden-Baden, Germany
Book First Edition Signed
1. Auflage,. With 15 Plates, 90 Seiten, Gutes Exemplar mit handschriftlicher Widmung des Verfassers Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400 4°, grünes O Ln mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1837
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First Separate Edition. Small octavo, 365pp., illustrated, plus advertisements. A crisp, clean, very good or better copy in the publisher's green textured cloth. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Ex-institutional library, with just a small, stately bookplate to the front paste-down, and no other markings. Foldout frontispiece is present and in excellent condition, with a single 2-inch tear along one fold. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Brewster on the front free endpaper: "To William Erskine Esq. from the Author." Though not confirmed, this Erskine is likely the Scottish orientalist and historian, who was a contemporary of Brewster's and a traveled in the same social circles as he in Edinburgh. We could locate no signed copies of this work by Brester in commerce or recent auction records. As such, a rare example.
Published by Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1858
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii,165,[3]p. : ill., 2 folding plates ; 8°. Subjects; Hydraulic engineering History 19th century Sources. Canals Design and construction. River engineering. 1 Kg.
Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, New York, 1934
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 12 volumes, including a Reference volume (volume 1) and a Study Guide (volume 12). Small quartos (each volume 7¾" x 10"). Heavily illustrated in color and black and white. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in silver. Very near fine with mild wear at the corners, neat date inked in volume 1, and volume 7 partially topstained a vivid blue, most likely a binding error. Housed in the publisher's decorative papercovered wooden box (11½" x 11½" x 8½") with some superficial wear, sound and square, very good or better. Prepared under the supervision of the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Laid in is the work of young scholar Charles Norton, six drawings and two short essays ("Bird Conservation," and "History of American Music," the latter written for Troop #41). A bright, fresh set of charming, wide-ranging, and heavily illustrated children's encyclopedias from the 1930s, in their original decorative box.
Published by Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1858
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii,165,[3]p. : ill., 2 folding plates ; 8°. Subjects; Hydraulic engineering History 19th century Sources. Canals Design and construction. River engineering. 1 Kg.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, Simpkin etc,, Edinburgh:, 1840
Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing as a separate treatise. xvi, 90, printed in double column except for the Introduction, and followed by the 15 plates, five being double-page, and one of these folding. A little foxing to the plates, text clean. Original yellow endpapers, with professional repairs to hinges. Large quarto, in contemporary grained brown cloth ruled in blind: rebacked, with the original spine with faded gilt title relaid. A very nice copy.
Published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1910
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 1st edition. 29 volumes. Green cloth with gilt at spine. Handy volume Scholar's edition. Excellent condition. Shipping at cost.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1860
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 12mo. [2], lvi, 235pp. Illustrated with a mounted gold-toned gelatin silver portrait photograph of Macaulay, bound-in as the frontispiece with a tissue guard. Contemporary purple morocco over boards, both covers have the same design stamped in blind, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, cream endpapers, all edges gilt. Two early inscriptions, in pencil and ink, on front free endpaper. The spine, joints, and edges of the boards are rubbed and worn, scattered foxing on two leaves at the front, a good or better copy in a handsome binding.
Published by Encyclopedia Britannica, 1971
Seller: GoldBookShelf, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Excellent Condition like new . 4to. 2 volumes, on antique paper and bound in antique style dark brown morocco grain fabrikoid, raised bands. Can be sold separately each 175$ and Let me know. Extra charge for shipping required. The original price for 3 books set was 275$ over 30 years ago.
Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Archibald Constable and Company., Edinburgh, 1815. Fifth Edition., 1815
First Edition
Hardcover. 4to ( 27,1 : 21,7 cm). Schwarzer Ganzlederband auf fünf falschen Bünden mit zwei Rückenschilden aber ohne Beschriftung. Der Einband gering bestoßen und angestaubt. Eingebunden sind die Seiten 405 bis 796 zum Stichwort Heraldik mit 111 Tafeln, nummeriert I - CXV, teils doppelt benummert, teils wohl nicht ausgegeben. Nach den Seiten 786 und 794 zwei unbenummerte Tafeln: Table of Descents (leichte Verfärbung am oberen Rand und kleinere Flecken unten) eingebunden. Seite für Seite genau überprüft. Überwiegend sauber erhalten. Durchaus gutes Exemplar. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in 1768. The fifth edition was published in twenty volumes between 1815 - 1817. -- Zu den Tafeln im Detail: S. 426 Nr.I; S. 434 Nr. II, III (teils braunfleckig); S. 440 Nr. IV-VII; S. 442 Nr. VIII; S. 448 Nr. IX; S. 450 Nr. X; S. 452 Nr. XI; S. 454 Nr. XII; S. 796 Nr. XIII-XVI (fleckig), XVII (leicht fleckig), XVIII - XXII (unten leicht angerissen), XXIII - XXXVIII (Rückseite stark braunfleckig), XXXIX, XLI - XLV (fleckig), XLVI, XLVII (Fleckig), XLIX - LI (stark fleckig), LII, LIII (stark braunfleckig), LIV (leichte Flecken), LV, LVI (kleinere Flecken), LVII - LXIV (leichte Flecken unten), LXV, LXV, LXV, LXVI - LXXI (Unten leicht angerissen), LXXII - LXXXI (fleckig), LXXXXII - LXXXV (Fleckig), LXXXVI, LXXXVII, LXXXIX - XCIII (fleckig), XCIV - XCVI, C, CIII - CXIV (fleckig), CXV.-- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! -- Herzlichen Dank für Ihre Bestellung! Genea.
Published by Chicago And New York, Rand, McNally & Co., 1889
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, elaborately blind-tooled cloth over bevelled boards. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 800 pages; Description: 800 p. Incl. Illus. , color maps. 31 x 24 cm. Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries. 3 Kg.
Published by Chicago And New York, Rand, McNally & Co., 1889
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, elaborately blind-tooled cloth over bevelled boards. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 800 pages; Description: 800 p. Incl. Illus. , color maps. 31 x 24 cm. Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries. 3 Kg.
Published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1903
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. SINGLE REVIEW VOLUME, PUBLISHED 1903. A Review of the Tenth Edition, Being Specimen Pages and Extracts from the Encyclopedia Britannica, Now Completed in 35 Quarto Volumes, Treating of History, Geography, Biography, Commerce, Industry, Art, Law, Literature, Music, Drama, Philosophy, Races & Creeds, Medicine, Army & Navy, the Colonies, Agriculture, Politics, Economics, Biology, Engineering, Science, & All Other Subjects. Front cover title: "Newly Completed Tenth Edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica - A Library for Leisured Reading, Dictionary of Facts for Rapid Reference, All Human Knowledge, Brought up to the Present Year. 35 Large Quarto Volumes, 26,000 Articles, 12,000 Illustrations, 30,000 Pages, 2,100 Distinguished Contributors, 40,000,000 Words, With an Index of 603,851 Entries". With publisher's 2-page printed note at front. Illustrated in b&w and colour, with 34 full-page plates (one being a double-page colour map of Central Africa), plus smaller in-text illustrations. Text printed in black & red. Large format volume. Printed in England. Bound in publisher's original printed thick-card boards, backed by unlettered dark blue cloth spine. NOTE: A GOOD COPY ONLY. Handling wear, staining to rear pages, foxing, otherwise a clean tight solid hardcover copy. 220pp. Heavy volume, extra shipping may be required. Scarce. SB-69.
Published by The Quarterly Review Vol. XXX No. LX, January 1824, pp. 298-334., 1824
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo, pp. 298-334; some small ink stains to margins and to small area of text on p. 308, some light foxing, a crisp copy, disbound.First edition. A review by Thomas Malthus of John Ramsay McCulloch's famous essay on political economy.In 1822 McCulloch was invited to write the first considerable article on political economy to appear in the supplement to the fourth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (1823). The result established David Ricardo's system as epitomising 'the true and correct principles of political economy' and was later expanded into a popular textbook entitled Principles of political economy, with a sketch of the rise and progress of the science (1825), which went through five editions. Ricardo considered McCulloch's essay 'a valuable historical sketch' and 'so clear an exposition of all the important principles of the science that you have left nothing for me to wish for', but Malthus's Quarterly Review article was more critical.While conceding that much of McCulloch's article was 'ably accomplished', Malthus states that the author had 'fallen into some most important errors' which required pointing out. Malthus considered Ricardo, McCulloch, and James Mill to be representatives of a 'new school of political economy' which had departed from the school represented by Adam Smith and himself. Malthus's 38 page review gives 'an excellent and readable résumé of Malthus's own position as an economist; according to Empson (Edinburgh Review, Vol. LXIV, p. 496) Malthus himself considered this article 'one of the best things which he had ever done in Political Economy'' (P. James, Population Malthus p. 487).
Published by Constable And Co., Edinburgh and London., 1822
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Disbound. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pyrotechny (Fireworks/Pirotechnics & its Science) 33 pages (lacks final few details last page incomplete but missing about 3-4 lines only)) all from the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1822/3. With 6 full page copper engravings showing of all sorts of Pyrotechnical equipment and machinery with printed details. It tells you the ingredients for making certain fireworks including those set under water, etc. Purifying nitre, boring rockets, the materials for fireworks, grinding the ingredients, mixtures used for colours and lights of various effects, The most effective way of manufacture, making of simple fireworks, , crackers, stars, serpents, batteries of maroons, pin-wheels, showers of rains, fountains, etc. + Compound Fire-works and the introduction of the mixtures in the head of the fire-work + Dimensions of Rocket Sticks + the construction of all of the above. Remember this is the 1822 version of making fire-works and ALL genuine. Some light foxing to plates and text also, but still very good on quality rag paper. Plates would frame well!.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1841
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First separate edition. Octavo. 235pp. Three folding plates. Black cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Contempoary owner name ("Saml. Breese [or Brease]"), on titlepage, small clipping about a "new rotative printing machine" on rear pastedown, a little scattered foxing but else a fine and particularly fresh copy.
Published by Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. F. 1861. 20cm, first edition, viii,441p., 3 rear folding maps, notes, appendix, index, original pebbled green cloth, gilt titles on spine, expertly restored, stain on the top edge otherwise a fine bright copy (tgc) Famous brilliant 19th c. physicists and astronomer, with special interest in study of light. Most of his writings included scientific treatises but in his later years he wrote a few volumes for the Eighth Encyclopedia Britannica including, Meteorology, Physical Geography, Telescope. "Mr. Nasmyth, puts him supremely at the head of all the scientific men of his acquaintance fro knowledge, simplicity and humility". DNB.
Published by Constable And Co., London & Edinburgh., 1822
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Disbound. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Slavery & the Negro; 2 articles on these subjects from ?The Encyclopaedia Britannica? 1822/3 6th edition. Condition: the pages are loose and the stab holes from the original binding show, a closed tear without loss and some aging to paper but the articles complete. Good to very good. The slavery section is 16 pages long "double column" on to 18 pages as part 2 runs on. This 2nd section on the Negro explains their origins, places of existence and traits ?Homo Pelli Nigra?. It also has the topography of Negroland or Nigritia. It speaks of the objections based on their own predilections to enslave one another for the most ?whimsical of crimes?. (Quote) ?Slavery is, indeed, in every form an evil but it seems to be one of those many evils which having LONG prevailed in the world, can be advantageously removed only by degrees.? (end of quote). The longer detailed section on slavery is important as it was written just before the manumission and slave abolition so hard fought for (and expresses the exact sentiments of the day from a higher motive than base reactions of a mob or prejudicial slant), for half a century It details somewhat the British laws which improved the debates and laws and actions of slavery and slave trading in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It also mentions despots in Africa killing thousands of their fellow men for tyranny and avarice. ****An important 1st PRINTING article on the Slave trade compiled by some of the best authorities of the time.
Published by Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1860
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; lvi, 235 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Atterbury, Francis 1662-1732. Bunyan, John 1628-1688. Goldsmith, Oliver 1730-1774. Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784. Pitt, William 1759-1806. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Edinburgh. Macaulay. Manchester. Bookbinders 1 Kg.
Published by London: Adam & Charles Black, 1891
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif on front panel. Spine bands, panels and panel edges somewhat dust-dulled and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: vii, [1], 195 p. Illus. , diagrs. 29 cm. Subjects: Zoology. 1 Kg.
Published by London : The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, Ltd., 1914
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 170 pages; Description: iv, 170 p. : front. , plates, ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Austria --History --Hungary --Poland. 2 Kg.
Published by Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1860
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; lvi, 235 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Atterbury, Francis 1662-1732. Bunyan, John 1628-1688. Goldsmith, Oliver 1730-1774. Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784. Pitt, William 1759-1806. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Edinburgh. Macaulay. Manchester. Bookbinders 1 Kg.
Published by Newberry Library, Chicago, 1968
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Boards. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. 4to. 11"x8.75". Decorative boards with blue cloth spine stamped with gilt lettering. Many illustrative plates. 56 pp. Top right corner of front cover is bent, else fine. Presentation copy. This copy is inscribed by Wells "For Paul, with thanks." This copy also comes with a printed card laid in: "With compliments of the Trustees of The Newberry Library Chicago." "and J. Wells" is inscribed on the card additionally. The late James M. Wells was the legendary curator and head of acquisitions for the Newberry Library and custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. He held this position for 34 years until his retirement in 1984. His successor, and this book's recipient, was Curator Emeritus Paul Gehl, a historian and curator of great renown who held Wells' position until his retirement in 2016. This unique copy of Wells' gorgeous exhibition catalog celebrating the impact of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the world of education also represents the passing of a torch from one world-class scholar to another.
Published by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc, 2002
ISBN 10: 0852298323ISBN 13: 9780852298329
Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Condition: good. 1st. 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.
Published by Edward T. Whitfield, London, 1854
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; 57pp. Occasional brief contemporary corrections and marginalia (some trimmed), else Very Good or better. Critique of the articles on John Calvin and William Ellery Channing, both written by Scottish churchman William Lindsay Alexander and which, according to Gordon, "amounts to a kind of /poisoning of the fountains of knowledge/" (p. [3]). Uncommon.
Published by London: Adam & Charles Black, 1891
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif on front panel. Spine bands, panels and panel edges somewhat dust-dulled and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 195 pages; Description: vii, [1], 195 p. Illus. , diagrs. 29 cm. Subjects: Zoology. 1 Kg.