Barff John (5 results)

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1890 Hard Cover. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an arctic aurora, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: The Northern Lights; The Mathematics of Plants; How the Wind Changes; Dreams; Why the Sea is Salt; The Anatomy of a Lobster; Rust; A Glass of Wine; Voyages in Cloudland; The Chemistry of Water; Nuggets and Quartz; The Sun Our Fire, Light, and Life; A Fish in the Water; A Microscopical Biography; Firing a Shot; What is 'Power'?; History Out of Refuse Heaps; What Is in the Interior of the Earth?; How Sunshine Warms the Earth; What Are the Stars Made Of?; The Protective Colours of Animals; Great Sea Reptiles; Shooting Stars; Continental Islands, and How They Were Formed; Teeth; How the River Severn Cut through Wenlock Edge; Moles and Mole-Hills; The Mariner's Compass; Spiders' Webs; Glaciers; Diamonds; The History of a Hen's Egg; Growth; The Magic Lantern; A Primrose; A Cannon Shot; Why the Rain Falls; The Story of a Volcano as Told in History; Can Science Conquer Rust?; How the Airs Were Discovered; What is 'Work'?; The Hand; How Glaciers Move; Dust; A Piece of Rock Salt; Protective Mimicry in Animals; The Physics of Music; Touch; Animal Colonies and Co-operation; Colour-Blindness; Oceanic Islands and Their History; Modern Explosives; The Gravel on the Garden Path; A Peat-Bog; A Piece of Iceland Spar; Polar Ice; Rubies and Sapphires; Weather Telegraphy; Lodgers and Boarders in Lower Life.

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Lonedona : Neia e R. Clay, Sons, e O. Taylor ma, na te Taieti Bibilia i Beritani e te mau fenua atoa i faatupuhia i Lonedona ra i te Matahiti 1804. [London : R.Clay & Sons and O. Taylor, for The British and Foreign Bible Society], 1878. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), contemporaryblind-blocked calf (boards a little scuffed, corners bumped), spine titled in gilt TE PARAU A TE ATUA (spine leather dry and worn); speckled edges; endpaper with the ownership signature of Australian Methodist missionary J. C. Jennison, with his notes on the publication history of the Tahitian Bible since the first translation by Nott in 1838, recording that the present volume is the fourth edition (one of 5,000 copies printed) prepared by Rev. Alfred Saville in 1877, 'the District Committee applied a few corrections and maps were added. A later edition (portable) printed in 1883 [sic. 1884]';pp [iii], 1164, with 6 colour maps at rear; binding firm, some minor worming at margins of the preliminaries and last few leaves, otherwise very clean and sound throughout. An early Tahitian Bible with an Australian association, once belonging to South Australian Methodist missionary and linguist Rev. J. C. Jennison, founder the Galiwin'ku mission on ElchoIsland. The first complete translation of the Bible in Tahitian was undertaken by Henry Nott. Published in 1838, it was the first edition of the Bible in any of the languages of Polynesia. A second edition was published in 1847, and a third in 1863. The 1878 edition is the fourth, a revision of Nott's original translation by William Howe, Alexander Chisholm and John Barff, whose work was apparently (according to J. C. Jennison) superintended by Alfred Saville. Trove locates two copies of the 1878 edition in Australian libraries (NLA; SLNSW).