Colonel Beaufoy (11 results)
Language: English
Published by James Eastburn & Co., New York, 1818
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Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.R Bryan Old Books
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Half-Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Exploration. Leather spine and corners scuffed and worn, corners bumped, joints partially split. Bookplate inside the front cover, text clean, moisture stains in the gutter margins of the first few sheets including the folding map of the north pole, pages browned but not brittle.
Language: English
Published by T. and J. Allman, London, 1818
- Hardcover
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.Hirschfeld Galleries
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Original blue holland boards and 1/4 parchment s pine spine shows a split else very good rare in the original boards this is the 2nd issue of the 1818 1st edition with the same copper engraved tri fold out map frontis of the North Polar regions some marginal foxing else very good rar…e thus. Beaufoy (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by James Eastburn, NY, 1818
- Hardcover
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Ex- library, recent cloth binding with dulled gilt titles. Retains original front and rear blanks. Frontis folding map, scattered foxing, creased corners. Library perforated stamp to folding map. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiii,187 pages.
More imagesPublished by James Eastburn & Co., 1818
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Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.Koster's Collectible Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover; Hardcover: Blue cloth boards with white wraparound spine. Boards are soiled, worn and frayed. Water mark to rear board. Spine backstrip is mostly gone, but binding is still tight. Foldout map is present and intact. Engraved vignette on title page. Foxing throughout, pages ar…e irregular in size. The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted. By The Hon. D. Barrington. A new Edition. With an Appendix, containing Papers on the Same Subject, and on A Northwest Passatge. By Colonel Beaufort, F. R. S. Illustrated with a map of the North Pole, According to the Latest Discoveries.; 4TO; 187 pages.
Published by London: Printed at the private press of Henry Beaufoy, 1834
- Hardcover
Seller: Mark Westwood Books PBFA, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United KingdomMark Westwood Books PBFA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large 4to. Original green patterned cloth, original paper label. Front hinge repaired with board re-attached, corners worn, but overall a very good copy. pp: (6), cxix, (1), 688 including half-title. Engraved presentation leaf inscribed to Captain Hastings R.N., HMS Excellent, Portsmouth. Engrave…d frontispiece silhouette portrait, 16 engraved plates and 8 double-page tables. On front end paper there is an inscription "Worcestershire Natural History Society presented by Capt Sir Thos Hasting Kt RN". Sir Thomas Hastings established a permanent basis for the gunnery school at Portsmouth and was the first officer to take a truly scientific approach to gunnery. He established the first diving training in the Royal Navy in 1844.
More imagesPublished by London Charles Wood for T. and J. Allman, 1818
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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First edition in book form; 8vo (22 x 14 cm); woodcut vignette to title, folding map as frontispiece; later half blue calf, marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, gilt red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy; xxiv, 258 pp. The scarce first edition in book form of a series of papers on the possibility of a Northwes…t Passage, published the same year as Sir John Ross's first Arctic expedition. The papers were originally issued as pamphlets in 1775 on the eve of Captain Cook's third and final voyage to find a Northwest Passage. Daines Barrington, the original author of these papers, a lawyer by trade, had been an active member of the Royal Society and wrote on many science and natural history topics. He had been inspired to write these papers by Captain Phipps's 1773 expedition towards the North Pole, in which Phipps had been one of the first to take a scientific approach to his journey. His failure, as well as the failure of Cook's voyage to ascertain a possible route through the Northwest, convinced a generation that the passage was highly unlikely or downright impossible, including Gore, Bligh, and Vancouver. Colonel Mark Beaufoy (1764-1827) was a pioneering astronomer and mountaineer. He was the first Englishman to reach the summit of Mont Blanc, and commanded one of the most important private observatories at Hackney Wick. He edited Barrington's papers and added several of his own, starting at p.228, to bring knowledge of the Arctic up to date amidst a resurgence of interest in exploration in the region. Perhaps most importantly is the map, compiled by Beaufoy, which brought a new map of the Arctic into circulation. It was published just a month before Ross left on his expedition, and shows just how little of the American side of the Arctic had been revealed. Sabin 3629.
More imagesPublished by London: Printed by Order of the Society by Bunney and Gold c, 1799
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Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United KingdomForest Books, ABA-ILAB
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First edition, 4to (322 x 250 mm), [4], 38pp., text slightly age-toned, 8 double-page engraved tables, 2 double-page engraved plates, some light offsetting to tables and plates, contemporary marbled boards, a little worn at extremities, calf re-back, original printed paper label on upper cover. A report of the experiments carrie…d out for the Society between 1796-1798. It contains nine chapters outlining the experiments 'made to ascertain the laws respecting bodies moving through the water with different velocities.' Provenance: Early book label and signature of J. Hays.
Published by Printed at the Private Press of Henry Beaufoy, London, 1834
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- First Edition
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerxcix, 688 pp. Illustrated from engravings. Folio, original embossed cloth with printed paper label on spine. First edition. Spine label chipped and tanned; cloth a little soiled with fraying at corners; short spits to joints; but tight and sound. James Fenimore Cooper's copy, as indicated on an elaborate engraved presentation pa…ge completed in manuscript.
More imagesPublished by Printed by Order of the Society by Bunney and Gold, Shoe-Lane, and Sold by J. Sewell, Cornhill, London, 1799
Seller: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB )
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Calf. Condition: Very Good. [4], [i]-ii, 3-38 pages. + Table 1 parts 1-4 (all folding plates, "Form and Dimensions.") + Table 2 ("On friction") + Table 3 parts 1-3 ("Analysis of the total Resistance.") + folding Plates A + Plate (not numbered). Table 1, Part 1 is on distinctly darker and somewhat smaller paper. Textblock is 13 x… 10 1/4 inches. Binding is 34cm tall. Leather bound, with marbled endpapers. Tables and plates in rear are attached by tabs to the binding, and are all folding. An inked manuscript in a uniform hand. Several of the tables and plates have penciled notations on them in a fine, but different and unknown hand. Illustrations are fine watercolors, the balance in ink. Wove paper with "J Whatman" watermark. Price ten shippings and six-pence inked at base of title page. Date of c1799 is based on one table recording work done in 1798. A total of 38 pages of manuscript text, seven double page tables inked and in watercolor, and two double page plates. Laid in separately is a sixteen page French manuscript (watermarked "Sainte Marie") with notes in both ink and pencil and dated June 1862, apparently on the same topic. In an effort to place this manuscript in context (What is It?), we checked OCLC for Beaufoy's works. There are three primary - one with similar title from 1794 which is a clear mismatch (the current manuscript records experiments from 1798). The second work c1799 is titled "The report of the Committee for conducting the experiments of the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture" : London, Printed by order of the Society, by Bunney and Gold, Shoe-Lane, and sold by J. Sewell, Cornhill, circa 1799. [2] leaves, 38 pages 2 plates, 7 tables, 31cm. It appears to be a close match without examining the content. OCLC finally notes Beaufoy's 1834 "Nautical and hydraulic experiments, Vol 1." which reissues the c1799 work. Comparing our manuscript text to a digitized version of the 1834 book, the content is essentially the same noting layout and rearrangement of footnotes, etc. Our conclusion is that the current manuscript is either a) the original manuscript of the c1799 paper sent to the printer or more likely a fair copy of the same. The pencilled notes in the manuscript and the laid in French manuscript pages we have not investigated other than to note they are in the same vein as the manuscript. Calf. [Mark Beaufoy] "astronomer and physicist, was the son of a brewer near London.He began experiments on the resistance of water to moving bodies before he was fifteen, in the coolers of his father's brewhouse, and it was mainly by his exertions that the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture was founded in 1791. Under its auspices an important series of experiments was conducted at the Greenland Dock during the years 1793-8 by the care, and in part at the cost, of Colonel Baufoy. Many useful results in shipbuilding were thus obtained, as well as the first practical verification in England of Euler's theorems on the resistance of fluids. The details were printed in 1834, at the expense of Mr. Henry Beaufoy (son of the author), in a large quarto volume entitiled 'Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments, gratuitously distributed to public bodies and individuals interested in naval architecture. In the laborious calculations conected with this work, Beaufoy was materially assited, up to the time of her unexpected death in 1800, by his gifted wife.He was admitted to the Royal Society in 1815, was a fellow of the Linnean Society, and one of the earliest members of the Astronomical Society." (DNB) Beaufoy also published many articles in the Annals of Philosophy among other scientific journals. This manuscript documents work done by Beaufoy and others under the auspices of the newly formed Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture (he heartily suggests members in arrears pay their dues now that they see some of the results of this arduous labor). Provenance: Caravan-Maritime Books, 1973 and in a private collection since.
Published by London: Printed at the private press of Henry Beaufoy, F.R.S., May 1834., 1834
Seller: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, United KingdomNigel Phillips ABA ILAB
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Large 4to, 4 leaves, pp. cxix, (1), 688, stipple-engraved frontispiece silhouette portrait, 16 engraved plates and 8 double-page tables. Including the initial engraved presentation leaf, inscribed in this copy to Count Pozzo de Borgo. Original green patterned cloth (small tear on upper cover), paper label on spine, uncut and uno…pened. Inner hinges a little shaky and some foxing on the plates, but a very nice copy. Well printed on good paper at the private press of the author's son. FIRST EDITION. Between 1793 and 1798 Beaufoy undertook pioneer researches on the resistance of bodies in water. ?Not only did Beaufoy investigate the individual effects of head form, tail form, length, and surface area, but his measurements were sufficiently precise for him to conclude that, as the velocity increased, ?friction always increases in a much less ratio [from 1.71 to 1.82] than the duplicate ratio? ? (Rouse & Ince, History of hydraulics, p. 129). Beaufoy?s experiments produced many useful results in shipbuilding, as well as the first practical verification in England of Euler?s theorem of resistance of fluids. He was a founder of the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture (the first such body to exist), and also the first Englishman to climb Mont Blanc. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, 28.
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Seller: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, IndiaGyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
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Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…ends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1834. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 704, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 704 704.
