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Published by New York University Press, 1963
ISBN 10: 0814703135ISBN 13: 9780814703137
Seller: Broad Street Books, Branchville, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover.
Published by Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa, 1995
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Publications of the Barnabus Riche Society No. 3. Soft cover. 118 pp. B&W illustrations. Some scuffing to covers. The Man in the Moon is an enigmatic work, being at once an early voyage imaginaire, a quasi-utopia, and an early work of science fiction. The trip itself is a wonderful accumulation of religious and ancient lore, which Dr. Butler spells out in a full historical and critical introduction, beginning with the theories of the ancients concerning the moon and its possible inhabitants. This work is further testimony to the fact that earth's closest neighbour in space has fired the human imagination, and has served a locus for placing some of the social and natural "otherness" that have been born of imagination and speculation.
Published by Hereford Times Ltd, Hereford, UK, 1959
Seller: Robert Fulgham, Bookseller, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good++. Very Good++ softcover. Faint sticker shadow and previous owner's name on the front cover, else Near Fine. Quite clean and tight. No other writing. We wrap and box our books for shipping.
Published by Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa, ON, 1995
ISBN 10: 1895537282ISBN 13: 9781895537284
Seller: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Edited with Introduction and Annotations by John Anthony Butler; Originally written in the early 1600s; Clean, tight, unmarked; spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; This is an enigmatic work, being at once an early voyage imaginaire, a quasi-utopia, and an early work of science fiction. Preposterous as the notion must seem today that the harnessing of birds might actually take a man into space, the imaginative logic and detail with which the trip is prepared suspends our disbelief. The trip itself is a wonderful accumulation of religious and ancient lore, which Dr. Butler spells out in full historical and critical introduction, beginning with the theories of the ancients concerning the moon and its possible inhabitants. This work is further testimony to the fact that earth's closest neighbour in space has fire the human imagination, and has served as a locus for placing some of the social and natural "othernesses" that have been born of imagination and speculation.
Published by Logaston Press, Little Logaston Woonton Almeley, Herefordshire, UK, 1996
ISBN 10: 1873827644ISBN 13: 9781873827642
Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
Book
Papered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. 22.5 cm, ix, [i blank,] 26 & 44 pp, b&w plates, d/w. VG copy. Based on an ancient work, and drawing on various publications since. This is lighter in weight than the average allowed for at the checkout and there will be a freight rebate made.
Published by Printed for Thomas Adams,, 1615
4to in 8s. [12], 703, [1] p. Modern period - style calf (not recent). Some unobtrusive old dampstains and a few pages soiled. A few marginal paper repairs, not affecting the text. Old endpapers preserved with the signature on the front endpaper of Samuel Shuckford, author of 'Sacred and profane history of the world'. First published in 1601, this edition was expanded by the inclusion of the ' . . . discourse concerning the first conuersion . . . ' STC 11938.
Published by Printed by A. Islip and W. Stansby, London, 1630
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition in English. A translation of Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII. Edvvardo VI. et Maria regnantibus, annales. Small folio (11 x 6 3/4 inches; 278 x 172 mm). [16], 394 [i.e. 294], 293-342, [2, blank] pp. With engraved ornamental woodcut title-page. The sections on Edward VI and Mary both have separate dated title page, with ornamental woodcut border, but pagination and register is continuous. With engraved portraits for each section. Henry VIII portrait is signed: "T. Cecill sculp.", the others are unsigned. With initial and final blank. Although entered to both pr[inter]s., the whole book was app[arently]. pr[inted]. by Stansby"-STC. There is also a reissue, printed the same year with cancel general title page with the imprint "printed by W. Stansby and are to be sold by I. Smethwicke." Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down and preserving original endpapers. Boards ruled in blind and gilt, with gilt central armorial lozenge. All edges speckled red. With contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf. A closed tear, neatly repaired to front blank. Tiny wormhole to inner margin, not affecting text. Leave Nn2 with paper flaw, not affecting text. Overall very good. "Like his near contemporary Francis Bacon, Godwin was among the Jacobean exponents of the project for a new national history of England, regarding Polydore Vergil's Anglica historia as an inadequate work, written by a foreigner and a papist. He found Vergil's treatment of the sixteenth century especially inadequate, and it did not, of course, cover the whole century. In 1620, writing to his old friend Camden, he urged the latter to print the second part of his Annales of Elizabeth's reign, which did not, however, occur until after Camden's death. Inspired by the first part of Annales, and by the erudition in Camden's earlier Britannia, Godwin embarked on his own history of the middle Tudors, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary. Calling for a complete national history based on the sort of erudition that had marked Britannia, he remarked that 'our antiquaries may justly be taxed of sloth' (Rerum Anglicarum . annales, sig. A2r).The book that resulted, Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII. Edwardo VI. et Maria regnantibus, annales nunc primum editi (1616) unfortunately did not live up to the high mark Godwin had set. He drew on earlier foreign historians such as Francesco Guicciardini, Johannes Sleidan, Joachim du Bellay, Jacques-Auguste de Thou, and on a variety of Scottish writers; for English accounts he turned to John Stow's chronicles, and to the yet-unpublished life of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish. He used some unspecified 'publique records' (Rerum Anglicarum . annales, 141) for certain episodes such as Anne Boleyn's trial and death, documents which he probably obtained from Sir Robert Cotton, but the book is not founded on these materials in the way that Camden's Annales were based on the comparable records for Elizabeth's reign (though Camden, as the first historian of Elizabeth, had had little choice in this regard, having few â authorities' to which to turn). Godwin's son Morgan translated the history into English, with some additions (including passages lifted wholesale from Cavendish) as Annales of England in 1630." (Oxford DNB). HBS 68726. $1,250.