Millar George Henry (103 results)

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Condition: Sehr gut. [First Edition]. Folio, 37 x 23 cm. No title page. Missing first parts up to page 126. Pages 127 to 598. 73 (out of 86) full page Plates. Some hand coloured. Modern cloth with gilt title on spine. New end papers. Fair condition due to missing parts. Binding is as new and internally bright and clean. Some nicks and creases, closed tears and minor paper losses. Despite the missing parts it remains a fascinating book with amazing Illustrations (see images).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A folio volume bound in full calfskin which is quite rubbed at the extremities with some losses especially at the spine ends. The book is from around 1785. The text is fairly clean without foxing, with some staining (probably water damage) to a section of the text. With 620 pages, including 84 full-page copper engraved black and white plates. This volume is divided into 6 books/sections. Book l: Quadrupeds, 104 pages, 10 plates. Book 2: Birds, 97 pages, 12 plates. Book 3: Fishes, 52 pages, 14 plates. Book 4: Reptiles and Insects, 51 pages, 8 plates. Book 5:(2 sections) 1. Vegetables and Waters; 2. Earth, Fossils and Minerals, 180 pages, 2 plates. Book 6: Theory of Earth, 150 pages, 38 plates. Most of the text and plates are not stained, but a section is.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A sweeping Georgian natural history compendium by George Henry Millar, offering a wide-ranging illustrated survey of animal life for the 18th century general reader. In a later half morocco binding, with blue cloth boards and the original morocco spine label laid down. First edition. Illustrated with an engraved general frontispiece by Taylor after Hamilton, dated 1785, and seventy-eight copper-plates. One plate, depicting the Linnean System, fully detached but present, loosely inserted. Collated, complete. ESTC No.: T125266. A sweeping 18th century folio natural history compendium, issued under the inspection of George Henry Millar, presenting itself as a "new, complete, and universal body" of natural history. The work ranges across quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, shells, botany, fossils, minerals, microscopy, human natural history, and the practical uses of natural productions in medicine and manufacture. Such folios helped popularise natural history beyond specialist scientific circles, presenting exotic and domestic animals alike for the curiosity of household readers and collectors, drawing on the writings and discoveries of Buffon, Linnaeus, Goldsmith, Hill, Brookes, Kennick, Ward, Smellie, Albin, Berkenhout, Forster, Pennant, and others. In a later half morocco binding, with blue cloth boards and the original morocco spine label laid down.Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, with very slight lifting to morocco and cloth. Light soiling with one or two handling marks and spots of damp staining to boards. Creasing and slight chipping to spine label. Armorial bookplates of Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury with a later manuscript bookseller"s note to the front pastedown. Hinges trained; front hinge reinforced. Rear free endpaper partially disbound. Slight discolouration from binder's glue to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned with one or two spots and handling marks, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. 7 inch closed tear to fore edge of 2y2, not affecting the legibility of the text. Very Good. None Stated (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book, first edition in half-leather binding, No date c 1785. Marbled endpapers. 86 full page copper plate engraving as called for . One page of text (157/8) sadly has been removed A Very Good copy which has been beautifully rebound in half leather with spine panels and decoration. The contents are generally Very Good although some plates at the rear of the volume are stained to top corners. text is complete except for the one missing page and largely clean with only sporadic foxing. List of subscribers to rear. Please ask for pictures.…

In-folio (26x42). Later boards with red label on the back. Iv, 6-618 pp, (2), 85 engraved plates ( of wich 21 colored) Originally publised in 59 or 60 parts, in printed paper wrappers.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A natural history work by George Henry Millar. Undated, dated from Copac. Collated, complete with all plates stated to the binder's instructions to the rear. A comprehensive work, which is divided into several books covering; Quadrupeds; Birds and Fish; Reptiles and Insects; Herbs, Plants and Shrubs, Waters, Earths, Fossils and Minerals; in addition to a theory of Earth in general. This work is a fascinating insight into the study of natural history in the eighteenth century. In a half morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, rubbed to the joints and extremities. Patches of further rubbing to the cloth covered boards. Losses to the extremities and to the backstrip due to rubbing. Hinges have been repaired. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned. Occasional scattered spots to pages. Some instances of Tape repair to the margin of page 254. Very Good. Unnamed (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Folio, 618, (ii), illustrated with 85 copper engraved plates (including the frontispiece). Rebound in mid-20th century quarter leather and cloth over boards. Some uneven sunning to the leather spine. Some minor age-toning to the pages, with some offsetting from the plates to the pages opposite. One plate with a small tear to the margin, with small loss; page 77 with a missing corner effecting 6 lines of text. An attractive binding, with an appropriate style of binding for this period. Published in 60 parts. Frontispiece (dated Oct. 29, 1785) and illustrations by various engravers. Not all of the plates are numbered, and they are not in consecutive order, as mentioned in the directions to the binders. Page 618 lists 60 numbered plates and 25 unnumbered ones. Signatures: [A] B-7R . Printed in double columns. Publisher's monogram on title page. "Directions to the book-binder": page 618; ."List of the subscribers": pages [619]-[620]. Wonderfully illustrated plates, of not only animals and plants, but of Human anatomy and even samples of Human emotion. Page 421 mentions the presence of insects in amber.…

Condition: Very Good. The Most surprising cataract of Niagara in Canada. George Henry Millar. Gravure sur cuivre. XVIIIe siècle. Coloris main. Dimension du feuillet : 235 x 367 mm. Dimension au coup de planche : 189 x 288 mm. Pliure dans l'angle inférieur gauche, trois petites tâches en bordure de cuvette. Le prix du port est calculé selon la destination et le poids du colis.…

Engraving on laid paper 19 x 28.8 cm (platemark including caption); 24.5 x 37 cm (sheet), decorative border , edge tears and toning and occasional spotting, but in very good condition. This engraving appeared in Millar's "New complete & Universal System of Geography" and is an example of the demand for publishers to supply views of the East and exotic "New Worlds". The late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a dramatic increase in the publication of voyage accounts (and compilations and collections) on the London book market. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.…