Thomson John Bell (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. trade paperback in very good condition.

paperback. Condition: As 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very close to fine copy. A collection of reminiscences capturing everyday life in 1920s New Zealand. Thomson writes in a light, anecdotal style, drawing on personal memories and rural experiences. The pieces are short, conversational, and rooted in the rhythms of small‑town and farming communities.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good + Soft Cover. Selected and introduced by Jocelyn Chisholm . 64 pages , lib marks 1st and last pages and cover otherwise vg+. Tim Ramey (illustrator).

Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Softback. A very good copy. Ownership stamp. Signed by the author. 64 pages. Illustrated. Sketches of life in New Zealand and Australia in the 1920's. Tim Rainey (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. some wear and usage marks to covers and cover edges, owners stamp front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Octavo in light card stapled wrapper (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Ex Library, Octavo light card covers (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64p With illustrations, the first 100 years of education in the area from Arrowtown through to Miller's Flat.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. First Thus. 64p With illustrations, stories first written for newspapers in the 1920s, especially about Central Otago.

Soft Covers. Condition: NF. No Jacket. Reprint. This history of "Arrowtown and its district" was first published in 1972, reprinted in 1975 with this third printing in 1985. The author was born there in 1897 and after an adverturous life as a young man, including active service with the NZ Army in WWI, he began a career in journalism in 1927. Returning to Arrowtown in the late 1960s he compiled this excellent history on the town and district, with its exciting and colourful past , based on the gold rush of the mid-1800s, contrasted with its comparatively quite revival as a attractive village much admired (and photographed) by its many tourist visitors. 46 pages, 29 b/w photos, colour art to front card cover, historic map to rear. NF all-round, no inscriptions. Light book, postage at cost. Photos (illustrator).…

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. Owner's Name inside. 46 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. central Otago tales. tim rainey (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. 64 pages. Spine tanned.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 64 pages. Cover worn.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. No signatures.; Reprint (the first edition was in 1975). Car wrappers. 46 pages. Illustrated.; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Decorative red boards of the Victorian style with stamped designs and intricate floral patterns and gilt lettering; gilt page edges on all edges; patterned end pages. Illustrated with engraved illustrations by E. Bookhout with designs drawn on wood by John Bell (Sculptor), C.W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, J.C. Horsley, J.P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, H.J. Townsend and Thomas Webster. Boards with wear and soiling; edges frayed; interior tight; pages dusty with light age toning. E. Bookhout with designs drawn on wood by John Bell (Sculptor), C.W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, J.C. Horsley, J.P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, H.J. Townsend and Thomas Webster (illustrator).…

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Offering this lovely copy of The Seasons by James Thomson. Subtitle: With Engraved Illustrations from Designs Drawn on Wood by John Bell, C. W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, and with the Life of the Author by Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S. Edited by Bolton Corney, Esq. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842. Dark Green leather hardcover with ornate gilt design on front, back, spine and edges (inside and outside). Marbled end papers, a personal bookplate on the inside front, gilt edges. Good to Very Good condition overall with wear to leather cover mostly on spine and edges. Joints and binding strong. Clean and unmarked with some page tanning, as pictured. A nice copy! James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright. The Seasons is one of his best known works, which celebrates nature and its reflection of the Divine and of the interconnectedness of humanity and the natural world. John Bell, C. W. Cope, Thomas Creswick (illustrator). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Second Edition. Poetry. marbled, fep fore-edge, many illustrators, nice engravings, 320 pgs, slight external spine crack. Bell, John Cope, C. W. Et al (illustrator).

First edition. 32pp. Original printed paper covers discoloured and slightly marked. Contents VG. No inscriptions. [an analysis of the right of ordinary citizens of Scotland, or corporate bodies, to use the Lion Rampant or the ''Scottish Standard'' as the accepted national emblem of Scotland, whether in the form of a flag or shield, or as part of a full heraldic achievment].…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A lovely leather-bound edition of this important and celebrated poem by James Thomson, illustrated with engravings throughout. 'The Seasons' is a series comprising four poems, each titled after a season; the completed collection first appeared in 1730, and inspired works by Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and J. M. W. Turner.Written by James Thomson (1700-1748), a British poet and playwright, known for having written the words of 'Rule, Britannia', as well as 'The Seasons' and 'The Castle of Indolence'. This was his most influential work.With a life of the author by Patrick Mulroch.Richly illustrated with engravings by various hands.A lovely leather-bound copy of this work. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally generally smart; rubbed to the raised bands, the head of the spine, the extremities and joints. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a little strain to the front hinge. Pages have the odd spot; endpapers and pastedowns are rather spotted. Very Good. John Bell, C. W. Cope, Thomas Creswick et al. (illustrator). book.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 258.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A charming illustrated edition of Thomson's beautiful poetical cycle on nature, with numerous engraved illustrations from The Etching Club. A charming illustrated edition of The Seasons, the celebrated poetical cycle, written by acclaimed Scottish poet James Thomson, to which is added The Life of the Author by publisher and mathmetician Patrick Murdoch, edited by English antiquary Bolton Corney. Published in 1841, with Seasons and Life first published in 1730 and 1762 respectively. In red half calf, with a decorative title leaf by John Bell, and numerous in-text illustrations by various British artists and engravers, including John Bell, Frank Stone and other members of The Etching Club. A carefully planned edition of which Corney was delighted to edit, containing both the revised edition of the memoir and an ode to his memory published in 1749. Printed from copper blocks, the engraved illustrations beuatifully bring out the poet's vision of nature and our place within it. In red half calf. Externally, mostly smart, with slight rubbing to the joints, edges and extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Marble end papers are bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with faint spotting to blanks. Very Good. Various [inc. John Bell, Frank Stone, Thomas Webster, J.C. Horsley et al.] (illustrator). book. …

First Edition. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777. A 1777 Robert Bell Philadelphia Imprint with Contemporary Annotations by a Loyalist Relating Shakespeare and Richardson to the American Revolution Thomson, James [1700-1748]. [Murray, John (1726-1800)]. The Seasons: Containing, Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. With Poems on Several Occasions. To Which are Added, An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, 1777. [x], 251 (i.e. 253), [3] pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece of Thomson. Text followed by 3 pp. of publisher advertisements. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"; 18.6 x 11.5 cm). Contemporary sheep, raised bands, blind fillets and blind-stamped "T" to spine. Light rubbing to boards, some shallow scuffing near edges, moderate rubbing to extremities, spine ends chipped, corners bumped and worn, hinges cracked. Toning and light foxing to interior. Later bookplate and shelf label of Amedo Alaimo to front pastedown, later ink owner stamp of the Comte de Ludolf to foot of title page. Owner signatures of John Murray to pp. 3, 44 and 160, underlining, marks to margins and brief annotations in his hand throughout, brief annotations to pp. 75 and 76, longer annotations to recto and verso of rear endleaf, pencil annotation in Alaimo's hand to rear pastedown. Housed in a handsome dark blue quarter morocco clamshell case. A notable edition with a fascinating provenance. $7,500. **THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION.** * First Philadelphia edition, and the first edition printed in the independent United States. Published in four parts from 1726 to 1730, The Seasons, a celebration of country life, was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. It inspired several subsequent works, including Haydn's oratorio The Seasons and paintings by Gainsborough, Turner and Fuseli. The very rare first American edition was published without an imprint in 1764, most likely in Boston. Bell, the publisher of the second edition, specialized in inexpensive editions of important English books. One of these was the first American edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. He was also the first publisher of Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Murray, the annotator of our copy, was a staunch Loyalist. A member of a landed Scottish family in Philiphaugh, and a Member o. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777. (illustrator). …