Various illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian and others[?] employing alchemical symbols and icons.
Description:
Added t.p.; title within engraved border., Folded plate: Figura I measures 34 x 33 cm., Folded plate: Figura II measures 39 x 31 cm., Folded plate: Figura III measures 35 x 35 cm., Folded plate: Figura IV measures 35 x 39 cm., and Many of the tracts have special t.ps. dated 1677.
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / written
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
West Indies
Subject (Topic):
Slavery
Collection Created:
Dublin : Printed for, and sold by, the author. Sold also at the Dublin Chronicle Office, by W. Sleater, no. 28, Dame-Street, and the other booksellers in Dublin, 1791
Bound 2 v. in 1., Each T. with 2-leaf frontispiece containing half-title in shield at lower left., Final [3] p. of T. 1 blank., Imperfect: T.p. of T. 1 wormed and repaired, with slight loss of text; bled, with some loss of ms. notes and slight loss of text. Ms. notes. Stamp: Ad Bibl. Acad. Land., Pagination: T. 1: [18], 512, [14] p., [4] leaves of plates; T. 2: [8], 120, [1], 146-252, 298, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates., Signatures: T. 1: )(⁸ A-Y¹² ; T. 2: )(⁴ A-I¹² K⁶ a-m¹² n⁶., and Title varies: T. 2: Pegnesis zweyter Theil : begreifend acht Feldgedichte der Blumgenoss-Hirten an der Pegnitz, geistliches Inhalts.
Publisher:
Gedruckt und verlegt von Wolf Eberhard Felseckern,
"Stinking" issue of the Edinburgh edition, with misprints "stinking" and "haggis" on p. 263 and "Boxburgh" on p. xxxvii, of more than 300 variations from the "Skinking" edition.--Cf. from Egerer., Bookplate of Chauncey Brewster Tinker., and Half title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
Publisher:
Printed for the author and sold by William Creech,
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796--Portraits and Tinker, Chauncey Brewster,--1876-1963--Bookplate