Essay towards a natural history of British song birds
Description:
Armorial bookplate: Edward Akroyd. Plates are hand colored., Bibliography: leaf 82., Paged continuously: v. 1: viii, 40 leaves, [40] leaves of plates; v. 2: [3] leaves, l. 41-82, [40] leaves of plates., Printer's name from colophon., and With a list of errata to vol.2 pasted to the final leaf which contains errata from the first volume.
Publisher:
Printed [by Nicolson and Co.] for and sold by the author, at Stannary, near Halifax, sold also by B. and J. White, in London, and may be had of all other booksellers,
Subject (Name):
Akroyd, Edward,--1810-1887--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Birds--Great Britain--Early works to 1800. and Birds--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland.
Description:
Editor's dedication signed: Johann Georg Schelhorn., Imperfect: Vol. 3 wanting., Imprint to vol. 3 reads: Ulm 1754 auf Kosten der Gaumischen Handlung., Pagination: v. 1: [14], CLXXXVI, 544 p., frontis. port. and 26 folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 604 p., 28-32, [4] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [12], 756 p. including frontis., + [14] folded leaves of plates., and Printer's name from colophon of vols. 2 and 3.
Publisher:
[Gedruckt von Christian Ulrich Wagner],
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Lower Saxony (Germany)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, and Netherlands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Schelhorn, Johann Georg, 1694-1773
Subject (Topic):
Authors, German--Biography--Early works to 1800 and Libraries--Early works to 1800
Blank versos of intaglio prints not reproduced., Manuscript inscription on front flyleaf verso., Multiple pagination sequences., and Various pieces in prose and verse on the financial transactions of John Law and others, brought together under a general t.p.
Imperfect: plates 4, 27 and 37 wanting; 2 maps (Nova tabula insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis ... and Ailhae cidade de Goa ...) wanting. The other map and plate issued with this part, and 4 maps issued with part 3, are bound preceeding this part in the following order: [1] A cidade de Angra ... (40 x 55 cm. on sheet 41 x 57 cm, folded to 30 x 15); [2] Descriptio Hydrograhica accomodata ad Battavorum navagatione in Javam isulam Indiae Orientalis... (34 x 65 cm, on sheet 36 x 65 cm, folded to 29 x 18 cm); [3] Insula D. Helenae ... (22 x 28 cm, on sheet 30 x 31); [4] Munken so in den Orientalischen Indien ... (14 x 18 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [5] Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenstio ... (15 x 22 cm, on sheet 19 x 30 cm) bound with top of sheet at gutter; [6] Insulae et arcis Mocambique ...(21 x 27 cm, on sheet 31 x 30 cm). Some text has been censored in black ink. No. 2 of 3 titles bound together.
Publisher:
Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri,
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Navigatio in Orientem.
Final p. blank., Imperfect: Leaf 1 wanting., Originally published: Nuremberg : Michael Endter, 1661., and Plate has added engraved t.p. on recto and blank verso.
Publisher:
In Verlegung Michael und Joh. Friderich Endter,
Subject (Topic):
Prayers --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, German --17th century