Search Results: Authors starting with B from Speaking Volumes

343 pp, 1862, no edition remarks.
Duodecimo (19 cm tall), rebacked in black calf with gilt tooling (including the publishing year) on spine and original brown cloth boards which show some edgewear and small marks. Internally good, with new blank endpapers; flyleaves show foxing, some pages with pencil marks and small edge loss to last page.
George Barrel Cheever was an American minister, reformist and abolitionist who was generally regarded as the most prominent among the Yankee apostles of reform. As a leader of the Christian Abolitionist Movement, he campaigned fiercely for temperance, abolition of slavery and rights for Blacks, yet curiously defended captial punishment.
Voices of Nature is a typical 19th-century creationist interpretation of nature. Cheever argued how phenomena and patterns in nature are symbolic of spiritual reality, and cannot make sense as an intellectual portayal or from an atheistic point of view.

The Forester by James Brown, vi + 700pp +[16]advts, 3rd edition, 1866, 4to (24.5cm h), x 3 foldouts included in pagination, the first one is an extension of page 442, the second comprises pages 659 and 600, the third covers pages 631 and 632; book rebound in black buckram with gilt lettering to spine, internally very good, original flyleaves and half-title page foxed.
James Brown (no, not that James Brown!) was a professional forester on the Arniston Estate in Midlothian and wood manager to the Earl of Seafield, as well as the first president of the Scottish Arboricultural Society, established in 1854. The present book, first published in 1847, provides practical guidnace on how to create and manage a profitable plantation in temperate climates based on scientific principles of the time. It was one of the most influential and important books on the subject in its day, having arisen from a breeding ground of enthusiasm among seed collectors for collecting North American species, the most famous of whom… Read More

Small 8vo (20cm), x + 311, bound in brown half calf, original marbled blue and brown boards, later spine with red title block and gilt lettering and tooling. Newburgh library stamp to title page, most pages are a little grubby but without affecting the text.
The author, Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826 - 1880), was an English surgeon turned naturalist. He was particularly interested in fishes and was a founding member of the acclimatisation society in Britain, an organisation that supported the introduction of new plants and animals as food sources. He adopted his interest in consuming exotic meats from his father, the theologian William Buckland. Short-time editor of the outdoor sporting magazine The Field, Frank wrote multiple popular works on natural history, but did not appreciate the honour of having some of his writings used in Charles Darwin's Descent of Man, since he was opposed to Darwin's theory of evolution.
Frank Buckland was practically minded, having gained much of his natural history… Read More