Search Results: Authors starting with T from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

Author's own offprint of this interesting article on detecting blood 'for the purposes of pathology and legal medicine', in which he publishes, for the first time, a description of the spectroscopic process developed by the eminent microscopist and geologist Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), written by Sorby at Taylor's request.

Dubbed the father of British forensic medicine, Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880) inspired Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charles Dickens. His published output was pioneering and outstanding, from his Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1836) and Manual of Medical Jurisprudence (1844) to Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine (1848) and Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence (1865). His contributions to the field won him prizes, honorary degrees, and an international reputation. As a leading medical jurist and toxicologist, Taylor was consulted on hundreds of medico-legal cases and appeared as an expert… Read More

Folio, ff. [vii], 182, [20]; Estienne's wood-engraved device to title. small marginal wormhole through the first four quires, title and another couple of page-spreads soiled, light waterstaining to the upper margin of the initial quires and the last leaf, upper inner corner of last leaf chipped, some sparse staining; contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, panelled sides with multiple frames of urns and palmettes; corners repaired, sides worn; ownership inscriptions on the titlepage (?Johannes Paliost, with purchase price record of 38 sous; a later inscription, ?Margnan), occasional contemporary marginalia, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('Lazard') dated 1750; modern bookplate (Froissart).First folio edition of Terence's comedies by Robert Estienne. The printer had already produced a small, octavo edition of Terence's works in 1526. Confident in its success, and through access to an excellent and ancient manuscript of the fourth-century commentary by Aelius Donatus, 'in 1529 he published a… Read More

First Elzevir edition, handsomely bound for the Irish politician Thomas Wogan Browne. Thomas Wogan Browne (c. 1758–1812) served as a magistrate, and twice as high sheriff of Co. Kildare. Politically a Whig and denounced as a United Irishman, pre-emptive suspicions appear to have thwarted any intended involvement in the rebellion of 1798. Among others he entertained Wolfe Tone, with whom in 1792 he toasted 'the spirit of the French mob to the people of Ireland', and Thomas Russell, whom he impressed with his 'large and well chosen library' (DIB). Wogan Browne's library, advertised as containing six thousand volumes, included numerous Elzevirs and other examples of fine printing, several incunables and manuscripts, and an extensive collection of Boccaccio. He appears to have had several books similarly bound in red morocco, with his name gilt on the upper board. On his death in 1812, the library was auctioned by Thomas Jones of Dublin, although we have not been able to identify this volume in… Read More

4 vols, 8vo, with large folding partly-coloured map of India facing title to vol. I; a little spotting at beginning and end of each vol.; a very good, unopened copy in original dark purple cloth, gilt-lettered spines, yellow endpapers; spines faded, a few marks, a little wear to extremities.A handsome set of the first edition of this extraordinarily detailed overview of India in the mid-19th century. Thornton (1799-1875) worked at East India House between 1814 and 1857, serving as head of the maritime department from 1847. His six-volume History of the British Empire in India appeared between 1841 and 1845, and he contributed several entries on Indian subjects to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.Thornton's Gazetteer contains a wealth of information and statistics on Indian geography, history, politics, art and architecture, religion, culture, natural history, commerce, languages, climate, transport, population, military matters, and so on.

First edition of the 'first eye-witness report on Tibet and Bhutan to be published in English. The book remained the only account of those countries available to English readers until the publication in 1876 of the journals of George Bogle and Thomas Manning. Through the editions that quickly followed in French (1800), German (1801), and Italian (1817), the book had a considerable impact on the European imagination' (ODNB). 'Captain Turner's journey to Tibet in 1783 was a follow-up to that of George Bogle's mission of 1774 ... The object of Turner's passage through Bhutan and his visit to the Tibetan Court was to ascertain the nature of the relationships of Bhutan with Tibet, and of the latter with China. The subsequent narrative is a leisurely paced and highly detailed portrayal of the area's natural history, observations on social and cultural characteristics, and glimpses of beautiful mountain scenery. For example, Turner's prose records his delight at the discovery of a strawberry patch, his… Read More