Search Results: Titles starting with I from P & B Rowan

first edition tall 8vo. xiv, [2], 500pp., 19 plates (of which 8 are coloured), large folding map, wood-engraved illustrations in text, publisher's green cloth, decorative blind border on sides, spine gilt lettered, neatly recased, new endpapers of old paper, very good. William Henry Brett (Dover, 1818 - 1886) exhibited religious inclinations from his youth and in 1840 was sent by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel as a missionary to Guiana. He spent almost forty years there as a missionary and travelled widely throughout the region. Besides this book he published several others on the native peoples of the region and on their myths and legends as well as translating the New Testament and the Book of Common Prayer into several of their languages.Chapters range over the coast and its population, the interior and its inhabitants, on early explorers, on the Essequibo and its tributaries, on the various different native peoples - the Pomeroons, Arawaks, Caribs, Acawoios, Waraus, Waramuri,… Read More

3 vols. 8vo. x, 499, [1 (blank)]; vi, 518, [5]; vi, 465, [1 (blank)], [49 (index)], [1 (advt.)]pp., contemporary speckled calf, smooth spines panelled by gilt fillets, rich maroon morocco lettering pieces, volume numbers direct gilt lettered, some corners little chaffed, joints neatly refurbished, spines a little scuffed and those of vols. 1 & 2 just a trifle chaffed at foot. Very good copy in its original binding. Signed on title page of Vol.1 'James Molony' and with the engraved armorial bookplate of Js. Molony of Kiltannon, Co. Clare, on front end papers. Later neat light stamps on end papers of the Redemptorist Monastery Library, Clonard, Belfast and with their small printed shelf labels on end papers. ESTC t95383 Goldsmiths' 14612 After its first printing in 1776 Smith's book quickly established itself as a classic of economic analysis. This edition, the sixth, is the first to have been published after Smith's death in 1790. 2000 copies were printed. A series of James… Read More

WITH SMITH'S FINAL REVISIONS2 vols. tall 8vo. (iii)-xiv, 498; (iii)-viii), 489, [1 (blank)], [4 (appendix)], [55 (index)], [1 (blank)]pp., no half-titles, contemporary tree calf, sometime neatly and sympathetically rebacked, spines panelled by double gilt fillets and with the original black and maroon gilt decorated numbering and lettering labels relaid, original endpapers reused, some scattered light foxing. An excellent copy.Small contemporary printed shelf label at corner of front endpaper of vol.2. Small neat and pale name later stamp "N O'L Curtis" at top corner of title pages.ESTC t95114 KRESS B2617Based on the fifth London edition of 1789 which was the last before Smith's death in 1790, and which incorporated several significant revisions and additions. It included in particular a new chapter on the 'Conclusion of the Mercantile System' (here in vol.2, p.153-175)

WITH A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER THEORY PROOF - AND USE OF MULTIPLE MIDDLE-EASTERN CHARACTERS
first edition small 4to. [8], 259, [4], [1 (blank)]pp., contemporary calf with nesting contrastingly-dyed panels on sides defined by double blind fillets and rolls and with blind tools at the corners, spine panelled by raised bands with the panels richly gilt tooled, rich maroon morocco title label, a few trivial worm traces, tiny chip at top corner of title label, else a very fine fresh copy. An exceptional copy.
Contemporary inscription on the title page "E lib. Arth. St. George" and with an elaborate contemporary engraved St. George bookplate.
ESTC r231039 WING B2095 Tomash & Williams B147 There is a also variant issue with a different form of the imprint (Wing B2095A)Beveridge (1637–1708), English writer and clergyman, on entering Cambridge in 1653 devoted himself to the learned languages, including the oriental and published a Latin treatise on the Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially… Read More

"AN ATTEMPT TO SUBSTITUTE EXACT ENQUIRIES ... FOR GUESS WORK AND GROUNDLESS ARGUMENT" first edition tall 8vo. xliv, 428pp., 20 diagrams (many folding, some coloured - including one extremely long plate tracking prices annually 1731 to 1883), modern contemporary-style half russet morocco, spine panelled by gilt tooled bands with gilt tooled centre-pieces, a few unobtrusive unobtrusive blind embossed library stamps, trifle dusty, else a very good copy in handsome binding. "These papers are, throughout, an attempt to substitute exact enquiries, exact numerical calculations, for guess work and groundless argument .... to investigate inductively the intricate phenomena of trade and industry .... Perhaps, one might say that theory is all-important; and yet fact is all-important also" [Jevons]. "Important" [Schumpeter].

HIS FINEST STORY - CHALLENGING 19TH CENTURY TABOOS
first edition, first issue tall 8vo. x, [2], 277, [3 (blank)], [16 (advts. dated "7G - 3.93.")]pp., cold frontispiece map, numerous illustrations throughout the text, pale turquoise cloth gilt lettered on front cover and spine, pictorially gilt blocked on front cover, decorative paper endpapers, very nice bright copy.
The first issue of the first British edition is indicated by the price being altered in ink in the printed list of Stevenson's works on the verso of the first leaf (facing the half-title). Some copies of the first British issue have the advertisements at the rear dated "7 G- 9.92" but most copies have advertisements dated as in this copy "7G - 3.93.". The book had first appeared in the U.S. 5 days earlier. These stories are set on the island of Samoa where Stevenson spent his last years. Included is The Beach of Falesa which considered to be his finest story and which was originally censored by its British publisher. "The Beach of… Read More

THE RARE COLONIAL ISSUE first edition, colonial issue 8vo. [2 (blank)], x, 219, [1 (blank), [1 (author's note)], [1 (printer's slug)], [1 (advts. for 'The Time Machine')], [1 (blank)], [8 (Heinemann's advts.)]pp., publisher's red cloth, black lettered on front cover and spine, small publisher's device in black on rear cover, Heinemann's advertisements on endpapers (both paste-down and free), spine a bit faded, a very good copy. The rare colonial issue. This 'Colonial Library' issue, published in the same year as the first, is rare. OCLC locates it only in Pierpont Morgan Library and National Library of New Zealand.In this issue the half-title reads across head "Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction/ Volue LII" and at foot "Issued for sale in the British Colonies and India, and not to be imported into Europe or the United States of America". For this issue the yellow pictorial cloth of the first issue has been substituted by a plainer red cloth. The front end papers list… Read More