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Miscellanies

by BARRINGTON Daines The Honourable 1727-1800

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London, Red Lion Passage : J Nichols, 1781. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. BALY. COOK.. VG+, Complete, First Edition, 1781, Quarto. [2], (iii-iv), [2], (iii-viii), [1], 2-342, (3), 344-470, 471*477*, 471-540, 547-557 pp, [1], some miss numbering but complete, one folding and one full page map, two portrait plates, 5 genealogical table of the Kings and Princes of Wales to 1584 (1 folding). Half morocco, over marbled boards (bySangorski & Sytcliffe), gilt tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Top edge gilt, others uncut, bookseller & owner label to fpd (Gaston Renard & William Smith Mason), later endpapers. A Very Good+ example, a clean & sound copy. Uncommon (282*222 mm). (Hill 56; Sabin 3628) Covering a wide range of subjects but including 'Tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole', 'Whether the Turkey was known before the Discovery of America', 'Account of Mozart, a very remarkable young Musician' with portrait of the young composer (the first published portrait, reprinted from Philosophical Transactions of 1770), 'History of the Gwedir family', 'Journal of a Spanish Voyage in 1775, to explore the Western Coast of N. America' with map. The latter is the first and only contemporary account in English of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan waters.

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Bookseller
Madoc Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
008058
Title
Miscellanies
Author
BARRINGTON Daines The Honourable 1727-1800
Illustrator
BALY. COOK.
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
J Nichols
Place of Publication
London, Red Lion Passage
Date Published
1781
Size
4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Weight
4.63 lbs
Keywords
History travel tour
Bookseller catalogs
History;

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Marbled boards
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Top Edge Gilt
Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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Quarto
The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Raised Band(s)
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