AITON (William)MareMagnum
3.467 Ergebnisse
First edition, [4], 178pp., new endpapers, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco spine label. William Aiton (1760-1847) of Strathaven was Sheriff Substitute for the Middle Ward in Lanarkshire, and was widely known as an authority "on all matters bearing on Scottish husbandry". He had the perception to observe that one of the major problems of the Scottish farmer was the cultivation of moss earth. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19038.1; Fussell III, p. 59; Rothamsted, p. 9.
First edition, 4to, ix, [1], 137, [1], 3, [1]pp., with errata slip, engraved frontispiece and a further 2 engraved plates, presentation inscription to Thomas McCosh, orig. boards, spine torn.
First edition, viii, 40pp., orig. wrappers. Freeman, 1359; Simpson, p. 349; Not in Hall & Rickard.
First Edition, title within a typographical border, soiled, 39, [1] pp., disbound. Sometimes attributed to William Logan and to John Ker. Kress, 3451; Hanson, 2895.
First Edition, folio, lacks the engraved portrait of Charles 1, with the final colophon leaf, [2], 430, [2] pp., contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, label. Edited by W. Balconquhall, the work contains key declarations and documents relating to the events in Scotland, which subsequently led to the outbreak of Civil War in England. It was answered by W. Ker in "A True Representation of the Prceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland," 1640. S.T.C., 21906. The issue with the side note on page 41.
Large 8vo, 211pp., orig. printed wrappers. Fully describes 535 items with loctions of copies.
6 vols. in one as issued, First Edition, 4to, general title-page repaired on inner blank margin (not affecting the text), the final leaf of the second pamphlet misbound after the fourth pamphlet, each item has a separate title, pagination and signatures, [2], 8, [2], 14, 5, [1], 8, 6, 6, 8 pp., modern marbled boards, gilt morocco label on upper cover, a nice copy. The six pamphlets are variously printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne by John Gooding, and at Edinburgh by Lumisden and Robertson. The titles are:-**** 1). A Letter from a Scots Gentleman at Berwick, to his Intimate Friend at Newcastle. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1745. 2). A Letter from a Gentleman at Newcastle, to the Burgesses of Edinburgh. [Newcastle upon Tyne], 1745. 3). The Pretended Prince of Wales's Manifesto and Declaration, Dated at Edinburgh, October 14. 1745, Dissected, Anatomised, and exposed to Ridicule. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1745. 4) A Vindication of the Brewers of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Printed in the Year 1725: And reprinted there, in the Year 1745. 5) A Speech Without Doors, made on the 4th of October, on Occasion of the Election of Magistrates at Michaelmas, 1725; and Reprinted in the Year 1745. 6). Proposal for retrieving the Sinking State of the Good Town of Edinburgh, humbly offered to the Consideration of all its Honest Burgess and Welwishers. Edinburgh, Printed in the Year 1737: And reprinted there, in the Year, 1745. **** The final pamphlet is not called for in the publisher's advertisement on the final page of the second pamphlet. These pamphlets are listed separately in the ESTC and various locations are given for single titles but the only complete copies with the general title-page are at the British Library, Aberdeen University, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Huntington, and Chiddingstone Castle.
First separate edition, 18, [2]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
First separate edition, 15, [1]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
21, [1]pp., a little soiled, later wrappers.
Large 8vo, 211pp., orig. printed wrappers. Fully describes 535 items with loctions of copies.
4to, 205pp., illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, 1,206 items.
4to, xxviii, [234], 105-189pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
First Edition, 21, [1] pp., disbound. The 6 copies only on the ESTC.
First edition, 36 pp., disbound. Signed at the end: "Your friend and wellwisher." i.e. William Abernethy Drummond. The letter from Aberdeen is John Skinner's "A Letter to Norman Sievwright". Sievwright's "Principles, Political and Religious" was published in 1767. Copies at Aberdeen University, National Library of Scotland, Bodleian Library, University of Wales, Lampeter, General Theological Seminary and St. John's and Trinity Colleges Kinder Library.
First Edition, half-title, [4], 5-15, [1] pp., small chip to outer-upper corner of half-title and title (not effecting text), modern wrappers.
First Edition, half-title, [2], 51, [1]pp., disbound. On the resignation of the Earl of Chesterfield as Secretary of State, due to a difference of opinion on foreign policy, in bringing the continental war to an end.
First Edition, with the circular stamp of the "Birmingham Law Society" on title, [2], 73, [1] pp., disbound. The charge preferred against Major Thomas Moncrieff of the Berwickshire Regiment of Militia, was "for not resisting immediately, and endeavouring, as far as in his power, to prevent, the outrage committed in the mess-room on the 30th January 1807; whereby a gross insult was offered, not only to the Major, but every officer present, contrary to his duty as an officer then commanding the regiment, and contrary to good order and military discipline." COPAC locates copies at the British Library, National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University.
First Edition, half-title, [2], 22 pp., a little dusty, disbound.
First Edition, half-title, [4], 84pp., disbound. In reply to the issue of 27 Dec. 1746 of 'Old England' and to Lord Mansfield's 'The Thistle'.
First Edition, no half-title, 33, [1] pp., disbound. Bill of April 7, 1747, enacted 20 Geo.ii.c.43.
Second Edition, half-title, [4], 5-24pp., disbound.
344pp., 16 portraits, orig. printed wrappers, 4,483 lots.
First Edition, 12mo, title lightly browned, [2], 28, [2] pp., later stiff marbled boards. The final leaf dated 27th November 1848.