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A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murders,...
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A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murders, Street-Robbers, To which is added A Genuine Account of the VOYAGES and PLUNDERS of the most Notorious PYRATES: FIRST EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS WORK ON PIRATES

by JOHNSON, CAPTAIN CHARLES

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FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved plates, most by J. Basire after W. Jett and J. Nicholls., title in red and black, woodcut device, contemporary speckled calf, twice ruled in gilt, spine gilt with fleurons, red morocco label, hinges and cornes expertly repaired, last two leaves repaired, folio, London, for J. Janeway, 1734
FIRST EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS COMPILATION, uniting the most notorious names in the early eighteenth-century underworld. It consists of selections from two works, Alexander Smith's History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men and Captain Charles Johnson's own General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. Captain Johnson is attributed with creating the modern conception of pirates. He provided a sweeping account of what came to be called the Golden Age of Piracy. He gave an almost mythical status to the more colourful pirates such as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, 'Calico' Jack Rackham, and the female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny.… Read More
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A General Natural History, or new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables and...
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A General Natural History, or new and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables and minerals of the different parts of the world.: Royal Paper Copy in Contemporary Red Morocco

by HILL, JOHN

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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. London, Thomas Osborne 1748-1752. Royal Paper Copy, Text Ruled in Red Throughout, Folio, Contemporary Red Morocco gilt. pp. 6 ll., 654 pp., 3 ll .; XXVI, 642 pages, 4 sheets; 4 ll., 584 pp., 2 llRoyal Paper Copy in Contemporary Red Morocco
FIRST EDITION of Hill's popular work describing fossils, animals and plants, with altogether 56 hand coloured engraved plates and folding table,
Contains: Volume I: A history of fossils. With 12 plates and 1 folding table. - Volume II: A history of plants. With 16 plates. - Volume III: A history of animals. With 28 plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand.

Of the seventy-six separate works with which he is credited in the Dictionary of National Biography, the most valuable are those that deal with botany particularly The British Herbal. He is said to have been the author of the second part of The Oeconomy of Human Life (1751), the first part of which is by Lord Chesterfield, and Hannah… Read More
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Globe Terrestris. In quo locorum insigniorum situs terraeque facies, secundum praecipuas...
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Globe Terrestris. In quo locorum insigniorum situs terraeque facies, secundum praecipuas celeberrimorum nostri aevi observationes.: DOPPELMAYR’S TERRESTRIAL & CELESTIAL GLOBES

by DOPPELMAYR, JOHANN GABRIEL.

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Johann Georg Puschner, Nuremberg, 1728. 32 cm Coloured Terrestrial Globe in Original Condition.
Terrestrial Globe made up of two sets of twelve coloured engraved globe gores , 2 engraved polar calottes and 2 coloured engraved title or text cartouches. Assembled on a (probably wooden) hollow sphere (diameter: 32 cm) with brass pole screws suspended in a chiselled meridian ring made of brass and with a smaller brass scale ring for the degrees of longitude. As a standing globe, the ball is inserted into the wooden horizontal equator ring, which stands on four turned feet. The engraved calendar ring is mounted on its octagonal, round surface. The original silver-plated brass compass with a glass cover is embedded in the lower platform plate, which is also turned.
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr's (1677-1750) famous terrestrial globe from 1728, which he printed and published together with the astronomer and publisher Johann Georg Puschner (1680-1749) who constructed the globe,
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