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Sussex: Privately Printed, [ca. 1960.. Photograph album. 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Eighteen leaves of text and 41 gelatin silver prints credited to Thomas Photos, Oxford; also seen with 16 p… Meer...

Sussex: Privately Printed, [ca. 1960.. Photograph album. 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Eighteen leaves of text and 41 gelatin silver prints credited to Thomas Photos, Oxford; also seen with 16 pp. and 40 prints, and 18 pp. and 48 prints. Publisher's spiral bound faux green morocco paper wrappers with gilt cover lettering. Corners a bit curled but a very good copy.An album of early luxury automobiles centered around the Rolls-Royce (including a 1927 Rolls Royce Phantom I with a Louis XIV interior and upholstery, a 1932 Rolls Royce 20/25, a 1934 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a reconstructed 1905 Rolls Royce, a 1938 Rolls Royce Phantom III, and 1939 Rolls Royce Wraith, and a Wallis & Steevens Steam Tractor which he converted to propane) owned by car collector Stanley E. Sears (19031989). With a typed letter signed by Sears, dated 16th June 1960 on 20-Ghost Club stationery (the oldest Rolls-Royce club in the world), from Sears, its then president, to an American collector Charles N. Melhinch. Apparently he is responding to Melhinch's praise of Sears' album. "The 20-Ghost Club was inaugurated on the 26th May 1949 by a group of owners dedicated to the preservation of pre-1940 Rolls-Royce motor cars, which they were concerned were in danger of being lost. The name of the Club was taken from the cars which these founders owned, the legendary 40/50 HP Silver Ghost and its smaller counterpart, the 20 HP model.The Club activities still revolve around the early cars such as Silver Ghosts, 20 hp and the New Phantom, (subsequently becoming known as the Phantom I), as well as models such as the 20/25 HP, 25/30 HP, Wraith and Phantom II and III, as eligibility for membership extends to owners of all pre-1940 Rolls-Royce motor cars. No Bentleys or post-war Rolls-Royces are admitted and consequently the Club has its own unique flavour, which can perhaps be best appreciated on our various tours when a wonderful selection of coachbuilt cars dating from the earliest days of Rolls-Royce motor cars can be seen." (20-Ghost Club)., Privately Printed, 0, Boston, MA: Ticknor & Fields, 1868., 1868.. Good. - Large octavo, 10-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcovers, twenty-six issues each bound in the original pictorial buff wraps, each illustrated with a vignette of a globe beneath the banner title held by 2 cherubs and with an illustration of an "Atlantic and Pacific R.R. Co.", train labeled "For Home & Travel" below. The covers are creased and several are stained with some chipping to the edges of the wrappers. The wrappers on 5 issues are detached. Each issue has a small subscriber's label on the front wrap. Approximately 40 pages per issue, including the covers and pictorial ads and a total of 4 plates by George du Maurier. Each of the issues has light to moderate dampstaining to approximately the top 1/3 of the pages. The overlapping edges of many pages are slightly chipped and there are ink stains on pages 303-304. A complete run of the issues which contained the full text of Charles Reade's novel. <p>RARE in serial form.<p>The contents are as follows: Volume 5, No. 105. Consisting of pages (1-4), 1-32, & (5-8) containing the text to "Foul Play" Part 1; Volume 5, No. 106. Pages (1-4), 33-64, & (5-8). The wrappers are detached. "Foul Play" Part 2; Volume 5, No. 107. (1-4), 65-96, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 3; Volume 5, No. 108. (1-4), 97-128, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 4; Volume 5, No. 109. (1-4), 129-160, (5-8) pages. The wrappers are detached, "Foul Play" Part 5. Also in this issue: Matthew Arnold: "Anarchy and Authority", Richard A. Proctor: "Colored Suns", Algernon Charles Swinburne "Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire" and Tennyson "On a Spiteful Letter". Volume 5, No. 110. (1-4), 161-192, (5-8) pages. This issue does not publish a chapter of "Foul Play". However, laid into this issue is du Maurier's plate "The Arrest". The edges of the plate are chipped with staining in the margins. Volume 5, No. 111. (1-4), 193-224, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 6. Also in this issue: Tennyson "Wages" from Advance Sheets of Macmillan's Magazine. Volume 5, No. 112. (1-4), 225-256, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 7. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "On Shipboard". The right half of the plate is dampstained. Also in this issue: Fanny Kemble "Lady Macbeth" from Advance Sheets, Robert Buchanan "A London Lyric" from Advance Sheets and Tennyson "1865-1866" from Advance Sheets. Volume 5, No. 113. (1-4), 257-288, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 8. Also in this issue: Matthew Arnold "Anarchy and Authority" (Second Paper) and Arminius Vambery "Days and Nights in Persia". Volume 5, No. 114. (1-4), 289-320, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 9; Volume 5, No. 115. (1-4), 321-352, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 10. Also in this issue: "Some Curious Facts About Playing-Cards" translated from the French. Volume 5, No. 116. (1-4), 353-384, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 11. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "On Board the Cutter". There is light dampstaining to the plate. Volume 5, No. 117. (1-4), 385-416, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 12. There is a long tear to the front wrapper, without loss, and the wrappers are detached. Volume 5, No. 118. (1-4), 417-448, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 13. Also in this issue is "Diary in Libby Prison" by Lieutenant-Colonel Szabad. Volume 5, No. 119. (1-4), 449-480, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 14. Also in this issue "A Liberal Education and Where to Find It" by Professor Huxley. Volume 5, No. 120. (1-4), 481-512, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 15. There is a textual illustration of stones, the outline of which "resembled a great fish wanting the tail". Also in this issue: "Billiards and Billiard Players" from Advance Sheets of London Society and "Memorial Literature of the American War" by G.O. Trevelyan from Advance Sheets of Macmillan's Magazine. Volume 5, No. 121. (1-4), 513-544, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 16. The wrappers are detached. Volume 5, No. 122. (1-4), 545-576, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 17. There is a half-page textual diagram, a circle illustrating a "Round Robin". Also in this issue: Tennyson "Lucretius" from Advance Sheets. Volume 5, No. 123. (1-4), 577-608, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 18. There is a textual diagram featuring 2 arrows indicating courses of a ship. Volume 5, No. 124. (1-4), 609-640, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 19. Also in this issue: Christina G. Rossetti "Two Poems" and "A Mahomedan Version of Bible History". Volume 5, No. 125. (1-4), 641-672, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 20. Also in this issue: James Greenwood "The Soul Trap". Volume 5, No. 126. (1-4), 673-704, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 21. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "Helen Rolleston and Arthur Wardlaw". The plate has a corner crease. Volume 5, No. 127. (1-4), 705-736, (5-8) pages;. "Foul Play" Part 22. Also in this issue George Eliot "Lyrics from 'The Spanish Gypsy'". Volume 5, No. 128. (1-4), 737-768, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 23. Volume 5, No. 129. (1-4), 769-800, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Concluded. Also in this issue "The White Camellia: A London Story". Volume 5, No. 130. (1-4), 801-828, (5-8) pages. The wrappers are detached. Bound into this issue is the overall title page and the table of contents for Volume 5, January-June, 1868. Also in this issue is Matthew Arnold "Anarchy and Authority" (Third Paper) and Charles Dickens "A Debt of Honor" from All the Year Round.<p>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE as serialized in "Every Saturday".<p>FOUL PLAY is a novel concerned with the issue of unseaworthy ships. In this instance, these were ships that were overloaded and heavily insured by their owners, many of whom were members of Parliament. The novel and the stage play that derived from it aspired to create public support for safety measures such as those proposed by Samuel Plimsoll in the 1870's. Public pressure eventually swayed Parliament to pass The Merchant Shipping Act of 1876.<p>The novelist and dramatist Charles Reade (1814-1884) is best known for his novel "The Cloister and the Hearth". Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) was an Irish born American actor and playwright., Boston, MA: Ticknor & Fields, 1868., 1868., 2.5, London: John Murray, 1863. First Edition, 1st Printing. Very Good. Josiah Wood Whymper and others. In Two Volumes, [7.75x5.25in, 19.5x13cm]; Vol. I- [iii], viii, [1], list of illustrations, 351 pp., five plates of illustrations including frontispiece illustration of Bates in forest, 13 illustrations in text, fold out map at rear [The Amazons from its mouth to the frontier of Peru], Vol. II- [iii], vi, pp. 423, four plates of illustrations including frontispiece, 20 illustrations in text, index; Three-quarter contemporary dark green calf binding on marbled boards, raised spine with gilt lettering on black and red labels, rules and designs, marbled end papers, marbled ink on all edges; Some shelf wear to cover surfaces, edges and corners with chipping along edges, rubbing to marbled papers and leather, all edges rubbed, last leave and end paper in Vol. II loose, but attached, minor age toning to text without any foxing, lacking publisher advertising. [Howgego II B14] DK. Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) was a noted British naturalist, entomologist, and explorer. His expeditions to the Amazon river established the operation of natural selection in animal mimicry (the evolutionary imitation by a species of other life-forms or inanimate objects to advance and survive). In the mid 1800's, these studies provided support to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1844 Bates met Alfred Russell Wallace, another noted entomologist, to advance the study of insects and contribute to the discussion on the origin of species. In 1847 they decided to approach the British Museum for support to travel to the Amazon river to collect specimens for study and sale. They arrived at Para (now Belem), Brazil in May, 1848. Over the next few years they collected specimens locally until Wallace returned to England in 1852. Bates then continued to explore the entire valley of the Amazon river system to collect and send to England over, 14,700 species with 8,000 new to science. After eleven years in the Amazon, his health deteriorated, and he returned to England in 1859. He then began work on his collection and writing papers on his entomology, his discoveries and theories supporting evolution of species. Charles Darwin and Bates corresponded over the years, and Darwin suggested writing a book about his experiences in the Amazon. This book, The Naturalist on the River Amazons, was a significant contribution to Amazon river knowledge. It was well received and became a travel classic with many printings and translations. From the Encyclopedia Britannica article, "It is a curiously structured book, part detailed diary, part general account of the region, and part precise description of particular fauna, but it provides a fascinating record of the natural environment and wildlife of Amazonia ...". Charles Darwin, in a letter to Bates, wrote "The best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England." Bates was appointed as an assistant secretary to the Royal Geographical Society in 1864 and served until his death. During his tenure, he assisted in support of many expeditions to Africa, South America and the Arctic. Josiah Wood Whymper (1813-1903) was a British engraver and book illustrator. He was well know in the mid-1800's for illustrating many books on natural history, exploration, and, notably, this book. Other artist also provide illustrations for the book - E.W. Robinson, Joseph Wolf and Johann Baptist Zwecker., John Murray, 1863, 3, London: John Morphew, 1712. Leather. Good. 7" by 4". None. A collection of the five satirical pamphlets relating to the figure John Bull, created by John Arbuthnot, a selection of firsts to fourth editions. A rare collection of the five politically satirical pamphlets relating to John Bull.'Law is a Bottomless-Pit', published in 1712, the fourth edition of this work. This copy is the issue with a full stop after 'edition', a comma after 'London', and 'near Stationer's-Hall' being listed as the publisher's address to the title page, with the catchword 'Nicholas' to page three.'John Bull in His Senses' published in 1712, the fourth edition of this work. 'John Bull Still in His Senses', published in 1712, the third edition of this work. The final leaf of this pamphlet is publisher's adverts.'An Appendix to John Bull Still in His Senses', published in 1712, the first edition of this work. The final leaf of this pamphlet is publisher's adverts.'A Complete Key to the Four Parts of Law is a Bottomless-Pit', published in 1712, the third, corrected, edition of this work.John Bull is a character created by John Arbuthnot in his pamphlet 'Law is a Bottomless-Pit', who has now become a figure of national personification, most especially in political cartoons.'Law is a Bottomless-Pit' is the first appearance of Bull in literature. The character was created to attack Whig war policy.Written by John Arbuthnot, a physician and satirist, who is known for the contributions to mathematics, and for being a member of the Scriblerus Club. He is also best known for his creation of this John Bull figure. Arbuthnot was also the court physician to Queen Anne.Bookplate to the front pastedown, 'Barbara Hylton Madge'. Barbara Hylton Madge was the mother of Charles Madge, an English poet, sociologist, and journalist. Charles Madge was also a founder of Mass-Observation. Faber and Faber published two of his poetry collections, 'The Disappearing Castle', and 'The Father Found'Prior owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, the front board is detached but present, with the front endpaper detached with the front board. Rubbing to the boards and spine, with some loss and lifting of paper. Loss to the spine. A little bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned with the odd spot or mark. Leaves C2 and C3 of 'Law is a Bottomless-Pit' are a little closely cropped to the head, affecting the pagination only. Good, John Morphew, 1712, 2.5, Folio [36 x 24], 21 leaves of descriptive text each accompanied by an engraved circular plate; modern dark green half morocco over marbled boards.Originally appearing in the 1790's, in a periodical entitled The Temple of Taste, these engravings were collected together for publication in 1820 and again in 1825. Engraved by Taylor (a pupil of Bartolozzi), they are probably after originals by Thomas Girton. 'Charles Taylor, one of the two bookseller sons of the engraver Isaac Taylor, was apprenticed to his father and studied with Bartolozzi and therefore naturally gravitated towards the publication of illustrated works, e.g. Fenelon's Adventures of Telemachus (1792) with roundels engraved by himself, John Corbould and William Nutter. In November 1794 he launched a monthly magazine of which each Number was illustrated by two or three plates: one or two of allegorical or classical groups drawn by Samuel Shelley and stipple-engraved by Nutter in the Bartolozzi manner and one line-engraving of a London building: "The Temple of Taste comprising, Elegant, Historical Engravings; also, Views of the Principal Buildings in London; also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects with the histories and other connected information at large. By the Best Artists: Designers, and Engravers. London: Printed for C. Taylor, No 10, Holborn, near Castle Street."'The London buildings were discontinued after July 1796 but by then 21 of them had been published. Like the Fenelon illustrations they were all engraved as roundels, about 125mm in diameter in a circular thread-line frame. Two centimetres above the base of the roundel the view is ruled off and in the lower segment are engraved the publication-line and the caption in voided capitals against a hatched background. In the Guildhall Library is a pen and ink sketch of the Royal Mews which follows this formula exactly, even to the precise dimensions, and there is another, of the Banqueting House, Whitehall, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce Bequest, D.721). Both are signed by Thomas Girtin, the first being apparently rejected and the second engraved.'On the publication of the first Number of theTemple of Taste Girton was still only 19 and had just made his debut at the Royal Academy with a water-colour of Ely Cathedral. He had escaped from his onerous apprenticeship with Edward Dayes and was living with his mother and stepfather at 2 St Martin's-le-Grand. To a great extent he was self-trained and until his admission to the Royal Academy as a student late in 1795 he had set himself to copy architectural prints, including the aquatints of the London illustrator Thomas Malton junior, and had sketched out of doors on the shores of the Thames. To get pocket money he tinted prints, alongside the youthful J.M.W. Turner, for the engraver and printseller John Raphael Smith and eventually had drawings accepted for publication in James Walker's highly regarded monthly, the Copper-plate Magazine. It is therefore quite within the bounds of probability that at this juncture he would welcome a commission to supply a monthly drawing of London to The Temple of Taste and that this was a source of income for him until July 1796. The engraving was probably by Taylor or one of his associates but Girton's name, unlike that of the well-established Samuel Shelley, was still too obscure to appear as a credit on the prints.'Taylor continued selling the roundels as individual prints long after the magazine had ceased publication and copies survive on large wove paper watermarked 1815' which were in demand as a change from the engraved rectangle in the extra illustration of Pennant (no 67). In 1820 he decided to collect them in a binding, adding three more plates, a printed title and a description, on both sides of 12 printed sheets, of all 24. In 1825 he dropped the three extra plates, revised the title and reduced the text to 11 sheets.' [Adams] Adams, 135., Published by C. Taylor, 160 Fleet Street; Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, Paternoster Row; Simkin, Marshall and Co., Stationers, 1825, 0, London:: Printed by Tho. Gardner . . . , 1737., 1737. Small 4to. [2], 216 pp. Signatures: A-3A? 3B² Modern antique-style half speckled calf, marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine title. Bookplates of Rev. Thomas Salwey, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Sc.D., Francis Galton Laboratory, and formerly owned by Florence Nightingale David, with her initials on the foot of the Galton Labs bookplate. Very rare. First edition. An important, expanded, second edition, issued with a different title: The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions, was published in 1750. This first edition is far more difficult to locate than the second edition. Frank J. Swetz, Pennsylvania State University, wrote, ". . . in 1750, he released his more comprehensive The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions. Better appreciated than its predecessor, the book was considered the best reference on Newton's calculus of the 18th century." "This was a high-quality textbook devoted to the calculus of fluxions, the Newtonian version of the infinitesimal calculus. The topic was advanced -- it was no trivial exercise to write such a book in the 1730s, when the calculus was mastered by only a few mathematicians in Europe." Niccolo Guicciardini, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). / Thomas SIMPSON (1710-1761), son of a weaver, was an autodidact British mathematician and inventor, became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is most famous for promulgating "Simpson's rule" which is a method of numerical approximation for a definite integral. He observed the solar eclipse of 1724 and began thus studying mathematics and maintained an interest in astrology and horoscopes. From 1725-1733 he taught at Nuneaton. He married his landlady (much older himself). An odd episode occurred with either he (or an assistant) was clad as the devil this was not well received and subsequently forced both he and his wife to flee to Derby. His first book, A New Treatise of Fluxions, (1737), was an entree to employment. Later he relocated to London and from 1743 taught mathematics, engineering and fortification at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was a member of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society, the membership being largely made-up of weavers as per his own original profession. Abraham de Moivre and Simpson both belonged to a group of itinerant lecturers who at night taught at the London coffee houses. Suzuki states that Simpson was "perhaps the most distinguished of the coffee-house teachers." Thus he became aware of de Moivre's work in statistical theory and games of chance. In 1754 he was made editor of the Ladies Diary, later editing the Gentleman's Magazine, Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica as well as the Gentleman's Diary. In 1758 he became a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. PROVENANCE: Rev. Thomas Salwey (ca.1705- after or on 1759), of Ludlow, L.L.D. * Salwey was Rector of Richard's Castle. He married Constance (only daughter of Francis Biddulph) in 1742. [Note this is not the famous Shropshire Botanist Rev. Thomas Salwey (1791-1877) of the same name]. / James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Sc.D. (1848-1928), Fellow of Trinity College, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer. He studied at Trinity where he was second wrangler in 1871. "He was also the 'tutor' of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (tutor being a non-academic role in Cambridge University). He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society 1886-1888 and 1901-1903." See: Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. / Francis Galton Laboratory. Karl Pearson In the twentieth century Francis Galton and Karl Pearson led the way in developing statistics into a mathematical discipline. This is mentioned partly because the provenance of this copy of Simpson comes from the Francis Galton Laboratory and was likely in the possession of Pearson himself. Indeed he inscribed his name to some of the books in his collection, though not with this volume. The Galton Lab bookplate is present however and the book is further signed with the initials of one of its known researchers, that of Florence Nightingale David (see below). / F.N.D. Florence Nightingale David (1909-1993), also known as F. N. David was an English statistician, born in Ivington, Herefordshire, England. She was named after Florence Nightingale, who was a friend of her parents. David did not like her forenames and thus always referred to herself as "F. N. David". She attended Bedford College for Women in London, earning her degree in mathematics in 1931. She then joined University College, London to work with Karl Pearson who obtained a scholarship for her, working as his research assistant, resulting in a doctorate received in 1938 (Pearson died in 1934). In 1938 her first book was published, Tables of the Correlation Coefficient. During that period she was working with Jerzy Neyman. "During World War II she served as Experimental Officer in the Ordnance Board for the Ministry of Supply, Senior Statistician for the Research and Experiments Department for the Ministry of Home Security, Member of the Land Mines Committee of the Scientific Advisory Council, and as Scientific Advisor on Mines to the Military Experimental Establishment. Her work during this time ranged from the study of bombing patterns and damage to the problem of discovering the placement of enemy land mines and a methodology for randomly placing land mines so as to avoid the semblance of any pattern in their placement." [Garber et.al.] After WWII she came back to University College, London, and was appointed professor in 1962. Five or six years later she took a position at the University of California, Riverside, becoming head of the Department of Statistics in 1970. Retiring in 1977 she came to Berkeley and continued her research. This copy of Simpson bears her initials on the Francis Galton Laboratory bookplate; she gave her books to Margaret Stein of Stanford University. See: M. J. Garber D. V. Gokhale J. M. Utts R. J. Beaver, Chair, "Florence Nightingale David, Statistics: Riverside." [Obituary]; "A conversation with F.N. David," Statistical Science, Vol. 4, No. 3,235-246 by Nan Laird; J. Utts, "Florence Nightingale David 1909-1993: Obituary," Biometrics, (1993) 49, 1289-1291; Norman L. Johnson & Samuel Kotz (eds.), Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Wiley, 1997 (pp. 91-92). / See: Blanco, Monica. "Thomas Simpson: Weaving fluxions in 18th-century London." Historia Mathematica, vol. 41 (1) (2014), pp. 3881. "The main part of this historical paper deals with a comparison of Thomas Simpson's 1737 and 1750 treatises on fluxions, and with their place in the exposition and development of Newtonian calculus in the 18th century. The author highlights some of the differences in emphasis and content between the two works, explaining several of those differences in helpful detail." Douglas Bridges, Christchurch, New Zealand). / See: Jeff Suzuki, Mathematics in Historical Context, 2009, page 242; Frances M. Clarke, Thomas Simpson and His Times, (1929); Charles Hutton, "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Author," preface within: Simpson's Select Exercises, London, 1792. See: Nicholas Hans, New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century, (1966), p. 190; Florian Cajori, A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse, (1919), pp. 210-11. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY., Printed by Tho. Gardner . . . , 1737., 1737, 0, London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818. 2 volumes. First Edition. With 8 engraved plates, two folding, and a multi-folding genealogical table. Large 4to, printer's original boards, printed paper labels to the spine panels, untrimmed and uncut with original deckled edges, now housed in two very fine morocco backed cases, designed with raised bnds gilt tooled, lettered in gilt in three compartments. xxiii, 620; viii, 366, 335 including index pp. Generally a fine, clean copy, with some light spotting internally to the plates, the original printer's boards with some rubbing and wear as to be expected, covers detached or nearly detached, the cases in excellent condition, a very handsome set in completely original condition. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. 'John Evelyn FRS, who lived from 1630 until 1706, was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. His Diary, or Memoirs, spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he died. The volumes provide insight into life and events at a time before regular magazines or newspapers were published, making diaries of greater interest to modern historians than such works might have been at later periods. Evelyn's work covers art, culture and politics, including the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell's rise and eventual natural death, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Among the many subjects Evelyn wrote about, gardening was an increasing obsession, and he left a huge manuscript on the subject that was not printed until 2001. He published several translations of French gardening books, and his Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (1664) was highly influential in its plea to landowners to plant trees, of which he believed the country to be dangerously short. Sections from his main manuscript were added to editions of this, and also published separately.' In his diary Evelyn recorded most of his life, describing his travels abroad, his contemporaries, and his public and domestic concerns, making it an invaluable record of his times., Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818, 0, Autographed Signed Letter from Charles Lyell, the father of modern geology. It reads, " Wed. Nov. 24, 1869 Sir James Colvile, I have just heard from our friend Dr. Hooker that you wish to meet me tomorrow (Thursday Nov. 25th) at the Athenaeum in the afternoon. I will be there at 1/2 past 3 ockl. P.M. & tell the porter where I am to be found. Most truly yours Charles Lyell." In near fine condition. Double matted and framed opposite a photograph of Lyell. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 17 inches. Sir Charles Lyell was a Scottish geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which presented uniformitarianismthe idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation todayto the broad general public. Principles of Geology also challenged theories popularized by Georges Cuvier, which were the most accepted and circulated ideas about geology in Europe at the time. His scientific contributions included an explanation of earthquakes, the theory of gradual "backed up-building" of volcanoes, and in stratigraphy the division of the Tertiary period into the Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene. He also coined the currently-used names for geological eras, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. He incorrectly conjectured that icebergs may be the emphasis behind the transport of glacial erratics, and that silty loess deposits might have settled out of flood waters. Lyell, following deistic traditions, favored an indefinitely long age for the earth, despite geological evidence suggesting an old but finite age. He was a close friend of Charles Darwin, and contributed significantly to Darwin's thinking on the processes involved in evolution. He helped to arrange the simultaneous publication in 1858 of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, despite his personal religious qualms about the theory. He later published evidence from geology of the time man had existed on Earth., 0, London: Henry Colburn, 1825. Large 4to, 2 vols. (11 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches). [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix; [4], 348, [2], vii, [1], [3]-311pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume and 11 engraved plates (one folding)., plus a map of the Action at Sheerness with the Dutch Fleet, including a facsimile of Pepys special short-hand, a family tree, and fine portraits of Pepys and his wife Elizabeth. Three quarter dark green morocco by Zaehndorf, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. A very fine first edition of Pepys's diary. Samuel Pepys, the Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II and James II, began keeping a diary at the age of 27 and filled six volumes before ending it nine years later. The diary, originally written in code, was housed in the Magdalene College library until the Rev. John Smith, of St. Johns Cambridge, deciphered it between 1819 and 1822, and it was published in 1825. As a leading official in the admiralty for over a decade, Pepys was in touch with some of the most influential men in government. He also carried on a correspondence with Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, and John Evelyn. His observations, written in his secret cipher, are one of the best views and principal sources for many aspects of government, intrigue, and social life in the mid-17th century. "To read Pepys is to be transported immediately into his world. His diary is not so much a record of events as a recreation of them. Not all the passages are as picturesque as the famous set pieces in which he describes Charles II's coronation or the Great Fire of London, but there is not an entry which does not in some degree display the same power of summoning back to life the events it relates...Throughout the diary Pepys writes mainly as an observer of people. It is this that makes him the most human and accessible of diarists, and that gives the Diary its special quality as a historical record" (Robert Latham, The Illustrated Pepys). "The Diary is a great work, as literature, as history, as a psychological document and as a key as to what has been known as the English character...It is thus almost impossible to exaggerate its value and importance" (Richard Ollard, Pepys: A Biography, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974). Grolier, 100 Books Famous in English Literature, 75; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. II, col. 1583; Lowndes 1828., Henry Colburn, 1825, 0, FREDERICK, MARYLAND. Good+. 1892. On offer are two [2] original 1892 and 1893 manuscript diaries and 90+ ephemeral pieces handwritten and once belonging to Albert Wilson Condon of Frederick Maryland [both diaries have his name engraved, written and/or stamped on them]. Albert [March 30th, 1874 - May 16th, 1940] owned the first 5 & Dime in old downtown Frederick and became sole owner of the Condon Tobacco Store. In the 1892 diary from January 1st to January 15th he has written poems and sayings. Then his trip to Washington D.C. falls in the month of September, which he writes about. But he also rewrites a summary of that trip on the first pages of the diary, January 16th through February 17th, (11 full pages). He talks of surprising his father at the Navy Yard. He tours the Treasury Department, Washington Monument, Arlington Cemetery, Lycern Museum, Medical Museum, Georgetown, a Panorama show of Gettysburg, the Capitol, and more. Then more poetry and sayings through to June 11th. Then there are 2 pages (or 8 days worth) that are blank and finally on June 20th his daily diary entries start and he writes full entries for every day after that. Albert also does a fair bit of traveling for the business to the towns surrounding Frederick and also to West Virginia. However the 1892 diary starts out with a trip to Washington D.C. and then in the 1893 diary he attends the Chicago World's Fair but only writes "At Fair." Those are the only days that don't have full entries in the 1893 diary and they are from October 8th to the 26th of October. Otherwise the 1893 diary has a full handwritten entry for every day of the year. Albert does a super job detailing the local and current events and his thoughts: Lizzie Borden (axe murder), Democratic Conventions, the hanging of 4 black men for the murder of a Dr. Hill, the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. collapsing killing many, the suicide of a young woman in town, and so much more. It's interesting too that on November 25th, 1892 he writes "Stopped using tobacco" and yet he runs and owns a tobacco store. Here are some snippets: 1892 "June 21st, 22nd, 23rd, & 24th, The Democratic convention commenced in Chicago this morning and politics has been all the go today. Germen men start for the front but will get left……Today this town Frederick is all a stir as to who will be nominated on the Democratic ballot for President. Tyler Davis and Lay Magill are extremely excited. On this day the Democrats nominated their President who will not be elected. Mr. Cleveland was nominated this morning about 3 o'clock in the midst of an exciting mob during a severe thunder storm in which the lightening was extremely vivid….Was an exciting day in Frederick as it was the day after the nomination of Cleveland and a ratification meeting was held at City Hall. Mckaig, J. E. R. Wood, Lay Magell, and Fred _____ being the speakers." "June 30th, On this day I left for my first trip to Sharpsburg. Went by the way of Boonsboro. Took in the cemetery of Antietam and S. Mountain which is a beautiful site to look upon." "July 5th, I arrived in Frederick early in the morning of this day and left at half past five for my mountain trip. Did not find many of the merchants home. Stopped for the night at Foxville." "July 14th, Was cloudy nearly all day. Played centerfield in a game of ball between the East side clerks and a picked nine consisting of the Catholic Union, Fast Mail and Bentstown Bards. Result score 13, 14 favor Picked Nine." "August 8th & 9th, I started on a trip in W. Virginia. Went by way of Feagaville, Jefferson, Petersville, Knoxville, Weaverton and Sandyhook to Harpers Ferry. Staid there all night. Went over to Island Park to a picnic there was a circus there….Left Harpers Ferry at 11 o'clock and went by the way of Camp Hill, Bolivar and Halltown to Charlestown to Hotel Carter. Staid there over night and had a good time. Also had good sales in that town." "August 12th, Left Martinsburg and went by way of Shepherds Town. Crossed the river at that place into Maryland and got a negro to drive to Sharpsburg as I was very sick but felt better toward night. Had diarrhea and cramps together." "August 19th, I met Mr. Brink, a man who had crossed the Atlantic 8 times and had been all over the U.S. Left Germantown and came by the way of Boyds, Buck Lodge, Shidell, Camus, Hayatts Town and Urbana to Frederick. It was very dusty and I was feeling badly when I got home." "September 7th & 8th, Left the Carter house and started for Middleway. This was the night that the great fight between Sullivan and Corbett was to take place for the championship of the world. Awoke in the morning only to find the Sullivan man feeling quite sore as Corbett had come out victorious in the 21st round. I went as far as Martinsburg. Attended a play at the opera house." "September 17th & 18th, Went to Washington D.C. on the 6:05 train. Arrived in that place a little after 8 o'clock. Went straight to the navy Yard and found father there. Went through all the different shops there and down on the wharf…After breakfast father and I walked out in Arlington Cemetery and there saw Uncle Henry Condon's grave. He died in 1864. Also saw several other monuments and things of interest." "September 26th, Arrived in Frederick on the 6:45 getting here about 7. Was kept quite busy all day putting and shipping goods and quite sleepy today. Got out my accounts for Ridgeville and made preparations for an early start." "October 3rd & 4th, I started for W. Va. and got as far as Harpers Ferry until night. There I found Price from Washington and Conrad from Baltimore. Had quite a nice time in that place….Left H. Ferry about ten o'clock and went down to the river and from there to Charlestown. Saw the large Cleveland, Stevenson and Wilson. Charles Young took my whip in Charlestown." "October 11th, 12th & 14th, Tuesday the first day of the Grand Frederick fair. It was quite lively in town that day. Saw some people from Charlestown that I knew. It was a delightful day. Went to see the Wild West show at night….There was an unusual large crowd in town for the second day of the fair. I remained at the store all day. Saw a great many people who I knew. Everything passed off quietly with but one or two fights……This was the last day of the fair and it was largely attended and there was a great deal of fighting going on. Four broke out anew in Gambril's Mill at night. I went to see the Pearl of Savoy played by Stanton Redding." "October 20th, Left Tyler's and come by the way of Emmitsburg to Frederick. There was a large Democratic meeting in town that night and parade and fireworks were immense. Senator Thomas F. Bayard of N.Y. spoke to a large audience." "October 31st, I was so stiff and sore from riding on Sunday that I could scarcely navigate. I started on my W. Va. trip and reached Harpers Ferry by night. The mountains in the Linden County side of the river were all in fire." "November 1st, Y. Murphy drove me up in Bolivar Monday night to look at the fire. We had quite a nice time. I reached Charlestown Tuesday night. Had a fine time with E. C. Grubbs. Political affairs were ablaze in that town." "December 31st, The last day of the year. I remained in Frederick all day. Bought a pair of ice skates. It snowed late in the evening and at night. Mr. Rice come home from his West Virginia trip. Mr. Davis is celebrating the last day of 1892." 1893 "January 13th, I went to Burkittsville in the sleigh. It was a fine day and the sleighing was good. I had a very good time with Pfiefer girls. Four negros were hanged at Chestertown for the murder of Dr. Hill. I went to the hall at night. Fast mail." [The following information in an article about Frank Brown who was the Governor of Maryland from 1892-1896: "The second of these instances was Governor Brown's commutation of the sentences of four Negro youths who had been scheduled to hang for the murder of Dr. Hill of Chestertown. Feeling ran high against the accused men. Brown had to exercise great secrecy in his investigation, so that his intervention in the case might not result in further violence. Governor Brown not only visited the boys in person, but he also examined the evidence exhaustively. Then he sent a State oyster boat secretly at night to Chestertown to take the four prisoners aboard and bring them to Baltimore. Finally, he commuted their sentences. For a time residents of the Eastern Shore were bitter against the Governor for his interference and threatened to lynch the four Negroes. Better judgment, however, prevailed, and the four men responsible for the crime were later apprehended and hanged"] "February 7th, Was quite cool. I staid in town. Mr. Rice was down to Rockville. At night I went to select dance given by the Rose Bud club and danced with Miss Conner. It was the first time I ever danced." "March 8th, I started in my Mt. trip along with Mr. Smith. The roads were very bad and in some places the snow was drifted as high as the top of the wagon. I got as far as Foxville the first night. Had a fine time with the boys hustling dice, 27 cts." "March 20th, Was a fairly good day. I started in my W. Va trip and got as far as Harpers Ferry and then stopped for the night. There was a chicken fight there and a lot of fellows from Ferry and Martinsburg was there betting on the fight and gambling." "April 17th, I started in my West Virginia trip. It was a nice day. I went by the way of Petersville, Knoxville, Weaverton and Sandy Hook and arrived at H. Ferry about 2 o'clock. Stopped at the Conner Hotel, business was very good." "April 28th, Was a beautiful day. Fore Paws Circus was in town. The town was flooded with people from the country. I went to see the circus in the evening. Took May. Saw the American Revolution which was as fine as silk. There was lots of people in town from down around home." "May 12th, I stained the bath tub for Mrs. Pope. Went over it twice. Mr. Pope notified me that I could keep in the look out for another job as he could not afford to keep two men on the road. Put up 10,000 cigs in the afternoon." "June 7th, was a nice cool day. I drove from home to Frederick. The firemen had their large demonstration and there was one of the largest and best parades that was ever in Frederick. Their being from forty five to fifty five companies in line." "June 9th, Was a clear warm day. I staid in town all day. The town was dead as all the firemen had pretty well left. The Ford's Theatre building in Washington collapsed and there was about 28 or 30 persons killed and 100 or more injured." "June 14th, Charles Baker was in town. I staid around the store all day. Had very little to do. At night Roddy came home. I went around to the Y.M.C.A. rooms and listened to a debate, subject whether the Electric Rail road from Frederick to Midddletown would be a profit to Frederick. Harry Stone left for Baltimore." "June 24th, I staid around the store all day and put up some goods. Roddy left in the 9:15 train to go up home so I was all alone. I read the papers. Miss Lizzie Borden was acquitted in June 20 of the murder of her father and mother. Was a clear day." "July 4th, I celebrated the fourth by going out to Black Rock with a crowd of 10 couples of us in a four horse buggy and spending the day pleasantly swinging, jumping grape vines, playing croquet ball and cards and other amusements." "July 27th, Miss Lizzie Borden confirmed she killed her father and step mother at Fall River Mass. It was a pleasant day. The crops in general are all suffering terribly for the want of rain. I staid at the store all day. At night I went around to C.H." "August 10th, Was emancipation day. There was a very large crowd of colored people in town. Was a clear and warm day. I went down to Mt. Airy in the four o'clock train. Had a good time at camp. Staid over night with Raymond Runkles in their tent." "August 18th, Miss Nettie Moberly committed suicide by shooting herself in the mouth with a 42 caliber revolver. I staid at home all day and worked in the store. Salso picked the pears in the yard. We filled the case with an assortment of pipes." "September 11th, I stared in my Ridge trip and found business quite dull. I took dinner at darkey's. It rained very hard during the evening. At Germantown. I reached Cedar Grove about eight o'clock. Received a letter from E. Page." "October 4th, I staid around the store all day. Got out my W. Va. accounts and then put up goods and waited on the general trade. It rained nearly all day. I ordered my ticket for Chicago. Business was very good. We had a fair day at the store." "November 23rd, I staid around the store and put up goods all day. At night I went up to the Rose Bud dance and danced until 2 o'clock and then took Miss Wilson home. The dance proved very unsatisfactory to a great many." "December 1st, I left town and started for Sharpsburg. I reached Boonsboro by dinner time and took dinner at Kirk's Hotel. I saw a man there who had convulsions from drinking too much whiskey. I got to Sharpsburg about 3 o'clock." The ephemera includes receipts, tax documents, small broadsides, memoranda's (obituaries), advertising cards, newspaper clippings, United States Express Company papers, US Post office papers and so much more. He large number of ephemeral items add a depth to the narrative that researchers and historians will appreciate. They include: Thomas E. Pope Sunday School cards, brochures and tobacco business cards (Pope was a tobacco dealer too and Albert may have worked for Pope in the beginning), Dr. T.S. Eaden Dentist, The Daily and Weekly Examiner Newspaper, R.A. Kemp Edison Mimeograph, J. E. Price & Co., George A. Gilbert (Dealer in boots, shoes, hats, caps, trunks, and carpet bags), The Fredrick City Manufacturing Co., The Atlantic Refinery Company, Lowenstein Tailors, A. C. McCardell Confectioners, and more. The newspaper articles are mostly about events that happened in Frederick or the surrounding areas and in fact many of them coincide with his entries in the diaries. One very sad article in one of the clippings was about a young unnamed immigrant girl traveling on the trains and when she tried to jump from one car to another while they were passing she fell and was killed. Each of the wallets/diaries measure about 3 ¾" x 7 ½". Overall G+.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, ALBERT WILSON CONDON, FREDERICK, MARYLAND, TOBACCO SALES, CONDON TOBACCO STORE, LIZZIE BORDEN, RETAIL, COMMERCE, ECONOMY, 19TH CENTURY, BALTIMORE, AMERICANA, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, AUTOGRAPHED, AUTHORS, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, antiquité, contrat, vélin, document, manuscrit, papier Antike, Brief, Pergament, Dokument, Manuskript, Papier oggetto d'antiquariato, atto, velina, documento, manoscritto, carta antigüedad, hecho, vitela, documento, manuscrito, Papel, ., 1892, 2.5, London: C and J. Rivington, 1828 India large paper copy, one of only six. This copy allocated to Charles Barclay, then MP for Dorking and bearing his armorial library plate to the front pastedown. The other five going to Earl Spencer, Viscount Middleton, then Lord Ltn. of the County, Rev. Daniel Delafosse, Frederick Perkins and Williams Peters of Betchworth Castle, featured. 46 mounted fine lithographic plates on India paper and 14 vignettes printed to heavy weight page paper. An elegant and beautifully executed binding signed J.Clarke. John Clarke was one of the best London binders of the period active from about 1820 to 1859. Other examples of his work are held in the Charles Ramsden collection of signed bindings in the British Library. The binding shows only nominal signs of use, the headband has been improved and the corners are good. Internally there are varying degrees of foxing to the carrier pages, mainly fore and aft. All of the images with one exception are clean., C and J. Rivington, 1828, 3, Dulles, Virginia, U.S.A.: Brill Academic Pub. New. 2002. Hardcover. 9004125574 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 285 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface Guide to Cusanus Works Cited Abbreviations Pt. 1 Cusanus in Context 1 Lines of Convergence: Some Remarks on Spirit and Mind in the Work of Nicholas of Cusa 3 Prolegomena to Nicholas of Cusa's Theory of Religious Symbols 19 Behind the Scene: The Carthusian Presence in Late Medieval Spirituality 29 Canonists in Crises ca. 1400-1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel 63 Pt. 2 Cusanus: Preacher, Bishop, Theologian 77 Nicholas of Cusa's Early Sermons on the Incarnation: an Early Renaissance Philosopher-Theologian as Preacher 79 Proclamation of Christ in Selected Sermons from Cusanus' Brixen Period 89 Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa's 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex ludeorum? 105 Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa on the "Where" of God 127 Maximum Contractum et Absolutum: The Motive for the Incarnation in Nicholas of Cusanus and his Predecessors 149 The "Icon" and the "Iconic Text" in Nicholas of Cusa's De Visione Dei 175 The Curse of Cusanus: Excommunication in Fifteenth Century Germany 197 Pt. 3 Cusanus' Legacy 215 St. Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa 217 Jean Gerson (1363-1429), Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1450-1537): The Continuity of Ideas 237 Appendices 265 Bibliography 267 Works by Nicholas of Cusa Cited 275 Index of Persons 277 Index of Places 281 Index of Subjects 283. -- DESCRIPTION: "Many of the 13 essays began as papers to a biennial study group at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary to mark the sixth centenary of Nicholas of Cusa's (1401-1464) birth. A German cardinal, he is best known for cosmological and astronomical views that correspond to modern science. The topics include the Carthusian presence in late Medieval spirituality, early sermons on the Incarnation, Meister Eckhart in his 1456 sermon Ubi est qui natus est rex Iuodorem? , Nicholas and his predecessors, excommunication in 15th-century Germany, and the St. Nicholas hospital at Kues as a spiritual legacy." - Book News -- with a bonus offer-- ., Brill Academic Pub, 2002, 6<

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Paperback / softback. New. Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded Alberti. Whether regarding his purpose in teaching the use of a geometric single point perspective system, or more broadly in rendering forms naturalistically, the emphasis leans toward the ideal of Renaissance art as highly rational. There remains the impression that the principle aim of the painter is to create objective, even illusionistic images. A close reading of Alberti's text, however, including some adjustments in translation, points rather towards an emphasis on discerning the spiritual in the material. Alberti's use of the tropes Minerva and Narcissus, for example, indicates the opposing characteristics of wisdom and sense certainty that function dialectically to foster the traditional importance of seeing with the eye of the intellect rather than merely with physical eyes. In this sense these figures also set the context for his, and, as the author explains, Brunelleschi's earlier invention of this perspective system that posits not so much an objective seeing as an opposition of finite and infinite seeing, which, moreover, approximates Cusanus's famous notion of a coincidence of opposites. Together with Alberti's and Cusanus's ideals of vision, extensive analysis of art works discloses a ubiquitous commitment to stimulating an intellectual perception of divine, essential, and unseen realities that enliven the visible material world., 6, Taylor & Francis, 2021. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 195 pages. 9.25x6.75x0.50 inches., Taylor & Francis, 2021, 6, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (x), 248pp. Ex-library. No dust-jacket. A nice, clean, sound copy with no writing to text, E. J. Brill, 1982, 2.5, New., 6, Like New., 5, Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book examines the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas upon Nicholas of Cusas (Cusanus) doctrine of human nature. It explores this influence against the background of other authors associated with Cusanus own generation of philo, 6, Hardback. New. This book examines the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas upon Nicholas of Cusa's (Cusanus) doctrine of human nature. It explores this influence against the background of other authors associated with Cusanus' own generation of philosophers in order to demonstrate the uniqueness of Cusanus' use of Aquinas., 6, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. A couple of tears to jacket at front edges, repaired with tape. Light foxing to page block head. Pages are sound and internally clean throughout. TA. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used., Ashgate, 2014, 2.75, Hardback. New. Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus this study reveals a hitherto unsuspected shared epistemology of vision. Analyzing a range of artworks in light of Alberti's and Cusanus's ideals of vision., 6, Routledge, 2014-08-18. 1. hardcover. Used:Good., Routledge, 2014-08-18, 0, Lexington Books, 2014. Hardcover. New. 201 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches., Lexington Books, 2014, 6, Ashgate Pub Co, 2014. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 9.88x6.81x0.71 inches., Ashgate Pub Co, 2014, 6, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated , pp. 252 . Hardback. New., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 6, Routledge, 2014-08-18. 1. hardcover. Used: Good., Routledge, 2014-08-18, 2.5, Dulles, Virginia, U.S.A.: Brill Academic Pub. New. 2002. Hardcover. 9004125574 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 285 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface Guide to Cusanus Works Cited Abbreviations Pt. 1 Cusanus in Context 1 Lines of Convergence: Some Remarks on Spirit and Mind in the Work of Nicholas of Cusa 3 Prolegomena to Nicholas of Cusa's Theory of Religious Symbols 19 Behind the Scene: The Carthusian Presence in Late Medieval Spirituality 29 Canonists in Crises ca. 1400-1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel 63 Pt. 2 Cusanus: Preacher, Bishop, Theologian 77 Nicholas of Cusa's Early Sermons on the Incarnation: an Early Renaissance Philosopher-Theologian as Preacher 79 Proclamation of Christ in Selected Sermons from Cusanus' Brixen Period 89 Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa's 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex ludeorum? 105 Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa on the "Where" of God 127 Maximum Contractum et Absolutum: The Motive for the Incarnation in Nicholas of Cusanus and his Predecessors 149 The "Icon" and the "Iconic Text" in Nicholas of Cusa's De Visione Dei 175 The Curse of Cusanus: Excommunication in Fifteenth Century Germany 197 Pt. 3 Cusanus' Legacy 215 St. Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa 217 Jean Gerson (1363-1429), Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1450-1537): The Continuity of Ideas 237 Appendices 265 Bibliography 267 Works by Nicholas of Cusa Cited 275 Index of Persons 277 Index of Places 281 Index of Subjects 283. -- DESCRIPTION: "Many of the 13 essays began as papers to a biennial study group at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary to mark the sixth centenary of Nicholas of Cusa's (1401-1464) birth. A German cardinal, he is best known for cosmological and astronomical views that correspond to modern science. The topics include the Carthusian presence in late Medieval spirituality, early sermons on the Incarnation, Meister Eckhart in his 1456 sermon Ubi est qui natus est rex Iuodorem? , Nicholas and his predecessors, excommunication in 15th-century Germany, and the St. Nicholas hospital at Kues as a spiritual legacy." - Book News -- with a bonus offer-- ., Brill Academic Pub, 2002, 6<

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Dulles, Virginia, U.S.A.: Brill Academic Pub. New. 2002. Hardcover. 9004125574 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 285 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface Guide to Cusanus Works Cited Abbreviations Pt. 1 Cusanus in Context 1 Lines of Convergence: Some Remarks on Spirit and Mind in the Work of Nicholas of Cusa 3 Prolegomena to Nicholas of Cusa's Theory of Religious Symbols 19 Behind the Scene: The Carthusian Presence in Late Medieval Spirituality 29 Canonists in Crises ca. 1400-1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel 63 Pt. 2 Cusanus: Preacher, Bishop, Theologian 77 Nicholas of Cusa's Early Sermons on the Incarnation: an Early Renaissance Philosopher-Theologian as Preacher 79 Proclamation of Christ in Selected Sermons from Cusanus' Brixen Period 89 Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa's 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex ludeorum? 105 Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa on the "Where" of God 127 Maximum Contractum et Absolutum: The Motive for the Incarnation in Nicholas of Cusanus and his Predecessors 149 The "Icon" and the "Iconic Text" in Nicholas of Cusa's De Visione Dei 175 The Curse of Cusanus: Excommunication in Fifteenth Century Germany 197 Pt. 3 Cusanus' Legacy 215 St. Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa 217 Jean Gerson (1363-1429), Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1450-1537): The Continuity of Ideas 237 Appendices 265 Bibliography 267 Works by Nicholas of Cusa Cited 275 Index of Persons 277 Index of Places 281 Index of Subjects 283. -- DESCRIPTION: "Many of the 13 essays began as papers to a biennial study group at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary to mark the sixth centenary of Nicholas of Cusa's (1401-1464) birth. A German cardinal, he is best known for cosmological and astronomical views that correspond to modern science. The topics include the Carthusian presence in late Medieval spirituality, early sermons on the Incarnation, Meister Eckhart in his 1456 sermon Ubi est qui natus est rex Iuodorem? , Nicholas and his predecessors, excommunication in 15th-century Germany, and the St. Nicholas hospital at Kues as a spiritual legacy." - Book News -- with a bonus offer-- ., Brill Academic Pub, 2002, 6<

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Editor: Izbicki, Thomas M, Editor: Bellitto, Christopher M, Brill, Hardcover, 286 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-05-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 662.2 kg, Interior Design, Design, Architecture, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Books, Europe, History, World History, Styles & Decor, Interior Design & Decoration, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, Brill, 2002<