Goldsmith´s An History of the Earth 1774
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WITH PLATES ENGRAVED BY ELIAS MARTIN. (8).
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. An History of the Earth, and Animated nature. I-VIII. London (printed for J.Nourse) 1774.
8:o. 101 engraved plates (all) by Elias Martin and Is. Taylor.
Contemporary brown mottled full calf, somewhat worn and faded, gilt edges of covers, sparsely gilt spines with red labels, yellow edges. Last endpapers in vol. VIII with a handwritten list of the I. Taylor plates. Bookplates of Porkington Library and Owen Ormsby Esq. 8 volumes.
Nissen: ZBI, 1621 (calls for 94 plates), Anker 167.
First edition of Oliver Goldsmith´s famous natural history. One of the rare copies with the leaf (II:91-92), in which the celebrated mathematician Mac Laurin is represented as being subject to fits of yawning, uncancelled. (See Lowndes II:909).
From the Swedish point oif view it is of course more interesting to find, that 28 of the illustrations are engraved by Elias Martin. Not in Frölich.
Provenance: Bengt Bernström library. Katalog I (1977), 275.
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6243
Datum:
2016-06-21