Marsham Robert (14 results)

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Single Sheet Engraving. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVING. MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME. VERY GOOD CONDITION . SHOWS A PORTRAIT OF DR ROBERT BULLOCK MARSHAM , WARDEN OF MERTON COLLEGE,

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 14 pages with 1 illustration. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Quarto (25 x 30 cms). Category: Archaeologia; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. original decorated cloth, spine bumped chipped and dulled, hinges and corners rubbed, ex circulating library with traces of removal of label upper cover, advertisement leaf, occasional marginal soiling, possibly lacking a half-title, good. first edition; 274 pages; keywords: fiction - women authors; not in Wolff.

First edition. Quarto. Volume 79, Two parts in one. Part One vi [ii] 138, one plate. Part Two [iii]-vi, 139-333, plates II-IV. Three folding tables numbered within the pagination as 154, 155, and 156. First prelim [blank?] to Part Two not bound in as usual. Printer name John Nichols from colophon (page 333). Contemporary or near contemporary stamped vellum, edges speckled red, front hinge cracked but just holding, foxing to prelims, final leaves and near the plates, otherwise good. Bookplate of N. Vansittard to front paste-down, book label Winnard Bequest to front fly-leaf, unobtrusive blind stamps of the Wigan Free library. Contains a number of important contributions: Smeaton on Globes; Priestley on Phlogiston (three articles); E. W. Gray on Amphibia (Gray was Secretary to the Royal Society); Morgan on survival rates; Piazzi on the eclipse of the sun, Anderson on a bituminous lake in Trinidad; Baillie on changes in the ovary; Saunders on Bhutan and Tibet; Herschel on the discovery of a comet by his sister Caroline Herschel; a tabular presentation of the coming of spring by Robert Marsham; Waring on correspondent values, and on the resolution of attractive powers; Walker on cooling mercury; Herschel's catalogue of a second thousand new nebulae; Maskelyne on vision, Nicholson on electricity; Milner on nitrous acid. Please note the condition problem with the front hinge and the slight foxing (see photos), but nevertheless in many respects a seminal volume, surprisingly rare in commerce. Herschel's Observations on a comet (pages 151-153) continues the acknowledgement of his sister's contribution to scientific discovery, one of the very earliest women whose work was recognised. Sir, The last time I was in town, you expressed a wish to see my observations on the comet which my sister Caroline Herschel discovered in the evening of the 21st of last December?(page 151).

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A lively Oxford spoof, which can be dated precisely from the references to Marsham, Gladstone and the coming General Election. In the General Election of July 1852 the Peelite Gladstone defeated the Conservative Marsham, who had been put forward by 'the heads, Protestants and protectionists'. A reference to German education is a nod towards the first Oxford University Commission, whose report published in 1852 recommended that a switch to a more Germanic educational system. (For the background see Brock and Curthoys, 'History of the University of Oxford', vol. 6 (1997).) Printed in black on one side of a 31 x 19 cm. piece of wove paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. An announcement in the customary Victorian style of mixed typefaces and point sizes, with a series of 'advertisements' printed one above the other. At bottom right: 'Printed for the Authoress.' Begins: 'Mrs. Harris' Commemoration Advertiser, | The Perfect Substitute for Reform. | The Abolition of Dons: | A single Trial will convince the most incredulous. | The Metaphysical Syphonia, | Or invisible Wrapper, warranted Reason proof, and weighs nothing. | Apply to the Marines. | Il n'y a pas de prix fixe.' A number of quips follow, including a dig at 'the Proctors', a list of five 'Candidates for vacant Professorships' (the last: 'Practical Electioneering . All the Fellows of L*****n.'), a fake advertisement for a new book titled 'The Freshman's Vade-Mecum'. The next section refers to the recommendation of the Oxford University Commission, that the University follow the German mode of education: 'A Professor, | Not unequal, as he trusts, to the educational requirements of the 19th Century, has a vacancy for | One Pupil. | He engages that in six months his fond parents shall not know him from a GERMAN STUDENT. | N.B. Duelling extra.' Next there is another spoof advertisement for a book, this one titled 'Weathercockiana, or the Gladstone of the Future.' Then there comes: 'PRIZE ESSAY, | (Open to all Masters of Arts who have not Graduated in Honours; and to be awarded when Dr. Marsham is returned for the University,) | "On the best means of reconciling the Duties of a Head of a House with those of a Member of Parliament."' A couple more joke announcements end the spoof. Presumably "Mrs Harris" is inspired by the non-appearing character in Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit". From the papers of Rev. Dr Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. No other copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.

A lively Oxford spoof, which can be dated precisely from the references to Marsham, Gladstone and the coming General Election. In the General Election of July 1852 the Peelite Gladstone defeated the Conservative Marsham, who had been put forward by 'the heads, Protestants and protectionists'. A reference to German education is a nod towards the first Oxford University Commission, whose report published in 1852 recommended that a switch to a more Germanic educational system. (For the background see Brock and Curthoys, 'History of the University of Oxford', vol. 6 (1997).) Printed in black on one side of a 31 x 19 cm. piece of wove paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. An announcement in the customary Victorian style of mixed typefaces and point sizes, with a series of 'advertisements' printed one above the other. At bottom right: 'Printed for the Authoress.' Begins: 'Mrs. Harris' Commemoration Advertiser, | The Perfect Substitute for Reform. | The Abolition of Dons: | A single Trial will convince the most incredulous. | The Metaphysical Syphonia, | Or invisible Wrapper, warranted Reason proof, and weighs nothing. | Apply to the Marines. | Il n'y a pas de prix fixe.' A number of quips follow, including a dig at 'the Proctors', a list of five 'Candidates for vacant Professorships' (the last: 'Practical Electioneering . All the Fellows of L*****n.'), a fake advertisement for a new book titled 'The Freshman's Vade-Mecum'. The next section refers to the recommendation of the Oxford University Commission, that the University follow the German mode of education: 'A Professor, | Not unequal, as he trusts, to the educational requirements of the 19th Century, has a vacancy for | One Pupil. | He engages that in six months his fond parents shall not know him from a GERMAN STUDENT. | N.B. Duelling extra.' Next there is another spoof advertisement for a book, this one titled 'Weathercockiana, or the Gladstone of the Future.' Then there comes: 'PRIZE ESSAY, | (Open to all Masters of Arts who have not Graduated in Honours; and to be awarded when Dr. Marsham is returned for the University,) | "On the best means of reconciling the Duties of a Head of a House with those of a Member of Parliament."' A couple more joke announcements end the spoof. Presumably "Mrs Harris" is inspired by the non-appearing character in Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit". From the papers of Rev. Dr Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. No other copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.

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