Rev Christopher Atkinson (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. xvi / 284 pp folding map as frontispiece, some illustrations in text, rebound in brown cloth, with both new and original decorative endpapers , all edges gilt. Modern rebinding clean and sound, pages a little tanned, preliminaries spotted, original endpapers chipped sound copy.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1892). (1859) 1892 new edition. Small 8vo (125 x 192mm). Ppxii,433,ii + 44pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Engraved plates. Green cloth, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Front end-paper torn / hinges tender. Good only. A natural history novel for Victorian boys with much on shooting and trapping, fishing, bird's-nesting and egg collecting. "They learn to fly fish for trout amongst other things." (Vernon-Roberts). .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition Greatly Improved and Corre. Hardback. 16mo. A very good copy in a full leather binding which is a littl scuffed. All edges gilt. No ownership inscription. A little foxing. 284 pages. Folding map which is a little torn but complete. Illustrated. A book published with the aim of encouraging emigration to New Brunswick "and thus add to the strength and security of the more distant portions of the British Empire".

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1908). (1859) 1908 new edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Ppxii,433,vi pp advertisements. Engraved plates. Light green cloth, spine & upper board titled in gilt, patterned in dark green, black & gilt. Prize bookplate, cloth slightly stained but good-plus. A natural history novel for Victorian boys with much on shooting and trapping, fishing, bird's-nesting and egg collecting. "they learn to fly fish for trout amongst other things." (Vernon-Roberts). .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1892). (1859) 1892 new edition. Small 8vo (125 x 192mm). Ppxii,433,ii + 44pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Engraved plates. End-papers foxed but a very good copy. A natural history novel for Victorian boys with much on shooting and trapping, fishing, bird's-nesting and egg collecting. "They learn to fly fish for trout amongst other things." (Vernon-Roberts). .

Third edition, Improved & Corrected. xvi-284 Pp. Folding map, 1 plate and 3 illustrations in text This title deals somewhat with local history but is primarily descriptive, dealing with commerce, agriculture, and the natural history of New Brunswick. Spine has been replaced with new leather and title label. Inner hinges have been repaired. Binding is scuffed with pieces of original spine missing. Leather with gold coat of arms vignette on front & back covers.

Hardcover. small 8vo. pp. xvi, [13]-284. folding engraved map & 1 plate. 3 text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped roan, gilt edges (extremities slightly rubbed, small piece chipped from head of spine). Inscribed by C. (?) Atkinson. armorial bookplate of William Milner Atkinson. Third Edition. "The most balanced and concise little handbook of [its] type" (Story p. 554), offering valuable advice and information regarding physical and social conditions in the province, commerce, agriculture, natural resources, industry, and natural history, &c. Atkinson, a Presbyterian minister, served in New Brunswick from 1840 to 1842. Lande 20. Morgan p. 14. Morley p. 21. Sabin 2288. TPL 2511. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Folding map & one plate. 12mo. Publisher's red cloth, spine gilt, a little worn. Edinburgh, Printed by Anderson & Bryce,

British North America, &c,Second edition. Large folding map & one plate. 8vo. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, hinges cracked, but firm, ownership inscription to front pastedown. iv, 2, 222pp. Edinburgh, Anderson & Bryce, The second edition of this popular emigrant's guide. Atkinson served as a Presbyterian Minister in New Brunswick from 1840-1842. cf. Sabin, 2288 (3rd edition).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. REV. CHRISTOPHER ATKINSON (1754-1795) Two albums of original watercolor drawings, titled on spines: English Birds. Cambridgeshire, Essex and Cheshire: c. 1784-1795 2 volumes, large 4°. With a near-contemporary 6p. manuscript list of the original contents of the albums. Dark, purple-toned paper throughout, loose mounted with 76 original pencil, watercolor and gouache drawings, some heightened with gum Arabic, most with identifying inscriptions in ink or pencil giving Latin binomial and common name, occasional notes regarding when and where the drawing was executed or where the specimen was obtained, two signed with initials CA, seven dated. Condition: About 26 drawings browned, 13 with staining to margins. Original half roan, the flat spines in seven compartments divided by a double fillet and roll tool, blue Morocco spine label lettered English Birds and green Morocco label lettered Vol II or Vol III, green cloth ties (joints split, upper covers detached). TWO ALBUMS OF VERY FINE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS Christopher Atkinson was the son of the vicar of Thorp-Arch, Yorkshire. He was based at Cambridge from 1773 to 1775, firstly at Trinity College as Pensioner and Fellow, and then as vicar of St. Edward s and Fellow of Trinity Hall. He married Catherine Leicester of Tabley, Cheshire, in 1785, and from that year until his early death remained vicar of Wethersfield, Essex, where he was buried. The majority of the drawings are on wove paper (three of these are watermarked J. Whatman , there is the occasional image on laid paper (one of these is watermarked C. Taylor .) The spine labels imply that there was at least one other volume of drawings, and a number of individual drawings did appear on the market in the 1980s. Despite this, the present albums include a wide range of subjects from most of the families of British Birds: the raptors (the Kestrel, White Owl , Moor Buzzard and Kite), water birds (the Little Grebe, Little Bittern, White fronted Goose), waders (the Red Godwit , Ruff, Long Shanks , Stone Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Avocet, Dunlin and Snipe), seabirds (Kittiwake, Shag, Guillemot, Puffin), warblers ( Mountain Linnet , Grasshopper Lark , Sky Lark, Woodlark), finches (Bullfinch, Goldfinch) and others. There are enough inscriptions to indicate that, in addition to any drawings made at his home, Atkinson also drew whilst in Bridlington on the Yorkshire coast, and at Tabley.