Roget P M Peter Mark (3 results)

Condition: Befriedigend. Leinen Einfacher, ordentlicher Leineneinband mit Rückenprägung ("Wochenbände 8 bzw. 9"). Farbsprengselschnitt, oben sehr stark gedunkelt und tintenfleckig. Einige kleine Anstoßer an den Kanten, Deckel verschiedentlich verschmutzt und fleckig, entfärbt; etwas auffälligerer Schaden am oberen Kapital von Band 8. Im Vorsatz Ex Libris mit dem Wappen der Grafen von Belcredi "Et a domino factum est istud", allerdings mit abgeschabten unteren Teil. Vorsatzseite mit Archivstempel, handschriftl. Archivangaben, sowie handgeschriebener Inhaltsangabe. Die Seiten sind sauber und recht frisch, gelegentlich leicht gebräunt oder braunfleckig. Mit vielen Abbildungen im Text. Nach der dritten vermehrten und verbesserten Auflage aus dem Englischen von Dr. Franz Kottenkamp. Sprache / Language: de 344 + 387 Seiten. ca. 16,2 x 10,4 cm.…

Plain blue wraps. English text. Offprint from Supplent to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Inscribed to Pierre Prevost, the noted Swiss scientist and signed by the author on the title page. Roget is famous for his "Thesaurus of English Words". weight: 0,2 lb. Good, Prevost's ink name to cover, lacks back cover. 27.5x22x0.2 cm. 19 pages.…

Slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Scarce, with the only copy located on OCLC at Indiana University, and this a later edition (from the 1870s). N.d., circa 1840s. The slipcase is 15 by 9.5 cm. The board, when open, is 15 by 19 cm, oblong. The design of the game is simple and ingenious, with the pieces made of card cut out into a small wedge shape, the piece identified by an imprint image, and the pieces fitting snugly into sleeves for each of the board spaces, or if a piece is taken out, on the side of the board. This construction allows for an ease of portability superior to many later compact chess boards which use miniature pegs for the pieces, and the bill fold design is also quite handsome. Two pieces, one red castle and one red pawn, are not the original pieces but nearly match them to complete the set. There is a single auction record for what appears to be this version from 2003, at Bonhams in London, and it was missing the very same two pieces. (It is unknown, but unlikely, that this is the same copy that showed up at that auction. The auction estimate by Bonhams was 200 to 400 pounds, and the game sold for 282 pounds, or about $460.) Roget, the original compiler of the eponymous thesaurus, was a trained physician and an accomplished Renaissance man, also inventing a slide rule that allowed for exponential functions, among other things. Wear and soiling to the slipcase, especially the yellow title label. Tear of the yellow background paper of the board itself along the hinge. Some bubbling or blistering of the cloth.…