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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 9.50 X 6.41 X 1.12 inches; 376 pages.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Princeton University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1996, 1st edition/1st printing, unused and carefully stored, No marks/tears or other defects; as New/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with… delivery confirmation/tracking.
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Published by Engraved by G. Vandergucht, [London], 1754
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Add to basketNo binding. Condition: Near fine. First. ?THE MOST DISTINGUISHED OF ALL PRINTS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA? [London:] Engraved by G. Vandergucht, Sep.br 1.st 1754. First state (?Skull? for ?Scull? twice on sheet 3). Four sheets (ca. 29 1/2" x 23 1/2" each). Framed floating. An old transverse crease about 9" below the top edge, r…einforced verso. Some small repairs to the sky. Tanning at the corners from an early mount. With good upper and lower margins throughout; sheets 1-3 trimmed to right-hand plate-mark; sheet 4 trimmed to left-hand plate-mark. Occasional very mild patches of tanning. An extraordinary set. From its founding in 1680 between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, Philadelphia was strategically poised to be a hub of trade. By the mid-XVIIIc it had become the major Atlantic port, fueling a golden age of growth and eminence in the arts and sciences -- the Athens of America. The Penn family had long dominated the colony, and Thomas Penn, the founder's son, commissioned a grand view of the city in 1750 to commemorate and to enhance its stature (the Penn arms at the lower left corner of the third plate underscore their dominance). George Heap undertook the project; he had been Philadelphia's coroner. The ambition of the project matched the city's stature: it was the grandest illustrated view of an American city that had ever been attempted. Nicholas Scull (perhaps an uncle by marriage) superintended the work, and Heap began advertising for subscribers (20 shillings, 10 payable in advance) and with that money set sail for England (there being no means to print it in Philadelphia) with his drawings. Heap got only as far as Delaware, and died on-board; he was buried in Philadelphia on Boxing Day 1752. Thereafter Scull shepherded the vast work through the engraving and publishing process. The Dutch engraver Gerard Vandergucht was commissioned to cut the plates, which finally emerged in June of 1754 (the King hung it in his own apartments). Wainright begins his article on the prospect by hailing it as "the most distinguished of all prints of the city of Philadelphia in terms of age, rarity, and historic importance." In 1755 the view was shrunk by about two-thirds, and placed above a plan of the city and a view of the state house and the batter, engraved by Thomas Jefferys. This is far more common; of the Heap-Scull-Vandergucht view we have located only six copies in institutional collections: the American Philosophical Society (.748:P53:1754), Haverford College, Colonial Williamsburg, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (second state), Independence National Historic Park and the New York Public Library (Stokes Collection, second state). De?k I:99 (second state). See Wainright, Nicholas B. "Scull and Heap's East Prospect of Philadelphia" in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 73, no. 1 (January 1949) 16-25.
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Add to basket[London], [Gentleman's Magazine], [1777], carta geografica dei dintorni di Filadelfia, incisa in rame, mm 338x296 (l'immagine), mm 370x297 (il foglio). Forse la mappa più famosa di Filadelfia, la carta di Scull e Heap ha avuto numerose edizioni, a partire dalla prima del 1752. La seconda edizione apparve nel numero di agosto 175…3 del Gentleman's Magazine di Londra; la terza - di cui fa parte questa che mettiamo in vendita - fu pubblicata, sempre nel Gentleman's Magazine, nel 1777. Poiché la prima edizione della mappa, pubblicata separatamente a Filadelfia, è molto rara, l'edizione del Gentleman's Magazine è la prima versione di questa importante carta ad essere generalmente disponibile. La planimetria a griglia per la città si trova al centro della mappa, con una piazza centrale aperta e il Tribunale come unici elementi indicati. Vengono fornite ulteriori informazioni sulle aree circostanti, dove vengono mostrate e nominate strade, mulini e case di cittadini illustri. Questi dettagli ci forniscono una miniera di informazioni sullo sviluppo dell'area di Filadelfia agli albori. Particolarmente interessante è la notevole urbanizzazione di Germantown, con case che si affacciano su entrambi i lati di Germantown Pike. La prima edizione includeva una tabella delle distanze dal Tribunale nell'angolo in basso a destra. La seconda edizione sostituisce la tabella con i dettagli delle strade del New Jersey, ecc. Piccolo restauro reintegrativo nella parte superiore sinistra, ai margini del foglio.
A Plan of the City of Philadelphia.
Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor General (but after Nicholas Scull, Matthew Clarkson and Mary Biddle)
Published by Andrew Dury (fl. 1754-1777), London, 1776
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Add to basketN/A. Condition: Very Good. Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor General (but after Nicholas Scull, Matthew Clarkson and Mary Biddle) A Plan of the City of Philadelphia. Published Andrew Dury (fl. 1754-1777), London, 1776 Engraving with original hand-coloring, includes inset view of Delaware Bay. Includes inset view of Delaware river and…bay, after Joshua Fisher p.m. 20 1/4 x 26 3/4¿ Frame size 30 5/8 x 36 3/4¿ In 1776 Philadelphia was the largest city in North America, the second largest city in The British Empire, and the seat of the Continental Congress. This scarce, large-scale plan of Philadelphia, published just four months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, provided "the best picture of the city available on the eve of the British occupation" -- Nebenzahl. In the upper left is a reduced version of Fisher's plan of Delaware Bay. The publisher, Andrew Dury, based his map on the 1762 Clarkson-Biddle engraving of Scull's famous survey, but either in error or to avoid paying royalties to Scull, Dury attributed the survey to Scull's predecessor Benjamin Eastburn, who had been dead for thirty-five years. ref: Nebenzahl, Atlas of The American Revolution, #27; Snyder, City of Independence, #44.
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and white copper-engraving (1756-68). Sheet size: 22 3/4 x 38". Inventory#: p405pmat. "Probably the finest view of an American city made before the Revolution" (Swift and McCusker). It was separately issued in 1756, and also appeared in Jeffrey's "A Genera…l Topography of North America", 1768. Both issues are very rare. The Sheet consists of a grand view of Philadelphia from the New Jersey shore along the upper margin (the "East Prospect"), which is admirably supplemented by a plan of the city (lower left), and fine views of "The State House" (lower right), and "The Battery" (lower center). The view proper (the "East Prospect") is adapted from Scull and Heap's mammoth earlier view of the city on six sheets, 1754, but with revisions suggested in the main by Thomas Penn. The size was reduced to one large but manageable sheet, the supplementary views and plan were added, and the view itself revised to include the Jersey shore of the Delaware River. The latter alteration was made so that the city would clearly be seen as a protected river port. 0.
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Published by Philadelphia: Engraved by Jas. Turner and Printed by John Davis for the Author; Published & Sold by the Author, Nicholas Scull, 1 January 1759., 1759
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Contact seller5-star seller1st Edition. 6 sheets joined in pairs to make three maps (each map size: 31 x 22 inches; each framed size: 36 x 26 4/8 inches). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved map of Pennsylvania, the title within an elaborate asymmetrical rococo cartouche lower left, a large compass rose centre right, showing Pennsylvania extending west to the All…egheny Mountains and beyond Fort Cumberland in north central Maryland, bounded by Maryland along the bottom edge and New Jersey on the right. "THE FIRST MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA TO BE PUBLISHED IN AMERICA [AND] THE MOST AMBITIOUS CARTOGRAPHICAL WORK TO COME FROM AN AMERICAN SOURCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION" (Wroth) The first state, before the addition of text by Nelson's Ferry at the southern end of the Susquehanna River, and VERY RARE. This was the first map of Pennsylvania to be published in America and arguably the most ambitious cartographical work to come from an American source before the Revolution. Nicholas Scull, Jr. (1687-1761) was born in Philadelphia to Nicholas Scull, Sr. the surveyor and mapmaker, who had been apprenticed to William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme. In 1719, he became deputy surveyor of Philadelphia County, eventually ascending to the Surveyor Generalship of Pennsylvania in 1748. A bibliophile, he was an original member of Benjamin Franklin's Junto. Scull was intimately involved with Indian relations for the colony, having travelled amongst the tribes to survey the western counties. He was knowledgeable in several local Native languages. But in the dispute that arose about the infamous Walking Purchase of 1737, at which he was present, his recollections favored the Proprietors. This is hardly surprising but it no doubt put him in a good position with the Penn family, and it is thought that this may have led to the publication of this impressive map. It was the first map of Pennsylvania since Thomas Holmes 1687 map of the then much smaller settlement, and represents a vast amount of on-site surveying. Dedicated to the Penn brothers, Scull's map is among the largest and finest maps produced in America in the 18th century. It was an extraordinary achievement. The map depicts Philadelphia, Bucks, Northampton, Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Cumberland, and York Counties, and is based on Sculls own surveys, as well as the contributions of several others (whom he acknowledges). Some information was gleaned from printed sources, including Fry-Jefferson's important map, evidenced by a printed footnote concerning the location of Fort Cumberland and the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. Elevation is accurately depicted, much in the style of Fry-Jefferson, by neat hachuring marks. The eastern counties include a wealth of detail, such as churches, meeting houses, inns, iron forges, mills and the manors of significant residents; roads, Indian paths, Indian towns and forts: all clearly shown throughout. Although generally quite accurate, it is curious that Scull included Fort Granville on his map, which had been destroyed by the French and Delaware Indians in 1756. Nevertheless, the importance and accuracy of this large- scale map is underscored by the fact that a copy of it was among the maps hung by the Board of War at Philadelphia in August 1776, twenty years after the maps publication (as noted by John Adams in his letter to his wife dated 13 August 1776). The map was engraved by James Turner (d. 1759), a Philadelphia silversmith and protege of Benjamin Franklin. Turner had previously worked on map engraving during the production of James Parker's 1747 maps of New Jersey, a project for which he had been recommended by Franklin. Little is known about the printer John Davis. Although he had no shop, he appears to have specialized in large copperplate engravings of maps, as he is the printer identified in the imprint of the 1756 Philadelphia first edition of Joshua Fishers important chart of Delaware Bay. That map and the present one are his only known works. Nicholas Sculls grandson William Scull revised and.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian…expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unreformed Bedlam to the construction of a post-Darwinian bio-psychiatry centered on the new Maudsley Hospital, from a therapeutics of bleeding, purging, and close confinement through the era of moral treatment and nonrestraint to a fin-de-siecle degenerationism and despair, men claiming expertise in the treatment of mental disorder sought to construct a collective identity as trustworthy and scientifically qualified professionals. This fascinating series of biographies answers the question: How successful were they in creating such a new identity.Drawing on an extensive array of sources, the authors vividly re-create the often colorful and always eventful lives of these seven "masters of bedlam." Sensitive to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of each man's personal biography, the authors replace hagiographical ac-counts of the great men who founded modern psychiatry with fully rounded portraits of their struggles and successes, their achievements and limitations. In the process Masters of Bedlam provides an extremely subtle and nuanced portrait of the efforts of successive generations of alienists to carve out a popular and scientific respect for their specialty, and reminds us repeatedly of the complexities of nineteenth-century developments in the field of psychiatry. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian…expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unreformed Bedlam to the construction of a post-Darwinian bio-psychiatry centered on the new Maudsley Hospital, from a therapeutics of bleeding, purging, and close confinement through the era of moral treatment and nonrestraint to a fin-de-siecle degenerationism and despair, men claiming expertise in the treatment of mental disorder sought to construct a collective identity as trustworthy and scientifically qualified professionals. This fascinating series of biographies answers the question: How successful were they in creating such a new identity.Drawing on an extensive array of sources, the authors vividly re-create the often colorful and always eventful lives of these seven "masters of bedlam." Sensitive to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of each man's personal biography, the authors replace hagiographical ac-counts of the great men who founded modern psychiatry with fully rounded portraits of their struggles and successes, their achievements and limitations. In the process Masters of Bedlam provides an extremely subtle and nuanced portrait of the efforts of successive generations of alienists to carve out a popular and scientific respect for their specialty, and reminds us repeatedly of the complexities of nineteenth-century developments in the field of psychiatry. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorAndrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie, & Nicholas HerveyInhaltsverzeichnisList of Illustrations Ch. 2A Bethlemetical Mad-Doctor: John Haslam (1764-1844) Ch. 3A Brilliant Career? John Conolly (17.
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