Thornton Robert John M D (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Full-Leather. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Illustrated with 45 engravings. Good to Good Minus. Leather heavily worn, rubbed, and with few moderate stains, and quarter-size scar to upper portion of cover near spine, but intact; chip to head of spine; gilt-over-black spine label rubbed but readable. Dampstain upper corner first few pages; foxing throughout; prior owner signature on front endpaper. Binding tight, signatures intact. …

Hardcover. First American Edition. Copyright Date: 1812 12mo, Hardcover, New Full Calf Brown Leather Binding, Gilt Lettered And Decorated Spine, Resown With New End Papers Added; A Beautiful Professional Binding, 1818, PP.iv, 317, Spine Is Labeled As the Original Binding was, Thornton s Botany 1818; Dr. Thornton (1768? - 1837) Was An English Medical Doctor Who Is Is Most Famous For His Three Volume Botanical Extracts: The Philosophy Of Botany IN Three Volumes. The Final Volume Of The Set Has Become famous As The Temple Of Flora. The Botanical Extracts Publication Project Was Issued In Parts From 1797 Thru 1807; Thornton s Support Of The Linnean System Of Botanical Classification Through This Book No Doubt Further Cemented It s eventual Worldwide Scientific Community acceptance in the 19th Century Contents Solid With Light To Heavy Foxing To Text Block, Less So To Plate Illustrations 12mo, Hardcover, New Full Calf Brown Leather Binding, Gilt Lettered And Decorated Spine, Resown With New End Papers Added; A Beautiful Professional Binding. Forty Five Engravings (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A Most Attractive Set of this Classic work with its many Fine engraved Plates. 6 Volumes. Hardback. Demy 8vo. Striking Contemporary Half Calf, with Marbled Boards and rebacked in calf to match the original. Decorated in gilt. Dedicated to the Rev. Thomas Martyn, M.A.F.R.S. Apart from some usual foxing this is an Excellent, crisp set ! (extra postage required for Overseas shipping). …

First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, 901pp., [17]pp. publisher's ads. plants drawn from nature by Henderson and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick, who brought the art of engraving on wood back into popularity. His wood engravings of birds and animals were exquisite. Wood engravings were also less expensive than those by copper plate. One of his most famous works was A General History of Quadrupeds published in 1790. He was also known to use his fingerprint below his name, the present work does not have one. A very nice copy bound in full calf, early rebacking with old gilt decorated spine laid down, marbled endpapers, Light pencil notes to front free endpaper, previous owner's name to upper corner of title page dated 1863, text is very clean with just a hint of toning.…

Octavo. 2nd edition considerably enlarged and improved. one volume in two. Engraved portrait frontispiece 480 through 902pp [1]pp. table and [13]pp. general index(though it is paginated [899]-901) Volume two contains the half-title. Contains 258 hand-colored engravings by Henderson and engraved by Bewick, bound in contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spines elaborately gilt lettered and decorated, outer joints appear to have been strengthened at some point, corners rounded, internally clean and bright with the exception of the index which has browning. A handsome copy.…