(MINERALS) Useful Knowledge or a Familiar Account of the Various Productions of Nature...VOLUME 1 - MINERALS by Bingley, Rev. William - 1831

Baldwin, Craddock and Joy. Poor. 1818. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex private lending library hardback, binding pulled, bound in half leather with tape repair to spine, leather worn at corners, library info on front endpaper and remains of label on front pastedown. 292 pages, illustrations on plates, index .

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London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1849. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. with wood cuts. Firmly bound, decorated embossed original navy blue cloth boards, a little light rubbing on the edges of the cover, old gift inscription inside, stated new edition.

London: C & J Rivington, 1826. (UK) Third Edition Owner's inscripiton(old) , owner's bookplate (old) , ownership stamp to the back of the front fly, 1/2: tear to corner of front fly, the front endpaper is missing, hinges solid, page clean, some wear to head of spine, VG(-) ; no Dj. 18 x 11 cm, black smooth leather with gold spine titles and a blind embossed stamp to the front panel : Society for Promotion of Christian knowledge, viii, 384pp. No illus. These are excepts from the travel writings of Ludovico Verthema, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir George Wheeler, Rev, henry Mandrell, John Bell, Frederic Lewis Norden, Peter Kalm, Samuel herne, Dr John Moore and Henry Swinburne, cobbled together by the reverend with connecting pieces featuring a family with children who 'introduce' each travel section. The excerpts cover early travel in Greece, Italy, france, Spain, North America, Egypt, Nubia, the Holy Land, Greece, Mecca. (1.5 JM HOQ 101/a2. 3rd. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

London; Printed For John Sharpe By C.Whittingham, Chiswick, 1820., 1820. 12mo. pp. 6 p.l., 346, [2]ads. with half-title. lacking the plates. untrimmed in original cloth (spine ends frayed, label worn & chipped, narrow strip clipped from upper margin of title). First Edition. Sabin 5464 (calling for 2 plates).. F. Hardcover.

GB: John Sharpe, 1819. Eng. title vignette. Later Half brown morocco, marbled brds. "Hentietta M Harris 58 Rutland Sq Dublin 1848" written on front endpaper and her name at top of title page. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. . Hardback. VG+/No DW.

London: Printed by J. Smeeton, 1800.. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo. (21 x 13 cm). pp. [8, contents]+xvi+513; viii+466. Contemporary half crimson straight-grained morocco over marbled boards, spines with gilt-ruled raised bands and lettered in gilt, grey-coated endpapers, yellow ribbon page markers, sprinkled edges. 2 tinted aquatint frontispieces, numerous engraved vignettes in the letterpress, and 18 pp. of engraved Welsh music (but lacking the 2 additional aquatint plates seemingly never bound in). Ex libris Harper Gaythorpe with his bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Trivial spotting to title-pages, an attractive copy. William Bingley (1774–1823), was naturalist and Church of England clergyman. Bingley was a noted writer on botany, topography, and popular zoology. His travels in Wales while still an undergraduate formed the basis of his two-volume, illustrated, Tour of North Wales (1800; 2nd edn, 1814), which includes a catalogue of Welsh plants. He returned to Wales in 1801 and afterwards… Read More

London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1823. Hardcover. Good +. Originally published 1821 as per second title page. Plate 1 has imprint: Pub'd by Harvey & Darton, Jan. 1, 1823. 12, [22], 346, [2] p. 19 cm. Frontispiece plate and title page vignette. 2 other engraved plates. Bound in blue buckram with new endpapers. Tape-repaired title page. Some spotting to rear of plates, ink signature at top of second title page. "Designed for the use of young persons." Various descriptions of Canada, U.S. and Mexico.

London: Paternoster-Row: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DAYES. . VG, 2 vols in 1, 1804. In contemporary full speckled calf, some loss, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to black calf label, edges worn. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-xx), [1], 2-464 pp. Half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-243, [1], 12 music, [1], 346-450 pp, [1] errata, [1] adverts, 2 pls, bound without the map, red marbled endpapers, lower board held by ties, text block is very clean, (213*127 mm). (Anderson 338).

London: Harvey and Darton, 1822. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small octavo. pp 346 + plates + advertisements. 1st printing. Toning in flyleaf, otherwise internally fine, with 12 excellent plates.