Search Results: religio medici and other essays by browne sir thomas

Blackie & Son Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Good. 236 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Marginalia to a few pages. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.

Walter Scott, London, 1886. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. introduction – Sir Thomas Browne by editor. Red coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and gilt and black coloured titles and black coloured illustration to the back strip. Selected essays of Sir Thomas Browne. Series editor – Ernest Rhys. Softening of the back strip edges with bumping and rubbing of the book corners. Fading to the back strip with rubbing of the book panels. Light browning of the text block edges with scattered foxing. Foxing of the endpapers and first few pages and last few pages of the book with age toning of the pages. A previous owner has made some very light pencil marks to some of the margins. Previous owner's name to the top right hand corner of the free front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [7], VIII - XXXI, [2], 2 - 262, [6… Read More

Brentano's New York, no date. reprint ed. hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, paper spine label, spine darkened, a finely printed book, many pages unopened, 281 pages" .

Kessinger Publishing, 2009-04-13. Paperback. New. 6x0x9. My shelf location - 60-e-30*

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettered light brown buckram. Boards tanned around the edges with some light rubbing to rear board. Revised edition. A very nice copy. Clean and bright throughout. Externally nice overall. Top edge gilt. Frontis portrait with tissue guard.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd.. Very Good-. 1886. Hardcover. 8vo; hbk; navy cloth cover with a slightly worn cover; previous owner's (not author) name & date - 1887) on fep; pages rough cut; Vg-; ; The Camelot Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London & New York: Walter Scott [Not dated, c. 1896]. 12mo, pp xxxii, 262, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, some pencil lining in the margins throughout, green cloth , a little rubbed worn and marked, a duplicate from the Oxford University Extension Lectures Travelling Library, but the only sign of this is a withdrawn bookplate on the front endpaper.. Cloth. Good.

London: Walter Scott, 1886. 262 toned pages followed by a section of publisher Scott's other works. Navy blue cloth. Date of 1886 is on paper spine block which has some chipping and rubbing. Lightly bumped corners and bump to top of back cover; there's also a small bump to side of front cover. Worn top corner. Bumped heel of spine and chip to top of spine. Pencilled price on fep. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: E. Grant Richards, 1906. Hardback. Good. No DW. Lilav cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board. The spine strip is faded. Text is tight and clean with some margin notes.Inside front cover is a most attractive ex-libris wood engraving of a rural ploughing scene. No inscriptions or annotations. Some bumping to book ends and smal nick at top of spine. Otherwise this is a copy in good condition considering its age. A Doctor's Religion. Published in 1906.. An English text translation of Browne's classic in which he uses scientific imagery to illustrate religious truths and discusses the relationship between science and religion. Frontispiece portrait of the author, with tissue guard. Sir Thomas Browne. (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific… Read More

Scott, 1886-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. on blue cloth a 1886 edition Edited, witlt an Intloduction BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS.

London: The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd, n.d.. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Pp. 236, printed in red & black, notes; small f'cap. 8vo; rebound in tan leather, spine ruled in gilt with gilt lettered green leather skiver label between 2 raised bands; ribbon marker; later marbled endpapers, the Contents page slightly creased, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd., London, n.d.[c. 191-?] *The notes are by Thomas Bayne. This edition first published by Blackie in 1906? Includes Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burialb..

Chapman & Hall, Limited. Collectible - Good. Edited by Henry Gardiner. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., [1911]. 1st printing. [First published 1642 in London.] [6]+230+[2]pp. + photogravure frontis portrait with tissue guard. Bound by Bayntun Binders in Bath, England, in full rich crimson morocco, paneled spine in gilt filigree tooling ot the edges with gilt filigreed inner dentelles, and marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Near very good book. Joints worn, spine cracked near the foot, hinges cracked with separation along the rear hinge, leather spie labels lacking but with the embossed lettering quite readable. Owner's name and daet to the front blank. Even with it's faults, still a handsome book in a lovely binding. Inquire if you need further information.

Smith, Elder & Co., London, revised edition, 1898. Cloth, gilt cover-title and ornaments, top edge gilt, small 8vo, 18 cm,. xxxix, 305 pp, portrait frontispiece. Biographical introduction.--Religio medici.--Christian morals.--Letter to a friend.--On Dreams.--Urn burial. A copy presented to E. Pardee Bucke (elder son of Richard Maurice Bucke) by Harry Buxton Forman, inscribed signed and dated January 1898 by Forman on the front free endpaper. Laid in are two letters and a typescript presentation inscription from the Special Collections Librarian giving the book to a London bookdealer in exchange for another Bucke item presented to the Library. Covers rubbed and slightly torn at head of front joint, spine-ends a little worn, contents slightly agetoned.

London: Chapman & Hall, [1911].. 8vo, (vi), 230, (2) pp. Later bookplate to fly leaf. Later limp purple morocco, t.e.g., gilt arms of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, to upper cover, spine sunned otherwise very good.

London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1911. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). 231 pages of text. Bound in the original hardcover grey paper covered boards, with a printed paper spine label, and gilt decoration on the front cover. The rear hinge is cracked, and the thick, stiff paper used in this publication, though fine and beautiful, lends toward the cracking of the spine within the text. Still, an attractive, mostly intact and functional original binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown (William Ronghead), and notation neatly on first free endpaper. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of Browne. Contains the essays "Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial"; "A Letter To A Friend"; and "On Dreams." One of the series "The Books of the Verulam Club." Beautiful paper and typography. There is no date of publication listed in the book, but it was published in 1911..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1911. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A smartly bound edition of this collection of religious essays from Sir Thomas Browne. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of spiritual and religious essays and an early psychological self-portrait. This work became a European best-seller bringing the author fame at home and overseas. Written by Thomas Browne, an English polymath and author of works in science, medicine, religion, and the esoteric. He is remembered for his deep curiosity towards the natural world during the Scientific Revolution. Bound by Baker & Son, Clifton. Bound in full navy blue calf. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. School bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1911. First Thus. Near Fine. Early 20th century printing of this seventeenth century European sensation; considered an early example of psychological awareness couched in the religious and cultural English and European world in the midst of the Scientific Revolution and an instagator of the move into the Enlightenment. Bound in tooled red leather over boards with gilded lettering to the front and spine. Five raised bands on the spine, and two braided leather clasps - intact and fully present incluing brass fixtures. Top edge gilded, other edges rough cut. Creasing along the front hinge, some small scrapes to the leather; solid and square. With a sweet (3rd) anniversary inscription on first blank, dated 1919. The interior is clean and clear with no other markings. A Verulam Club book.  Pages: (10) 231 (3)     Dimensions: 7¾ x 6 x 1¼    .

London: Vale Press, 1902. ONE OF 310 COPIES (an additional 10 copies were printed on vellum). 298 x 203 mm. (11 3/4 x 8"). cxcviii pp, [1] leaf (colophon). VERY HANDSOME MAROON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ZAEHNSDORF (signed on front turn-in and stamped on rear pastedown), covers with center panel of blind-stamped palmettes and festoons in staggered rows, gilt foliate sprays at convergence points, raised bands, spine compartments with blind-stamped palmette centerpiece and gilt leaf sprigs at corners, maroon silk endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Woodcut vine border by C. S. Ricketts on first text page. Van Capelleveen A 73a; Tomkinson, p.170. ◆Lower corners a little dented, light foxing resembling a fine spray in many lower margins, occasionally spreading upwards, (probably resulting from the printing process), but certainly a fresh copy in a lustrous binding with only minor signs of use. This stately printing of one of Browne's most celebrated and enduring writings is perhaps the most… Read More