[#1blair] Blair / Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ♦ £430 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ $851 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ 550 Euros Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, in the Strand, and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1783. FIRST EDITION. TWO VOLUME SET. Although a VERY HEAVY ITEM sold, as always, entirely POSTFREE-BY-AIRMAIL WORLDWIDE. Vol. 1 with portrait frontispiece + viii (including title-page) + 496 text pages; Vol. 2 with iv unnumbered (including title-page) + 550 text pages + 17 unnumbered index pages; contemporary tan calf boards with blended-in 20th century antiqued spine and board corners -- all done by David Stinton of Midgeley -- with raised bands and gilt stamping/titling on spine and red and olive title labels as shown in accompanying composite image; modern brown endpapers. Also as shown, some foxing/spotting of prelims in both volumes but elsewhere delightfully clean internally. FULLEST DETAILS of publication, pagination, contents, condition and size, in both inches & centimetres, and sample text all shown in ACCOMPANYING COMPOSITE IMAGE. ***** Scarce First Edition. ****** Hugh Blair (1718-1800), born and educated in Edinburgh and licensed as a preacher in 1741, was promoted to a High Church position within the city in 1758. When his fame as a preacher was at its height he began to lecture on rhetoric and belles lettres, and with such success that in 1762 a new regius chair was created for him in the University of Edinburgh. George III bestowed a pension on him in 1780.

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[#910ae67] Tournefort / Relation d'un Voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy. ♦ £2100 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ $4158 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ 2688 Euros Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ Each title page continues thus ---- "contenant L'Histoire Ancienne & Moderne de plusieurs Isles de l'Archipel, de Constantinople, des Cotes de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de la Georgie, des Frontieres de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure. AVEC Les Plans des Villes & des Lieux considerables; Le Genie, les Moeurs, le Commerce & la Religion des differens Peuples qui les habitent; et l'Explication des Medailles & des Monumens Antiques. Enrichie de Descriptions & de Figures d'un grand nombre de Plantes rares, de divers Animaux; Et de plusieurs Observations touchant l'Histoire Naturelle." OCTAVO SECOND EDITION Published 1717 in Lyons by Anisson & Posuel under Royal Licence (Avec Privilege du Roy) --- the first edition was also published in 1717 but in Quarto in Paris; COMPLETE THREE-VOLUME SET; the main text in each volume consists of letters to M. de Pontchartrain, the expedition's sponsor; VOLUME I has 20 unnumbered pages comprising an "Avertissement", an "Eloge de M. de Tournefort" and the list of "Lettres Contenues dans le Premier Volume" then 379 numbered pages of main text (i.e. the text of the letters); VOLUME II has 2 unnumbered pages of its list of "Lettres.." then 448 pages of main text; VOLUME III has 6 unnumbered pages comprising the statements of "Approbation" & "Privilege du Roy" and its list of "Lettres..", then 404 numbered pages of main text followed by 59 unnumbered pages of "Table des Materieres Principales Contenues Dans Les Trois Tomes"[i.e. an analytical index]; of the numerous plates (152 in all) --- which are largely topographic/ethnographic or botanic --- VOLUME I has 45 full-page + 4 fold-out ones, VOLUME II has 39 full-page + 2 fold-out and VOLUME III has 61 full-page + 1 fold-out; the plates are taken from the drawings of Aubriet, the expedition's artist; the plant types are designated on the plates in interesting pre-Linnean polynomial fashion; each octavo (13x20cm) volume is bound in stylish early 20th. century chestnut half-calf with marbled boards, raised bands, red/gilt title label and black/gilt volume-number label on each volume, simple gilt striae on raised bands and simple gilt decoration to head and tail of spine; though bottom outer corner of title-page of Vol. III somewhat marked, the whole set otherwise internally crisp/clean and with only minimal and very local foxing; though there is some minimal rubbing to marbling and to bottom and top edges; exterior too very crisp and clean; A VERY ATTRACTIVE THREE-VOLUME SET OF A HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORIES OF BOTH GEOGRAPHY & BOTANY OFFERED AT A VERY FAVOURABLE PRICE INDEED.

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