Author: Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of AfricaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
Author: Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of AfricaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Collected with a View of the General Comparison of Languages, and to the Study of Oriental Literature, by William Marsden, F. R. S. &c
Author: Bibliotheca MarsdenianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis
Author: William MarsdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Trans-Saharan Book Trade
Author: Graziano KrätliPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004187421
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well as the creation of manuscript libraries, this book consists of a collection of twelve essays that examine these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
A-E
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Letters Of Sir Joseph Banks, The, A Selection, 1768-1820
Author: Neil ChambersPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 178326182X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Sir Joseph Banks was man of science, of affairs, and of letters. He circumnavigated the globe with Lieutenant James Cook on H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771, taking with him a team of naturalists, illustrators and assistants at a personal cost of £10,000. Together they made unprecedented collections of flora and fauna in many of the places H.M.S. Endeavour visited. Banks also led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland in 1772. Later, he settled in London, and assembled an enormous library and herbarium at 32 Soho Square. His collections were remarkable both for their size and for the unique material from the Pacific they contained. In 1778, Banks was elected President of the Royal Society, a position he held for over 41 years — the longest anyone has served in that capacity. As President he fostered enlightened relations between scientists across Europe throughout a period of conflict and turbulent change. He was also Special Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which flourished under his control, becoming greater than any other. Voyages of discovery were mounted with his help to explore new lands, to obtain and move plants from one part of the world to another, and to further British interests abroad. He was also an influential privy councillor, and an advisor to George III and successive governments.Banks was at the scientific and social centre of Georgian life for more than five decades. As such he developed a global network of correspondence, using letters to further knowledge, and ultimately to shape events in the cause of empire. He suggested the possibility of establishing colonies on the east coast of Australia, and then he actively supported them for the remainder of his life. He has therefore been regarded by some as the 'Father of Australia'. Furthermore, in the Napoleonic Wars he acted to save the population of Iceland when its trade was seized by the British. His views could hardly be avoided on matters of botany or horticulture, drainage or agriculture, on coinage, exploration or science in general. Yet he was a warm, authoritative writer with a direct, flowing prose style. His letters make fascinating reading for their variety, as well as the insight into his public and private life they provide.This selection is made from the remaining 6,000 letters Banks wrote, and will introduce many readers to a deeply impressive figure, who is rapidly being recognized as one of the great men of his age.More details about the Sir Joseph Banks Archive Project can be found at www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/banks/.
Sale-catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co
Author: Sotheran, Henry and CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Missions to the Niger
Author: E.W. BovillPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317095464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park. It begins with the travels of Friedrich Hornemann and then leaps a quarter of a century to the great journey of Alexander Gordon Laing. The travels of Lyon, Oudney, Denham and Clapperton will be the subject of later volumes. Book I consists of an edited text of Hornemann's journal of his travels from Cairo to Murzuk between 1797 and 1798 together with an introduction by Mr Bovill. Book II , on Laing's mission to Timbucktu from 1824 until his death in 1826, has been built up from miscellaneous material drawn from various contemporary sources. All the more important contemporary documents, whether in Laing's hand or not, have been printed exactly as they were written, but the fragmentary material which can be drawn from less important letters and official despatches has been turned into editorial notes which are interpolated in the text. Continued in Second Series 128-130. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1964.