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Verlag: Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martin, printer to the Royal Society. 1668, 1668
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
[20], 454, [2]pp blank; [157]pp, [7pp] blank, [4] leaves of plates, additional woodcut illus. in text. Folio. Small internal hole to lower margin of N1 not affecting text, occasional light creasing, a few contemp. ink notes in second section. A nice clean copy. Tear to upper corner of leading free endpaper. Contemp. full mottled calf; some expert repairs to hinges & extremities. Amorial bookplate of William Westby with his signature on titlepage; 20th century bookplates of Edward Nevill da Costa Andrade and Nigel Stoughton. A handsome copy. Alston VII 290; ESTC R21115. FIRST EDITION. John Wilkins, 1614 1672, theologian and natural philosopher. The most influential of Wilkins' works, his Essay sought to establish a new universal language for use in scholarship, trade, travel and politics. It was intended partly as a replacement for Latin which was the existing international language of scholarship. Wilkins' language was a series of symbols (all listed in a folding table) intended as a pasigraphy, a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept rather than a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language. Part two of the volume, which includes a separate titlepage, is entitled An Alphabetical Dictionary Wherein All English Words According to their Various Significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical tables, or explained by such words as are in those tables. Having worked on his Essay for many years, Wilkins lost his house, and many of his papers, to the Great Fire of London. Determined to finish his work, he enlisted help from John Ray, Francis Willoughby, Samuel Pepys, and also the Royal Society of which he was a Fellow. Edward Nevill da Costa Andrade, 1887-1971, was an English physicist, writer, and poet best known for his scientific work (with Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1668
Anbieter: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, USA
Verbandsmitglied: SNEAB
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wilkins, John An Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language 1668. Very nice copy with 3 large fold-outs (at 186 and 2 at 441), 5 plates (167, 311,358,376). If you were curious about how Noah s Ark was laid out, and how Noah kept the lions separate from the gazelles, see page 167. Contemporary calf in very good condition. Borges has a nice essay about Wilkins. Wilkins idea, in brief is that a perfect language should encode its subject-matter. Thus, when encountering a new word, it would be evident what that word applied to. A good part of this project is coming up with a taxonomy that covers every kind of entity that can be spoken of. A big job.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1668
Anbieter: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australien
London: Printed for S.A: Gellibrand and John Martyn 1668. Thick sm. f'scap folio. Later qtr. morocco over marbled paper boards. Spine gilt and with raised bands. xx 454 158pp. Title-page in photo-facsimile otherwise a fine complete copy with 2 fold. engrv. plates and 2 fold. tables. NOTE: A history of language.
Verlag: Printed for Sa. Gellibrand, and for John Martin, Printer to the Royal Society, London, 1668
Anbieter: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition. Respined old calf with leather title label. "John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester was a founding member of the Royal Society and one of the most influential thinkers of the seventeenth century. His masterpiece, An Essay Towards a Real Character and A Philosophical Language, is a key text in the history of language. Ready for publication in January 1666 but destroyed by the Great Fire, the work finally published in 1668 is Wilkins' attempt at creating a universal language. Wilkins maintained that because all people's minds functioned in the same way and had a similar 'apprehension of things', it should be possible to cultivate a rational universal language and a character that would also articulate things and notions." - Anne Niemetz, A Universal Language, 2003. Wing W2196. Occasional brief marginal notations, boards with surfacing and cracking but with 20th century restoration including new endpapers, calf spine with raised bands and leather title label. A wide margined, near fine copy lacking only the license leaf and with mild toning to edges of pages.
Verlag: Printed for Sa. Gellibrand, and for John Martin, Printer, London, 1668
Anbieter: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Irland
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Two vols. in one. Vol 1: An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language. Pp. (16),454. 2 foldouts at pp. 442 & 443. foldout at page 186 has been cut and text removed. 4 plates at pages 311, 358, 376, 451; Vol. 2: An Alphabetical Dictionary, Wherein all English Words According to Their Various Significations, are Either Referred to Their Places in the Philosophical Tables, of Explained by Such Words as are in Those Tables. Unpaginated. 160pp. Calf covers and spine worn and scuffed. Front cover lacking as are the title page and prelims of first vol.First Dedication page torn with loss to upper end. Else generally good inernally. First edition of the theologian and natural philosopher's most significant work and a critical text in the history of linguistics, among the earliest systematic proposals for a new universal language to replace Latin.
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam - Philadelphia,, 1984
ISBN 10: 9027232768ISBN 13: 9789027232762
Anbieter: Antiquariat Christoph Wilde, Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Buch
CIX, 90 S., S. 169-184. Orig.-Pappband (= Foundations of Semiotics / Volume 6). - Rückenkanten berieben; Buchblock etwas schiefgelesen. Handschriftliches Kürzel auf Vorsatz; Text mit Bleistiftanstreichungen. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Anbieter: True World of Books, Delhi, Indien
Buch Print-on-Demand
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from Volume 196, Issue 12 of Early English books, 1641-1700 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 641.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Anbieter: True World of Books, Delhi, Indien
Buch Print-on-Demand
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 589.
Verlag: Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016299400ISBN 13: 9781016299404
Anbieter: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Print-on-Demand
Hardback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Verlag: Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016304331ISBN 13: 9781016304337
Anbieter: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Print-on-Demand
Paperback / softback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.