First edition Sentence Examples

With calm courage he returned to his poverty and his favourite studies, and in 1725 published the first edition of the work that forms the basis of his renown, Principii d'una scienza nuova.

It may be convenient at this point to consider Calvin's ideal church polity, as set forth in his famous Christianae religionis institutio, the first edition of which was published in 1536.

He produced the first edition in 1861, and a fourth, revised and enlarged, was only completed a short time before his death.

The first edition of the history was published at Helmstadt in 1584, and a good edition is in the Recueil des historiens des croisades, tome iv.

The first edition of his united or so-called "Complete" works was published at Toulouse in 1637.

Since the introduction of printing, the Talmud is always cited by the number of the leaf in the first edition (Venice, 1520, &c.), to which all subsequent editions conform.

In 1912, in collaboration with his wife, he published as a sumptuous folio, with reproductions of the illustrations of the first edition (1556), an English translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica.

Arbuthnot must not be confused with his contemporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer, who produced the first edition of Buchanan's History of Scotland in 1582.

The first edition of the former was published in 1649, and of the latter in 1651; and both of them were enlarged in subsequent editions.

In the first edition of the Improver Improved no mention is made of clover, nor in the second of turnips, but in the third, clover is treated of at some length, and turnips are recommended as an excellent cattle crop, the culture of which should be extended from the kitchen garden to the field.

It is certain that the first four volumes were written if not printed before that method was promulgated, and when the fame of Linnaeus as a zoologist rested on little more than the very meagre sixth edition of the Systema Naturae and the first edition of his Fauna Suecica.

Sigwart, in the preface to the first edition of his Logic, makes "special mention" of the assistance he obtained from this book.

In 1735 appeared the first edition of the Systema naturae of Linnaeus, in which the "Insecta" form a group equivalent to the Arthropoda of modern zoologists, and are divided into seven orders, whose names - Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, &c., founded on the nature of the wings - have become firmly established.

Abraham Ortelius (1527-1592), of Antwerp, a man of culture and enterprise, but not a scientific cartographer, published the first edition of his Theatrum orbis terrarum in 1570.

Lucas Janszon Waghenaer (Aurigarius) of Enkhuizen published the first edition of his Spiegel der Zeevaart (Mariners' Mirror) at Leiden in 1585.

It may be interesting to recall the account given in the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1771), which contained a summary of some of these various views (substantially repeated up to the publication of the eighth edition, 1853).

The first edition also gives an engraving of the ark (repeated in the editions up to the fifth), in shape like a long roofed box, floating on the waters; the animals are seen in separate stalls.

The first edition of these two writers is that of 1592 (by William Howard).

His Mechanical Account of Poisons, in the first edition (1702), gave an explanation of the effects of poisons, as acting only on the blood.

This principle was employed by him in the first edition of his work, which appeared in 1779.

From 1796 to 1800 he was sub-editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in succession to his elder brother, JAMES THOMSON (1768-1855), who filled that position in 1795-1796, and who in 1805 was ordained to the parish of Eccles, Berwickshire; and the chemical and mineralogical articles which he contributed to the supplement to the third edition formed the basis of his System of Chemistry, the first edition of which was published in 1802 and the seventh in 1831.

The so-called first edition of the Speculum Majus, including the Speculum Morale, ascribed to Johann Mentelin and long celebrated as the earliest work printed at Strassburg, has lately been challenged as being only an earlier edition of Vincent's three genuine Specula (c. 1468-70), with which has been bound up the Speculum Morale first printed by Mentelin (c. 1 473-7 6).

A first edition of his Historia Britonum was in circulation by the year 1139, although the text which we possess appears to date from 1147.

The first edition of his Lehrbuch des christlichen Glaubens (1828) was freely characterized as lacking in consistency and as detracting from the strength of the old positions in many important points.

See the accounts prefixed to the first edition of Spottiswoode's History of Scotland and to that published by the Spottiswoode Society in 1851; also David Calderwood's Hist.

The first edition of the five books of Phaedrus was published by Pithou at Troyes in 1596 from a manuscript now in the possession of the marquis of Rosanbo.

The first edition of 1580, with the various readings of two others which appeared during the author's lifetime, was reprinted by MM.

In 1830 John Lindley published the first edition of his Introduction to the Natural System, embodying a slight modification of de Candolle's system.

The first edition of the former appeared in 1798 under the title Essai sur la theorie des nombres; there was a second edition in 1808; a first supplement was published in 1816, and a second in 1825.

Vuillier (Paris, 1904), the first edition of which has been translated under the title of The Forgotten Isles(London, 1896) - and Islas Baleares, an illustrated volume of 1423 pages, by P. Pifferrer, in the series "Espana" (Barcelona, 1888).

Erasmus issued new editions in 1519, 1522, 1527 and 1535, and the Aldine Greek Testament, printed at Venice in 1518, is a reproduction of the first edition.

Luke wrote the first edition of the Gospel for Theophilus from Caesarea; this is the Neutral text of the Gospel.

In 1783 appeared at Paris the first edition of Francois Callet's tables, which correspond to those of Hutton in England.

The first edition of his collected works, in 8 volumes, was published in 1884-1885.

The first edition of Massillon's complete works was published by his nephew, also an Oratorian (Paris, 1745-1748), and upon this, in the absence of MSS., succeeding reprints were based.

The writings which he produced at this period created a new epoch in the history of modern English theological scholarship. In 1855 he published the first edition of his History of the New Testament Canon, which, frequently revised and expanded, became the standard English work upon the subject.

The first edition was printed in Mantua in 1476.

As he felt free to make slight changes, the first edition does not represent the exact text of 1530; the edition of 1 533 was further improved, while that of 1540, rearranged and in part rewritten, is known as the Variata.

In 1756 appeared, both in Latin and in English, the first edition of his Euclid's Elements.

The first edition is believed to have been printed at Bruges in 1474.

The publisher of the first two volumes, John Noone, gave him -£50 and twelve bound copies for a first edition of one thousand copies.

He seems to have received 400 for the first edition of the first volume, £700 for the first edition of the second and 0840 for the copyright of the two together.

Molesworth reprints the Latin, not from the first edition of 1655, but from the modified edition of 1668 - modified, in the mathematical chapters, in general (not exact) keeping with the English edition of 1656.

The first edition remained twelve years out of print before the second (5 vols., 1867-71) appeared.

The remainder was reprinted from the first edition by Professor Heinrich Holtzmann, with the addition of some notes and emendations left by the author.

The first edition of a Danish Reineke Fuchs, by Herman Weigere, appeared at Lubeck in 1555, and the first authorized Psalter in 1559.

The first edition of his Specimens of the Early English Poets appeared in 1790; and this was followed by Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1805).

In the first edition of the Loci (1521) he held, to the length of fatalism, the Augustinian doctrine of irresistible grace, working according to God's immutable decrees, and denied freedom of will in matters civil and religious alike.

The first edition of Schiller's Sitmtliche Werke appeared in 1812-1815 in 12 vols.

He published his first edition of Tibullus in 1755, and in 1756 his Epictetus.

The first edition of his Historische Schetsen (" Historical Essays") was issued in 1860, the second in 1872.

Finally, in the summer of 1855 the first edition of Leaves of Grass appeared - a small quarto of ninety-four pages.

It has been held that the chansons de geste were formed by joining together " bunches " of these earlier cantilenes, and this was the view taken by Leon Gautier in the first edition of Les Epopees frangaises (1865).

One of the most characteristic works of Cormenin is the Livre des orateurs, a series of brilliant studies of the principal parliamentary orators of the restoration and the monarchy of July, the first edition of which appeared in 1838, and the eighteenth in 1860.

The first edition of Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris appeared in 1697, and the second edition, replying to the answer which Boyle published in 1698, came out in 1699.

The first edition contained only ten essays, but the number was increased in 1612 to thirtyeight, and in 1625 to fifty-eight.

The Britannia, the first edition of which is dedicated to Burghley, is a survey of the British islands written in elegant Latin.

More weight was naturally attached to the opinion he had advocated in his early criticism of Kant as to the importance, if not the superiority, of the first edition of the Kritik; in the collected issue of Kant's works by Rosenkranz and Schubert in 1838 that edition was put as the substantive text, with supplementary exhibition of the differences of the second.

The first edition was printed at Venice in 1483 by Raynald de Novimagio in folio; the latest at Paris, 1556, 1557.

In 1875 he was appointed one of the Old Testament revisers; in1880-1882he delivered by invitation, to very large audiences in Edinburgh and Glasgow, two courses of lectures on the criticism of the Old Testament, which he afterwards published (The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, first edition 1881, second edition 1892, and The Prophets of Israel, 1882, which also passed through two editions); and soon after his dismissal from his chair he joined Professor Baynes in the editorship of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and after Professor Baynes's death remained in supreme editorial control till the work was completed.

The plant is mentioned under the name Papus orbiculatus in the first edition of the Catalogus of the same author, published in 1596, and again in the second edition, which was dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh (1599) It is, however, in the Herbal that we find the first description of the potato, accompanied by a woodcut sufficiently correct to leave no doubt whatever as to the identity of the plant.

The first edition appeared at Venice in 1625, and it has been frequently printed since.

The first edition of Robert Burns's poems was published here in 1786.

It is also thought that the first edition of Gargantua may have appeared this year.

In fulfilment of this idea, William produced about 1120 the first edition of his Gesta regum, which at once gave him a reputation.

The first edition appeared at Mantua about 1480; the second at Constantinople in 1516; this was reprinted at Venice in 1544 and 1605, and at Jessnitz in 1722.

The first edition of the complete Bible was published (1688) by order of Prince Ioan erban Cantacuzene, by Radu Greceanu, assisted by his brother erban and by Metrofan the bishop of Buzeu.

A further account of the method was given in the first edition of Newton's Optics, which appeared in 1704.

As soon as the first edition of the Principia was published Newton began to prepare for a second edition.

I of Wight fit in happily with the English annals constructed long centuries after by King Alfreds scribes in the first edition of the AngloSaxon Chronicle.

In 1830 appeared the first edition of his well-known Elements of Arithmetic, which did much to raise the character of elementary training.

During the years 1833-1843 he contributed very largely to the first edition of the [[Penny]] Cyclopaedia, writing chiefly on mathematics, astronomy, physics and biography.

I wrote a long, reasoned, quite affirmative conclusion to the first edition of ' Stars ' .

On the first edition of the map the text on the verso was contained within two pillars surmounted by a decorative archway.

The book was an instant bestseller; the entire first edition sold out on the day of issue.

This first edition contained a frontispiece plus a further three high-quality engravings.

A Man's Portrait of a Woman London Thomas Nelson 1910 First Edition colored frontispiece.

The first edition that I bought, however, featured a front page headliner of an all girl American rock band called The Runaways.

Which may explain a certain reticence on a number of points in the first edition of the book.

It is a colored combination of the title page vignette and the illustration of the figure on page 12 of the first edition.

The first edition of the Systeme du monde was inscribed to the Council of Five Hundred; to the third volume of the Mecanique celeste (1802) was prefixed the declaration that, of all the truths contained in the work, that most precious to the author was the expression of his gratitude and devotion towards the "pacificator of Europe"; upon which noteworthy protestation the suppression in the editions of the Theorie des probabilites subsequent to the restoration, of the original dedication to the emperor formed a fitting commentary.

The new movement began actively ology of with James Hutton in the later years of the 18th century, and was forwarded by the studies of William Smith in England and of Cuvier in France; but the really efficient champion of the conception that the earth is very old was Sir Charles Lyell, who published the first edition of his epoch-making Principles of Geology only a few years before Queen Victoria came to the throne.

She has since secured and forwarded to me a copy of the first edition.

Neither the woodcut figures for the first edition nor those for the second edition appear to have been used either before or subsequently.

Consider the advice below before pulling out your wallet for that dusty first-edition print of Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."

Know that a first edition does not equal a first printing.

A first edition of John Kennedy Toole's classic "A Confederacy of Dunces" is going to be a very expensive rare book.

Hunting down a first edition or a signed copy of the book can make a cool gift idea.

Auguste Escoffier, whose Larousse Gastronomique remains the definitive culinary encyclopedia more than 70 years after the first edition was printed.

Go to the Market District and enter the First Edition bookstore to retrieve volume 3.

They're an improvement over the first edition of the game, but you will still be presented with a colorful comic book-like appearance wherein the characters aren't exactly animated at all.

Information about antiques and collectibles - everything from old tractors to rare first edition books.

An appraiser will also recognize a first edition copy if the printing is relevant to its value.

Abebooks search engine allows you to search for books by title, date, author, publisher, as well as first edition and other criteria.

Whether you have found an old favorite from childhood or inherited a first edition Tom Sawyer a free, rare book appraisal might be something you are interested in.

Other variables that might affect the value of a book include whether the book is a first edition copy, a reprint or a book club edition.

They have also written many successful guides on antique collecting, including Kovels' "Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide," an annual publication which has sold over 4 million copies since the first edition was published.

With one to three trips a year to the park and a great deal of year-round research, it took me five years to create and two more years to publish Yellowstone Treasures' first edition.

They put the first edition of the Official North American Scrabble Dictionary together using words from five respected dictionary sources.

The second edition, published in 1991, included word corrections and many of the words omitted from the first edition.

The first edition of SOD hit the newsstands in 1975.

Interestingly, he passed over Trista Rehn who would later find true love in the first edition of The Bachelorette.