MONTAGU, GEORGE AND ANSTICE, ROBERT, EDITED BY S PETER DANCE

Letters on Ornithology 1804 - 1815 between George Montagu and Robert Anstice

Wigtown, G C Books. 2003. (ISBN: 1872350682). Hardcover. No inscriptions, VG in VG DJ. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 12099

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1872350682 NATURE, BIRD-WATCHING, BIOGRAPHY Nature

[LYTTELTON (George), Lord and MONTAGU (Elizabeth)]

Dialogues of the Dead. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for W. Sandby..., 1760. 8vo, 197 x 116 mms., pp. xii, 320 [321 Errata, 322 blank], many leaves foxed or slightly soiled, bound in revolting 19th century plum calf, hard morocco boards, with spine worn and wormed, but happily with the autograph of the painter Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) on the top margin of the title-page, with Lyttelton's authorship inscribed in a contemporary hand below the title, "By ye right Honble Lord Littleton"; and on the front paste-down end-paper, the bookplate of the "Dundee Free Libary," printed on pink paper, which flourish in the mid 19th century. Finally, on page 273, the first page of Dialogue XXV is a note in a contemporary hand concerning Archibald, Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine, one of the two interlocutors of that dialogue. politics Writing to Horace Mann on 24 May 1760, Horace Walpole said of this work that is was "paltry enough; the style, a mixture of bombast, poetry and vulgarisms. Nothing new in the composition, except making people talk out of character is so." Elizabeth Montagu wrote three of the dialogues, numbers 27 - 28. Ramsay painted Montagu in 1762, two years after Dialogues of the Dead was published. The autograph of Allan Ramsay is very similar to one that I have in my possession, and I am confident that the volume once belonged to him before it was acquired - and rebound - by the Dundee Free Library.

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Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics association copy prose

MONTAGU,GEORGE a.o.

LETTERS ON ORNITHOLOGY 1804-1815

Wigtown 2003, 250 pp., plates and ill., dust jacket v134

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Book number: 241129

Catalogue: Birds

MONTAGU (George)

The Sportsman's Directory: or, tractate on gunpowder, founded on a series of experiments: together with some remarks and suggestions on fire-arms. Containing, I. The advantage of small-grained powder. II. The most simple and perfect method of proving its strength. III. The unnecessary expenditure of Government powder. IV. Advantages of a Marine corps of Artillery. V. Cannon and carronades formed contrary to mechanical principles. VI. The principle on which guns burst. Vii. Muskets extremely defective. Viii. The principle of rifle barrels mistaken. IX. Choice of guns for the sportsman, with many useful instructions on the art of shooting flying. X. On Pistols-Outlines of Duelling. To which is added, a table of gun barrels, for the Use of Sportsmen, with their proper Charges and Killing Distances. By George Montagu, Esq.

London: Printed for R. Faulder, 1792. First edition, 8vo (203 x 125 mm), [4], vii, [1 errata], 152p., with half-title, engraved frontispiece, some light spotting, cont. calf, re-backed, corners re-newed, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, ruled in gilt. George Montagu (1753–1815), English army officer and naturalist. In 1770 he joined the army as an Ensign in the 15th Regiment of Foot and In December 1775 George was promoted to the rank of Captain on the same day that the regiment was ordered to America. He resigned his commission as a Captain in 1777, but eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Wiltshire Militia. This, his first publication, is little known and is rare, he is better known for his pioneering two-volume Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds of 1802, which for the first time accurately defined the status of Britain's birds. He is remembered today for species such as the Montagu's harrier, named for him. ESTC locating 3 UK copies (BL, Cambridge and St. Andrews), with just 1 copy located in North America (Smithsonian).

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Book number: 39623

Keywords: MILITARY ARTILLERY GUNPOWDER ARMY GUNS FIREARMS