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Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson. 1763.. Digitized from IA40313613-22 . Next issue: bim_eighteenth-century_works-17-17-35-v2-_pope-alexander_1735_2_0 .

4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], xxxiv, [2], 247, [1] (blank). Signatures: pi²a-d⁴e²B-2I⁴. Calf. Gilt tooled spine, red lettering panel. Title page engraved by Isaac Taylor. Includes press figures. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. In English with a poem in Gaelic. Not translated, but in fact by James Macpherson. After the massive success of his work ‘Fingal’ (see Bib# 4656328/Fr# 621 in this collection), Macpherson followed it up with the present work, another Ossianic poem, and reputed to be Napoleon’s favorite. This time it was nearly all of his own creation, and described by his modern editor Howard Gaskill as ‘almost entirely fraudulent.’ Macpherson provided a twenty-page ‘specimen’ of Book VII of ‘Temora’ in Erse in this volume, but back-translating the rest ‘was not a task to be relished, as Macpherson found to his cost, when [...] obliged to undertake it in the decade or so before his death’ (H. Gaskill, Ossian revisited. Edinburgh, 1991, p. 13). See ESTC, T137081.

4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], xxxiv, [2], 247, [1] (blank). Signatures: pi²a-d⁴e²B-2I⁴. Calf. Gilt tooled spine, red lettering panel. Title page engraved by Isaac Taylor. Includes press figures. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. In English with a poem in Gaelic. Not translated, but in fact by James Macpherson. After the massive success of his work ‘Fingal’ (see Bib# 4656328/Fr# 621 in this collection), Macpherson followed it up with the present work, another Ossianic poem, and reputed to be Napoleon’s favorite. This time it was nearly all of his own creation, and described by his modern editor Howard Gaskill as ‘almost entirely fraudulent.’ Macpherson provided a twenty-page ‘specimen’ of Book VII of ‘Temora’ in Erse in this volume, but back-translating the rest ‘was not a task to be relished, as Macpherson found to his cost, when [...] obliged to undertake it in the decade or so before his death’ (H. Gaskill, Ossian revisited. Edinburgh, 1991, p. 13). See ESTC, T137081.

4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], xxxiv, [2], 247, [1] (blank). Signatures: pi²a-d⁴e²B-2I⁴. Calf. Gilt tooled spine, red lettering panel. Title page engraved by Isaac Taylor. Includes press figures. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. In English with a poem in Gaelic. Not translated, but in fact by James Macpherson. After the massive success of his work ‘Fingal’ (see Bib# 4656328/Fr# 621 in this collection), Macpherson followed it up with the present work, another Ossianic poem, and reputed to be Napoleon’s favorite. This time it was nearly all of his own creation, and described by his modern editor Howard Gaskill as ‘almost entirely fraudulent.’ Macpherson provided a twenty-page ‘specimen’ of Book VII of ‘Temora’ in Erse in this volume, but back-translating the rest ‘was not a task to be relished, as Macpherson found to his cost, when [...] obliged to undertake it in the decade or so before his death’ (H. Gaskill, Ossian revisited. Edinburgh, 1991, p. 13). See ESTC, T137081.

4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], xxxiv, [2], 247, [1] (blank). Signatures: pi²a-d⁴e²B-2I⁴. Calf. Gilt tooled spine, red lettering panel. Title page engraved by Isaac Taylor. Includes press figures. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. In English with a poem in Gaelic. Not translated, but in fact by James Macpherson. After the massive success of his work ‘Fingal’ (see Bib# 4656328/Fr# 621 in this collection), Macpherson followed it up with the present work, another Ossianic poem, and reputed to be Napoleon’s favorite. This time it was nearly all of his own creation, and described by his modern editor Howard Gaskill as ‘almost entirely fraudulent.’ Macpherson provided a twenty-page ‘specimen’ of Book VII of ‘Temora’ in Erse in this volume, but back-translating the rest ‘was not a task to be relished, as Macpherson found to his cost, when [...] obliged to undertake it in the decade or so before his death’ (H. Gaskill, Ossian revisited. Edinburgh, 1991, p. 13). See ESTC, T137081.

4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], xxxiv, [2], 247, [1] (blank). Signatures: pi²a-d⁴e²B-2I⁴. Calf. Gilt tooled spine, red lettering panel. Title page engraved by Isaac Taylor. Includes press figures. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. In English with a poem in Gaelic. Not translated, but in fact by James Macpherson. After the massive success of his work ‘Fingal’ (see Bib# 4656328/Fr# 621 in this collection), Macpherson followed it up with the present work, another Ossianic poem, and reputed to be Napoleon’s favorite. This time it was nearly all of his own creation, and described by his modern editor Howard Gaskill as ‘almost entirely fraudulent.’ Macpherson provided a twenty-page ‘specimen’ of Book VII of ‘Temora’ in Erse in this volume, but back-translating the rest ‘was not a task to be relished, as Macpherson found to his cost, when [...] obliged to undertake it in the decade or so before his death’ (H. Gaskill, Ossian revisited. Edinburgh, 1991, p. 13). See ESTC, T137081.

From the series, The Library of Romance, the reader is introduced in this book to the modern astronomy of 1911. The author discusses our solar system, including the planets known at that time, comets, the stars, the origins of the universe, and a few famous astronomers.