George t. coleman (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcovers; ex-corporate library; minor shelfwear, o/w in very good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. ORIGINAL 1908 PUBLICATION; includes the five folded maps (COMPLETE for this publication); HARDCOVER; ex-library; minor edgewear w/ corners bumped; light spotting of covers; light foxing of edges; small tear on fore-edge of a couple of pages; o/w in good condition. Book.

Second printing. 12mo (19cm). Textured blue cloth, decoratively titled in silver on front cover; 59,64pp. Clean and tight with partial thin crack to front hinge (internal); Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Collects a series of letters to and from St. George Tucker, of whom the editor was a descendant. Final 64pp comprise a reprint, with separate title page, of Tucker's "A Dissertation on Slavery" (Phila: 1796).…

1st Edition. Octavo, original red cloth boards with gilt-stamped decoration and lettering upper board and spine, blind-stamped dcoration boards, eight b&w plates (plate V is the frontis), numerous b&w text illustrations, pp viii, 438 including index, plus plate section at rear. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. The plates are foxed: the main body of the book is clean. The book has been professionally restored, with the gilt-illustrated backstrip laid down on new red cloth. Very good condition. John George Wood, or Reverend J. G. Wood, (1827 - 1889), was an English writer who gave up his curacy to devote himself to writing on natural history, becoming a well-known parson-naturalist of the Victorian era. This is a first edition of "Our Garden Friends and Foes", in which Wood writes: "The object of this work is to furnish the reader with a guide to the various beings which can exercise any influence upon our gardens and greenhouses, to enable the cultivator to distinguish between his Friends and his Foe, and to give simple directions for encouraging the one and exterminating the other." The book is beautiully illustrated, with over 200 engraved illustrations of garden animals, birds, lizards and snakes, beetles, butterflies and moths, spiders, insects, etc. Illus. T.W. Wood, Coleman, Smith, etc. (illustrator).…