Aberdeen lady (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. 8vo, 23cm, 91p., with 28 illustrations from photographs, index, attractively printed card wraps (trade paperback), fine copy (cnds). - Focuses mainly on time spent in the Okanagan Valley.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Slightly creased and dusty with slight nicking at spine ends, otherwise very good.

Zustand: Very Good. Second impression. Hardback. Original cloth with black letter spine label. Light wear to covers, slightly foxing to fore-edge, otherwise very good. No dust jacket.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. One plate in vol. 1 detached. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN.…

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 18cm x 12cm. 14 pages. Saddle-sewn self wrappers. A short account of Footdee, a historic fishing village in Aberdeen. Wrappers soiled, creased and ink stained. 3.5cm split to tail of spine. Minor tanning and creasing of corners of pages. Category: Travel & Exploration; United Kingdom & Ireland; 19th Century: 1851-1899; Inventory No: 0023561. …

thick8vo. 22cm, first edition, third impression, in 2 volumes, x,358 & vii,353pp., with 57 plate illustrations (inc 2 frontis portraits), volume indexes, original grey cloth, gilt spine titles on leather labels, vol. 1 label peeled with text loss, otherwise a fine set, very scarce. (Cdn). Volume One consists of both Lord and Lady Aberdeen's autobiographies of their early years; Lord Aberdeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and served as Governor-General of Canada from September 1893 to November 1898. A substantial part of Volume Two deals with his position. His task was complicated by political difficulties - the sudden death of the Prime Minister, Sir John Thompson in 1894; the break-up of the Bowell Government in the spring of 1896; and the defeat of the Tupper Government later that year. During his stay in Ottawa, Lord and Lady took an active role in social activism. Lady Aberdeen was instrumental in founding the National Council of Women (she was the first president) and the Victorian Order of Nurses. Lord Aberdeen was again appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1905 to 1915. Very interesting, readable reminiscences by both authors.…

oblong folio, 27x 36cm, viii,54p., limited edition of 550 numbered and signed by the editor, James Mavor, this being #100., with colour frontis plate & 50 plates (containing c. 89 illustrations including 2 double page), the illustrations are from drawings by F.H. Brigden, G.A. Reid, Beatrice Sullivan, Edmund M. Morris, F.M. Bell-Smith, Clara S. Hagarty & others, With a facsimile letter from the Countess of Aberdeen and an Introduction by G.R. Parkin, an Advertisement by James Mavor, with a catalogue of the drawings, pp49-51 & List of Ladies and Gentlemen who composed the sets, pp52-54, in the original mustard yellow cloth, title stamped in red on the upper cover, crest of the City of Toronto stamped in blind on the bottom cover, bevelled boards, fine copy, a rare book. (cgc). Victorian - era ball given by Their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Aberdeen, being mainly a collection of drawings by various artists produced under the direction of James Mavor. Issued in aid of The Victorian Order of Nurse, which Lady Aberdeen had founded. - "The whole issue of this book consists of seventy copies, numbered 1 to 70, containing proofs of the drawings, on large paper, seven proofs in each copy being on Japanese paper; three copies marked A, B and C, also on large paper, for the securing of copyright; and five hundred and fifty copies on small paper. All the copies are numbered and signed".…