Author 1805 (25 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Octavo, 63 pages. In Good condition with a Fair minus dust jacket. Spine is tan with green print. Dust jacket has edge wear, tear to front hinge and spine, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Price clipped. Boards in green cloth with gold print. Text block has has gilt top edge, deckle edges, large owner stamp on fron…

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, xii, 457 pages. In Good plus condition with a Fair minus dust jacket. Spine is pink with black print. Dust jacket has edge wear, with portion of front top edge torn away, toning to spine, light peripheral soiling. Price unclipped: "$2.50". Boards in pink cloth with black print. Text block has ta…

Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold and black print; Boards in brown cloth with gold and black print, mitred edges, tattering to spine caps and corners, mild shelfwear but clean and tight; Text blocks have spotting to edges, name in pencil on front endpapers, cracked hinges front and rear of fi…

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. He praises Macgregor's book for representing 'most faithfully the spirit of the original. This I take it is the chief merit of any translation.' Macgregor's 'employment in this manner so distinct from the ordinary pursuits of the leisure of an officer, proves the work to be…

Hardcover. Octavo, xxx, 448 pages. In Fair minus condition. Spine is brown with gold print on black banner. Boards in brown leather; tattering to spine caps and corners, black banner taped to spine, tear to front hinge, surface tears, rubbing, toning. Text block has names in pencil and ink on front endpapers, top fore corner of…

1p., 12mo. With mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Sharp's gift is 'kind and acceptable', and Goulburn hopes 'soon to call upon Mrs Sharp and yourself and acknowledge your kindness in person'. However he does not consider himself 'a sufficiently dignified personage to be honoured by a Statuette. - Possibly some fe…

Zustand: Fine. Academic off-print folio 12'' x 9½'' in black and grey designed card wrap covers, gilt title lettering to the front cover. Contains pages 67-70 followed by paper-guarded colour plate drawn by J. O. Westwood, whose drawings of insects were masterpieces of correct delineation. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.…

Zustand: Very Good. Stipple engraved plates (8 + Engraved TP) by F. Eginton (Birmingham 1807) 156x87mm roan with black spine label gilt (front cover re-attached/tips very worn) vi+106pp, including "Epilogue to the Second Edition" at p87. Ownership inscription "Septimus Wray Chirurgus Fleet Street, London" on front end-paper, lig…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blackcurrant cloth effect covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, colour wash illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 191 pp with monochrome illustrations and 16 full-page colour plates throughout. Fine condition book in V…

The subject of this article is discussed by William M. Johnston, in his article 'William Kinglake's "A Summer in Russia": A Neglected Memoir of Saint Petersburgh in 1845' (TSLL, Spring 1967). The memoir was published anonymously by Ainsworth in the New Monthly Magazine, of which he was editor and proprietor, in three parts, but…

Zustand: Good. Folio. 39.5x30 cm (15½x12"), original front cover wrapper and plates laid in custom embossed portfolio covers.Lacking title plate, with 11 (of 12) color plates after Heinrich Lefler.Condition:Portfolio covers worn and soiled, original wrapper cover chipped and toned; varying faint toning and smudging to plates; go…

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Ainsworth begins: 'My dear Mr. Fullom, I am happy to tell you that you are under a great mistake. Your manner, on the occasion you refer to, produced the most favourable impression upon me.' Fullom 'exhibited great delicacy and modesty', and Ainsworth 'stated as much to Mr. Hurs…

An idiosyncratic letter, revealing something of his working practices, and the relations between client and bookseller in the early nineteenth century. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. From the collection of a painstaking Victorian autograph collector, who has unobtrusively repaired slight damage to a central fold. On…

1p., 12mo. An autograph note, apparently written at the head of the detached fly-leaf of a book. Fair, on aged paper, laid down on a torn page from an autograph album. Reads: 'This is a Curious & very Scarce Book. - | Madrid 1st. July 1777. | [signed] John Talbot Dillon | Knt. & Baron of the S. R. Empire.' The abbreviation stand…