Captain jesse (29 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: VG-. Limited Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, volume 1 only of a two-volume set, Edition de Luxe series from the Grolier Society and limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is number 114. Gray cloth boards show scuffing and soiling/toning is present. The internal bin…

Zustand: Fair. 1854. New Edition. 300 pages. Half bound green leather with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Book has been rebound. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pencil markings to reverse frontispiece. Hinges are heavily cracked. Binding r…

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Contemporary plain, dark half calf marbled boards. Front joint split but holding, Boards somewhat dulled and rubbed, folding map creased. Title page moderately foxed and soiled. Collates thus : ix, errata leaf, 335pp, foldg. map. Text measures 19.5 x 11.25cms. I…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health; or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries hold…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, pr…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Dustjackets. First Edition Thus. 309, 300 Pp. New Illustrated Edition, Blue Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Finely Printed, New Edition With Introduction And Twenty Colored Plates. No Marks Or Fading. Touch Of Wear At Corners, Free Endpapers Foxed As Usual, No Fading To Cloth, All Gil…

Hardcover. Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 309; xi, 300, [20] colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spines. New edition with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. Two thousand copies of this edition printed at The Riverside Press. No date, circa 1920. Slight rubbing at extremities, dulling to lettering at s…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A complete two volume set of the new edition of this illustrated biography on the English Regency socialite Beau Brummell, with coloured plates. The new edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings. Illustrated with twenty coloured plates. Collated, complete. A biog…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. An uncommon biography of the Regency era socialite George 'Beau' Brummell. An interesting biography of the Regency era socialite George 'Beau' Brummell. Brummel was an important figure on late eighteenth century London society and was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV befor…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A popular biography on the iconic dandy, known for his wit, fashion sense, and his close friendship with George IV when a prince. A new edition of The Life of George Brummel, Esq, Commonly Called Beau Brummell, a biography on the prolific dandy, written by Captain Jesse. In half morocco. Among the mo…

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Two volumes. 8vo. Three-quarter red crushed morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Top edge gilt. Endpapers marbled. Spine in six compartments, with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt. xvii, 369 pp.; xii, 358 pp. Connoisseur Edition, one of 150 copies. No publication date listed. Ex…

Ful Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the original French by Captain Jesse. Full calf with raised bands on the spine, brief title in gilt on red label. "Dollar Institution" on the front in gilt. Marbled page edges, Frontispiece engraving of animals of the Morvan region, xii, 326 one page advert. 5…

Quarter leather. 1st edition. 1st Edition, 8vo, original embossed cloth boards, gilt dec, colour frontis (Costume of Persians) with tissue guard, all edges gilt, pp.491, school prize plate (1864) fep, re-backed in red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spine, lacking both maps, otherwise in very good condition and a very…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A lovely large paper limited edition of Captain Jesse's definitive biography of the Regency socialite, in red half calf with bright pink marble boards. A beautifully illustrated limited edition of The Life of George Brummell, the revised and annotated edition from the author's own interleaved…

'Edition Magnifique', limited to 26 copies lettered 'S'; 13 volumes (of 14, without Nell Gwyn), royal 8vo, (240 x 160 mm); each volume has 8 illustrations (in three separate states) including a frontispiece divided by tissue guards titled in red lettering, printed on vellum paper, usual age-toning and spotting to prelims, heavy…

New edition, with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. London, The Navarre Society Limited, 1927, 2 volumes in-8, maroquin havane, plats décorés à froid, dos à nerfs orné d'un fin filet doré sous chacun des nerfs, pièce de titre et de tomaison en maroquin vert, tête rouge. Récit illustré de la vie de ce gentleman qui marq…