captain malet (5 Ergebnisse)

HARDCOVER. First edition. 403pp color, b/w illustrations octavo decorative cloth. hinges cracked and slightly shaken, cover wear otherwise near good.

8° , Leinen. First edition. ERSTAUSGABE. XIII, 403 Seiten. Mit 10 Farbtafeln u. 3 Textholzschnitten. Kanten leicht bestossen, Rücken leicht geblichen, sonst guter Zustand. - Edges slightly bumped, spine slightly bleached, otherwise good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

Zustand: Good. 1876. No Edition Stated. 403 pages. No dust jacket. Half leather bound to patterned boards, with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Colour illustration plates throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Firm binding. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge partly cracked. Moderate wear, rubbing and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to top of front joint. Minor sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and marking to boards.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Hanhart (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated account of stage coaching by Captain Malet, bound in half morocco and illustrated with colour lithographs. The first edition.Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, monochrome woodcut vignettes, and nine chromolithographic plates. Collated, complete.This work was written by Captain Malet and provides an account of stage and mail coaching in Great Britain. The stagecoach was a form of public transport drawn by horses, with a mail coach being a stagecoach used to deliver mail, produced by the General Post Office. The work discusses the history of the stagecoach and details on speed, dangers and royal stagecoaches.Bound in contemporary crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards. Bound in crushed contemporary half morocco with cloth to the boards. Half title and blanks retained. Externally faded to the spine, light rubbing to the extremities, raised bands and joints, with very slight marks to the boards. Bookplate of Winsley to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with the odd spot, heavier to the front and rear. Bookseller's stamp to the front blank. Very Good. book.

Zustand: Good. Fully leather bound, with some darkening and light edgewear to leather. Gift inscription to prelim pages. Contents are clean but very lightly toned.