chambers william and robert ed (5 Ergebnisse)

1/2 Leather. Zustand: Good. 1/2 Leather Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1850 PRINTING. Volumes V & VI in one book. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (marbled boards with leather on spine and corners) show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Zustand: Good. New Edition. 823 pages. Half bound red leather with red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Chipping to leather to edges.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Hinge cracked. Reinforcement to rear inner hinge. Some foxing. 260mm x 180mm (10" x 7"). viii, 832pp, 32pp. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Green hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [vi], ii, 334, [2, ads]. Contemporary ecru sailcloth, edges sprinkled red. A little foxed. Boards somewhat soiled, patch of damage to rear board at fore-edge. Blind-stamp of Trinity Episcopal School to flyleaf, half-title and a few internal pages. The first edition of Chambers? educational book of short biographies of worthy figures with a Scottish bent to its contents, finding room for James Watt and Thomas Telford alongside Columbus, Franklin and Washington. It was published as part of ?Chambers?s Educational Course?, reprinted in 1838 and again in 1873. This copy survives in a rude but not undignified sailcloth binding.

Leather. Zustand: Good. none (illustrator). Two volumes featuring the 'Chamber's Journal' periodicals from 1880 and 1881, bound in half calf. Two volumes.The fourth series.Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards.This set features a collection of the 'Chamber's Journals' from the years 1880 to 1881 bound over two volumes. These journals were published monthly and discussed popular literature, art and science. Both volumes feature a complete year of published journals, covering topics such as ancient Burials in Orkney, the ugly duckling theory and landowning. Bound in half calf. Externally generally smart with marks to the boards, fading, bumping to the extremities of the boards and rubbing to the boards to '1880' with rear joint tender and front starting. Hinges tender to '1880', with scattered spotting to the endpapers with a significant closed tear to the front free endpaper to '1880'. Internally firmly bound to '1881' and generally firmly bound to'1880' with pages 831 to rear blanks tender. Pages lightly age toned with spotting to the fronts and rears and the odd spot throughout. Good. book.