colonel sir henry james (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. pp.vii, 339 pages (pages numbered using Roman numerals), a very good hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with bright gold gilt lettering to the front cover. Both covers also blind stamped with a floral design & there's some minor insignificant marks at the edges of the covers. All page edges are red.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. pp.vii, 343 pages (pages numbered using Roman numerals), a very good hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with bright gold gilt lettering to the front cover. Both covers also blind stamped with a floral design. All page edges are red.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 52pp. 22 plates, some folding and hand coloured. Plus: TABLES FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE METOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. Published 1861 34pp. 2 large folding charts, one of which has a tear.

Gilt Titled Green Boards. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 20p only but a rare index to the 1/2500 maps (25.34 miles to the inch) covering the Parish of Galashiels, Selkirk in Scotland. Shuna Island and Lismore. There is a folding index map, a 2p key and 20p of listings of the area numbered on individual maps with a description of each plot (Rough pasture, road, wood, foreshore, ruins and etc) with the area of each). Good condition bound in soft black leather with gilt totling on front covver. No significant marks or signatures but aged with rubbing pf the covers but binding sound and all complete. Bit toned, minimal foxing of endpapers. Rae - See scans.

Gilt Titled Green Boards. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 73p - a rare index to the 1/2500 maps (25.34 miles to the inch) covering the Parish of Melrose in the County of Roxburgh, containing 26058.286 Acres also the Parish of Earlston (Detached) in the County of Berwick containing .024 acres. There is a folding index map, a 2p key and 73p of listings of the area numbered on individual maps with a description of each plot (Rough pasture, road, wood, foreshore, ruins and etc) with the area of each). Good condition bound in stiff orange leather with gilt titling on front cover. No significant marks or signatures but aged with rubbing pf the covers but binding sound and all complete. Bit toned, minimal foxing of endpapers. See scans.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Eyre and Spottiswoode for HMSO, London, 1862; 4to, 240 x 295mm; pp 744; numerous tables throughout; standard blue thick paper wrappers; front and back covers detached as also are the front fly and the title, these text leaves frayed at the edges in consequence but with the balance of the book clean, tight and in good condition. . . . 12 of the 31 meteorological stations used are within the British Isles, the others being in Canada, Corfu, Gibraltar, Malta, the West Indies, Hong Kong, St Helena, Mauritius, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Freemantle, Aukland and Graham's Town. Observations were taken at 09.30 daily and in the same form, thereby providing good understanding of the climate at any one time during the period across the localities surveyed, the specific intention being for understanding of what the troops stationed in the various localities would experience. The observations (typically barometric pressure, temperature ranges and precipitation) are printed by location, the tables followed by observations made locally as to weather experienced, plant growth and prevalence of infectious and other diseases being variously included. The editor, a geologist and FRS was then in the War Office as the Director of the Ordnance Survey and the Topgraphical Department. . . . NOTE that as the book weighs some 2.7kg it may attract a carriage supplement, depending on destination and service required.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland selected under the direction of Sir William Gibson Craig and photozincographed by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by Colonel Sir Henry James. Complete in 3 Volumes. 1st edition. Published by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, the first volume being published in 1867. Southampton. 3 huge elephant folio volumes, each approximately 567mm x 420mm. Due to size, this set is usually found in distressed, disbound condition, but these examples remain bound. The spines however are largely missing with remaining traces of the leather binding to spine with gilt. Gilt upper edge of text block. Blue cloth with gilt covers. Covers are worn, bumped and substantially marked as shown in the photographs. Interior text is generally very good - some foxing, particularly to earlier and latter pages, but the bulk of the text is nice and clean with only occasional marks. These impressive volumes contain meticulous copies of documents covering all major events in Scottish history. A very important set of Scotland's historical documents, which does of course contain the Declaration of Arbroath from 1320, seen by many as Scotland's declaration of independence, now passed its 700th anniversary. Part I: 900-1296 AD. xviii + 43pp + many plates. Weight = c. 4.5kg. 1867. Part II: 1296-1488 AD. xxii + 69pp + many plates. Weight = c. 5.7kg. 1870. Part III: 1488-1706 AD. xx + unnumbered text + many plates. Weight = c. 6.8kg. 1871. Total unpacked weight approximately 17kg. Provenance: Bookplates to first pastedown - John William Burns of Kilmahew. Extra postage will be payable - extremely large and heavy set. More photos on request.