Dalyell sir (15 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea is a thrilling and fascinating book that chronicles the most exciting and dramatic moments in maritime history. Sir JG Dalyell provides an eyewitness account of the most famous sea disasters of his time, including the sinking of the HMS Titanic, the Andrea Doria, and the Brittany Ferry. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of seafaring and the incredible stories that have happened at sea.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea is a thrilling and fascinating book that chronicles the most exciting and dramatic moments in maritime history. Sir JG Dalyell provides an eyewitness account of the most famous sea disasters of his time, including the sinking of the HMS Titanic, the Andrea Doria, and the Brittany Ferry. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of seafaring and the incredible stories that have happened at sea.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

First Edition. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-blocked buckram with leather labels to the spine. Remains preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 2 vol.: xiv, 380 pages. Subjects; Scottish Poems. 16th century poetry. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of historical studies on the instruments of Scotland. First edition. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. A study of musical instruments across Scottish history, written with a romantic approach as tended to be the style of historical writing in that period. With sketches exploring the origin and the traditional uses of various instruments including the bagpipe, the organ, bells, the lute, and the harp, amongst others. Written by Sir John Graham Dalyell, a Scottish advocate, antiquary and naturalist. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd mark to the cloth. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound with pages ix to xii loosening slightly. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and light age toning to the extremities. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated 1906. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition of antiquarian Sir John Graham Dalyell's fascinating study of the occult lore of Scotland, featuring tales of sorcery and the devil. The very scarce first edition, first issue of this study of the history of the supernatural in Scotland from British antiquarian and naturalist Sir John Graham Dalyell, in an attractive full calf binding.Only two issues of this work were ever printed, the first being this one, printed in Edinburgh in 1834, and the second in Glasgow in 1835. Both are very scarce.In John Ferguson's 'Bibliographical Notes on the Witchcraft Literature of Scotland', it is noted that this fascinating work is ideal for 'any one desirous of comparing the form which superstitious beliefs and occult customs, divination, sorcery, spectral illusions, and so on took in Scotland with that in other countries'. Many of Scotland's most notable witchcraft cases are referred to, and Ferguson goes on to identify that the work features 'sections upon secondsight, fairies, the devil and his compacts with witches, their conventions and practices, torture and execution'Chapters titles are: 'Of an Evil Eye, Invocations, and Maledictions'; 'Occult Infection and Cure of Maladies'; 'Miscellaneous Remedies, or Antidotes to Disease'; 'Amulets'; 'Analogies to Propitiatory Sacrifice'; 'Propitiatory charms'; 'Faculties ascribed to Sorcerers'; 'Superstitions relative to Marriage'; 'Doctrine of Sympathy'; 'Ingredients and Instruments of Superstition and Sorcery'; 'Mystical Plants'; 'Mystical Animals'; 'Mystical Mankind'; 'Prognostication, Divination'; 'Imaginary Beings'; 'Spectral Illusions'; 'The Tongues'; 'Tests, Trial, Conviction, and Punishment of Sorcery'.An errata leaf appears following the contents pages, and an addenda and index appear to the rear. In a full calf binding with gilt detailing and blind tooling to the front board. Areas of rubbing to back strip, joints and board perimeter, resulting in light losses to the leather. Bookseller's labels to front pastedown. Pages generally clean and exceptionally bright, with the odd instance of spotting throughout. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

pp. (ii), iii, (iii), 286. 70 plates; xiii, (i) blank, 359, (i) blank. 46 plates; li, (i) blank, 111, (i) blank, (i) To the Binder, (i) blank. Fine engraved portrait of Dalyell and 28 [1 bis] plates. All 145 plates are engraved and hand-coloured. Later quarter calf over contemporary marbled boards, last nine leaves in v.I with some marginal dampstaining and the recto of the final leaf laid down with tissue (no text loss), very occasional foxing, overall very good copies. *FREEMAN BNHB #902. …

4to. ppviii 88, 64, 16, xxiii 99. engraved frontispiece facsimile. 2 other engraved plates with the original tissue guards. nice crisp clean condition in a contemporary red roan leather binding, lightly rubbed and with a bit of damage to foot of spine. all edges gilt. presentation inscription from the author to Sir John Scott. contains 'Desultory Reflections on the State of Ancient Scotland', 'Diary of Robert Birrel, from 1532 until 1605', 'Expedition into Scotland by the Earl of Hertford, 1544', 'Expedition into Scotland by the Duke of Somerset, 1547' [please see our storefront page for shipping information].…

FIRST EDITION, 3 vols, half titles, folding frontispiece map and another folding map (both vol. 1); vols II and III variously toned with some foxing, pp. xix, [1], 448; [2], 516; [2], 515, [1], 8vo, later nineteenth-century half blue morocco, spines ornately gilt in compartments with red labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; joints scuffed and tender, spine leather chipped at head of vol. I and (more significantly) foot of vol. III; bookplate of Harrison Williams; good. Superb accounts of 22 shipwrecks and stories of seafaring derring-do, arranged chronologically from 1431 (the Pietro Quirini) to 1807 (the Nautilus Sloop of War). These narratives, which comprise first hand and contemporary accounts, include the wreck of Francis Pelsart off New Holland (1629), the story of a Dutch crew over wintering in Nova Zembla in 1596, the loss of the ship Sidney on a South Sea reef in 1806, and the voyage made by Captain Bligh, in an open boat, from Tofoa to Timor in 1789. (Sabin 80537. Ferguson 548b). …