forrest sir george (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1918. No Edition Remarks. 472 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Volume I. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Sticker to front board. Marks and scratches overall. Textblock is shaky.

Zustand: Good. 1914. Reprinted. 379 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Ex libris stamp at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription and name stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. First Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (spine faintly creased, some staining to cloth, tissue guard torn opp. p.193, endpapers a bit offset, a few spots & small stains to leaf edges, discrete blind stamp to half-title); pp. xii, 372, with 10 plates and a map. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (South African War, Boer War, Military History, Biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

22.5cm, 212&208pp., frontis portrait of Cornwallis, index, red cloth, gilt coats of arms on upper boards, gilt spine titles, light staining to board edges, a good to very good set thus. Lord Cornwallis was the Governor General of Bengal from 1786 to 1793. An analysis from 1790 to 1792. Cornwallis' campaign against Tippoo.

Tall 8vo. 23.5cm, viii,372p., with 9 plates including frontis portrait, index, blue cloth with gilt titles and V.C. stamp on upper cover, a fine bright copy. Indian Mutiny; Umbeyla & Abyssinian Campaigns; Second Afghan War; Boer War; Commander in Chief of British Army 1901.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce privately printed catalogue of an exceptional collection of books, pamphlets and manuscripts on the history of British banking and currency; a valuable resource for students and professionals. A very scarce work in the original cloth binding, with a title label to the front board.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and sixty-nine plates, a couple of which are in colour. Collated, complete.An unusual catalogue of a major collection of books, pamphlets, and manuscripts illustrating the history and development of British banking and currency from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. This work draws together many sources including the Bank of England, the library of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, the Gurney family, and incorporating the James Holdsworth Collection on Savings Banks. A fantastic resource for students of economics or for professionals in this particular field, with a foreword by the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Sir George Blunden, and an introduction by Professor Forrest Capie. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart and bright. Front board is slightly warped. A couple of small marks to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine. book.

Tall 8vo. 24cm, xviii,472&438pp., with two frontis portraits (of Lord Clive), six plates, map of India, 2 plans of Trichinopoly & Plassey, appendices, index, black stamped wine cloth with gilt spine titles, a fine set. With the East India Company, Clive's principal wars included First Carnatic War (1744-1748); Second Carnatic War (1749-1754); Bengal War (1756-1757); Seven Years War (1757-1763). With principal battles: Siege Arcot (1751); Chandernagore; Plassey; and Siege of Pondicherry (1760-1761).

Second edition. 8 plates. 8vo. Good original blue cloth, gilt. xi, 372 pp. London, Cassell, .