Gordon rev james (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), viii, 128pp. 24 plates from pencil drawings by Gordon Home. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, dustwrapper. Endpapers browned, bookplate to the front pastedown, else the book is in bright, very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good plus condition (some rubbing and spotting, small chip to the head of the spine panel).…

Leather. Zustand: Good. A varied collection of stories by James Hogg, drawing on his personal background in farming. This work is in a half calf leather binding with marbled boards. With gold gilt around the boards and on the spine. James Hogg draws on his personal connection to farming in Scotland in this interesting collection of stories. This includes an impressive selection of 15 plates, including a frontispiece of a portrait of James Hogg. Missing a plate of Erne Cleuch on page 28.Includes an additional illustrated engraved title page. In a half calf binding with marbled boards and bright, marbled fore edge. Externally generally smart. Slight rubbing to the leather, mainly to the extremities, where rubbing has resulted in loss of leather. Some marks on leather particularly rear right hand corner. Slight rubbing on front board. Marks to rear board, resulting in loss to marbling. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally a few scattered spots, mainly to the first and last pages. Pages bright and clean. Missing a plate of Erne Cleuch on page 28. Good. Sir J. W. Gordon; D. O. Hill; K. Halsewelle (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Some spotting to front board, especially at edge. 128pp. Border history and topography, illustrated from pencil drawings. Attractive two tone blue boards, with Melrose ruins on front cover in silhouette. Certificate on free front endpaper. Gordon Home (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Foolscap8vo, [ii], 132, cxxix, [3 - index] p. Contemporary brown full calf. Upper board crudely reattached with a canvas strip otherwise a good copy with the 23 page list of subscribers and the printed bookplate of William King on the front pastedown. The title continues: from the Year 1782, until the Suppression of the Intended Revolution, to which is prefixed a Geographical and Historical Account of Ireland. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large post8vo, [ii], xxxiii, [i - errata second edition], 335; xxiv, 383; [ii], ix, [i - errata], 371; [viii], vi, 405 p. Five multi-folding engraved maps complete: Vol. I The World with its latest discoveries plus A new map of Spain Designed for the present state of Spain; Vol. II Italy Switzerland and Germany; Vol III The British Islands plus A map of Ireland principally intended to shew the position of the Chief Groups of Mountains and the Courses of the greater Rivers. Copied with some additions from Beaufort's small Map, by permission. Contemporary brown full tree calf, gilt on red and black lettering pieces, single gilt rule around all boards, edges of the boards gilded, narrow silk bookmarks in Vols. 3 and 4. In volumes one, two and three a forename and surname have been neatly cut out of the titles after 'Terraquea;' and on either side of 'or, a', the missing paper has been replaced with old paper and not affecting the printing on the titles of Vols. I and II, however there is slight damage to the T and E of Terraquea in the title of Vol. III otherwise a near fine clean set with good margins and excellent maps. Vols. II, III and IV are first editions and dated 1793, 1795 and 1798. Note, ECCO does not list the 1790 first edition of Vol. I though it is in the British Library and EEBO does not locate Terraquea at all. Gordon was listed as Vicar of Barragh up to Vol. IV when he was listed as Rector of Cannaway, in the Diocese of Cork, and Vicar of Barragh, in the Diocese of Leighlin.…