hamilton william rev (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1937. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large Format, 11 5/8" Tall, 198 Pp. Vellum Spine Over Green Boards, Detailed Contents Tipped After Title Page. A Compilation Of Three Papers With Volume Title Page Listing Titles Here Published Together, Originally Read In 1835, 1837, And 1838 Respectively, Later Published As Part Of Vol. 18 Of The Transactions. Bookplate Of Stepney College Dated In 1850'S [Final Date In Year Is Not Filled In]. Wear, Cover Paper Frayed At Corners But Still Square, Hinges Solid.

Hardcover. Zustand: g to vg. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). xvi, 384pp (Vol. 1); xvi, 384pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 crushed morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Etched frontispiece in each volume. Splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and in-text wood-engravings, this 2-volume set contains a selection of old and new British ballads illustrated by some of the best illustrators of the their times. Moderate rubbing along joints. Covers slightly darkened / soiled. Some foxing to very first pages of both volumes. Bindings in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Original printing. First ed. Two parts in one volume. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Some rubbing along spine/edges, some scuffing to boards. All fold-outs present, clean, and intact. Red speckled edges. Original owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown, a few bookseller notes in pencil on endpapers. Foxing to backside of front map ONLY. Tear at top of title page. Otherwise an amazingly clean copy, NO foxing or markings, binding tight. (Full title: Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim Containing Such Circumstances as Appear Worthy of Notice Respecting the Antiquities, Manners, and Customs of that Country Together With the Natural History of the Basaltes, and its Attendant Fossils in the Northern Counties of Ireland.).

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight damage to a corner of the second leaf. Pencil note in another hand at foot of last page. Hamilton (1781-1876), Oriental Secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople, published 'Antar: A Bedoueen Romance' with the London publisher John Murray in 1819. The present letter therefore relates to a pre-publicity copy of the book, which Wrighte has read with 'great pleasure'. Readers are, he considers, 'much obliged to Mr. Terrick Hamilton for presenting it to the Public in such an elegant English dress'. He complains that the book 'contains but little information with respect to the domestic habits of the Arabians' and no allusion to the Red Sea (despite the fact that it 'relates to the different Tribes of Arabs in Arabia Felix, bordering on the Coasts of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf'), but finds that it has 'every mark of genuineness'. He also discusses 'the Arabic names for the Constellations' and 'the pasturing of Cattle'. The latter part of the letter concerns his son Henry. He explains that he feels 'anxiety to get him into some situation within the Church or in some civil capacity at Home or abroad', and suggests that the reason why he has not replied to Brydges's 'kind Letter concerning him', may be that he 'has been improvident and I hope is now fully sensible of it, and is perhaps ashamed to write to you'. The Gentleman's Magazine, November 1854, carries a short obituary for Wrighte.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pott8vo, 168 p. Modern grey three-quarter cloth, marbled boards, lettered gilt, orange endpapers. A VG copy of a rare edition, only 8 copies located on WorldCat. The date is from the ESTC.

12mo, pp. xxxv, [1], 265, [1]; silhouette frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved folding map (on old mount and a bit foxed), and 6 engraved plates (also with some foxing); bound with, as issued: An Itinerary from Belfast to the Giants' Causeway, coastways, and returning by Coleraine, &c. Also, a guide to the causeway, Belfast: Simms and M'Intyre, 1822, 12mo, occupying the last 45 pages of the book; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, front joint starting; good and sound. With the early ownership signature of "James C. Pell, April 12, 1832." First printed in Dublin in 1790 with 4 engraved plates and a map, this second edition includes a lengthy biography of the author who had died in 1797, as well as the silhouette frontispiece and the Itinerary from Belfast to the Giants' Causeway, all of which were not included in the Dublin edition. Hamilton (1755-97) was killed by a mob for his pro-British views, leaving a wife and nine children. And his book, Letters Concerning the North Coast of Antrim, was "pivotal in the vulcanist understanding of the history of the planet and was translated into several languages" (Wikipedia). Adam Smith was one of his sponsors for election into the Royal Society of Edinburgh.