macgowan rev (20 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.

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

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

hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Philadelphia, 1851; poor condition; leather covered boards very worn; both boards detached but present; almost all sine cover chipped off; corners of boards exposed; end papers detached but present; rear end paper has handwritten note and names on it; title page loose; interior unmarked with light foxing throughout; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; 284 pages.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Quarter Calf. Zustand: Good. Sudlow (illustrator). with vi + 312pp, portrait, frontispiece by Sudlow, text somewhat foxed and marked throughout, nicely rebound by Stephen Conway, Manchester, 1817.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. North China Daily News & Herald 1909 edition. Some foxing to pages, text clean and bright, binsing coming away from back board, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

A new edition. A new edition. Frontispiece portrait. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three-quater leather over faux snakeskin. Two-inch section missing at base of spine, inner hinges cracked, else Very Good Frontispiece portrait. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

1st Ed. Large 8vo. viii + 368pp. 12 tipped in colour plates by Montagu Smyth, 34 other ills. from photos. Some light age toning and sporadic light spotting, f.e.ps. browned, ownership inscription, original gilt lettered black cloth with gilt illus. to upper board, minor rubbing, corners sl. bumped, some unobtrusive light staining to lower board, spine lightly browned and sl. bumped and chipped at head and tail, t.e.g. US$88.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Infernal Conference: Or, Dialogues of Devils. By the Listener. In two volumes [bound as 1] [by John MacGowan] London, printed. Philadelphia, re-printed And sold by Stewart & Cochran. 1794 334 pages + 1 page of ads. Once bound in full leather, now not. Leather spine intact and front board present but detached. Rear board missing. Some scribbled and notations in ink on the inside front cover and endpaper. First blank page has writing on it as well, "Eli Shankle his book bought at the widow Halleys March the 21 day 1807 price 100 cents Eli Shankle." The name William Halley signed on the title page. Some pencil notations on the title page, calculating the age of the book in the 1870s. On the last page is written "Eli Shankle 1807 Thomas Berry 1777 Ely Shankle his hand and pen 1234567" Two volumes bound together, each with a title page. Text block fine, pages thin and uniformly faded. The book comes from a Washington DC auction-house. This is significant because there is a well documented William Halley who lived on King Street in Alexandria in the from the 1780s until his death in the early 1800s. He left his property to his wife Esther Halley. The book itself is scarce in an early edition -- it seems to have been first published in 1772. It was popular in America, and was printed there as far west as Pittsburg and Kentucky, in addition to at the eastern presses.

Hardcovert. Zustand: Fair. 1st edtion. Rebound 622pp, octavo, fold-out map, tight binding, clean throughout, silverfish and wear to the boards, tight binding, mild foxing & silverfish to the pages, unmarked throughout, spine titles have faded away, foxing throughout,

1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [vi] + 197pp. Light age toning, original gilt lettered green cloth, light fading and marking, spine sl. chipped. US$147.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. Smyth, Montague (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover; small 4to; 367 pages. First edition. Brown cloth hardcovers with gilt on spine, gilt illustration on upper board. Fraying/torn cloth on corners, head/tail, upper hinge. Bumped corners, exposed boards. Board cloth mottled and spotted. Gilt on top. Yellowing but bright and clean interior, many plates. P/--. Book.

North-China Daily News & Herald LTD. Shanghai. 1910. Hardback. No DW. Original brown cloth boards with embossed vingette. Head and tail of spine bumped. Page edges browned and endpapers foxed and browned. Ownership inscription to first free endpaper. Overall, a remarkably clean copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Montague Smyth (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of Macgowan"s richly illustrated account of Chinese customs, social life, and everyday culture in late Qing China. In the publisher's original cloth binding.First edition.The work offers an exploration of a wide range of subjects including family life, religious beliefs, servants, agriculture, education, street life, officialdom, and travelling through the Chinese countryside.Illustrated with twenty-eight monochrome plates, and twelve colour plates including a frontispiece. With two plates slightly mis-bound but present, the plate facing p. 129 bound instead facing p. 131, and the plate for p. 139 bound facing p. 129. Collated, complete.The Reverend John Macgowan (1835-1922) was a British Congregational missionary who spent many decades in China, particularly in Fujian province.An informative and engaging portrait of traditional Chinese society written by a long-term resident and observer during a period of profound cultural encounter, Macgowan combines anecdotal observation with commentary on the character, habits, and institutions of Chinese society as encountered by Western residents. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, smart. Slight fading, rubbing, and bumping to spine and extremities. Slight rubbing marks with the odd faint spot of damp staining to upper perimeters of boards. Slight loss to cloth at head of rear joint. Offsetting to endpapers with the odd spot. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Very Good. book.

Reprint of the 1883 Trubner edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 611, [1]; near fine in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover an spine. "The Amoy dialect is one of the four principal dialects which, with their varieties, are spoken by at least seven millions of people. These dialects viz: the Chang-chow, the Chin-chew, the Tung-an, and the Amoy, extend to about one hundred miles North, West, and South of Amoy" (introduction).

First edition. Octavo, pp., 320, with seventy-seven photographs within the text, as called for. Full polished calf by Relfe Brothers, gilt armorials of Bishop Holgate's Grammar School, Barnsley to boards, in a border of floral rolls, ornate rolls to board-edges and inner dentelles in gilt; gilt ornaments within compartments to spine, titled in gilt to black leather spine-label; all edges marbled, marbled end-papers. Prize bookplate dated 1904 to front paste-down, binder's ink-stamp to verso of front free-endpaper. Slight scuffs to board, a little shelf-wear to extremities, slight loss to spine label, binding a little tight. Occasional spots of toning within. Generally, a very good copy. John MacGowan (1835-1922) was a Belfast missionary, who first visited China in 1860 with the London Missionary Society. MacGowan wrote fifteen books on China, and spent the last 50 years of his life travelling and living in the country.

1897, Shanghai, printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, ppix + 622, folding map to the rear, complete, black cloth, gilt. Some internal browning, otherwise very good.