Mackintosh robert james ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1835. No Edition Stated. 527 pages. Vol I. Half leather bound to patterned boards, with gilt lettering. B&W frontispiece. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name plate to front paste down. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends and some leather edges. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards. …

Hardcover. Zustand: ex library-good. 2 vols.: vii, 499; vii, 525 p. 24 cm. Frontispiece portrait in vol. I. Purple cloth. Ex library with labels on spines, rear pastedowns. Ink stamps on title pages. Spines and parts of boards are quite faded. Chipped spine ends. Two-volume biographical collection of personal writings, letters, and diary entries documenting the life of Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832). Mackintosh was a prominent Scottish jurist, Whig politician, philosopher, and historian. Includes travel notes from India and Europe, plus commentary on law, politics, and the French Revolution.…

Leatherbound. Zustand: Fair. Abridged American Edition. 2 vols.: iv, 13-201; 213 p. 18 cm. Half leather with marbled boards. Worn edges and corners. Spine labels chipped off. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Paper browning and vol. 1 has some small tears and rough edges at top edges. Vol. 2 has torn front pastedown. Labels, including one for a bookseller, on rear pastedowns. Mackintosh was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. Remarkably, he was trained as a doctor and barrister, but also worked as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, and philosopher. His account of his many careers is well worth reading.…