mitchell ll d (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Hardcover Fragile ivory cloth boards, rubbed and soiled at edges. Spine dulled. Decorated front board as pictured. Head and heel worn. Boards are perfumed. Stunning gilt patterned endpapers. Preface dated Bar Harbor, 1892. Boards appear perfumed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later. Good plus/ slight jagged pages, former owner's name inside, light wear and rub on the edges and corners, hinge is slightly loose.

Zustand: Very Good. Later. Very good minus. Rubs and bumps on cloth corners, edges and spine, book plate on front inside panel, name and date on front free endpaper.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Very good in pale grey black printed wrappers. Illustrated with black and white steel engraved plates and plans, showing for example; silver chains, symbols on slabs, bronze armlets, brochs, stone and bronze balls. ***Small owner's stamp to inside top of front wrapper: Dr. John Samuels, The Manor, South Street, Normanton on Trent, Newark. Bottom of spine torn, repaired with clear tape. Spine browned. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***216mm x 170mm. 57 pages. Contents: Balls of Stone or Bronze; Brochs; Massive Bronze Amulets; Figures Regarded as Symbols; Slabs sculpted with Symbols; Massive Silver Chains; Oval Polished Knives of Stone from Orkney; Rude Implements of Sandstone; Ground Plan of Horned Cairn at Camster, Caithness; Palaeolithic Relics; Dates in Antiquities and Archaeology; Before 1851; Work of the Society since 1851; The growth of the museum and library; The National Museum; Local and private collections; Publications of the Society; The Council of the Society; Growth of the Fellowship; Character of the Society's Work; Exhaustive Pieces of Work; Full Exploration of a small Area; Rhind Lectureship. ***First impression of the true first edition. Of interest to collectors, antiquaries and scholars of scottish pre-history and archaeology. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original blind-bordered cloth. Wear and tear as with age (with some loss to the spine). Spine band missing. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the Diss. Public Library and Scientific Institution with its bookplate. Physical description; 284 pages. Subjects; Astronomy. Modern Astronomy. 19th century Astronomy. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A fantastic journey into the world and society behind popular Scottish poet, Robert Burns. John Oswald Mitchell (1826-1904) was a Scottish writer, who compiled this non-fiction work regarding eighteenth century Scotland on the grounds of Burns' poetry, with chapters detailing all aspects of life, including politics, agriculture, fashion, food and drink, religion and superstition. Robert Burns (1759-1796) was active in the second half of the eighteenth century, and is widely celebrated as being the national poet of Scotland, writing primarily in English using a Scots dialect, and a pioneer of the Romantic movement. In the publisher's original hardback format. Externally a trifle rubbed, bumping to the corners , and the head and tail of the spine, with fading to the spine. Stamp of ownership to front endpaper. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean. Very Good. book.