Nasmyth j (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good-VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket (none issued). 'New Edition', (1st-1863). f/piece (engraving by J. Nasmyth)+xiv+353+13 (pub.notices of other Smiles books plus other scientific biographies); decorated ex-libris label of Jack Meadows to front pastedown, 1887-dated hand-written school prize description verso front end-paper (High School of Dundee 1st Prize to a David Low for Metal Work), otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, end-gutters good, dust traces to top edge; Dark red beveled-edge covers with clean virtually unworn boards, gilt lettering and central impressed heraldic crest to front, marred however by faded spine with wrinkled top and slight surface dustiness in places. (Includes a 1 p. final appendix quoting Babbage's account of the assistance a Mr Clement gave him on his calculating engine, he having been recommended by Brunel.). J. Nasmyth (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. No Jacket. New edition. Edges untrimmed. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Publisher's cloth, gilt motif on front cover.

Vierte Auflage. 2., völlig veränd., verb. und verm. dt. Umarb. des engl. Orig.-Textes. gr.-8°.3 Bll., 214 S. mit 21 Taf., dav. 1 farb. als Frontispiz. Blauer Oln.-Bd. mit weißgeprägtem Deckel- u. Rückentitel. Einband berieben, etwas angegilbt, Vorsatz mit Exlibris u. Buchhändleretikett. Die deutsche Erstausagbe erschien 1876 als Übersetzung des englischen Originals "The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite". Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.…

Zustand: Good. [23] leaves of text and 20 colour engravings each with tissue guard. (4to) 32.5x24 cm (12¾ x 9½") period three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Edges worn, front hinge open; paper a bit toned but overall internally near fine.Henry Vizetelly, Printer and engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street"Plates engraved by Louis Marvy; after Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, J.M.W. Turner, J. Holland, Francis Danby, Thomas Creswick, William Collins, Richard Redgrave, Frederick Richard Lee, George Cattermole, William James Mu?ller, James Duffield Harding, Peter Nasmyth, Richard Wilson, Edward William Cooke, John Constable, Peter De Wint, David Cox, Thomas Gainsborough, David Roberts, and Clarkson Stanfield. Each plate is followed by a short critique by Thackeray. Thackeray was an old friend of Marvy, a French artist, who took refuge in London after the chaos of 1848. Theodore Taylor's 1864 biography of Thackeray mentions the history of the book: "A fine and skillful landscape painter himself, M. Marvy, while here, as a means of earning a living, made a series of engravings after the works of our English landscape painters. The publishers, however, would not undertake the work without a series of letter-press notices of each picture from Thackeray; and the latter accordingly added some criticisms which are interesting as developing his theory of this kind of art" (p.32). An interesting and quite scarce Thackeray item, very rarely found colored.Abbey, Life in England, no 207 : "The majority of the copies issued were uncoloured.".…

Verlag von Leopold Voss, Leipzig, 1876. VII, 165 Seiten mit zahlreichen Holzschnitten, zwei lithographierten und neunzehn Tafeln in Lichtdruck, betitelter Halbleinen-Einband, quart, (etwas fleckig/Kanten berieben/Rücken angeplatzt)---- Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe / Mit Erläuterungen und Zusätzen von Dr. H. J. Klein - 1065 Gramm.…

3 original Woodbury prints of the moon's surface, mounted to captioned sheets, hinged to archival acid-free mat frames. ÒPerthÓ punched into top edge of sheets. Prints: 17.5 x 13 cm; sheets: 25 x 21 cm. Generally good condition, various imperfections.