phillips thomas sir (22 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. 1st Edition. Contains Times article "the night train to rannoch" by Ian Jack loosely inserted. Book.

Zustand: New. In.

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Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff cream wrappers. 186pp. Illustrations. Near fine. The collection of this astonishing English antiquary and bibliophile extraordinaire (1792-1872), who practically created the concept of bibliomania, were so insanely extensive that when they came on the market long after his death they occupied auctioneers for over a century after his death. Offered here is "Bibliotheca Phillippa: New Series," Part 15 of a series begun in 1965 and completed in 1977.

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff green wrappers 154pp, (2pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Spine rather sunned, else tight and nice. The collection of this astonishing English antiquary and bibliophile extraordinaire (1792-1872), who practically created the concept of bibliomania, were so insanely extensive that when they came on the market long after his death they occupied auctioneers for over a century after his death. Offered here is "Bibliotheca Phillippa: New Series," Part 11 of a series begun in 1965 and completed in 1977.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 119 pages; Description: iii, 119 p. : tabs. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Elderly persons -- Pensions -- Finance, Personal -- Old age pensions -- Aged -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Series: Cmd ; 9333. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 337 pages; Subjects: Statesmen--Great Britain--Correspondence. Series: Camden fourth series ; v. 12. 3 Kg.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Ex collage library sticker. Spine very neatly strengthened. Bumping to corners.

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Zustand: Good. Auflage: 1990.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. 1849. 8vo. xvi,606p., appendix, in contemporary full calf, gilt ruled raised bands, full border and floral decorated in the panels, black leather label, marbled endpapers and edges, worn at the edges but a very good sound copy, scarce (s12.2).

First edition. Presentation copy from the author "to his valued friend W. Addams Williams Esq". Small 8vo., xii + 193pp. 9 ill. plates inc. a rather sensitive portrait of Sir Thomas Phillips as frontispiece. Orig. plum boards (faded to brown) worn at extremities, embossed borders front, back and spine. Recipients name inscribed on ffe/p. Pages occ. foxed o/w VG.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First English Edition. ; Contemporary 3/4 leather over scuffed marbled boards. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Text tight & intact. Rear hinge cracked & front hinge partially cracked with covers firmly attached. Early owner's ink stamp in front. Condition of individual books as noted after each title. Each book or part was issued separately at intervals throughout the year with the intention of having each series bound together although they were sometimes bound individually. There were 10 or more volumes published in this series. These books were of considerable interest because, at the time, they were one of the only sources of information as to current conditions in foreign countries. Most travel & exploration books were of a more historical nature. FULL Titles: (1) "TRAVELS IN ICELAND: PERFORMED BY ORDER OF HIS DANISH MAJESTY CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS, A DESCRIPTION OF THE LAKES, RIVERS, GLACIERS, HOT-SPRING AND VOLCANOES; OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF EARTH, STONES, FOSSILS AND PETRIFACTIONS; AS WELL AS OF THE ANIMALS, INSECTS, FISHES, ETC." by Eggert Olafsen & Bjarni Povelsen, translated from the Danish. 2pp ads + title page + 2pp preface + pp 5-158 + 4pp index. Compete with 5 plates as called for at end of text (including fold-out map of Iceland ). Text tight & clean with very minor scattered foxing. (2) "VOYAGE TO, AND TRAVELS THROUGH THE FOUR PRINCIPAL ISLANDS OF THE AFRICAN SEAS, PERFORMED BY ORDER OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, DURING THE YEARS 1801 AND 1802 WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE PASSAGE OF CAPTAIN BAUDIN TO PORT LOUIS IN MAURITIUS" by Bory de Saint Vincent, translated from the French. Title page + 2pp Ad + pp 5-208 + 2pp index. Complete with 7 plates as called for by binder's list at end of text. Includes 2 maps (1 fold-out). A total of 5 fold-out & 2 full page plates: 5 of these are acquatints. Plate (Inside Crater.Isle of Bourbon) has 1" tear along fold & & 5" x 1" dampstain along top edge. No other tears, but fold-out plate of St Croix was misfolded & has a few extra creases. Deals mainly with the islands of St Helena, Tenerife, Mauritius &Reunion. (3) " GLEANINGS OF A WANDERER IN VARIOUS PARTS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & NORTH WALES, MADE DURING AN EXCURSION IN THE YEAR 1804" by Anonymous (Mrs Leslie? ). Title page + pp 3-168 + 4pp index. 1 acquatint plate. (4) "TRAVELS FROM HAMBURGH THROUGH WESTPHALIA, HOLLAND, AND THE NETHERLANDS, TO HOLLAND" By Thomas Holcroft. No title page. This is an 84 page (+2pp index) summary with excerpts from his 2 volume, 1100 page work published in 1804. World Travel ; B.W. Plates; 8vo; 630 pages.

No date, watermark for 1853, Middle Hill Press, tall 4to, pp22, printed front wrapper only. Front wrapper loose as issued, otherwise good.

Ambroise Tardieu, engraver [Thomas Phillips, after] (illustrator). 1st edition. Original engraved portrait of Sir Joseph Banks wearing the 'Star and Garter', after a painting by Thomas Phillips, 200mm x 120mm, titled in French below image : [translation: Sir Joseph Banks, voyager-naturalist, President of the Royal Society of London. Born at Revesby in the County of Lincoln, England, 1743. Died in London, 9 May 1820). near fine condition Sir Joseph Banks once wrote :'I am a bird of peace. My business as an encourager of the transport of plants from one country to another is suspended during war, and then, as I am no politician, I am the least employed when all other people are in hurry and bustle'. Accordingly he returned to the French, unopened, parcels of specimens which, collected by La Billardière, had fallen into English hands by the fortunes of war [ADB]. Engraved by the French to mark the death of Sir Joseph Banks.

4to, pp. 5; OCLC finds only the U. of Chicago and Newberry copies; bound with: Observations on the coffin-plate and history of Gunilda, sister of the Saxon king, Harold II, by G.F. Bletz, London, 1834, pp. 15; frontispiece facsimile of the coffin-plate; bound with: Observations on the Bayeux Tapestry, by Hudson Gurney, London, 1817, pp. 14; partially in double column detailing the 72 inscriptions on the tapestry; bound with: Some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry, by Charles Strothard, in a letter addressed to Samuel Lysons, London, 1819, pp. 10; bound with: A defense of the early antiquity of the Bayeux Tapestry, by Thomas Amyot, London, 1819, pp. 19, including an appendix containing a 3-p. poem on the Battle of Hastings; bound with: Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror, by Thomas Stapleton, London, 1835, pp. 14, including a half-page family tree; bound with: Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniae de anno ab incarnatione Domini M.C.LXXXIIII, Willielmo filio Radulfi senescallo, pp. [4], 12; largely printed in Saxon type, n.p., May, 1830; the text of a Norman pipe-roll and "printed for private distribution" to draw attention to "our own invaluable series of Pipe-Rolls, of which it is believed comparatively little is known"; inscribed "Henry Ellis Esq. with Mr. Petrie's comps."; not in OCLC; bound with: De rebus gestis Richardi Angliae regis in Palestina. Excerptum ex Gregorii Abulpharagii chronico Syriaco. Edidit vertit illustravit Paul. Jac. Bruns, Oxonii: apud J. & J. Fletcher; D. Prince & J. Cooke, 1780, pp. 20, xi, (last 6 leaves printed in Syriac); bound with: A table of the movements of the court of King John of England, by Thomas Duffus Hardy, London, 1828, pp. 39, text largely in double column; bound with: Narrative of the progress of King Edward the First in his invasion of Scotland in the year 1296, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, London, 1826, pp. 23; bound with: A brief summary of the wardrobe accounts.of King Edward the Second, by Thomas Stapleton, London, 1835, pp. 30; bound with: Account of the tomb of Sir John Chandos, Knt. A.D. 1370 at Civaux, a hamlet on the Vienne in France, by Samuel Rush Meyrick, London, 1823, pp.14, with an attractive copper-engraved plate of the tomb; not in OCLC; bound with: Transcript of a chronicle [of the time of Edward the Third] in the Harleian Library of MSS. No. 6217 [drop-title], [by Thomas Amyot], London, 1828, pp. 82; not in OCLC; bound with: Two English poems in the time of Richard II. Communicated by the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, M.A., Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, . (Read 3 March, 1814), [n.p., n.d. ?London, 1814], pp. 8; Wellcome Library only in OCLC; bound with: Some account of the coronation of King Richard the Second, by Alfred John Kempe, London: printed for the author, n.d. [ca. 1831], pp. 16, hand-colored engraved frontispiece showing the crowns of 11 kings, text largely in double column; 3-line and presumably authorial correction to the text on p. 5; bound with: An account of the army with which King Richard II. invaded Scotland, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, London, 1828, pp. 9. Together 16 scholarly texts in a contemporary binding of quarter tan calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered direct ("English History before Ric. II."); joints starting, minor rubbing; most acceptable. Nine titles are offprints from the Archaeologia as published by the Society of Antiquaries, and mostly printed by J. Nicols and Son. All are presumably rare. The Conybeare and the Oxford imprint are terrific.