Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2019
ISBN 10: 1546380051 ISBN 13: 9781546380054
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Fine.
Verlag: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1111
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Both hinges are cracked, causing boards to be loose. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Heavy splits to spine head.
Verlag: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 10: 154254694X ISBN 13: 9781542546942
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Anbieter: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, USA
ISBN-13: 9781584775898; ISBN-10: 1584775890. [Purves, David Laing (1838-1873)]. Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., [1860-1869?]. [v], 154 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775898; ISBN-10: 1584775890. Hardcover. Fine. $30. * This is a reprint of a volume that was published in 1868 by W.P Nimmo, Edinburgh, in the series Nimmo's Commonplace Books. It offers a variety of colorful -- and occasionally ribald -- anecdotes drawn from the history of English law, such as "A Judge in the Stocks-Lord Camden," "Eccentric Epitaph on a Barrister," "Lord Brougham's Rebuke of Rigmarole," and "The Last Temple Revel.".
Verlag: William P. Nimmo, 1870
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1870. No Edition Remarks. 624 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Sticker to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Noticeable crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Notable splits to spine ends. Marks overall.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1378436334 ISBN 13: 9781378436332
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1356226663 ISBN 13: 9781356226665
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: William P. Nimmo, London, 1876
Anbieter: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australien
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, William P. Nimmo, 1876. Octavo, 831 pages plus a frontispiece, a title-vignette, and 4 folding colour maps. Contemporary gilt-decorated full red calf; spine with gilt dentelles in compartments with a contrasting leather title label; edges and endpapers marbled; covers slightly rubbed with a few slight marks; spine slightly darkened; initial leaves, maps and adjacent leaves a little foxed; verso of the front free endpaper with three period colour transfers; a very good copy. The four sailors are Sir Francis Drake, William Dampier, Captain James Cook, and Lord George Anson, 1st Baron Anson and sometime Admiral of the Fleet. Early label of Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby mounted on the front pastedown.
Verlag: Nimmo
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Some edge wear to red leather boards, with gilt decoration. Spine head bumped/knocked. A tan to the page edges. Marbled end papers. A few small marks and some previous water damage behind the frontispiece. Text clear and unaffected throughout. Binding structurally sound. A good condition book.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Anbieter: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, USA
ISBN-13: 9781584775898; ISBN-10: 1584775890. "Curious Facts" and "Characteristic Sketches" [Purves, David Laing (1838-1873)]. Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., [1860-1869?]. [v], 154 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775898; ISBN-10: 1584775890. Hardcover. New. $65. * This is a reprint of a volume that was published in 1868 by W.P Nimmo, Edinburgh, in the series Nimmo's Commonplace Books. It offers a variety of colorful -- and occasionally ribald -- anecdotes drawn from the history of English law, such as "A Judge in the Stocks-Lord Camden," "Eccentric Epitaph on a Barrister," "Lord Brougham's Rebuke of Rigmarole," and "The Last Temple Revel.".
Verlag: ARKOSE PR, 2015
ISBN 10: 134494888X ISBN 13: 9781344948883
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: William P. Nimmo, London, 1878
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An anthology containing tales of the most remarkable circumnavigations by English sailors, illustrated with plates and maps. Edited with notes by David Laing Purves and R. Cochrane.Containing a series of stories from the most important voyages around the world including Drake's, Dampier's , Anson's, Cook's three voyages. With a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries.Illustrated with additional vignette title page as well as four folding coloured maps. Collated, bound without its frontispiece portraits of Drake, Dampier, Anson, and Cook. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine, back strip darkened. Internally, binding generally firm. Pages generally bright and clean. Very Good. book.
Verlag: William P. Nimmo & Co., London, 1874
Anbieter: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australien
Erstausgabe
Boards. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, original decorated cloth boards, engraved frontis portraiits plate, illus vignette halftitle page, 4 folding maps, pp 831 plus publisher's catalogue. Last page from the table of contents has corner torn off. Waterstain to the edge of approx. first 70 pages. Convent school prize plate lightly tipped-in. Original backstrip professionally restored and laid down on new cloth. Good condition. Selections from the voyages of Drake, Dampier, Anon, Captain Cook.
Verlag: Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell [c. 1880]., 1880
Anbieter: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo. 351, (1) pp. Contemporary prize binding by Relfe Brothers from the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, red full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label to one panel and with gilt decoration to the others, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and their prize label to the front free endpaper, endpapers and all edges marbled, lightly pencilled notes to one of the rear flyleaves. Frontispiece. A little light wear to the covers, occasional mild foxing, very good.
Verlag: William P. Nimmo, London, 1878
Anbieter: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Erstausgabe
Quarter Leather. Zustand: Near fine. First edition of The English Circumnavigators by David Laing Purves and R. Cochrane, published in 1874. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 831pp, [5]. Quarter brown morocco, brown cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised bands. Solid text block. Includes frontispiece and vignette, and complete with four fold-out global maps. St. Andrew's College stamp opposite title page, otherwise free of marks or notations. New endpapers. An attractive example. This work contains the following accounts of global exploration: Drake's Voyage Round The World, Dampier's Voyage Round The World, Anson's Voyage Round The World and Cook's three voyages.
Verlag: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London, 1840
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce two volume biography of prominent legal figures, with both volumes bound in one. The first edition of this very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume.A very scarce work, authorship has been variously attributed to James Grant, Archer Polson and Laing D. Purves, with no definitive conclusion reached.The preface explains that 'in the following work, we have attempted to trace the fortunes of some of our more eminent lawyers - to show the means by which they elevated themselves - and the struggles they underwent in endeavouring that elevation'.Chapter titles include literary lawyers, morality of laws and lawyers, legal eccentricity, and sketches of former judges.A lovely copy of this very scarce mid nineteenth century study of members of the legal profession. Rebound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Volume I frontispiece restored with tape to fore edge. Spotting to frontispieces, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.