rev charles webb bas (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 1836. Hardcover. Rebound in marbled boards. Fine clean copy with bright title pasted on front board, well defined edges and new end papers for tight binding, clean and crisp pages. Lightly toned. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. 1836. Hardcover. Rebound in marbled boards. Fine clean copy with bright title pasted on front board, well defined edges and new end papers for tight binding, clean and crisp pages. Lightly toned. First edition copy. . . .

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A fascinating biography of the first Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton. A very scarce first edition. The very scarce first edition, complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, volume II with a folding map frontispiece. Collated, complete.A biography of noted Anglican bishop Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, who in 1814 became the first Bishop of Calcutta.In May 1814, Middleton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the basis of being "a Gentleman well known to the literary world as the author of several classical works, and conversant with various departments of science".Rebacked, retaining original endpapers.The work of English clergyman and principal of the East India Company College, Charles Webb Le Bas. Rebacked, in half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards, retaining original endpapers. Light rubbing to centre and fore edge of boards. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Evidence of bookplate removal to volume I pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Inscriptions to title page heads. Very Good. book.