rev draper (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Binding near very good. Some rubbing to joints and ends of spine. Heavy spotty foxing to plates, mainly to margins. Owner's inscription dated 1836 on front endpaper "Robert Bruce Willis from Mrs [Brind?] Wick House May 1836".; Second edition. viii, 256 pages + 16 steel engraved plates (including frontispiece). Green cloth boards with red leather spine. Page dimensions: 133 x 102mm. Frontispiece illustration is "A Caravanserai or Eastern Inn. Other illustrations include: Egyptian Wheat; Ebenezer; Oriental Dresses; The Mirage or Glowing Sandy Plain. Spine title: "LITTLE LIBRARY BIBLE ILLUS." Series: The Little Library, No. VII.

Zustand: Very Good. Engraved plates (16). 130x105mm red roan spine cloth side boards (head chipped/hinges starting) (viii) +256pgs + [8] pgs Publishers catalogue, collated complete. Inscriptions on front end paper Benjamin and Elizabeth Gibbons, Bath 1833 and 1902 Hartlebury. Minor signs of use and some light foxing to plates (Moon 219 (2)). 1 volume. Hardcover.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of the Rev. Bourne Draper Hall's illustrated depiction of life in 'the East', drawing parallels to Biblical passages. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further engraved plates.Collated, complete.Rev. Bourne Hall Draper describes diverse aspects of life in the Middle East, with discussion of housing, hospitality, threshing, sacrifice, food, cannibalism, agriculture, architecture, clothing, posture, and climate. He draws parallels between these observations about culture, and passages from the pages of the Bible. In the publisher's original roan backed, cloth covered boards. Rubbing to back strip head and tail, and joints. Front joint starting, with board firmly held. Head of rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Internally, title page detached to head and a touch tender, otherwise firmly bound. Spotting to plates, with further spotting and offsetting to pages facing them. Pages otherwise generally clean and bright, though a touch age toned. Good. book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good binding. In the publishers paper cover boards with a leather spine and gilt lettering. A somewhat worn copy which is intact and very serviceable. Previous owners names in pencil on the front free end paper, the verso of same and the verso of the frontispiece. Scattered foxing throughout. Good binding.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Thick square 12mo, pp xvi, 464, very well illustrated with many small woodcuts within the text, an engraved frontispiece and an extra engraved itile page, clean internally, original grey/brown cloth, decorated in gilt, slightly worn and scuffed, the spine a little frayed at head and tail. Unusual for the blue endpapers printed in gilt. Not dated, but Freeman gives 1842. RARE. [Draper, [1775 - 1843] was born into a Church of England family that was too poor to send him for training as an ordinand. He worked as a printer's apprentice at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. He became a Baptist, and when his apprenticeship was ended, he went to study at the Baptist Academy, Bristol, under John Ryland. Ordained in 1804, he became pastor of a Baptist Church at Chipping Norton, and then at Southampton. Draper was a much-published writer, generally on Biblical topics.].

12mo. pp xii, 260. Original publisher's brown quarter leather boards. Copiously illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. Fair amount of shelf wear and rubbing at corners and edges of boards. Creasing at leather folds at spine. Creasing along spine. Browning to edges of page block. Top part of front free end paper cut out, looks like a previous owner's name has been cut out.

Hardcover. Zustand: g- to vg. First French-language edition. 24mo. [6], 204pp. Original printed paper covered boards. All paper edges yellow. This rare First French-language edition of Rev. Bourne Hall Draper's stories of the Bible is illustrated with 19 full page plates featuring 38 striking engravings (2 per plate). The images depict the most important biblical scenes from Adam and Eve under the tree of knowledge to the Crucifixion of Jesus. Head of spine chipped. Spine cocked. Moderate rubbing along edges. Text in French. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition. About the author: Bourne Hall Draper (1775-1843) was educated for the Baptist Ministry at the Bristol Academy, under the Rev. Dr. J. Rylands. He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Chipping Norton 1804, and subsequently at Southampton, where he died in 1843.

Leather_bound. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Square, thick 24mo. (4 1/2" x 5") in original three quarter calf over mabled paper covered boards. (2), engraved frontispiece, engraved first title page with tissue guard; viii+ 237 pp. with index. "Illustrated with upwards of Fifty Engravings". Remarkably scarce, OCLC locates only six copies. 1852 Sunday school library notation front pastedown and numeral on the front free endpaper, Light foxing to the prelims and more so to the frontis and engraved title; occasional foxing in the text. Binding extremities roundd with leather portions rubbed.