rev forster (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fading to spine, general shelf/age wear. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Thus. Firmly bound, embossed dark blue cloth boards. No jacket, no writing inside.

Soft. Zustand: Poor. Poor. Binding copies. Volume I missing pages following 554pp and bearing corroded damp damage to fore-edge (not affecting text). Marbled edges.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Third Edition. 28 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Faint ink stamp atop front cover. Average wear. Modest foxing to covers and title page. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good for year, hardcover. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Light wear to ends of spine, corners bumped. No dustjacket, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine.

Zustand: Very Good. . Hardback. 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. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Hard back binding in publisher's original royal navy cloth covers with blind tooling to both front and rear boards, worn and faded gilt title and author lettering to the spine, lemon end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains [viii] 350 printed pages of text. Couple of gatherings not cut along the top edge and protruding slightly, 5 mm loss of cloth across the spine ends, rubbing to the high points of the boards. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEOLOGY & RELIGION.

Zustand: Very Good. . Hardback. 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. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. Second edition. Hardback. Mild wear to cover, slight chipping at head and tail of spine, light foxing throughout, lacks f.e.p., plate IV torn but complete,one gathering loose, otherwise very good.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO40145752: 1865. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Quelques rousseurs. 308 pages. Illustré de gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte, et hors texte (dont certaines planches dépliables). Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons et annotation de bibliothèque en page de titre. Pages de garde et de titre pliées. Couverture se détachant légèrement. Annotations d'époque en pages de garde et de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print (MDCCCXXXVIII). Hardback copy in black boards with 4 raised bands and gold gilt lettering/decoration to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 670pp. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Signed by author in ink to second endpaper 'Before Publication from the Author'. Not library copy, no inscriptions, remains of bookplate to front pastedown, front boards detached. (40/1). Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols 8vo. (23 x 15 cm.). pp.lxxxiii+errata+357;[iv]+509+directions to binder. Original blind-stamped blue/green cloth. 2 folding maps ("The Scriptural Geography of Arabia" and "The Classical Geography of Arabia"), one vignette plate with view of Akab al Hajar, folding broadside and one plate of inscriptions. Bindings lightly worn and soiled, spines faded from blue to green, contents clean, generally a very good set. First and only edition. "An attempt at the proof of the descent of the Arabs from Ishmael" (Ghani), based on the analysis of the pre-Islamic inscriptions uncovered in the Hadhramaut. Includes an interesting attack on Edward Gibbon's 'geographical' explanation for the rise of Islam out of Mecca; Forster denounces Gibbon's "scepticism" and "artful insinuations" by pointing out some of his errors in historical geography, meanwhile defending the claim of a Scriptural prophecy in favour of the descendants of Ishmael. Forster (1787-1871) was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and a protege of Bishop John Jebb (1775-1833); although he did not live to know it, he was also grandfather to the novelist E.M. Forster. After assisting Jebb as curate and later as chaplain, Forster became rector of Sisted in Essex and one of the Six Preachers in Canterbury Cathedral. His first book, the controversially conciliatory Mahometasim Unveiled, appeared in 1829.

Hardcover. Zustand: g to vg. First edition. Large Octavo. xvi, 182pp., 6 fold-outs, vi, (6) 300pp., 12 fold-outs,1 sleeve with fold-out. Dark green cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt illustration with reverse lettering on front, gilt lettering and blind-stamped ruling on spines, with additional sleeve with gilt lettering on cover housing a large (36 x 24"), linen-backed fold-out chart comparing 45 different ancient alphabets. Frontispiece engraving. Including "The Voice of Israel, From the Rocks of Sinai: and the Vestiges of Patriarchal Tradition from the Monuments of Egypt, Etruria, and Southern Arabia. With Illustrative Plates, A Harmonized Table of Alphabets, Glossaries, and Translations." lllustrated throughout in offset exquisite lithographs of artwork in text, on plates and multiple fold-outs. Forster, one of the six preachers of the Cathedral of Canterbury, and rector of Stisted, Essex, expounds on the interrelatedness of knowledge transmitted through a common ancient Egyptian language source. He believes that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Semitic alphabet have pictographic commonality that was then passed to Christianity. The third volume map is titled A Harmony of Primeval Alphabets. It compares the alphabets of Hebrew from Ethiopia, Arabic, Rosetta Enchorial Alphabet, the Etruscan Alphabet, and 39 other from around the world, even South America. The letters are organized by chart divided by language and type of letter. For example, you can see A, and scroll your eyes across the page to see all the various forms of the letter A, from every civilization from Babylonian to Celtiberian. Some wear along edges, small bumps and rubbed. Spine of vol. 1 frayed at head and tail, small chips at top and middle back joint. Small sticker in left upper corner of inside front cover with handwritten number. Vol. 2 covers rubbed, starting at inside cover and small ink blots on free front endpaper. Cloth sleeve with light discoloration on front cover. Bindings and interiors in overall good to very good condition.

1st ed. Published 1851-1854. Literary Institution label & accession on front pastedown of volume 1, with accession number on spine., Spines a little bumped, with wear to cloth of vol.1; vol.1 spine browned, with mottling to cloth on boards; vols 2 & 3 very clean. Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks in dark green cloth with gilt Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks in dark green cloth with gilt.