Rev john macgowan (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Philadelphia, 1851; poor condition; leather covered boards very worn; both boards detached but present; almost all sine cover chipped off; corners of boards exposed; end papers detached but present; rear end paper has handwritten note and names on it; title page loose; interior unmarked with light foxing throughout; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; 284 pages. …

Decorated Cloth. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket as Published. (iv), 377pp, lacks front free endpaper, prelims attached by thread, foxing to pages, both hinges split but text block is still attached to spine, rear fixed endpaper has some loss, black cloth with a blind-blocked pattern to both boards, edges worn, top edge starting to fray, gilt spine lettering, binding thread visible to spine, covers rubbed and stained. Size: 5 x 3.35 Inches. Moral Guidance.…

Quarter Calf. Zustand: Good. with vi + 312pp, portrait, frontispiece by Sudlow, text somewhat foxed and marked throughout, nicely rebound by Stephen Conway, Manchester, 1817. Sudlow (illustrator).

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 622; prelims lightly wormed, front free endpaper badly toned, text lightly toned throughout, pp. 615-618 (appendix and index) with tears and some small loss; this copy likely a file copy of The Straits Times, with their rubberstamp on p. [iii] and p. 616; original teraacotta ccloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small cracks in joints, hinges starting; a copy with some flaws, printed on lousy paper, but the book is sound in its binding. Without the folding map. John Macgowan (1835-1922) was a Belfast-born missionary to China with the London Missionary Society, and the author of at least a dozen books on China, the Chinese language, folk lore, etc. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Infernal Conference: Or, Dialogues of Devils. By the Listener. In two volumes [bound as 1] [by John MacGowan] London, printed. Philadelphia, re-printed And sold by Stewart & Cochran. 1794 334 pages + 1 page of ads. Once bound in full leather, now not. Leather spine intact and front board present but detached. Rear board missing. Some scribbled and notations in ink on the inside front cover and endpaper. First blank page has writing on it as well, "Eli Shankle his book bought at the widow Halleys March the 21 day 1807 price 100 cents Eli Shankle." The name William Halley signed on the title page. Some pencil notations on the title page, calculating the age of the book in the 1870s. On the last page is written "Eli Shankle 1807 Thomas Berry 1777 Ely Shankle his hand and pen 1234567" Two volumes bound together, each with a title page. Text block fine, pages thin and uniformly faded. The book comes from a Washington DC auction-house. This is significant because there is a well documented William Halley who lived on King Street in Alexandria in the from the 1780s until his death in the early 1800s. He left his property to his wife Esther Halley. The book itself is scarce in an early edition -- it seems to have been first published in 1772. It was popular in America, and was printed there as far west as Pittsburg and Kentucky, in addition to at the eastern presses.…