rev langhorne (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1893. No edition remarks. 258 pages. No dust jacket. Rebound in paper covered boards. Uncut pages still attached at top edge. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout. Mild thumb-marking present. Moderate tanning and foxing to endpapers. Pencil inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges of rear board. Mild droplet marks to rear board. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scuffing to board edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Four volumes reissued as one. Sextdecimo, half green leather with marbled boards, some wear and title label missing from spine, binding firm, previous ownership on front free end paper, internally clean and bright, engraved title page and each volume has an engraved frontis piece, each volume paginated separately: 96, 84, ix plus 110, iv plus 69, further 2 pages of S.E.& C.'s list of New and Elegant Pocket Editions. [QP].

Good blue cloth hardcover with good dj.191p.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Hardback, no D/J. xx, 748pp. nd. [circa 1881]. A small abrasion and some marking to boards and spine. The book is in good used condition. Coffee Brown cloth, with some signs of shelf wear. Plutarchs Lives translated by John and William Langhorne. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.The contents include an introduction and chapters entitled :-Alcibiades; Caius Marcus Coriolanus; Alcibiades and Coriolanus compared; Nicias; Marcus Crassus ; Nicias and Crassus, Alexander; Julius Caesar; Demosthenes; Cicero; Demosthenes and Cicero. At the back of The book is a (6) page Chronological table, and an account of Weights, Measures, and Denominations of Money table. There is much more to this; 748 page book than one first assumes. Deep in History it travels to where many books do not, and reads easily. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. ND but 1880's, in attractive half black morocco over red cloth. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [3], (iv-xx), [1], 2-748 pp, 30 B&W illustrations on 11 double sided leaves, new marbled endpapers, occasional spotting mainly to prelims. 2 columns per page, a.e.g. Rebound by the previous owner 1993. (232*148 mm).

Leather. Zustand: Good Only. None (illustrator). A scarce volume of poetry by clergyman and translator John Langhorne, bound in half calf. A scarce compilation title of the work of English clergyman, poet, editor, translator and author John Langhorne. Langhorne, along with his brother William, are most known for their translation of Plutarch's 1st century writings, 'Lives'. Volume one features one unlised monochrome plate, and volume two features two. No other collation record available. Bound in half calf. Bound in half calf. Externally, a little worn. Vol1 front board very weak, and may detach with further handling. Notable losses to spines. Some corresponding pieces of spine slotted into front endpapers. Significant rubbing to extremities. Vol2 front joint broken. Vol2 hinges moderately starting towards head. Mild age toning to endpaper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the occasional mild crease and spot. Ink inscription to vol2 title page. Small closed tear to vol1 p.85. Good Only. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). Nine smart volumes from the Family Classical Library. Nine volumes. Family Classical Library or English translations of the most valuable Greek and Latin Classics. This set contains: The Orations of Demosthenes, 1830. Complete in two volumes. Translated by Thomas Leland, an Irish Anglican priest, a historian, translator and academic. Volume II also includes Sallust, 1830, and is illustrated with two portrait plates. Collated complete. Translated by William Rose, a British academic. Heodotus, 1830. No. VII. Volume III of III only. Translated by William Beloe, an English divine and miscellaneous writer. Horace, 1831. No. XVII. Volume I of II only. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Collated complete. Translated by Philip Francis, an Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer. Plutarch, 1832. No. XXVIII. Volume VI of VI only. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Translated by John and William Langhorne, English clergymen, poets, translators, editors and authors. Juvenal and Persius, 1831. No. XIX. New edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Collated complete. Translated by Reverend Charles Badham, an English classical philologist, textual critic, headmaster, and university professor. With an appendix by Dr. Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Hesiod & Bion and Moschus, Sappho and Musaeus & Lycophron, 1832. Translated by Sir Charles Abraham Elton, an English officer in the British Army and an author, F. Fawkes, and Viscount Royston, a British traveller and politician. Ovid, 1833. No. XL. Volume I of II only. With a portrait frontispiece. Collated complete. Translated by Dryden, Pope, Congreve, Addison, and others. Cicero, 1833. No. XLIV. Volumes III of III only. Translated by Duncan, Cockman, and Melmoth. Previously held in the library of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Farrer Acton. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Number label to the head of the spine of volume No. XIX. Front hinge starting but firm to volume I and no. XXVIII. Rear hinge starting but firm to No. XVII. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Pencil inscriptions to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of the odd volume. Good. book.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A complete collection of Langhorne's translation of Plutarch's Lives, uniformly bound in full calf. The second edition to contain Rev Francis Wrangham's corrections and additions. In a smart full calf binding, with the boards rebacked. Complete in six volumes. Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives', detailing the biographies of noteworthy Greek and Romans, one from each empire paired to compare and contrast. Features the likes of Julius Caesar, Cicero, Pompey, Alexander, Mark Anthony and Theseus. Plutarch (c. 46AD-119AD) was a Greek writer and philosopher, with 'Parallel Lives' and 'Moralia', a set of essays, being his most famous works.Translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne. With corrections and notes by Rev. Francis Wrangham. Containing critical and historical notes, as well as life of the author. With two pages of publisher's advertisements to Volume VI. Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume I. Collated, complete.This copy is from the library of Anglican clergyman and author of theological works and detective novels, Rev. Herbert Maynard Smith, and his brother, Rev. J. Outram Smith, with their ownership stamp to the front paste down. In a smart full calf binding, with the boards rebacked. Externally, very good, with rubbing causing a little loss to board extremities in places. Heavier rubbing to the head of the spine and joints. Light marks to boards. Library location to spines. Library stamp to front paste down. Front hinge is slightly strained to volume III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, with a few spots to the first few pages. Very Good. book.

Full-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Later Edition. 8 volumes ea. 300-400pp. Original leather binding with inlaid gold lettering and design on the spines. The volumes are fully intact, and the binding is tight. In some places the leather is flaking and creased and slightly separated at some hinges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcovers in early (likely original) full leather bindings. Originally issues in 8 volumes - this set bound in 4. Brown leather with black title labels on the spine, along with volume numbers and gold bands. Bindings tight, with some rubbing and scuffing. Each of the 8 volumes is paginated separately, with its own title page. At the end of the first book there is a tear to the upper corner resulting in the loss of some text, on the final two leaves. The final page of text seems to be missing altogether. All 4 volumes have a bookplate on the inside front cover with the name 'Paul Sleman Clark.' All have a small rubberstamp on the inside back cover with the Clark coat of arms and the word Clark. This is a nice early Philadelphia edition of Plutarch. Volumes measure 4.25 x 7 inches. They take up just over 6" of shelf space. International shipping will require some extra postage, because this is a 4 volume set.