rev mordacque (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 2 Vols. 367pp., 447pp. Uniform green cloth with gilt titles on spine and decorations blindstamped on boards. Straight spines, wear to corners and spine ends. Gilt titles on spines, logo blindstamped on front board. Binding solid. Previous owners bookplate on front paste down of each volume. Pages clean and unmarked throughout. Translated from the original French of Eusebius Salverte. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first UK translated edition of Salverte's interesting history of civilisation, in two volumes. The first translated edition.An uncommon work.A two volume, complete set.In the publisher's original cloth.This work has been translated from the original French of Eusebius Salverte by Rev L. H. Mordacque. It provides a historical account of the growth of human civilisation by studying names from around the world. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally smart with bumping and rubbing to the extremities and very small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. Binder's label to the rear pastedowns. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and generally clean pages and the odd spot, heavier to the fronts. Very Good. book.

Both 12mo, 1 p; and both bifoliums. Both aged and creased. Letter One (recipient not named): Asking to be sent any works 'that would give information on the subject of Chaplaincies abroad in connection with the Government or otherwise', as well as 'a copy of the publisher's circular regularly'. Letter Two (to Smith): Asking if there 'have been any sales of Salverte since the Athenaeum Advertisement', and what Smith would give 'for the whole lot on hand (say per 100 copies) if willing to take them off my hands'. Between 1862 and 1864, Smith published Mordacque's translation, from the French of 'Eusebius Salverte', of 'History of the names of men, nations, and places in their connection with the progress of civilization'.