Rev william holden (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. General shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Facsimile reprint. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Arica. 130/750 Limited edition. Facsimile reprint. Vol 3 in the series. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and knocked. Internally, clean. Tightly bound. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Facsimile Reprint of 1855 Ed. 4 folding maps and charts, 18 plates. Gilt lettered buckram with gilt device to upper board. No. 579 of a Limited Edition of 750 Copies.Mendelssohn Vol. 1., pp.725. (1st Edition). '. one of the standard works on South African natives in the middle of the nineteenth century .' US$37.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. School prize binding, presented by the author. Two-page prefatory note by the author written at S. John's College, Oxford, S. Catherine's Day, 1899. ***Very good in black full-leather boards with gilt floral decorative tooled borders, edges and inner borders, and gilt decorative tooled compartmented spine with gilt titles to red leather label to second compartment of spine. Armorial gilt shield embossed to front board. All edges of text-block colour-marbled. Colour-marbled front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. School Prize book plate to front board: Burford Grammar School , Christmas 1901 Scripture Prize presented by the Rev. W. H Hutton presented to H. J. Edmond by Henry J. Piggot, Headmaster. ***Corners and head and tail of boards slightly rubbed. Boards slightly rubbed. Small scuffs to leather of rear board. Boards clean. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***174 mm x 124mm. 3xi prelim-pages including prefatory note by the author and contents to the fore plus 300 pages including index to the rear. ***Chapters: I. The Church Before the Norman Conquest; II. The Church in the Middle Ages; III. The Reformation; IV. The Church Under The Stewarts; V. The Church in the Eighteenth Century; VI. The Nineteenth Century; Chronological Table of Important Events, Affecting the History of the Church in Great Britain; English Kings, Archbishops, and Bishops of London; Index. ***First printing of the true first edition, extremely hard to find especially in original full-leather gilt decorative bordered boards. A handsome full leather School Prize gilt binding. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 463 pages plus folded maps (complete).all plates and maps complete. A comfortable, benign copy The book was inscribed by Holden on the title page: "With the Author's kind regards". The rear frontispage has a gift inscription (not from the author). The original pressed boards have knocks and wear about the edges and corners and seams. They are scuffed, dulled by handling and storage. The spine has been repaired and is effective and efficient. Within, the end papers could be more recent than the contents. The papertrims have light wear, some sunning/ discolouration. The contents are genial, pleasing (especially when taking the age of the book into account). The pages have very occasional age-related blots and smears. In general, and by far, the pages are fresh-faced, clean, clear, convivial, certain, keen. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed. …

First edition. Frontispiece, 3 maps & 8 plates, with numerous woodcuts. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine gilt, worn. viii, 463, [1]ads.pp London, "One of the most valuable books on the early history of Natal" (Mendelssohn). An upbeat account of the colony, which at the time of publication had only been a British dependency for ten years. Although much of the work is devoted to the early pioneers, Holden thoughtfully describes the establishment of government and discusses the question of the Orange River Sovereignty. Mendelssohn I, p724.…

In Three Parts. I. Their History. II. Their Manners and Customs. III. The Means Needful for their Preservation and Improvement. First edition. Frontispiece, folding map & 11 plates. 8vo. xii, 516pp. London, Published for the Author, Due to the pace of change in South Africa this work needed constant and substantial revision before publication, a process which would take 12 years, but ensured the accuracy of the work - to which even Theal attests. It is now regarded as one of the benchmark narratives of South Africa in the mid-nineteenth century. Mendelssohn I, p725; Theal, p141.…