Sir thomas herbert bart (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Cloth, no dj. xcvii, 904 pp. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy.

Zustand: Good. First thus edition / sixth edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, black lettering to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xlvii] 212 printed pages of text with 7 monochrome illustrations. First 1902 edition with 42 page introduction by Sir Herbert Maxwell. Damp stain to the edges of the boards, page edges tanned and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A handsome half-calf set and early edition of the significant diaries and correspondence of Thomas Creevey, complete in two volumes. Early edition, published one year after the first. Complete in two volumes. Handsomely bound in red half calf with matching cloth boards. Both volumes contain a frontispice. Volume I is then followed by eight further plates, and Volume II contains an additional ten plates. Collated, complete. A significant selection from the correspondence and diaries of English Whig politician Thomas Creevey. Creevey is now best remembered as a diarist, his writings providing important insight into the political and social life of the late Georgian era. As edited by the Scottish author and Conservative politician Sir Herbert Maxwell. Handsomely bound in red half calf with matching cloth boards. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in minor loss of leather to the spine heads and tails and the subtle beginnings of cracking to both front joints. Boards relatively clean but do feature a few marks. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and clean with occasional spotting, noticeably heavier to the first and last few pages of each work. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Revised edition. Fuller title runs: Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan. . . . In this fourth impression are added (by the author now living) as well many additions throughout the whole work, as also several sculptures, never before printed. Large-paper copy of the fourth and best edition (cf. Lowndes) of Herbert's Travels. Three leaves in smaller format. Nineteenth-century full leather tooled binding by Robert Seton, Edinburgh, with his ticket on the rear pastedown endpaper. Interesting early manuscript notes on original front blanks. Splendid double-page engraving of Persepolis by Wenceslas Hollar. Very good copy in an excellent binding, front hinge beginning to crack externally toward bottom.…