smith rev frederick (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 121 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are noticeably bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.

1909. Europe, Human evolution. Blackie & Son, Limited, London. 377p. with light foxing on end sheets, otherwise very good.

1909. Europe, Human evolution. Blackie & Son, Limited, London. 377p. with light foxing on end sheets, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG for age. No Jacket. 1st ed. viii+121, 28 ills (but one sub-numbered) on 14 unpaginated double-sided plates distributed throughout, all of flint or bone artifacts of numerous kinds. Internally clean, tight and unmarked but brown strips beside end-papers gutters apparently off-set from now absent jacket wraparounds; dark blue cloth covers clean and unworn with no obvious faults, lettering perhaps a tad dull. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, top edge gilt. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains red and black printed title, (xxiv), 377 pp with 521 monochrome illustrations throughout. Rubbing to the boards, spine sun faded and in Good condition, hinges sound, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITISH PREHISTORY.

6 + [1] pp., folio. On two bifoliums stitched together with black thread. Laid out in the customary legal style, with embossed tax stamp. Unsigned. The agreement is 'Between The Reverend Henry Highton of the Cedars, Putney, in the County of Surrey, Clerk, (hereinafter referred to as 'the Patentee') of the one part and William Henry Allcard of New Burlington Street in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, and George Frederick Smith of Golden Square in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, of the other part'. The document contains four long 'mutually agreed' resolutions between Highton ('the Patentee') and Allcard and Smith ('the Co-owners') involving financial and business arrangements, and ends with a 'Schedule' listing seven patents by Highton. In 1872 Allcard and Smith had become 'the Co-owners' with Henry Labouchere, and were projecting 'a Company to be called The Light Cable Telegraph Company Limited'. They now intend to set up another company, to be called 'The Highton Patent Company Limited'. Of Highton the document states: '[.] the Patentee was engaged in certain investigations and in making experiments with the view of establishing an improved method of Telegraphic Communication and had already made discoveries which it was considered would be especially valuable in their application to Submarine Lines'. According to Highton' s entry in the Oxford DNB he 'conducted a number of practical experiments in the application of electricity to telegraphy. [.] By the early 1870s he believed the sensitivity of the instrument would enable it to allow transatlantic communication along uninsulated underwater wires [.] His 1872 paper on the subject was well received, and the Society of Arts presented him with their silver medal for it.'.

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The manuscript of Doxey's article is 'safe to hand' and Jewitt is 'much pleased [both words underlined twice] with the plates & coins. It is very nice indeed.' The article is too late for the next number, 'the difficulty being the engravings'. 'If you dont mind I think I should like to give your article the "place of honour" - ie the opening article - in the following number'. He would have written back sooner, 'but the truth is Mrs Jewitt and Beatrice have been away for a month, and they came home on Monday and so have driven off all remembrance of my having to write!!'.

Blackie & Son 1909. 377 Seiten, hochwertiges Papier, Deckblätter vorne und hinten altersfleckig, Voll-Leineneinband deutlich bestoßen/abgegriffen, am Buchblock etwas lose.