Verlag: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005
ISBN 10: 0195175832 ISBN 13: 9780195175837
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 029915694X ISBN 13: 9780299156947
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0816511179 ISBN 13: 9780816511174
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1993
ISBN 10: 0198599331 ISBN 13: 9780198599333
Anbieter: Ammareal, Morangis, Frankreich
Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Edition 1993. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 1993. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Group, 1986
ISBN 10: 089862665X ISBN 13: 9780898626650
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1993
ISBN 10: 0198599315 ISBN 13: 9780198599319
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0198599579 ISBN 13: 9780198599579
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1999
ISBN 10: 0198599560 ISBN 13: 9780198599562
Anbieter: Ammareal, Morangis, Frankreich
Softcover. Zustand: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Traces de pliures sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Edition 1999. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Traces of creases on the cover. Soiling on the side. Edition 1999. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Verlag: Sambrook And Tooze Publications, 1999
ISBN 10: 0198599587 ISBN 13: 9780198599586
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.
Verlag: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1983
ISBN 10: 0299094847 ISBN 13: 9780299094843
Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Verlag: Assn Of Amer Geographers, 1982
ISBN 10: 0892911514 ISBN 13: 9780892911516
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition.
Verlag: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR, 2005
ISBN 10: 0813923360 ISBN 13: 9780813923369
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States explores the division between how Americans embrace protected landscapes and how they consider nature itself. The book argues for the validity of landscape protection and the ben.
Verlag: Printed by The Ballantyne Press . [for] Hacon & Ricketts . And [for] John Lane, London., 1903
Anbieter: Sims Reed Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo. (237 x 151 mm). [41 leaves including blanks and 3 hors-texte plates; pp. xlv, (i)]. Leaf with half-title and publication note verso, leaf with dedication 'Affectionately dedicated to C[harles]. H[azelwood]. S[hannon].' recto, verso and following recto with 'The Story' in red, verso with title and Moore's verse recto and verso with running title, side-notes and pagination in red throughout and illustrated with three full-page hors-texte woodcut plates by Ricketts, final leaf with colophon recto; in the present copy gathering 'b' is discoloured. Original publisher's full vellum pierced for thongs, spine with gilt rules to form six compartments with title gilt at head. [PROVENANCE: Bookplate of Laurence Hodson, printed at the Kelmscott Press, to front pastedown]. Laurence Hodson's copy on vellum of 'Danaë', the last book sold by Hacon & Ricketts. From the edition limited to 240 copies with this one of 10 printed on vellum. Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 - 1944), he added the 'Sturge' (his middle and his mother's maiden name) to distinguish himself from another poet named Thomas Moore, was an English poet, artist and author. His long poem 'Danaë' was first published (there is a note to this effect in the book) in 'The Dial', also the work of Ricketts, in 1893 before its first separate appearance here. 'Danaë', printed in Ricketts' favoured Kings type, is also notable as the last book published by the Vale Press before the type and matrices were thrown into the Thames; Cobden-Sanderson cast his own Doves type into the Thames on the closure of his own press in 1916 / 1917. 'Ricketts gave Moore 'a laughing commission to lengthen it' as he judges it not long enough to make the book he had in view'. Ricketts asked that the additions be 'all golden syrup' . In the prefatory summary . Moore describes the poem as like a dream with 'no fixed order or progress': 'it begins and begins again and is broken off rather than ended'.' (Maureen Watry). Ricketts' woodcuts are titled in red as follows: 'In polisht walls a sister found is kissed.'; 'She kneels in awe beholding lavish light.'; 'Danaë at her twilit lattice ponders.'. Hodson's bookplate, with the text 'FROM THE LIBRARY OF / LAURENCE W. HODSON, / COMPTON HALL, NEAR / WOLVERHAMPTON', was one of the very few - for Morris, Burne-Jones, Walker and select patrons - printed at the Kelmscott Press in Golden type on Batchelor paper (see Peterson D10). [Watry B43].
Verlag: sold by Hacon & Ricketts, printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Ricketts, London, 1902
Anbieter: SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
6 wood engravings by Thomas Sturge Moore. One of 310 copies, 287 of which were for sale in Britain and the US. Pp. [2], clxxxiii, [3]. 8vo., original cream buckram spine lettered in gilt. A good copy, spine darkened, sides with a little light soiling, endpapers gently browned as usual with occasional mild spotting. One hundred and twenty three of Wordsworth's poems, selected and illustrated by Sturge Moore. With the booklabel of C.R. Ashbee, architect, designer and founder of the Guild of Handicraft as well as the Essex House Press and one of the prime leaders of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Verlag: Vale Press, London, 1902
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USA
298 x 203 mm. (11 3/4 x 8"). cxcviii pp, [1] leaf (colophon). VERY HANDSOME MAROON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ZAEHNSDORF (signed on front turn-in and stamped on rear pastedown), covers with center panel of blind-stamped palmettes and festoons in staggered rows, gilt foliate sprays at convergence points, raised bands, spine compartments with blind-stamped palmette centerpiece and gilt leaf sprigs at corners, maroon silk endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Woodcut vine border by C. S. Ricketts on first text page. Van Capelleveen A 73a; Tomkinson, p.170. âLower corners a little dented, light foxing resembling a fine spray in many lower margins, occasionally spreading upwards, (probably resulting from the printing process), but certainly a fresh copy in a lustrous binding with only minor signs of use. This stately printing of one of Browne's most celebrated and enduring writings is perhaps the most attractive major work Ricketts attempted at the Vale Press, and our copy is offered in a pleasing (and appropriate) binding by a preeminent London firm. The Oxford Companion describes "Religio Medici" as "a confession of Christian faith (qualified by an eclectic and generally skeptical attitude), and a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or less connected with religion, expressed with a wealth of fancy and wide erudition." Readers have always been fascinated by the book's style, by the mind that both style and contents reveal, and by the author's combination of detachment from the world and curiosity about its smallest physical objects. Browne says in his preface that the book was written for his "private exercise and satisfaction," but he was not repelled by its unauthorized publication in 1642, nor did he discourage its republication a year later. It is accompanied here by other pieces, including "Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial," one of the first archaeological monographs in English. Physician and writer Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) was one of the great 17th century stylists of English prose, and one of the most innovative thinkers of his time. The Vale Press books, which Cave says were "far truer to the spirit of fifteenth-century printing than Kelmscott work," included nearly 50 titles issued during the eight-year life of the press, and both its impressive output and considerable artistic success can be attributed to the fact that Ricketts, who was remarkably skilled as a designer, painter, and illustrator, was in control of every facet of the operation. Our binding is a fine example of the work of the Zaehnsdorf firm, long a top-ranked English bindery. Born in Pest, Hungary, Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-86) served his apprenticeship in Stuttgart, worked at a number of European locations as a journeyman, and then settled in London, where he was hired first by Westley and then by Mackenzie before opening his own workshop in 1842. His son and namesake took over the business at age 33, when the senior Joseph died, and the firm flourished under the son's leadership, becoming a leading West End bindery. Over the years, Zaehnsdorf employed a considerable number of distinguished binders, including the Frenchman Louis Genth (who was chief finisher from 1859-84), and trained a number of others, including Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. A family-run business until 1947, the Zaehnsdorf bindery continued to produce consistently attractive and innovative designs executed with unfailing skill. ONE OF 310 COPIES (an additional 10 copies were printed on vellum).
Verlag: Kingston Jamaica. 1787 1789 1791 1792 1795, 1785
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität Signiert
Chester Vale, a substantial estate of 1420 acres, paid taxes on 124 slaves in 1801. McLarty (d.1844) was Physician-General for Surrey (Jamaica), and several letters written by him from the island are in the National Library of Scotland, and are quoted in Alan L Karras's 'Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800' (Cornell, 1992). In 1794 he acquired Chester Vale on his marriage to Elizabeth Susanna Breon, whose father Edmund Breon had died in 1792, leaving her the ward of the solicitor Thomas Cockburn. The six items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Docketed 'Edmund Breon Esqe. Sales Coffee &c Acct Current'. Signed 'Errors Excepted | July 1st. 1785. for Mark Howard [Breon's agent?] - | S White'. 3pp., small 4to. Bifolium. Covering the period of May and June 1785. The first page is headed 'Sales of Coffee on Account of Edmund Breon Esqe.', and the central two pages give double-entry accounts headed 'Edmund Breon Esqre. In Account Current with Mark Howard'. Contains references to orders by John Sleater, Doctor Davison and Moses Stobo. TWO: Docketed 'Acct. Sales of Coffee & Indigo | Steph Cooke'. Signed 'Errors Excepted | Kingston 1 Jany. 1787 | Stephen Cooke'. 1p., foolscap 8vo in height, 12mo in width. Headed 'Account Sales of Coffee & Indigo recd. from Mr. Edmund Breon'. Entries dating from February 1786 to July 1787. In the form of a table, including columns for 'Pounds of Indigo' and 'Pounds of Coffee'. Containing references to Alexander Innes, Bernall & Henriques, Bayard, Hankinson & Barrow, Grant, Archibald Galbraith, Aikman, Nelson, Lindsay, Haughton, John G. Yonge, Budgen, Lewis, Captain Smith, George Shaw and Stephen Cooke. THREE: Solicitors' accounts relating to the action 'Breon ads Thomson & al'. Docketed 'Account | Edmond [sic] Breon Esquire to Cockburn & Davis'. 1p., foolscap 8vo. Headed 'Edmund Breon Esquire | To Cockburn & Davis'. Entries dating from February to November 1789, and in another hand 15 November 1794. Entries include: 'Drawing Defeazance from Henry Tippett Esquire to you & Engrossing the same Containing 3 sides of Royal paper' and 'November To attending Secretary's Office in Spanish Town and Searching for Conveyance of Equity of Redemption from Bridges P Attorney & Edwards & at to Fell, when you found that it was not on Record, and Searching if ditto from Bridges to Fell was Recorded when found it was Lib 294 fo: 135'. FOUR: Solicitors' accounts relating to action 'Breon ads Richardson at September Kingston Court'. Headed 'Edmund Breon Esquire | To Cockburn & Robertson'. 1p., landscape 8vo. Dating from May to September 1791. Entries include: 'June [.] Motion and Order upon reading your Affidavit & Examining Deputy Marshal, that the said actions might be returned Process, which was granted'. FIVE: Solicitors' accounts. Headed: Thomas Cockburn Esquire | Guardian of Miss E. S. Breon | To Cockburn Robertson & Vassall'. 1p., foolscap 8vo. Docketed 'Miss Elizabeth S. Breon to Thomas Cockburn her Guardian'. Entries from January 1792 to May 1793. Entries include 'Mar. In Chancery. In the matter of Guardianship of Miss Elizabeth Susanna Breon' and 'September To attending Secretary's office in Spanish Town | Searching where Mortgage Breon to Tippet of Chester Vale was dated & paid for Search' and 'Apl. To Attending the Provost Marshal's Office in Spanish Town, bespeaking and afterwards Obtaining a List of Writs against Edmund Breon deceased'. References to Counsellor Peppard and Daniel Pennington. SIX: Solicitors' accounts dated from 'Kingston Jamaica 31 Decembr 1796 | Errors Excepted'. Headed 'Colin McLarty Esquire in Account Current with Ballantine Fairlie & Co'. 2pp., small 4to. Double-entry accounts dating from December 1795 to December 1796. Entries include: 'January 26 To Cash paid your Order to William Bailey for Cost of 4 Mules'. References to Christie, Lara, Cockburn, Shaw Inglis & Holt, Henriques, Barnett, Henry Tippett, Brockhurst vs Breon.