William jardine editor (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Volume VIII of Jardine's Naturalist Library. A study of the amphibious mammals, including a short biography of Francois Peron and a final section of sea monsters. Complete with 33 plates, including engraved title and a fronstiportrait of Peron. 28 engravings are delicately hand-coloured in a naturalistic fashion, the final three, showing Sea-Monsters are, understandably, not. With further b/w illustrations within the text. Handsomely rebound in half leather with marbled end-papers, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Some foxing to front matter and mild tanning within. Else clean and tight. Very good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 Volumes. Small 8vo's, Vol I- viii + pp17-313 with memoir of rondelet, b/w engraved frontis, portrait of Rondeletius complete with 34 hand coloured plates,11 of the plates to rear of book along with blanks. Vol II- viii + pp17-424 and portrait of Alexander von Humboldt with b/w engraved frontis complete with 34 hand coloured plates. All plates in both vols with thin paper guards. Both Vols Rebound in half green calf leather over green boards with red leather title labels, 5 raised bands with titles and designs in gilt to spine in lovely near fine condition. Inside both Vols all pages and plates with top edge gilt in excellent clean and bright condition. A lovely set, beautifully bound.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pp.x , 256; engraved frontispiece plate of Haller; engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette; 33 engraved plates of which 32 are hand-coloured with tissue guards; letterpress title and half-title pages. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, some fading, top and bottom of spine a little creased, binding firm. Contents good and tight, original green endpapers, bookplate belonging to John L Sinclair and further to Leonard Cowcill, the first few pages have some toning but the main body is clean, plates with tissue guards present , tissue guards have some offsetting. A very good complete copy Size: 12mo. Book.…

2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Endorsed by the unnamed recipient on the reverse of the second leaf. The subject of the letter, 'Mr Maule', was presumably a relation of Jardine's, whose mother's maiden name was Maule. Begins: 'Dear Sir, I received your parcel this morning & was prepared to start Tomorrow (Friday) when the Evening Mail brought me the intelligence of the Dangerous illness of Mr. Maule in Edinburgh - & instead of London I start for Edinburgh without delay I shall not now come up before the Meeting of Parliament as I should be now too Late for my Son's Holidays -'. He ends with the request that he write 'a few lines after your interview with Mr Graham'. In a postscript he says that he will 'write a note from Edinburgh stating how Mr Maule is -'.…

, [8], 17-323 pages, 35 hand coloured plates with tissue guards, illustrated hand coloured title page, black and white frontispiece portrait, memoir of John Barclay, some pages unopened Later edition , slight wear to spine, small split to front joint, corners bumped, rear hinge cracked, boards stained, plates clean, good condition , full maroon cloth, blindstamped decorative borders, gilt embossed decoration to front board, gilt titles and decoration to spine , small octavo, 17.5 cm x 11.5 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pp. 248; engraved frontispiece plate of Sir Hans Sloane; engraved title page with b/w vignette; 30 engraved plates hand-coloured ; letterpress title and half-title pages. half red leather binding with marbled covered boards, very good and firm. Contents clean and tight, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a few spots to the front and rear blanks, otherwise clean, all plates unmarked. A very good clean copy. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. 313 and 424 pages, 72 out of 72 plates comprising 68 coloured plates, 2 black and white frontispiece portraits and 2 illustrated title pages. Later editions. Spine detached and missing upper portion on Vol XXXVII, the other spine split and partially loose, Volume XXXVII boards detached and textblock split, corners lightly bumped, bookplates to front pastedowns, foxing to prelims and title pages, other pages and plates mostly clean, poor condition, good candidates for rebinding. Red cloth, blindstamped borders, gilt title and decoration to spines, gilt décor to front board, gilt top edges , octavo, 17.5 cm x 12 cm Hardback ISBN.…

, [8], 17-336 pages, 31 plates with tissue guards, most hand coloured, illustrated title page, black and white frontispiece portrait, memoir of Francois Peron, Later edition , slight wear to spine, corners bumped, rear hinge cracked and board loose, boards water stained, some plates bound out of order, plates and pages clean, good condition , full maroon cloth, blindstamped decorative borders, gilt embossed decoration to front board, gilt titles and decoration to spine , small octavo, 17.5 cm x 11.5 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 6 Volumes. small 8vo. 6 engraved frontis. portraits, 6 engraved titles, & 196 engraved plates (most hand-coloured; 1 folding). wood-engraved text illus. library buckram (small library stamp on front flyleaves, frontis. & engraved title in Vol. I partly dampstained, spotting to frontis. & engraved title in Vol. II, light dampstaining to some of the plates in Vol. XXIX). The complete series on fishes, comprising: (1) Fishes, Particularly Their Structure And Economical Uses. By J.S.Bushnan, (2-3) British Fishes. By R.Hamilton, (4) Fishes Of The Perch Family. By Jardine, (5-6) Fishes of British Guiana. By R.H.Schomburgk.…

Zustand: Good. Henry G. Bohn London 1866 red cloth boards are worn with soiling and staining. fraying and snags to crown and heel of spine. hinges cracked at both boards. 31 hand colored plates.

Second Edition. 165 x 108 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4"). 40 volumes. QUITE ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY HALF MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, THE VOLUMES BOUND IN FOUR DIFFERENT COLORS TO REFLECT THE VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (the 14 volumes on birds bound in red with buckram boards, the 13 volumes on mammals in dark green with watered silk boards, the seven volumes on insects in dark blue with buckram boards, and the six volumes on fish in deep purple with watered silk boards), all the volumes with gilt-decorated raised bands, spines uniformly gilt in compartments with lozenge centerpiece composed of drawer handle stamps and enclosing a small flower, the whole surrounded by triangular scrolling cornerpieces; endpapers not uniform--by design: the mammals, fish, and insects with tartan endpapers, the birds with an unusual maze-like design; all edges marbled. WITH A TOTAL OF 1,360 ZOOLOGICAL PLATES, INCLUDING 1,280 PLATES OF VARIOUS ANIMALS, ALL BUT A FEW HAND COLORED, along with 40 engraved frontispiece portraits of noted zoologists and 40 (mostly uncolored) engraved title pages, all but a very few of the engravings with original tissue guards. (One fish engraving mentioned in the list of plates, but apparently not issued, since no text relating to it appears.) Front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Edward Salvin Bowlby. Nissen 4708; Wood, pp. 405-06; Zimmer, p. 326. Just the most minor rubbing to leather extremities, slight chafing or soiling here and there to cloth boards, trivial imperfections internally, but AN EXTRAORDINARILY APPEALING SET IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the bindings especially bright, almost without wear, and most pleasing on the shelf, and the text remarkably smooth, clean, and fresh, with virtually no signs of use. This famous collection of writings on natural history and on naturalists, augmented by more than 1,300 (mostly colored) engravings, was issued in individual volumes from 1833-43; the present set is a very early reprint of the completed 40-volume work. The book's general editor, Jardine (1800-74), also wrote about a third of the volumes, mostly on birds and fish. Wood says that it is "a remarkable little library of early nineteenth-century zoology, as well as a brief account of the lives of the chief zoologists of all time." The plates here feature figures of animals that are fully colored against an uncolored background, an arrangement that makes the species under discussion stand out as more clearly delineated. Complete sets with all of the plates, like this one, are not so readily available as in the past. And because the attractive engravings have meant that the work has frequently been the victim of affectionate destruction, sets that are both clean internally and in contemporary bindings in excellent condition are especially rare. This is all the more true in the case of sets bound in attractive leather. The present copy is extraordinary because it still opens stiffly, indicating that it has experienced very little use, and because it is bound so distinctively: we have never seen this work--or any multi-volume work like it, for that matter--bound in such a way as to reflect its various sections of content with varying colors of leather. Our set comes from the library of Victorian gentleman Edward Salvin Bowlby (1830-1902), a barrister who served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.…