apologia diffidentis von leith compton (12 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: VG. London 1918 2nd ed. Bodley Head. Hardcover octavo., 212pp., 3/4 vellum and marbled boards. Near VG, owner bookplate (William Eugene Lewis), owner signed, moderate wear, no DJ.

Half Vellum, Marbled Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Third Edition. 186pp. 8 x 5 inch. Still well bound and interior in nice clean condition with just minor spotting to end pages. No names nor inscriptions.

Zustand: Fair. 1907. Third Edition. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound vellum leather with marbled paper covered boards. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing, heavy in places. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Notable scuffing to front board.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 3rd ed. ; 186 pp. ; 20 cm. ; OCLC: 2994338 ; name on front ep ; ½ vellum with marbled boards ; top edges gilt ; untrimmed ; Dalton was "Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum, 1921-1928. Dalton was the son of a solicitor, Thomas Masters Dalton, and Emily Mansford. He attended Harrow School winning a scholarship to New College, Oxford, graduating in the "classical moderations" (Classical studies) in 1886 and in literae humaniores in 1888. Dalton made a grand tour after school, France, Germany, Austria, studying under Josef Strzygowski and India, and teaching for a year at the Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, in 1884. The following year Dalton joined British Museum in the department of British and medieval antiquities .Dalton's initial focus in ethnology migrated to archaeology and he set about writing catalogs on the collections.During World War I, Dalton worked for the Admiralty, in the map making division, until he was struck by and car and seriously injured.Dalton moved to a cottage in the Quantocks in 1940. He died at home, unmarried, in Holford, Somerset, in 1945. His Quantocks land was donated to the National Trust for its unspoiled beauty, the rest New College to found a research scholarship. "--Dictionary of art historians ; ".Often at such times I would hear a rushing in the highest branches, and turning very silently, see the outposts of a troop of monkeys peering down through the gleaming foliage. Then, if I moved neither head nor limb, others would come, and yet others, leaping from branch to branch and plunging down from higher to lower levels like divers cleaving a deep green sea; until at last some slightest involuntary movement of mine would put the whole host to flight, and greybeards, young warriors, camp followers and mothers with their children on their backs would go crashing from tree to tree, screaming and gibbering like the shades of Homer's sapless dead. " ; foxed ; a spot or two on spine ; slight wear ; VG. Book.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Third Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 186 pages; Description: 186 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Bashfulness --Leith, W. Compton (1866-1945) --Apologia Diffidentis 3 Kg.