foreigners guide necessary instructive companion von pote joseph (3 Ergebnisse)

Scarce. States: Fourth edition, revised and improved with many necessary additions to the present year. Full leather hardback. Raised bands to spine. Parallel text in English and French. Front board a little loose at base but still holding firm. Leather shows signs of handling. Internally, the pages are age toned, but clean. One gather feels a little loose at the base - presumably due to front board being slightly loose. Overall a good and rare item. vii, table, 227, [1] pages. 175 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches). Pote was an Eton school housemaster and bookseller. "Jos[eph] Pote of Eton, a man of great renown, / Buys a book for sixpence, and sells it for a crown" (from ODNB). .

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. Edition originale. Very scarce first edition of this bilingual guide; in-12°; reliure plein cuir de l'époque, full leather of the time, spine without title; solide, mais avec usures au bord des plats, coiffes et fente à la jointure, petit travail de vers au vas du dos; wear at edges and spine ends, cracked hinges, but firm; good end papers with light water stained edges; inside very good condition; IX, 11 (contents-table), 215 pages. 1 page ads at the end for the bookstore Joseph Pote (1704-1787),also a well known bookseller and printer in Eton,

London, J. Pote sold by J Bateley, (1730). 8vo. In a contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Previous owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Title-page closely trimmed in lower margin with loss of last line of imprint. Worm-tract in lower outer corner. With occassional underlinings and marginal annotations throughout in contemporary hand. (22), 215, (1) pp. Second edition, first published in 1729.