foreigners guide necessary instructive companion von pote joseph (4 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,

Hardback, approx 7 x 4.5 inches. In full calf leather binding, gilt line paneled boards, raised and gilt banding to spine. Speckled page edges. In very good condition. Cover with some rubbing and marks, corners bumped, a couple of chips to corners and bottom edge and end of spine. Small chip/worm-hole to bottom corner of front endpaper and also to rear endpaper and last couple of pages. Previous owners inscription to rear endpaper ?John Stevens, His Book, June 17. 1759.? Some occasional handling marks and minor light foxing spots, small faint water stain to page edges, and top inner corner of rear endpapers. Minor dark spot to corner of p1&2, some minor soiling to margins of p51-56. Else a very good rare 1st edition. ix + 215pp. + 1pp advert at rear. With decorative headpieces to Preface, Contents and p1 & 2. And decorative letterpieces to Preface and p1&2. In both English and French.

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.