rambles cairo von devonshire mrs (16 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 104pp + 63 plates + Fold-Out Plan of Mediaeval Monuments of Cairo. Still well bound together but missing external spine. Interior in nice clean condition. Owner's name on fep. Plan sheet has tear without loss to index on side, map itself good. A good reading/reference copy.

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

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. tan boards with titles to front board, has a clear protective wrapper, 104pp + 63 pages of black & white plates + large pull out map connected to rear board, pages clean and overall VG condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Early and uncommon Constable edition dated 1920 (first published in "The Sphinx" as a series of fictitious letters for wounded soldiers under the title "A Convalescent in Cairo" in 1916-17, then by The Sphinx in 1917, with Schindler editions following from 1931). Gilt-titled red cloth 17 x 24cm. viii + 115pp with many in-text b/w photos complete with 24 b/w photographic plates including frontispiece and folding indexed Plan of Mediaeval Monuments of Cairo. Covers very good, worn to extremities and partly faded to edges. Binding secure. Interiors very good, lightly tanned with some creasing. Stain towards margin from title page to p5. Endpapers foxed. Map neatly folded with earlier tape repair. Permanent Library of The Times Book Club plates (stamped "Cancelled") to pastedowns. No other marks.

Second Edition. Poor to good copy in the original color-printed boards. Wrappers edge-nicked and dust-dulled. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vi, 104 pages, 63 leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, folded plan ; 25 cm. Notes; originally published in the Sphinx in 1817 as a series of letters under the title of A convalescent in Cairo. Includes index. Subjects: Travel. Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel. Egypt Cairo. Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Very Good. Second edition. 25cm; vi, 104 pages, and 63 half tone plates, folding map of Medieval Cairo. Bound in printed boards in remains of dust jacket. Book is in very good condition, although dust jacket has lost much of its spine. Early owner's stamp on front free endpaper.

HC. Signed Edition 115 pp, B&W Photographs First edition, signed by author in ink on dedication page "H. C. Devonshire" R. L. is pseudonym. With Introduction, List of Principal Authorities,Table of Illustrations, Chronological Table of the Principal Historic Monuments of Cairo, Glossary, Index. Vg, no dw, lacking the map. Small chips in paper covering of cloth spine; Light foxing to front endpapers and back pastedown; sunning to edges, corners bumped.

Original Cloth. Zustand: Good Condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. VI, 104 pages, LXIII plates with 98 fig. and plan of mediaeval monuments of Cairo; book with little signs of use - good condition;

Hardcover, Leinen. 114 Seiten sowie einem Bildtafelanhang mit 91 Abbildungen nach historischen schwarz-weiß Fotos und einem Faltplan. In englischer Sprache. Altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren. Insgesamt ein gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 440.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd ed Schindler 1931. Binding cracked and weak, otherwise Good. Top of spine frayed, some bumps. Pages yellowed with creasing at corners, minor blemishes. Cairo 1942 owner inscription.

Second Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; vi, 104 pages, 63 leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, folded plan ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Originally published in the Sphinx in 1917 as a series of letters under the title of A convalescent in Cairo. Subjects; Travel. Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp vi, 104 + 63 full page plates. Original publisher's pale brown cloth with red and grey lettering and design to front cover; red lettering to spine. New 6 page intro by Henriette Devonshire. Covers a little spotted, else VG in uncommon but poor loosely inserted d.j. (split in two down spine section, which lacks the bottom quarter and with old and obtrusive tape repairs). Extensively illustrated with 98 illustrations on 63 plates, and with the large folding coloured plan of the medieval monuments in untorn and decen condition.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of this historical tour through Cairo by Henriette Devonshire, with illustrations and a folding map. A very scarce first edition copy of 'Rambles in Cairo', a work of travel from French translator and travel Henriette Devonshire.In the publisher's original boards.With a folding map of medieval monuments of Cairo kept to the front pocket, as well as twenty-four monochrome plates and numerous in-text and half-page monochrome illustrations.Collated, complete.Modified and enlarged from letters that appeared in the Sphinx during the winter of 1916-1917, this work provides a monograph of each of the 359 historic monuments of Cairo, together with a useful chronological table. The author aims to ensure through this that "no traveller should experience any difficulty in finding his way through the labyrinthine native quarters of Cairo". In the publisher's original boards.Externally, boards are toned, with rubbing and lifting to the backstrip. Bumping to the extremities and a couple tide marks to the front board. Internally, front free endpaper and frontispiece slightly working loose, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Good. book.