Daniel brown (30 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christmas stockings have always been handled by the candy department, with add-ins from the other departments. It has just become too complex these days.Santa has just named me, Dink Winkleman, as the elf in charge of the new Christmas Stocking Department.Part of the year, I'm like a private…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The third title in the Dink Winkleman: Christmas Stocking Stuffer children's picture book series introduces another new character to the story. Trixie Pixie enters the North Pole as an annoying prankster. Can the playful sprite convince Santa she will be an expert candy maker and win Dink Win…

Later printing. 18 cm. [4], 323, (1, blank) pp., [8] pp. of subscribers and publisher ads. Full leather (worn). Gilt stamped black spine label, gilt rules and ornaments. Spine ends worn down, joints rubbed, old library label at head of spine. Bookplate of Jefferson College on front pastedown, front endpaper lacking, old ink nota…

Fifth Edition. Bound in early nineteenth-century gilt-blocked buckram, very good. Internally near fine with only very scattered, occasional even marginalised foxing. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 246 pages; Physical desc. : [8], 246, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) . Each part has an independent title page. Referenced by: ESTC…

Hardcover. Fifth Edition. Octavo, 200 pages; VG; rebacked with new paneled leather spine, burgundy label with gilt lettering, previous period boards preserved; minimal shelf wear on boards; previous owner's name on title page; strong binding; paper wavy and clean; text clean; edges dusty; Collier was a British anti-theatrical cr…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xv, 344 p. + 8 p. index. 20 cm. Head and tail-pieces.Full leather with gilt border. Some suffs and rubbing, bumped corners. Small chip and spot on hand-written spine label. Title continues: "First Embassador from the States-General to his Most Catholick Majesty, Then Duke and Grandee of Spain; Afterward…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 volumes (of 3). Both are bound in full leather, with raised cords on the spines, elaborate gold decoration in spine panels. Gold titles on spine clearly show that these are volumes 2 and 3 of the set. Minor edgewear and loss to crown of spine. Marbled endpapers. This is the 4th edition of Montaig…

Leather. Zustand: Good. First edition. A mixed edition set of the brilliant wide-ranging essays of Jeremy Collier, this set including a first, second, and sixth edition. Complete in three volumes.Jeremy Collier's 'Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects'.Volume I, containing Parts I and II, the sixth edition, published in 1709, by Da…

First Edition. Full Description: TYSON, Edward. Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To whichis added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs, and sphinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all eith…

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. A smartly bound copy of Nathaniel Bacon's exploration of the history of England through its legal and political institutions. An exploration of the history of the law and politics in England, from the earliest times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. A constitutional history of the country…

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. A interesting and important selection of poetry, this being a new and enlarged edition. Featuring the work of numerous important poets, and include several first printings of many notable works. First, thus. First published in 1693, this particular edition have been enlarged and largel…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two parts in one. 4to (288 x 213 mm). [12] 1-108, [2] 1-58 [2] pp. Signatures: pi4 A2 B-O4 P2 chi2 2B-2H4 2I1, 91 leaves. Imprimatur leaf before title, separate title to second part, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, 8 folding engraved plates after William Cowper by Michael Vander…

8vo, pp. [viii], 453, [3 (advertisements)]; slightly foxed at extremities, but a very good, crisp copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges speckled red; rebacked, hinges worn.Fourth edition of the important 'Temple of Death' miscellany of Restoration poetry, comprising some one…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber trees, coppice woods etc. London, Francis Clay & Daniel Brown, 1728. 8vo. (x) + xxii (ie.xx) + 274pp. With engraved frontispiece by Toms, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Title-page in red and black. Contempo…

First Edition. Full dark red morocco, signed in gilt on the front inner dentelle by Sangorski. Title page foxed and bearing three former owners' signatures; folding plates with minor tears and small chips to the inner corners where they are commonly pulled when opened; else a near fine copy, with the two pages of advertisements…

Vellum. Zustand: Good. First edition. A vanishingly scarce late seventeenth century first edition discussing the history of the London Charter, from the reign of Henry III to the year 1682. The exceptionally scarce first edition of this discussion of the various points in English history in which England's monarchs and governmen…

First edition. PMM169 - THE FIRST WORK TO DEMONSTRATE THE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAN AND APE. First edition, and a fine, tall copy, of "Tyson's anatomy of the 'Orang-outang' (actually a young chimpanzee), which was the first work to demonstrate scientifically the structural relationships between man and anthropoid ape"…

First edition in English to be "revis'd and corrected" by the busy and versatile Augustan writer John Hughes (1678?-1720) - "the most qualified librettist of his day" (ODNB), contributing notably to Handel's Acis and Galatea (1718), working alongside Pope and Gay - who supplied translations of Latin and French classics, particul…

4 volumes. 8vo., (7 5/8 x 4 4/8 inches). Engraved frontispiece and 16 plates of portraits (some browning and spotting). Contemporary speckled panelled calf (hinges split, spines worn). Provenance: With the modern ink library stamp of A.W.K. Billings, Jr on the front paste-down of each volume. First and only edition. Often attrib…