Roberts l (17 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed by author on title page.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. pp.394.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback.

Zustand: Good. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 125pp. Original red cloth. There is some foxing of the endpapers, else this book is in very good condition. Undated, but can be dated to the time of the Big Four railway companies, so we have estimated a date of 1930.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 394 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.93 inches. In Stock.

In 24 (cm 8,5 x 12), pp. 48. Lieve mancanza all'angolo inferiore di pagina 42. Brossura editoriale. Timbretto al frontespizio. Breve manualetto sulla qualita' giuridica del medico, sui doveri, sull'esercizio abusivo della professione; ecc. ITA.

Zustand: Good. 1st edition. Half calf, G+. ivi+[x]+[ii]+288pp, engraved frontis, subscribers list & a single page of adverts after the preface & before the main body of the text, signatures L & L3 are cancels, upper board detached, leather a little rubbed & worn, occasional foxing & yellowing of the paper, a fair copy of an uncommon work. The work contains a preface in which Fawkes thanks the help he has received from his peers including Zachary Pearce, John Jortin, and Samuel Johnson. Burnaby furnished the Essay. Francis Fawkes [ 1721 - 1777 ] English poet & translator, who was, in the latter role, considered by his contemporaries to be the best since Alexander Pope. His translations are still selected for modern anthologies to this day, such is their merit. 500 grams.…

Zustand: BUONO USATO. Da revisionare ITALIANO Legatura bianca, con titoli al piatto ed al dorso, scurita dal tempo. Pagine ben conservate, ben salde, con ampio margine ed alcune tabelle fuori testo. Numero pagine 161.

Zustand: Good. Typed Letter Signed, 8.5" x 11" Single Leaf on University of Minnesota letterhead, Very Good.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century.

1st edition. Good copies in the original full aniline calf. Raised bands with a red morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and bumped as with age. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. Contents; Vol. 1. Alcibiades. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin -- v. 2. Friendship in fashion. The soldier's fortune. The atheist, or, The second part of the soldier's fortune -- v. 3. The orphan. The history and fall of Caius Marius. Venice preserv'd. Poems and letters. Subjects; Otway, Thomas 1652-1685 ; Correspondence. Portraits. English drama 17th century. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Half bound brown leather with marbled boards, gold gilt lettering and decoration to spine, no dustjacket as issued. Double column. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Some rubbing to boards, marks to endpapers, split to op front edge of spine, with poem glued to front pastedown. A nice solid copy for 240+ year old book. (23/5).…

TITLE CONTINUED: as likewise in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, A Catalogue of Kitchen Garden Plants and Herbs, with the parts made Use of in COOKERY; Fruit Trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted Flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbaceous flower Plants, Herbs for Distilling and Medicine, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens, with great Variety of curious Greenhouse and Stove Plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in Works of this Kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, by James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield. FIRST EDITION 1771, 2 LEAVES MISSING FROM PRELIMS, pages 3-6, now replaced with facsimiles. 8vo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, 13 engraved illustrations, 1 folding, pages: 8, 1-530 plus 1 advert leaf, bound in quarter modern calf, gilt lettered green label, gilt rules and gilt name and date to spine, marbled boards, new black endpapers. First free endpaper soiled with old ink names and text, page 530 and last blank with old ink name and date 1776, pale damp stain affecting top and bottom margins, just running into text of about 60 pages, 2 leaves facing each other have closed tear at lower part neatly repaired, no loss to text, small ink splash to 1 index page, all text legible, small ink spots affect some pages at end, a few other minor spots or stains, otherwise a good copy. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, Volume 3, page 60, No. 846; ESTC T127674, 5 copies listed in UK libraries and 5 in USA , 7 copies listed in Library Hub Discover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

The fourth edition improved, 8vo, pp. viii, 24, [968]; a8 B-3O8 lexicon in double column; full contemporary unadorned calf, gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments, raised bands; boards rubbed, hinges cracked; bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus on front pastedown, contemporary ownership signature of John Antrobus, dated 1774, on front free endpaper; contemporary British bookseller's ink manuscript price at top of front flyleaf; occasional spotting throughout, else textblock about fine. With the approbation leaf in which George III (to whom the book is dedicated) grants Fenning a license to print his dictionary for a period of 14 years. Little is known of Fenning. He was a compiler of several school texts, including an arithmetic, a geography, and a speller, the last of which had notable popularity in America before Webster. Webster himself was no doubt well acquainted with Fenning's speller, which in London made a 71st edition in 1823. This dictionary contains terms used in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, architecture, printing, natural history and navigation, with "each word followed by an initial letter to denote the part of speech" -the first time I believe in a dictionary. A competent, trustworthy dictionary on "so extensive a plan as to unite the different excellencies of all other English dictionaries." Alston V, 230; Kennedy 6257; Vancil, p. 89.…