William roberts (25 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Wells, Kirk (illustrator).

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Wells, Kirk (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 54 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.13 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 1921. 150 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial paperback. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Paper cover is moderately rub worn and thumbed with noticeable shelf wear to edges and corners, creases to corners and spine. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. 16pp disbound pamphlet, ownership address and mil stamp to rear cover, front cover spotted, slight crease.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. xvi 297pp hardback, faded brown cloth gilt, printed in two colours part unopened, ex-cathedral library with usual stamps.

527tud. ½ lledr; ôl rhwbio i'r byrddau; y testun yn lân. Mymryn o gracio i'r meingefn mewnol yn y blaen-ddalen. Cyn-gopi Richard Jones, Cwmeidrol, Cemais, 1887.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 44 works by Roberts reproduced in black and white, 1 page commentary by Roberts. Pink wrappers, a fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG-. First Edition. 322 pages in very good condition; a little yellowed. Foxing on the first few pages. Green cloth with gilt titles. Corners and edges lightly worn. Slight fraying at the head/tail of spine. Tight binding. VG-. Book.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With owner's name and inscription inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Medium 8vo. Dark cloth binding with full page blind design mirrored on both boards and backstrip. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Quite shelf worn with frayed bumped corners. Backstrip has a couple of splits down the seams and has begun to fray at ends but is secure. Front hinge split. Fold-out map as frontispiece. A couple of pages have pencil markings but otherwise text is clear and secure. A majority of pages have a row of creases down the centre fold margin. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN.…

Card covers, stapled spine. Zustand: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 15 x 21cm 60pp card=covered, stapled spine pamphlet with orange covers. Signed by the author to 'Jeremy' on the title page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Volume 1 contains a paper by Darwin, 'On the Action of Sea Water on the Germination of Seeds'. One book containing volumes one and two, plus the supplement to volume one.Half leather binding with marbled boards and gilt title to spine. Wear to exterior as shown with rear joint cracked and board nearly detached, general marks and scuffs. All edges yellow. First title with blind stamp of Wigan Free Public Library to bottom outer corner. Separate dated title and pagination for each part. Pages with a total of 4 plates (bound at the end of volume one and volume two). Light age toning and the odd little mark or spot here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean as shown. Pages: iv, 203pp, [1], 2 plates, [4], 171pp, [1], iv, 205pp, [3], 2 plates. Size: 21.5cm by 13.5cm.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Together 6 titles in 10 vols.; numerous illusts., folding maps, etc.; upper inner margin of frontis. and title-page to first vol. of The Lake regions slightly chipped, uniformly bound in 20th. c. half roan by H. Sotheran & Co., t.e.g., bookplate of Sir George Stephen, Bart., at front of each vol., and of Andrew A. Miller at rear of each vol., a little rubbed. An attractively bound collection of original editions of works by the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton, narrating travels in Africa, South America, Iceland, and 'Midian' (lying northeast of the Red Sea), and his study of Etruria (Etruscan Bologna) . The group once belonged to Sir George Stephen, a well known Canadian businessman who helped finance the Canadian Pacific Railway, and became 1st Baron Mount Stephen (the name was taken from Mount Stephen, a mountain in the Canadian Rockies named for him, next to which the CPR runs). Most of the rest of his Burton collection is held by McGill University in Canada. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Being the substance of a lecture delivered before the Farnham Young Mens Association, February 4, 1859.Original dark brown textured cloth with blind stamped decorative borders to front and rear boards with gilt title on the front.Undated [1859]viii, 116 pages. 4.5 X 7 inches. Spine leaning. Owner's name to front free endpaper. Very good copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth. Book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Hardback, decorated cloth binding, spine relaid retaining original backstrip. New end-papers. 226pp. Spine faded, with some fading to inner edges of boards. Corners of boards slightly bumped. A scarce book. (q41).

Leather bound. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. Octavo, xiv, 337pp. Three-quarter brown calf, title in gilt on black morocco label affixed to spine, five raised bands. Marbled paper-covered boards, brown endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, faint foxing to edges and title page. A near fine example. Complete with nine additional documents under an appendix. Includes a detailed fold-out map of the city of Exeter opposite the title page. First edition of The History of City of Exeter by George Oliver. (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Book measures 22 x 17 cm. Collation, [12],649,[1]pp, Bound in quater calf, gilt lettering. Leather slightly discoloured. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, some light tanning. Pages in good clean condition. A very nice solid copy. Size: 8vo.

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Navy blue cloth with blind embossed decorations to boards and spine, and gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Professionally rebacked on spine. Some darkening to boards and rubbing to spine and edges, corners slightly bumped and nicked. Later endpapers. Some occasional mild foxing spots to pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xiv + 337pp. Illustrated with a folding plan of the Castle at front.…

Large square 8vo. [x] + 649pp. + [v] + 45pp. With 13pp. of subscribers. Ex.-libris Francis Frederick Fox, light browning, original blind embossed brown cloth, light marking and fading, corners frayed, rebacked in modern calf, minor marking, gilt lettered label to spine. US$200.

Sm. 4to., First Edition, title and preliminaries very lightly spotted; attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, county coloured map sections as paste-downs, marbled free endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the list of subscribers and [first] Supplement bound in. EXTREMELY SCARCE.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1859. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2", 218mm x 140mm). With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Scoresby, a folding map of the track of the ship Royal Charter in her voyage to Port Phillip, and figures and charts in the text. 24 advertisements. Bound in original blind stamped blue cloth gilt. On the smooth spine, title and author gilt. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. Reverand William Scoresby (1789-1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. The son of a wealthy whaling investor, he traveled with his father on whaling expedtions aboard the Resolution from age 11. He was a member of the British Association of Science, contributing to the knowledge of terrestial magnetism. The first part of the Journal concerns the exposition of magnetical principles, and the phenomena of magnetism and compos-action and disturbance in iron ships. The second part is a narrative of the voyage. From the collection of Theodore "Ted" Benttinen (1948-2023), an MIT-educated oceanographer explorer who went to both poles on research missions. Benttinen amassed a formidable collection of books of exploration, particularly strong in Pacific voyages as well as in polar accounts. The present volume was lot 28 in the Sotheby's New York 9 December 2024 sale of his library.…