burt edward captain (5 risultati)

2 vols., 8vo, lacking half-titles, engr. frontis. to each vol., lacking advert. leaf at end of vol. 2, 19th C. tan calf, gilt, red & green leather labels, some spotting of titles, joints cracked but firm, top of spine of vol. 1 chipped, bindings rubbed. [A re-issue of the 1818 edition which had caused Scott problems due to his name appearing on the title-page and articles in periodicals drawing attention to his reliance on Burt as a source for Waverley and thus possibly linking him to the authorship of the novel. Scott had managed to have his name removed from the title-page of most copies of the 1818 edition, but here it appeared again in the 1822 issue. He vainly attempted to have it removed once again. See Todd & Bowden pp. 478-9. Todd & Bowden 127Ab] [Extra postage required for overseas] .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Volume One with 10mm missing to leather at head of spine. Spine lettering pieces have fallen off. Volume One lettering piece included loosely. Previous owner's signature on Volume Two. ; Two volumes (complete). Stated "Fifth Edition". Volume One: lxxvi, 348 pages + frontispiece engraving "The Secreting of Donald the Hammerer". Volume Two: xi, [1], 370 pages + frontispiece engraving "Heroic Attachment of A Clansman to his Chieftain". 19th century green half calf bindings with green pebble grain cloth boards. Spines with 5 gilt decorated raised bands. Page dimensions: 212 x 130mm. Marbled page edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Previous owners' markings and inscriptions on endpapers. Engraved ex-libris heraldic bookplate, "Hicks". Previous owner's name on title pages "[?] Palmer". Ink inscription dated 1909 in Volume One. Later bookplate, "Glen Historic Collection / Southland". ; Second edition. Two volumes (complete). Volume One: x, 344 pages + frontispiece "Plan of the Town of Inverness" + 5 plates. Volume Two: [ii], 368 pages + 3 plates. Calf boards. Rebacked with paper? spines. Spine material does not look like leather, appears fibrous under 30X magnification. Page dimensions: 197 x123mm. Engravings in Volume One are facing pages: 41, 52, 60, 86, 130. Engravings in Volume Two are facing pages: 120, 183, 278. "In about 1727 and 1728 Burt wrote a series of letters, later published as Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London (including a further letter written in around 1737), in which he summarized Wade's road-building achievements (Stevenson, 2004 [entry on Burt, Edward in "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"]). The Letters contain important early engravings of Highland dress in and around Inverness. Burt realized that the conditions he described would be regarded as highly offensive by Scots, so he swore his unknown correspondent in London to secrecy." - Wikipedia entry on Edward Burt, accessed February 2025.

Condizione: Good. Large 4to. 23 x 31cm. Half goatskin and marbled paper boards by the artisan biner Sasha Mosalov.Plates with minor to major foxing in the margins.[iii]-v, [3], [9]-84 pp. With 26 steel-engraved plates from drawings by Seth Eastman including the frontispiece, plus steel-engraved added title; plain protective interleaves for the plates. .A series of detailed engravings after drawings by Seth Eastman, who was stationed, along with his wife Mary, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. These depict such revealing aspects of Native American life as transportation of wounded, the medicine dance of the Winnebagoes, spearing fish from a canoe, an Indian woman dressing a buffalo skin, etc. Wagner-Camp cautions that the work "should not be confused with Mrs. Eastman's later work, published in 1854 as Chicora, and again as American Annual. Mrs. Eastman's Portfolio consists of twenty-six engravings from Captain Eastman's paintings of Indian life, each with a guard sheet and a short explanatory essay of two or three pages." Field 477n; Wagner-Camp 222c.; Howes E-17; Sabin 21682; Wagner-Camp-Becker 222a; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: 84 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 33 cm? Seth Eastman was a painter and soldier best known for his depictions of the everyday life of Dakota and Ojibwe people around Fort Snelling in the 1840s.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: A selection of plates from volumes 1-3 (1851-1853) of: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United StatesAdded engraved title page: The American aboriginal port folio. With vignette "Engraved by Illman & Sons."Cover title: Eastman's aboriginal portfolioCollation: [1]? 2-10? [11] [$1 signed]; 42 leaves, pages [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii (viii blank)] [9] 10-84 + 25 plates (each preceded by a bound-in guard sheet)Plates engraved by Charles K. Burt, James Smillie, John C. McRae, C.E. Wagstaff & J. Andrews, and Alfred JonesFirst plate, a portrait of Red Jacket, bound as frontispieceIssued in blue cloth, stamped in gold; all edges gilt.

8vo, 19.5cm. Vol. 1: pp. xii,211; vol. 2: pp. [ii],240; with woodcut printers' device on each title-page, 3 engraved plates (2 in vol. 1, 1 in vol. 2), some woodcut head- and tail-pieces and capitals. Bound in one volume, contemp. blind vellum. Faint waterstain of little importance to blank margin of a few leaves, good otherwise. - Rare Dutch translation of the very interesting "Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London" (first published London 1754).