col badcock (17 risultati)

Original Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Spine panel slightly sunned, light shelf wear, typical toning to text block edges. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature on upper front pastedown (inside front cover). 380 pp., illus. w/ 75 plates, 41 illus. in text. Undated, ca. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condizione: Good. First Printing. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pen marking from front pastedown to rear of frontispiece. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition.

Condizione: Fair. First Printing. 141 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with moderate cracking to gutters exposing netting; pages remain attached. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable foxing and slight staining to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has moderate staining and sunning with soft crushing to ends.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First British Edition. Solid used copy. No date given, circa 1946. Price clipped jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. small hole in 1 page, wrappers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair to Good. First Edition. Blue cloth. No jacket. Spine very faded and some edge wear. Single name insc. to front pastedown. Free ep missing.Photo illustrations. Some browning to prelims. A generally tight and reasonable reading copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages plus indexes (complete). A passive copy. The boards are grubby. They retain a weary elegance. There handling and storage marks and wear all about. They are sure. The contents are very clean, clear, benign, confident, authoritative. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 96pp. 7.4 inches. No dw. Red covers, faded gilt lettering. Very slight overall wear, owner's name on titlepage. Edges and Internally fairly heavily foxed. Illustrated with 9 b/w plates. No date stated, wartime production, c.1942. Collects radio talks given by the author on animals, including such topics as animal humour, senses shared with animals, thought-reading and justice, as well as many on various aspects of their welfare. (Natural History, Animals, Veterinary, Vet, Biology, Zoology, Yorkshire, Humour) 180g Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 380 pp. Light foxing of the fore-edges and also a smattering in the prelims. Mostly clean. A tight and handsome copy.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Paperback. 111pp. Frontis. Illus. 1st edition 1931. Period advertisements to rear. Spine skewed. Covers slightly marked. Bottom corner to rear cover creased, and bottom corners folded over to approx last 20 pages. A few small marks to bottom edge. Private ownership. (bs23).

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. Beryl Trist (illustratore). 1st Edition. Spine, binding and cover all fine; nice, green, robust boards. Contents very clean and no inscription. 254 pages.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. HB Red cloth boards. 141 pages, many intext b&w illus.both photos. Book tight and clean.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Soft light brown cover with gilt printed title and author. Title also printed on spine. 111 pp. Adverts inside front and back cover for dog soap and a paper called Dog World. Other dog-related adverts in back after final page. Some discolouration and marks to the front and back cover. Also some fading on the spine, making the title hard to read, and some bumping to top and bottom of spine. Hinge showing partway through but binding is holding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. xi, 407pp. Contemporary continental gilt-tooled half-calf, tree-marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, with surface loss to edges and corners, joints rubbed, spine heavily sunned. Marbled endpapers, all edges yellow. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition of the only published work of Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock (1786-1861), English Major-General. One of the military reporters working under Lord William Russell between 1832 and 1834, Lovell was present at the siege of Oporto, and during the Miguelite war in Portugal. This volume was compiled, upon his return to England, from selected writings produced during this deployment; the journal contains not only his account of said military service, but also a great deal of descriptive writing recording the people, places and character of the region, including his own transcription of a local Portuguese ballad. Size: 8vo.

Leather. Condizione: Good. None (illustratore). First edition. The scarce first edition of Lovell Badcock's account of his time in Portugal and Spain at the beginning of the civil war between Pedro and Miguel, offering a detailed eyewitness account of the siege of Porto. A scarce first edition.Badcock, a British officer, records his experiences amid the First Carlist War in Spain and the Liberal Wars in Portugal, offering vivid descriptions of military skirmishes, political tensions, and the everyday life of both soldiers and civilians in the aftermath of the Peninsular War.In a full calf binding, with The Society of Writers to the Signet in gilt to the boards, and with a library slip to the front pastedown. They are a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594.Macaulay termed this "one of the best accounts of the civil war; unlike the British officers in Dom Pedro's service, he had no personal grievances to embitter his style". In a full calf binding. Small losses of calf towards back strip head and tail. Joints starting, with boards firmly held. Library slip to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, xi, 407 pp. A near fine copy in later calf with label to spine. Inscribed by the author on the title page, no other markings or inscriptions, some spotting to the text. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. Bonito ejemplar en media piel reciente; lomo con nervios, tejuelo y filetes dorados ; cortes jaspeados.xi, 407 pp.Pp.19 - 131 tratan sobre su viaje por España, gran parte del resto de la obra sobre el asedio de Oporto. 'Formó parte de una Misión militar inglesa que debía estudiar la situación reinante en Portugal al comienzo de la lucha fratricida entre dom Pedro y dom Miguel. Llevaba Badcock la comisión específica de averiguar los movimientos e intenciones de los españoles en la frontera de Portugal.' Robertson. 'One of the best accounts of the civil war; unlike the British officers in Dom Pedro's service, he had no personal grievances to embitter his style.' Macaulay. Lisboa - Elvas - Badajoz - Cintra - Mérida - Plasencia - Salamanca - Ciudad Rodrigo - Zamora - Madrid - Talavera de la Reina - Badajoz - Porto - Lisboa - Cádiz. Duarte de Sousa II 37. Robertson (1988) pp.238 - 240. Foulché-Delbosc 327. Farinelli III p.244. Santos Madrazo p.799. Alberich 1020. Palau 21 654. Jaime del Burgo p.87. Branco 69. García-Romeral 165.