Draper rev bourne hall (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. green embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine; front hinge is loose pulling away from spine revealing webbing but intact; ffep is loose and has a gift inscription page xi laid in back board loose but intact; wear at the points good condition for its age better than it sounds rare book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+ No dust jacket as issued. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Binding near very good. Some rubbing to joints and ends of spine. Heavy spotty foxing to plates, mainly to margins. Owner's inscription dated 1836 on front endpaper "Robert Bruce Willis from Mrs [Brind?] Wick House May 1836".; Second edition. viii, 256 pages + 16 steel engraved plates (including frontispiece). Green cloth boards with red leather spine. Page dimensions: 133 x 102mm. Frontispiece illustration is "A Caravanserai or Eastern Inn. Other illustrations include: Egyptian Wheat; Ebenezer; Oriental Dresses; The Mirage or Glowing Sandy Plain. Spine title: "LITTLE LIBRARY BIBLE ILLUS." Series: The Little Library, No. VII.…

Leather. Condizione: Good. First edition. The very scarce first edition of the Rev. Bourne Draper Hall's illustrated depiction of life in 'the East', drawing parallels to Biblical passages. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further engraved plates.Collated, complete.Rev. Bourne Hall Draper describes diverse aspects of life in the Middle East, with discussion of housing, hospitality, threshing, sacrifice, food, cannibalism, agriculture, architecture, clothing, posture, and climate. He draws parallels between these observations about culture, and passages from the pages of the Bible. In the publisher's original roan backed, cloth covered boards. Rubbing to back strip head and tail, and joints. Front joint starting, with board firmly held. Head of rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Internally, title page detached to head and a touch tender, otherwise firmly bound. Spotting to plates, with further spotting and offsetting to pages facing them. Pages otherwise generally clean and bright, though a touch age toned. Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book. …

Condizione: Very Good. Engraved plates (16). 130x105mm red roan spine cloth side boards (head chipped/hinges starting) (viii) +256pgs + [8] pgs Publishers catalogue, collated complete. Inscriptions on front end paper Benjamin and Elizabeth Gibbons, Bath 1833 and 1902 Hartlebury. Minor signs of use and some light foxing to plates (Moon 219 (2)). 1 volume. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. 12mo. pp xii, 260. Original publisher's brown quarter leather boards. Copiously illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. Fair amount of shelf wear and rubbing at corners and edges of boards. Creasing at leather folds at spine. Creasing along spine. Browning to edges of page block. Top part of front free end paper cut out, looks like a previous owner's name has been cut out.…

Hardcover. Condizione: g- to vg. First French-language edition. 24mo. [6], 204pp. Original printed paper covered boards. All paper edges yellow. This rare First French-language edition of Rev. Bourne Hall Draper's stories of the Bible is illustrated with 19 full page plates featuring 38 striking engravings (2 per plate). The images depict the most important biblical scenes from Adam and Eve under the tree of knowledge to the Crucifixion of Jesus. Head of spine chipped. Spine cocked. Moderate rubbing along edges. Text in French. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition. About the author: Bourne Hall Draper (1775-1843) was educated for the Baptist Ministry at the Bristol Academy, under the Rev. Dr. J. Rylands. He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Chipping Norton 1804, and subsequently at Southampton, where he died in 1843.…