Elgin kincardine (6 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Softcover stapled binding. Very clean, crisp covers and pages. Sound binding. No inscriptions.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Très bon. 13 pages. Édition originale parue en 1851. Size: In-8.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Minimal wear.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A SPLENDID ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, NOT DATED BUT PRINTED IN 1868. MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME. VERY GOOD CONDITION . PRINTED IN COLOUR . SHOWS THE SCOTTISH COUNTIES OF ABERDEENSHIRE, BANFF, ELGIN, NAIRN AND KINCARDINE ETC.

Second Edition. Large octavo, original brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gilt and black; brown coated endpapers. xxii + 467 pp, 12 pp publisher's adverts, dated November 1872, at rear. Full-page presentation inscription gifting the volume as a prize from the Dumferline Literary Institute in 1882, noting that the volume was a gift of the Dowager Countess of Elgin that was presented to the Institute by the late George Birrell, Esq. Light foxing here and there, minor wear to the cloth at extremities, corners slightly bumped; a Very Good copy. Lord Elgin (1811-1863), was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. His roles included Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847-1854) and later High Commissioner in charge of opening trades with China and Japan, and Viceroy of India. As British High Commissioner in China during the Second Opium War, after repeatedly attacking China, he ordered the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. A large section of this work (pp 31-169) details his time in Canada. The four-page preface, dated 4 March 1872, is by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster. …

Very scarce report on Canada. 86 pp, including 2 large folding plates. With numerous tables giving exact details on demography, agriculture, and business. 4to. Bound in recent marbled boards. FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects.