Gurney rev w (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good - Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. Nicely Inscribed By Champion To Dorothy (Field), Mrs. Dudley Short, Author Of The Chapter "Introduction To Sikhism" Included Here. A Clean Solid Copy, A Few Pencil Marks. Dust Jacket With A Little Foxing And Wear, Spine Darkened, Not Price-Clipped. Includes A Loose "With The Author's Compliments" Slip, And A Loose Advertising Card For "Readings From World Religions" Stating A Publication Date Due For April 19, 1951, Authored By Champion And Short, To Be Published By Watt (Later Reprinted As A Paperback From Fawcett In The Us). A Good Introduction To The World's Core Mythologies. Inscribed by Author(s).…

874 S./ 262 Seiten, 1 Bl. Mit 2 Frontispizen, gest. Titel (in Teil 1) und 17 Kupferstichen. Kl. Okt. (13x7 cm). Schwarzer Leinenband im Stil der Zeit, orig. Rücken aufgezogen, Buntpapiervorsätze, Goldschnitt. ** Text fleckig. Goldschnitt berieben. Guter, neuer Einband.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Full leather binding. Gilt page edges. Unread. No DJ. No markings in book. Rubbing to all leather edges and scuffing to covers. Front cover front spine edge is starting to crack at the top 1 1/2". 624pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. The various sectional title-pages show publication dates of 1813, 1826 & 1829, front engraved title-page shows 1821, and the engravings throughout are dated 1824-26. Contemporary full calf, gilt; marbled endpapers. Moderate wear to extremities, some rubbing as loss to gilding. Edges toned, and text sits somewhat proud in binding. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. A very neat little Bible, much in its original state. Pasted inside front cover is a gilt plate indicating the wedding of "James. Elizabeth. Taylor. 6. June. 1828." A later obituary clipping for James Paylor is neatly pasted inside rear cover. "James and Elizabeth (Beattie) Taylor, came to this country from Scotland in 1837, and first settled in St. Andrews. Mr Taylor was employed, soon after his arrival, as foreman of Commissary Forbes, Carillon; and as the Rebellion was then in progress, in going to and from his work, was daily challenged by sentinels posted between the two villages, and compelled to give the password. He afterward removed to Ile aux Chats, where he died in 1883; Mrs. Taylor died in 1888. They had four sons and six daughters." [p. 177 in C. Thomas: History of the Counties of Argenteuil, Que., and Prescott, Ont. (Montreal 1896)].…

Full Morocco. Condizione: Good. First Edition Thus. The New Testament, bound at rear, was issued in 1816. Full red period morocco, spine with raised bands and elaborate gilt floral tooling within; covers with wide elaborate gilt borders composed of floral and geometric devices, all edges gilt, elaborately gilt inner dentelles; embroidered silk endpapers (front upper hinge starting at foot with rubbing to edges and extremities of spine and boards; front inner hinge split; small bookplate; some browning to text). Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. B/w Engravings (illustratore). Book. …