Hailes lord (16 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In English.

Condizione: Very Good. Dublin Edition. 6 pages. Printed in double columns throughout. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 21 x 26 cms. Category: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself. [Dictated to Samuel Pepys at Newmarket in 1680.] To which are added, his letters to several persons. [Edited by Sir D.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 238.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. The first edition of the second volume (The first volume was published in 1776.) 4to., [4],397p, half calf, marbled boards,11 1/4" tall and 8 7/8" wide. Loss of bottom corner of last leaf, no loss of text.Some light foxing but a very good crisp clean copy. Dr Johnson described this work at the time of its appearance, a "Dictionary" of carefully sifted facts, which tells all that is wanted and all that is known, but without any laboured splendour of language or affected subtlety of conjecture.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 238.

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 238.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 2nd Edition. Octavo, contemporary calf newly rebacked period style, contemporary armorial bookplate of Rev. Charles Lyttleton, nice. Gaskell Foulis, 448.

Small 8vo in fours (150 x 90mm), pp. xiv, [ii], 83; a good copy in contemporary Scottish sheep, spine with morocco label, but a little chipped at foot. First edition. A selection of poetry collected by David Dalrymple, later to become famous not only as a lawyer but as a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. The poetry is mostly contemporary or quite recent: Pope, Doddridge, Needler, Blacklock, and Thomson. There are, however, a few earlier poets, including Milton (p. 31) and Donne (p. 53). Interestingly, in his preface, Dalrymple apologises for Donne's rendition of Psalm 137: it 'may, in the ears of many persons, sound uncouth: but to those who consider in what times it was written, this defect will appear less remarkable. The nervous expression, and the manly sense of the whole, will more than excuse those blemishes, which are to be imputed not so much to the author, as to the times in which he flourished' (p. x).…

Small 8vo, pp. [20], 151, [1]; contemporary full paneled calf, double gilt rules on covers enclosing a blindstamped panel with gilt fleurons in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, a.e.g.; joints lightly rubbed, tiny crack at the top of the front joint; very good. Gaskell 405.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 190; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked with new red morocco label lettered in gilt; small closed tear on F2 & H4, old manuscript notes on the bottom of F7 regarding Mr. Knox, bookplate on front pastedown, extremities lightly worn, overall very good and sound. Gaskell 449.…

3 volumes. Edinburgh, printed for William Creech, and T. Cadell and W. Davies, London 1797. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. X+(2)+351 + 382 + 383+(3) pages, including errata leaf. Contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spine and heraldic insignia on boards. Hinges on volume 1 a bit weak and broken, but still holding. Spine-ends a bit frayed. Slight edgewear and rubbing. * David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, 3rd Baronet of Hailes (1726 -1792) is known for his Annals of which the first volume appeared in 1776 and the second in 1779. This is a new edition of the work in three volumes published five years after his death.…

Small crown 8vo, pp. xxx, [2], 191, [1]; accompanied by: Memorials and letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of Charles the First. Published from the originals. 1766. pp. xxxix, [1], 191, [1]. Uniformly bound in slightly later full polished calf, 3 gilt rules surrounding blindstamped border, gilt armorial supralibros on upper covers, gilt spine in 6 compartments, gilt title direct on spine, marbled edges and endpapers; joints lightly rubbed, pastedown endpaper abraded, near fine. Gaskell 447 and 448.…