Marryat captain c b (12 risultati)

Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Near Very Good. Frontis is a Colour Illustration featuring Captain Tartar. Red cloth Illustrated cover with decoration and classical figures playing lyre or pipes under trees on front & spine. Pictorial Endpapers. 254 Pages. 7 1/2" Tall. Previous owner's name on back of frontis. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

(= Collection of British Authors, Band 49); Halbleder der Zeit mit marmoriertem Schnitt und Marmorvorsätzen, kl. 8° (15,5 x 11,5 cm), 382 S. Sehr gut erhalten.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Marbled Boards, Some Edge Wear, Spine Chips. Engraved Frontispiece. 394 Pgs. Collection Of British Authors Vol. Vi In One Volume.

gebundene Ausgabe. 382 Seiten gebunden, Goldprägung, Kleinformat, Ecken/Kanten bestossen, Einband abgerieben und fleckig, gewölbt, Seiten vergilbt, fleckig und gewellt, in englischer Sprache, Titelblatt hinten beschriftet, Zustand mittelmäßig Sprache: Englisch.

hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Edizione continentale pubblicata lo stesso anno dell'originale inglese - Volume in coeva copertina rigida in tela, titolo su etichetta applicata al dorso e numero calligrafico al piede, 355 pagine. Testo integrale in lingua inglese. Fogli di guardia mancanti; timbri commerciali alle prime e ultime carte; diffuse fioriture, più dense in alcune parti; evidenti i segni d'usura e del tempo. Esemplare accettabile di una non comune edizione d'epoca -- Il capitano Frederick Marryat (Londra, 10 luglio 1792 - Langham, 9 agosto 1848) è stato un romanziere inglese. Contemporaneo e conoscente di Charles Dickens, fu uno dei pionieri dei romanzi ambientati sul mare. Il romanzo di formazione "Percival Keene" segue le avventure nautiche del protagonista, figlio illegittimo di un capitano della Royal Navy, che entra in servizio come guardiamarina durante le guerre napoleoniche e sale di grado con l'aiuto dell'influente padre. Book.…

(= Collection of British Authors, Band 53); Halbleder der Zeit mit marmoriertem Schnitt und Marmorvorsätzen, kl. 8° (15,5 x 11,5 cm), 384 S. Sehr gut erhalten.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Good. 2 folding maps, charts. Original quarter cloth over boards, paper labels on spine, 16 pages ads at front of Vol. 1. NEAR GOOD internally clean, hinges starting or repaired, top of spine ends chipped, toe of spine ends worn, labels on spine worn resulting in removal of some letters, Vol. 1 & 2 show beginnings of splits at outer rear hinges, Vol. 1 shows pushing to spine near toe, edge wear corners bumped, front fly leaf of Vol. 2 torn and chipped. Previous owner name on front fly leaf of Vol. 1. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1842. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), of the Royal Navy, became a popular novelist of (what else?) sea stories, a progenitor of Conrad, O'Brien, and Forester. His works were extensively reprinted during the 19th century; This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Copyright Edition. Number 24 in the publisher's "Collection of British Authors." An early printing; Tauchnitz had started the long-running series only one year prior. Bound in light tan suede with titling and decorations in gilt; titling on the spine in gilt within a black compartment. Clean text; 371 pages; ribbon bookmark; black topstain. There are two interesting bookplates on the front paste-down, one dated from 1913, and a pencil signature on the first free endpaper. Quite a nice copy. First Edition Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Pirate Edition. New York: Wm. H. Colyer, 1839. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), of the Royal Navy, became a popular novelist of (what else?) sea stories, a progenitor of Conrad, O'Brien, and Forester. His works were extensively reprinted during the 19th century; here he ventures a nonfiction volume of his impressions of the former colony. This is a Very Good copy (textblock) of the First American Edition, but assumed to be a pirate edition,since the American First was published by Carey & Hart. Presented in a Fine modern rebind. Olive brown cloth, with titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; decorative endpapers; 252 pages that are spotted but perfectly readable. This is an Association Copy, from the library of E. Merton Coulter (1890-1981), a prominent Southern historian unfortunately known as an apologist for slavery. His name is stamped in gilt on the spine, and three times within. Pirate Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1843. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), of the Royal Navy, became a popular novelist of (what else?) sea stories, a progenitor of Conrad, O'Brien, and Forester. His works were extensively reprinted during the 19th century. Here is an exciting adventure but with much in the way of Factual elements with first-rate observations of the native tribes of Western America. Later editions would be retitled as "Among the Snake Indians and Wild Tribes of the Western Prairies." This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the "Copyright Edition." Number 53 in the publisher's "Collection of British Authors." An early printing; Tauchnitz had started the long-running series only two years prior. Bound in light tan suede with titling and decorations in gilt; titling on the spine in gilt within a black compartment. Clean text; vi, 384 pages; black topstain; red ribbon bookmark. Light fade to the spine. There is a spot on the rear cover, which might be a drop of wax. Quite an attractive little bok, and a great read. First Edition Thus. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Leather Binding. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, Thus; This pirated edition is the direct result of the Marryat's attempt to protect his American copyrights. The first English author to do so, Marryat copyrighted his work in the U. S. with the Philadelphia publication, but as a foreign author it had no effect. . 263 pp.; rebacked in tan leather and with a page added at the front from H.E. Barker "Lincolniana".with Marryat's quote by Lincoln on the Presidency. Size: 12 vo.…

AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION COPY OF AN EXTRAORDINARILY RARE SUITE OF LITHOGRAPHS. Two parts in one volume, complete with twelve wonderful lithographed views. This is the deluxe proof issue on India paper. Bound in is a letter dated October 5, 1911 from Henry Campbell Booth to French botanist Philippe de Vilmorin (1872-1917), in which Booth explains that this book belonged to his wife's grandfather, Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), the Royal Navy officer who pioneered nautical fiction. Large folio (38 cm). Attractively bound in quarter calf, c. 1900, spine decorated with gilt fleurons. Froont wrappers of both parts bound in. Light wear to extremities of binding. Some foxing to margins of plates, but images generally very clean. A very good set. Not in WorldCat, BL, BN, or anywhere else I looked. George Rowe (illustratore).…