Morier james 1780 (31 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, in England. Book.

Many brightly colored ilustrations by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge. Pictorial buckram cloth with great pictorial. Exceptional artwork. A beautifully done volume. 403pp. 10 3/4" x 7 1/2". Spine toned. Clean. Tight. no jacket. Very good condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge with many brightly colored illustrations. Beautiful - exceptional artwork. Pictorial buckram cloth in bright condition with great pictorial. 403pp. 4to. 10 3/4"x 7 1/2". Beautifully done volume. Tight and clean. no jacket. Very good condition.

Condizione: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, in England. Book.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Reprint. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The World's Classics ; 238. Physical description: xxiv, 450, [4]p. : ill., map ; 16cm. Subject: English fiction, 19th century. 1 Kg. …

Reprint. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The World's Classics ; 238. Physical description: xxiv, 450, [4]p. : ill., map ; 16cm. Subject: English fiction, 19th century. 1 Kg. …

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original cornflower blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back and front. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains monochrome frontispiece, 446 pp. Light spotting to the end papers and in Very Good bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Literary portrait from Fraser's Magasine. Printed in 1833, with facsimilies of signatures. Mounted and ready to frame, mount size 12 x 10 ins, 31 x 19 cms. Drawn By Alfred Croquis (illustratore).

Hardcover. Limited edition, 466/1500. Octavo, Two volumes in slipcase, continuously paged: lii, 498 pages. In Good condition in a Good slipcase. Slipcase in gold decorative paper; small surface tears to bottom panel, light shelf wear. Black spine is black with gold print. Boards quarter bound with black leather to spine and pink decorative paper to boards; light wear to spine caps. Text block has grey tinted top edge; light spotting to edges, bookplate on front pastedown, small tape stains on endpapers. Illustrated: b&w drawings. Signed in ink by the illustrator on the limited edition page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1402453. FP New Rockville Stock.…

1st edition. Good copy in the original half aniline calf leather over marbled boards. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 1 v., 17 cm. Subjects; Biographical fiction, English. Iranians ; Fiction. English fiction 19th century. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Good copy in the original half aniline calf leather over marbled boards. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 1 v., 17 cm. Subjects; Biographical fiction, English. Iranians ; Fiction. English fiction 19th century. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 403, 12 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. ; LCCN: 37-39105 ; OCLC: 4405282 ; LC: PZ3.M825; PR5059.M4; Dewey: 823.7 ; Social manners and customs of Persia described in the language of a Spanish adventure romance involving the many adventures of a nineteenth-century Persian rogue, none of which involve honest labor. ; decorated color cloth ; no dustjacket ; color illustration by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge ; Contents: Of Hajji Baba's birth and education -- Hajji commences his travels and his captivity -- Into what hands Hajji falls, his lucky razors -- Of his ingenuity in rescuing his master's money -- Hajji Baba becomes a robber in his own defence -- Concerning the three prisoners taken by the Turcomans -- Hajji Baba evinces a feeling disposition, the poet Asker -- Hajji Baba escapes from the Turcomans -- Hajji Baba, in his distress, becomes a water-carrier -- He makes a soliloquy, and becomes a vendor of smoke -- History of Dervish Sefer, and of two other dervishes -- Hajji finds that fraud does not remain unpunished -- He leaves meshed, is cured, and relates a story -- Of the man he meets and of the consequences -- Hajji reaches Tehran, and goes to the poet's house -- He plans for the future and is involved in a quarrel -- With new clothes he appears in a new character -- The poet returns from captivity and the consequences -- Hajji gets into the service of the king's physician -- He succeeds in deceiving two of the faculty -- The manner in which Shah takes medicine -- Hajji Baba asks the Doctor for a salary -- He becomes dissatisfied, and falls in love -- He has an interview with the fair Zeenab -- The lovers meet again, and are happy -- The history of Zeenar, the Curdish slave -- The chief physician receives the Shah as his guest -- Concerning hte present made the Shah of Persia -- An event destructive to Hajji Baba's happiness -- Hajji loses the fair object of his affections -- He is called upon to exert his skill as a doctor -- Hajji becomes an executioner -- He accompanies the Shah to his camp -- Hajji Baba gives a specimen of Persian despotism -- Fortune smiles upon Hajji and promotes him, etc etc ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early 19th C, travel narratives describing Persia (modern Iran), Armenia, Anatolia, and the Ottoman world. Complete, 2 tours in 2 volumes, 48 leaves with 52 plates, maps & illustrations along with 47 wood engravings within text, first editions of both works (1812 & 1818), large-paper issues, with the plates on india paper. Uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1812, 1st ed, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 23 pls on19 leaves (includes folding, 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps), 47 wood engravings within text, t.e.g., some light offsetting, spotting and toning, more so in Vol 1, tidemark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p136 more heavily spotted & browned, red marbled endpapers. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). Signatures [3], b-b4, [c2]only, B-3K4. [7], (viii-xix), [1], B1-3K2. (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5). SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James. RENNELL J Major. (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions of both works (1812 & 1818); large-paper issue of the first, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1st ed, large paper, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 19 pls (includes 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps 1 folding), 47 wood engravings within text. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). T.e.g., some light offsetting to a few text leaves, variable spotting and toning to some plates (generally light), tide-mark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p. 136 more heavily spotted and browned, red marbled endpapers. Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy, and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. 'In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818), both met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5). SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major. (illustratore).…

1p., 16mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper. Anotated in pencil 'From Mr. Morier' and 'Castellamare | 1830'. Addressed to 'Dear Roberts'. Begins: 'If you are a good fellow do come and dine with us today at 3. I know it is short notice, but our table holds only a certain number.' Also asks him to join a party to visit Pompeii the following Friday, which also includes 'Parkes who dines here'.…

3 Volumes. small 8vo. pp. xxxix, 311, [1]; 1 p.l., [v]-viii [vii-viii bound in Vol. III], 351, [1]; viii, 382, [1]. lacking half-title in Vol. II?; none required in Vols. I & III. contemporary half calf, gilt backs (joints cracked, spines worn & oxidized with lower portion of Vol. II spine defective). Second Edition. NCBEL III 751. Sadleir 1793a.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. (ads), ix, 319; 2 p.l., 326; 2 p.l., 324. with half-titles. Uncut in original bds. (spines partly defective, covers of 2 vols. detached, scattered foxing, upper margins of Vol. I dampstained). First Edition. NCBEL III 751.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of sun-toning and dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxvii, xixa, 623 p. : ill., frontis. ; 21 cm. Subjects; English fiction 19th century. Iran Fiction. Iran; history. Iran; literature. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of sun-toning and dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxvii, xixa, 623 p. : ill., frontis. ; 21 cm. Subjects; English fiction 19th century. Iran Fiction. Iran; history. Iran; literature. 1 Kg. …

Condizione: Corners rounded. Very Good. 3 volumes. 8vo. This the first title published by Bentley as an independent publisher, after his separation from Coburn. Original drab boards, rebacked, with original printed paper title labels retained 1st edition (NCBEL III, 751; Sadleir 1801).

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.