Mr john lillie (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and silver and red embellishments. Some rubbing at edges, some shelf wear. Foxing to textblock ONLY. Pages clean, NO foxing or markings, binding sturdy.

Couverture rigide. Condizione: Bon. 434 p. + catalogue 32 p. Bookplate of the Fraser Institute. Frontispiece detached and incomplete. Publisher's binding a bit worn, especially spine. Endpapers cracked to hinge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Decorative blue boards with stamped gilt designs and gilt lettering; floral end pages and frontis portrait of Remusat with tissue guard. Boards with light wear to the edges; end pages and pages with light age toning. Binding tight. Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (1780 - 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802. Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Publishers pictorial grey cloth with decoration in black, titles in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated with one hundred and twenty illustrations, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Publishers 32-pg catalog dated October 1886 bound in at rear. Bit of reader lean to spine, rear endpaper split in gutter but still tightly bound, about VG with clean cover cloth and bright titles. Pics of any of our books supplied on request.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece and 120 illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. A gorgeous copy of the first American edition, published by Harper and Brothers in 1877. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with a bright balloon illustration decorating the front board. The book features 120 illustrations and frontispiece. An uncommonly nice copy. From the French of Celiere, translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. An early edition of the entertaining The Startling Exploits of Dr. J. B. Quies, translated from the original French. An interesting copy of The Startling Exploits of Dr. J. B. Quies that has been translated from the original French, written by Paul Celiere, into English by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie.The book is proclaimed as a flight of fancy and was written with a "simple-minded intention to avoid boring my readers." The volume is extensively illustrated with one hundred and twenty illustrations throughout the text. There is also thirty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.There is an inscription to the front free endpaper which reads:To Mr Alfred Darwin, junior, A Christmas present from Dr J. B. Quies.Christmas Day, 1886. In the publisher's original decorated cloth boards. Externally, generally smart. The spine is a little faded and bumped and there is some fading to the joints and extremities and a few marks to the boards. There is an inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with the odd scattered spot concentrated to the first few pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…