R h cobbold (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce in first edition. Front board and up to page 5 of first book detached, cloth missing from rear board. Boards rubbed and marked, spine darkened, fore edge foxed, Albert Harrison bookplate to front pastedown, prelims lightly foxed, pencil inscriptions to some margins on some of the books otherwise clean throughout. Good rebinding copy. Full list of titles and authors, in order of appearance, as follows: Inaugural Meeting Of The Fishery Congress By H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales Fish Diseases By Professor Huxley The Destruction Of Fish And Other Aquatic Animals By Internal Parasites By T. Spencer Cobbold Fish As Food By Henry Thompson Food Of Fishes By F. Day Fish Culture By Francis Day The Natural History And Cultivation Of The Sole By W. Houghton Propagation Of The Salmonidae By W. Oldham Chambers The Propagation Of Freshwater Fish Excluding Salmonidae By W. Oldham Chambers Crustaceans Bt Thomas Cornish; Artificial Culture Of Lobsters By W. Saville Kent Molluscs, Mussels, Whelks, Etc. Used For Food Or Bait By Mr. Charles Harding Oyster Culture And Oyster Fisheries In The Netherlands By Professor Hubrecht Notes On The Food Fishes And Edible Mullosca Of New South Wales By E. P. Ramsay Seal Fisheries By Captain Temple The Scientific Results Of The Exhibition By Professor E. Ray Lankester. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. 12mo Rebound by library in green buckram, gilt titles to spine, with the original front cover illustration with damage to top one inch [missing] laid down. front matter of first two pages separated but present, the paper is brittle and inclinded to break along the rebound gutter; ow G/ndj: vi, 219, with 34 etchings by native artists (illustrating 30 trades etc.), lithographed extra title page as frontispiece with different title, ie 'The Chinese at Home', vignette title page, Illustrated with full page and intertext drawings of daily life and customs in Ningpo China in the mid-19th century. Includes: diviners, street singers, physicians, Buddhist Priest, wine carrier, lantern seller, Taoist priest, needle-maker, opium smoker, barber, physiognomist, beggars, matchmakers etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover: Good, 20 x 14 cm, IV + 219 + 77 pl., English, 1st Edition, illustrations, book condition: Good The original hardcover shows damage, the binding is intact but somewhat pulled. With frontispiece and 35 page-sized woodcuts and 42 woodcuts in the text. Cobbold was dean of Ningpo for 8 years. The images referred to in the title are reproductions of line drawings depicting Chinese professions, such as street musicians, doctors, priests, and collectors of waste, hair, and paper. [This description may have been translated by AI.].…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover, original cloth of the publisher with gilt decoration on the front and spine (some bumped corners), 20 x 14 cm, 219 pp., English, Illustrations, book condition: Very Good [This description may have been translated by AI.].

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. London: John Murray, 1860, 1860 First edition, 1860. 12mo, 18.7*12cm, vi, 220pp. Early half calf, spine rebacked tan leather, cloth boards, gilt lettered spine. Cloth worn at foredges. Fresh endpaper. Complete with all pages, illustrations and plates. An ex-Institution book, showing signs of use. Photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Good.…

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In banded and textured green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to ends, gilt figurative illustration to front and blind embossed design to rear. In very good condition. Original green cloth cover. Cloth split at top end of spine, small nicks at bottom end. Corners bumped. Small chip/hole to cloth on rear spine edge. Later endpapers (original endpapers removed.) Neat glue repairs to binding of first couple of pages. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages, some very minor light foxing to a couple of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 219pp. (220pp.) Illustrated with 34 toned plates (numbered 1-30, includes 4 plates ?The Cookshop?, and frontis plate.) Many B&W woodcuts within text, including some full page, and one on very last page. (Scarce in original binding.).…