richards rev william (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. FREEMAN (illustratore). First Edition. 1st ed, Good, 1 pl, 1820. In contemporary worn green half calf, red marbled boards, corners and edges a little bumped and worn. Spine, worn, gilt title and tooling, bumped and worn at edges. Internally, frontis, [3], (iv-xxxv), [1], [1], 2-504 pp, 1 pl, 1 vignette, text block edges speckled red, bookplate, ink numbers, and bookseller label to fpd, numbers again to fep, printed by George Smallfield, Hackney, upper hinge weak. (172*104 mm). Richards, William, General Baptist minister and historian, who in 1803, married Emiah Owens. She strongly supported his literary enterprises, but died on 3 January 1805, aged twenty-nine. Profoundly distressed, Richards could not for several years go out into society. He must have received callers, however; and in these years he produced historical essays-collected in The Welsh Nonconformists' Memorial (1820) See ODNB for a full Bio. Title continues: containing Sketches of the Founders of the Protestant Dissenting Interest in Wales. To which are prefixed An Essay on Druidism and Introduction of the Gospel into Britain with an Appendix including the Authors minor pieces and his Last Views of the Christian Religion.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No jacket, probably as issued. NOT a library discard (illustratore). Green Valley, Nevada: Ted Adameck, 1994. Very scarce 1994 HARDCOVER dual edition, with cover title: HAWAIIAN LAWS 1841-1842, and 254 total pages [other reprints have only 212 or 214 pages]. The book consists of two parts: 1) Reprint of the 1842 Lahainaluna original translation into English, and 2) Reprint of the original Hawaiian language edition [Na Kanawai O ko Hawaii Pae Aina] first published in 1841 in Honolulu, Oahu. Appears never read. Fine condition. NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon leatherette. Full titles: "Translation of the Constitution and Laws of the Hawaiian Islands, Established in the Reign of Kamehameha III" [1842, vi, 120pp.] and "Na Kanawai O ko Hawaii Pae Aina" [1841, v. 123pp.]. Reprint of the 1842 Lahainaluna original. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, probably as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (vi), 120pp. + v. 123pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Reprint of the 1842 Lahainaluna original.