robert lade abbe prevost (3 risultati)

leather, 2nd French edition, some surface wear on exterior, two plates present, from the works of Abbe Prevost.

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. First Edition. "Voyages of Captain Robert Lade." in French. Complete set of both volumes. Full 5 band leather with gilt decoration on spines and edges bright. Rubbed corners, edges, and bands with a few scuffs on boards. Volume II is slightly more worn with chips on head of spine, two small holes in rear joint leather, and dent on the rear top edge. Binding tight. All edges red with marbled endpapers. Free endpapers toned and foxed. Foxing on a few text pages. Title pages are printed in red and black, with a seal stamp in German on both. Both folding maps present. Map in Volume I has a glue repair and soil spots, with Volume II map in very good condition. 360 pages and 400 pages, with last page of Volume II misprinted as 360. Supposedly an account of Capitan Robert Lade's voyages all over the world, translated from the English. Lade was a fictitious character and the book is ascribed to French author Abbe Prevost, possibly drawing material from several legitimate sources. From Howes L 11: "Contains a long account of affairs in the infant colony of Georgia, probably translated from some English work." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 760 pp.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 519 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 519 Language: French.