hooker william (8 risultati)

Green Boards. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. Reprint. Type: Z 222pp. A lovely copy. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Full page colour reproductions of fruit illustrations by William Hooker with an introduction by William T. Stearn and descriptions by Frederick A. Roach. Light bump to the head of the spine with light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, and a bump to the tail of the rear board, all concealed under the wrapper. Fresh and clean. Dust wrapper not price clipped. There is a tear of 3 cm to the tail of the rear panel of the wrapper adjacent to the spine, now expertly repaired wth a little lifting to the tail of the rear panel. Clean and tight. A very good copy.

No Binding. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. New digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc) of this beautiful fruit guide. William Hooker was the finest English painter of fruit and this magnificent suite of hand- colored aquatint engravings is his masterwork. Here pears, plums, apples, grapes, berries, peaches, and more hang in lucious profusion. Includes introductory commentary and an essay on fruit painting by Ian Jackson, plus notes on the fruits shown by C.T. Kennedy. The digital medium brings these illustrations to life with a sharpness and fidelity unobtainable by print means; every page is shown in full and may be magnified to 200% of original size.

Staple Bound. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 64pp. Orange paper wrapps with black print. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall N5.

First edition. 8vo. 7, [1], 456, 8 pp. Contemporary calf, gilt stamped red morocco spine label. Front hinge cracked, front board starting. Contemporary ownership signature of Benj. F. Vinton, dated Boston, October 21, 1822, on front endpaper.

Leather Bound. Condizione: Fair. 10th Edition. One of 14 editions we are offering. ; 495 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Tenth edition. xvi, 497 pp. with ads dated March 1822 and 17 of 18 plates (lacking the plan of Portland Harbour). Hardcover, the original boards overbound in stitched full calf. Scattered blemishes.

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible-Very Good. Early Printing. 11 1/2" by 13 1/4" plan of New York in its original leather pocket case. The map and case are in very good condition: clean and bright. A split along the spine of the case has been professionally restored. Minor short tears along fold-lines of maps remain unrestored. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Map.

Tenth edition, first issue with ads dated march, 1822 and with new plate added to this edition "Isles of Shoals." 18 Engravings. xvi, 497, [8, ads] pp not conforming to Campbell who has a collation of xvi, 495, [7] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With an advertisement at front by William Hooker 202 Water, corner of Fulton and Water-street, New York (Old Esatblished Stand ) , dated March, 1822. Campbell The American Coast Pilot, no. 10, first issue Original tree calf, red leather label. Bookplate of James Frothingham Hunnewell and signature of his antecedent James Hunnewell, 1826. Plates foxed, esle fine 18 Engravings. xvi, 497, [8, ads] pp not conforming to Campbell who has a collation of xvi, 495, [7] pp. 1 vols. 8vo Tenth edition, first issue with ads dated march, 1822 and with new plate added to this edition "Isles of Shoals.".