James curry london (17 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fine-. 400pp. Several pages of underlines and/or marginal notes prior to page 102. Owner's signature on endpaper. (includes Jamaica, Triniday & Tabago, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Malawi) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed with a lengthy inscription by the author. No other markings. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 258pp.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's name to half title.

Softcover. Condizione: Gut. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good with no dust jacket. 280 pp. Light edgewear, corners rubbed. Spine sunned. Appears unread. An examination of the history of colonial Kenya, studying the colonial state, social forces, and the creation of new political communities. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Paperback, fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 4th Edition. An early nineteenth-century religious biography of Susan Huntington (1791-1823), an American Christian writer and diarist associated with Boston's Old South Church. Compiled principally from her personal journals and correspondence, the memoir offers an intimate account of her spiritual life, religious convictions, family relationships and experiences of bereavement, reflecting the evangelical Protestant culture of early nineteenth-century New England. The volume also includes a funeral sermon by Benjamin B. Wisner, minister of the Old South Church, together with recommendatory notices by Scottish clergymen, illustrating the work's popularity among British as well as American religious readers. Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass. Consisting Principally of Extracts from her Journal and Letters; with the Sermon Occasioned by her Death. By Benjamin B. Wisner, D.D., Pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. With Recommendatory Notices by the Rev. Dr. Muir, and the Rev. Dr. Gordon, of Edinburgh. Printed for Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh; M.Ogle, Glasgow; R.M. Tims and W. Curry, Jun. & Co., Dublin; James Duncan, J. Hatchards & Son, and James Nisbet, London. Printed in Edinburgh. Fourth Edition, 1829. A hardback volume bound in full contemporary panelled calf leather with blind stamped decoration. Spine with rubbed gilt tooled decoration. Covers are rubbed, Bumped and scuffed, with rubbing to joints, although all holding well. With marbled endpapers. Text with some notable water staining to the first few pages, fading in appearance to marginal stains over the first 40 pages or so. Text with light scattered spotting, but clear and legible throughout. With guarded portrait frontispiece before title page. The tissue guard with torn edge. Text in English. xii + 384pp. Dimensions: approximately 182mm high x 110mm wide x 29mm deep. Weight: Approximately 365g (unpacked).…

244 S. 8°, illustr. Orig.-Karton. Etwas lichtrandig, sonst gut. 500 gr.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Large 8vo in colour printed boards, 220pp, bibliography, index . [CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Condizione: Fine. First UK edition in publisher's original monochrome illustrated white card wrap covers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 194 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0852553641 SOUTH AFRICA (Zuid-Afrika).…

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the cloth boards. Some plates missing. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's inscription. Series; The naturalist's library. . Ornithology ; 7. Physical description; vol. I (only): 286 pages : ill., (chiefly col.), ports. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Bruce, James (1730-1794). Le Vaillant, François (1753-1824). Bruce, James. Birds Africa, West. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the cloth boards. Some plates missing. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's inscription. Series; The naturalist's library. . Ornithology ; 7. Physical description; vol. I (only): 286 pages : ill., (chiefly col.), ports. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Bruce, James (1730-1794). Le Vaillant, François (1753-1824). Bruce, James. Birds Africa, West. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [4], viii, [3], 8-230p., 31 leaves of color plates : ill., port. ; 19 cm. (8vo.) Subject; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de 1707-1788. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [4], viii, [3], 8-230p., 31 leaves of color plates : ill., port. ; 19 cm. (8vo.) Subject; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de 1707-1788. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover book. Condizione: Good + overall. Large, remarkable plates illustrating the human body, skeleton, organs, circulatory, muscular and nervous and lymphatic systems, fetal, respiratory, eyes, internal organs. The plates with tissue guards, most hand colored, engraved by W.H. Lizars. Owners signature on ffep "George Edward Rundle 30th September 1889" plus his bookplate on inside front cover. Rundle [c. 1846 - 1906] was born in Hampshire, England and received his education at the University College, London and Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1873. He first practiced at Hillston, NSW and subsequently at Tenterfield and in Sydney by 1876. In July 1875, he was listed as enrolled on the list of medical practitioners of Tasmania in the Launceston Examiner (29 Jul 1875). He is listed in a government gazette with many degrees including a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1878. After retiring, he became a trustee of the Sydney Museum and a member of the Zoological Society, and for some time, had been president. He died 16 Oct 1906 at 14 Wylde Street, Potts Point. He is buried at Waverley Church of England cemetery. OCLC 338701549 cites 1 copy at the Univ. of York. Folio, 26pp Contents, 101 plates, 241pp text, xxxvi indices, complete. Brown leather and cloth, covers detached but present, spine partially perished. Internally very clean.…

Early printing, not dated (c.1835). Atlas volume, without the text volumes. Folio, half-leather binding with marbled sides, blind-stamped decoration to borders of leather. Gilt title to spine. Engraved title page, 2 pp dedication, 4 pp table of contents, 101 anatomical plates of which the first eight are b&w and the remaining 93 are hand-coloured. A doctor's ownership stamp top of title page, with small illustration of a Gibson family crest. A little light foxing early pages, 21 plates with small pencilled annotation top edge, occasional pencil mark elsewhere, in general very clean. Some scuffing to boards, edges and corners rubbed. Very good condition. Scarce. Important medical work by the Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical author John Lizars (1792 - 1860). Lizars was Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. His 'System of Anatomical Plates' is "still ranked amongst the greatest ever produced in that era" (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh). The volume is beautifully illustrated, engraved by John Lizars' brother W.H. Lizars. Scarce, particularly with such a high proportion of hand-coloured plates.…