Moir kenneth macrae (5 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Limite Edition. 34 of 199. Original wrappers. One battle plan.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1933. Very good condition with no wrapper. Purple cloth, gilt titles. Gilt crest to front cover. Spine faded. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Small 8vo pamphlet, 6 pages, good condition in paper covers, covers dust marked and slightly stained, edges and corners of overlapping covers creased, staples rusting, signed by the author on the front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Wrappers. First Edition. Two maps One of 199 copies, this being unnumbered 12mo Fine copy An account of the service of Matthew Bishop with the Duke of Marlborough's army 1707-1711. Number CIV of the Sette's "Privately Printed Opuscula".

First and only edition, signed limited issue, number 22 of 177 numbered copies signed by the author; here presented to Maurice Healy. This account of the Crimean service of Edward Rowe Fisher-Rowe, 4th Dragoon Guards, is based on his letters to his father. It is uncommon, with just four copies located in institutional holdings, all in the UK. Ye Sette of Odd Volumes was a London-based eccentric, scholarly dining club founded by Bernard Quaritch in 1878. "Surviving ephemera material relating to the society largely consists of invitations, programmes and menus for events" (History of Science Museum). The attractive illustrations are the work of the great typographer and book-designer Berthold Wolpe who, fleeing the Nazis, had settled in England in 1935. Provenance: the author and Irish lawyer Maurice Healy (1816-1894), was a member of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, with the pseudonym "Prattler". Cross H84. History of Science Museum, Collections Database, accessible online. Duodecimo. With hand-coloured title-page border and 3 hand-coloured vignettes by Berthold Wolpe, double-page halftone map. Original grey wrappers, vignette on front cover. Spine toned, some foxing. A very good copy.…