Rev peter brown (12 résultats)

Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. 6 Volumes in a 3 Book Set - No marks noted in text. Bindings are tight and square. Gently read. Book One: Volumes I & II (1994-1995 - ISBN: 9781614430001) / Book Two: Volume III (1996 - ISBN: 9781614430032) / Book ThreeVolumes IV, V & VI (1997-1999 - ISBN: 9781614430049). …

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. No Jacket. (Ref.GG6 ) Brown cloth with blind-stamped patterning. Rubbed and worn at edges, corners with amateur roughly cut replaced brown cloth spine. Photos on request. Split to lower right hinge at spine. Greyed top and foredge. Soiled endpapers with thumbing and soiling to page edges throughout. Hinge cracked at pp.134/135. Poor copy but complete and may suit for reference/reading purposes.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. f'cap 8vo, first edition, pp,xviii,156, gilt titled blind embossed brown cloth which has a little wear to the tail of spine, early neat signature and address to the title-page, early previous owner's label to the leading paste-down endpaper, age-toning to text, a decent copy.…

PF. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Ref. D5) Faded brown cloth boards with light faded water-staining around edges and spine. Gilt titling is still legible. Contents are generally very good, clean and unmarked with owner's name to title page in black ink.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard back first edition in very good condition, red cloth gilt decorated board. Ex library copy, previous owners details on front free endpaper, Library book plate on front endpaper, and some library numbering on rear of dedication page and first page of text. (Book ref. 6800).…

Cloth. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. In overall good condition for its age, this book of 1859 still has its original brown blind stamped cloth boards which have wear to the head and foot of spine with a small slit. Gilt title to spine. Internally there is a neat previous owner signature dated 1894. The binding is weak at dedication page and end, otherwise internally very good.…

Paperback / softback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. No Dust Jacket. Front board and front free endpaper missing. Rear board detached. Leather deteriorated. Corners of some leaves dog-eared.; [viii], 477 pages + advertisements. Full leather binding. Page dimensions: 197mm x 123mm.; 8vo.

°°° (Sabin #30958) I. FIRST EDITION, BIBLIOPHILE BOUND ORIGINAL; THE SENATE-EDITION*. - FIRST BLANK SHEET WITH 4-LINE INSCRIPTION ''to Baron Gerolt / with the kind regards / of P. G. Washington / Feby. 16 1857''. Peter Grayson Washington (1798-1872), son of the Nephew of a Cousin of George Washington (1732-1799, American Founding Father and first President of the United States) served as 'Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Virginia New York City'; Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797-1879) was the German-Prussian 'Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States' and has been the longest-ever serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S. In the quarter+ century of service, Gerolt met presidents James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant. As a studied mining geologist (Freiberg Mining Academy) in ''1824 he travelled to Mexico as an agent of the German-American Mining Association, where significant silver mines were suspected. Together with Carl de Berghes, also an Mining Association Agent, he published the 'Carta geognostica de los principales distritos minerales del Estado de Mexico' in 1827 with Arnz & Comp., a special mineralogical map of central Mexico, which is considered the first geological map of Mexico printed in colour.''(german wikipedia). - DETAILED PAGINATION: . / I. 2 blank sheets, XVII (I); 537 pages, with 78 xylographic illustrations in the text; 86 singleside-printed toned or colour-lithographic plates (incl. portraits after Daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown) and 3 foldout-colourplates of japanese woodblock-prints (89 plates in total) and 3 geographical maps (1 foldout) bound within; 2 blank sheets. / II. (House Edition, 1857). (8) 414, (1) 14 pages ('Treaty of Ka-na-ga-wa'[Kanagawa], the first document ever negotiated by the Empire of Japan with any western nation according to International Law), (1) XI (1) p.; some xylographic text-illustrations, 4 (3 coloured) lithographic plates 'Agriculture of China', 22 (of 23, 17 [hand-]coloured) plates of Natural History (Yack, Japanese Fox), Ornithology (Japanese Birds, 5 of 6), Ichthyology (Japanese Fishes, 10), Conchyology (Japanese Shells, 5); 3 (2 folded) maps in the text, 16 plates with meteorological diagrams; 15 of 17 very large multiple folded maps at the end. / III. XLIII, 705 pages with 365 (of 366) astronomic xylographic plates (lacking plate 66); all plates in I and II on singleside printed cardboards. --- *) 'Senate executive Documents #34 of 33rd Congress, 2nd Session', published parrallel to Nicholson's 'House-Editon': Corners of the leather-binding partly somewhat rubbed, panels slightly rubbed and slightly scratched; some textpages opposite of lithographic plates with slight offsetting (shadow) last sheets with slim humidity-stain at top sharp-corner, last 10 sheets (incl. rear endpaper) with small hole in the blank bottom margin; A MAGNIFICIENT COPY WITH A 'WELL NAMED' ASSOCIATION OF THE PERIOD. --- II. Binding somewhat rubbed, lacks plate 6 of Ornithology and textpages 257-262 (beginning of Ichthyology); Acceptably used. / III. Binding rubbed, many pages with humiditystain at foreedge or top sharp-corner (growing towards the end), lacks zodiac-plate #66 (of 352). - MAIN OFFER IS THE LUXOURIUS EQUIPPED AND COMPLETE HISTORIC ASSOCIATION COPY OF VOLUME I; Vols. II and III have been added from another set to create scientific completeness (more or less). . . [Cordier 'Japonica' #513 / Nissen ZBI #3132].…

Hardback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1859 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: 188 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: 188 Language: English.…