Alex edition first edition (6 résultats)

Perfect Paperback. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Pattie-Silver Thompson;Dooran Lee (illustrateur).

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Fine. Light edgewear, otherwise a very attractive copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Large crown4to, [342], 30 appendix. Lacking the map and all plates. Green binder's cloth, gilt, all edges marbled. Bath Municipal Reference Library plate on the front free endpaper and small shelf notes, gilt reference number on the backstrip otherwise a near fine text block with no library marks, a working copy. First edition. Facsimiles of the plates but not the map can be provided, however they add little to the work.…

Etat : Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original aubergine pebble cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt front. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 76 pp printed to the verso only. Ink name dated 1880 to the front paste down and in Very Good condition. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. printed verso IRELAND (Éire).…

First edition hard back binding in original blue grey paper covered boards, new cloth spine with paper label, page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains pp. iv, 365, small circular vignette of Cicero to the title. Marks to the boards, dusty page edges, boards rubbed through to the corners. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROMAN EMPIRE (Romanum). …

Pp. xliii, 420; xxiv, 345; iv, 383; xii, 282; with 45 of 48 copper-engraved plates of crocodiles, serpents, lizards, turtles, etc. (volume I lacks plate 2 and volume IV lacks plates 1 and 2; these 3 plates were not removed - they were never bound-in by the publisher). Contemporary full green morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt on dark red morocco labels in two compartments and with elaborate gilt designs in the other four compartments, front and rear leather boards blind-stamped with elaborate diagonal line patterns, set off by gilt panel lines, all outer board edges decorated with gilt patterns, all page edges are marbled to match the marbled endpapers, 8vo. This is the first English translation of the Lacepede's major herpetological opus entitled Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares et al Serpens originally issued in two large quarto volumes in 1788-1790. This was the first comprehensive world summary of amphibians and reptiles. Even today, it still has useful historical information. Lacepede's work remained very influential until the publication of Dumeril and Bibron Erpetologie Generale in the early 1800s (modified after Adler - Contributions to the History of Herpetology, volume 1). A very attractively-bound and uniform set. Signature of Henry Haffey on first text page of each volume; could be Henry Haffey, Esq., of Bath, formerly of Armagh. No other ownership marks and few signs of use. Some scattered light foxing mostly to the rear (blank) side of some plates, offsetting from some plates to their facing text-pages and offsetting from the text pages to a few plates; a very bright and clean copy in near fine condition.…