Robert g wright (9 résultats)

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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Folio. [14.50'' tall x 9.50'' wide x 2.75 thick]. Collates complete [46], 54 [i.e. 48], 708, 737-885, [47]p. 8 double page maps/plans. Engraved frontispiece and an engraved portrait of Raleigh. A good, solid and sound copy of this work. Minor marks, blemishes or reading wear commensurate with age. Occasional watermarks or stains else nice and clean in the main. A nice copy presented in an attractive restored period binding. Bound in full contemporary calf. Finely re-backed in a matching period style. Raised bands, blind lines and two hand-tooled, gilt-lettered labels to the spine. A handsome and solid restored period binding. MULTIPLE PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT US TO REQUEST.…

2 titres en 4 vol. in-8, IV-508, IV-521, [2]-484 et [2]-400 pp., avec deux cartes dépliantes, index, demi-maroquin vieux rouge à coins, dos à larges nerfs ornés de hachurés, filets et guirlandes dorés (Thouvenin-Jeune). Rousseurs, mais bel exemplaire. Une des très nombreuses rééditions de la fameuse édition donnée par le théologien Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) en 1729-32 (pour l'Iliade), et en 1740 (pour l'Odyssée, procurée par son fils de manière posthume). Brunet III, 273-274. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.…

Rare 1677 printing of Sir Walter Raleigh's renowned unfinished worldÂhistory, written while he was imprisoned inÂtheÂTowerÂof London and first published in 1614; uniformly bound with a rare first edition of its second part, being a continuation by Alexander Ross. Folio, two volumes bound in full diced calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling and blind-stamping to the spine in five compartments within double raised gilt bands, rebacked retaining original spine, double gilt ruling and stamped scrolling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. The History of the World, In Five Books with engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, additional engraved allegorical title page imprint dated 1676 by Renold Elstrack, with âTheÂMindÂofÂthe Frontâ leaf present (bound before frontispiece), title page printed in red and black with engraved device, 6 double-page engraved maps and 2 double-page engraved battle plans, chronological table and index at rear. Uniformly bound with a first edition of The History of the World: The Second Part, In Six Books: Being a Continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight [and] A Brief Chronology of the Principal Passages Faln out in the World. [Ross, Alexander. London: Printed for John Saywell, 1652]. Folio, two volumes bound into one, title page printed in red and black with engraved device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final dated title page with engraved vignette, title and final title mounted. Wing R167. Wing R1956. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate to each pastedown. A nice example of Raleigh's famed history, very rare uniformly bound with its scarce second part. "The success of Raleighâs History can perhaps be explained by the very fact that it is not a work of history in the academic sense but a political tract of immediate applicability. Its author embodied all the glories of the reign of Elizabeth I, which at the time of publication had already begun to be transfigured into a golden age. Raleigh can be taken as the epitome of the Elizabethan idea of courtier and politician, sailor and explorer, writer and poet. He was among the first Englishmen to envisage clearly that the Americas should be the principal goal of English overseas expansion. The reversal of Elizabethâs policy by James I encompassed Raleighâs ruin. He finally fell a victim to Jamesâs pro-Spanish inclinations, and the last Elizabethan died by the executionerâs axe" (PMM 117).…