picturesque guide local beauties wales de baker james (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. WILLIAMS Mrs. IBBETSON. CARTWRIGHT T. BAKER J. GRIFFITH M. WATHEN J. STRINGER S. BLUCK J. SNELL. (illustrateur). 2nd Edition. Bakers rare Guide to Wales with the equally rare French Invasion! 94 B&W plates! Second edition, two volumes in modern two tone boards, some blind tooling, spines with gilt titles to red & black morocco labels. Vol 1, 1791, engraved title page with vignette, [5], 8-186 pp, 53 pls (29 oblong, 25 oval). Vol 2, 1794, [3], (vi) only, [1], (iv) only, [1], 6-186, 199-222 pp, lacks 187-198? and anything beyond p222, 18 pls (14 oval, 4 oblong). French Invasion, 1797, [2], [1], 2-9 pp, 23 pls, (14 oblong, 9 oval). Includes 3 plans. New Endpapers, p 24 mis-numbered 4, occasional spotting, some darkening to a few leaves, 1 leaf trimmed to 1 edge, small hole to edge of 1 pl, text blocks watermarked J Whatman. (200 *195 mm). (ESTC T230293 / T213579). Although its entitled Local Beauties of Wales only 9 pages state North and South Wales, the remainder just South Wales, none state just North Wales! Rare do you find a copy of any of Bakers works complete!

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. J. Black. F. Jukes. Ibbetson. J. Baker. Jones. Archdeacon Plimley. (illustrateur). 2nd Edition. An elusive Baker Guide with 102 plates, 2 volumes bound as one Second edition, re-spined to style, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to black calf label over worn boards, some gilt tooling. Internally, frontis, additional engraved title page with vignette, [5], (vi) only, [1], 8-186 pp, 10 pls. [Vol 2] [1], (iv) only, [1], 6-114, 127-146, 151-270 pp, 29 pls, followed by 63 additional plates (1 tinted, 1 with horizontal repaired tear and 2 with short repaired margin tears), lacks all between 115-126 (U2-Y4) & 147-150 (Cc1-Cc4), and lacks the final leaf p271/2-(Zz2), occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers, remains of removed bookplate to fpd. (216*166 mm). (ESTC T230293. Ballinger p121/2). 'in no two copies seen do the plates agree' our copy has 92 plates as did Ballinger's whilst the BM copy only has 62!

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. BAKER James. PLYMLEY. GRIFFITH. (illustrateur). PART Of ONLY & 11 coloured plates In original printers blue wrappers, worn & chipped, no titles, but ink 25 at head. Internal, ALL loose, half title with vignette and hand colouring, title, dedication & Introduction only ([5], (6-7), [1], 11 plates (including half title, all titled, hand coloured some oval, some oblong, 2 of which have been trimmed smaller, 9 with stab holes to margins), plate margins with small chips & tears, with the original pl list on a blue printers leaf.