e h aitken eha (20 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good-. Macrae, F. C. Ilustrador. 6th Ed., hard cover brick red cloth bds, gilt titles and small vignette of sleeping man in a chair to btm upper bd corner, some scuffing to spine ends and corners, Good, no dust jacket, neat pen and ink inscript. to ffep, some light age-browning to frontis. and title pge in places, contents clean and tight, cracked at hinge at pge 64 but holding, b/w drawings by F C Macrae, pp159 + P32 adverts to rear.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Good. 2nd edition. Secondhand. Cloth covered. Inscription on fly page.Pages lightly tanned. Hardback book.

Condición: Good. Original gilt cloth, gilt top, frontispiece and other b/w plates and illustrations, 216,20p., 8vo.; Some foxing.

Hb original blue cloth gilt titles to spine and front board, 8vo, xiv,195pp mono illustrations etc , Pencil inscription to half title page boards lightly grubby and soiled o/w A Vg copy.

Burgundy Cloth Boards. Condición: Good. No Jacket. F C Macrae Ilustrador. 13th Edition. Volume in Thacker's Presentation Series of Books on Anglo-Indian Life. 159pp illustrated with black and white drawings. Gilt drawing and lettering to top board, gilt lettering to spine. Top edges gilt, rest age toned. Patterned endpapers. Slight bumping and rubbing to spine and corners and former owner's name to half title, otherwise good copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Cloth Boards. illustrations by J.A. Shepherd Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 196, (2, adverts), b/w fronts., b/w plates, b/w ills., some offsetting eps and prelims., orig gilt dec cloth, minor fishing front cover, spine sunned, d.j torn, lower half spine missing, protected. Collection of natural history sketches by the well-known Anglo-Indian author.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Twelfth edition hard cover book in good condition. No dust jacket. Bumps to head and foot of spine and to corners. Book slightly shaken. Spotting to edges of text block with some foxing to lightly tanned pages throughout. Inscriptions to front endpapers. 12mo. 159pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Undated. Circa 1900. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with ilt titles. 195 pp. B/w illustrations. Bookplate (of one Herbert Octavius-Moore) to front pastedown. Beautifully clean and sound. NEAR FINE.

Condición: Very Good. Fourth edition hard back binding in publisher's original vertically grained bottle green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, top edge gilt, publisher's green and cream patterned end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (xi), 257 + i pp with 78 monochrome illustrations throughout. Rubbing to the bottom corners, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZOOLOGY (Animal Biology).

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Thacker, Spink and Co, 1890. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. 158pp+40pp of Illustrated Catalogue of Thacker, Spink and Co. 1889. Third edition. Binding has started splitting at page 1 and again at page 64. Binding shaky but intact. Ffep missing, previous owners' names to reverse of frontispeice. Some age-related marking, toning, mostly clean.

Possible FIRST EDITION. Hilarious account of the various insects and pests which form part of everyday life in the surroundings of a Mofussil bungalow in colonial India. Interlaced with humorous Bewick type illustrations, many full page. Original green cloth covered bevel edged boards with gilt and black pictorial and gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Binding worn at extremities and slightly dusty, endpapers repaired with tape. Owners name. Overall a good tight early copy of a gem of a book. 8vo. 216pp + 32pp publishers ads.

Octavo,195 pp.,illustrations, bookplate of Roy Cooper. Publisher's cloth, flecking on endpapers, some light wear, a sound copy.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Indeed. F. C. Macrae Ilustrador. An early edition of this vibrant novel providing an insight to India in the late nineteenth century, written by Edward Hamilton Aitken. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Tenth edition. This entertaining and informative novel is set in India at the end of the nineteenth century, providing an insight into the history of the country. It is presented as a series of papers, with each describing a young boy in a different area of the country to show the various aspects of social life.Written by 'EHA', or Edward Hamilton Aitken, who was a civil servant living in India, known for his writings on natural history. Illustrated with numerous charming vignettes and a frontispiece by F. C. Macrae. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, excellent, with light rubbing and the odd mark. A small tear to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

London/ Calcutta, Thacker/ Spink, 1898. Illustrated blue cloth. 216, 24 p. Illustrated. With publisher's book list at the end. 6th ed. Edges a bit worn, some foxing. Delicious book about the birds and bees, but especially the bugs around the house of a Colonial Brit, with funny drawings. On the upper cover a row of rats with personalities.

Cloth. Condición: Good. F.C. Macrae Ilustrador. A scarce second edition copy of this abundantly illustrated natural history work. The scarce second edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative green cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, 7 plates, and in text illustrations throughout.With 32 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.A work by Edward Hamilton Aitken, a civil servant in India, better known for hishumoristwritings onnatural historyin India and as a founding member of theBombay Natural History Society. He was well known toAnglo-Indiansby the pen-name ofEha. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to spine. Marks to rear board. Hinges cracked. Internally, generally firmly bound, but fragile to the middle of the work. Pages 113- 144 disbound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot. Ink inscription to first blank. Good. book.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 19.5x15.cm. xii,257pp, [3],40pp catalogue. Bound in original publishers green decorative cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed, slight lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice clean copy. Size: 8vo.

1st edition. Gilt & black lettering & decoration. Staining at top of front board and on discoloured spine. Endpapers foxed. Name on front free endpaper. Internally VG. Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth.

Condición: Poor. No jacket. Hardcover is worn & bumped along the edges & corners with light wear & marks to boards. Tanned textblock, darker at the edges & endpapers. Writing on ffep & front pastedown. Content is in good, generally clean condition.

Condición: Poor. 1890 edition. Very worn hardcover with scuffs & light scratches & exposed board along the edges & corners. Worn & cracked hinges. Tanned & foxed textblock edge & endpapers. Loose ffep with pen & marks on first page. Content is good & clear to read with light tanning to pages.

Calcutta,Thacker, Spink and Co., 1889. In 16, pp. viii-158-(40 catalogo editoriale) con illustrazioni nel testo, legatura cartonato editoriale illustrato al piatto anter. e al dorso. Una raccolta di saggi del popolare autore indiano, funzionario pubblico e fondatore della Bombay Natural History Society. Buon esemplare.