edited biographical additions (9 resultados)

Hard Boards. Condición: Very Good. Volume One only. NO JACKET. Hardback 1897. xi+478 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Clean & tight book. Front paste-down has a "WH Smith" label. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H187.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt to spine. Pp xi + 478 + 2 pages ads; pp vi + 464 + 8 pages ads; tissue-guarded sepia frontis. portrait of Elizabeth (Vol. I) and Robert (Vol. II); brown endpapers. Both copies are tight, sound and clean with only light bumping. Images/further information available upon request. [We welcome enquiries by e-mail - click on 'Ask Bookseller a Question'; or by 'phone - click on 'More Books from this Seller'].

Condición: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original emerald green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the white cloth spine, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, pale blue and white marble wash end papers. 8vo. 8¼'' x 5¼''. Contains frontispiece showing Leez Priory, [xvi] 268 printed pages of text. Tanning to the page edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ESSEX (Eastseaxe).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. - 'New Edition in One Volume'- 2 Volumes in 1- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD; light wear. Top edge GOLD GILT; deckle-edge pages. 464 pp. with Index. ILLUSTRATED with PORTRAITS. The LETTERS of ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, POET, AUTHOR of CLASSIC POETRY, LITERATURE.

Full Calf. Condición: Near Fine. Later Edition. Finely bound in stamp-signed Riviere and Son binding of dark green full polished calf, the back with red morocco labels and ornate gilt decorations, marbled end papers with ornate gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Near Fine, the covers with a few faint rubs. xxiv, 416 pp. with 40 engravings. An uncommon later edition of this classic of natural history, WorldCat locates only two libraries with holdings.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Limited Edition. Brisbane/Chiang Mai: Modern Magistery an Imprint of Salamander and Sons, 2011. NEW - Limited Edition Presentation Bookplate Signed By Tony Matthews. From the Publisher (see image) : "Upon its publication in 1976, In Pursuit of Gold - written by the enigmatic Lapidus - was hailed as a rare work by one of the few practicing laboratory alchemists writing in English during the mid-to-late 20th century. Primarily building upon three alchemical texts - namely The Sophic Fire by John Pontanus, The Secret Book of Artephius and Sir George Ripley's long poem, Twelve Gates - and more than two dozen of Theodor de Bry's masterful engraved emblems from Michael Maier's 1618 Atalanta Fugiens, Lapidus proffers his own observations and practical conclusions drawn from decades of quiet alchemical work in his subterranean Melcombe Street laboratory. Contemporary alchemists with an interest in the confection of the star regulus of antimony will assuredly gain from reading and re-reading In Pursuit of Gold. Beyond simply confirming the true identity of Lapidus as David Curwen, this revised and expanded second edition includes a foreword from Stephen Skinner, responsible for the "additions and extractions" of the first edition, along with an introductory biographical essay on Lapidus - his life, family, alchemical work, and writings - by Tony Matthews, grandson of Lapidus. This second edition of In Pursuit of Gold also features intimate personal and family photographs, facsimiles of correspondence between Lapidus and the great alchemical historians F. Sherwood Taylor and E.J. Holmyard, and original oil paintings by Lapidus. Presented as full colour plates, these photographs, items of correspondence and artworks appear here in print for the first time". Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition. Hard Cover/Cloth Buckram. New/New. Illus. by Theodor de Bry, Lapidus [David Curwen], Two Plate Sections on Glossy Coated Paper Stock, Many In Full Color. 8vo size - over 9¼" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Blindstamped cloth. Condición: Very Good. 8vo. xxiv, 416 pp. With 40 hand-colored illustrations and steel engraved frontis. The lovely animal plates are similar to those found in Jardine. Frontis has foxing. Otherwise, but for occasional light and trivial soiling, a clean and tight copy. Some fading of gilt decoration on spine. Repair along front gutter. Darkening along both gutters. Wear along spine tips.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Quarter-bound, hardback book, with each corner, bound in beautiful brown leather bound, gilt edged, tooled spine and gilt titles on the spine. Marbled paper sides, along with marbled inside, front and back boards and first and last pages, marbled edged papers. This stunning book has been beautifully bound and is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Published in 1861, tissue guard paper for title page still intact. Inside board has named label with crest. 416 pages all intact and nice tight binding. The book also has a nice blue coloured, cotton, page marker. All pages, text and fabulous illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. The odd and occasional foxing mark, hardly noticeable. A truly lovely book that would adorn any stylish library.

Full Calf. Condición: Very Good. Lovely full-calf binding, with gilt centerpiece figure of a bird, a subtle blindstamped perimeter band, animal figures in gilt placed in spine compartments. The calf itself has a pleasing and warm speckling that sets it apart. 8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. xxiv, 416 pp. Many engraved plates. Occasional light foxing, but mostly clean. Slight, even warping of the boards, but other than light wear, the binding has an uncommon freshness to it.