emmerson compiler (6 resultados)

xiv, 271 pp. Folio, publisher's boards. First edition; a review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Some light bumps to the binding; tight and sound.

Paperback. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. Second Printing. 455 pages. A detailed account of early steamboats in Virginia and North Carolina, compiled from early Norfolk newspapers by John Cloyd Emmerson, Jr. (1891-1980), who was a Portsmouth, Virginia amateur historian and journalist. SIGNED by the author and inscribed by him to Frank Myers. As the extended subtitle indicates, the book also provides details "of some stage lines that joined with the steam boats to form through routes of inland communication, or provide service for towns aside from the waterways; of some hotels and taverns that catered to travelers in the steam boats; and of some notable passengers who rode them." The book is clean and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. XI< 453 pages. A detailed account of the second decade of steamboats on the lower Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads, James River, and the Albemarle Sound, compiled from early Norfolk newspapers by John Cloyd Emmerson, Jr. (1891-1980), who was a Portsmouth, Virginia amateur historian and journalist. SIGNED by the author and inscribed by him to Frank Myers. The book is clean and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Manchester, Manchester University Press for The University Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1981. Quarto, xvi, 271 pages with numerous illustrations. Synthetic cloth; top edge slightly foxed; an excellent copy. Provenance: Dr Milton Roxanas, with his 1983 purchase receipt from Jeremy Norman loosely inserted.

4to, 270pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. cloth. Bibliographically it is of great value because all books prior to 1700 have full collations and all entries give full pagination, number of illustrations / plates and are comprehensively cross-referenced to other medico-historical and bibliographical reference works.

FIRST EDITION, HARDBACK. IN GREEN CLOTH. A CATALOGUE OF HISTORICAL MEDICAL WOKS. EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS IN PENCIL BUT A VERY GOOD COPY.