trans thomas wright (10 resultados)

Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. Good trade paperback, slight wear.

No edition stated. Color-illustrated edition of this travel classic. Bright clean crisp HB copy. 6 x 8-3/4, 344 pp, b/w dwgs, full-page color plates, blue endpaper maps, deckled fore-edge. Fine unmarked, no flaws, bright covers. Hardcover in tan/red cloth boards w black & gilt decoration; no jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good/very Good. 1st Edition. xviii+408, ex-lib. but only an engr. donation label fr. pastedown, faint & innocuous sm. embossed stamp top t.p., a few numbers verso, and loan sheet removal ghost fr. free end-paper, no spine labels; end gutters repaired, clean, tight & unmarked internally. Blind-stamped dark cloth covers clean with some edge & extremity bumping which has not generally affected cloth,a couple of tiny holes to cloth on sp. edges. Gilt sp. lettering (series binding). Despite the minor faults, which sound worse for being listed, an attractive above average copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Almost a very good copy, top edge has old damp marking affecting top of cover, newspaper cutting laid in at rear has given rise to some foxing to adjacent endpaper, else a sound, tight, and bright copy. No wrapper. Facsimile of 1839 ed.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. pp. 323. Small 8vo. Quarter cream cloth over navy blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine, lovely marbled endpapers. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. navy c w/wear at extremities; a rim of discoloration along the for edge; owner's bookplate removed; owner's name; lite foxing; 102 clean, unmarked pages/index/translators introduction [.Kant proposes that the solar system and the universe evolved naturally from a primordial, gaseous "nebula" of dispersed matter, governed by Newtonian laws of gravity, repulsion, and mechanics. This early "nebular hypothesis" argued that stars and planets formed through gravitational accretion, marking a move away from supernatural creation stories and anticipating modern scientific cosmology. ].

Hardcover. Modern red morocco-backed bds; sps rubbed. Rolls Series 47.

Leather. Condición: Good. Not Stated Ilustrador. A second edition French translation of Thomas Wright's history of grotesque figures. A second edition French translation of Thomas Wright's history of grotesque figures. With 238 illustrations. As a corresponding member of the Institute of France, Thomas Wright allowed his work to be translated and published in France. He was known on both sides of the Channel as a well-respected archaeologist, historian, and critic. His research ranges from the origins of caricatures and grotesque figures in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and spans the centuries to more contemporary painters, such as Hogarth, and political caricature artists. In a quarter calf binding with gilt details and marbled boards. Externally, smart with some rubbing. Ex libris bookplate to front board. Library sticker to spine. Ex libris bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with some spotting. Good. book.

Hardcover. Blue half morocco, gilt lettered & ruled, marbled bds & e-ps; t.e.g., others untrimmed (22x14cm); sl scuffed, sps little faded. J L Stevenson name on fly-l. Handsome set. Gesta Romanorum.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Gilbert James; Alan Wright; Vernon Stokes; Thomas Maybank Ilustrador. Six beautifully illustrated literary works from Routledge's Photogravure Series. Six works in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards.Ink inscription to the front free end paper of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', 'The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs' and 'Rosalynde'.A lovely collection of illustrated literary works from the Photogravure Series of George Routledge & Sons Ltd. Including favourites such as Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Washington Irving'sRural England, this selection offers a delightful mixture of poetry and prose.This collection comprises: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald, with twelve photogravures by Gilbert James (1904, first edition)The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs edited by W. S. W. Anson, with twelve colour plates by Alan Wright and Vernon Stokes (1905; undated, dated from copies held at the British Library)Rural England by Washington Irving, with five colour plates by Alan Wright and Vernon Stokes (1906; undated, dated from copies held at the British Library)Faust: a Drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; translated by Anna Swanwick; with eight photogravures by Gilbert James (1906; undated, dated from copies held at the University of Cambridge Libraries)The Story of Patient Griselda: from the Clerk's tale of Geoffrey Chaucer, done into modern English with a few notes by Walter William Skeat; with eight photogravures by Gilbert James (1906; undated, dated from copies held at the University of Manchester Libraries)Rosalynde: A Novel by Thomas Lodge, with eight photogravures by Thomas Maybank (1907; undated, dated from copies held at the British Library) Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light shelf wear, more so to 'Patient Griselda' and the 'Christmas Book'. Gilt remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last couple of pages, and offsetting to the end papers. Four of the plates to the 'Christmas Book' are coming loose but remain intact. Very Good. book.