Gordon Rev James (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. Blue pictorial boards. Rubbed at the corners and the spine tips. Strong hinges. Clean pages. Light foxing on the free endpapers and the half-title page. 24 Illustrations from Pencil Drawings by Gordon Home.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. viii + 128pp; With 24 page illustrations from pencil drawings by HOME, GORDON; A bright copy with slight chippingto edges of d/w; Previous owner's inscription to ff.e.p.; This is a heavy item; Size: 4to. HOME, GORDON (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. defense against English Protestant attacks on the doctrines of the Catholic Church; cover soiled and scuffed; very usable although not pretty.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. 128 pages incl index. No dustjacket. Contains 24 full-page exquisite pencil drawings by Gordon Home. Some foxing up to page 10 and from page 118 to 128 and rectangular discolouration marks to endpapers. All of Home's plates are in lovely condition except the one facing p.86 which had a newspaper cutting on it and has thus marked the left-hand side of the plate and the correponding part of p.86 - however it has not affected the picture. Page-edges yellowed and slightly foxed a few very minor rubs to front board, otherwise book in very good+ condition. 24 Pencil Drawings By Gordon Home (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), viii, 128pp. 24 plates from pencil drawings by Gordon Home. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, dustwrapper. Endpapers browned, bookplate to the front pastedown, else the book is in bright, very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good plus condition (some rubbing and spotting, small chip to the head of the spine panel).…

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Photo frontispiece of the author "On Mars' Hill." Title page shows photo of ship The Auguste Victoria. Photo illustrations. Journal of a trip taken to the Mediterranean in the winter and spring of 1903 by the author. Originally issued in the Van Wert Republican newspaper, reprinted in book form in double columns. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Leather. Condition: Good. A varied collection of stories by James Hogg, drawing on his personal background in farming. This work is in a half calf leather binding with marbled boards. With gold gilt around the boards and on the spine. James Hogg draws on his personal connection to farming in Scotland in this interesting collection of stories. This includes an impressive selection of 15 plates, including a frontispiece of a portrait of James Hogg. Missing a plate of Erne Cleuch on page 28.Includes an additional illustrated engraved title page. In a half calf binding with marbled boards and bright, marbled fore edge. Externally generally smart. Slight rubbing to the leather, mainly to the extremities, where rubbing has resulted in loss of leather. Some marks on leather particularly rear right hand corner. Slight rubbing on front board. Marks to rear board, resulting in loss to marbling. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally a few scattered spots, mainly to the first and last pages. Pages bright and clean. Missing a plate of Erne Cleuch on page 28. Good. Sir J. W. Gordon; D. O. Hill; K. Halsewelle (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Some spotting to front board, especially at edge. 128pp. Border history and topography, illustrated from pencil drawings. Attractive two tone blue boards, with Melrose ruins on front cover in silhouette. Certificate on free front endpaper. Gordon Home (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Foolscap8vo, [ii], 132, cxxix, [3 - index] p. Contemporary brown full calf. Upper board crudely reattached with a canvas strip otherwise a good copy with the 23 page list of subscribers and the printed bookplate of William King on the front pastedown. The title continues: from the Year 1782, until the Suppression of the Intended Revolution, to which is prefixed a Geographical and Historical Account of Ireland. …

Second edition with considerable additions and a preface containing a reply to the observations of Sir Richard Musgrave, octavo, full bound with brown leather boards & spine, xl + 453pp + 3pp book ads, VG (heavy staining & chaffing to boards & spine, loss of surface & any title lettering to spine, bruising with loss to spine extrems, 4cm splits to upper & lower spine sides, heavy browning to page edges & prelims & terminals, moderate foxing). …

Later bound in maroon cloth, maroon leather 1/4 spine, gilt tooling to 5 rased bands , green title label, 8vo, xl, 453pp+ 1pp of publisher advertisement A Vg bright copy.

Presumed 1st Edition. Hardback. Half leather, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt titles on spine. Good, no d/w. Some damage to the leather, wear to boards, pages foxed, hinges weak, some pages stained. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large post8vo, [ii], xxxiii, [i - errata second edition], 335; xxiv, 383; [ii], ix, [i - errata], 371; [viii], vi, 405 p. Five multi-folding engraved maps complete: Vol. I The World with its latest discoveries plus A new map of Spain Designed for the present state of Spain; Vol. II Italy Switzerland and Germany; Vol III The British Islands plus A map of Ireland principally intended to shew the position of the Chief Groups of Mountains and the Courses of the greater Rivers. Copied with some additions from Beaufort's small Map, by permission. Contemporary brown full tree calf, gilt on red and black lettering pieces, single gilt rule around all boards, edges of the boards gilded, narrow silk bookmarks in Vols. 3 and 4. In volumes one, two and three a forename and surname have been neatly cut out of the titles after 'Terraquea;' and on either side of 'or, a', the missing paper has been replaced with old paper and not affecting the printing on the titles of Vols. I and II, however there is slight damage to the T and E of Terraquea in the title of Vol. III otherwise a near fine clean set with good margins and excellent maps. Vols. II, III and IV are first editions and dated 1793, 1795 and 1798. Note, ECCO does not list the 1790 first edition of Vol. I though it is in the British Library and EEBO does not locate Terraquea at all. Gordon was listed as Vicar of Barragh up to Vol. IV when he was listed as Rector of Cannaway, in the Diocese of Cork, and Vicar of Barragh, in the Diocese of Leighlin.…

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. 3 volumes. 8vo. Superior copy, near fine. Clean, unmarked pages, including four beautiful folded maps, in fine condition with no splits or foxing. Good binding and covers, bound in full contemporary leather, very minor rubbing. Spines solid with six compartments. Gold gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, bright spine lettering. Inside cover labelled with the crest and motto of Edward Westby of County Clare, Ireland. Volume I: [34], 336, [2] pp. Volume II: [24], 383, [2] pp. [12], 371, [2] pp. Maps: Volume 1: p. 1. The World with the Latest Discoveries, p. 290. A New Map of Spain, Designed for the Present State of Spain Volume 3: p. 1. The British Islands, p. 335. A Map of Ireland principally intended to show the position of the Chief Groups of Mountains and the courses of the greater Rivers. Copied with some additions from Beaufort's small Map, by permission. …

Condition: Vg. First. 2 vols. p.p. (1) 19 501 + 1, (2) 13 + 7 page subscribers list 564 - 6 - 2. Uncut. Later half calf, marbled boards.

Condition: V.G. 2 volumes. p.p. (1) 19 - 501 -3, (2) 12 - 7 (subscribers) - 564 - 8. Later half linen, marbled boards with attractive book plate of Rudi-Holzapfel author, book dealer and founder of Fethard Book Fair.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 598.