Hamilton Captain John (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. No DJ. 183 pps. Titles: frt. & sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ b/w photos, prints, portraits & facsimile docs., drawings & designs. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A Hudson River Pilot relives his remarkable 50-year career and life on the Hudson River during the heyday of the old steamships. Relalted news clippings sipped-in. A clean copy.…

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. 2ND PRINTING. large paperback format.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. tight binding; clean pages Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. By Author.

'Edition Magnifique', limited to 26 copies lettered 'S'; 13 volumes (of 14, without Nell Gwyn), royal 8vo, (240 x 160 mm); each volume has 8 illustrations (in three separate states) including a frontispiece divided by tissue guards titled in red lettering, printed on vellum paper, usual age-toning and spotting to prelims, heavy spotting to Beau Brummel Vol. I and Lady Blessington; uniformly bound in original crushed light-blue morocco inlaid with gilt, red, and dark green florid decoration, decorative boards single-ruled in gilt, gilt top edges, five raised bands with spines gilt-lettered and red and gilt inlay, gilt floral-inlay doublures to pastedowns, green silk moirà endpapers, embossed heraldic emblem to front boards with motto 'Sic Fidem Teneo', each volume housed in a slipcase, exceedingly rare and precious set in overall near fine condition. This is a stupendously bound set in a limited edition of 26 copies only. It is a biographical panoply of figures straddling the theatre world and also includes members of the English aristocracy. Each illustration is represented in three states. The enamel inlaid decoration is particularly fine.…

Hardcover. Imperial Edition. All 14 volumes Very Good in boards. All 14 volumes number 624 from a limited 1000 copies. Gilded top text block edge for all 14 volumes. Light shelfwear on spine and panel corners of all 14 volumes. Front hinge starting on "Mrs. Sarah Siddons" Vol. 1, "Lord Chesterfield" Vol. 1, "Beau Brummell" Vol. 2, "Nell Gwyn". Light soiling on front panel of "Count de Grammont", "Nell Gwyn", and "The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington". Light soiling on rear panel of "Mrs. Sarah Siddons" Vol. 1 and "The Sheridans" Vol. 2, "Beau Brummell" Vol. 2, and "The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington". Small water stain on front panel of "Lord Chesterfield" Vol. 1, and "Beau Brummell" Vol. 2. Light scratching on front panel of "Lady Hamilton & Lord Nelson" Vol. 1. And "Mrs. Mary Robinson". …

On both sides of a piece of vellum roughly 21 x 15.5 cm. An unusual survival, aged and discoloured in the fashion customary with vellum. On the front is a design of an armorial shield encircled in draperies, in ink and colours (blue, red, yellow), beneath which are the words 'Burgess Ticket | for | Captain Kennedy 1 Regt Royal Lanarkshire Local Militia | 1813'. On the reverse, all in the hand of the signatory: 'At Hamilton the thirteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirteen | The which day in presence of William Hamilton and John Torrance Esqrs Baillies of the Burgh of Hamilton with Consent of the remaining Members of the Town Councill thereof Captain James Kennedy 1st Regt Royal Lanarkshire Local Militia was duly admitted Burgess of said Burgh with Liberty to him to Enjoy the whole Priviledges and Immunities thereto belonging as amply in all respoects as any Burgess does, or can Enjoy who accepted thereof and Gave his Oath de fideli | Extracted by | A Hamilton Clk'. See Image.…