Major Esq (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited, Numbered First Edition. Limited to 525 copies of this 500 copies are for sale, this being numbered #210. Solid copy in red moire cloth boards a bit splotchy, sunned at extremities. Foxing on endpps, top edge red, sunned backstrip with gold title still legible, gold huntsman/hounds blind stamped on frt board. 72 pg deckle-edge text is square and solidly bound showing former owner's bookplate on fep. Professionally reproduced dj in new mylar displays well despite small chips at periphery. With notes upon Fox-Hunting in 1912, a comparative study, by The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., with some notes on present-day fox-hunting, by Major Algernon Burnaby, D.L., now re-edited by L.H. Irvine, M.A. Oxon.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Contemporary full brown leather, worn boards and corners, spine label barely visible reading"Hoyt's Cavalry". Surface crack in leather across the spine about 2" above the base. All said the binding is strong. Internally, [xliv], 255pp with 13 maps and 2 pages of sheet music that are duplicates. Plate 5, 7 and 8 are complete, others are missing pieces to the right of the fold. Music plates appear to be missing similar amounts though it is not clear. Text is clear with only occasional foxing. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.…

Sheet Music. Condition: Very Good. Circa 1795. 2 letterpress leaves, SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER on the title page, in a protective archival sleeve. BOUND SHEET MUSIC. SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER.

Reliure demi basane à coins. Condition: Bon. Edition Originale. 64 planches et une carte dépliante in fine. La gravure représentant le village de Kaligata dans l'île Céphalonie annoncée en regard de la p. 26 est en fait la page de titre illustrée. Sans date, circa 1850 Reliure demi basane à coins à cons d'époque, dos lisse, beau fer doré de style romantique, liseré doré sur les bords des papiers des plats, grand format (in-4), tranches dorées, intérieur en bonne condition, contre plat et premières gardes en papier moiré, papier des textes uniformément légèrement jauni, papier des planches présentant des rousseurs assez marquées, 148 p. AB 25. W. L. Leitch , Esq , Sir Grenville T. Temple , Bart. Lieut. Allen et Major Irton (illustrator).…

156 Pp. Engraved plates throughout including fldg map of the Mediterranean at front. Engraved title page. Water staining throughout Including large stain to upper corner engr. tp; dampstaining and foxing to some of the plates. Covers are worn and scuffed 1/2 leather with marbled paper covered boards . Raised bands and title label to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A SUPERB EXAMPLE IN CONTEMPORARY PAPER BOARDS (Rubbed/chipped) Comprising ;- A LETTER TO GEORGE, EARL OF LEICESTER, President of the Society of Antiquaries, etc., etc., etc. Read To The Society, Feb. 7th 1788 ;- Bound with ;- A SECOND LETTER TO GEORGE, EARL OF LEICESTER, President of the Society of Antiquaries, etc., etc., etc. Read to the Society, May 29, and June 5th 1794 ;- 2 volumes in 1.With 3 Plates. Slim 8vo. Uncut. (115)pps. A Stunning, unsophisticated, totally contemporary copy of this rarity .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Card covers with blue paper covers, white spine cover is cracked, has remains of a printed label. Pages are foxed and wrinkled but intact. ; 14 plates at rear. Revised, corrected and enlarged E. Hoyt, Brigade Major and Inspector in the Militia of Massachusetts. The original Discipline for the Cavalry was writen in 1793 by E. Hoyt. Revised in 1813, corrected and enlarged in 1816. Presented to the Officers and soldiers of the Cavalry of the United States. 12 plates of evolutions and 2 plates of trumpet, or bugle signals. A good copy of an early U. S. Cavalry Manual. ; 255 pages.…

Half Calf. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very scarce book of superb 64 steel engravings of the mediterranean towns, ports, city`s , & ruins, handsomely bound in a contemporary red leather binding with seven raised bands heavily decorated with gilt lines decorations and titles on a black label with blind decorations in the compartments, blind & gilt rulings edging the green buckrum boards. Includes the fold out map of the Mediterranean dated 1839. 156pp. Sir Grenville Temple, Bart, W. L. Leitch, Esq, Major Irton, & Lieut T Allen, R.E. (illustrator).…