Rev Bingley (76 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tear on page 143, corners bumped and rubbed, cover faded on front and back.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. This 1821 leatherbound third edition has some edgewear and the extremeties are bumped. There is foxing throughout the book , but no names or markings.Otherwise in about good condition. Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Over 1000 spirited illustrations. Book is in tough shape. Brown, ornate leather cover is crumbling, missing pieces, worn and separated from the binding. Foxing on the inside pages. First 3 inside cover pages are torn, missing pieces and separated from the binding. Pages discolored due to age. Binding loose. Thick brown spine (in plastic bag), gold lettering. July -cb.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: V.g. Facsimile reprint of 1814 edition. Limited edition (no. 146 of 450 copies). Folded map intact. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. Fourth Edition. 292pp + 7 plates. No cover but still well bound between end blanks. Interior in very nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. Ideal candidate for a rebind. Picture of this book available.

Tree Calf. Condition: Good. Fourth Edition. 292pp + 7 plates. Cover a bit worn away at top of spine but still well bound. Interior in very nice clean condition with just some age staining to the plates and a light moisture stain to first few pages. Gilt titling to maroon label.

Leather. Condition: Poor. First Edition. 307pp + 5 plates (as called for). Front board detached with pages up to title page, rest all still well bound together with internal strengthening tape at hinges. Interior in very nice clean condition but plates have age staining. See pics attached.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Second Edition. Ex private lending library hardback, binding pulled, bound in half leather with tape repair to spine, leather worn at corners, library info on front endpaper and remains of label on front pastedown. 292 pages, illustrations on plates, index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This thick 558 pp. book has no copyright date, but is circa the 1890's. It was published by Union Publishing House. Comprising graphic descriptions by the author, it contains over 500 steel engraved illustrations throughout. The pages show slight yellowing, as is normal for books of that period, but they are NOT at all brittle, and are very handleable. The front & rear internal gutters are partly separated, but fully intact. Externally, there is slight corner bumping, but the book is in VERY GOOD condition for a 136 year old book. Lists to $75.00 for new reprints.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Full leather, red speckled sides, 363 pages. Printed by R Gilbert. Wear and some loss to surface of boards, wear to extremities, loss from spine cover, foxing and other stains on end-papers, otherwise good. 500 grams.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 60pp. Clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. **Very scarce item. Size: 4to - over 93/4" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 6th Edition. Loss to head of spine. Internally fine. 2 edges untrimmed.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Calf spine is battered and bottom and top portions are missing. Paper on boards which are well-rubbed at corners. Pencil scribbling on front pastedown, with doodlings on verso of title page. Most of contents present with several pages missing. Rear advert piece missing. Several internal cracks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition. 1/4 leather boards have light wear. Content is clean and has light toning.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd. (UK) Third Edition Owner's inscripiton(old) , owner's bookplate (old) , ownership stamp to the back of the front fly, 1/2: tear to corner of front fly, the front endpaper is missing, hinges solid, page clean, some wear to head of spine, VG(-) ; no Dj. 18 x 11 cm, black smooth leather with gold spine titles and a blind embossed stamp to the front panel : Society for Promotion of Christian knowledge, viii, 384pp. No illus. These are excepts from the travel writings of Ludovico Verthema, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir George Wheeler, Rev, henry Mandrell, John Bell, Frederic Lewis Norden, Peter Kalm, Samuel herne, Dr John Moore and Henry Swinburne, cobbled together by the reverend with connecting pieces featuring a family with children who 'introduce' each travel section. The excerpts cover early travel in Greece, Italy, france, Spain, North America, Egypt, Nubia, the Holy Land, Greece, Mecca. (1.5 JM HOQ 102/2 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. with wood cuts (illustrator). Firmly bound, decorated embossed original navy blue cloth boards, a little light rubbing on the edges of the cover, old gift inscription inside, stated new edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Gold titles on illustration on green bevel-edged covers, 1200 pages with 1,000 engravings. Complete title: "Bingley's Natural History; exhibiting, in a series of delightful anecdotes and descriptions, the characteristic habits and modes of life of the various Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Mollusca, and Anamalcule of the Globe." Spine is scuffed at top and pasrtially splitting at hinges.

No Binding. Condition: As Described. No Jacket. Thomas Moule; James Bingley (illustrator). An engraved antique map of a Plan of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, by Thomas Moule, possibly engraved by James Bingley, taken either from a copy of "Barclay's Complete and Universal English Dictionary" by the Rev. James Barclay, first published 1836, or Smollett's History of England, circa 1848. Richly decorated, containing ornate border and a number of vignettes, including coats of arms and illustrations of Louth Church, the Church and Bridge Boston, and Nocton House. Displays Scale of Chains. Measures around 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" (215mm x 273mm). The map contains no folds. There are signs of wear with some tearing and a little loss at right-hand edge, with a few binding piercing holes and a little puckering. A little foxing and toning, predominantly at edges, and minor other marking but reasonably clean. See pictures for further information. 1836-1848. n.

2nd edition. 8vo. xxiv + 532pp. Engraved frontispiece and 1 engraved plate, lacks map. Pages 1/2 supplied in facsimile. Some occasional foxing. Rebound in modern brown cloth with black leather title label to spine. US$29.

Calf. Condition: Fair. Pp. xii, (6), 459, 70, (Index). Calf cover. Lacking rear cover. Spine worn. Internal wear, foxing & stains. Else fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. DAYES. (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG, 2 vols in 1, 1804. In contemporary full speckled calf, some loss, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to black calf label, edges worn. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-xx), [1], 2-464 pp. Half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-243, [1], 12 music, [1], 346-450 pp, [1] errata, [1] adverts, 2 pls, bound without the map, red marbled endpapers, lower board held by ties, text block is very clean, (213*127 mm). (Anderson 338).

leather. Condition: Fair-Good. Volume I (Quadrupeds) of Rev Bingley's three volume Animal Biography, with chapters on Primates, Bats, Cats, Weesels (Weasels), Beavers, and including an account of The Duck-Billed Platypus "not long ago discovered in New Holland"; bound in full calf, spine professionally restored and with new hinges; significant dampstain to first 20 odd pages, occasional lighter dampstain in text, text block tanned, some pages tanned, scattered foxing; boards rubbed, corners worn, spine dulled. no dustwrapper. 475pp (xxxi). 8vo. Fair-Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th Edition. Half calf hardcover. Sines rubbed, corners bumped. Missing the title page to volume 1. Marbled pages edge. Heavy foxing to the first few pages and plates of each volume. A few folded pages.

Second edition - With considerable additions. In Three Volumes - Volume II only - Quadrupeds - Whales, - Birds. 554 pp. Browning on title page. Front hinge cracked internally at title page. Title page reinforced with strip of white tape. Intermittent spots of foxing in text and occasional finger-soiling. Binding tight. Previous owner's inscription on rear eps. Bound in contemporary full tan leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Front edge of spine has been neatly reinforced with a strip of brown leather. Rear edge of spine cracking in places along length. Corners well rubbed. Surface of boards scuffed in places. Overall condition Good+.

Second edition - With considerable additions. In Three Volumes - Volume III only - Amphibious Animals, - Fishes, - Insects, - Worms. 580 pp. Intermittent spots of foxing in text and occasional finger-soiling. Binding tight. Previous owner's inscription on rear eps. Bound in contemporary full tan leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Short splits developing at bottom of spine. Edges of spine rubbed. Corners well rubbed. Surface of boards scuffed in places. Overall condition Good+.

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition, 8vo, 532pp, frontis + one further plate; a colour map is called for which is NOT present; bound in green cloth with half sand-coloured leather lettered gilt to spine; top edge gilt; rough-cut pages have the obligatory spotting to edges and margins plus plates but, missing map aside, by and large a decent example; certainly VG Copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Half leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. Covers are scuffed and rubbed. Binding is tight. Closed tear on one page.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Volumes 3 and 4 printed in 1820. Rebound in original boards. Hinges nice thus. Wear commensurate with age. Scarce even as partial set, much less with good hinges. We use quality packaging materials (including boxes!) for shipping.