Rev John Sinclair (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp 496. pp viii, 496. Portrait of author as frontispiece and 11 additional monochrome plates; 1 plate missing (facing page 289).Cream cloth boards, with gilt decorations and lettering to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Boards rubbed and soiled; corners bumped; spine discoloured. Bookplate to front pastedown. Title page lightly toned; pages with occasional spots and other marks. Front hinge cracked, rear starting. Gutters cracked in several places.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A Foreword by the Rev. P. Anton. Bookplate from the previous owner tipped in on the front free endpaper page. Fair to good condition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 496 pages. New binding and label. The boards are in lovely condition. There are light marks on the block of the book. The first few pages have creases and tears. The pages after the title page are complete, there are a few minor marks within the body of the book, the text remains legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Blue Cloth. Condition: Fair. No dj. First Edition. This copy was badly smoke damaged some years ago. Covers dulled, titling still clear, licks of soot onto some page edges. Boards mottled from subsequent dampness in storage, now well dried out with no wrinkling to text thereby. The fire smell mostly long gone, a servicable copy nonetheless and sold at a clearance price. Size: Royal 8vo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 40p With illustrations and lists, the first 150 years of the human side of the first Presbyterian Church in Dunedin.

Hardback. Condition: G++. No DW. 1st Edition. Bookplate. Blue cloth, gilt. Very clean tight text is tending to pull from sound covers which are however MARKED with SOME SCUFFS to spine. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight `1600g.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Issued by Geelong Congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church circa 1940 in memory of their late beloved Pastor. With a frontispiece and 8 other b/w photographic illustrations, previous owner has written copious note on the rear cover that are related to the books content, a very good copy; 215 x 140mm; 97 pages.…

First edition. 2 volumes. vi + ii + 362pp; ii + 427pp. Original linen-backed boards with paper labels to spines. Armorial bookplates to front pastedowns. VG set (clean, tight and complete). [Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster (1754-1835) was founder of the Board of Agriculture and is best known for his editorship of the 20-volume 'Statistical Account of Scotland', the first attempt at surveying and analysing an entire country].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 2 vols. 8vo. Pp viii, 362; ii, 427. Original publisher's green cloth backed boards with printed paper title labels to spines. Spines a little faded, printed spine labels rubbed and slightly tanned and inner hinges slightly cracked. Very slightly shaken as must be usual wit this style of binding. Overall decent vg copies. Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, PC MP FRS FRSE FSA (10 May 1754 Ð 21 December 1835) was a British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes. The book is by his son the Rev John Sinclair.…

FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE. BOUND IN BROWN CARD WITH CLOTH SPINES, PAPER LABELS. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE. VOL 1: 362 pp. VOL 2: 427 pp. A VERY GOOD SET. STAMP OF ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTAL STATION TO FRONT PASTEDOWNS. A SCARCE SET.

Leather Bound. pp. 292. 8vo. Original plain brown leather binding, with Watkins bindery sticker to rear pastedown. Loss to leather over spine and along edges, endpapers glued to gutters, text block stable, contents clear and unmarked. Peel 387: "Title also transliterated as Otiki tititemitot. Title and text in syllabics devised by James Evans; only imprint is in English. Cree is Western (or Plain) Cree dialect." Printed in two columns. "Although the three works last titled have the name Rev. Wm. Mason on their respective title pages, denial has been made in a number of instances that they were translated by him.", instead having been translated by John Sinclair and Rev Mr Steinhauer, the manuscript of their translations entrusted to Mason, who took it to England for printing. - Pilling Algonquin p. 339-340. Darlow & Moule 3129. Following the 1859 printing (which contained 612 pages).…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1839 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 19 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 19.…