Thos Thomson (10 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Bumping. Content is clean and bright. Sticker to front pastedown. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New edition, revised under the care of the publishers. 604 p. 24 cm. Title page vignette and 20 portrait plates. Half leather with brown paper boards. Marbled text block edge. Lower spine label missing. Boards rubbed and edges worn. One plate detached. A few pages loosening. Tear at top of p. 259. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. With a Supplemental Volume, Continuing the Biographies to the Present Time by Rev. Thos. Thomson.

Condition: Good. 23x15 cm. Black and white engraving. Good. Significant foxing.Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. In Four Volumes. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New Edition, Revised Under the Care of the Publishers. With A Supplemental Volume, Continuing the Biographies to the Present Time. By the Rev. Thos. Thomson. With Numerous Portraits. This is Volume V (the Supplemental Volume); Abercrombie Wood. Published by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London. 1855. A good hardback with brown calf leather spine and corners. Marbled paper over boards. Covers scuffed and bumped with wear to edges. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Small bookseller's sticker to first pastedown. Soundly bound. Previous owner's signature to first free endpaper. Text is generally very good throughout. Plates have some spotting and offsetting spotting to neighboring text pages. Spotting to endpapers. iv + 668pp + Plates. Dimensions: approx 242mm high x 161mm wide x 45mm deep. Weight: approximately 1212g (unpacked). More photos on request.

1859. Blackie and Son. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60071430: 1855. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Mors fendus, Quelques rousseurs. 668 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte (portraits). Titres et motifs dorés sur le dos et le premier plat. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. New Edition. All nine books have university library markings but were only reference books, not circulating; In brown cloth blindstamped and stamped with elaborate gilt decoration of the Crests of the Scottish University. To front (bright) and spine (somewhat faded) ; Some cracked hinges, but textblocks are tight and square with any foxing restricted to small patches to the front preliminaries, among the plates. Some spine edges have short splits, but cloth is generally very good. Unmarked text is remarkably bright and crisp with some volumes having uncut pages. Complete, including supplement of 1855. Several engraved portraits in each volume.

1858. Blackie and Son. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib, rebound in library binding.

Glasgow, Blackie & Son, 1854-1855. 25x15 cm. Tela editorial, con dorados y gofrados. Division I: IV+X steel engravings + 320 p. Div. II: II+X steel engr. + 316 p. Div. III: II+X steel engr. + 300 p. Div. IV: II+X steel engr. + 316 p. Div. V: II+X steel engr. + 320 p. Div. VI: II+X steel engr. + 320 p. Div. VII: II+X steel engr. + 320 p. Div. VIII: II+X steel engr. + 320 p. Div. IX: VI+XII steel engr. + 372 p. + XX p. Firma antiguo poseedor en cada volumen. Buen estado en general, con leves desperfectos en lomo de algún volumen y parcial moteado en los grabados. (Ref. PS. 207-D).