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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Some fraying, tearing and sunning along the edge of the cover spine. Pages are clean and free from markings. BP/Small books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Subjoined to the text is the private correspondence between King Charles I & Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne. 12mo. volume bound in 1/4 leather & marbled boards. Illustrated with B&W portraits. Condition: top of spine chipped; binding rubbed; spine labels missing; small label on 1st pastedown & on last pastedown; else good. 469 pages. …

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 809 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Very good-plus clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, front board has very slight warp to front (minimal) but very good-plus bright clean appearance otherwise; d/jacket has average shelf wear including nicks to extremities but no large tears or loss and decent appearance overall for the age.…

Cloth. Condition: VG/No Dustjacket. Washington, DC: M. Walter Dunne, Publisher. VG/No Dustjacket. (c1901). . Cloth. Universal Classics Library . Sm 4to., 380, 366 pp., shelfwear, yellowing, uncut pages . Black & White Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dent/Dutton Everyman's Library 1966 hardcover, ex library w/ markings, fine red cloth, small dent front panel, tight binding, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Issued in the Chandos Library Splits at the head of the spine.

Condition: Very Good. 1890. Hardback. Good clean copy with a little age & shelf wear. Lacking dj, wear to spine in particular, text is crisp and clear and remains good-very good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, 398pp, 10 plates, folding genealogy, pages browning throughout, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blindstamped blue cloth, rubbed, Good condition. Vol. 2 only.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. First thus. This is an unusually attractive copy bound in half polished leather over marbled boards with marbled fore edges Elaborate gilt decorations to spine with title given on black leather label An eyewitness report of an infamous period of English history Trifle rubbed along outer edges else very good John Evelyn FRS (1620--1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society His diary, or memoir, spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he died He did not write daily at all times The many volumes provide insight into life and events at a time before regular magazines or newspapers were published, making diaries of greater interest to modern historians than such works might have been at later periods Evelyn's work covers art, culture and politics, including the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell's rise and eventual natural death, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 xxxii, 951 pp.…

Condition: Very Good. 1890. Hardback. Good clean copy with a little age & shelf wear. Lacking dj, wear to spine in particular, text is crisp and clear and remains good-very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Red cloth with slight rubbing to edges and corners. black illustration and titles to front and spine. No inscriptions. 809 pages, clean bright and tightly bound. Size: 4.5" By 6.75" Tall. Illustrated frontispiece of John Evelyn Esquire F.R.S. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0802028136. Hardback. Very Good condition book, with slight rubs to cover corners, slight browning to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges,slight browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.…

pp.xvi, 783. 8vo. Hardback. Ex-Lib. Internal hinges a little tender. Spotting to fore-edge of text block, title pages and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards good to vg. A very useable copy. The preferred second edition. Comprises Evelyn's diary between 1641 and 1706. Also, the private correspondence between John Evelyn, King Charles I and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas (whilst in Scotland in 1641). Also, the correspondence between Evelyn, Sir Edward Hyde and Sir Richard Browne.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Endpapers are browned.

REBOUND. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. REPRINTED. REPRINT OF SECOND EDITION. SOME FOXING PREVAILS. FINELY MADE MARBLED ENDPAPERS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Four Volumes, First Three Dated 1878 On Title Page, Fourth Dated 1879, 7 1/8" Tall. Xxxviii, 434; Iv, 398 With Folding Table At End; Xii, 399; Viii, 469 Pp. Many Plates, Well Made And Well Reproduced, Frontispieces With Tissue Guards. Four Volumes, Half Polished Tan Calf, Spines Gilt, 5 Bands, With Red Title Labels, Dark Green Volume Number Labels, Calf Tips, Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards, Matching Endpapers All Edges Marbled In Matching Colors. Leather Intact Without Chipping Or Fraying But Some Surface Wear/Abrasion; Boards Worn With Loss Of Color And With Some Loss Of Paper Right Along Edges. Hinges Tight And Solid. No Names Or Marks. Anomalous Browning In Center 2/3 Of Two Lower Compartments Of Spines Of Each Volume; Perhaps Due To Paper Labels, But No Trace Of Such Nor Any Damage Other Than The Browning. Engraved Plates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. New edition, Five volumes in blue cloth, spine of volume 1 chipped at foot, sunned, overall very good. Engraved frontispieces to each volume. There is not penciled marking in text, some leaves unopened. This set weighs in (unpacked) at 2.1k extra postage may be called for.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Maroon covers with gilt lettering. Spine is aged a bit. Signed by James Burnham inside the front cover. Email us for a photo. We ship fast. Frontis (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 467 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. New Edition. Four volume set. "A New Edition in Four Volumes with a Life of the Author and a New Preface" by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. Volume 1: 1620 - 1648; Volume 2: 1648 - 1685; Volume 3: 1685 - 1706 Correspondence; Volume 4: Miscellaneous Correspondence. a bit of rubbing to covers and edges, foxing to pages. top edge gilt. shipping will be extra for this set, please inquire. ; Four Volume Set; 6 x 9 ".…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 299, 491, 487, 497 pages 4 volumes. Original Publishers thick card covers with gilt crest on the front. ( designed to look like leather ). 2 volumes have a neat cleat tape repair on the head of the spine. Clean copies with occasional few foxing spots.

First Edition. First Edition. 6" x 9" Approx. 619pages+4 publishers ads at rear. Blue cloth binding with gilt title to spine has dents to corners and spine has tear across top/base only, Contents ok, with only the very occasional foxing ,there are NO owners names or inscriptions.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. In 4 volumes complete. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Decoration on boards designed to resemble leather binding. Cloth of volume four darker. Slight wear to spine ends. All internally clean. Illustrations to each volume. All bindings firm. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. Large 8vo. …

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. New edition. Quarto (9 x 6 1/4"). [4], cxxx, 299, [1]pp (Vol. 1); [4], 491, [1]pp (Vol. 2); [6], 487, [1]pp (Vol. 3); [4], 496pp (Vol. 4). Uncut and partly unopened. Contemporary olive cloth, with gold lettering to spines and blason in gilt to each front cover, with motto "Durete." Tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author in volume 3. Title pages in red and black lettering. The "Diary of John Evelyn," a "gentlemanly Royalist and virtuoso of the seventeenth century, was first published in 1818 under the title Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, in an edition by William Bray. Bray was assisted by William Upcott, who had access to the Evelyn family archives. The diary of Evelyn's contemporary Samuel Pepys was first published in 1825, and became more celebrated; but the publication of Evelyn's work in part prompted the attention given to Pepys's. Evelyn's diary has entries running from 1640, when the author was a student at the Middle Temple, to 1706. Its claim as a memoir to be a diary is not strict; up to around 1683 the entries were not daily additions, but were compiled much later from notes, and show in some cases the benefits of hindsight. When his travels are described, buildings or pictures may be described anachronistically, revealing the later use of other sources." (For more information, see: Gillian Darley, "John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity" (2006), p. 23). Moderate shelf wear to bindings with head and tails of spines rubbed. Lower front corner of first and last volume bumped, not affecting pages throughout. Previous owners' bookplates on inside of each front cover (George A. Rich), and front free endpaper (Henry Hofheimer). Bindings in overall good, interior in very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition, 2 volume set. Books have moderate to heavy age/use wear including exposed corners, scuffs, heavy rub marks, light age toning, etc. But they are in relatively good structural condition. "Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, . . . also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne. . .". Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth bindings. Rebound. Volume II has faded and worn green cloth boards. Volume I has a faded green cloth spine, but black cloth boards after a second rebinding. Remnant of leather spine labels on cloth spines. 1/4" missing or frayed at spine ends on both volumes. Internally very good. Text leaves clean. Moderate foxing to plates. Hinges broken. Pencil marginalia on rear endpapers. Headbands missing or detached.; Volume I: xxiii, [1], 620 pages + portrait frontis + 2 plates (1 folding) + 1 genealogical table (folding) + 1 plan of Deptford (folding). Volume II: viii, [4], 366, [1], [1], 335, [1] pages + portrait frontis + 3 plates. Title continues: "Comprising his Diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, The Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, Whilst his Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the time of King Charles I. and the Usurpation. The whole now first published, from the original mss. in two volumes. Edited by William Bray, Esq. Fellow and Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of London." Page size: 11 3/4" by 9 3/8". All edges gilt. Wide margins. A very readable account, taken from John Evelyn's diary. "I was brought acquainted with a Burgundian Jew who had married an apostate Kentish woman. I asked him divers questions; he told me, amongst other things, that the world should never end, that our soules transmigrated, and that even those of the most holy persons did pennance in the bodys of bruits after death, and so he interpreted the banishment and salvage life of Nebucodnezer; that all the Jewes should rise againe and be lead to Jerusalem; that the Romans only were the occasion of our Saviour's death [.] He was a merry drunken fellow." - Volume I, page 19. Weight: 6.0 kilograms.; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. To which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne. 2 vols. pp. ix, (iii), ix - xxiii, (iii), 620; xii, 366, (ii), 335, (i). MS marginalia p. 539.2 frontis's, 6 plates, 1 pedigree. 4to. Modern quarter cloth, boards, spine labels, new end papers retaining earlier marbled end papers. Loosely inserted facsimile in a letter writen in a much later hand dated March 13 - 87 of a letter from the Princess Anne to the Princess of Orange and with an 'Extract from a Letter from Lady Sunderland to Mr Evelyn published with the Diary of Henry Sidney Friday Oct ?1688'. This Diary was published in 1843. Lady Sunderland was a friend of Evelyns. 1st edition. …

Leather. Condition: Good. A detailed edition of the life and memoirs of diarist John Evelyn. Second edition. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I. and his secretary of state, Sir Edward Nicholas, whilst His Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, ambassador to the court of France, in the time of Kind Charles I. and the usurpation'. With frontispieces to both volumes, one portrait of John Evelyn and one of his wife Mary, and ten other plates (collated complete). John Evelyn (31 October 1620 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time (he witnessed the deaths of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666). Complete in two volumes. In half-calf bindings with marbled boards. Externally sound, though a little rubbed, and with some wear to the spines. Rear joint of volume I cracked. Internally, firmly bound. Two hinges strained. Pages are bright, though with some scattered spotting and off-setting throughout. Good. Unamed (illustrator). book.…