Cyclopaedia Universal History (59 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 2 only. Rubbing to the edges and spine; a good sound binding. Illustrated, 1 page in color; missing the frontispiece. Spine says "Dekalb to Keller". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 163111.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Full leather boards. The front board is missing completely. Rubbing, wear and fraying along spine and edges. Binding is tight and square. Decorative outer page edges and beautiful end papers on the back board. Frontispiece of the author protected by tissue paper. Pages are clean throughout. Profusely Illustrated. "An account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time from recent and authentic sources. complete in three volumes." Volume one only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pub by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854, NAP, presumed 1st edition Thus. Volume II only. NOT exLib. VG cond. hardcover, no dj. Marbled bds, 3/4 tan leather, slightly scorched backstrip w/ paper title blocks & bright gilt lettering. Marbled eps. P/O's bookplate inside front cover, o/w book is complete, intact & unmarked. Wear to front & rear bds. Lt-mdt foxing to first few & last few pages, but very little throughout. Pages remain supple. Well illustrated in b&w. 1143pp. Square, straight, tight & clean, overall VG used cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Brown cloth covers 4to illustrations in text. Clivina to Gyrostius. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Brown cloth covers 4to illustrations in text. Clivina to Gyrostius. Book.

Decorative Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Boards light wear on edges, corners and spine. Inside boards age-toned. Some heavy foxing on end papers. Otherwise in good condition. Volume II, Part II. 1410 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Jones Brothers Publishing Company Cover is nearly torn off Piece(s) of the spine missing. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Heavily shelf worn. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. No Jacket. Wear to cover, bumped and frayed corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. The interior hinges are cracked but still attached, binding intact. There is a previous owner's name in old hand dated 1890 on the inside. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to. Volume IV only. Neritidae-Z. A good copy, with minor foxing throughout. Inner hinges cracked Heavy book, will incur additional postage charge. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Condition: Fair. 1885. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Half bound in brown leather with grey cloth boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Missing front end paper. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Front board hanging by two binding threads. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends, with peeling leather and small splits. Gilt lettering has become dull. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Very good clean copy with bumped spine edges and some curling of soft leather covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pub by Jones Bros., 1885. This is Vol II, Part I. VG cond. hardcover, no dj. Black pebbled bds, 3/4 brown leather w/ bright gilt dec & lettering on cover & spine. Light bumping to corners, & lt-mdt scuffing to leather incl slight fraying to head of backstrip, but still a handsome old book. Gutters, hinges & binding sound. Marbled eps. Very light occasional soiling. "Profusely illustrated with maps, charts, sketches, portraits and diagrams." A very nice copy. 752pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG cond. We also have the companion vols I & II-II. A heavier-than-standard vol., may req extra postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pub by Jones Bros., 1885. This is Vol II, Part II. VG cond. hardcover, no dj. Black pebbled bds, 3/4 brown leather w/ bright gilt dec & lettering on cover & spine. Light bumping to corners, & lt-mdt scuffing to leather incl slight fraying to head of backstrip, but still a handsome old book. Gutters, hinges & binding sound. Marbled eps. Very light occasional soiling. "Profusely illustrated with maps, charts, sketches, portraits and diagrams." A very nice copy. Pages 753 - 1410, incl index. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG cond. We also have the companion vols I & II-I. A heavier-than-standard vol., may req extra postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Full-Leather. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 5 volumes. All items in alphabetical order in proper volumes as indicated: A to D in Volume 1; E to K in Volume 2; L to R in volume 3; S to Z in volume 4; Volume 5 includes loose-leaf extension service for 1921 through 1925. Volumes contain thousands of illustrations, maps, charts, and gazetteer. Subjects written in plain, simple language with cross references. Volumes embrace over 16,000 subjects. Edited by: William Colledge; Paul Ingebrikt Neergaard; Samuel Mac Clintock; Earl Cranston Jeffrey; Ulysses G Alexander; Elmer Rush; charles Higgins; Eva Warner Case; James Provan; Lucile Nowlin, and James Bufton. Volumes all in very good condition; Pages tight; clean; crisp; no markings; no page wear. Pages edges and front and back inside covers have green and pink marbleized pattern. Black leather hard covers with ornate border and floral designs. Raised lettering in circle area on front cover. No shelf wear. Rare set of 5 volumes as viewed from the beginning of the 20th century.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Boards are very bowed. Significant damage due to wetness. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Some pages are falling out. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volumes 1-4 ONLY. Beautifully bound in half-leather with embossed decoration, decoration and lettering in gilt. Top joint of volume1 is starting, some soiling to the top board of volume 1, crack at the crown of the spine of volume 4. Profusely illustrated. Pages lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. We find the books, you read. A portion of the proceeds benefits literary initiatives worldwide. We strive to use only biodegradable packaging. All four books have moderate shelfwear; rubbing to corners, edges, spine ends, edges. Some soiling. Blocks are somewhat shaken with tender hinges, various tears to endpapers. Marbled block edges. Covers are slightly splayed. #23022376.13.08.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Four volume set, complete. Year: 1890 (all four volumes). Brown/burgundy half-leather and maroon textured cloth, with gilt titles and decoration at front panels; the spines also with gilt titles and decoration, with four raised bands and additional decoration in raised relief. Each volume has light shelf-wear, rubbing to edges, and heavy sunning to spines; volumes two and four have heavier edgewear, with points of fraying at fore-edge corners; the back cover of volume one and the front of volume four are also heavily sunned except at lower center. Volume three has peeling to the leather at spine, at the right edge of the topmost raised band, and at the bottom of the rear outer hinge, without effect on binding. Spines square. Tissue guard missing from frontis of volume three; inner hinges of volume four are cracked, with the bindings else intact; bindings elsewise sound. Marbled textblock edges and marbled endsheets. Pages clean, lightly toned. Texts unmarked.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Single odd volume from this extraordiary production, containing hundreds of pages of illustrations under the heading natural history, disbound, no covers, outer leaves dog-eared, a little foxing at edges but not extending into the actual illustrations. The illustrations are all in monochrome, beautifully done, arresting images on almost every page. Includes mammals, birds, sea creatures, insects, some botany and fossils and crystallography towards the end. Includes the famous Sukotyro indicus, a non-existend pseudo elephant. Some photos available on request. Many of these, though not all, would in my opinion be of interest as antique mounted prints. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 548. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1851 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English Pages: 548.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 538. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1824 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Volume 5 plates NATURAL HISTORY Language: English Pages: 538 Volume 5 plates NATURAL HISTORY.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 704. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1890 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Volume 1 Language: English Pages: 704 Volume 1.