Life Exploits Ingenious Gentleman by Charles Jarvis (72 results)

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

Red Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. W. H Robinson (illustrator). 614 pp, red cloth, 1901, 16 b&w illustrations by Robinson, upper spine damaged. Else good in slightly marked cover and sun stained spine.

Condition: Fair. 1902. Revised & Corrected. 614 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Water staining to pastedowns. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Significant tanning to spine and edges. Splits to spine ends. Water staining to boards. Textblock is shaky.

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

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator). spine break on the inside of the cover, book old and looking tired and some markings on the cover. writing on the inside of the cover. gilt lettering and pattern on the spine and on the cover.

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

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

Condition: Fair. 1902. No edition remarks. 614 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are heavily tanned with heavy foxing. Notable cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, notable loss to head of spine. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. pp. 562.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A small hardcover in brown leather boards. With 261 pages. Boards and leather are rubbed, bumped through leather at corners. Front hinge is starting, with paper cracked over the gutter. Some foxing to pages, lacking front free endpaper, pages preceding the title page.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. W Heath Robinson (illustrator). Translated by Charles Jarvis, Esq. carefully revised and corrected to which is prefixed a life of the author. 5½ x 9" pp. xxii + 614 + [2] adverts, with 16 full-page illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Very good in red cloth with gilt lettering to (faded) spine. Untrimmed edge. Firm and tight Browning to margins of pages but clean without foxing or stains. No inscriptions or labels. No dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. W H Robinson (illustrator). Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, spine a little faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but browning, award plaque to a previous owners on front end paper.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Thick 4to hardcover volume in red cloth bonding. Spine a little faded and boards have some minor wear. Boards tight end papers are not split or marked but have some toning and a bit of foxing. 614 pages have toned edges to pages normal for this volume. Contents not water stained or foxed. A number of illustrations.

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. Volumes two and three details / images on request.

Revised Edition. 3 Volumes. Poor copies with the original boards retaining. Spine bands and panel edges worn. Minor scattered foxing. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Physical description: 3 Volumes. Notes: Volume 1, 2, and 4. Subjects: Spanish prose literature Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism.Spanish literature; Translations into English. 1 Kg.

Revised Edition. 3 Volumes. Poor copies with the original boards retaining. Spine bands and panel edges worn. Minor scattered foxing. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Physical description: 3 Volumes. Notes: Volume 1, 2, and 4. Subjects: Spanish prose literature Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism.Spanish literature; Translations into English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Full-Leather. No Jacket. HBNO DJ ISSUED Brown LEATHER, 1766, 4th edition, some Fox, Front COVER DETACHED & 1st few pages are Detached, SPINE STRIP MISSING, BOOK GOOD-, AS-IS , Interior GOOD-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Translators preface By Jarvis is XXiV pgs, Exact title of preface The Translators Preface, also included Supplement to Translator preface XXXViii pgs, 4 1/4 X 6 3/4 IN., NODJ, SOME pgs have margin chips out & Fox, slight wrinkling, 279 PS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Medium8vo, engraved frontispiece, cxlv, 371; ix, 412; xvi, 391; xii, 440, [viii - Miller Catalogue], [1 - Errata] p. Folding map, 19 guarded engraved plates complete plus the frontispiece and map. Contemporary brown full tree calf, gilt design around all boards, gilt lettered on red lettering pieces, marbled endpapers. Lacks the Vol. IV lettering pieces, some erosion of the calf at the tail of the joints, chipping to the head and tail of the Vol. I backstrip otherwise a set with near fine contents, all four half-titles present and armorial bookplates of William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands Cork on the front pastedowns. Crawford was the son of William Crawford who founded the brewing firm Beamish and Crawford alongside his friend William Beamish, and also established the Cork School of Art. William Horatio was famous for collecting fine books. The title continues: Translated from the original Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, by Charles Jarvis, esq. Now carefully revised and corrected: with a new translation of the Spanish poetry. To which is prefixed a copious and new life of Cervantes; including a critique on the Quixote; also a chronological plan of the work.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Thus. Original full tree calf boards, gilt-stamped decorated and ruled borders, gilt dentelled edges, decorated endpapers. Volume I only, of 2. Both boards detached but present, lacking back strip. Leather is rubbed along edges and joints, exposed at corners but quite restorable. [4 blanks] + xxiv + 570 pp. [lacking final leaf, pp. 571/572], illus. w/ engraved frontis. portrait of author, engraved title pg., 5 additional engraved plates [may lack one plate]. Notably, this copy includes the engraved foldout map bound in between introductory material (p. xxiv) and the first page of text (p. 1), hand-colored in pale yellow, green, and red, quite nicely preserved, showing only (2) 1/4" closed tears along fore-edge fold lines and (2) approx. 1/2" closed tears at binding tab. Interior is clean, and plates are fully intact. Scarce with map. Sold as is, WAF. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 volume set in 19th century bindings. Three quarters leather with marbled paper over boards. Front cover of the first volume is nearly detached. 572 pages. Engraved title page and portrait of Cervantes. Folding map present and in good condition opposite page xxiv. 6 additional plates. Volume 2 has been rebacked with the original leather laid down over the repair. Book opens very stiffly now. It clearly hasn't been read (or even much opened) since the repair was done. 623 pages. Engraved title page and 8 additional plages. Text blocks good and tight. Page edges good a square. Some foxing to the plates and a few of the pages. This is considered to be the first good translation of the work. Previous owner's name and address (California, 1917) on blank page added at the front when this binding was put on. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 5th or later Edition. Fair set in marbled calf with black and red title bands on spine with gilt titles. Books have edge-wear, rubbing, scuffing and chipping to edges and corners. Volume one has a crack to leather running the length of the spine. Other volumes have splits at spine edges, but bindings are firm. Dust-staining on fore-edges. All books are blind-stamped on first endpaper with a name also written in ink. Some light foxing throughout, but pages are otherwise not toned. We would be happy to send photos upon request.

Illustrated edition of 'Don Quixote' translated by the Irish author and translator, Charles Jervas. The translator's name was famously misprinted as 'Jarvis', meaning his translation of the classic story, which was still being printed over 200 years after the initial publication, is still referred to as the 'Jarvis edition'. Twenty illustrations including portrait frontispiece and a folding map. Missing one leaf in Volume I which contained the direction to the printer for the placement of the prints, missing one illustration; cxlvi, 372; x, 412; xvi, 392; xi, 440 [viii], 7 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Bound in half red leather with marbled-papered-covered boards, marbled-paper endpapers. Octavo. Wear to leather particularly at hinges, slight splitting at top, corners bumped, wear to boards, occasional tears to some margins, not affecting text, lightly foxed, former owner's signature in neat blue ink to ffeps, a couple of marks to pages but generally clean and bright with clear text, bindings firm and square.