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A9780759123403Hardback. New. All archaeology students instructors and practitioners need this book to learn how to critically read and think about theory and methods or to improve their writing. hardcover
1999VB10312977The Folio Society 1999-01-01. hardcover. Good. 14x11x11. The Folio Society hardcover
2020Manohar-9780367225889Routledge 2020. Paperback. New. Routledge paperback
2020Manohar-9780367225889Routledge 2020. Paperback. New. Routledge paperback
199031482Macmillan of Canada January 1990. Hardcover. Good. Macmillan of Canada hardcover
2019Adhya-9780367225889T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2019. Paperback. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE paperback
2019Adhya-9780367225889T&F/ROUTLEDGE 2019. Paperback. New. T&F/ROUTLEDGE paperback
18371253E023London: B. Blake 1837. 1st Edition Thus . Hardback. Printed pages: Large 8vo. xv 1 848. Very Good Minus. 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. First single volume edition. Full calf leather binding. Spine with four raised bands morocco title label gilt decoration to compartments. Single gilt fillet border to boards gilt decorated board edges blind tooled turn-ins. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Rubbing and slight marking to boards. Good solid binding with no cracking to joints. Patches of foxing throughout the text. Engraved frontis with offsetting to the title page. Provenance: from the library of Williamstrip Park Coln St. Aldwyns - seat of the Hicks Beach family. Gift inscription to leading blank: 'Michael Edward Hicks Beach from his sincere friend Barclay Field on his leaving Eton. Election 1855'. The recipient was Sir Michael Hicks Beach Bt. 1st Earl of St. Aldwyn and 9th Baronet of Beverston. He had a long political career serving as a Conservative MP from 1864 until 1906 twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer and briefly as Leader of the Opposition in 1886. . Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £30.00; Rest of World £30.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. B. Blake hardcover
7777Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt. London. 1764. First edition in English of Gibbon's first work. 8vo. 8 168pp. including 4pp. of publishers' list of books. Early nineteenth century engr. portrait of Gibbon very neatly attached to blank opposite title page and gives the appearance of portrait frontis. Two original blanks bound in before title page. Bound in contemporary full brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down top compartment and part of bottom compartment replaced in modern calf inner hinges reinforced new e/ps. Corners of bds. worn. Marbled edges and e/ps. Outer margin sl. cropped pages measure 18.4 x 11.2cm. Additional frontis. lightly offset to title. Contents remarkably fresh and clean. Norton 6. Though originally published in French in 1761 Gibbon wrote most of this essay in 1758 while only 21. The translator has never been identified but was probably a professional hired by Becket. Gibbon was not happy with it though it was advertised as being prepared 'under the inspection of the author'. He states "had my feelings been more exquisite I might have wept over its blunders and baldness." Also from his journal January 11th 1763. " From thence I went to Becket paid him his bill fifty-four pounds and gave him back his translation. It must be printed tho' very indifferent. My comfort is that my misfortune is not an uncommon one." One of the 'best' mistakes quoted by Norton is the rendering of "si la physique a ses Buffons" by "if Physics hath its buffoons." unknown
1834204419London: Frederick Westley and A.H.Davis 1834. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Book condition: fair 1834. very scarce in this format. Gibbon's seminal work is printed from the edition in 12 volumes includes a 13 page introductory memoir of the author by William Youngman b/w frontis of Gibbon no tissue gaurd. The book begins with the extent and military force of the empire in the age of the Antonines and continues through to chapter 71 in which Gibbons discusses the prospect of the ruins of Rome in the 15th century with a conclusion of the whole work. Half bound in leather and marbled paper the boards are worn on all edges corners scuffed small losses to the marbled paper from both front and rear - see photos. The leather spine is in nice condition soft tan leater with intricate gilt decoration 5 raised bands gilt lettered maroon title label - all very bright. Endpapers are marbled in similar pattern to boards as are all three edges upper edge dulled others bright. Both hinges cracked with front one separating. Front pastedown has a decorative coat of arms bookplate RFEP has small area of loss to lower corner light foxing to end papers and prelims but no foxing throughout. Evidence of historical damp staining on a few pages. Binding is very tight interior very clean 1303 pages with index 7 X 10 inches. Weight 2.6kg - please contact me for an accurate shipping quote based on your location before ordering. Frederick Westley and A.H.Davis hardcover
1897206611London: Methuen 1897-1898. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Seven volumes 8vo. 11 maps and plans. Original gilt titled maroon cloth spines slightly sunned and soiled edges and corners worn and bumped in places some tanning to endpapers but surprisingly little foxing none in some volumes. Fold out maps are all present and in very good condition - very clear and colours bright. Overall an excellent set. Methuen hardcover
1934C212763Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press 1934. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Original cloth lightly used offsetting to endpapers otherwise near very good indeed. No dust jacket. The Porpoise Press, hardcover
190614325London; J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. 1906. Hard Cover. First edition octavo pp. 259. Photographic frontispiece and nine further photographic full page plates two maps including one large fold out to rear. Bevelled bottle green cloth boards with gilt titles and decorative detail to spine and upper board. A near fine copy. Major Spilsbury's account of his attempts to smuggle and run guns to southern Moroccan tribes outside of the control and authority of the Sultan in 1897 in breach of international and British domestic laws. Spilsbury argues that if the Sultan could not guarantee a foreigner's safely in the lands south of the Atlas mountains he should not claim to control them and he took it upon himself to negotiate directly with local leaders agreeing to supply them with arms. When Spilsbury tried to land his arms cargo in Mogador now Essaouria his men were met with hostile Moorish troops and he was forced to move away from the harbour leaving several of his crew on shore. In March 1898 Spilsbury left the Tourmaline and returned to London where The War Office suspended him from duty discharged him from the Army and charged him with illegally landing arms in Morocco. Subsequently acquitted by a jury of his peers he evaded arrest on a further charge by remaining outside of the jurisdiction. Spilsbury appears baffled in his conclusion that Morocco should be so resistant to colonisation. The appendix treats colonisation as inevitable and unashamedly motivated by access to Morocco's natural resources including gold. London; J. M. Dent & Co. 1906. hardcover
1922916Z40London: Chapman & Dodd Ltd 1922. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. A very scarce collection of short stories by Perceval Gibbon in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The 'Abbey Library' edition. First published in 1913 by Methuen & Co. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A very scarce work. This work was written by Perceval Gibbon an author and writer for the 'Rand Daily Mail' in South Africa. This work features a collection of short stories including a crime story about a murderer and a man who is heartbroken after losing his wife. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with fading to the spine. Offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is very smart with sunning to the spine handling marks and very small closed tears to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with age toned and clean pages. Near Fine Chapman & Dodd, Ltd hardcover
1938140129Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited 1938. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 1p.l.xxvi2455pp. Octavo. Original blue cloth. 27 colour plates from illustrations by W. J. Phillips Nicholas de Grandmaison Kathleen Shackleton etc. B&W plates from photos and illustrations in text. "A Map of the Dominion of Canada" map on both front and rear endpapers. Map of Eastern Europe in text pg. 287. very good Inscribed by John Murray Gibbon to DR MacKid who began his practice in Calgary in 1906 as CPR physician a position he held until 1958. Inscription dated Banff July 17 1940. 1938 McClelland & Stewart Limited hardcover
1938128931Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited 1938. Hardcover. near fine. 1st Edition. 1p.l.xxvi2455pp. Octavo in original blue cloth with 23 colour plates from illustrations by W. J. Phillips Nicholas de Grandmaison Kathleen Shackleton etc and B&W plates from photos and illustrations in text. "A Map of the Dominion of Canada" map on both front and rear endpapers. near fine Inscribed by John Murray Gibbon to D'Alton Corry Coleman Chairman and President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company from 1942 to 1947. 1938 McClelland & Stewart Limited hardcover
38668Washington D.C. Lithographed & printed by A. Hoen & Company. 1853. Hardcover. 2 folding maps: 51x 78cm. 20" x 31" & 19x 24cm 19" x 24" folded to 8vo 23x 14cm in original brown blind decorated cloth gilt cover title some slight wrinkling on the back board from damping but not stained very good to fine ho9.1 ~ Maps to accompany a Report to the Congress of the United States regarding an exploration of the Valley of the Amazon carried out by the U.S. Navy in the 1850's. Under the leadership of U.S. Navy Lieutenants William Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon the expedition left Lima Peru on 21 May 1852 and reached Para Brazil on 11 April 1852 a distance of 4366 miles. The Report was published by the Navy in 1854 in two volumes as "Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon" the second authored by Lieut. Gibbon with this map an addition. Washington, D.C. Lithographed & printed by A. Hoen & Company. 1853 hardcover
2026x-1836953208Berghahn Books 2026. Hardcover. New. 186 pages. 9.01x6.00x9.00 inches. Berghahn Books hardcover
1974414540AMS Press January 1974. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. AMS Press hardcover
2010209726Everyman's Library December 2010. Hardcover. New. Everyman's Library hardcover
1900mon0003045891The Wheeler Publishing Co. 1900. Hardcover. Good. . 12 vols. Undated number 811 of only 1000 sets stated on verso of vol. I. Half leather with marbled boards. Backstrip of vol I is peeled off and laid in. Chipping/peeling at edges of backstrip vol. II and III. Spines faded general shelf/age wear. Pages clean textblocks sturdy. The Wheeler Publishing Co. hardcover
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199432675London: Allen Lane: The Penguin Press 1994. Hardcover. Stated First Edition First Printing. 6.25 x 9.5in. 3 Vols. in Slipcase. cxi. 1114pp.; 1009pp.; 1352pp. Publisher's cloth boards. All 3 volumes are in FINE/AS NEW condition in Fine/As New dust jackets in a Fine/As New slipcase. A flawless set. As pictured. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press hardcover
1998266459London: Folio Society 1998. hardcover. fine. 8 volumes Tall 8vos cream colored boards simulating vellum with red & blue spine labels. London: Folio Society 1998. 8th edition. Fine.<br/><br/> The text is reproduced from the Everyman edition of 1910. The books are housed in two red board slipcases.<br/><br/> Folio Society unknown books
20109780307700766Everyman's Library 2010 Book. New. Boxed Set. Everyman's Library paperback
