SECOND EDITION THREE PARTS IN ONE VOLUME. LARGE QUARTO HALF VELLUM OVER CARD. WITH 116 COPPER ENGRAVINGS BY PIETRO SANTI BARTOLLI. BOUND WITH THE THREE PARTS OF TEXT AT THE FRONT FOLLOWED BY THE PLATES SEPARATED BY DIVISIONS. SEPULCHRAL LAMPS RECOVERED FROM THE CATACOMBS OF ROME. SLIGHT WEAR TO BOARD EDGES BUT A VERY GOOD COPY.
FIRST EDITION VOLUME 1 ONLY (OF TWO). 434 PAGES. ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDING WHICH IS IN VERY CONDITION (ALMOST DETACHED LACKS LEATHER TO SPINE – A REBINDING OR WORKING COPY). WITH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PLATE. THE CONTENTS ARE COMPLETE AND VERY GOOD. SCARCE.
VERY GOOD COPY BOUND IN MODERN HALF LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARD. NEW ENDPAPERS – 23 PAGES. ‘OCCASIONED BY A LETTER FROM HIS LORDSHIP TO THE VICE-CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD IN CONVOCATION TO WHICH IS PREFIXED HIS LORDSHIPS LETTER’. THE LETTER IS FROM SOME ‘OXFORD ELECTORS’.
LIMITED EDITION OF 525 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 503. QUARTO BOUND IN HALF VELLUM OVER BLUE BOARDS. T.E.G. GILT ARMORIAL CREST TO FRONT BOARD GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE. FRONTIS. PLUS 7 PLATES AND A FACSIMILIE LETTER. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN OF GODFREY STAFFORD BOSTOCK HIGH SHERIFF OF STAFFORDSHIRE. THE VELLUM SPINE HAS DARKENED BUT VERY GOOD AND VERY CLEAN. SCARCE.
FIRST EDITION QUARTO NICELY REBOUND IN GREEN CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS ORIGINAL LABEL. WITH 18 FINE ENGRAVED PORTRAITS AFTER ORIGINAL PICTURES WITH A PEDIGREE AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS. SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. THEN CLEAN AND FIRMLY BOUND. BOOKPLATE OF PREVIOUS OWNER. SCARCE.
2ND EDITION. AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY. VERY GOOD COPY WHICH HAS BEEN REBOUND USING ORIGINAL DECORATIVE BLUE BOARDS NEW SPINE AND ENDPAPERS. GILT EDGES. CORNERS BUMPED BUT A VERY GOOD. FOXING TO PRELIMS THEREAFTER VERY CLEAN. BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD GEOFFREY 14TH EARL OF DERBY WITH PORTRAITS OF 14TH & 15TH EARLS.
QUARTO BUCKRAM SOME WEAR TO SPINE AND CORNERS OF BOARDS OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES AND SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1667-8 EDITED BY WILLIAM FERGUSSON IRVINE ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES AND MAPS. GILT HERALDIC DECORATION TO FRONT BOARD.
SECOND EDITION COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES. FINELY BOUND IN HALF CRUSHED GREEN LEATHER BY HATCHARD GREEN BOARDS RAISED BANDS T.E.G. ENGRAVED FRONTIS. AND TITLE PAGE TO EACH VOLUME. SOME UNEVEN FADING TO THE GREEN LEATHER OF THE SPINES TO BROWN AND SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES THEN CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. VERY GOOD CONDITION.
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