Travels and discoveries in the Levant. Two Volumes. by Newton, Sir Charles Thomas - 1865

Paris: Desenne 1807. (Hardcover set) 346, 505, 469, 431pp. Very good. In full calf fine bindings which have been expertly rebacked. Marbled endpapers and edges. The covers are worn and the spines brittle with minor loss at the tops and bottoms, and a 1.5-inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine of Vol.1, also a tasteful bookplate in each volume. The pages are clean and the books have mylar jackets. Text in French Language. (History--Poland, History--Poland, Sets).

No. 108 of 150 large paper, hand-colored copies. Hand-colored inserted dedication page (to Don Caesar Frank Fiori); top-edge gilt; deckle edges; hand-colored plates; five distinctly raised bands; gilt decor to front, rear and spine compartments. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.

London, England: Smith, Elder & Co. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1848. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 611 pages: 5 x 8 in.: 2.4: KB#011175: No Jacket As Issued. "St. Paul's To St. James's. With Forty-Five Illustrations." per the title pages, but, besides quite a few small chapter head illustrations, the two books contain frontispieces in each volume, plus a total of 26 large illustrations engraved by C. Thurston Thompson, from drawings by J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson. Volume 1 contains 300 pages and Volume 2 has 311 pages, followed by a 12-page catalog of other works published by Smith, Elder & Co. Boards are original blind stamped, dark orange cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no writing, marks, or bookplates found at all), bright, tightly bound (except for beginning cracking of hinge in front of title page in vol. 1) and sharp cornered (except for some light wear at spine edges). Scarce, Out… Read More

New York:::: MacMillan,,,, 1954... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the… Read More

Paris: Desenne 1807. (Hardcover set) 346, 505, 469, 431pp. Very good. In full calf fine bindings which have been expertly rebacked. Marbled endpapers and edges. The covers are worn and the spines brittle with minor loss at the tops and bottoms, and a 1.5-inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine of Vol.1, also a tasteful bookplate in each volume. The pages are clean and the books have mylar jackets. Text in French Language. (History--Poland, History--Poland, Sets).

No. 108 of 150 large paper, hand-colored copies. Hand-colored inserted dedication page (to Don Caesar Frank Fiori); top-edge gilt; deckle edges; hand-colored plates; five distinctly raised bands; gilt decor to front, rear and spine compartments. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.

London, England: Smith, Elder & Co. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1848. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 611 pages: 5 x 8 in.: 2.4: KB#011175: No Jacket As Issued. "St. Paul's To St. James's. With Forty-Five Illustrations." per the title pages, but, besides quite a few small chapter head illustrations, the two books contain frontispieces in each volume, plus a total of 26 large illustrations engraved by C. Thurston Thompson, from drawings by J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson. Volume 1 contains 300 pages and Volume 2 has 311 pages, followed by a 12-page catalog of other works published by Smith, Elder & Co. Boards are original blind stamped, dark orange cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no writing, marks, or bookplates found at all), bright, tightly bound (except for beginning cracking of hinge in front of title page in vol. 1) and sharp cornered (except for some light wear at spine edges). Scarce, Out… Read More

New York:::: MacMillan,,,, 1954... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the… Read More