Search Results: the reminiscences and recollections of captain by gronow captain joseph

John C. Nimmo, 1900T. hardcover. Good. . 2-volume set. Uniformly bound in half-leather with gilt, top joint of volume 1 is detached, top board of volume 1 is partially detached, covers show minor wear and rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean.

London: John C. Nimmo. Poor in Fair dust jacket. 1892. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage.; Both vols: Olive green boards; a trifle scuffed and worn; corners bumped; gilt titling + decoration still quite bright; gilt + red armorial bearings on front; top edge gilt. Owner's name on contents page of each vol. All plates + frontispieces present, all with tissue guards except Vol I frontis. Vol I: binding tight. Vol II: binding weak, exposed in several places, but no pp loose. The reminiscences of Captain Gronow, celebrated hero of the Napoleonic Wars and noted socialite in Victorian England. ; 8vo (6" x 9"); vi-xxviii + 3-353, vi-xiv + 2-340 + cat. pages .

New York: Scribner & Welford. Good+. 1889. First Edition; Limited edtion. Hardcover. With Etched and Aquatint Illustrations by Joseph Grego; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 694 pages; 1st edition, thus; limited to 870 sets for England and America, this set numbered 453. Two volumes, complete in original brown cloth with seal in 3 colors to upper boards and titles in gilt to spines. 351 & 343 pp. Bindings shaken and hinges tender with splits to rear endpages in both volumes. Cloth nicked and frayed at spine ends, with trace rub through at corner tips. A mall closed puncture to the cloth at spine Vol II. Handsomely illustrated with 25 etchings and aquatint engravings by Greco, supplied in duplicate with the 2nd hand colored and all tissue guarded. Front and rear endpages foxed; title page of Vol I cracking in the gutter and nearly loose. Here and there a mild gap between signatures and several plates coming loose from the binding. Prior ownership small name and address label to… Read More

Scribner. Very Good. 1900. Later Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols; blue cloth, 2 portrait frontis, top edge gilt; superficial cracks in v. 2, small scattered foxing, firm solid copy .