Search Results: Authors starting with E from Sky Duthie Rare Books

Würzburg: Christian Weiss., [1838-1843]. First edition. Parts 11, 20-22, 29, 33-34, 36-37, 41, 45, and 47-48. Folio (38 x 27cm). Publisher's original quarter grey cloth over paper-covered boards with elaborate decorative titles and vignette illustration to the upper board. Each part illustrated with between 5 and 12 splendid tipped-in hand-coloured lithographs highlighted in albumen, with titles and publisher's blindstamp beneath - 82 in total - plus two further hand-coloured 'schema' plates. A very good set indeed, the bindings square and firm with minor marking to the boards and a touch of wear to the extremities. The contents with the odd mark or nick to page margins, the occasional spot of paper adhesion to a handful of the plates (a little more so to a couple), and a loose rear endpaper to one volume, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The plates remain bright and the colours vivid. An excellent set. A large group of original parts from Eckert and Monten's magnificent series… Read More

London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1879.. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 further black and white full-page wood-engraved plates. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink to the front free endpaper. 356pp. A good copy, the binding secure although with some cracking in places and a couple of small marks to the lower board. The contents a little shaken with the final gathering slightly loose and with foxing to the endpapers and edges of the textblock are otherwise in good order. An uncommon novel set in Algeria during the period of Emir Abdelkader's leadership of the struggle against French colonialism, by the author and traveller Charles Henry Eden (1839-1900), best known for his writings regarding his life and experiences in Queensland, Australia.LibraryHub records four institutional copies in the UK (BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Nat. Lib. Scotland).… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1814.. First edition. Two volumes. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards with remnants of original printed paper title labels to the spines. Nineteenth-century ownership signature to the front free endpaper of each volume ("W. Wansey"). xxxvi, 287, [1]pp. + 324pp. An acceptable set, the lower board to volume one loose and held by one cord only, the bindings with chipping to the spine ends and wear to the extremities. The contents with pp.75-82 in volume two somewhat loose and protruding from the textblock, similar looseness to a few gatherings in volume one, minor chipping to the blank lower margin of the last 8 pages of volume one, and some light scattered foxing here and there, are otherwise in good order. The uncommon first edition of this educational work for children by the influential Anglo-Irish author Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849).Only two institutional copies recorded by LibraryHub (Bodleian; Trin. Col. Dublin).

Gothenburg: ll'Editions., 2017. Three volumes, plus appendix booklet, in slipcase. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, this being number 71. Signed in pencil by the artist on the limitation page of the third volume. Octavo. The three volumes bound in the publisher's original full black leather with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Contrasting yellow, blue, and red endpapers with silk ribbon page-marker to each volume. The contents reproducing the sketchbooks of EKTA in full colour. The accompanying text booklet in card wrappers, contained within a pocket at the rear of the third volume. The set contained within the publisher's original grey cloth slipcase, with individual black paint decoration to one panel. A fine set, the bindings square and tight; the contents clean and bright throughout - appears unread. The slipcase with a touch of shelf wear is otherwise in very good condition. A meticulous facsimile reproduction of three sketchbooks by the Swedish artist, animator, sculptor and… Read More

London: M. A. Nattali., 1846.. Third edition[?]. Two volumes bound as one. Contemporary green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds (their ticket to the rear pastedown) with embossed decoration to the boards and decorative gilt titles to the spine. All edges gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text black and white line drawings. [5], 249pp. + [3], 271pp. Contemporary ink prize inscription to the front free endpaper. Small previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. A good copy, the binding square and firm with a little cracking to the rear hinge; the spine expertly relaid, with a little wear to the tips and a minor split to the cloth covering the middle of the upper joint. The contents with the occasional spot of toning are otherwise in very good order throughout. An attractive edition of this detailed, well-illustrated account of the Parthenon Marbles, first published in 1833, by the English antiquarian and long-serving principal librarian at the British Museum Sir Henry Ellis… Read More