Epochs Modern History, First Edition (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine fold out maps. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. There Is The Name Of A Previous Owner's Library. There Are No Marks Or Tears Inside The Book. The Binding Is Tight.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown leather on board covers with gilt decoration & school crest/ motif to front title to spine on black cartouche, edge wear, corners rubbed, better than most. 509 numbered pages including index, presentation plate to inside front cover, wavy patterned page edges and end papers, unmarked. Binding tight almost as new. Size 9.5 x 15.1 cm.

Buckram. First Edition. XV + 210 pages, good original embossed brown binding, gilt title to spine. Contents good tight copy, one owner name & 1885 to top title page, a few pencil notes to side of text. Tidy single stamp of original book supplier/shop. No major faults. The object of book is to give a clear account of changes in political system from Lord Grey's 1st. Reform Bill to death of Sir Robert Peel ( including corruption, the Irish Tithe system, Black & White slavery, women & children mine & factory workers, Corn Laws etc. etc. ). 11 x 15.5cm Approx.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Maroon cloth binding, blindstamped titles to front board. Blindstamping and gilt titles to spine. Chocolate endpapers. 262 pp. including index. Antique ex-library with hand-dated and hand-numbered bookplate. Colored fold-out map of Central Europe (frontispiece), additional maps of France in Provinces (colored fold-out); Revolutionary Paris (colored fold-out); France in Departments (colored fold-out); Belgium; the Rhine; Quiberon. Revolutionary Calendar with days of Month hand-written in apparently by publisher; table of leading dates in the history of the French Revolution. Library pocket to rear. Minimal wear. Quite a nice little book in very good condition with all maps present.

4°, braunes Ohldr. 1. Auflage,. Illustraded with 24 plates, representing the ships of all kinds and times and ten of coloured flags, XI, 647: XXXVI Seiten (Appendix), Gutes festes Exemplar, lediglich der Buchdeckel etwas gelockert. Mit mehrfach gestempeltem Besitzvermerk und Bleisiftanmerkungen Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Pp viii, 509. Some illustrations. Full calf, raised bands, stamped gilt. Spine faded, shelf wear. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 12mo. xxvi + 262 + 2pp +4 colour fold out map frontis + 3 bw maps. Brown publisher's blind stamped cloth covers with blind lettering on front & gilt lettering on spine. Black eps. Neat owner's signature on ep. Covers : slight bump bottom of spine, slight rubs top/bottom spine & corners else cle`an & bright. Contents : few small fox spots outside edges of pages & rear ep, inner hinge very slightly tender at page 95, slight fading around edges of eps else very clean & tigft. A clean and tight copy. VG+.

1st Ed. 4to. [vi] + (A-[Oo4]). Some browning, marbled e.ps. with some restoration work, contemporary calf with blind and gilt tooled boards, sl. loss to edges, rebacked with original gilt tooled spine laid down, sl. loss to tail of spine. Lowndes says 250 copies printed only.Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes (17691825) Yorkshire landowner, writer and Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire from 1806 to 1807. US$205.

8vo in fours, pp. viii, 136; with a list of subscribers; strongly bound in blue cloth boards, rebacked and recornered in morocco, spine lettered in gilt. First edition, and rare: Henry Slight was a local surgeon and clearly proud of Portsmouth, but apologetic about his skill as a poet. This amusing collection of poems, often with notes, covers many different events and people in the town's history. He issued the book by subscription, and the list on three pages at the front is full of local people. Not in Jackson, Annals of English verse, or Johnson, Provincial Poetry. Copac locates just three copies (BL, Bodleian and University of Southampton).

1st ed. - Halfcloth.