Frederic Kenny (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1946 hardcover apparently published without DJ. Shelf wear and staining to covers and edges. Notes and underlining throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Former library hardcover, no dust jacket, in Good condition. Clean pages aside from library marks. Good binding. Ships fast and guaranteed well protected with domestic tracking.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (1939), 717pp, illus., sun fading to spine, some wear to spine ends, slight shelfwear to cover, owner's name to fep, stain to pg edges, no dj, couple chapters w/ underlining, rest of text is unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. 1st edition, 1943. (analytical chemistry, microchemistry).

Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867].Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (folded in half), paper watermarked 'Sands & Kenny', steel engraving in black ink 110 x 144 mm (irregular), signed in image 'Terry, del., 1853'; second side with wet stamp of Sydney publisher and stationer J.R. Clarke; the letter paper is unused and in good condition, with two tiny residual hinge marks to front and three to top edge of last side, and some mild toning along the fore-edge. …

Pp.Each play has a frontis eng. Both vols each have 6 plays bound together, all published by Cumberland. All are printed from the acting copy as now performed at the Theatres Royal, London. Volume I: The School for Scandal;The Review; or the Wags of Windsor A Musical Farce In Two Acts; The Prize: Or, 2, 5, 3, 8; A Musical The Way to Keep Him: A Comedy in Five Acts; The Village Lawyer. A Farce In Two Acts; The Jew and the Doctor: A Farce In Two Acts; Volume 2: The Will: A Comedy In Five Acts; The Wonder: A Comedy in Five Acts; Love, Law & Physic. A Farce, In Two Acts; The Dramatist; Or, Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy in Five Acts; Paul Pry: A Comedy in Three Acts; John Bull: Or, The Englishman's Fireside. A Comedy in Five Acts; Both vols have previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner's name to front flyleaf, some light foxing, light sunning to spine, light wear to covers. Volume 1: spine frayed, front cover stained, covers coming detached. Both vols. green cloth with gilt title to spine. …

Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867].Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (lacking the blank third and fourth sides), steel engraving in black ink 118 x 168 mm (irregular), signed in image 'Terry, del., 1853'; the letter paper is written on both remaining sides and bears a letter from the Tahiti-based merchant Thomas Croft addressed to the Governor of Missouri, headed 'Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands, P. Ocean, July 25, 1878'; Croft's letter enquires about the offer by the State of Missouri of a $10,000 prize to anyone who can explain the cause of the 'Hog Cholera' (swine fever); Croft claims he is 'well acquainted with the cause, the preventive (sic), and the ease of that Disease, if taken in time. And although I am obliged to reside here on account of bad health - consumption - I am still able and would like to contend for that prize, if it is still open.'; the letter is complete, and signed in full at the foot by Thomas Croft; the letter paper with original fold lines, small ink stain to engraved illustration, verso with old paper adhesions to bottom margin of sheet. Thomas Croft was an amateur anthropologist with a deep interest in the culture of Easter Island (Rapanui), in particular its mysterious writing system known as rongorongo. Working independently of Bishop Jaussen, Croft made an unsuccessful attempt to decipher the script with the help of an unnamed informant in Papeete, and in 1873 he sent photographs of two rongorongo tablets to the California Academy of Sciences with an accompanying letter outlining his conclusions about the Rapanui writing system. (See Stephen R. Fischer. Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script : History, Traditions, Texts. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997, pp 58 ff). A fascinating document with an Easter Island connection.…