R S Robert Paltock (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint of 1751 edition. Hard cover 8vo w/beige linen spine, paste-on label. Near Fine/No DJ. Hinges a little loose, owner name front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked. Fantasy involving shipwreck at the South Pole. 416pp; illustrated in reproductions. Book.…

Reprint of 1751 original. Hardcover book bound in the publisher's original cloth and papered boards. 19 cm. 416 pages. Contains six black-and-white illustrations including a fold-out example. In good plus condition. An ex-library (John Withrop House; Harvard University) copy with all the usual institutional markings present to the front/back matter. Offsetting to the end pages. Moderate edge wear to the spine-sunned covers. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-840.…

186 [6, ads] pp. 16mo, publisher's cloth. Improved Edition. Text lightly stained throughout; cloth worn at extremities and spotted.

19x13.5cm. New edition of fantasy tale first published 1751, relating adventures following shipwreck near the South Pole. 416pp with reproduction of original title-page, and six monochrome plates after the original illustrations by Boitard. Original quarter beige cloth with brown paper-covered boards, backstrip with paper title-label. Backstrip a little toned and faintly marked. Upper outer corner of front board a little rubbed and lightly bumped, all other outer corners slightly so. No dust jacket. Half-title and title-page lightly spotted, occasional faint & sparse spotting elsewheres. Tinted top edge of text-block dust-marked, other edges lightly toned. GOOD+ copy.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. 116pp. Pictorial card. Occasional light foxing. Originally published in 1751 the book can lay claim to being the first science fiction novel set in Antarctica. This edition is a slightly larger format facsimile of th 1842 edition. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1843 Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. No Dust Jacket. Bumped corners. Prominent wearing on the covers and spine. Front cover has been reattached. Staining on the flyleaf and endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. 116p.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Size: 16mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Green paper over boards, engraved frontispiece, two title pages, one with an engraved illustration, "A New Edition, Revised and Corrected", 252 Pages. Paper on boards is extremely worn such that printing on front and back is faded and nearly unreadable, spine is virtually gone, repaired with some sort of black tape with two holes cut in, one of which reveals the title on original spine, corners worn and rounded off, gift inspection written in ink on front paste down, previous owner name in pencil on front paste down, previous owner name embossed on front paste down, title page and frontis have a damp stain and foxing, interior pages have some random light foxing and other sorts of stains, damp stain in bottom gutter throughout a good portion of the text. Originally published in 1751, this story is early science fiction; Wilkins is shipwrecked in the Antarctic and reaches a land where the inhabitants - including the beautiful Youwarkee - can fly. The frontispiece shows the "winged people" carrying Peter Wilkins off into the sky to their Country. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 6 oz. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 010217.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good+. Fascinating Cornish Science Fiction Adventure about a Shipwrecked Sailor and Flying Creatures, written by Robert Paltock published in 1750. This 1816 Edition is illustrated with 4 Full-Page B&W Plates, having the Publisher's Name "T. and J. Allman" Printed at the bottom. 2 Plates are in Vol. I and 2 in Vol. II (including the Frontispieces). Each Volume has it's own Title Page, Dated 1816. Contemporary Brown Half-Leather Binding with Marbled paper-covered Boards and Leather Corners. Gilt Title and Horizontal Divisions. Vol, I, 240 Pages. Vol. II, 240 Pages + 2 Pages of Publisher's adverts. 6 1/2" Tall, 410g. Very small bits of leather missing from spine ends. Edge wear especially at corners. Split to leather down left side of spine and a smaller split (1 1/2" long) on right side from the bottom). Rear hinge cracked, board still holding at the top. Attractive Illustrated Bookplate on Endpaper. Previous owner's name, antique inscription, at top of title page. Some small spots of light foxing, mainly marginal, on Plates. Area of scuffing on title page (not on the test) with an area of light even browning on title page. Only a very occasional spot of foxing or fingermark on text pages which are in very good, clean condition. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. The very scarce twelfth volume of the popular series republishing classics, containing novels now very scarce in commerce. The very scarce twelfth volume of the Novelist's Magazine, containing four similar scarce classic novels from the eighteenth century, all bound in one volume. Rebacked in quarter cloth, with marble boards. Calf decorative spine visible beneath cloth. Contemporary end papers, with a missing title leaf. From the publishing partnership between James Harrison and Samuel Brooke, the Novelist's Magazine was a popular series offering readers literary classics enjoy, spanning twenty-three volumes between 1780-1788. This particular volume is special compared to others for the works within them happening to be very scarce, with no insittutional copies of Lenox's satire other than that seen in this magazine. - The Female Quixote; or the Adventures of Arabela, by Mrs. Lenox, or Charlotte Lenox. Eight books, originally bound in two volumes. Contains all four plates, with plate III bound after plate IV. Collated complete (1783, first published in 1752).- A Journey from this World to the Next, by Henry Fielding. Very scarce. Contains all three plates. Collated complete (1783, first published in 1749).- The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson: A Narrative Founded on Fact, by Edward Kimber. Originally bound in two volumes. Very scarce. Contains all four plates. Collated complete (1783, first published in 1750).- The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, A Cornish Man: Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector, by R.S., a Passenger in the Hector. Contains all six plates. Collated complete (1783, first published 1751). Rebacked in quarter cloth, with marble boards. Calf decorative spine visible beneath cloth. Contemporary end papers, with a missing title leaf. Externally, browning to cloth joints with loss to cloth spine, with cracked calf decorative spine visible beneath. Cracking to front joint, with rubbing to edges. Minor loss to marble board extremities. Cloth reinforcement to front end paper hinge, with the odd spot to end papers. Internally, mostly firmly bound, with hinges pp.14-15 of Thompson and pp.176-177 starting. The odd small crease to extremities of final leaves. Fading to the marble boards with browning to board extremities. Age toning and faint spotting, with offsetting to leaves adjoining plates. Good Only. Stothard, [eng. by Walker] (illustrator). book.…

Revised Edition. Octavo (15cm); black paper-covered boards, w/ handwritten spine label; 252pp. Ex-library/withdrawn. Boards well-rubbed, extremities rubbed and bumped; spine a bity sunned. Textblock toned and foxed; hinges cracked at preliminaries; deckled edges; sticker residue on rear pastedown; ownership signature on front pastedown. Good. A Cornish man who strikes up a more peaceful life at sea, only to escape a life of slavery at the hands of French privateers. He and his crew eventually wind up in Nosmnbdsgrutt, home of a race of winged women. Originally published in 1751; this is one of a number of early 19th-c. reprints. …