Sir Thomas Browne John Carter (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. viii, 120 pp. Cloth with gilt device to board and gilt lettering to spine, in unclipped jacket. Front flap trimmed and a couple of short tears to rest of jacket. Internally clean, save previous owner's name in ink. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Wrapper is price clipped, rubbed and marked, small open tear to head of spine, boards lightly marked, Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's discourses on urn burial and The Garden of Cyrus edited by John Carter. A new edition of this work, edited by John Carter in occasion of the tercentenary year of its first publication. Complete with its increasingly scarce dust wrapper, price clipped.With preface and appendices by John Carter.'Urne Buriall' and 'The Garden of Cyrus' are together regarded as Sir Thomas Browne's major literary contribution to Hermetic wisdom. The discourses concern burial ritual and customs, ancient and contemporary, and with the use of the quincunxas a geometric pattern in art and nature.Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of numerous works ranging from science and medicine to religion and the esoteric. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only light bumping to head and tail of spine. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1958. Dust wrapper sound with some shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited to 175 copies (of which 125 were for sale). Printed wrappers, stapled binding. Signed by John Piper to colophon. (15)pp. Covers somewhat foxing. A small ink stain on front cover. [f1296-171404]. Signed by Author(s).