Sir William Jardine Notes (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover ornamental coloured pictorial spine and front cover coloured frontispiece pages: xxviii 475 [viii] - publishers adverts. profusely illustrated former owner's name on front end-paper head tail and corners lightly bumped spine a little faded edges and hinges slightly rubbed some browning/spotting to end-papers and preliminaries otherwise fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Small octavo in green cloth binding. Illustrated with hand-tinted illustrations. Condition: insect damage to spine cloth; else good. Pages: xxiv, 416 and 32-page publisher's list.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Embossed brown boards with title and decorations in gilt to the spine. Spine ends a bit worn and colour a bit dulled , otherwise slight edge/corner wear, binding firm. Includes 4 full-page ills. (as listed) plus a frontis and map of the Selborne area. Decorated title page (and tissue-guard) a little foxed, but text very clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in brown leather boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to spine, with 5 raised bands. No dustjacket. 475pp. Marbled page edges and endpapers. 6 colour plates, b/w illustrations and map. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Gold gilt Grammar School crest to front board. (11/3).…

Blindstamped cloth. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. xxiv, 416 pp. With 40 hand-colored illustrations and steel engraved frontis. The lovely animal plates are similar to those found in Jardine. Frontis has foxing. Otherwise, but for occasional light and trivial soiling, a clean and tight copy. Some fading of gilt decoration on spine. Repair along front gutter. Darkening along both gutters. Wear along spine tips.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original embossed green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, publisher's catalogue to the end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xxiv] 416 [vi] printed pages of text with 40 full-page monochrome engravings. Spine sun faded to light brown, spine ends and corners turned-in, couple of fox spots to some plates, 1861 name to the front free end paper and in Very Good clean, square and tight condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NATURAL HISTORY.…

Full Calf. Condition: Near Fine. Later Edition. Finely bound in stamp-signed Riviere and Son binding of dark green full polished calf, the back with red morocco labels and ornate gilt decorations, marbled end papers with ornate gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Near Fine, the covers with a few faint rubs. xxiv, 416 pp. with 40 engravings. An uncommon later edition of this classic of natural history, WorldCat locates only two libraries with holdings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Quarter-bound, hardback book, with each corner, bound in beautiful brown leather bound, gilt edged, tooled spine and gilt titles on the spine. Marbled paper sides, along with marbled inside, front and back boards and first and last pages, marbled edged papers. This stunning book has been beautifully bound and is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Published in 1861, tissue guard paper for title page still intact. Inside board has named label with crest. 416 pages all intact and nice tight binding. The book also has a nice blue coloured, cotton, page marker. All pages, text and fabulous illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. The odd and occasional foxing mark, hardly noticeable. A truly lovely book that would adorn any stylish library.…

Hardcover. Octavo, three volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in quarter green leather with red cloth boards. Spines with gilt lettering and four gilt birds. With marbled end papers. Volume I - cv, 408 pages. 27 color plates. Frontispiece engraving of Alexander Wilson. Handwritten notes on recto of frontispiece and two of the three table of content pages. Spine is sunned with wear at the hinges and spine ends, with a streak of green missing. Corners are sharp. Text block has a gilt top, with the side and bottom deckled that have some tanning and foxing. Volume II - vii, 495 pages. 41 color plates. Spine is sunned with loss of color to spine ends. Front two corners lightly bumped.Text block has glit top with deckled edges at right and bottom. Text block has some tanning and foxing. Some pages have foxing and stains. Owner's name inscribed on top of the title page. Volume III - 540 pages. 28 color plates. Spine is sunned with loss of green color at spine ends and hinges. Text block has glit top with deckled edges at right and bottom. Text block has some tanning and foxing. Owners name on second end paper. Shelved in Room X, Case X15, Science. 1414215. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

New Edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece, additional title-page and illustrations Binding with the slightest wear at corners, upper hinge partly cracked, but a very nice copy; ownership inscription on front free end-paper Contemporary red panelled morocco gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges and inner dentelles gilt. With two delightful and accomplished fore-edge paintings, one showing a cricket match, the other a landscape with two men shooting wildfowl in the foreground, one from the land and one from water.…

Full Calf. Condition: Very Good. Lovely full-calf binding, with gilt centerpiece figure of a bird, a subtle blindstamped perimeter band, animal figures in gilt placed in spine compartments. The calf itself has a pleasing and warm speckling that sets it apart. 8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. xxiv, 416 pp. Many engraved plates. Occasional light foxing, but mostly clean. Slight, even warping of the boards, but other than light wear, the binding has an uncommon freshness to it.…