Sutherland Mr James (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Collector's Edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Leather-bound. Gilt titles, decorations, & page edges. Signor Domenico Gnoli (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 64 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.15 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL and NOT A REPRINT. Minor edgewear otherwise a fine clean and vibrant copy. Truly something for everyone, from fction to reviews, recipes, letters to the editors, vintage advertisements and much more. Leslie Thrasher - Cover Art (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. Fully-bound in richly coloured leather. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine; 22-karat gilt decoration on spine and boards. Silk moire endpapers, matching sewn-in bookmark and all edges gilt. Illustrations by Signor Domenico Gnoli of Rome.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions of both works (1812 & 1818); large-paper issue of the first, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1st ed, large paper, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 19 pls (includes 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps 1 folding), 47 wood engravings within text. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). T.e.g., some light offsetting to a few text leaves, variable spotting and toning to some plates (generally light), tide-mark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p. 136 more heavily spotted and browned, red marbled endpapers. Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy, and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. 'In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818), both met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5). SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major. (illustrator).…