Thompson James Translator (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Insignificant amount of edge wear, practically like new. jfd.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ex-library copy with usual markings, covers have heavy wear and soil with small tears along top edge, corners and ends of spine rubbed, binding tight, ix + 374 pages, analysis of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in various metals to determine how these impurities impact the properties of metals, bw illustrations and tables Size: 6.25 x 9.25.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Extracted, engraved frontis(ii)96 pages, largely uncut as issued, still VERY GOOD.

FIRST EDITION, pp.(10)177(5); including 40pp facsimile); very good in original cloth; typography by Hermann Zapf. With a tri-lingual translation of Estienne's text and Epilogue on 'The Old Frankfurt Book Fair by Sigfred Taubert. DM Bookselling Printing History.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 662 pages. 9.50x6.50x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 686 pages. 5.91x1.51x9.01 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 12 x 18.6cm. Contemporary tree calf and gilt spine, restored. Engraved title page and 5 engraved plates. [14], 332, [4]pp.Cohen-De Ricci, p. 991; this edition not in OCLC.in-8, une page de titre imprimée et 332 pp. + approbation et privilège, reliure plein veau marbré début 18ème siècle, dos lisse orné, toutes tranches dorées, filets sur les plats. Agréable édition ornée de 5 gravures d'Eisen (1 par saison + une pour l'hymne).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6 volumes in beautiful leather bindings. A matched set in very good condition. Each volume measures 5.5 x 8.5. All are dated 1801. A collection of German plays. Volume 1 contains: Life of Kotzebue; Stranger; Rolla, Virgin of the Sun; Pizarro. Each play has its own title page and pagination. Each has an engraved frontispiece as well. Volume 2 contains: Lover's Vows; Adelaide of Wulfingen; Count Benyowsky Volume 3 contains: Deaf and Dumb; Indian Exiles; False Delicacy; Happy Family. Volume 4 contains: Otto of Wittelsbach; Dagobert; Conscience. Volume 5 contains: The Robbers; Don Carlos.Volume 6 contains: Ensign; Count Koenigsmark; Stella; Emilia Galotti. All 6 volumes in very good condition. Marbled endpapers, spines decorated and labeled in gold. Early 19th century binding. Please email to request photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A fine start on a collection of various (and variant) editions of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, most being in no worse than Very Good condition, one in Good condition, some being Near Fine, with special issues and flaws noticed below. The subject and author of the dozen (12) tomes comprising the collection, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere in the 11th century from 1025-1050 A.D. His surname Khayyam means "tent-maker" in Persian. The bibliography consulted is Ambrose G. Potter, A Bibliography Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Together With Kindred Matter In Prose And Verse Pertaining Thereto, published by Ingpen and Grant, London, 1929. The collection is comprised of the following: 1) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872), measuring 218 x 163 mm. (8 5/5" x 6 1/2"). Third Edition. Original publisher's maroon cloth over boards, roan-backed spine. Wear on spine, scuffing to spine head and foot, wear to joints, darkening of edges of cover, but still nearly an excellent copy of interior, sturdy, attractive. sewn-in silk-linen bookmark. [iii], iv-xxiv [1], 1-36 pp.; 2) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878), measuring 175 x 130 mm. (6 3/4" x 5"). This is the First published American Edition from the Third London Edition. One of 500 copies printed. Bound in publisher's original reddish-brown cloth over boards, with gilt and black titling and decoration. Bookplate of Church Periodical Club, thus ex-libris, but not ex-library. Dark burgundy endpapers front and rear. Red-stamped page-edges all round. The bibliographer Potter says that this is a variant binding. Minor defects in the form of slight scuffing to tips, spine head and foot, else Near Fine. [3], 4-77 [1] pp.; 3) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: L.C. Page and Company; London: Macmillan and Company, 1898), measuring 210 x 145 mm. (8 1/4" x 5 3/4"), an edition complete in two volumes. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Multi-Variorum Edition. Bound in the original publisher's white cloth over boards, with red and gilt decoration, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, publisher's red oil-cloth dust jacket, quite fine, sturdy, substantial. Eight illustrations by multiple artists. This edition, "Edward Fitzgerald's Version," so-called for comparing "English, French, German, Italian, and Danish translations" to Fitzgerald's version. Dust jacket spines a bit sunned, otherwise a beautiful copy of the first trade edition of "the first extensive scientific edition," and thus itself a collectible. Volume I: clxxvii, [3], 3-203 pp.; Volume II consists wholly of appendixes, indexes, another nine fine illustrations; frontis matter, 210-655 pp.; 4) THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900), measuring 210 x 153 mm. (8 1/4 x 6"). Translated by Edward FitzGerald, E.H. Whinfield, and Justin Huntly McCarthy. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with quite elaborate gilt decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Fine Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Owner's signature at endpaper in the form of a penciled gift notation. Spine rubbed, dulled slightly but still attractive, rear cover a bit grubby, slight dings to board fore-edges, else with a beautiful cloth decoration to front cover. Fine black-and-white engraving of FitzGerald at frontis, captioned and tissue-guarded. xl, 1-244 pp.; 5) BJERREGAARD, C.H.A., Translator. SUFI INTERPRETATIONS OF THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND FITZGERALD. (New York: J.F. Taylor and Company, 1902), printed for them by the Tudor Press, measuring 306 x 240 mm. (12 1/2" x 9 3/8"). Bound most handsomely in the publisher's original gray paper over boards, fore- and tail-edges untrimmed. French-fold text. Spine lettering faded (as on all copies), scuffing to spine head and foot, otherwise clean, unmarked, bright, attractive of interior. Full-page plate at frontis, tissue-protected, with second title page, also with title vignette, with Preface.…