Brown University Lund Humphries (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Nearly New. First Edition, stated. ------------Navy cloth with red and gilt spine label, gilt cover lettering, large and very very thick book-- nearly 3# thick, the book is 10 1/2" tall. 564 pages with endpaper maps, color frontispiece and 173 plates and 14 maps and plans.FINE NEWISH CONDITION- - no dust jacket.…

Hardcover. blue cloth boards w/ gilt stamped printing; red & gilt spine plate. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 564 pgs w/ 173 bw & color plates, fold-out maps. glossy red & pictorial dustjacket. Accompanied by plain, publisher's slipcase. This copy is nice and bright and appears unread or lightly handled, spending most of it's existence in its slipcase. VG+/VG (light scuffs to cloth. light foxing to textblock edges, faint remnants to pg edges. dustjacket has edge-wear; light rubbing; edges have light fading from slipcase) New Old Stock copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First US Edition. Inscribed on the half-title page by Brown. DJ has a creased tear to the front lower edge, other small tears and chips, is missing the top spine end, and is now in a mylar cover.

Hardback. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. THE ANATOMY OF GLORY Napoleon and His Guard: A Study in Leadership. Henry Lachouque. & Anne S. K. Brown. Lund Humphries, London. 1961 First edition 564pp plus fold out maps. Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in mint unmarked condition, bright, white, tight and square, bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to a red panel on the spine and to the front. The unclipped dust wrapper has some edge wear and one or two closed tears. The dust wrapper has now been covered in clear, removable protective film. Of all his works, the Imperial guard was Napoleon's finest creation. Moulded from the flotsam of the French Revolution, this elite corps swept through Europe for fifteen years behind its indomitable master, sharing in his brilliant victories and bearing the brunt of his epic defeats with unfaltering devotion. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white The weight of this book is over 2.5 Kilos so overseas customers will need to be quoted international postage rates. Ref JJ4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brown Egyptological Studies VIII. Published in the UK by Lund Humphries, 1979. Text in English. Large format, 38cm x 28cm, 95 pages, plus 44 plates. small bump to bottom of spine. Very good clean bright condition. No dust-wrapper as issued. Large book - overseas shipping at cost.…

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Fat 4to. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. xviii + 564 pp. Bound in original navy cloth, gilt, with contrasting red spine label, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear, including two small areas of loss at head of spine title, which is also sunned; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 173 plates in colour and black and white, including frontispiece, by text figure and 14 maps in text and by 2 folding maps at end. Map endpapers. An exceptionally detailed and copiously illustrated history of Napoleon's Imperial Guard from the Battle of Marengo to Waterloo. Originally published as Napoleon et la Garde Imperiale by Henry Lachouque (Paris, 1956), it was translated and adapted by the military historian, Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown (1906-85). MILITARY NAPOLEONIC MILITARY HISTORY FRENCH 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MILITARY. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A marvellous copy of this military history, complete with bountiful full colour plates and folding maps, as well as an excellently preserved dust wrapper. This work details the Imperial Guard, Napoleon's brainchild brought about as a result of the French Revolution. They followed him through Europe for fifteen years witnessing both his victories and defeats.This is an English translation of Commandant Lachouque's work, 'Napoleon et la Garde Imperiale'.Containing over three hundred illustrations, with ninety being in colour.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, this is a remarkably well preserved edition.With five newspaper clippings about Napoleon all dated to the 1960s. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition bar some sunning to the spine and very slight shelfwear to the edges. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean bar a little offsetting from the newspaper clippings. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Providence: Brown University Press; London: Lund Humphries, 1961. First Edition. In half leather binding, blue calf with gilt titles to red labels, plain spine compartments, clean page edges and grey end papers. Colour frontispiece, and 173 full page colour and monochrome plates, maps and plans some folding. EX LIBRARY with a stamp to the reverse of the title. Originally bound in blue cloth by the publisher, this copy has been rebound, some time ago, in half leather. Pagination: xviii, 564pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 10 inches tall (25.5cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles to red label, plain compartments, gently worn. Joints good condition worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition blue leather and cloth boards, rubbed and worn. Page edges good condition top edge slightly darkened, all gently tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition grey paper. End papers good condition grey paper. Title good condition gently tanned, minor crease. Pages good condition pages are tanned throughout, minor crease to first few pages. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1961 Binding: Hardback.…

kl 2°, Lwd., X, 78 S. u. 67 Tafeln - gutes Exemplar der Monumentalausgabe. Buch.