E Bowen (15 results)

printed Map. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. . Drawn from the Most approv'd Foreigners Mpas and Charts and Regulated By Astron'l Observations. An original printed map with outline hand-colour to the coast-line and cartouche in the lower right corner. A lovely plate impressed map with sharp clear engraving and title cartouche to the lower right-hand corner. Emanuel Bowen (1694- 1767). Plate 31.7x22.0 paper 38.5 x 26.5 cms. Nice margins. From the 1747 'A Complete System of Geography'.…

printed Map. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Laid down from the best Authorities extant, and regulated by Astronom. Observat. An original printed map with outline hand-colour to the coast-line and cartouche at the left upper corner. A lovely plate impressed map with sharp clear engraving and a long text description to the lower right-hand corner. Nice description of 'The Nymph Bank' a fishing bank to the south of the Island. Emanuel Bowen (1694- 1767). Plate 31.7x22.0 paper 38.5 x 26.5 cms. Nice margins. From the 1747 'A Complete System of Geography'.…

paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Publisher: Electronic Bowen Pub. Date :2006-9-1. This book by the national network of technical proficiency test preparation materials editorial board of the organization. the National Proficiency Test an experimental network technology based on the outline. by three parts. six chapters. 39 chapters. according to the knowledge arranged from easy to difficult for a comprehensive system to explain the network infrastructure. network operating system configuration and management.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Chapter headings are: From the earliest Times, to the Reduction of the Picts, by Kenneth Mac Alpin; From the Death of Kenneth Mac Alpin, to the Death of Alexander III; From the Death of Alexander III, to the Death of the Regent Duke of Albany; From the Death of the Duke of Abany, to the Death of James V; From the Death of James V to the Accession of James VI to the crown of England; From the Accession of James to the Crown of England, to the Restoration; From the Restoration, to the Union of the two Kingdoms. Full leather binding, covers are marked and rubbed with a piece of leather missing from the spine, bumped corners, sound binding, clean pages. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53313120073. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Publisher's cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In the publisher's original red muslin with paper spine label. There's some fading to the cloth, most pronounced on the spine and at the edges, and some light chipping to the spine tips and to the edges of the paper label, just touching the final "I" in "ITALIANI." Some bibliographies call for a half-title which is not present here, but there is no sign of an excision or any other sophistication, suggesting that this copy is complete as originally bound. The Frederick W. Skiff/Estelle Doheny Copy, with their bookplates on the front pastedown. A very good copy [and uncommon thus] of this early Italian reader, preparerd while Longfellow was still a Professor of Languages at Bowdoin College in Maine. BAL 12049.…

Condition: Very good + condition. Road maps from the first British road atlas published, from London to Newcastle, with a county map of Nottinghamshire. At the very center of the county map "Sheerwood Forrest" (sic), haunt of Robin Hood, is depicted with a grove of trees. Copper engraved strip maps on both sides of each page, with three road strips per page. Includes Hartford, Grantham, Newark, Stamford, Burowbridge, North Allerton, Darlington, Durham, and Newcastle. Each map with finely engraved coat of arms, and compass rose. Below the maps and in the left and right margins, are details of the county: historical, topographical and statistical information. A great wealth of information is present on these wonderful 3 dimensional maps, including mileage markers, bridges, side roads, forests, mountains, manors, churches, rivers, streams, and ponds. Text in the right margin of plate 15 for example, describes the location of Belvoir Castle, seat of the Duke of Rutland, for whom Capability Brown would soon prepare a stunning landscape design. These are consecutive 10 pages, numbered 11 through 20, extracted from "Britannia Depicta". Oblong 8vo, (6 1/4 x 7 1/2"), bound in modern dark blue paper wrappers. OCLC: 54804304.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition of these Italian Short Stories. BAL 12049 with typos on pages 80 and 92 not corrected. Octavo. Original cloth over boards, paper title lable at spine. Very good, cloth discolored, spine ends bumped with bottom slightly chipped, paper plate darkened to nearly illegible, spotting at rear cover, bookplate at front free end paper, worn whole at from front pastedown to title page, pages wrinkled, pages heavily agetoned and foxed.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Full-Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. text block is clean and unmarked, excellent condition. Missing front end papers. First page is title page, which has a library stamping. Missing front board. Back board loose. Spine missing titles, poor condition. 432 pages plus index.

Map. Condition: Good. Title: A New and Accurate Map of Nubia & Abissinia, Together with All the Kingdoms Tributary thereto, and bordering upon them. Date printed: 1747.Condition: This original 18th century copper plate engraved map is toned, darker along fold, with a small chip 1/3â x 1/8â along the lower center fold and a couple short tears in the margins with folds as issued but overall in good condition. Dimensions: 19â x 15â. Details: Bowen's map of East Africa, including parts of Egypt and Arabia from'A Complete System of Geography'. Decorated with a compass rose and African landscape. .…

Map. Condition: Good. Title: A New and Accurate Map of the Western Parts of Barbary. & A New and Accurate Map of the Eastern Parts of Barbary. Date printed: 1747.Condition: This original 18th century copper plate engraved map is toned, darker along fold and a faint greyish stain running down the center alongside the the fold, with folds as issued but overall in good condition. Dimensions: 18.75â x 15â. Details: Bowen's map of North Africa with western and eastern parts printed seperately from one plate. Includes Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, parts of Spain and Portugal and the Mediterranean Island of Majorca, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete and Cyprus. Each section decorated with a compass rose and lovely title cartouche. From 'A Complete System of Geography'. .…

First Edition. First edition of Longfellow's edition of Italian short stories, designed as a text book for students of the language, published while he was a professor of modern languages and literature at Bowdoin; slim 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 168; orig. red muslin quite faded and spotted and with spine largely perished, light occasional foxing, binding firm. In 1830 Longfellow published a translation of Lhomond's French grammar, his first book, and Manuel de Proverbes Dramatiques; in 1831 he translated to the French an edition of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; this was followed in 1832 by an Italian grammar, and in the same year this collection of Italian short stories. At the age of twenty two, having returned from a scholar's sojourn in Europe, he received the appointment of professor of modern languages at Bowdoin, "and probably, with the exception of Mr. George Ticknor, was the most accomplished scholar in this country of the languages and literatures of modern Europe" (Appleton's CAB). BAL 12049 (and conforming to all the points indicated as present in only some copies); Chamberlain, p. 14.…

168pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First Edition. First Edition. 168pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Dr. Joseph Cullen Ayer (1811-1846) was a graduate of Bowdoin who became a Doctor. BAL 12049 Original cloth, with original paper spine label, soem wear at spine ends. Signed J. C. Ayre 1832 on ffep and with his stamp. J. Cullen Ayer below.…

No Binding. Condition: As New. Bowen's map of Asia. From 'A Complete System of Geography'. With the mythical De Gama's Land, east of Japan, with the note 'This coast was discover'd by John de Gama in a Voyage from China to New Spain.'De Gama land seems to be a part of the pre-history of the Northeast Coast of America, which would soon be laid to rest by the voyages of Bering, Cook and others in the region. Decorated with a compass rose and a nice title cartouche.…

Second London edition, and first authorized separate edition. Vol. 1: Frontis. portrait, extra engraved vignette of SJ to tissue guard, vii, (1), 480; vol. 2: iii, (1), 471; vol. 3: iii, (1), 462; vol. 4: iii, (1), 505 pp. 4 vols. 8vo. The first authorized separate edition of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets - they first appeared as the "Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets,"(10 vols, 1779-1781). A contemporary and uniform set of Johnson's masterwork of critical literary observations, all volumes uncut, in the original boards. The arms on the bookplate suggest that the previous owner who has signed and dated each title page "Fitzwilliam / 1781" is William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833). A subsequent owner has attempted to rub out the Fitzwilliam name and the crown on the bookplates. Courtney, 141-42; Fleeman 79.4LP/5. Provenance: [William, 4th Earl?] Fitzwilliam, with the Fitzwilliam's arms on the bookplate in 3 of the volumes; then from the estate of Huguette Clark Original blue-gray boards (8.75 x 5.25 inches), uncut. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Trotter after J. Reynolds, without imprint, additional engraved portrait cut and mounted onto tissue guard, uncut. Backstrips parished, but the volumes are solid. Frontispiece spotted occasionally and some light staining or dampstaining; housed in two cloth chemises and slipcases. Vol. 3 leaf Q1 torn Vol. 1: Frontis. portrait, extra engraved vignette of SJ to tissue guard, vii, (1), 480; vol. 2: iii, (1), 471; vol. 3: iii, (1), 462; vol. 4: iii, (1), 505 pp. 4 vols. 8vo Second London edition, and first authorized separate edition. Signed.…