A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Volume I by Oliver Goldsmith (5 results)

Half Leather & Marbled Boards. Condition: Fair. 297pp. + 2 plates as called for. Still well bound with some wear to extremeties of cover. Apart from occasional minor age staining interior in nice clean condition. All edges marbled. Gilt titling on the leather spine. No names or inscriptions. See my other listings for more identically bound vols of this set. Picture of this book available.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Half leather with marbled boards. Heavily worn but binding is tight. Heavy foxing to title page and frontispiece. Name and date '96.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1835 Philadelphia Edition. This is the 1835 Grigg & Elliot edition but with the additional 1850 illustrated title page. Volume 1 only, 287 pages. Contemporary brown calf binding with gold spine stamping. Grigg & Elliot catalog bound in the front. Modest foxing, otherwise a VG copy. Photos on request.

COMPLETE THREE VOLUME SET. Volumes all share same London J.F. Dove 1828 imprint. Hardcovers: H 21.75cm x L 14cm. Contemporary half-leather bindings - leather spine and gray cardstock boards with leather corners. Spines scuffed with Volume I and III having furrowed surfaces; spines' black title labels also scuffed but with gilt lettering still easily legible; staining to boards with peeling and wear to corners. Each volume with an O'Casey family Mississippi and Ireland genealogical-themed bookplate affixed upon their respective front pastedowns; ink name stamp "Albert M. Casey, M.D." at top of each front free endpaper along with a second stamp at top of another early leaf with a third stamp at top of rear pastedown (I and III) or top of rfep verso (II). Some interior foxing/toning and scattered stains. Last text leaf of Volume III is unpaged but offers plate collations for each volume. ***** VOLUME I: xii, 536 pages; perhaps missing a ffly; b/w frontispiece portrait and title leaf detached; one early quire slightly pulled; pencil writing in fore-edge margin of pages 26 and 28; missing rfep; all ten b/w plates present as called for. ***** VOLUME II: iv, 1-536, [missing 537-538], 539-552 pages; several quires pulled; final text leaf (pages 551-552) only tenuously attached; margin chips to pages 1-2 and 549-550 with latter leaf having fractional text loss; several other leaves with some margin tears; b/w plate opposite page 28 lacks its center portion with image loss; otherwise all thirty-six b/w plates present as called for. ***** VOLUME III: iv, 552, [2] pages; all eleven b/w plates present as called for. *** Acquired from the estate of Birmingham, Alabama pathologist, bibliophile, and genealogist Dr. Albert Eugene Casey (1903-1982) who served as director of laboratories at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals from 1942-1972. Please note that this set book has an approximate shipping weight of 6 pounds (2.72 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no DJ. Volume I - Upwards of 2000 figures. Discolouring to eps. Hinge splitting, half title loose. Light foxing scattered through pages. Bumping to corners, rubbing to cloth. Worn edges.Volume II - with upwards of 2000 figures. Light foxing to front illustrated plates and scattered through pages. Discolouring to eps. Hinge splitting, frontispiece coming loose. Rubbing and scuffing to cloth. Worn edges.