Reflections Day Year Works by Sturm Christopher (27 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Half Leather. Condition: Fair. VOLUME 1 ONLY. Heavy age wear to spine & boards. Brown leather spine & corners, very rubbed marbled boards. Sporadic foxing to pages. FRONT HINGE CRACKED but sound. EX School library. 349pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. With 419 pages, Two volumes bound into one for the year 1822, 6 illustrations only and 6 missing for Feb, May, July, Aug, Nov and Dec. Old auction label top of the spine, leather spine and corner tips with rubbing on the spine ends and corner tips. Cigarette ash burn marks in side margin on pages 85 to 92, solid and tight binding.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Leather. Condition: Fair. 386 + 421pp. Cover very worn (see pic) but all still holding together. Some age staining as expected but generally interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions but a small label of The Blue Funnel Line inside cover. Weighs 1kg. Picture of this book available.

Condition: New. pp. 622.

Condition: New. pp. 622.

Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. An acceptable condition book bound in dark full leather. Both volumes are bound together into one book. The leather covers are notably scuffed all over and very chipped at their edges. The spine shows heavy creasing and cracking. There is a crack to the hinge beside the front board but generally both boards are still firmly attached. The frontispiece of volume one is loose and tidemarked with one dog-eared edge. The frontispiece and title page of volume two is nearly loose and in similar shape. The rest of the pages are fairly well bound. The internal contents show a typical amount of tanning and age for a book over 2 centuries old, with deeply toned page edges that also waving. The contents show some marks and tanning but are also pleasantly uniform, with good unfaded print all throughout. Fine for use as a reading and reference copy and as expected for an early 1800s book.

Full-Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 421 pp. Volume 2 only. The covers are detached. The covers are scuffed. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Two volumes in one. Reading copy only. Front board detached, but present. Slightly dampstained. (christianity, christian living, devotional).

Quarter-Leather. Condition: Good. Reprint. A new edition in three volumes - Volume I is separate (520pp) and Volumes II and III (367pp and 395pp) are bound together in quarter leather with marbled boards. This edition dates from 1803 (Vol. I) and 1804 (Vols. II and III) - there were a number of editions published in the 1790s. The spines have some chipping at the top and bottom, the title panel is lost and there is a little cracking along the edge next to the front panel but the binding is secure enough. Rubbing and fraying to the corners with some surface and edge wear. Browning to the page edges. Browning to the endpapers with the name of a previous owner in ink to the front free endpaper - Lady Wale of Shelford near Cambridge. A family bookplate is also on the front pastedown. Browning and spotting in a number of places with the twelve engravings most affected. The pages are otherwise generally unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Volumes I & III only. A new edition, translated from the German by "A Lady". Contemporary signature of Martha Hellicar on endpapers and title page. Front boards are detached but present. Full leather, with leather labels on spines. Title label missing on volume 2. Light Macalester College library stamp on inside of front board. With embossed slub for the (Edward D.) Neill room, library bequest. Neill was associate secretary to President Lincoln, and served as chaplain to the Minnesota Regiment in the Civil War. He also served as president of the college.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sturm, Christopher Christian. Reflections for every day in the year, on the works of God, in nature and providence / from the German of Christopher Christian Sturm. A new edition in two volumes, embellished with twelve beautiful engravings, emblematical of the twelve months. Bungay: printed and published by C. Brightly, 1807 (v.1); 1808 (v.2). Hardback, Good. Full calf, a little bumped to corners and rubbed to faces, with small blemishes and large black stains to the lower board of v.1 and the upper board of v.2. Spines in six panels with gilt decoration and volume numbers; black text boxes to second panel. Bindings strong.Light foxing as expected to endpapers, prelims and elsewhere. Frontispiece engravings. 350, [6]; 421, [8] pp., contents clean. Some dust-staining to edges of the text block. Christoph Christian Sturm (17401786) was a German preacher and author, best known for his Reflections on the Works of God in Nature. He left Halle in 1769, to become second pastor of the church of the Holy Spirit (Heilige-Geist-Kirche) at Magdeburg, where he passed the happiest part of his professional life, and where he wrote most of his devotional works. Sturm's works have been translated into numerous different languages and are still in use today. Beethoven owned a copy of the Reflections on the Works of God in Nature, which he annotated extensively. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1807-08. Hardback copy in full brown marbled leather boards, gold gilt lettering and borders, no dustjackets as issued. 350pp; 421pp. 12 b/w plates - 6 b/w plates to each volume. Not library copies, ink inscription to ffep of both volumes, some rubbing to board edges. (48/3).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 2 only of the original 4 volume set (a new, revised and corrected edition). Full marbled leather binding with attractive gilt titles, bands and decorations to the spine and fore edges - lightly burnished/worn commensurate with age. Binding sound. Page block clean with lightly age toned edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three volumes rebound as one, rebound in quarter leather with gilt title, marble effect boards, new end papers, tight & square condition, some old water marks & signs of handling inside, original owners bookplate present.

1807, Bungay, printed and published by C. Brightly, two volumes in one, pp350 + (vi); 421 + (vi), full contemporary calf, label on spine. Binding a bit rubbed, otherwise good.