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Published by A. K. Newman and Co., 1817
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1817. 4th Edition. 311 pages. Half bound leather with cloth covered boards. Heavy tanning and foxing with marking to pages and text block edges. Heavy tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Cracking to hinges, causing boards to be loose. Ffep and half title page are loose. Water damage throughout. Plate to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with severe rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm with scuffing and tanning to surfaces. Small split to spine joints. Some dents around edges.
Published by London: G.G.J.&J. Robinson, 1787
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd edition, a very early translation, published only 3 years after the original publication. Volume 4 only. bound in full leather with gilt decoration, cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and edgewear. name label of former owner on the front pastedown. Torn blank first page with a large portion missing. Crossed out name of former owner on the title page. pages are tanned and lightly foxed.
Published by Evert Duyskinck, New York, 1815
Seller: Star 'N Space Books, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Leather Spine. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Presumed First. Edgewear/shelfwear, leather and boards worn. Book still tight. Paper foxed and agetoned. Wear to endpapers, spine cracked. Next to last page missing corner including some of text. 108 pp.
Published by Ward, Lock & Co n/d (Eighteenth Edition)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering and rule to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, cxxviii + 507pp, plates- not counted/presumed all present, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & bruising to board extrems, moderate scuffing to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges with lettering in ink to base of pages, blind embossed stamp of prev. bookseller to fep, prev. owner's ink stamp to full title page & sporadically throughout, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout).
Published by E. Duyckinck, New York, 1800
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Translated from the German by Thomas Holcroft. 132 pp. 16mo, old quarter sheep over marbled boards. Later US edition. Front cover nearly detached; binding quite worn. Old ink notations to endsheets.
Published by Printed By R. Juigne for Longmann, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London, 1807
Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. 328 + x pages, Original mottled boards with leather spine, rubbed, front detached ,contents mostly Good ,clean & tight. some light water stainimg front , to page 5 & last few pages inner top, not near text , & and a few edge remarks in pencil . 13.5 x 21.5cm Approx.
Published by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1789
Leatherbound. Condition: Fair. 3 Vols. vi, [2], 241; [4], 324, [6], 314, [10], 241-313p. 24.5 cm full leather bindings. Spines cracked and boards detached on all three volumes. Each volume is split into 2 or three pieces due to spine damage. Ex-library with labels and bookplates on endpapers. Binding in need of repair. Leather deteriorated and torn. Pages clean and text unmarked. Plates are in very good shape and remain the main feature of this set. Originally written in German by Lavater, this edition is an English translation by Holcroft and features over three hundred engravings throughout the three volumes. Pages 241-313 in volume 3 are entirely plates expounding upon ideas in the text on physiognomy, the 18th and 19th century science in which facial expressions, and head shape were used to determine concepts of character, and even ethnic identity. Such science opened the door to the more troubling practices of Social Darwinism and Eugenics in the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
Published by London, printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row 1786., 1786
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. * Vols 1 & 3 only. * First English Edition, contemporary tree calf, spines elegantly gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. With half-titles : Vol 1 with final blank leaf : and Vol 3 with 4pp advts + final blank leaf. Some light rubbing, upper hinges tender, but generally very good attractive volumes. Rare : this 3-vol 1st English Edition not listed in Cambridge University Library, the Bodleian, or the USA National Union Catalogue. Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Robert Hyde Greg [1795-1875], the textile industrialist, economist and antiquary. He was also MP for Manchester, and a member of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, which might explain his interest in this rare novel. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
Published by William Tegg n.d. (c. 1860), London, 1860
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Fifteenth edition. Contemporary gilt-ruled red calf, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label, gilt-stamped ornament direct in spine compartments (5 ornately gilt-ruled raised bands); 8vo; pp. cxxviii, 507, plus frontispiece portrait and 80 plates. Spine just a touch darkened; some tiny scuff marks along joints and edges of boards. Prelims and terminals foxed, otherwise internally bright and clean. An excellent copy, in a lovely binding. Two additional, contemporary plates have been neatly clipped from another edition of Lavater, and laid-in ("A Portrait" and "Indolence and Drunkenness").
Published by T.N. Longman and O. Rees. by Biggs and Cottle, London, 1801
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, Small 8vo, . xxii, [ii], 211, [1] (ads) pp. A very good copy in contemporary half calf, some rubbing to the leather, bookplate on front pastedown with a contemporary name to the title page. Complete with the frontis and 9 plates.
Published by Robinson 1789., 1789
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Second Edition, 3 vols, contemporary tree calf gilt, morocco numbering labels. Slight wear & unobtrusively lacking title labels. Bound without half-titles : text with a few short tears, slight soiling of some first & last leaves. Very good firm & attractive copy in original binding. ** With the engraved portrait of Trenck elegantly posed in chains in a gloomy dungeon : but bound without the prelim Explanation Of Plate leaf. *** Scarce 2nd Edition : not listed by Colby : not in British Library or NUC. *** Famous autobiography: drawn on by William Godwin for his novel Things As They Are. *** Trenck 1726-94, celebrated Austrian military adventurer imprisoned for his affair with the sister of Frederick II of Prussia : his attempts at escape were of 'incredible audacity'. He moved to Paris to spectate the French Revolution : having lived through the Terror, he was denounced as an Austrian spy & guillotined. 'One of Holcroft's most successful translations' [Colby]. *** Colby lists Holcroft's 1788 1st Edition, also the 3rd & various other editions, but not this 2nd Edition : and no copy in BL or NUC. See 18thcSTC listing only the Cambridge & London University copies of this 2nd Edition .See Blakey listing only the 4th Edition, Minerva 1817. ***** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
Published by Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1789
Seller: R. Hart Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft ; the first English-language edition thus. viii, xxvii, Part I 241 pp, Part II 301 pp. Bound in full leather, original boards with new spine, all in dark brown; title and author on spine in gilt on red leather panel. Board tips restored, original end papers. A very nice copy. (Due to size/weight of this 2-volume set, an additional shipping charge will apply.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by G. G. and J. Robinson, London, 1798
Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The complete five volume fifth edition of Thomas Holcroft's translation of Madame de Genlis's works, very scarce in any complete eighteenth century edition. First translated into English from the original French by Holcroft in 1785, this is the fifth edition of the English dramatist's translation.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece to each volume.Madame de Genlis was a late eighteenth and early nineteenth century French writer, remembered for her novels and theories about the education of children. In this work, she aims to instruct and delight her readers, entertaining them while offering moral and behavioural guidance.With each volume retaining the original half title.ESTC Citation No. T172931With armorial bookplates to each pastedown, and the inscription of M. Hatcher, 1806, to the front free endpaper of volume I.A lovely set, very scarce in all eighteenth century editions. In full calf bindings. Light rubbing to spines, most concentrated to volume I, with boards bright. Head and tails of front joints of volumes I and IV starting, with boards holding firm. Armorial bookplates to front pastedowns. Ink inscriptions to front free endpaper of volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good. book.
Published by G.G. and J. Robinson 1788-1793, London, 1788
First Edition
Leather. Condition: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce four volume first English language translation of the autobiography of Prussian officer Baron Friedrich von der Trenck. With all four volumes of the very scarce first edition present, including the exceedingly uncommon fourth volume.With volumes I-III published in 1788 (ESTC T118999), and volume IV published in 1793 (ESTC T118998).Baron Frederic Trenck was a cunning soldier who served the Kind of Prussia, Frederick the Great. Trenck's wild behaviour landed him into Magdeburg prison, where he spent for ten years. Upon his release, he travelled to Paris to watch the revolution, only to be guillotined two days before Robespierre, in response to rumours that he was an Austrian spy.English dramatist and poet translated Trenck's work into English.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece to volume I.Bound without publisher's advertisements. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to back strip heads and tails and board perimeters. Head of front joints and head of rear joint of volume III-IV starting, with boards holding firm. Lacking half of one volume number label. Back strip and text block of volume III-IV vertically split in two, between pages 96 and 97 of volume IV. Otherwise, internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Good Only. book.