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London: Paul Minet. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 100 pages, b&w frontispiece. Blue cloth covers w/ light rubbing to corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 851984

London: T. Bensley, 1808. Very Good. London: T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 1808. First Edition. Large quarto (35x29cm); viii + 102pp. Of 15 original full-page or two-page copper engravings, seven are lacking (including the portrait frontispiece and the facsimile letter), eight remain. Lowndes I, 449. Sea-green leather boards with gilt and black stamped borders, frames and ornaments on both panels. Rebacked in matching leather with gilt spine lettering. Marbled endpapers. Textblock of heavy wove cream paper; textblock gilt on all edges. The boards, now stabilized and robust, show knocks and erosion at corners and edges-and have seen service, alas, as coasters for beverages on more than one occasion, with additional streaked scuffing and scraping. The hinges have been reinforced with sea-green binder's tape. The textblock shows liquid staining at upper corners of first 22 pages, and on the lower outer quadrants of the final eight pages. Despite its seven amputed engravings, the volume remains very… Leer más

London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 1808. Leather Bound. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. viii, 100 pages. The binding of the book measures 14 inches tall by 11 1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in early half red morocco with grey paper-covered boards. The binding is worn and bumped but sound. Some damping on the exterior of the front cover with part of the leather pushed back near the spine. Corners bumped and abraded. There is a dig in the leather on the spine near the headcap. Hinges rubbed but holding. A bookplate on the front pastedown is of "George E. R. Dalton" (George Edward Robert Dalton, Master Mariner) and is hand-dated 1906. The bookplate has a crest with a left-facing standing lion topped by a helmet and crown with the top of another left-facing lion above that. Crest motto reads, "Noli Irretare Leonem" (meaning "Don't Disturb the Lion"). This volume lacks the frontis portrait, but it does have the facsimile letter, 10… Leer más

T. Bensley for J. & W. Macgavin, 1808-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. [Fore-Edge painting] 1st. ed. Large paper edition. 4to, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. Finely bound in navy, straight grain morocco. Housed in a navy cloth slip case. Nautical fore-edge painting of a naval review by George III at Spithead. Gilt ruled. Very good binding and cover. viii. 100 pages. 14 of 15 plates, 12 hand colored, two folding plates. Lacking the facsimile letter from Nelson. Contents crisp and clean. Lowndes I, p. 449, Allibone I, p. 383. Provenance: Book plate of Nate B. Spingold. From the estate of David Spinney. Spinney was noted author on nautical themes, specifically on Admiral Rodney.

London: Harrison and Rutter, 1810. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. THE LIFE OF LORD VISCOUNT NELSON, DUKE OF BRONTE, by T. O. Churchill. Second edition. Published in London in 1810 by Harrison and Rutter. Quarto, vii, [1], 94pp, engraved portrait frontispiece. Half-calf on marbled boards. Gilt-stamped spine with nautical emblems. Numerous plates, with two fold-out plates at rear showing Nelson's funeral train and the ornaments and devices on his coffin. Tipped in facsimile of Nelson letter. Title page gives publication date of 1810, bottom of spine shows date of 1820. Condition: Very Good. All pages and illustrations present. Binding is tight. Text pages are toned, illustration pages are bright. Occasional light foxing throughout. Light penciled page number on all plates. Small column of sums p. 53; stain pp 34-35; light dirt p. 29.