Search Results: Titles starting with G from Thorn Books

Dublin: WIlliam Curry, Jun. and Co, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. . vi,443,[1],[10]pp. Folding engraved frontispiece. Publisher's cloth (early diaper design), printed paper label. Index. Errata slip bound after the title. Bound, perhaps intentionally, without pp. vii-xx of the introduction sometimes found in other copies. Cloth lightly sunned at edges, label darkened and rubbed, else a very good copy. Old ownership name on front free endpaper. Sir William Bentham (1779-1853) was an antiquary who devoted much time to the preparation of catalogues and indices to collections of records. This work, his inquiry in to the origin of the Celtic peoples, devotes entire chapters to Gildas, Nennius and the Welsh Triads, all of which figure in Arthuriana.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Stiff card wraps. Fine. (iv), 16pp. Slim 8vo. Stiff wraps. Illustration by T. E. Webster as a frontispiece, repeated in part on the upper wrap. Tissue guard protects the frontispiece. Rare edition of Gammer Gurton, which was first published in 1784 by Joseph Ritson. This edition features not only much of Mother Goose, but other rhymes as well, and include two about King Arthur. And some rhymes have words that vary from the accepted norm. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Threescore men, and threescore more, Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. OCLC dates this edition as of about 1846, and credits Walter and George Mason as the wood engravers for Webster's drawing. This copy is one of the many variants, being bound in cream colored wrappers, black and white illustrations and no publisher's ads. This copy comports to variants A - J in the Renier collection. A fine copy in publisher's stiff wraps. .

Roma: Imprimerie Polyglotte, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xvi, 323pp. Illustrated. Full scarlet morocco intricately tooled in gilt on the boards, spine in sic compartments, gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Deep blue-green endpapers. Upper hinge nearly invisibly strengthened else this is a fine copy of a lovely binding by Riviere and Son, signed on the front inner board. In Italian, .

Buenos Aires: Instituto Cultural Walter Owen, 1978. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 264pp. followed by an index. Illustrated. Bound in brown and cream cowhide with an illustration and the title impressed on the front board. Ribbon marker. In Spanish and English. Short gift inscription, and ownership initials and date else a fine copy. .

London: John W. Parker, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii, 276pp. plus 4pp publisher's catalogue. Publisher's deep rose-colored cloth in what appears to be a fine sand-grain pattern. Embossed in blind on the boards and in blind on the spine with gilt titles. Pale yellow endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Becher on the front pastedown, with his motto: 'Bis vivit qui bene [vivit].' Topics cover Burgos - Madrid - Segovia - El Escorial - Toledo - Granada - Alpujarras - Málaga - Gibraltar - Ronda - Sevilla - Córdoba - Cádiz - Jerez de la Frontera - Vigo. Errata slip present. Boards lightly spotted (mostly on the rear board), the first and last two leaves are lightly foxed, spine sunned, else this is an exceptionally nice copy with only traces of soil and wear and with the spine titles bright. Palau 55 295.

London: Printed only for a few friends, 1881. Wraps. Very good. 12pp. Printed wrappers. The fragile wrappers are chipped at edges and have been reinforced at the spine; the text block is in near fine condition. In blue card chemise and slipcase. According to Carter and Pollard, this title "conforms to our forger's formula (type style and paper) and is highly suspicious." It was later confirmed to be a forgery. Wise parlayed his international reputation into a career in creating and selling forgeries. Carter and Pollard proved that a large number of rare first edition pamphlets from 19th century authors which depended solely on Wise's published works for their authenticity were fakes. .

London: Printed for J. Bumpus, et al., 1818. Hardcover. Very good. The Fifteenth Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements. 8vo. xvi, 776pp. Folding engraved frontispiece of two world globes; Illustrated with six folding engraved maps (complete). Half deep blue calf, spine gilt, maroon lettering label, gilt, marbled paper sides, edges and end papers. Light wear to edges and hinges, some aging and soil to the maps, closed tear at a fold on the Africa map and text, but overall a very good copy. Here you will see the entire southwest coast of North America named California; with Mexico and New Mexico to the east, New Leon to the south, Louisiana taking the greater part of the center, and the United States along the east coast. Corea is shown and, across the sea, Nippon. Africa looks strangely complete, though many of the names in the center of the country are not recognized by this cataloguer. .

Richmond: Peter Cotton, 1825. Hardcover. Good. The third edition, enlarged and improved. 12mo. vii,(8)-228pp. Contemporary full calf. Illustrated. Lacks front free endpaper and lettering label; spine and head of spine worn; dampstain on the upper third of the first half of the text block, but a presentable copy of a scarce book.

Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xi,(1),342,(1)pp. The text is followed by 9 tables, of which the last is a large folding table. Published with the monthly numbers of the Gleanngs in Science and the Journal of the Asiatic Society. Modern full crushed morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, green leather lettering label, gilt; boards tools in blind, marbled endpapers. Light wear and soil, a Cincinnati publisher's blindstamp on the title page, a library blindstamp on the folding plate else this is a very good copy. The author was born Francis Buchanan, but is family claimed the chiefdom of the name of Buchanan. In 1807, Buchanan was commissioned by the East India Company to survey, map, and report systematically on the territories of Bengal. He began in Dinajpur and Rangpur, north of the Ganga in what is now Bengal proper.

San Francisco: California Development Board, 1913. Broadside. Near fine. 21 by 36¾ inches. Lithographed in color. Railroad lines and steamship lines are clearly shown. Text discusses the activities of the Development Board which was housed in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. This version seems to be the original version, copyright in 1910. In 1914 the map was entirely revised and given a new title. There are old folds, and a 6½ inch area of roughness along the lower left edge, with a small marginal chip not affecting the image. Originally issued as part of "California Resources and Possibilities", a report from the Development Board. Scarce. .

Vienna: Gilhofer, 1889. Very good. Wraps. 4to. 5-3/4 by 7-3/4 inches. 8pp pamphlet; woodcut illustration to first page. Likely one of 100 copies printed on old paper from the only known copy of the 1492 original, owned by Julius Krone and now lost. The original is one of several publications printed in 1492 or shortly thereafter regarding the Sternberg executions; this one printed by Matthaeus Brandis pamphlet, however, bears a complex woodcut showing the Host desecration. The text is in a combination of Low German and Latin. Edges worn, stain and an abrasion on the front page else in very good condtion. Bound with string, probably the original binding. The 1889 printing orignally had the following description: Niederdeutscher Druck von Mathäus Brandis in Lübeck um 1492. Photolithographische Reproduction. [The preface is signed Dr. F. M.]. Housed in a quarter leather chemise with marbled paper sides. See ISTC is00790260. A facsimile of this copy was issued in a limited edition in 2009.

London: John Murray, 1816. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound volume containing works by Lord Byron. 'Giaour' is the 14th edition, L. 1815. 'Siege of Corinth' is the 3rd edition, NY, 1816. 'The Prisoner of Chillon is the first edition, L., 1816, bound without half title or ads, and recto of p. 61 blank. All bound in one volume in contemporary full diced calf, marbled paper boards. Light wear to the binding else near fine. .

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Young Readers, 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Red paper over boards, gilt spine title, upper board embossed in blind. A fine, as new copy in a fine, as new, unclipped dustwrapper. Surprisingly scarce in the first printing. Signed by the author on the title.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. 12mo. Original drab purple cloth, printed paper labels. Errata slip present. Inner hinge of volume 1 repaired, clith lightly worn and sunned, labels perished, but still a very good set. BAL 3876. .

London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1745. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. An extract of pp. 743-755 of Vol. IV of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Also included are pp. 756-776: 'A Journey of John Baptist Merin To the Mines of Hungary' and 'An Account of the Cape of Good Hope' by Wiliam Ten Rhyme. For Pelham, see Cox, 1631. The eight Englishmen were left by mistake in Greenland in 1630; by careful preparation, they pulled through. This was the first time an Artic winter was successfully braved on the shores of the Spitzbergen. Pelham's account of the feat attracted great attention. It was also reprinted in the Hakluyt Society volume for 1902. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. Light marginal damp stain not affecting the text, else a fine copy; without the map mentioned on the title page.

Paris: Bachelier (Succcesseur de Mme. Ve. Courcier), 1827. Hardcover. Fine. Fifth edition. 4to. xx,188pp. followed by 28 fold-out engraved plates, Leather spine of marbled sheep, gilt spine titles, decorated paper over boards. A fine copy, with a trace of foxing to the first couple of pages, and light rubbing at edges and hinges, Gaspard Monge was a French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry. This edition also contains he Theory of Shadows and Perspective extracted from his paper. .

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1937. First English edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Black cloth. Ownership inscription. A near fine copy. Dj. is price-clipped, slightly rubbed. Scarce Seton title.

Baltimore: Kelly, Hedian and Piet, 1860. First US edition. Hardcover. Poor. 12mo. 192pp. Green embossed cloth with remnants of gilt on the spine. Lacks front free endpaper. Textblock generally soiled, cloth soiled with a piece lacking on the upper board, boards warped. Only a poor copy, but scarce. We have marked this as a first US edition. There is an abbreviated mention of a Benziger Brother edition of 1858, but this is likely a misprint. Benziger did print this title much later in several printings. It also appears that some of the text was published serially earlier. Reviews of various publisher guides of the period have not resolved this issue completely, but we believe that the preponderance of the evidence is that this 1860 edition is the first US edition. .

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orne, 1804. First edition. 8vo. x, 260pp. Contemporary half morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title and gilt rules on the bands; marbled paper boards in the Spanish Marbler pattern. Light rubbing to edges and hinges, else this is a very good copy. John Jones (1766?-1827) was a Welsh Unitarian Minister and a lexicographer of note. Besides religious tracts, he published a Latin Grammar and two version of the Greek Lexicon as well as a curious retort on the Explanation of the Greek Article (1827). His Greek Grammar approached the subject in a new way and was frequently reprinted. Copies of the first printing are scarce in commerce. .

Leipzig & Paris: Karl Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Light red cloth spine, gilt; deeper red cloth sides. 17 maps, 32 town plans, 2 plates and a panorama. A fine copy, essentially as new, with the large folding map in the rear pocket. In the scarce dustwrapper, which is near fine. Ribbon marker First edition in French. .