Doubleday thomas 1790 (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 8vo Original leather over marble boards w/gilt and elaborated ornaments on spine. Mild edge wear. Marble endpapers and edges. Front hinge is cracking. Textblock is solid. Pages are clean. Leaves are intact. Library withdrawn stamp on title page. Ex-SUNY library with the usual treatments. Ow VG/ndj: Vol ONE ONLY:xii+ 510pp. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (183435 and 184146) and twice as Home Secretary (182227 and 182830). He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitian Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party, thus before they were cops they were Peelers.…

1st Edition (NCBEL III, 378). xiii, [1 (blank)], [3] - 162, [2] pp. The occasional woodcut. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4" Turnbull presumed to be the author of "Chessmen in Action" A bit cocked, light shelfwear, with board showing at the tips. Turnbull's ownership signature to t.p. [dated 1874], and with his internal marginalia. Adhesion spot between rfep & rear paste-down. Withal, a solid VG copy. Original publisher's pebbled blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering.…

Hardcover. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 510; viii, 530. An attractive set in elaborately gilt-tooled polished calf, t.e.g., by the Chiswick Art Worker's Guild (bit rubbed). First Edition.