Ready and Desirous by Lay, Bishop Henry C - 1885

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1868. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Peacock, Mansfield, Britton in London. Leather binding with brass clasp on front but missing from spine, rubbed covers with well-rubbed corners and worn spine ends, includes 12 early sepia photographs of paintings as illustrations as tipped in plates, frontis and tipped vignette/illustrated title-page, plain title-page also. Pages are framed in red with italicized instructions also in red, plain title in red and black. Covers are rubbed, sound binding except marbled front end-paper is detached, clean pages, darkened red blocks. Illustrator: Peacock, Mansfield, Britton in London. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70411020017. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, some toning and foxing to . first and last several pages.. N.D.. Hardcover. Circa 1917 by date of gift inscription on front free endpaper. Beveled green cloth boards with black and gilt ship sail and globe design on front boards. Many engravings and photo reproductions in text, which is a collection of stories by missionaries from around the world. ; Boys and Girls Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages .

London: Printed for J. Hatchard. Fair with no dust jacket; Leather is dried out and cracking, joints . tender, library markings on spine, front free endpaper, title page, and . rear free endpaper.. 1815. Hardcover. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards. xxvii, 576 pp. The author was Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Gilcomston, and Professor of Oriental Languages in the Marischal College and University, Aberdeen.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

West Publisning, n. 1953. Soft cover. Good. West Publisning, 1953. Good. spine cover and cover browning,, binding tight

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1868. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Peacock, Mansfield, Britton in London. Leather binding with brass clasp on front but missing from spine, rubbed covers with well-rubbed corners and worn spine ends, includes 12 early sepia photographs of paintings as illustrations as tipped in plates, frontis and tipped vignette/illustrated title-page, plain title-page also. Pages are framed in red with italicized instructions also in red, plain title in red and black. Covers are rubbed, sound binding except marbled front end-paper is detached, clean pages, darkened red blocks. Illustrator: Peacock, Mansfield, Britton in London. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70411020017. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, some toning and foxing to . first and last several pages.. N.D.. Hardcover. Circa 1917 by date of gift inscription on front free endpaper. Beveled green cloth boards with black and gilt ship sail and globe design on front boards. Many engravings and photo reproductions in text, which is a collection of stories by missionaries from around the world. ; Boys and Girls Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages .

London: Printed for J. Hatchard. Fair with no dust jacket; Leather is dried out and cracking, joints . tender, library markings on spine, front free endpaper, title page, and . rear free endpaper.. 1815. Hardcover. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards. xxvii, 576 pp. The author was Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Gilcomston, and Professor of Oriental Languages in the Marischal College and University, Aberdeen.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

West Publisning, n. 1953. Soft cover. Good. West Publisning, 1953. Good. spine cover and cover browning,, binding tight