Search Results: Authors starting with G from Mobilis Books

[GOBAT, Samuel] Journal d'un Séjour en Abyssinia, pendant les années 1830, 1831, et 1832. Paris: Chez J.-J. Risler, Rue de l'Oratoire, No. 6; Genève: Chez Mme. Suzane Guers. [1835]
(250 x 130 mm) pp. viii, 438. Signatures: 27 (8), 28 (3). Text complete. Lacks frontispiece portrait and foldout map. Half title, followed by title. Browning and foxing commensurate with age. Some text in Ge'ez (401). Ex libris Clinton E Geiser (Anglo-Swiss financier, d. 2010) pasted over older bookplate now obscured. Bound in Paris green book cloth (indicative of arsenical binding) with ornate floral stamping and gilding. Some flaking to spine. Overall GOOD condition despite faults.

ABOUT THE TEXT:

Parmi tant de travaux intéressant opérés depuis quelques années par les missionnaires de l'Evangile, on peut certainement mettre au premier rang les efforts fait par M. Samuel Gobat pour rallumer en Abyssinia le pur flambeau du Christianisme.
[Among so many interesting works carried out in recent years by the… Read More

GOLDSMITH, J. A Grammar of Geography for the Use of Schools and Young Persons. With Maps and Engravings. A New Edition corrected and Modernised. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, [n.d., 1841]
pp. iv, 212 + 16 p. advertisements + 8 fold out maps + 11 tipped in unpaginated illustrations + frontispiece with rotating volvelle in full working order. Some maps have splits in the paper, but are intact. Appears to have been rebound (late 19th, early 20th c.). Overall GOOD condition.
The highlight of the book is the frontispiece, featuring a rotating volvelle used to determine the time in different time zones and demonstrate the principal based on the position of earth in relationship to the sun. Illustrations of peoples from various nations and their environment guide the student's imagination as they study the foldout maps of far away countries.

GOLSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: Marcus Ward & Co. 1876.
(180 x 130 mm) p. 264 + 16 p. Publisher's ads, + 4 p. Publisher's ads dated Sept. 1876. Half title, colour frontispiece and portrait. Text embellished with black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth binding with black and gilt decoration. Some foxing to fly leaves, but interior is bright. Reader inscription on front fly leaf, with 19th or early 20th century stamps and instructions from The Brownlow Memorial Hall Lending Library (Warfield, Berkshire). Overall VERY GOOD condition.