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Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme and bergamot. Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$23.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good hardcover book. Number 68 of limited edition.
Seller: ENBURY BOOKS, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme and bergamot. Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 59pp, b&w illus. No 190 of a limited edition of 550 printed on handmade paper. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Bennor Books IOBA, Hexham, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme and Bergamot. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: 10 1/2" x 8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards, deckled paper, wood engravings by John O'Connor. This is number 444 of a limited edition of 550. Previous owner's name in ink on front paste-down. In an illustrated dust jacket that has wear along edges, is foxed, has been preserved in a Brodart jacket. Illustrator: O'Connor, John. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 7 oz. Category: Botany; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015129.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme And Bergomot. The Dropmore Press, 1947.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Description: Limited edition. No.173 of 550. Black & white woodcuts. Handmade paper. Extremely clean inside. Firm blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt titles to spine. A few very light marks to boards and slightly bumped corners.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy no. 275 of 550 copies, " bound in blue buckram ettered up spine In Gold with Gold Crest on the side". "The decorations of this book are wood engravings by John O'Connor." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 16022051062. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service.
Seller: Bailgate Books Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Christopher Sandeman. Thyme and Bergamot. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$47.67 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A limited edition first issue of this account of a travelling botanist, with illustrations by John O'Connor. A Limited Edition, first issue. This is number 139 of 550 copies printed. In full blue cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Printed on handmade paper. Illustrated with nine engravings by John O' Connor. Collated complete. The work of Christopher Sandeman, an explorer and botanist who travelled widely in the Andes in search of rare plants. This work is described by the publisher as 'better described as a rhapsody than an essay [.] expresses with the feeling of a poet the underlying source of his passion'. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear. The original unclipped dust wrapper is in smart condition. Spine is darkened and spotting to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Many pages in the book are uncut, including the title page and limitations page. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher.. Thyme and Bergamot.. Dropmore Press., London., 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: very good in a very good dust jacket Nine Wood Engravings by John O'Connor Series: 5th of a series called the ?Dropmore Essays? 4to. 59 pp.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme and Bergamot. Dropmore Press 1947, London, 1947.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition - one of 550 copies. Blue hardcover with gilt publisher's device to front panel and gilt lettering to spine. Minor marks and spotting to bottom edge of jacket; slight discolouration to spine & small dents to corners of boards. Internally bright and clean with gilt dentelles. Inscription to ffep. A charming book with handmade paper and wood engravings throughout. Small 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher.. Thyme and Bergemont,. The Dropmore Press,, London,, 1947.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: quarto, 59pp, original cloth covered boards, title gilt on spine and gilt device on upper board, inner dentelles gilt, dustwrapper with wood cut illustration, top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed, illustrated title page, wide margins, decorated initial and tailpiece, book near fine, a few marks on dw else near fine,
Seller: Crouch Rare Books, Godalming, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no.390 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.59, blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with pictorial emblem in gilt to front board, decorative gilt inner dentelles, handmade paper, with wood engravings by John O?Connor, including dedication page, pictorial title, 6 full-page plates, plus illuminated letter and decorative tailpiece; foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has foxing to pale paper.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher:. Thyme and Bergamot.. The Dropmore Press Limited Edition, 1947.
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Description: 4to. 62pp. Illustrated with nine wood engravings by John O'Conner. Number 264 of a LIMITED EDITION of 550 copies. Edges uncut and largely unopened. Blue cloth with gilt inner dentelles. In pictorial dust wrapper, corner of inner flap missing with slight loss of text. Otherwise very good.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 404 of 525 (550) copies on Hodgkinson handmade paper. Illustrated with 9 wood engravings by John O'Connor, 5 full-page. Blue linen, stamped and lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket. A very good bright copy. (Nash & Flavell D14)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Christopher Sandeman. Thyme and Bergamot. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first limited edition of this beautifully described book inspired by nature with wood engravings throughout. First edition of Thyme and Bergamot by Christopher Sandeman in the original publisher's cloth binding.Limited edition of 550 copies of which this is number 92.Thyme and Bergamot is the fifth in a series called the 'Dropmore Essays'.With beautiful wood engravings by John O'Conner to accompany the descriptions of the author's travels as a botanist.No dust wrapper present. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, excellent. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher. THYME AND BERGAMOT. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 61 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. #460 of 550 copies. Illust. w/ b/w illustrations. Contents very nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Chritsopher Sandeman. Thyme and Bergamot. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A charming Limited Edition first person account of the pleasures of a travelling botanist, illustrated throughout with the engravings of John O'Connor. A limited edition work printed on handmade paper, this is no. 159 of 550 copies printed. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The work of Christopher Sandeman, an explorer and botanist who travelled widely in the Andes in search of rare plants. This work is described by the publisher as 'better described as a rhapsody than an essay [.] expresses with the feeling of a poet the underlying source of his passion'.The work is illustrated throughout with wood engravings from John O'Connor, a talented woodcutter and painter known for his rural and melancholy prints. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to spine head and tail. Dust wrapper age toned, with some light spotting. Closed tear to head of back strip, with a small loss here also. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher. THYME AND BERGAMOT. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 550 copies printed on a hand press on paper hand made by Hodglinson of Wells. The binding is by Evans of Croydon. Quarto. [viii], 63p. Illustrated with wood engravings by John O'Connor, including full-page plates, initials, and tailpieces. Bound in gilt-titled blue cloth with gilt dentelles. The fifth of the "Dropmore Essays". (Ridler. British Modern Press Books. p. 70, no. 5.). Limited to 550 copies printed on a hand press on paper hand made by Hodglinson of Wells. The binding is by Evans of Croydon.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Sandeman, Christopher. THYME AND BERGAMOT. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$117.57 + shipping
Description: Decorations by John O'Connor. Pp. [viii]+60+[4](envoi and colophon, last blank), pictorial title page, 6 full page illustrations, pictorial dedication page and tailpiece, decorative initial, colophon decoration; cr. 4to; blue buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt; uncut; dust wrapper, lightly foxed and soiled, edges slightly chipped and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, tiny paper flaw to upper free endpaper, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Dropmore Press, London, 1947. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies. Ridler 5. *The fifth (and last) of the Dropmore Essays series.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme and Bergamot. The Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: No. 130 of 550. Decorated with wood engraving by John O'Connor. 60 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Decorated with wood engraving by John O'Connor. 60 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Sandeman, Christopher. Thyme and Bergamot. Dropmore Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, half-vellum and cloth. 26.5 x 20cm. [x], 58pp, [6]. 9 wood engravings by John O'Connor. Number 22 of 25 copies specially bound in half-vellum and signed by the author, from a total edition of 550. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Vellum typically darkened, otherwise a nice clean copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 9 of 25 (550) printed on Hodgkinson hand-made paper, specially bound and signed by the author. Illustrated with 9 wood-engravings by John O'Connor, 5 full-page. Half vellum with gilt spine titling, rust cloth sides, upper board blocked in gold, edges uncut. A near fine copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Sandeman, Christopher.. Thyme and Bergamot.. Dropmore Press., London., 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: signed by the author on the limitation page. very good with no dust jacket. several uncut pages. Series: 5th of a series called the "Dropmore Essays". 4to 59 pp. Hardcover half vellum over orange cloth boards
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.