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THE WAR OF THE NATIONS: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN CONFLICT VOL. V
Written by Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 1819504
Published by George Newnes Limited.
Almost very good condition.
Large format. Red pictorial boards. B/w photos. 240 pages. Corners bumped and rubbed, rear board cracked/creased to bottom half of which also affects rear pastedown. Small split to base of front edge of spine. Browning throughout. Bookplate to front pastedown.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
Written by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald.
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1318955
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Circa
1927.
Slightly better than good condition.
Popular edition. Red cloth stamped in gilt with peacock design. 12 tipped-in colour plates. 8 x 6". Spine and corners bumped and worn with some damp staining, particularly to spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. 1 plate mount (with plate on) is detached but still present. Some page browning and foxing.
- Categorised in:
- POETRY
- ILLUSTRATED
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IAN WALKER RACING: THE MAN AND HIS CARS
Written by Julian Balme.
Stock no. 1819501
Published by Coterie Press Limited.
1st
2012.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Ian Walker embraced all aspects of post-war motorsport, from rallying to racing, driver to team manager, car manufacturer to car dealer. In just ten years he had done the lot. Large square format. Black cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour & b/w photos throughout. This is a limited edition. 208 pages. ISBN: 9781902351476. Pictorial dustwrapper has some light scuffing. Contained in publisher's green slipcase which is still in original shrinkwrap. This copy would make a wonderful gift.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- CARS
- MOTOR SPORT
- BIOGRAPHY
- LIMITED EDITION
THE DERBYSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOLUME CIII FOR THE YEAR 1983
Written by Graeme Barker; D.V. Fowkes.
Stock no. 1819478
Published by Moorland Publishing.
1984.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Grey cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Contents include: The Survey and Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement Area at Mount Pleasant, Kenslow; The prehistoric Pottery from Mam Tor: Further considerations; Excavations at Poole's Cavern, Buxton: an Interim Report; The Curzons of Fifteenth-Century Derbyshire; and more.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- EAST MIDLANDS
- DERBYSHIRE
- ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 27 2000
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819476
Published by Science History Publications Ltd..
2000.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Volume 27 part 1; Pages 1-156, February 2000. Cardwraps. Colour frontis & b/w illustrations. Contents include: John Christopher Thackeray 1948-1999; Confessions of a geological book-collector; The two states of Mantell's Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex: 1827 and c. 1829; Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones; and more.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 9 PART 1
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819474
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History.
1978.
Nearly fine condition.
Pages 1-94. November 1978. Green cardwraps, b/w illustrations. Contents include: V.A. Eyles (1895-1978) - an obituary and bibliography; H.C. Richter - John Gould's unknown bird artist; The missing volume of John Gould's working notebook for his Birds of Europe; Two collections of rhinoceros plates compiled by James Douglas and James Parsons in the eighteenth century; and more. Spine slightly faded.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
SHEFFIELD LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: A CENTENARY RETROSPECT 1822-1922
Written by William Smith Porter.
Stock no. 1819470
Published by J.W. Northend.
1st
1922.
Almost very good condition.
The Birth of the Society; Notes from the Minute Books; Lectures and Papers. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. Boards marked and stained. Endpapers browned. A few scattered foxspots. Some light underlining in blue pencil. Hinges slightly pulled.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- NORTH EAST UK
- YORKSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
TRANSACTIONS OF THE MIDLAND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION WINTER SESSION OF 1864-5
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819468
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co..
1865.
Good condition.
Contents include: On Thor's Cave; On the Nest of the Ten Spined Stickleback; On the Embryo of the Pike; On the Jaw of the British Leopard; On some Peculiarities in the growth of the Hawthorn Tree; and much more. Pink cardwraps. 71 pages plus 19 plates at rear. Writing in blue pencil to front cover, covers are unevenly faded and marked/grubby. Backstrip worn and front cover just starting to split from contents because of this. A little unobtrusive annotation to contents in pencil. Text block browned. Plates have some foxing present.
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- NATURAL HISTORY
- FRESHWATER LIFE
- FOSSILS
- ANTIQUARIAN
GEOLOGIA NORVEGICA
Written by Michael Peterson Escholt; Daniel Collins.
Stock no. 1819465
Published by Trondheim.
1st thus
1963.
Fine condition.
Or, a brief instructive remembrancer, concerning that very great and spacious Earthquake, which happened almost quite through the South parts of Norvvay: Upon the 24th day of April, in the year 1657. Facsimile of the 1663 publication, printed in 1000 numbered copies. Brown pictorial cloth boards. 93 pages. Originally written in the Danish Tongue by Escholt, this is the English edition translated by Collins. Numbered 18 of 1000.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- SCANDINAVIA
- NORWAY
- EARTHQUAKE
- GEOLOGY
- FACSIMILE
BEDTIME STORIES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1318932
Published by Birn Brothers Ltd..
Circa
1951.
Almost very good condition.
Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows a clock in the background with a boy and a girl infront - the boy is reading to the little girl, who is cuddling a doll of colour. First story is 'The Lollipop Shop'. Two-tone illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, covers edge rubbed. Light creases to covers. Name in ink in belongs to box. Some foxing and fingering to page margins.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- ANTHOLOGY - STORY
THE YOUNG PILGRIM OR ALFRED CAMPBELL'S RETURN TO THE EAST
Written by Mrs. Hofland.
Stock no. 1318927
Published by A.K. Newman and Co..
1841.
Good condition.
"And his travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabria Petrea, etc". New edition, with additions. Red embossed cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine and vignette to front covers. Yellow endpapers. 239 pages, all edges gilt. 6 b/w engraved plates (each with two illustrations). Spine and corners bumped, a few small dents to cover edges. Covers grubby. Endpapers grubby. Heavy foxing and fingering to contents.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- CHILDRENS (VICTORIAN)
- CHILDRENS (ANTIQUARIAN)
- EGYPT
- ASIA
- ARABIA
SEA BREEZY BONZO
Written by G.E. Studdy; George Jellicoe.
Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1318915
Published by John Swain & Son Limited.
Almost very good condition.
Small format. Cardwraps. 7 plates. Covers are edge worn and lightly scuffed. Centre pages are detached from contents. Crayon name to top margin of 1 page. Some fingering to page margins.
- Categorised in:
- DOGS (CHILDRENS)
- CHILDRENS