Scolar press 1979 (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0859675661 Facsimile of 1777 edition. Hardcover; 213 pages, plus B&W plates and fold-out map at rear. Clean, unmarked copy; corners lightly bumped. DJ protected in new archival wrap; slight rubbing and edgewear. Very Good/Very Good.

1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered red cloth (top edge dust stained - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (rubbed and nicked at extrems - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xiii + 273 (no inscriptions).

1st U.K. edition. 8vo. xxxiv + [219pp.] B/w. illustrations. Original boards. Slightly rubbed yellow d/w. lettered in black and blue, spine lightly faded. ISBN 0859675890 US$15.

Zustand: Gebraucht / Used. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good. Xvii383pp.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.159, with b/w. photos. & Illus. Large 8vo. Robin Whalley's signature to ffep. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw. From Renaissance to revolution, the garderners of France drew inspiration from many sources to construct paradise on earth. Monarchs and nobles gave their commands, and generations of the finest artists built upon the work of their predecessors until the French astonished the world with the splendour of their gardens.…

Zustand: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Paperback. 5 vols. 48mos. Each 24-32 pages. Light wear otherwise near very good indeed in a slightly used and edge rubbed, very good printed slip-case. Includes: The Death and Burial of Cock Robin; The History of Little King Pippin; The Picture Alphabet; A Short History of Birds and Beasts; The Moving Market or Cries of London. Facsimile reprints of Victorian miniatures.…

Zustand: Fine. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards with crimson cloth spine. 8vo. 6½'' x 5''. Contains unpaginated printed pages of rhyming text with colour illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0859675246 CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE. …

8vo. 288pp. Original cloth-backed boards in slipcase. A fine copy. Facsimile of thuis 1747 classic of Mining.

8vo. pp. 159. 168 illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First UK Edition.

Zustand: Fine. Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. Landscape 7'' x 10''. Contains 100 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0859673944 KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. viii, [3], 405. many illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. xxi, 363, [2]. c200 text illus. colour frontis., 8 double-sided colour plates & almost 200 b/w text illus. (many full-page). indexes. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. pp. xxxiv, [1 leaf], 217, [1 leaf]. 20 full-page text illus. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

First edition. Softback. A lovely copy of this facsimile re-issue of Nicholson's beautiful work. This edition has re-designed the work to be a leporello of the twelve woodcuts of animals "So that they can be turned into a vigorous frieze showing William Nicholson at his very best." Please note, this edition is designed as a leporello, and doesn't have any of the text by Waugh (by intention rather than lack). 17.5cm x 17.5cm. Overall in excellent, clean condition. A little rubbing to the spine edge and slight bumping to the corners only. No copies of this edition available at the time of cataloguing. .…

Hardcover. PERROTT, Charlotte Louisa Emily (fl 1830-1835). A Selection of British Birds, Ilkley: The Scolar Press, 1979 2 volumes. Folio. Prospectus (13 6/8 x 9 inches), illustrated throughout; Facsimile (20 x 14 inches), 5 fine chromolithographed facsimiles tipped-in. Uniformly bound in half brown morocco, marbled paper boards; preserved in original brown morocco backed brown cloth clamshell box. AS NEW First published in about 1835 by Robert Havell, with only three examples known, this facsimile edition is one of 250 copies printed. From the Prospectus "There is evidence that she was not only the possessor of a museum containing considerable collections, both zoological and geological, but also an ardent ornithologist and an artist of no mean skill. She was elected an honorary corresponding member of the Worcestershire Natural History Society in December, 1833. She supplied a considerable amount of information which is given in Sir Charles Hastings' "Natural History of Worcestershire: 1834" (her name being repeatedly mentioned with gratitude) and she was a donor to the Society of ornithological, geological and mineralogical specimens, as well as a contributor of papers on these subjects which were often illustrated by her drawings, her most important papers being those on "the Fish of Avon" and "A List of Worcs, Birds". In a copy of Sir Charles Hastings' "Illustrations of the Natural History of Worcester" there is a manuscript note by Edwin Lees (pp 134) regarding Mrs C.L.E. Perrott: "She was an ardent intelligent woman and had drawn a great number of British Birds in watercolours. These she intended to have engraved and published, but only one number in folio ever came out".…

With numerous illustrations and plates, 387 p. 22 Bll. As new. la Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Gr.-8°, decorative original half-leatherbinding in slipcase. Reprint of the edition Amsterdam 1672. No.1555 of 2300 copies.

First edition, inscribed "to Simon Heneage, from Edward Bawden, 1979", with Heneage's bookplate loosely inserted. Heneage (1930-2011) was a publisher who co-founded the Cartoon Art Trust and the Cartoon Museum in Little Russell Street. This book is entirely made up of linocuts by Bawden, reproduced at the size they were cut. Loosely inserted is a clipping from the Obsever, dated 18 March 1979 advertising the book, and calling Bawden "one of the outstanding British graphic artists of the past half-century." Folio. Illustrated throughout. Original grey boards, titles to spine in black, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Top corners bumped; dust jacket unclipped, spine and extremities sunned, edges a little creased, a couple short closed tears to rear panel, foxing to flaps and verso: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.…