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Théorie et Pratique des Ombres et des Cadrans Solaires.
Deuxieme édition revue et augmentee.
Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1926. Interesting treatise on the theory and practice of sundials, and how shadows work. In French. Large format softback covers. A little darkening to the covers and slight nicking to the edges. Internally clean throughout with just a touch of darkening to the pages. viii, 1-274 pp. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches). Intéressant traité sur la théorie et la pratique des cadrans solaires, et sur le fonctionnement des ombres. En français. Couvertures souples grand format. Un peu assombri sur les couvertures et légère entaille sur les bords. Nettoyer l'intérieur tout au long avec juste une touche d'assombrissement des pages. viii, 1-274 p. 360 x 285 mm
Book ID: 3333More details Price: £100.00 -
Travels through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological &c
Also a Catalogue of Plants, Found spontaneously growing in those Parts and their Virtues.
London: J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch..et al, 1738. Second edition. Volume I only (of two). Full leather binding with gilt details and titles. The leather is a little rubbed and the gilt faded. Slight cracking to the hinge, but holding well. Complete with three engraved plates (two folding). All three of the engraved plates are found in this, the first of the two volumes. Engraved capitals and end pieces. Internally in good clean condition, in a good, tight condition. Owner's name to the head of the title page. iv, 428, 120 pp. 205 x 130 mm (8 x 5 inches).
John Ray was an English naturalist, widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists, and the man with whom "the adventure of modern science begins".
Book ID: 3332More details Price: £480.00 -
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art.
GmbH: Taschen, 2015. Very nice copy of this second edition. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over clean hardback boards. Internally in excellent condition, with colour photographs throughout. An excellent copy. 320 pages. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches).
Book ID: 3343More details Price: £35.00 -
Trials of a Public Benefactor, as Illustrated in the Discovery of Etherization.
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859. First edition. Hardback, with tissue guard protected frontispiece portrait of Dr. William T. G. Morton. Half-title. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt stamped title to recent spine, original yellow endpapers. Two engraved plates. Plus double page engraved plate of Morton's medal. In a very good condition. xx, [13]-460pp. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3825More details Price: £1,200.00 -
Un pékin sur le front.
Book ID: 2531More details Price: £30.00
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USA Nackt! Bilddokumente aus Gottes eigenem Land.
Berlin: Brunner Verlag & Willi Bischoff. First Edition. A fascinating propaganda photo-book from 1943. Anti-American photographs, depicting the USA as degenerate, full of poverty, unemployment, alcohol and sex, etc. Roosevelt is particularly mocked, and portrayed as getting the war he wanted. Reproductions of Dorothea Lange "Migrant Mother" and other documentary photos. The scarce dust wrapper (depicting a man stroking a showgirl on stage) is present, but in a bad way! Spine is almost entirely missing, and is held together by tape. Pale card boards with owner's bookplate to the front board. Text in German. Unpaginated. 250 x 180 mm (9¾ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2623More details Price: £300.00 -
Vie politique, littéraire et privée de Charles-James Fox,
membre du parlement d'Angleterre et secrétaire d'état, etc. Ornée de son portrait. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais sur la quatrième édition originale.
Book ID: 2295More details Price: £120.00
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Vingt années de Paris.
Avec une preface par Alphonse Daudet
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1883. Very nice copy of this first edition. Text in French. Contemporary half burgundy leather, with gilt titles and marbled boards. A little rubbing to the spine. Internally clean and tidy. Complete, with Frontis and 5 caricatures on silk paper. xii, 238 pages. 190 by 120mm (7½ by 4¾ inches). Très bel exemplaire de cette première édition. Texte en français. Cuir demi bordeaux de l'époque, avec titres dorés et plats marbrés. Un petit frottement à la colonne vertébrale. Intérieur propre et bien rangé. Complet, avec Frontis et 5 caricatures sur papier de soie. xii, 238 pages. 190 x 120 mm
Book ID: 3257More details Price: £85.00 -
Vintage Comic Postcard - Old Man on Tricycle with Charabanc full of daytrippers behind
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, c. 1940. Tuck's Postcard No. 58. In an excellent condition. Shows an elderly gentleman on a country road, slowly riding his tricycle in front a charabanc full of people eager to be on their way either to or from a seaside day out. One is holding a 'Kiss Me Quick' sign, some are shouting to get his attention, one has a horn and others have rattles. He seems oblivious to their eagerness to get past. Simply saying to himself (presumably in response to a vague level of noise) "'Ello! Sounds like they danged old pedals be wantin' another drop of oil". 80 x 135 mm (3¼ x 5¼ inches). AS THIS IS EPHEMERAL - PLEASE CONSULT US ABOUT THE POSTAGE COSTS.
Condition: In an excellent condition. Has not been written on or ever posted. Blank to verso.
Book ID: 2339More details Price: £10.00 -
Voiage du monde de Descartes / Suite du voyage du Monde de Descartes ou Nouvelles difficultez proposees a l'auteur du Voyage du Monde de Descartes.
Two volumes bound as one
Book ID: 3675More details Price: £450.00
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Volunteer Service Gazette and Militia Dispatch
Condition: The boards are somewhat rubbed and have lost much surface sheen. The leather is a little rubbed but in good condition. The binding is tight. Darkening to the pages of both volumes. Scattered worm holes to both volumes. These are worse to the front of vol. 1.
Book ID: 2600More details Price: £300.00 -
Waffenfabrik katalog. Recueil des principaux catalogues des plus importants fabricants de Militaria Allemand 1920-1945
Strasbourg: RZM / Catella, 1986. First edition. Collection of the main catalogs of the most important manufacturers of German Militaria 1920-1945 Softback, colour illustrated cover, 279 pp., fully illustrated in black and white. Nice copy with no significant flaws. French and German text. Book based on the period catalogs of the following manufacturers: Lüneburg, Eickhorn, Baumeister, etc. 300 by 210mm (11¾ by 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3793More details Price: £80.00 -
Wasser und Sumpfvogel
1881. A watercolour entitled Water and marshbirds. Beautifully executed, would appear to be the original for a book illustration? 16 water and marsh birds are illustrated, including a swan and a flamingo. illustration is on art board and is sized 48cm x 31cm. It is presented under passe partout of 60cm x 40cm. To the bottom edge is a little marking. One of the birds (Grey Heron) has been neatly pasted onto the rest of the image. To the reverse of the passe partout is a photocopy of the artwork with the birds labelled in German. Dittrich, Walter: (1881 Haida - 1976 Rorgenwies/Eigeltingen) German watercolourist and book illustrator.
Book ID: 4086More details Price: £225.00 -
Women in Culture: A Women's Studies Anthology.
Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. This is a publisher's review copy, in laminated boards (hardback). An anthology which collects texts on women in culture and offers an introduction, for students in women's studies and feminism, to the cultural dimensions of women's experience. It reveals how the mass media, music, and pornography industries portray women, and how advertising promotes unattainable standards of beauty for women. 240 mm x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches). 457 pp.
Book ID: 2227More details Price: £50.00 -
Woodworking Machinery;
Its rise, progress, and construction, with hints on the management of saw mills and the economical conversion of timber.
London: The Technical Press Limited, 1922. 5th Printing. A companion book to 'Saw Mills, their Arrangement and Management'. Hardback in original dark blue cloth, with gilt stamped title to spine. 40 b/w plates - 10 of which are fold out. In a very good and clean condition. Minor rubbing to boards. Inside just a number 1 in ink on title page, otherwise virtually spotless. 442 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2890More details Price: £38.00