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Colored folding map, mounted on linen, G. F. Cruchley, 81 Fleet Street, London, s.d. [ circa 1850-1860 ], 79 x 66,5 cm. Full title : Cruchley's Reduction of his Large Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland ; Showing all the Railways & Turnpike Roads with the Great Rivers and the course of the different Navigable Canals : The Market and Borough Towns and principal places adjoining the Road ; to which is added the distance from one market town to another, with the exact admeasurement prefixed to each from the metropolis. Nice map in its original colors (slight browning on foldings, otherwise a charming map). Anglais
Edited and compiled with authority of the Chamber by the Secretary Arthur P. Llewellyn, 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage éditeur, Printed by Bemrose & Sons Limited, Derby, Leeds, 4 Snow Hill, London, 1912, 288 pp. Fine and scarce copy. Very interesting, with its large "colour section" : "the folllowing pages of advertisements in Gold and Colours are representative of the manufactures of the Potteries, and are, in most cases, reproduced direct from the articles". Anglais
Pages 612-634. Features: Cover illustration at Herreshoff's Yard, Bristol, Rhode Island, of the launching of "Columbia," built to defend "America's" Cup against "Shamrock"; Our Opportunities; This Busy World; Photos of Men of the Day - A.J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad, W.W. Keen of the American Medical Association, and Henry O. Havemeyer; Photos and brief obituaries for "Waltz King" Johann Strauss and Richard Parks Bland; Photo of Captain H.E. Nichols, U.S.N. who commanded the U.S.S. "Monadnock"; Photos from the Philippines of - General Lawton at the Battle of Baliuag, General MacArthur on the Skirmish Line, Colonel Summers and staff leaving Baliuag with six battalions, General Lawton in his field HQ at Angat, Colonel Summers's troops on the march, Colonel Summers's command advancing to the Battle of Moasin; The Philippine Revolt - The Santa Cruz Expedition; An English Mother (poem); The Fifth Annual Lake Mohonk Arbitration Conference; Image of the French cruiser "SFAX" bringing Captain Dreyfuss home for retrial; Full page illustration "A Faro Game at El Paso"; A Curious Coincidence; A Queen's Charity; London; Two-page centerfold illustration of the North Atlantic Squadron in the Harbor of Cape Haitien, Island of Haiti "A Visit From the Natives"; Hawaiian America - lengthy article with Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai; Amateur Sport - baseball article with many photos of college players; The Conspirators (continued); Illustration "Forced Inspiration" by Peter Newell on back cover. Great vintage ads. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
Various Paginations. Profusely illustrated with black and white illustrations. Features include: Meeting des Nations - NATO display at Liege; Computers for Simulators - A.C. or D.C. - experience with both methods; World Gliding Championships; Valiant - Last of the Vickers Bombers? - with cutaway diagram; Britain's Foreign Air Traffic; Avro's Mach 3.5 Tunnel; The R.A.F. and Heavy Transports; Proteus Progress; Hot from the States - Lockheed F-104B and McDonnell F-101C; Viscounts for the World - dozens of photos; Bomex by Vulcan - a Bomber Exercise from Waddington; Agricultural Chipmunk; The Anti-bomber Missile; Fully Aerobatic Four-seater; What is a powered flight?; The National Air Races; Silver City Decade - Ten Years of Vehicle Ferry Operations; Breguet 940 Integral; The Bomb; The Lords Debate the industry; Civil Aviation; Special Feature - Commercial Aircraft of the World - with cutaway drawings; Service Aviation; The Industry; Thousand-hour jet - Rolls Royce Avon RA.29; All agricultural helicopters; Electrical Systems; Cabin Blower Development; The Routing Process; Training the Naval Fighter Pilot - methods at R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth; Reverse and Obverse; Bristol 192 - Europe's largest military helicopter, with cutaway diagram; "All There Were Honoured..."; Turbojet Run-up Stand; Bigger Payload Vanguard; A New Gyron Junior; Thunderbird's Nest - a preview of the English Electric Anti-Aircraft system; The Vanguard's Propellers - absorbing the 5,000 s.h.p.; Underwater Ejection - investigating methods of escape from submerged aircraft; Veteran Constellations; Saunders-Roe P.531Helicopter - with cutaway diagram; A Highway and a Helicopter - the new London-to-Yorkshire motorway; B.O.A.C. 1957-58; In the year of the fighters - a visit to Edwards Air Force Base; World Parachute Championships; Law of Space - what next?; All-weather amphibian - some thoughts on the aerodynamic characteristics of the Fulmar (non-Fairey type); V-bombers as intercepters? - seeking a solution to the problem of obtaining long range in defensive aircraft; Finding a Path; Navaho - WS-104 (SM-64A Navaho) - ancestor of the Hound Dog missile, F-108 Interceptor and B-70 Valkyrie Bomber; Westland Westminster - a 16-ton twin-engined transport helicopter - with cutaway drawing; Gnome - a 1,000 h.p. turboshaft unit by de Havilland Engine; The Case for the Comet; Commonwealth Aviation 1958 (opens with a large photo of an Avro Arrow in action); Aircraft vs. Forest Fire; The Canadian Industry (photos and more information about the Avro Arrow); Airline Competition in Canada; Cold Lake Warms Up - and prepares for the Avro Arrow; Canadian Ancillary Companies; Commonwealth Air Transport; The Australian Industry; Australian Ancillary Companies; India and New Zealand; First air-to-air photo of the USN's F8U-3 Crusader; British Aircraft 1958; British Aero Engines 1958; British Missiles 1958; Ancillary Industry 1958; Victor B.1; The 19th S.B.A.C. Display; Skyport High School; Handling the Piaggio P.166; Argentine Awakening; Astronautics in Amsterdam; Nagpur Junction - Speeding India's night mail; Popular Flying in the U.S.A.; The 707 comes to London; DHC.4 Caribou; The Scimitars of '803' - pictorial; Farnborough; High Altitude-High Temperature Chamber; Discussing Space Law; Pioneering In Africa; Lessons of Madrid; C-133 Cargomaster - Greatest load carrier in the western world - with cutaway drawing; The Bristol Scout. Minor lean to spine. Light wear. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
Multi-paginated Profusely illustrated with black and white photography, diagrams and advertisements. No. 2410 Vol. 67 contains: Maritime Britannia - first particulars of Canadair's CL-28; Re-Rising Sun - the Japanese aircraft industry 10 years after VJ-Day; Southern Air Traffic Control at London Airport; H.M. Carriers 1955 - survey's the role of the aircraft carrier in a thermo-nuclear age and previews the carrier strength of British and Commonwealth navies; Carrier Developments - recent inventions to increase efficiency on the flight deck; Scotland's Air Ambulances - two B.E.A. Herons go into operation. No. 2411 Vol. 67 8 April 1955 contains: The Speed of the Fox - a fairey occasion with historic associations; Jodel D.112 and Druine Turbi - Two French Ultra-light Two-seaters Compared; London Airport Central - photos of the new passenger handling block; Ferry 604 - The diary of a Viscount delivery flight to Montreal; Radically New Cockpit Design - U.S. Navy's television instrumentation; No. 47 Squadron - history of a famous transport command unit; Air Gunnery at Sylt; The Edo Amphibious Float; Two photos of the Handley Page Victor; The Deuce - English Electric's Digital Computer; T.C.A. and the Viscount - Background to the North American debut of a British turboprop airliner. No. 2413 Vol. 67 22 April 1955: Photo of the Hiller "Flying Platform"; Mixed Power - Engines of Different Species in Combination, Mr. M.J. Brennan's R.Ae.S. Lecture; Actuallites Francaises - the mighty Armagnac *page 519-520 missing from this article*; At the controls of the B-45 - Second-pilot time on a four-jet bomber; Britannia's Johannesburg Trials - Phase one of the tropical tests; Idlewild's New Terminal Area. No.2414 Vol.67 29 April 1955: Guide to First 1955 National Air Races; The Supercharged Turboprop - Dr. Hooker's S.A.E. Lecture on the Bristol B.E. 25, successor to the Proteus; Automatic Interception - all-weather single-seaters defending the U.K.; Meeting of the Airways; Actualites Francaises - the Morane-Saulnier M.S.760 Paris; Silencing Jet Helicopters - a notable paper by Professor E.J. Richards; Sopwith Camel - Historic Military Aircraft No. 10; Tower of London - radar, radio and lighting controls in the new central building. No. 2415 Vol. 67 6 May 1955: A Coming-of-age with Gannets; Actualites Francaises - part 3 - non-stop variety in light aircraft; Jet Provost - Hunting Percival's New Av Initio Trainer (includes 2-page detailed drawing); The First Round - Swansea sees the start of the 1955 national air races; Off the Ice - an R.C.A.F. helicopter rescues a Cessna which was partially submerged beneath ice; Igor Sikorsky in Great Britain - Pioneer Helicopter Designer's Lecture to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Fabrications to Float and Fly - rubber dinghies, balloons, and much else - the work of the R.F. D company; "Hot" Parts by the Hundred - Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd. No. 2416 Vol. 67 13 May 1955: More Thoughts on Jet Lift; Routine Atlantic Crossing - Passenger's impressions of a typical Transatlantic flight by B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser; The World's Air Forces - Their compostion, duties and aircraft *2 pages of this article are loose but present*; 1955 Military Aircraft Data; National Aircraft Insignia; The World's Air Forces Cont'd. No. 2417 Vol. 67 May 20, 1955: A Truimphant British Motion Picture - The Dam Busters; Luftwaffe Redivivus - Germany's New Air Force for A.A.F.C.E. - Its strenghts and constitution; The Party Line on Airlines - Tories, Labour and Liberals express their view for "flight"; Supersonic Fighter - a critical examination of the F-100A Super Sabre (with detailed drawing); Introduction to Air Freight - Part 1 American Domestic Scene; The S.N.C.A.S.E. S.E. 210 Caravalle - France's First Jet Airliner (with detailed drawing); Regularity in the making - the technical organization behind B.O.A.C.; Flight Control - an historical review - Abstracts from Dr. Draper's Wilbur Wright Lecture; Deutsche Lufthansa in Book
Very Good English Original sepia-toned large-sized albumen print photograph of a group of soldiers of the 4th Troop, C Squadron of The Q.O.R.G.Y., probably taken before WW I. Mounted on cardboard. 29x24 cm. Descriptive words in English. Exceedingly rare and attractive photo shows 32 troops with their guns on horses, presumably in Britain, as evidenced by the topographic view in the background. The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army that can trace their formation back to 1796. It saw action in the Second Boer War, the First World War, and the Second World War. RHQ and C Squadron moved to Egypt in June 1915, landing at Port Said on 22 June. In October they joined the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division at Gallipoli as dismounted troops and participated in the Gallipoli Campaign. In January 1916 they returned to Egypt with the division. In May 1916, RHQ moved to France and joined V Corps Cavalry Regiment. C Squadron remained with the division until August 1917 when it joined XXI Corps Cavalry Regiment, along with A Squadron, Hertfordshire Yeomanry and A Squadron, Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry. In May 1918 it returned to Egypt for the rest of the war. (Wikipedia).
50 copies of this book have been privately printed on Japan vellum by Thomas B. Mosher for presentations to his friends , and the type distributed (n° 17), 12mo vol. under slipcase, Portland, Maine, Privately printed, 1902, 5 blank, portrait, VI-14 pp. and 8 blank leaves With a poetical preface by Theodore Watts-Dunton, the chorus repeating : "Omar Khayyam". Very good copy (noted '181' on slipace, bt the same ink used on justification) of this scarce work. Banker, writer and anthorpologist, Edward Clodd (1840-1930) was a prominent member of the Omar Khayyam Club and he organised the planting of the rose from Omar Khayyam's tomb on to the grave of Edward Fitzgerald (famous translator of the translation of The Rubaiyat) at Boulge, Suffolk. Anglais
3rd english edition improved, 1 vol. grand in-12 pleine percaline rouge éditeur, Féret & Fils, Bordeaux, Libraires Associés, Paris, 1899, 830 pp. avec 9 cartes dépliantes en couleurs Bon état (petits frott. au cartonnage, bon exemplaire par ailleurs) pour cet exemplaire conservé dans son cartonnage d'origine. Good (binding slighlty rubbed, good copy otherwise) for this copy with its original cardboard binding. Anglais
By his Majesty's Special Command, Appointed to be read in Churches, Printed by and for George Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1752 [ Titlepage for The New Testament dated 1736 ] Very interesting copy for this manuscript texte on guard : ""The Holy Bible". This is that inestimable Book, which came from Heaven to direct mankind in their way [... ] Some vain Criticks and half wistler Philosophers have presumed to make objections the stile and propriety of the inspired authors, ; and the reason of their Impudence was not only wicked [ ... ] want of Genius, Languages and Heading to enter into their awful beauties, to discover the exalted sublimity of their sens and relish the beauty, Graces of their expression. [... ] of Dublin [... ]desired the above writing to be put into all the Bibles that were in his House. Blackwell on the [... ]". Below we can read this ms. lines : "The above is my mother handwriting", signed "Howden". Scottish-born printer and publisher in Dublin, George Grierson (1679-1753) was married to the editor and poet Constantia Grierson. Price in condition for this fair copy (lacking flyleaves, titlepage very weak, small worm galery on last leaves, binding rubbed with old restauration, very short margin on top cuting the pagination, used book otherwise good). Anglais
7 vols., sm. folio, First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; in blue rexine binders, gilt backs, binders mildly bowed as usual else a very good, bright, clean set. In this set the outer series wrappers were discarded as intended; the bowing of the binders is due to sheer volume and weight of the contents. This major and profusely illustrated partwork was the result of several years of preparation, with numerous contributors working to the editorial board comprising Mortimer Wheeler, Hugh Trevor-Roper and A.J.P. Tayor - three of the most eminent historians of the period. The partwork was issued in 112 weekly parts intended to be housed in seven optional and separately issued branded binders. Consequently it required considerable time, effort and motivation to acquire and bind a complete set. UNSURPRISINGLY, COMPLETE SETS IN BINDERS ARE RELATIVELY UNCOMMON.
Second Edition, corrected, errata on final leaf, 24, [2], 55, [1] pp., modern green morocco-backed, marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, maroon labels, a fine copy.
One volume (of three). Seventy-seven (77) floral plates (uncolored), engraved by J. Swan Glasgow, with accompanying letterpress text. Some plates folding or double. Some offsetting. 8vo. Disbound. First Edition. Hooker was the most important figure in the effort to make Kew a national botanic garden, and he was named the first director of Kew Gardens. Upon his death, the nation purchased Hooker's personal collection, including four thousand books and more than one million dried plant specimens. Nissen 920. RARE. The three volume set retails for over $5000.00. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W133
Hard cover Good. No dust jacket as issued. Dark Navy blue leathbound cover w ith gold lettering embossed on title. Yellowing pages but clean a nd no tear. xxviii, 1171, p. 19 cm. "First published 1900; reprin ted...1930; new edition 1939. " First edition has title: The Oxfo rd book of English verse, 1250 - 1900.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 32 plates and 7 maps (one folding on japon); handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy of the original edition of the best life of Cromwell. Davies 870.
Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on front pastedown and bookplate of Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery by George Vertue on verso of title page, [2],v-xiii,[3],364,[4] pages. Water stained. Full leather, calf, spine ends with some chips, front joint of spine with slight split to top half. A few ink numbers on verso of title page below bookplate.
2 works in one vol. 8vo., with an engraved frontispiece and 13 engraved plates (first work) and 23 engraved plates (second work), some very light spotting (mainly marginal) on plates; handsomely bound in twentieth century half calf, marbled boards, back ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt, a highly attractive bright, crisp copy, ideal as a gift or for presentation. Since the binding is lettered only for the Rickman it is possible that a previous owner did not realise that TWO important works are present here (the latter, unnamed, work being much the scarcer).Rickman provided the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture in England. Its influence was profound, for his terminology was employed by virtually all subsequent writers; much of it, indeed, is still current today. First published in 1817 in Liverpool (where the present issue was compiled), one of its most valuable features was its descriptive list of (over 800) extant buildings illustrating the principles of English architecture and helpfully arranged by county. In this updated edition the number of buildings is greatly enlarged. Kendall's VERY SCARCE analysis is based on the ornaments, arches, columns etc., of Exeter Cathedral; the work is intended for practising architects who are taught the main elements which must be followed meticulously to achieve the pure pointed style. Kendall (1766-1829) was Surveyor of Exeter Cathedral and responsible for much restoration after about 1805. His important work was reissued once only, by Bohn in 1842. A FINE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE TWO KEY AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED GOTHIC TEXTS IN A SINGLE, HANDSOME BINDING.
Second edition, [ii], 39, [1]pp., recent marbled boards. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Surprisingly uncommon: we find no copy of the first or this second edition, Copac locates the third and later editions only.
Small 4to, 96pp., one of 40 copies, the title-page is a reproduction of the original "Poems. By W.H. London: Printed for Thomas Dring... 1655", engraved title vignette, orig. boards with vellum spine and corners. One of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges reprints of the Lesser Caroline Poets. "...an interesting little volume reprinted in 1816 by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. Several poems are addressed to Thomas Stanley, whose mother was a sister of William Hammond, and there is an elegy On the Death of my much honoured Uncle, Mr. G. Sandys. The original edition is scarce, and Brydges's reprint was limited to forty copies."?DNB.
4to, iv,366p., a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth, head of spine torn. "The library... was originally formed by Sir Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere... His Lordship is well known to have been an enlightened and munificent patron of literature. Some of the books came into his possession from the Countess of Derby, whom he married in 1600, whose first husband, Sir John Wolley, appears also to have been liberal encourager of learning. Baron Ellesmere was created Viscount Brackley shortly before his death in 1616, and his son was raised to the dignity of Earl of Bridgewater in the following year. Many of the rarer productions enumerated in the following pages were collected and carefully preserved by the latter, and his affection for his books is testified by his marks and notes in most of the volumes which he added to the collection. The library was augmented at later dates by the successive Earls and Dukes of Bridgewater, until it devolved into the hands of the present possessor, by whose direction and whose expense this catalogue has been prepared and printed. The undertaking has been limited to early English literature, because it is a department which, though less understood than some others, has of late years attracted much attention, both in this and foreign countries". - Preface. Martin, Privately Printed Books. pp.470-71.
10 parts in one, some spotting and staining of the first 40pp., 16, 160 pp., contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine rubbed. The first part is signed "George Edmonds. Tuesday, February 23, 1819". The series of "Letters" numbered II-X are on political reform in local government. Letters II-IV are printed and published by Osborne, letters V-X were printed by T. Bloomer, High Street, Birmingham. They are however paginated continuously, they were probably issued with the "Address to the Payers of Levies."
Third edition corrected, with additions, 2 vols., bound as one, 12mo, vi, [2], 209, [1, blank], [6, publishers ads]; [4], 252pp., title page and contents leaf to vol. II bound in error before K1 of vol. I, some neat cont. MS translation into the French to first two leaves of chapter one and a couple of other leaves, marbled endpapers, cont. mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco title label to spine, a very nice copy. Of this third edition ESTC locates a single copy in the UK (National Trust) and 3 in North America (Brown University, Princeton & Yale).
First edition, 3 vols., 8vo (171 x 95mm), 212; [2], 199, [1]; [2], 180pp., piece torn from the upper margin of leaf G1 in volume one with partial loss of text to five lines (missing text supplied in facsimile on a loosely inserted leaf), cont. burgundy quarter calf, marbled boards, flat spines, lettered direct ruled in gilt with decorative tool to each compartment, a very nice set. First edition of this posthumously published novel by Margaret Roberts (d. 1813), with a character sketch by her friend and literary executor Amelia Opies, who described Roberts as hereslf a model of duty as a wife and as a schoolmistress. An interesting artefact depicting the early 19th century conventions of womanhood. Roberts was the author of Moral Views; or, the Telescope for Children (1804), and Rose and Emily, or Sketches of Youth (1812). Garside, Raven & Schw?erling, 1814: 47.
First Edition, viii,60pp., recent quarter calf, marbled boards. The first three poems are translations from the Latin, with a further three additional poems by Silvester. Foxon, p.732; Westwood and Satchell, p.96.
848pp., cloth, a very good copy. This is the first descriptive bibliography of the works of Eliza Haywood (1693??1756) and her partner, William Hatchett (1701??1749?). The works have been separated and organized using the principles outlined by P N Furbank and W R Owens in The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe. Evidence for and history of attribution is discussed within the headnotes, and biographical information is given wherever possible, along with the title's publishing history. The bibliography contains many fresh attributions, locates 'lost' and difficult to find Haywood titles and lists dozens of unrecognized translations. It also contains a record of every reprint, facsimile, micro-format reproduction and e-text of works by Haywood; as well as a complete description of all the works published by her and those written by William Hatchett. Likewise, there is an account of all the works that have been attributed to Haywood in the last three hundred years. The history, arguments and evidence for each attribution is considered in full, both for those works accepted as part of the Haywood canon and those rejected.
First Edition, engraved portrait, title in red and black, 11pp. list of subscribers, K4 (pp. 151-152) is a cancel, a little light staining on lower margins in a few places, xiv, [12], 320 pp., contemporary calf, hinges cracked, lacks label, a good copy. 'Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, D.S.P.D.' appears in the list of subscribers. 'Essentially a miscellany....; Winstanley's poems are not distinguished from the rest.' - Foxon. Rothschild, 2587; Case, 437; Foxon, pp.902-3.
