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18875789112David Douglas 1887. Volume 1-3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.1887-1889. Large 8vo bound in green library cloth with gilt lettering on backstrip. Volumes do not match. Bumped corners. Light wear and fraying to vols 1 and 2. Front board and backstrip has pulled away from spine in vol I and with it all pages up to title page. Binding reasonably tight. Vol. II has several marginal pencil markings. Pages in vol I. and II. have some grubbiness in places. Illustrated. Each vol. contains a few plates. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3950grams ISBN: David Douglas hardcover
18935850917Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Co 1893. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Folio. Dark blue cloth covers. Emblem of gilt shield with red lion in centre of front cover. Other decorative gilt patterns in each corner of the front board. Covers scuffed. Gilt lettering on backstrip small tears on backstrip. Pages fairly loose others entirely detached. Foxing. Emblem illustration protected by tissue sheet opposite title page. Clear text and clean inside. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item4050grams ISBN: Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Co hardcover
1880018546London: Blackie & Son 1880. New Revised Edition. . Half Bound. Very Good. xiii. 254 pages 107 plates plate 43a duplicated many in-text illustrations. 'In this Edition several of the Engraved Plates have been improved by the introduction of new figures and several new Plates have been added'. Half bound in dark green 5 raised bands to spine with gilt titling and decoration. James Newlands 28 July 1813 - 15 July 1871 was a Scottish civil engineer who worked in Liverpool as the first Borough Engineer appointed in the United Kingdom and is credited with designing and implementing the first integrated sewerage system in the world in 1848. Some bumping wear losses to extremities front hinge detached rear hinge split some minor foxing. 779/806 Size: 355mm. x 270MM. <br/> <br/> Blackie & Son unknown
1867018822London: Blackie & Son 1867. New Edition. . Half Bound. Very Good. xiii. 291 pages 116 plates including engraved title page many in-text illustrations. Half bound in dark green 4 raised bands to spine with gilt titling and decoration marbled endpapers. James Newlands 28 July 1813 - 15 July 1871 was a Scottish civil engineer who worked in Liverpool as the first Borough Engineer appointed in the United Kingdom and is credited with designing and implementing the first integrated sewerage system in the world in 1848. Bumping to extremities spine split at head and tail minor spotting to prelims.807 Size: 355mm. x 265mm. <br/> <br/> Blackie & Son unknown
1853018736Edinburgh: A Fullarton and Co. 1853. 1st Edition . Full Leather. Very Good. ix. 2 3- 471 1 pages 157 b/w plates. Original full leather boards rebacked 5 raised bands to spine with decoration and title labelprelims and half title loose with creasing sporadic spotting some inked marginalia some staining and small tears to plates additional Civil Architecture plate before plate 1 gilt tooled labels to front and rear pastedown at front 'John Mackay' at rear 'John Mackay Builder 1866' note in text refers to Mackay as from Durness. Archer 224.9. 798 Size: 285mm. x 230mm. Sixth Edition Revised and Much Enlarged. <br/> <br/> A Fullarton and Co. hardcover
1852r5155Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and stained with some edge wear. Respined with original laid on. Ownership signature on title page. Some scattered foxing. Plate 10 with tape repair. 1852. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 310mm x 250mm 12" x 10". unpaginated. 62 plates. Includes a list of subscribers. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
1848016424Bury St Edmunds: Jackson and Frost 1848. First Edition. . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. N J Cottingham. 4 original parts hand-coloured additional title page and vignettes and illustrations throughout. pp. 1-56 57-112 113-160 161-208. Norman Scarfe's copy with his signature to top wrapper part1 and his m/s notes throughout. Parts 1-3 in original printed wraps part 4 later plain wraps. Some wear losses to wrappers some spotting internally. Very scarce especially in the original parts. 796 Size: 245mm. x 200mm. <br/> <br/> Jackson and Frost unknown
184331753London: M. A. Nattali. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tal; Contemp. 1/2 morocco & marbled bds. A E G ; joints spine ends & corners rubbed. With 28 plates & 56 mounted vignettes. Scattered light foxing but internally generally clean & attractive. 28 full page plates and 56 tipped vignettes. Unpaginated but about 60pp. 11 x 15" . M. A. Nattali, hardcover
1870331161870. vg. Symmetrical basket shape of blue sheets of heavy paper with two concentric 'rings' of eight circular 1 1/2" lithographic images each in sepia-tone showing views of Washington D.C. Images within golden decorative borders. Central panel with chromolithographed bouquet of flowers. Photographs show the President's residence State War & Navy department Capitol Hill National Museum U.S. Post Office Treasury Building U.S. Patent Office Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury Building Soldier's Home Smithsonian Institute Tomb of Washington Mt. Vernon former residence of General Robert Lee Arlington Heights Washington Monument two images Corcoran Art Gallery House of Washington Mt. Vernon. Total of 16 images. These popular souvenirs were produced from the 1850's through the 1870's primarily as a gift for women. Small area on verso repaired with tape otherwise in near fine condition. Scarce. unknown
188648857Slough: Charles Luff Printer & Publisher Observer Office 1886. 4to. 76 pp. printed on thick paper stock. 14 tipped-in albumen photos sepia-tinted from 4.5 x 3.5 in. to 4.75 x 7.75 in. 1 woodcut-engraved architectural plate woodcut head- and tail-pieces borders around text block. Embossed blue-green cloth over beveled boards gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor rubbing shelfwear some very minor creasing still a VG copy. First edition of this scarce architectural & local history of the churches rectory and vicarage of Upton Chalvey and Slough which until the reforms of 1894 were known as Upton-cum-Chalvey. Until 1974 the hamlets were located in Buckinghamshire but are now in Berkshire England. Upton’s Norman Church was begun in 1121 by Gilbert Norman and Henry I by the Convent of Augustinian Cannons at Merton. Of particular interest is that this was the marriage and burial place of Sir William Herschel famed astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus. The albumen photos are crisp and sharp. Worldcat locates 4 copies. Charles Luff, Printer & Publisher, Observer Office, hardcover
1889011518-FFrance: Georges Griveau Printer 1627 1889. Reprint. Illus. by Unknowen. Very Good. Hardcover. Repinted Edition. Reproduction copy 1889 of the 1627 book . Hardcover in cream cloth unpaginated with 26 full page black & white illustrations printed on cloth rag paper . This copy was printed : reproduction for the department of science and art in photo-lithographyby W. Griggs. 1889. Condition : Very Good soiled boards front and back new spine and end pagies reblocked . Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Georges Griveau , Printer 1627 Hardcover
181650317081092Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson Son and Houldsworth Leeds and John Hurst Wakefield Leeds; Wakefield 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Rebound in worn quarter-leather and blue/green boards foxing to frontis and title-page occasional foxing throughout. Contains: free end-paper; half-title page frontis portrait title-page with pasted vignette text 404 pp Directions to the Binder Appendix and Index 80 pp rear end-paper. Packed weight 5 kg approx. Plates are: Portrait of the Author; Monument of Walker and Beckett; Trinity Church; Portrait of Re. Miles Atkinson; Portrait of William Hey Esq. appendix; Leeds Library; Cloister Quadrangle of Kirkstall Abbey from the South West; North West Door of Kirkstall Abbey; Gledhow; Figure of Redwald King of East Angles in Painted Glass at Osmundthorpe colour; Temple Newsom; Tomb of Scargill at Whitkirk; Monument of Lady Elizabeth Hastings; Nave and Ground Plan of Sherburne Church; Saxon Fortification at Berwick in Elmet; Tomb of Lord Dacre at Towton missing; Tomb of the Teutoniei or Tyas Family at Lede Chapel; Earth Work at Bardsey; Church at Barsey Porch and Interior; Harewood Castle with the Ground Plan; Arch in the Hall of Harewood Castle; Armorial Bearings formerly in the Castle Castle Chapel and the parish Church of Harewood; Harewood House; Tomb of Lord Chief Justice Gasgoigne; Porch at Adel; Arch at the Entrance of the Choir in the Church of Adel; Norman Capitals in the Church of Adel; Roman Altars found at Adel; Monuments in the Church at Otley; Tomb of the Palmes Family in Otley Church; Gateway to the Flower Garden at Farnley; Bay Window & Flower Garden at Farnley; Nave and Part of the Choir of Guiseley Church; Room in which the Murder is supposed to have been committed in Calverley Hall; Chapel of Calverly Hall; Tomb of Mirfield at Batley; Howley Hall as it appeared when entire; Remains of Howley Hall; Ancient Doorways at Howley; Swillington Hall; Tomb and Monument of Sir Roberton Waterton; Saxon Sculptures at Dewsbury with a tomb of later date; Sculptured Stones form the Saxon Church at Desbury; Cross of Paulinus and Saxon Tomb at Dewsbury; Tomb of a Thornhill in the Church at Thornhill; Chapel and Monuments of the Saville Family in the Church at Thornhill; Tombs at Thornhill; Arms and Quarterings of Beaumont of Whitley Beaumont; Tomb of Sir Richard Beaumont at Kirkheat missing; Bewling Hall; Celts etc found near Halifax colour; Statue of Archbishop Tillotson at Sowerby Halifax Church vignette; Brierley Hall Appendix W Sheepshanks appendix. Vignettes include: St. Paul's Church; Leeds Infirmary; Skyrak Oak; Charters relating to Chapel Allerton; Cross at Sherburn Church; Arms and Inscription over the Entrance of Harewood Castle; North Elevation of the Church at Adel; Flower Garden Porch at Farnley; Tomb and Monument in the Church at Weston; Gateway at Howley Hall; Window in the Chapel at Liversedge Hall; Statue of King Oswald; Parish Church of Wakefield; Robin Hood's Grave; Chantry on the Bridge at Wakefield;Remnant of the House of the Savilles at Thornhill; Fortification of Almonbury; Miryshaw. Pedigrees inserted are: Sheepshanks and York of Leeds; Dixon; Lords of Harewood; Lascelles Earls of Harewood; Fawkes of Farnley; Duneley of Bramhope; Stansfeld of Stansfeld Hall; Rookes ofRoydes Hall; Vavasour of Weston; Tong of Tong; Tempest of Bracewell and Tong; Lowther of Lonsdale and Swillington; Savile of Mexborough; Beaumont of Whitley; Sharp of Little Houghton Horton; Smyth of Heath and Holbeck Size: Large folio. Single volume of set or series. Contains many black and white illustrations. No dust jacket as published. Ex-library with library plate from Doncaster Reference Library. Library stamps and labels sound binding clean pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: over 4 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50317081092. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This volume is very large and may incur additional shipping fees to all non-UK countries. Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield hardcover
1895011038New York: Aqueduct Commissioners 1895. Hardcover. Good . 104 p. 17 leaves of folded tables 50 leaves of photographic plates 71 leaves of maps and plans many folded some in color: in-text illustrations and tables; 35 cm. Marooon cloth with gilt-stamped cover title and illustration; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Cover title: City of New York Aqueduct Commission Reports on the New Croton Aqueduct Reservoirs and Dams 1887 to 1895. A fascinating detail examination of the construction of the New Croton Aqueduct; some photos include workmen. Errata slip tipped in before title page. A heavy book; for international shipping the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Good Condition: both boards are detached but present; lacking cloth over spine; cover is rubbed with loss at corners; cover is soiled and stained; cover title and illustration are intact and bright; text and plates are clean and tight. Aqueduct Commissioners hardcover
1869007358Munich: Max Ravizza 1869. Hardcover. Fair . 12 leaves of chromolithographed plates; 38 cm. Light green wrapper printed in black with publisher's catalog Technische Werke & Zeichnungs-Vorlager on back wrapper. Wrapper title. Running title: Leichte Holzbauten. A 19th-century owner had it bound with black cloth spine and corners and black paper over boards. Former owner's inscription on front fixed endpaper: "Eigenthum des Tischlermeister Brandt." No date of publication; listed in Bayerische Landeszeitung for 1869. Issued in two parts with 6 leaves of plates in each; all 12 are included here. Adolph Guggenberger entered the workshop of German sculptor Anselm Sickinger 1807-1873 around 1860 as an architectural draftsman working on the altars designed by Sickinger. Little else is known about him. The drawings are of small wood structures -- sheds huts and gazebos as well as the larger Tanz-Salon. Not in WorldCat; very scarce. In Fair Condition: cover is rubbed with loss at corners; wrapper is lightly soiled; closed tear of 2 cm. from lower edge of front wrapper; old dampstain along lower gutter of all plates; heavily foxed; minor loss at lower corners of plates; otherwise clean and solid. Max Ravizza hardcover
1881027568Paris / Poitiers: H. Oudin Freres 1881. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 14 3/4" Tall. 238 Pp. Fine Engravings Pasted In Or Printed In As Issued. Fine Quarter Morocco Over Marbled Paper Also Full Marbled Paper Endpapers Gilt Lettering On Spine And Top Edge All Gilt. Gilt Brilliant. First Printing 1881 Stated Of Volume Iii Of This Finely Made Original Work 14 3/4" X 11". No Names Or Marks. A Few Light Rubs To Morocco No Chips Or Tears Gilt Brilliant; Wear At Tips And Edges Of Boards With Loss Of Paper At Tips Only. Pages Clean Lightly Aged No Foxing Spots. <br/> <br/> H. Oudin Freres hardcover
1891007545New York: Anson D.F. Randolph and Co. 1891. This is a very good hardcover copy in orange cloth boards with a printed paper label on the spine. Covers soiled spine and front endpaper strengthened. Corners worn. Very clean inside. This is number 5 of the 150 large paper copies limited edition. Illustrated throughout in black & white with maps engravings symbols and charts. Glossary. 11" high X 8" wide 202 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Limited/Numbered 150 Copies. Hard Cover. Very Good. Anson D.F. Randolph and Co. Hardcover
1854071521-RNew York: Fowler and Wells Publishers 1854. Book. Illus. by author. Near Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 1st. Edition1854 Revised original red cloth hardcover with gilded blind stamped design and letters 192 page book with 12 pages of the books by this publishers. Illustrated with drawings and plans in black & white . Condition : Near Fine Very Good Plus . Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fowler and Wells , Publishers Hardcover
1877015868London: James Neale 1877. First Edition. . Quarter Bound. Very Good. Subscription only not published. Quarter bound with gilt titling to upper board. Colour title page dedication page Preface List of Subscribers. xii. 36 pages 60 full page plates as called for although not bound in listed order. Appears to have been rebacked at some stage with good repairs to some page edges. Soiling scuffing bumping to covers spine some staining spotting to some edges. James Neale 1851-1909 was in the office of George Edmund Street at one time thence the RA Schools where he was the Pugin Student in 1875 and won the RIBA Silver Medal Drawings in 1876 with these drawings. Uncommon. 15868/637 Size: 560mm. x 375mm. <br/> <br/> James Neale unknown
186039500Parker 1860. 8vo. First Edition thus with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text half-title lightly spotted; red cloth backstrip lettered in black red sprinkled edges covers mildly faded else a bright firm copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the Library of the British War Office and bears its neat stamp on front endpapers and title. VERY SCARCE. Parker, hardcover
18070005807London: Samuel Bagster 1807. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good. copperplate frontispiece. Quarto vii 82 ccli Table leaf clxxxi-ii has a fore-edge chip from the press; half calf marbled boards scuffed very light foxing. With an engraved Baronial bookplate possibly John Henry Vivian or his son Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian member of the Royal Geographical Society inked name on recto of frontispiece the frontispiece caption is trimmed and spotted. <br/><br/>Denon a noted artist and engraver accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt to record the scenery and antiquities. This volume describes the plates of the Atlas volume. Additionally there are important Appendices about the pyramids at Geza Alexandria minerals medicine "Memoire sur le Commerce des Negres au Caire et sur les Maladies ." etc. This British edition with French text is quite scarce. An 1809 re-issue had cancelled title-pages. Note: curiously the printed title-page reads "Voyages" not in the singular as listed elsewhere. Copperplate frontispiece. Samuel Bagster hardcover
1857DEMO015944INew York: Miller & Company 1857. First edition. Hardcover. good. Plates woodcuts. Octavo viii 127pp. ontemporary quarter morocco rehinged edges dampstained. Ex John M. Evans. <br/><br/>With Descriptions and an Essay on Rural Architecture and Landscape Gardening . with a Critique on Ruskin's New Theoretical Principles of Design. A companion volume to Field's CITY ARCHITECTURE. His new designs influenced by genuine Continental specimens. Lacks plate 6 of 20 with other woodcuts and floor plans. RARE. Miller & Company hardcover
188100006081London: Reeves & Turner 1881 399 pages 360 pages Two beautifully bound red leather ribbed bindings marbled boards Very minor shelf wear top of backstrip on First Series volume gilt is fading gently. Illustrated throughout. Reeves & Turner hardcover
1900042940London: b. T. Batsford 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION 1900. A very scarce first edition of this authoritative work on modern landscape architecture by Thomas Hayton Mawson a renowned British garden designer landscape architect and town planner. Mawson was a prolific and influential landscape designer who became the first president of the Institute of Landscape Architects in 1929. Renowned for his stunning designs that blended architecture and horticulture his prolific and successful career included commissions on Graythwaite Hall Langdale Chase Holehird Brockhole Holker Hall and at Rydal Hall. Illustrated with perspective views drawn by the renowned English landscape architect Mr C. E. Mallows and with numerous plans sections and details of garden by numerous other illustrators. This work also feature illustrated chapter headings designed by D. Chamberlain. Overall good condition. Publisher's original olive cloth. Spine cloth heavily worn and torn along hinges. Some stains on cloth boards. Gilt decoration to the front board and spine. Private library mark. xvii 224pp. index. Pages clean. Full refund if not satisfied. b. T. Batsford hardcover
189212168Boston: Ticknor & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in three-quarter leather. The spine ends & corners are rubbed. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Ticknor & Co. hardcover
188716435Boston: Geo. Polley & Co. Good. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth spine with paper covered boards. The spine is badly rubbed and split. The boards are soiled & rubbed at the edges. The contents are very good to fine with just some very minor finger smudges. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 60 pages . Geo. Polley & Co. hardcover