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Roy., 8vo., First Edition, text in English, with very numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams, maps and charts in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
Tapuscrit In-4 - 1980 - 56 pages + 1 tableau + 3 d'index alphabétique - Propre
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous plates and maps in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, small neat contemporary uniform signature on front free endpapers; cloth (grey/blue respectively), upper boards and backstrips framed and lettered in black, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH A COPY OF THE PUBLISHER'S PRINTED AND ILLUSTRATED PROSPECTUS LOOSELY INSERTED IN EACH VOLUME. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of first volume. Published on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the set comprises Vol. I: Kent Surrey and Sussex, 1930); vol. II: (Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London, 1932). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Blythman 165, 280.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; original boards printed in black, red cloth back, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Blythman 445.
Sm. folio, text in Dutch, with full-page diagrams and plans in the text; brown tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. WITH A COPY OF THE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS LOOSELY INSERTED. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1849. SCARCE.
2 vols., sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous illustrations and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: (1987); Vol. II (1989). SCARCE AS A SET IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, numerous photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; laminated pictorial boards, a fine set. VOLUME II IS A LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (THIS COPY NO. 79). The set comprises: Vol. I: East Sussex (1997); Vol. II: West Sussex (2001). SCARCE AS A SET IN THIS CONDITION.
Features: Arizona in the '50's (conclusion) - a paradise of devils; Bear River Loot - Lafe Roberts and train robbery money; Scoreboard of the Raiders - how fast horses could change ownership in 1870 Texas; Lightning Stealers - manipulating a telegraph line to 'peddle calamity' could give men an easy fortune!; Pleasant Valley and Cowboy Flat - a last glimpse of the Doolin-Dalton outlaws before they turned to banks; A brush with death - the Arnett Hotel, Boulder, Colorado; Last Victim of the Vigilantes - Con Murphy; Mysterious Lady of Yankee Fork - Agnes Elizabeth King Hawthorne and one wedding too many, Bonanza, Idaho; King of the Windmillers - Ray D. Knox, installer of 7 in 10 windmills in the range country near Roswell, New Mexico; Miner's Finishing School - Tuscarora; Wild Old Days. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
192 pages. References. Index. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. "With loving dedication, and the trained eye of the architectural historian, the author examines the details of watermills and windmills - once a common feature of the Canadian landscape, but now disappearing one by one from our view." - from dust jacket. Chapters include: Mills in Canada; Waterpower and the Gristmill; Gristmill Architecture; Surviving Gristmills; The Miller; Canadian Windmills; The Sawmill; The Old Mill Today; The Spirit of the Old Mill. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Quality copy of this wonderful reference. Book
Oblong 4to., Third Impression, with frontispiece and hundreds of photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of a standard reference first published in 1985.
pour le vol. I : demi-percaline kaki, tit. doré sur dos lisse souligné de doubles filets dorés, ENVOI DE L’AUTEUR, tr. mouchetée, ex-libris sous forme d’étiquette collée sous le premier plat, (toile lég. passée, mors sup. fendu en queue sur 3 cm laissant un lég. accroc sur dos, coupes frottées, coins lég. émoussés, feuilles lég. jaunies), intérieur frais pour les vol. II & III : demi-chagrin brun, tit. & tom. dorés sur dos à 5 nerfs ornés de roulettes dorées, dos soulignés de doubles filets dorés et fers à froid, tr. mouchetées, (lég. épidermures sur dos, coupes avec lég. mq., coins lég. émoussés, feuilles jaunies) Lors de la parution du premier volume de cet ouvrage, le ... estimait déjà que « cette première partie fait bien augurer des autres, car l’auteur y a traité avec un soin particulièrement consciencieux une matière assez aride et offrant certainement plus d’utilité pratique que d’attrait scientifique. […] On ne saurait […] assez le remercier d’avoir cherché à débrouiller et à compulser méthodiquement tout le fatras des dispositions législatives, administratives et judiciaires qui se sont accumulées en France sur cette matière depuis plus de deux siècles, sans qu’on puisse, à moins d’en faire une étude aussi approfondie que celle à laquelle s’est livré [l’auteur], se rendre compte des dispositions encore en vigueur et de celles qui sont abrogées. » [J.-O. Devigne, Revue de droit international et de législation comparée, 1871, p. 674]
18 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. The run comprises Proceedings of the following Conferences: First (1983); Second (1984); Third and Fourth (1986); Fifth and Sixth (1990); Seventh and Eighth (1992); Ninth and Tenth (1993); Eleventh (1994); Twelfth (1995); Thirteenth (1996); Fourteenth (1998); Fifteenth (1999); Sixteenth (2000); Seventeenth (2000); Eighteenth (2002); Nineteenth (2003); Twentieth (2005); Twenty-First (2006); Twenty-Second (2009). RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE VERY SCARCE.
18 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. The run comprises Proceedings of the following Conferences: First (1983); Second (1984); Third and Fourth (1986); Fixth and Sixth (1990); Seventh and Eighth (1992); Ninth and Tenth (1993); Eleventh (1994); Twelth (1995); Thirteenth (1996); Fourteenth (1998); Fifteenth (1999); Sixteenth (2000); Seventeenth (2000); Eighteenth (2002); Nineteenth (2003); Twentieth (2005); Twenty-First (2006); Twenty-Second (2009). RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE VERY SCARCE.
29 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine interrupted run.
10 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and illustrations, pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean set. Published by the Wind and Watermill Section, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. The set comprises: No. 1. Paul Wilson: Watermills. An Introduction; No. 2. Rex Wailes: Tide Mills. Part One; No. 3. Rex Wailes. Tide Mills. Part Two; No. 4. E.M. Gardner: Tide Mills. Part Three; No. 5. R.A. Pelham: Fulling Mills; No. 6. Kenneth C. Reid: Water-Mills and the Landscape; No. 7. Paul Wilson: Watermills with Horizontal Wheels; No. 8. David Luckhurst: Monastic Watermills; No. 9. Alfred Shorter: Water Paper Mills in England; No. 10. John Rollins: The Needle Mills. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE.
4to., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and plans (a number folding); original brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Crisp copy of this standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
204 pages. Index. References. Exhaustively illustrated in black and white with photos and diagrams. "The first comprehensive account of the hand-mills, water-mills, windmills and horse-mills in South Africa... Traces the history of mill machinery from mid-17th century to today." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon half-title page, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy of this superb reference. Book
xxxiv + 1085pp.+ frontispice (portrait), 32cm., orig.softcover, text in Latin, in the series "Sacra Congregatio pro causis sanctorum officium historicum" volume 62, small stamp, pages still uncut, very good condition, rare, R82495
8vo., Second Edition, Second Impression, with a frontispiece, 30 plates and 36 maps and diagrams in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Darby's definitive history was first published in 1940 with an updated edition following in 1956. This third revision was issued in 1968. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and plates and illustrations in the text; red buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and sunned at backstrip. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Blythman 183.
36 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE VERY SCARCE.
8vo., with large plates and plans (a number folding) and illustrations in the text; publisher's olive cloth, upper board framed and blocked in black, bevelled boards, gilt back, chocolate endpapers (tape scars), uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a standard reference. SCARCE.
32 pages. Features: Firestone ad inside front cover features photo of Harvey S. Firestone addressing 25th annual stockholders' meeting in Akron, OH; A Sailorman Poet - John Masefield; What has become of our Parties? - Coolidge puts last Democrat doctrine into Republican creed; Is the Pulpit a Bulletin Board? - is the preacher a prophet or propagandist?; An English View of American Installment Buying; A Scientist Urges Farmers to Utilize Waste Products - paper can easily be made from wheat straw; Mental Tests Make Us Seem Foolish - because quacks rush in where true psychologists fear to tread; Henry Ford's Page - the dangers of debt; Editorials - U.S. surplus of housing, Abraham Rothfeld is ordered to not reapply for U.S. citizenship for 10 years; Senator Borah speaks like a statesman, P.R. battle over French debt to the U.S., Dictators are increasing in number in Europe, Robert T. Lincoln of the Pullman Company has given the negro 'the only racial monopoly in the world', namely the Pullman porter, sea travel in steerage becomes fashionable; Life Among the Wild American Humorists, as described by Thomas L. Masson; Islam Aims at World Domination - Consolidation of Moslemism inspires Conference at Mecca; A Negro Views His Own Race - the thoughts of Charles Plummer; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 8) - Wreck of the Santiago; Chats with Office Callers - William Lyon Phelps writes article claiming New York stage plays attack Protestants but not Catholics because they are afraid to attack them; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 4) - tales of the time when people traveled for days to see teh circus, and slave-traders followed the show; China's Use of Proverbs; The Stories the Windmills Tell - Joy, grief, trouble or celebration all are indicated by the huge sails which serve as 'Town Criers' for the countryside; A Fighting Quaker of '76 - Joseph Hewes - who led the North Carolina Men in Declaring for Independence; A Dance a Week - Seventeenth Century Minuet, with piano sheet music; I Read in the Papers. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, and numerous plates, maps and plans throughout; green marbled boards, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH A COPY OF THE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS LOOSELY INSERTED IN FIRST VOLUME. Fine set of this monumental study. The set comprises: Vol. I: An Historical Review (1981); Vol. II: A Technical Review (1982); Vol. III: A Review by Parishes A-E (1984); Vol. IV: A Review by Parishes F-R (1985); Vol. V: A Review by Parishes S-Z (1988). Blythman 204.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates and folding map; original pale green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. THE PUBLISHER'S 'TO THE READER' SLIP IS LOOSELY INSERTED. Clarke's classic travelogue covers the windmills of Lancashire. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Blythman 180.
