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1993x-0849388430CRC Pr I Llc 1993. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 432 pages. 9.50x6.40x1.00 inches. CRC Pr I Llc hardcover
199330142DAS BESTE 1993. 1. hardcover. MEISTERHAFT UND UNVERGÄNGLICH DAS BESTE hardcover
192972977Paris: G. Crès & Cie 1929. Fine. G. Crès & Cie Paris 1929 12.50 x 19 cm broché First edition of the French translation one of 75 numbered copies on Rives laid paper the deluxe issue. A fine copy. G. Crès & Cie unknown
192380046Paris: G. Crès 1923. Fine. G. Crès Paris 1923 12 x 19 cm broché First edition of the French translation one of 75 numbered copies on laid paper the only deluxe copies. A handsome full-margined copy. G. Crès unknown
63614. All in the original printed wrappers some uncut and unopened apart from four issues with covers detached all in excellent condition some signed 'From the Author'. some with the signature of HILTON BARRETT one with the signature of E. H. BEARD. A wonderful overview of the state of the science over 78 years - BENJAMIN HILTON BARRETT born 1897 lecturer in Geology in the University of Glasgow died on June 9 1947 after a short illness. He was a Partick man born under the shadow of the University in which later he was to graduate M.A. and B.Sc and become one of its most successful teachers. Mr. Barrett entered the Geological Department in Oct. 1921 and graduated B.Sc. in March 1923. He then acted for a time as Assistant Demonstrator in Geography and Geology concurrently but eventually he settled down in the Geology Department first as a Carnegie Teaching Fellow and later as full Lecturer. He had previously served with distinction through the Balkan campaign of the 1914-1918 War. E. H. BEARD joint secretary Mineral Resources Division of the Colonial Geological Surveys. unknown
190911118London 1909-1921. Two manuscript volumes: I. 38pp. all written out in a fine calligraphic hand in red green blue and black ink with several illuminations poetry a watercolour of the President and some illustrations in pen and ink. Large 4to. bound in full velllum with painted insignia on the upper cover and tartan ribbon ties.<br>II. Pp.59 written out in a fine calligraphic hand in red blue green and black ink with an original photograph of the President John Douglas decorative initials and illuminations poetry pages on the Detroit Burns Club and its erection of a Burns Statue there. Sm. 4to. bound in full vellum with a hand-painted and title front cover and tartan ribbon ties.<br>Together with a volume presented to John Douglas President of the Caledonian Society of London 1920-21 and Secretary 1909-10 organised by the Federated council of Scottish Associations. It includes 25 pages of signatures of members of various Scottish Associations in London including the Caledonian Saint Andrews Society Burns Club of London London Ross & Cromarty Association etc. It was presented to him at a dinner organised by the Federated Council of Scottish Associations at the Holborn Restaurant on 7th May 1925 “to show Mr Douglas gratitude for his unselfish life work on behalf of the Scottish People resident in London. 4to bound in full red padded leather ruled in gilt and housed in a box. The Scottish Diaspora in London and its collaboration with the Detroit Burns Club in erecting a statue of Burns in Detroit hardcover
265111825-1929. Fifteen partnership agreements indentures memoranda articles of copartnership relating to the London banking firm of Thomson Hankey & Co. dating from between 1825 and 1929.Having traded with Jamaica Antigua and the Leeward Islands in partnership with John Houblon. Captain Samuel Hankey commenced in business as a City of London banker-goldsmith in 1685. The firm prospered to such an extent that his son Henry owned Jonathan's Coffee House in Exchange Alley the precursor of the London Stock Exchange and was knighted in 1732. Its fortunes continued to flourish with the slave trade and by the early 1820s its headquarters at 7 Mincing Lane in the City of London handled the accounts of a number of prominent proprietors of West Indian plantations including William Beckford. As an indication of the family's continuing prosperity the wealth of Thompson Hankey senior 1773-1855 grandson of Sir Thomas Hankey was stated at his death to be 'within province' of the fabulous sum of £140000.The present collection of fifteen items documents the changes within the firm over the course of a century and includes details of business and financial arrangements and capitalization. There are references to estates in West Indies in the following items: One Robert Henry Church's Grenville Vale Estate and William Foreman Home's Waltham Estate both on Grenada an island with which the Hankey family had a strong connection Two Grenville Vale and Eleven Duckinfield Hall sugar plantation Jamaica and Craignish Estate Trinidad.The collection consists of twelve manuscript items - two of which Three and Four are on vellum - two printed items Thirteen and Fourteen with two copies of the latter and one typewritten item Fifteen. The collection is in good condition on aged and worn paper. One of the vellum indentures Item Three is slightly damp-stained and Item Six has been repaired with archival tape.ONE 1825: Memorandum of agreement of 'heads for a copartnership to serve till regular partnership articles shall be executed'. 30 June 1825. Signed by Thomson Hankey and witnessed by Richard Henry Jones. 'Whereas Thomson Hankey of Mincing Lane London hath for some years been engaged in business as a West India Merchant and having agreed to admit his nephew John Alexander Hankey as his partner in his said business the undermentioned heads for a co-partnership to serve till regular partnership articles shall be executed have been agreed on between them and to commence on the 1st. July of this year 1825 under the firm of Thomson Hankey & Company. … The Co-partnership shall assume as partnership debts the amount due by Mr. Robert Henry Church to the said Thomson Hankey on Mortgage of his Estate of Grenville Vale in Grenada and also the amount due by Mr. William Foreman Home of Paxton NB Proprietor of Waltham Estate in Grenada'. Wrapped with the following item in a piece of paper marked in a contemporary hand 'Partnership Agreements'.TWO 1826: Memorandum of agreement between Thomson Hankey and John Alexander Hankey that 'Thomson Hankey Jnr. shall be admitted as a Partner on and from the first day of July 1826'. Signed by the three and witnessed by Richard Henry Jones. As with the last item Thomson Hankey is said to have been 'for many years Trading under his own name as a West India Merchant'. Mention is also made of 'the loan made to Mr. Church on Mortgage of Grenville Vale'THREE 1837: Indenture: 'Articles of Copartnership Between Messrs: Thomson Hankey the Younger John Plummer and William Wilson'. 17 March 1831. 'Deed poll endorsed on George Hankey Esqre being introduced into the Partnership of Messrs. Hankeys Plummer & Wilson dated 29th. March 1837'. On four vellum skins with endorsement on reverse of first skin. Signed and sealed by all parties with the usual stamps and ribbons.FOUR 1840: Indenture between John Alexander Hankey Thomson Hankey the younger William Wilson and George Hankey all merchants of Mincing Lane in the City of London stating the twenty-five terms by which 'they the said John Alexander Hankey Thomson Hankey William Wilson and George Hankey and the survivors of them will become and be Partners and Joint Traders in the Business of Merchants from the thirtieth day of June now last past'. 31 December 1840. On three vellum skins folded and stitched to make eleven pages of folio size. Signed and sealed by all parties with the usual stamps. Mention is made of 'Beaumont Hankey the brother of the said Thomson Hankey and George Hankey'.FIVE 1840: 'Epitome of Deed of Partnership dated 31 December 1840 between John Alexander Hankey Thomson Hankey Junior William Wilson and George Hankey'. Term relating to Beaumont Hankey marked as 'Not wanted'.SIX 1840: 'Memorandum made the thirty first day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty 31 December 1840 Between John Alexander Hankey Thomson Hankey Junior William Wilson and George Hankey Esquires'.SEVEN 1868: 'Heads of Articles of Partnership George Hankey Rodolph Alexander Hankey Richard Musgrave Harvey Walter Hankey. 1868.EIGHT 1868: 'Memorandum as to future division of Shares between George Hankey Rodolph Alexander Hankey Richard Musgrave Harvey Walter Hankey.' 31 January 1868. Signed by the four parties.NINE 1896: 'Heads of Articles of Partnership Rodolph Alexander Hankey Richard Musgrave Harvey Henry Grey Gurney. 6 July 1881. With Legacy and Succession Duty Office 'Memorandum' following H. G. Gurney's death 1896.TEN 1896: 'Heads of Articles of Partnership Rodolph Alexander Hankey Richard Musgrave Harvey Cyril Gurney'. 19 June 1896.ELEVEN 1897 1900: 'Agreement and Covenant supplemental to Articles of Partnership Rodolph Alexander Hankey Richard Musgrave Harvey Cyril Gurney'. 11 January 1897. With ALS from Gurney 24 July 1900 and two receipts both from 1900. 'Whereas the basis of terms stated in the principal Agreement was a certain Balance Sheet including amongst other assets the Estates of Duckinfield Hall and Craignish both in the West Indies the value of the former Estate being therein stated at Ten thousand one hundred and seventeen pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence and the value of the latter Estate being therein stated at Ten thousand four hundred and nineteen pounds three shillings and five pence. … each of the three Partners are satisfied that the said Estates were over valued and have determined that their respective values at the date of the principal Agreement shall be estimated to be Seven thousand five hundred pounds only'.TWELVE 1900: 'Heads of Articles of Partnership Rodolph Alexander Hankey Cyril Gurney Lionel Musgrave Harvey Henry Alexander Trotter'. 2 July 1900.THIRTEEN 1903: Printed 'Articles of Partnership Rodolph Alexander Hankey Cyril Gurney Lionel Musgrave Harvey Henry Alexander Trotter' drawn up by Bompas Bischoff Dodgson Coxe & Bompas 4 Great Winchester Street London EC. 2 November 1903. Signed and sealed by the four parties.FOURTEEN 1928: Printed 'Copy Articles of Partnership Henry Alexander Trotter Christopher William Gurney Stephen Trevisa Sale Clarke' drawn up by Baker & Nairne 3 Salters Hall Court Cannon Street London EC4. 25 October 1928. 2 copies.FIFTEEN 1929: Typed 'Draft BOND of surviving partners Henry Alexander Trotter Christopher William Gurney in THOMSON HANKEY & CO: to secure payments of the share of the deceased Lionel Musgrave Harvey and for Indemnity against the Partnership Liabilities'. Drawn up by Williams & James Norfolk House Embankment London WC2. By this bond we Henry Alexander Trotter and Christopher William corrected from 'Cyril W.' Gurney of 7 Mincing Lane in the City of London Merchants and Bankers bind ourselves jointly and severally to Richard Musgrave Harvey of King William Street House Arthur Street in the City of London Esquire and Adelaide Musgrave Buchanan of Corsewall Stranraer Scotland Widow for the payment to them of the sum of £42000'. 1929. The three partners are described as having 'carried on business in partnership as West India and General Merchants Bankers and Agents under the style of Thomson Hankey & Co.' 1825-1929 hardcover
19232026-S90London: Mills & Boon 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Slight wear and creasing to edges of jacket with slight loss at head of spine and upper corners. Corresponding wear to blue boards. Laid in typed letter from Charmian to an acquaintance in Sonoma thanking them for an invitation and noting how business in Europe and Hollywood had taken her away from home for extended periods. Signed and with a written postscript. The letter is dated May 26th 1931 from Jack London Ranch. A photograph of Charmian in Hawaii taken by Arnold Genthe is affixed to the half title. The negative is held in the Genthe collection in the Library of Congress. 16 plates. 270pp. Slight toning to pages. 8.75 x 6 Mills & Boon hardcover
1910375478London: The Board at the School 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in gilt-blocked half leather. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Library binding with 33 plates including original zinc etchings. Physical description: 8 pages 37 leaves xxxvii leaves of plates; 34 cm. Subjects: Lithography Specimens. Photoengraving Specimens. London County Council. School of Photo-engraving and Lithography. London: The Board at the School hardcover
191710926TURTLES OF TASMAN Mills & Boon N.d. 1917 first English edition spine edges lightened else a vg copy in a vg full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some modest chipping to the extremities of the bit tanned dust-wrapper spine. Exceedingly scarce in dust-wrapper. Mills & Boon unknown
1688GT402gLondon: Printed by Authority 1688. Original issue . original print. Fine. 4to. 2pp. Original single sheet issue of the London Gazette No 2397 dated . Double column layout printed by Edw. Jones in the Savoy 1688. A RARE AND IMPORTANT ISSUE/ A DECLARATION BY THE KING JAMES R. Regarding the Invasion by the Prince of Orange.Given at Our Court at Whitehall the sixth day of November 1688 in the Fourth Year of Our Reign. Followed by a List of Sheriffs appointed by His Majesty for each County of England. The reverse side has List of the Regiments of Foot and Horse that have come with William of Orange as Printed in Holland. A lovely dark impression with a hinge reinforcement to the gutter not affecting the text. <br/> <br/> Printed by Authority unknown
195713846Oxford England: Blackwell Scientific Publications Oxford 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 8.80 x 5.70 x 0.80 inches. Illus. Frontis. Signed and dated by the translator Kenneth J. Franklin "".best wishes Kenneth J. Franklin 5-6-57"". First thus edition; rare copy numbered 172. Also included is a hand written friendly note to a previous owner from Charles Best renowned American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. The book is in Fair to Good- condition without a dust jacket. Red cloth with gold spine lettering and a gold seal on the front board. The boards are scuffed and show fading of the color. There is moderate wear to the corners and spine ends. The binding is square but slightly weak; however all pages are intact. Former owner's name and a small abrasion to the front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The note from Charles Best reads ""July 5/57 Dar Kidd Manythanks for ""The Turn of The Tide"" I enjoyed it very much indeed. It was very kind of you to think of loaning it to me.Yours Charles Best. The note is written on stationary from the Grand Central Hotel - Royal Avenue Belfast and is taped to the front flyleaf.The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Franklin Kenneth J. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford hardcover
183022520London: Townsend 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary green calf backed boards leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Very good. 2 vols. Unpaginated. 15. x 12.5 cm. Lacks title. 184 hand colored plates numbered 493-676 with numerous examples of fashion styles per plate. There is also one dress pattern plate; plates interleaved with descriptive text. The style had a fitted bodice just below the bust presenting a high-waist appearance. The gathered long skirt is long loosely fitted. Costume plates very clean fresh and bright with occasional faint spotting. One volume with armorial bookplate of Richard Pemberton Esq. front cover pastedown and signature dated April 1977 verso of endpaper. Second volume with a host of tissue guards. Binding tight covers rubbed and worn with sections of marbled board designs lacking backstrip extremity wear. Townsend hardcover
1800706631800. Wien gedruckt bei J.W. Degen 1803 Folio 331 x 439 auf 376 x 462 mm. First German Edition of "A comparative view of the natural small-pox inoculated small-pox and inoculated cow-pox in their effects on individuals and society." 1803. "Bekannt gemacht auf Befehlt des medicinischen Ausschusses der königlichen Jenner Gesellschaft in London zur Ausrottung der natürlichen Blattern." Gliedert sich in Natürliche Blattern Geimpfte Blattern Kuhpocken - Geschichte : Allgemeine Eigenschaften. Tödtlichkeit. Zufälle welche dies Krankheiten begleiten oder ihnen folgen und die sowohl von ihrer Ansteckungsfähigkeit als ihrer Tödlichkeit unabhänig sind: Gefahr. Notwendigkeit das Zimmer zu hüthen. Zeitverlust. Geldausgaben. Nothwendige Vorsichtsmaßregeln. Medicinische Behandlung. Entstelllung. Nachkrankheiten. Siehe "Sammlung Anton Mitmannsgruber" im Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München. Sehr selten! unknown
1901AQ24286London: Printed for the London County Council by Jas. Truscott and Son 1901. v 1 30pp ff31-33 34-55pp ff56 57-103pp. With a further 17 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates or plans. Original cloth-backed printed paper boards. Somewhat worn with a split to upper joint at head and concomitantly to inner hinge and marginal loss to foot of upper board. A rare profusely illustrated report of an extraordinary tour of British and European asylums undertaken by William Charles Clifford Smith 1855-1931 Asylums Engineer for the London County Council between 1892 and 1924 during Easter Europe and Whitsun Scotland of 1901. The tour took the author to 'Paris and Dun-sue-Auron.Munich Wasserberg Dresden Leipsic Berlin Uchtspringe and Langenfield.Leirneux.Utrecht Haarlem and Emero-Veldwijk.Gartloch Woodilee Larbert Hartwood Inverness Murthly.and Whittingham'. In turn Smith examines for each institution the history situation building construction arrangement of bathing and kitchen facilities and the mode of heating with occasional comments on the numbers general afflictions and diversions of and the separation by sex between the institutions' patients. The numerous illustrations are variously original 'presented to me by the medical directors' or reproductions of other reports both British and Continental. Whilst the tone of the work is largely as one would expect from an engineer it has perhaps unsurprisingly not escaped from the attitudes of the day; such as the inclusion of the 'Berlin City Asylum for Insane Epileptics'. Rare. Unrecorded by COPAC; OCLC locates just two copies at Pennsylvania and McGill. . Folio. Printed for the London County Council, by Jas. Truscott and Son hardcover
68208London: James S. Virtue 1857. History / Art / Architecture Small folio 34 x 25cm pp.250. Illustrated with twenty-one steel engraved plates and numerous wood-engravings throughout the text. Bound in contemporary half dark blue morocco titled in gilt. Some dampstaining mostly marginal a few light marks within. Binding worn joints starting or cracked in places. Very good. In 1853 the Crystal Palace building was moved from Hyde Park in London to suburban Sydenham. It was set up with a number of permanent fine arts courts Assyrian Egyptian Greek Roman Renaissance etc and industrial courts. Owen Jones and Digby Wyatt were responsible for the fine arts courts. It was until its destruction by fire in 1936 a great center of popular entertainment instruction and cultural activities. The present work describes in great detail the various courts and exhibits both fine arts and industrial. London: James S. Virtue, [1857] unknown
19128845London: no printer stated 1912. CLR passenger map January 1912 edition 28.5 x 35 cm printed in colours text on the verso which includes places of interest connections and ticket information advertising the expected opening of the extension to Liverpool Street in June it opened in July; refolded and with left hand margin tabbed and trimmed for inclusion in a guide book. Similar in style to the UERL common design which had been in circulation since 1908 although with a chocolate rather than a green border. The UERL map gave all lines equal weighting regardless of who owned them to make it easier for passengers to use the network. The CLR on the other hand leaves the viewer in no doubt as to who made the map. Map [no printer stated] unknown
121373London Macmillan and Co. 1895. . First edition; 8vo 195 x135 mm; 39 text illustrations including head and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials contemporary gift inscription to ffep usual age-toning and spotting to prelims blemish to pp 176-177; publisher's blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover spine lettered in gilt all edges gilt embossed front cover unusually bright despite minor shelf wear and small stain to front cover in very good condition; 2 blank 6 238pp 2 advertisements.<br /><br /><br /><br /> The Jungle Book is a 'collection of stories published in 1894; it's sequel The Second Jungle Book published in 1895 contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and more fancifully the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose.' Merriam-Webster's Encyclopaedia of Literature.<br /> Livingston 116 London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. hardcover
1791LONDON005094J. Sewell R. Faulder J. Simco et al London. 1791 i.e. 1800. First edition. Engraved title-page and ninety-six plates three of which are tinted. Period binding of full black straight-grained morocco with raised bands elaborate gilt decoration and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. The engraver John Thomas Smith was Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum; this series of prints issued through the 1790's earned him the sobriquet Antiquity Smith.Scattered foxing. Covers rubbed at edges and joints. Very good. J. Sewell, R. Faulder, J. Simco, et al, London. hardcover
1865638011Macmillan and Co. London 1865. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. - Second Edition - Designed and illustrated by the Poet's brother Dante Gabriel Rosseti - Boards rubbed - Corners chipped w/ boards exposed - Spine tanned w/ gilt lettering faded - Spine ends crushed and chipped - Contemporary previous owner name and a date in ink to preliminary page - Edges of text block tanned - Content toned w/ some light foxing - Book ow/ solid clean and bright - A lovely copy - vii/192 pages No Jacket Macmillan and Co., London hardcover
30517London: Printed for Edward Owen 1744. Folio 310 x 190mm 4pp. caption title typographical ornament headpiece cont. MS note in ink "By W. Rackstrow" disbound. By 1744 the Methodist Societies had become so successful that Dr. Edmund the Bishop of London resorted to anonymous attacks aimed at Whitefield and his supporters. Here he endeavours to prove that field-preaching violates the provisions of the Toleration Art and because of the size of his congregations Whitefield's preaching in the open air was a serious danger to the state. Rare. ESTC & OCLC locates 2 copies in the British Isles BL & NLS and 3 in North America Duke Newberry & Chicago. [London: Printed for Edward Owen, 1744] unknown
195979321959. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. 1959 photo-offset of the long-hand account of the former chief warder of the Tower of London of all those imprisoned in the Tower from Flamburd Runnald Bishop of Durham in 1101 to Rudolf Hess in 1941. ONLY 3 SETS OF THIS VALUABLE RECORD WERE MADE-- and all 3 were presented to American institutions. After the chief Warder's death his widow presented the 2 manuscript books to the British military which then authorized a few sets to be copied in photo-offset. 2 folio volumes 247 handwritten pages. Clean and solid and VG. Bound in 1/2 red morocco over red boards. Bright gilt-lettering and rule to the front panels. A wonderful piece of London history and British criminology and a rare glimpse into British attitudes toward punishment and imprisonent over the last milenium. unknown
192171493The Century Co 1921. Signed by Charmian London in both volumes Both volumes have Charmian London's name to the first pages on tipped in labels. First Edition. Good to Very Good condition. The Century Co unknown
63-7272London: Savoy Hotel 1891. Single Letter sized Page Typed Menu Good with marginal tears. Provenance: Michelin Archives. Collection Guy Legay. Clermont-Ferrand France. London: Savoy Hotel, 1891. unknown
1922052728New York: Macmillan 1922. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Richards George M. 180pp.; HB red w/blk.emboss&red w/gilt spine; slight rub w/lt.'ring' stainbk.cover; slight cock w/cleantight pgs. DJ white w/greenblk.&orange-pic.cover; rubbedsoiled&stained w/1x2"chipspine; ft.flap w/diagonal cuts; Ages 12-15 on spine. "Mrs London has selected this new group of short stories never published before in book form.Jack London's first published writing appears in this book." illus. <br/> <br/> Macmillan hardcover
