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Reliure demi-basane. 192 + 192 + 188 pages. Reliés en un volume. Tête dorée.
Hardcover in-8°, 452 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, cartes, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bel exemplaire. [CA27/5]
Broch?. 203 pages. Tr?s bon ?tat.
96 pages. Text in Dutch. Undated but appears to be circa 2004. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Laid-in is a 62cm x 22cm larger version of the military photo shown on front board. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
96pp., 25cm., softcover, good condition, T81377
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a contemporary review loosely inserted. Warrack was ADMS of 1 Airborne at Arnhem. After the battle he spent a fortnight in a cupboard in order to evade capture and eventually made he way back across the Rhine with help of the Dutch resistance. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.152.
Paris, Flammarion, 1969; in-folio (241 x 315 mm), 104 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur, sous jaquette illustré. Collection « les Classiques de l'Art » dirigée par Paolo Lecaldano. Introduction par Albert Chatelet. Documentation par Giorgio T. Faggin. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs. Très bon état.
Boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; Author Waller and husband journey rather abruptly to Holland in 1906, for him to work on his architectural business, for her to write. A decorative book with tissue guarded b&w illustrations ; 8vo; 336 pages
8vo., First Edition, with 5 plates (one folding an captioned in red) and 5 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [SIR] ROY C STRONG WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This valuable reference includes an extensive checklist of Basson's works. Sir Roy Strong (1935- ), historian, art critic and garden writer, was educated at the University of London and the Warburg Institute. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page illustration in the text and endpaper charts in blue; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy With 4pp publisher's catalogue (including series listing) at end.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. With series catalogue preceding frontispiece and 4pp publisher's advertisement at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and endpaper charts in blue; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy. With 10pp publisher's catalogue (including series listing) at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., with diagrams in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Facsimile reissue of the original Doorman edition of 1850. VERY SCARCE.
Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
8vo., First English Edition, with numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The first detailed account of the eighteen chaplains serving with 1 Airborne at Arnhem and their subsequent careers. First published in Dutch in 1998 as a tribute to Kate ter Horst. A pioneer study and a valuable addition to the growing recent literature of Arnhem.
Volumes one and three show spine pieces missing to title and volume info. Wear to extremities ; Three-quarter leather with marbled design, endpapers, and edges. Decorated spines with five raised bands. Originally published in 1856, an extremely detailed look at the founding and flourishing of the Dutch Republic ; 8vo; 579,582,664 pages
12mo; 3 volumes, xvi, 485; xii, 527; viii, 518 pp, index to the 3 volumes. contemporary full calf, raised bands, giltdec, giltlettering on red and black labels, scuffed and wear at edges, bookplates, very good set. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. "A great book . . . for its descriptions. His account of the seige of Leiden is a real classic." (Bob Moore in Best Books)
8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards as issued, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High quality re-issue of the first edition of 1995
8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xxx, 398 pp, 9 plates, including frontis, 2 folding ship plans, specimen pages of Bowrey's diary and sailing directions, 5 maps & charts, including folding, illus, bibliog, index. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt vignette on covers, gilt spine title lettering, spine slightly faded, bookplate of Edison W. Brown MD on endpaper, interior is clean and fine in very good+ cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email The two parts describe in considerable detail a tour through Holland and in India and Malay with all the hazards of travel in that period. An extensive introduction provides the historical perspective and various documents, papers and statements of accounts provide much interesting detail.
8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xxx, 398 pp, 9 plates, including frontis, 5 maps & charts, including folding, illus, bibliog, index. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt vignette on covers, gilt spine title lettering, covers bright, partly unopened, clean fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The two parts describe in considerable detail a tour through Holland and in India and Malay with all the hazards of travel in that period. An extensive introduction provides the historical perspective and various documents, papers and statements of accounts provide much interesting detail.
Non Précisé. Non daté. In-8 Carré. En feuillets. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos abîmé. Intérieur frais. 30 planches photographiques volantes en noir et blanc et 7 pages de texte. Avec une lettre manuscrite. Pochette abîmée. Vers 1960. Amsterdam. La famille royale. Le port de Rotterdam...
500 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. Foxing at edges, upon endpapers and some pages. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy in decorated blue boards. Book
8vo., First English Edition, with 50 plates on 23 and front and rear endpaper maps, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, a good, firm copy . Sold from an institution with the usual stamps and markings. The first detailed contemporary account of the tragedies of the Dutch Occupation and its aftermath. Effectively an updated translation by Stoppleman of De Jong's 'Je Maintiendrai, I & II' (published in London for the exiled community). Scarce. Not recorded by Enser.
8vo., First Edition thus; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small nick at front panel. First account in English of the supposed betrayal through the Dutch Underground of Operation MARKET GARDEN. Includes aspects of the infamous 'Englischer Spiel' by means of which Hermann Giskes played a deadly and all-too-successful radio hoax with SOE in London (Giskes' own account was published as 'London Calling North Pole'). A key study, first published in France in 1969. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.212.
