Bandoni, Robert J.; Szczawinski, Adam F.MareMagnum
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179 pages including index, references and glossary. "Includes but a fraction of the number of larger fungi known from British Columbia. Emphasis is placed upon the fleshy species, especially mushrooms. Covers Club fungi (basidiomycetes), Gill fungi (agarics), Fleshy pore fungi (boletes), Pore fungi (polypores), coral fungi (clavarias), tooth fungi, puffballs, cauliflower fungus, sac fungi (ascomycetes), plus mushroom cookery and mushroom poisoning." - from Introduction. Includes detailed diagrams plus dozens of excellent black and white photographs. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this informative eference. Book
56 pages. Features: Colour Imperial (Oil) ad inside front cover features old-style gas pumps and bottled oil; Editorial topics include Preserving Balance, The Limit of Freedom, The Limit of Socialism, The Impasse, Adult Education, and Strong Medicine; Nice one-page ad for Waterman's pens features photo of artist Howard Chandler Christy; Travel for the Average Man - article which touches on the tough economic times of the day; Rain Before Seven (short story); Echo of Erin (short story); Modernizing the Land of the Master - great photo-illustrated article on Palestine; The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); The Native Returns - photo-illustrated article on Robert Watson's return to the place of his rural Scotland boyhood; One-page Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; The Birth of a Novel (fiction); Nice one-page illustrated Ford car ad shows stylish coupe and traffic cop; Movie News includes photos of Margaret Sullavan, Douglas Montgomery, Rosemary Ames, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Una Merkek, Harold Lloyd, Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, and more; Interesting one-page Lux ad features photo of gagged man; Palmolive ad includes photo of Gladys Swarthout; One-page ad features several Heinz food products; Two-page General Motors of canada ad says "Progress out of the Common Sense of Canadian Motorists"; Legal article; Investment news; Half-page Canadian National photo-ad features budget vacations in Eastern Canada; Cooking article; World Sayings; Chipso ad inside back cover includes colour photo of Mrs. R.L. Pine and her family, plus her black dishwasher Birdie (Bertha); and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 330 pages, sections include: Reign of the common people William Ellery Channing, Charles Summer, Wendell Phillips, Eulogy on Grant, Abraham Lincoln, etc.
8vo., with engraved title-vignette, neat signature on front paste-down; original cloth, sides with triple frame border enclosing a large geometric floral device all in blind, gilt back, corners lightly bruised else a very good, crisp, clean copy. Berens' account was first published (by Rivington) in 1839 and proved a very useful summary of earlier histories by Burnet, Collier, Fuller, Heylin and Strype among others. It was several times re-issued (commonly undated) by SPCK into the 1860s. Scarce in this edition and condition.
Berlin, Weidmann, 1873, volumi 2 legati in 1, legatura coeva in mezza pelle, pp. XX, 1091 in numerazione continua. Ex-libris Filippo Vassalli. Spellature e difetti al dorso; l'interno lievemente brunito per la qualità della carta. Comunque in buone condizioni.
PARIS, Ed. B. Grasset - 1937 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture souple illustrée en couleurs - 16 illustrations NB HT - 466 pages
xx, 498 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. "Describes the development of the fee tail from the late twelfth to the fifteenth century, and the invention, development, and early use of the common recovery, a reliable legal mechanism for the destruction of entails, from 1440 to 1502." - from preliminary page. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Binding tight. An excellent copy. Book
3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., neat and lengthy contemporary ownership insctiptions on blank preliminary; handsomely bound in full burgundy roan, boards elaborately framed in gilt and blind enclosing large arabesque in blind, back with flat bands, second compartment framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly framed and tooled in gilt, gilt doublures, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, blue endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. With the early nineteenth century trade ticket of Rees of Bristol on front paste-down. The works comprise (in order) Book of Common Prayer (Bagster, 1829); New Version of the Psalms of David (Clarendon Press, 1829); English Version of the Polyglot Bible (Bagster, 1828). A SPLENDID EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY THEOLOGICAL COMPANION WITH CONTEMPORARY BRISTOL ASSOCIATION.
12mo (123 x 75 mm), unpaginated, cont. morocco spine tooled in gilt, with white bone cover with a brass border and clasp, the Christogram IHS in relief on upper cover, all edges gilt, a very nice copy. Provenance: Ownership signature of 'Bella Maia Watson Feb. 11th 1883' in ink on front fly-leaf.
120p. + Plus Frontis and seven steel plate engravings. Title page decorated with an engraving. Numerous text illustrations. Early penciled notations. Some age staining. Tall 12mo. 220 mm. Original pictorial printed boards, worn. Cloth spine repaired. Very good copy. SPACE BOX 7
Unpaginated. One of the most useful "self-health" and first aid manuals ever published. Basic G-Jo is an effective, easy-to-learn technique that brings immediate relief from pain and suffering... using nothing but the touch of a finger! Headaches... back pains... indigestion and literally hundreds of other common ailments can be "erased" in moments using this remarkable method from the orient. Describes and illustrates 116 basic G-Jo acupressure points. Approximately one inch thick. Includes bibliography. Contents as new. Negligible wear to attractive glossy illustrated boards. Excellent giftable copy. Book
12mo., on laid paper; neat contemporary inscription on (blank) leaf following front free endpaper; handsomely bound in contemporary full calf, sides blocked with an elaborate frame panel in gilt including eagles, thistles and flowers, the whole stopped at corners by enhanced crowns, back gilt with five raised bands tooled in gilt, all compartments tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt doublures and dentelles, marbled endpapers, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, one corner lightly bruised else a most attractive copy in period binding. With the half-title; leaves C9-11 clipped at upper outer corner with minimal loss of text. The work comprises 'Two Discourses' [with] (separately paginated) 'Prayers and Meditations relating to the Holy Communion' [with] (unpaginated) 'The Church Service'. Extremely scarce, especially in period binding in this condition. A most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
2 works in 1 vol., 12mo., with wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved and printed titles (the second work with separate printed title), and 47 fine wood-engraved plates, neat eighteenth century signature on blank preliminary, a few leaves closely cropped at margins (but without loss of text); attractively bound in early nineteenth full calf, sides elaborately tooled with multiple frame and decorative borders in black enclosing a decorative lozenge blocked in blind, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments blocked in black, marbled endpapers, doublures tooled in blind, red edges, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, crisp, clean copy.
16mo., small neat contemporary inscriptions on blank preliminary; original dark green coarse-grain calf, sides with multiple frame border enclosing frame all in blind, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, sides with brass frame and elaborate closure clasp, primrose endpapers, blue silk marker, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Edition code: Smallpica 16mo. A lovely, bright, crisp copy, presented to Catharine Follet by Lady Rose.
16mo. small neat signature on blank preliminary; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with frame border in black back with five raised bands ruled in black second compartment lettered in gilt gilt edges gilt doublures black endpapers blue silk With an elaborate presentation label in black leather ornately lettered in gilt on front paste-down. A MS letter from the recipient dated 1874 is loosely inserted. No. 60. Long Primer 24's.
8vo., text unpaginated, text partly in double-column, terracotta endpapers; handsomely bound in contemporary full roan, sides most elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, back with flat bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, terracotta endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably elegant, clean, crisp copy. With the engraved nineteenth century bookplate of Edmund Williams Gilbert mounted on front paste-down. The primary text is presented in a bold, large-fount type ideal for audience address. The 'Companion' is printed by Kaygill for Scatcherd & Letterman to match the edition of Prayer. The Psalter, by Brady and Tate, is also printed by Cooke & Collingwood and dated separately 1819. THIS EDITION IS NOT COMMONLY FOUND IN THIS BINDING AND CONDITION.
8vo., text in large fount throughout, cream endpapers, title and preliminaries (only) mildly spotted; handsomely bound in contemporary full coarse-grain niger roan BY NEW, boards framed in blind, upper board blocked with mitre in gilt, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, rich gilt doublures, a remarkably bright, crisp copy in elegant period binding. Edition code q Pica 8vo. The binding is signed on rear paste-down. With the contemporary engraved presentation bookplate of Coventry Archidiaconal on front paste-down.
32mo., text in double-column; contemporary coarse-grain roan, sides with multiple frame border in blind, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, chocolate endpapers, brass edges with functioing brass clasp, small pull at headband else a very good, bright, clean copy. Edition code Nonpareil 32mo.
8vo., title and text in red and black throughout, three contemporary inscriptions on blank front preliminary, some mild and inoffensive spotting and dust-soiling; contemporary full pebble-grain roan, sides with triple frame border in blind, back with five bands ruled in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the mid-nineteenth century trade ticket of Day of Melton on front free endpaper verso. Bright copy of an elegant mid-nineteenth century edition with large, clear type and broad margins. Griffiths 1842/7.
8vo., on laid paper, top and bottom margins closely trimmed with a few page headings shaved (more so in the Psalter), some very light and occasional age-browning; nineteenth century navy blue full calf, sides with double frame border in gilt enclosing triple frame border in blind, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, board edges tooled in gilt, doublures tooled in blind, yellow endpapers, boards very lightly age-marked else an unusually well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. With a bookplate on front paste-down.
8vo., on laid paper, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some very light and occasional age-browning; most attractively bound in contemporary panelled calf, back with five raised bands, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, covers mildly age-worn else a very good, clean copy with broad margins. With nineteenth century record in MS of members of the Crowther family on rear endpaper.
16mo., some light and unobtrusive age-browning; most attractively bound in black full grained calf, sides with triple Oxford frame in gilt, back with five flat bands tooled and ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with an arabesque, all edges gilt, doublures ruled in gilt, chocolate endpapers, covers very lightly age-scuffed else a remarkably bright, clean copy. Reeves was a Patentee of the Office of King's Printer. The Psalter is separately titled; both Prayers and Psalter are unpaginated. The text is occasionally cropped close at top but always without loss. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF LADY SOPHIA TOWER (NEE CUST/BROWNLOW) AND BEARS HER HOLOGRAPH MAIDEN SIGNATURE ON BLANK PRELIMINARY RECTO, AND THE FINE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF CHRISTOPHER & LADY SOPHIA TOWER ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Lady Tower was born Sophia Cust/Brownlow on 14 April 1811, the daughter of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow and Sophia Hume. She married Christopher Theron Tower on 10 February 1836. Lady Tower died on 21 December 1882 at the age of 71. A CHARMING EXAMPLE OF NNETEENTH CENTURY PERSONAL COMMON PRAYER WITH BOTH MAIDEN AND MARRIED OWNERSHIP MARKS. A LOVELY COPY WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE AND WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING
32mo., strongly bound in black calf, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, boards with brass frame edges and closure clasp, gilt doublures, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Edition code: Nonpareil 32mo. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Roy. 8vo., with title in red and black, text in red and black within red frame surmounted by running heads in red, neat contemporary memorial inscription on front free endpaper, some light age-soiling, one or two leaves with short closed tears, some very occasional annotation; attractively bound in contemporary full roan, sides framed in blind, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, bevelled boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, very neatly recased, covers very lightly rubbed at extremities else a very good, bright copy. With two neatly typewritten lessons (Judith xiii, 18 and Luke i, 41) mounted on blank rear preliminaries. A nice copy of a late Victorian Pulpit Communion with large type suited to public address. A most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
8vo., First Edition thus; original brown cloth boards, ivory cloth back gilt, red edges, covers lightly age-worn as usual else a very good, bright copy. Scarce.
