7 604 résultats
19588vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 15 maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Bennett p.184.
19798vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19648vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Based largely on the Local History collection housed in Hendon Central Library.
19638vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
19788vo., with 17 plates on 15; red marbled cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Good quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1935. Canon Thompson was rector of Hayes 1919-1933. 'The only full printed history of Hayes; useful for parish matters since author searched parish archives fully' (Burch). Bennett p.176; Burch 427 (both recording the original edition).
19708vo., First Edition, with 49 plates, 2 plans in the text and 16 maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19768vo., cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile re-issue of the original edition of 1892, published in Elliot Stock's 'County History' series.
19658vo., First Edition, with a facsimile title as frontispiece and 8 plates; printed wrappers as issued, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
19558vo., First Edition, with title in blue and black, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with School crest, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
1911Roy. 8vo., Fourth and Best Edition, with a fine portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 coloured plates, 7 fine monochrome plates in photogravure, 62 engraved illustrations in the text and a folding coloured map; handsomely bound in full chocolate Chieftain morocco BY SPOTTISWOODE, sides with double gilt frame border enclosing a gilt lotus leaf at corners and a gilt fleur-de-lis at centre, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and framed in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt with gilt lotus leaf jn centre, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, elaborate gilt dentelles, a superb copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The binding is signed by Spottiswoode on front paste-down. The fine photogravure plates are from drawings by Frederick L. Griggs (of 'Highways and Byways' fame). These appear here for the first and only time, replacing four of the woodcuts present in the third edition. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM R.S. DE HAVILLAND WITH HIS SIGNED AND DATED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Reginald Saumarez de Havilland ('Havvy'), Assistant Master at Eton, played a fundamental role in the development of the school's boating prowess. In 1892 he succeeded Donaldson as coach of the famous 'Eton Eight' and in the following year replaced the Eight's previously characteristic short, sharp stoke with a much longer draw on a sliding seat. He presented his ideas (and much else) n the standard work 'Elements of Rowing' (Eton, 1913). Lyte's standard history was first published in 1875 and successively updated and re-issued in 1889 and 1899. A magnificent copy in virtually fine state.
19788vo., Fourth Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1958.
19558vo., First Edition; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 220 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 103). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Scarce.
19818vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
19328vo., First Edition, with 12 plates, neat contemporary signature on title; cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly frayed at head and tail else a good, clean copy.
19118vo., First Edition, with 38 plates (1 folding), 4 plans (2 folding) and 2 maps (1 folding), neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; decorative red buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, bright, clean copy of an uncommon work. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front endpapers. With the binders ticket of Eyre & Spottiswoode on rear paste-down. The standard history.
1885Roy. 8vo., First Edition, half-title lightly foxed; contemporary half calf, backstrip with red leather labels, a very good, clean copy. Scarce.
19568vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text, small signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First Edition, half-title, frontispiece, 16 plates, folding pedigree of Smith Family at end, xiii, [1], 131, [1] pp., original cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, a good copy. Dobbin, 358.
First edition, folio (345 x 245 mm), 23, [5]pp., half-title, ownership inscription on fly-leaf, tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, 3 tinted lithograph plates, 44 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, original embossed cloth, title in gilt on board, covers a little stained.
18168vo., First Edition, some very minor spotting (mainly marginal); original grey-blue boards, vellum back, paper label lettered in manuscript (a little chipped and faded), uncut, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOSEPH STORRS, WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With 2pp of publisher's advertisments of other works (including the revised edition of Hoyland's 'Epitome of the History of the World') bound in at end. John Hoyland (1750-1831), Quaker, writer on gipsies and author of other works, wrote this seminal study as a result of 'observing the very destitute and abject condition of the Gipsy race in the counties of Northampton, Bedford and Hertford'. The work is based on that of Grellman. For further details on Hoyland, his temporary disassociation with Quaker society (due apparently to his romantic entanglement with a gipsy girl) and his involvement with gipsies in general, see DNB. PRESENTATION COPIES FROM HOYLAND ARE RARE. A SPLENDID COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL WORKS ON GIPSIES EVER WRITTEN.
19288vo., First and Sole Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
19048vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates and a large folding coloured map in pocket at end, endpapers browned original brown cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its label scar and press-marks on front free endpaper only. SCARCE
18958vo., with wood-engraved frontispiece and 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, covers a little age-marked else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements, including detailed displays of the King's Schools, Warwick.
19768vo., with photographs and double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout.
1975Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and diagrams in the text, and endpaper maps; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The first appearance of this handy (but deceptively detailed) standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.