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1969ref. 148768New York: Blue Note 1969. Amongst the cream of the hard bop crop signed by Silver Signed cleanly by Horace Silver in full in blue ballpoint on the back cover; this album being a very desirable location for the great pianist's signature as Cook & Morton describe it as "more than any other to exemplify al his virtues as pianist composer and leader" awarding it the full four stars and the accolade of "core collection". This is the 1969 pressing of the original 1959 recording featuring Blue Mitchell trumpet Junior Cook tenor Eugene Taylor bass and Louis Hayes drums. Cook and Morton are unstinting in their praise: "The title-track goes off like a typhoon. The ten-bar ballad 'Peace' is one of Silver's most haunting and most-covered themes. 'Sister Sadie' is a soul-jazz classic which other bandleaders were quick to cover. 'The Baghdad Blues' finds him guying various kinds of jazz exoticism. And he ends the record with another version of one of his most durable pieces 'Melancholy Mood'. It's a typical Blue Note a characteristic Silver session but every part of it is powerful enough to transcend what would become clichés of the idiom; and the band all play superbly". 12-inch vinyl LP Blue Note BLP-4017 / 84017 new plain white inner sleeve original inner also preserved original album cover. Very light shelfwear otherwise very good; disc in excellent condition. Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz recordings ninth edition 2008; Discogs website. unknown
18154to [28 x 21.5 cm]; vii, xvi, [17] - 460 pp, 20 hand colored plates including frontis, uncolored plate of ploughs, other illus, 2 engraved maps, tables, half-title page is present. contemporary half red morocco, gilt spine title lettering, covers worn and rubbed, spine head chipped, interior has slight foxing of some leaves, mostly unfoxed, interior is very good and unmarked, nice wide margins. A picture of this book is available up Tooley 286. Hardie 141. Abbey Travel 15. Nerhood 164: 'British scholar journeys from St. Petersburg through Moscow to Smolensk, shortly after Napoleon passed there, June-October 1814. Friendly to Russia, he laments the destruction of Moscow'. The maps are the northwest part of Russia and the northwest part of Europe (including Baltic). The attractive colored plates are mostly views and people including Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stralsund, Tilsit, Hermitage, Moscow, Kremlin, Borodino, Smolensko, Lithuanian Jewess, Cronstadt Boatmen, village scene, etc.
18114to [28.5 x 23 cm]; xx, 491, [i, directions to binder] pp, 3 maps, including frontis, another folding & hand colored, 4 folding tables, 14 plates including 8 hand colored aquatints, some foldout, other engravings , sheet of music, complete, index. contemporary leather boards with newer leather spine, gilt title lettering on red leather spine label, corners repaired with leather, lightly foxed on few leaves, mainly marginal and on tissue guards, very good sound and solid copy. A picture of this book Abbey Travel 160. The attractive hand colored plates are aquatints and are mounted as issued (see Abbey). Tooley (English Colour Plate Books) 313. The plates include views, caldron of boiling mud, geysers, costume, view of Reikiavik, other towns, etc. The author travelled with Henry Holland and Richard Bright, who each contributed chapters. The text includes narratives of three excursions, descriptions of the state of education, literature, laws, government, religion, commerce, as well as zoology, botany, mineralogy, mineral waters, with several appendices giving further details. The second edition of 1812 was somewhat abridged.
1778ref. 6494Turin, Imprimerie Royale, 1778 ; in-4 ; demi-veau glacé havane, dos à faux-nerfs dorés et palettes décoratives, pièce de titre vert-pistache, tranches mouchetées de bleu (reliure de l'époque) ; (14), 359, (1 bl.) ; (4), 55, (1) pp. et 30 planches gravées dépliantes.SUIVI DE : "CONSIDERATIONS SUR LA GUERRE DE 1769 ENTRE LES RUSSES ET LES TURCS. Nouvelle édition corrigée et augmentée de plusieurs notes historiques."
First edition, folio (325 x 255 mm), [22]pp., including list of subscribers, 47 fine chromolithographed plates (3 being double-page), orig. boards, calf rebacked with morocco label lettered in gilt. A rare and finely illustrated Pickering work showing specimens from recently excavated sites, these include Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, Jervaulx Abbey, York, Whitland Abbey, Carmarthenshire, Castle Acre, Norfolk, etc.
First edition, 4to (310 x 225 mm), vii, [1], 164pp., 9 fine hand-coloured engravings plates depicting 128 species of shells, 2 further engraved plates, 2 presentation inscriptions in ink on front-free endpaper, blank upper corner of final leaf repaired, marbled endpapers, contemporary diced russia, rubbed, rebacked, spine gilt. A wide margin copy with the plates clean and beautifully hand-coloured. Nissen, 599.
1961ref. 148819New York: Blue Note 1961. First stereo pressing same year as the mono release signed neatly in full by Silver in blue ballpoint on the back cover. This is a terrific live date from the famous Greenwich Village club with the classic Silver frontline of Blue Mitchell trumpet and Junior Cook tenor; Gene Taylor is the bassist and 21-year old Roy Brooks the drummer recommended by the outgoing Louis Hayes. Silver's always-exciting bands were a mainstay of the Blue Note catalogue in the 50s and 60s the label issuing around three dozen recordings. As Cook & Morton note "it's hard to pick the best of the albums since Silver's consistency is unarguable; each album yields one or two themes that haunt the mind each usually has a particularly pretty ballad and they all lay back on a deep pile of solid riffs ad workmanlike solos. Silver's own are strong enough but he was good at choosing sidemen who weren't too characterful that the band would overbalance". 12-inch vinyl LP Blue Note ST-84076 new plain white inner sleeve original inner also preserved original album cover. Only very slight shelfwear to cover otherwise very good; disc in excellent condition. Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz recordings ninth edition 2008; Discogs website. unknown
2016ref. __1781003874Edward Elgar Pub 2016. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1320 pages. 9.75x7.00x3.00 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
18788vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; 2 volumes, xiv, [i], 355; viii, [i], 348, 32 [publisher's ads] pp, frontis in each volume, with tissues, 2 engraved portrait plates, 10 colored lithographed plates (chromolithographs), other illus & plates, folding color map (tears). original green cloth, pictorial gilt and black designs, gilt spine title lettering, spine ends frayed, rubbed, internal hinges cracked but firm, joint repaired, minor foxing on some leaves, otherwise very good. A picture of this book is available upon req Cordier 5. Herbert 192. The author, who was chief commissioner of British Burma for years, describes all aspects of Burma (now Myanmar) in detail, based on his extensive travels, with much on customs, society, peoples, author's activities as commissioner, climate, geography, nature, agriculture, trade, language, literature, Buddhism, etc. The fine colored plates are mostly of scenery, but also one of the orchid Dendrobium Fytchianum, discovered by author and named after him, and another of the bird Bambusicola Fytchii, also named after him. The author commented favorably on the role of women in Buddhist societies. The dedication is 'to my cousin, Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate'.
Second Edition, folding hand-coloured frontispiece and 6 hand-coloured plates (one folding), 6pp. publisher's catalogue at end, x, [2], [xi] - xvii, [1], 194 pp., contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, spine ruled in gilt, morocco label, a nice clean copy. Accum collaborated with Rudolph Ackermann, "in order to introduce into England the lighting of towns by gas; and in 1810, when the London Chartered Gaslight and Coke Company was formed, Accum was nominated one of its engineers. It is said that the prompt adoption of this mode of lighting in London and other large cities was greatly due to his 'Practical Treatise on Gas Light'. The first two editions were printed in 1815," - DNB, the fourth and last edition was published in 1818. Partington, 111, 827; cf. Abbey Life, 436.
Folio (365 x 255 mm), [4], iv, [2, list of plates], [100]pp., duplicated title page in both English and French, 50 hand-coloured acquatint plates each with a leaf of descriptive text in both English and French, the plates are vibrant and nice and clean, fly-leaf ceased, cont. straight-grain rust red morocco, covers tooled with a wide rolled decorative border, matching tooled lozenge within, culminating in a ornately tooled central circle, spine divided into seven compartments by six raised bands, two lettered direct, with rest gilt tooled extra, all edges gilt, covers lightly spotted and faded, corners a little bumped, but overall a very ornate and handsome binding. A later reprint with several plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819. "Early copies are on paper watermarked prior to 1804, and contain an Introduction in English and French on twelve pages, later omitted."?Abbey. Provenance: With the Panshanger engraved bookplate of Francis Thomas de Grey, 7th Earl Cowper, to front paste-down. Abbey, Travel I, 71; Colas, 2112; Lipperheide, 831.
ref. 18033Album IN 8 oblong 21,5 x 29 cm recouvert de soie rouge,reunion de 9 planches aquarelles et gouaches originales scenes populaires de Chine,sur papier de “riz”,doublé par papier vergé et encadré par ruban bleu,coloris frais. A set of 9 watercolour and gouache studies on pith paper. Dimensions: 175 by 250mm.,c. 1845-1855
1962ref. 148780New York: Blue Note 1962. The one that started it all Signed cleanly by Horace Silver in full in blue ballpoint on the back cover. On its original release in 1956 this had some claim to be the proto-hard bop album Cook and Morton commenting that it "might be the one that started it all" and is "still fresh smart but versed in the new language". This is the 1962 pressing of an album that "sets out Silver's own expertise: a crisp chipper but slightly wayward style idiosyncratic enough to take him out of the increasingly stratified realms of bebop piano. Blues and gospel-tinged devices and percussive attacks give his methods a more colourful style and a generous good humour gives all his records an upbeat feel" ibid. 12-inch vinyl LP Blue Note BLP-1518 new plain white inner sleeve original inner also preserved original album cover. Light signs of handling shallow running split at head of spine yet still very presentable; disc in excellent condition. Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz recordings ninth edition 2008; Discogs website. unknown
First edition, folio, lithographic title and 6 tinted lithographic plates by Day and Haghe after Frankland, some foxing to plates, presentation copy from the author to Lord Wenlock inscribed in pencil at head of title dated 1849, armorial bookplates of Lord Wenlock and Douglas Peter Crossman, cont. calf, rather worn, corners rubbed through, spine defective at head, joints cracked. The scarce suite of plates illustrated the six motions of the horse: 'Walking', 'Ambling', 'Trotting', 'Cantering', 'Galloping', and 'Leaping'. Mellon/Podeschi, 170; Not in Abbey or Huth.
2024ref. SBBI-mon0000137001Rock the Boat 2024. paperback. Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Rock the Boat paperback
2009ref. SBBIH-UBETV73HTVMYHWW Publishing 2009. paperback. Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. HWW Publishing paperback
2001ref. CBS-9780443065354Elsevier 2001. New. Elsevier unknown
2001ref. CBS-9780443065354Elsevier 2001. New. Elsevier unknown
1994ref. 23242Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Editions 1994. 1st. Soft cover. Fine. 10.6x8.4x1.4in. Illustrated with 3992 photographs of hallmarks of manufacturers of gold and silver works in Paris and the Seine for the period 1838-1875. Contains an index of symbols an index of surnames and an index of Paris street names. The Brumaire Law of Year VI 1797 the basis of the legislation on hallmarks still in force today is presented in its entirety in facsimile. Text in French. 410pp 3.90lb 10.6x8.4x1.4in Imprimerie Nationale Editions paperback
1939ref. 66180Pittsburgh:: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 1939. publisher's limp pebbled post-binder stamped in silver. Minor chipping and edgewear to corners of mounts; rounded corners; front hinge repaired. Folio. Each sample is removable and identified with the manufacturer's decal. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., unknown
First Edition, folio (470 x 290 mm), [5], 6-60pp., 10 engraved plates (4 folding on 2 sheets joined) after A. Fyfe and Thomas Donaldson, plates II and III with short tears not touching the image, plate V a little creased with short closed tears, nineteenth-century half calf, rubbed, covers detached. This was "The first serious study of this subject and the most original anatomical work by the greatest of the Monro dynasty." It contains the first full anatomical description of the sacs between the tendons and bones which Albinus had named the bursae mucosae. They are illustrated on the ten plates "which for explicit clarity and accuracy have not been improved upon." (Heirs of Hippocrates 1011). The plates depict the foot, various joints including the knee and hip, and four of the plates are life-sized representations of the entire arm and leg. Monro secundus' earlier publications were largely polemical, and it was not until he had been teaching for twenty-five years that his three main contributions to medical literature appeared. Monro's Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System (Edinburgh, 1783), a massive text and atlas on human and comparative neurology, is Monro's greatest work. His Description of All the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body... was a practical manual for direct use in surgery. Although next to nothing was known of germ life at that time, Monro's acute observation and independent empirical judgement led him to the conclusion that the chief danger of infection in surgery of joints lay in exposure to the air. Garrison-Morton, 399.2; Blake, p.309; Heirs of Hippocrates 1011; Wellcome, IV, p.156. Russell, British anatomy, 613. Taylor, The Monro Collection, M170.
First edition, 4to (260 x 160 mm), xx, 112 fine hand-coloured engraved plates (a little browned), each with a accompanying leaf of descriptive text, orig. green blind-stamped cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, uncut. Sweet's highly decorative guide to the cultivation of the Rock-rose or Cistus. Originally issued bimonthly in parts, each plate shows a single variety of cistus or rock-rose and is accompanied by text giving a taxonomic description and instructions for the plant's cultivation. Provenance: The Edge Hall Library, signed by Charles Wolley-Dod on front paste-down. Nissen, 1922; Dunthorne, 294; Great Flower Books, p. 77.
ref. BOS-V-10j-01567The University of North Carolina Press. Used - Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price! The University of North Carolina Press unknown
1610in-4° pp. [8], 86 Legatura in piena pelle marrone
1970ref. 6225Paris, Les Heures Claires, 1970 ; trois tomes, petit in-4, en feuilles, couvertures illustrées rempliées, chemise-étui d'éditeur illustrées en rose et or ; 177 ; 165 ; 163, (7) pp. ; 64 illustrations en couleurs d'Henry Lemarié, nombreux petits culs-de-lampe dessinés par le même.
