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1979réf. biblio568Brown covered boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Tight binding Unmarked text. Foxing. Cracks on outside Spine Gutters. An Authentic Replica of the First Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica originally published 1768-1771 Encyclopedia Britannica hardcover
réf. 41558Facsimile . Hardcover. Very Good. Complete three volume facsimile of the 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica with rich brown faux leather binding raised bands over the spine with black and red spine labels titling in gilt. Recreates the original 160 full page prints some of them fold-outs and other various illustrations within. Includes an additional sheet discussing the original 1771 Encyclopaedia. A handsome set the condition is Very Good little to no shelf wear; hinges and binding intact; Volumes I & 3 have some light wear to the spine. A rather heavy set this will require additional shipping charges. hardcover
2010réf. 16759Signed Tony and inscribed by the author to Freda's named cousins with a personal note. Signed again by the author and dated on the title page. No other marks no tears a bit of cornering a slight cant to block. Dust jacket has a bit of edge and warble at spine. Michael Russell Publishing Ltd hardcover
1792réf. 118692à Deux-Ponts, chez la Société Typographique, MDCCXCII 1792 In-16 17 x 10 cm. Reliure de l’époque basane havane, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, pièce de titre maroquin grenat, XII-201-70 pp. Ex-libris Thomas France.
réf. 23918Victorian photographic print of illustration ‘signed’ ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’. The tradition of this annual day of revels at Scotland's oldest university St Andrews is said to date back to the fifteenth century and is said to commemorate the visits of a lady Katharine Kennedy to her uncle Bishop Kennedy of St Andrews every Spring. 9 x 5 cm sepia photographic print of illustration laid down on 10.5 x 6 cm piece of card and clearly made in the nineteenth century. In fair condition lightly aged. As part of the print at bottom right: ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’. On reverse in pencil: ‘D of Fa / K K Day / St A Professors / J S Mill’ The photograph is of a drawing of eight middle-aged men presumably St Andrews professors dancing and playing musical instruments in a semi-circle around a ninth dressed as a tumbler and standing on his head. Each of the heads in the illustration is a cut-out from a photographic portrait laid down on the page and drawn around. The last figure on the left is a skeleton and the last on the right crouching and playing a drum has a serpent’s tail. See image. Victorian photographic print of illustration ‘signed’ ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’. unknown
réf. 12519Eskdale Dumfries and Galloway Scotland. 1855 and 1874. 2pp. folio. In fair condition on aged and lightly creased and chipped paper. The whole of the first page is filled in the same hand in two columns with the first column beginning '4 Cops 1 Peck or "Sleek"; i.e. a sleekit peck - not a heaped one as with potatoes or apples. 4 pecks make 3 Imperial or Winchester bushels. 1 Carlisle Bushel is 4. pks. 1 or 3 imp. Bushels.' The right-hand column begins: '1. Imp. Bush. of Barley weighs 56 lbs. The common sized cart will hold 24 pks. or sleeks: or 18 Imp. Bush: a cart of white turnips will thus weigh 6 3/4 Cwts or 54 Stones . 1 rood of mason work 36 sq. yds. A ploughman's wage for a year is in money say £12 . 0 . 0 A Cows milk - 5 . 10 . 0 65 stones of meal - 5 . 0 . 0 .'. Other statements include 'A potato drill commonly 30 in. wide' and 'In weighing wool Mr. Borthwick gives net weight and weighs a pack at once allowing 4 lbs to every 10 stones as Cast. A packsheet should weigh 12 lbs - most of them - weigh more 12 1/2 & 13 lbs'. The reverse of the leaf carries nine lines in another hand dated 1874 and is docketed 'Local weights & Measures &c 1855.' [Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.] 1855 and 1874. unknown
1910réf. 9032Ordnance Survey 1910. Good. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 15 segments linen-backed. Covers an area from Prestonpans to Oldhamstocks. The area consists predominantly of Silurian Devonian and Carboniferous strata with some igneous intrusions. Ordnance Survey unknown
1924réf. 9031Ordnance Survey 1924. Fair. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 18 segments linen-backed separating at two of the folds. Covers an area from Cambuslang to Grangemouth. The area consists predominantly of Carboniferous strata with some igneous intrusions. Ordnance Survey unknown
1896réf. 9033Ordnance Survey 1896. Good. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 8 segments linen-backed. Covers the south-western part of the Island of Skye including much of the Cuillin range and also Soay. The area consists predominantly of Tertiary igneous rocks. Ordnance Survey unknown
réf. 9035Ordnance Survey n.d. Fair. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 8 segments linen-backed. Covers parts of Stirlingshire and Perthshire. The area consists predominantly of metamorphic rocks with coal measures of the Carboniferous period near Alloa. This copy has evidently been used in the field as it shows considerable signs of wear and has been neatly annotated in various places with names of coal seams and in a few places other sedimentary strata. Ordnance Survey unknown
1971réf. 984N12Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". Unknown. A scarce book on the fascinating and mysterious The Kingis Quair attributed to James I of Scotland. Analysis introduction and notes by scholar John-Norton Smith. A scarce book on the intriguing medieval poem The Kingis Quair attributed to James I of Scotland with analysis and notes by medievalist John Norton-Smith. Published by Clarendon Press in 1971.In the publisher's original turquoise cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains a frontispiece of King James I of Scotland.Attributed to James I of Scotland the semi-autobiographical poem narrates his imprisonment in England from the age of eleven to thirty. James also tells of his falling in love with English noblewoman Joan Beaufort and a dream vision in which he learns about good and bad fortune from Minerva. The poem incorporates the popular Chaucerian style with the original Middle Scots dialect. The result is a fascinating poem that Norton-Smith helps the reader to understand. In the publisher's original turquoise cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in excellent condition. The dust wrapper is bright and clean with sunning to the spine and extremities. End papers are bright and clean with the rare spot to extremities. Marginal dirt trapped in top fore-edge. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
réf. 6400018like new. unknown
1998réf. Q-0715207539St Andrew Press 1998. Spiral-bound. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! St Andrew Press unknown
réf. 42387aafLugd. Bat. (Leiden), ex officina Elzeviriana, 1627, in-24to (10.x6 cm), 280 p. including fine engraved frontispiece title + 1 leaf, full page hw. old notes on first white end paper, browning, engraved book plate on inside frontcover, (a hand holding 3 roses) calf binding on raised bands, gold tooled spine, spine ends damaged, worming on covers, hinges starting, red edges. (Orig.-Binding fragile).
réf. 98780aafLondon, Bayley & Ferguson, 1908, lg. in-8vo, X + 425 p. (+ 1) (music notes and textes), publisher’s pictorial blue clothbound, title and castle gilt on frontcover, spine gilt.
réf. 92126aafParis, Janet et Cotelle, de l’Imprimerie de P. Didot, l’ainé, 1821, in-8vo, XVII + 508 p. / 413 p. / 552 p., rousseurs, ex libris gravé de M. Claye, reliures d’époque en plein veau marbré, plats encadrés par une ornementation en or, dos avec pièces de titre et de tomaison rouges, ornés en or.
2022réf. Gyan-9789358215731Facsimile Publisher 2022. Hardcover. New. 28.94 x 22.59 x 4.56 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2022réf. Gyan-9789358215731Facsimile Publisher 2022. Hardcover. New. 28.94 x 22.59 x 4.56 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2020réf. Gyan-9789358214727Facsimile Publisher 2020. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 4.58 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2020réf. Gyan-9789358214727Facsimile Publisher 2020. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 4.58 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
1892réf. 150311Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1892. Pp. x284last blank frontispiece 8 plates with tissue guards; narrow super roy. 8vo; red cloth over bevelled boards lettered in gilt silver insignia to upper board the spine faded cloth slightly marked; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown ownership name at head of title page a little light foxing small chip bottom edge of lower free endpaper; William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh 1892. First edition. White p. 176; Sutcliffe 2/p. 164. William Blackwood and Sons unknown
1779réf. 57356Rouen, Peter Machuel 1779 Texte en anglais avec traduction française en regard. 2 tomes en 1 volume. In-16 9 x 17 cm. Reliure de l’époque pleine basane fauve, dos à 5 nerfs, fers dorés, XXI + 247 - 301 pp. Dos cassé, coiffes usées, coins usés, mors internes fendillés, intérieur jauni, attaques de vers soutenues en pied de page ne gênant pas la lecture. En l’état.
1772réf. Tir431772 Planche seule - dimensions 38 x 29 cm - planche aquarellée - Échelle en lieux - Le pli du milieu existant déjà sera donc envoyée pliée en deux . Les deux siciles étant la Sicile et le Royaume de Naples .
1772réf. Tir431772 Planche seule - dimensions 38 x 29 cm - planche aquarellée - Échelle en lieux - Le pli du milieu existant déjà sera donc envoyée pliée en deux . Les deux siciles étant la Sicile et le Royaume de Naples .
1990Complet en 2 tomes, 861pp. (pagination continuée) + 2 microfilms, avec qqs. ills. en n/bl, 24cm., br.orig., Thèse de Doctorat, cachet au verso de la p.d.t., texte frais, bon état, poids: 1.4kg., G110192
