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1817ref. 26835London: Printed by McMillan Sold By T. Egerton / John Murray Albemarle Street 1817. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition / Revised and Enlarged. Octavo. 2 Volumes bound in one: 1 A NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES IN THE INDIAN COUNTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA SINCE THE CONNEXION OF THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SELKIRK WITH THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY AND HIS ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A COLONY ON THE RED RIVER; WITH A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS LORDSHIP'S MILITARY EXPEDITION TO AND SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS AT FORT WILLIAM IN UPPER CANADA. London: Printed by B. McMillan Sold by T. Egerton 1817. First Edition. Attributed to Samuel Hill Wilcocke - The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography / W. Stewart Wallace. Attributed also to Simon McGillivray or to Edward Ellice the elder - National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Pp. xiv 152 iv 87 - Appendix. Volume 2 STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S SETTLEMENT UPON THE RED RIVER IN NORTH AMERICA; ITS DESTRUCTION IN 1815 AND 1816; AND THE MASSACRE OF GOVERNOR SEMPLE AND HIS PARTY. WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON A RECENT PUBLICATION ENTITLED "A Narrative of Occurrencies in the Indian Countries" &c. London: John Murray 1817. A new revised and enlarged edition with the added "Observations Upon a Recent Publication ." published the same year. Pp. viii 194 ii i - xcx - Appendix 4 - publ. adverts dated July 1817. With a frontispiece map of Part of Hudsons Bay Company's Territory. Drawn and engraved by A. Arrowsmith London 12th February 1817. Bound together in half red morocco and comb-marbled boards gilt titles direct to spine top edge gilt others deckled matching marbled endpapers with binders' ticket T.W. Taylor Winnipeg. Covers scuffed front free endpaper splitting near gutter some offsetting to text and map else very good copy. Printed by McMillan, Sold By T. Egerton / John Murray, Albemarle Street Hardcover
2008ref. 1-039306719XW W Norton & Co Inc 2008. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.00 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
2008ref. Q-039306719XW. W. Norton & Company 2008-10-17. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1976An account of the Arab dynasty founded in 1711 that held the throne of Tripoli for 125 years. Index. 14 illustrations, two maps and an illustration in the text.
ref. 152755368X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 117101London printed by Francis. Leach. for Tho. Horne at the Royal Exchange Francis Saunders at the New Exchange and Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1693. . First edition in English; 2 vols in 1 folio 32 x 20 cm; title-page printed in red and black 11 engraved maps and illustrations in-text woodcuts of 'magical squares' between pages 228 and 246 armorial bookplate to front pastedown occasional mild toning; contemporary full blind panelled calf spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece extremities rubbed a very good handsome copy; 4 144 4 including separate title-page 145-260 pp. A handsome copy of the first edition in English of La Loubère's account of Siam 'universally regarded as the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand' Wyatt. La Loubère was Louis XIV's envoy to the court of Siam. Before setting out on his mission he read widely on Siam and its history. This background knowledge combined with objective observation makes his book a 'magisterial description' Lach. He returned to France in 1688 just a month after the Siamese revolution which saw the overthrow of the pro-French King Narair and ushered in over a hundred years of anti-European policy. Notable for its publication of the "Siamese method" of constructing magic squares and for one of the earliest accounts of a parachute. Mendelssohn 1979 III 43; Lach III 3 1194-1196; Wing L201. London, printed by F[rancis]. L[each]. for Tho. Horne at the Royal Exchange, Francis Saunders at the New Exchange, and Tho. Benn unknown
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ref. 0331667789.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1972ref. 60716East Markham: Tarasque Press 1972. First edition. 60 pp. Very good plus in full leather. The trade edition of this title custom-bound at some point. SIGNED by Cutts on the verso of the title page. East Markham: Tarasque Press, hardcover
1972ref. 42399Notts: Tarasque Press 1972. First Edition. Near fine in a very good jacket. First edition of this small book of poetry by the English writer. Wraps. 16mo 7" by 4.75" approx. Saddle-stapled in white card wraps with printed dust jacket. Near fine in very good plus Dj. Some light wrinkling to jacket. Staples mildly rusting. Bright and clean throughout. Unpaginated. One of 500 copies. Tarasque Press unknown books
1972ref. 60716East Markham: Tarasque Press 1972. First edition. 60 pp. Very good plus in full leather. The trade edition of this title custom-bound at some point. SIGNED by Cutts on the verso of the title page. East Markham: Tarasque Press, hardcover books
1972ref. 57871East Markham: Tarasque Press 1972. First edition. 60 pp. Some foxing to fore-edge bit of rust to staples else near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine dust jacket with one corresponding rust mark to spine. Introduction by Charles Tomlinson. One of 400 of 500 copies. East Markham: Tarasque Press, unknown books
1638ref. 52865London printed by Edward Griffin for John Harison at the golden Unicorne in Pater noster-row 1638. TITLE CONTINUED: or The best way for planting grafting and to make any ground good for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdom of England as in nature reason situation and all probability may and doth appear. With the Country-Houswifes Garden for herbs of common use: their vertues seasons profits ornaments variety of knots models for trees and plots for the best ordering of Grounds and Walkes. As also the husbandry of Bees with their several uses and annoyances all being the experience of 48 yeares labour and now the third time corrected and much enlarged by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the Art of propagating Plants with the true ordering of all manner of fruits in their gathering carrying home and preservation. "The Country House-wives Garden" has separate dated title page with imprint: London printed by Anne Griffin for Iohn Harrison at the Golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row 1637. Followed by "A MOST PROFITABLE New Treatise from approved experience of the Art of propagating Plants; by SIMON HARWARD": caption title page.109; followed by: The HUSBAND MANS FRUITFULL ORCHARDwith caption title page. Pagination and register are continuous. 8vo approximately 190 x 130 mm 7½ x 5½ inches woodcut to title page repeated later 5 plates of knot gardens full page plan of an orchard 2 text illustrations of trees and one small illustration of a straw beehive 4 tiny text illustrations printer's woodcut device to title page of the Country House-Wives Garden decorated initials and headpieces. Pages: 8 1-133 1 last page blank page edges untrimmed printed notes to margins bound in modern quarter calf over marbled boards gilt title to spine new cream endpapers. Pale age-browning throughout narrow repair to outer edge of page 132 outer edge of the orchard woodcut slightly trimmed with loss to several word endings staining to edges of remaining old free endpaper at rear occasional small spot and stain some light old ink scribble mostly to woodcuts see images. A good copy of an early edition. The Country Housewives Garden is the first book written especially for women gardeners. See: Blanche Henrey British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 Volume 1 page 255 listing earlier editions; H. Frederic Janson Pomona's Harvest page 84: "Pomona's English herald was William Lawson the author of A New Orchard and Garden. It is unique and important as the first English entry of note into pomological literature"; Rachel Hunt Catalogue of Botanical Books Volume 1 page 229 No. 209 listing an earlier edition; Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Pomona pages 29-32; British Bee Books 1500-1976 No. 20 pages 46-47; Lt-Col. Walker Catalogue of Bee Books page 44 listing a later edition; F. Poynter A Bibliography of Gervase Markham page 165 also issued as Part 3 of Gervase Markham A Way to Get Wealth. ESTC S93434. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. London, printed by Edward Griffin for John Harison, at the golden Unicorne in Pater noster-row, 1638. hardcover
ref. 51946London printed by W. Wilson for John Harison . to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard 1648. TITLE CONTINUED: or The best way for planting grafting and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north and generally for the whole kingdom of England as in nature reason situation and all probability may and doth appear. With the country-houswifes garden for herbs of common use: their vertues seasons profits ornaments variety of knots models for trees and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees with their several uses and annoyances all being the experience of fourty and eight yeers labour and now the second time corrected and much enlarged by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added by Simon Harward A Most Profitable New Treatise from approved experience of the Art of propagating Plants followed by The Husband Mans Fruitfull Orchard. 7th EDITION 1648. 8vo approximately 190 x 140 mm 7½ x 5½ inches woodcut to title page repeated later 5 plates of knot gardens full page plan of an orchard 2 text illustrations of trees and one small illustration of a straw beehive 4 tiny text illustrations printer's woodcut device to title page of the Country House-Wives and colophon decorated initials and headpieces. Pages: 8 1-134 1 - last leaf is original endpaper printed notes to margins bound in full recent speckled calf gilt lettered green label gilt decoration rules and date between raised bands new black endpapers. Pale age-browning throughout 3 lower margins ragged due to paper fault not affecting text tiny burn hole affecting 1 letter 4 pages at rear have small pale stain to outer margins original free endpaper slightly chipped and brown at edges occasional small spot or mark. A very good copy. The Country Housewifes Garden is the first book written especially for women gardeners. See: Blanche Henrey British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 Volume 1 page 255 listing earlier editions; H. Frederic Janson Pomona's Harvest page 84: "Pomona's English herald was William Lawson the author of A New Orchard and Garden. It is unique and important as the first English entry of note into pomological literature"; Rachel Hunt Catalogue of Botanical Books Volume 1 page 229 No. 209 listing an earlier edition; Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Pomona pages 29-32; British Bee Books 1500-1976 No. 20 pages 46-47; Lt-Col. Walker Catalogue of Bee Books page 44 listing a later edition; F. Poynter A Bibliography of Gervase Markham page 165 also issued as part 3 of Gervase Markham A Way to Get Wealth. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. London, printed by W. Wilson, for John Harison, ... to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1648. hardcover
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2021ref. x-3837652653Transcript Verlag 2021. Paperback. New. 284 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.55 inches. Transcript Verlag paperback
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2021ref. x-1801171246Emerald Group Pub Ltd 2021. Hardcover. New. 396 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.83 inches. Emerald Group Pub Ltd hardcover
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