Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bow Windows Bookshop

London: Erskine Macdonald, Ltd., 1921.. Sole edition. 8vo. 89, (1) pp. Publisher's grey boards, dark blue lettering to the spine and upper board, ownership inscription dated 1928 to the front free endpaper, dust jacket illustrated to the upper panel in a style similar to that of Aubrey Beardsley. Illustrated title page replicating the same design as the jacket. Tanning to the jacket, else very good.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1858.. First British edition. 8vo. vi, 369, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped beaded pink cloth, gilt to the spine. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Spine sunned, else very good. First published by William Curry in Dublin in 1845.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1875.. Sole edition, 8vo, (viii), 171, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red quarter morocco, t.e.g., red cloth sides, a fine copy.

Lodz: Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi [in association with] Centrum Rzezby Polskiej w Oronsku, 1998.. 4to. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's printed card covers. Illustrated throughout, occasionally in colour. Very good.

Brighton: James Walser, 1898.. 8vo. 244 pp. Contemporary dark green morocco, gilt lettered to the spine, local ownership inscription to the front flyleaf with a note underneath stating the book had been given to that owner along with a painting by the author. Superficial cracking to the upper joint though it remains sound, else very good. A scarce Brighton imprint with no other copies of this work traced on Library Hub or OCLC.

4to, (171)-181, (1) pp. 3 plates, text leaves unopened. Recent cloth. "Mantell's youngest son, Reginald..., collected the... fossils from cuttings and excavations made in association with the laying of the Great Western Railway. They establish, contra Owen, that the belemnoteuthis and belemnite are distinct". Dean 202. Published in the Philosophical Transactions.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company [et al], 1818.. Sixth edition, 8vo, xxxii, 223, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Attractively bound in modern gilt titled half morocco, marbled sides.

London: Printed by W. Nicol, 1826.. First edition, 4to, (ii), 391, (1), xviii, (2) pp. Unopened in the original blue paper wrappers, spine with some loss and a modern paper label. A remarkable survival. Having collaborated with William Herschel two years earlier on a similar Phil. Trans. publication of 380 stars, South took his telescope to Paris for these measurements, 160 of which were new. It won him the Royal Society's Copley medal and secured his position as a founding member of the Royal Astronomical Society.

London: Printed for T. Payne, 1777.. Fourth edition, 8vo, (viii), 257, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary calf with some wear, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. An important and popular early work on English gardening, originally published in 1770.

London: Herbert Press, 1996.. First edition. 4to. xvi pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by Bown to the late politician Mo Mowlam "with admiration and warm wishes". 112 black and white photographic plates. A few minor marks to the cloth along the lower edges, the jacket a trifle soiled, very good overall. A wonderful retrospective of this celebrated photographer's work for the Observer newspaper, contributing many iconic portraits over 50 years.

Londini [London]: Ex Officina B.R. Howlett, 1813.. 8vo, (iv), 130 pp. 20 engraved head and tail pieces. Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., marbled sides, extremities a little worn.

London: Burns and Oates, [1907].. First edition, 8vo, 8 pp. Original printed wrappers, some mild browning and a few marks.

London: Duckworth & Co., 1923.. First edition. 8vo. 20, (4) pp. Publisher's drab boards, lettered and decorated in blue to the upper cover. Frontispiece and 11 illustrations including title vignette. Tanning to the spine and light marking to the boards, occasional mild edge wear.

Cologne: Markus Schaden, 2007.. First edition. Square 4to. Publisher's glossy white printed card covers. 60 photographic plates. Very good.

The Art Institute of Chicago; Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; London: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Thames and Hudson, (1994).. First edition, 4to, 464 pp. Numerous illustrations, many in colour. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy.

University of Nebraska Press, (2011).. First edition, large 8vo, xvii, (i), 381, (3) pp. Cloth, d.w., small hole to the upper wrapper otherwise an excellent copy.

Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1687.. Fifth impression, 12mo, (xii), 309, (1) pp, lacking a final blank. Vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre to title page, contemporary inscription to the half title with another of a similar vintage mostly obscured to the fly leaf verso. Contemporary sheep with some wear, recently rebacked. Master of University College, Walker had been forced to travel during the interregnum and continued his travels during the restoration as well as publishing a number of books. Declaring himself a Catholic during James II's reign, he lost his status once more after the Glorious Revolution. ODNB describes him as "...one of the most productive scholars of Restoration Oxford", adding "his ghost is reputed to haunt staircase 8 of University College". Wing W403. First published 1672.

[n.p.], 2014.. Sole edition, 4to, (ii), 228 pp. Numerous illustrations, a few in colour. Cloth, d.w. with a couple of minor marks otherwise a very good copy.

London, 1948.. 4to, 580 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cream leatherette boards, a few minor marks.

Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, (1980).. First edition, folio, lix, (i), 285, (1) pp. Photographic frontispiece and facsimile examples in the text. Original buckram, card slipcase, an excellent copy.