The Mystery Rivers of Tibet : a description of the little-known land where Asia's mightiest rivers gallop in harness through the narrow gateway of Tibet, its peoples, fauna, & flora by Ward, F. Kingdon

London: Virture & Co., 1872. Comprised in Four Papers by: F.E. Hulme; S. J. Mackie, J. Glaisher and Robert Hunt Reprinted from the Art-Journal Virture & Company; London; 1872 Contents are: The Adapability of our Native Plants to the Purposes of Ornamental Art by F. Edward Hulme, F.L.S, F.S.A. (The author is also contemporarily credited as Frederick Edward Hulme.) Mr. Hulme is also the author of the Preface. Sea-Weeds as Objects of Design by S.J. Mackie, F.G.S, F.S.A. The Crystals of Snow as Applied to the Purposes of Design by James Glaisher, F.R.S. The Symmetrical and Ornamental Forms of Organic Remains by Robert Hunt, F.R.S. (Think sea shells as "organic remains." 8vo sized decorative brown cloth boards with black and gilt designs and titles and bevelled edges. Sewn binding. Gilt edges all around. 212 toned pages with numerous black and white woodcut illustrations. A several-pge publisher's catalogue of other works follows. Dark green endpapers and rare… Read More

Slight losses to edges of Mylar protected dust jacket. Otherwise, a very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 89 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Works Projects Administration, 1939. Softcover. Good. The hard-to-find Volume 13, Minstrelsy, of the notable ca. 1939 WPA San Francisco Theater Research series. This volume presents an extensive history of regional San Francisco minstrelsy from its earliest days. Illustrated with 19 historical photos of performers, some in blackface. Contents include discussions of blackface. Numerous appendices. Scarce. 301 pp. 10 3/4" x 8 3/8". Tight, unmarked copy with light shelf wear and minor loss to bottom right corner of front panel. Light staining along margins of front panel spine and bottom. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

An attractive, didactic children's book very probably written in 1844 by the Swiss (Geneva) wife of the "co-author", a Protestant Pasteur -Pasteur de l'église réformée evangelique- telling the story of a boat trip up the Rhône river, from Avignon to Geneva. viii + 203 pp. The unusual cover page is composed of a series of vignettes.Free postal delivery worldwide.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: very good- First Edition. 227 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated front board. Pages have no marks or tears, Spine worn no dust jacket

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very bright, clean copy. Original dustwrapper with one small chip and a couple of small closed tears, otherwise a better than very good example. Overall a very good copy.

It's not ofter that you find two original volumes published / printed in 1726. Overall, these titles are in V Good condition and 100% legible ( albeit with Olde English spelling ) The titles are leather bound (spines and corners) with printed board covers.
A previous owner has pasted additional pages at the start of Volume 1 and pasted various newspaper clippings and hand written texts relevant to the themes of Mr Toland dated through the 1800's further enhancing the value of the set.
John Toland (30 November 1670 – 11 March 1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Born in Ireland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leiden and and was influenced by the philosophy of John Locke.
His first, and best known work, Christianity Not Mysterious (1696), opposed hierarchy in both church and state. In Ireland, copies were burned by the public hangman,… Read More

London: Trustees of the British Natural History Museum. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner name stamped on front endpaper and . title page, title page foxed, jacket lightly soiled and faded at spine.. 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth. xvii, 418pp + fold-out map. Correction slips, color plates, acknowledgments, black and white illustrations, figures, gazetteer, index, and fold-out map. A great deal of information widely scattered throughout books and scientific journals in several languages is herein gathered together for the first time; the comparatively rich British Museum material is brought under review; illustrations of many original types, mostly hitherto unfigured, are provided; and comments furnished upon those original descriptions which seem inadequate or even inaccurate. (from the preface) ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Black calf spine with gilt banding. Black textured boards with gilt title on the front board.

The text is illustrated with Forty-One (41) illustrations of various sizes by J. R. Weguelin. First published in 1842, this QUITE SCARCE JACKETED volume presents great Roman tales here retold by Thomas Babington Macaulay (also known as Lord Macaulay). In four of these, Macaulay recounts in poetic form four heroic episodes from early Roman lore with strong dramatic and tragic themes. Macaulay also included two poems inspired by more recent history: Ivry and The Armada. The narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay, are titled "Horatius" [which describes how Publius Horatius and two companions, Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius, hold the Sublician bridge, the only span crossing the Tiber at Rome, against the Etruscan army of Lars Porsena, King of Clusium, each of them willing to die in order to prevent the enemy from crossing the bridge, and sacking the otherwise ill-defended city.] "The Battle of Lake Regillus" [which celebrates the Roman victory over the Latin League at the Battle of… Read More