Search Results: Technical from Bristow and Garland

London: by B. McMillan, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, 1801. 19 folding engraved plates. 8vo, pp. xvi:164, contemporary full tan calf, narrow gilt rule to sides. Binding very rubbed, spine darkened, crazing to surface of boards, short crack to upper hinge, joints very firm however. Some foxing and browning to text & plates.

Chapman and Hall, 1925. 24-pages of text and 264-pages (mostly full-page plates). Oblong folio (12 x 9 3/4 inches), original burgundy cloth, corners bumped. Hand-written ownership label on front free endpaper. Some staining to lower edge of text block. Weight 1.967 kg thus extra overseas shipping will be requested.

North Canton, Ohio: The Hoover Company, 1923. First edition. 3 coloured folding plates (one badly folded) and photographic illustrations. 8vo (8 1/ x 5 3/4 inches),, 168-pages. Original green ribbed cloth; very good. Name on front pastedown.

London: William Mackenzie, c. 1880. 8 volumes. 53 engraved plates, some double page, 1 folding. Numerous illustrations in the text. 4to (11 x 7 3/4 inches), 1008-pages. Original brown bevelled cloth blocked in black & gilt; headbands defective, one inner joint cracked but held on webbing, corners rubbed through otherwise a very good set. Four volumes with signature and date, 1880. Weight 8kg thus extra postage will be requested.

Louis Cassier, 1897. 3rd edition. Well illustrated. 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 384-pages plus publisher's list/ Original bevelled green cloth gilt; endpapers tanned else excellent.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1889. 30th thousand. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 254-pages. Original bevelled brick red cloth blocked in black & gilt; headband crushed else a very good and bright copy.

Glasgow: Thomas Murray, 1862. First edition. Tinted plate of "Stormontfield Ponds". Small 8vo (6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches), 136-pages. Original purple blindstamped cloth blocked in blind & gilt. Extremities rubbed, lacks rear free endpaper, endpapers tanned. Near contemporary signature & date on front free endpaper. Overall a good copy.

Gauthier-Villars, 1867. 8vo (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches), 236-pages. Calf backed marbled boards, spine gilt and gilt lettered direct; a little rubbed.

E. & F. W. Spon, London,, 1893. 42 plates, any folding (one badly folded). Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 inches), 346-pages. Original blindstamped purple pebble-grain cloth, spine pictorially blocked in gilt. Heabands worn, paper of lower inner joint cracked but firm. Signature on half-title. Generally good.Weight 1.467 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Roorkee: Thomason College Press, 1866. Mounted photograph of Tonse Bridge, E. I. Railway as frontispiece, 51 plates, mostly folding.Large 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), pages:iv:413:ix, original pebble grain blindstamped green cloth. Prelims detached and edge worn, some foxing, 1-inch split to cloth of outer upper joint. Double Island Lighthouse, Ganges Canal, Great Indian Peninsula Railway & much else. An uncommon annual publication.

Roorkee: Thomason College Press, 1868. 47 plates and maps, mostly folding. Large 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), pages:iv:418:iii original pebble grain blindstamped green cloth. Headbands and corners worn otherwise very sound; some foxing. Abyssinian Railway, coloured bricks & Tiles, Dinguree Bridge, Fort Kotara, Rope Bridge over the Chenab, & much else. An uncommon annual publication.

Roorkee: Thomason College Press, 1867. First edition. Frontispiece and 77 plates, largely folding. Large 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), pages: 454: vii (index), original pebble grain blindstamped green cloth. Frontispiece foxed & detached, title foxed, 1 plate badly folded with some wear & dustmarking on blank fore-margin, corners bumped & worn otherwise overall good.

New York, London, & Paris: Gordon and Breach. 1970. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp.1697, original cloth, very good in the original printed white d.w's. The d.w's very good apart from one corner chip.

Leonard Hill, London, 1959. First edition. Coloured and b&w plates. Tall 8vo (11 x 7 3/4 inches), 216-pages. Original black cloth. Ibscription on and tanning to front free endpaper else very good in price clipped edge worn dust jacket. Weight 1.280 kg thus extra overseas shipping will be requested.

London: Ward Lock and Tyler, c. 1880. Frontispiece, illustrations. 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches), 142-pages. Original cloth. Inner joints split, some soiling, binding worn & marked. Ibscription dated 1881 on recto of frontispiece.

Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1907. First edition. Plates. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 12-pages. Original printed wrappers; wrappers foxed. Ink stamp on cover. Small corner loss lower left of upper wrapper.

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1909. [title continued]: with an introduction and note on the perturbations of the stratosphere by W.N. Shaw.Photographic plates, diagrams. 4to (12 1/4 x 10 inches), 55-pages. Original printed blue wrappers. A little wear but generally very sound. Contemporary signature of the geologist H.G. Busk on wrapper.