Search Results: Authors starting with A from Flamingo Books

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. Good. 1932 Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons (London), 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches tall black embossed hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, green lettering to front cover and spine, color and gilt frontispiece, copiously illustrated with black-and-white drawings, 143 pp. plus publisher's ads. Very slight rubbing to covers. Slight soiling and tiny Van Nuys bookstore stamp to lower margin of blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a moderately soiled , chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP07~ Instruction in the development of the right use of materials, sound construction and good proportion, and in 'the formation of good taste in decoration as well as illustrating the most suitable methods of applying fitness for purpose to all forms of craftwork.' Contents: The Meaning of Design; The Influence of the Material; The Influence of the… Read More

The Catholic Record Society. Paperback. Very Good. 1990 first edition Catholic Record Society (Leconfield, England), printed at Hobbs the Printers Ltd., Southampton, England, 6 x 9 1/2 inches tall paperbound in white slick wraps, 145-304 pp. This issue was removed from an annual bound volume of issues, so there are perforations to the spine edge and the lettering to the spine is not visible. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Volume 20, Issue No. 2 of the journal Recusant History, issued October 1990 by the Catholic Record Society, a journal of research in Post-Reformation Catholic history in the British Isles. Articles in this issue: Jerusalem and Albion: Ralph Buckland's 'Seaven Sparkes of the Enkindled Soule'; Richard Smith's Gallican Backers and Jesuit Opponents, Part III: The Continuation of the Controversy, 1631-c.1643, by Anthony F. Allison; Priests and Patrons in the Eighteenth Century; St. Alban's College, Valladolid and the Events of 1767; A… Read More

Geological Survey of India, 1922-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1922 First edition, Geological Survey of India (Calcutta, India) 7 x 10 inches softbound in tan wraps, paginated vii, 129-189 plus plates 27-41, in back of volume four large, folding maps/diagrams, one in color. Lower tip of booklet is bumped, with edge-creasing to all pages. Author name, identification number and Cornell University Geology Department emboss stamp to front cover. Creasing to back cover. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean and unmarked.~~SP08~~

A Igreja De Jesus Cristo Dos Santos Dos Ultimos Di. Very Good. In Portuguese. Leather bound. 1967 Centro Editorial Brasileiro (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 5 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards over full leather (polished tree calf) spine and tips, four raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, xii, [1], 418, 79 pp. Very slight edgewear to covers. Prior owner name in gilt lettering to lower leather tip of front cover. Tiny binder's label to top margin of front free-endpaper. Ink prior owner name to top margin of half title page. Very slight creasing to a few upper page tips. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare Portuguese issue of these important Mormon titles, in a stunning leather binding. OCLC (No. 34138084) locates only two copies at institutions worldwide - at Princeton University and at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, Idaho. ~D~ [2.0P] In Portuguese. Two key works in the scriptural canon of the… Read More

Geological Survey of India, 1937-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1937 First edition, Geological Survey of India (Calcutta, India) 7 x 10 1/4 inches tall x 1/2 inches thick book, paperbound with thick card covers, vii, 279pp. plus 23-page index also full-page plates 7-23 and 26 page listing of the title in the geological survey of India Series, included a set of six large folded plates and maps, two in full color, in a pocket at the rear of the volume. Covers are quite soiled, rubbed, edgeworn and stained, with an Engineering Society Stamp to front cover. Some staining to a couple of pages, especially the blank rear free-endpaper. Chipping to covers, especially along the spine. Otherwise, a very good copy which is complete.~~SP08~~

Brill, 1978. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1978 Brill (Leiden, The Netherlands), 8 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches tall embossed green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with a color frontispiece and 151 full-page black-and-white and color plates, xxxiv, 729 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a small bit of light staining to the upper margin of the front cover and mild sun fading to spine. Small ink (purchase) date to lower margin of front pastedown. Blind emboss name stamp to lower margin of title page from the prior owner, Dr. Jim Dolan, who served as General Curator at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park for decades. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~H~ [6.0P] A major contribution to South American mammalogy. Covers the 11 orders, 36 families, 112… Read More

Ellis Horwood Ltd, 1982. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 1982 Ellis Horwood Ltd. (Chichester, West Sussex, England), 7 x 9 3/4 inches tall glossy pictorial hardcover, green endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings, 192 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Slight to moderate staining / foxing to page edges. Prior owner name in ink to top margin of green front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~JJ~ [2.0P] During the past two decades, the importance of calcareous nannofossils - both for highly accurate biostratigraphy in late Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits and as contributors to the formation of sediment has come to be widely recognized. This comprehensive work - the Nannofossil Index - is the third in a series sponsored by the British Micropalaeontological Society. Abbreviated Contents: Lower Cretaceous Ryazanian to Albian calcareous nannofossils; Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian to Campanian calcareous… Read More

Academic Press, 1977. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Volumes 1-2, complete. 1977 Academic Press (London), two 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall embossed blue buckram cloth hardcovers, no dust jackets, gilt lettering to spines, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps and drawings, [v.1] xii, 808, 29; [v.2] x, 809-1453, 36 pp. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with sun toning to spines and very mild bumping to a couple of tips. Slight soiling and foxing to page edges. Slight foxing to front and rear endpapers and title page of Volume 2. Otherwise, a very good to near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP09~ [7.5P] An important review of oceanic micropalaeontology, focusing on planktonic foraminifers, pteropods, radiolarians, calcareous nannoplankton, dinoflagellates, and silicoflagellates, as well as computerized biostratigraphy, oxygen-isotope studies, and oceanic… Read More

Chapman and Hall. Very Good. No date, but a turn-of-the-century issue, denominated on the half title 'The Books of The Verulam Club,' Chapman and Hall, Ltd. (London), printed by Ballantyne & Company, Ltd. (London) and finely bound in gilt ruled half vellum and red cloth, 6 x 7 3/4 inches tall, with an intricate gilt design and gilt lettered red leather label to spine, top page edges gilt, fore and bottom page edges untrimmed, grey endpapers, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, finely printed on laid paper, [6], 292, [2] pp. Covers mildly rubbed and stained. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright, unmarked and solidly bound - and an extremely handsome example of turn-of-the-century fine binding in England. Produced by the bibliophile society The Verulam Club, named after Sir Francis Bacon, who was knighted in 1603, being the first scientist to receive a knighthood, and created Baron Verulam in 1618 (which peerage became extinct upon his death in 1626 without issue). Chapman and… Read More

Presso l'Erede di Niccolo Pezzana, 1775-01-01. Leather Bound. Good. In Italian. 1775 Presso l'Erede di Niccolo Pezzana (Venice, Italy), 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches tall full leather bound, four raised bands to spine, gilt-ruled boards, engraving of Christ with his cross to title page, engraved printer's devices, text with engraved border, 432 pp. Covers stained, rubbed and edgeworn. Minor worming to upper margin of first six leaves, not affecting text. Page edges stained. A few pages with creased tips. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce edition. OCLC locates only one copy, at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris. ~KMP~ A translation by Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal Enrico Enriquez (1701-1756), with the addition of devotional aspirations from St. Francis de Sales. The Imitation of Christ was written (or at a minimum, transcribed) by Catholic monk Thomas Kempis (circa 1380-1471), as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town… Read More

Apud Corn. ab Egmond, 1644-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. In Latin. 1644 Apud Corn. ab Egmond (Cologne, Germany), 2 1/4 x 3 5/8 inches tall x 1 1/4 inches thick, near-miniature, full period vellum binding, all page edges red, engraved title page with full-page engraving of Kempis on verso, [32], 534, [9] pp., complete. The vellum binding is characteristically grubby, edgeworn and chipped, especially lower backstrip. Lower band is broken, but the binding is quite solid. Eighteenth century prior owner names, one inked out, to front free-endpaper. Title page/frontispiece leaf is lacking a 1 3/8-inch diagonal chip to lower tip, which clips the lower edge of the title page engraving but does not interfere with the frontispiece overleaf. Very light soiling to the lower margin of most pages in the first half of the book. Light staining to fore margin of last dozen or so pages of the book, and the last printed page - the last page of the end table of contents - has creasing to the right side of the page.… Read More

H. Fitzpatrick. Good. 1803 H. Fitzpatrick (Dublin, Ireland), 3 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches tall red full leather bound, gilt-ruled boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles framing marbled pastedowns, [4], 388 pp. Moderate to heavy soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Cracking to leather at exterior hinges and spine, and chipping to lower spine cap. Quarter-inch abrasion to lower front cover. All four tips bumped.Light soiling to endpapers. 1842 prior owner name to blank front free-endpaper, and 1809 prior owner notation regarding provenance to blank verso of marbled rear free-endpaper. Mild soiling to title page, with a half-inch stain to the lower margin. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare early nineteenth century Irish imprint. Not in OCLC. ~SSS~ [1.0P] A rare 1803 Dublin imprint of the acclaimed Challoner English translation of the Christian devotional classic, The Imitation of Christ. Richard Challoner (1691-1781) was an English Roman… Read More

Lane and Tippett for the Methodist Episcopal Churc. Good. 1847 Lane and Tippett for the Methodist Episcopal Church (New York), 3 1/8 x 5 inches tall brown embossed cloth hardcover, gilt design and lettering to front cover, gilt design to spine, 196 pp. Moderate soiling/staining, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of chipping to the spine caps, and along the top of the exterior hinge on the rear cover. Very slight bumping to tips. Slight staining to page edges. Slight to moderate foxing to title page and prelims, and very light, mostly marginal foxing sporadically within. Otherwise, a very good copy of this rare mid-nineteenth century American Methodist issue. OCLC (No. 43578861) locates only one copy at institutions worldwide - at Drew University Library in Madison, New Jersey. ~SSS~ [1.0P] A rare 1847 New York issue of John Wesley's 'extracts' from the fifteenth century devotional classic The Imitation of Christ. Anglican cleric and theologian John Wesley (1703-1791), who, with… Read More

Chez Jean Jouve, 1771-01-01. Leather Bound. Good. In French. 1771 Chez Jean Jouve (Avignon, France), 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches tall full leather bound, gilt lettering to spine, engraved printer's devices, 492 pp. Covers rubbed and edgeworn, especially to tips. Ink notations to front and rear endpapers and rear pastedown. Light, mostly marginal, soiling to title page. Some pages mildly age toned. Occasional page with light marginal soiling. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean and unmarked - of a scarce imprint of this translation into French (from Latin) of the devotional classic 'The Imitation of Christ,' credited to 'le Sieur du Beuil, Prieur de S. Val.,' a pseudonym of theologian and French humanist Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613-1684), a priest of Port-Royal. ~KM4~ The Imitation of Christ was written by Catholic monk Thomas Kempis (circa 1380-1471), as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in… Read More

Imprimerie de Raucourt, 1791-01-01. Leather Bound. Good. In French. 1791 'new edition' Raucourt (Charleville, France), 2 3/4 x 5 inches tall full leather bound, decorative gilt border to both boards, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles framing the pastedown, xxviii, 514, [10] pp. Covers are rubbed and edgeworn. Front hinge is quite cracked and tender, with chipping along the bottom of the hinge, yet the binding is firm and the front board holds. Otherwise, apart from mostly very light foxing, a good to very good copy of this scarce edition of The Imitation of Christ, a devotional clasic written by Thomas a Kempis (circa 1380-1471). Though French Jesuit theologian, ascetical writer, and preacher Jerome de Gonnelieu (1640-1715) is listed on the title page, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris indicates this translation is actually by Jean-Baptiste Cusson (1663-1772), with only the 'pratiques' (reflections or… Read More

Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1982. Paperback. New. In Latin, with preface, introduction and notes in Italian. 1982 Libr. Ed. Vaticana, Impr. (Vatican City), 6 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches tall paperbound in blue color pictorial covers, xxvii, 369 pp. A new copy, still sealed in publisher's clear wrap, which is lightly soiled. A new, fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce critical edition of the manuscript of The Imitation of Christ, one of Christendom's most beloved devotional works. ~SP01~ [2.0P] In Latin, with preface, introduction and notes in Italian. Fr. Tiburzio Lupo's critical edition of De Imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ), first written by Catholic monk Thomas Kempis (circa 1380-1471) as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his Augustinian monastic order, followers of Geert Groote's… Read More

In Aedibus Ed. Groppe (Augustae Treverorum), 1868-01-01. Hardcover. Good. In Latin. 1868 Augustae Treverorum: In Aedibus Ed. Groppe (Trier, Germany), 4 x 5 7/8 inches tall black cloth hardbound, viii, 465 pp. plus two page 'Corigenda' (errata). Covers mildly rubbed and soiled, and the front cover is moderately warped. A bit of very light soiling to the title pages and next couple of pages. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce and important collection of the 'Opuscula,' or minor works, of Thomas a Kempis, the medieval author best known for his likely authorship of the devotional classic, 'The Imitation of Christ.' This collection was edited by Franz Xaver Kraus (1840-1901), a German Catholic priest, scholar and ecclesiastical and art historian. Though intended to be one of multiple volumes in the a Kempis Opera Omnia (complete works), this was the only volume, and only edition, which appeared. It contains some 25 'minor works,' including the Soliloquy of the… Read More

Chez Guillot, 1785. Hardcover. Good. In French. 1785 Chez Guillot (Paris), 4 x 6 5/8 inches tall full leather bound, five raised bands, extensive gilt decoration and gilt-lettered leather label to spine, all page edges marbled, marbled endpapers, xxiv, 525 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with particular wear to spine caps and tips of boards. Period Lyon, France private library bookplate to front pastedown. Period prior owner name to blank front free-endpaper. Catholic religious stamp to title page, which has a bit of foxing and marginal soiling. A bit of foxing, mainly to a very few front and rear leaves. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare collection. OCLC (Nos. 469592302 and 407084726) locates only two copies in collections worldwide - at Bibliotheque municipale de Lyon and at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris. ~SP11~ [1.5P] First edition of the translation by French theologian Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Colomme (1712-1788), the… Read More

Gaume Freres. Acceptable. 1854 second edition Gaume Freres, Libraires (Paris), 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches tall full embossed leather bound, gilt ruling and blind stamp design to both covers, gilt design and lettering to spine, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 303 pp., complete. Covers bumped, rubbed and edgeworn. Cracking between title and half title pages. Three-inch closed tear to half title, and endpaper and half title are nearly half detached from the text block at the top. Light dampstain to inner margin from title page through p. 50. A half-dozen pages with heavy soiling, not obscuring text. Otherwise, apart from slight age toning and occasional light foxing, a good to very good copy of this scarce imprint of two of the more popular 'minor works' of Thomas a Kempis - The Little Garden of Roses and The Valley of Lilies. OCLC locates no copies of this edition worldwide, though two copies of the 1833 first edition (No. 457856102) are listed at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in… Read More

Apud Franciscum Metternich, 1728-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. In Latin. 1728 first edition Apud Franciscum Metternich (Coloniae Agrippinae - Cologne, Germany), 4 x 6 7/8 inches tall hardbound, marbled paper-covered boards over leather spine, [16], 992, [40], 16 pp. Covers rubbed, bumped and edgeworn, cracked along the fore edge, with the spine leather chipped, flaking and split down the middle. Lacking blank endpapers, but otherwise complete. Title page chipped and ink marked, not affecting text. Contents are age toned and foxed, but the paper is still supple and all is quite legible. Nicely enclosed and protected in an acid-free, lignin-free Brodart rare book box, with the title page to the front and title to the spine for easy identification. Scarce. 'Ordo exercitiorum spiritualium octiduanorum' (16 pp.) at the end. ~KMP~ An important collection of works, edited by German Jesuit scholar Franz Kappenstein, about and drawn from The Imitation of Christ and other significant works by Thomas a… Read More