Search Results: Authors starting with B from R.G. Watkins Books and Prints

Three lithographs all with slight foxing in margins, the second with tear and creasing in lower margin, Paracelsus stayed at Pfafers in 1539 and wrote a treatise on the benefits of the hot springs.

Tinted lithograph, by A. Butler from Burke's "Visitation of Seats" 1855,

REAL PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARD, unused,

Colour print, from Morris's "Views of Seats", 1880,

Engraving, with later hand-colouring, from Britton & Brayley's 'Beauties of England and Wales',

Engraving.

Colour print, from Morris's "Views of Seats", 1880, small stain in bottom left corner,

Photographic illus., index; 176pp. orig. cloth,

Photographic illus., index; 270pp. orig. cloth-backed boards, spine gilt, slight mark on spine,

Photographic illus., index; 270pp. orig. cloth-backed boards, spine gilt,

Colour and black and white photographic illus.; inscription on endpaper. oblong folio orig. cloth gilt,

Engraved plate, tables, appendices; xvi+144+[64]pp; a little spotting to first few leaves. 4to contemp half calf, rebacked retaining orig. label, some wear on corners, Francis Baily [1774-1844] entered the Stock Exchange in 1799. According to the Oxford DNB, 'Baily's early works on annuity tables and assurance societies reveal that he drew strongly upon the eighteenth-century radical dissenter Richard Price. His work on life annuities and insurances attempted systematically to algebraize the subject and represent various cases of annuities and assurances by symbols. He was also one of the first not to rely on Price's Northampton mortality tables, since, he claimed, the duration of human life was in fact longer than these tables suggested.'In his youth, Baily, an acquaintance of Priestley, had travelled in America, where he was so impressed with the nation, that he declared he would take United States citizenship. On his retirement from business he devoted himself to astronomy becoming the first… Read more

Colour and black and white illus.; 526pp. orig. red cloth gilt,

Illus., plans, index; 131pp. folio orig. pictorial wrappers,

Hardcover. Very good. 56 illus., index; xii+172pp; some spotting. 8vo orig. green cloth, slight fading, small nick at head of spine, uncut, Many first explorations of caves are described. No Jacket

Soft Cover. Very good. 6 lithograph plates after Mrs Baker; 489-507pp; foxing 8vo orig. limp black morocco gilt, worn, spine damaged, No Jacket issued

Illus. by MARY BAKER; 144pp. orig. orange cloth, spine faded,

Soft Cover. Very good. Photographic illus., plans, index; vi+156pp. 8vo orig. wrappers, This edition contains new chapters on Longwood Swallet and 8 extra illustartions. No Jacket issued

226 colour and black and white illus., index; 224pp. folio (13in x 9in) orig. cloth,

Hardcover. Very good. HELEN BANNERMAN. Colour illus.; unpaginated. orig. blue cloth with black lettering, some marking on covers, No Jacket