Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Antique Map & Bookshop

London, B.B. Ltd., n.d. ca1945. (No. 661.). Paperback, approx 7.75 x 5.25 inches. Illustrated paper cover. Stapled binding. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges, some minor handling marks to cover. A couple of minor handling marks to inside pages. Staples rusted. No pen or pencil marks. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 10pp. With B&W illustrations, and 4 in full colour. Includes: Gertie Goose’s Bonnet, Mortimer Mole and The Pixies, The Stepping-Stones, & A Helping Hand.

Collins Crime Club. 1979 1st.. 8.0 x 5.5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine with illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Spine slightly faded. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean an tight copy. 180 pp. Crime novel set in London at Christmas.

Edinburgh, G.W. Bacon & Co., n.d. ca1890. Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black border decoration to front. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges a couple of minor handling marks to cloth, boards have slight curl. Inner endpapers tanned and cracked along inner of spine. Some minor darkening and small chips to edge of key map on endpaper. Some minor tanning to bottom corner of map else overall clean and bright with nice colouring. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Full-Colour fold-out map printed on paper and mounted on cloth. Map size 19 x 19.5 inches.

Edinburgh, G.W. Bacon & Co., n.d. ca1890. Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. Red pebbled cloth with yellow title label pasted to front, with decorative black lettering and decoration. Key map on front endpaper. In very good condition. Some rubbing to cloth, small nicks to corners. Some minor darkening and small chips to edge of key map on endpaper. Some minor fading/tanning to map else overall clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Full-Colour fold-out map printed on paper and mounted on cloth. Map size 24.5 x 20.5 inches.

USA. Sure Fire Press. 1988 reprint.. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. I light blue limp card covers with black lettering and with illustration to front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Else a clean and tight copy. 39 pp. A reprint of an earlier translation of Bacon's "De secretis operibus artis et naturae, et de nullitate magiae."

The Chart Publishing Company, Oxford (n.d.). ca. 1920 (Copyright K.2474). Bound in red cloth hardback boards 10 x 7 inches. With gilt lettering to front. Two large maps, dissected and mounted on linen (each map has 18 sections). Sizes of each map: North; 40 x 25 Ins. (101 x 64cm), South; 40 x 29 Ins. (101 x 74cm). In very good condition. Cover has some handling marks and minor rubbing to corners, minor stain to rear. Maps are in very good condition, some minor marks/minor soiling to areas of English Channel on South Section, else maps both clean and bright. Very little or tanning or spots. The linen verso of one map is clean. Some minor tanning to paper inners on verso of linen, a couple of neat pencil notes to this part on South Section. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Fully coloured. Railways Abbreviations, Inset Map on North Section “Main Roads Out of London”, Table of Distances on South Section.

Thirsk. 1892 1st edition.. 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to front. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to boards. Neat dedicatory inscription to front endpaper, dated 1892. Else a clean and tight copy. 58pp. Story about two dogs.

London, Macmillan & Co. 1938 1st. Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. In cream cloth with red lettering and black figure illustrations to front and spine. In original illustrated dustrapper. In very good condition with very good rare dustwrapper. (DW; edges rubbed, small chips to corners, tears/loss at ends of spine, some darkening to rear. In protective sleeve. NOT price clipped.) Some slight darkening to spine and edges of cloth on cover, else cloth & printing bright. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Sylvia Read, 1938, Raymond.” Slight darkening to rear of frontis plate, some mild foxing spots to title page and page edges, else pages very clean and tight throughout. 169pp. With 8 full-page colour illustrations and many smaller B&W illustrations within text.

W.H. Toms, 1742.. In gold-brushed wood frame with maroon mount behind glass. Framed size approx 9.75 x 10 inches. Engraved surface approx 6.25 x 6.5 inches. In very good condition. Map lightly tanned. Crisp printing with beautifully finished hand colouring. Engraved map with later hand colouring. Detailed information about county towns on the left side. Thomas Badeslade (fl 1719-1745). Principally a surveyor and engineer, Thomas and his son Henry were involved in waterway improvement schemes. He was an accomplished draughtsman and drew maps for ‘The Chorographica Brittanniae’ with the detailed information about the county on the left hand side. Engraved and published in 1742 by W.H.Toms, the atlas went to two further editions in 1743 and 1745.

Milano, A. Mondadori, 1936 1st Ltd Ed. Signed. 347/1199.. Tall hardback, 10 x 7 inches. Half bound in blue morocco leather to spine, with marbled paper boards. Embossed banding and gilt decorations to spine, with gilt lettering. Plain endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. With shelfwear and handling marks. Some overall rubbing to leather on spine. Boards heavily rubbed with chipped patch to front. Endpapers clean, small previous owners stamp to front corner “A.W. Knisely.” Inside pages with some moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Plates heavily tanned. Minor stain to bottom edges of rear endpapers and few index pages. Signed and numbered on last page. Else overall a very good limited edition copy. 249pp. + Index. Illustrated with photogravure plates, including fold-out panoramics, and plates of facsimile letters/writing. In Italian Language.

Ward, Lock & Co. 1946. Size approx 6 x 9 inches. In green cloth with black lettering to front and spine. With original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW edges rubbed, corners chipped w/some minor loss. Spine rubbed. In protective sleeve.) Inside neat owners inscription to front endpaper. The odd minor foxing spot else a very clean and tight copy. Colour plates bright and vivid. 8 nice colour plates of the various fruits. 60 photo.ills.,& many diagrams. 399pp.

London, William Heinemann, 1969 1st Proof Copy.. Paperback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Red and white covers lettered in black. In good condition. Some handling marks and minor darkening to cover, some fading to spine, small nick to bottom end. Some foxing to outer page edges and title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 288pp. Illustrated with B&W photographs and line drawings. Author of “National Velvet.”

Andoversford The Whittington Press 1980. 10 x 6.75 inches. In orange floral cloth. With text to endpapers. With brown hard slipcase. In very good condition with slipcase. Slight handling marks to slipcase. A very clean and tight copy. 77pp; With photos pasted in. Edited and with an Introduction by R.P. Lister

Strand London Alexander Sculp Samuel Bagster 1809. Size 9.5 x 8.5 inches. Black & White Engraving. In good condition. Some light foxing & minor marks on margins, small loss bottom right corner, small closed tear top centre margin.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1982 1st edition.. 6.0 x 8.5 inches. In illustrated hard card covers. In very good condition. Three small faint marks to front endpaper page. Else a clean and tight copy. 112pp. With b/w photographs, maps and engraved frontis. The history of the Bride Valley in Dorset, from earliest times. The author describes the settlements and landmarks, past and present and gives photographs of the places as they were at the time of writing (1982).

Paris 1709. Unmounted. Size 24 x 19 inches. In very good condition. A few creases and nicks on margin edges. And a few folds. Uncoloured, except are a few Manuscript yellow colouring to field trenches A map of Tournai, showing the approach works of the French siege, commanded by Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne vicomte de Turenne (1611-75), which lasted from 21 June 1667 until the town surrendered on 25 June. Oriented with north-east to top (compass rose). War of Devolution (1667-8).

Duckworth. 1978 1st edition.. Size 5.5 x 8.0 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 174 pp. Fictionalised account of the five months that Adolf Hitler spent in Liverpool in 1912.

London, John Murray, 1885. Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, blind embossed on front. Black/navy endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Neat inscription to top of title page “W.J. Smith. 1890.” A couple of faint spots to page edges else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. 362pp + 2pp cat.

Printed for Private Circulation, 1896 1st edition. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to front. In very good condition. Some minor slight fading to spine else cover very clean and smart. Endpapers darkened with authors inscription to front “For W. Bright, from E. T. Baird, Christmas 1921.” With loose signed letter. Some dark foxing spots to title page and frontis page, photo plate faded. Some dark spots to outer page edges else inside pages all clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 77pp. Illustrated with an original B&W photograph portrait frontispiece. Letters written by Colonel Sir George Ashley Maude, K.C.B. Commander of “I” Troop (present “O” Battery) Royal Horse Artillery, Dublin, during the disputes between the Allied Powers and Russia, which resulted the following year in the Crimean War.

London. T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1925 1st.. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. In orange cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front and silhouette illustration to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. handling marks. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription from author and artist to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. unpaginated with b/w illustrations throughout. A story of two children who made friends with the animals in the wood.