Search Results: Authors starting with C from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Printed for the Author by Brother James Dixwell., 1769 8vo. (xxiii,243)pp. 23pp. list of subscribers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. Decorative head and tail pieces. Very mild age-toning andscattered foxing. 13.5 x 19 cm. Full mottled calf signed by Bayntun, Binder, Bath, England. Spine laid down, in six compartments with red morocco label. Spine hand-tooled with date at the bottom, and alternating floral and abstract decoration. Boards with scrolling foliate border and double fillets. Slightly rubbed, corners very slightly bumped. CALCOTT, WELLINS was a distinguished Masonic writer of the eighteenth century, and this work, published in 1769, traced Freemasonry from its origin, explained its symbols and hieroglyphics, its social virtues and advantages, suggested the propriety of building halls for the peculiar and exclusive practice of Freemasonry and reprehended its critics with forceful but judicious severity. This was the first extended attempt to illustrate… Read More

Safari Press, 2004 Complete with original matching blue cloth slipcase. Copy 601/1,000, signed and limited.. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955 169, [3,blanks] printed pages. Royal College of Art Library 1955 bookplate with greek key pattern borders (there was a new design each year), manually "withdrawn" with date stamp, on front free paste-down endpaper. RCAL embossed discreetly at foot of title-page (also manually "withdrawn" with date stamp). Edges and endpapers slightly grubby with handling. Rear hinge split but firm. 15 x 22 cm. Original blue cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Corners very slightly worn, covers and top of spine a little stained. Hinges slightly worn and a trifle split, but firm. In original printed dustwrapper with greek key pattern borders and red and black sans serif font. Small tears at foot of upper wrapper and top and bottom of spine; generally good condition. Precedes the American edition. With translation into English by Justin O'Brien. Initially issued in the 1942 French edition, Le Mythe of Sisyphe. Awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camus was… Read More

William Kimber, 1986 206 pp., photos, maps, appendix, glossary, index, 8vo; very well compiled account from the diaries and reminiscences of Captain Gibbs who served with the 4th Suffolk's on the Somme, at Arras and Passchendaele in the final retreat of 1918. This copy is signed on the title page in flourishing ink hands, by the editor and by Enoch Powell who wrote the foreword. Richard Deonald-Lewis, the editor, has also written a dedication to the proof reader, Betty Crockett: "To Betty, with very many thanks for all your hard work to make this book possible". Enoch Powell was an extremly contentious politician and Memeber of Parliament, most notorious for his Rivers of Blood speech on immigration that he made in 1968. Powell had never experienced military combat and felt guilty for having survived WW2, writing that soldiers who did so carried "a sort of shame with them to the grave" and referring to the Second Battle of El Alamein as a "separating flame" between… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press., 1951 vii, 230 printed pages. Signed by Rachel Carson in ink on title page just above her printed name. Green frontispiece (preliminaries slightly spotted, pages evenly toned). Previous owner's ink name and address on front free endpaper. Pictorial map endpapers. 15 x 22 cm. Original green and black paper covered boards (slightly worn at edges and a few spots). Complete with original similarly decorated dust-jacket- sixth state: $3.50 on bottom corner of front flap, biographical text on rear flap mentions Burroughs Award & New York Zoological Society Medal & mention of the Guggenheim Fellowship has been removed from rear flap (small piece missing from lower front panel and smaller losses from head of spine section; slight wear and some spotting on rear panel). An early and uncommon signed variant printing of the 1951 winner of the National Book Award in non-fiction, most likely issued by a small natural science book club (identified by the H. Wolff on… Read More

London [i.e. Paris?] et se vend a Paris, chez Nyon., 1755 Two volumes. 12mo. 466, [2, errata]; [x], 472 printed pages. Titles with woodcut ornaments, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Near contemporary ink stamp of Eugene de Froberville to first title. Marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. All edges red. Green silk ribbon place markers. Slight browning to the edges, with the occasional minor spot or very slight blemish elsewhere. The dedicatory epistle signed John Cary. Language: French. 10.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary full calf. Front & back covers with triple gilt fillets and corner decorations in gilt. Spine richly hand-tooled in gilt and with twin, red & green, gilt lettered morocco labels. Spine heads are a little chipped; joints are starting to split, but holding firm; corners slightly worn, and bumped. First edition in French of Cary's Essay on the State of England (Bristol, 1695); another issue, by Guillyn, appeared at the same time. This popular work was… Read More

Frederick Warne and Co., 1891 Two volumes complete - xxi, [1], 376pp and Volume Two - xv, [1], 347pp, [1]. Original decorative cloth, title in gilt to spines. Rubbed to extremities, slightly chipped to spine ends. Two inch tear at top left of spine in volume one without loss. Paper to inner joints split but holding well, no previous owners' inscriptions, quite bright and clean internally. Complete with 60 plates, three folding maps to rear pocket in volume one and one in volume two. Howgego IV:168-169. Casati (1838-1902) was an Italian explorer who arived in Africa in 1880 and was the first European to see the Ruwenzori Mts. He was with Emin Pasha when Stanley arrived in 1888.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Paris, de l Imprimerie Royale, 1740 2 volumes 4to: 1/ xvi, [12], 643 pages, 88 diagrams on [21] folded leaves of copper plate engravings :vignette text illustrations; 2/ xiv pp., [3]. Large engraved title page vignette, engraved head- & tailpieces, initials. 2, 120 pp., 222 pp. of astronomical tables, [1, unnumbered]. Illustrated with 5 folded leaves of copper plate engravings by Simmoneau. Total of 26 plates. All edges red. Wide margins. Some contemporary manuscript corrections to text. Contemporary hand-written shelf labels & new printed ex libris from Maraldiana library on front paste-down endpapers. Some old wormholes in margins not affecting text. Some leaves age toned & spotted. 21 x 26 cm. Full contemporary spotted calf, double blind-stamped fillet borders on covers. Spines with gilt tooled raised bands. Contrasting red and brown morocco lettering labels. Second volume with rubbed, faded contemporary shelf label. Compartments elaborately gilt tooled with curved pointille cornerpieces, 10 or 8… Read More

Granta, 2013 This is a Granta paperback uncorrected proof copy of The Luminaries. The book is in as new condition.. Special Edition. Soft cover. As New.

LONDON Chatto & Windus, 1938 1st Edition. [5], 587 printed pages. Very small stain on fore-edge of text block. 15 x 21.5 cm. Original black cloth with white lettering on spine (in unusually good condition). Original photographic dustwrapper by Schall of Paris, with old clear tape along top & bottom. Some light shelf wear to an otherwise good dust jacket. This is Celine's brilliant follow up to his Journey To the End of Night that together were his principal works and are among the masterpieces & greatest novels of the twentieth century, full of existential narrative and experimental language, a forerunner and an equal to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

Ediciones Castilla, Madrid ., 1952 2 volumes in Spanish. 714, (1); 734 printed pages on very thin paper (leaves slightly wrinkled, 1st volume title page offset, frontispiece adhered to front paste down endpaper & lacking front free endpaper). Early Elizabeth ii postage stamp on rear paste-down endpaper. 40 x 60 mm. Original chocolate brown leather (very slight wear to upper hinge of volume 1). Spines with silver decoration, volume numbers and titling. Boards with elaborately silver stamped fleurons within scrolling and dog-tooth borders. Complete with original slipcase, sprayed in gold over a re-brown underlay. Produced by photo-lithographic reduction. "A Spanish book which used to be encountered quite frequently but has now become scarce" (Bondy, 178 in 1981). Spielmann, 85. Welsh, 1707. Normally found in a green binding with gilt decoration, this is an uncommon variant of a complete and well-produced edition of the greatest Spanish classic, in charmingly small format.. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Hutchinson and Co, London, 1912 2 Volumes complete and in very good condition containing 2 frontis pieces, 24 plates, 2 maps and 3 facsimiles. Written by 2nd western explorer of Lake Victoria who discovered Lake Kyoga. One volume has a prize stamp on the front board, the other volume does not; it's possible the two volumes came from two different sets originally, but they match quite well now.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Darbari Prokashan, 1992 xii, 142 printed pages.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Archibald Constable & Co. Westminster, 1897 Superbly bound and signed by Hatchards of Piccadilly in full crushed crimson morocco, spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering, triple inner gilt rules. All edges are gilt with head and tailbands and board edges also gilt ruled. Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 2 July 1914) was a British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman who had not attended university. Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city. During his early adulthood he was a radical Liberal Party member and a campaigner for educational reform. He entered the House of Commons aged almost forty, relatively late in life for a front-rank politician. Rising to power through his influence with the Liberal grassroots organisation, he served as President of the Board of Trade in Gladstone's Second Government (188085). At the time, Chamberlain… Read More

Hastings House, New York, 1947 Dustwrapper slightly shelfworn.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.

Putnams, 1906 Frontispiece and 50 plates (8 photgravures). Contemporary 3/4 red morocco, spine gilt, very slightly rubbed on some edges.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Montpellier, Jean-François Picot., 1790 3 volumes. 8vo. cx, 259; 443; 460 printed pages. Pages 443-460 of volume 3 : "Extrait des registres de la Societe Royale des Sciences du 23 Decembre 1789" approving this book. Signatures a-f8 g7 A-Q8 R2 ; [ ]1 A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee5 ; [ ]1 A-Z8 Aa-Ee8 Ff4 Gg1. Printed paper booksellers labels on front paste down endpapers of the Bourlot Antiques Bookshop, established in Turin in 1848 in the Piazza San Carlo, & currently located in via Po 7. Marbled endpapers, All edges speckled. Cornflower blue silk place-holders. Very slight sporadic foxing. 13 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary full speckled calf bindings. Spines with contrasting green morocco titling pieces lettered in gilt (some mild chips), cream oval overlays with volume numbers in gilt (one slightly chipped), and twelve sunburst halo emblems surrounding heads within triple gilt fillet rules . Covers with single fillet borders in blind (some slight rubbing, lower corner of volume 3 worn, wormhole to… Read More

Chapman & Hall, London, 1933 245 x 160 x 60mm. xviii, 400 p. Frontispiece, 11 plates (1 double-page), 288 text illustrations (9 folding). Bound sumptuously in full burgundy calf, spine in six decoratively gilt ruled compartments with central gilt ornaments and gilt lettering. Inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Upper cover bearing circular gilt emblem of The College of Estate Management Founded 1919. Front paste-down end-paper showing very minor signs of the sympathetic removal of what is assumed was where an ownership/presentation label had formerly been affixed. First edition of an important text on the design and construction of concrete bridges. The book went into further editions in the 1950's. [heavy book that may require extra shipping costs for overseas orders].. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

L - 13 Press, 2007 This book is in as new condition. It is a first edition, and one of a limited run of 500.. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket.

Chez Vincent, Paris., 1774 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 422 + 234 + 52 + 32 printed pages. Engraved headpieces and decorated initials (some very light age toning and a few leaves with very light historic ink staining confined to the lower margins and lower text block). Original faded silk place-marker. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with contemporary former owner's engraved bookplate. 11 x 16.5 cm. Full contemporary emerald green morocco (slightly rubbed and corners bumped and worn). Spine with floral gilt tooling in compartments with fleuron corner-pieces within double fillet gilt borders; contrasting red lettering piece with gilt titling (faded and with some small areas of a darker hue). Upper and lower covers with scrolling gilt hand-tooled fleurons within single fillet gilt borders. Provenance: Dom. Pet. Joan Charpentier, nat. maj. ("In Parisiens. Cur. Reg. Advocati. [the court of royal advocates] 1824"). First and only edition of this historical work on China, Japan, Siam (Thailand),… Read More