Search Results: Authors starting with N from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Stuttgart: Daimler-Benz, 1961. Second Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy Table [23.75cm/9.5inches], full ebony-embossed battleship gray cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 223, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Westerham, Kent UK: World of Islam Festival, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/Lightly chipped. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full fancy gilt-embossed beige tweed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xiv, 273, indexed. Illustrated with colour and b-w halftones, schematics &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In spring of 1976, Queen Elizabeth II opened the World of Islam Festival in London. 32 Muslim nations, accumulated 6,000 objects from 250 public and private collections in 30 different countries and organised 162 lectures and 50 days of academic seminars involving scores of scholars. One blurb noted: "This is the first illustrated study of the whole of Islamic science ever undertaken. Basing himself on the traditional Islamic concept of science and its transmission and classification, the author discusses various branches of the Islamic sciences. The author then turns to the application of the Islamic sciences to such domains… Read More

Cinisello Balsamo (Milano) : Silvana Editoriale, 2000. English Language Edition. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 175, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Borromean Islands are a group of three small islands and two islets in the Italian part of Lago Maggiore, located in the western arm of the lake, between Verbania to the north and Stresa to the south. Together totalling just 50 acres in area, they are a major local tourist attraction for their picturesque setting. Their name derives from the Borromeo family, which started acquiring them in the early 16th century and still owns the majority of them (Isola Madre, Bella, San Giovanni) today. Avery Brundage (1887 – 1975) was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972. His interest in Asian art stemmed from a visit… Read More

Mansfield, Ohio: Ohio Genealodical Society, 2004. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 57- 112. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Mansfield, Ohio: Ohio Genealodical Society, 2003. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 113-168. Fully illustrated with b-w photographs. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Anaheim, California: National Assocition of Accounts, Orange County Chapter, 1962-1989. First Impressions. Newsletter. In exceptionally good condition. Set of Newsletters. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: United Republican Finance Associates of San Diego County, 1963. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 160, indexed. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, advertiements, &tc. . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Brussels: Jaarboek 1, 1984 /1985. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 300. Fully illustrated with coloured plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Demy folio, [30cm / 12inches], toile pleine moutarde bleu en relief avec jaquette de protection contre le mylar, pages 230. Illustré de planches de couleurs, etc. Vous pouvez demander des précisions et / ou des photographies supplémentaires. En excellent état ... Demy-folio, [30 cm / 12 inch], volledig blauwgerand mosterdkleurig kleed met stofomhulling beschermd door mylar, pp. 230. Geïllustreerd met kleurenplaten & tc .. Vraag gerust naar bijzonderheden en / of extra foto's. In uitzonderlijk goede staat Hardcover

Mexico, D. F.: Costa-Amic Editores, S. A., 1996. Primera eddicion. Paperback. En excepcionalmente buenas condiciones. Octavo, [20cm / 8inches], encapsulado con portadas pictóricas, pp. 190. Completamente ilustrado con semitonos b-w y representaciones de pluma y tinta de pictogramas aztecas. Por favor, siéntase libre de preguntar sobre detalles y / o fotografías adicionales. ... Después del año 1000 DC, las ciudades estado mexicanas estaban constantemente en guerra entre ellas. Algunos alcanzaron un alto nivel de sofisticación, pero otros fueron golpeados por la pobreza y su gente aún usaba pieles y cazaba con arcos y flechas. Entre estos últimos estaban los antepasados de los aztecas. Fue en 1168 que los líderes de esta pequeña ciudad-estado llegaron a un templo en ruinas donde escucharon un mensaje de un dios patrono, Huitzilopochtli (Weet-zeel-oh-póhsh-tlee), del pájaro del zumbido azul del sur, como el el… Read More

London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1910. First Impression. Stiff Boards. In quite good condition./No . Demy folio, [30.5cm./12.25in.], Full ebony (cloth) -backed taupe-coloured boards sans dust jacket, pp. 29, indexed. Fully illustrated with xxiii b-w and colour plates Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Google Books notes: "This volume gives the results of the final campaign at Deir el-Bahari, during the winter of 1906-7; when the work was started by Mr. Currelly shortly before my arrival, and we were joined by Mr, Dalison and Mr. Dennis. The back part of the temple was excavated during that season. It led to the discovery of the subterranean sanctuary; and, the whole building having been cleared, a complete plan of the structure could be made. Unlike Part I., we have here the description of a finished work. In some respects it has modified the views we had derived from the former excavations, but it has shown conclusively that this curious temple… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, 1892. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm./11in.], Full cloth-backed taupe-coloured boards sans dust jacket, pp. vi, 40, indexed. Fully illustrated with 38 b-w halftones and photoengraved plates. Henri Édouard Naville (1844 – 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. He first visited Egypt in 1865, where he copied the Horus texts in the temple at Edfu. During the Franco-Prussian War he served as a captain in the Swiss army. His early work concerned the solar texts and the Book of the Dead. In 1882 he was invited to work for the newly founded Egypt Exploration Fund. He excavated a number of sites in the Nile Delta including Tell el-Maskhuta (1882), the Wadi Tumilat (1885–86), Bubastis (1886–89), Tell el-Yahudiyeh (1887), Saft el-Hinna (1887), Ahnas (1890–91), Mendes and Tell el-Muqdam (1892). Many of the objects he found in his Delta excavations are… Read More

New Orleans: Neal Auction Company, 2001. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 107, indexed. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Aero-Marine History Publishing Company, 1995. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed grey cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.342, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... From this beginning, through and beyond the 1930s, Packard-built vehicles were perceived as highly competitive among high-priced luxury American automobiles. The company was commonly referred to as being one of the "Three Ps" of American motordom royalty, along with Pierce-Arrow of Buffalo, New York, and Peerless of Cleveland, Ohio.For most of its history, Packard was guided by its President and General Manager James Alvan Macauley, who also served as President of the National Automobile Manufacturers Association. Inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame, Macauley made Packard the number one designer and producer of luxury automobiles in… Read More

New York and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Merrell Hoberton, Both1996 . Hardcover and Paperback. Fine/Fine. Both Table Books ... John Singleton Copley was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress.

New York: New York University Press, 1996, 1996. Hardcover. As New/As New. Larger Table Book, [11.25 by 11.25 inches], gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 188, indexed. Illustrated exclusivly with colour plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... One critic noted: "A spectacular portfolio, Peter Neill's On a Painted Oceancontains images from around the world that reveal in the visual language of the ocean. Captured in this full-color volume are some of the great classics, and undiscovered treasures, of maritime art. The work of the 17th and 18th century Dutch and English masters are featured alongside a number of less familiar works, many heretofore outside the established marine tradition. Sculpted figures from Africa, painted bowls from ancient Greece, wall murals from pre-Columbian Mexico, tomb decorations from Egypt, and manuscripts from Arabia join the European masters in evoking the force and beauty of the sea. The… Read More

San Diego: Point Loma High School, 1940. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 64+. Illustrated with b-w halftones, artwork, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... PLHS is the third oldest high school in the San Diego Unified School District. It was dedicated in 1925 as Point Loma Junior-Senior High school. Students who live in Mission Hills may choose to attend Point Loma High School as their neighborhood school. ... The school holds the distinction of having produced two major-league baseball pitchers who threw perfect games - David Wells and Don Larsen. Only 21 pitchers have thrown perfect games in Major League Baseball history. Wells also threw a perfect game while a student at PLHS. Wells became the school's head baseball coach starting with the 2014-2015 school year. He had been volunteering as an assistant coach for several years. The team's home field was… Read More

Oakland, Calif.: Wim, 1988. Hardcover. Reading copy/No dust jacket. Larger table book, (11.25 by 15.5), Gilt-embossed quarter-bound /maroon/ebony boards, sans dust jacket, pp. 164. Illustrated with 547 colour plates of DeRome's oeuvre. ... Albert Thomas DeRome studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, California, with Arthur Mathews, John Stanton, and Lorenzo Latimer. He worked as a political cartoonist and advertising director for a candy company before becoming a landscape painter. After a serious auto accident in 1931, DeRome settled in Pacific Grove, California, where he painted with Carlos Hittell, Gunnar Widforss, Frank Moore, Percy Gray, and Will Sparks. An insurance policy prevented him from selling his work or exhibiting as a professional artist, but he did exhibit as an “amateur” in Northern California, gaining recognition and winning several first prizes.

Los Angeles, &tc.: Dole Fresh Fruit International, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed Sinatra-blue cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 239. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest producer of fruit and vegetables in the world, operating with 74,300 full-time and seasonal employees who are responsible for over 300 products in 90 countries. Dole markets such food items as bananas, pineapples, grapes, strawberries, salads, and other fresh and frozen fruits and juices. Dole owns a shipping line, Dole Ocean Cargo Express.

Santa Barbara: Maurice F. Neville Rare Books, No Date (1980s). Paperbound. As New/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], paperbound with plain ecru-coloured covers, unpaginated; 744 lots. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Marice F. Neville collection was sold through Sotheby's in 2004. There is a quite comprehensive newsarticle on the Neville Collection: "A Real Page-Turner Maurice Neville Had a Passion for Books, and Impulsively Bought a $200,000 Collection. Eleven Years Later, His Gamble Has Paid Off," by Jean Vallely in the Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1987 number. (Accessible online).

Santa Barbara: Maurice F. Neville Rare Books, No Date (1980s?). First Impression. Paperbound. As New/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], paperbound with plain grey covers, unpaginated; 783 lots. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Marice F. Neville collection was sold through Sotheby's in 2004. There is a quite comprehensive article on the Neville Collection: "A Real Page-Turner Maurice Neville Had a Passion for Books, and Impulsively Bought a $200,000 Collection. Eleven Years Later, His Gamble Has Paid Off," by Jean Vallely in the Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1987 number. (Accessible online).