Search Results: Authors starting with W from Crouch Rare Books

Pergamon Press,, 1963. Soft cover. browning to illustrated, textured card covers, illustrated, good+.

Cambridge University Press,, 1885,. Hardcover,. large 8vo (274 x 188 mm), 26 engraved plates, marks on title page, ex Toynbee Hall library with rubber stamps on title page and verso of plates, 20th Century quarter morocco, raised bands, label on spine, marbled boards, new endpapers, fine,

undated but circa 1850, London, 326 x 393 (12.83 x 15.47 inches), lithographic map, hand colouring defining the hunts which are also named in dark blue capitals, small split (1.5 cms) along lower part of central fold not extending to the boarder, else very good and clean. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles

undated but circa 1850, London, 320 x 390 (12.60 x 15.35 inches), lithographic map, hand colouring defining the hunts which are also named in dark blue capitals, hand coloured border, several small tears on edges not extending to border, else very good and clean. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles

Constable,, 1917. Hardcover. Blue cloth hardback, 312pp, 3 maps, one page has neatly mended tear, general wear to outside, good+

Senate Books, London, 1995,. see description. thick paperback, 404pp, frontis and 14 other full-page illustrations (from photographs and drawings) and many smaller in text, pages of nomes, cartouches of kings, hieroglyphs, colour illustrated card covers, a slight crease bottom corner of the front cover, and one top corner at the back, otherwise vg.

Thomas Kelly, 1826. hand coloured engraved map, 180 x 237 mm, drawn and engraved by J Wallis, very good. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles

published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1957,. see description. first English-language edition, 8vo, 334pp, original cloth, title red on spine, engraved personal bookplate of one Handcock, and a gift inscription inside front board, otherwise near fine.

Cassell & Co., London, 1953,. see description. first English-language edition, thick 8vos, xviii,365;vi,301pp, frontis: statue of Caesar, map of Gaul and Germany, one of Roman Spain, and a folding pull-out map of the Roman world at the time of Caesar's death, original cloth, title gilt on spines, part of the front free endpaper of Vol. I (possibly holding an inscription) cut out, a very good set.

Longmans, Green & Co,, 1890. Hardcover. 4to, vii,395pp, illustrated title page, portrait frontis with tissue guard, numerous illustrations throughout, vii,395pp, original vellum covered boards illustrated and decorated, author's dedication to "F. M. Pownall, with the Authors Kind regards. Whitford Lodge, St Margarets, May 1892." A few spots on frontis, some foxing to front and back endpapers, text very clean, some stains to edge of upper board otherwise binding tight and sound. A very good copy. Please note: this is a very heavy item and may incur an increase in cost of postage. We will gladly supply a quotation for the additional postage on request.Note: Loosely enclosed are two hand written letters from the author dated 11th and 20th July '93 addressed to Miss Pownall. Also a sheet from The Times newspaper of Saturday April 21, 1923 celebrating The Tercentenary of the First Folio.

Leipzig, Verlag von Quelle & Meyer, 1912,. see description. first edition, xv,342pp, smooth art paper throughout, 147 photoplates: blessedly few pictures of statues and pyramids, but over a hundred views of sand and rocky outcrops and individual pebbles and strata makes it a book only a geologist could love, title page and following five leaves have become detached from binding, text pages otherwise very good, tinted endpapers, nicely bound in gros-grain cloth with title and two-colour illustration on upper board, bottom corner not bruised but slightly curved.

The Faith Press, London, 1950,. see description. small slim 8vo, vii,88pp, paper-covered boards quarter bound cloth, dw with two mended tears top of spine, book itself vg.

published by Pall Mall Press, London, 1970,. see description. first edition, large 8vo, v,281pp, heavy-quality smoothly calendered paper that takes photographs well, double-page illustrated title, 24 colour photographs, 150 well-captioned black and white illustrations from photographs of artifacts, views, paintings, frescoes, manuscript pages, etc., and line drawings, and maps, plans and sections, hardback, the colour-illustrated dustwrapper laminated to the boards, ex-lib but clean and very good. 0

Cambridge at the University Press, 1934.. see description. 8vo, viii,431pp, extracts in the language of the writers covered (including early and middle Scots) and bits of Latin, original cloth, title gilt on spine, three little dents on upper board otherwise vg.

Macmillan & Co., 1893,, 1893. Hardcover. small 8vo, xviii,333pp, half-calf library binding, title gilt on spine, ex-lib, good.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1965,. see description. large thick paperback, xv,362pp, plan of House of the Silver Wedding at Pompeii, one of the Villa of Diomedes, and one of a Triclinium, map to illustrate the position of Cicero's villas, and at the back a large folding tinted map of Rome in the last days of the Republic, illustrated card covers, spine dusty and with 'reading' creases otherwise good.

Macmillan & Co., London, 1922,. see description. large 8vo, xvii, 362pp, three plans, map to illustrate the position of Cicero's villas, and a large folding one of Rome in the last years of the Republic, on front free endpaper a plate identifying the book as a school prize, original cloth very slightly worn title gilt on spine, vg.

Macmillan & Co., London, 1965,. see description. large thick paperback, xvii,362pp, a large folding tinted map of Rome in the last years of the Republic, illustrated card covers a little worn at edges and badly creased bottom corner of front cover, text pages clean and good.

Macmillan and Co.,, 1952,. Hardcover,. 8vo, original cloth covered boards, title gilt on spine, very good,

Macmillan & Co., London, 1937,. see description. 8vo, xvii,362pp, one map and 3 plans in text, a large folding tinted map of Rome in the last days of the Republic, original cloth, title gilt on spin, damp-stained at top of spine and showing slightly at edges of boards but not entering inside, the text pages clean and vg.