Search Results: Titles starting with A from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Boston: BAN Publishing, 1985. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [20.5cm/8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 36. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Back Bay is most famous for its rows of Victorian brownstone homes—considered one of the best preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the United States—as well as numerous architecturally significant individual buildings, and cultural institutions such as the Boston Public Library. It is also a fashionable shopping destination (especially Newbury and Boylston Streets, and the adjacent Prudential Center and Copley Place malls) and home to some of Boston's tallest office buildings, the Hynes Convention Center, and numerous major hotels. Prior to a colossal 19th-century filling project, Back Bay was a literal bay. Today, along with neighboring Beacon Hill, it is one of Boston's two most expensive… Read More

Exeter and London: Webb & Bower Ltd. and Michael Joseph, 1987. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [9 by 10.5inches], full gilt-embossed Cornish-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 128, indexed. Illustrated with colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Alfred Robert Quinton,(1853 –1934), was an English watercolour artist, known for his paintings of British villages and landscapes many of which were published as postcards. In 1895 he and a friend cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats and Quinton's artworks from the trip were after serialised in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. His artwork became more in demand and he was able to buy a house with a studio in Finchley in London. His work routine was to travel around England and Wales for three months of the year, mostly during the summer months and often by bicycle, during which he would draw sketches and take… Read More

San Diego: Dougherty The Printer, 1931. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 33. Wonderful ads and such. In quite good condition. Paperback. (5025) $20.00

Ryidh, Saudi Arabia: Noura bint Muhammad ibin Sa'ud, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. Demy folio, [33.75cm/13.5inches], full saffron-embossed ebony cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 261. Illustrated exclusively with colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Asir Region is situated on a high plateau that receives more rainfall than the rest of the country and contains the country's highest peaks, which rise to almost to 9,800 ft. Though data is exceedingly sparse and unreliable, the average annual rainfall in the highlands probably ranges from 300 to 500 millimetres (12 to 20 in). It falls in two rainy seasons, the chief one being in March and April, with some rain in the summer. Temperatures are very extreme, with diurnal temperature ranges in the highlands the greatest in the world. It is common[clarification needed] for afternoon temperatures to be over 30 °C (86 °F), yet mornings can be extremely frosty and… Read More

La Puente, California: Baron Publishing Company, 1972. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 30. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

La Puente, California: Baron Publishing Company, 1977. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 30. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

La Puente, California: Baron Publishing Company, 1973. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 38. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

La Puente, California: Baron Publishing Company, 1977. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 30. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Pensacola, Florida: Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc, 1989. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The U.S. Navy still has an unknown number of senior officers on active duty in the Regular Navy or serving in the Navy Reserve who were originally accessed as NAVCADs (naval aviation cadets). These individuals entered service via the NAVCAD program during the mid/late 1980s and early 1990s when the program was reinstated following a hiatus of over twenty years. NAVCADs were non-commissioned cadets who were required to have a minimum of 60 college credit hours to enter flight training (rather than the bachelor's degree normally required for entry into the flight training program) and were accessed only through the now defunct Aviation Candidate Officer School (AOCS) program. Upon completion of AOCS, NAVCADS would… Read More

Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 1993. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 399, indexed. Illustrated with exclusively with colour plates, as well as pen & ink drawings and schematics. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Bill Sheat was a graduate of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew and, in addtion to being a prolific author of gardening books, was for many years the Chief of Parks in Johannesburg. 

Stroud, Glouchestershire: The History Press, 2017. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [9.25 by 10 inches], full gilt-embossed Herbedes-green cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 256, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Aberdeen Line was a shipping company founded in 1825 by George Thompson of Aberdeen to take sailing vessels to the St. Lawrence, carrying some passengers and returning with cargoes of timber. The business flourished and grew to 12 sailing vessels by 1837, travelling to South America, the Pacific, West Indies and the Mediterranean. In 1842 the line included a regular schedule from London to Australia.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2011. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed Indian red cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 352, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Glorieta, New Mexico: The Rio Grande Press, 1972. Facsimile. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full polychrome-embossed ivory cloth sans dust jacket, pp.171-548 . Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... . In 1850, the Mason's purchased Woodlawn Plantation, the former home of George Washington's adopted daughter Nellie Custis and her descendants. Otis Mason gave a portion of the property in 1872 to establish the Woodlawn Baptist Church. He first became affiliated with the United States National Museum in 1872, working as a collaborator in ethnology. This in 1884 turned into a full-time position as curator. The Smithsonian had recently built its first purpose-built museum building, the U.S. National Museum building (or Arts and Industries Building). Mason worked closely with George Brown Goode in the installation and reorganization of the museum collections that came… Read More

Paris: Chez Nyon, 1731 (M. DCC. XXXI). Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy crown octavo, [16.875cm / 6.75inches], veau pleine gilt et embossé sans poussière, pp. 416 avec Table des Matieres. Entièrement illustré avec 2 cartes pliées. N'hésitez pas à vous renseigner sur les détails et / ou les photographies supplémentaires. ... Claude Delisle, (1644-1720), a enseigné l'histoire et la géographie. Il a eu une excellente réputation dans les cercles intellectuels de Paris et a servi de tuteur aux seigneurs. Parmi eux se trouvait le duc Philippe d'Orléans, qui devint plus tard régent pour la couronne de France et collabora avec Nicolas Sanson, un métaphore bien connu. Son fils Guillaume Delisle, (1675-1726), a été éduqué par son père Claude et à un âge précoce a montré des signes d'être un talent exceptionnel.… Read More

Paris: Chez Nyon, 1731 (M. DCC. XXXI). Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy crown octavo, [16.875cm / 6.75inches], veau pleine gilt et embossé sans poussière, pp. 516 avec Table des Matieres. Illustré avec 2 cartes pliées. N'hésitez pas à vous renseigner sur les détails et / ou les photographies supplémentaires. ... Claude Delisle, (1644-1720), a enseigné l'histoire et la géographie. Il a eu une excellente réputation dans les cercles intellectuels de Paris et a servi de tuteur aux seigneurs. Parmi eux se trouvait le duc Philippe d'Orléans, qui devint plus tard régent pour la couronne de France et collabora avec Nicolas Sanson, un métaphore bien connu. Son fils Guillaume Delisle, (1675-1726), a été éduqué par son père Claude et à un âge précoce a montré des signes d'être un talent exceptionnel. Il a rapidement… Read More

Paris: Chez Nyon, 1731 (M. DCC. XXXI). Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy crown octavo, [16.875cm / 6.75inches], veau pleine gilt et embossé sans poussière, pp. 516 avec Table des Matieres. Entièrement illustré avec 3 cartes pliées. N'hésitez pas à vous renseigner sur les détails et / ou les photographies supplémentaires. ... Claude Delisle, (1644-1720), a enseigné l'histoire et la géographie. Il a eu une excellente réputation dans les cercles intellectuels de Paris et a servi de tuteur aux seigneurs. Parmi eux se trouvait le duc Philippe d'Orléans, qui devint plus tard régent pour la couronne de France et collabora avec Nicolas Sanson, un métaphore bien connu. Son fils Guillaume Delisle, (1675-1726), a été éduqué par son père Claude et à un âge précoce a montré des signes d'être un talent exceptionnel. Il… Read More

San Francisco:: Sierra Club, 1970. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full chrome-embossed marine-blue coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 222. Illustrated with 14 colour plates & b-w halftones, and maps &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Aldabra is the world's second-largest coral atoll. It is situated in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. Uninhabited and extremely isolated, Aldabra is virtually untouched by humans. It has distinctive island fauna including the Aldabra giant tortoise. It consists of four islands around a large shallow lagoon, encircled by fringing coral reef. The atoll reflects both fossil and geomorphological features, the former is the source of the biodiversity seen today. The atoll has the largest population of giant tortoises in the world (about 100,000 animals). Sir David Attenborough called Aldabra… Read More

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.25inches], full chrome-embossed hibiscus-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 268. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... After a stint in advertising and journalism,, Edwin Colin Simpson,(1908–1983) published Adam in Ochre (1951), which sold 56,000 copies in the next twenty years, attracted international attention and popularised the realisation that Indigenous Australians were not dying out.His only novel, Come Away, Pearler, was released in 1952. He then focussed several books on New Guinea Aborigines,, including Adam with Arrows (1953) Adam in Plumes (1954),and Islands of Men (1955). In 1963 Simpson became a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors and, after visiting Scandinavia, led the ASA campaign for Public Lending Right, publicising the issue by withholding The New Australia from… Read More

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed Martini-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 239. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... After a stint in advertising and journalism,, Edwin Colin Simpson,(1908–1983)published Adam in Ochre (1951), which sold 56,000 copies in the next twenty years, attracted international attention and popularised the realisation that Indigenous Australians were not dying out.His only novel, Come Away, Pearler, was released in 1952. He then focussed several books on New Guinea Aborigines,, including Adam with Arrows (1953) Adam in Plumes (1954),and Islands of Men (1955). In 1963 Simpson became a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors and, after visiting Scandinavia, led the ASA campaign for Public Lending Right, publicising the issue by withholding The New… Read More

Lublin, Poland: Kagero Publishing, 2013. First Edition. Paperbound. As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 73. Illustrated exclusively with colour plates . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" (armored ship), nicknamed a "pocket battleship" by the British, which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. She was deployed to the South Atlantic in the weeks before the outbreak of World War II, to be positioned in merchant sea lanes once war was declared. Between September and December 1939, the warship sank nine vessels totaling 50,089 gross register tons (GRT), before being confronted by three British cruisers at the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December. Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British ships, but she too was damaged and was forced to put into port at Montevideo, Uruguay. Convinced by false reports of… Read More