Search Results: Titles starting with B from Crouch Rare Books

published by Thames & Hudson, London, 1979,. see description. first edition, 8vo, 215pp, frontispiece of the fanciful Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel, c.1568, 136 other illustrations from photographs, line drawings, statuary, plaques, artifacts, including a dragon on a glazed brick wall, its head bearing the double horns of the Arabian horned viper, the front legs feline, the hind legs ending in the scaly claws of a bird of prey and the tail terminating as a scorpion [the younger of my two dogs, who was a bit retarded, and about whose ancestry I often wondered would have recognized him], sketch plans and photographs of the site in Babylon, line drawings and tables comparing the early cuneiform texts and how they became simplified, nicely laid-out pages, original cloth, title gilt on spine and publisher's logo gilt on upper board, colour-illustrated dustwrapper, price-clipped but otherwise intact, near fine. 0

J. C. Russell and Sons, nd, circa 1835. 194 x 243 mm, engraved map with fine-lined hand colouring to borders, from An Atlas of Ancient Geography, a few small nicks and tears on margins of which tear encroaches 20 mm onto printed area, one corner trimmed affecting margin only. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles

George Allen & Unwin,, 1904,. Soft cover,. 8vo size, printed paper wrappers, spine reinforced with tape, foxing in places especially on title page, fair only,

Chatto & Windus, London, 1950,. see description. 8vo, ix,290pp, some few spots on cut fore-edge not encroaching on margins and a few faint spots on the endpapers, original cloth, title gilt on spine, first free endpaper torn out and reference-library label inside front cover, good.

Arms and Armour Press, 1994. Soft cover. 9.5 x 7.5 inches, large paperback format, coloour illustrated card covers, 208pp, numerous colour and b/w photoplates, there's a sall price sticker on the back cover, the corners are slightly rubbed, but overall near fine

Peerage Books. Hardcover. 8vo size, 363pp, publisher's boards with title sliver on spine and design on upper board, colour illustrated dustwrapper (not price clipped), two books in one, fine colour plates, fine / nearly as new

Old House Books, 1937. Hardcover. small thick 8vo size, 16 x 11.5 cms, 696pp, 96 maps and plans, a panorama, publisher's boards with title gilt on spine and upper board, no dustwrapper (as issued), hardly opened, nearly as new

GMS Enterprises, 1991. Soft cover. 30x21cms, colour illustrated card wrappers, marginal tear (3cms) top edge of front cover, now reinforced

A Kestrel Book published by Penguin Books, London, 1981,. see description. first edition, 8vo, 118pp, the text in script format with prose passages linked by lyrical poems, at the back the scores of the sixteen ballads, frontis and 8 other full-page line drawings, numerous smaller sketches in text, pristine cream publisher's boards with the title in metallic red on spine, the dustwrapper illustrated in colour front and back, near fine.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London, 1892, first edition,. see description. 8vo size (13 x 19 cms), xii,89pp, full calf, title and author gilt on spine, decoration to the four corners of each cover, inner dentelles gilt, top edge gilt, very slightly rubbed top and bottom of spine,overall fine, 0

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London; and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1806. Hardcover. 8vo, 180pp, contemporary half cloth with marbled boards,a small leather label (slightly chipped) on spine with title etc gilt, lightly rubbed at head of spine and corners, water stains on top outer corner of eight leaves only just touching the text, a few spots and occasional light soiling elsewhere but overall text is good, binding firm and sound. Notes: rare first book edition with the half-title and the publisher's advertisement which reads: "These ballads have been already published in different collections, some in the MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER, others in the TALES OF WONDER, and some in both these Miscellanies. They are now first collected into one Volume. The Songs have been written at different times for the Musical Collection of MR GEORGE THOMSON and MR WHITE."

BCA by arrangement with Croom Helm, London, 1983,. see description. large 8vo, xix,400pp, 17 colour photographs, 84 black and white, publisher's boards, title gilt on spine, colour-illustrated dw, near fine.

Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1971, first edition,. see description. thick, heavy 4to, (26x29cm), original cloth boards, slightly shaken, dw, overall condition good. The book contains 395 black and white fine photoplates, 8 historical maps, 20 schematic diagrams and many photographs, depicts the new age of grandeur, ornamentation and the growth of urban centres in the 17th century, detailed sections on individual cities, chapters on the evolution of churches and palaces. NB: this is a very heavy book and it will incur an extra postage charge. 0

1898. Hardcover,. 8vo, original cloth boards, rubbed, text mostly clean but a few marks and smudges and the lower corners creased, lower corners bruised, inner front hinge cracked, a little shaken, fair

published by Thames & Hudson, London, 1975,. see description. large heavy paperback, 240pp, about 100 photographs, and line drawings, plans and maps, the pages laid out with wide fore-edge margins to hold small photographs or drawings and the captions to larger photographs, illustrated card covers, the tips at the front slightly bent and a faint 'reading' crease up spine otherwise near fine. 0

The Bodley Head, London, 1896,, 1896. see description. small 8vo, 86pp, cloth covers, gilt illustration on front, top edge gilt, very good.

London, Frederick Muller, 1978,. see description. 8vo, 285pp, frontis: The Parliament of Edward I (an engraving after an ancient picture), mainly from psalters, illuminated manuscripts and ancient illustrated journals, 23 other illustrations, a double-page map of the town at the time of the battle in 1264, on the front endpapers a map of the Battlefield of Lewis [its earlier spelling] on 14th May 1264 and, on the back endpapers, the Battlefield of Lewes 1964, publisher's boards, title gilt on spine, illustrated dw protected by a removable film, vg.

Hutchinson, London, 1995,. see description. slim 8vo, 128pp, publisher's boards, title silver on spine, illustrated dw, almost as new.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo size, 335pp, publisher's boards with title sliver on spine, colour illustrated dustwrapper (not price clipped), text very clean,dw fractionally rubbed/creased top of spine overall near fine, 5 maps, 14 chapter opener illustrations, 33 photo illustrations,

B. T. Batsford, London, 1969,. Soft cover. unmarked uncorrected proof copy, viii,224pp, 34 photographs on art paper, numerous maps in text showing battle plans, stapled to this paper-covered review copy is the illustrated dw which will appear on the case-bound copy when published. A review copy but in good/very good condition