Search Results: Titles starting with N from Blacket Books

The Scottish Genealogy Society, 2009. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. A very good copy in light blue covers lettered in black. No ownership inscription and not foxed. Pp.xi,285. Illustrations at end of book. Names all persons from Nairnshire who served in the First World War with, in most instances, details of their war service and in some instances their date of birth, occupation, marriage and children and their parents' names.

Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1944. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Margaret Horder. A very good copy in grey cloth lettered and decorated in red. No ownership inscription. 192 pages. Coloured frontispiece. Black and white illustrations.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good plus copy in publisher' decorated fawn and green boards with title in green on front board and on spine. Spine darkened. Coloured frontispiece and 12 black and white illustrations. Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper which is clipped at top right hand corner. Small piece at edge of page 15 and 16 missing without loss of text. Some edge foxing. 159 pages. Protected in a removable cover.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. A good copy in green cloth which shows some fading to the edges. In a poor dustwrapper, very worn and missing the front inner flap. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. Small ownership inscription on front end-paper. 360 pages. Frontispiece and 18 illustrations. 3 maps. This is Buhl's climbing autobiography culminating in his solo ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.

London: Publishe for The Royal Society of Edinburgh by Longmans, Green & Company, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in cream cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the upper board. Top edge gilt. Not foxed and no ownership inscription. Pp.xi,441. 15 plates + frontispiece and 4 other illustrations. Comprises essays to commemorate Napier's great work on logarithms which was published in 1614

Oxford University Press, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in light brown cloth which is a bit marked on the upper and lower boards. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Front hinges tender. Gift inscription on front free end-paper. 469 pages. 14 plates including some in colour. 6 maps. Genealogical table. Gives an account of pastoral enterprise in south-eastern Australia by early settlers in the 1830s to 1850s.

London: Frank Cass, 1967. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A clean copy with no ownership inscription or foxing. 287pp. First published in 1794 the book includes an account of the natives of Sierra Leone and "the present state of the slave trade in the West Indies and the improbability of its total abolition".

London: Remington & Co, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy which has been rebound in a half-leather binding. New end-papers. Small ownership inscription on title page. Pp.viii,574 + I page adverts. A study of the first Boer War.

Cambridge: Ken Trotman, 1986. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good. Covers protected by a clear, removable sleeve. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.viii,346. A Peninsular war narrative. This is a facsimile reprint of the edition of 1812. "The only narrative describing the campaigns of this unusual unit of the British Army, formed mainly of Portuguese refugees under the direction of the unorthodox leader, Sir Robert Wilson.

London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First Edition . Half-Leather. Good. Hardback. A good copy of the first volume of this two volume set. Half-leather with marbled boards and lettered in gilt on a black title-piece on the spine. A little wear to board tips and edges. No ownership inscription. Pp.xxiii,428. Frontispiece and 18 illustrations/maps. Some soiling to most plates. Photographs available on request.

Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. A very good copy. Ownership inscription on front free end-paper otherwise near fine. Pp.vii,125. Figures Tables. Chapters include: "Bardic Poetry and National Identity," "Settlement Patterns and National Identity," "Nationality and the Medieval Church in Ireland" and "Legal Systems in Medieval Ireland." This is a title in the British Archaeological Reports series (BAR 367).

Cambridge University Press, 1984. First Edition Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. A very good copy. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.viii,232. 6 maps. Described as "an overview of a key phase in China's turbulent modern history by one of the most distinguished western interpreters of China".

Edinburgh: Privately Published. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Nd. 1954? A very good copy in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Some fading to spine and upper board. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 72 pages. A Second World War Roll of Honour together with the address given at the unveiling of the Memorial to staff who gave their lives in the war. Full page illustration of the Memorial.

Privately Published. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Nd, c.1922. A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper board. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.vii,51. Gives rank, regiment, whether wounded or killed, honours awarded and branch of the Bank in which the soldier worked.

London: Frederick Warne, 1904. First Edition . 4to. A good copy in green cloth boards with vellum spine which is rather discoloured. 146pp. Many illustrations. The text deals with the various schools of painting represented in the gallery.

Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.vii,904.

Wick: Peter Reid & Co, 1848. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. A fair copy of this rather fragile item in card covers which are chipped at spine ends and with covers coming loose. Ownership stamp of Allan John Jarvis on front fixed end-paper. 48 pages. A little pencil writing in the margins. A scarce item in good condition internally and could be rebound.

London: T. Hunter and T. Hookham, 1829. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. A two volume set in paper covered boards with some spine tears and chipping. Internally very good except for some end-paper foxing. Each volume bears, on the front fixed end-paper, the label of Fasque (the former home of the Gladstone family). Vol. I, pp.xxiii,604. Vol. II,pp.x,642 + one page list of other books published by the same author.

Scottish Council (Development and Industry), 1961. First Edition . A good copy in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 796pp. Signed by L.A. Elgood who was Chairman of the Symposium. A substantial and detailed work on Scotland's natural resources.

Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good copy in a dustwrapper which would also be very good but for fading to the red lettering on the spine. A nice, clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xvi,335. 123 illustrations in colour and 88 in monochrome. The book contains alphabetical plant and butterfly lists.