Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Muir Books

Xining, China: Qinghai Institute of Plateau Biology. 1978. Octavo, pp.7, 406, (iv, colour plates), profusely illustrated with detailed line drawings of plants throughout and four colour plates at end, the Latin names of the plants also provided on each page, original glossy gilt titled blue boards. Near fine condition Traditional Tibetan medicine book 1st Edition. Stiff Wraps.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1959. 8vo, pp. (vi) 298, orig cl bds., v.g., in d.j edges rubbed, good. Novel of Ancient Rome. Cloth Boards.

New York: The W.J. Johnstone Co. Limited. 1893. Octavo, pp 128, b/w diagrams, prev owner's inscription (West Australian Tel. Dept.), light foxing to endpapers, cloth boards, worn and bumped at corners and edges, insect damage, lacking piece from head of spine and 2cm section missing from near tail of spine, contents good. Description of the Edison quadruplex system of telegraphy. Cloth Boards.

London: John Murray. 1861. 1st ed., pp.586, incl Index, worn half calf marbled bds, some closed tears along edges of a few pages, contents very good condition The Quarterly Review, a literary and political periodical founded in 1809. This volume features 'Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley", "Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton" 1st edition. Half calf.

London: John Murray. 1815. Original half-leather marbled boards with gilt rule, pp 521. Boards, worn, edges rubbed, black binders tape on spine. Presentation inscription ffep. 'Holy Island Library' blindstamped to edge of upper board. Darkened inner edge of title page. Fair condn. The Quarterly Review, a literary and political periodical founded in 1809. This volume features a 46 page review of Flinders' "A Voyage to Terra Australis" and a 51 page review of Lewis and Clarke's "Travels to the Source of the Missouri River." 1st Edition.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 4to, original blue cloth boards with embossed decoration in black, tipped-in colour plates, b&w illus, pp 160. N.d., c. 1918. Includes loosly inserted leaflet about Queen Mary's hospitals, with b&w photographs. A little rubbing and darkening to edges of boards, o/w very good condn. Anthology. Illustrators include Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson. Boards.

Carlisle: Hesperian Press. 1984. Cloth boards, dustjacket, various pag, b&w plates, text illus, maps. Previous owner's stamp ffep. Very good condn. Facsimile Edition.

London: George Routledge. 1883. Octavo, original decorated cloth boards, illus, pp viii, 357. With vignette and four plates, one of which has been hand-coloured, lacking frontis and one plate. Some damage to the top edge , good condn. Stories for children. Boards.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1922n.d.. 8vo., pp. xi 320, b/w plates, one stained & loose plate, missing f.f.e.p., inscr., tender hinges, or. cl. bds., rubbed edges, good, no d.j. Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (1861 – 1939) was a British intelligence officer, police officer, prison governor, colonial administrator, and writer. In 1913, Thomson was appointed Assistant Commissioner "C" (Crime) of London's Metropolitan Police, which made him the head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at New Scotland Yard. When World War I broke out in 1914, the CID acted as the enforcement arm for Britain's military intelligence apparatus. Thomson was involved in arrests in several high-profile espionage cases. One who he interrogated was ‘Mata Hari’ the Dutch exotic dancer later to be executed by the French as a spy. This is one of the numerous cases Thomson discusses in the book: others include Sir Roger Casement (the Irish… Read More

Scarborough: Contraland Press. 1985. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 103. Minor edgewear, very good condition. The Western Australian goldfields 1886 -1985 Wraps.

Nedlands: UWA Press. 1971. pp xx, 124, pages browning at edges, stiff wraps, , v.g. Wraps.

South Perth. 2004. Octavo, wraps, colour plate, b&w illus, pp 188. Near-fine condition. Signed by the author. Autobiography, including time as a POW and work on controlling tuberculosis. 1st edition. Wraps.

Paris: Librairie Serge Plantureux. 2007. Oblong, wraps, 100 photographs (all but one b&w), with text. Very good condn. Collection of historical portrait photographs, nineteenth and twentieth century. Wraps.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1965. 8vo, pp. xviii, 271, Index, b/w frontis port., b/w plates and ills., offsetting eps., small mark fore-edge, orig cl. bds., v.g., in sl rubbed d.j. Biography of the founder of the West Australian Labor Party. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Sydney: Bay Books. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus throughout, pp 128. N.d. (1988). Slight shelfwear to d.j. previous owner's name ffep, o/w very good condn. The basis of the Guild's Quilt Australia '88 exhibition, with over 100 colour illustrations and a short description of each work by the artist. Boards.

Amritsar. 1965. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w illus, pp 296. Previous owner's bookplate, very good condition. Chapters include Sikh History, Sikh Culture, Sikh Philosophy, Sikh Religion