Search Results: Titles starting with V from Forest Books

[c. 1954]. 197-239pp. 14 plates, orig. printed wrappers. Schmidt-Kunsemuller, 3122.

London: E. W. Allen, [1881]. First edition, 32pp., disbound. Attacking vaccination as a prevention of small-pox.

London: Simpkin and Marshall. Boston: Morton. Boulogne: F. L. Mills, [c. 1895]. Eleventh edition, 12mo (125 x 85mm), xvii, [1], 126, [2] pp., text in French and English in parallel columns, maps of France and Belgium, inner hinges shaken, original red cloth, head and foot of spine a little frayed, title in gilt on upper cover with an image of a steam engine.

London: Printed by John Streater, 1656. First edition, small folio (285 x 180 mm), [12], 99, [7], 239, [11], 55, [1], [6], 34pp., signature A incorrectly bound in after signature B, complete with the engraved title page, the printed title page, a double-page engraved map of Chester, a double-page engraved plan and inset prospect of Chester by Wenceslaus Hollar, a double-page engraved map of the Isle of Man with 8 inset prospects, 2 double-page engraved plates (one with repair to a closed tear), 15 other engraved plates, including armorial plates, and engravings in the text, small piece of blank lower corn of title page torn-away, finely bound in nineteenth-century green straight-grained morocco, gilt tooled dentelles, boards with a gilt roll tooled floral border, spine with five raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt direct, others ornately tooled, all edges gilt, fine. Frances Mary Richarson Currer's copy in a fine morocco binding. A choice copy with a fine provenance and bound in a… Read More

Christie's. 1995. Numerous illustrs., (some coloured), orig. decorated wrappers, 411 lots.

Samuel T. Freeman & Co. 1936. 2 Parts, facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, soiled and detached, 800 lots.

Pickering & Chatto. 2004. 6 volume set, orig. cloth. 'A research tool of considerable value...researchers will find it indispensable.' – Australasian Victorian Studies Journal.

London: Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library. [c. 1815]. Small 4to, general printed title-page, 3, 12, 12, 12 leaves of engraved plates, occasional fingering and spotting, cont. boards, rebacked. A reissue of four extremely rare suites of engravings dating from the second half of the eighteenth century, each with a separate title-page, intended to provide examples of classical vases from which British designers could copy. (1) A new book of vases by Wm Darling Sculp. (3 un-numbered plates). (2) Eighteen vases modern and antique. London: published by I & J Taylor at the Architectural Library, High Holborn, [178-?]. (18 images on 12 plates, numbered 1 - 12). (3) Vases and tripods on twelve plates. London: published by I Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane, [178-?]. (numbered 1 - 12). (4) Fourteen vases from the antique. London: printed for I Taylor at the Bible & Crown in Holborn near Chancery Lane, [178-?]. (14 images on 12 plates, numbered I - XII). Provenance:… Read More

Madras: Printed at the S. P. C. K. Press, Vepery; The Christian Literature Society for India: London and Madras, 1898. First edition, 8vo (207 x 135 mm), iv, 136pp., 7pp. of "Publications for Indian Readers.", included in the collation, original cloth-backed printed boards somewhat stained, text clean throughout, a good copy. "The Vedanta, the highest conclusion of Indian thought, is based on a mistaken and pessimistic view of life; on a formulated dogma unsupported by any evidence and untaught in the hymns of Rig-Veda: the whole an elaborate and subtle process of false reasoning." Rev. T. E. Slater, Studies in the Upanishads, p.47.

The Bibliographical Society. 1992. 4to, 124pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers. Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society No. 7.

Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1702. New revised and enlarged edition, 2 vols., 8vo, [2], 89, [7]; 147, [3]pp., titles printed in red and black with vignette, engraved frontispieces and one folding engraved plate to volume one, 8 folding engraved geometrical plates and 20 folding engraved plates marked from A to X at the end of the second volume, plates with neat library blind stamp, numerous woodcuts in the text, some occasional spotting, calf calf, rubbed, upper cover detached. Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), engineer and military architect, member of the French academy of sciences and Marshal of France, was Commissioner General of fortifications from 1678 to 1703. He is known as one of the greatest military engineers of all times and one of the greatest figures of France during the reign of the Sun King. Provenance: Ownership inscription to front endpapers of J. Boudrillon (1737); Jeff. Hogg, Univ. Coll. Oxon.

Paris: Trois, 2000-03. 2 Vols., small 4to, 411; 91pp., limited to 350 copies, numerous illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, a nice set.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester. 1963. First Edition, orig. cloth, d.w.

Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1789. First Edition, 4to, [iv], 17, [1]pp., without half-title, title and last leaf soiled, disbound, enclosed in custom-made folder. Johnson, Provincial Poetry. 124.

Berlin: in Commission bei G. C. Nauck. Gedruckt bei August Petsch, 1820. First edition, 4to (260 x 210 mm), vol. I (all published), viii, xiv, [2], 168pp., 3 large folding engraved plates (one show the course of the river Saale from Gros-Rosenburg to the mouth of the Elbe), cont. half calf, re-backed, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco title label, corners rubbed. All published of this important work on hydrotechnics, dealing with the movement of water in stream and riverbeds. Provenance: Neat bookplate of Glasgow University Library on front paste-down. Poggendorff I, pp. 818.

Nürnberg: Bei Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe, 1767. First German edition, 4to (245 x 200 mm), 52, 168pp., copper engraved frontispiece and 46 numbered leaves of plates (of which 6 are folded), Latin name of each item illustrated provided in a cont. hand, early plain paper boards. The first German edition classic text on corals, the original having been published at London in 1755. This expanded edition contains an additional 8 plates not found in the first edition. "Ellis in 1754 had persuaded Ehret, the great botanical artist, to accompany him to Brighton 'there to draw from Nature, whatever the Microscope presented him of those extraordinary Beings'. The book duly contains delicate engravings from these drawings."—Knight. Knight, Zoological Illustration. p. 103.

Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1929. 151-160pp., orig. printed wrappers. [Offprint from the 'Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society', June, 1928].

Romæ: Ad Templum Sanctae Mariae de Pace, 1690. Folio (480 x 310 mm), engraved dedication portrait frontispiece, 44 ENGRAVINGS OF 46 (LACKING PLATES 9 & 10), 22 of which are double-page, the plates and the text pages are paginated continuously from 1 to 52, faint staining to blank upper margins, some light browning, nineteenth-century half calf, covers detached. Berlin Catatalogue, 1864.

London: Printed by Aug. M[athewes] for Rob. Milbourne, 1630. First edition,12mo (143 x 80 mm), [76], 684pp., initial blank A1, text printed within rules, two areas of minor worming, mainly marginal but affecting a few letters of text, mottled calf by Roger de Coverly, hinges cracked, spine gilt, head chipped, label, a.e.g. Sir Humphrey Lynde (1579-1636), a puritan controversialist, he contributed "to the wider controversy about whether the Roman church was a true one by publishing material defending Anglican theology, starting with The Book of Bertram the Priest (1623), a translation of a Carolingian work which maintained that the eucharist gave spiritual food, but denied transubstantiation. This was followed in 1625 by his first original work, Antient Characters of the Visible Church. In 1628 these arguments were developed in Via Tuta, or, The Safe Way, dedicated to the religious and well-affected gentry of the realm, and were argued very lucidly and succinctly in short chapters" and… Read More

Stockholm: Särtryck ur Biblis, 1976. [103]-187pp., 64 illustrs., loose in the orig. printed wrappers. Presentation inscription "Howard Nixon: outstanding amongst historians of bookbindings with admiration and gratitude by Sten Lindbeg." Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian.