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Westmorland Gazette. Very Good/No DJ. Hard Cover. 8vo 0902272446 Hard Cover. Illustrated boards. No ownership marks. Photographs. 150 pages. 22 colour maps. Clean and tight. .

Amberley Publishing. New Condition. 2010. Soft Cover. 8vo 1848683057 Paperback: Illustrated with photographs. 96 pages clean and tight. Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete. He returned to England determined to pursue a career in the Royal Navy. His letters home from the service, assiduously compiled by A. B. Demaus, record the experience of a capable, ambitious cadet during a time of rapid technological change and relative peace. The Navy's task of protecting the empire's vast assets had not been interrupted by a major war since Nelson's day. Lambert's sea service, virtually all of which was overseas, involved time in two corvettes, an ironclad central battery ship, two cruisers, and a battleship. In his later career, he became the commanding offi cer of one of the earliest destroyers. He vividly describes the shipboard life and 'runs… Read More

Amberley Publishing. New Condition. 2010. Soft Cover. 8vo 1848683057 Paperback: Illustrated with photographs. 96 pages clean and tight. Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete. He returned to England determined to pursue a career in the Royal Navy. His letters home from the service, assiduously compiled by A. B. Demaus, record the experience of a capable, ambitious cadet during a time of rapid technological change and relative peace. The Navy's task of protecting the empire's vast assets had not been interrupted by a major war since Nelson's day. Lambert's sea service, virtually all of which was overseas, involved time in two corvettes, an ironclad central battery ship, two cruisers, and a battleship. In his later career, he became the commanding offi cer of one of the earliest destroyers. He vividly describes the shipboard life and 'runs… Read More

Boston: Roberts Brothers. Very Good/No DJ. 1868. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 12mo Green cloth with gilt titling on spine. Rubbed and frayed to top, tail & edges of spine. No ownership marksTranslated from the French by H.W. Preston. Nine essays on: - Madame De Sevigne, Mme De La Fayette, Mme. De Souze, Mme Roland, Mme De stael, Mme De Duras, Mme De Remusat, Mme . De Krudener, Mme Guizot. 384 pp. clean and tight. .

Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0715349260 Over 1700 entries cover a wide field - art nouveau, bronzes, books, maps , firearms, furniture, netsuke, pictures, clocks, pottery, glass .

The British Library Publishing Division. Very Good. 2011. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0712358439 Colour illustrated boards, no dj. No ownership marks. 390 pages clean and tight. This comprehensive carto-bibliography gives an account of geographic intelligence provision for the British army in much of the nineteenth century as reflected in nearly 1600 contemporary maps, plans, views and drawings produced at the centre of British military administration. The book provides, for the first time, an aggregate listing of the cartographic records produced by the Quarter Master General's Office, the Topographical & Statistical Depot (later the Topographical Department) and the Intelligence Branch. The material described mirrors the wide range of intelligence requirements regarding major conflicts, lesser-known wars and actions, expanding colonial and overseas interests, and domestic security concerns. More than thirty conflicts mapped include the Peninsula Campaign, the Crimean War and the… Read More

London: A & C Black. Good. 1944. Hard Cover. 8vo illustrated paper-covered boards. Rubbed corners. No ownership marks. 15 full pages of illustrations.32 pages clean and tight. .

Wessex Archaeology. Very Good. 1997. Soft Cover. 4to 1874350205 Paperback: xvi + 317pp, inc. 34 plates + 161 figs & plans, laminated card. Clean and tight. Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.8 x 1.9 cm .Five excavations were undertaken in advance of construction of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, near Chichester. One of these, on a low hill discovered the remains of a Late Iron Age religious site and Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. The Late Iron Age site is exciting as it is so far unique within England in its size and associated features. At least two shrines were revealed, as well as a range of pyre sites and 161 cremation burials. The Romano-British cemetery contained one pyre site and 36 graves, often containing urned burials and comparatively well furnished with grave goods. The Anglo-Saxon cemetery was represented by 10 inhumations graves, identified only from 5th-7th century AD artefacts assumed to be grave goods. .

London: Privately Printed. Good -. Early Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Green front and backs with black lettering to front. Blue rubbed cloth spine. Illustrated paste downs and end pages. Sepia photograph plate to frontispiece. 126 pages clean and tight. Previous owner's address and date on rear paste down. .

W. H. & L. Collingrade Limited. Very Good/Fair. 1961. Hard Cover. Sm 4to Dust jacket tears and loss to edges, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling. No ownership marks. Numerous illustrations. 128 pages clean and tight. Most gardeners like to design their own gardens or, if they take over a ready made garden, they usually wish to alter it in some way. The desire to plan is there but so often they lack ideas, or perhaps they know that they want a rock garden, a pool, a lawn and some shrubs but they cannot visualize a suitable layout. This book is packed with ideas and the excellent perspective drawings which accompany the plans give the reader a picture of the finished designs. There are, too, many designs for such features as arches, screens, gates, sundials, steps, paving, paths and garden seats from which to choose. Lists of selected plants for various purposes have been included and also many unusual plants are illustrated to help the reader with his… Read More

Cambridge, Massachuetts, USA: Harvard University Press. Very Good/No DJ. 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine and upper cover. Slight loss to top of spine. Bumped rubbed corners. No ownership marks. Erratum slip. xiii, 121 pages clean and tight. 10 plates Approximately 400 entries. Describes Beerbohm's fiirst and later editions, unauthorized editions, introductions for books, uncollected and unpublished writings and caricatures, plays, catalogues of exhibitions of caricatures, "maxiana", studies and notes on Beerbohm. .

London: George Bell and Sons. Good. 1890. 1890/91. Large paper edition limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 171. 2 volumes in brown cloth boards with leather spines, the latter somewhat worn. Gilt lettering on spines. Endpapers somewhat browned. t.e.g. Contents generally clean, a few pages spotted/stained. Vol.1 xc+139pp. Vol.2 ix+207pp. .

London: His Majestry's Stationery Office. Good +. 1905. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo Green cloth with bright gilt titles on upper cover and spine. Slight wear to edges. xvi, 132 pages plus large section of full page plates. Clean and tight. .

London: Methuen. Good/Fair. 1965. Reprint. Hard Cover. Sm 8vo .Reprint with corrections.325 Pages. Dust jacket torn with small chunk missing. Soiled cloth covers. ?Name on ffep. Text clean. Binding tight. .

Ian Allan. Fine. 1991. First Edition. Pictorial Laminated Boards. Obl 4to 071101941X No ownership marks. 64 pages clean and tight. .

Ian Allan. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. Hard Cover. 4to. Dimensions: 30 x 22.2 x 2.2 cm 0711007764 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Maps. Numerous photographs.160 pages clean and tight. Teamwork, determination and the confident application of the mailed fist of concentrated panzers wreaked havoc amongst the Allied tank forces first in Poland then in France. The panzer divisions went on to spearhead an attack on Russia that tore the guts out of the Red Army; they were to bring the British in North Africa to the point of defeat; and they were able, even in the final stages of the war, to give the mighty American armies a very severe shock during the Battle of the Bulge. In attack well-nigh invincible, in defence stubborn and determined, the German panzers virtually dominated the course of the land battle in World War II. Panzers at War shows what it was like to serve in a panzer division, in all… Read More

UK: Jardine Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0950927090 Dust jacket complete. Bright boards and titling. Photographic end papers. No ownership marks. Colour frontis plate. Numerous colour & b/w photographs / illustration. 230 pages clean and tight. Sumptuously illustrated with photographs of performances throughout the world and Andrew Dodds' specially commissioned drawings, The Notary in Opera is an account of the notary's role in some generally accessible eighteen operas. There is a full examination of the character of the notary and the part played by him in the story of the various operas in which he appears. The illustrations are aimed at showing how the notary is conceived in operas composed over a period of two hundred years and in productions in opera houses in three continents right up to the present date. Besides emphasizing the points made in the written account, the illustrations also have their own inherent historical and… Read More

Canterbury & York Society / Boydell Press. Very Good/No DJ. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0907239587 Volume 86. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine and upper cover, gilt decorations on upper cover. No ownership inscription. xxix, 197 pages clean and tight. .

London: John Harris. Very Good. 1977. ILLUSTRATED CARD COVER. 4.25" By 7" Tall 0859674185 A few marks on cover. Contents very good condition. Small staple-bound booklet. 16pp Colour illustrations and text. .

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts. Good/No DJ. 1858. New Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Original cloth boards with black titling. Name on ffep. A very few foxing spots. 349 pages clean and tight. 2 advertising pages. Publisher's advertising on paste downs. .