Search Results: Authors starting with B from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: Bliss, Sands & Foster. Good. 1895. Hard Cover. 4to No dust Jacket as published. Very worn covered covered boards. Title label on spine worn away. No ownership marks. Preface by George E Smythe. Full page line drawings of architectural details throughout book. Public school buildings at London and [moved 1872] Godalming, Surrey. Contents of book very clean. .

Imprint unknown. Good/Fair. 1972. Hard Cover. 8vo 0854220062 Dust jacket worn , torn with chunk missing.. Maroon cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, rubbed to upper boards. No ownership marks. Photographs on plates. 230 pages clean and tight. Since before the invention of gunpowder, man's weapons have fallen into two broad categories - personal weapons, and ordnance. With the arrival of powder, and the subsequent increase in the power of weapons, it was realised that ordnance, principally for use in sieges, was a most important innovation. Sieges in the 15th century could last for years, but with the judicious use of mortats and bombards, the walls of a city might -- breached within a few days. Thus, from these crude beginnings, artillery was born. Colonel Rogers has traced io this work the entire h}story of artillery, its use in sieges, in he field and at sea; its value in defense and attack; and its many variations, like rockets and tanks. Starting with the earliest… Read More

London: Royal Mail Stamps. Fine. 1990. Card Cover. Sm Obl 4to 0946165416 Black card covers with end flaps 40 pages clean and tight. Numerous colour & B&w illus. throughout. 6 stamps as well as a black penny fascimile contained in two display cards. .

Dublin / Oxford: Cork University Press / B H Blackwell. Very Good/No DJ. 1946. Third Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo Red cloth spine over grey boards. Bright black titling on spine. No ownership marks. 288 pages clean and tight. ""Foreword - IF Shakespeare had had a sister endowed with literary powers, could she have won to success in that early period? What factors would have impeded her development as a writer? These questions, raised by Virginia Woolf in her penetrating essay, A Room of One's Own, seemed to me well worth answering. They were the starting-point of a long journey backwards through the years-a journey which had for its object a consideration of those forces which affected women writers during the sixteen , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and an evaluation of these women's contribution to literature. It soon became apparent that women had mainly contributed towards the development of the novel. Their contribution and the influences which conditioned it… Read More

London: Brockhampton Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. Hard Cover. 4to 1860191207 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Discovering Art. The Life, Times and Work of the World's Greatest Artists. 80 pages and plates .

Glasgow: William P Laidlaw. Good. 1867. Hard Cover. 8vo Original brown cloth boards a little loss to top and tail of spine. Gilt titling on spine. Pull out charts at rear. Five coloured plates. 382 pages clean and tight. TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION, by the Editor, - - BARBARA BURTON, as a Reformer of some Astrometeorological Fallacies, and the Pioneer of the true Astronomic Philosophy, - - II. Positive Philosophy, as a further Reform, and a Practical Exposition and Systemising of Planetary Action, by FREDERIC PRATT, F.M.S., - - - 11I. W. H. WHITE, M.B.S., F.C.L.,o as an exponent of the Physical Astronomy of the Science; with two essays on Comets, and one on Shooting Stars, - " MERCL'RIUS " - Further Exposition of Predictive Philosophy, - - - ADMIRAL FITZRoY's Exposition of the Soli - Lunar Cyclone Theory, with " R.'s " Refutations, - - Letters, Philosophical, Critical, and Controversial, by FREDERIC PRATT, F.M.S., - - - -… Read More

London: Mitre Press. Good/Good. 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12 Mo Acceptable. Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, soiled. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling. Heavily marked soiled to all end papers. Previous owner's small name label on ffep. A few foxing marks to page margins. In this classic work, Peter Hammond and the late V.B. Lamb survey the life and times of Richard III and examine the contemporary evidence for the events of his reign, tracing the origins of the traditional version of his career as a murderous tyrant and its development since his death. The evident grief of the citizens of York on hearing of the death of Richard III ? recording in the Council Minutes that he had been 'piteously slane and murdered to the Grete hevynesse of this citie' ? is hardly consistent with the view of the archetypal wicked uncle who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and there is an extraordinary discrepancy between this monster and the man as he is… Read More

London: Mitre Press. Good/Very Good. 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12 Mo Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, price clipped Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling, small bump and break to cloth at lower edge of front boards. Neatly written previous owner's inscription withShakespearean quote. 125 pages very clean and tight. In this classic work, Peter Hammond and the late V.B. Lamb survey the life and times of Richard III and examine the contemporary evidence for the events of his reign, tracing the origins of the traditional version of his career as a murderous tyrant and its development since his death. The evident grief of the citizens of York on hearing of the death of Richard III ? recording in the Council Minutes that he had been 'piteously slane and murdered to the Grete hevynesse of this citie' ? is hardly consistent with the view of the archetypal wicked uncle who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and there is an extraordinary discrepancy… Read More

Onfroy, Treuttel Paris, Strasbourg . Good. 1792. Second Edition. Three Quarter Leather. 3.5" By 5" Tall Three quarters leather very worn , over very rubbed boards. Cover in poor condition. Contents in good + condition. Floral end papers. No ownership inscription. Frontis plate. lxxvj, 257, 40, 108 pages generally clean, binding tight. Includes Reflexions Politiques Sur Les Circonstances Presentes Par J P Babaut; La Constitution Francoise 1791. Text in French. .

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Very Good/No DJ. 1949. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover. 12 Mo Blue decorated cloth boards with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. Numerous Photographs / Plates. 80 pages clean and tight.. .

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo .

New York: White, Stokes, & Alllen . Very Good. Three Quarter Leather. 12 Mo Three Quarter Leather over patterned boards. Slightly rubbed to edges. No date. Marbled end papers.49 pages clean and tight. Contents: - LORD CLIVE. RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES. COMIC DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION. LORD HOLLAND. WARREN HASTINGS .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1897. Third Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Green cloth with bright gilt decorations and titling. Previous owner's inscription. Tissue guarded frontis portrait. 215 pages clean and tight. + 4 publisher's pages. A very nice copy. .

Phaidon Press. Very Good. 1991. Soft Cover. 4to 0714824615 Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.1 x 1 cm. With 67 illustrations, 31 in colour. THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS, a manuscript produced in the Northumbrian island monastery of Lindisfarne at the end of the seventh century, in honour of Saint Cuthbert, is one of the world's masterpieces of book painting. It is a precious relic of early Christianity in England, and one of the nation's greatest treasures. This is the first book to make the chief glories of the Lindisfarne Gospels accessible to a wide public. All the important illuminated pages are reproduced in colour from a new and accurate set of photographs. In her introductory chapters Janet Backhouse tells the story of Lindisfarne and of Saint Cuthbert, and describes how the manuscript was made. A sequence of the great illuminated pages is then followed by an absorbing account of their relationship to earlier and contemporary works of art. The final chapter traces the history of the… Read More

London: F. C. and J. Rivington; etc., . 1819. New Edition. Disbound. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Contents very good. Needs rebinding - Spine leather worn away, lower board missing, upper board detached -. xx,387pp clean and tight. .

London: Chapmans. Fine/No DJ. 1991. Hard Cover. 12mo 1855925532 64 pp Colour illustrated Chapman Library of Golf No. 1 .

London: C.Arthur Pearson Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. 8vo 34th edition. Dust jacket unclipped, slight wear to edges.Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Name and date 1965 on ffep. xiv, 281 pages clean and tight. Illustrated with line drawings. This is the most famous book in the Scout Movement-written and illustrated by the Founder himself in 1908 and appearing in those days in six fortnightly parts. Subsequently B.-P. made many alterations and additions, particularly in relation to Badge Tests and Rules. Furthermore he asked many people to help him with amendments dealing with technical matters. For some time it has been clear that revisions, adjustments and alterations of all kinds ought to cease and a "once-for-all" Edition of Scouting for Boys be published. Here is the result-an Edition which retains most of the Founder's original work whilst omitting those parts of the various revisions which have become dated and have ceased to… Read More

Reading: Berkshire Printing. Very Good/Very Good. 1965. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. 5.25" By 8" Tall' Dust jacket in protective sleeve, unclipped. Cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. A very few spots. 493 pages clean and tight. 2 marks on ffep. Book plate on half title. .

Reading: Berkshire Printing. Very Good/Very Good. 1965. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. 5.25" By 8" Tall' Dust jacket in protective sleeve, unclipped. Cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. A couple of spots. 560 pages clean and tight. 2 marks on ffep. Book plate on half title. .

Reading: Berkshire Printing. Very Good/Very Good. 1965. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. 5.25" By 8" Tall' Dust jacket in protective sleeve, unclipped. Cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. 763 pages clean and tight. 2 marks on ffep. Book plate on half title. .