Search Results: Authors starting with B from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Reprinted from The Journal of the International Folk Music Council, Volume XIII, 1961, 1961. Soft cover. 24cm, 8p., staple bound, blue wraps, signed by Babeau on the cover, very good (cnds).

Paris. Baudry's European Library. 1836. 8vo. 21cm, viii,338p., with front folding map, bound in quarter green calf, gilt titles and decorations on the spine, marbled boards and endpapers, bookplate, some foxing, a very good copy in attractive binding. (Ar). Back, who had been on both Franklin expeditions, was sent out to locate Ross, who had been unreported through three winters. He travelled overland to Great Slave Lake, descended the Fish (now Back) River, then unexplored, to the Arctic Ocean. He was a talented artist and the engravings are most attractive.

London. John Murray. 1836. 8vo. 22cm, (tall copy), The First Edition, x,[1], 663,4,8p., publisher's ads, both dated May, 1836, with 16 engraved plates and a rear folding map, bound in the publishers original diamond grain brown cloth, gilt spine titles in gilt decorated frame border, all the plates and their tissue guards are foxed with attendant transfer to the page before and after, the folding map is clean, mainly uncut, the binding is fine which is unusual for this book and copies containing the publisher's ads are rare. (cgc). We have had many copies of this book but only 1 comparable, (with ads, and being 22cm tall), that being the Beekman Pool copy in Catalogue 172. Of eighteen listings online only two mention ads., however several do not give a collation. Hill 42. A.B. 851. T.P.L. 477. Lande 935. Sabin 2613. Wagner- Camp 58b:1. Streeter 3705. - Back, who had been on both Franklin expeditions, was sent out to locate Ross, who had been unreported through three winters. News of Ross's safe… Read More

London. John Murray. 1836. 8vo. 21cm, The First Edition, x,[1], 663,p., with 16 engraved plates and a rear folding map, bound in the publishers original brown grain cloth with gilt spine titles, some foxing, some pages uncut, a very good copy. (cgc). Hill 42. A.B. 851. T.P.L. 477. Lande 935. Sabin 2613. Wagner- Camp 58b:1. Streeter 3705. Back, who had been on both Franklin expeditions, was sent out to locate Ross, who had been unreported through three winters. News of Ross's safe return reached Back in April 1833 and he then pursued the expedition's secondary objectives. These were, firstly, to navigate the length of a river supposedly arising in the neighbourhood of the Great Slave Lake and running north to the Arctic Sea, and then, secondly, to map as much as possible of the sea-coast. He was successful in both objectives, travelling 7,500 miles in total and traversing the full 440-mile length of the river (known as Thlueetessy' by the First Nations). The Great Fish River, as Back named it, has… Read More

London. John Murray. 1836. 8vo, 21.5cm, The First Edition, x,[1], (Directions to the Binder), 663,[1]p., with engraved rear folding map, 7 lithographed plates and 9 engraved plates and 8 wood-engraved text illustrations, in contemporary full brown calf, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt center and corner decorations in the panels including gilt rule borders, crushed crimson morocco label, gilt ruled border on the boards, gilt roll decorations on the edges, blind decorated inner dentelles, matched marbled endpapers and edges, With the engraved armorial bookplate of "Henry Fowler Broadwood", a few plates have some slight foxing or transfer but overall less than the normal foxing or transfer one expects on the title, a relatively clean copy in attractive antqiue binding. (cgc). Hill 42. A.B. 851. T.P.L. 477. Lande 935. Sabin 2613. Wagner- Camp 58b:1. Streeter 3705. WCB 58b:2. Field 63. - Back, who had been on both Franklin expeditions, was sent out to locate Ross, who had been unreported through three… Read More

London. John Murray. 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to, 28.6cm, The First Edition, the Rare Large Paper Issue, x,[1],663,p. with 16 engraved plates and a rear folding map, in the original cross grain cloth, blind stamped border decorations on the boards, gilt block titles in decorated borders on the spine, binding expertly restored, a fine copy. (cgc) Large Paper Copy issued to match the other quartos of the period. On this special edition the sixteen plates were produced on India paper and mounted, the thinner paper produce a better image. Chine-Colle). Thirteen are after Back and three after B. Waterhouse Hawkins. Seven were lithographed by Haghe or Day & Haghe and nine were steel-engraved by E. Finden. Back was a talented artist and the engravings are most attractive. A.B. 851. T.P.L. 1873. Lande 935. Sabin 2613. Wagner-Camp 58b:1. Streeter 3705 (trimmed). Back, who had been on both Franklin expeditions, was sent out to locate Ross, who had been unreported through three winters. News of Ross's… Read More

Philadelphia. nd. [184?]. 16mo, 16cm, 210p., original blind decorated browm cloth, gilt spine titles, fine condition. ~ ... abridged frp, the volume edited by Katherine Backhouse, published London, 1947.

London. Smith , Elder & Co. 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, The First Edition, viii,478,[ii]p., ads., appendix, with folding frontis map (plan of Bilbo) & 4 folding plate views, in contemporary full black calf, wide gilt decorated raised bands, gilt spine titles, elaborated gilt decorated borders on the boards, all edges gilt, engraved armorial bookplate expertly rebacked, a fine copy, very rare, WorldCat locates 2 copies, both in Germany.(cgc) John Francis Bacon was a British consul in Bilbao during the years 1830 to 1837, a period partly covered by the First Carlist War (1833-1839). He was the author of the book History of the Revolution of the Basque Provinces and Navarra. 1833-1837, in which his experience in this period is narrated. He is also the author of the book entitled Six years in Biscay (1831-1837), where he narrates the sites of Bilbao, during the First Carlist War. The book, in its English edition, contains a plan and four engravings of the town of Bilbao. There is a Spanish… Read More

London. Isbister and Company 1901, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, first (sole) edition,viii,275p., with 4 photographic plates including frontis, maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, ex-library copy black call number on the spine and a few internally library stamps otherwise a very good copy, rare (tgc). - The author, a British clergyman, writes of thirty years of ballooning. Dedicated to Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, a fellow balloonist.

London. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1955. 18.5cm, 190p., text illustrations, index, orange cloth with black titles, a fine copy in fine jacket. (Ds1).

London. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1936. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 19cm, 4th impression, 127p., text illustrations, book ads, green cloth, a fine bright copy in fine complete jacket. (ds1).

London. John W. Parker and Son. 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 20cm, first edition, xii,552p., index, in the original blind decorated dark green cloth, gilt spine titles, wanting the front free fly else very good to fine copy. W&S p20, Heckscher 108. A fascinating item on the history of fish of all types, fish markets, tackle, cookery etc. gleaned from many sources such as Apicius, Pliny, and Galen as well as many modern writers. No lover of fishing or the eating of fish should be without this remarkably informative volume.

Blandford Forum, Dorset. Milton Abbey School. 1995. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. 23.5cm, 160p., frontis sketch, 45 illustrations, appendix, index, black cloth, fine in fine jacket (b3). - The author taught at Milton Abbey from 1969 to 1993, as Head of History. As well as a history of the School, he gives a background on the great Dorset estate of Milton Abbey which was founded in the tenth century.

Belfast, P.E.I. Ragwood Press. 1977. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23.6cm,xi,310p., illustrations, appendices, brown cloth, gilt titles, fine in fine jacket An extensive resource guide that grew out of a high school course in local history initiated by the Prince Edward Island Department of Education in 1973.

Toronto. Macmillan of Canada. 1980. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 22cm, 2nd printing, 271p., with 24 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, brown cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket. (Cdn) Between 1870 and the depression of 1930s, over 80,00 children from the England, Ireland and Scotland.

Lutetiae (Paris). Carolum Stephanum. 1553. Hardcover. 16mo. (In 8's), 15.5cm, 189,[22]pp., title page vignette, 8 text figures (naval), index (in Latin, Greek & French), rebound in perhaps 20th century panelled goat, gilt spine titles and device decorations, new coloured wallpaper endpapers, internally damp staining and some corresponding wrinkling throughout, good. (Ho1.1). ~ Text in Latin. "About clothing, vases and naval". An abridgement, edited by Charles Estienne, of a work by first published in 1537 by Lazare de Baif (1496 1547), a French scholar and diplomat. One of the earliest adaptations for children.

Halifax. Dalhousie Law School. 1967. Soft cover. 23cm, x,359p., appendices, stiff printed wraps, a very good copy (N18).

Fredericton, New Brunswick. The University of New Brunswick. 1950. Hardcover. 23cm, 125p., appendix, portrait of Beaverbrook, blue cloth, very good to fine. (atl).

Manchester, at the University Press. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1967. 21.5cm, xvi,292p., 8 plates, 3 maps, 28 tables, 2 charts, blue cloth, fine in very good jacket (s10) An intensive study of a small-scale community, a Hindu village in the backwoods of the Orissa hills in India.

Saint John, N.B. J.& A. McMillan, Limited. 1925. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21cm, 141p., frontis portrait, 11 plates, bibliography, maroon cloth, gilt titles & decoration, fine in near fine jacket Loring Woart Bailey (1839-1925) was professor of chemistry and natural science at the University of New Brunswick from 1861 to 1907. This is a book of his reminiscences, edited by his son.