Search Results: Authors starting with E from The Curiosity Book Shop

London: Vega, 2003 Glossy color-illustrated covers. Illustrated with line drawings." A practical handbook that enables the reader to incorporate the most positive aspects of Egyptian magic and healing into the modern world." Includes traditional charms and spells; guidance on using perfumes, oils, herbs and incense; instruction on working with sun and water rituals; and more. Appendices: I) Deities and their qualities; II) History, eras and dynasties.

Portland: Maine Credit Union League, 1988 Cloth. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1880 Original brown cloth with decorative blind-stamped cover (black ink) and spine, gilt spine lettering. Reprint; original copyright 1871. Translated from the German by Henry Reed, a Philadelphia lawyer, judge, and author. Scarce novel by Ebers, a German professor, Egyptologist, and director of the Museum at Jena, best known as the owner-steward of the Ebers Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical text. Translator's note in the Preface states that the original work "contains a series of notes establishing the authenticity of the incidents and descriptions, but as they have no connection with the story it has been deemed advisable to omit them from the translation," an apparent case of 19th century "dumbing down." Eleven pages of advertisements for other Lippincott publications in rear. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Front hinge paper starting. Clean and tight.

New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc. Good. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Staple-bound; oblong format; 128 pages. No date; circa 1943; copyright. Special small format published for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces. Moderate cover wear; very light cover soil. Interior clean and intact.

Augusta, Maine: Maine State Planning Office--Natural Resources Policy Division, 1993 Binder with card covers. Report to the 116th Maine Legislature. With charts and figures. Detailed discussion of ecosystem types. Pocket in rear is empty; may have held a map (?) Clean, intact, and unworn.

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1868 Fair+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blindstamped brown cloth; gilt spine decoration/lettering (mostly rubbed away). Copyright 1865. Sixth and last in a series penned by a Baptist minister. "Moral teaching has been blended with geography and history, and the aim has been to impart a knowledge of the customs and manners of Eastern people living in Oriental lands." Illustrated with engravings by M.T. Boyd. Heavy wear and tattering to cover cloth at extremities; spine strip split at rear, re-glued; cover cloth irregularly faded. Bookplate inside front cover; irregular 1" closed tear to front endpaper; small hole and creasing to rear endpaper. Occasional light soil, staining to text, but mostly clean; tight binding.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930 Ex-Library. Second printing in copyright year. Based on lectures delivered at the Institute of Politics, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Illustrated with black-and-white frontispiece photograph of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey and plates within text. Preface by Edward Mead Earle. Spine heavily sunned; rear cover cloth irregularly moderately spot-faded; light rubbing to cover extremities. A well-meaning librarian used cloth reinforced tape to neatly re-attach pages at hinges of pp. 22, 23 and pp. 26, 27. Library marks: spine lettering; bookplate and catalogue notations to inside front cover; small inkstamp to title page; very narrow remnant strips to rear endpapers (pocket strip and 'date due" slip removal). Clean and tight with clipped front flap of original dust jacket laid-in.

Westport, Connecticut: Avi Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 From the Preface: "No longer is it satisfactory to deal with texture on a commodity basis. Food scientists are increasingly concerned with relating food texture to basic physical properties, standardizing measuring methods and instruments, and relating physical properties to the results obtained by sensory evaluation." Illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, graphs, and diagrams. Library marks: spine label; sticker removal mark upper front cover near spine; inkstamps to inside front cover and front endpaper. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Small, light brown rectangular stain to upper margin page 29. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Plenum Press , 1988 Proceedings of an international symposium held May 12-15, 1987, in Rouen, France. With numerous figures, diagrams, and formulae. Faint cover edgewear. Small area of sticker-removal scarring at lower spine. Library marks: spine label remnant; library inkstamp and pencil notations to title page; library inkstamp and bar code sticker on rear endpaper.Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior/ National Biological Service & International Crane Foundation, 1996 Black cloth; gilt title, spine lettering, and decoration. Color illustrated endpapers. Sixteen color plate illustrations. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Many graphs, charts, figures. Author of a couple of sections wrote a personal inscription to prior owner underneath his photo on page 39. His name is also underlined in four places in the Table of Contents. Prior owner name at upper front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a moderately edgeworn dust jacket with some neat clear tape repairs.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Science Publishers, 1978 Red cloth; metallic silver title and spine lettering. This volume contains material presented at the second Symposium on Electron Microscopy andX-Ray Applications to Environmental and Occupational Health Analyses convened in Denver, Colorado, April 25, 26 and 27, 1977. With numerous figures, tables, and black-and-white photograph reproductions. Faint cover edgewear. Dust jacket moderately edgeworn and with some faint soil to rear (white) panel. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1872 A compilation of four lectures delivered by Edward, an Archbishop of Westminster, England and "a convert to the Catholic faith." Lectures are entitled: "The Revolt of the Intellect Against God," The Revolt of the Will Against God," "The Revolt of Society from God," and "The Spirit of Antichrist." Single-page advertisement for another of Edward's works, "The Fourfold Sovreignty of God." is the final text page. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; very light general cover wear; two tiny white spots and narrow 1" bluish stain to lower rear board. Prior owner appears to have been someone named "Batolomew" who left this inkwritten name and some light doodling on two adjoining blank front endpapers. Otherwise clean and intact.

Self-published, sponsored by Panama Audubon Society, 1971, 1971 Original Wraps. Second edition, revised and enlarged; this printing limited to 1500 copies . Stiff card covers; 97 pages, including Bibliography and Index. Two simple maps, one of all of Panama, the other of the Canal Zone. One-page typewritten 1977 update laid in. Information dated and possibly inaccurate, but may be of interest to collectors/researchers.

New York: The Womans Press, 1917 Part of College Voluntary Study Courses (Second Year--Part I) under auspices of Young Men's Christian Association. Copyright 1915. Inspirational. Light wear. Insect damage to hinges. Prior owner name, place, and date front endpaper; otherwise clean and intact.

Ottawa: Information Canada, 1974 Very Good. Short political history of Newfoundland. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Faint cover edgewear. Prior owner name at top of title page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Boston: Stone Soup Society, 1976 Soft Cover. Very Good. Card covers; chapbook edition. Sixteen poems translated into English, with original German text on facing page. Spine slightly sunned; faint cover wear. Prior owner inscription half-title page; interior otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc., 1974 Very Good+. With 10 contributing writers, including the editor. Prior owner embossed seal half-title page.

Baltimore, Maryland: Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1976 Good. With numerous full-page drawings. Intended for juvenile reader. Cover moderately worn with some tiny creases and one heavy diagonal crease at bottom front cover corner. Otherwise clean, bright, and tight.

New York: Self-published, 1928 Light gray paper-covered boards; dark spine cloth with paper label. Title page states that these essays were "printed at the request of friends who cherish them." INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper: " To _____ Stoddard a sedative--if taken in small doses will induce sleep. Prescribed by Uncle George." A Yale graduate (1886), Eliot was one of the authors of "Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot." Light rubbing to cover extremities. Slight darkening to outer margins of boards; faint cover soil.Tiny chip to lower corner of cover pastedown title. Minute chip to upper corner of spine pastedown label. Spine moderately faded. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Gibraltar: Gibraltar Museum Committee, 1975 Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated with few black-and-white photographs and simple maps; 133 pages. Moderate cover wear, including glue-mended 1" tear at head of spine; few light stains. Prior owner name/date on front endpaper. Otherwise clean and intact.