Search Results: Authors starting with E from Ari Dictum

Good with sunned spine. Slight foxing throughout. Inscribed "Giles Pitman (1st Holman Hunt 1951 [Moles]".Dustcover worn and with losses.

179pp. Very good with gently sunned spine and upper cover

Very good, clean copy documenting 19th century photography of The Vale of Evesham together with stories and anecdotes by ER Cornell.

Good Condition

Other volumes in the series also available - can be sent as full set.Good condition, signs of use from reading.

Good Condition

Very good condition. 136 pp.

Fair but one page missing

Staple bound, very good with minor scuffs.

Properties from the Estates of various collection, 577 lots illustrated in b/w with some cut out images from the catalogue, Cover slightly worn and fold crease to top left cover

Brand new Book. Charles Waterton (1782-1865) n a true English eccentric, ironically self-styled 'the most commonplace of men'. He talked to insects, fought with snakes, rode an alligator and lived like a monk. He was made famous in his own lifetime by publication of his wide-ranging travels and natural history observations - always fun, often perceptive, and unfailingly individual. One of his more notable contributions to science was the introduction into Europe of curare, now an invaluable drug in surgical operations. He turned his family estate into an extensive nature reserve; long before such things were heard of, and threw open his gates to the local populace as long as they understood that birds and animals had security of tenure. Waterton wrote three volumes of Essays on Natural History and the best-selling Wanderings in South America, which has never been out of print since the first publication in 1825. He was a fearsome satirist and pamphleteer, attacking prominent figures of his day both… Read More

Very good. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition at AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario). Very good with French Flaps.

56pp. Very good condition with slightly sunned cover.

Very good and well illustrated in bw with some colour plates (175 plates) Gilt tooled and embossed cover and spine. Dustcover with folds and tears, pasted plate of chestnut to front cover. Good clean copy with tight binding

Very good. Signed by author on applied label. Corners lightly bumped. Dustcover with price clipped and slight edgewear. Good clean copy.

294pp. Ex library St. Clare's Convent Grammar School stamped and with 'discard'. Also with bookplate for John W. Rodger, the Clevis, Porthcawl. Some spotting, foxing and fading of pages. Gilt lettered with some wear and scuffs.

Good, unmarked copy with tanned pages.

Fair copy with slightly faded spine, some scuffs to cover and small dent to upper right front cover. Signs of some pages having been earmarked.

Good with water marked cover. Dustcover with tears and scuffs.

Very good with sunned edges and corner lightly bumped. With bookplate and inscribed 'Christmas 1936'. Clean interior with tight binding. Deckled page edges.