Search Results: Authors starting with J from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Dublin, Fannin & Co., 1847 xxiv, 485 pages, plus 2 pages publisher's adverts at the end. Original yellow endpapers. Small contemporary ink smudge on page 57. Short marginal closed tear on first thee leaves but not affecting the text. 15.5 x 23.5 cm. Original black embossed cloth, with original spine laid down.Gilt lettering and date on spine. Corners very slightly bumped and worn. Printed, double-sided contemporary price list from Morson, Chemist, loosely tipped in. The verso has many lightly pencilled price additions in a contemporary hand and a separate small sheet of contemporary embossed ivory notepaper with about 9-10 lines of notes in a spidery ink hand on the subject of medicines. Thomas Newborn Robert Morson, pharmaceutical entrepreneur, was the founder of the firm of Thomas Morson & Son, of London, which became a leading manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of pharmaceutical chemicals and proprietary medicines during the nineteenth century. After an apprenticeship to a… Read More

Paris, Imprimerie de la République and Imprimerie Impériale, An VI., 1813 An VI [1798] to 1813. Four volumes bound in two, quarto, 53 finely engraved copper-plate maps by L.Aubert (French, active 1782-1810) on 28 folding plates and an engraved compass rose, the text with intermittent slight spotting. All edges speckled. Spanish marbled endpapers. Bookseller label of Libraire Raymond Clavreuil to front pastedown endpaper, with engraved armorial bookplates of the twentieth: P. de la Morandière. 23 x 29 cm. Contemporary half calf and French crater marbled boards (some very slight wear, hinges slightly cracked but not unbroken and strong). Spine with raised single gilt fillet bands, triple gilt fillet bordered compartments, a gilt heraldic emblem at the foot and contrasting red and green morocco titling pieces with gilt lettering. Provenance: the bibliophile Jules Édouard Potier de la Morandière, 1813-1905, was by profession an architect. With the exception of his… Read More

Dublin : M.H. Gill, 1886 xi, 128 printed pages; translated from the French with a preface by Lady Herbert. Contemporary, ink, gift inscription on verso of half-title page. Engraved contemporary bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Some contemporary shelf numbers on verso of front free endpaper & half-title page. 11 x 16.5 cm Original embossed brick-red cloth. The upper cover with gilt lettering and image of crossed palms (symbol of martyrdom). Spine very slightly faded. Very slightly creased across the back cover. Near fine condition. Provenance: a gift to Scholastica's Priory, Atherstone. This narrative goes into great detail about Joseph Marchand (1803-35) who was a French missionary who sailed to Vietnam as a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. In 1833, he was asked to join the revolt led by Lê Van Khôi, son of the late governor of southern Vietnam Lê Van Duyet & who vowed to overthrow Emperor Minh Mang and replace him with My Duong, the son of Minh… Read More

Two volumes in one, for years 1842 & 1843. Each volume, 142 printed pages + index page (very slight and sporadic age-toning & light foxing). 60 x 100mm. Contemporary wave or fantasy marbled boards in greys, black & ochre (slightly rubbed at edges). Ochre leather title label with gilt lettering on spine. Almanac that ran from 1815-1848. Informative on members of the Clergy, the Government & Army; advice on seasonal food and gardening; royalty, international alliances, astronomy, & amusing stories such as "Le Kraken". Grand-Carteret, 1727. Not in Welsh. WorldCat locates just three examples (all located in France).

142, [1] printed pages. All edges gilt. Original cream endpapers. 60 x 96 mm. Original dark blue paper covered boards. Faded gilt stamped decoration, central fleur de lys motifs within scrolling ornate and dog's tooth borders. Small specks of damage and a larger 5 mm. missing oval patch on the spine. No reference to Great Britain in any of the information categories - the price paid for the UK's military and political dominance, perhaps. But 12 pages on the harems of Egypt. Also a two page report on the lynching of a black American murderer in 1836 in St. Louis. Grand-Carteret, 599. OCLC, 457474544. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (Bibliotheque Nationale de France).

2007 Book is complete with dustwrapper an in new condition.. Hardcover. New/Very Good.

London. George Routledge & Sons, Limited., 1892 xi, 195 printed pages plus four pages of advertisements (for New York Consolidated Card Co.) at end. Tissue-protected, engraved portrait frontispiece with printed signature and engraved by S. Hollyer (very slightly age-toned at the margins). Title page printed in red and black. Section headings and many of the numerous vignette woodblock illustrations in red. Three neat contemporary pencil notes ("pp 59-139 copied from the Standard Hoyle of 1887", "already published elsewhere!" & "end of extract from Schenck"). All pages very slightly & evenly toned. 13 x 18 cm. Original garnet cloth, spine git lettered (slightly faded & very slightly worn at head and tail). William Jermyn Florence was a US actor, songwriter, and playwright. WorldCat identifies five UK institutional copies of this title.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London, Printed By R. Norton for Richard Royston, Bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, 1681 [12], 256 printed pages. Eikon Basilike printed in Greek on title page. Frontispiece engraving of King Charles 1 at prayer, and at page 220 a portrait of King Charles ii, then The Prince of Wales. A3 is a dedication leaf to King Charles ii by Richard Royston. The printed page number for page 186 has been misprinted and reads 860. William Lloyd's 1748 ownership signature on title page and that of his father, perhaps, doodled over. Some mild darkening to extreme margins of pages. 18.5 x 12 cm. contemporary full calf. Spine in compartments, ruled in gilt and with gilt date of publication at the foot. Both boards slightly bowed. Label for title missing. Lower corner, upper hinges and top of spine worn away in small part. Covers with blind ruled borders, deeply patinated. While Charles I, the monarch executed by parliament in 1648/9, has traditionally been identified as the author of Eikon Basilike, this has… Read More

T. Wood, for Benj. Cowse, 1719 First edition. [1],Title-page, vi, 184 printed pages, 6 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary ink signature of Dorothy Hooper and previously crossed out writing on front pastedown endpaper; unnumbered blank preliminary leaf torn with small loss. All edges speckled. 12.5 x 20 cm. Contemporary speckled, panelled calf. Board edges gilt tooled (mildly worn). Spine in six compartments, with five gilt ruled raised bands, two deep brown leather labels with gilt lettering, slightly worn at the foot of the spine; otherwise glowing with three hundred years of natural patination. An Anglican clergyman and fellow of the Royal Society, John Harris FRS (c.1666-1719) was an important promulgator of Newtonian science, through private teaching, public lectures and published writing; he was a colleague with fellow astrologers Edmond Halley, John Kendal and Henry Coley. Clock makers George Graham and Thomas Tompion built the first modern orrery around 1704 in England. An orrery is a… Read More

Hutchinson, London, 1966 191 printed pages. Map endpapers. Loosely inserted is a signed letter on headed notepaper from Norwich (1929-2018) to Jonathan Haw. 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Original green cloth. Spine slightly faded and stained. Musty smell. Complete with photographic dust jacket (edges slightly torn with small loss at the top edge on the back panel). Jonathan Haw was a rower at Keble College, Oxford, who established the New York branch of the legal firm Slaughter & May and who served as Master of the Armourer & Brasier's Company in 2008 and 2013. The 2002 letter gives details of bookshops that stocked second-hand copies of this book, and says that it never ran to a second edition, expressing gratification that people were still interested in reading it. It was Norwich's first published book, based on his second visit to Mount Athos with a Greek friend Costa, who took photos, and Sacheverell Sitwell's son Reresby, (who bought a rucksack stuffed with luxury food items from Fortnum… Read More

160 and 142 printed pages. 60 x 98mm. Original glossy white paper wrappers printed in green ink (somewhat worn, edges slightly chipped, spine with vertical cracks and faded titling) the publisher's list of Diamond Classics on the back wrapper lists these two titles as individual volumes- not a double volume. Jones' Diamond Classics. Welsh lists a copy of Rasselas, a University edition from 1825 for both titles and a later printing of 1830 (Welsh, 4069, 2047 & 2048). This printed wrappers bound double volume, produced a further five years after the individual publications, is a rare publishing/academic curiosity- a publisher using up leftover stock, perhaps, that did not achieve popularity, I assume, possibly due to its innate fragility. It was not entirely uncommon to publish a 'marriage' of two different and incompatible authors/novels in that era. Chiswick Press by C. Whitingham : Sold by R. Jennings, Poultry, London, published these same two novels together in 1818. Later in 1847, William Tegg and… Read More

Wishart & Co., 1931 Signed by author. Book is complete with 6 plates and in very good condition. Also includes dust-wrapper (scarce) in very good condition.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

George Phillip & Son, 1891 Complete first edition with 12 plates, 7 folding maps and frontis. One of 250 copies made. Handmade paper, vellum spine and paper boards. Book is in good condition; lots of spotting to front free end paper but contents otherwise good.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973 xvi, 696 pages. 6 plates of monochrome photographs. Inscribed and dedicated on front paste-down endpaper in ink by the author George Jones to Irene Wagner. George William Jones OBE (4 February 1938 14 April 2017) was emeritus professor of government at the London School of Economics. Jones much admired Morrison's approach to politics and government. Irene Wagner, senior Labour Party archivist, historian and former Party Chief Librarian. She helped found the International Association of Labour History Institutions. Irene was also a key supporter of the People s History Museum in Manchester. During the 2nd World War Irene worked at Woburn Abbey, in the political intelligence department of the Foreign Office, helping the Special Operations Executive distribute propaganda over Germany.This book was reissued with a foreword by Morrison's grandson, Peter Mandelson, in 2001. Impeccable provenance: from her personal library that I purchased in 2016 from her… Read More