Search Results: Authors starting with J from Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB

London: : Argonaut Press,, 1930. 4to, . Illustrated with 5 maps. vellum backed red cloth, spine yellowed, else very good. Limited to 1050 numbered copies.

From "Atlas Modern, Seconde Partie". . 11-3/4" x 17"-29.8 x 43.1 cm. . Outline coloured map. Light browning to upper left corner and outer margins, basically very good.

1834.. Spine and perimetre faded, spine strip about detached, last 6 signatures loose, else good. Plates clean. . 12mo, . Edinburgh, London and Dublin: W.H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, et al, cloth Wood p. 405 Sir William Jardine was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. Originally studying medicine in Edinburgh and Paris, he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume deals with fowl including turkeys, guinea fowl, peacock, cocks, pheasants and tragopan. Beautifully illustrated and delicately coloured. Ornithology, Hand coloured plates, birds, turkey, pheasant,

1836.. Spine and perimetre faded,boards spotted, else very good. Plates clean. . 12mo, . Edinburgh, London and Dublin: W.H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, et al, cloth Wood p. 405 Sir William Jardine was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. Originally studying medicine in Edinburgh and Paris, he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. He collaborated with other authors in the Naturalists Library such as Duncan. This volume deals with moths and caterpillars. Beautifully illustrated and delicately coloured. Entomology, Hand coloured plates, insects, moths, caterpillars

1838.. Spine and perimetre faded, upper cover detached, name to ffep, else very good. Plates clean. . 12mo, . Edinburgh, London and Dublin: W.H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, et al, cloth Wood p. 405 Sir William Jardine was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. Originally studying medicine in Edinburgh and Paris, he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume deals with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, owls and their eggs. Beautifully illustrated and delicately coloured. Ornithology, Hand coloured plates, falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, owls, birds of prey

1842.. Spine and perimetre faded, upper cover detached, name to ffep, pages uncut, else very good. Plates clean. . 12mo, . Edinburgh, London and Dublin: W.H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, et al, cloth Wood p. 405 Sir William Jardine was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. Originally studying medicine in Edinburgh and Paris, he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume deals with rasores and grallatores including pigeons, doves, grouse, herons, egrets, storks, cranes, woodcocks, snipes, sandpipers, plovers etc. Beautifully illustrated and delicately coloured. Ornithology, Hand coloured plates, tasores and grallatores, pigeons, doves, grouse, herons, egrets, storks, cranes, woodcocks, snipes, sandpipers, plovers

1834.. Spine and perimetre faded, front hinge starting, else very good. Plates clean. . 12mo, . Edinburgh, London and Dublin: W.H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, et al, cloth Wood p. 405 Sir William Jardine was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. Originally studying medicine in Edinburgh and Paris, he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume deals with game fowl including partridge, ptarmigan, grouse and ortygis. Beautifully illustrated and delicately coloured. Ornithology, Hand coloured plates, partridge, ptarmigan, grouse, ortygis, game birds, fowl

1748.. Small chip to corner upper left, else very good.. 6-1/2" x 7-3/4"- 16.5 x 19.6 cm. . London: Gentleman's Magazine, Copper engraved map hand coloured . Jolly Gent-57 A detailed map of the town and fortifications of Maestrict showing various gates to the city, market square and municipal buildings. Map, Belgium, Flanders

N.P: Possibly from Leland's "All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon. 1756" , [c.1750's]. 14-1/2" x 21"- 36.8 x 53.3 cm. Copper engraved hand coloured map. Small hole to Aeolian coast, repaired tear above Crete, generally very good. A good map of Greece extending from the Adriatic Sea to the coast of Asia Minor. Many islands are indicated.

Toronto: : Hodder & Stoughton , [1919] . Lrg. 8vo, . Illustrated with plates and 4 folding maps in rear pocket cloth spine and perimeters sunned, occasional light spotting, tear to plate 1 (mostly to blank margin), else very good. The development of the grand Fleet, its bases and naval strategies leading to the Battle of Jutland.

New York: : American Geographical Society, , 1930. lrg. 8vo, . Illustrated and including 2 loose folding maps. wraps with maps housed in a common publisher's slipcase slipcase grubby with wear, one map with stain to upper margin, else very good. The expeditions of Wilkins-Hearst, Byrd, Mawson, and Norwegian whalers. The two maps are entitled "Physical Map of the Arctic" and "Bathymetric Map of the Antarctic" and are colourful and very detailed.

London: : Henry G. Bohn, , 1860. . 8vo, . full calf with gilt decorated spine panels. Rubbed, light waterstaining to upper corner affecting a few of the plates in the blank margins, but on the whole a very good copy. Chronological naval and military battles under the commands of Wellington, Cornwallis, Nelson, Drake, and others.

London:: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, 1891. First edition. Illustrated. 4to, red morocco backed cloth. A few areas of waterstaining to fore-edges extending into blank margins not affecting text or images. A concise history of Leicester from the Romans to the end of the 18th century. Two versions of this book were published-an 8vo bound in cloth, and a 4to printed "on best art paper, bound in half Roxburgh".

Lithograph. A few chips to margins, split to lower c/f else very good. 19" x 23"-48.2 x 58.4 cm.


Lovely large scale map of distribution of Birds throughout Europe and A smaller map of distribution throughout the world. Flanking on either side are types of birds in the New and Old World. A wonderfully descriptive and illustrative chart.


Phillips, 229.

Lovely large scale map of distribution of Birds throughout Europe and A smaller map of distribution throughout the world. Flanking on either side are types of birds in the New and Old World. A wonderfully descriptive and illustrative chart. Phillips, 229.