Search Results: Authors starting with K from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

Hartford, Conn.: L. Stebbins, 1865. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. (191 mm), pp. viii, [1], 12-400. With 12 illustrations including what is apparently an extra frontispiece titled "capturing the responsible party in the treatment of Union prisoners" which is not mentioned in the list of illustrations. The "certificates" leaf is present in the front. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration. Binding is sturdy but well-worn on the extremities - e.g., board corner tips are bumped and frayed; the outer portion of the tail cap is worn/lacking; gilt decoration is dulled. Interior pages display moderate to heavier scattered foxing and spotting. Plates are uniformly well foxed/tanned. Periodic upper corner creases are present throughout; more pronounced upper corner creases are found on p. 151. Pages also contain occasional minor tears, chipping and wear. A tear is neatly sealed in the upper margin of p. 109; a small hole at the end of the tear is located next to the running… Read More

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1979. First UK edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. xiv, 160. Bound in red publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. Binding and dust jacket are both fresh and clean. Interior pages are clean. Originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. "Coering the years 1000-1520, the author, a master of the original sources, illuminates an important aspect of Church history: the relations between papal and local authority in the later Middle Ages and their effect upon the repression of heresy" [from the dust jacket].

London: W. Owen, in Fleet-Street; J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, 1772. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp [6], xix, [5], 477. With 12 copper engraved plates and a fold-out frontispiece illustration of the Devitza Monastary near St. Petersburg - all by P. Mazell. The title page contains a vignette depicting the medal of Catherine II. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild specks of marginal foxing; faint library stamp placed in upper margin of title page. Bound in Modern half dark brown morocco with marbled boards and end papers. J.G. King [1731-1787] was Chaplain to the English Factory at St. Petersburg. He spent much time studying and observing Russian Orthodox practices. His work offers detailed descriptions and select translations of the various rituals, services and liturgies belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church. [ESTC T95407; Lewine, p.262; Brunet III, 661; Graesse IV, p.18; Lowndes p.1274]

London: Privately Printed, 1894. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. (32.5 cm), pp. [4], xvi, 254 with 40 plates and a facsimile of the 1786 title page. Large paper copy #19 of 50 from a limited edition of 500.The preface states: "the present edition, an exact reproduction of that of 1865, but correcting some manifest misprints, is published in the interest of science and scholarship." Bound in later plain black cloth showing rubbing and wear to extremities and to the spine caps. The first few leaves including the title contain a small dark stain near the upper edge. Pages show periodic smudging/soiling; several plates have a damp stain on the outer edge of the margin; occasional edge tears are professionally sealed; 3-4 leaves are carefully tipped back in to place. Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824) was a classical scholar, mythologist and a collector of antiquities. His "Discourse on the worship of Priapus" was first published in London, 1786. Knight argues that a universal… Read More

Leipzig: Verlag von Ambr. Abel, 1892. Hardcover. See Description. First edition of the first section. 4to. pp. [2], 64 and 40 hand colored plates. Cloth spine and Original papered boards (rubbed, worn and stained). Head and tail of spine neatly restored. Pages and plates are clean. Kohl's Officinellen Pflanzen appeared in 35 sections (Lieferungen) between 1891 and 1895 and included 170 hand colored plates. This volume contains the first section Lieferung 1-8 with plates 1-40 and 64 pages of text descriptions. [Nissen BBI 1086].

New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. (242 mm), 384 pages. Bound in quarter aqua blue publisher's cloth with blue boards. Faint toning and miniscule spotting are present to the upper edge of the text block (including one tiny aqua blue speck). Binding and dust jacket are in practically as-new condition. Interior pages are clean. "In his most profoundly felt - and terrifying novel yet, Dean Koontz compels us to explore the meaning of death, the nature of sociopathic evil, and the transcendent power of love. Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. Given this second chance, Hatch and his wife, Lindsey, approach each day with a new appreciation for the beauty of life - until a series of mysterious and frightening events brings them face to face with the unknown. Although Hatch was given no glimpse of an Afterlife during the period when his… Read More