Search Results: Authors starting with L from Forest Books

New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co., 1889. 12pp., presentation copy, disbound. Reprinted from The Medical Record, March 2, 1889. - Read before the New York State Medical Society, February 7, 1889. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

[Privately Published], L. G. Cooper, 2005. 4to, 43pp., numerous illustrs., paper wrappers. A brief history of Doddershall Park, Bucks, which mostly concentrates on the family which has been living there since the late 15th century who trace themselves as far back as the battle of Hastings. Numerous extracts from various sources.

Paris: Champion, 1879. First edition, thick 4to (330 x 250 mm), x, [2], 412pp., 54 plates of weapons, portraits, facsimiles of documents, etc., some light browning to text, cont. half green morocco, spine gilt tooled and lettered, top edge gilt, otherwise uncut, a very nice copy.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1960. Sixth edition, 8vo (190 x 125mm), viii, 140pp., orig. cloth, slightly faded.

Andover: Printed by John King, [1827]. First edition, 8vo, 16pp., folding genealogical table, disbound. JISC locates copies at Oxford and Durham University only.

Cambridge University Press. 1963. First Edition, xxiv,978pp., ex-library, orig. cloth, d.w. The comprehensive indexes are an important feature of the book. 6,487 entries, with bibliographical notes, and locations of copies.

Cambridge University Press. 1963. First edition, xxiv,978pp., orig. cloth. The comprehensive indexes are an important feature of the book. 6,487 entries, with bibliographical notes, and locations of copies.

Cambridge: G. David, [n.d.]. 8pp., stapled.

London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co. 1823. Fourth edition, corrected and improved, 8vo, xii, 323, [1]pp., cont. calf, rubbed.

London: Printed for the Author, 1814. First edition, small 8vo, iv, 124pp., cont. calf, rubbed, upper spine chipped. The earliest edition recorded by JISC is the third edition of 1822.

London: Published by Ackermann & Co.; Paris: H. Mandeville; New York: Bangs, Brother, & Co., 1855. Second Edition, 4to, iv, 79, [1] pp., 9 engraved plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, matched words and phrases in English and French, slight soiling of the text, original limp cloth with ink blots on upper cover, rubbed.

Paris: P. Jannet & Renou et Maulde, 1853-1867. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, [4], viii, 384; [4], 385-745, [23]pp., illustrated throughout, cont. morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed, slight sign of tape residue to base of spines, but still a very good copy, uncut, t.e.g. A most important reference book picturing, in full size for the most part, and identifying more than 1300 French printers' devices from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Printers, like other manufacturers, put a proprietary mark on their goods—a design cut in wood or metal, printed on the title-page or at the end. It customarily consisted of a pictorial device, sometimes with ornament, sometimes with a motto; an indication of the printer's identity was often included—his name, initials or a personal sign. Bigmore & Wyman, II, p.356.

[Derby: Bemrose & Co., 1912]. 4to, 59pp., no. 239 of a limited edition, priced throughout in a cont. hand, photographic frontispiece and 25 plates, buckram, gilt morocco label peeling, uncut. Loosely interested is a single leaf supplement: At the Conclusion of the Pottery Sale... will be sold the following Framed Oil Painted Copies of the Finest Pictures in the Louvre Museum, Paris, the work of the late Mademoiselle Marie Solon [42 lots listed].

College of Art, Wolverhampton. 1961. First Edition, 21pp., 4 illustrs., orig. decorated cloth.

London: C. A. Pearson, Limited, 1898. First edition, 8vo (200 x 130 mm), xviii, [2], 451, [1]pp., frontis., portrait, numerous illustrs., orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, gilt stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute to base of spine, a very good copy. Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) was a British psychiatrist famous for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper and Georgina Weldon cases during the late Victorian era. Provenance: Presentation label of Christopher Marlin to the Birmingham Medical Institute on front paste-down.

E. Marche, Poitiers. 1900. Large 8vo, 389,[3]pp., 6 plates, illustrs., in the text, red half crushed morocco by Bayntun, gilt lettering on spine, a nice copy.

London, Printed in the Year 1702. First English Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of De Witt, with the half-title on the recto, light damp-staining on lower margins of the first 8 leaves, with the 2 blank leaves at end, lvi, 492, [4] pp., contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, slightly chipped at head and tail of spine, morocco label, a very good copy. This work is a translation of Court's "Aanwissing der heilsams politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republike van Holland", of 1699, which is in turn is an unauthorised revision and enlargement of his "Interest van Holland." of 1662. This translation wrongly attributes the work to Johan de Witt. The work had been circulated in manuscript and was published, without de la Court's permission, by de Witt "without doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest statesman of his age"- Palgrave. Einaudi, 1370; Goldsmith, 3864; Kress, 2344

Haarlem: Bubb Kuyper, 1985. 8vo, 32pp., 8 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, a very good copy.

London: E. Harrison, 1884. Small 4to, iv, 136 + 4pp., of adverts, numerous illustrations throughout including coloured supplement which are tipped-in, front inner hinge worn, orig. publishers embossed cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover.

London: Printed and Sold by J. Evans and Son; sold also by F. Collins; J. Nesbit, [C. 1812.]. 8vo, 8pp., woodcut vignette to title page, disbound.