Search Results: Authors starting with N from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1950. Tall 8vo. x, 324 pp. Numerous tables, photos, text figures, diagrams. Burgundy cloth, blk & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (edgewear, rubbng, couple mnr clsd tears, creasng), F/VG-. First edition of this invaluable work on the theory and descriptions underlying chemical-emssion spectroscopy.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1984]. Folio. 292, [20] pp. 263 illusts. (80 pages in colour). Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr, blkd out ownrshp inscrptn on ffep), w/ d.j. (mnr dustsoilng, edgewear, rubbng), VG-/VG copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated history of the legendary jewelers.

London: Walter Scott, [1897]. Thick 8vo. xix, [1], 449, [1] pp., plus 16 pp. publ. ads. Frntsp. photo, numerous illusts. & photos, map. Plum-coloured cloth over bevld boards, gilt lettrng & illust. on frnt cvr & spine (mnr bmpng to crnrs, mnr sunng to spine, edgewear), still good copy. Revised & expanded edition of this recounting the famed polar explorations of Nansen.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996. Thick 8vo. xiv, 466 pp. Frntsp. map, numerous illusts., maps. Blue boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this excellent work providing a total assessment of how politicians, the press, the crown, civilians, soldiers, and commanders defeated Napoleon, with great focus on the Peninsular Campaigns.

New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1852. Tall thick 8vo. 624 pp. Frntsp., illust. title, 20 engravd plates. Blue embssd ribbd cloth, decrtd gilt lettrng frnt cvr & spine (rubbng, mnr soilng, mnr bmpng to crnrs), G copy, w/ ownrshp inscrptions for W.R. Walpole, Chicago, Ill. First edition, of this fairly objective and contemporary biography of the Bonaparte family.

London: Thomas and William Boone, 1856. Six volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 522; xiii, [3], 500; xi, [1], 427, [1]; xvii, [1], 479, [1]; x, [2], 444; vii, [1], 463, [1] pp. 56 engraved maps. Uniformly bound in half-brown calf over marbled boards, marbled fore-edges, tooled & decorated spine, gilt & green morocco spine labels (some rubbing, scuffing, occasional wear, slight bumping to some corners, slight sunning to spines), still a very good set, William McDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership markings on front pastedown, and other ownership markings on endpapers. Revised & expanded edition of this classic history of the famed campaigns in Spain, Portugal, and the south of France during the Napoleonic Wars. This rousing eyewitness account is dedicated to Wellington, and provides one of the best specimens of military history in any language, detailing the long series of campaigns and battles with the imagination of a great romantic writer. Napier… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879. 8vo. 254 pp. Illust. title in red & blk. Engravd frntsp., numerous plates. Embssd & decrtd brick-red cloth, gilt & blk lettrng & decrtn frnt cvr & spine (vry mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), VG copy, w/ 19th-century booksellers label for G.H. Hill City Book Store, Portland, Oregon. Revised edition of this scarce account of the sentimental story of the Comte de Charny, a political prisoner, who saved himself from madness during captivity during the early Napoleonic era.

New York: Macmillan Co., [1966]. 8vo. 319, [1] pp. Frntsp., plates, maps. Brown cloth, white & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art by Milton Glaser (mnr dustsoilng, scuffng), VG/VG-. First American edition.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1991]. Tall thick 8vo. xliii, [3], 555, [1]; [4], 556-1172 pp. Titles in red & black. Frontispieces in both vols., numerous illustrations, maps in colour, plates. Uniformly bound in full black leather, gilt illust. & decorated covers, Eagle armorial on covers, raised bands & gilt decorated spines, silk moire endpapers, a.e.g., NF set, w/ Easton Press Collector’s Notes laid-in, from the library of Robert A. Taylor, w/ bookplates on front pastedowns. First Easton Press Collector’s Edition of this exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon’s art of war as he developed and perfected the major military campaigns of his career. Issued as part of Easton’s “Military History” series.

London: Barrie & Rockliff, [1961]. 8vo. xi, [1], 402 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo illusts., plates, text illusts., maps. Tan boards, blk lettrng (slght shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr scuffng, vry mnr chppng hd of spine), VG/VG-. First edition of this biography of Napoleon III from his election as President through the Franco-Prussian war disaster.

Stuttgart: J. Scheible, 1834. Thick 8vo. 616 pp. Engravd frntsp., engravd title, 32 engravings on 16 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, red & gilt spine labl (browning to frntsp. & title, some signatures brownd), still G copy. First edition in German of this early biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

New York: Crown Publishers, [1979]. Folio. 159, [1] pp. Colour-illust. title, over 100 colour illusts., maps, text illusts. Tan boards (vry mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (1 sml clsd tear uppr fore-edge frnt cvr), VG/VG-. Early printing of this work analyzing Napoleons war of survival after Moscow: his victories, defeats, annd final overthrow at Waterloo.

New York: Viking Press, [1979]. Thick 8vo. xvii, [3], 768 pp. Numerous plates, double-page map. Half-gold cloth over blk boards (mnr bmpng), w/ d.j. (couple vry sml clsd tears), VG/VG-. First edition of this vital history of the corrupt scenario of the Second Empire and Napoleon III.

New York: James Pott & Co., [1909]. Thick 8vo. ix, [1], 304 pp. Hand-coloured photogravure frontisp., 18 plates, illustrated endpapers. Blue publisher’s cloth, illustrated in gilt on front cover, gilt lettering, elaborately decorated spine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing to corners, front inner hinge starting), still VG copy, w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, of this informative biography of Napoleon’s consort.

Wayne, NJ: Avery Publishing, 1986. Oblong folio. 4 leaves, 67 colour maps. Spiral-bound colour-illust. covers as issued, slght shlfwr, NF. First edition of this excellent reference.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 8vo. ix, [3], 372, [2] pp. Frontisp., numerous plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettering (minor dustsoiling), w/ d.j. (minor creasing, edgewear, couple minor closed tears, minor soiling to fore-edges), still VG/VG- copy, w/ former ownership stamp on ffep. First edition, stated, of this biography of the wickedest, most fascinating, and most beguiling of the Bonapartes. Pauline Bonaparte initially married General LeClerc who fought against Toussaint L’Ouverture in Haiti, later married Prince Borghese, and was immortalized in the statue by Canova.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1875. Tall 8vo. xii, [2], [17]-416 pp. Steel-engravd frntsp., illust. title, 14 steel-engravd plates. Blue cloth over bevld boards, gilt lettrng & decrtn frnt cvr (wear, rubbng, creasng to spine, crnrs bmpd, frnt hnge startng), still good reference copy. First edition.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1974]. 8vo. [8], 210 pp. Frntsp. Orange cloth, blue lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr clsd tear at ft of spine, creasng, mnr edgewear), NF/VG-. First edition of this work examining the death of Napoleon and positing the theory that he did not die on the island of St. Helena.

New York: Taplinger Publishing, [1979]. 4to. 272 pp. Numerous illusts., diagrams, maps. Black boards, gilt lettrng (vry mnr foxng to fore-edges), w/ d.j. (price-clppd), NF/VG. First edition of this authoritative and complete survey published of the armies of the Napoleonic wars.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1957]. 8vo. [12], 313, [1] pp. Frntsp., double-page map, numerous illusts. Gray cloth, orange lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr dustsoilng, slght scuffng), cover art by Ismar David, VG/VG-. First edition, stated, of this informative biography of the famed assassin who failed to kill Napoleon III.