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

Venetiis: Ex typographia Remondini, 1751. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. 143, [1]. Title page is printed in red and black. Bound in modern quarter brown cloth with brown patterned paper boards. The edges of the leaves are untrimmed and ragged. The interior displays some marginal soiling and wear with occasional chipping and corner creasing. A tear on the lower part of page 19 is professionally and neatly sealed. The upper corner to the final leaf of the index is chipped/torn perhaps affecting a few numbers or letters. The imprint statement on the title page contains some rubbing which obstructs two letters in the word "typographia." A few brief instances of marginalia are written in a miniscule old hand. The corner of the head cap is neatly patched. Generally this is a well read copy. Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-24 b.c.e) was a Roman writer and historian. His surviving work Vitae execllentium imperatorum or Lives of outstanding commanders consists of a collection of short biographies of… Read More

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 430, [2]. Bound in original quarter gray cloth and paper boards. Re-backed preserving the original spine. Paper boards are rubbed, discolored and aged. Board corners are carefully repaired/strengthened. Interior contains scattered foxing and splotching; some leaves possess a rough or chipped marginal edge (due to careless opening); outer marginal tearing is neatly and professionally sealed on several leaves; pages 1 and 413 display a light corner crease or stress mark. Crabtree states that this is "A little known work of real significance for the history of both animal magnetism and of physical research. Newnham wrote the book under the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester and it was clearly an attempt to use physiological and psychological terms to explain supernatural or supernormal phenomena which embarrass the Church… Newnham’s chapters on sleep, dreams and somnambulism… Read More

Goteborg: Rohsska Konstslojdmuseet / Goteborgs Litografiska Aktielbolag, 1922. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. 161, [1]. With many black and white photo illustrations. Limited edition #149 of 350. Bound in paper boards. Some rubbing and wear; corners of text block are a bit bumped. Pages are clean. "Printed in Sweden" is stamped in small letters on the verso of the free front end paper. Attractive gilt book plate on inside front cover. Text is in Swedish. On book bindings from the middle ages to 1800s.

Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1914. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [6], 444. Includes 28 illustrations with the text depicting locomotive engines, steam ships, etc. Bound in quarter green morocco. Minor discoloration / rubbing on the bottom panel of the spine due to a former shelf label. A "withdrawn" sticker is pasted on the inside front cover; a library blind stamp is located on the title page and on p.55; a number is stamped on the verso of the title. Some chipping is present to outer edge of p.71. Pages are slightly age toned but generally clean.