Search Results: Authors starting with P from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: Collins. Very Good/Good. 1974. Hard Cover. 8vo 0002120208 New revised edition. Dust jacket creased. Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Over 1,225 illustrations including colour plates. For the first time ever it brings all the Birds of Europe within the pages of a pocket guide. It provides recognition pictures of them all, of both sexes, of summer, winter and immature plumages (if they are different)-over 1,225 pictures in all. It uses the Peterson system of identification based on the natural classification, on comparisons with similar species, with unique pointers to the distinctive field marks. It has a collection of 384 unique and accurate maps of the summer and winter distribution of all important species. Its text provides a concise, quick guide to essential features of the birds' recognition, habits, habitats and life, including call notes and song. It gives the names of all the birds in French, German, Swedish and Dutch. It… Read More

London: Studio Editions. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Folio 1851702806 Heavy book no extra postage will be asked for but we can only supply to a UK address due to weight. Dust jacket complete. Cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Bumped. 224pp. With over 100 full colour plates. When Professor P. S. Pallas set out from the Court of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, in 1793, he saw his task as huge, but essentially straightforward. He intended to travel through Russia, collecting information about anything and everything that he saw. To the Professor, the representative of Frederick William III of Prussia, as, indeed, to most Europeans, Russia was a land of mystery and- contradictions. Its vast landscapes, its people, languages and cultures were diverse, seemingly bizarre and barbaric. In the event, though, Professor Pallas encountered not only oddities of topography, anthropology, geology, botany and zoology on his journey from St Petersberg… Read More

Arrow Books. Very Good. 2008. Soft Cover. Spine uncreased. Unread paperback. 273 pages clean and tight. A few spots on first leaf. .

Naval Institute Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. Hard Cover. 4to 0870210068 To mark the 400th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the distinguished naval historian Peter Padfield has written a comprehensive account of the greatest sea battle of the Tudor age. This sumptuously illustrated book has been meticulously researched and gives new insights afforded by hitherto unexploited documents and unpublished archive material. A particular feature of the book are the specially commissioned colour paintings by Lionel Willis of the National Maritime Museum showing the construction and equipment of typical ships from the opposing fleets. The bulk of the book concerns the 1587- 8 campaign, its preparation, course and conclusion. But the scene is set with the events of the two turbulent preceding decades examined, showing why Philip II took the desperate decision to defend his New World treasure and his Netherlands' industries by taking the strategic key to… Read More

London: S.W Partridge & Co. Very Good/No DJ. Hard Cloth Cover. 4.75" By 6.25" Tall Very early edition if not first edition. Green illustrated cloth, gilt titling on upper cover, slightly faded black titling on spine. No inscriptions. Colour frontis plate. 64 pages plus publisher's catalogue. Clean and tight. .

Virago. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. 0860689018 Inscribed By the Author Virago 1987. A novel good plus in paperback. Inscribed on back of cover as follows " To Roger with best wishes from Kathy Page. March 1989." .

Cambridge: Cambridge/ W. Hefer & Sons. Poor. 1934. 8vo First edition pp.xi. 195. Half title and title edge slightly nibbled. Needs re-binding. .

MacGibbon and Kee. Very Good/Very Good. 1957. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipped, small tears with very slight loss to edges. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. A natural history of ants, spiders, beetles, wasps and bees. B&W Illustrations. 244 pages clean and tight .

London: Robert Hale Limited. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0709168322 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No inscription. Photographs on plates. 191 pages clean and tight .

London: W. Foulsham. Very Good. 1959. Soft Cover. 12 Mo .

British Museum Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1977. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0714100625 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 12 colour plates, 269 illustrations and 5 maps192 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.8 x 1.5 cm. In AD 300 there was one major power in the Mediterranean - Rome -- beyond her frontiers was the barbarian world. The next four centuries were to see great changes take place in the period often referred to as the `Dark Age'. In AD 330 the centre of the Roman Empire was moved from Italy to a new capital in the east, renamed Constantinople, and by AD 476 Roman presence had faded from Western Europe. New kingdoms were founded from the Germanic north and in the Middle East the Sassanian Empire rose in Persia, only to be extinguished in AD 655 by the rising power of Islam. The balance of power had changed by AD 700 and three major powers now occupied the territory of the ancient Roman Empire:… Read More

London: John Van Voorst. Very Good/No DJ. 1865. Third Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Embossed cloth covered boards with bright embossed gilt titling on spine. Signs of repairs to spine a little loss to top and tail of spine. Light bump to corners. Previous owner's name, dated 1896, on ffep. Additions and improvements by W. M. Fawcett. 93 pages of text. Illustrated by 600+ illustrations Plates section at rear of 21 stiff card plates each with accompanying unpaginated text leaf. All pages and plates very clean. .

London: R.Faulder. 1794. Tenth edition in 2 volumes. Fully bound in leather with chipped black titlle labels(with loss) with gilt lettering & decorations on spines. Spines somewhat worn & corners bumped. Contents generally clean. Vol.1, xxxviii + 378pp. Vol.2, viii + 433pp. .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good/Very Good. 2006. Hard Cover. 8vo 0297844369 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Photographs on plates.650 pages clean and tight. Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for the Two Ronnies, David Frost etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This first volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys - Jones and Gilliam - and Eric Idle, came together and changed the face of British comedy. But this is but only part of Palin's story. Here is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, which grows as he buys the house next door and then a second at the bottom of the garden; here, too, is his solo effort - as an actor, in Three Men in a Boat, his writing endeavours (often… Read More

New York: Harrison House. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. Reprint. Hard Cover. 0517653613 Dust jacket unclipped. Light brown cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. 312 pages clean bright and tight. This is a very heavy book but will send parcel post for the default carriage charge with no surcharge within the UK. No International Air Mail due to weight. .

New York: Harrison House. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. Reprint. Hard Cover. 0517653613 Dust jacket unclipped. Light brown cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. 312 pages clean bright and tight. This is a very heavy book but will send parcel post for the default carriage charge with no surcharge within the UK. No International Air Mail due to weight. .

London: Sampson, Low, Son and Marston. Very Good. 1869. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Maroon cloth with gilt titles. Cover has gold illus. of woman making lace, anno 1676., rebacked preserving most of original spine, corners rubbed, new endpapers with piece cut out on paste down to show inscription dated 1871. 17 colour & 151 black-and-white plates plus numerous illustrations in the text. 442pp. The contents are clean and tight. .

London: Severn House Publishers. Very Good/Good. 1977. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. 8vo 0727802607 Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, unclipped.Yellow cloth wih bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscription.159 pages clean and tight. .

London: Martin Secker. Good. Hard Cover. No date but probably 1st edition. Beige boards, cloth spine, spine title label scuffed, end papers and prelims very slightly yellowed, the remainder clean and tight. - includes Comedy, Parody, Satire and Ballad as 4 separate books in one volume. .

Routledge. Very Good. 2001. Soft Cover. Dimensions : 18.87 x 2.21 x 24.59 Cm 0415223873 4to Paperback very slight wear. Uncreased spine.: 384 pages clean and tight. Review: - '... Michael Palmer's "Introduction and Sourcebook" deservedly stands alone as a uniquely creative and inventive approach to the six major arguments for God's existence ... The Question of God posseses an integrity and a coherence completely lacking in similar books of this kind. Simply put it has been exceptionally well thought out, and exceptionally well presented.' - Rob Fisher, Reviews in Religion and Theology. '... a model of its kind - logical, clear and fair-minded. No university or A level student has any excuse for failing after reading it.' - Martin Camroux, Expository Times. .