Search Results: Authors starting with S from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

2 volumes. xiv, 549; 588 printed pages (paper is slightly age toned and occasional minor foxing). 2 woodcut frontispieces. Collezion Diamante. Italian language. Decorated endpapers with engraved ex-libris bookplate by the artist Anthony N. Euwer (American poet and painter 1877-1955) of a mountain scene in Gwent O Gwynedd (the Kingdom of Gwynedd in North Wales) on the front pastedown endpaper of both volumes. The name of a previous owner signed in neat ink hand "R. Ogilvie Crombie" on the page after the front free endpaper of both volumes. All edges red. 67 x 100mm. Contemporary cream parchment. Spines with gilt floral tooling and burgundy title-pieces with gilt lettering and scrolling decoration (slightly rubbed and age-toned). Sacchetti (circa 1335-1400) wrote poetry and short stories or "Novelle" (originally 300 in number, but today only 258 remain, the rest having been lost). The short stories were not placed into any framework like Boccaccio's Decameron. The best of them are humorous and their… Read More

London: Published for the Author by Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., 25 Paternoster Row., 1852 (4), 190, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at the end. In original brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Sympathetically rebacked, binding worn at corners and generally slightly soiled and well used, with darkened section at top. Some page margins slightly browned. Chapters include "THE PROGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENT", "INCREASE OF A RURAL POPULATION", "WANT OF EMPLOYMENT", "POOR LAWS", "CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW", "FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE WORKING CLASSES". The 1834 New Poor Law altered the system from one which was administered haphazardly at a local parish level to a highly centralised system which encouraged the large-scale development of workhouses by poor law unions. Eisdell had written a two volume book published in 1839 "A treatise on the industry of nations.". 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

[Shanghai], 1859 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION,WILLIAMS (Samuel Wells). Narrative of the American Embassy to Peking, in July, 1859. First edition. Good Copy of this Very Scarce Offprint from The Journal of The North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol.I. - No. III. - Art. VI, read before The Society, Shanghai, October 25th, 1859. Text block is clean. Covers have soiling. Spine is chipped and a very small 1/4 square inch piece is missing from the upper left cover corner. 8vo. 22 x 14 cm.Bound in original printed wrappers. 37pp. [Shanghai], 1859. An account of John Elliot Wards (1814-1902) mission to ratify the American portion of the Treaty of Tientsin which failed due to inopportune timing (Ward arrived just after the British had attacked the Taku forts) and his refusal to kowtow. In this brief narrative, two objects have been kept in view: One has been to describe the reception and proceedings of the American Embassy in its journey to the Chinese capital; the other to exhibit, more… Read More

NAUMBOURG, CHEZ G. PAETZ, LIBRAIRIE-EDITEUR., 1864 RARE UNRECORDED PIRATE of 1ST EDITION. 152 printed pages (some sporadic foxing throughout). Title page states "Paris 1864" (the official first edition was published in Paris, by Michel Lévy frères, January 1864). Bound together with similar edition of "La Maison de Penarvan" by Jules Sandeau in two volumes. 160; 127 printed pages with 17 pages of publisher's adverts at back, dated February 1864. 10 x 14.5 cm. Contemporary quarter cloth, with marble paper covered boards, blue buckram spine and corners (very slightly rubbed), with gilt lettering on spine. George Sand is the pseudonym of French author Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupin (1804-1876), a figure of cultural importance in France from the 1830s until her death; she published widely, an oeuvre which included about forty novels alone. Sand's most famous novels portray the struggles of women against social constraints, especially marriage. Legendary for her… Read More

Ashgate, 2008 viii, 154 pages, in unread condition. According to scientific realism, the way the world is does not depend on our beliefs about it. The existence of a mind-independent world is a core-tenet of the scientific realist, explaining how genuine and reliable knowledge of a mind-independent reality is possible.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

495 printed pages. Publisher's series advert, [1] printed page at end.(Lilliput bibliothek). In German. "Druck von Oscar Brandstetter in Leipzig" in Fraktur type on verso of title-page. 5-10,000. Rounded corners. Decorated endpapers. Thin paper. 36 x 50mm. Original tan morocco, gilt lettering and borders. Gauffered edges. Bondy cites this title as "1907 and later." Bondy, 125. Welsh, 6171. OCLC, 58543406. WorldCat locates one copy from the library of Ruth E. Adomeit, with her bookplate.

[8], 302 printed pages, plus correction page at end. Printed by Simms and McIntyre, Belfast. Simms and McIntyre Pocket edition, priced sixpence. Individually issued volume (two years later, Simms & McIntyre published, The Select Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ; Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, and Rokeby). Page edges a little dusty. Otherwise, in unusually good condition. Original endpapers. No inscriptions. 66 x 100mm. Original publisher's pink wrappers; spine with pink title against brown decorative frame; front cover with pink and brown lettering within brown rococco frame; back cover with pink and brown publisher's advertisement within elaborate pink and brown frame. Spine with vertical wrinkles; some slight wear at head and foot of spine, edges and corners. Overall a few patches of grubbiness. The early 19th century saw numerous improvements in the printing, publishing and book-distribution processes, with the introduction of steam-powered printing presses, pulp mills,… Read More

University of Guyana, 1983 xii, 440 printed pages, and 20 black and white illustrations. Scarce title in original green boards with one corner slightly bumped and some very mild discolouration on the back cover. In original dustwrapper, showing some mild shelfwear particularly at the corners and at the edges.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London. Printed for A. Millar and W. Sandby., 1757 v, [i, epitaph], [v]-xviii, [ii], 513 pages , [1, list of plates]. 24 plates (3 folding) and 14 maps (including 7 folding maps), leaf of music, divisional half-titles, engraved head & tail pieces, text illustrations. WITH EXTRA MAP tipped in at rear, uncoloured full page engraving of the "Route of the author from Cosier on the Red Sea to Alexandria", from Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence's "Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818" -London, John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1819 [Abbey 519 ("a scarce work, having been bought up by the author"); Tooley p. 187, no. 222; Blackmer, p. 278, no. 588]. 23.5 x 29 cm. Contemporary half calf, newly rebacked with raised bands, green morocco gilt lettered label and gilt date. Corners slightly worn. Shaw prepared this second edition before his death, including for the first time two controversial… Read More

Goldsmiths' College. Library, 1976 21 printed pages and 16 printed pages for the second edition or supplement. Roneo printed. Date corrected in ink from 1976 to 1977 on foreword of supplement. 15 x 21 cm. Folded and stapled A4 paper. With original limp card cover. Female symbol of circle with small cross underneath, enclosing eyes with thin eyebrows & long eyelashes, on front cover with black lettering. Covers very lightly age-toned. Foreword of supplement states "When in March last year we produced what has now become the first edition of the bibliography on Women's Studies, we were not prepared for the overwhelming response due to the growing interest in Women's Studies. As a result we hve been encouraged to produce a second edition". In 1976/77, 65% of all undergraduate sociology students, and just under half of all postgraduate sociology students were female. Women's studies courses in mainstream higher education were typically held in the Social sciences departments,… Read More

128 printed pages. Attributed to Thomas Sherman in Halkett & Laing. Preface signed: Christopher Perin. Two hymns. Charles Sutton (1765-1829) and his son Richard (1789-1856), both printers and proprietors of the liberal Nottingham Review. Charles Sutton was imprisoned for a year in Northampton County Gaol for political libel in criticising in the Review the conduct of British troops during the war with the U.S.A. Both father and son were Methodist lay preachers and members of Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham. Their business premises were at the corner of Bridlesmith Gate and Bottle Lane, Nottingham, where they lived for a number of years. Lacks front free endpaper. Small smudge and thumbing to title page. Contemporary ink inscriptions on endpapers. Provenance: James and then Mary Pyke of Baythorn[e] Park. James Tweed Pyke (1815-78) the third son, one of three, of George Pyke and Mary Surtees was born at "Baythorne Park", Essex, in 1815. In 1832 he & his brothers migrated to Tasmania, on… Read More

London: printed for R. Ackermann., 1824 xi, [9], 352 printed pages (some light spotting and offsetting). Undated but 1824. 12 hand-coloured engravings, including colour frontispiece. Contemporary ink inscription on preliminary page. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. 9.5 x 15 cm. Contemporary full diced calf (slightly rubbed, and slightly worn at head of spine and at corners). Spine in compartments with hand-tooled floreate gilt decoration and complete with contrasting green morocco label and gilt titling. Boards with scrolling blind hand tooling within twin gilt double fillet borders . Part of the comprehensive 43-volume series of The World in Miniature by Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853); dates of other volumes in series range from 1821-1825. Covers the peoples of India and Tibet, Bhutan, Burma, and Southeast Asia, written at the height of Britain's conquest and colonisation of the region. Abbey, Travel, vol. I, p. 17.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Nonesuch, 1931 Limited numbered edition 426/725; original paper covered boards & paper label in very good green slipcase.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Verlag der Bücherkreis, Berlin, 1930 Original half cloth, 8vo, 216 pp. including 4 pages of publisher's adverts at rear. Black/white illustrations. German text. Book design by Jan Tschichold. Covers discoloured. With architects like Hugo Häring, Ludwig Hilbeseimer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Martin Mächler, this book of socialist building, housing shortage, new technology, new architecture, and urbanism from socialist perspective was published in 1930 under the pseudonym "Albert Sigrist". Sigrist was the pseudonym for Alexander Schwab (5 July 1887 - 12 November 1943), a German political activist who withdrew from active participation in politics after resigning from the fractious and short-lived Communist Workers' Party he founded ("Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands" / KAPD) in 1922, but continued his contribution as an independent left of centre commentator-journalist. During the twelve Nazi years he was arrested at least twice, spending the… Read More

Granta Books, London, 1999 Signed on title page by Rachel Lichtenstein and by iain Sinclair in neat ink hands. ix, 338 printed pages. 8 pages of full page colour illustrations. In original brick-red cloth and original dustwrapper with mild shelf wear.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1911 ix, 139 pages, with folding plate at rear. 125 x 170mm. In original red cloth with decorative upper cover- spine faded from red to pink. With owners bookplate on front paste-down endpaper- from the library of William Bell Jones F.S.A. of Hawarden 1868-1958, Hon. Secretary of the Flintshire Historical Society, 1921-1951. Flintshire Record Office 1958. With a neat ink stamp from that Office on the front free end-paper. Walter William Skeat (21 November 1835 6 October 1912), FBA, was the pre-eminent British philologist of his time. He was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom. Skeat was the founder and only president of the English Dialect Society from 1873 to 1896.The society's purpose was to collect materials for the publication of The English Dialect Dictionary.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

1st May 1828, for J. Skelton, Magdalen Bridge Oxford by J. Parker, Bookseller, Oxford; J.& A. Arch, Cornhill; and Longman & Co, Paternoster Row, London., 1831 40.5 x 33 cm. Folio, iv including list of subscribers, 96 pp, Engraved title page & 24 engraved plates, the plates being engraved by the author. Light foxing from time to time, together with mild handling marks. Bound in full contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked in the 20th century. Spine in six double gilt ruled compartments, with a green morocco label with gilt lettering. The boards have blind tooled foliate borders and have very light abrasions and scuffs. Corners and intermittently edges rather worn. Original bookseller's pencil marks on front pastedown endpaper indicating the original price of the volume being ten guineas. This is an illustrated work looking at the history of various colleges within Oxford University, written by the engraver Joseph Skelton. 'Records of Oxford Founders' is a history of the… Read More

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts., 1857 Complete FIRST EDITION in TWO VOLUMES. Volume one: xv, [1], 376 printed pages, with 3 coloured plates (all colour plates after drawings by Snow) and 2 folding maps. Volume two: viii, 368, with 3 coloured plates and a folding map. Historic staining on first and last leaves and on the plates, mainly on the margins. 13 x 20 cm. Contemporary full green calf, with spines in gilt hand-tooled compartments, raised bands; the titles and volume numbers in gilt on red and brown matching morocco labels. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Spines slightly rubbed with some wear to the foot of volume one. Upper hinge of volume two split and weak but still attached. Covers with twin gilt fillet borders (stained and rubbing to corners and edges). First edition, with attractive coloured lithographed plates after drawings by the author. William Parker Snow (1817 1895) led an extraordinary life, living wild in the Australian bush, saving a man from a… Read More

London: : Printed for the Society, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row; and sold by J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, and the rest of the booksellers to the Society., 1809 iv, 376, [4, index] printed pages; 8vo. All edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Uncommon, contemporary commercial label on front paste-down endpaper of L. Wickham, Bookseller & Binder Heck Street, Maidstone "Magazines & Reviews &c.". Original silk ribbon place-marker. Some sporadic foxing. 14 x 22 cm. Contemporary half calf. Spine in compartments with hand-tooled, gilt rules and decorative centerpieces (slightly rubbed and worn at the head). Hinges cracked but still reasonably firm. Boards with marbled paper covers and calf corners with gilt rules (bumped and slightly worn). Compilation of reports on specific schools, industry schools, Sunday schools and endowed schools, together with a long essay on the "general education of the poor" by Thomas Bernard, and reports on the education of the poor in Ireland and in… Read More

W. Watson & Sons., London., 1946 176 page fully illustrated catalogue complete in two parts, with photo plates and highly detailed offset lithographs to each page of microscopes and apparatus. With interior view of the works. There is an error of page numbering from page 116 the pages start at page 201 to 260. NOTHING missing. Printers error. Green card covers a little handled, the first part faded and spotted on the cover and title page, though contents on glossy finish art paper have some minor signs of damp at some page top edges. Slim heavy quarto. 1946 (date taken from price list). *This was the company's 38th catalogue and one of the largest. Additionally inserted are the printed loose price lists for both parts, and several pages of hand written notes on setting up microscopes, on the Patna Microscope, two original invoices from W.Watson dated 1950, and two letters to Ilford Ltd. from Clare College Cambridge. All these inserts are associated with I. R. H. Allan, senior scientific… Read More