Search Results: Authors starting with S from Gordon Hughes

London: George Bell 1876.. Hardcover. Good. viii,199 pages. 15 x 23 cm. Very good sound copy with some foxing to contents which are largely uncut. Surface blemish at bottom of spine. Ex institutional library but with minimal markings.

Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and London: F. A. Davis. , 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. The five volume issue, complete for 1890, in dark olive cloth, titled in gilt on spines. A very good firmly bound set, probably unused, with only minor superficial markings to the bindings. 25 x 17 cm. Over 2000 pages in total. Global summaries of research and advances in medical, surgical and health studies, with interesting advertisements at the rear of each volume. The whole comprehensively indexed With an ownership rubber stamp at the bottom of four of the volumes, and a written name at the top of one of these A heavy set of books, please contact for accurate postage quote.

Kagoshima University 1963.. Soft cover. Very Good. Two tissue plates of Japanese text. Folding plate of letter from the British Museum acknowledging receipt of vol one. Errata leaf. Photos Manuscript inscription in Japanese inside front cover. Text in English. Paper covers slightly marked. 21 x 15 cm. The last battle of the Satsuma Samurai warriors in their rebellion against Imperial Japan.

London: W. Tweedie. No date, about 1840s.. Hardcover. Good. Lithographic frontis and vignette title by W Monkhouse of York. Half title, vii,190, iv (publisher's catalogue, one leaf carelessly opened), pp. 14 x 10 cm. Blindstamped pale olive cloth. Light water stain to top of bottom board and on last few leaves. Some light spotting and age staining, generally a good sound clean copy. A scarce early reprint, not in The British Library or National Congress Library.

Faber and faber, first collected edition, 1937.. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 804pages. Salmon pink cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, which has a faint teardrop stain just below the title. 20 x 14 cm. Small neat name on fep. Slightly frayed and marked dj, with top 2cm of spine missing and 1cm strip of clear tape at foot of spine. Endpapers and edges a little spotted, overall a good clean copy of an edition scarce in dustjacket. First publication of Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress in one volume.

Croydon, Victoria: Longmans, 1966.. Soft cover. Good. Map, and integrated colour drawings with text 16pages. 18 x 12 cm. Neat library numbers, pictorial card covers with a neat label on top cover. A good sound copy. Number 11 of a series of 12, at this stage, intended for junior primary school children.

London: J. B. Cramer & Co. No date, about 1875.. Hardcover. Very Good. 45 pages. 31 classic nursery rhymes in their Mid-Victorian incarnation, all set to music. 27.5 x 18.5 cm. Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on the top board. A very good copy of a scarce title. With the sticker of the Music Department of Cole's Book Arcade at the foot of the title page.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, over two issues, April and May, 1849.. Soft cover. Very Good. iv,205-268,4,iv, and iv,iii,269-328,4,iv. The article is about 23 pages long all together. Light brown wraps, only slightly marked. Adverts for medical publications, apparatus and druggists with one sample pictorial plate. In January 1847 J Y Simpson began pioneering the use of ether as an anaesthetic in his midwifery practice, but by November of that year he was relying more on chloroform, which produced safer and more reliable results. In the United States Dr Charles Meigs was a strong opponent of the use of anaesthesia in midwifery. In 1848 he raised his objections and concerns about its use in response to a paper promoting and advocating chloroform in childbirth, by Simpson. Both these papers had previously been published in the Medical Examiner. Now, in this article, Simpson thoroughly responds to Meigs' objections. Each of Meigs' five points are carefully refuted. As such this… Read More

Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1963., 1963. Soft cover. Good. Photos, 75 pages, softcover only slightly marked. Very clean ex-institutional library. 23 x 15 cm.

Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1959.. Soft cover. Good. Map, photos, 86 pages, softcover slightly marked .Very clean ex-institutional library. 23 x 15 cm.

London and Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. 1st edition 1874.. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece, wood engraved chapter head pieces and tail pieces. 543 pages. 22 x 15 x 5.5cm. All edges gilt. Original chocolate decorated cloth, gilt, at one time rebacked preserving original backstrip. The original endpapers preserved with strengthening of inner hinges. Frontispiece and engraved title slightly foxed. Contents tight and very clean.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1927.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vi,154,pp Pictorial endpapers showing cupid leading a peacock. 5 colour plates & colour & b&w text illustrations. 26 x 20 cm. Pictorial cloth with pixie on egg-timer and list of authors and illustrators. 2 small dents to bottom edge of top board. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the title page. A very good copy in a very good dw, with pictorial onlay, and only very slight edge frayed Contributors include A A Milne, Walter de la Mare, Rose Fyleman, R R Millar, Eleanor Farjeon, Chas Buchel & Phyllis Morris . A lovely copy, very scarce in a dust wrapper.

Printed by Rydale Printing Works, Helmsley, York. No publisher, 1976.. Soft cover. Good. Photos and drawings, 48 pages 22 x 15 cm. Paper covers slightly soiled. Contents with minor damp stain towards bottom corner on some pages .Overall a good copy of a scarce item. With a foreword by actor Ian Carmichael. Yorkshire local history and reminiscences.

London: Chapman And Hall, 2nd imp. 1922.. Hardcover. Good. Folding map, vii,306 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Library number and stamp on fep. Some browning of feps and prelims. Small neat library labels on spine, which is slightly frayed at the top. Otherwise a good clean copy. The role of Islam following the first war.

London: Confraternity of Saint James, 1998.. Soft cover. Very Good. 205 pages, softcover, 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Medieval Pilgrimage route to Spain.

Hamburg: Strumper 1886. 10 images in antique portfolio. Hardcover. Very Good. The 10 photographs vary between 17 to 21.5cm down and 25 to 29cm across. The mounts are each 31 x 40cm. The images are in crisp clean unfaded condition. The mounts are slightly browned towards the edges and two images each have 1 small corner tear. The sturdy red portfolio folder, with three fold in flaps, is titled in gilt: ALBUM and is in good slightly used condition with some wear to spine and corners.

Dublin: Marcus and John Sullivan, 46th edition, 1861.. Hardcover. Good. vi, 216,pp, original olive blindstamped cloth. Neat name, 1863, at top of title page. hinges strained but secure, only a little frayed and marked. Some slight spotting of the contents. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Overall a good clean copy of a scarce text book, surprising considering the vast numbers produced.