Search Results: Authors starting with U from Dark Parks Books & Collectibles

Madrid:: En la Imprenta Real,, 1787.. Small 8vo.. Contemporary spattered leather gilt rules to spine old title label rubbed. Small worm hole to first couple leaves at top margin no affect just barely touching ÔDÕ in title nothing else. Overall a very good copy. Contemporary owners signature to title ÔDavilaÕ. This is a branded book Ômarca de fuegoÕ with what appears to be an ÔHÕ at the bottom of the text block. Text in Spanish.

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1989.. Hardcover.. Publishers orange cloth over boards fully illustrated with b&w photos about as new near fine. Illustrated dust jacket near fine. In new protective mylar.

London:: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers,, 1760.. The second edition revised and corrected.. 8vo. 2 vols.. Two volumes. Modern fine binding antique calf spines fully decorated in floral gilt. New endpapers. Some plates with minor repairs at folds no affect. Title pages with some minor browning around outer edges. Volume one with some minor dampstains to very outer margin of last few leaves no affect. Volume two with some minor dampstains to very outer margin of first few leaves no affect. Overall a nice set and scarce in this good of condition. With seven folding plates. English translation by J. Adams of UlloaÕs Relacion historica del viage a la America Meridional [Madrid: 1748]. The most accurate description of South America at the time. A scientific voyage of two Spanish Captains Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795) & Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713-1773) initiated by the French Academy of Sciences in 1735. Book describes the geography, natives, trades, climate, etc of South America. ESTC: T138368.… Read More

Suffolk:: Boydell Press,, 1998.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth over boards about as new. Illustrated jacket about as new. In new protective mylar. Scarce.

[London:]: [E. Tyler,], [1658].. 20 x 31cm. Single leaf.. Engraved title page. Trimmed just outside borders. Fine impression. Old owner initials at lower right corner. Illustrations show Fall of Man at top, Last Supper on the bottom, Temple, before and after, at sides, Solomon, Nebuchadnessar, Cyrus, and Vespasian at corners. Mounted at corners on larger plain leaf, suitable for framing, or perhaps mating with another copy. BM: 1858, 0417.288. Grolier Club: Catalogue of Engravings & Frontispieces England, 16th & 17th Centuries: 75.

New York:: Arcade,, 1990.. First US edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth over boards, very minor shelf wear to edges, tiny ding to top of text block, with little affect to few pages top edge denting, else near fine. Illustrated dust jacket, fine. A scarce book. In protective mylar.