Search Results: Titles starting with B from Pelargos Bookstore, MBS

104 pp. 48 illustrations dont 41 tout en couleurs. 23,5x16,5 cm. Flammarion, Paris, 1977.
--- Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.
Le nom de Léon Bakst est étroitement lié au Ballets Russes et à leur inoubliable animateur, Serge de Diaghilev (1872-1929), qui conquirent l'admiration de l'Europe en 1909, avec les brillantes représentations données au théâtre du Châtelet, à Paris. (...) Aux costumes et décors traditionnels, Bakst opposa un répertoire personnel de formes et de couleurs d'une intensité et d'une verve précédemment inconnues au théâtre. Les costumes "exotiques" et somptueux qu'il créa étaient d'une grande originalité, - portés par des danseurs tels que Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein et Michel Fokine. (...)

138 pp.+1 pl. h.t. 13,3x9,5 cm. William Briggs, Toronto, 1909.
--- Full leather (soft leather, publishers binding). Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. All edges gold. Light wear at endpapers. Otherwise pages are clean.

xii+306 pp. + 18 B&W photos h.t. (the photo of the frontispiece is missing). Heinemann, London, 1962. Ex libris (The Chartered Secretaries Library) --- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). An ex-library copy (library numbers on spine). Tight binding, pages clean. Tape traces on a few pages.

Mit 14 karten, 21 plänen und mehrerehn grundrissen. Zweiundzwanzigste auflage. xl+458 pp. 16x11,5 cm. Verlag von Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1900.
--- Text in german. Clothbound (publishers cloth) with gilt letters on front cover and spine. Wear to head of spine end, some spots at the front cover. All edges marbled, pages clean, colored folding maps h.t.

Quatorzième édition, avec 13 cartes, 19 plans de villes et plusieurs plans de musées. xxxvi + 409 pp. 16,2x11,5 cm. Karl Baedeker, Éditeur, Leipzig, 1891.
--- Text in french. Clothbound (publisher's cloth) with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. All edges marbled, pages clean and bright, colored folding maps h.t. Discolouration on spine, some wear at spine ends.
"Qui songe à voyager,
Doit soucis oublier,
Dès l'aube se lever,
Ne pas trop se charger,
D'un pas égal marcher
Et savoir écouter"

Avec 19 cartes, 36 plans de villes, etc. Dix-neuvième édition. xlii + 500 pp. 16,2x11 cm. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1910.
--- Text in french. Clothbound (publishers cloth) with gilt letters on front cover and spine. All edges marbled, pages clean and bright, colored folding maps h.t. Light wear, tight binding. Previous owner name written on the title page.
"Qui songe à voyager,
Doit soucis oublier,
Dès l'aube se lever,
Ne pas trop se charger,
D'un pas égal marcher
Et savoir écouter"

351+343 pp. 16x11,5 cm. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1888.
--- Blindstamped cloth binding (publishers binding). Light discoloration on spine. Pages bright and clean.

188 pp. 5,2x4,5 cm. With 9 full-page engravings in-text. Printed by H. Mozley, Gainsborough, 1815.
--- Leather bound (modern binding). Gilt lettering on spine. Trace of tape on first engraving. A note written on the last two blank pages, before endpapers. Otherwise, pages are clean.

[A tale] Illustrated by Dugald Stermer. 69 pp. 6,9x4,7 cm. The Somesuch Press, Dallas, Texas, 1984. No. 212 of 325 numbered copies, printed from Trinité type by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem Holland and bound by Reliure d'Art du Centre S.A., Limoges, France.
--- Text in english. Leather bound, gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. All edges gilt. Numbered and signed copy. No wear. Unmarked.

Notis Johannis Heskin, Ex Aede Christi. E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Oxonii, 1748. 21,3x13,5 cm.
--- Latin and greek text. Leather binding. Hinges are very sensitive. Wear to the covers (see photo). Previous owner name written on first blank page and the stamp of a library inside front cover. Otherwise pages bright and clean. Unmarked. No foxing.
--- Bion was a Greek bucolic poet, a native of the city os Smyrna and flourished about 100 BC. Most of his work is lost. There remain 17 fragments (preserved in ancient anthologies) and the "Epitaph of Adonis", a mythological poem on the death of Adonis and the lament of Aphrodite (preserved in several late medieval manuscripts of bucolic poetry). Some of the fragments show the pastoral themes that were typical of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, while others attest the broader thematic interpretation of the bucolic form that prevailed in the later Hellenistic period.
Moschus flourished circa 150 B.C. He was a Greek bucolic poet of the school of Theocritus. He… Read More

Illustrations de Davanzo. 147 pp. 33,5x25,5 cm. Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1950. --- Text in french. DJ has some tears and spots. The book is in very good condition. Pages bright and clean. Page 8: the full-page illustration is bounded upside down.

Illustrated. Edited by Burton L. Fryxell, with foreword by John C. Reed. xxi+528 pp.+one folding map h.t. 23,5x16 cm. University of Alaska and the Arctic Institute of North America, 1953.
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's cloth). Some edgewear. Written name on the title page – all other pages are clean. B&W ills.

104 pp. 15,8x10,4 cm. American Sunday-School Union, Philadelphia, 1861.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers clothing), gilt decoration on spine. Some wear on covers (see photos). Very tight binding. Blindstamped letters on both covers. Occasional light foxing. Unmarked. Each page has an engraving.

Edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. First edition (stated). 879 pp. 25x19,3 cm. Nicholson & Watson, London, 1946.
--- Cloth-bound, with decoration on covers (publishers cloth). Decorated endpapers. Richly illustrated with B&W + color ills. Light wear to the edges and corners of the covers and spine. Pages bright and clean. No foxing. Unmarked.

* The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter, of Psalms of David. Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons, at the University Press, Cambridge, n.d. * Hymns Ancient and Modern for use in the services of the Church. Complete edition. 469 pp. William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London, n.d. 9,8x6,1 cm. (c.1880)
--- Leather binding (pigskin), with gilt lettering and decoration. All edges red and gilt. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. Name and date (1899) written on first blank page.

Selected and arranged by Robert Brittain. A Literary Anthology for all who love Books and Reading. With 12 engravings and 12 plates h.t. 25,5x17 cm. Charles Skilton Ltd., London, 1971. --- Cloth-bound (publishers binding) with gilt lettering. Tight binding. Black & white illustrations. An ex-library copy. Pages bright and clean. Dust jacket with some wear to the edges and corners.

How to learn the International Code and all other forms of signalling as required at B.O.T. examinations to which is appended the Allied Signal Manual. Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Explained. viii+254 pp.+iv+134 pp.+plates and folding pictures h.t. 18,3x12 cm. James Brown & Son, Nautical Publishers, The Nautical Press, Glasgow, 1920.
--- Some wear on spine. Occasional foxing.

Comprising: Besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary, and technical terms. 386 pp. 5,8x4,5 cm. David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, n.d. (1890-1900)
--- Full leather, gilt lettering on front cover. Some edgewear. All edges gilt, pages bright.

xviii+99 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Small Books on Great Subjects / William Pickering, London, 1844. Ex libris of Edward J. Sowerby.
--- Cloth bound. Light wear at corners and spine ends. Pages bright and clean.
--- An introduction to Greek philosophy, published anonymously but known to be written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis (1786-1858). She was born in Wittersham, Kent. She devoted herself to scholarship and learned many languages. After a brief residence in Italy she returned to Kent and lived in Goudhurst. Cornwallis wrote the majority of the titles in Pickering's "Small Books on Great Subjects" and later made a name for herself as an advocate of women's emancipation, including the debate on married women's legal rights.