Search Results: Titles starting with E from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Bachelier, Paris, 1835 [2], xiv, [2], 474, [2] printed pages, with fine copper engraved frontispiece portrait. Silk ribbon bookmark. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inner blind tooled dentelles. Owner's pencilled name "C.H.Prior" on preliminary blank page. Mild foxing. 22.5 x 27.5 cm. Contemporary full diced calf binding. Spine in six compartments with hand-tooled emblems of crossed arrows and celestial spheres, floreate edges and twin gilt ruled borders, with tesselated design at foot and tail, gilt lettering and tooled raised bands. Diced calf boards with arrow & sphere designed tooling in each corner and double gilt ruled and blind dotted borders. dges gilt tooled. Corners bumped and a little worn. Edges and raised bands slighty worn. Boards with very slight handling wear. The binding is gorgeously patinated and glowing with 185 years of handling, leaving it very tactile. "One of the most successful popularizations of science ever composed." -Dictionary of Scientific… Read More

Circa 1900. viii, 184 printed pages. Full-page frontispiece illustration. Title page with Art Nouveau border decorations. All edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 62 x 92mm. Original burgundy roan in a yapp style binding (some pitting to covers, lower back corner very slighty damaged); spine with gilt lettering "Tennyson's Poems". Golden Thought series volumes/Dainty Little Library/Tartan series number 74. Garbett, 50. Welsh, 6637. This edition not in WorldCat.

Londini : typis Richardi Hodgkinsonne, 1673 Original Etching. Circa 1673. View of Salisbury Cathedral from the South East, with Chapter House among trees at right; six figures walking in pairs nearby; cartouche at top right; illustration to William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum' III (London: 1673, p.375). Lettered in cartouche with title, continuing: 'Impensis / Decani & Cap: / hujus Eccles:'; signed in the plate below image at right 'W. Hollar delin: et sculp:'; page numbered '375' below image at left. Cut impression, listed in new Hollstein (Hollar) as second state, with page number lettered below image to the left. 355 x 277 mm. Mounted, framed and glazed with Salisbury's Art Picture House dealer's colour printed label on reverse. Salisbury cathedral is the inspiration for William Golding's novel The Spire, in which the fictional Dean Jocelin makes the building of a cathedral spire his life's work. The construction of the cathedral is an… Read More

Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, 24, Old Bond Street. Sold by Bell and Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden, 1868 Illustrated by original, hand-mounted photographs. Brown morocco backed, printed boards in worn and somewhat soiled condition. Spine good with very minor wear. Font hinge split and leaves loose. Text has very minor spotting and photographic plates are faded but remain in good condition, some with small and discreet "Science and Art Department. Deposit/Loan" stamps with a crown symbol. 14, [2] p., 20 leaves of plates, plus 2 page publisher's catalogue at the back. 38 x 28 cm. This bok dates from before the widespread use of photomechanical printing processes to illustrate books, that emerged in the 1840s, in the early years of photography & is known as photography incunabula . COPAC lists three copies at Newcastle University, Robert Gordon University, & Victoria and Albert Museum.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

London, Printed By R. Norton for Richard Royston, Bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, 1681 [12], 256 printed pages. Eikon Basilike printed in Greek on title page. Frontispiece engraving of King Charles 1 at prayer, and at page 220 a portrait of King Charles ii, then The Prince of Wales. A3 is a dedication leaf to King Charles ii by Richard Royston. The printed page number for page 186 has been misprinted and reads 860. William Lloyd's 1748 ownership signature on title page and that of his father, perhaps, doodled over. Some mild darkening to extreme margins of pages. 18.5 x 12 cm. contemporary full calf. Spine in compartments, ruled in gilt and with gilt date of publication at the foot. Both boards slightly bowed. Label for title missing. Lower corner, upper hinges and top of spine worn away in small part. Covers with blind ruled borders, deeply patinated. While Charles I, the monarch executed by parliament in 1648/9, has traditionally been identified as the author of Eikon Basilike, this has… Read More

Ediciones Castilla, Madrid ., 1952 2 volumes in Spanish. 714, (1); 734 printed pages on very thin paper (leaves slightly wrinkled, 1st volume title page offset, frontispiece adhered to front paste down endpaper & lacking front free endpaper). Early Elizabeth ii postage stamp on rear paste-down endpaper. 40 x 60 mm. Original chocolate brown leather (very slight wear to upper hinge of volume 1). Spines with silver decoration, volume numbers and titling. Boards with elaborately silver stamped fleurons within scrolling and dog-tooth borders. Complete with original slipcase, sprayed in gold over a re-brown underlay. Produced by photo-lithographic reduction. "A Spanish book which used to be encountered quite frequently but has now become scarce" (Bondy, 178 in 1981). Spielmann, 85. Welsh, 1707. Normally found in a green binding with gilt decoration, this is an uncommon variant of a complete and well-produced edition of the greatest Spanish classic, in charmingly small format.. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

383, [1] printed pages. Frontispiece and 16 full-page illustrations. Annotated throughout. Lacks front free endpaper and half title. Beautifully printed, mainly in 6-point but also in very clear diamond type, 4.5-point, on very thin India paper, by the University Press, Glasgow. Complete works of Thomas Gray excepting posthumous pieces Agrippina and Poemata. Extensive biographical sketch, pages 9-66. All edges gilt. 40 x 65 mm. Original tan suede or reverse calf with embossed scene of churchyard on front cover. Yapp style binding. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is the British writer Thomas Gray's most famous poem, first published in 1751. Gray muses about a villager buried there who could have been a more modest version of the politician John Hampden (who fought for the people's rights against an authoritarian king), fearlessly standing up to the landlord who owned the fields he worked. Bondy, 115-6. Spielmann, 174. Welsh, 3134. OCLC, 46338158. WorldCat locates 10 copies worldwide.

Paris, de l Imprimerie Royale, 1740 2 volumes 4to: 1/ xvi, [12], 643 pages, 88 diagrams on [21] folded leaves of copper plate engravings :vignette text illustrations; 2/ xiv pp., [3]. Large engraved title page vignette, engraved head- & tailpieces, initials. 2, 120 pp., 222 pp. of astronomical tables, [1, unnumbered]. Illustrated with 5 folded leaves of copper plate engravings by Simmoneau. Total of 26 plates. All edges red. Wide margins. Some contemporary manuscript corrections to text. Contemporary hand-written shelf labels & new printed ex libris from Maraldiana library on front paste-down endpapers. Some old wormholes in margins not affecting text. Some leaves age toned & spotted. 21 x 26 cm. Full contemporary spotted calf, double blind-stamped fillet borders on covers. Spines with gilt tooled raised bands. Contrasting red and brown morocco lettering labels. Second volume with rubbed, faded contemporary shelf label. Compartments elaborately gilt tooled with curved pointille cornerpieces, 10 or 8… Read More

Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1942 A manual that provides 'a general outline of the scope of the emergency services organisation. to all those who are concerned with the repair and reconstruction of war production factories'. Marked 'Mr Bishop' in pencil on the cover. From the library of Sir G.S. Bishop, the civil service's youngest ever Deputy Sec, who was attached to Department of Food during wwii.. Soft cover. Very Good.

Charta, 1998 This book shows almost no signs of wear and is in fine condition.. Soft cover. Fine.

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.

Printed for G. C. and J Robinson., 1794 8vo. iv, xx, 564 printed pages. Twelve engraved plates of Bills of Fare (for the 12 months of the year, each one being a table layout of oval or octagonal dishes). Owners contemporary signature to the head of leaf i. Collates a8, b4, A - Z8, Aa - Nn8, Oo2. Endpapers replaced. 14.5 x 21 cm. Contemporary black quarter calf binding with marbled boards, recently respined with a contrasting maroon gilt lettered label. Lacks title-page (supplied in photocopy). Small repair to the page iii-iv, affecting a few words of text. Two plates with marginal corner tears, otherwise a very good copy. The English Art of Cookery is a cookery book of English cuisine by the tavern cook Richard Briggs ("many Years Cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street, the White-Hart Tavern, Holborn, now at the Temple Coffee-house."), first published in 1788. It includes recipes for toad in a hole, mushroom ketchup and puff pastry, and examples of Anglo-Indian influence (in the Pickling… Read More

London [i.e. Paris?] et se vend a Paris, chez Nyon., 1755 Two volumes. 12mo. 466, [2, errata]; [x], 472 printed pages. Titles with woodcut ornaments, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Near contemporary ink stamp of Eugene de Froberville to first title. Marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. All edges red. Green silk ribbon place markers. Slight browning to the edges, with the occasional minor spot or very slight blemish elsewhere. The dedicatory epistle signed John Cary. Language: French. 10.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary full calf. Front & back covers with triple gilt fillets and corner decorations in gilt. Spine richly hand-tooled in gilt and with twin, red & green, gilt lettered morocco labels. Spine heads are a little chipped; joints are starting to split, but holding firm; corners slightly worn, and bumped. First edition in French of Cary's Essay on the State of England (Bristol, 1695); another issue, by Guillyn, appeared at the same time. This popular work was… 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.

Springer, 1986 xi, 225 pages. Dust-wrapper very slightly sunned at top edges. Johan van Benthem is a University Professor emeritus of pure and applied logic at the University of Amsterdam, Henry Waldgrave Stuart professor of philosophy at Stanford University, and Changjiang national professor of humanities at Tsinghua University Beijing. He has worked in modal logic, temporal logic, logical semantics and syntax of natural language, as well as dynamic logics of information, computation, and agency. He was the founding director of the 'Institute for Logic, Language and Computation' (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, and the first Chair and First Honorary Member of the European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI). His published books include "The Logic of Time" (1983), "Modal Logic and Classical Logic" (1985), "Essays in Logical Semantics" (1986). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Paris, chez Boulanger, rue du Petit Pont, mm de M. Petit, à l'image N. Dame., 1784 62pp. (pp. 21-44 bound after pp.45), 10 blank. Engraved title-page (drapery held by cupids in front of a column on which another cupid writes: Drawn and engraved by Queverdo). 2 folding engraved calendars. 12 engraved copper plates bearing the names of the months of the year at the top and the following legends at the bottom: Janvier, La bonne année sans politique. Février, Le Seigneur bienfaisant. Mars, Les Rivaux blessés. Avril, La Dame bienfaisante. Mai, Le Mai ou la fête de la dame du château. Juin, La Rosière ou le prix de la vertu. Juillet, L'Incendie. Août, La Récompense du bon cultivateur. Septembre, Braconnier. Octobre, Les Vendanges. Novembre, La double récompense. Décembre, Le Retour du mari. Text composed of songs whose title is the same as the legend of each engraving. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. 1789 remarks for the present year pasted onto verso of title. 10 blank… Read More

142, [1] printed pages. All edges gilt. Original cream endpapers. 60 x 96 mm. Original dark blue paper covered boards. Faded gilt stamped decoration, central fleur de lys motifs within scrolling ornate and dog's tooth borders. Small specks of damage and a larger 5 mm. missing oval patch on the spine. No reference to Great Britain in any of the information categories - the price paid for the UK's military and political dominance, perhaps. But 12 pages on the harems of Egypt. Also a two page report on the lynching of a black American murderer in 1836 in St. Louis. Grand-Carteret, 599. OCLC, 457474544. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (Bibliotheque Nationale de France).