Search Results: Titles starting with E from Antique Bookshop

Rutland (UK) Legini Press., 2006.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 240pp. col & b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by both of the authors on the title page. A lively account of Lord Kinnoull's embassy in Turkey from 1729 to 1736, partly from the diary of his butler, from whom the authors are descended. A gold mine of information on the Ottoman Empire of the time.

Lond. Antique Collectors' Club., 1982.. Folio. d.w. 550pp. Profusely illustrated in col. & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. An important work by three acknowledged experts; it gives a minute examination of the work and evolution in thinking of clockmakers up to the first decade of the eighteenth century.

Melb. OUP., 1975.. (3rd ed.) Or.cl. 184pp. Over 150pp being of b/w plates. Fine.

Lond. Chatto & Windus., 1977.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 120pp. 40 Col.plates. b/w ills. Fine.

Sussex. Steve Stevens Publications., 2010.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 287pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1950 the Mission Aviatoin Fellowship commenced flying in Africa with just one aircraft, a British De Havilland Rapide. In 2010 the MAF has a fleet of some 50 plates flying in Africa.

Syd. Angus & Robertson Publishers., 1983.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 254pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The story of businessman & aviator, Dick Smith's solo helicopter flight from America to Australia at 5am on the 5th of August, 1982 & arrived in Sydney on Sunday the 3rd of October, 1982.

Syd. D. S. Ford, Printers., 1853.. Wrapps. 40pp. b/w ills & a map. Very good copy. Twofold Bay was named by George Bass in 1789, the first European to visit the area. In 1843 Benjamin Boyd purchased land & transported cattle there & set up whaling & shipping facilities.

St. Leonards. Allen & Unwin., 2000.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 385pp. col & b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. Sir Edmund 'Toby' Barton became the leader of the federation movement after the retirement of Henry Parkes & was asked to form a caretaker government as Australia's first prime minister in January 1901

Lond. Atheneum Publishers., 1962.. Or.cl. 381pp. Light bumpint to top corners. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. A classic memoir of the 20th century's most famous landscape gardeners, Russel Page. Page was one of the most legendary landscapers & gardneres of the 20th century & combined architecture with gardening

Andoversford. Whittington Press., 1983.. Bound in quarter cloth and Whittingon marbled paper sides. 49pp. Frontispiece portrait of Ellen Craig. Two wood-engravings by John Craig and two by Edward Gordon Craig. A pristine copy. Edition of 345 numbered copies numbered and signed by Edward Craig. Title page printed in two colours. Scarce.

Canberra. National Gallery of Aust., 2004.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 261pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. Australian artists and others in the Edwardian era.

Paddington. Jane Curry Publishing., 2003.. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed.

Lond. Hodder & Stoughton., 1973.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 670pp. b/w plates. Sl. foxing else a very good copy. 1st ed. A moving portrait of a man who was one of the great figures of our time.

Syd. A & R., 1974.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 204pp. b/w ills. Bookplate on ffe else Fine. 1st ed. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

Syd. Shepherd Press., n.d.. Folio. Or.bds. Clear acetate dj, sl.torn.unpag. 24 tipped-in Colour plates of paintings. Eight tipped-in plates of drypoints. The binding sl.rubbed & insc. on ffe else a good copy. Limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies. Scarce.

Syd. Shepherd Press., 1947.. 4to. Or.cl. unpag. 24 tipped-in col. plates. Nice copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Edition of 2000 numbered copies.

Lond. Macdonald and Jane's., 1974.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 347pp. (sl foxing) b/w plates. Good copy. 1st ed. Catherine II was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796. Known as Catherine the Great for her long reign & for the inspiring ideas of the Enlightenment that she brougt into Russian culture

Lond. Academy Editions., 1976.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 167pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Very Good copy. 1st ed. The life & work of the great artist, renowned for his glass.

Lond. William Heinemann., 2003.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 480pp. Sl. foxing & marks to top edge else Very good copy. 1st ed. A novel. The story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual and stubborn scientist and student of perfume, who set out to discover the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses.

Syd. Dolphin Books., 1994.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 286pp. b/w ills. Corners sl.rubbed else a very good copy. 1st ed. Benjamin Boyd was a Scottish entrepreneur who became a major shipowner, banker, grazier, politician & pioneer of exploiting South Sea Islander labour in the colony of NSW before bankruptcy intervened.