Search Results: Titles starting with H from Thomas Rare Books

Hamburg: Schroedter & Hauer, 1968. 143pp, plates. Blue cloth, gilt. Lovely copy of the ship building company's history. German text only.. 1st edition. hard back. Fine/No Jacket. Oblong 8vo.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. 340pp. Original burgandy pebbled grained cloth binding with gilt titles and the college crest in gilt to the front board. Nice gift label by one of the original subscribers in a neat hand pasted to the front free end-paper. Cartridge qulity paper with the common foxing spots throughout but mainly to the margins. No fading,or wear. Couple of small dents to the rear board. Uncut edges. Illus. throughout with photographic portraits and sports teams etc. [Haileybury is an independent, co-educational boarding school, located between London and Cambridge, in 500 acres of Hertfordshire]. A scarce title.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. large 8vo.

London: John F. Shaw 318pp,col. frontis. and one col. plate. A nice copy with a fine gilt and blind-stamped embossed green buckram binding. No wear or fading. New Edition. green cloth, gilt. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: James Nisbet & Co., 1896. xii, 372pp, 32pp pub. cat. Numerous text and plate illus. throughout. Pub. brown cloth, gilt. Attractive floral patterned end-papers. Bound in the publishers blue cloth with a gilt illus. block of a ballopn in flight over a lake. Blacklined illus. background. A lovely copy of a late Victorian 'educational' book for children. A v. trifle rubbed.. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine. Small 8vo.

London: W.H.Allen & Co., 1890. viii, 328pp. Text figs. throughout. Pub. green cloth with lovely gilt illus. of a pair of birds with gilt titles. Two leaf edges [p185-188] lightly repaired otherwise a fine copy with a very nice binding.. Seventh Edition. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

London: James Nisbet & Co., Limited., 1899. xii, 372, [32 pub. cat.] pp, with 87 illustrations. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science, for young readers. . A little foxing in preliminaries and rear pages. Attractive gilt and brown blocked dec. front cover.. First Edition. decorative brown Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: J.P. Lippicott, 1896. 511pp. 6 photo plates inc. frontis. Original burgandy buckram with imitation half-calf dec.effect to the binding. Sunned to the spine otherwise a fine copy. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London: Wm. Isbister, 1881. 373pp. Decorative gilt dec. block with black borders and decoration. Rear board has arms of North London Collegiate School. Front free-end paper pasted to the inside board but complete.18x13cms. A children geography book with all corners of the globe described and illus. throughout with engravings.p101-142 has an excellent account of whaling and the whalers.. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Sparknotes, 2008. 207pp. Pictorial card covers. Shakespeare bought to life with cartoon drawings in a comic strip format. Scarce in the UK.. paper wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Neil Babra. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. x, 499pp. 303 places and 180 pictures. Map end-black titles. Sepia photos throughout. A nice copy with no inscriptions or marks. Spine a very trifle toned and minor fox marks to the fore-edge otherwise near fine.. fourth impression. Hardback. V.g./No d.j.. 8vo.

London: Russell and Price, 1769. Single page map of the County of HAMPSHIRE [John Roque].Published in ENGLAND DISLAYED Being a New, Complete, and Accurate Survey and Description of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales. Plate 16 x20cm [sheet 160 x 243mm]. Fine original map printed on laid paper. Uncoloured. 2ND EDITION pub. 1769.. OTHER COUNTIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM THIS ISSUE..[Please email thomasrarebooks@btinternet.com]. Original Map. map. Fine. 4to. Small Folio.

London: Longman, Hurst, Row, Orme & Co., 1840. WALKERS COUNTY MAP SERIES. nd [C1840]. Folding map of Hampshire and The Isle of Wight laid on linen and dissected into 15 sections. Out-line hand-colour, coloured woods and railway lines. Enclosed in a card case with a decorative paper label. Stain to the lower margin and affecting some folds otherwise an attractive travellers map in a v.g. condition. 41 x 34cms.. 1st issue. Cloth. V.g..

London: Viking, 2010. xxvii, 484pp. 67 plates. A fine copy. Pictorial d.j.. 1st edition. Hard Back. Fine/Fine. large 8vo.

London: John Murray, 1852. Frontis bust portrait by Theed. xvi, 428pp, 32 pp pub. cat. dated Jan. 1852. Illus. with woodcut vignettes to the text. First published in 1833 as the fourth volume of the Bridgewater Treatises. A fine copy in the publishers blind dec. olive green cloth, gilt. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. An exceptional copy.. Fifith Edition, Revised with Woodcuts. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

USA: Nelson Gallery Atkins Museum, 1991. 208pp. Mint copy. Colour illus. card wrappers. No inscriptions. Mint. Scarce in the UK. 1st edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd., 1933. x, 224pp, illustrated throughout with diagrams and a map. A guide to tourists traversing the barrier of the Lower Isthmus. A lovely copy. . Ninth Edition.1st Impression. Brown cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1876. 456pp, 66pp pub. advertiser cat. dated 1880-81. Original red cloth, with blind ruled borders enclosing gilt titles. Hinges cracked but attached. Large folding frontis. map [fine] and addenda slip bound-in. 3 folding maps bound-in and the large folding handbook map [fine] present in the envelope rear pocket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS A scarce item.. 3rd edition revised and enlarged. Hard Back. V.g.. 8vo.

London: British Museum, 1951. 222pp, 141 figures in the text. Based on a guide to Sowerby's models of British Fungi in the department of botany, British Museum by Worthington George Smith. End-papers foxed. Fifth reprint. green cloth, gilt. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945. xxvi, 407 pp., index, 24 plates, 135 text figures, octavo, dark blue cloth, gilt, v.g., a little shaken,,. 2nd edition. hard back. V.g./No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1968. 160pp. Pictorial colour card covers. No inscriptions, fading or wear. Pub. with the Council for Nature.. 1st edition. paper wrappers. Fine. 8vo.