Search Results: Titles starting with H from Rulon-Miller Books

[Lexington]: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 314; frontispiece portrait, map endpapers,18 illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "A biography of a commissioner in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service and a pioneer in the Western study of China's foreign relations, based on Morse's personal papers."

Leidae: Apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans, 1779. Editio altera, "emendata & additamentis locupletat," 4to, pp. [8], 171, [2]; *4 A-Y4; woodcut printer's device, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; engraved folding plate depicting ten instruments used in chemical experiments (the author being a professor of chemistry at the University of Leiden), including two that look like quite complicated bellows; 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, modern gilt to spine foot; spine mostly perished, front joint exposed, boards quite rubbed and worn, top half of lower hinge cracked; supplied endpapers; textblock fine. OCLC does not locate any copies in North America as of October, 2013.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 215; 4 leaves of plain photographic illustrations printed on rectos and versos, text illustrations by Wells throughout; original cloth in purple dust jacket; jacket edges chipped and rather shelf-worn, abraison to upper jacket cover not affecting text or illustrations; textblock fine. Signed and inscribed by the author to Gwin and Ruth Kolb.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 367; 8 illus. on rectos and versos of 4 plates; jacket slightly rubbed, else fine.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office [at the University Printing House, Cambridge], 1966. First edition, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 382; color frontispiece and 56 plates, 43 drawings, 17 of which are folding and contained in a separate blue cloth folding box; original blue cloth, dust jacket with several short tears; very good and sound. Bookplate of Frederick E. Ellis. Concerning the preservation and restoration of the famous ship to her condition at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Admiral Lord Nelson, England's most famous naval hero, was killed on board at the moment of victory. Arthur Bugler is one of the shipwrights whose skill and conscientious craftsmanship has helped preserve this famous warship for posterity. Laid in is a 16-p. pamphlet "The Conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the City of Portsmouth on the Portsmouth Command of the Royal Navy, 7 May, 1965"; plus a one-page autograph letter signed from the mycologist W. P. K. Findlay dated 6 December, 1966, asking to see Bugler's book on the… Read More

London: [H. Morrell, 1850. Broadside, folio (310 x 250 mm.); decorative vignette, printed in red; previous fold, shallow tears along edges not affecting text, a bit toned, else a fine copy. Not in OCLC.

St. Paul, 1904. Second Autograph Edition (signed at preface), 8vo, 384pp., 7 photographic plates; a very good copy in the original red cloth gilt, very slightly soiled. A volume of political reminiscences gathered during a long career devoted to journalism by the man who established the St. Paul Dispatch in 1868.

London: printed by George E. Eyre and WIlliam Spottiswoode, 1853. First edition, royal 8vo, pp. lxii, 482; folding chromolithograph plate; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, hinges cracked, spine faded with small cracks in ends, covers scuffed, else good or better in original purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Thomas describes the purpose of the Hand-Book: ""It is intended to exhibit the various classes of records and documents, and much information contained therein, analytically and alphabetically arranged under the courts and departments to which they respectively belong"" (Preface). Includes a history of public records and how they have been stored.

Paris: Garnier Freres, 1868. 2 volumes, 12mo; few pages with mended small tears, edges and corners rubbed, joints rubbed, covers soiled, else very good in contemporary half red calf gilt, black leather labels gilt on spines, over marbled boards, t.e.g. Ex-MHS.

Montreal: Armour and Ramsay, 1850. 12mo, pp. viii, 225; pages browned, slight scattered foxing, one signature starting, hinges cracked, small area of cloth on lower cover torn off, spine ends frayed; fair in original brown cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover. Ex-MHS. Sabin 73743.

New York: Macmillan, 1947. Small 4to, pp. 778; text in double column; very good copy in the dust-jacket. The first Hortus was published in 1930 to cover the inventories of cultivated plants in North America. A reprint was published in 1935, with a large Supplement. "Now comes Hortus Second ... not a reprint, but a new work set in a different type to bring the continuing enterprise up to date" (jacket blurb).

Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1967. Folio, xiv-[xvi] & 255-[256]pp., 10 color plates, numerous illustrations throughout of manuscripts, bindings, maps, and printed books from Harvard's diverse collections; fine copy in orig. black cloth gilt, t.e.g., with publisher's announcement and presentation slip laid in.

Boston: The Merrymount Press, various dates. Eight volumes, 8vo, decorative ruled and bordered title pages printed in red and black, rubricated throughout; all in original linen-backed dark green paper-covered boards, dec. gilt brown morocco labels on spines; mostly unopened, mostly very good to near fine. Volume I: Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by Maurice Baring. 1906. Edition limited to 103 copies; spine somewhat darkened; prospectus for Series I and II, with all titles listed, laid in. Smith 247. Volume II: Erasmus Against the War. With an Introduction by J.W. Mackail. 1907. Edition limited to 103 copies. Smith 282. Volume III: Petrarch and the Ancient World. By Pierre de Nolhac. [1907]. Edition limited to 103 copies; this an ex-library copy with bookplate marked withdrawn, perforations at title-page and pp. [iii-iv]; hinges cracking, but firm, worn, scuffed, and soiled, spine ends chipped and fraying, with upper end chip away, almost all of label chipped away. Smith… Read More

Harrisburg: Stackpole and Heck, 1948. First edition, large 4to, pp. xx, 1152 including 18pp. of color plates; text in double column, illustrated throughout; very good in orig. brown cloth. Extensive compendium of all aspects of hunting, including dogs, firearms and ammo, all sorts of birds, fish, and mammals, and a miscellaneous section with chapters on archery, back-packing, knives, canoes, ferreting, photography, preservation of meat, snowshoes, tanning hides, etc.

London: Elliot Stock, 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 85, [1]; original terracotta cloth, gilt lettering on spine; a bit spotted, but a very good copy. "The following chapters are reprinted, with slight modification, from the 'Academy,' where they appeared from April 30th to August 13th, 1887."

Tokyo: 武揚堂　[Buyodou], 1941. 16mo, pp. 10, 234, [12], [2], [4]; 4 folding charts; 33 detailed folding schematic plates (final plate missing); title page(?) and wrappers perished, text toned, colophon and final leaf loose but present, the edges of a few plates frayed but most in fine condition within a fair, toned copy. The type 88 75mm was a Japanese anti-aircraft gun used in the Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Over 2000 units were produced by the end of WWII, and this gun was the most common of the medium anti-aircraft guns used by Japan, even after aircraft technology had surpassed it around 1940. Unrecorded in either OCLC or Ci.nii.

Qionglin: Zhan Yi Yun, 2003. First edition, 4to, pp. 18, 1436, [1], 145 (alphabetical index); text in Chinese, in double column; full blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; upper hinge cracked, edges a touch spotted, else very good, in very good slip case with lower seam starting to split. Hailu is a dialect of Hakka spoken in Northern Taiwan and Shanwei, China. It is the second largest Hakka dialect spoken in Taiwan.

Glasguae: excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1777. 8vo, pp. 100; Greek text in large type with Latin footnotes; contemporary paneled calf, gilt-ruled borders, gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments with blind-stamped details, red speckled edges; spine chipped and label perished, later signature on flyleaf, a good, sound copy. Gaskell 610.

[Saigon]: Nha Van-Hóa Bo Van-Hóa Giáo-Duc và Thanh-Niên, 1968. 2 volumes, 8vo; illustrations, facsimiles; original white wrappers (soiled) printed in red and black; spines a bit toned, foxing along top edge of volume 2, general shelf wear. Nos. 34 and 35 of the series "Van-Hóa Tùng-Thu'". A history of the North Vietnamese city of Hai Du'o'ng.

[Ottawa], 1895. From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 2nd series, volume 1, section 2, 1895-96, 8vo, pp. 123-226 (i.e. 104 pages); wrappers perished; good and sound. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp on the first page; no other markings.