Search Results: Titles starting with M from Stephen Rench

Amstelodami - Amsterdam: Ex officina Elzeviriana - Elzevir, 1669 Book. Fair. Hardcover. [xvi], 614, [146] pages + folding map. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of Henry Downing. Ink owner's inscription to the front free end paper of Hen: Bow: Downing and an ink inscription in Latin. In the remains of old full leather binding, split and very worn along the edges with loss to the leather. Boards are holding on with the cords. Wax seal of a crest of a deer to the rear pastedown. Ink letters on the title page - H4-8. Engraved title page..

London: Curante et imprimente AJ Valpy , 1828 Book. Very Good. Full vellum. 2 volumes bound as one without the half title or title page to volume 2. iv, 956, lxxvi pages. Normally divided into 2 volumes after page 502. Bound in old full vellum with a worn and dried out leather lettering label to the spine. Vellum soiled. A couple of small tears to page edges but well away from the text. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of Adam Urquhart Esquire..

Paris: Librairie du Guillaumin et Cie, 1876 Book. Fair. Soft cover. 135, [1] pages. In the original printed paper covers - spine torn and damaged. Front cover detached. Pages creased to the upper outer corners throughout. Spotting - some pages heavily so..

Ingolstadii - Ingolstadt: Adami Sartorii, 1602 Book. Good. Full-Leather. [xx], 892, [36] pages. Title page printed in red and black. Ink owner's inscription to the head of the title page. In old full leather which is worn. Wormhole to the fore edge of the text block affecting the lower margins only of pages 107-138, well clear of the text. Also a wormhole from the rear board affecting just the outer margin of the final 12 pages of the index. It appears that at some point various sections of text were covered over with paper - censored perhaps, or just attaching the reader's own notes?. At some later point this paper has been removed and it has caused some damage to pages in the process. This affects pages - 89, 100, 101, 107, 121, 131, 143, 144, 155, 164, 192, 193, 199, 204, 221, 222, 231, 232, 237 and 238. I may have missed a few. It affects some words on some of the pages. Pages 143, 221/2 and 231/2 have tears to the margins. Loss of some text on page 232. Pages 237/8 are torn at the edges… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row and A Constable and Co by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1805 Book. Good. Full-Leather. [ii], ix, [i], 557, [1] pages. Interestingly this volume does not have the engraved title page, or the plates. Lacks pages numbered 185/6 and 435/6, but the printer's signatures are continuous and text continuous, so perhaps this was where the plates would have been. Here with the printed half title page. Staining to the end papers from the leather binding. Pages lightly browned throughout, some spotting and staining. In old full red morocco binding, which is worn and the spine is faded and creased. Ink inscription to the front free end paper - HN [?] Brown from James Ballantyne with a date added below in pencil - 5 Feby 1857. This cannot have been James Ballantyne the publisher as he had died in 1833. A heavy volume, extra postage will be required to send it outside the UK.

Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers, 1850 Book. Good. No Binding. 24 pages. Disbound from a volume, pages no longer sewn together. Browning to pages throughout. Tears to the spine. Undated, circa 1850? Tear to the upper outer corner of pages 1/2, just touching the title, but with no loss..

London: Printed for D. Midwinter, J. Tonson, T. Wotton, T. Osborn, J, Shuckburgh, J. Crockatt and B. Motte, 1726 Book. Good. Hardcover. [iv], vi, [12], 456, 246, [2], 56 pages + frontispiece portrait. In old full leather, but this is worn and torn. Wax blobs to the front and rear pastedown. Names to the front pastedown also. ESTC T54588. The 27th edition of the south part and the 6th edition of the north or Scottish part. Ink note re price to the title page..

Coventry: British Council Summer School Warwick University, 1978 Book. Fair. Soft cover. 12 pages. In the original thinn card covers, but these are damaged and abraided this affects both the front and rear covers. Ink inscription to the title page - to Bernard from Rolf.

Malvern: MT Stevens, 1913 Book. Fair. Soft cover. 58 pages + 14 plates. Heavily spotted to the text throughout. Original print paper covers which are creased and the spine is faded..

Dudley: Printed by J. Rann; for Brooke and Co Cheapside; and Rivingtons, St Paul's Church-yard, London; and sold by the booksellers of Worcester, Birmingham, &c, &c, 1798 Book. Good. Hardcover. x, [ii], 124, [2] pages. Lacks the half title page listed in ESTC T745, but with the final page advertising other works by the same author. In old paper covered boards with paper spine. The boards are very worn and the spine is torn at the head. With the very worn remains of the original printed paper label to the spine. The binding is split internally between pages viii and ix. 4 pages are detached. Pages are browned and spotted throughout, heavily much of the time. There are some pencil lines and an occasional word. Page edges are untrimmed..

Cranleigh: Samurai Press, 1907 Book. Good. Hardcover. 62 pages + 2 pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. In the original paper covered boards, some stains and some tears to the spine. Free end papers are browned. Separating internally between the sections. Woolmer IX..

London: Virtue Brothers and Co, 1863 Book. Good. Full leather. vii, [i], 408 pages. Presentation inscription to a front free end paper - To Mrs Elgard with kindest regards from the Authoress. Bookplate to the front pastedown - Ex bibliotheca Car. I. Taboris. Ink stamp to the front free end paper - Guild of Church & Empire 16, Russell Square, London. In old full leather binding, browned and with some wear. Pages are all edges gilt..

[Middle Hill]: [Middle Hill Press], 1852 Book. Good. Disbound. [4] pages. This was published in several variant forms, this one starts with the heading Rot. chart.. Printed on white paper which has browning and spotting. Holzenberg 379.

[Middle Hill]: [Middle Hill Press], 1852 Book. Good. Disbound. [4] pages. This was published in several variant forms, this one has entries running from 1 Joh to 24 H 6.. Printed on white paper which is soiled and has browning and spotting. Holzenberg 378.

[Middle Hill]: [Middle Hill Press], 1852 Book. Good. Disbound. [4] pages. This was published in several variant forms, this one starts with the heading Co. Leicester. Printed on white paper which has browning and spotting. Erasure towards the foot of the sheet. Holzenberg 380.

London: John Mortimer, 2 Wigmore Street, 1834 Book. Good. Disbound. [ii], 54, [2] pages. Disbound pamphlet without covers. Inscribed in ink - With the authors compliments - to the head of the title page..

Paris: Chez Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire pour les Mathematiques, Quai des Augustins, No 57, 1806 Book. Good. Full leather. [iii]-viii, 182, 48, [74] pages + 5 folding plates [the fifth includes plates 5 and 6]. Lacks presumably the half title page which would account for their only being 6 pages of preliminaries rather than 8. Front free end paper almost detached. Some pages browned. Staining to the inner margins of pages throughout the second half of the volume. Plates are creased. A few ink notes to margins. Worn full leather binding, tears to the leather at the corners and to the edge of the rear board. Inner hinges split..

[ Middle Hill ]: [ Middle Hill Press ], 1830 Book. Very Good. Disbound. Pages numbered 9 and 10, complete as issued. Printed on a single sheet, watermarked 1825. Page measures approximately 33 x 20.5cm. Disbound with glue remains to the left edge of the sheet. Lists 32 volumes of manuscripts. Date of publication is that suggested by the British Library. Martin states that 53 were printed. Holzenberg 41..

Oxford: J. Vincent, 1830 Book. Good. Hardcover. Engraved title page followed by 32 leaves which contain a total of 7 double page maps and plans and 18 single page maps, plans and illustrations. There are sometimes several illustrations to the page. Here without the publisher's adverts. In the original paper covered boards with printed paper label to the front board. The spine has been crudely repaired with a strip of red leather. A name has been trimmed off from the front free end paper. Light browning to pages throughout, spotting also - heavy in places. Dated variously 1826 or 1830s. Some small tears along the inner folds of the double pages..

London: Published by J March 12 Webber St, Blackfriars Road., 1850 Book. Poor. No Binding. Here lacking the rear cover, so just 14 pages. Spotted and lightly worn. Incomplete. Undated, circa 1850?.