Search Results: Titles starting with M from Ken Spelman Books Ltd

1876. Unbound. Very Good. The Mahmoodeeah Canal, Alexandria Original tinted lithograph by E. W. Cooke, from a volume of 25 plates entitled 'Leaves From My Sketch-Book' (First Series), published by John Murray. 1876. 125mm x 195mm (to the outer ruled border of the image) - with border, and lettered below.

Stuttgart, 1817. Hard Cover. Very Good. ORIENTAL & ROMANTIC TALES. Two volumes in one. [4], 278pp; [4], 352pp. A very good copy in later 19th century half calf, marbled boards, red gilt label. Some occasional foxing, and contemporary ownership name of Isabella Margaret Head at the top of each title-page. Very scarce. Copac records later printings only. 8vo. Stuttgart und Lubingen. 1817. Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) was a Danish poet and playwright, and often referred to as the Danish Wordsworth. His writings reveal his fascination with folklore, and in 1816 he translated Märchen by Musäus, Fouqué, Hoffmann, and Chamisso into Danish, thus stimulating such writers as Hans Christian Andersen. His tales include romantic adaptions from The Arabian Nights.

Portland: Sanborn, 1847. Hard Cover. Good. The Maine Townsman. John P. Lord. Third edition. Portland. Published by Sanborn and Carter. 1847. 395pp. Original calf, red gilt label, head of spine worn. Some age toning to the paper and foxing to the endpapers and pastedowns. Ownership name of Rufus Legrow, April 1857.

Oxford University Press, 2019. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. a very good hbk in d/w, 8vo.

Yale, 2011. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. very good hbk in d/w, 8vo.

Truslove, 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good. Fairfax-Blakeborough, J. Malton Memories and I'Anson Triumphs. First edition. 328pp., plates. A very good copy in original dark green gilt lettered cloth. Some very slight marking to the boards. Small, owners label on the inner front board. 8vo. Truslove and Bray. 1925.

Paris: Roret, 1830. Hard Cover. Very Good. PERROT, Aristide Michel. Manuel Élementaire pour la Construction et le Dessin des Cartes Géographiques... a l'usage de ceux qui enseignent ou qui veulent apprendre la géographie par le moyen du dessin. iv, 258pp., 7 folding platees (one hand-coloured). Some foxing, but a good copy bound in contemporary half black roan, gilt lettered spine, marbled boards. Head of the spine chipped. Scarce. 12mo. Paris, Roret, Libraire, Rue Hautefeuille. 1830. £120.00 Aristide Michel Perrot (1793-1879), French geographer, and cartographer, who specialized in miniature maps that appear in numerous French atlases.

Chapman and Hall, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very good copy bound in half blue calf binding, top-edge-gilt. No names or inscriptions. c1920.

William Pickering, 1837. Hard Cover. Good. Mary, Queen Of Scots. An Historical Play By Thomas Francklin. London, William Pickering. 1837. 91pp., lithograph portrait frontispiece. A very good copy in original dark blue pebble grain cloth, with paper spine label.

Brill, 2017. Hard Cover. As New/As New. A Maturing Market. The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century. Library of the Written Word, Volume: 59. Editors: Alexander Samuel Wilkinson and Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo. Published at c£105. Still shrink-wrapped. Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal's urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and its social reach far broader than the civic or ecclesiastical elites were ever to be entirely comfortable with. This cross-disciplinary volume of essays focuses on the maturing marketplace for print in the first half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on some important transformations, with authors and publishers seizing opportunities available to them - negotiating the regulatory efforts of the censors, and scrambling to… Read More

W.H. Allen, 1876. Hard Cover. Very Good. Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management. Revised and improved by James Irvine Lupton. 356pp., half-title., text illustrations. A good copy in original dark green gilt lettered cloth. Owner's book-plate, and some early pencil notes to the back of the half-title. 8vo. Wm. H. Allen & Co. 1876.

Cambridge, 1998. Trade Paperback. Very Good. CROSBY, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality. Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. 245pp. Paperback. (£23.99). Cambridge. 1998.

Macmillan and Co, 1871. Hard Cover. Very Good. Two volumes. First edition. xviii, 374, [2]pp; ix, [3], 368pp., 5 engraved plates. Later 19th century dark red pebble grain cloth, gilt lettered spines sunned, and some slight foxing. 8vo. Macmillan and Co. 1871.

Reading, School of Art, 1950. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very scarce hbk copy number 85 of 120 copies. Original gilt lettered cloth. Bookplate.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. Hard Cover. Very Good. PRIDEAUX, W.S. Memorials of the Goldsmiths' Company Being Gleanings From Their Records Between the Years 1335 and 1815. Two volumes. 388pp; 404pp., colour frontispieces, monochrome plates. large 8vo. Printed for Private Circulation by Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1897-1897. together with... PRIDEAUX, W.S. The Charities under the Management of the Goldsmith's Company. Being an account of their foundation and history. 96pp., monochrome plates. large 8vo. Printed for Private Circulation by Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1899. Three volumes. Very good condition bound in uniform publishers' quarter dark red morocco, green pebble grain cloth boards with gilt crest, gilt lettered spines, and top-edges gilt. The third continuation volume is very scarce. Some inserted notes by C.E. Challis, particularly in the first volume. From the library of Christopher Challis.

Providence: Knowles, 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good. 78pp. A very good clean copy in original gilt lettered cloth. Scarce.

1786. Unbound. Very Good. A good-looking young man rides a horse in profile to the left. A park-paling and foliage form a background. "H. Bunbury Esqr: Delin. / W Dickinson Excudit LONDON, Publish'd June 25th 1787 by W. DICKINSON. Bond Street. A stipple engraved print from Bunbury's 'An Academy for Grown Horsemen', London 1787; 225mm x 185mm (plate mark.

Manchester University Press, 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. RODEWALL, Cosmo. Money in the Age of Tiberius. 154pp. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper. From the library of Christopher Challis. 8vo. Manchester University Press. 1976.

1990. Unbound. Very Good. Folding specimen sheets in card folder. Very good condition. c1990.

1850. Unbound. Very Good. c1850 - The Monthly Volume - advertising leaflet. 499. 135mm x 87mm. Good condition.