Search Results: Titles starting with M from Eastleach Books

University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2007. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. xiv+122pp, 33b/w illustrations, a fine copy. An account of the life & Civil War service of Brigadier-General Meriweather Jeff Thompson [ 1826 - 1876 ] the American soldier & senior officer of the Missouri State Guard. He was nicknamed 'Swamp Fox'.

Izd. Moskovskogo Universiteta - Moskva , 1960. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 264pp, b/w frontis, errata sheet tipped in, 2pp with ink underlining, a nice copy. CYRILLIC text. Essay on the writings on Sociology & Law of Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskii, [ 1851-1916 ] Law professor at St Petersburg University & founder of the Constitutional Monarchist Party. He was opposed to Marxism

Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, Moskva, 1947. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback,VG. 48pp, b/w frontis, wrappers a little marked. Laureaty Stalinskoi Premii series. A brief biography of the Russian opera singer & Stalin Prize winner Maria Petrovna Maksakova [ 1902 - 1974 ].

Excudebant R. & M. Brown. Impensis C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, B. Collins, B. Law, G. Keith, T. Longman, T. Caslon, G. Robinson, T. Pote, J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, H.L. Gardner, Feilding & Walker, J. Hayes, & W. Fox, Londini [ London ], 1780. 10th edition, corrected.. Hardback. Full contemporary sheep, G+. [viii]+xxx+554+[16]pp, red morocco lettering piece to the spine. The last page of text is a list of school books printed by C Bathurst. Leather rather worn & scuffed with a small section missing from the rear board, corners worn though, spine scuffed & worn with loss to the head & tail, hinges cracked but holding firmly. Gather Nn is a little loose in the binding resulting in the fore edge being worn, occasional ink splash & smudge, a nice copy. Selections from the speeches & addresses of the Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero [ 106 BC - 43BC ], the text here being that of the original Delphin edition, and edited by Charles de Hallot Merouille.

Veneunt apud Benjamin Dod, Londini [ London ], 1761. 2nd edition.. Disbound. Disbound, G. xvi+308+[50]+2pp, both covers & all before the title missing, text block tightly bound althouh the title & last blank leaf loose, title yellowed with age, internally a nice copy. The last printed pages [ Aa4 ] are the catalogue of the publisher, Benjamin Dod. De Officiis [ On Duties ] of Cicero as translated & edited by Pearce. Cicero's work of 44 BC is divided into three books & is one of his most influential works. Giving his views on the correct moral & ethical way to conduct one's life, it is written in an anecdotal style & gives an insight into Roman political values & conflicts of the time. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester [ 1690 -1774 ], and noted academic, published a scholarly edition of Cicero's De Oratore in 1716 which established his academic reputation.

In Orphanotropheo, Halis Saxonvm [ Halle ], 1776. 1st edition.. Hardback. Contemporary calf, G. [iii]+740-1200pp, leather rubbed & a little dry, lettering piece partly missing, pages a little yellowed & marked. Odd volume of the works of Cicero. It contains De Legibus, De Officiis, Cato Maior de Senectute, Laelius de Amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De petitione consulatus ( Commentariolum Petitionis ), Si Deo Placet Consolatio [ a forgery, first published in 1583 & now dropped from printings of Cicero's works, last printed in 1855 ] , and fragmentary extracts. Johann August Ernesti [ 1707 - 1781 ] German Rationalist theologian and philologist.

Haymarket Medical Publications, 1991. reprint.. Paperback. Stapled paperback, G. [ii]+52pp, colour illustrations throughout, mark to the verso of the upper cover where a sticker has been removed. Colour guide to the identification of pharmaceutical pills.

Brynmill Press, 1986. 1st edition.. Paperback. Stapled paperback, VG. 41pp, covers faded towards the spine, a nice copy, if cheaply reproduced. Part of the Gadfly Literary Supplements Series The opening pages from a novel which was never published - at least not under the title What About The Daffodils.

Cambridge University Press, 2008. 3rd edition, revised.. Hardback. Printed boards F. xviii+1021pp, a fine copy. A dictionary of over 24000 entries, giving information on every family & genus of seed bearing plants. Utilizing Kubitzki's 'The Families & Genera of Vascular Plants' & current botanical literature, and arranged according tot he principles of molecular systematics.

Blackie & Son, nd [ 1910 ]. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth, G+. 204pp, index & glossary, cloth rubbed & bumped, occasional annotation, front endpaper removed, a solid working copy. The Warwick Shakespeare. Critical edition of the with a long introduction & glossary.

Racing Post, 1987. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. 703pp, 32pp b/w plates, fore edge thumbed, edges a little bumped. Complete & cross referenced results for the 1987 season, with an alphabetical list of every horse.

George Allen & Unwin, 1970. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. 188pp, 28 b/w illustrations, index, slightly rubbed, in a slightly rubbed price clipped dustjacket. A re-written edition of Macklin's original work - A detailed guide to the brasses of the United Kingdom, with information on their history & manufacture, the types of effigies and the people portrayed. The book also contains a useful county listing of the then surviving brasses.

Macmillan, 1988. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. 2 volumes, xx+537pp, xviii+741pp, grand total of 64pp b/w plates, index to each volume, fore edges a little yellowed, 4pp of the index of volume I not bound in but present, corners of the dustjackets a little worn, internally un marked, a nice set. Comprehensive biograohy of the British Conservative politician and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, [ 1894 - 1986 ] who won two elections to office. He saw action in World War One, was Churchill's protegee, introduced many social reforms & was a keen Keynsian.

Macmillan - Papermac, 1986. new edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 780pp, colour frontis, b/w & colour illustrations, b/w maps, index, a near fine copy, spine sunned. Detailed guide to almost 2500 nature reserves & wildlife sites in Britain. Each is listed alphabetically, under county. Revised & updated edition.

Macmillan, 1992. 2nd edition.. Paperback. Paperback, G+. xviii+307pp, upper cover curled at the edges, otherwise a fine copy. An A - Z of accountancy, from Abacus - Z Score.

George Allen & Unwin, 1971. 2nd impression of 4th edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 384pp, text figs, index, spine creased in one place, a nice copy. Text book for Economics students already with a grasp of basic economic theory.

Macmillan, 1985. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG+. xvi+364pp, text figs, index, half title yellowed, small crease tot he upper cover otherwise a fine copy. Macroeconomics for undergraduates.

Editions Berger Levrault, Paris, 1947. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, G. 188pp, 16pp b/w plates, wrappers & pages rather browned, a reading copy. A summery of the landscape, history & culture of Madagascar.

Hamish Hamilton - The Novel Library, 1948. 1st thus.. Hardback. Cloth spined patterned boards, dj, VG/VG. x+426pp, spine of the dustjacket a little yellowed & chipped at the head & tail, otherwise a nice copy. Novel Library volume 23. Uncommon & charming edition of Flaubert's classic novel, his first published work & one for which he was prosecuted. His seemingly naturalistic style was acheived by rigid perfectionism & his belief in 'Art for Arts Sake'. A landmark in the development of the modern novel.

Jonathan Cape, 1936. 3rd impression thus.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 320pp, cloth a little faded & marked, bookplate, a good copy. Florin Books vol 29. Flauberts first published work & one for which he was prosecuted. His seemingly naturalistic style was acheived by rigid perfectionism & his belief in 'Art for Arts Sake'. A landmark in the development of the modern novel. Translated from the 'Definitive' French edition.