Search Results: Titles starting with N from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

Mediterranean, 1814. Napoleonic War manuscript ship's log for a British warship in the Mediterranean that would be used shortly afterwards to transport convicts to New South Wales (1819) and Van Diemen's Land (1821) in Australia. The folio-sized ship's log comprises two disbound sections of a notebook of a junior British naval officer's training logbook from 1814. Manuscript title to front cover: 'Log &c of the Proceedings of HMSS The Malabar. Kept by W B Boddy.' A beautifully worked half page watercolour sketch of The Malabar under full sail appears on the following leaf as frontispiece. Hand-stitched, laid foolscap paper (water mark John Hayes 1809, vertical chain lines), externally heavily marked, including signs of burning to spine and bottom left of front cover; internally fairly clean, though yellowed, and most pages ink-stained. Remnants of cords binding the spines of each section; first section (8 leaves) bound, plus 7 separate leaves. 21 pages of handwritten log entries record two legs of a… Read More

Zlin/ Praha: Manuscript, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 156 A substantial transcript of part of the folk song collector Frantisek Bartos's study of Moravian music, Narodni pisne moravske nove nasbirane. Bound in later brown cloth with wax marking on the upper board, and written on foolscap sized paper in blue black ink, this fair copy of 'O Lidovych Pisni Moravskych' runs to 156 pages and includes numerous musical passages and a pen and ink version of the printed engraving of the bag pipes. No name is given for the copyist but it appears to date from the early twentieth century. Bartos was a friend of Janacek and Bela Bartok and was particularly influential on the folk song collecting pursued by the latter. Very Good 1889

London: Charles H Kelly, 1892. Hardcover. Near Fine. [viii] pp184 A book of Christian homilies in publisher's red bevelled cloth, with gilt titles and pictorial cover, all edges gilt. Near Fine; the covers are lightly soiled but the cloth is not worn or nicked, the corners are square, the gilt is bright. Internally the pages are clean and crisp, some spotting to the tissue guard of the frontispiece, there are no marks or ownership inscriptions. A very attractive copy with charming illustrations by Charles Tresidder. Near Fine 1892

York: Friends of York City Art Gallery, 1988. Very Good. pp48 2 A softcover book which has been rebound in black leather with gilt decoration. Very good, front cover bowed, slight musty smell, bound with ephemera including etchings of historical landmarks in York. The coloured View has been tipped in to the end pocket, creases to one corner. Also laid in booklet: 2000 years of York-the Archaeological Story, Yorkshire Archaeological Trust, 1978, pp28, very good in photographic card wrappers. This item comes from the collection of Yorkshire bookbinder and bibliophile Martin E Thorpe, ownership inscription to front end paper. Very Good 1988

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1943. Soft cover. Fine. Two volumes pp81 and pp116. Fine in printed card wrappers, covers very lightly tanned, no marks or inscriptions. This item comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R.. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Fine 1943

Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center, 1962. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Reprinted from The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol LXI, No 2, Spring 1962, pp 183-196. In very good condition in printed card wrappers, lightly soiled with rust marks from the staples, internally crisp. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Very Good 1962

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp71 The first edition and a review copy with letter from J E Hemmingway, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geology, University of Leeds. Very good in pictorial card wrappers which are stamped "Not for publication before (date) 20th april 1948".The covers are lightly soiled, rubbed and chipped to the spine. An interesting guide with contributions by Clough Williams Ellis, W J Hemp and Sir Ifor Williams among others. Internally clean and complete with three delightful hand-drawn maps with decorations by Charles Howarth. Very Good 1948

Cheltenham: Rowe and Norman, 1848. 220 x 143 mm. Good. pp 40 pp 4[advert] Rare astrological 'nativity' for Queen Victoria (COPAC locates Oxford, Manchester, Wellcome for this second edition - BL/ Wellcome only for the first edition). Brown paper wrappers, stab sewn with manuscript title, closed tears; fingermarking and dogearring to margins of first and last leaves of text. Additional advertisement bifolium bound in after text on smaller paper stock - not called for. Good 1848

London: George Rainbird and Ruari McLean, The Curwen Press, 1954. The Gospel According to St Luke, Chapter 2, verses 1-20, taken from the Authorised Version of the Bible printed by The Curwen Press in black and red ink and beautifully illustrated with line drawings by J F Doeve. A limited edition, one of five hundred copies, designed and produced in Christmas 1954 for the friends of George Rainbird and Ruari McLean, founders of the publishing house George Rainbird Ltd. Printed Christmas card laid in. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt pictorial decoration, protected by a plain paper dust wrapper which is lightly soiled and chipped to the spine end and corners. J F Doeve 1954

Liverpool: William Potter, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good example of this Liverpool-published early twentieth century fly fishing manual with thirteen pleasingly coloured fly fishing plates and additional drawings. Original tan buckram with gilt titles, lightly marked, foxing to edges and preliminaries. Laid in a flyer for fishing at the Porth Hotel, Landyssul. Very Good 1921

London: Bell and Daldy, 1865. vi, pp 430 A small volume in green cloth, gilt decoration to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, brown end papers, attractive engraved head pieces and vignettes within the text. The book was bound by Burn and Co, Kirby Street, London, bookseller's label of J A Acock of Oxford. Very good, the covers are clean, small dent to the fore edge and spine wrinkled and rubbed to the ends, gutter just starting to crack. A very pleasing Victorian copy of this classic of natural history Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1865

London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. Presentation copy inscribed by Lord Kelvin on the half title: 'G. G. Ward June 1, 1896 Kelvin' with a subsequent ownership inscription nearby from 'F G Ward'. With the errata slip. Smart green publisher's cloth binding with dark green coated endpapers, clean fresh text throughout, pp512 plus four pages of adverts at the end. This third volume in Kelvin's Nature Series was actually published before the second volume and each is a stand alone publication which forms part of the final sequence. Thomson was a giant of nineteenth century science who did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics as well as unifying the discipline of physics. He remained committed Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1891

London: Macmillan and Co, 1889. Fine presentation copy inscribed by Lord Kelvin on the title page to his devoted sister: 'Elizabeth King. 24 Hamilton Terrace from her brother W.T. March 2/ 89'. Very smart green publisher's cloth binding with dark green coated endpapers, clean fresh text throughout, pp460 plus 2 pages of adverts at the end, illustrated throughout. Elizabeth Thomson King (1818-1896) wrote a memoir of her famous brother which was published after his death. When he gave her this presentation copy she was living at Hamilton Terrace in Marylebone in north London. William Thomson (1824-1907) was a giant of nineteenth century science who did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics as well as unifying the discipline of physics. He served as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years. A later owner, Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald's daughter Ishbel Peterkin has added her own… Read More

Portsmouth/ London: N/A, 1980. No Binding. Near Fine. (20x25cm) Silver gelatin photographic portrait of Sir William Golding, probably a publicity shot for the publication of his novel, Rites of Passage. Golding is pictured in Nelson's Great Cabin on board HMS Victory around the time of first publication of his Booker Prize winning novel which became the first part of his nautical trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth; three years later he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Near Fine 1980

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 92 Dickson's naval broadcasts with a letter from the author laid in, presenting the book to his wartime colleague, Sir Clifford Jarrett, who was Principal Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty during the Second World War. The letter is on 'Office of the Chief of Naval Information' headed paper and typed in June 1946, offering 'a copy of this book', and addressed in Dickson's hand to 'Dear Jarrett', signed 'Yours ever R.K. Dickson'. The book is very good with a little fading to the boards; the jacket is nicked with some loss at the top of the spine - about good condition. Very Good 1946

Australia: Unpublished, 1969. Remarkable archival collection of 99 drawings made on location by the Australian artist George Crossley during the filming of Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly feature film which starred Mick Jagger. The drawings vary in size from the largest at 37x50 cm (14.5x19.75 inches) to the smallest at 24x31 cm (9.5x12 inches). Most are executed in black pen on paper, sometimes with pencil sketching and occasional watercolour washes as on the half length portrait of 'Mick Jagger as "Ned Kelly" addressing the Jury Braidwood Courthouse 27th Aug '69... Ned Kelly Location Rehearsals G.S. Crossley'. All of the images have been laid down on card, possibly as part of a previous exhibition and all have detailed labels, often a first version jotted in situ when the images were created, and a second more formal label. Most of the drawings are signed by the artist as 'G.S. Crossley'. There are occasional marks to the portrait but generally the images are in very good condition and housed in an… Read More

London: Robert Hale, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition of Showell Styles' account of Nelson's favourite pupil, William Hoste, and his greatest sea battle at Lissa. The book is fine internally in fresh black boards, just a little browning to top edge. The dustjacket is fine, designed by Barbara Walton. Neat ownership inscription to front free end paper. A very smart copy of a scarce edition. Near Fine 1991

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, very good, a little foxing to front fore edge and preliminaries. In a very good jacket, not price-clipped, red boards, eye-catching jacket by Roy and Sheila Sanford, short closed tear to foot of front panel. Very Good 1951

London: Thomas Tegg, 1835. Uncommon abridged edition. Full calf binding with spine lettering; backstrip laid down on linen with reinforced hinges and brown marbled endpapers. Loss to upper outer corners of title page and following leaf. c400 pages. Good internally with some marking to endpapers. 1835

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Soft cover. Very Good. pp69 A scholarly review by A M Schlesinger, Professor of History at Harvard University. Very good pamphlet bound in blue wrappers, covers creased and tanned to spine, internally fine. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R.. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Very Good 1939