Search Results: Titles starting with N from Keel Row Books

London; John Murray, 1820., 1820. Hardcover. New Edition, Corrected. Octavo bound in 12s. Xxxvi, 420 pp + blank pages for notes to rear. Book condition: Very Good. Maroon half-leather binding with raised bands, blind-stamped and gilt decoration, black/gilt title label and marbled paper-covered boards with matching page edges. Spine sunned; boards surface scuffed. Leather corners & edges rubbed but binding tight & sound. "Family Receipt Book 1867" handwritten to front pastedown and paper is worn above this where a name has been erased. Some fingermarking and sporadic light foxing. Not just a cookery book - advice on topics as diverse as "Usefulness of the hazel-nut in brewing", "Rules for milking cows" and "To make an excellent smelling bottle". Every home should have one!

London; Sotheby Publications, 1983., 1983. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. 320 pp. Illustrated with over 440 plates including 30 in colour of examples from European collections and contemporary engravings providing a unique aid to identification and an invaluable reference for collectors and historians. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original brown cloth with gilt titles in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Minor shelfwear to jacket otherwise a clean copy with no annotation or inscriptions.

London; MacMillan, 1877., 1877. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 124 pp, 36 (advertisements). Book Condition: Very Good. Original blindstamped brown cloth with gilt titles. Cover cloth a little rubbed to edges with stain at tail of spine, possibly where a label has been removed. Inner hinges cracked. Pictorial bookplates to front pastedown and ffep; ffep has stain to reverse from bookplate adhesive and damage to paper where a previous plate has been removed. Sporadic foxing mainly to advertisement section at rear. Errata slip loosely inserted.

London; Kennedy's, 1997., 1997. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt titles in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. No annotation or inscriptions. "This book doesn't fall into any category. It is a mixture between a travel book, an adventure book, a history of the confectionery industry and an autobiography. Above all it is a funny book!". Scarce.

London; NSU (Great Britain) Ltd., 1959., 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Softcover, landscape octavo, pp. 16 (paginated to include wraps). Colour images throughout. Stapled pictorial thin card wraps. A clean, bright copy: Near Fine condition. 1959 dealer's brochure for the NSU Prinz I and II. Lavishly illustrated with colour images of this compact car, with technical specifications and colour co-ordination options. Includes NSU Prinz price list dated 1st October 1959. Brochure code DW 2067 600 1925.

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania; Fairylogue Press, 2017., 2017. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp. 172. Illustrated throughout in cartoon-strip. Pictorial card wraps; pictorial bookmark bound-in.. Extreme tip of upper corner and early leaves bruised otherwise an as-new copy: Near Fine. Third book of the fantasy webcomic featuring Emma Crewe, this volume contains Intermission #2, chapter 11-15 of the fantasy webcomic and a book- exclusive story.

[Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania]; Fairylogue Press, 2012., 2012. Mass Market Paperback. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp. 142, [2]. Illustrated throughout in cartoon-strip. Publishers' pictorial card wraps. A clean crisp copy with inscribed pictorial bookplate inside front cover, "To Neil" and signed by both Authors with date from year of publication. A Fine copy. Book of the fantasy webcomic featuring Emma Crewe, this volume comprises the prologue and first five chapters. Scarce.

London; R B Seeley and W Burnside, 1832., 1832. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. 12 mo, pp xii, 214, [2] publishers catalogue. Publishers original paper covers boards with brown cloth spine. Spine creased, and worn at tips; boards bruised to edge and soiled with wear at corners and very small loss to paper. A shaken copy with weak inner hinges. Ownership inscription in ink with address of Miss Pricilla Kingston of Cambridge, dated 1874, to front pastedown, with "Thou God Seest Me" inscribed to rear pastedown in the same hand. Scatterd foxing and fingermarking. Abridged edition adapted from the 1772 anonymous publication "Due Preparations for the Plague", now attributed to Defoe. A worthy text highly suitable for Sunday reading by the devout.

London; Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831., 1831. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., xvi, 463, [1]; xi, [1], 465, [1]. Aquatint frontispiece to Vol I, fold-out Map of the Turkish Provinces of Roumelia and Bulgaria and plan of Shumla and environs; large folding map frontispiece of the Northwestern part of Asia Minor, and 8 engravings within text to Vol II. Tan half levant morocco with 5 raised bands; gilt titles, ruling and crest to spine; marbled paper-covered boards with matching marbled endpapers and edges. Spines lightly scuffed with minor surface loss to Vol I top edge. A little scattered foxing, mainly to prelims & endpapers, and offsetting from endpapers to edge of 2 leaves Vol II, otherwise contents clean and bright. Map to Vol II misfolded with associated creasing. No annotation or inscriptions. An attractive, solid set. George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (1799 - 1891) had a long military career which included the Battle of Waterloo and service as aide to the Governor General… Read More

Glasgow; Printed for the Booksellers, [1850]., 1850. Mass Market Paperback. Undated circa 1850. Disbound 24 pp chapbook. Vignette to title. Uncut. Condition: Very Good. A few nicks & creases to edge otherwise a clean crisp copy.

London; Printed for G Hawkins, 1756., 1756. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 20pp of parallel Latin and English text, each paginated separately. Vignettes to title pages and final leaves. Bound in later marbled paper wraps. Slightly cropped with minor loss to pagination to upper margin but not to text. Scattered foxing and creasing; a little fingermarking to rear blanks. Minor annotation inside cover "Baillie 370 96" and mathematical sum in ink to ffep. Overall condition Very Good. Rare first hand account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, which in combination with the subsequent fires and tsunami almost totally destroyed the city, causing one of the highest mortality rates by an earthquake in recorded history. The narrative vividly describes the chaos which descended on the inhabitants, giving details of time and duration, estimated fatalities on the day and during aftershocks, and of the buildings destroyed. Anecdotes of individual casualties and survivors are given with… Read More

Glasgow; Printed for the Booksellers, [1850]., 1850. Mass Market Paperback. Circa 1850. Disbound 24 pp chapbook. Vignette to title. Uncut & stitched. Condition: Good. Covers toned with 3-inch tear at fold.

London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830., 1830. Hard Cover. ASSOCIATION COPY. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp. x, 148. 20 plates (of 24): 15 mounted lithographed plates including frontispiece, large fold-out panorama of the Chain of Mont Blanc, 2 lithographed maps comprising fold-out copy of Leaugue's Round Map of Mont Blanc with routes delineated in colour and large folding Map of Routes from Lake Geneva to Chamonix; fold-out colour chart of the Comparative Heights of Principal Mountains, and facsimile letter with facsimile signatures. Lacking two litho plates, one folding map and one folding height chart. Contemporary black half-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to bands, and marbled boards with all edges marbled. Binding lightly scuffed with light wear at spine tips and corners. Short obituary clipping for Auldjo to front paste-down, inscribed to margin "Times May 14/86". Scattered light foxing; 4 cm closed tear to Map of Routes at joint. From the library of… Read More

London; John Van Voorst, 1843., 1843. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. xvi, 398. 26 in-text illustrations. Superb full black, straight-grained morocco, with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, with gilt armorial stating "The Gift of the Haberdashers' Company" to upper board. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers, with page-marker. Corners and spine tips lightly bruised with some minor surface loss; contemporary gift inscription (Jones' Grammar School) and owner's details and stamp to prelims. A clean, neat copy; Very Good condition. A handsomely bound example of White's work, widely regarded as both the foundation of modern natural history and as a literary classic. This is a revised edition with notes by Rev. Leonard Jenyns.

London; Chiswick Press: Printed for J. and A. Arch, Longman and co... 1837., 1837. Hard Cover. New Edition, FIRST THUS, with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. Octavo, pp. xxiii, [1], 640. 46 engravings including vignette to title page. Forest green full morocco bound by Riviere with stamp to verso ffep. 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and decoration to compartments, border of triple fillets to boards with foliate decoration at corners, gilt dentelles; aeg; marbled endpapers. Spine slightly sunned, and rubbed at tips, with gilt a little dull; boards worn at corners. Scattered light foxing, almost exclusively to prelims, otherwise contents clean and crisp; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. A handsomely bound example of the important Bennett edition of White's magnum opus, with extensive notes. "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne" is widely regarded as both the foundation of modern natural history and as a literary classic. Gilbert White (1720-1793) was the third… Read More

London; Henry Edward Knox, 1871., 1871. Hard Cover. Large octavo, 4 vols., pp. xv, [1], 253, [1]; iv, 180; iv, 223, [1]; 321, [1]; iv, 5-321, [1]. Complete with 132 colour illustrated plates, each with guard leaf to each. Bound in the publisher's bottle green cloth blocked in blind arabesque pattern with a gilt moth centrepiece ornament to upper boards and gilt spine titles. Minor wear to cloth at spine-tips. Some sporadic foxing mainly to indexes. An ink stamp and signature of W. H. Burns [1872�1890] of Clayton Hall, Manchester to front paste-down of vol. 1. A Very Good set. Important work of Victorian lepidopterology in the striking original green cloth, with the plates containing nearly 2,000 exquisitely coloured specimens. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) was a pioneering "parson-naturalist", anti-vivisectionist, and early advocate for conservation who successfully campaigned for a nature conservation act.

London; Collins Publishers, 2002., 2002. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 344. 16 colour plates and over 130 black-and-white photographs and line drawings in text. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Robert Gillmor. No annotation or inscriptions. Small nick to jacket at upper corner of lower fold and minor indentations at lower edge of spine. A Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. A comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain over the previous thirty years, updating the celebrated "Nature Conservation in Britain" by L Dudley-Stamp, 1969.

Swindon; English Heritage, 2012. , 2012. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large quarto, pp. xx, 529, [1]. Numerous illustrations throughout in both colour and monochrome, including 2 large fold-out sections. Publishers' laminated black pictorial boards. Covers lightly scuffed with minor wear to upper corners; contents clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Detailed study of the archaeological investigation of the paleolithic site near Munford including stratigraphy and environmental evidence; the site is notable for the large number of hand-axes and the wealth of data from animal remains. Heavyweight so a contribution towards additional postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Newton Abbot; David & Charles, 1974., 1974. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 335, [1]. 30 monochrome photographs including frontispiece; 38 figures within text. Publishers' tan cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Lower corners a little bruised; a little foxing to text-block edge otherwise a clean crisp copy, with tidy ownership inscription to ffep dated 1975. Jacket very slightly spine sunned, with minor creasing to edge. A Very Good copy indeed, in like jacket. An ethnological and historical study of traditional methods of river fishing practised on the estuaries of England and Wales, based upon many years of original research by the Keeper of Material Culture at the Welsh Folk Museum.

New York; Castle Books, 1958., 1958. Hardcover. Large octavo. 88 pp. Illustrated with 249 photographs, some of which are in colour. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth with black titles in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. Jacket lightly toned to spine with minor creasing head/tail. Scarce.