Search Results: Titles starting with N from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

Venetiis: Ex typographia Remondini, 1751. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. 143, [1]. Title page is printed in red and black. Bound in modern quarter brown cloth with brown patterned paper boards. The edges of the leaves are untrimmed and ragged. The interior displays some marginal soiling and wear with occasional chipping and corner creasing. A tear on the lower part of page 19 is professionally and neatly sealed. The upper corner to the final leaf of the index is chipped/torn perhaps affecting a few numbers or letters. The imprint statement on the title page contains some rubbing which obstructs two letters in the word "typographia." A few brief instances of marginalia are written in a miniscule old hand. The corner of the head cap is neatly patched. Generally this is a well read copy. Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-24 b.c.e) was a Roman writer and historian. His surviving work Vitae execllentium imperatorum or Lives of outstanding commanders consists of a collection of short biographies of… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. First American edition. . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. First American edition8vo. (24 cm). pp. [6], 376, [2]. Bound in publisher's half black cloth with black papered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "Eleven-year old Marianne Cadogan lives with her stern and often absent father in a big house by the sea. As she roams the bleak and empty coastal landscape, Marianne clings to a child's vision of what it must be like to be loved. When one day a stranger rescues Marianne from the riding tide, she believes she's found a friend at last. And then, Marianne and her rescuer, Ryan O'Donnell vanish" [From the dust jacket]. Stephen Gallagher has written a number of novels and short stories. He has also written teleplays for the science fiction series Doctor Who. His novel "Nightmare with angel" was first published in Great Britain in 1992.

Leipzig: J.A. Barthii, 1839. Hardcover. See Description. Fourth H.A. Schott edition. 8vo. pp. XXVIII, 859, [1]. Dual Greek and Latin text. Quarter leather binding - re-backed preserving original spine (crackled but still attractive). All edges dyed red. Library withdrawn sticker on inside front cover. Heinrich Augustus Schott (1780-1835) - theological teacher at Leipzig and later a professor at Jena. [This edition not in Darlow].

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. Hardcover. See Description. Fortieth thousand. 8vo (198 mm), pp. [2], xxxiv, [2], 13-280, a-i, [1]. Bound in pale green publisher's cloth. Rubbing and wear are present to the extremities; spine caps are frayed. An area on the front board (bottom quarter) is lightly dented, causing some tearing/splitting on the verso paste down leaf. End papers are toned and show light scattered foxing. A name and a number-letter code [?] are written in pen on the rear free end-paper. Interior pages contain an occasional light marginal pencil mark. Horace Fletcher (1849-1919), a native of Lawrence Massachusetts and an early food-faddist, developed a system of chewing food called "fletcherism" which he claimed would help people eat less, improve their digestion, and increase their strength and vitality. He advised people to eat only when they were truly hungry. Fletcher gained many devout followers and became wealthy for a time. Fletcher's "New… Read More