Search Results: Titles starting with V from Renaissance Books

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. Good with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the folding map from pocket at front. Otherwise good. Boards rubbed. 4mm missing to cloth at head of spine. Splits to gutters at endpapers and at title leaf. A 20mm tear and small 3mm chips to margins of the folding map of Terra Australia. Moderate dampstains and tidemarks to plates. ; This copy inscribed by the author's brother, James Heyward F.R.S. (1810-1897) to J. Cosmo Newbery. The inscription reads "Presented to J Cosmo Newbery on his departure for Melbourne by James Heyward Esq. F.R.S. Palace Gardens London 24/3/65". James Cosmo Newbury (1843-1895) was born in Italy. After living in Boston, USA and education at the Royal School of Mines, London, he emigrated to Melbourne in 1865 as an analyst for the Geological Survey of Victoria [Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume V, 1974 (accessed online August 2021)]. viii, 251, [1] pages +… Read More

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed. Dampstains to outer margins of boards. Spine rubbed and faded. 5mm loss of cloth at head and tail of spine. Some foxing. Some short tears along folds of the large folding map. Provenance: Carl R. Staubel, with pencil owner's name "C R Straubel". [Reference: Taylor, "Roll of Book Collectors in New Zealand" p. 33.] ; viii, 251, [1] pages + frontispiece + 7 plates + 3 folding maps (1 in pocket at front). Blind-stamped red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 121mm. The plates include "New Zealand Gold Fields - Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeka, Otago" and "Mr Landsborough (The Australian Explorer) and two Aborigines". Large cloth-backed folding map at rear showing Australia, New Zealand, Auckland, and the Otago Gold Fields. "As I was recommended to take a Long Vacation, and to… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Spine faded. Heavy spotting to spine. Spotting to page edges. ; xii, [2], 308 pages + frontis + plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 200mm x 135mm. Selected contents: A L'Afrique; A Glimpse Of Tangier; The Arabs And The Jews; A Sultan Goes To Prayer; The Cafés Of Casablanca; Barbaric Marrakech; Some Unveiled Women; The Orgy Of The Aissaoua; Medieval Fez; The African Marseilles; The Tourist's Algier; To The Garden Of Allah; A Pilgrimmage To Kairouan; And So To Tunis. ; 8vo .

London: Tinsley Brothers. Poor with no dust jacket. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. A poor, incomplete copy. Ex-library, Riwaka Library. Library stamps and markings. Boards and spine rubbed and worn. A 2/3" split to leather at head of rear joint. Binding loose. Hinges broken. Lacking one text leaf in the second volume.; Two volumes bound in one. [ii], 254 & [ii], 244 pages. The second volume is lacking one text leaf, pages 191-192. Lacking half-title pages and any publisher's advertisements. Half-leather and marbled boards. Page dimensions: 180 x 118mm. A novel. "Kingsley was a war correspondent with the German army, and the first Englishman to enter Metz, and was an eye-witness of the debacle of Sedan." - Baker, "Guide to the Best Fiction" (1932). ; Ex-Library; 8vo .

London: Skeffington & Son. Good with no dust jacket. Original Wraps. No date (1930's) . 128 pages. Softcover. Pages yellowing. 1" tear in first two leaves. ; 8vo .

London: John Lane the Bodley Head. Fair with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Australasian edition. 330 pages + frontis + 6 pages advertisements. Binding shaky. Spine worn. 1" tear at head of spine. Some foxing. Reading copy. ; 12mo .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1949). Hardcover. No signatures. Some spots of foxing to page edges. Some rubbing to ends of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1949 first UK edition, of a title first published in the US in 1947. 224 pages. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. A Western novel. "It was one of those gorges which seem to have been ploughed through the mountains with some vast mechanical instrument that cuts with equal ease through hard and soft." - the opening sentence. "Here is all the punch and prowess of men who ride hard and draw the gun quickly. It is mighty tough in this West." - John o'London's Weekly, quoted on front flap of dust-jacket. Max Brand is one of the pseudonyms of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944). .

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Some small tears to margins of dust-jacket, with tape repairs on reverse side. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; x, [2], 210 pages + frontispiece + plates. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Maps on endpapers. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "The reader meets with him the untamed aborigines still pursuing their original way of life, and investigates the mysteries of the cave paintings of the Kimberley gorges and the powers of telepathy exercised by the natives of the Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait islands." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

Dunedin: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1945]. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Some rusting to staples. ; This title is No. 5 in the author's "Wild Life" series. Pagination (57)-72 + 6 illustrations on 3 plate leaves + frontispiece. Illustrated covers. Page dimensions: 218 x 137mm. The author visited Big South Cape Island, south of Stewart Island, where the rare South Island Saddleback could still be found. "Lying off the South-west Cape of Stewart Island, just on the Antarctic side of the 47th parallel, this southerly outpost of New Zealand - a veritable virgin treasure - afforded us a unique opportunity of investigating wild life as it exists unspoiled by the interference or apathy of man and his introduced pests. Sixty miles of lonely, boisterous, treacherous seas isolated us from the nearest living beings." .

Auckland: HarperCollins. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (2005). First Edition. Softcover. 1869505263 . Some rubbing to corners of covers. ; (144) pages. Page dimensions: oblong 279 x 210mm. Numerous photographic illustrations, colour and black and white. "'Vantastic' takes a lively look at one of New Zealand's most popular traditional holiday pursuits - caravanning. Packed with never-before-published photographs, interviews and memorabilia, it captures the wonderful feelings of freedom and security unique to the 'home on wheels' when Kiwis were in love with their slice of home at the beach." - from blurb on rear cover. .

Auckland: HarperCollins. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2005). First Edition. Softcover. 1869505263 . No signatures. A nice copy of this title.; (144) pages. Page dimensions: oblong 279 x 210mm. Numerous photographic illustrations, colour and black and white. "'Vantastic' takes a lively look at one of New Zealand's most popular traditional holiday pursuits - caravanning. Packed with never-before-published photographs, interviews and memorabilia, it captures the wonderful feelings of freedom and security unique to the 'home on wheels' when Kiwis were in love with their slice of home at the beach." - from blurb on rear cover. .

Auckland: HarperCollins. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2005). First Edition. Softcover. 1869505263 . Previous owner's signature. A nice copy of this title.; (144) pages. Page dimensions: oblong 279 x 210mm. Numerous photographic illustrations, colour and black and white. "'Vantastic' takes a lively look at one of New Zealand's most popular traditional holiday pursuits - caravanning. Packed with never-before-published photographs, interviews and memorabilia, it captures the wonderful feelings of freedom and security unique to the 'home on wheels' when Kiwis were in love with their slice of home at the beach." - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: Faber And Faber. Poor in Poor dust jacket. (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. 0571094007 . Ex-Library. Library stamps and markings. Gutter split, exposing spine webbing. Dust wrapper attached to library plastic jacket. ; 191 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 195mm x 125mm. "In the post-cataclysmic wild lands of America, there is a sub-culture of nomadic tribes supported by an underground of techinicians utilizing the remains of civilization. One of the tribes is being raided by a mysterious beast, and its leader calls in the Nameless One - Sos the Rope - who pursues it into the radioactive bad lands and discovers that it is human [. . . ]." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex libris John M. Brown, book plate with Latin motto "Floreat Majestas" and rampant lion. Previous owner's name on title page "J M Brown / Dunedin / 1874". Previous owner's rubber stamp with same rampant lion design on blank page at rear. Some rubbing and moderate marks to boards. Overall quite a nice copy of this title. ; viii, [2], 341, [3 (blank)] pages + 16 pages advertisements. Frontispiece (portrait of Sir Thomas Browne) within the pagination. Title page vignette. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Black border on both boards. Page dimensions: 178 x 118mm. Contents: The Angelic Doctor [Thomas Aquinas]; Nostradamus; Thomas a Kempis and the Imitatio Christi; Dr. John Faustus; Quevedo; Madame J. M. B. de la Mothe Guion and Quietism; Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus, Bombast of Hohenheim; Howell… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels, and markings. Bruise and 10mm tear to front board near head of spine. ; ix, [1], 415, [1 (blank)], [12 (advertisements)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm. Biology, evolution. Contents: Part I - The Facts of Variation: The Measurement of Variation; Dimorphism and Discontinuous Variation; Correlated Variations; Part II - The Causes of Variation: Blastogenic Variations; Certain Laws of Variation; The Effect of Temperature and of Light; The Effect of Moisture and of Salinity; The Effect of Food and of Products of Metabolism; The Effects of Conditions of Life in General; Part III - Variation in its Relation to Evolution: The Action of Natural Selection on Variations; Adaptive Variations. Series: The International Scientific Series, Vol. LXXXVIII. .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Fading to dustjacket. Small chips and tears at ends of dustjacket spine and corners of dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Third edition. x, [2], 520 pages + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 232 x 152mm. .

New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. 0889467900 . No signatures. Some bumping to ends of spine. ; [2], x, 498 pages + advertisements. Brown papered boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 228mm x 149mm. Volume 50 in the Toronto Studies in Theology. ; 8vo .

Alexandra: Printed by Central Otago News. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1980?]. First Edition. Softcover. Staining to wrappers. Internally good.; 28, [1] pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. This copy inscribed by P. N. Jean Clare, Galloway, Alexandra (presumably this is the author). New Zealand poetry. "I must go down to the sheds again / For one last look at the cows;" - from the poem "The Retired Farmer". ; 8vo .

London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1843. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing to boards, quite heavy to rear board. 12mm chip to leather on rear board. 6mm loss of leather at edges of corners of boards. Previous owner's signature "Thos Redpath 1846", and "Redpath" rubber stamp. Another early owner's signature "James Porteus / South Clutha / Rose Valley". Pencil marginalia on contents page. ; Second edition. xv, [1], 343, [1] pages + 32 pages advertisements dated October 1845. Blind-stamped green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 170 x 104mm. Title continutes: "with the most approved method of cultivating them by natural and artificial means, and the best mode of cooking them; Alphabetically Arranged. Together with a description of the physical herbs in general use, &c. Also, some recollections of the life of Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at… Read More

Wellington: Reprinted From Records of the Dominion Museum. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. Softcover. Staples rusted. Moderate foxing.; Pagination from 193 to 227, (i.e. a total of 335 pages). 12 illustrations on 3 leaves. Blue printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 246 x 155mm. Inscribed by the author on the front wrapper. Ex-libris label of Dr CNS McLachlan [Corrie]. A botanical report on two islands in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.; 8vo .