Search Results: Titles starting with V from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

London. Heraldry Today. 1967, 1967. Hardcover. 4to. 28cm, 6 volumes in 3, in all 2028pp, being plates, illustrating c.85,000 shields of Arms arranged in alphabetical order of surnames & hatched for colours, two volumes in blue fabrikoid one in blue buckram, a very good to fine set () This is the companion to Rietstap`s Armorial General. This monumental work took over twenty three years to complete and contains 85,000 shields of Arms to illustrate every one mentioned in Reitstap's "Armorial General". (reprint of the 1903/26 edition). Introduction to the plates in English, German, Spanish and Italian. Abbreviated vocabulary and legend in French.

Utrecht. H&S. HES Publishers. 1991. 4to. xlii,[16], 840pp., indexes, colour illustrated endpapers, full red fine linen, gilt spine titles, colour illustrated jacket, as new - Containing 1674 entrees. (bks).

Amsterdam & Leipzig. chez Arkstel & Merkus. 1752. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to, 25.5cm, first French edition, in 2 volumes, [xx],554 & 309,[iii]pp., with 2 engraved frontis plates & 54 mainly folding engraved maps, plans and views (on 53 sheets), attractive illustrated ornamental title page, header & initial vignettes, bound in quarter brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt roll border decoration and the top and bottom of the panels, crushed dark brown morocco labels, gilt spine titles, marbled boards, all edges gilt, some slight occasional foxing or transfer, a fine attractive set (tr/hm). ~ The record of an important joint French and Spanish scientific expedition to South America undertaken in 1735. The purpose of the expedition was to measure one degree of latitude in the equinoctial regions of Peru in order to determine the exact size and shape of the earth. Spanish scientists and naval officers, Juan and Ulloa (who later became the first Spanish governor of Louisiana), were selected by Philip… Read More

London. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855, 1855. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 20cm, the first edition, xi,394, [2,24]p., publisher's ads., folding frontis map, outline colour, in the original wavy grain green cloth, gilt spine titles, black stamped borders and border decorations on the boards, series titles on the coated warm brown endpapers, some soil flecking on the spine, titles clear, a very good copy (n1) T.P.L. 3620. Howes W-234. Waterston p101. C.R. Weld, whose book is particularly interesting because he was the much younger half-brother of pioneer traveller Isaac Weld, found some Canadian scenes unchanged since 1799. Quebec was still characterized by simple piety. But the "airline" railways, the steamers ("huge floated hotels"), the charming villas in Toronto, the Victoria Railway Bridge in Montreal, all showed dramatic changes. This chatty book offers sharp vignettes: the Thousand Islands masked by smoke from forest fires; a Parliamentary opening in Quebec with Mackenzie, Papineau, Hincks… Read More

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1896. Hardcover. 16mo. 17cm, in 2 vols., 281 & iv,275pp., title pages printed in red and black, 2 frontis portaits, appendix, full green linen, gilt borders on the boards, gilt titles, t.e.g., light cover wear, some slight fading to the spine titles, a very good set (lt). ~ With a significant editorial note by Sidney Colvin, Stevenson's friend and literary adviser. ". these letters will be found a varied record, frank and familiar, of the writer's everyday moods, thoughts, and doings during his Samoan exile". (Colvin).

London. Methuen and Co. 1895, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 19.2cm, first edition, xx,366p., etched frontis portrait, 2 photographic portrait plates, text maps, appendix, full tan linen, gilt spine and upper cover titles and decorations, t.e.g., somewhat dust worn, stamping clear, good to very good sound copy (hds). - Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last five years of his life on Samoa at his estate, Valima. These letters sent to English literary and art critic, Sidney Colvin, give a vivid insight to Stevenson's temper of mind during his last years.

London. Methuen and Co. 1895. 8vo, 23cm, xx,366p.,limited edition of 125 copies printed on Arnold's handmade paper, out ofseries, with 3 plates including frontis portrait, original smooth booklinen, paper spine label, t.e.g., some general slight wear and some wearon the edges, label worn & partially legible, heavier wear on the bottomhinge but sound, good to very good, internally clean and sound (lt). ~Robert Louis Stevenson lived from 1850 until 1894 in Samoa on his estateof Vailima. The letters are to his friend and literary advisor inEngland, Sidney Colvin.

New York. & Montreal. D.& J Sadlier & Co. 1876. Hardcover. 12mo, xlviii,408p., engraved vingette frontis portrait, in contemporary half green calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt decorations and borders in the panels, crushed crimson morocco label, gilt titles, marbled boards, endpapers and edges., very good to fine condition ~ A volume from the Works of.

New York. Viking. 2016. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23cm, 427p., maps and illustrations, cloth, remainder dot, fine in fine jacket. (mt).

London. Seeker & Warburg. 1991, 1991. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 22cm, 2nd printing, 311p., blue cloth, silver stamped spine titles, a fine copy in fine complete jacket (Ihds).

Launceston, Tasmania. Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. 1961. Hardcover. tall8vo, 25cm, xix,142,[5]p., limited to 1200 copies, folded map, appendices, botanical index, biographical notes, in the original fine grain red cloth, black stamped cover titles, a fine copy. (ads) New Series No.14 of The Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. Edited by Frank Ellis.

London and New York. The London Printing and Publishing Company. [ca.1853]. 27.5x36cm, decorative borders, vignette illustrations, colour outline, folded vertically (as issued), very good to fine.

Vancouver. Lumberman Printing Company. 1936. Hardcover. oblong4to. 23x30cm, 79thp., frontis, 71 black & white photographs with captions, bluepaper covered boards, gilt embossed title with city crest, verygood.(n12) Over seventy photographs by Leonard Frank celebratingVancouver's fiftieth anniversary. The frontis is an illustration ofVancouver's first post office in 1866 by artist, J. Girvan.

Portland, Oregon. Binfords & Mart, Publishers. 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, xvii,433 & iv,43pp. In One volume, with 36 plates and 4 maps and charts, mapped endpapers, original light terra cloth with titles and pictorials stamped in black, a fine copy in very good to fine jacket.

Vancouver. Vancouver Historical Society. 1986. 4to, 27.5cm, in 4 volumes in 1791pp., plus 12 maps, extensive names, title & subjects indexes covered in volumes 3 and 4, printed and illustrated stiff off-white card wraps, in fine condition. (wst). An extensive bibliography on Vancouver including books, photographs, manuscripts, monographs, maps and microfilms.

Vancouver. European Import Co. [ca.1910]. 21.5x15cm, with 48 full page colour illustrations, in brown ruled wraps with decorative border and titles on the upper cover, fine. (N12). Printed in Germany.

Newton Abbot. David & Charles. 1978. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 25cm, 159p., bibliography, index, hundreds of illustrations from photographs, cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket (S16).

Amsterdam. A.L. Van Gendt & Co. 1972. Soft cover. folio, 30cm, in 2 volumes, 111 & 105pp., many plates and illustrated (inc. many facsimile), indexes of manuscripts, original printed wraps, very good to fine (bks). ~ Studies of works on Carolingian and Gothic manuscripts, on monastic libraries in the Netherlands and various mediaeval manuscripts of religious content.

Washington. Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1907, 1907. Hardcover. 24cm, 136p., 2 folding tables, fine green cloth with gilt titles, a fine copy (b27) Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 58.

Toronto. Longmans, Green and Company. 1958. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 24cm, xiv,367p., index, original red cloth with gilt spine titles, red dust -jacket, a few small chips, a very good copy in a good jacket (mmds).