John Bell Thomson (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. trade paperback in very good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1890 Hard Cover. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an arctic aurora, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: The Northern Lights; The Mathematics of Plants; How the Wind Changes; Dreams; Why the Sea is Salt; The Anatomy of a Lobster; Rust; A Glass of Wine; Voyages in Cloudland; The Chemistry of Water; Nuggets and Quartz; The Sun Our Fire, Light, and Life; A Fish in the Water; A Microscopical Biography; Firing a Shot; What is 'Power'?; History Out of Refuse Heaps; What Is in the Interior of the Earth?; How Sunshine Warms the Earth; What Are the Stars Made Of?; The Protective Colours of Animals; Great Sea Reptiles; Shooting Stars; Continental Islands, and How They Were Formed; Teeth; How the River Severn Cut through Wenlock Edge; Moles and Mole-Hills; The Mariner's Compass; Spiders' Webs; Glaciers; Diamonds; The History of a Hen's Egg; Growth; The Magic Lantern; A Primrose; A Cannon Shot; Why the Rain Falls; The Story of a Volcano as Told in History; Can Science Conquer Rust?; How the Airs Were Discovered; What is 'Work'?; The Hand; How Glaciers Move; Dust; A Piece of Rock Salt; Protective Mimicry in Animals; The Physics of Music; Touch; Animal Colonies and Co-operation; Colour-Blindness; Oceanic Islands and Their History; Modern Explosives; The Gravel on the Garden Path; A Peat-Bog; A Piece of Iceland Spar; Polar Ice; Rubies and Sapphires; Weather Telegraphy; Lodgers and Boarders in Lower Life.

Soft Covers. Condition: NF. No Jacket. Photos (illustrator). Reprint. This history of "Arrowtown and its district" was first published in 1972, reprinted in 1975 with this third printing in 1985. The author was born there in 1897 and after an adverturous life as a young man, including active service with the NZ Army in WWI, he began a career in journalism in 1927. Returning to Arrowtown in the late 1960s he compiled this excellent history on the town and district, with its exciting and colourful past , based on the gold rush of the mid-1800s, contrasted with its comparatively quite revival as a attractive village much admired (and photographed) by its many tourist visitors. 46 pages, 29 b/w photos, colour art to front card cover, historic map to rear. NF all-round, no inscriptions. Light book, postage at cost.

Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Soft cover. Condition: Good + Soft Cover. Tim Ramey (illustrator). Selected and introduced by Jocelyn Chisholm . 64 pages , lib marks 1st and last pages and cover otherwise vg+.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Octavo in light card stapled wrapper (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Ex Library, Octavo light card covers (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 64 pages. Spine tanned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Tim Rainey (illustrator). First Edition. Softback. A very good copy. Ownership stamp. Signed by the author. 64 pages. Illustrated. Sketches of life in New Zealand and Australia in the 1920's. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. tim rainey (illustrator). central Otago tales.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 64 pages. Cover worn.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. some wear and usage marks to covers and cover edges, owners stamp front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. First Thus. 64p With illustrations, stories first written for newspapers in the 1920s, especially about Central Otago.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64p With illustrations, the first 100 years of education in the area from Arrowtown through to Miller's Flat.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No signatures.; Reprint (the first edition was in 1975). Car wrappers. 46 pages. Illustrated.; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. E. Bookhout with designs drawn on wood by John Bell (Sculptor), C.W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, J.C. Horsley, J.P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, H.J. Townsend and Thomas Webster (illustrator). 1st Edition. Decorative red boards of the Victorian style with stamped designs and intricate floral patterns and gilt lettering; gilt page edges on all edges; patterned end pages. Illustrated with engraved illustrations by E. Bookhout with designs drawn on wood by John Bell (Sculptor), C.W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, J.C. Horsley, J.P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, H.J. Townsend and Thomas Webster. Boards with wear and soiling; edges frayed; interior tight; pages dusty with light age toning.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Bell, John Cope, C. W. Et al (illustrator). Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Second Edition. Poetry. marbled, fep fore-edge, many illustrators, nice engravings, 320 pgs, slight external spine crack.

First edition. 32pp. Original printed paper covers discoloured and slightly marked. Contents VG. No inscriptions. [an analysis of the right of ordinary citizens of Scotland, or corporate bodies, to use the Lion Rampant or the ''Scottish Standard'' as the accepted national emblem of Scotland, whether in the form of a flag or shield, or as part of a full heraldic achievment].

Leather. Condition: Very Good. John Bell, C. W. Cope, Thomas Creswick et al. (illustrator). A lovely leather-bound edition of this important and celebrated poem by James Thomson, illustrated with engravings throughout. 'The Seasons' is a series comprising four poems, each titled after a season; the completed collection first appeared in 1730, and inspired works by Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and J. M. W. Turner.Written by James Thomson (1700-1748), a British poet and playwright, known for having written the words of 'Rule, Britannia', as well as 'The Seasons' and 'The Castle of Indolence'. This was his most influential work.With a life of the author by Patrick Mulroch.Richly illustrated with engravings by various hands.A lovely leather-bound copy of this work. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally generally smart; rubbed to the raised bands, the head of the spine, the extremities and joints. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a little strain to the front hinge. Pages have the odd spot; endpapers and pastedowns are rather spotted. Very Good. book.